bookcurios Chapter 189: Okay, Okay
Chapter 189: Okay, Okay
"Captain Chen, can you be honest with me?" Not long after leaving the city, Shen Lingzhu saw Chen Ru riding by from the car window and stopped him to ask.
Chen Ru slowed down his horse, but did not approach her car. He just said, "I don't want to attend a boring banquet."
He looked up and saw his grandfather beside Shen Lingzhu. He nodded at him and said, "But your family's hundred-day banquet is an exception."
After saying this, he rode away quickly. The grandfather in the carriage said, "Close the window and don't expect him to tell you the whole truth.
Just remember, it's good for us to have this group of soldiers with us when we go home."
It was indeed advantageous. When they arrived at the Daludian Post Station, Shen Lingzhu and her eldest brother were asked to get off the train. She asked, "Can we stay here? It's going to be crowded around New Year's, right?"
There was a constant stream of traffic outside the gate of the post station.
"Let's talk about it later." Chen Ru led the two of them into the door. The postmaster saw that they were fifth-rank captains and came forward to arrange rooms for them.
Chen Ru waved him off to do something else, then turned to the brother and sister and said, "Wait for someone here. You two should stay quiet for a while."
"Who?" It turned out that they were not checking in. Before Shen Lingzhu could wait for an answer, another group of people came in. She recognized the one leading the group as Shi Wulang at a glance.
The latter naturally saw her and pointed his whip at the postmaster: "How can a commoner stay at the post station? Get rid of him."
In the lobby, many people were looking at them, and there were also several people staying there without official identification cards.
"This..." The postmaster looked at Chen Ru in embarrassment. He had to listen to both the captains.
"Chen Ru, I remember that your family doesn't have such relatives." Shi Wulang stared at him with unfriendly eyes.
Chen Ru said, "Cousins are still relatives. Brother Shi, are you going back to Beijing for the New Year?"
"No matter what kind of relatives they are, they can't stay at the post station. You'd better be careful that someone will report you for favoritism." Shi Wulang glanced at the silent brother and sister. Seeing that Shen Lingzhu's face had become fatter and rosier than when they first met, he felt unhappy.
"You are cousins of different races, and the fathers of these two were dismissed for crimes. You'd better not make the higher-ups unhappy." If he was unhappy, everyone would be unhappy too.
Chen Ru had a pensive expression on his face, and at his urging, he said, "I'll take them to find a place to stay, and then I'll go have a drink with Brother Shi later."
"Okay, okay." Shi Wulang didn't want to have any unpleasantness with Captain Chen. After watching them leave for a while, he called the guards and winked at them, and asked the postmaster to open two rooms for them.
The Shen Lingzhu siblings, who had been serving as background figures the entire time, said after walking a dozen steps out of the post station, "Are you waiting for him?"
"Correct."
"on purpose?"
"Yes."
"Will we be in danger?" The more people of all kinds he met in the food store, the more cautious Shen Lingzhu became.
It was impossible for her to take any action as soon as she saw Shi Wulang. She needed to wait until she was two years older and practiced her boxing skills to become stronger before she could beat him.
Shen Xianzhu also said: "We don't want to implicate others.
Captain Chen thought of a plan: let Grandpa and his group stay at the Zhenwu Temple in Dashuang Inn, and the two of us will stay at the Dache Inn.
"No need, you two stay in the inn." Chen Ru was well prepared. The people following behind the Shen family's cars were people he arranged.
After a while, when Shen Lingzhu watched her family driving the carriage into Dalangdian, she was willing to ride a horse with her elder brother.
Chen Ru arranged for the two of them to stay in an inn, and he himself rode back to the post station to drink with Shi Wulang.
Finally, he got Shi Wulang drunk and then returned to his room. After it got dark, he quietly put on his nightgown and prepared to leave.
At the same time, the drunk Shi Wulang entered the room and sobered up instantly. He asked the guard, "How is it?"
"We've already found someone to do it. I hope you can get what you want." The guard answered carefully.
Shi Wulang sneered: “Prepare water, I will get good news after I take a bath.
They are not like you, who can’t even do the smallest things properly.”
He also needs to be protected by people who know his background, otherwise he would have been sent to the border to guard it long ago.
"Yes." The guard felt very wronged. He had always done his job perfectly, but the little girl from the Shen family was a bit evil. Let alone breaking her legs, it was not easy to even touch her.
Shen Lingzhu, whom he called evil, was very alert when she arrived tonight and she didn't sleep in the second half of the night.
Instead, he squatted in a dark room to prevent himself from falling asleep.
But she waited and waited, until four o'clock in the morning, but no one came to attack her.
Little did she know that Chen Ru and others had been secretly monitoring them.
And he reaped a great reward. The guy who was planning to plot against Miss Shen was caught just as he was about to poke a hole in the window paper.
When he was taken to a small room, the people inside started beating and kicking him without saying a word.
Not long after, he heard someone say, "Boss, we've found their contact point."
"Tell me, how many contact locations are there, how many people are there among you, and where do they live?" Chen Ru didn't mind interrogating them personally.
……
The man was treated with both soft and hard methods and was seriously injured, but Shi Wulang only ordered someone to be summoned to vent his anger for him.
So Shen Lingzhu waited until dawn but no one showed up. As a result, she had no energy at all the next day.
When she and her eldest brother were having breakfast, Chen Ru came to them and said, “It’s not too late for you to catch up with your family now.
Oh yes, Shi Wu left early this morning."
"Aren't you going back with us?" Shen Xianzhu also hadn't slept all night. He was in a daze at the moment and didn't even think through the questions he asked.
Shen Lingzhu finished a bowl of soup and felt a little more energetic: "Captain Chen came here just for that person, why would he go back with us?"
"That's right. Do you want to eat something?" Shen Xianzhu drank a few sips of cold tea and was completely sober, so he changed the subject in a businesslike manner.
Captain Chen naturally refused to eat with them and said, "My men will escort you later.
When this is done, I will tell you the whole story."
After saying this, he left quickly.
"Brother, I don't believe that nothing happened last night.
The last time I came back from Pingding, someone used smoke on me. This time... I suspect the person arrested last time has another identity, and Chen just happened to know it. "Shen Lingzhu was interrupted by an egg handed to him by his eldest brother.
Shen Xianzhu nodded and said, "It's very likely.
He was deliberately blocking people, and we became pawns.
He must have made a big haul last night." The Shi family has so many people in the underworld, and many of them act recklessly.
Shen Lingzhu nodded: "If that person doesn't care about our presence."
“No, he looked at you with hatred.
The longer it went on, the more annoyed he became. Shen Xianzhu had seen this kind of person before in the academy in the capital.
Shen Lingzhu sighed: "Brother, pass the exam as soon as possible, otherwise you will always be a pawn.
My second sister and I can’t take the imperial examination, so we’ll have to rely on our eldest brother’s help in the future.”
"I don't know whether I can enter the county examination hall in February next year." Shen Xianzhu suspected that it would be difficult for him to take the imperial examination unless his father's affairs faded or he returned to Beijing to be reinstated.
"Brother is still very young, there is no need to rush for the next two years." Shen Lingzhu's advice was not very sincere. She wanted to go back and see her uncle's reaction.
She never expected that the county magistrate was Wang Tui Guan, and she herself would go to pay a visit to him.