Chapter 1091: The Martial Arts School is Wrong
When Mr. Huo arrived at the Qiu Mansion, he was forced to kneel down and pay his respects by Prince Jin, and a large sum of silver was also extorted from him.
The King of Jin even sent people to follow him back to the Huo family under the pretext of asking them to help carry grain.
He also said that he didn't need to borrow a carriage and could send him back home safely.
After returning to the Huo family, the young man from the Qiu family watched the servants carry away a hundred loads of grain, received five thousand taels of silver notes, and left happily.
Before leaving, he said, "Mr. Huo is a righteous man."
When they left, a guard dressed as a servant of the Qiu family also roughly searched the Huo Mansion.
After returning, he reported to Zhou Shiyue.
"Your Majesty, the Huo family should have a secret room and a secret passage, but time is tight and I can't search carefully. I knocked on a few places and the sound was not right. I don't know where the entrance and exit are."
"Also, the Huo family has 20 to 30 young men with strong legs, calluses on their palms and knuckles, and calm eyes. They all look like good martial artists."
"There should be hundreds of dan of grain in the Huo family's granary, and judging from the servants, they are all strong and sturdy, so they should not have been thrifty for a long time."
"However, there are few female relatives in the Huo family."
This guard took the opportunity to go in with the Qiu family's servants to move grain and visited the Huo family.
"Also, Song Zhi and Mr. Zhou San should not be at the Huo family. I didn't see them."
This was Zhou Shiyue’s biggest goal, which was to see if they had returned.
"Okay, let's go down."
After listening to his report, Zhou Shiyue tapped his fingers lightly on the armrest, thinking about the situation of Song Zhi and Zhou Yi.
"Go and call Zong Zhihong." Zhou Shiyue gave another order.
This Lord Zong, in the past, had mostly spoken the truth, but he was not proactive enough. It was probably that Zong Zhihong answered what he asked, but he did not take the initiative to explain what he did not answer.
Zhou Shiyue is not afraid of the officials' little thoughts.
After all, it is impossible for everyone in the officialdom to be clean, firm in their stance, and clean in their hands.
As long as you can control yourself when it comes to major issues and when dealing with important matters, that's enough.
Lu Xiaoer went to investigate the people and events in Xuanmen, so he should be the one to deal with the affairs of the human world.
Lu Zhaoling rode a horse all over the Subei City.
It didn't snow.
However, after running around the whole city, she found that the living conditions of the people in Subei City were indeed poor.
I also saw many relatives coming to stay with them.
Because when she passed by, she heard some people arguing. From the various sounds and signs, she knew that many people in Subei City had already taken in their relatives and friends who had been affected by the disaster.
They themselves have no food left.
If more people come to seek refuge, then no one will have enough to eat.
When I slowed down and walked by, I could sometimes hear a patient coughing, a woman sighing in sorrow, or someone impatiently cursing at their relatives and friends.
In some houses there was deathly silence.
Whenever Lu Zhaoling came across a house like this, he would dismount and take a look.
After checking, we found that there was someone in the house, but in order to eat less, the family just slept.
Just don’t get up.
Even if someone can't sleep, they will just lie in bed and not move.
It is said that if you move less, you will get hungry slower.
Of course, there are also wealthy families.
Moreover, there are wealthy families with kind hearts.
Lu Zhaoling saw two or three families who did not dare to come out to give alms openly. They just opened a small corner door, set up a pot outside, served porridge to the poor people in the surrounding area, and gave them a big steamed bun.
These were probably notified by the servants who went out to visit.
Usually when seeing such a family, Lu Zhaoling would go to their door and quickly draw a lucky charm with a gold pen.
Although it may not be possible to completely avoid disaster for this family, it can at least ensure some degree of safety.
People who do good deeds like this should be protected.
If there were more people like this in the world, there would be more warmth and people would have more confidence in this world.
Because she did all this, it was already evening and she still hadn't walked through all of Subei City.
However, the traitor was not found in the places he passed.
It was about time she went back.
Because we still have to go to Yulan Pass.
But Lu Zhaoling guessed that Zhou Shiyue would probably want to go in person.
Before she finds the traitor, she will have to keep an eye on Subei City.
"princess!"
Two blue-clad guards saw her and called out in a low voice.
Lu Zhaoling looked carefully and recognized them.
The other two in the tough six-member group.
The two guards seemed to be staring at the house in front.
Lu Zhaoling followed their gaze and found that it should be a martial arts school.
Is there something wrong with this martial arts school?
Su Beicheng was good at martial arts, and she had seen more than one martial arts gym after walking around for half a day.
But maybe because of the disaster, everyone is not getting enough to eat, so now no one is practicing martial arts for the time being. If you practice too much, you will get hungry quickly, and you won’t have the energy to practice anymore.
Therefore, most martial arts schools are temporarily closed.
This martial arts school is also closed now.
But Lu Zhaoling saw that the snow in front of the door had been carefully swept, so he guessed that there was still someone living inside, and not necessarily just one person.
"What are you doing here? Is there something wrong with this martial arts school?" Lu Zhaoling walked over.
Two blue-clad guards took her to the side and hid.
"There was a carriage coming from the front. We were distributing supplies there and saw it. It seemed to be the Third Young Master's carriage, so we hurried over to take a look."
"We ended up following him to this martial arts gym. However, the carriage disappeared, and we didn't see whether the Third Young Master got off by himself."
"We are watching here because several families in the alley ahead told us that their sons used to practice martial arts in this martial arts school. They said that sometimes a masked master would come to teach them, not only martial arts, but also formations and mechanisms."
"They said that the teacher was very good. But their son had been learning for two years and was always told that he could not graduate, and they still had to pay money. They really couldn't afford it, so they wanted to quit the martial arts school."
"As a result, after they quit the martial arts school, their son fell ill. He never recovered from the illness and was often confused when he asked questions. He couldn't even speak clearly."
Lu Zhaoling frowned when he heard this.
For some reason, when she heard them say this, she thought of Song Zhi.
Could it be that the teacher wearing the mask is Song Zhi?
"Have they come to the martial arts school to seek justice?" she asked.
"I came to see them. The people at the martial arts school were very kind. They helped me find a doctor and paid for the medicine. But the doctor couldn't explain what the illness was, and couldn't prove that the martial arts school was related to the illness of the children."