Xiang Laosan and the others quickly left with the officers and soldiers. After walking for nearly half an hour, they arrived at the entrance of a courtyard. When they opened the courtyard and took a look, they couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

The yard was noisy. There were at least six or seven people washing, cooking, and chopping firewood in the yard. However, the main house in the yard was locked with a big lock. It seemed that the house they were going to rent was the main house.

When everyone saw the officers and soldiers entering the door, they immediately became silent and watched eagerly as he opened the door to the main room. The room was not big, with a main room in the middle and a room on the left and right.

"The kitchen is opposite and is shared with everyone. The latrine is in the back and is also shared. The firewood shed is at the entrance of the yard, but you have to put the firewood in your own room." The officer said.

The old village chief understood the meaning of the officers and soldiers as soon as he heard it. Firewood in the provincial capital must be bought with money, so it cannot be placed in the firewood shed, otherwise it will be cheaper for others.

"Thank you, Master Cha, for the tip. Please keep the money."

Xiang Laosan took out ten taels of silver and handed it to the official. The official smiled, turned and left. There was a scholar in this family. If he was admitted to be a scholar, his aunt's yard would be considered a lucky house.

Xiang Laosan settled down like this. He found out from the official that the place where the scholar examination was held was located in the academy opposite the governor's office. Now there were not many students in the academy. The family had extra money, so they were all busy buying food.

Bought water.

He helped Xiaoshu apply for an exam. Although he was just an observer, the master saw that Xiaoshu had a letter of recommendation from Qingshan Academy and did not dare to neglect. He repeatedly said that as long as the exams were held in the imperial city in April next year, they would also hold the exams here.

Because the elder Xiang was short of money, he no longer planned to rent a house. The family of five decided to live in a temple for a while. If there were any part-time workers, they would work to earn money, and then find a house to live in if they had money.

"Dad, please sell me. With a few taels of silver, you can find a house to live in."

Boss Xiang's eldest daughter is almost seventeen years old and has missed the best opportunity to find a good family. In this case, let's sell it.

Boss Xiang shook his head. Although he was lazy and greedy, it would be best to live like a moth in his parents' veins, but he was unwilling to sell his wife and daughter.

"Daughter-in-law, you take your three daughters to find an embroidery workshop tomorrow to see if you can find work. I'll go to the restaurant market to look for it. There is always a way. I believe we will live a good life.

"

The eldest daughter-in-law looked at her husband-in-law with tears in her eyes, the three sons of the Xiang family. She was married to a good man. If she married someone like the second child, it would be better to just die.

"Ms. sir, you have a day off tomorrow and look after the carts and grains, otherwise our mothers will go out to look for work and our things will be stolen."

"Yes, my wife is thoughtful. The little girl stays here to help cook, so I can have a good rest." Boss Xiang was happy when he heard that he was resting, and he could finally sleep in again.

The eldest daughter-in-law covered her mouth and smiled. She didn't care about resting and directly found a wedding dress from the package. It was prepared for the eldest daughter. Unfortunately, she ran away just after the blind date.

The mother and daughter found an embroidery workshop that looked somewhat grand in appearance, and walked in timidly. A woman glanced at them and asked what they wanted to buy.

The eldest daughter-in-law quickly took out her wedding dress and said, "Please let me know if I can get such embroidery work from you."

The woman was the shopkeeper of this embroidery workshop. She took the wedding dress and took a look at it with a trace of disdain in her eyes. However, although her embroidery work was not very good, she could still embroider a purse or something.

"Whether you want to make purses, handkerchiefs, or embroider shoes? If you want to do it, I'll give you five taels of silver as a deposit, and you can take the work back and embroider it."

"Madam, I, I don't have any money, can I deposit my wedding dress here?" the eldest daughter-in-law asked quickly.

The shopkeeper of the embroidery shop thought, this wedding dress is not made of good material and the embroidery work is not good, so it is worth one or two silver at most. However, there are many people getting married these days, and their embroidery shop is in a hurry to embroider the wedding dress, so they should give them less goods.

The old lady finally went back with a bag of purses. If you embroider all these purses, you can earn half a tael of silver, and if you embroider them carefully, it will only take seven or eight days.

The three people happily walked out of the embroidery workshop, but after running a few steps, they saw a group of people running in their direction. The eldest daughter was clever, and she grabbed the two younger sisters and ran back: "Mom,

Go back to the embroidery workshop quickly”

The eldest daughter-in-law also came to her senses. Just as she was about to turn around and escape back to the embroidery workshop, she was choked by a man. The man strangled the eldest daughter-in-law's neck with one hand, pointed a dagger at the Yamen servant and said: "Back off, or I will kill you."

Got her."

The government officials didn't care about this woman, but they took a look at Hongzhuang Embroidery Workshop and couldn't help but hesitate. This was the embroidery workshop of the governor's wife. If blood was seen here, this tigress would probably not let them go.

Seeing the yamen officer's hesitation, the man pushed the eldest daughter-in-law in the direction of the yamen officer and ran out of the city in a sprint.

The yamen servant hurriedly chased after him, but there were so many people in the city at this time that he actually lost track of them. Only then did the eldest daughter-in-law come to her senses. She almost had her neck cut.

The government officials came back cursing, and the female shopkeeper of the embroidery shop also ran out. After asking, they found out that the gambling house in their city had been burned down, and ten gambling houses were burned down in a row. This person was the head of their arrest.

He injured his leg after the sneak attack, but he still let him run away.

The admiral stood on the city tower and had a clear view of everything inside and outside the city. When he saw a man running towards the city gate, he quickly asked his confidants to follow him. He estimated that this man belonged to the sixth prince.

subordinates.

His confidant was also a secret guard, so his kung fu was no problem. He followed the secret guard to the foot of the mountain unhurriedly. When he saw the man sitting on the rock looking at him, he knew that his whereabouts had been revealed.

"I am a soldier from the provincial capital. Our admiral would like to meet the Sixth Prince. Please recommend him." The soldier showed his badge and said with cupped fists.

"Why?"

"Our admiral and Ada also have a life-long friendship. If the Sixth Prince wants to take over the provincial capital, he will have to rely on our admiral to help him secretly."

"The Sixth Prince is not here. He has already left the provincial capital and gone to the imperial city. He just left us with the task of destroying the gambling house." The secret guard also clasped his fists and said.

"Thank you brother for informing me. I will go back and tell the admiral to say goodbye."

The soldier clasped his fists and turned to leave. The secret guard looked at him for a long time before turning around and leaving. The hidden weapon used to capture the head was poisonous. It was not easy for him to hold on until now.

Wu kept hiding in the dark and followed the soldier all the way to the outside of the city. His eyes flashed before he turned and left. At the same time, he picked up the secret guard who was struggling to crawl halfway up the mountain and took him back to the cave.

The doctor took his pulse and found that this low-level poison could be easily cured by him. He stuffed an antidote pill into the secret guard's mouth. After a cup of tea, the secret guard half-knelt down in front of the sixth prince in shame.
Chapter completed!