Chapter 149 Gu Songtao is missing
When we came out of Feng Miaochu, it was already pitch dark and all the shops on the street, big and small, were closed.
The two walked through the empty streets and returned to the inn.
Lin Xi brought some food to Gu Songtao, and because she didn't go back to her own room, she went to Gu Songtao's room first.
There was a knock on the door, but there was no response for a long time. Lin Xi's heart sank, and he immediately felt something was wrong. He tried to push the door, but found that it was not closed at all. Lin Xi pushed the door open, and there was no one inside.
At night, where else could Gu Songtao be if not in the house?
Lin Xi walked around the house and suddenly found a letter left on the table...
"Husband, Gu Songtao was taken away by Hang Qi's men."
Lin Xi walked into the house in a hurry. Upon hearing that, Xiao Yongyan immediately stood up, took the envelope from Lin Xi's hand, glanced at it quickly, and his expression suddenly became serious.
"When did it happen?" Xiao Yongyan asked.
"Just now." Lin Xi was worried and a little angry. "I didn't expect Hang Qi to be so bold and kidnap people directly. Do you think Master Gu will be in danger?"
Xiao Yongyan comforted him, "Don't worry, Hang Qi just wants to use this to clamp us down, and he won't touch Gu Songtao easily. If this matter is investigated, he will be in trouble too."
Having said that, Lin Xi still couldn't stop worrying. Master Gu was a grandfather, and if he was dragged into trouble because of their affairs, how could they feel at ease?
Xiao Yongyan did not dare to delay and immediately took Lin Xi to the prefectural government.
"It's so late, I'm afraid the governor has already gone to bed." Lin Xi said.
Xiao Yongyan: "Human life is at stake. Even if he takes a break, he won't sit idly by."
However, when the two arrived at the prefect's mansion, the gatekeeper heard that they were here to see the prefect and said unhappily, "It's already this late, and you actually want to see the prefect? Wait until tomorrow."
Lin Xi was anxious. He took out some loose change from his pocket and stuffed it into the doorman's pocket. "If it wasn't something extremely important, I wouldn't dare to disturb the governor. Please help pass the message."
The servant secretly weighed the silver given by Lin Xi, but was a little dissatisfied. The prefect was indeed not resting now, but if he rashly went over to disturb him, he would be afraid of being blamed.
He is not stupid, why would he take the risk for nothing?
"It's not very convenient at this time." After saying that, the servant returned the money to Lin Xi.
This was the first time that Lin Xi encountered such a situation, so he emphasized again, "We do have something important to discuss with the governor, and we are not disturbing you for no reason. Just pass the message on. If the governor doesn't want to see us, then forget it."
The servant thought Lin Xi was a reasonable person, but he didn't expect her to insist on it. He immediately got annoyed. "Why are you so unreasonable? I told you it was impossible, but you insisted on going in. Don't stand at the door blocking the way. Go!"
It looks like they are about to start chasing people away.
Lin Xi also became furious. Not only did this person not help to pass the message, but now he was actually going to take action. This was simply outrageous!
Each gatekeeper was equipped with a stick, and he would come out to chase people away with the stick in hand.
Lin Xi was furious at this moment, and Xiao Yongyan was even more angry, grabbing the other end of the stick.
Lin Xi didn't even see how he moved, he just saw the stick was in Xiao Yongyan's hand in no time.
The servant looked at his empty hands in disbelief. Before he could react, Xiao Yongyan took the stick and swept it mercilessly across the servant's legs.
The servant felt pain in his calf, staggered, and fell to the ground wailing.
"Someone come quickly, someone is trying to break in!"
As the servant shouted, several people quickly came out from the door. When they saw the servant lying on the ground and Xiao Yongyan holding a stick, they shouted angrily, "Great! Someone actually dared to come to our prefectural governor's mansion and make trouble! Brothers, attack!"
Three or five people were about to rush to Lin Xi and Xiao Yongyan.
With Xiao Yongyan's kung fu, these people are not enough to be used as evidence, but Lin Xi does not want to implicate too many people for no reason, otherwise they will be wrong even if they are right.
"Everyone, my husband and I are not here to cause trouble. We really have something important to discuss with the governor. This servant refused to pass on our message and even used a stick to drive him away. In a desperate situation, we had no choice but to resort to this last resort."
However, Lin Xi's words did not convince anyone at all. They just thought that Lin Xi was here to cause trouble and must not be let go.
However, at this moment, a familiar voice suddenly came, "Who is making noise here?"
Lin Xi looked up and saw that it was the governor.
The prefect heard a lot of noise at the gate not far away, and the servants in the house ran to the gate one after another. He followed to see what was going on, but he didn't expect to see Xiao Yongyan.
"I have already promised to take care of your affairs. Why are you suddenly here at this time?" The prefect was a little surprised.
"Sir," Lin Xi said anxiously, "The Master Gu who came with us has been captured."
"Who caught him?" The governor frowned slightly, somewhat puzzled. In this day and age, is there anyone who would rush to Xucheng to catch someone?
"Please take a look, sir." In front of a group of people, Lin Xi still gave Hang Qi some face and directly handed the letter in his hand to the prefect.
The prefect quickly scanned the contents of the letter and looked grim. Was this Hang Qi crazy? He actually came to Xucheng's territory to cause trouble and didn't take him, the prefect, seriously at all.
"This is outrageous, extremely outrageous!" the governor said angrily, "You go ahead, I will order my men to follow."
Xiao Yongyan said, "In that case, let's go to the appointment first, and I'll trouble the governor to take care of the rest."
The prefect waved his hand, urging them to go first, and he would naturally arrange the rest.
The two men came out of the prefect's mansion and went to the location mentioned in the letter.
However, with the governor's assurance, they were not as anxious to leave as when they came, and Lin Xi felt much more at ease.
Now that I think about it, what Xiao Yongyan said makes sense. For Hang Qi, catching Gu Songtao is not the goal; the goal is to get Lin Xi and Xiao Yongyan out.
"By the way, what exactly was it that Hang Qi asked you to hand over last time?" Lin Xi asked, recalling what had happened before.
Xiao Yongyan still chose to conceal it, "Xi'er, there are some things you'd better not know."
He really didn't want to say it, and Lin Xi knew that it was useless to ask further, so he had to give up.
It took about half an hour for Lin Xi to finally find the place Hang Qi mentioned.
It was a dilapidated house, quite far away from the densely populated urban area. I don't know how he found such a place.
Lin Xi pushed the door open and walked in. In the originally dark night, several flashes of fire suddenly appeared.
Only then did she see that there were about six or seven people in the room, and the one sitting in the middle was Hang Qi.
Strangely, Gu Songtao doesn't seem to be here.
"Lin Xi, why are you the only one here? Where's your husband?" Hang Qi looked around but didn't see Xiao Yongyan. He sneered, "Is he running away from the battlefield and leaving his wife as a hostage?"
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