Chapter 348: Find out the details
After Lin Baoer and the others stopped bidding, Xiaofen naturally fell into the hands of the person in Room 1, and the transaction price was 2 million taels.
This is no different from a sky-high price for ordinary people, but for people like them who are either rich or noble, this little money is not a big deal.
Until the auction was over, Lin Baoer and the others did not leave.
Time passed by minute by minute, and Jiang Yuzhi was the first to get restless. He walked around in the room and couldn't help asking: "Brother Zhishen, is there still no news?"
They not only wanted to find out who arrested Xiaofen, but also who was in Room 1, so that they could plan how to snatch Xiaofen back.
Lin Zhishen's face was not very good either. He shook his head with a gloomy face. He didn't show it on the surface, but he was actually very anxious.
He knew how important Xiaofen was to Lin Baoer. If Xiaofen really got into trouble, he would definitely not let those people go first!
After waiting for about an hour, the people Lin Zhishen sent finally came back.
"Replying to the Seventh Prince, the guest of Room No. 1, A is a medicinal herb merchant in Kyoto. His surname is Fu and he lives in Qiaotou Street in the east of the city."
Lin Zhishen frowned, "What about the man who sells the things?" His
subordinates shook their heads, "We haven't found him yet. He should be a man with powerful weapons. I followed him for a while and was discovered by him. Then I got rid of him and my identity is unknown."
"That man seemed to... know some weird kung fu."
"Weird kung fu?" Lin Baoer was puzzled, "What do you mean?"
The subordinate explained, "At that time, I followed him at a distance. He was hiding very well, but suddenly he stopped, took out a bell from his body and shook it twice. I felt dizzy, and when I recovered, he had already run away."
That's how he was lost.
"Wasn't the bell in the woman's hand just now?" Jiang Yu clapped his hands in surprise.
The woman who auctioned Xuan before used the bell to control Xiaofen.
Without waiting for Lin Zhishen's instructions, Jiang Yu took the job directly this time, "I'll go ask her!"
He didn't care whether they agreed or not, he ran away.
Seeing this, Lin Baoer was a little worried and asked Lin Zhishen, "Is it really okay for him to expose his identity like this?"
What if someone with ulterior motives discovered his identity and took advantage of him?
After the auction, Lin Baoer believed from the bottom of her heart that Jiang Yu should be a simple person. If all of this was fake, then it only proved that Jiang Yu was a scheming person, and she was willing to admit defeat.
"It's okay." Lin Zhishen shook his head.
At most, someone with ulterior motives might report it to Concubine Xuan, but that was not certain, he believed Jiang Yu could handle it.
"What should we do now?" Jiang Yuzhi and they looked at each other.
Lin Zhishen said nothing and looked at Lin Baoer.
If Lin Baoer was anxious, he could immediately send someone to the Fu Mansion to redeem Xiaofen no matter what the cost, but... he felt that Lin Baoer did not seem to have the intention of leaving immediately.
"Do you know about the Fu family?" Lin Baoer asked after a while.
Jiang Yuzhi shook her head.
She had just arrived, how could she know about these relationship networks in the capital of Jiang Kingdom.
"I only know that their family started out as a medicinal material dealer, and later became an imperial merchant. However, three years ago, there was a problem with the medicine they offered as tribute, and someone reported it to my father. My father then revoked their title as an imperial merchant, which also caused them to suffer for a while."
"But despite this, their family is still among the top ten richest merchants. A mere two million taels is no problem."
So even if they had tried their best to continue shouting, they would not have been able to shout at them. After all, the taxes paid by the Fu family could cover a quarter of the entire Kyoto.
Hearing this, Lin Baoer exhaled and pondered, "I know Xiaofen's ability. Even if it is caught, it has the ability to protect itself. What's more, it just fell into the hands of the Fu family. They will not kill Xiaofen after buying it back, right?"
At least they still have extra time to think about strategies.
As for what to do, of course, we have to first understand all the information about the Fu family.
Lin Zhishen understood what she meant and nodded immediately.
The matter of investigating people would naturally be left to him.
At this time, Jiang Yu also came back. He ran up panting and said, "Sister Mei said that the bell was given to her by the man who sold Xiaofen. He said that as long as she shook it and gave instructions, Xiaofen would obey her."
"When the Fu family took Xiaofen away, they also took the bell away, so Sister Mei couldn't show it to me."
Lin Baoer raised her eyebrows and gave him a thumbs up in approval.
"Okay, let's go back to the mansion first." Lin Zhi thought carefully, "I will send someone to continue tracking the whereabouts of that man. As for the Fu family... Jiang Yu, I'll leave it to you."
He was indeed planning to come in person before, but after seeing Jiang Yu, he changed his mind. Jiang Yu's connections should be more useful than his.
Jiang Yu was stunned and didn't understand what he meant. It was only after Jiang Yuzhi explained it to him that he agreed.
"Don't worry, leave it to me!" He patted his chest confidently.
After returning to the Seventh Prince's Mansion, Lin Baoer was a little absent-minded.
Xiaofen inherited Xiaoqing's bloodline. She was much smarter than other snakes since she was born. When she was twelve years old, she accidentally opened her intelligence. That's why she can easily understand human language.
In all these years, it has never been caught, let alone controlled by anyone. When
she saw Xiaofen before, she could tell at a glance that it was hypnotized.
Who would hypnotize a snake for no apparent reason? And after
hypnotizing it, it was fine if it wasn't for its own use, but it was actually put up for auction?
Just for the money?
Two million taels is not a lot, but it's not a little either. For an ordinary person, this amount of money can last for several lifetimes, but for someone with the ability to hypnotize, it shouldn't be.
So, what exactly is his purpose?
"Sister Baoer! Sister Baoer!"
Lin Baoer's thoughts were interrupted by Jiang Yuzhi's voice, which made her dazed for a moment, and she looked at Jiang Yuzhi who was running over.
She calmed down and threw away those distracting thoughts, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Yuzhi said in distress: "Sister Baoer, go and take a look at the Red Flame Chicken. It has not eaten anything since it came back. Not only that, it almost ate the bird raised by Uncle Fu!"
Lin Baoer was stunned for a moment.
The logic behind this made her CPU burn out.
A little slower, Lin Baoer widened her eyes, puzzled, "Didn't the Red Flame Chicken buy it from the Tenth Prince? How come it is here with A Shen?"
Jiang Yuzhi curled her lips and sighed, "Don't say it, the Tenth Prince said that if he took it back, he would be beaten by his mother, so he kept it here temporarily with us, and he will come to see it every day!"
Hearing this, Lin Baoer raised her forehead helplessly.
What is going on!
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