Hurd suppressed his pride and said, "This kind of intrigue can’t fool me. Since Mr. Parkes was kidnapped, we have blocked the Yuexiang Building and have been sending troops to guard it. If they hide Mr. Parkes in the Yuexiang Building, where is Mr. Parkes now? They can’t take him away."
Zhu Jinglun continued to sell stupidly. "I don’t understand why they want to do this?"
Hurd said, "The most dangerous place is the safest place. You China people say that the lights are black. That’s why these bandits are really cunning. They have been plotting for a long time to take Mr. Parkes away. How could they risk taking Mr. Parkes away directly? They hide Mr. Parkes first, and then when we relax, they are secretly taking him away. Am I right? Mr. Fang "
Hurd glared at Fangshan mercilessly. At this time, his smug expression could not be concealed. This was obviously inappropriate. Parkes was taken away by his company. He was still proud, but he was so proud that he couldn’t help it.
Zhu Jinglun said inexplicably, "But I heard that a foreigner was really taken away by a gangster carriage that day."
Hurd said, "Don’t forget the man-loading box. When they carried it into the Moon House, there was a man hidden in it, an Englishman with blond hair like Mr. Parkes. Then this man pretended to take our soldiers away and hid Mr. Parkes in the Moon House."
Hurd took another look at Zhu Jinglun. "Mr. Zhu didn’t know that when we were chasing the carriage, we were blocked by some people in the Red Temple for a while, and then we lost it, but when we found the carriage, Mr. Parkes disappeared. Yesterday afternoon, someone salvaged a foreigner’s body from a nearby river, but after we recognized that it wasn’t Mr. Parkes, but it was a coincidence that we were wearing Mr. Parkes’s clothes. Now it seems that it was gangsters who came to confuse us. The real Mr. Parkes in body double was hidden by gangsters."
Zhu Jinglun really didn’t know about these situations. He didn’t know that Lin Fuxiang also arranged people to block foreigners’ soldiers with horses, chariots and groceries in the area of Hongmiao. When Lin Zhuang tried to escape, he didn’t know that when Lin Zhuang drove the carriage to the East Gate moat, there would be a flower boat to meet the fake Parkes, and they would hang stones and throw them into the moat.
I didn’t expect the body to be accidentally fished up. This is a small flaw.
Lin Fuxiang never finished reassuring Zhu Jinglun or unwilling to take Zhu Jinglun seriously, so these confidential things were not told to Zhu Jinglun. At this time, Hurd proudly showed off and let Zhu Jinglun know a general idea.
After listening to Hurd’s analysis, Zhu Jinglun pretended to think for a while and then revealed an epiphany and a look of great admiration
"What Mr Hurd said is very reasonable! Then we are now? "
Zhu jinglun asked
Hurd’s tone is firm. "It’s been three days since you went to Yuexiang Building with me. I hope nothing will happen to Mr. Parkes!"
Stuck in a box for three days, who knows if he will be alive? If he is alive, it will be a terrible gift for Hurd. Will Parkes be grateful to Hurd after being saved? It would be a pity for Hurd if he died. He also proved to other British officials that his ability would be respected by others.
So he immediately left Panyu County Prison and ordered a soldier to go back to the general office to inform the military judge to let the military judge judge a mountain. At the same time, he immediately borrowed several soldiers from the guarding yamen officer and hurried to Yuexiang Building.
The Yuexiang Building was indeed protected by a platoon of British soldiers. This is the crime scene.
Hurd had a good talk, but the officer was reluctant to let him in after he knew him and listened to his nonsense.
All the way to the boudoir of Moqin, which had been locked for a long time, and then found the box.
But Hurd was disappointed after the box was hit, because there were only a few clothes in it!
Hurd stood in the same place. He just analyzed that the perfect fit is extremely logical and has great benefits, which led him to firmly believe in it. However, after the fact was completely divorced from his imagination, the blow was huge, just like a person suddenly found out that he had won the lottery, but when he won the prize, he found out that his lottery was a phase. The sense of loss made Hurd’s brain immediately blind.
Stay where you are! He made a big joke!
But Hurd’s guess is not wrong. The real Parkes was not taken directly by Linzhuang that day. They wouldn’t take that risk. Where is the real Parkes? It’s really around here. It’s Hurd. They’ll never find it.
Big chapter when two more!
Section 41 Big Plan 1
The emergency speed and reaction of the British people is that Lin Fuxiang didn’t expect that after Parkes was arrested, the British people should panic and focus all their attention on the carriage that "hijacked" Parkes.
It’s true. Teams of patrols are gathering to chase the carriage, and the ranks of British soldiers are growing. But to their disappointment, the British blocked the port and asked them to prepare a boat to meet them in advance, so they had to change their plans temporarily.
Fortunately, there is a high-ranking figure among the executors who knows how to improvise and has some resources, otherwise this accident is likely to become the biggest variable in their plan.
Hurd watched from the window of the piano room that some rice bags were still scattered on the ground, and his brain was spinning as fast as Sherlock Holmes imagined by the British.
"People are in Mihang!"
Hurd suddenly shouted and hurried to Mihang with people to check the Mihang warehouse.
Zhu Jinglun sighed that Hurd had really used his brain to make meritorious deeds, but he thought too much drama, and drama was often the opposite of reality.
Hurd thought it was indeed Lin Fuxiang who arranged the props for the rice bags. At that time, Lin Zhuang jumped out of the window with a fake Parkes and was not injured. It was these rice bags that made meritorious deeds, and then the British jumped out of the window but sprained their legs. It was also because of these rice bags that Lin Zhuang jumped to those rice bags that he prepared to fill the straw sacks in advance, but the British jumped into the hard rice bags and didn’t sprain his ankle. It is strange that Shui Piao’s flying skills, if any, would not be British.
And the real Parkes is of course a rice bag.
Of course, after Lin Zhuang knocked Parkes unconscious, it was not as dangerous as hiding in a wooden box as Hurd imagined. Lin Fuxiang wouldn’t consider that Lin Zhuang directly stuffed Parkes into a sack. The first one pushed the window and fell into the rice-filled sack. Then he took another foreigner to the window and asked the foreigner to send out a cry for help so that the guard could break in and the British soldiers could see it with their own eyes.
When Lin Zhuang was galloping in the carriage with a fake Parkes, the British soldiers did not care to check the sacks on the ground for a while. These sacks were quickly robbed by the villagers nearby, and those villagers who were carrying sacks were not ordinary people.
When one of the "villagers" carried Parkes to the dock, they saw the chaos outside the city. The British navy blocked the dock by itself. It is these navies that the British can rely on everywhere. They are the best troops in the world at present, so their reaction made Lin Fuxiang unexpected.
The "villager" carrying a sack didn’t go to the dock, but turned straight to a secret contact point and temporarily hid Parkes inside.
Hurd was disappointed to see a man in the rice shop, and the suspect was arrested in prison. Unfortunately, they didn’t judge the result and knew that the shopkeeper’s child was kidnapped that day. Obviously, the shopkeeper participated in this matter, but the shopkeeper was coerced and didn’t know the specific situation.
Every rice bag in the rice warehouse has been searched, and it is real rice. Hurd was disappointed and quite embarrassed. He knew that he had made a huge joke and was depressed.
Zhu Jinglun sees all this in his eyes. Hurd has been too smooth during this period. Since he ventured to switch back to Indian soldiers from outside the city, he has been working hard and secretly helping Zhu Jinglun to advance step by step and become Parkes’s deputy. People’s mood will also change in the smooth sailing. If you are not careful, you will feel that what you can’t do is full of illusory self-confidence.
When this illusory self-confidence is broken, it may be extremely lacking in self-confidence for a short time. Zhu Jinglun can see that Hurd is in the transition stage from extremely confident to extremely unconfident.
Hurd returned to the city disappointed.
He didn’t know it was just at the same time, and he was looking for Parkes at hand, in a temple two excuses away.
Hongmiao
This is not a formal name. There are places called Red Temple all over the country, but most of them are not formal names because there is no god called Red God.
For example, the Red Temple in Beijing is either an emperor or a land or a city god. It is called the Red Temple because the temple walls are painted red, and the common people shout smoothly for convenience.
This red temple in Guangzhou is located near the pier, and the back wall faces the main entrance of Guangzhou City, looking at the flowing Pearl River. In this temple, Mazu is a sea god.
On the same day, the Red Temple was later searched by the British because it was blocked by the British in the street behind the Red Temple. Of course, they did not seal up the Red Temple because they did not want to provoke China people’s belief.
This gave Lin Fuyong, the bold and brave leader of the artist, a chance to think that the burnt grass was safer, so he quietly moved Parkes from a nearby courtyard to the Red Temple last night.
Lin Fuyong is Lin Fuxiang’s younger brother. In this secret operation, Lin Fuxiang specially recruited him from Nanhai County to let him directly participate in this hijacking. Lin Fuxiang’s younger brother has considerable strength, such as moving the hidden pile of the Red Temple.
The second reason why Lin Fuyong moved Parkes to the Red Temple is that there is a pier not far from the front of the Red Temple. For the sake of calming people’s hearts and maintaining trade, the British released trade yesterday and stopped checking merchant ships one by one. This is the most important reason why Lin Fuyong brought Parkes to the Red Temple.
Parkes is not dead yet, but he is still in the sack. He will be released for dinner twice a day, and then stuffed with rags and ropes in his mouth.
Lin Fuyong and others are not interested in interrogating a guy like Parkes before. His greatest wish is to send Parkes to Lin Fuxiang alive as soon as possible.
An ordinary awning boat quietly docked at the dock, filled with goods he needed before sunset, and then quietly left the Guangzhou dock.
Lin Fuyong, a scholar who died with several Lin family confidants, has been quietly watching the boat leave here before he can rest assured.