After waiting for several days, Xie Yutian and Zhong Yishi finally arrived.

Gu Yanqing grabbed Xie Yutian and burst into tears, "Mr. Guard Xie, I've been waiting for you to come. Gu is a scholar, but Bai Wuyi is a scholar. He came to the capital to get some money for his employer and actually lost it.

You must get the money back, otherwise Gu will not be able to see 'Elder Jiangdong'..."

Zhong Yishi stepped forward to help him, and a smell of sweat hit his face. The weather was hot, and he lived on a damp and stuffy boat. His clothes would get soaked in just a few hours, but he was also polite and wore a long gown.

How can there be no smell if you cover yourself up?

"Mr. Gu, go and change into clean clothes. I'll wash this one for you," said Zhong Yishi.

Gu Yanqing sniffed her body, frowned and smiled bitterly: "Just kidding, I thought I would take the opportunity to go to Beijing to escort the money to meet old friends and settle old matters. Who knew this job would be so thrilling!"

Xie Yutian looked at his gray beard and hair, and thought of his old father who was taking care of his old age at home. He couldn't help but feel sad. If he couldn't recover this boatload of money, he would have to lose all his family property. How would he face the children of his family at that time?

"Mr. Gu, it's all because of the incompetence of the escort, which has frightened you. Yutian will apologize to you. Don't worry, you won't lose a tael of money."

Xie Yutian didn't see Gao Xiang, so he didn't ask any questions and told Huang Yi: "It's hot in summer and the boat is humid and muggy. How can we let Mr. Gu live on the boat? Go quickly to find a better inn on the shore and ask Mr. Gu to rest."

Gu Yanqing refused: "I will never get off the boat until I see the money."

Zhong Yishi said with a smile: "Mr. Gu, we have lost your money, but we don't want to lose it for you too. You'd better go to the inn and wait, so that Mr. Xie can go and find it for you with peace of mind."

Yinzi, let’s go, I’ll go with you.”

Zhong Yishi was a woman, with a beautiful voice and a smile that was even more refreshing. Gu Yanqing thought to herself, how could there be such a handsome man in the world? He couldn't help but move his steps to get off the boat.

Seeing Gu Yanqing getting off the boat, Huang Yicai said: "Master, my senior brother has been detained at Dananzhuang, Jingzhou, and I want you to pick him up in person."

Xie Yutian's face was calm and he asked: "Did the people from Dananzhuang rob the escort ship?"

"Since I haven't met my senior brother, I still don't know what the situation is like in Da Nanzhuang."

Huang Yi and Gao Xiang left separately. He was originally going to Zhuangzi near Wuqiao to search for clues. While walking, he suddenly thought that since the thieves had used many boats to hijack darts and so many people were operating late at night, it was inevitable that they would leave some traces on the river beach.

If there are any clues, why not first go for a walk on both sides of the Beilijin River where boating is possible.

So Huang Yi went to the west bank of the Beilijin River and walked along the river bank from north to south until he reached the cross canal he met last night. He didn't find any traces. Then he turned back from the east bank and walked a few more miles. Finally,

I saw many messy footprints on a river beach.

Huang Yi put down the peddler's bag and went down to the bottom of the river to take a closer look. He saw that the footprints were spreading forward, a distance of two to three hundred steps. He calculated the number of pirate ships in his mind and calculated that this distance was just enough to stop them.

Those pirate ships.

This should be it, Huang Yixin said. If this place is not near Zhuangzi or the dock, who would dock so many ships here?

Huang Yi searched everywhere again and found half of the torn seal of the escort box, with the word "thank you" on it. He couldn't help being ecstatic and concluded that this was where the thieves stopped the ship and unloaded the goods.

Huang Yi climbed up the river bank and found a shortcut hidden in the sorghum field. He walked along until a large forest appeared at the end of the shortcut. There was a burned-out foreign church faintly visible in the forest. Behind the church was a high-walled compound.

It seemed to be the manor of a wealthy man. Huang Yi did not dare to step forward rashly, so he hid in the sorghum field and peeped for a long time, but no one came out of the manor.

Huang Yi walked around the woods and saw a village across a canal. Outside the village, he met an old man in his seventies who was enjoying the shade under a tree. He went over to chat and found out that the old man made a living by playing drums when he was young. Everyone called him

"Cheng Dagu" is famous in the Wuqiao area of ​​Jingzhou.

"Cheng Dagu" started to talk endlessly, and he couldn't stop talking about the past and the present.

It turns out that this village is called Hejiadian, and the owner of that manor is He Yingqi, a squire of Hejiadian. He Yingqi's eldest son, He Shaobai, was originally an errand for Li Hongzhang's eldest brother Li Hanzhang. In the fifteenth year of Guangxu's reign, Li Hanzhang became the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

He brought him to Guangzhou. Later, Li Hanzhang retired and returned to his hometown, recommending He Shaobai to serve as shogunate in the house of Tan Zhonglin, the new governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Later, because Tan Zhonglin suppressed the revolutionaries, He Shaobai had a disagreement with him and disappeared.

Huang Yi didn't want to know about the young master of the He family, but only wanted to know the details of the He family. Just as he was about to inquire in detail, seven or eight old people came from Zhuangzi, shouting that they wanted to "make a big drum" and "talk about the Tang Dynasty". It was inconvenient for Huang Yi to stay for a long time.

, had to get up and leave.

…

Huang Yi was worried that his master would lose face and did not dare to talk about how he was defeated by someone in Dananzhuang. He only said that there was a boxer from out of town in Dananzhuang who was very good at martial arts. He thought that Gao Xiang must have been captured by him.

Xie Yutian nodded, meaning he understood.

From what Huang Yi said, it can be judged that the person who snatched the dart boat took the darts to the store, but why was Gao Xiang trapped in Dananzhuang? Losing the darts is a serious matter, Gao Xiang will not fight for power in Dananzhuang

Are you eager to compete with others? Probably not. No matter how stupid he is, he can still understand the importance. That is, he also discovered in Dananzhuang that he only fights people in order to get boomerangs.

It has been nearly ten days since the dart ship was robbed. Could it be that the thieves have already transported the darts away? Of course not. Where can such a large amount of money be transported? Unless there is an urgent need for a hundred thousand dollars, the thieves will definitely wait for the news.

Then slowly pour it out.

Even if it is transported in a hurry, it is not an easy task. The Xie Family Escort Bureau often escorts "Bai Kenzi". Xie Yutian knows very well that a huge asset like 50,000 taels of silver means that Liu Kunyi is powerful and can handle things neatly.

The silver box is transported onto the ship, inspected by both parties, and the ship can be sailed after sealing it with a dart ticket. If such a large amount of silver were shipped with a normal ticket number, the ship would not be sailing without ten days and a half of careful planning.

Xie Yutian thought about it in his mind for a while and felt that the Hejia store might be where the money was hidden, and that Da Nanzhuang might be the nest of thieves.

Since the boxer from Da Nanzhuang wants to see me, he will go. However, to prevent him from being fooled by the thieves' false claims, he must do two things first.

Thinking of this, Xie Yutian asked Huang Yi to bring a pen and paper, wrote a letter, called a disciple, and ordered him to rush to Shuiguan in Linqing.

Xie Yutian has a junior brother who is in charge at Linqingshui Pass. He wants to ask his junior brother to step up checks on passing merchant ships to prevent thieves from transporting the escort items through the canal.

After finishing this matter, Xie Yutian asked Huang Yi to take a junior brother back to Hejiadian and secretly monitor the activities there. If there was any trouble, he would immediately go to Dananzhuang to find him.
Chapter completed!