A Jinyiwei standing in the lobby of the yamen, touched one of the wooden boxes with his hand and sighed: "No wonder even the boat board was broken. Such a heavy box could not bear the sturdy boat board."

Several other Jinyiwei nodded in agreement.

No one suspected that Xu Tong was killed by someone, and believed in his heart that the ferry was crushed by so much gold and silver, which caused the ship to sink into the river.

It didn't take long, and Captain Zhou came back from outside.

When he came to Yuan Hong, he said, "Sir, the carriage is ready, just wait outside the yamen."

Yuan Hong looked out and found that there was indeed a carriage parked outside the door, and there was a driver chasing the carriage standing next to him, holding a whip in his hand.

"Sir, what do you think you'd have to do if you're young?" asked Captain Zhou.

Yuan Hong thought for a while and said, "Look for a few officers and carry all these physical evidence onto the carriage."

The physical evidence is the wooden boxes in the lobby.

"You guys, come here." Captain Zhou waved to the officer not far away.

As the captain, he was only a lower position in the yamen than the head of the sixth house. In the yamen, ordinary yamen runners and servants dared not ignore his orders.

Six or seven officers came over.

These are all white servants, which are very different from serious yamen runners. They are considered idle helpers and their status is the lowest in the yamen.

"Captain Zhou, what are your instructions?" One of the officers said to Captain Zhou with a humble expression.

Captain Zhou pointed to several wooden boxes in the lobby with his hand and said, "You can carry these boxes onto the carriage outside."

"Did you carry them all over?" one of the officers asked.

"Yes, carry it over." Captain Zhou nodded.

Originally, these boxes were carried to the lobby by these servants, but now they heard that they were going to carry them out of the carriage outside. Several servants skillfully lifted a wooden box and moved it out of the lobby.

Captain Zhou stood in the lobby and watched reluctantly as the last wooden box was carried to the carriage.

Others don’t know, but he knows that the wooden boxes contain silver, and the dozen taels of silver that were originally distributed to him were also in these wooden boxes.

There was still some gold, but the county master and the head of the sixth house did not mention it, and he did not dare to ask, just pretending that he didn't know that there was such a thing and just took the money back.

The seal on the wooden box was also posted by him with people all night.

After all the wooden boxes were brought into the carriage, Yuan Hong said to Captain Zhou: "Tell me and Lord Wu, and I will say that I have returned to Beijing."

"Don't worry, sir, the younger one must bring the words." Captain Zhou squeezed a smile on his face.

Yuan Hong took out a ingot of silver from his cuff, handed it to Captain Zhou through the cuff, and said, "Thank you for the hard work these two days, take this little silver to drink."

The purchase was cold. Captain Zhou knew it was silver as soon as he touched it. He immediately lit up his eyes and smiled and said, "It's not hard work, everything is for the court, it's a small matter."

After weighing the silver in his hand, it was almost ten taels, which made him feel much more comfortable.

Yuan Hong turned around, called out several other Jinyiwei, and walked out of the yamen.

Captain Zhou was sent to the yamen, watching the Jinyiwei get on the horse and walk along the street with the carriage pulling wooden boxes before retracting his gaze.

But at this moment, he saw a familiar figure from the corner of his eyes in the crowd at the yamen.

When he looked over again, he found that the figure disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

"I've been busy all night and my eyes are a little blurred." Captain Zhou muttered and turned back to the yamen.

Not far from the yamen, there is a tea stall.

A man sat in the tea stall and said to the person in front of him: "As soon as these Jinyiwei left, Xu Tong's case should have come to an end. You can't continue to stay here. The above gave you two choices, one was to go to the grassland to do things, and the other was to take a boat to Dayuan Island."

"I used to be a boatman, and I usually do jobs to carry people across the river. I'm afraid I'm not used to going to the grassland, so I'd better go to Dayuan Island! Maybe I'll have the opportunity to continue rowing in the future." The middle-aged man was speaking.

If that Aide Liu was here, he would definitely be able to recognize the boatman who drowned Xu Tong.

The man said, "I will report your choice to the above, but there is the sea on the other side of Dayuan Island, which is very different from the ferry you were in before."

The boatman smiled and said, "I have been used to dealing with water over the years. Whether it is the sea or the river, I can't escape the word "water" from both sides."

The man said, "Okay, since you want to go to Dayuan Island, hurry up and clean up and go to Lingqiu first. The people above will arrange for you to take a boat to Dayuan Island."

"Don't rush to leave. The Jinyiwei took away several wooden boxes just now, which contained Xu Tong's ill-gotten fortunes over the years. I want to act with our people." The boatman said.

The man shook his head and said, "No, you can't show up. Who knows if anyone of the Jinyiwei has seen you or seen your portrait? If someone recognizes you, Xu Tong's case will have another twists and turns."

The boatman thought for a while, finally sighed and said, "Okay, I'll go back to pack up my things and go to Lingqiu now."

The man nodded, then stood up and shouted to the tea shop: "Shopkeeper, the tea money is here."

"Okay!" The tea stall shopkeeper agreed from inside.

The boatman picked up the tea bowl, drank the tea in one sip, got up and walked into the abortion on the street, mixed in the abortion and disappeared.

Yuan Hong took the Jinyiwei out of the east gate of the county town and headed east.

Because there were several boxes of silver on the carriage, the carriage could not walk too fast, and several Jinyiwei could only follow him and move forward slowly.

After rushing for most of the day, I only left the county town dozens of miles away.

If there was no drag on the carriage, only a few Jinyiwei would have entered the territory of Northern Zhili long ago.

"Sir, should you find a place to rest first? Even if we are not tired, the horse will be tired after running for so long?" said a Jinyiwei to Yuan Hong who was walking in front.

Yuan Hong turned around and looked at the carriage following behind, then said, "Go ahead for a while and wait until there is a place to rest in front of you."

The driver who was driving the car said at this time: "If you want to rest, there is a house with a tiger-shaped flag, mule and horse in the front fifteen miles away. You can go there to rest."

Yuan Hong said: "Okay, just go to that mule and horse shop to rest."

Several Jinyiwei were wearing brocade clothes and embroidered spring swords were hanging on their waists. They were not easy to mess with at first glance. The pedestrians on the road avoided them when they saw them.

Some businessmen who traveled south and north knew that these people were Jinyiwei and were all from the government. They would rather not take this path than walk with these Jinyiwei than walk with them, for fear of causing trouble.

There are not many pedestrians on the official road, and there are even fewer pedestrians on the road when there are some people hiding from them.

Half an hour later, Yuan Hong brought his Jinyiwei and his carriage to a mule and horse shop called the tiger flag.

When they stopped, the shop clerk in the Mule and Horse Store ran out and said, "Would you like to eat or stay in a hotel?"

"Eat." Yuan Hong said, then said, "Feed all our horses, use the good ingredients, and have to rush to finish the meal."
Chapter completed!