When Yang Liangting met the cloth merchant for the first time, he saw plum blossoms on his cloth.
The fabric and silk of this Plum Blossom Story are precious, and no one would put such great effort into it just to make a game.
What's more important is that this pair of lion snow globe brocades is indeed as the cloth merchant said. It can only be found in the imperial palace, and most of the ministers have it as a reward from Ouchi. Moreover, there are not many such fabrics now, so we know the double lion snow globe brocade.
Jin people must know their stuff.
This draper is a truly expert draper.
His visit to Yongle City was most likely related to the cloth business.
Hong Tailang had a headache. Didn't this come back again? They checked all the cloth workshops, silk shops, and all the cloth merchants selling Plum Blossom Records in Yongle City, but they had never seen this cloth merchant from the capital.
After Erha thought for a moment, he patted his thigh and said, "I know!"
Lu Bai and Hong Tailang looked at him together.
Yang Liangting, who had been silent, also raised his head.
"What do you know?" Hong Tailang asked.
Erha said confidently: "I know why all the cloth merchants in the city don't recognize this cloth merchant."
Lu Bai urged him to talk quickly.
Seeing everyone looking over him, Erha felt that today he had reached the peak of his IQ and it was worth remembering.
So, he shook his head, leaving a handsome gesture, and made the wolf's ears twitch from side to side twice. If Lu Bai hadn't raised his palm, he would have raised the wolf's tail.
"All cloth merchants are not this person, because he -" Erha pointed at Yang Liangting, "he remembered the person's appearance wrong!"
Well--
There was silence in the house for a moment.
After a while, Lu Bai kicked him and said, "Your uncle, I thought you had any great ideas!"
Hong Tailang despised Erha, "Look at your aggressive nature, don't say anything anymore. It's too embarrassing for us wolves. From now on, you should just call yourself a dog."
Erha was unconvinced, "After ruling out all possibilities, this is the only possibility!"
Yang Liangting hurriedly defended himself, "There is nothing wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong. I am deeply afraid that I will not see Miss Lian'er again, so I remember the appearance of the cloth merchant clearly. I am about to die in prison."
, and I dare not forget his appearance!”
After the words fell, the two wolves stopped arguing and looked at Yang Liangting.
"What do you mean!" Erha approached him, his eyes were wolf eyes, gloomy, looking at Yang Liangting indifferently.
Hong Tailang also had a bad look on his face.
He warned Yang Liangting, "Lian'er is mine, I'm warning you, don't try to take advantage of him!"
Yang Liangting was a little timid at first, but then he got the courage and straightened his neck and said: "Lian'er, when did Miss Lian'er become yours? Besides, you, you, you are all monsters, humans, humans and monsters are not the same."
,Can not be together."
"I'll choke you!" Erha got angry and grabbed him, "How dare you even think about touching Lian'er."
Hong Tailang also rushed forward, and his big mouth suddenly opened, turning into a wolf's mouth, pressing against Yang Liangting's throat, "I tell you, your life was given by me. If I hadn't been merciful, you would have died long ago!"
So I’m warning you, if you don’t change your words, I’ll eat you!”
Yang Liangting closed his eyes, "No, I won't change, Lian'er, Lian'er, who does Lian'er like? Before I decide, I, I will never change!"
"You brat, you're quite tough!"
The two wolf monsters were so angry that they were about to tear Yang Liangting apart, but Lu Bai stopped them, "That's enough, they haven't been found yet."
He thought of another possibility, "This cloth merchant is here to do business, but he is not doing business in Yongle City!"
The two wolves let go of Yang Liangting, "What do you mean, he is doing business in Yancheng?"
Lu Bai shook his head, "No, if you can trouble a capital cloth merchant to come to Yongle City, his business must be very big, so big that it can reach a country-"
Northern Dynasties!
Yang Liangting understood, "You, you said he was in the smuggling business?"
In recent years, because the Northern Dynasties repeatedly invaded the border towns of the Southern Dynasties, the imperial court had already closed the border markets and prohibited trade. However, Meiji's silk also had a large market and profit in the Northern Dynasties, and it was worth the risk for many people.
Lu Bai felt that the cloth merchant was most likely here for smuggling.
Erha and Hong Tailang were convinced, "Then what should we do now? I'll go back to the territory, set up a checkpoint, and stop all the caravans going to the north?"
His royal court was so large that it happened to include the road to the north of Yongle City.
Lu Bai waved his hand, "No, when it comes to smuggling, I happen to know someone."
The Green Shirt Gang!
A gang that smuggles food in Yongle City.
The last time Lu Bai came to Yongle City, he had dealt with them. Their gang leader Qin and Hu Chunxiang were both wonderful people.
Lu Bai decided to go find them.
"Hu Chunxiang?" Yang Liangting was surprised, "A woman actually joins a gang and engages in smuggling?"
"No, a man. He chose a girl's name because his father calculated that it would reduce the chance of death. Especially when someone kills him, as soon as his name is reported, the other person will be happy and will know how to use the sword nine times out of ten.
Leave someone behind." Lu Bai said.
Erha was surprised, "No way, he is too naive. Do you really think that a fool would spare his life just because of a name?"
Lu Bai glanced at him.
Erha understood instantly, "Then what -" He looked at the sky, "Today is pretty good, it's a good weather for catching rabbits."
Hong Tailang pointed at Erha and said to Lu Bai, "He is a dog, not a wolf with me!"
The Qingshan Gang's business is doing well. They have been expanding and recruiting people recently, because the gatekeeper didn't know Lu Bai and blocked them out.
Lu Bai sighed helplessly and took a sip of wine.
He pulled Gu Qinghuan and dodged through the air. He was already inside the door. The people in the green shirts on the left and behind looked at him and shouted: "Ghost, ghost!"
They hurried to the lobby and said, "Gang Leader, there is, there is, there is a ghost!"
When the bearded man was cleaning up and eating, the rice grains stuck to his beard were now firmly stuck on it. He could only carefully stroke it down to avoid hurting his beard - this beard was his pride!
However, the shouts from the gang caused several of his beards to be torn off.
Gang leader Qin said angrily: "What are you shouting for? What kind of ghosts are there in this clear sky and white sun? Where do ghosts come from? I think you are just as good as a ghost if you want to be a ghost. Grandma is such a bear. Who can call ghost anymore?"
ah!"
When he saw Lu Bai and Lu Qinghuan appear in the house out of thin air, he jumped up from his seat in fright.
"It's you, Master! It's you, Master Lu!" Lu Bai shouted.
Gang leader Qin had a deep impression on Lu Bai.
He patted his chest and sat down in shock, "Lu, Master Lu, you scared me. I thought - Master Lu? Master Lu!"
Gang Leader Qin jumped up from his seat again, more scared than he had seen the ghost before, "Master Lu, if we have something to discuss, please don't be violent. By the way, Master Lu, I have a new name, my name is Qin Xianglian!"
"Pfft!"
Gu Qinghuan couldn't help laughing, the flower branches trembled, and Gang Leader Qin was stunned for a moment.
"Uh-" Lu Bai didn't know what to say, so he could just praise it: "It sounds pretty good."
He waved his hand and asked Gang Leader Qin to sit down, "I'm not going to cause you any trouble this time, but I'm just asking you to do a favor."
Gang Leader Qin breathed a sigh of relief and sat down carefully again, "I wonder what Master Lu wants me to do?"
Lu Bai took out the portrait of the cloth merchant sketched by Yang Liangting from his arms and said, "Help me find a person. This person seems to be from the capital and went to Yongle City to do cloth smuggling business. Those of you who smuggle food should have a way to find out who he is.
Who?"
Gang Leader Qin took the portrait and took a look at it, "I don't know this person. However, we are just doing some silk and fabric business. We don't do this. There are brothers and gangs in the city who do this. I will help Mr. Lu find out.
inquire about."
Lu Bai had no intention of leaving, "Then go and find out."
"Okay!" Gang Leader Qin stood up and was about to leave.
Whoosh!
A person appeared out of thin air in the house again, and Gang Leader Qin was scared to death again.
This time it's Hong Tai Lang.
"Look at the fuss you are making, this is a master of the Sky Breaking Realm." Lu Bai helplessly stopped at Gang Leader Qin's exclamation.
"Breaking Sky Realm?!"
Gang Leader Qin was stunned. He knew about this realm, but this was the first time he saw a master in this realm, and this time he saw two at a time.
Wait! Master Lu is so powerful now that he has reached the Sky-Breaking Realm?
Mother!
This is a big thick leg, you have to hold it tight!
While thinking about it, Gang Leader Qin went out to inquire, and let Er Ha and Yang Liangting in by the way.
The four of them were sitting in the lobby, waiting for news from Gang Leader Qin.
During this period, Hu Chunxiang came in to look for the gang leader. After looking over his shoulder and seeing Lu Bai, the man ran away faster than a rabbit, and Erha couldn't catch up.
Several people are waiting.
Sitting bored, Lu Bai thought of the lottery opportunity he had received before, so he opened the panel and turned the lottery wheel.
After the roulette wheel stopped, a merit card appeared in front of Lu Bai.
Merit cards directly give merit points.
This merit card is golden. After Lu Bai uses it, this card provides Lu Bai with one million merit points.
Lu Bai now has five million merit points.
However, these are nothing more than a drop in the bucket for the drunken skills that require 80 million merit points to advance to the first level.
The only way Lu Bai could think of to improve quickly was to solve more cases and try to get more merit points or realm improvement cards.
Time goes by slowly.
When it was almost dark, they finally brought Gang Leader Qin back.
"Found it, found it!" Gang Leader Qin said happily before entering the door.
Lu Bai and Hong Tailang looked at each other. It seemed that he had checked correctly this time, but they just didn't know if this was a case.
Gang Leader Qin stepped into the threshold and said: "Master Lu, you also know that in our business, we are most afraid of prying customers. I spent a lot of effort, asked many favors, and made many transactions to reveal this person's identity."
Check it out."
Lu Bai took a sip of tea and said, "Let's get straight to the point."
Gang Leader Qin nodded quickly, "Yes, yes."
He opened the paper, looked at Gu Qinghuan in amazement, and said: "This cloth merchant's surname is You. He is indeed engaged in smuggling cloth and silk, and he ships a lot every time. He belongs to my brother's gang.
A big customer.”
Lu Bai waved his hand, "Okay, don't praise your achievements. I know you have sold a lot of favors and I will repay you later. You can get to the point first."
Gang leader Qin showed some modesty, "I do things for Mr. Lu because Mr. Lu thinks highly of me. It doesn't matter whether I repay or not."
"Okay, let's forget about the reward then." Erha chatted next to him.
Hong Tailang was annoyed, "What's the matter with you? Just rest for a while!"
He is now eager to know the whereabouts of Lian'er.
Gang leader Qin continued: "The gang leader of my brother's gang said that this merchant surnamed Youbu is the shopkeeper of a Youji cloth shop in the capital. His family does smuggling once every two months. On weekdays, the cloth merchant surnamed You will not come here.
, I will only reconcile the accounts at the beginning of the spring."
Gu Qinghuan frowned and asked, "How do they do their smuggling business? Who supplies the goods?"
Gang Leader Qin knows this.
He is in the smuggling business and has a clean reputation.
"The people from Youji Buzhuang brought the smuggled goods to Yongle City Wharf, and then the smuggling brother gangs picked them up. They took the route that we smuggling gangs often take, and sent the goods to the North Country, and then their people in the North Country took over.
." Gang Leader Qin said.
Lu Bai also frowned now, "In other words, you brother, don't know the specific location of Youji Buzhuang in the capital?"
Gang leader Qin scratched his head and said sheepishly: "Okay, it seems, I really don't know."
"Long-term large-scale smuggling of cloth and silk, they transport it here, you transport it out, You Ji Cloth Store, You surnamed cloth merchant -" Gu Qinghuan shook his head, "If you can do smuggling business, you must have a big backend."
Apart from other things, once every two months, a large amount of silk is transported from the south without being discovered, and it can also be smuggled out. This must be to say hello to all parties, such as the Jinyi Guards, the City Guards, the East and West factories, etc.
Dotted.
And people with backends are doing smuggling business——
Based on Gu Qinghuan's experience in the family, they generally would not tell these smugglers their true identities and real business names.
"I'm afraid the name he gave you for this brother's gang is false." Gu Qinghuan said.
"Ah?" Qin Bang advocated loudly, "No way?"
"Has your brother personally gone to the capital to pick up goods from his store?" Lu Bai asked back.
He felt that what Gu Qinghuan said was reasonable.
Gang Leader Qin shook his head.
After they left Yongle City, they were nothing but soft-legged shrimps, unable to do anything. It was impossible for them to transport goods to the capital.
"So, since your brother's gang has never been there, why can't it be fake? Since it is a smuggling business that hangs its head on its waist and is at risk of being lost at any time, it can definitely be done anonymously," Lu Bai said.
Gang Leader Qin's face drooped, "S-so, I, I didn't find anything?"
Lu Bai shook his head, "Not entirely."
At least they knew that this cloth merchant, let's call him You Ji, did their smuggling business once every two months.
As long as they seize the opportunity and follow after the people from Youji Cloth Village return to the capital after they finish the smuggling business, they can find the cloth merchant surnamed You.
"When was the last time you did business?" Hong Tailang asked impatiently.
"Half, half a month ago." Gang Leader Qin said.
He breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he helped, it would be fine. If he helped, he would be a favor. Being a favor meant that he had a friendship with two masters of the Sky Breaking Realm. This was a friendship——
You can bluff people when you go out.
Two sky-breaking masters!
It scared a lot of people to the point of peeing.
"Okay!" Lu Bai stood up, "I've delayed you for a long time. For your hard work in helping us find out the news, I can give you something in return. After all, is there anything you want? Is it expired?
Wait."
No waiting after expiration date?
No!
Shopkeeper Qin was a little anxious.
But then, he thought of an idea to keep in touch with the masters of the Sky Breaking Realm for a long time, "Food! Mr. Lu, we need food!"