The atmosphere inside the Mianyuan County Demon Division is a bit too tense.
It's like encountering some difficult and difficult cases.
In particular, many of the night watchmen breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Qin Shaoyou and the others coming back, looking like they were relieved and had found their backbone, which made Qin Shaoyou confirm his judgment.
Qin Shaoyou was about to call a few people over to ask about the situation, when he saw Ye Zhiqiu, Shan Daonian, Cai Guizhong and others coming out of the mission room to welcome him.
Although Cai Guizhong has his own City God's Temple, he likes to go to the Demon Suppression Department.
Not only Cai Guizhong is like this, but the ghosts and ghosts under him are also like this.
Apart from patrolling and guarding the house, I like to spend the rest of my time in the Demon Suppression Department.
After all, they are all used to the environment and atmosphere here.
For this reason, the Mianyuan County Town Yao Division even provided a special room for them for their office use.
Ye Zhiqiu and others who came out also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Sir, you are finally back..."
Halfway through his words, Ye Zhiqiu suddenly became nervous when he saw someone lifting the linen cloth on the carriage, revealing the prototype of Cen Biqing.
"Sir, what's wrong with Xiaoqing?"
"It's okay, she has a breakthrough in cultivation and has entered a state of hibernation and molting."
Qin Shaoyou's answer made Ye Zhiqiu breathe a sigh of relief.
After Qin Shaoyou dismounted, he asked Zhu Xiucai to find a few smart people to move Cen Biqing into her house so as not to scare the people outside the Yamen.
Outside the gate of Mianyuan County Town Yaosi, it has developed into a lively small market - there are stalls selling goods and people performing acrobatics and tricks.
The main reason is that everyone feels that the Demon Suppression Division is safer than elsewhere, and gradually a business climate has developed.
Zhu Xiucai said hello, jumped off the horse, and without calling anyone else, he did it himself, encouraging his blood to flow out, and lifted up Cen Biqing, who was in the state of a big green python, and sent her back to the room.
Qin Shaoyou handed over the war horse to the night watchman who came up, and went to put a stick of incense on the statue of Jiutiandang Demon Patriarch. Then he called Ye Zhiqiu, Shan Daonian and Cai Guizhong and other trial 100 households, the general flag officer, and entered his mission room together.
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Then he asked seriously: "I see that the atmosphere in the Yamen is a bit tense. Did you encounter some troublesome case?"
"My lord, you are indeed very discerning."
Ye Zhiqiu, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, actually learned how to flatter someone.
It's just that he was thin-skinned, so he gave up with a simple slap and started to answer Qin Shaoyou's questions, which made Shan Daonian unable to speak even if he wanted to agree.
"Some time ago, the Monster Hunting Shop in Quannan Town sent someone a piece of information, saying that a caravan had appeared at their place.
The caravan had all the procedures in place and even had a pass issued by the military, so at first, the people at the Demon Hunting Shop in Quannan Town did not suspect them. They just conducted routine inspections and interrogations and found no problems.
But the waiters at the inn where the caravan was staying noticed that they were behaving strangely.
Although this caravan brought a batch of goods, they were not in a hurry to sell them, nor did they inquire about the prices of the goods in surrounding towns. Instead, they were interested in the price of food and where there were more refugees and bandits.
In addition, the guys from this caravan often go to the official roads outside the town..."
Qin Shaoyou raised his eyebrows.
Although Mianyuan County is not the front line, there are post roads and official roads leading to the front line.
Quannan Town is located between two mountains and is a traffic chokepoint.
If Yizhou wants to send troops from this northwest line to support the Qingtang front line, they will pass through the official road and post road outside Quannan Town.
In addition, the supply of grain, grass and ordnance to Quannan Town is also one of the main routes.
In such a special period, a caravan with strange behavior appeared outside Quannan Town, which really made people suspicious.
So Qin Shaoyou asked: "Have you ever investigated that caravan?"
"Investigated."
"What was the result? Are there any problems?"
"Based on the joint investigation between our people and Cai Chenghuang's men, it was finally determined that the caravan was most likely a spy sent by Qingtang! Even if it was not someone who infiltrated from Qingtang, it was
He was bribed by Qingtang."
"On what basis?"
"Judge Wu, with Black and White Wuchang, took advantage of the night when the people in the caravan were sleeping to conduct a search quietly, and found that there were people in the caravan carrying the unique magic cards from Qingtang. In addition, these people were also on the official road outside the town.
Some surveillance spells were arranged in several remote spots. We checked quietly afterwards and found that those spells were different from those popular in our Daxia Dynasty and belonged to the category of Qingtang witchcraft..."
Ye Zhiqiu explained their findings one by one.
After listening to this, Monk Ma couldn't help but frown.
"So, is it really possible that this group of people are spies sent from Qingtang? Are they spying on the military situation in Quannan Town?"
After Zhu Xiucai settled Cen Biqing, he also ran to Qin Shaoyou's mission room.
After asking the miracle doctor to learn the information in a low voice, he squinted his small eyes, gently twirled the beard at the corner of his mouth, and said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid it's not just as simple as spying on military intelligence... maybe, they also want to rob the food road!"
Qin Shaoyou nodded and agreed with Zhu Xiucai's guess, and added: "It may not be robbing the grain road, but poisoning the grain."
It can be seen from the voodoo plague curse that the wizards in Qingtang are very good at playing with poison.
The intelligence information collected by the Demon Suppression Department also mentioned that the wizards over Qingtang were good at using poison and liked to use poison.
Therefore, it is not impossible to poison grain and grass.
Once the poison they administer successfully evades the inspection of the grain officials, the damage caused may be much greater than simply robbing a grain channel!
Zhu Xiucai was also a smart man. When he heard what Qin Shaoyou said, he immediately reacted and took a breath of cold air while tearing off a few beards.
"If someone from Qingtang really sneaks in to poison the grain and grass, then the situation will be serious! Sir, you must report this guess quickly. No matter how likely it is to happen, you must be on guard against it!"
Qin Shaoyou thought so too.
There are many official roads leading to the front line, and Mianyuan County is just a point on one of them.
No matter how well Mianyuan County does, if things go wrong elsewhere, it will have a huge impact on the front line.
If the front line is broken and the Qingtang barbarians invade Yizhou, the situation will be unimaginable!
Qin Shaoyou immediately wrote a letter, took out the big moth from his satchel, filled the envelope with beeswax and fed it to swallow, so that it could quickly send a message to Qin Qiaoer and report the matter to Qi Longfei through Qin Qiaoer.
It would be more appropriate for Qi Longfei to come forward for this kind of matter.
After releasing the big moth, Qin Shaoyou asked Ye Zhiqiu, Cai Guizhong and others:
"How many people are there in that group of spies pretending to be a caravan? How strong are they? Do you have a clear idea?"
"There are sixty-three in number, forty of them are stewards and assistants of the caravan, and twenty-three are bodyguards. However, according to our observation, those twenty-three bodyguards are also their people.
As for their strength, only the twenty-three people who pretended to be bodyguards showed something.
Eight of them are in the seventh grade, thirteen are in the eighth grade, and two dart heads are in the sixth grade.
As for the forty stewards and clerks of the caravan, I don’t know if they used secret techniques to conceal their cultivation, or if they had supernatural objects around them, which prevented us from detecting their details.
However, based on the strength of those bodyguards, we speculate that the cultivation of the other forty people should be at the seventh or eighth level, and there are likely to be multiple fifth or sixth level masters..."