Ji Chuyi followed Mu Yan and others and searched the city of Beiping for two days, but found nothing.
He didn't dare to ride a horse at first, his legs hurt, but he got used to it in the end. But he couldn't find anyone, and he felt very disappointed. When he saw several benefactors with serious faces and unhappy faces, he also wanted to cry.
Both the master and the benefactor are good people, and he wants to help them.
Mu Yan stayed awake for several days and was on the verge of collapse.
If the emperor's eldest grandson comes back this time, he will request an order to personally go to the Mobei front line and serve as a vanguard. He will drive those Oara and Tatar tribes farther into the grasslands.
The followers who followed Mu Yan didn't dare to breathe. It was so terrible that they almost froze to death in the hot weather.
On the first day of the month, sitting behind Li Yi, he did not dare to let out his breath and even breathed lightly. Seeing Li Yi standing straight and straight, he was so frightened that he did not dare to move. His legs were so painful that he pursed his lips tightly.
"Master, we have checked this area several times."
Mu Yan looked at this area of residential buildings with indifferent eyes.
They had previously searched the shantytowns in the outer city and the mixed-use areas inside and outside the city walls, but found nothing.
It stands to reason that if you want to take people away, use them as hostages, or threaten to retreat, you will definitely take people out of the city. But as soon as the emperor's eldest grandson disappeared, all the city gates were sealed. It is estimated that people are still in the city.
The more chaotic the place, the easier it is to hide people. In areas where people live together, I turned around and found no one.
Could it be that the other party thinks that the most dangerous place is the safest? Instead, they hide people in the inner city?
Mu Yan led his team back to the inner city. He personally led his people to check every house in the inner city. He and his people had checked every place several times, but still found nothing.
Was it really transported out of the city? Did it happen so quickly?
Mu Yan was a little unwilling.
With a wave of his hand, he decided to lead the team to the other side to continue searching. Just as he was about to leave, Li Yi was grabbed by Chu Yi by the corner of his clothes.
Turn around and look.
"I seem to smell something." Chu spoke in a low voice, unsure in his words.
"Really? Where?"
Seeing everyone stop and look at him, even the benefactor young master turned to look at him, I was a little nervous on the first day of the year.
Swallowed: "A gust of wind blew just now, and I seemed to smell the same smell as the clothes on my hand."
"Smell it carefully again." Mu Yan said in a cold voice.
Chu nodded and was carried off the horse by Li Yi. He sniffed in the wind again, sniffing desperately, and kept moving. Seeing him stop at the entrance of an alley, everyone followed him.
"It seems like it's gone again." Chuyi lowered his head and felt a little frustrated.
Mu Yan looked around and saw that this was a residential area where rich people concentrated.
They had visited every house before and found nothing unusual.
Maybe they missed something?
"I clearly smelled it just now, but if it was hidden underground, I wouldn't be able to smell it." Chu Yi held his little hand.
Hidden underground? Did these people also hide the news that there was a cellar in their home?
"Secure all exits, keep an eye on all the houses in this alley, and search every house!"
"yes!"
Zhu Ji personally went to Tianjin and came back to report the situation to Huo Xi: "Shopkeeper Lan has taken over it personally. Now he is recruiting laborers and craftsmen. The area is more than 300 acres. If it is built according to the drawings, it will use good bricks."
A good tile, just the materials and labor cost would cost tens of thousands of taels."
Huo Xi didn't care: "The shops, warehouses, inns and restaurants built at the wharf are all long-term plans. They will last for decades, hundreds of years or more. They need good bricks and tiles. If they are not weatherproof, spending money to repair them will not be enough."
He said it would be bad if he hurt someone."
"Yes, I will explain it."
"Maybe we can hire craftsmen over there?"
"Yes. The owner's price is higher than others, so we can hire people. I also asked shopkeeper Lan to bring back the news that we want to recruit people through our ship and the ships docked at various places in the dock. As long as the news is brought back
If word spreads, craftsmen from other places will come.”
"Very good."
Nowadays, merchants do various businesses through the canal and go back and forth, and people who cannot survive in their hometown will also use the canal to find work elsewhere away from their hometown.
Each city on the canal also has a special job of introducing the Ya people. If the owner finds the Ya people and needs some craftsmen, the Ya people will help find them and then bring them over by boat from other places.
Huo Xi felt that as long as the money was enough, there should be no shortage of manpower. As long as he paid for the round trip, he would be able to hire people.
She was also going to go to Yahang to see if there were any servants that could be hired or bought and sold, and she was going to buy some and put them in the village.
Ji Fengshi worked very hard to save him from Huo Xi, running to various construction sites every day, taking Qiu Dazhuang with him.
Qiu Dazhuang was literate, and Jifeng Shi persuaded the people. Qiu Dazhuang helped these people write letters and send them back to their hometowns, so that their family members could go to Beiping City to work.
So it went very smoothly.
Of the several villages in Huo Xi's hands, except for the three hot spring villages that had servants, all the other villages had their masters and servants run away to avoid the wars in recent years, and many of the farmlands were left uncultivated.
In addition to looking for farm servants to work, Huo Xi also needs to find a farm boss who can take care of things.
The three villages Shen Qianzhong bought originally had some servants here and there. He bought three houses and servants, plus the manpower given to her by her maternal uncle, they only had seven or eight houses, which was far from enough to support nine villages.
operational.
Just when Huo Xi was thinking about inspecting several villages, Kan Er came back with Chu Yi.
"Master!" Chuyi ran towards her happily holding a big bundle.
Looking at this, it seemed that the matter was done. Huo Xi had a smile on his lips.
He didn't rush to ask about Kan Er's situation. He nodded to him and looked at Chu Yi: "Is the matter done? Did you bring anything back?"
The first year of junior high school nodded happily: "It's done. The benefactor, the young master, and the nobles all praised me! They also gave me many things. Master, look at it."
With a big smile on his face, he put the big bundle tightly held in his arms on the ground, opened the bundle, and found a box containing twenty taels of silver, a jade pendant, a few gold and silver beans, and a few fine pieces.
Clothes material.
"They are all rewarded by nobles. Master, here they are for you!"
"Give it to me? Didn't the noble give it to you?" Huo Xi was a little surprised.
"Even I belong to the master. If I weren't the master, I wouldn't be able to get these things. Give them all to the master." Chu Yi was very generous.
Huo Xi felt that this kid in the first grade of junior high school was quite good at getting things done. He knew how to please his superiors at a young age. Yes. She liked subordinates who were capable, smart and sensible.
"You can take whatever the noble man gives you. It's hard for you to carry all the things back with so many things."
Kan Er glanced at him and said, "I wanted to help him get it, but he didn't let him go, for fear that I would steal it."
"It's not that I'm afraid of you snatching it, but I want to take it back to the master myself." After saying that, I looked at Kan Er carefully, fearing that he would be angry.
Huo Xi smiled and just let him hold it.
Seeing that Huo Xi really didn't want it, she wrapped these things up on the first day of the year and said, "Then I'll give them to my dad. I'll also give two pieces of stuff to Shuangxi."
He happily hugged his things and ran away again.
Huo Xi then asked Kan Er about the situation of the missing person.