Liu Yuhua was alone, how could he suddenly leave the city for shelter?
Now the main brand is here again.
In addition, Lin Shui said that he saw Liu Yuhua opening the car curtain.
How could a rich lady lift the curtain on the road?
So Niu Laosan guessed that Liu Yuhua might want to ask for help.
Then he took people to search near Wuli Bridge.
Finally, I really found the Liufu brand.
"Let's go and look east along the Wuli Bridge! Leave two people on the boat and follow us by the water."
Niu Laosan looked around and found nothing else, so he gave the order.
After crossing this small tributary, we reach Guandao again, and heading eastward is Anxiang.
Next to the north of the official road is Fengshui.
After walking nearly ten miles eastward, the soldiers on the ship suddenly made a discovery.
"Third brother, there is something abnormal on the shore!" The navy soldier on the boat shouted to Niu Laosan.
In private, they often call Niu Laosan the third brother.
The terrain of the official road is slightly higher, and there is a steep slope before you can see the Fengshui River.
When the people on the boat shouted, Niu Laosan looked towards the shore and saw an overturned carriage.
"Let's go! Go and have a look!"
After going down the steep slope, we came to the muddy riverside.
Then I saw the carriage stuck in the mud.
The horse's rope was broken and the horse had long since disappeared.
Lin Shui stepped forward and knocked, "It seems to be Liu's carriage, but it's half buried so I can't see it clearly."
Niu Laosan circled around the carriage and buried it face down.
To open the carriage, either pull the carriage out or lift the box.
"Pry it open!" Niu Laosan pointed at the car.
Several sailors immediately went up with steel knives.
"Kaka!"
After some tossing, the carriage carriage was lifted up.
"Ugh~"
A foul smell came out, which made the sailor who lifted the board almost fainted.
Niu Laosan pinched his nose and looked inside. He saw a rotting corpse.
"Let's see if you recognize him!" Niu Laosan pulled Lin Shui over.
Lin Shui cried, covered his mouth, and carefully looked inside.
"vomit!"
Lin Shui glanced at it twice, but couldn't help it anymore, so he turned his head for a while.
Niu Laosan twisted his mouth and waited for Lin Shui to finish vomiting.
"Sir, I am not a young lady, but a servant of the Liu family."
"you know?"
"I don't know her, but Miss Liu's shirt must have been goose yellow that day."
The corpse in the carriage was half submerged in water, and its appearance had long been lost.
However, it can be seen from his clothes that he is serving as a servant.
Niu Laosan asked people to search around, but found nothing useful.
The rotting corpses in the carriage were also fished out, but there was no other information inside.
When we returned to the shore, we found a body not far away.
Lin Shui said he was the horseman driving the carriage that day.
Niu Laosan examined the groom's body and found that there was an obvious fracture in the neck.
It looked like he fell off the carriage and broke his neck.
"Both servants are dead and Miss Liu is missing?" Niu Laosan thought for a while and couldn't figure it out.
"Keep moving forward one mile, and if you don't find anything new, go back!"
When Niu Laosan returned to Fengyang, Wang Yongning, Xiao Fugui, and Chen Lin were all waiting.
Both Wang Yongning and Xiao Fugui were entrusted by Song Chengwang to find someone.
Chen Lin and his colleague Liu Minghui are after all old colleagues, and it was he who found the small courtyard where Liu Yuhua was placed.
"The carriage has been found, and both servants are dead!"
Before anyone could ask, Niu Laosan spoke first.
What followed was a flurry of inquiries.
As soon as Niu Laosan mentioned what happened in the afternoon, everyone shut up.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like a servant kidnapped his master.
But why did the servant die and the lady run away?
How could a twelve-year-old housewife escape the clutches of two healthy servants?
"What should we do now? I have already taken care of the matter. How can I tell you to make up my mind?" Niu Laosan sat down on his chair and stopped talking.
The remaining three of you look at me and I look at you.
Chen Lin immediately said: "This matter has nothing to do with me. The small courtyard I found for her was kind-hearted."
Wang Yongning and Xiao Fugui both rolled their eyes at him.
"How about the rich father-in-law and the prince talk about this?" Wang Yongning finally compromised.
Xiao Fugui looked embarrassed. He couldn't find the person and the clues were completely lost.
How to say?
Reported missing or dead?
"How about we inform the prince first?" Xiao Fugui looked at everyone.
"Yeah! What a good idea!" Everyone agreed unanimously.
So that night.
The little rich man writes hard and fast.
Wang Yongning wrote hard and fast.
Chen Lin wrote vigorously and quickly.
Niu Laosan writes hard and slowly...
In short, when Xiao Fugui handed the letter to Niu Laosan the next day, there were three other letters stacked on top of each other.
Since you have to send a message, you can't just send one thing.
I have to report everything that happened in the past few days.
So we started writing letters together.
As for Chen Lin, it was purely to sign up for a dock with Song Yang.
If Fengzhou hadn't been too busy to leave now, he would have wanted to visit Song Yang in person to see if this person was worth relying on.
In the past dynasties, when the court collapsed, ministers often elected a new ruler.
However, the collapse of the Great Qian Dynasty was so severe that all the high-ranking officials on the stage were gone, and even the prefect or other officials who recommended a new leader did not have enough weight.
So until now, no one from the several state capitals in Jiangzhou has stepped forward to take a big role.
But Chen Lin had this idea.
He and Song Yang are not from the same school, and their abilities are not very good.
In this situation, if we want to gain a foothold in the Jiangzhou camp, we have to find another way.
So he thought about it for two days before he came up with two words.
Support!
Of course, this is not something that can be done in a short period of time.
At the very least, you have to get around Song Yang and become familiar with him.
If you have been in this officialdom for a long time, there will be no newbies.
Chen Lin saw the direction of the wind and immediately adjusted the route. Following Song Yang would lead to a bright future.
"Let's go. Don't delay on the way. Send the message back as soon as possible."
On the other side, Niu Laosan gave an explanation and let the speedboat leave.
Watching the clipper go down the river, the adults on the shore were a little happy.
In the past few days, Fengzhou has settled down at a speed visible to the naked eye. This performance will definitely be praised by Song Yang.
Here is the fundamental reason why they actively wrote letters to ask for credit one by one.
…
There are still two days of land and water before the fast boat trip.
Lin Yong, a Qianhu in Ezhou in the east, just received two completely different pieces of information about Yuezhou.
When he went to Jiangzhou to report the situation a few days ago, Lin Yong left in a hurry and had not yet found out any specific information.
Then he hurried back and the spies he sent out also came back.
As a result, the two pieces of information were very different.
The first intelligence showed:
There are indeed bandits causing trouble in Yuezhou. This group of bandits is quite powerful, with as many as 70,000 to 80,000 people.
The thieves are led by the Liu family, a wealthy local family, and it is said that the leader is a female thief.
They killed the county magistrate Miao Ji and the county government officials, and captured Baling, the capital of Yuezhou.
Moreover, the bandits have gathered many young men and are training their troops, and they seem to have plans to plot surrounding areas.
The second intelligence showed:
Miao Ji, the prefect of Yuezhou, was greedy and oppressed the people.
Eventually, the government forced the people to rebel, and the peasant uprising led by the local Liu clan killed the county magistrate Miao Ji and incorporated the state's armed forces.
Now it has complete control over the entire territory of Yuezhou.
The two pieces of information are similar in that there are people who are causing trouble, but the causes are different.
Of course, the time is almost the same, those people have been doing this for half a month.
The entire territory of Yuezhou was indeed occupied by them.
"Send two pieces of information to Yangxin and Jiangzhou!"
"Step up the construction of fortifications immediately!"
"Mobilize the strong people from the mountains to come to the city!"
Lin Yong, who was commanding the defense in Tongcheng, immediately issued three instructions.
As a result, a fast boat also sailed on the Jun River. After leaving the Yangtze River estuary, it encountered a messenger ship from Fengyang upstream.
The two families reported their names, and it turned out they were from the same family.
So the two ships formed a companion and headed to Jiangzhou for envoys.