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"Brother Zheng means..."
Xu Zheng said: "They will definitely sneak the woman hidden in the granary out of the city. As long as we follow the clues, we will definitely find the whereabouts of the others."
After hearing Xu Zheng's words, everyone present nodded, thinking that Xu Zheng was right. Liu Buxin frowned and said, "Brother Zheng, your Majesty only gives us three days."
"It's okay. Today is only the first day. We still have two days. If the deadline is really up and there is no movement from the other party, we will rush to the Xiping Granary and rescue as many as we can."
"Yes! Brother Zheng!"
Xu Zheng arranged for his men to lurk near the Xiping Granary, watching every move in the granary. There was no word on the first day, and there was still no movement in the granary on the second day. It was not until the morning of the third day that four carriages came out of the granary.
The carriages were pulling bamboo baskets one after another, which were stacked very high. At a glance, some of the bamboo baskets contained grain, some vegetables, and some meat.
Xu Zheng, Liu Buxin and others, who had been lying in ambush near the granary for two days, saw this and their eyes lit up.
Xu Zheng waved his hands to everyone under his command, telling them not to be nervous or too excited, but to pretend that nothing was wrong and just keep an eye on these carriages from a distance.
The four carriages left the Xiping Granary and headed south, heading straight for Anmen in the south of Chang'an. To make a long story short, after the four carriages arrived at Anmen, soldiers guarding the city gate came forward.
A middle-aged man in charge of escorting the car stepped forward with a smile on his face, handed a roll of sheepskin documents to the military marquis at the city gate, nodded and bowed and said: "Master, these are the grain and tribute sent to Guanji. There are four cars in total.
There are twenty baskets of grain, five baskets of vegetables, three baskets of chickens, ducks, pigs and mutton, and two baskets of sundries, for a total of thirty baskets."
The city gate officer took the sheepskin document, which contained detailed details and was stamped with the official seal.
He took the detailed list and compared it with the bamboo baskets on the carriage. Yes, there were indeed thirty baskets. After looking at it, the city gate officer returned the sheepskin document to the middle-aged man, stepped aside, waved and said: "
Release!"
"Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!" The middle-aged man bowed politely, and then said to the driver: "Let's go!"
The four carriages left Anmen without being searched and headed south to Guanji.
When we arrived outside the city, especially on the Guanji Road, there were very few pedestrians. If Xu Zheng and others were still following, they would be easily discovered.
Liu Buxin said: "Brother Zheng, please stay away. I'll just follow you quietly. I'll mark the place along the way."
Xu Zheng knew that Liu Buxin was very capable of hiding. When it came to tracking targets, no one was more qualified than him. He said with a solemn face: "Be careful on the road. You can stay away from the opponent, but you must not lose him!"
"I understand!" Liu Buxin nodded, looked away from Xu Zheng and others, and followed the four carriages.
Leaving Chang'an and entering the suburbs, the speed of the four carriages increased significantly, and the drivers became vigilant and looked around from time to time.
When we got to the last carriage, besides the driver, there were four people sitting there.
One of them stretched his neck, looked back, and asked, "Is there someone following us?"
Hearing this, the other three people all stretched their necks and looked over. I wonder if they didn't have as good eyesight as him. The three of them looked for a long time and saw nothing. One of them muttered: "Did you see it wrong, Old Five? There is nothing."
No!"
"I shouldn't be mistaken. It seemed like... there was really a shadow moving around just now."
At this time, the middle-aged man walked over, with an expressionless face and lightning-like eyes. He glanced at them coldly and asked in a deep voice: "What are you talking about?"
"Shopkeeper, Lao Wu said there seemed to be someone following us, but neither Lao Liu nor Lao Ba saw it."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man was shocked and hurriedly looked behind him. After looking for a long time, he saw nothing.
The man named Lao Wu scratched his head and whispered: "Shopkeeper, it's possible... maybe I saw it wrong!"
"Be careful with your ten-thousand-year-old ship! Now, we can't be careless at all!" As he spoke, the middle-aged man stopped all four carriages, pointed at several big men and said: "The fifth, the sixth, the eighth, the old
Nine, you guys go back and take a look, if there is really someone following us..." At this point, the middle-aged man's eyes narrowed, and he raised his hand in front of his neck and made a horizontal gesture.
The four of them understood and bowed in unison, then jumped off the carriage and walked towards the back.
The four of them spread out, two of them were walking on the official road, and the other two were walking in the grass below the official road. At the same time, all four of them had raised their right hands to hold the swords under their ribs.
They walked forward for more than a mile. Looking back, there was only a small black dot left on the other side of the carriage. But when they got here, there was still no one as far as they could see.
A big man said in a deep voice: "Lao Wu, are you really dazzled? We have gone so far and still haven't seen anything!"
Lao Wu continued to walk forward in silence. The other three looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly, and had no choice but to continue to follow him.
After walking another half mile and arriving in front of a big tree, Lao Wu looked around and whispered: "Just now, I saw that figure was nearby!"
The other three people raised their eyes and looked around. There was a vast plain here, and even the grass was just above people's feet and could not hide them at all.
Lao Liu rolled his eyes at him, waved his hand and said, "Okay, alright, Lao Wu, don't bother me. There's not even a ghost here. It's just that you saw it wrong and your eyesight is dazzled."
After searching for a long time, I couldn't find anything. Lao Wu also felt a little regretful, scratched his head and said: "Maybe... I really saw it wrong! This period of time is too tense!"
"In my opinion, if it doesn't work out, just go back to Longdi!" Lao Wu gave him a blank look.
Lao Wu felt as if someone had stepped on his tail, and said angrily: "Returning to Longdi without doing anything, how can I have the face to see the king?!"
Lao Liu shrugged and did not answer any more. He waved to Lao Ba and Lao Jiu, and the three of them turned around and walked back. Lao Wu reluctantly scanned the surroundings again, but still found nothing. He gritted his teeth and kicked him hard.
On the nearby tree trunk, he turned around and went back.
They left for a while, until there were only four small black dots left in the silhouette of the four people. There was a splashing sound among the branches of the tree, and then, a person slipped down from the tree.
He stood behind the tree, stuck out half of his head, and looked forward. This person was none other than Liu Buxin, who was following them secretly.
Liu Buxin squinted his eyes. These people were more powerful than he thought. They were not ordinary thieves, but came from Longdi, so the king they were talking about could only be Wei Xiao.
If you put it this way, Xiping Granary has long been owned by Kaixiao. This nail is buried deep enough!
However, a nail buried so deep can obviously accomplish a lot in the future. Why take such a big risk now and kidnap a woman in Chang'an City?
Liu Buxin recalled the whole case, and suddenly he understood. They secretly kidnapped the woman in Chang'an and deliberately left wild animal hair on the scene. This was obviously a frame-up to frame the emperor.
If the disappearance case is not stopped, the rumors will become more and more intense. By then, the emperor's reputation and reputation will be greatly damaged. At this time, as long as someone secretly instigates and incites, civil unrest may break out in Chang'an.
By then, if Wei Xiao attacks again, we will be faced with internal and external troubles, and the situation can be imagined.
Wanting to understand the trick used by Wei Xiao, Liu Buxin couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.
The other party was too cautious, so he could only increase the tracking distance again.
An hour later, four carriages arrived at Guanji. Liu Buxin lay down in the nearby grass, covered with a layer of green gauze, allowing him to blend into the grass.
The carriage stopped at the gate of Guanji for a while, and then the gate of Guanji opened, and a group of people walked out. The leader was Wu Qing, the commander of Guanji.
The official in Guan Ji Ling is still an official no matter how small he is. The shopkeeper of Xiping Granary is still a businessman no matter how big his business is.
It stands to reason that the shopkeeper of Xiping Granary should be respectful to Wu Qing, but what Liu Buxin saw was completely different from that.
Wu Qing walked out of the official gate and saw the shopkeeper outside. He quickly stepped forward and bowed to the ground, with a smile on his face.
The shopkeeper had his hands behind his back and just nodded in return. After that, the two of them were talking in whispers. The distance was too far and Liu Buxin couldn't hear what they were talking about.
After a while, the two finished talking, Wu Qing waved to the back, and several official servants walked to the second carriage. They first moved down the baskets of vegetables on top, but did not lift them away.
Then, two large baskets were brought out from the bottom of the carriage.
On the surface, it looks like they are filled with millet seeds, but when you remove the top layer and look inside the baskets, you see that there is a woman in each of the two bamboo baskets.
Both women's hands and feet were tied, their mouths were gagged, and their eyes were covered with black cloth strips.
Seeing these two women, no one present, including Wu Qing, showed any surprise. They seemed to have been used to it for a long time.
Two burly attendants pulled the two women out of the bamboo basket, carried them on their shoulders, and strode into Guanji.
Liu Buxin, who was hiding in the grass, could see clearly, and his eyes widened in disbelief. He had thought that Xiping Granary must have a support staff outside the city, but what he never dreamed of was that the person who would take care of Xiping Granary would be Guan Ji.
How did Guan Ji get involved with Wei Xiao's secret work? Could it be that Guan Ji was also bribed by Wei Xiao? Thinking of this, Liu Buxin took a breath. Not long ago, during the Autumn Society Festival, His Majesty was almost in the official position.
Ji is eating.
If the food and wine were poisonous, the consequences would be really disastrous! He grinned secretly and narrowed his eyes.
On the other side of Guanji, after two big men carried the woman in, the others began to carry baskets of food into Guanji. Wu Qing's face was full of joy from beginning to end.
I started and said something to the shopkeeper.
As he watched the bamboo baskets being carried into Guanji, the shopkeeper took out two gold cakes from his belt and patted them into Wu Qing's hands.
Later, holding two gold cakes, the smile on his face became even stronger, and he nodded and bowed to the shopkeeper, really like a dog wagging its tail begging for mercy.
After transporting all the baskets into Guanji, the shopkeeper's men came out one after another. Then, people got on the carriage and returned to Chang'an. Wu Qing stood in front of the gate of Guanji and waved to the leaving carriage.
The four carriages returning to Chang'an passed right in front of the spot where Liu Buxin lay down. However, no one in the carriages noticed that there was a person hiding in the grass on the roadside.
The carriage had passed far away, but Liu Buxin still maintained the same posture and did not move. I don't know how long it took, maybe half an hour, or an hour or two, when Liu Buxin heard footsteps not far away.
He slightly lifted the green gauze on his head and looked up, and saw a group of people walking from Chang'an. The leader was Xu Zheng. As they walked forward, they looked around, as if they were looking for someone.
Who else could he be looking for? Of course he was looking for him, Liu Buxin. When everyone had reached him, Liu Buxin squatted down from the ground. When he saw a patch of grass, a big bag suddenly bulged up, and Xu Zheng and others were
Everyone was shocked.
When Liu Buxin put down the green gauze covering his body, everyone finally saw clearly that it was him. Xu Zheng quickly stepped forward in surprise and joy and asked: "Don't believe me, how is the investigation? Did you see clearly?
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Liu Buxin waved his hand to Xu Zheng and others, motioning them to squat down.
Then, he whispered: "The Xiping Granary does transport people out, and the person who receives it is Guan Ji. In addition, the Xiping Granary is not simple. It should be a hidden stake planted by Wei Xiao in Chang'an."
The amount of information he said was so overwhelming that Xu Zheng and others were unable to recover for a while.
