Chapter 223: Exploring the Way
Thinking that he still had the complaint he got from the government in his arms, after a simple dinner, Ye Xiaoyu followed Qinglang to his house.
The complaint is not long, and the content is also very concise, probably talking about when and where, Lu Yishou's caravan smuggling salt was caught red-handed and ten catties of salt were found from the bottom of the board car transporting the goods, and there are also witnesses and some evidence listed below, including the statements of the searchers and caravan members, the salt seized at the scene, the board car, and Lu Yishou's confession and his household registration information.
The content of the express report copied from Liu Shangzhong from the Yuejing Mansion is basically the same, and there is no superfluous information.
"What do you think?"
Ye Xiaoyu sat at the table, supported her head with one hand, looked at Qinglang and asked.
"Start with the caravan."
Qing Lang also finished reading the complaint, and his voice was very soft.
Ye Xiaoyu also thought of this, since he wanted to save the road, he must first rule out this matter, which is his own consideration, otherwise it will not be able to be called rescue.
Once this point is ruled out, there is only one direction left to think that Lu Yishou is framed by someone.
Lu Yishou is a businessman, and he usually comes into contact with so many people, if he is framed, and he wants to find out the person who was framed, without Lu Yishou's own help, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. But Ye Xiaoyu and the others can start with the dart game and the caravan that are closest to him.
It stands to reason that the caravan was found to be carrying salt, and everyone should be affected, but in this matter, from the very beginning, only Lu Yishou was punished by the government, and he was imprisoned and prepared to go to court. The rest of the people don't seem to have an impact at all. According to the accusations in the complaint, among the people present at the time, only Lu Yishou and the other two dart masters of the dart bureau were the only ones, and the other caravan people did not travel with him at all.
This made Ye Xiaoyu very puzzled, the transportation was inconvenient during this period, and the distance between the north and south was long, but anyone who did business was for the sake of safety. Even if a dart master is hired. It is impossible to go on the road alone, so they all contact a few people who are also running businessmen, and then set off at the same time and return to their hometowns at the same time.
So when Lu Yishou came back, according to common sense. It should be with the merchants who are going with you. But this time it was surprisingly not.
And what's even weirder. At that time, Ye Xiaoyu and Qinglang went to Qingkou Town to contact the dart bureau, and Lu Yishou obviously hired five or six people, according to the complaint. When Lu Yishou was captured, there were only two people present. In the end, it was only these two people who were punished with fines - money. The others seemed to have disappeared, never seen from beginning to end.
This doesn't make sense.
As if remembering something, Ye Xiaoyu took out the road map that Liu Shangzhong gave them from his arms, according to what Liu Shangzhong said, there is only one pipeline to go from Yuejing to Rongzhou, and that is the pipeline that Ye Xiaoyu and they passed through. There is no other route.
Thinking that he and Qinglang didn't seem to meet any caravan pedestrians on the road all the way, if that group of people didn't leave immediately when Lu Yishou had an accident, it was estimated that they would still be in Rongzhou.
But it can't be so sure, in case that group of people has dispersed everywhere, or gone to Huzhou or other places, thinking of this, Ye Xiaoyu began to be depressed again, not to mention others, even if they started with a caravan, it was still like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Salt is a franchise, and the government's franchise shops will register buyers. Private transactions are generally in several fixed places, and there must be an introducer. ”
Quietly looking at Ye Xiaoyu, who was sitting opposite, he frowned and took out the road map, and then frowned again, and opened his mouth lightly.
"But we don't know the man's name."
Ye Xiaoyu raised her own questions.
Sunny words are not unreasonable, but as soon as one problem is solved, the next one immediately pops up. They didn't know the names of the people in the caravan and dart shop. In such a situation, even if they were lucky enough to get the government's salt purchase registration book, it would be useless, and they still couldn't find that person.
"I'll check it out tomorrow."
returned the complaint to Ye Xiaoyu and replied calmly.
Thinking that it would be a long time before Zou Yu came back anyway, Ye Xiaoyu forced herself to relieve the anxiety that had been constantly emerging in the past two days.
She knew that she shouldn't be so anxious, and she also knew that once people were anxious and did things, they would lack thinking, but damn her brain was still restless. Maybe it's because of the frenzied rush for days, maybe it's because Lu Yishou is still in prison, maybe it's because she has to close the shop in Yuejing for months.
But in a person's life, there will always be a bottom, it's just that Ye Xiaoyu's bottom comes more often than others.
The fourteenth day of the first lunar month in Rongzhou City is already full of the taste of the festival.
Walking on the street, there are lights everywhere, every passing pedestrian is full of smiles that cannot be ignored, and the vendors on both sides of the street have been hung with all kinds of lanterns, which makes people dazzled.
The inn where Ye Xiaoyu lived also hung lanterns in front of the door and in the lobby, but Ye Xiaoyu planned to ignore these, in order to avoid returning here to pick up her luggage later, she went to the front desk of the inn to settle the bill when she went out. With such an expensive price, even if she sleeps on the street at night, she doesn't want to stay in a guest house anymore.
No matter in which time and space, where the tooth shop is always opened in a very conspicuous place, Rongzhou is no exception, coming out of the inn and walking a few streets casually, Ye Xiaoyu saw the tooth shop with the colorful flag logo.
The reason why she "walked a few streets" was because Ye Xiaoyu didn't plan to ask Yaxing to introduce the house at the beginning, she planned to find it herself, so that she could save a referral fee. But two people who don't know each other well are looking for a house on the street, and the result can be imagined.
kept walking around, and then Qinglang estimated that he couldn't stand it, so he pulled Ye Xiaoyu directly to the door of a dental store.
Because Rongzhou is home to many merchants, the house rental industry is unexpectedly developed, although the price is also unexpectedly high.
The owner of this dental shop is an old woman who is over half a hundred years old, and when she sees a customer coming in, she greets her warmly.
Ye Xiaoyu didn't want her boss to misunderstand that she was a big business, so she straightforwardly explained to the boss the type of house she wanted.
Sure enough, after listening to Ye Xiaoyu's description, the boss's enthusiasm was reduced by half at the speed of seeing, but he was still very enthusiastic about introducing the house to the two of them.
"Boss, let's do it here......"
Ye Xiaoyu stared at the booklet handed by the boss for a while, and then pointed to one of the cheapest houses and said to the boss.
"Okay, Childe is really a cheerful person, I'll ask someone to take you to see the house now."
Seeing that the business was done, the boss no longer bothered to talk more, but called a guy in the store to take Ye Xiaoyu and them to see the house.
Eighty percent of the new single-story single-storey houses plus a small courtyard, Ye Xiaoyu and the house they rented is good, the reason why the price is cheap is because the location is too remote.
The house is located in the northern district of Rongzhou, and the distance from the city center, especially the government office, even if you ride a horse, it will take half an hour. Whatever, Ye Xiaoyu and they have a horse as a means of transportation, and they won't be swaggering if they are far away. The most important thing is that the price is cheap.
In fact, this is cheaper, but it is relatively cheaper than those houses in the city. For a three-room house, the rent for a month is three taels. After paying a month's rent and an intermediary fee of 500 Wen, the corners of Ye Xiaoyu's mouth twitched, and her heart began to ache faintly.
This place is developed, but it's too fucking easy to spend money, right?
Because the last tenant had just moved out, there was no dust in the house, and the furniture and the like were still there, after taking the so-called "new four-piece bed suit" in the boss's mouth to the yard to dry, Ye Xiaoyu locked the door and went out with Qinglang.
They still have an important task to complete today.
Whether people want to believe it or not, there are many times in this world where black and white grow together. The more radiant and prosperous the surface, the more lawlessness and sin there are secretly, black and white, as if they are twins, and they have never been separated since birth.
Ye Xiaoyu and Qinglang were standing in front of the black-gambling hall in an alley in Rongzhou City at this time.
The special emphasis is on black, because in the law of the Great Cause Kingdom, it is allowed to legally exist in the gambling house. As long as you go to the government to register and go through the formalities in accordance with the relevant regulations, you can grow up and open a store in a fixed neighborhood. Therefore, whether it is in Yuejing or Rongzhou City, there is a so-called "play street", which is full of casinos and green buildings on both sides of the street for people to have fun.
But the government allows it, but the taxes to be paid every year are also high and terrible. Although there is a lot of money in the gambling field, there will be too many people to make money, so some people have the idea of stealing it themselves. Therefore, in some remote alleys of Rongzhou, there are still many small gambling houses, just like lice growing on the city, no matter how they are removed, they cannot be cleaned up.
Although she was a little unconvinced, Ye Xiaoyu had to admit that Qinglang's ability to survive and recognize the way in a strange city was still very high, at least a little higher than herself.
It's only been a day, and Qing Lang has found out where there is a black-gambling place, and this sense of smell is even more sensitive than that of a police dog.
This gambling house is very hidden, ostensibly a shop that sells groceries, even if you walk to the door, you still can't see anything unusual, only when you walk into the shop, go down the stairs through the secret door, you can see another unique cave.
is so hidden, Ye Xiaoyu naturally didn't notice it, the reason why she was able to enter the shop without changing her face was because she had told her before that she just followed him.
This is the so-called "fearlessness of the ignorant".
The gambling house was set up in the cellar under the shop, and when Ye Xiaoyu followed Qinglang downstairs, there was a lot of people inside, and they were gambling.
Although a lot of oil lamps were lit, because it was a cellar, the light was not very good, and even in the daytime, it still turned yellow like evening.
The first time I came to the legendary gambling house, and it was also a black gambling house, although on the surface she pretended to be calm in order to avoid being discovered, Ye Xiaoyu's heart had already staged a messy play. (To be continued......)