The ship that escorted the Birth Gang was much larger than the one they had taken this summer, and the boxes were stored under the sergeants' cabins, and the sergeants guarded the door. According to Wang Fangxing, the guard was changed every two hours, and there were sergeants guarding both inside and outside the cabin.

"Could it be that the sergeant inside has been killed?" I asked casually as I walked this summer.

"Not really, they all fainted to the ground."

"Caught in the incense? Or is it sweat medicine? Who is in charge of eating and drinking on board? Is it still there? She asked habitually.

The flag officer who answered glanced at her, and saw that she was only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, born with an innocent and romantic appearance, but when she asked, she was very old, and she did not dare to slack off at the moment, and hurriedly replied: "Everyone on the ship eats the same food, and they only change shifts after dinner, and they have not eaten anything else after that."

A sergeant led them to the cabin where the Birth Compendium was kept, and they walked very slowly this summer, looking all the way east and west, and as soon as they bent down into the hatch, they stopped their steps, sniffed several times in a row, and said with a smile:

"Da Yang, you smell it, this fragrance is really good, it's still leek-flavored."

Yang Yue also sniffed and said, "This boat is going to eat fried chicken eggs with leeks at night." ”

"I say, why do I get hungry when I smell it?"

This summer, I suddenly realized.

"Are you not hungry?" Yang Yue teased casually, leaned into the cabin, and saw three or four sergeants sitting crookedly on the ground, indeed looking like they had been struck by the incense.

Lu Yi then came in and looked at the warehouse lightly, this warehouse is less than two zhang long, about a zhang wide, only one door and one window, no different from an ordinary cabin.

"How many boxes are there in the Birthday Gang?" He asked Wang Fangxing.

"There are eight boxes in total, not only gold and silver jewelry, etc., but also calligraphy, paintings and silk silks." Wang Fangxing sighed, "Before leaving, General Qiu repeatedly told me, I am also cautious, this ship transports the Birth Gang, and I dare not let others wait for the ship, so as not to have a lot of people." But who would have thought that this thief would be so cunning......"

Lu Yi listened to Wang Fangxing's complaint casually, and saw that he was half-squatting on the ground this summer, scraping his nails on the floor and sniffing lightly on the tip of his nose.

There are drips of wax and oil everywhere on the ground! Footprints on it!

"So much wax?" She muttered to herself.

"Oh...... This is ......," the flag officer hurriedly explained, "I was afraid that calligraphy, paintings, silk and other objects would be affected by the moisture on the ship, so I specially sealed the joints with wax. I have reported this to the Admiral. ”

Wang Fangxing nodded when he heard this: "That's the case, those calligraphy and paintings are very expensive, and it's not good to have mildew." ”

"I can't see that you're still a delicate person." This summer seemed to smile and smiled, and did not look at him, and took out a transparent and small crystal disc from his arms, and carefully examined the wax oil in the firelight.

Yang Yue squatted down in front of the unconscious sergeant, sniffed near his mouth and nose, and frowned in disgust.

Lu Yi grabbed the wrist of the other sergeant, put his slender fingers on the sergeant's pulse, and carefully checked the pulse. Wang Fangxing looked at it anxiously, and couldn't help asking, "...... How is it? ”

After a long time, Lu Yi put down the sergeant's wrist and said lightly to Wang Fangxing: "Don't worry about your life, wait another hour or two, and you can wake up as soon as the effect of the medicine has passed." ”

"That's good, that's good." Wang Fangxing clenched his fists anxiously and said, "Maybe they have seen the thief, and they will be able to tell the clues when they wake up." ”

At this time, Benxia lost the wax crumbs, and walked slowly around the cabin with a candle in hand, sometimes turning his head to look at the scratches on the bulkhead, sometimes lowering his head and reaching out to measure the floor, and finally stopping in front of the window, and then taking the crystal disc to look at the window frame......

Wang Fangxing didn't know what the hell these two little catchers were doing, seeing them swaying unhurriedly, not to mention any clues, he was already extremely impatient in his heart, if it weren't for Lu Yi's face, he would have been knocked out of the two of them a long time ago.

Since that night in Xinfeng Qiaotou, listening to this summer's words point out the flaws in the fortune teller's clothes, and now knowing that she is following Yang Chengwan, Lu Yi really wants to see the tracking technique that his father said, so he is not in a hurry or impatient, and slowly waits for the two of them to investigate indoors.

The more details he saw, the more doubts in his eyes gradually increased, and after looking at Yang Yue for a while, he somewhat understood what Yang Chengwan had told him before-"Don't talk nonsense." It's just that if this is the case, it is really boring, she straightened her waist and pouted secretly, thinking that it was right to go back to the ship earlier and get some sleep.

"You two have a clue?" Without missing her subtle expression, Lu Yi immediately asked.

"This ......" Jin Xia glanced at Yang Yue before he said slowly, "The thieves have almost no clues left, and I'm afraid there is nothing we can do." ”

Yang Yue nodded again and again, unable to tell whether he was agreeing with her words or praising her for being good.

Wang Fangxing waved his hand, with a look that he had expected a long time ago: "This is not an ordinary stealing chickens and dogs, it's not strange if you can't find out, it's okay, I don't expect you to get off the boat." ”

Tired and yawned, and he didn't plan to meet him this summer, so he dragged Yang Yue and planned to leave, but he heard Wang Fangxing still sighing at Lu Yi behind his back......

"Actually, I know that almost all the cases in the capital are handled by Jinyiwei now, and the six doors are just a false name, raising a group of idlers, and often the cases can't be found out and pushed to you......"

Hearing this, Jinxia stopped, turned his head to look at Wang Fangxing and said: "Although we are not talented, it is not that there are no clues at all, but I am worried that if I say it, the generals may not be able to hold them." ”

Wang Fangxing didn't take her seriously at all, and said with a dry smile: "Joke, I waited to guard the border pass and kill the Hu people, how could I not hold the thief." You don't have to say these bluffing words, but what clues do you have. ”

"These boxes of yours are black lacquered camphor wood boxes, two feet eight long, one foot six wide, and two feet one high, right?" Jinxia raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at him with a smile.

Wang Fangxing and his subordinate flag officers were stunned for a moment.

"You, have you seen these boxes?"

"It's just a speculation, there are so many traces of wax and oil on the ground, it's hard to pretend that you don't know the way." This summer continued, "I just said that the generals may not be able to hold them, because this group of thieves is numerous, fearless, and very arrogant, and they don't take Wang Fangxing and the other soldiers in their eyes at all. ”

"How so?" Lu Yi stared at her and asked.

This summer pointed to several scratches on the bulkhead: "The walls are all drawn like this, and the movement when moving the boxes can be imagined. ”

"How do you know that these scratches were made by thieves, maybe they were scratched by the sergeants when they brought in the boxes?"

Jin Xia handed over the crystal disc in his hand, motioned him to look at it himself, and then said: "The direction is different, and the scratch marks are also different, you carefully look at the subtleties of the scratches." ”

The crystal disc is in her hand, still with a little warmth of her hand, smooth and moist, Lu Yi looked down, the crystal is delicate and small, the middle concave edge is convex, and the object can be magnified several times when looking through the crystal piece. The scratches were subtle, the sawdust was curled, and the direction was indeed the same as the one she compared to was facing up, which was naturally scratched when the box was lifted.

Yang Yue coughed heavily, signaling that he should not continue to talk about it this summer, and he said: "Although I can see some clues, but this case is complicated, we are just a small arrest, and the experience is still shallow, I only know that it was done by a group of Jiangyang thieves, the number of people should be between four and six, the modus operandi is skillful, obviously a habitual offender, at this moment, I am afraid that it has been down the river, a few miles away, and it is not easy to track." ”

This summer squinted at him, and finally barely held back from speaking.

Wang Fangxing listened in a daze for a long time, and only then did he interject, and nodded again and again: "There are many branches of this river, if the thief has gone down the river, how can he track it?" Wang was favored by the general, but now that he was robbed, the thief was nowhere to be found, and he really had no shame to go back to see the general. ”

didn't take care of Wang Fangxing's emotional cognition at all, and joked this summer: "Lord Wang must want to open some, don't do suicide, otherwise it will be a pity to have this rich ...... now."

"You...... What does this mean? Wang Fangxing stared at this summer fiercely, with obvious anger in his eyes.

"What she means is that Lord Wang can do things under General Qiu, this set of wealth is not easy, I am really envious, very envious." Yang Yue rushed to play a round before opening his mouth this summer, and arched his hand at Wang Fangxing: "I can't wait, I can't help, please forgive me." The implication is that he is going to take his leave.

For them, Wang Fangxing seemed to have exhausted his patience, and made a gesture of invitation rather dissatisfied, seeing that he and Yang Yue were out of the cabin this summer, before he smiled at Lu Yi dryly: "You see, these people with six doors either shirk their eyes and have a disease, or they will only talk wildly, and they can't do anything at all." ”

Lu Yi coughed lightly, and also bowed his hand to Wang Fangxing and said, "Don't worry about it, adults, after the sergeant wakes up, there may be a turnaround." ”

Wang Fangxing only made a sad face, and after returning the salute, he asked the flag officer to send Lu Yi off the boat.

Back on the station, the sky was cloudy with fish belly white, the river was misty in the morning, and the cold was refreshing.

"Humph! The master let him go, but he was a vegetarian! This summer shrunk his neck in the cold and said angrily, "I don't know how to lift!" ”

Yang Yue looked back at Wang Fangxing's standing boat, and then said to her: "Daddy has repeatedly explained that don't talk nonsense, what did you just say?" Luckily, I got it back, otherwise it would have been trouble. ”

"I just can't get used to the virtue of being cheap and obedient," said this summer, dissatisfied, "and nothing else, but for no reason to disturb my good sleep, and make the chickens and dogs restless, just to drag this boatload of people to be a witness for him." ”

How could Yang Yue not know Wang Fangxing's intentions, but as a small catcher, not to mention that the river and the sea were overturned, they couldn't even splash up, and when they met the officials, they could only swallow their anger and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

"Master Xia, can you do it when you are promoted to the first assistant one day...... There are not many yamen money, but it is also a pen of silver. ”

Yang Yue poked her forehead.

"Zhilu has said it, for the sake of the silver, I will endure it again next time." I can't help it this summer.

The two returned to Yang Chengwan's cabin and recounted the situation on Wang Fangxing's ship to him.

"The sergeant guarding the birthday gang was not in the incense, but fell into a coma because he drank sweat medicine." Yang Yue reported to his father.

This summer didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "All the footprints in the cabin are the footprints of the sergeant, and no outsiders have entered at all-Wang Fangxing clearly wants to swallow the birth gang by himself, and the thief shouts to catch the thief." ”

Yang Chengwan was not surprised when he heard this, and said lightly: "That's not necessarily, I look at his anxious appearance, not like pretending." But there is something wrong with the flag officer next to him? ”

"Flag Officer ......"

"Didn't you notice him?"

"I thought he was a little weird, and noticed that he had a lot of wax on the hem of his robe, and there was wax on the top of his boots...... At the time, I thought it was strange, but then I saw the wax oil in the cabin and understood. "It seems like there's nothing else." ”

"Daddy, you mean he stole the Birth Gang? But where did he put it? Yang Yue asked.

"It should still be on board." Yang Chengwan looked at the two of them with a little dissatisfaction, "Didn't you pay attention to the waterline of this boat after you came back?" The waterline of this ship, from docking to the present, has not changed. ”

This summer stuck out his tongue, and then suddenly realized: "Those wax oil! Not to protect against moisture, but to be waterproof, I see! He put the box under the water. He must have felt that this batch of goods was relieved to be under his nose. ”

Hearing the eagerness in her tone, Yang Chengwan stared at her warningly: "Qiu Luan's family affairs have nothing to do with us, if you lose it, you will lose it, and you are not allowed to interfere." ”

"Oh......"

This summer, he agreed with Yang Yue, and he retreated.

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