"My lord," Liang Chao and Li Yang came to Zhang's mansion, saw Zhang Fan, and got up to salute, "The two of them have already handed over the silver transported from Zhejiang to the branch below, and now the people there have begun to count the amount of silver, and those officers and soldiers who came to escort the silver, the lowly officials have sent someone to lead them to the vacated military camp outside the city."

"Very good," Zhang Fan looked happy after listening to the report of the two, after all, the matter is now two-thirds completed, and said, "When this batch of silver is counted, if there are no problems, it will be loaded immediately,"

"This ...... My lord, why are you so impatient," Liang Chao asked with some confusion, "And have all those boats arrived?"

"I borrowed a sea ship from Zhao Xiande, and it happened that he had three treasure ships idle, and when he heard that I was going to use it, he didn't even ask me what I was borrowing for, but just asked where I was going to drive the ship, so he directly ordered the people on his ship to drive the ship from Suzhou to Yangzhou," Zhang Fan said with a smile, "Now it is estimated that there are still two days, and this ship will arrive, and at that time, it will be time to load these counted silver first,"

"But my lord, isn't it a little unsafe to put so much silver on the ship," Liang Chao was worried about this matter, "The humble duty knows that the lord has sent heavy troops to guard the place where the ship is moored, but it is still difficult to guarantee that no one will board the ship to steal the silver, according to the meaning of the humble duty, my lord will see if it is not possible to wait until the silver from Fujian is sent, and then send it to the pass together after counting, so that it will be safer,"

"You can rest assured of this, I have already prepared, I let the guards rotate three times a day, and there are also overseers who will come to inspect four times every hour, and when the time comes, when the silver from Fujian is transported and counted, I will also let people count it, there will be absolutely nothing wrong," Zhang Fan said confidently, "The main reason for doing this is that there are too many silver, and when the time comes, the silver from the three places will be transported to the ship together, and I don't know how much time it will take, anyway, I am idle these days, Why don't you take advantage of it?"

"That's it, so an adult, I still want to help carry it," Liang Chao listened to Zhang Fan's words, but did not refute it, but put forward the intention of wanting to help, in fact, he knew in his heart that Zhang Fan wanted to go back to the capital earlier.

"You," Zhang Fan said in a strange tone, and looked at Liang Chao's body, which was still a little thin although he was acquainted, shook his head and said, "I think it's better to forget it, your family has been working in the guard for generations, this kung fu is there, and the strength is not bad, but after all, it can't compare to those porters who work hard all year round,"

"......" Liang Chao heard Zhang Fan say this, he seemed to have a feeling of being defeated, and lowered his head a little embarrassedly, Li Yang on the side saw this scene, but he felt a little funny, but he couldn't bear to laugh out loud, but his face looked a little weird because of the reason for holding back laughter.

Zhang Fan looked at it and realized that he had said the wrong thing just now, so he immediately changed his words and said: "But you are also a person who has served in Weili for many years, and you are still better at things like stalking, so let's go to the dock to help, keep an eye on those people who work, and don't have any things like stealing chickens and dogs,"

"Yes, my lord, I will definitely go all out to complete my lord's order," Liang Chao said happily after receiving Zhang Fan's order.

"By the way, the two of you went to pick up the escort team, there were no accidents on the way," Zhang Fan wanted to end the conversation, but suddenly asked.

"This ...... My lord, there was nothing wrong on the road, but when we entered the city, something strange happened," Liang Chao remembered what had happened when he first entered the city.

"Oh, what's going on," Zhang Fan didn't expect to ask seemingly randomly, but he really asked something.

"The two of them entered the city from the east gate of Yangzhou City, but they found that a gate official had died there," Liang Chao said, pointing to Li Yang, "This matter was discovered by Li Yang, so let him tell the adults in detail,"

"My lord, here's the thing......" Li Yang arched his hand to Zhang Fan and began to narrate.

The matter did not take long, and it didn't take long for Li Yang to finish the matter, but this short time made Zhang Fan's brows tighter and tighter.

"Are you saying that the dead gatekeeper at the East City Gate today was killed by someone with a poisoned needle," Zhang Fan asked, his expression was very flat, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

"Exactly," Li Yang said affirmatively, "When I entered the city, I suddenly asked for a smell of flowers, the smell of the lowly office used to smell it, but for a while it just felt familiar, and I didn't think about it so much, but when the lowly official saw that there were people from the yamen, and then thought about it, he suddenly remembered that what the lowly official smelled was clearly a smell of poison,"

"How do you say that," Zhang Fan wanted to ask.

"The poison needle that poisoned the doorman was smeared with a poison extracted from the stem of a flower called the Scale Wave Fairy, which is often called daffodils in the Central Plains," Li Yang said.

"Wait," Zhang Fan suddenly interrupted Li Yang and asked, "You said daffodils, could it be that daffodils can still kill people,"

"That's right, my lord, but it's very troublesome," Li Yang explained, "Your Excellency knows, I was originally the master of the Tianlong Hall of the Five Poisons Sect, and the Five Poisons Sect is all in the name of fiddling with poisonous insects, although we have also studied poisons like this, but after all, it is not our business, we just know a rough idea, so when I entered the city, I smelled the smell although it was familiar, but I didn't remember it for a while."

"This daffodil seems to be ordinary, there are many people who like to raise it, in fact, it is poisonous, all its grass blades are poisonous, and the toxicity of the rhizome is the strongest, if someone eats it by mistake, it is light vomiting, diarrhea, fast and weak pulse, cold sweat, dyspnea, body fever, lethargy, weakness and other symptoms, but if it is serious, it is possible to spasm, paralysis and death, but that is only young children, even if the average person eats it by mistake, it will not die.

"The poison that poisoned the door officer, I think it was extracted from the sap of the rhizomes of a lot of narcissus, so it has such a huge toxicity, it is almost a blood seal on the silver needle, and after the person dies, even if it is let the experienced Lang Zhong or the pestle to check, there is no sign of poisoning, after all, this narcissus can kill people, and almost no one knows about it in the Central Plains, and the narcissus is very easy to raise, and it is also very common, although it is necessary to refine the poison that seals the throat with blood, It takes a lot of daffodil rhizomes to extract a few drops, but daffodils are really easy to find, and the price is not expensive, compared to other poisons, it is cheap.

"However, this poison has a drawback, because the rhizome of the narcissus is the most toxic when it blooms, but the fragrance of the daffodil at that time is too strong, and after refining it into a highly poisonous poison, its fragrance is even more intense, so it is impossible to kill people unconsciously, and people who know a little bit about using poison can distinguish it, so even if anyone who uses poison knows, no one has used this poison to kill people at all, after all, it is too easy to expose itself,"

"In other words......" Zhang Fan listened to Li Yang's explanation, touched his chin and said, "The person who poisoned this poison is either lonely and unsmelling to the extreme, thinking that no one will recognize this poison; The door is arrogant to the extreme, and he is not afraid of letting people know that the dead are poisoned,"

"But my lord, these two points are very contradictory," Liang Chao also frowned and said, "If it is the first case, then from the humble point of view, the only explanation is that this murderer is still a novice, so he will use such a bright poison, but this should not be, when he learns, the person who teaches him should know that this poison is really not suitable for such a secret thing."

But in the second case, it really doesn't make any sense, and if you want to cover up the truth of this man's death, why use such a conspicuous poison; If it's to kill people to vent their anger, they shouldn't use poison at all, and they should be happy if they are directly hacked to death with a knife."

Although Liang Chao said a little rude, but it was all to the point, yes, if you want to hide people's eyes and ears, you will naturally not use this conspicuous poison, if you want to kill people to vent your anger, then you should not use poison at all, and direct trauma to death can be regarded as venting anger.

"This thing is really a bit strange," Zhang Fan was also very puzzled, "Li Yang, what do you think," he asked Li Yang, who knew the most about this business.

"My lord, I don't have a clue here," Li Yang said honestly, he really didn't have a clue about this matter.

"Do you see if it's ......" Zhang Fan said guessingly, he didn't finish speaking, but he believed that Li Yang could understand what he was going to say next.

"My lord is saying......" Li Yang obviously guessed what Zhang Fan meant, first with a burst of surprise, and then with a resolute expression, "No, no, this matter will definitely not be done by the people of the Five Poisons Sect, it's not that he is defending them for anything, it's just that this is the case."

"My lord, think about it, although the people in the Five Poisons Sect can't all say in detail, they also know a rough idea, as far as the lowly position knows, there is really no one in the sect who uses poisonous weeds as raw materials to poison, and adults think about it, the dead is a door official, not to mention that the Five Poisons Sect has never had a holiday with the imperial court, if it is true, it will never use this kind of trick,"

"That's right," Zhang Fan thought for a while and said, "Forget it, don't think about it if you can't think of it, although someone is dead, this is not a big deal in the end, maybe this door official himself caused some trouble, but the enemy family hired a novice to kill people,"