The waterways in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are vertical and horizontal, the river traffic, the boat is convenient, and when Jiaxing Mansion goes to Suzhou Mansion, it is more time-saving and labor-saving to take the waterway.

Fan Rongkuan had already prepared the official ship, and not long after leaving the government, he boarded the official ship, without the bumps of cars and horses, the water trees flew along the way, the smoke and rain covered the sandbar, the reeds were like snow, and the fisherman was lazy to carry the hook.

Fan Rongkuan and Wu Weizhong are both chiefs, so naturally they are sitting in the cabin and drinking tea, Fan Chongxian is bored, and he takes a group of dogs to the stern of the boat to fish.

The brothers of the Yin camp were scattered all over the deck, their eyes were like eagles, and they looked around for four miles, and they were kingfishers on the river, and they were afraid and did not dare to approach this ship.

Li Mi also heard Wu Weizhong say earlier that this case happened in Tongli Town, Wujiang County, which belongs to Suzhou Prefecture, but it is not far from Jiaxing.

This brings us to the strangeness of this case.

It is said that Song Zhiwei, Chen Heguang and others, and even the men and horses guarding the eunuch Wang Mude, after getting the information of Li Mi, let the people who commanded the envoys spy around, and it didn't take long to get a reward!

They found traces of a small group of Japanese strikers!

These Japanese strikers lurked inland to explore the way, and unlike those who lurked in Suzhou Mansion, these Japanese were all people on the ship, and they were all real and vicious Japanese warriors!

Thanks to Li Mi's intelligence support, Chen Heguang, the prefect of Suzhou, and Song Zhiwei, the magistrate, launched a purge, dug up the Japanese in Suzhou City, and threw them all into prison.

These Japanese strikers lost their way without answering, they were all ship-men, although there were traitors and fake Japanese robbers along the coast, as well as some green forest thieves as guides, but they did not dare to venture further, so they hibernated for the time being.

There is a Po Long Qi in Tongli Town, here by the mountains and water, there is a basis for retreat, there is something to rely on, and you can also escape through the waterway, the so-called easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is an excellent camp for the Japanese Kou.

The people who commanded the envoy department found out where Po Long Qi was, so they notified Chen Heguang and others, together with the officers and soldiers of the guard, to come to encircle and suppress it!

However, when they arrived at the temple, they were met with no resistance!

It is said that there were 167 Japanese robbers in the Po Long Temple, all of whom died, and only one person survived, and this person was not a Japanese robber, and the inside story of the matter also fell on this person.

However, this person spoke wildly, no one could understand, fortunately, there was a soldier on the side of the guard, and he recognized that the clothes this person was wearing were the unique weaving and embroidery dyeing of Jiaxing Mansion, and it was preliminarily concluded that this person was a person from Jiaxing Mansion, so he turned to Jiaxing Mansion for help.

These Japanese vanguard troops have died, and the news of Song Zhiwei and others has been cut off, so they have to mobilize a lot of manpower to search for Po Long Yan and examine these corpses, hoping to find new clues from them.

This is undoubtedly a great challenge, not to mention the workload, the Suzhou Torture Hall is not manpowered, and the arrest and work assigned by the government are also useless, so they can only let the four officials of Jiaxing Mansion come to help.

Li Mi was also surprised when he heard Wu Weizhong talk about this case at first, but Fan Rongkuan received limited information, and his interest in Li Mi was even more important than this case.

This head catcher is different from Cao Jian'an, he is just a newcomer to run errands, and he is just a simple microphone, no matter how much he can't understand.

Because there is too little information, Li Mi has no way to scrutinize the case, Fan Rongkuan and Wu Weizhong are drinking tea and chatting in the cabin, and he doesn't get involved, Qingque'er hides under the sail by herself, and she doesn't know what she is thinking.

Only in autumn and winter, because she was a woman, she had a lot of inconvenience on the ship, and she was afraid of being ridiculed by Fan Chongxian's gang of bad people, so she hid in Li Mi's cabin.

After Li Mi and Cao Jian'an finished chatting, they walked out and went to the deck, where the moist river breeze was blowing, fresh and pleasant, the twilight was heavy and the sky was wide, the clouds were low and the water was clear.

At this time, Qi Mofeng was patrolling on the deck, and Li Mi wanted to go over to talk, after all, he also wanted to find out if this person had any blood relationship with Qi Jiguang's hero.

However, Qi Mofeng's face was cold, and when he carried out the inspection task, he was like going to the battlefield, with a posture that no one should enter, and Li Mi didn't bother himself.

This official ship is only two floors, not big or small, so many people plus boatmen and sailors, it seems very crowded, but this person is lively and lively, but Li Mi is idle, but he feels a little deserted.

Horizontal and vertical bored, Li Mi also thought about going back to the cabin and chatting with Qiu Dong, after all, he also wanted to know the thoughts of this little girl.

Li Mi knocked on the cabin door, and suddenly there was an extremely alert voice from Qiu Dong, Li Mi responded, and she was relieved, but she didn't come to open the door for a long time.

Li Mi was inevitably a little suspicious, could it be that Fan Chongxian's people took the opportunity to sneak in?

The more he thought about it like this, the more Li Mi became nervous, and said inside: "Qiudong, what are you doing, I'm going to come in." ”

In order to facilitate escape, there is no proper door lock in this cabin, and Li Mi knocked on the door just out of politeness.

At this time, he pushed the door hard, the door is a horizontal push and pull system, usually lax, but now there are some obstacles, and I want to be blocked by someone after I think about it.

Li Mi couldn't control this, Shicai himself had already spoken, and Qiu Dong didn't reply, so he naturally wanted to be suspicious.

As he was exerting force, the hatch was released, but it opened.

Qiu Dong knelt behind the door, his expression was flustered, his face was ruddy, and he apologized to Li Mi: "Slave... The slave maid is taking a nap, afraid... I was afraid of staining my son's eyes, so I straightened it out..."

Seeing this, Li Mi also swept his eyes, but the bed was still messy, so how could he tidy it up?

What made Li Mi even more unhappy was that in the cabin, behind the autumn and winter girl, there was a pair of soap-colored men's shoes!

This cabin is the size of a pigeon cage, Li Mi has to bow his head and bow his waist when he enters, and most of the hatch is covered at this time in autumn and winter, and Li Mi can't see exactly what is going on.

"Qiudong, let me ask you, is there anyone else in the cabin?"

Qiudong's eyes were red and he bit his lower lip, but finally shook his head.

Li Mi asked again, "Are you threatened?" ”

Qiu Dong hesitated for a while, then shook his head again.

Li Mi couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said to Qiudong: "Even so, you can continue to sleep." ”

After saying this, Li Mi also left, Qiu Dong looked at Li Mi's back, his eyes were moist, but he gritted his teeth and closed the hatch.

Li Mi was also panicked in his heart, he didn't really care much about the affairs of men and women, after all, he was determined to become the first detective of the Ming Dynasty, and he couldn't be entangled in the fetters of feelings.

Xie Yingluo is indeed a big beauty, but it's a pity that Li Mi has become an enemy with her, and that woman hates Li Mi to the core, and as for Kaoru Asakusa, she won't talk about it.

When Li Mi saw Qiu Dong for the first time, this little girl almost picked her feet, this kind of character may be vulgar in ancient times, even in later generations, she is not a lady, but Li Mi likes this straightforward temperament.

If he hadn't had a close affection for Qiu Dong, he wouldn't have proposed to Wu Weizhong to let Qiu Dong come to serve, firstly, because he could see that this girl was eager for freedom and wanted to control her own destiny, and secondly, he also had an unknown good impression of her.

But after all, he knows too little about Qiu Dong, he doesn't know who she is, and he doesn't know what she has been through.

Although she was less than twenty, she was already a big girl in ancient times, and she was a slave and maid, so she was inevitably bullied by her master and manservant.

There are also some maids who do not hesitate to sell their flesh and skin for their livelihood, and even worse, because life is too boring, and they mingle with those slaves and masters, which is all too common.

Li Mi remembered the men's shoes behind Qiu Dong again, and he didn't know what kind of woman Qiu Dong was.

In any case, he was only giving her a chance to seek a free life, not taking her for himself, otherwise she would just fall from one cage to another.

Since she was given such an opportunity, Li Mi naturally would not interfere with how to go in the future, Li Mi had already confirmed that she was not in danger, and he didn't want to care about the rest of the things.

However, Li Mi is a man after all, and he will inevitably feel sad in his heart, and he can't go back to the cabin, so Li Mi can only sit on the deck, bored, so he took off the knife box and wiped the Qi family knife with a soft cloth.

He hadn't taken a serious look at this knife yet, but today he saw that Qi Mofeng and the others were accompanied by the Qi family knife with a similar shape, and he was also interested, wiping it while looking at it carefully.

This knife was so sharp that Li Mi didn't even dare to touch the blade with his fingertips, but on the handle of the knife, he found an engraved word "Yin"!

Wu Weizhong had already said that this knife belonged to his old man, but no matter how Li Mi asked, he didn't tell the story of this knife.

When Li Mi saw this Yinzi, he couldn't help but think of the Yinzi Battalion, could it be that the owner of this knife is also from the Yinzi Battalion?

Li Mi was thinking about it, and suddenly felt movement behind him, and hurriedly inserted the blade into the sheath, and when he looked back, it was Qingque'er, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The so-called wealth is not exposed, and Li Mi doesn't want people to see this knife, especially the soldiers of the Yinzi battalion, if they know that Li Mi has this Qi family knife on his body, they are afraid that their attitude towards Li Mi will be different.

For people like Li Mi who have never been on the battlefield, but they wear the Qi family knife, these soldiers who are born and die will only look down on Li Mi, the war knife is their buddy and life-saving guy on the battlefield, and it is something that depends on each other, not a prop for people like Li Mi to show off.

It was precisely because he understood the mentality of the soldiers that Li Mi didn't want them to see this knife even more, but fortunately, it was Qingque'er.

"Can I take a look?" Qingque'er asked casually.

Li Mi looked at Qingque'er, but did not agree, but put the knife into the knife box, and half-jokingly said to Qingque'er: "Don't give it." ”

Qingque'er frowned, turned around and left.

This is also what Li Mi deliberately did, he just wanted to test Qingque'er, whether he had anything to do with the Qi family's army, and what was the purpose of following him down this time, now it seems that Qingque'er is only afraid that he really can't get rid of the Qi family's army!

As soon as Qingque'er left like this, Li Mi was about to catch up, strike while the iron was hot, and see if he could ask something, but when he looked up, he saw Qi Mofeng standing not far away, staring at him Li Mi with a deep light!