In the backyard of Weihai's humble official office, seeing Duan Kaihong coming in, Lu Zhen put down the scroll in his hand and asked, "Are there any changes to those suspicious people?" This was the third day that the merchants had been forced to continue to go to sea, and the two officials had also circled several key targets and sent people to closely monitor them for twelve hours.

The so-called suspicious targets are merchants who have not actually shipped goods out of the sea until today. Because in Lu Jin's view, as long as the businessmen who come to Weihai come to make money, they all come to the sea to make money, but there are only a few, but there is no record of this in the official documents, which is very worthy of scrutiny and suspicion.

But Duan Kaihong shook his head a little helplessly: "There is no news coming back from the subordinates who are staring at the three of them, only that everything is not strange." ”

"Oh?" Lu Jin hesitated slightly, and then said, "Tell them to continue to stare patiently." Since that eyeliner dares to do this, he must have some ability. Maybe he's just making a final confirmation. ”

"What the lord said is that the lower officials will tell them." After Duan Kaihong nodded, he glanced at the other party with some hesitation: "But it's ......"

"But what? There is nothing to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

"Xia Guan thinks that in fact, whether there is a real shipment overseas is not the key to confirming his identity, after all, the thief can pretend to follow others to transport goods to sea, because those goods will fall into the hands of his accomplices after all." Seeing that Lu Zhen said this, Duan Kaihong no longer hid anything.

Lu Jin didn't think it was wrong, but nodded in approval: "What you said is right, and this official will naturally not relax his eyes on others." Now that the government has ruled out suspicion, the problem must lie with these businessmen. And now that the news has been released, he shouldn't be able to endure it for long. ”

That being said, it's clearly not that simple. During this period, a few merchants did send their men to leave Weihai, but the officers who followed them quickly figured out their details, and they either went back to prepare for the sea, or simply wanted to go to Jinan to find the relevant officials to complain, anyway, in the end there was no suspicion.

In this way, it is very difficult. Is Lu Jin's inference true? Also, will the eyeliner leave this place with the other merchants because he feels that Shandong does not dare to send ships to sea for the time being? The possibility of the latter is really not small, after all, there are many people who left Weihai some time ago.

In such a stalemate, Duan Kaihong was completely out of line, and he was no longer as confident as before. It's just that Lu Zhen is by his side, so he doesn't dare to give up lightly, and even keeps cheering up his subordinates. Lu Jin, on the other hand, still looks like he has a bamboo in his chest, as if all this is still under his control. But what he thinks in his heart, even Duan Kaihong can't say.

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Another night fell, and after a busy day, the small Weihai town market returned to calm. Except for two or three teams of night guards who walked through a certain street from time to time, there was hardly a single figure in sight.

And at this moment, in a room in the backyard of Shunfeng Building, a person suddenly quietly came out. He looked around vigilantly for a while, making sure that there was no one nearby, and then turned back and took out a gray pigeon from the house.

It is a rather vigorous carrier pigeon, and on its left paw is a delicate bamboo tube that can be used to hold a roll of silk or paper letters. The man stroked the pigeon's back with his hand for a while, and then shook his hand and let the pigeon fly into the air.

The pigeon, apparently he had matured, circled a little in the air, then flapped its wings, and after quickly crossing the wall, it was about to go south. The person who saw this scene, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl slightly, this time he made another contribution, and when he went back in the future, he was bound to get a lot of rewards again.

It's just that as soon as the corner of his smile appeared on his mouth, he quickly froze. Because of the unbelievable change that happened suddenly, just as the pigeon flew high and was about to melt into the night, there was a soft sound, and a cold light flashed, and it shot directly through the pigeon's small body.

The pigeon didn't even have time to make a scream, and it fluttered down. Then a figure flashed, and directly caught the fallen pigeon in his hand, and at the same time, this person also took advantage of the situation to jump over the not very high fence and came to the courtyard.

The people in the courtyard were frightened by this, and stood there stunned, unable to speak for a long time. It wasn't until this uninvited guest saw his appearance clearly, and said in a calm tone: "Boss Tong is really good, he actually releases pigeons to play at night......" He suddenly recovered from the shock, his eyes sank, and his body had swept towards the other party like an arrow, and at the same time, a short knife had been drawn from the sleeve of his right hand, which was slashed at the opponent's throat at a strange angle.

Although he was stunned for a moment, he had already judged that the person was the identity of a person in the official mansion, and it was obvious that his identity had been revealed. Since this is the case, let's quickly kill people and kill people, and escape from this place before the government sends people to arrive.

Boss Tong's response to the crisis was still quite fast, but his judgment was still a little biased. He thought that he was quite good at martial arts, otherwise he would not dare to take on such a deadly task, which was enough to kill the person in front of him in a situation where he was almost sneak attacked. Unexpectedly, the other party's skills were far above his estimate, although he let out a soft cry when he suddenly burst out, he only twisted his body, and quickly flashed a fatal knife.

Subsequently, without seeing how he acted, Boss Tong's right hand with a knife had been grabbed by him. This made Boss Tong even more frightened, and subconsciously struggled to retreat. Not wanting this reaction to fall into the other party's arms, he took advantage of the situation to take advantage of the backward pull and bumped over, bent his elbows, and his movements were clean and neat.

Boss Tong was completely defenseless, and he hit the chest valve at once. This time the force was not small, so that his breathing was suffocated, his qi and blood stopped, his eyes were black, and he temporarily lost his ability to move.

And when the other party saw that a move worked, the movements in his hands did not stop for a while, and his hands struck out like lightning, and quickly twisted on the joints of Boss Tong's hands.

And when the pain of dislocated arms hit, Boss Tong regained some consciousness, and then let out a cry of pain, but the person had fallen to the ground.

In this silent night, this painful cry was really not small, and it soon alarmed the guys and shopkeepers in front of the restaurant. They hurried over, and when they saw their boss seriously injured and fall to the ground, they also let out an exclamation in unison, and the one who was in a hurry pounced fiercely, while the two clever ones shouted loudly: "There is a thief! Come and catch the thief! A shrill cry pierced the quiet night sky.

The pounces of several people didn't even touch the other party's clothes at all, so he easily dodged them. At the same time, he also showed a waist card: "Stop!" I'm from the government! ”

This interruption immediately deterred several restaurant guys who wanted to come forward, although they looked surprised and unconvinced, but they didn't dare to be presumptuous after all. At the same time, there was a knock on the door at the main entrance of the restaurant in front, and after a guy rushed to open the door, a team of night guards quickly rushed in: "What's wrong?" ”

Without waiting for these soldiers to reprimand themselves, the man had already revealed his identity: "I am the Jinyi Guard Qianhu Qinggele, and I came to arrest the eyes of the Japanese Kou on the order of the governor, this is the person!" As he spoke, he kicked the shopkeeper Tong who fell to the ground.

Under the light of the torches, the waist card of the brocade guard shone brightly, and the terrifying inscription immediately frightened a soldier: "Original...... It turned out to be a thousand households, and the villain was rude......" he said, and he wanted to bend his knees to meet him.

Qinggel waved his hand: "Don't be polite, just pull people up and go with the official." ”

"Yes!" These ordinary soldiers didn't dare to disobey the orders of Jinyi Wei Qianhu, so they immediately pulled up Boss Tong, who was still trembling on the ground, tied it with a rope, and then put on the frightened men and shopkeepers in a dry restaurant, and followed Qinggele out.

When they came to the street, many of the people secretly opened the door, or looked at the movement in surprise through the crack in the door, and they really couldn't understand why the officers and soldiers would suddenly attack the people in the Shunfeng Building, which had always done their duty.

It's Boss Tong himself, and he is also full of doubts at this time. I'm hiding it pretty well, how can I be seen as flawed? If he hadn't been targeted by this guy earlier, he wouldn't have been caught on the spot by delivering the news tonight.

He didn't know, but Chingler knew it. This is also what he admires about Lu Jin, his own adult is as careful as a hair, and he can take care of almost all the inconspicuous details.

As early as when Duan Kaihong invited a group of businessmen to Shunfeng Building, he had already counted all the people in this restaurant. Because in Lu Jin's view, in addition to these businessmen who are closely related to this matter, there are only people from the government and people in the most well-informed restaurants or inns who know the route to the sea.

And this kind of business thing, the restaurant is obviously the easiest to obtain. Moreover, judging from his theory, Boss Tong is also a suspicious person who did not suffer any losses in this incident. However, for this key suspect, he did not let Duan Kaihong send someone to keep an eye on him, but sent his cronies Qinggel to hide in the dark and watch.

This time, Lu Jin's suspicion was obviously correct, and in one fell swoop, he dug out the eyeliner of the widow hidden in Weihai.

With admiration for Lu Jin, Qinggel took the people and returned directly to the official office. And when they got this report, Lu Zhen and Duan Kaihong, who had already been impatient, finally breathed a sigh of relief......

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