After the dinner, Li Hongyu, who was full of alcohol, leaned on the chair near the window in the bedroom and closed his eyes to recuperate, because he drank a lot of wine, he opened the window to breathe, and the cool night breeze blew on his ruddy face and felt very comfortable. Heaven's Voice'

"My lord, we have carefully checked the people in the city, and there is nothing unusual."

Ma Xianglin pushed the door and walked in, bowed back to Li Hongyu, frowned slightly, Youlan seemed to be steamed in the world, and there was no trace of her in the search of the city.

With Youlan's stunning beauty, it is easy to attract people's attention, as long as she is looked at, then the other party will definitely not forget, but the whole city is still not the slightest news after searching the carpet again.

"Since there is no anomaly, it means that the other party has very cleverly disguised their identity, so that people will not easily suspect them."

Hearing this, Li Hongyu slowly opened his eyes, looked at Ma Xianglin quietly, and said, "The news that Youlan is coming to Shanghai County was announced to the outside world after the Oiran Conference, and there must be outsiders in the arson case, it must be Shanghai County that arrived after the Oiran Conference, and the other party has actually shown his feet at this time." ”

"My lord, do you mean that there are arsonists among the outsiders in the city?" Ma Xianglin understood what Li Hongyu meant, so he said in a deep voice, "Moreover, they appeared in front of us openly." ”

"It's not certain yet, but that's the biggest possibility."

Li Hongyu frowned slightly when he heard this, the city is not as good as the countryside, it is not easy to hide people, and it is a small county like Shanghai County, the neighbors are clear about the shortcomings of their parents, and someone will definitely report it in two days, but no one has come to the yamen to report it now.

The Customs Department has already suspended 100 taels of silver, which is a huge amount of money in Shanghai County, and Li Hongyu does not believe that those who know can withstand this temptation, and besides, this is a big case, and if he does not report it, he will be implicated.

Therefore, according to the information at hand, Li Hongyu decided to start with the outsiders who had recently come to Shanghai County to investigate the whereabouts of the person who kidnapped Youlan.

"Bring the register of outsiders, and double the hanging red, and say that those who do not report the information are guilty of the same crime." Li Hongyu groaned for a while, and said to Ma Xianglin in a deep voice that he wanted to create a momentum for the pursuit and increase the psychological pressure on the hijackers, and the greater the pressure, the easier it was to make mistakes.

Ma Xianglin immediately brought over a list of people who came to Shanghai County after the Oiran Conference, and there were as many as three or four hundred people, all thanks to the relocation of the Yamen of the Customs Department from Ningbo to Shanghai County, which attracted many businessmen to inquire about the news, and the market gradually became prosperous.

For overseas trade, the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty are naturally aware of the huge profits and unlimited business opportunities, once Li Hongyu will do the overseas trade, then Shanghai County will become the most prosperous seaside city in the Ming Dynasty, so the businessmen from all over the world will naturally come to explore business opportunities.

It is not easy to find a suspect from so many people without a clue, and every out-of-towner who stays in the city has a good reason.

Therefore, Li Hongyu stretched lazily after flipping through the registration book, it is not a way to wait like this, Youlan may encounter danger at any time.

After pondering for a while, Li Hongyu called Ma Xianglin over, whispered a few words to him, Ma Xianglin nodded again and again, and then hurriedly arranged according to Li Hongyu's plan.

Looking at Ma Xianglin's distant back, the corners of Li Hongyu's mouth couldn't help but show a smile, since the hijackers couldn't take it out, then he would lure the snake out of the hole with a trick and let it appear automatically.

The next morning, a conflict broke out at the south gate of Shanghai County, and some businessmen from afar were in a hurry to rush back to deal with business matters, because they went out of the city and had a physical altercation with the sergeant guarding the gate, and as a result, they were knocked to the ground, their faces covered with blood, which caused a lot of commotion.

In view of the conflict, the Customs Department soon issued a notice, in which it announced the conditions for outsiders to leave the city, that is, they must leave a companion in the city to assist in the investigation of the case, and in addition to pay a deposit of 500 taels of silver, or the residents of the city will be used as a guarantee to declare to the Yamen of the Customs Department one day in advance.

If it is found out that the case has nothing to do with it, the security deposit of five hundred taels of silver will be given to the companion who stayed, and the Customs Department will never ask for this silver.

Of course, when leaving, you have to go through a strict search to confirm that there is nothing strange and then let you go.

After the notice was announced, the outsiders in the city paid the security deposit, and those who looked for someone to guarantee the security deposit were able to leave the county seat of Shanghai one after another.

Although 500 taels of silver is a huge amount of money for ordinary people, it is only a drop in the bucket for those merchants who have a lot of money, and no matter whether they have important affairs at hand or not, the businessmen trapped in the city all choose to leave Shanghai County first.

In fact, Li Hongyu also has another purpose in doing this, that is, to further narrow the scope of the suspect, since the person who left is not suspicious, then it means that the suspect is still in the city, which will definitely make the other party feel anxious and find a way to leave the county, so as not to attract the attention of the government in the end.

The clash in front of the southern city gate was naturally a masterpiece arranged by Li Hongyu, and its purpose was, of course, to confuse the hijackers, so that they fell for Li Hongyu's plan to lure the snake out of the hole in an unsuspecting situation.

Although the declarations of those who left the city were handed over to the Yamen of the Customs Department, they all fell into the hands of Li Hongyu, who reviewed them and grasped the information of those who left the city.

"Go back to the countryside and be buried!"

On the third day after the notice was posted, Li Hongyu was attracted by an application to leave the city, and his brows furrowed slightly.

It turned out that a man from other places died of a serious illness and went to the hospital in Shanghai County for treatment, but unfortunately the man still died after the efforts of the doctor, so the family bought a coffin in Yizhuang in the city and prepared to send him back to his hometown for burial.

It is worth mentioning that the time when the man from other places came to Shanghai County was three days before the arrival of Li Hongyu and his entourage, and the medical center that treated him was the one that Youlan went to.

After frowning slightly, Li Hongyu put down the application in his hand, stamped the seal of the Customs Department on it, and agreed to return to the countryside for burial.

Although Li Hongyu let him go, this matter caught his attention, and he was going to go to see the excitement at that time.

So, early the next morning, Li Hongyu led Ma Xianglin and the sailors to Nancheng, entered a teahouse in front of the city gate, chose a seat by the window on the second floor and sat down, and observed the movement at the city gate while sipping tea.

Those who left the county were subjected to strict searches, and the luggage of possible hiders was opened and inspected, and after confirming that there were no problems, they were released.

Not long after, there was a commotion in the streets in the distance, and a mourning procession appeared on the street, surrounded by a carriage with a coffin.

Li Hongyu looked at the people who walked in front of him and wore linen and filial piety, crying to death, his brows furrowed slightly, those people were naturally not the family members of the deceased, but professional mourners, and they earned money for this kind of white thing.

Then, Li Hongyu's eyes fell on several men and women with sad expressions following the carriage, these people were the family members of the deceased, and at a glance they looked like just ordinary people, and there was nothing special about them.

What really attracted Li Hongyu was the coffin placed on the carriage, the coffin was the kind commonly used by the people in Yizhuang, with a swarthy surface, relatively thin wooden boards, and low price, commonly known as "thin-skinned coffin".

In Li Hongyu's opinion, there is nothing wrong with this kind of funeral in normal times, but now is an extraordinary time, if it is not a corpse but Youlan in the coffin, then Youlan will be taken out of the city.

Moreover, it is indeed a very good way to get out of the city with a coffin, and the soldiers at the city gate will not forcibly open the coffin after the death certificate of the hospital, after all, the dead are big in ancient times, and if you disturb the deceased, you will suffer a lawsuit, and it is unlucky to do so.

In this way, the other party will be given an opportunity to take advantage of it, and the other party will never think that if they do this, they will just throw themselves into the net.

Because Li Hongyu obviously also thought of the method of using the coffin to smuggle Youlan out of the city, he had already laid a net at the city gate, as long as they dared to do so, they would definitely be arrested, and the Youlan in the coffin would be safe and sound, and would not be harmed when arrested.

"Childe, if they resolutely disagree to open the coffin, how will the matter end?"

Ma Xianglin sat aside, glanced at the mourning team coming over from the window, and said to Li Hongyu with concern.

There is a folk saying that once the coffin is opened, the soul of the deceased will leave the body of the deceased and fly away, so that the soul of the deceased will not be able to go home, so no one wants to open the coffin after it is closed, and once it is forcibly opened, it will inevitably explode into conflict.

What is especially important is that if the coffin is not Youlan but a corpse, then the matter will be big, and it will have an adverse impact on the reputation of the Customs Department and Li Hongyu, which is not what Ma Xianglin wants to see.

"We've found an excuse, if they don't open the coffin again, it's no wonder that we need to use extraordinary means in extraordinary times!"

Li Hongyu's eyes were cold, and he looked at the mourning team that was slowly coming and said, the top priority is to find Youlan, and some things must be decided immediately.

"Childe, if the one in the coffin is Youlan, then where did the person who should have died go? Now that the city is so searched, it seems that he has nowhere to hide! ”

Ma Xianglin nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, and then remembered something and asked suspiciously.

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