After Yue Zhang met with Hu Ying, he also reasoned carefully according to the clues at hand. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He agreed with Hu Ying's opinion, and speculated that it was a foreign thief who did evil, so he agreed on a countermeasure with the patrols.

The patrols are responsible for visiting residents and looking for suspicious persons. The recruits were responsible for making secret visits to shops and inns, mainly looking for foreign merchants.

The patrolmen naturally obeyed Yue Zhang's plan, after all, it was their old boss.

Zhang Zhao and Yue Si'er saw that the patrol was short of manpower, so they also took the initiative to help, and went with them to visit door to door.

On the recruit's side, the teenagers who got the order were divided into pieces, and they quietly dispersed in Huairou City in pairs.

Xu Lin and Zhou Xiao'an were wearing straw hats and arguing with the shopkeeper on the counter of an inn.

The shopkeeper began to think that they were staying in the hotel, and greeted them with a smile. But looking at the two of them cucumber eggs, not only did they not live in the store, but they also asked this and that, and they became impatient.

"Go and go, what does it have to do with you who lives in our inn, if you don't stay in the inn, hurry up and let me go."

Without saying anything, he threw them out of the door.

"Brother Lin, this is not a way, General Yue told us not to reveal our identities, quietly enter the village, and don't expose it. But who can let us see the path of the guests for no reason, and we are not Jinyiwei. ”

Xu Lin frowned, hearing him mention Jinyiwei, his eyes rolled and he thought about it.

Although they are the new army, they have not been recognized by the court, and they are still under Teng Xiangwei.

The Son of Heaven is twenty-four guards, using a tooth tag to verify his identity. So they all carried a wooden tooth tag with the words "Teng Xiang Pro-Army Gong Wei Division" and their respective names.

Jinyiwei is the only one in the 24 guards of the Son of Heaven who has the authority to investigate the case, so when the people of Jinyiwei usually show their identities, they only say that the Son of Heaven is on an errand with the army.

This reputation has already been played, so in the eyes of the common people, there are no twenty-four guards.

As long as the pro-army is mentioned, I subconsciously think it is Jinyiwei.

In these years, the east and west factories have not yet been born, and Jinyiwei can be described as unique and outstanding. From the Shangshu to the people, whoever hears the name of the Son of Heaven and the pro-army has to avoid three points. The Jinyi Guard Prison is notorious.

Thinking of this, Xu Lin pulled Zhou Xiaoan down to his side and said, "Who said we can't be Jinyiwei, you have a tooth tag, right?" ”

"Brought it, what's wrong?"

"Hehe, let's have a fish-eyed mess!"

"Huh? You mean, let's pretend to be Jinyiwei? ”

"That's right! But we're not impersonating. Next, let's shake the tooth card. pinched the word Tengxiang, and showed them the part of the pro-army Gong Wei Division, saying that it was a pro-army business. Of course, Teng Xiangwei is also pro-army, as for their understanding of Jinyiwei, it is not our fault. ”

"Oh, Brother Lin, this routine is really amazing. You're learning from General Yue! ”

Xu Lin knocked on Zhou Xiaoan's head, "That's not called learning bad, that's called... Ahem, that's called wit. Well, wit. Remember, pretend to be a little more ruthless for a while, and speak with a calm face. ”

Zhou Xiaoan hurriedly agreed, making it look like the whole world owed him money.

In the second inn at this street corner, the shopkeeper was flipping through the account book, and suddenly saw two people wearing straw hats walking into the store with their heads down.

"Hey, two guest officers, do you want to play the tip or stay in the hotel?"

Before he could finish speaking, one of them pulled him by the collar and pulled him to the counter. He was about to exclaim, when a bamboo tooth tag reached out in front of him.

The five big characters on it - pro-army Gongwei Division!

The man's cold voice sounded in his ears at the right time, and he said inwardly: "The Son of Heaven is doing things with the army, don't make a noise." Bring your guest list, and the master wants to check something. ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he thought it was Jinyiwei investigating the case, and he was so frightened that he didn't possess his body, how dare he think of anything else.

nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, took the notebook of the guest list, and led the two to an empty room upstairs.

The two of them were in the guest room, and under the trembling gaze of the shopkeeper, they generously checked the customer order.

Those two, who else could they be if they weren't Xu Lin and Zhou Xiaoan?

One trick is fresh, eat all over the world.

The two of them relied on this routine, and it only took more than two hours to check the inns and trading houses within their range.

The sun is setting in the west, and it is approaching evening.

The two of them squatted in front of a medical center, holding straw hats and constantly blowing in the wind, and their faces were full of sweat and sweat.

The two of them have been busy for so long, and they have found no suspicious people in the inn they have checked.

This season is not the peak season for goods, most of the inns and trading houses are merchants around Huairou and the capital, and after many inquiries, most of them are old customers.

Most of those new faces are also guaranteed by commercial firms, and there is nothing wrong with them.

"Brother Lin, do you think that lewd thief is a local?"

"I don't think so, didn't General Yue analyze; If this kind of thing were committed by locals, it wouldn't be so frequent. It must have been wandering here, and he left after making this ticket, so he was so unscrupulous. I think he has a point. ”

"Then let's look like this, the chance of finding the thief is too slim, it's better to go to the city gate to squat and see the passers-by, who looks like a thief."

"You can't say that, didn't General Yue tell us; Not only inns and trading houses, but also rumors and fragments in the market... information. Maybe we'll find some clues in our visit. ”

At this moment, a person walked out of the infirmary. The man clutched his chest, panting heavily, as if he had a wound in his chest.

The infirmary's guys helped him down the stairs, repeating the method of decoction by the way.

"Shopkeeper Wang, you rub it more with bone-setting wine at night, your injury is too serious, if you work harder, my master said that you can only do this in the next life. Who's doing this, what a big hatred. ”

The person who grabbed the medicine was the neighbor of Qiu Ji's carriage and horse shop, Wang Luwang's shopkeeper.

He gasped and sighed, "Hey, bad neighbor, evil neighbor." The hateful chariot and horse dealer next door to me, a bunch of thieves. The daytime prostitution made a miasma, and when I went to them to theorize, I was beaten like this. In the past few days, I have even closed the shop, and when the old man is better, I will go to report to the official. ”

Xu Lin, who was squatting next to him, pricked up his ears, and two key words caught his attention. -- Men in the carriage and horses, prostitution during the day.

Ordinary chariot and horse dealers, a month's salary will be enough to make ends meet, where can there be spare money to do anything else?

Something is wrong!

Xu Lin and Zhou Xiaoan glanced at each other, nodded to each other, followed Wang Lu, and stopped him in a secluded place at the end of the street.

After inquiring about the situation of Qiu Ji's carriage and horse travel in detail with a routine, he instructed Wang Lu not to make a noise to attract Qiu Ji's attention.

The two of them went straight to the feud with excitement.

I hadn't gone far when I suddenly saw a large group of people outside the workshop.

They parted from the crowd and stepped forward to take a look, and their eyes suddenly cracked.

A naked female corpse lay under the archway of Pingkangfang, her whole body was bruised and filthy. In the sultry evening breeze, there was a rancid smell.

The female corpse's neck was tilted at a strange angle, apparently broken. A pair of pupils that have turned gray seem to be telling their grievances.

Xu Lin tore off the coat on his body, endured the stench and stepped forward, covered the female corpse, and blocked the head of the female corpse.

"I'll stay here, you go back to the county government and report the situation here. Let's put it to the test! ”

Xu Lin gritted his teeth and finished speaking to Zhou Xiaoan, stood up, and blocked in front of the female corpse.