Chapter 36: Maple Bridge
After making a decision, Ye Heng asked Deng Jian, Hong Tu and the others to stay and continue to detain them, and said to Yun Que: "Let's go, let's go see the private salt." ”
When he came to the place where the boat was parked in Shuizhai, Yun Que said to Ye Heng: "These people really have a hand, not only robbed the illegal salt, but even robbed the boat!" ”
Ye Heng looked at the boatload full of illicit salt and asked, "Did you find any marks on the ship?" ”
"Not really!"
Yun Que shook his head, but said: "I found some information, the private salt on this ship is some salt balls, it seems to be sent to a place called Fengqiaodu!" ”
"The salt ball naturally has to go through some processing, could it be that this Fengqiaodu is a private salt processing workshop?"
Hearing this news, Ye Heng's eyes immediately lit up.
If this news is true, it may be regarded as a breakthrough, but there seems to be no evidence that can involve the Qian family at present, but Ye Heng does not insist on this.
How could someone like the Qian family leave a tail when doing things?
However, with such a big matter as private salt, Ye Heng didn't believe that he couldn't catch any clues!
So Ye Heng immediately began to find Lu Hongsleeve, Hu Buxiu and Gao Dameng, and everyone discussed the next action together.
Ye Heng said to them: "This boat of illicit salt can be used as a breakthrough, no matter what, there must be a problem with this Fengqiaodu, let's take this place down first, what do you think of this place, how should we take it down?" ”
Where is Fengqiaodu?
Everyone is a monk who is the second zhang and is confused, and he doesn't even know where the goal is, so naturally there is no good advice.
In the end, Ye Heng had no choice but to say: "That's it, wait a minute, Uncle Hu and Red Sleeves will stay in the water village, and I will take thirty people with Lao Gao and Yun Que to explore the way, and by the way, let's see what kind of place this Fengqiaodu is!" ”
The reason why they didn't bring Hu Buxiu and Lu Hongsleeves was because they were not people in the army after all, and they were afraid that they couldn't see any opinions on attacking and defending together.
However, Lu Hongsleeve was a little unhappy, and when she returned to the room to sort out the clothes for Ye Heng to take away, she asked, "You still have to bring two sets of clothes, how long will it take?" ”
Ye Heng said: "It will take two days to come and go!" ”
"Then why don't you take me there?"
Lu Hongsleeve's mouth pursed, but it had a different flavor.
Ye Heng had no choice but to persuade him: "It's not that I won't take you there, it's that this village wants you to assist Uncle Hu to take care of it, we are new to the country, and we are still in the stage of unstable foothold, so we have to be careful, do you understand?" ”
"Okay!"
In this way, Lu Hongsleeve was not unhappy.
After lunch, Ye Heng, Yun Que and Gao Dameng set off for Fengqiaodu with others, these people were carefully selected by Gao Dameng, all of them were not bad, even if they met ordinary water bandits on the road, they would not be scared!
Besides, there are weapons on board, so there should be no problem with safety.
Fengqiaodu is located in the southeast of Yanguan, after going ashore from the canal, they have to walk to the beach for a long time, Ye Heng and they left a little late, so they had to stay on the boat overnight, and continued on the road early the next morning.
The boat was hidden in the reeds and tied with a rope, and after going ashore, Ye Heng led people to inquire while walking, but there are still many people who don't know the place name Fengqiaodu in Yanguan!
Yun Que was a little strange, he said to Ye Heng suspiciously, "Could it be that the information we got is wrong?" ”
Ye Heng shook his head and said: "Probably not, I think there must be something wrong with such a place, and the fewer people who know the name of Fengqiaodu, the more it means that the operation of their private salt is safer!" ”
"The general means that the place name of this Fengqiaodu may be a secret name?"
Yun Que also understood, and then said: "If this is the case, then aren't we like headless flies?" ”
"Not really!"
Ye Heng said: "It's not very difficult to find this place, you see that the area south of Yanguan is sparsely populated, especially the coastal area, I estimate that many places will be nameless places, so as long as we go to those nameless places to find more, we will definitely be able to find them!" ”
While he was talking, someone came back and said, "Boss, I found a place called Fengqiao!" ”
"Oh?"
Ye Heng asked, "Where did you find it?" ”
The soldier replied, "We found a village, and we heard from the old man that he had never heard of this place called Fengqiaodu, but that it was washed away by the waves many years ago and that it had been abandoned for many years, and no one lived there or ever been!" ”
Yun Que asked, "Where is this place?" ”
The soldier said: "Go all the way to the southeast, saying that you can see it when you reach the sea!" ”
"Let's go!"
Ye Heng immediately decided to give it a try, although the two place names of Fengqiao and Fengqiaodu are one word different, they would rather kill the wrong ones than let them go!
I walked all the way to the southeast, about twenty or thirty miles, until I reached the beach in the afternoon.
"Can you see it at the beach?"
Gao Da glared at the soldier and said, "You've been deceived, haven't you?" There's nothing on this seaside, do you have a brain, ah? You see, all but the island over there is water...... Phew, it's still sea water, it's salty to death! ”
He cursed and took a sip of seawater, but instead of saying anything, he felt more and more dry and bitter in his mouth.
Ye Heng hurriedly said: "Hurry up and moisten your mouth for Lao Gao!" ”
The scolded soldier was a tall and fierce cronie, so he didn't complain, but immediately sent a water bag.
Ye Heng looked at the island and said, "Fengqiao, Fengqiao...... Hehe, I see! ”
"Boss, what do you understand?"
After drinking fresh water, Gao Dameng finally felt better and hurriedly asked, but Ye Heng just smiled, but Yun Que next to him said: "There is one more word crossing, it turns out that it is necessary to cross this sea water, but what makes his subordinates strange is that since this Fengqiao ferry is overseas, why does the private salt from Yanguan not go directly to the nearest Hangzhou to the sea, but go to the canal?" ”
"That's the cunning of our opponents!"
Ye Heng sneered, and then said: "Don't take this short road, you have to take a long detour to the sea, it seems that it must be inseparable from the Qian family!" ”
The reason why he said this was because Ye Heng knew very well that the Qian family's power was the largest in Hangzhou, so in order to hide people's eyes, the illicit salt could not pass through Hangzhou, and could only risk passing through the complicated canals of all parties, and then find a way to transport it out to sea!