Su He didn't have to worry about his life, which made Qin Dong breathe a sigh of relief, Su He was the latest person to eat dinner last night, and he was the latest to be drugged, so it can be inferred that Su He was still awake when the gang of people who robbed the goods came, but everyone was drugged and unconscious at that time, Su He applauded alone, and had to pretend to be unconscious to deceive those people, and after those people took away the goods, Su He followed, but was found when he followed the dilapidated house, and the two sides immediately fought a big battle, It is very likely that Su Hezhong had a drug attack halfway, so he was slashed more than a dozen times on his body.

Now Su He is still unconscious, what happened is not clear, a qiē only after he wakes up to know, fortunately, Cao Charlie said that Su He just lost too much blood, there is no danger to life, his medicine has blood tonic and blood and muscle building drugs, Su He should get better after taking a few pairs of medicines, and he will wake up tomorrow morning at the latest.

The matter has not been clarified yet, Qin Dong can't make any moves casually, he ordered everyone who is okay to stay in the carriage shop and not go out casually, so many people appear in the city, it will definitely attract the attention of some people, this is not his own territory after all, it is better to pay attention to it.

At noon, Gebuus returned, Qin Dong and Peteus saw him in the hall, and Peteus asked, "Master Gebuus, how is the situation?" ”

Gebuus took a sip of water and said: "I have reported this matter to Lord Holt, the consul, and Lord Holt has promised to send someone to investigate, and it is difficult to say whether the whereabouts of the goods can be traced, after all, this is a border city." There are many caravans passing by every day, and the flow of goods is also very large, and it is not easy to track down a batch of goods that go missing! ”

Peteaus had previously been a member of Valtu's staff. Earlier, he was an official in the Western Roman Empire, and he was a complete officialdom old oilman, and after Gebuus's words came out, he knew that these were all official words that fooled people, and there was no real word.

He said, "It seems that we can't count on this Archon, we have to figure it out ourselves!" Master Gebuus, can you eat without it? If you don't eat, eat with us, and if you do, we will go out and inquire about the news. Master Gebuus, you have a wide range of roads, and you have many acquaintances here, so you should be able to find out the news if you look for an old friend. We'll be back here in the evening to exchange news, what do you think? ”

"Well, that's all there is to it now!" Gebuus was actually more anxious than Qin Dong and Peteaus, after all, the value of the lost goods accounted for more than half of his family's property. And Qin Dong and Peteaus are just in the nature of playing tickets. The purpose of the two of them was not to cargo, but to use the caravan to hide their identities.

After hurriedly eating lunch, everyone went out to inquire about the news, and Qin Dong decided to go in person to find out the news, leaving Peteaus to look after the house in the carriage and horse shop, Peteaus is not very good at this kind of thing, if he is allowed to deal with people in the officialdom, he will be blind if he goes to the market to inquire about news and other things.

Qin Dong took two Gothic subordinates out of the carriage shop after some dressing, and after walking more than ten meters, he stopped and said to the two: "Now the three of us are acting separately. Go to your neighbors and ask about last night, and you two go to the west and south. I go to the north and east and meet here in an hour! ”

"Yes!" One of the goths nodded and turned to leave.

Qin Dong turned around and walked towards the alley to the north, looking for someone to inquire along the alley, and saw an old man at the door of the first house, so he went over to ask: "Uncle, I am a resident of this carriage and horse shop, I want to ask you about something......

"I don't know, I don't know!" The old man dropped two words and went into the house and closed the door.

Qin Dong suddenly understood a little, there must be something wrong with this, otherwise this old man would not have said so directly that he didn't know, he hadn't said anything yet, so the old man said he didn't know, isn't there a problem?

Qin Dong walked a few more houses, and the situation he encountered was almost exactly the same as the first time, he didn't say anything to ask, these residents said they didn't know, Qin Dong thought about it, he couldn't do this, he had to change his strategy, otherwise he probably wouldn't be able to inquire about anything.

He turned and walked out into the street, looked left and right, and found a subject, a hunter with a few wild animals, about thirty years old, a Germanic man, he walked over and said, "This Germanic brother, how do you sell your game?" ”

Orion said casually: "Two dinars for hares and one dinar for pheasants, how many do you want?" ”

Qin Dong looked at the prey hanging on the hunter's burden, counted them and said, "You have four hares, six pheasants, a total of fourteen dinars, I will give you fifteen dinars, how about you give me along with the burden and the clothes on your body?" ”

"Huh?" Qin Dong's words made this Germanic Orion a little confused, and Orion touched his bare head: "Honorable lord, it can be, this burden is not valuable, and the clothes on the villain are not worth much, they can also be given to you, but the villain gives you the clothes, and the villain has to be naked, although the villain is a barbarian, he also knows how to be ashamed, and he does not dare to walk on the street without clothes."

Qin Dong smiled: "What's so difficult about this, I'll give you my clothes, and you give me your clothes, won't it end?" ”

Orion looked at the clothes Qin Dong was wearing and said a little embarrassed: "Master, this is not good, the clothes on your body are very precious, and the clothes on the villain's body are tattered, and they are not worth a few copper plates!" ”

"What's good or not, I just say okay, you carry the burden and come with me, let's go to the hidden place in the alley to change clothes, give, this money will be given to you first, hurry up and come over!" Qin Dong stuffed a handful of silver coins into Orion's hand and turned around and left, he was secretly glad in his heart that the gang of robbers last night didn't take the money from them after they stunned him and his subordinates, otherwise he would be blind, more than two hundred people, eating and drinking every day is not a small amount, and it will really be difficult to move an inch without money.

The two went to the hidden place and changed clothes with each other, Qin Dong's figure was tall, and his clothes were naturally tall, and although the Orion was not short, he was not tall. Wearing Qin Dong's clothes is naturally no problem, but it is a little more lenient, but Qin Dong is wearing his Orion outfit like an adult wearing a child's clothes. After a while, I barely put on my clothes, and I almost disintegrated the Orion suit.

The Orion carried the silver coin, dressed in good clothes and left happily, Qin Dong looked at the bulging Orion suit on his body with a bitter face, a little speechless, there was no way, now he could only take one or two, he picked up the burden of hanging wild meat, walked out of the hidden place, walked into the box in the east and began to sell.

"Sell game. Hares and pheasants are the best way to nourish the body, and pregnant women and weak people are the best to eat! Qin Dong carried the burden and scolded along the way. After walking back and forth, someone opened the door and stopped him.

"Stop, how much does a pheasant cost?" An old woman stood at the door and shouted, the people of the Roman Empire called all the barbarians in the north barbarians, including the Huns. Just because those barbarians were culturally much backward compared to the Roman Empire. The inhabitants of the Roman Empire were born with a sense of superiority, in the same way that ancient China thought that its country was the center of the world.

Qin Dong hurriedly walked over and said with a smile: "Auntie, three dinars for hare and two dinars for pheasants, it's very cheap!" ”

The old woman saw that Qin Dong looked like a Huns, but she didn't care, it was not that there were no Huns who went south to the Roman Empire to seek a living, since the Huns came seventy or eighty years ago. This led to an unprecedented migration of peoples, and barbarians lived everywhere in the Roman Empire. The inhabitants of the Roman Empire were already accustomed to this, and they did not care about it because they saw that some of the Huns were doing business.

After listening to the price Qin Dong said, the old woman shook her head again and again: "It's too expensive, it's too expensive, why is your game so expensive?" Just now I saw one on the street who also sells game, so I asked, and his hare is only two dinars, and the pheasant is only one dinar."

Qin Dongxin said, your old man shouldn't ask about that Germanic Orion, right? hurriedly said: "Auntie, if you want more, I will give you the same price, can you see it?" Hey, life is not good now, the prey on the mountain is also green and yellow, and it is not easy to hunt a few prey, they all say that business is difficult to do, I know today, no, I just came over there and heard that the carriage and horse shop in front of me lost a large number of goods last night, and even the horses and carriages are gone, isn't this a nest? I went to see it too, and the owner of the caravan was so anxious that he almost hanged himself! ”

"Who's to say it isn't!" The old woman saw that Qin Dong was talking about this matter inadvertently, and seemed to be energetic, and looked left and right to find that no one had a talent and whispered: "You don't know yet, that carriage and horse shop has happened to this kind of thing several times before, all the goods were lost, but the people are fine, the owner of the caravan reported the case to the city lord's mansion, and in the end, it was not over, how could the city lord arrest his relatives?" ”

"A relative of the lord of the city?" Qin Dong was taken aback, "This carriage and horse shop is opened by a relative of the city lord?" ”

The old woman said: "No, the owner of the carriage and horse shop has long since died, and there are no descendants, so this carriage and horse shop has become an ownerless property, and later it was secretly controlled by the city lord's brother-in-law, and the city lord's brother-in-law used this carriage and horse shop to pit a lot of caravan goods, and there is the protection of the city lord, and the owner of the caravan knows where the goods are and can't do anything!" ”

It turned out that this was the case, Qin Dong finally understood why the residents here were so taboo about this matter, daring to love that this matter was done by the city lord's brother-in-law, it seems that it is better to be close to the working people, people of the same class are easy to dig out their hearts, and they get the news relatively quickly.

Qin Dong said again: "Even if the city lord's brother-in-law did it, it is not easy for him to hide such a large batch of goods, the owner of the caravan also has a lot of people, they are looking for it in the city day and night, can't they find it?" ”

"He wants to find the goods? Don't dream, the goods have long been transported out of the city in the direction of Constantinople! The old woman said this result.

Qin Dong pretended not to believe it: "Auntie, don't be kidding, such a large batch of goods, he said that they would be shipped out of the city?" You must know that you are not allowed to open the city gate in the middle of the night! ”

The old woman said disdainfully: "Of course it can't be if it's someone else, but it's the city lord's brother-in-law, and his brother-in-law is also a general, and every three months he has to take an army to escort a batch of tax money to Constantinople to hand it in!" ”

Now Qin Dong completely understood, no wonder the goods could be carried overnight, you must know that before last night's rest, Qin Dong asked people to unload all the goods, and they had to be loaded before they could be towed away by a carriage, and the city lord's brother-in-law was a general with military power, and it was very easy to mobilize some soldiers to come over and load the goods, and that guy took advantage of the opportunity to escort the tax money to Constantinople to rob a batch of goods and take them to Constantinople to sell, so that he could get a lot of money, The owner of the caravan who lost his goods was still looking for it in the city of Dirmit, unaware that the goods had already been sold out in Constantinople!

What a clever means! Qin Dong couldn't help but exclaim in his heart, the person who came up with this idea was definitely a genius, but there was one thing, without the protection of the city lord, this matter would not be easy to do, without the order of the city lord, no one could open the city gate in the middle of the night!

After thinking about this qiē clearly, Qin Dong said: "So that's the case, no wonder!" Don't talk about it, auntie, how many do you want? Is it a hare or a pheasant? ”

"If you want pheasants, you give them cheaper!" The old woman began to bargain, and Qin Dong was in a good mood when he heard the news, and gave a pheasant to the old woman, and only accepted ten copper plates.

After collecting the money, Qin Dong picked up the burden and walked back, and did not continue to sell, he was now thinking about how to recover the goods, now the goods had left Dirmit City on the way to Constantinople, to catch up with the gang of people who robbed the goods, they had to have horses, but all their horses were robbed, and now there is no horse to use.

In the evening, the people who went out to inquire about the news all came back, even the Taoist Chief Cao Charlie and his little apprentice who went out to collect medicine returned to the carriage and horse shop, and everyone told the news they had heard, Qin Dong summarized the news, and the final result was similar to the news that Qin Dong heard from the old woman.

Qin Dong asked Gebuus: "Master Gebuus, you are familiar with the city lord Holt, do you know that he has a brother-in-law?" ”

"Of course I know, that guy named Pedro is the captain of the sixth wing of the 19th Legion, he has no ability to fight at all, but his ability to make money is very good, he is very greedy, even more powerful than his brother-in-law Holt!" Gebuus seemed to be very familiar with Pedro, the brother-in-law of the city lord.

Qin Dong nodded and said: "According to the news that all of us have heard, our goods were robbed by this guy named Pedro, this carriage and horse shop has no owner, he has been controlling it, and today is the day when he escorted the tax silver to Constantinople this quarter, and every time he escorted the tax silver to Constantinople, he had to rob a batch of goods in the city, and used the escort tax silver as a cover to transport the goods to Constantinople and sell them, and we were known to him as soon as we arrived here yesterday evening. Because our caravan is large enough and the goods are valuable, we were favored by him, and it was also our bad luck, and the other carriage and horse shops couldn't accommodate so many of us and the carriages and horses, so we arrived at the black shop where he controlled it! Now that we have no horses, it is almost impossible to catch up with him and his army, so we can only watch him carry his goods away and sell them! (To be continued......)