East Market, the door of the shop.

Qin Huaidao said to Xue Rengui seriously: "Today, there are more than 400 people pulling coal, and they will all be their own people in the future, Qinjiazhuang can no longer live, fortunately, the Baiqi Division agreed to live for about ten more days, and after ten days, it must be moved, it is too late to build a house, more manpower, and it is barely possible to build a warehouse overnight, let Uncle Jia discuss it with Huang Lao, and build it near the stacked stones." ”

"One storehouse may not hold more than four hundred people." Xue Rengui reminded.

More than 400 people are a lot, and they need a large warehouse, Qin Huaidao thought of the military camp where he had slept before, and said: "Go back and make a big shop, put ten rows, twenty people in each row, ten rows are two hundred people, and the upper and lower two floors are four hundred people, each person is calculated according to the width of one meter two, each row needs to be twelve meters wide, each row is two meters long, ten rows are twenty meters, plus a few passages are about ten meters, the length is thirty meters, build a warehouse with a length of 30 meters and a width of 15 meters, and open a few more doors before and after to facilitate access. ”

"The young master is so fast in arithmetic, proficient in arithmetic?" Xue Rengui asked in surprise.

"I understand!"

Xue Rengui asked a little excitedly, "Maybe teach me?" Xue is a little worse at arithmetic. ”

"No problem, I'll teach you when I'm free." Qin Huaidao agreed, thinking that more than 200 people would join in the future, and added: "Tell Uncle Jia that if there are not enough people, find someone from Waizhuang, pay the salary according to 20 wen a day, include lunch, and build two rooms, it must be fast." ”

"Remember, please rest assured, young master." Xue Rengui hurriedly agreed.

"Let's go, go in and have a look." Qin Huaidao was very curious about sales and walked towards the shop.

After some inquiry, he actually sold more than 5,000 pieces, that is, more than 10,000 taels of silver, Qin Huaidao stuffed a list to Xue Rengui, and advised: "Pull the silver to the people on the list, I bought the cart they pulled the goods last night and haven't given the silver, and the rest is pulled back to the village." ”

"Understood, here it goes." Xue Rengui agreed.

Qin Huaidao left, and hurriedly came to a seized rice shop not far away, there was a guard at the door, and there were onlookers nearby, talking about something in a whisper, a guard came forward, and said in a low voice after the luggage: "My lord, something happened, Cheng Duwei just left, and the direction is different from that of adults, so he shouldn't have met it, right?" ”

"No, what's wrong?" Qin Huaidao chuckled in his heart.

"The shopkeeper inside committed suicide." The guard hurriedly said.

"What?" Qin Huaidao's face changed: "What's the matter?" ”

Fu Wei explained with a depressed face: "The subordinates don't know, at the beginning, it was good, and a lot of onlookers came later, clamoring to buy rice, arguing a few words, some people scolded the shopkeeper for damning, and it didn't take long for it to disperse, and later, the shopkeeper committed suicide, and the subordinates were incompetent, and they didn't look at the prisoners well, so please punish the adults." ”

"This matter has nothing to do with you." Qin Huaidao comforted, there are people making trouble, scolding the shopkeeper for damning, this is intriguing, it should be sent by the grain merchant or the person behind the scenes, and he handed a message to the shopkeeper in disguise, and the shopkeeper had to commit suicide for some reason, so vicious.

Qin Huaidao hurriedly returned with a few words of advice, came to the Supervision Mansion, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Cheng Chumo walking around in a hurry, and asked, "What are you panicking about?" ”

"My lord, something happened." Cheng Chumo hurriedly caught up, and after seeing that there was no one around, he whispered: "The three grain merchants are all dead, one died at home, stabbed in the heart, one died on the carriage home, was strangled alive, the other died in the restaurant, poisoned, and three shopkeepers who had gone to pull grain also committed suicide, these three people belong to three different grain merchants. ”

"We're a step too late." Qin Huaidao's face changed, and he realized that he still underestimated the ruthlessness and viciousness of some people, this is extermination, as soon as the grain merchant dies, he can't continue to investigate, and he can't involve more people, and the shopkeeper who is responsible for going to North Taicang to pull grain is dead, and there is no proof of death.

This is to lose the car to protect the handsome, ruthless enough, decisive enough!

"Have the three grain merchants been seized?" Qin Huaidao asked.

"It's sealed, Yu Chi Baolin is staring."

"Let's go, let's see." Qin Huaidao walked out with a cold face.

Cheng Chumo hurriedly followed, and said: "Brother, as soon as a person dies, the consequences will be serious, there is no explanation, someone will definitely jump out and say that we are forcing the grain merchant to death, and the Supervision Office will be passive." ”

"Don't panic, I'm going to see who jumps out and goes to the house that dies first." Qin Huaidao's face was cold.

The two hurried away, and soon came to a house, guarded by several palace guards at the door, and a plaque hung above the door, with two big characters written on it - Shen Mansion.

Shen Sanshi, one of the three major grain merchants in Chang'an City, no one knows how to start, Zhenguan suddenly appeared in a year, opened ten grain shops in the east and west markets, this house used to live in the former dynasty four products, was beheaded, and I don't know how it fell into the hands of Shen Sanshi.

Qin Huaidao walked up quickly, entered the gate, in front of him was a garden, piled up with rockeries, and a pavilion, on both sides of the wind and rain corridor, and then in front of a row of halls, and two courtyards in the back, Cheng Chumo caught up and whispered: "People are centrally guarded, Shen Sanshi is in the study." ”

"Have you asked?"

Cheng Chumo hurriedly said: "I asked, the family said that it was normal to eat, go to the study after dinner, and sort out the account book, if it weren't for our people coming over, they wouldn't know that they had been killed, and the murderer had no clues." ”

The two hurriedly came to the study room in the second courtyard, there was a guard guarding the door, pushed the door open, and a smell of blood wafted out, and there was a person sitting on a chair, leaning back against the chair, his head drooping, his eyes were wide open, and a short knife was inserted in his heart. ”

Qin Huaidao stepped forward to look at the other party's eyes, although he was dead and couldn't see any emotional color, but his intuition told Qin Huaidao that the other party was shocked before he died, and after observing the scene for a while, he whispered: "There are no traces of a fight at the scene, it should be a familiar person who suddenly made a move, a fatal knife, go, go and see your family." ”

Cheng Chumo chased after him and said: "It may also be that the master behind Shen Sanshi found out that the matter was exposed and arranged for someone to sneak in, this person should be familiar with Shen Fu and Shen Sanshi, so he approached easily and started at close range." ”

"I found out after checking."

The two hurriedly walked forward for a distance, came to a hall, the door was guarded by the guard, saw the two come and hurriedly saluted, one opened the door, revealing the crowded people, one by one, the face was frightened, the child was held in the hand, not sensible, curious to look at the people who came in.

Qin Huaidao glanced at everyone and asked, "Who is Mrs. Shen?" ”

A woman stood up and saluted, her face flustered: "The folk girl Wu has seen an adult. ”

"Bring it here." Qin Huaidao glanced at Cheng Chumo, walked towards the side room, pushed open the door and saw that it was a reception room, stepped forward to find a seat to sit down, and asked the Wu family who was escorted in, "Do you know why Shen Sanshi was killed?" ”

"The folk girl doesn't know, the old man never asks the family about the outside affairs, and she doesn't say anything."

"Who has been to the house today?"

"Back to my lord, no one!"

Qin Huaidao stared at the other party coldly, and suddenly shouted, "You are lying." ”

"No, the folk girl doesn't dare!" Wu knelt down with a puff, his face frightened.

Qin Huaidao saw that he couldn't get a clue, and the other party's micro-expression didn't look like lying, but he was unwilling, and asked, "Who else can enter Shen Sanshi's study?" ”

"Except for the master, no one can go in, three years ago, my daughter broke in by mistake while playing, was beaten, and lay down for three days, that even his daughter can be ruthless, and no one dares to go after that."

No one went in meant that someone could only sneak in outside, Qin Huaidao looked at the Wu family, and while calculating, he always felt that something was wrong.