"But I don't think it's useful to go straight to the past." She said. "There are warehouses for miles up and down the wharf, and from time to time there will be official boats passing by for tours going south, and I don't know how many people come and go every day.

"The Hutchison granary mentioned by the soldier is not an eye-catching warehouse, and it is the busy time of loading and unloading goods during the day, and there are merchants and officers and soldiers everywhere, as well as craftsmen and handymen, so it will not be easy to find people."

Xu Lan frowned: "Can you draw those people?" ”

This is not a problem, Changying nodded, and motioned for Huang Ji to get a pen and paper.

Su Xinrong raised her lips: "Can't you see, General Shen can still paint?" ”

Changying looked at her and smiled, ignoring it.

Su Xinrong glared at her under her half-drooping eyelids, and continued to let out the anger that she hadn't finished last night.

After a while, Huang Ji arrived, and Changying took the pen and paper.

There was a treacherous situation on the banquet during the day, she didn't see it, but she felt that it was strange that there would be an undercurrent between Xu Lan and Huo Rong.

In her opinion, there could be no contradiction between the two at all, Xu Lan was upright and cheerful, although Huo Rong was not too familiar with her, but in general, since she would despise her because she killed Ling Yan, she should not be a person who does not distinguish between right and wrong.

She remembered that she was fine at the docks yesterday, and it was only a night before it got into trouble?

However, she didn't know either of them that well, and in terms of normal comradeship, she couldn't bother with this kind of thing.

No matter how complicated the relationship between them is, she does her best and does not exceed the rules.

When she was waiting, she had already carefully recalled the facial features of those people, and she was confident when she was dipped in ink, and after a few strokes, the outline came out.

With a few more strokes, a man in his thirties and forties with a lewd demeanor came alive on the paper.

Xu Lan looked at her calmly from the side, with appreciation in her eyes.

And Su Xinrong looked at it as if she was suffering.

Last night, I watched her talk about pen and ink appreciation and rules and talked about the way, and at that time it was really a face that fell to the bottom, but after sleeping and getting up, I felt that she could not have such a background, maybe it happened that someone in the family opened a pen and ink shop to learn some fur, so the confidence came up again.

Seeing that she is really good at depicting Danqing, that heart has mixed tastes, and she always feels that she can't pick it up if she loses it.

After painting the long tassel, it was handed to Xu Lan.

After Xu Lan finished reading it, he called someone to bring the soldier back: "Do you know?" ”

The soldier's face changed when he saw it: "Acquaintance, it's just the same, it's exactly the same." ”

Su Xinrong's face turned even more gray.

"Take it and print a few copies, and find a few people to take it and look for it near the Hutchison granary. Remember not to reveal your hiding, and don't let the people of the Cao Yun Division be suspicious. ”

Xu Lan explained, and then looked at Changying: "Under the condition of ensuring that the news will not be leaked, we will immediately start to divide the troops into several ways, you are responsible for looking for those craftsmen, Su Xinrong will guard the warehouse and dock before the case is solved, and I will take someone to check a few boats to see."

"And where the wood went, all of these are clues. If you can grasp it, it is best to master it as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night. ”

It may not be too difficult to solve the case, but now that it has been discovered, sooner or later there will be a drama along the vine.

The difficulty is that it is not clear who is behind this, the Caoyun Division governs independently and is not under the jurisdiction of the three divisions and six departments, even if this person is caught, it is unknown whether he can deal with it or not.

Su Xinrong took what seemed to be the heaviest errand, and she was dissatisfied, but she also knew that now was not the time to make trouble, so she didn't mention it at the moment.

Changying doesn't have any opinions, if it's just to catch someone, then he can directly take someone to search the boat last night.

In order to dig out this moth thoroughly, it is natural to think long-term.

…… Huo Rong didn't wear armor, and he often went to the dock, and no one paid special attention to him as the son of a family.

Even at the bay last night, only a few boatmen tentatively asked him if he had any cargo to pull.

Last night, there were more than a dozen boats docked in the river bay, and the Fu and Long boats loaded with wood were the ones with more prominent capacity.

At the moment, the two boats were gone, most of them had already pulled the timber to the dock or somewhere else.

Although he did think a little cautiously about Xu Lan's concealment of the exploration of the ship, the reason why he personally went into the water last night was not for Shen Changying.

When Shen Changying hit him headlong, he was thinking about the ragged condition of the craftsman on the bow of the ship.

Daning Guoyun has been okay in recent years, and there is not much time when there is a shortage of grain reserves in various places.

Although the craftsmen serve for free, they are still in charge of the food.

Judging from the length of time that the craftsmen only serve for three months in three years, they will not be yellow and thin, unless they have other weight-bearing errands, or there is a harsh deduction in supply.

Shen Changying said that someone stole wood, and he thought that if it was really someone at the dock who was harsh, and the craftsmen stole the wood from the dock to sell it out of revenge, it would not be a rare thing.

But she pointed to two merchant ships to show him, which was surprising.

If the artisans had sold it themselves, they would not have been able to contact the merchant ships.

The results confirmed this.

Strict detaining craftsmen, and colluding with merchant ships to pry the corners of officials' houses, no matter who is in charge behind it, they can't escape a sharp word.

"Let's go to the storeroom." He left the bend.

Although it is undoubtedly surmised that the person who released the water is a person from the Cao Yun Division, it is still impossible to guess who it will be at the moment.

It is not a wise move to stir this pot of water rashly at the moment.

"General Huo?"

As soon as he was halfway there, an oncoming general greeted him.

Huo Rong stopped and recognized it as Hu Wei, the general manager who had dinner with him last night.

"The general is coming to patrol again today?" Hu Wei asked with three points of flattery.

Huo Rong smiled slightly: "There's no way, we have to start work in more than half a month, and the above is urgent, no, I still want to have a good meal, and I can only come over first in the middle of the road." ”

Hu Wei snorted: "It seems that General Tan is still unabated!" It's hard to convince people! ”

Huo Rong lowered his eyes and looked at the hat he was carrying, and said with a smile: "Commander Hu is going to get on the boat?" ”

"Isn't it?" Hu Wei raised his hat: "There is a boat coming from Huai'an Mansion today, and I have to wait at the dock." It's sunburning! ——”

Huo Rong restrained his steps to move forward, and greeted him with his hand: "I have to alarm Commander Hu to go, I don't know which adult is coming?" ”

"Actually, it's not like an adult is coming." Hu Wei took the hat and fanned the wind, and made a heartfelt look: "It was the official family of Huai'an Mansion who took Miss Gongzi to Hangzhou to visit relatives and play, passing by Huzhou Wharf, to stop for half a day, and the boss ordered to wait carefully." ”

"Huai'an Mansion?" Huo Rong raised his eyebrows, "Is it from the Cao Yun Division?" ”

"Right!" Hu Wei replied, but he didn't want to say much.