Shaochun was reluctant to leave Zhang Tian here alone, until Zhang Tian turned his face and said that if she was disobedient, he would not take her to Wuyun Mountain, so he had to give up.

In the end, Shaochun could only glance at him a few times with resentment, helped Li Hai back to the city, and repeatedly told Zhang Tian not to act rashly before leaving, and wait for her to bring someone to come.

After the two left, Zhang Tian stood on the side of the road and smacked his lips, this guy, the grilled fish can't be eaten...

The reason why he insisted on letting Shaochun send Li Hai back was because it was still early, and maybe he could find some clues.

Once it was noon, there were many cars and horses on the road, and even if there were any traces, they were all gone.

After walking along the official road for about half an hour, Zhang Tiancai found the scene of the crime that Li Hai said, but there was not even a hair left in this place!

Not to mention a dozen wagons full of heavy loads, even the corpses have all disappeared.

If he hadn't found a pool of blood on the side of the muddy road, it is estimated that no one would have believed that dozens of people died here last night!

The so-called official road is nothing more than a wider rammed earth road, and the road surface is full of rutted marks.

It is impossible to identify where the bandits took the carriage last night.

Because of this, Zhang Tian was even more convinced that it was not bandits who attacked the convoy last night.

Whose bandits are so professional, killed people and robbed goods, and even helped you clean up the scene?!

Zhang Tian squatted on the side of the road, carefully looked at the road, dozens of large and small rut marks, and finally let him find some clues.

In the middle of the pavement, a few semicircular indentations caught his eye, the indentations were deep, about five fingers wide.

With such a deep trace, it is obvious that the goods on the car are very heavy, and such wide wheels also meet the load needs of the convoy to escort iron ore.

It is obvious that the road has been deliberately covered up, it should be too dark last night, and this is an official road, so the bandits dare not stay for too long, so there will be some omissions.

Zhang Tian's eyes lit up, it seems that the convoy made a U-turn here last night.

He picked up a few branches, made an arrow shape on the side of the road, and walked west along the road.

This walk, almost a whole day!

Zhang Tian was paying attention to the traces on the ground along the way, and every time he came to a fork in the road, he would carefully observe the rut marks at the intersection.

It wasn't until the sun went down that Zhang Tian finally found traces at a fork in the road that matched the width and depth of the rut!

Zhang Tian left a mark on the side of the road again and walked along the path to the north.

Not long after, a small town appeared in front of Zhang Tian's eyes, and at the entrance of the town, several big men with long knives hanging from their waists were chatting with their arms in their arms.

Zhang Tian passed by a few people with a natural expression, and several big men didn't even look at him.

In the east, there will only be a yamen in the county, and the mayor of a town like this is not considered an official.

It's just a squire elected by the town, and it belongs to self-government.

Not far from the entrance of the town, there was a slightly deserted restaurant, Zhang Tian walked in directly, found a table at random, and sat down.

"Little Er, half a catty of beef, a pot of good wine!"

The guy in a coarse linen coat with a towel on his shoulder hurriedly walked over, "Little brother, this is a noodle restaurant, there is beef on the wood!" ”

"Ahem, then let's have a bowl of noodles and put more chopped green onions!"

Zhang Tian scratched his head in embarrassment, and forgot to look at the plaque when he entered the door.

"Gotcha! Wait a minute. ”

After a while, Xiao Er came over with a bowl of steaming noodle soup sprinkled with chopped green onions, "Your noodles!" ”

"Xiao Er, I'm on my way here, dare to ask what is the name of this town?" Zhang Tian took out a pair of chopsticks from the basket, stirred the noodles, and asked.

"Oh, we're calling it Iron Bull Town."

"Iron Bull Town? Do you have a big iron ox in town? Zhang Tian asked with a mouthful of noodles.

He was really hungry, and after walking for a day, he ate a few mouthfuls of dry food, and the hot soup noodles with rich green onions were in his stomach, and he instantly felt a lot more comfortable.

Xiao Er smiled, and saw that there were no other customers in the store, so he sat opposite Zhang Tian.

"That's really not, more than 20 years ago, someone found iron ore on a hillside not far from the town, and the mayor's surname was Niu, so he called it this name."

"The iron ore factory is now in the hands of your mayor's family, right?" Zhang Tian smacked his lips and said.

"Huh, how do you know?" Xiao Er looked at him suspiciously.

"Cut, if it's not in the hands of your mayor, can you still let ordinary people take care of it?" Zhang Tian glanced at him with the eyes of a fool and said.

"Well, yes, how can we have that ability! Only the mayor's family can keep up with the hook to get this benefit! Xiao Er reacted, stretched out his finger, and pointed to the sky.

"What's the matter, your mayor is still a relative of the emperor?" Zhang Tian lowered his voice and said with surprise on his face.

Xiao Er glanced around, and when he saw that there was no one, he said in a low voice: "It is said that the son of our mayor serves the third prince in the palace!" ”

Zhang Tian's eyes widened, "Eunuch? ”

"Shhh You be quiet, the mayor of the town is the most taboo for people to say that his son is a eunuch, if his subordinates hear it, there will be your good fruit to eat! ”

Xiao Er hurriedly stopped Zhang Tian, lifted his butt and went back to the kitchen, obviously not wanting to talk to him anymore.

I didn't expect this matter to be related to the three princes, and I really didn't come to the wrong place!

It's no wonder that the good traders who cooperated with them before all avoided their factories, so it turned out that this was the case!

Zhang Tian finished pulling the noodles in two bites, dropped a piece of broken silver, and walked out of the noodle restaurant.

He didn't go fast all the way, and it was estimated that Li Dabao and Shaochun were also about to arrive, and now he had to hurry to block them on the road!

If they had entered the town in armor and on tall horses, they would have been struck by surprise, and once the evidence had been destroyed, the matter would have been suspended.

Ignoring the few big men at the entrance of the town, Zhang Tian hurriedly ran out of the path and got on the official road.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the sky to get dark, and I saw a team of people and horses running quickly in the distance.

"Young Master!" Shaochun, who was sitting on a horse, saw Zhang Tian on the side of the road at a glance.

The team slowly stopped, Shaochun jumped off the horse, and Li Dabao and Uncle Seven also walked over.

"Tian'er, we followed the mark you left all the way here, but did we find something?" The seventh uncle in armor asked.

"Yes, Brother Tian, did you find something?" Li Dabao hurriedly asked.

Zhang Tian hurriedly pulled the three of them to the side of the road, and after thinking about it, he told everything he had found so far.

His seventh uncle is named Daniel Zhang, Zhang Yi's cousin, who is in charge of the 30,000 ironclad army outside the imperial city, but he did not expect to come over in person.

Daniel Zhang frowned slightly after hearing the Third Prince.

"Tian'er, have you ever had a conflict with the three princes? Why would he do such a thing? Daniel Zhang wondered.

"I haven't even seen him in person, the devil knows why he did this..."Zhang Tian pouted helplessly.

Li Dabao on the side looked a little embarrassed, "I may know why..."

"Why?" Zhang Tian, Shao Chun and Daniel Zhang hurriedly looked at Li Dabao and wondered.

Li Dabao scratched his head and glanced at Zhang Tian, "Haven't I been in retreat with my sister at home recently?

My father asked someone to find a master for the two of us.

That person is the head of Qi Yunzhai outside the city, and the cultivation of the ninth layer of qi refining is not bad, coincidentally, this person has also taught the three princes,

I don't know where the third prince got the news, and he will come to my house with the head of the house every day.

said that he wanted to cultivate together, but because of his identity, he couldn't get rid of people.

Actually, the three princes came for my sister, but my sister didn't want to deal with him at all.

So a month ago, she told the third prince that she already had someone in her heart, and told him not to bother again.

The three princes walked away angrily, and they haven't come back since.

Then there was a case of traders who were reluctant to supply copper and iron ore to our factory..."

Zhang Tian listened to the clouds in the fog, Li Sitong has someone in his heart, what does it matter to our factory?

Suddenly, he felt the other three all looking at him.

Zhang Tian's eyes widened, and he pointed to his nose, "What do you mean?" The person your sister is talking about, can't it be me?! ”