Tongcheng was lively both openly and secretly.

This excitement lasted for a day, and Master Sun was the first to notice that something was wrong.

The team he sent out to the city should have returned within a day, and even if it didn't go well, there should have been someone who sent the message back.

However, there was no news of the four teams at all.

Originally, because of a large amount of silver and silk silks, in order to prevent some of them from seeing wealth and having different intentions, each team of Master Sun arranged many reliable henchmen who were still in the house to lead the team.

It stands to reason that there shouldn't be any variables, let alone four groups of people who had problems at the same time.

But no matter how much there shouldn't be, it's true that none of them have returned.

Master Sun had no choice but to take advantage of the dawn of the next day, and sent some people to continue to go from the four city gates to the southeast, northwest, and northwest, following the route originally arranged for the first batch of people, and traveled lightly to find it.

However, by the evening, none of them had returned.

In this way, there is nothing to say, it is obvious that there is something silent outside Tongcheng.

It is said that the official should be reported at this time, but the purpose of the two teams of Master Sun to go out of the city is not pure, and there must be a reason to report to the official.

When the time comes, you have to explain where the money comes from and where it is going.

Moreover, this is not just a matter of money, some hands are not related to Master Sun on the surface, and some hands are not visible. Aunt Taishou or Taishou didn't intend to be his backer in the first place, so it gave them a good opportunity to carve up themselves.

After thinking about it, I still couldn't report to the official, so I had to transfer some more people, concentrate in one place, and look for it first.

Just when Master Sun was in a hurry, the other three were also in trouble.

On the third night of Aunt Taishou's illness, a small incident occurred.

A citizen who lived in Beicheng came to report to the official, saying that two dead people had been found in a remote alley near his house.

Inspector Jin Juan took the case, and immediately rushed over, and sure enough, he saw two people lying there upright, obviously with sword wounds on their bodies.

Since Yang Wantang's death, there has been no such headless case in Tongcheng for a while.

Jin Wan mobilized the soldiers to seal the alley first, and then did some investigation.

The strange thing is that these two people have the road guide certificate of Tongcheng on them, but on the records of the four city gates gathered here to Taishou Liu, they can't find the names of these two people, and it is not clear when and where they entered the city.

This case used to be a trivial matter, but now it is a major matter under Liu's rule. The relevant people in the government put down their original errands first and discussed the matter together.

The first is the authenticity of the guide.

The signature on the road guide was redone by Li Xun. At this time, Li Xun did not know his whereabouts, but the craftsman in charge of signing the seal in the hall was there, so he came to distinguish and concluded that the road guidance certificates of these two people were absolutely true, and there was no possibility of counterfeiting.

Then there is only one situation left, there is a person who has access to this thing, who makes the decision on his own, and gives the road guide to these two people who may be more unclear about the way to come.

Everyone understands in their hearts, who else can there be such a person now? At this point, many people were either pensive or distracted, but they just didn't look at the Taishou sitting in front of the hall.

The three masters of the Zheng, Wang, and Shi families also heard some rumors at this time, and they secretly said bad things in their hearts.

In fact, according to the calculations of these three families, this should not have happened.

The bad thing is that the aunt of the Taishou gave an explanation to the city gate officials, and the convenience of the three families must be provided, regardless of the high and low, only in order. No matter which family comes to which gate, as long as they are given their share of the profits, they will all be allowed to go.

However, the historians of the Wang family held the three city gates in the southeast and north, and the Zheng family took the west city gate, which was not even a single homeless person for a day, and would not stop at all.

Since you can't compete on the surface, let's secretly think about other things.

Anyway, talking to the city gate officials, the Zheng family's people chose the target outside the city gate, asked the identity and origin, and communicated with the city gate officials before entering the city, and led the way out of the door with all the formalities, and handed it to the person who came, and the person who came could enter the city directly with this certificate.

And those who have a guide and those who do not have a guide have to be registered separately, and the people of the Wang family only work in the place where there is no guide, which can bypass them properly.

This is what is said and found out on the surface.

There are also some more important things that only some people in the government know about.

The two people who died, although they were not visible on the outside, there was a lot of evidence on them that showed that these two were soldiers of a certain Chu army. Even a very important one.

No matter how specific it is, only Jin Xuan and Liu Shu know.

Anyway, when everyone was waiting for the results outside the room, they all heard a voice from Liu Zhi inside, and they didn't know whether it was a cry or a wail.

After that, after a long time, after Liu Zhu Jin Juan and Li Mao came out of it together, Liu Zhu immediately ordered someone to seal the room, and no one was allowed to approach half a step.

Not only that, after Liu Zhu was extremely angry and found out the approximate cause and effect of this matter, he didn't care about any relatives and elders, he only lost his temper in the government office, and said something like "the success has fallen short" and "the previous work has been lost".

Then he was righteous and awe-inspiring to thoroughly interrogate the matter.

However, when he summoned the gatekeepers of the four gates, as well as the officials who guarded the road and the registration, and then inquired vigorously, he got an unexpected result.

This morning, after everyone learned that the identities of the two deceased were unknown, Li Xun Li took a step ahead of the register of the registers that had been gathered at the four city gates yesterday and had the passage to enter the city, and took them away for the purpose of inquiry.

Liu Zhu was dizzy at the time, and only asked: "Li Xun doesn't care about this matter, what is he doing with this?" ”

After asking one sentence, everyone present thought about it carefully, and he also thought about it carefully. yes, what is Li Xun doing with this?

Isn't that the one who is recuperating in the house, who has opened a hole for the public inspection, who has traveled thousands of miles to help this nephew to guard too much, and who is too obedient to the instructions of his aunt Liu Niangzi?

Liu Zhu thought that there was nothing left left to love, so he first left everyone in the mansion for the time being, and then dragged Li Mao to the back and made a profound discussion.

When he came out, Liu Zhu was obviously not as happy as Fang Cai, and let Li Mao pull the officials who were in charge of the matter of entering the city by means of the road to the back, and had a deep talk.

In the end, only one conclusion was reached, these people were originally in charge of not an important pass, and because of the agitation of the Zheng, Wang, and Shi families, they were a little lax, but they only checked the road guide and did not make any records.

(End of chapter)