"What?!" The three of them were all shocked when they heard this, Wang Ling grabbed the reins of the horse, and hurriedly said, "Shi Geng, what happened?" Tang Xiaoyu, what's wrong with them? ”

"Hurry up and get on the horse and follow me back to the yamen, and I'll talk to you on the way." Shi was even more anxious, and stretched out a hand towards Wang Ling, about to pull him up.

Seeing this, Wang Ling immediately grabbed Shi Geng's hand and turned over on the horse, and said to Cao Yong's father and daughter: "I'll take the first step, and I'll talk about anything when I go back." ”

By the time he finished speaking, the two of them had already run away for a distance, which showed how anxious Shi Geng was at the moment.

"Dad, that person said just now that Xiaoyu had an accident..."Cao Shuangxu lightly covered her red lips, looked at the back of Wang Ling and the two leaving, her eyes faintly flashed with tears, judging from Shi Geng's hurried look, Tang Xiaoyu must have been in big trouble, the two grew up together, although they were not sisters, she had already regarded Tang Xiaoyu as a sister, how could she not be anxious when she heard that something had happened to the other party?

"Daddy will go to the street division first, and you don't have to come with a daughter's house in that kind of place." Cao Yong stepped on the little black donkey and said to Cao Shuangxu: "Don't worry, Xiaoyuji people have their own natural appearance, and it will be fine, you go home early and wait for my news, and I will go back when I go." ”

At this moment, Fu Yang came over and said, "I'll go with you." ”

Cao Yong didn't refuse, tightened the reins, clamped the donkey's belly under his feet, and the little black donkey ran up as soon as he raised his hooves, the speed was not much slower than the big horse that Shi Geng rode just now, Fu Yang took a step and followed closely behind, except for the sword, Fu Yang was the most confident in his foot strength, and the war horse couldn't get rid of him, let alone a donkey.

When Cao Yong and Fu Yang disappeared from sight, Cao Shuangxu sighed powerlessly, even though he was anxious in his heart, he couldn't do anything.

"Tell me what's going on, didn't Tang Xiaoyu go to escort the grain and grass? What could happen? Wang Ling said eagerly.

Shi Geng's expression was solemn, and while driving pedestrians to avoid, he explained the situation to Wang Ling: "The team escorting grain and grass should have traveled all the way from the official road to Quhua County, and then from Quhua North City, and went north into Wuxia County, where our army was stationed, but for some reason, when the team entered Quhua, they did not enter the city along the official road, but got on the boat at the dock in the east of Quhua, they chose to go north along the river, and called a total of five large cargo ships, this is still the news that Sister Xiaoyu came back three days ago, and no one felt that anything was wrong at that time, It is indeed much faster to take the water route than the land route, since Sister Xiaoyu took her brothers out of the city, she deliberately took away more than a dozen carrier pigeons, and the news will be sent back every day, but since then, we have lost contact with Sister Xiaoyu, and they have only reported that they have been investigated along the river, and no trace of the grain team has been found. In the end, Shi Geng's always cynical face became more and more gloomy.

After listening to Wang Ling, he couldn't help but worry, thinking that Shi Geng should be talking about the Hejiang River, he and Lao Sun Tou were on the way south in Dingzhou, because they had no money to cross the river, they made a raft by themselves, but they didn't know that the undercurrent of the river was turbulent, and the wind and waves were extremely strong, if it wasn't for Wang Lingzha's raft to be strong enough, plus good luck, the two of them would have drowned in the river to feed the fish.

Wait a minute! Dingzhou? Wang Ling seemed to have thought of something, and said worriedly: "Didn't you go to Dingzhou?" ”

Shi Geng said: "This is impossible, the army is stationed in Wuxia, in order to prevent the Jin soldiers from going down the river, at the border between Dingzhou and Qingzhou, heavy iron cables have already been laid, and the ships can't pass, and such an eye-catching fleet, if you pass by the dock, it is impossible for no one to see it, but now it is so weird, as if it disappeared out of thin air." ”

It seems that I thought too much about it, and I didn't go to Dingzhou, and no one has seen it, so could it be ······ Wang Ling was left with only one guess in his heart, and he asked with a heavy expression: "Are there traces of shipwrecks on the river?" ”

Shi Geng listened to the crow's mouth of the king's order, and wanted to whip him with a horsewhip, but he held back, he naturally understood the meaning of the king's order, it was impossible for five large cargo ships to disappear out of thin air, unless they sank.

The hull is a wooden structure, if a shipwreck accident occurs, there will be a lot of floating objects on the river surface down the river, the boatmen along the river see, they will inevitably know that there are ships sinking upstream, experienced old water ghosts, and even from the floating objects to judge the size of the ship, the approximate sinking location, and the goods carried, so as to be one step ahead, catch valuable things, the corpse is extremely common for the water to live in the area, but the fishing people are far less than the fishing boats to earn more, often a cargo ship full of antique porcelain, It is enough for a family to live a prosperous life for several lifetimes.

However, Shi Geng's answer was beyond the expectations of Wang Ling: "There is no sign of the sinking of the ship, and even the envoy is having a headache." ”

No signs of a shipwreck? Could it be that it really disappeared out of thin air? Then Wang Ling asked again: "Did Lao Du ask you to come to me?" ”

"Lao Du?" Shi Geng was only stunned for a short time, and then he understood who Lao Du was, he glanced at Wang Ling with admiration and said: "Your kid won the lawsuit of Dongchuan Hou Shizi, and now he is capable, Lao Du is called, that's right, it's the envoy... Ah no, Lao Du asked me to call you back, but don't be complacent about this, it's definitely not that you value you, but those few Wang Balambs are picking and playing tricks, and they have nothing to do, so I asked you to go back, after all, you and I are both in the second room, but we were temporarily transferred to Zhao Zongqi as an errand, Sister Xiaoyu and they had an accident, and we are the last hope of the second room. ”

There is no need to ask, Wang Ling knows who the Wang Balambs who Shi Geng's mouth scolded are, those people, it is not bad if they don't fall into the well, and it is unthinkable to expect them to work and contribute.

"Here we go, let's go inside."

Since Du Mingtang issued the grounding order, Wang Ling has been staying in that small courtyard, after many days, finally returned to the street division, at this time in the hall, several high-level figures are surrounding a map of Qingzhou, from time to time on a certain position on the map pointing, arguments one after another.

"If you want me to say, just search the villages and towns along the coast, and if you don't believe it, you can't find any clues." Guo Chaodao.

"That's too much trouble, as long as you can find the traces of the ship, there will be clues to check." Wang Dianyu said.

Bai Zhijun glanced at the two of them, sneered and said, "Looking for a boat?" Didn't you hear what the messenger just said? Qu Hui went all the way north along the river, and he didn't even find a ghost, but it was five large cargo ships, and such a conspicuous target disappeared out of thin air, do you think this is a routine case? ”

Guo Wang and the two were choked by him and couldn't speak, the atmosphere once fell into a stalemate, they couldn't figure out if they wanted to break their heads, where did these five ships go, even if they sank, they should splash the starting water, but they just disappeared silently, they couldn't help complaining about the grain transport officer this time, put a good land route and didn't go, why did they change to the waterway, more than 1,000 people disappeared, the army grain and grass disappeared, if the grain and grass could not be recovered in a short time, it was afraid that it would cause a mutiny in the army, and then the matter would be big.

Du Mingtang propped up the case with both hands, looked at the map without saying a word, the north of Quhua is Wuxia, the south is Aojun, the Hejiang River runs through the three counties, stretching for thousands of miles, the only thing that can be determined now is that these five big ships must be in Qingzhou, the fleet is heading north in full view, and the river at the junction of Wuxia and Dingzhou is blocked, so the missing ships can only be somewhere between Quhua and Wuxia.

"Why hasn't Liu Ji appeared yet?" Du Mingtang seemed to ask casually.

Bai Zhijun and Zhang Haifeng glanced at each other, and the former said: "Liu Zongqi said that he was temporarily entangled in official business, and he would come back after dealing with it." ”

Du Mingtang snorted with his nose, and then didn't ask any more, at this time, the city attendant who was in charge of guarding the door walked in, and said to everyone in the house: "Tell the envoy, Wang Ling and Shi Geng are waiting outside." ”

"Call them in." Du Mingtang said without raising his head.

Soon, two young servants walked in, hugged their fists and said: "Humble Wang Ling (Shi Geng), I have seen the envoys, and I have seen several general banner lords. ”

Seeing the two of them appear, everyone showed different attitudes, disdain, jealousy, and disgust, all of them, compared with Bai Zhijun and them, Zhao Hailong's lukewarmness seemed to be a maverick.

"Shi Geng has already explained the situation to you, right?" Du Mingtang said casually, his eyes were always fixed on the Hejiang River on the map, even if Wang Ling appeared in front of him, he never looked up.

Wang Ling said respectfully: "The general situation is already understood, I don't know what the envoy summoned me?" ”

"The street division is not to maintain the law and order of a city in Qingzhou, the ten counties of Qingzhou are all under our jurisdiction, now the grain and grass are lost, I want to send Zhao Zongqi to Qu Hui to investigate the case, after all, you two are Xiaoyu's people, and now they are temporarily transferred to Zhao Hailong's command, so it is reasonable to call you back, including you, everyone in the five rooms obeys Zhao Hailong's arrangement, I will give you three days to recover the grain and grass, as for the missing escort team." Speaking of this, he paused, and finally raised his head, but he didn't look at Zhao Hailong, who led the team this time, but said solemnly to Wang Ling: "You want to see people in life, and you want to see corpses in death." ”

"Yes!" Zhao Hailong and Wang Lingshi were even more three, hugging their fists together.

At this time, Wang Ling glanced at the map on the table, and said, "Can you lend me this map for a few days?" ”

"Yes, but this image is extremely precious, so don't lose it." Du Mingtang said, Wang Ling bowed his head, stepped forward to put away the map, and followed Zhao Hailong with Shi Geng, and walked out of the meeting hall.

After they left, Du Mingtang said to the rest of the general banners: "Now that the sixth room has gone to the second, you must pay more attention to the affairs of the city, and you must not make any more trouble." ”

The four general flags hugged their fists together and said: "Rest assured, I don't dare to slack off!" ”

Out of the meeting hall and walking in the corridor, Wang Ling and Shi Geng walked behind Zhao Hailong, the two glanced at each other, and then Wang Ling suddenly called out to Zhao Hailong and said, "Zhao Zongqi, when will we leave?" ”

Zhao Hailong replied sullenly: "Set off in an hour, you two can go back for the time being, pack up your bags, and meet us at the east gate of the city." ”

When the two of them heard this, as if they had discussed it a long time ago, they didn't even say a polite farewell, turned around for a while, and left towards the door of the street division.

Zhao Hailong listened to the footsteps behind him, his body stiffened inexplicably, and then he looked back, the two boys had already run away, and he was the only one standing alone in the corridor.

“......”

"You don't know how to be polite, you are a general banner, and you are our temporary boss, so you won't say hello when you want to leave."

"I do have important matters to arrange before leaving, besides, didn't I think you would say goodbye to Mr. Zhao for me? You didn't just leave without saying a word. ”

"Don't you know Zhao Zongqi, three sticks can't knock out a stuffy fart, I'm used to it, staying with him, I'm uncomfortable, I don't want to stay for a moment, besides, didn't you just give me a look? I thought you had something private to tell me, but when I saw that you were in a hurry, I wouldn't just come along. ”

"When did I give you a look?"

"You didn't give me a look? So what do you mean by what you just looked at me? ”

"I haven't seen you for a few days, I want to see you twice?"

"I'll tell you Wang Ling, my stone belongs to Sister Xiaoyu alone, if you have any thoughts about me, dispel this idea as soon as possible, I just want to bring Sister Xiaoyu back safely now, I really don't have the heart to entangle with you, eh! The gentleman doesn't move his hands, what are you doing? I can draw my sword again! Ouch! ”

Since learning that Tang Xiaoyu and the brothers in the second room were missing, the two of them have been in an extremely heavy mood, and they are fighting like this, but they just want to sweep away the irritability in their hearts, in their hearts, Tang Xiaoyu is only temporarily out of contact, and the worst situation has not yet appeared, that is, it has not happened, at least now, I don't want to be too dull.

Shi Geng returned to the inner office, he didn't have anything to prepare, he just wanted to stay alone for a while.

Wang Ling wanted to go back to his small courtyard, and by the way, he asked Cao Yong and Fu Yang to explain some things, and when he walked out of the street Si Yamen, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, he really wanted to come to something, he was still thinking about seeing those two people just now, and now he was standing in front of him.

Cao Yong and Fu Yang also just arrived at the Street Division, and when they saw Wang Ling's figure, Cao Yong took the lead in jumping off the little black donkey to meet him, and Fu Yang followed behind him.

"How? What the hell is going on? Cao Yong asked urgently.

Wang Ling took a deep breath and said, "Xiaoyu, it's missing." ”