Seeing that a few people ignored them, the two didn't continue to ask, after all, they were here to manage the Caoyun Wharf to take the imperial court's salary, if people told you that there was a problem with Caoyun, then there would be a ghost.

The two of them walked around the Caoyun dock again, and after finding nothing unusual, they left the dock.

As soon as he came back from the dock, Xiao Yu'an pulled Gu Wanchao to bypass the sight of those slender people and go to the riverbank.

"Where are we going?" Gu Wanchao followed behind Xiao Yu'an, not understanding what Xiao Yu'an's move meant.

"I deliberately asked them, 'Is it dangerous if we take the waterway?', although they didn't answer, but their faces were obviously not right, which proves that there are problems on the waterway, but we don't have evidence now."

Xiao Yu'an walked forward cautiously, lowered his voice and said to Gu Wanchao.

"So we're looking for evidence now?" Gu Wanchao understood Xiao Yu'an's words.

Xiao Yu'an took Gu Wanchao on a small road, he was worried that Gu Wanchao would fall, and he pulled Gu Wanchao over all the way.

The two made their way to the riverbank.

It's a long way from the wharf, it's almost a deserted place, surrounded by dense forests, and in front of it is the river that must be transported through Cao.

Xiao Yu'an observed the surrounding terrain and found that it was really suitable to rob passing merchant ships here.

"Xiao Yu'an, look, what is this?" Gu Wanchao picked up a wooden board on the ground and shouted Xiao Yu'an.

Xiao Yu'an rushed over when he heard the sound. He took the wooden board from Gu Wanchao's hand.

This plank is not an unusual thing, but the salt grains that have congealed on the board.

Although the grains of salt were mixed with the soil and turned a little black, they could still be recognized at a glance that it was salt.

There is no shop in front of the village here, and the merchants who come and go will not move the official salt here, and since they will not move down, there will be no salt grains here.

The two glanced at each other, probably knowing a little about the situation on the waterway.

"Let's go, let's go back first." Xiao Yu'an took out a brocade from his arms, wrapped the wooden board, and stretched out his hand to signal Gu Wanchao to take his hand and walk back.

The two walked back together, and when they arrived at the restaurant, it was already afternoon, and Li Yin and Gu Traitor had already returned to the restaurant waiting for the two to come back.

When he saw Gu Wanchao behind Xiao Yu'an, Gu traitor was not scolding, nor was he scolding. Scold, he is reluctant; Don't scold, he was worried about what danger Gu Wanchao would encounter when he went out with him.

After struggling in his heart for a long time, Gu Traitor was still not willing to scold after all.

"What's going on on the docks?" After Gu Traitor saw Xiao Yu'an sit down, he asked about the situation on the waterway.

"Prime Minister, look." Xiao Yu'an took out the wooden board in his arms and put it on the table.

Seeing this, Gu Traitor picked up the wooden plank, he looked at the salt grains on it, although Xiao Yu'an and Gu Wanchao didn't say a word, but Gu Traitor already knew what the situation was on the waterway now.

"The waterway involves water transportation and salt transportation, the problem is more complicated, let's put it aside for the time being, today His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and I bought a lot of salt from the salt merchants in the city, and after all the salt is delivered, we will directly take the salt out of the city, to see the situation on the land road, we still have to release the news, saying that these salt is not enough at all, and we have to buy it again, the salt merchants do not have so much salt in their hands, but the smugglers have, and it is not easy to meet a wronged leader like us, I don't believe they will not act."

Gu Traitor put away the plank and told the three of them what was going on.

Gu Wanchao didn't hear any of Gu traitor's thoughts, which meant that what Gu traitor was saying at this time was what he was talking about, and he had no other thoughts.

"Okay." The three of them answered.

Three days later, all the salt merchants sent the salt that Gu Traitor wanted over, and when all the salt was loaded, the four of them left the restaurant and left Jiangling City with the salt.

When passing through the city gate, the officers and soldiers at the city gate checked the salt purchased by the four people, and after confirming that it was all official salt, they released the four people out of the city.

Along the way, the four of them were careful about the movements around them, in order to verify whether there were any bandits who would come to rob them of these official salts, Gu Traitor specially left the guards in Jiangling City, just leaving two attendants and a secret guard who was secretly protecting a few people.

About a hundred miles away from Gangneung City, the four of them took the salt to a valley, which was a mountain for two weeks, and they were now in a state of surroundment.

Gu Wanchao had a hunch that there must be an ambush around here.

After pondering the time of walking a stick of incense in front of him, suddenly a group of masked mountain bandits appeared around, each with a knife in his hand, blocking the way of the four of them, and forced the four of them to stop.

"Heroes, we are merchants from the capital, and we didn't transport anything valuable, just a few bags of salt, you ...... Let's make it easier. ”

Gu traitor specially emphasized to these bandits that he was filled with salt behind his head, which seemed to be pleading, but in fact he was a trick.

"Lao Tzu is robbing you merchants, who are interested, leave the things and get out quickly, otherwise don't blame Lao Tzu for having no eyes on this sword."

Hearing what the bandit leader said, Gu Traitor gave the three of them a look, and got out of the carriage one after another, and when they came out, all the money was left on the guards in Jiangling City, so they only had this salt here.

[It's good to have salt, what Lao Tzu grabbed is salt. 】

Gu Wanchao heard the voice of the bandit leader, which can be regarded as a verification of their previous speculation, these bandits knew in advance that they would carry salt through here.

When the leader of the bandits saw that the four of them had given away the salt in an interesting way, he hurriedly beckoned his men to drag all the salt away.

The four of them stood obediently in place, waiting for the bandits to transport the salt away, and then Gu Traitor gave an order to the guards hiding in the dark, and the guards quietly followed behind the bandits.

Fortunately, the robbers only carried the salt away, and the carriage was left for them, and the four of them watched the robbers drift away, so they got into the carriage and returned to Gangneung City.

"Now that the spy has followed the mountain bandits, we only need to wait for the news of the secret agent, and now that our salt has been snatched away, after returning to Gangneung City, we will go to report to the official and see how the Jiangling prefect will deal with this matter."

On the carriage, Gu Traitor deployed what he was going to do next.

"I just heard from others that these bandits are rampant, but I never expected that they would be rampant to this extent." Li Yin couldn't help but sigh at the chaos in Jiangling City.

"Yu An, I have been in the court for decades, this Jiangling prefect naturally recognizes me, and when I go back to Jiangling later, you will take the Chaochao to the prefect's office to report to the official."

Gu Traitor turned his head and ordered Xiao Yu'an.