Just after the end of the day.

Cheng Xiangxian was wearing a robe, looking at the people coming and going on the street to take shelter from the rain, and was silent.

Cheng Tingdong suddenly asked him to investigate one thing, after the fire of the Luo Chamber of Commerce that day, Cheng Tingdong led people to find the remnants of the spirit condensation residue from the ashes, this kind of medicinal material of Lang Country could not appear casually in the port city of Zhao Kingdom, so now he was asked to find out.

It's easy to say, but this matter is related to smuggling in the harbor and involves all aspects of the yamen, merchants, and the city's shipping department. For example, Zheng Ling, the top boss of the City Division, was imprisoned, but he still couldn't find out anything?

But the matter is spread out on your head, and you still have to do it. Cheng Fuxian knew that his father had always been strict and unkind, and he didn't do what he should have done, but it was not a "difficult to do" that could be perfunctory.

"My lord, the shop we are going to next is Qing Shengxiang, and the total amount of goods that his family bought from the port this month is ......" Xu Yicheng was beside him, holding the records of the port, and explained them to Cheng Xian one by one.

Xu Yicheng was brought over first, and since he wanted to investigate this kind of thing, it would naturally be better to have someone who knew the situation of the city.

It's like a farmer in the field until it rains, and he can always find a restaurant with the most alcohol in the city following the workers in the city. Find the right person to do the right thing.

"Go now." Cheng went to take the lead in walking towards Qing Shengxiang's position, and Xu Yicheng could only follow.

The stone bricks in front of Qingshengxiang were pitted, and when the two arrived at the store, the official uniform they were wearing immediately made the shopkeeper Yu Xingcheng panic, and he hurriedly asked the two adults what they were doing.

"I see that your store has done a lot of medicinal herb business recently." Cheng went to investigate it a long time ago, and Qing Shengxiang has been selling Codonopsis for the past six months and has never stopped.

"Where, where," looking at the two people who were constantly patrolling the store, Yu Xing could only smile and say, "Selling this is really profitable." ”

The workers in the back of the shop shouted incessantly, and Cheng went to see them put stacks of codonopsis on the wagon and was about to transport them away.

Xu Yicheng also checked the account books of this store at this time, and nodded to Cheng Xiangxian to indicate that there was no problem, and indeed all the accounts were for the sale of Codonopsis.

Cheng went out without saying anything, and walked out directly, and when he came to a corner, he suddenly stopped, and at the same time motioned for Xu Yicheng to come over.

Here, they just happened to be able to see the gate of Qingshengxiang and hide themselves.

"What's wrong?" Xu Yicheng was puzzled.

"Wait." Cheng Quxian just said that. Then I saw that there was a small land temple on the side of the road, so I also worshiped at random, and prayed to this god again.

Xu Yicheng could only wait here.

By the end of the night, the rain had already stopped, and the streets were sparsely populated, but the moisture in the air was unabated, like many droplets of water sticking to people's bodies, which was extremely uncomfortable.

Xu Yicheng was upset when he heard something.

"Click...... Click......"

It was the sound of a carriage caravan.

Cheng Fuxian stared closely at a place, Xu Yicheng followed the other party's line of sight, and saw the convoy that originally walked out of Qingshengxiang during the day, and came back at night.

"This ......" Xu Yicheng thought for a while, and immediately understood what kind of trick the other party was playing.

Qing Shengxiang made a big show during the day to let people transport those party ginseng away, and at night secretly asked people to send them back as they were. In this way, these things are still in the account books, inside and out, and they make the illusion that the business is very good.

The other party is covering it up like this, and there is definitely another purpose.

"That carriage still bears the logo of Rumu Xuan." Xu Yicheng saw the clue and said: "There is also the axle, which is a hundred lines of universal shaft, which can only be made by Ru Muxuan, and Shengongmen does not have this kind of technology." ”

Such as Mu Xuan?

Cheng was surprised.

This gang with the same name as the Shengongmen has countless skilled craftsmen in it, why should it be involved in this kind of thing?

"It's foggy." Xu Yicheng looked at the surrounding scenery becoming more and more blurred in the white blanket, and said: "On the open sea, I am afraid that there will be big waves recently. ”

At the seaside, fog rises at night, which only means unsettling changes in the sea, a precursor to upheaval.

Cheng Fu glanced at Xu Yicheng first, he was a northerner, and he naturally didn't know as much about this kind of change as Xu Yicheng.

……

"What time is it?" Li Yixuan asked.

"About a moment." Qiu Shaohu said.

"Probably? Can't your compass read the time? Li Yixuan was curious.

Qiu Shaohu didn't answer, but just noticed another thing.

"There is fog," Qiu Shaohu noticed the subtle changes in the air, and said, "Outside the Chaomen Sea, there may be something changing under the seabed." ”

He had accidentally read the content of the "Geographical Atlas of the Southern Kingdom" and mentioned the corresponding plot, so he knew it by heart.

"There could be a tsunami, huh?" Li Yixuan said beside him: "I heard an interesting story that there is a huge giant beast living on the seashore with a tiger's claw and elephant's head. Every time it gets angry, it spews out a column of water with its long nose, which falls to the shore and turns into fog, and then when it really gets angry, it rolls up thousands of waves, so there is a tsunami. ”

Li Yixuan seemed to have talked about a very interesting topic, and he couldn't stop laughing after finishing speaking.

Qiu Shaohu didn't take advantage of it, and when he went out this time, he was dragged over by Li Yixuan. found the direction where the person who stole the things might be, Li Yixuan took the lead, and he had to find all the things he had lost, of course, he didn't forget to take Qiu Shaohu with him.

And the thing that wants to find Yangzhai Hanke, so Qiu Shaohu doesn't mind going with her this section.

It's just that Li Yixuan's temperament is somewhat ...... in his opinion Jump.

Thinking about it carefully, Qiu Shaohu himself has not been in contact with many people since he was a child to today, and there are basically no people who are so lively, so he has no experience in getting along with this kind of person.

No, there is still one.

"Brother, do you think this little waterwheel I made is good, is it about to catch up with Dad?"

In Yundi Village, a little boy named Tan Ying always likes to play with him. He was the son of a blacksmith, so he also aspired to be an amazing craftsman.

That little waterwheel, Qiu Shaohu has always been with him. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but clench his fists, his bones turned white, and he was still trembling.

Those who were once eager are now only cold relics.

People are not far from hurting themselves, and murderous intentions arise from themselves.

"Oh god, did anyone remind you that when you keep staring at a place, the evil aura in your eyes is like a wolf that eats people." Li Yixuan said suddenly.

Qiu Shaohu realized his gaffe just now, came back to his senses and looked at the front of him, and couldn't help but say, "Why did you come here?" ”

On the seaside at night, the vast starry hanging intersects with the sea water at the end of the distance, and on the empty seaside, a tall stone monument is clear at a glance, which is the ancestral monument of Chaomen Port.

"The most logical inference, here they are." Li Yixuan said, walked to the front, and prepared to find the target.

"Wait a minute," Qiu Shaohu didn't know how Li Yixuan planned to find it, in fact, the Xianying Monument was not empty except for the stone stele.

Large and small low-rise buildings are connected to each other and converge into a whole corridor, which exhibits various items left by the ancestors of Chaomen Port when they founded the foundation, which can be regarded as a historical supplement to the ancestral monument, so as to more deeply appreciate the spirit of that time.

And on the beach where land and sea meet after the first monument, a new construction site has risen from the ground, and all kinds of stone bricks and other building materials are neatly placed next to it.

This is where the site for the continued expansion of the port of Chaomen is located, and the new coastal levees are also quite large. The unfinished building, isolated by the sea at night, has a unique desolation.

The terrain here is intricate enough that it can be confusing if you don't know where to go.

"I'm not worried about this," Li Yixuan smiled and said, "Because according to the development in the story, if someone comes to intercept you, it proves that you are in the right place, because the other party does not want you to find their hiding place." ”

While speaking, she continued to walk forward indifferently, and Qiu Shaohu could only follow.

Unconsciously, the closer you get to the monument, the more intense the fog around you becomes, and in the dimness of the night, the light gray fog gradually makes people lose sight of their fingers. All the time, there is a strange barrier in front of you, which you can see but cannot touch.

"It smells of blood!" Qiu Shaohu was extremely sensitive to this kind of aura, and he was suddenly alert.

He didn't know what was going on, but he could realize that a crisis was looming over them.

"Look, I'll just say it, someone has come to stop you and prove that you are right." As Li Yixuan spoke, his fingers dotted in the void several times, as if he was tracing words that could not be written, converging into a long passage that ordinary people could not see.

Countless rays of light appeared at once, as bright as day, piercing the fog of the obscuration, revealing the illusion of vain.

Qiu Shaohu looked at Li Yixuan and had a strange feeling.

For a moment, he couldn't gauge the depth of this woman's cultivation.

There have been similar feelings, but they are completely different.

When he faced Mercy Mo, he couldn't feel Mercy Mo's cultivation, because the other party's cultivation was extremely profound, beyond what he could imagine about each other.

But when he faced masters like Meng Chen and Cheng Tingdong, he could feel that the other party was stronger than him, but it was not to the point where it was impossible to measure.

At the moment, there is another feeling for Li Yixuan, it seems that her cultivation can be touched, but it seems that she is too easy to guess her limits.

It's like knowing that she's deliberately hiding her strength, but she doesn't know how much she's hiding.

With the light of light, the fog changed instantly.

After the fog, the hazy phantom gradually condensed into a human form, and the shadows were numerous, as if behind the fog, countless figures were isolated. For a moment, the figures were endless, and it was impossible to guess how many there were.

It's as if these fogs are originally illusory illusions.