After returning home, the three of them went back to their rooms to rest, Shi Cheng lay on his bed, unable to sleep, his mind was like a stage at this time, replaying the experiences of these days in his mind one by one.

There seems to be a web in the darkness, connecting the fragmented memories, and the most critical main vein is hidden in it, flickering and flickering, but it is just unpredictable.

"What's wrong? Huang Yuan did die, but ...... It seems that something is wrong again. ”

I don't know how long it took, a thunderbolt suddenly flashed in Shi Cheng's mind, he quickly sat up from the bed, and some doubtful answers suddenly became much clearer.

"The journal of the Chamber of Commerce! The diary recorded Huang Yuan's public visits to various wealthy families in the royal city, but there was a wealthy family that had business dealings with the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce, but its head of the family actually did not meet Huang Yuan? ”

In the days when he came to the Western Desert Royal City, Shi Cheng also inquired about the news of the major giants in the royal city, and after these days, he believed that he still knew a lot about the big forces in the royal city.

"Also, Huang Yuan's body...... The furnishings of the Chamber of Commerce's study room...... And what I saw at the Martial Arts Conference. ”

Shi Cheng jumped out of bed and walked in front of a floor-to-ceiling mirror in his bedroom.

He draped himself in a windbreaker, then connected his fingers to seal the acupoint on his left shoulder, and then swung his shoulder in front of the mirror.

After looking at it for a moment, Shi Cheng shook his head and unlocked his acupoint.

He put into practice the other conjectures in his mind, and examined them in the mirror one by one.

Finally, after repeatedly observing his fourth thought, Shi Cheng finally stopped moving. He took off his robe and removed the cloth bag from his shoulders.

A smile finally appeared on Shi Cheng's face, he sat back on the bed, and after a short thought, he had already made it clear in his heart that the matter in the royal city was actually not over yet.

……

When it was just dawn, Sun San stretched his waist, then changed into clean and neat clothes, and after saying hello to Li Doujin and Zhang Tian, he went to Fishing Boat Lane with some apprehension.

Standing in front of the gate of the Lu family, Sun San's hand was raised and lowered, put down and raised, but in the end he still didn't have the courage to knock on the wooden door.

It wasn't until the sound of pushing the door came from the other side of the gate that Sun San's current embarrassing situation was resolved.

"Huh? Third brother, why are you here? "The person who came out was the eldest son of the Lu family, Lu Fang.

"Brother Lu, it's my little brother." Seeing his childhood playmate again, Sun San's heart was also very happy.

"Why haven't you come to see my brother for so many days? You haven't had breakfast yet, so let's take a bite first. Lu Fang smiled and patted Sun San on the shoulder, just like when he was a child, and hugged him into his house.

Sun San only asked for less than half a day off for himself, and he was in a hurry, so he really didn't care about having breakfast. Therefore, he didn't shirk much, and followed Lu Fang into the gate of the Lu family.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, a smell of grain mixed with cooking smoke, water vapor and morning breeze came to his nose, Lu Fang strode into the room, took a dough from the stove, he handed the dough to Sun San, and said with a smile: "Fushun Building has not yet reached the opening time, my brother will go to work in a while, I can't invite you today, I can only talk about it next time." ”

"Thank you, Brother Lu." Sun San and Lu Fang grew up together since childhood, so naturally they would not be polite, "Brother, don't you eat?" ”

"I've already eaten it."

Sun San smiled and teased: "I still remember that brother, you have eaten a lot since you were a child, and you have been beaten by your uncle and aunt several times because of your greed. ”

Lu Fang's big face turned slightly red, "Stinky boy, when did I go to the kitchen to steal something, I didn't think about you and Yue'er!" What a little white-eyed wolf. ”

The two brothers laughed at each other for a while, and Lu Fang complained to Sun San: "Recently, the price of grain in the city has risen to the sky, if it weren't for the relief from the government yesterday, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to invite you to breakfast today." ”

Sun San looked at the dough in his hand that was left with a few bites, and suddenly thought that he had been doing things in the immortal's mansion in the past few days, and he had forgotten the bad years outside the mansion.

"Fang'er, why haven't you left yet?" A trembling voice came out of the house, the door opened, and it turned out to be Lu Fang's mother, Lu Zhang's Lu Xin walked out.

"Sun ...... The third brother of the Sun family, you! The old lady was taken aback when she saw Sun San.

"Aunt, it was Yue'er who sent me a letter, saying that Brother Lu Fang has been busy recently, and asked me to come to the house to help more." Sun San smiled cautiously.

The look in the old lady's eyes was a little complicated, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

Just when everyone looked at each other but didn't know what to say, Lu Feng also walked out of the house.

After seeing Sun San, Lu Feng's face changed greatly, and he pointed at Sun San and said, "You, why are you here again?" ”

Sun San gritted his teeth, finally mustered up a courage, and said with a smile to Lu Feng: "Uncle, I, I'll come to see you, and I'll help you." ”

……

It was completely dawn, and Shi Cheng and the three of them sat in the small hall of the inner courtyard for breakfast as usual.

The new Di Bao was sent to Shi Cheng's hand, and as expected, today's Di Bao denounced the invasion of the Dongdan Kingdom at length, and scolded the Union Khanate, saying that it was with the connivance of the Chita that the Dongdan State would be so rampant.

It can be seen from the report that at present, the Ministry of National Rites of Ximo has submitted the letter of representation written by Han Qu to the permanent chambers of commerce of the two countries stationed near Dengnan Port.

"The Western Desert State will take all possible measures to fight back, and is prepared to work with its allies to counter the growing assertiveness and influence of the Alliance Khanate in the Western Crossing Sea." Many of the main residences of the Western Desert Royal City wrote in unison.

"Isn't it a great victory at the border? Today, we talked about the riback...... Sure enough, it's not that simple. Shi Cheng's heart was in a mess, "If there is another four-year war in the Southern Wilderness, the Union Khanate and the Wei State will be involved...... At this moment, maybe that's what the Lu people want to see. ”

"Old Shi, Huang Yuan is dead, do you have any other plans in the past few days?" Wu Neng asked indistinctly with a piece of pie stuffed in his mouth.

The conjecture in Shi Cheng's heart has not yet been proven, so it is inconvenient to say it directly to Wu Neng and Tiemian now, he thought for a while, and replied to Wu Neng: "Wait for a letter at home today, when I met with Zhao Ping yesterday, he personally promised that today he will find a way to let his cousin Xu Jincheng bring us a message in the middle, about the private transaction of the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce." ”

Wu Neng nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go back to the house and concentrate on tinkering with my organs, now my progress is good, the first batch of organs has been made, and now I am busy with the second batch." ”

"Is this really that fast?" Shi Cheng's heart was a little surprised.

After eating, the three of them chatted for a few days, and then went back to the house. Tie Mian went back to meditate, Wu Neng went back to assemble the mechanism, and Shi Cheng went back to the house to refine the pill, he planned to sell the pill in his hand before leaving the West Desert, so as to fill his wallet.

This waited until the evening, and it was not until long after the sun went down that Li Doujin sent a letter, which was signed by Xu Jincheng of Huibao Pavilion.

"It's coming more slowly this time." Shi Cheng thought in his heart as he took the letter from Li Doujin's hand, and then he shut himself back into the room and carefully read Xu Jincheng's letter.

Xu Jincheng's letter was very long, and the content of the letter made Shi Cheng feel inexplicable at first glance. The first paragraph was polite for a while, and then he once again thanked Shi Cheng for the assistance he had given to Zhao Ping. The second paragraph is to talk about the anecdotes in the royal city, the specialty shops, the chamber of commerce that sells curiosities, the streets and alleys with outstanding scenery and restaurants, Xu Jincheng said that he could not accompany him in the past few days, but if Shi Cheng wanted to enjoy the scenery of the royal city before leaving, he recommended Shi Cheng to go to these places to have a look.

In the third paragraph, I congratulated Shi Cheng on all the best for his next journey, and said a few words about contacting him after arriving in Lingnan, and the content of this letter finally ended.

After a short period of thought, Shi Cheng also understood where Xu Jincheng had hidden important information, he found a blank piece of paper, and used charcoal to transcribe on it all the place names, shop names, and places where anecdotes appeared on the letterhead, which should be the objects of those who had privately traded building materials with the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce.

In the process of copying, Shi Cheng's heart also became a little heavier, and he knew very well that the reason why Xu Jincheng wrote in such a tortuous way was probably that he realized that Shi Cheng's correspondence in his family had been secretly intercepted by the internal guards.

Shi Cheng was faintly worried about whether he would affect Zhao Ping and Xu Jincheng in the future, but he really had no other way to help him at the moment, but since Zhao Ping could still pass the news to himself, the situation might not be so bad.

"Donglai Sugar Shop, Lin Jialiang, Dengnan Shipyard, Liu Ji Buzhuang, Fruit Wood Chamber of Commerce, Hengjin Cloth Village, Hewan Tower, Fuxiangyuan...... Angolan Chamber of Commerce, Zhu's Chamber of Commerce, and Sea Seeking Business Group...... Wait, this is? ”

After copying more than a dozen names, the name of a chamber of commerce jumped into his eyes. Shi Cheng read it roughly for the first time, missing a lot of content, and only after re-reading it did he really notice a name in the letter that made him feel familiar with the name of the chamber of commerce.

"Hu Chamber of Commerce!"

Shi Cheng hurriedly read the sentence with the word Hu Chamber of Commerce again, and Xu Jincheng also marked its address when mentioning the Hu Chamber of Commerce.

After confirming the address, Shi Cheng could already be sure in his heart that this Hu Chamber of Commerce was the Chamber of Commerce in Hu Enli's hands, because the address of the Chamber of Commerce and the address of Hu Mansion were exactly in the same alley, and Shi Cheng had also seen the plaque of this Chamber of Commerce at the door of Hu Mansion when he visited Hu and his wife last time.

Shi Cheng still remembers that when he and He Qun were having a banquet on the Wangchao Tower that day, the four of them mentioned the building materials business that the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce did in private. At that time, He Qun's words made others feel that these building materials businesses were by no means fair and honest businesses, and most of them were profiteering industries such as smuggling.

However, the last time he talked to Hu Enli, Hu Enli himself swore to Shi Cheng that his business with the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce was a business on the surface.

"Hu Enli is lying!" Such an idea popped into Shi Cheng's head.

This made Shi Cheng a little puzzled, he himself was Hu Enli's life-saving benefactor, and the conversation between the two took place in a private place at that time, and no one was present except for Wu Neng, Tie Mian and Madame Hu. The Southern Wilderness is full of smuggling, and many big families are personally involved in it, and the governments of various countries in the Southern Wilderness have always turned a blind eye to ordinary smuggling cases. Although Shi Cheng has some connections with people in the official mansion, he is an outsider after all, so what reason does Hu Enli have to hide these things from him?

A new conjecture appeared in Shi Cheng's mind, Hu Enli obviously knew that Shi Cheng was the one who participated in and assisted in the investigation of the Xieyang Dao case, and it was the particularity of the Xieyang Dao case that made Hu Enli dare not reveal the private transactions between him and the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce.