"It looks like we're going in the wrong direction again. ”

Hu Wei looked at Jiang Shuisheng and Liu Lao, who were gradually moving away, and said unwillingly. Before, he thought that they were infinitely close to the truth, but after eavesdropping on the conversation between Jiang Shuisheng and Liu Lao, Hu Wei knew that this time their target was not able to catch up.

Rijkaard smiled bitterly: "It turns out that Jiang Shuisheng's method comes from Liu Lao, alas, who arrested the upper reaches of the river?"

The disappearance of the upper reaches of the river did cause a lot of trouble for Hu Wei and Rijkaard. So far, both lines they follow have been proven wrong. Neither Yang Linhu nor Jiang Shuisheng had anything to do with the disappearance of the upper reaches of the river.

Hu Wei groaned: "Do you think it is possible that the upper reaches of the river are hidden by themselves?"

Although this is very unlikely, it is not completely impossible. With all the clues broken, Hu Wei had to live all the possibilities once.

Rijkaard shook his head and said, "Anything is possible until the truth of the facts is found. Even if Jiang Shui hid himself, it was not a very strange thing, as long as he was given a reason, he could do so. Unfortunately, we don't know anything about this right now, which makes it impossible for us to make an accurate judgment. Hehe, I really didn't expect that this small disappearance case could make the two of us anxious. ”

Hu Wei said: "This is not something that is absolutely unexpected. We are not as powerful as we say, let alone gods, and we also have a lot of questions that cannot be solved. It doesn't seem like there's anything going on here, so let's go back. Maybe Zhu Daneng will gain something, but it may not be. ”

Hu Wei and Rijkaard secretly had a relationship with Jiang Shui this time, and they didn't tell Zhu Daneng to know. Zhu Daneng has his own set of ways to do things, and it is normal for him to be able to find out the news. Now Hu Wei has nothing to gain here, so he can only hope for Zhu Daneng.

Rijkaard smiled and said, "I would prefer that the river aquatic life can be studied by the method of deep-water fishing. To be honest, I don't really like this person in the upper reaches of the river. ”

Hu Wei was taken aback and said, "It turns out that you also feel like this." I thought I was the only one who didn't like the people in the upper reaches of the river. ”

Rijkaard nodded, "From the first time I saw the upper reaches of the river, I didn't like him that much. But he is the only one who has the art of fishing in the moat, and we have no choice but to use him, so even if we don't like him, we still have to use him. ”

Hu Wei thought for a while and said, "Why don't you like him?"

Rijkaard shook his head and said, "I can't say why I don't like him, it's just an instinctive dislike, and I can't find any reason." As for you, don't you like him too? And what are you for?"

Hu Wei thought seriously for a while, shook his head and said: "As you said, I also instinctively don't like him, why I don't like him, I can't say a reason." ”

People say that there is no love for no reason in the world, and there is no hate for no reason, but Hu Wei and Rijkaard instinctively do not like the upper reaches of the river, is this a coincidence, or is it because of other reasons?

"You're back. Zhu Daneng saw Hu Wei and Rijkaard come back from afar. Hurriedly greeted him.

Hu Wei saw that Zhu Daneng's face was not so good-looking, and hurriedly asked, "Is something wrong?"

Zhu Daneng hurriedly said: "Something is wrong." An hour ago, I received word that someone was stealing sweet potatoes. ”

Hu Wei and Rijkaard looked at each other. said: "Don't worry, explain the details first." The sweet potatoes are still nearly two months away from harvesting, and now someone is stealing them?"

Zhu Daneng shook his head and said: "It's not those planted in the ground, it's the ...... kept by Gengji Village."

Tong guò Zhu Daneng's explanation. Only then did the two of them know what had happened. It turned out that while the villagers of Gengji Village were providing a large number of sweet potato seeds for the Tianfeng Continent, they also had a batch in their hands. This batch of sweet potatoes is their stockpile, before new sweet potatoes grow. They have to live on this stockpile. And now, this batch of sweet potatoes has been stolen.

"These people, what scum!" Rijkaard jumped to his feet in anger. Although he did not announce that Gengji Village was his real hometown after he became the emperor of the Mandala Empire, Gengji Village was indeed his hometown. Now that he heard that something like this had happened in his hometown, how could he not be angry.

Hu Wei didn't hate people who stole things as much as Rijkaard, because he didn't have clean hands and feet in order to survive since he was a child. Hu Wei is now worried about another point, the cultivation of sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes are very easy to grow, according to Rijkaard. But here is also its skill, if the seed is not good, there may be no harvest. Hu Wei had asked Zhu Daneng to talk to the people of Gengji Village about this matter, and the people of Gengji Village also agreed to send some people to guide the people to carry out the cultivation of sweet potatoes. Now these people from Gengji Village are observing the cultivation of sweet potatoes in various places and giving reasonable opinions at any time to ensure a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes.

Hu Wei was afraid that these people would ignore anything in a fit of anger when they knew that something had happened in Gengji Village, and the hardships they had had in the past few days would be in vain.

Thinking of this, Hu Wei hurriedly asked Zhu Daneng: "How is the villagers' reaction now?"

Zhu Daneng said: "That's what I'm here for. The people of Gengji Village have already said that if they can't catch the people who steal the sweet potatoes, then they will all withdraw to the village and no longer give any opinions on the future planting of sweet potatoes. ”

Hu Wei sighed: "I was really unfortunate enough to guess it." Lao Li, if you don't have the help of your villagers, how much impact will the harvest have?"

Rijkaard shook his head and said, "I don't know about this. I only know such things as sweet potatoes, and I know that his temper is very easy to plant, if I don't know, it's hard to say. I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, I myself have planted in the garden of the palace, but I have never harvested it. ”

"You guy, I really don't know what to say about you. I wanted to rely on you, but now it seems. You and Ben are unreliable. Don't say so much, immediately mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized to check, and be sure to find out the whereabouts of the sweet potatoes in the shortest possible time!"

It was late at night, and Hu Wei didn't sleep at all. He was looking at the moon in the sky, thinking about what Rijkaard had said.

Rijkaard once complained that God seemed to be playing tricks on him, always adding trouble to him every now and then. Now that I think about it, there is some truth in Rijkaard's words. Sweet potatoes and moat fish were the two major reliance on Hu Wei to tide over the difficulties, and with them, Hu Wei could survive the current difficult period.

But now. The fish side of the moat has stopped because of the disappearance of the upper reaches of the river, and the side of the sweet potato has caused trouble because the grain of the villagers of Gengji Village has been stolen. The villagers of Gengji refused to provide technical support, and the cultivation of sweet potatoes was overshadowed.

"It's so hard to do something these days. ”

"That's it. I don't know where Rijkaard came out of nowhere, and he took Hu Wei's words.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" Hu Wei glanced at Rijkaard, this guy ran out in a pajamas, and he was full of the image of a little fart child who didn't know anything, and there was a little bit of a hero's shadow.

"Alas. I can't sleep. Rijkaard sat down on the big rock, and looked at the yellowing moon with a melancholy face.

"Don't look worried about the country and the people in front of me, okay, every time I see you like this. I'd love to beat you up. ”

"I didn't mess with you, what are you beating me for? Seriously, don't you think that the disappearance of the upper reaches of the river and the theft of the village of Gengji. It's likely to be a group of people. ”

Noticing Rijkaard's words, Hu Wei asked, "You are talking about 'a gang', do you think there are many of them?"

Rijkaard held out a finger and shook it, "At least not just one." I've checked. There are as many as 10,000 catties of stolen sweet potatoes in Gengji Village, even if one person moves to death, he can't move so much, and they still stole all the sweet potatoes without alarming the villagers. ”

Hu Wei groaned: "You have a point, this will not be done by one person. The real purpose of them doing this is probably to undermine the stability of our Taiping Empire, the country without food is unstable, and without fish and sweet potatoes, no matter how powerful your Taiping Empire is, it will not be able to support it. ”

Rijkaard said dissatisfiedly: "You take 'us', you 'mine', this Taiping Empire has nothing to do with you, right?" I can tell you that the Taiping Empire is mine and yours, and you don't want to take yourself out. ”

Hu Wei glared and said, "You guy is really surnamed Lai, right?" I've never joined your Taiping Empire, and now it's entirely out of my friend's interest to help you. What is mine has never been my good or bad. ”

"Yes, I won't earn it with you. Rijkaard saw that Hu Wei was a little anxious, and quickly changed the topic and said, "You can be regarded as helping me." Help me figure out who is secretly doing our tricks. ”

Hu Wei groaned: "If Yang Zihai hadn't been arrested by you, I would have thought of him first." But now that Yang Zihai has been arrested by you, I really can't think of who it will be. By the way, are you sure Yang Zihai has been arrested? ”

"Where are you going so late?" Zhu Daneng came back from outside, and couldn't help but ask when he saw Hu Wei and Rijkaard hurrying through the corridor aisle wearing only pajamas.

"To prove that Yang Zihai is not fake. Rijkaard kept replying.

"Yang Zihai is not fake?" Zhu Daneng couldn't react for a while What Rijkaard said, and wanted to ask more, Rijkaard had already run away, he thought about it, and still followed.

"Young Marshal, what happened?" Zhu Daneng didn't ask Rijkaard this time, although this guy is more than a hundred years old, but that kid is really unbelievable, it's safer to ask Hu Wei.

Hu Wei explained: "Previously, we analyzed the disappearance of the upper reaches of the river and the theft of Gengji Village, and thought that it might be the same group of people. ”

The more Zhu Daneng listened, the more he didn't understand, and continued to ask: "What does that have to do with Yang Zihai, hasn't he already been arrested?"

Hu Wei said: "Isn't Yang Zihai Rijkaard's stand-in, Rijkaard thinks that Yang Zihai may have also found a stand-in for himself." Then he hid in the shadows, intending to bring down the Taiping Empire behind his back. ”

"That's why you were in a hurry, but you confirmed that the one who was arrested was indeed Yang Zihai. When Zhu Daneng heard this, he basically understood what the whole thing had happened. Looking back now, it was still too easy to catch Yang Zihai that time.

Thinking that the person who was caught by them might be Yang Zihai's stand-in, Zhu Daneng's heart couldn't help but feel a little furious. Yang Zihai's kung fu is very remarkable, if he and Ben have never been caught, doesn't that mean that he can come to take their heads at any time?

The place where Yang Zihai was imprisoned was a courtyard under Rijkaard's absolute control. Usually no one will come except him. They can't get in.

"Whether it's him or not, you'll know right away. Rigkaard's nervousness was evident in his face as he said this. Zhu Daneng could guess how troubled Yang Zihai would be if he hadn't been really arrested by them, and it was impossible for Rijkaard not to know this.

"Then go in and have a look. "Hu Wei is not a person who is used to waiting. You've already come here, so use your own eyes to confirm it, not guess here.

"Hmm. Rijkaard took a deep breath. Although Yang Zihai was his stand-in, he never thought that Yang Zihai might have found a stand-in for himself before. Hu Wei just said that Rijkaard thought of this, but it was actually Hu Wei who first proposed this possibility. Rijkaard would have thought that way. Otherwise, he really didn't want to put his thoughts on Yang Zihai anymore.

The deeply locked door was opened by Rijkaard himself, Rijkaard was the first to walk in, Hu Wei and Zhu Daneng followed closely behind Rijkaard, and it was as if it was not far ahead. They will soon find out.

"This is it. ”

Rijkaard's words seem to be telling him to worry about his worries, and it is like reminding himself.

Hu Wei and Zhu Daneng didn't speak, they quietly waited for Rijkaard to make his own decision. They all believe that Rijkaard has so much life experience. Whatever the outcome, he's acceptable.

Rijkaard remembered his relationship with Yang Zihai for so many years, although he was arrested. But they didn't do anything to him. In addition to not giving him freedom, he is still fully satisfied in terms of eating and drinking.

"Yang Zihai, how are you doing?" asked Rijkaard, with a barred window. With his current image, no matter whether Yang Zihai is true or not, it is not suitable to meet him.

Yang Zihai seemed to be asleep, and did not react to Rijkaard's questioning. Rijkaard waited for a while, and then said: "You have known each other for decades, although you have done something sorry for me, but in the end there is no big mistake, I think about it, or decided to let you go." I hope you will be a good person after you go out, and stop doing things that hurt the people. ”

"Are you really going to let me go?" finally echoed from the other side of the bars. It seems that the people inside did not fall asleep.

"Hmm. Do you remember that time, when I accidentally fell into the water and almost died? It was you who jumped into the water to save me from the water, so that I could pick up a life. What did you think at the time, didn't you think about yourself at all?"

Zhu Daneng's mouth moved when he heard Rijkaard's words. He remembered that Hu Wei had told him that Rijkaard had a good underwater kung fu, which was another reason why he liked the water palace so much. With Rijkaard's watery nature, let alone in the water, even if it falls into the ice, there will be no problems.

The man behind bars replied, "At that time, I only knew that I couldn't let you die, and I didn't think about the rest so much. ”

It's good that he doesn't reply to Rijkaard's words, but as soon as he says this, Rijkaard's face changes completely. Zhu Daneng's memory is not wrong, Rijkaard grew up near the water since he was a child, has a bad water nature, and has never fallen into the water and needs to be rescued. Although Yang Zihai did not grow up with Rijkaard, he is Rijkaard's only stand-in, and he has been by Rijkaard's side for decades, and it is impossible for him not to know about these things.

The person behind bars, answering such words, has already proved that he is not the real Yang Zihai. This is definitely not good news for Rijkaard.

"Why don't you ask a few more questions to try him?" Hu Wei saw that Rijkaard already had the intention of turning away, and couldn't help but speak to remind him.

Rijkaard shook his head heavily and said, "No need, I can already be sure that he is not the real Yang Zihai on this one issue." ”

Hu Wei and Zhu Daneng glanced at each other and said no more. The person who knows Yang Zihai best is Rijkaard. He said no, and that's basically not.

"Hey, didn't you say to let me out, why don't you let me go, hey, come back, what's the point of you just leaving?" )