Although Zhou Man and the others brought a lot of luggage, Da Yu really didn't expect that there were fabrics and gold, silver and jewelry in it. They just regarded them as things they needed to live in. After all, how much they wear and love to enjoy him. knew.
At this time, the person who was nagged by the heavy rain was stationed not far from the town.
The night in the desert was a bit cold, Jin Kuian drank a sip of strong wine, stood on the sand and looked at the lights in the distance.
Ergo added a piece of firewood to the fire, clapped his hands and walked to his side, staring at that place as well, and asked, "Do you suspect they are in there?"
Jin Kuian took another sip of wine, trying to suppress the anger in his heart, but found that he seemed to be getting more and more angry.
He squeezed the flagon in his hand tightly, and said with a blank face: "I was thinking about where I missed them all along the way. I only remembered when I returned to the desert inn. We were in a hurry to go to the hotel. Chasing them, I didn’t spend the night in the desert inn when I took this road, and I didn’t enter this small town, but just went around and chased them quickly.”
"The people at the desert inn said that they entered the desert, didn't look back, and didn't go out, so the route we chased was correct, and there were no traces of them along the way, which only means that we went ahead of them."
Every time he thought of this, his heart felt as regretful as a fire. At that time, he only needed to enter the small town, and he might find them if he went in.
Erg also suspected this, but... "Are they still in the town?"
Jin Kui'an said: "It doesn't matter if you are here or not, as long as you can get their news."
He said: "I don't believe that they can disappear out of thin air. As long as you know the time they left, you can roughly deduce where they are now, and you may not be able to find them."
He moved his fingers, looked at the scattered lights in the distance and said, "Actually, it's best if they're not in the town, the people there are not easy to mess with."
"Brother, the cake is ready."
Only then did Jin Kuian turn back to eat dinner, and after he turned back, a pile of sand in the distance moved quietly, and the two of them quietly returned to the town to report in slander.
"...It's far away, so I can't see it clearly, but we listened carefully. There are quite a few people, probably dozens of horses, not a single car, and there is no cargo on them. They are full of gangsters. It's annoying."
The mayor drank a bowl of milk tea, frowned and said, "Why did the bandit come to our place? Why, want to rob us?"
The investigators were not too sure, and said, "It's because life is hard outside, so you took the risk?"
The mayor glanced at him and said: "Go and inform the brothers, we will meet at the entrance of the town tomorrow morning, and pick two more teams to guard outside tonight. Once they get close, they will immediately call the police."
"yes."
Jin Kuian knew the origin of this small town, and he also knew that the current owner of the small town was his colleague, so he did not do anything that would be misunderstood. After dawn, he first asked someone to go to the entrance of the town to shout, indicating that they were just passing by and wanted to Go into town for breakfast.
The news spread to the mayor layer by layer. The mayor curled his lips. Who believed that they just came for breakfast
However, the mayor still let people in, "Just ask them to order three of them, and we'll deliver it to them when it's ready."
Three people are enough to say anything.
Jin Kui, who originally wanted to find someone to inquire about the situation after entering the town, settled down for a while, but after all, he couldn't afford to waste time, so he took out a piece of silver and put it on the table, ordered a bunch of worthless breakfasts, and said: "Brother Wu, little brother I want to ask you something."
The mayor glanced at the silver ingot that was pushed in front of him, smiled and said: "It's easy to say, easy to say, honored guests are here, just ask if you have any questions, and I will definitely answer what I can."
Jin Kuian asked: "Some time ago, did a convoy of more than a hundred people come to the town, not a caravan, but officials from the imperial court?"
He paused and said, "But there is a small businessman among them."
The mayor was slightly surprised, but turned his head to look at the steward calmly, "Is there such a convoy? I have ignored the affairs of the town for a long time, and I really don't know for a while. Let someone check it out, but why are you asking about this?"
He said: "This is a person from the yamen. If something happens outside, if we get involved..."
"Brother Wu, don't worry, you won't be troubled by this matter. This is our grievance with them."
The mayor smiled, turned the teacup in his hand and asked, "Did they do something to you?"
Jin Kuian said with a gloomy face: "They snatched some things from me, and I have to get them back."
The mayor twitched his lips, cheating ghosts, if it is possible for other officers and soldiers, how could Zhou Man's fun-loving and eccentric children take the risk of robbing a group of horse thieves
I'm afraid it's because they have something that Jin Kui'an likes, that's why they took so much trouble to find someone.
The mayor pondered for a while, and according to the schedule, now that people arrived in Shazhou early, they should have returned halfway due to the heavy rain, right
The mayor took a sip of tea and knew it in his mind.
So when the butler came back from the outside and whispered a bunch of nonsense in his ear, he said to Jin Kui'an with a contemplative expression: "There really are such a group of people, but they left long ago."
Jin Kuian quickly asked, "How long have they been away?"
The mayor said with a smile: "It's been a long time, they only stayed here for two days, and after careful calculation, they have been away for more than 30 days. I heard that they are going to the Western Regions. They should be almost done by now, right?"
Jin Kui'an was taken aback, "How is this possible? We chased them all the way, but we didn't see them..."
The mayor drank all the tea in his cup, and said indifferently: "Doesn't that just mean that they have gone far away? I said brother, the time difference between you is too long. Thirty days, the sandstorm in the desert is already gone." Wipe off all the traces, if it is not something special, there is really no need to look for it, or you plan to chase it to the Western Regions?"
Jin Kui'an's eyes were cold, he clenched his fists and said, "I'm already in the Western Regions, so nothing is impossible."
The mayor frowned slightly, and then remembered to ask, "By the way, where is the brother from?"
Jin Kuian twitched his lips and said, "Don't worry, Brother Wu, my people and territory are outside the customs, and I won't compete with you for territory."
Mayor: ... don't worry about it, okay, those people should have left the customs by now, right
It was really bad luck, although it had little to do with him.
The mayor thought about it for a while, and felt that he might lose a long-term partner, especially Zhou Man, who promised him that he would go back to the town to see him when Xi Yu came back, and maybe he could leave a few more prescriptions at that time …
Thinking about it this way, the mayor didn't bother to deal with him anymore, and waved his hand: "The person I'm looking for has gone away, so I won't keep my brother. There are many young people in the town, and they are all young and energetic. Get together and make trouble."