There was no one on the avenue in front of the Supervisory Mansion. Perhaps it was because of the murder case that happened just now. Even the nearby alleyways were extremely quiet. Even if someone passed by, they ran with their heads down and hurried past, not daring to look up. Go to the gate of the Supervisory Office.
Zhou Zhoulang stood in front of the door with the gift box and gift bag, looked and looked, and stared at the servants on the steps for a while.
The other party raised his eyebrows, his face darkened, Zhou Zhou Lang left with a smile on his face, and went up with a gift, "My lord, we are here to pay a visit to Mr. Yang, by the way, this is our post."
Zhou Zhoulang directly took out Zhou Man's official post.
The other party reached out to take it, and opened it with a serious look after opening it casually. He raised his eyelids to look at Zhou Zhou Lang, "You and this Lord Zhou?"
"Brothers and sisters," Zhou Zhoulang said proudly, "This is my sister, dear!"
The official's attitude became a little better, and he said, "You know our lord? Did you agree to visit in advance? What's the business for this visit?"
"Is there any business?" Zhou Zhoulang said with a smile: "I just passed by Yangzhou, so I came to see Mr. Yang. He used to be the county magistrate of our Luojiang County, and he was an official in the same dynasty as my younger sister. He has a good relationship, so I come and see."
The official asked him to wait here after thinking for a while, and he went in with the post to find Mr. Yang.
Yang Heshu basically didn't go out at this time, and only dealt with government affairs in the yamen. After receiving the post, he was stunned and said, "Please come in."
The messenger responded respectfully and went out to invite Zhou Zhoulang and the others to come in.
In addition to the two pens, Zhou Zhoulang also carried a few packs of snacks, all of which he bought on the spot.
Yang Heshu smiled when he saw the things he brought, and asked, "When did you come to Yangzhou?"
Thursday Lang hurriedly said: "It arrived more than a month ago, but we didn't stay in Yangzhou for a long time at that time." We went to Suzhou and Hangzhou to buy some goods.
Zhou Zhoulang carefully looked at Yang Heshu's face, and felt that his face was not bad, so he asked directly: "Master Yang, my queen is going back to Qingzhou, do you have a message for Man Bao and the others?"
He said worriedly: "I heard from people outside that you were assassinated two days ago?"
Yang Heshu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "It's not an important matter, most of the rumors outside are false, so don't listen too much."
He paused and said: "Just take a message for me, ask them how they are, and tell them everything is fine here."
Zhou Zhoulang finally left empty-handed.
Wan Tian brought the tea and couldn't help but said, "Master Lang, why don't you take the things to Master Zhou?"
Even writing a letter is fine.
Yang Heshu shook his head and said, "Now even a mosquito coming in from my place can't escape the eyes of those people, let alone Zhou Zhoulang, it's best not to bring him anything."
He said: "Is Tang He coming soon?"
Zhou Zhou Lang walked all the way back with a smile, and his face sank as soon as he entered the inn room.
Uncle Shi was in the same room with him, he was taken aback when he saw this, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhou Zhou Lang stretched his eyebrows, smiled and said: "It's okay, I just want to go back one day earlier, we have nothing to do now, if we stay here for one more day, we will pay for one more day's rent."
Uncle Shi: "... Didn't you say you want to take a good look around Yangzhou City? And the boats are all booked, even if we want to leave early, they can't."
He frowned and asked, "Did something happen to Mr. Yang?"
"That's not true," Zhou Zhoulang said, "On the way back, I did some calculations. There are so many of us living and eating here, and we have to spend nearly a dime a day. I feel a little distressed."
Uncle Shi: ...
Since he couldn't leave early, Zhou Zhoulang didn't mention it anymore, and he still took people out to visit Yangzhou City the next day, and bought some Yangzhou popular accessories and ready-made clothes as gifts.
After shopping for a day, they went back to rest early in the evening, and got up early the next morning to escort the goods to the pier.
By the time all the merchants' goods were loaded on the ship, it was already daylight, and Zhou Zhoulang took his people on board and officially set off.
When Wednesday Zhu came back from inspecting the goods, he couldn’t help pulling Zhou Zhoulang and said in a low voice: “I always feel that our things have been turned over, but after careful inspection, there is nothing missing, but the collection is not neat. Do you think there is something wrong on this ship? Are there thieves?"
"Impossible?" Zhou Zhoulang hadn't spoken yet, another person had already said: "A thief must have lost something, and it hasn't been lost right now. Was it bumpy when we lifted it up?"
"A box of silk and satin, wrapped in oiled paper and stuffed in the box, the bumps can also reverse the order of the fabric?" Zhou Zhouzhu said: "Although it is my first time to go to business, we used to bring Shu brocade all the way from home. After traveling to the capital, and then from the capital to Qingzhou, and moving it up and down several times, the Shu brocade looks like it is put in, and it looks like it is taken out, and it is tight."
Zhou Zhu insisted: "It definitely didn't come out of the bumps, or someone was digging through our things."
Zhou Zhoulang thought for a while and said: "It's okay, just don't lose things, and we can pay more attention to it later."
He draped Zhou Zhuzhu's shoulders and pulled him into the cabin, "Take a quick look at our luggage."
Zhou Zhouzhu was careful, and Zhou Zhoulang was not careless. They didn't pay attention to it before, but now they opened their luggage and found traces of rummaging.
Zhou Zhouzhu's eyes widened, and he almost jumped up, but Zhou Zhoulang covered his mouth so he didn't yell out.
Zhou Zhouzhu tore off his hand and said in a low voice, "Fourth Uncle, what are you doing? This is a thief boat. Let's find a reason to go back and disembark while the boat is just sailing."
"Shut up," Zhou Zhoulang glanced outside before whispering, "The thief has probably already left."
"how do you know?"
Sweat broke out on Zhou Zhoulang's back, and he said: "We didn't lose anything. The thief is obviously looking for something else, not money. Since we can't find it here, naturally he won't come again."
"What kind of thief is this, what are you looking for?"
"How do I, a commoner, know?"
Having said that, Zhou Zhoulang was still fidgeting along the way, until he saw the Longchi Wharf, his heart was slightly relieved.
As soon as the boat docked, he didn't care about his priceless things on the boat, handed them all over to Uncle Shi and Zhou Zhouzhu for counting, then lifted up his robe and went ashore first, and then went straight to the yamen in Longchi.
As soon as he saw Fang Xiancheng, he was as excited as seeing his parents, and immediately stepped forward to hold his hand, "Fang Xiancheng, where is my brother-in-law, is he here?"
Fang Xiancheng was taken aback, and when he recognized Zhou Zhoulang, he quickly said: "Master Zhou came here by accident, the lord just came to inspect and left the day before yesterday, so he should be in the county right now."
Fang Xiancheng asked carefully: "Did Master Zhou encounter any trouble?"
Zhou Zhoulang baffled him, "No, I haven't seen him for a long time, and I miss him. Since he's not here, I'll just go back to the county and look for him."