Sure enough, as Shaoyao said, before Lin Wanyue and Shaoyao sat down for a while, Su Xipo personally came down from the second floor.
He went straight to Lin Wanyue and Shaoyao's case and stood still: "This son, in Xiasu Xipo, was just upstairs looking at his handsome appearance. I wonder if the son would like to have a chat with me on the second floor?"
Lin Wanyue didn't expect that Shaoyao said it, and she was overjoyed; she stood up and bowed to Su Xipo: "If you're going down to Lin Fei, then you'll be disturbed."
When Lin Wanyue stood up, Su Xipo immediately noticed the jade pendant that Lin Wanyue was wearing around her waist, and asked with a smile, "Young Master Lin's jade pendant is quite unique."
Hearing Su Xipo's words, Lin Wanyue's heart immediately made a big alarm, and she looked at Su Xipo casually and said with a smile: "This jade pendant is a gift from a friend."
"Hahahaha, that must be a beautiful woman, little brother Lin is very lucky!"
Hearing Su Xipo's words, Li Xian's smile flashed in front of Lin Wanyue's eyes, but she didn't answer.
In this way, Lin Wanyue made a good acquaintance with Su Xipo in the name of the young owner of the clothing business at home. And I made an appointment with Su Xipo to go to the capital to see the scale of Su's cloth line, so that I can do some business in the future.
Su Xipo had no doubts about Lin Wanyue's words at all.
In the end, Qian Su Xipo not only covered the whole meal, but also picked a girl who had just been sold in and had not opened her face for Lin Wanyue, so that Lin Wanyue could have a taste.
Lin Wanyue said bitterly that she couldn't, so she had to punish herself with three cups, accusing Fang in every possible way, and left Baihualou in embarrassment amid the laughter of the crowd.
Lin Wanyue thought that she had found the reason to go on the road with Su Xipo, so she could find clues about Su's work, but she didn't expect that Su Xipo was not in a hurry and stopped in Fan Licheng. For more than ten days, singing and singing every night, every day drunk in the Baihualou.
For more than ten days, Lin Wanyue was in a hurry but couldn't do anything...
On the one hand, Su Xipo moved out of Huzhou City in a hurry, but he was not in a hurry when he arrived in Fan Licheng. He stayed overnight in Hualiu for more than ten days, which was really suspicious.
On the other hand, Lin Wanyue was afraid that if she suspected that she was going in the wrong direction, if the Su Clan's line was innocent, then the more than ten days were wasted in vain, and the clues of food and grass would definitely be cut off!
In recent days, Lin Wanyue has been having a very bad feeling, a feeling of being seen through and being invisible.
She couldn't tell what was wrong, but she always felt as if she had lost the opportunity from the beginning, which made Lin Wanyue even more uneasy.
If the food and grass are lost, if the rations for the hundreds of thousands of troops in Yangguan City cannot be found for the winter, the consequences will be disastrous.
Lin Wanyue did not regret taking this matter over, she was just afraid that because of her own mistakes, countless comrades-in-arms would suffer from starvation and freezing.
However, what Lin Wanyue didn't know was that during the more than ten days she was dealing with Su Xipo, several major events had happened outside.
The first thing: Li Zhong, the son of the Marquis of Pingyang, is back. Regarding the return of Li Zhong, the entire Marquis of Pingyang is very secretive, and there are many versions circulating in the market...
Some say that the kidnappers just thought they had caught a rich boy, but they didn't expect it to be the prince of the Marquis of Pingyang.
Some people say that the tiger father has no dog, and the prince of Pingyang took advantage of the kidnapper's inadvertent capture of the kidnapper's weapon and fought bloody battles all the way, and ran away by himself.
Some people also said that the kidnappers took the exorbitant ransom in the Pingyang Hou Mansion, and then released the people.
All in all, there are different opinions.
Which one is the truth? Nobody knows…
The second thing: General Li Mu listened to Lin Feixing's advice and withdrew his troops to Yangguan City overnight. Although half of the entire Yangguan City was vacated for Li Mu's army of hundreds of thousands of people, the people were very concerned about it. No complaints about this.
Li Mu's troops guarded against the Huns outside Yangguan City all the year round to protect the safety of the people in the northwest. Moreover, Li Mu's troops were strict in governing the army. After visiting half of the city as the place where the troops settled, the people not only did not complain, but they often saw smiles on their faces. They felt that living with the troops gave them a very sense of security.
The third thing: Meng Ni Da notified Li Mu on the one hand according to Lin Wanyue's instructions, and on the other hand, took the handwritten letter with Li Mu's seal to the patrol camp to second a unit.
General Li Mu's reputation spread far and wide. When he saw the handwritten letter, the chief of the patrol battalion immediately put a martial law on Huzhou City. All warehouses, rice warehouses, large private houses, including the old site of the prefect's mansion, and the large motorcades in the past were all searched, but... I just found few. Hundreds of carts of food and forage used by a hundred thousand troops for the winter.
Meng Ni Da was dumbfounded, and the people of Huzhou City were also turned on their backs. For a while, there was a lot of public grievances. Meng Ni Da couldn't hold back the scene and had to take the people sent by Li Mu from house to house to apologize to the people. In the end, Meng Ni I can only pin my hopes on Lin Feixing, hoping that the "disappeared" food and grass will be hidden in the convoy of Su's cloth line...
Otherwise, what do they eat for the winter
Where did all the grain go? Meng Ni Da can't figure it out anyway!
The last thing can be said to be an event that shocked the government and the opposition, and was even recorded by the official.
Besides, after Lin Feixing left, Li Mu reacted with hindsight: the food and grass may not be found.
Li Mu sat in the big tent, the figures of several people flashed in his mind one after another, and finally let out a long sigh helplessly.
It's just that Li Mu never thought that the smoke of the palace struggle would eventually spread to his northern border, and these people were so crazy that they were willing to risk the north border being destroyed and shake the society.
Li Mu knew that this matter could not be concealed. He couldn't make fun of the lives of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the northern border. He immediately wrote a letter to the current sage Li Zhao, and expedited eight hundred miles to report it to the capital.
The herald worked day and night without rest, rushing toward the capital one horse after another, almost exhausted, and finally sent the report to Li Zhao's imperial case in the early morning of the fourth day.
When Li Zhao saw the scarlet sealing mud on the bamboo tube, he was startled: Could it be that the Northern Territory has fallen
When he opened it, Li Zhao was silent, and the entire imperial study was frighteningly silent.
In the end, the officer in charge of escorting the grain and forage in the capital was sentenced directly to the head of the owl, and all the escorted soldiers changed their status as slaves and were sent to various places to serve in corvée for life.
And Li Mu...
Li Zhao fined him three years' salary and gave him a hundred military sticks.
For someone like Li Mu, who owns thousands of food towns, the court's salary is just a drop in the bucket, and the real punishment is the military stick.
As the commander-in-chief of the three armies in the Northwest, the country's uncle, and Li Mu, a first-rank military marquis, was beaten with a hundred military sticks in front of his sergeant. Even if no one dared to hit Li Mu with force, in the end, Li Mu's face was considered lost...
For the sake of the overall situation, Li Mu did not say that he was beaten because of the loss of food and grass. Every soldier in the army who was unkind to Li Muming was rewarded with a stick by Li Mu, so no one came forward for Li Mu anymore, even those who talked about it. There are very few people.
Just overnight, Li Mu seemed to have aged a lot and lost so much food and grass. Li Zhao's punishment was considered light, but Li Mu knew that Li Zhao must have been suspicious.
As for the court, Li Zhao did not explain what was going on. After punishing Li Mu, he immediately ordered the emergency allocation of food and grass from the treasury, ordered troops in person, and ordered him to escort the food and grass all the way to Yangguan City.
The discerning person in the court immediately knew that there was a problem with the food and grass a while ago, but Li Zhao deliberately suppressed it, and this matter was not put on the agenda.
As for why Li Zhao lost so much food and grass, he would rather eat this secret loss abruptly and choose to keep it secret. Some people understand, others are confused.
Li Zhao repeatedly looked at Li Mu's handwriting, his eyes fixed on the seven characters "missing, not to be found", and he was speechless for a long time.
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Lin Wanyue was looking forward to it, and Su Xipo finally sent someone to inform her that it was time to leave.
When Lin Wanyue and Bian Kai rode their horses outside the city, Su Xipo and the convoy were already waiting outside the city, and they set off as soon as Lin Wanyue arrived.
Lin Wanyue felt the world spinning for a while, her hands tightly clutching the reins, her face looking ugly and scary.
Cloth, cloth, cloth!
Hundreds and ten cars were all covered with cloth, bundled together, and covered with tarpaulins. One by one was a square long piece of cloth!
Only a few cars are loaded with boxes, and the boxes are locked, but it is impossible for such a small box to hold so many meters!
Su Xipo looked at Lin Wanyue with a smile, and asked, "Little brother Lin, your face doesn't seem very good, are you reluctant to part with the girl in Baihualou? Would you like my brother to redeem it for you?"
Lin Wanyue rode on Long Ran's back, looked at Su Xipo, and then looked at the cars outside the city, end to end, driving in a row, feeling like a person stuck in a spider's web, unable to break free, Can't run away.
"Su... eldest brother, I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't go to the capital with my eldest brother..."
"Oh... It's such a pity! But the green hills will not change, the green water will continue to flow, Brother Lin, see you in the capital."
Lin Wanyue grinned, revealing a dry smile: "Hey, see you in the capital."
Su Xipo said to Bian Kai, "Take care of your young master." Then he waved at the team: "Let's go!"
For a while, the shouts of the coachman, the sound of hooves, and the sound of the wheels were heard incessantly.
Lin Wanyue had been watching the fleet of Su's cloth line disappear in front of her eyes little by little. At this time, her mood was very complicated, powerless and frustrated, remorseful and guilty, and finally mixed with a trace of luck. Ni Da has made progress!
Bian Kai, who was beside Lin Wanyue, suddenly widened his eyes as he watched the convoy slowly leave, with a look of astonishment on his face.
He took a deep breath, carefully looked at Lin Wanyue's slightly hunched back, and tightly closed his mouth.