The station boat that escorted the birthday group was much larger than the boat they were on this summer. The batch of boxes for the birthday group was stored under the sergeant's cabin, and the sergeant guarded the door. According to Wang Fangxing, the guard changes every two hours, and there are sergeants guarding both inside and outside the cabin.
"Could it be that the sergeant inside was killed?" asked casually as he walked this summer.
"That's not it, they all collapsed on the ground."
"Incense? Or sweat medicine? Who is in charge of food on board? Is it still there?" She asked habitually.
The flag officer who answered the question glanced at her and saw that she was just a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, born with a naive and romantic appearance, but she was very mature when she asked, and she did not dare to neglect at the moment, and replied hurriedly: "Everyone on the boat ate the same food, and they changed shifts after dinner, and they didn't eat anything else after that.
A sergeant led them to the cabin where the birthday cards were stored. This summer, they walked very slowly. They looked around all the way, and just bent over to enter the hatch, they stopped, took a few sniffs, and said with a smile:
"Dayang, you smell it, this incense is really good, it still smells like chives."
Yang Yue also sniffed and said, "We're going to eat fried chicken eggs with chives at night on this boat."
"I said, why am I hungry when I smell it?"
This summer came to a realization.
"Have you ever been hungry?" Yang Yue joked, leaning into the cabin and seeing three or four sergeants slumped on the ground crookedly, looking like they were intoxicated.
Lu Yi then came in and looked at the warehouse lightly. The warehouse was less than two feet long and about ten feet wide, with only one door and one window, which was no different from an ordinary cabin.
"How many boxes are there in the birthday guide?" he asked Wang Fangxing.
"There are eight boxes, not only gold and silver jewelry, etc., but also calligraphy, paintings and silk." Wang Fangxing sighed, "Before leaving, General Qiu told me again and again, and I was also cautious. The others are waiting to get on the boat, so as not to have too many hands. But who would have expected this thief to be so cunning..."
Lu Yi listened to Wang Fangxing's complaints nonchalantly, and saw Jin Xia was half-squatting on the ground, his fingernails lightly scraped on the floor, and put it on his nose to sniff.
There are bits and pieces of wax oil everywhere on the ground! The footprints on it are vertical and horizontal!
"So much wax oil?" she muttered to herself.
"Oh... this is..." the flag officer explained quickly, "I was afraid that the calligraphy, paintings, silk and other objects would be affected by the moisture on the boat, so I specially sealed the joints with wax. I reported this to the sergeant. of."
Wang Fangxing nodded when he heard the words: "That's how it is, those calligraphy and paintings are very valuable, and mildew spots are not good."
"I can't see that you are still a delicate person." This summer, he said with a half-smile, without looking at him, he took out a transparent and compact crystal wafer from his arms, and looked at the wax oil carefully under the firelight.
Yang Yue squatted down in front of the unconscious sergeant, sniffed it near his nose and mouth, and frowned in disgust.
Lu Yi grabbed the other sergeant's wrist, put his slender fingers on the sergeant's pulse, and carefully checked the pulse. Wang Fangxing looked around anxiously, and couldn't help but ask, "...how?"
After a long while, Lu Yi put down the sergeant's wrist, and said lightly to Wang Fangxing: "No worries about life, wait another hour or two, and you will wake up when the effect of the medicine wears off."
"That's good, that's good." Wang Fangxing clenched his fist anxiously and said, "Maybe they have seen the thief, and they can tell the clues when they wake up."
At this time, I lost the wax grease crumbs this summer. Holding a candle, I walked slowly around the cabin. Sometimes I tilted my head to look at the scratches on the bulkhead, sometimes I lowered my head and reached out to measure the floor. Finally, I stopped in front of the window and took the crystal. The circular photo is scrutinized by the window frame...
Wang Fangxing didn't know what the hell these two little hunters were doing. Seeing them wandering around unhurriedly, without saying any clues, he was already extremely impatient. If it wasn't for Lu Yi's face, he would have been Blast the two of them out.
Since that night at the head of Xinfeng Bridge, I heard this summer's speech to point out the flaws in the fortune teller's clothes, and now that she knows that she is following Yang Chengwan, Lu Yi really wants to see the tracking technique that his father said, so he is not in a hurry. Slowly wait for the two of them to investigate indoors.
The more details I saw, the more doubts in my eyes this summer. After looking at Yang Yue for a while, I understood what Yang Chengwan had told me before - "Don't talk nonsense." It's just that if the case is really like this, it's really boring. She straightened up and secretly pouted, thinking that it would be serious to go back to the ship and sleep in a cage earlier.
"You two have clues?" Lu Yi asked immediately without missing her subtle expression.
"This..." This Xia glanced at Yang Yue first, and then said slowly, "The thief left almost no clues, and I'm afraid there's nothing I can do."
Yang Yue nodded again and again next to him, unable to tell whether he was agreeing with her words or praising what she said.
Wang Fangxing waved his hand and looked like he had expected: "This is not ordinary stealing chickens and dogs. It's not surprising that you can't find out. It's alright. I didn't expect you to get off the boat."
Lianjuan yawned, and he didn't plan to get to know him in the same way this summer. He dragged Yang Yue and planned to leave, but heard Wang Fangxing still sighing at Lu Yi from behind...
"Actually, I know that almost all the cases in the capital are being handled by Jin Yiwei. Six Gates is just an empty name. They keep a bunch of idlers.
Hearing this, this summer stopped, turned to look at Wang Fangxing and said, "Although I am not talented, it is not that I have no clues, but I am worried that if I say it, the sergeant may not be able to hold them."
Wang Fangxing ignored her at all, and said with a dry smile: "Joke, I'm waiting to guard the border and kill the barbarians, there's no reason why I can't hold the thieves. You little catcher don't need to say these bluffing words, what's the point? The clues are telling."
"These boxes of yours are black-lacquered camphor wood boxes, two feet eight long, one foot six wide, and two feet one high, right?" Jin Xia raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at him with a half-smile.
Wang Fangxing and his flag officers were stunned.
"You, have you seen these boxes?"
"It's just speculation based on the traces. There are so many traces of wax oil on the ground. It's hard to pretend that you don't know." This summer continued, "I just said that the sergeant may not be able to hold them, because the number of thieves is large and there is nothing to fear. , very arrogant, and did not put Wang Fangxing and the other sergeants in his eyes at all."
"Why?" Lu Yi stared at her and asked.
This summer, he pointed to several scratches on the bulkhead: "The walls are all drawn like this. You can imagine the movement when moving the boxes. Such a big movement can only show that the thieves have nothing to fear."
"How do you know that these scratches were made by thieves, maybe they were made by the sergeants when they brought the boxes in."
This summer, he handed over the crystal wafer in his hand, motioned him to look at it for himself, and said, "The direction is different, and the scratches are also different. Look carefully at the subtleties of the scratches."
The crystal wafer was held in her hand, still with a little warmth from her hand, which was smooth and moist. Lu Yi looked down. The crystal was delicate and small, with a concave and convex edge. Looking across the crystal wafer, it could magnify the object several times. The scratches were subtle, the sawdust curled, and the direction was upward as she had drawn, and it was naturally scratched when the box was lifted.
Yang Yue coughed a few times, indicating that he could not talk about this summer, and then he said: "Although I can see some clues, the case is complicated, I'm just waiting for a small arrest, I have little experience, and I only know that it is a group of people. The number of Jiang Yang robbers should be between four and six people, and they are skilled in their modus operandi, and they are obviously repeat offenders.
This summer, squinting at him, he finally managed to hold back his words.
Wang Fangxing listened in a daze for a long time, and only then did he catch his mouth and nodded again and again: "This river has many branches. If the thief has already gone down the river, how can they be traced? Jie, there is no trace of the thief, I really have no face to go back to see the general."
Without the slightest awareness of taking care of Wang Fangxing's emotions, he joked this summer: "Master Wang, you must think about it, don't commit suicide, otherwise it would be a pity for the current wealth..."
"You... what do you mean?" Wang Fangxing stared at Jin Xia suddenly, with obvious anger in his eyes.
"What she means is that Mr. Wang can do things under the command of General Qiu, and it is not easy to be rich and noble. I am really envious, very envious." Yang Yue grabbed this summer to make a round before opening his mouth, and bowed to Wang Fangxing: "I If I can't wait, I can't help, please forgive me." The implication was that he planned to leave.
For them, Wang Fangxing seemed to have exhausted his patience, and made a gesture of pleasing with dissatisfaction. Seeing that he and Yang Yue had left the cabin this summer, he smiled at Lu Yigan: "Look at these six-door people. , either to shirk the eyesight, or just talk hype and not be able to do anything at all."
Lu Yi coughed twice, and said goodbye to Wang Fangxing, "You don't have to worry about it. After the sergeant wakes up, there may be a turning point."
Wang Fangxing only frowned and asked the flag officer to send Lu Yi off the boat after returning the salute.
When we got back to the station boat, the sky was covered with fish belly white, the morning mist on the river was foggy, and the chill was refreshing.
"Humph! Young master let him go, but he thinks we are vegetarians!" This summer, shrugging his neck in the cold air, said angrily, "I don't know how to lift up!"
Yang Yue looked back at Wang Fangxing's boat, and then said to her: "Daddy repeatedly explained that you should not talk nonsense. What did you just say? Fortunately, I got the words back, otherwise it would be trouble again."
"I just can't stand the virtue of being cheap and good," said dissatisfied this summer, "I don't mention anything else, it disturbed my good feeling for no reason, and made a lot of trouble, just to drag this boat of people as a witness for him. ."
How could Yang Yue be unaware of Wang Fangxing's intentions, it's just that they are little catchers, not to mention overturning the river, they can't even splash a splash, and they can only swallow their anger and pretend to be deaf and dumb when they meet an official.
"Master Xia, wait until you are promoted to the first assistant one day. Can you do your best... The yamen's salary is not much, so it's a pen money anyway."
Yang Yue poked her forehead.
"I know, I know, for the sake of money, I will endure it again next time." This summer said helplessly.
The two returned to Yang Chengwan's cabin and recounted the situation on Wang Fangxing's ship to him.
"The sergeant who guards the birthday is not Zhongmixiang, but fell into a coma because of drinking Menghan medicine." Yang Yue reported to his father.
This summer, he didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "All the footprints in the cabin are those of sergeants, and no outsiders have entered - Wang Fangxing made it clear that he wanted to swallow the birthday card himself, and the thief shouted to catch the thief."
After listening to Yang Chengwan, he didn't look surprised, and said lightly: "That's not necessarily true. I see his anxious appearance, it doesn't look like he's pretending. Is there something wrong with the flag officer beside him?"
"Flag Officer..."
"Have you not noticed him?"
"I thought he was a little weird. I noticed that there was a lot of wax oil on the hem of his robe, and there was wax oil on the upper of his boots... I thought it was strange at the time, but then I understood when I saw the wax oil in the cabin." Thinking this summer, " There seems to be nothing else."
"Dad, you mean he stole the birthday guide? Where did he put it?" Yang Yue asked.
"It should be still on the boat." Yang Chengwan looked at the two of them with a bit of dissatisfaction. "Did you pay attention to the waterline of this ship after you came back? The waterline of this ship has not changed since it was docked."
This summer stuck out his tongue, and then suddenly realized: "Those wax oils! It's not for preventing moisture, but for waterproofing, I understand! He put the box under water. He must have thought that this batch of goods was under his nose. Peace of mind."
Hearing the eagerness in her tone, Yang Chengwan gave her a warning look: "Qiu Luan's family affairs have nothing to do with us. If we lose it, we will lose it. Don't interfere."
"Oh… "
This summer, he agreed with Yang Yue, and he withdrew with promise.