"Sixth Master, I can see it for sure. It is definitely the emblem of the Prince's Palace. It's just that the style of this carriage looks different from what I've seen before.
"The car was filled with medicinal materials, but the driver didn't look like a serious person, so the younger one quickly sent someone to follow them. After confirming where they were staying, he didn't dare to delay for a moment and came quickly.
Bringing you news."
The man known as Mr. Liu seemed to be only in his early twenties, but the official did not dare to neglect him at all, and even spoke to him half-hunched over.
Because this person is Xie Liu who is stationed in Changsha City by the Ruiqi Palace.
Let alone being an official, even the prefect did not dare to be too presumptuous in front of him.
It's just that his identity is in the Ming Dynasty, and he often has contact with people from the government on weekdays.
There are still some people who have been hiding in the dark. Even the prefect does not know who they will turn into, hiding in every corner of the city.
After hearing the report from the dismissed officer, Xie Liu asked where the black-faced man and his group were staying, and nodded: "I understand, let your people withdraw, and I will take over here."
After saying that, he just nodded when he met the official, but had no intention of leaving at all. He said knowingly: "Don't worry, if this clue is useful, your contribution and benefits will be indispensable."
After hearing this, the official said goodbye and left with a smile on his face.
Xie Liu was not upset about this. If he wanted the horse to run, he had to let the horse eat grass.
If you don't give me any benefits, who will do anything for you in the future?
He recalled that the news he had received recently did not say that anyone from the mansion came here to do business, so the sudden appearance of a carriage with the emblem of the mansion did seem a bit strange.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the government arranged for people to come here in disguise to do things.
So you still need to figure things out first before making any judgment.
Xie Liu had nothing to do since arriving here and was bored, so this time he just led someone to touch it.
After the black-faced man and his party entered the city, they first found an inn to stay.
Because he didn't know the price of the medicinal materials in the car, he only found a place with moderate prices.
After a few people settled down, the black-faced man called the inn's waiter to prepare dinner.
Xiaosi asked the waiter for some pieces of oil paper, grabbed some medicinal herbs from the box in the car, wrapped them separately, put them in his arms and left the inn.
At this time, Xie Liu had already brought someone over, and the official who had been staying outside the inn door to keep an eye on him quickly winked.
Xie Liu immediately made a gesture to his men and asked them to ambush around the inn, while he quietly stayed behind Xiao Si.
After successfully following Xiao Si to a medical clinic, Xie Liu was already certain that this could never be someone from the mansion, otherwise his alertness would not be so low, and he would not have any reaction even after being followed all the way.
Seeing Xiao Si going to several stores one after another to inquire about the prices of medicinal materials, the more he asked, the happier his face became. Xie Liu already understood what was going on.
The characteristics of this group of people are very obvious. At first glance, they are here to sell stolen goods after carjacking.
The carriage bearing the royal emblem...
The car is full of medicinal materials...
These two pieces of information made Xie Liu dare not neglect at all. Could it be that these medicinal materials were purchased for the prince to use?
While he arranged for someone to go to the medical clinic that Xiaosi had inquired about to inquire about the information, he quickly wrote a note in cipher text, sealed it in a small paper tube with wax, tied it to the pigeon's leg and let it fly.
The homing pigeons raised by Prince Rui's residence were carefully bred, trained and screened. It took less than a day to return to the residence and landed in a special pigeon loft.
When the person on duty in the pigeon house saw this, he immediately stepped forward, took off the paper tube tied to the pigeon's feet, and gave it clean spring water and carefully proportioned food.
After the homing pigeon completed its mission, it began to drink water and eat.
The paper tube was quickly delivered to Fan Yuru's desk.
After his subordinates deciphered the cipher text on the note, they handed it over to Fan Yuru.
"Changsha Mansion?" Fan Yuru recalled for a while, but could not find any memory of sending people there to do things. He turned to the clerk next to him and ordered, "Send someone to ask Master, has anyone been sent to Changsha recently?" The government is purchasing medicinal materials."
He didn't think it was a big deal at first, but not long after, Li Zian came over in person.
When Fan Yuru saw this, he immediately stood up and said, "Why, the medicinal materials in the car are very important? Are they used to prepare medicine for the prince?"
Li Zian frowned and said: "I didn't send anyone to buy medicine, but Miss Shen sent Qiu Jun to Luo's house for business a few days ago. I had people put the emblem on the carriage. I originally thought that if the secret guards along the way saw it, Can you help take care of me...so is something wrong?"
"Xie Liu found a carriage in Changsha Prefecture. There were a lot of medicinal materials in the carriage, but the carriage was in the hands of a group of gangsters, and they were preparing to sell the stolen goods in Changsha Prefecture.
"Qiu Jun was not mentioned in the letter, so I don't know what the situation is."
Fan Yuru couldn't help but frown when he said this. Although the situation in Huguang has been much better than before under the management of Prince Rui and Li Zian in recent years, some small groups of bandits still cannot be completely eradicated.
Judging from past experience, they are all murderers and carjackers, and they will never leave anyone alive.
"I will write back to Xie Liu right away and ask him to control the person immediately and investigate the matter thoroughly." Fan Yuru said, spreading out the pen and paper, quickly wrote a few lines and handed it to the scribe on the side.
The scribe was used to doing this job, so he quickly converted the contents on the paper into cipher text, copied it on the paper, sealed it in a paper tube, and asked someone to send it to the pigeonhouse as quickly as possible.
"I remember that Qiu Jun is the brother of Miss Shen's personal maid. Do you want to tell Miss Shen about this?"
Shen Tianshu used Qiu Jun to drive his carriage every time he went out, especially when he occasionally came to the palace, so Fan Yuru asked someone to check his details.
"How can we tell her when we haven't figured out the matter yet? It's just making her worry in vain." Li Zian said, "We'll wait until Xie Liu gets back the news."
Over at Changsha Mansion, Xie Liu did not wait after he released the homing pigeons. While arranging manpower to completely control the area around the inn, he also arranged for the shopkeeper of a medical clinic to come to the door to discuss the purchase of medicinal materials. The black-faced man and his group were Hold on.
A team of people was also arranged to set out early the next morning and search for clues along the way in the opposite direction of the carriage.
At this time, Qiu Jun, with an oilcloth bag in his arms, was struggling to find his way in the woods.
In order to escape smoothly, he took nothing with him except the prescription and money.
For people like him who have never been in the mountains, when they are in the mountains, everything they look at seems familiar.
So he didn't dare to wander around, so he found a place to hide, planning to go out after dark. As long as he had money, he could find a way to get back.
Unexpectedly, I somehow got the wrong direction and walked deeper and deeper into the dense forest.
He brought neither dry food nor water. When he was thirsty, he drank from the spring water in the mountains. When he was hungry, he had no choice but to find some familiar weeds to satisfy his hunger.
Qiu Jun tried every means to identify the direction, but in the end he was still walking in circles in the forest, and soon began to feel a little exhausted.
Qiu Jun didn't know how long he had been walking. He was so tired, hungry and hot that he finally collapsed and lay down directly under a big tree.
After finally escaping from the robbers, do you end up here because you got lost?