What about four days, five days, or even ten days and a half month?
Can they afford to wait?
The longer it takes, the worse it will be for the caravan.
And don't forget that their "delivery time" has been set long ago. Now that Li Zhai is blocked, the situation has changed drastically. If the "delivery" is missed or another accident occurs, only the people in the caravan will have a headache.
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What's more, there is also the news that "the imperial envoys arrived at Yuanmu Town in advance". Once the Nanyan caravan finds out, it will only become more and more upset.
In this way, the positions of both parties are reversed.
Originally Zhan Beihan wanted to carefully detect their actions, but now Zhan Beihan was just waiting for their actions!
According to Zhan Beihan's judgment, the time for the caravan's operation will be tonight, because some things should be done sooner rather than later.
But he himself did not guard here. Instead, he sent a message through the guards and handed over the Li residence to Xiao Lingyue to keep an eye on.
Where did he go?
A suspicion flashed through Xiao Lingyue's mind and she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.
"Since the troops are divided into two groups, let me try to see if your guess is accurate."
She fastened the mask on her face and silently approached Li's house along the shadows.
A gust of night wind blew by, and the officer in charge of guarding was blinded by the wind. He lowered his head and rubbed it subconsciously, and the torch in his hand was blown away.
The moment the light suddenly dimmed, Xiao Lingyue climbed over the wall and jumped into the courtyard lightly.
The government officials were short of manpower, and Li's house was quite large. They could only guard the outside of the house, but not many people were on duty inside.
Xiao Lingyue easily sneaked into the courtyard of "Li Bihuai". When she saw a team of two government officials guarding the door, she decisively gave up and turned around to walk to the guest courtyard.
The guest house is where the Nanyan caravan stayed.
The yard is very large and filled with goods brought by the caravan. The boxes look just like the real ones.
Xiao Lingyue had no interest in these goods, and she knew without thinking that these were all deceptions, a cover for the caravan to make a show.
There are a lot of people in the caravan, more than twenty people, and most of them live in this guest house. The remaining few errand boys live in the inn outside. They should not be important people.
When Xiao Lingyue and Zhan Beihan sneaked in last night, the three cloaked men they saw and the middle-aged man they talked to were the core members of the caravan.
Probably not all.
When Xiao Lingyue sneaked into the guest courtyard quietly, she was startled and quickly hid behind the bushes.
There was actually someone patrolling the guest yard!
Guards in twos and threes held torches and walked back and forth in the courtyard, seemingly protecting the goods piled in the courtyard. In fact, their vigilant eyes looked outside the courtyard from time to time, as if they were wary of someone breaking in.
In the center of the guard patrol, the doors and windows of the main room in the guest courtyard were closed.
There was a light on in the room, and the moving figures could be vaguely seen, but it was not clear how many people there were.
I couldn't hear what they were saying.
Xiao Lingyue cursed secretly and could only go around the front yard and follow the wall to the back yard.
It turns out there are people patrolling the backyard!
A rough count shows that there are more than a dozen guards in the front and back yards. Most members of the caravan are here, and the important members are in the house, guarded like iron barrels.
"You're so tightly guarded, it's like you've got something on your mind written all over your face. I want to see what you are doing hiding in the house!"
Xiao Lingyue curled her lips, grabbed the gap where the guards were patrolling, rushed under the main eaves, jumped to grab the beam, flipped upside down nimbly, and landed lightly on the roof.