When several people heard this, they all nodded and said: "Your Highness, don't worry, since we have become this imperial businessman, we must stick to the matter to the end." In their opinion, even if they take over the goods in the past few days, the loss is limited, as long as they are no longer restricted by this identity, this bit of silver will not hurt the vitality of the family.

After they left, Cheng Xiaolian glanced at Yang Youcai: "Did you hear it, we only have five days, if we can't catch the real culprit behind the scenes in five days, we will have to lose a large part of the imperial merchants, and no one in the whole of Sichuan will take over the business of the imperial merchants in a short period of time." ”

Yang Youcai clenched his fists: "Your Highness, rest assured, I will definitely be able to catch that bastard within five days, and then dismantle him in eight pieces." ”

"How far is it from Chengdu?"

"It's half a day."

"Tomorrow we will go out and go to the place. I think things may not be so simple, since those people have been robbed under the banner of imperial merchants, are there really any robbers in this world who are not afraid? Or are they not taking us seriously at all? ”

Yang Youcai touched his chin: "If it's the latter, it's okay to say, but if it's the former, I'm afraid that someone is deliberately giving us a problem." That Xu Tang Master couldn't escape suspicion, half of his business hall took over our business, and Chengdu Shang Tang even suffered a big loss of vitality because of this, we have reason to suspect that he did it. ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Catch the thief and take the stolen goods, besides, the hall master Xu is a businessman, he is alone, I'm afraid he doesn't have such courage, let's go over and see the situation." ”

Early the next morning, Cheng Xiaolian took Yang Youcai, fifty brocade guards, and three hundred cavalry out, and went straight to the place where the imperial merchant had an accident.

It was only at noon that I arrived at the site of the accident, and there were still traces of the accident the day before yesterday, and there were still a lot of blood stains on the ground, and it seemed that there was a battle at that time.

Cheng Xiaolian didn't understand the matter of the criminal name, so he could only let Yang Youcai and other professional people check it, and after a while, a few people said a few words to Yang Youcai, who was standing in the middle, Yang Youcai's face became very ugly, and then walked over to Cheng Xiaolian: "Your Highness, something is happening." ”

"What's the matter?"

"This scene doesn't look like it's caused by fighting, it's like it's artificially arranged."

Cheng Xiaolian frowned: "Are you sure?" ”

"The blood stains are not sprayed, but dripped on the ground, and my master told me that in this case, the blood is dripped on the ground, not the blood that flows out because of the fighting, and when the person is cut off by the neck, the blood will definitely be sprayed out."

Cheng Xiaolian sneered: "So this is the game they set up for us together?" ”

Yang Youcai stretched out his hand and grabbed the knife on his waist: "I'll go back and arrest those villains and torture them." ”

Cheng Xiaolian waved his hand: "Now the situation in Sichuan is treacherous, we can't act rashly, it is already our limit to kill the Qi Angelica family because of their price hikes, and now that we have taken the Gu family, the businessmen in Sichuan will definitely stay away from us, even if the Gu family confesses in the end, they will think that it is the result of our forced confession, so we must catch their fox tail to make them have nothing to say." ”

Yang Youcai scratched his head: "This is a bit embarrassing, we can't do anything to the Gu family, how can we hold their fox tail?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Why did those thieves kidnap the Gu family? It's not because of the valuable goods in their cars, but since this thief was made up by them, the goods will not disappear for no reason. ”

Yang Youcai's eyes lit up: "I understand." ”

Soon, Jin Yiwei was sent out in batches to check the traces. When the Gu family's caravan returned to Chengdu, there were no goods on the car, and almost everyone was injured and looked depressed, which was why everyone was sure at a glance that they had encountered a strongman.

Since the goods could not be brought back to Chengdu City, they did not throw them on the spot, they must have hidden somewhere on the way, there is only one post station in the middle of Chengdu, but there are still many villages, no matter where they hide it is possible, but due to years of war, the number of caravans is not very large, so the traces on the road have not been destroyed.

The trace masters in the brocade guard began to look for the whereabouts of this batch of goods along the direction of the ruts, and the car was loaded with silk woven by Cheng Xiaolian's men, which could not be carried far by people.

After a while, a brocade guard shouted, "Found it." ”

Everyone looked over and saw that there were indeed fresh rut marks on a small road next to them, Cheng Xiaolian asked three hundred cavalry to guard the surroundings, and no one was allowed to pass by, and then took more than a dozen brocade guards out, since it was the ghost of the Gu family itself, there were no bandits, and there was no need for so many people.

Besides, if there are too many people, it is not beautiful, if this rut is the suspicious plan of the Gu family, these people will not be able to leave any traces directly on the scene, and they will no longer be able to find the black hand hidden behind the scenes.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the group followed the traces to a small village, there was no one at the entrance of the village, probably because it was dark, everyone went home to eat, but there were a few dog barks in the village, indicating that this is not a village without people. As for extravagant things such as oil lamps and candles, they are generally unaffordable at home, and they go to bed at night, and if the moon is good, they can spin some silk cloth under the moon.

Cheng Xiaolian and the others held torches, and the leading Jinyi guard stood up: "Your Highness, the traces have disappeared." ”

Yang Youcai was stunned for a moment: "What did you say?" ”

"The rut marks are gone here, and it looks like it's the way it came."

Yang Youcai glanced at Cheng Xiaolian: "Your Highness is still prescient and didn't lead the army over, and they bastards took us for a walk." Otherwise, we will really destroy this trace. ”

Cheng Xiaolian waved his hand: "No, this carriage must have unloaded things when it arrived here." ”

The brocade guard laughed: "Your Highness is right, this carriage is very deep when it comes, but it becomes very shallow when it leaves, and the goods on the carriage must have been unloaded." ”

Yang Youcai glanced around: "Impossible, you look at the nearest house around here is still more than fifty steps away from us, how can the carriage stop here?" ”

Cheng Xiaolian sneered: "When the carriage arrives here, are you still afraid that no one will unload the cloth?" The village was full of people, one person held a horse, and the time of half an afternoon was finished. ”

Yang Youcai was dumbfounded: "However, if this goods are distributed to the people in the village, what should we do?" The people in the village must have been instructed a long time ago, and they insisted that they bought it themselves, but we couldn't do anything about it. ”

"Hehe, you forgot one thing, the Gu family is a businessman, and businessmen don't do this kind of thing."

(End of chapter)