Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2354 Bring a Message 16.0
Ye Pan didn't let Shen Cha wait too long. After just a moment, he led two soldiers in.

The two soldiers didn't look very old, and when they saw Shen Cha and Jin Miaomiao, they saluted politely.

"Zhuo Liang and Du Fang are here to see the general and general Jin!"

"No courtesy, get up!"

Shen Cha looked at them and felt that they looked familiar. These two children were on duty when Song Qiyun was sent away before.

"He looks familiar. He should have been on duty at the city gate?" Jin Miaomiao looked at Ye Pan, "Isn't that right?"

"General Jin, yes!" Ye Pan nodded, "The four city gates rotate every few days."

"So that's how it is." Shen Cha smiled, "No wonder I saw you guys in the east this morning!" She gently shook the registration book in her hand and asked, "Were you two responsible for registering the foreign merchants the day before yesterday?"

"To answer the general, yes!"

"Very good. Since it's you, you should still have some impression of him." Shen Cha handed the problematic registration book to Ye Pan and asked him to show it to the two people. "Do you still have any impression of this Hu merchant named Harlem?"

"Hallem?" Zhuo Liang and Du Fang came up to Ye Pan, looked at the contents of the register, and nodded to Shen Cha.

"still remember?"

"Reporting to the general, remember." Zhuo Liang recalled, "When the city gates were opened in the morning, they were among the first wave of Hu merchants to pass through."

"However, this Harlem," Du Fang thought for a moment, "is indeed a bit strange, and a little different from the ordinary Hu merchants."

"Strange?" Jin Miaomiao looked at Shen Cha, then at the two men, and said, "What's strange? What's different?"

"There are probably two reasons. Although this Hallam is a stranger and has never passed through the customs, he is almost the same as the Hu merchants who have been through the customs. There is no big difference. But his entourage is a bit strange."

“Is this the first monster?”

"General, yes, this is the first strange thing." Du Fang nodded, "Logically speaking, most of the Hu merchants have followers who are tall and strong, and look very powerful."

"That's true." Jin Miaomiao agreed with what Du Fang said. "They came all the way from the Western Regions. The journey was long and dangerous. If they hadn't found some strong followers, they would have been robbed halfway and would not have been able to reach their destination alive."

"General Jin is right." Zhuo Liang agreed, "But the followers around Hallam are not tall or strong at all. They are thin and small, and even a little short. We suspected that they were not his followers at all, so we used the excuse that there was something wrong with the goods to test them, but..."

"But?" Shen Cha frowned slightly, "Didn't you see the flaw?"

"General, yes!" Du Fang sighed. "Although they are short and thin, they do have the physique of warriors. We also tested them with the common language of the Western Regions, and they spoke fluently. There were no problems with the documents passed, so we had no choice but to let them pass."

"But you still have doubts, don't you?"

"General Jin, yes!" Du Fang nodded, "And the second point is that Hallam kept winking at us, as if there was something wrong with his eyes. But when we wanted to talk to him alone, his followers followed us closely, and we didn't have any chance at all." He sighed softly, "These are the two reasons why we think he is weird." "Didn't you notify the patrol team to keep an eye on them?"

"We did notify them, but" Zhuo Liang shook his head gently, "everything is normal. They live in the West Market where the Hu merchants usually live. There was nothing unusual throughout the day, so we withdrew the surveillance."

"They must have noticed that you were monitoring them, so they didn't make any moves. But when you stopped monitoring them, they..." Jin Miaomiao sneered, "began to take action." She thought for a moment and said, "If you see them again, will you recognize them?"

"Yes." Zhuo Liang and Du Fang answered with certainty, "Because we were deeply impressed by them."

"Okay, when it's daybreak, come with us to identify the person." Jin Miaomiao looked at Shen Cha, "Do you have any other questions?"

"I have another question." Shen Cha held up a finger, "How many followers did this Hu merchant bring with him?"

"Remember this one, too. There are five in total."

Shen Cha and Jin Miaomiao exchanged glances and nodded slightly. This exactly matched the number of Yan You and his men.

"General, you are suspicious of those followers."

"Yanyou." Shen Cha saw that Ye Pan's face suddenly turned bad, and sighed softly, "The person has been caught. If you want to reminisce about the past, go to the dungeon to find my second brother and let him take you to see him. But you have to remember that he is still useful, don't kill him for me."

"There is no old story to talk about. The revenge has been taken. His Kung Fu is so bad now, he deserves it." Ye Pan cleared his throat. "It seems that Hallam must have been threatened, so he winked at the two of them, but Yanyou followed too closely, so he didn't find a chance to ask for help. Then..." He looked at Shen Cha, "General, Hallam is safe now."

"Send someone to take a look."

"Yes!"

Ye Pan responded and arranged for his brothers to go to the West Market to check. If Hallam was safe, there was no need to alarm him. If Hallam was not safe, they would try their best to rescue him while he was still alive. However, he felt that Hallam was in great danger. After all, Yan You was a selfless person and would never leave anyone alive if he could kill them to silence them.

"Okay, go do your thing, we'll wait for the brothers who are investigating to come back!"

"Yes!"

Zhuo Liang and Du Fang bowed and left the tent, leaving only Shen Cha and his group and Ye Pan.

Shen Cha looked at Ye Pan, raised his eyebrows slightly, pointed to the stool next to him, asked him to sit down, and said, "Xiao Yun is gone, you are alone, can you handle it?"

"It's a bit unsatisfactory." After Ye Pan sat down, he chuckled, "It's not that the prince left, it's that our General Lu doesn't work because the prince left. He thinks the punishment from the Marshal and the Marquis is a bit heavy, and he has been pestering them all day, saying that it's his problem and that the prince shouldn't be punished. But after being rejected by the two, he went back in a bad mood, and no one could persuade him. Later, I don't know how he figured it out. When I was on duty, he looked much better than during the day."

"Really? Old Lu is still feeling sad?" Jin Miaomiao shook her head helplessly. "If I had known this would happen, why did I do it in the first place? Wouldn't it have been better if I had just honestly admitted my problem?"

"General Jin, as General Lu's deputy general, I must say that there is no problem with his caution, but..." Ye Pan smiled, "his reaction in battle was a little bit lacking."