Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 369 The Eastern Han Dynasty also had hairline troubles (4100)

Seeing that Boss Cao didn't express any opinions, Tian Weng naturally didn't dare to disobey Wu Liang's intentions, and quickly said with a smile: "The villain obeys the order, and the villain will order someone to send it to General Wu when he turns back."

at the same time.

Tian Weng is not a person without brains and emotional intelligence.

Through this small detail, he can feel that Wu Liang is not just the mouth of Boss Cao, but the role of mastering the power of life and death in this matter, so he dare not have any contempt Heart... Even though Boss Cao withdrew Wu Liang's Yongqiu Order a few days ago in front of many Chenliu nobles, he was also there at that time, but compared with a "general", there is a difference between a mere county magistrate and a "general". .

This is probably a big boss pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, a big boss that should not be underestimated.

He had already realized that the impeachment of Wu Liang by the Chenliu clan was an extremely stupid move. Fortunately... the Tian family was not the one who took the lead, but the Zhu family.

but.

At this moment, Tian Weng's heart has also started to beat a drum.

He felt that the matter should not be so simple. If there is a problem with the meat purchased from his butcher shop, it can be solved with just one sentence. Boss Cao doesn't need to mobilize people like this...

"Ah."

Wu Liang nodded in satisfaction, but he no longer continued to ask Tian Weng, but looked at the bald shopkeeper who had just been slapped by Tian Weng, and asked an irrelevant question, "Brother, Have you seen the situation clearly?"

"what?"

The shopkeeper with the bald head was puzzled by the question, and after being taken aback for a moment, he quickly clapped his hands and said, "The villain is stupid, I haven't understood the meaning of the general, please tell the general clearly."

"Then let me make it clearer. Listen carefully, that batch of meat is not just unedible, but something went wrong, a big problem that concerns human life."

Wu Liang looked into the eyes of the shopkeeper with the bald head and said, "So, it's not just a matter of compensation now, maybe the head will fall to the ground. Not only can the head of the Tian family not protect you, even he and the Tian family can't protect themselves now. What I said should be clear enough, right?"

"Pfft!"

Hearing this, the bald shopkeeper, who looked quite strong, turned pale with fright, kneeled on the ground as soon as his legs softened, and begged for mercy: "General Mingjian, the villain can swear to the sky, the villain will never To do anything to this batch of mature sheep is something sent to the envoy's residence, even if you borrow ten... a hundred cowards, you would never dare."

the other side.

"..."

The bodies of Tian Weng and the members of the Tian family also trembled involuntarily.

Rao Tian Weng had already realized that the matter should not be that simple, but he never expected Wu Liang to say something so serious. According to him, not only he may be implicated, but the entire Tian family may also be implicated. The house that suffered destruction.

But until now, Wu Liang has not said anything specific.

While this made them confused, it also made them more anxious.

"I believe you don't have the guts."

Wu Liang patted the bald shopkeeper on the shoulder again, and said with a smile, "So I can give you a chance to clarify, as long as you honestly explain everything you know, I will keep you safe."

"Although the general asks, the villain will know everything, and he will never dare to hide anything!"

The bald shopkeeper didn't dare to say a word, and quickly kowtowed in gratitude to Dade.

"However, there are many people here. In order to prevent you from being disturbed unnecessarily, I decided to interrogate you privately. Come in with me."

While talking, Wu Liang purposely glanced at Tian Weng and Tian's family who were nervous, before turning around and walking into a dark room behind the living room.

"..."

The shopkeeper with the bald head was scared out of his wits by Wu Liang, so he quickly got up and scrambled after him.

"Let's go and have a look."

When Boss Cao and Xi Zhicai saw this, they also followed closely behind with two personal guards.

"boom!"

As the door of the darkroom was closed, Tian Weng and Tian's family couldn't help but tremble again, their faces were paler than that of the bald shopkeeper, and their nervousness was beyond words.

……

In the darkroom.

"Let me ask you, Tian Weng just said that your meat shop is shoddy, what does that mean?"

Wu Liang asked straight to the point.

"Reporting to General, in today's world, there are far fewer people who can eat meat. There are often some meats that have been stored for a long time in the butcher shop. Sometimes the meat has changed its taste or has worms, and the villain will use some tricks to eat meat." Cover the taste, or remove the insects, reprocess it with some spices and pigments and sell it as fresh meat."

The bald shopkeeper hurriedly said truthfully, "However, if you eat this kind of meat, it will probably cause people to have stomach troubles, and it won't kill you, and this kind of meat will only be sold to those who have no power and power. If the clues come to you, all you need is for the villain and the shop assistants to teach you a lesson, and there will be no waves. It seems that the big figures like the king and the general, as well as the familiar gentry in the city, are here. It will never be so shoddy."

"So, you didn't shoddy the sheep you purchased this time?"

Wu Liang asked again.

"No! I swear to the sky that there is absolutely no! Those sheep were purchased by the villain himself at the livestock market. After killing them that day, he sent them to the envoy's mansion. He didn't dare to delay for a moment. You are very courageous, and you definitely don't dare to tamper with the meat that the envoy wants, the villain still wants to live!"

The bald shopkeeper frantically shook his head, and swore sincerely.

"Okay, let me ask you again, has anyone visited the meat shop in the past two days to inquire about this batch of meat?"

Wu Liang nodded, then asked.

"Have."

The shopkeeper with the bald head said, "The military master who ordered this batch of meat at the butcher's shop the evening before yesterday brought a few people. The military master entered the door without saying a word, pushed the villain and the buddy aside, and then put them on the table. The bucket poured all the meat and livestock in the butcher shop with water, and the villain didn't know what was going on, and he didn't dare to resist, so he had to laugh and ask."

"The military master didn't reply, but just watched the meat and animals waiting for a long time, as if he was looking for something."

"Later, when the water on the meat and animals dried up, a young military lord, whom the villain had never seen before, asked about this batch of meat. After the villain answered the truth one by one, Well, these military masters never made it difficult for the villain, and they left together after a while."

Speaking of this, the bald shopkeeper begged for mercy again with a mournful face, "General Mingjian, what the villain said is true, there are old and young on the villain, the general is merciful."

"..."

Boss Cao was slightly moved, and seemed to want to ask questions, because the young military master was probably Cao Ang.

As a result, before he could open his mouth, Wu Liang continued to ask: "The young military master you mentioned was wearing gray clothes, a black belt around his waist, two swords, one long and one short, and a green sword on his head. Lun towel?"

"Exactly! Exactly! That military master has an extraordinary demeanor, and he definitely does not look like an ordinary military master."

The bald shopkeeper nodded repeatedly.

"My lord, yes."

Wu Liang turned his head and nodded to Boss Cao for confirmation, and then asked, "What question did that young military master ask you, and how did you answer it?"

"promise."

The bald shopkeeper quickly said, "The military master also said that something went wrong with that batch of meat first, but he refused to explain what went wrong. He only taught the villain to give an explanation. The villain knows that the meat is not shoddy." , He also said that the military master came to blackmail the villain, so he reported the name of my master, and told the story of the villain personally slaughtering this batch of sheep."

"After the military master heard about it, he inquired about the origin of this batch of sheep in detail, and asked the villain to find out the origin of each sheep in detail."

"How can this villain say anything? He just told him that the batch of sheep were purchased from the livestock market in the south of the city. Afterwards, the military master didn't ask any more questions, and he didn't pursue the matter any further, and they left together. .”

"At that time, the villain thought that the extremely military master was here to blackmail the villain, but he didn't dare to do anything wrong after hearing my master's name, so the matter ended here, so he didn't think much about it. How could he think of this batch of meat? Something really went wrong, and it even alarmed the envoy and the general, the villain really doesn't know why it happened."

The cattle market in the south of the city?
Hearing this, Wu Liang had roughly guessed the whereabouts of Cao Ang and Cao Ting, and he would definitely go there to continue the investigation, but it is hard to say what exactly he found out and where he is now.

and so.

Now to investigate the whereabouts of Cao Ang and Cao Ti, I am afraid that we must first start with the livestock market in the south of the city.

But before that, we still need to know more about the situation. Otherwise, there must be more than one merchant in the cattle market in the south of the city. In this world, most of these merchants also have some backgrounds. It may scare the snake away.

If the caster guessed that it was Cao Ang and Cao Ti who were missing, if Cao Ang and Cao Ti were still alive, they would immediately fall into a more dangerous situation. It is undoubtedly the most appropriate way to dodge people and destroy their bodies.

So pondered for a moment.

Wu Liang suddenly asked again: "Since you can't tell the origin of each sheep, then this batch of sheep must not be purchased from one person, right?"

"The general is wise."

The shopkeeper with the bald head went on to say, "Most of them were bought from the three dealers who are resident in the market. The villain often deals with them. Only a dozen were bought from a dealer who had never seen it before. If it weren't for This dealer asked for a lower price than the others, and the villain might not buy sheep from him... The villain also told the truth to the young military master, who even asked about the dealer's appearance. "

"Oh? What does it look like?"

Wu Liang asked quickly.

This never-before-seen trafficker is undoubtedly the biggest suspect at present. Cao Ang must have asked this clue before he stopped asking and went to the livestock market.

"This businessman has a full beard, about one finger long, his right eye should be blind, and he's wearing a leather blindfold. In addition... his hair looks dense and black, but for some reason it's not tied into a bun. , but wrapped it tightly with a piece of cloth, the villain only saw a few strands of hair protruding from the back of his neck, and judged it based on this, it was too much to do. The villain only remembered this detail now. Didn't mention it to the young military master."

The bald shopkeeper scratched his bald head and said with emotion, "It's just because the villain was also called a handsome man in the village when he was young, but he suddenly started to lose his hair at the age of seventeen, and then he lost more and more hair. With this appearance, not only is he no longer known as a handsome man, but he is also often teased by others, so he is quite concerned about this matter... Don’t blame the general, it’s the villain who talks too much, and the villain is convicted.”

"..."

Wu Liang wanted to laugh inexplicably. It turned out that not only people in later generations valued hairlines, but people these days also have the same obsession with hair.

But becoming bald before twenty is probably a disease...

of course.

The detail he provided is also worth noting. These days, Han people don’t like to wrap their headscarves. No matter men or women, rich or poor, as long as their hair is in good condition, they generally don’t wrap their hair up. This is more like a kind of The practice of people from the Western Regions, of course, may also be a method of hiding their identities.

"What's the figure of this person?"

Wu Liang asked again.

"Compared with an adult man, he is a little thinner, and he is not too tall. When he walks, his feet are light and light. When he talks, he seems to have eaten sand. It sounds awkward because he is thin and hoarse."

The bald shopkeeper continued.

A very characteristic image has appeared in Wu Liang's mind.

Don't talk about these details later, let's just talk about the beard and eyepatch, as long as this person is still in the livestock market, or even in Chenliu City, it will be difficult to hide.

"Ming Gong, you can send someone to look for it."

Wu Liang turned his head and said to Boss Cao, "Once you see this person at the livestock market, immediately take him back and interrogate him. In addition...send some soldiers to guard the market in disguise to monitor other dealers. Any abnormal behavior must be caught immediately, and I would rather catch the mistake than let it go."

"Zhicai, you arrange it!"

Boss Cao nodded and said to Xi Zhicai.

"promise!"

Xi Zhicai hurriedly withdrew to do so.

However, Wu Liang knows that the chances of finding this person are not too great. Just like what he thought before, this is a one-shot deal. Get somewhere else instead of waiting for things to come out and be found.

It's just that the caster seems to have some reverse thinking.

After all, when Cao Ang and Cao Ting went to investigate the matter, they had already completed the business, and then these two guys still disappeared, which means that the caster did not leave immediately after finishing the business...

What is the reason for this.

Or what the caster had in mind.

It still made Wu Liang helpless.

of course.

He didn't completely believe what the bald shopkeeper said, nor did he rule out the suspicion of Tian Weng and Tian's family.

then.

"You stay here."

Wu Liang left the shopkeeper with the bald head in the dark room, then adjusted his expression, walked out with Boss Cao with a dark face, and sneered when he saw Tian Weng: "Patriarch Tian, ​​you really know people, know faces, but don't know your heart." , I will give you one last chance, and I hope you will not play with the lives of the Tian family."

(End of this chapter)