Border Cook

Chapter 555 Thanks

He did not have Ying'er with him as usual, and he even wore a veil in the hot weather. When he reached an intersection, he looked around, and after a man walked out of the alley, he said a few simple words to him, and the two of them walked in together.

Before leaving, he looked around again.

The whole action can be said to be sneaky and quite suspicious.

Wu Jin also saw Fan Jinglan and wanted to run towards her excitedly.

Xia Yunji frowned slightly and half squatted down, seeming to speak to Wu Jin, or as if talking to himself, "This person has his own private affairs. If you investigate too much, it would be inappropriate. Everyone has their own little secrets, right?"

Wu Jin didn't understand Xia Yunji's chatter, but he still gave a polite "woof".

"Okay, let's go and see if there are any good things." Xia Yunji stood up and took Wu Jin along the route he had just planned.

Walking west along the street, it was early morning and just after breakfast. The weather was clear but very cool. There were many farmers not far from the city setting up stalls here, selling vegetables, eggs or handmade trinkets.

Xia Yunji walked around for a while and saw someone selling bamboo balls.

The round ball made of bamboo strips is as big as a human head, with a few small copper bells tied inside. When you shake it a few times, it makes a crisp and pleasant sound.

Xia Yunji thought the copper bell bamboo ball was very interesting, and seeing that Wu Jin was also very satisfied with it, he paid for it.

The man and the dog continued strolling, and when they reached the westernmost end of the street, they found an alley and turned onto the second street on the north side.

However, after walking a few steps into the alley, Xia Yunji realized something was wrong.

It seemed like someone was following him.

The other person's footsteps were very light, and he was obviously a very skilled person. He walked and stopped frequently, always keeping a distance from him that was neither too far nor too close.

But if Xia Yunji slightly turned sideways, the other party's figure would immediately disappear among the gatehouses along the street, just enough to avoid him.

interesting.

Xia Yunji smiled slightly, pretending that he didn't notice, and continued to walk forward with Wu Jin. As he walked, he even deliberately shook the bamboo ball in his hand to make the bell inside make a pleasant sound. When he saw the osmanthus tree planted in front of someone's house in the alley, he jumped up to reach the branches.

They walked like this to the end of the alley, and Xia Yunji led Wu Jin to turn right.

The figure behind caught up, but when he turned right, he saw that the alley in front of him was empty, and there was no trace of Xia Yunji and Wu Jin.

Ok?
The figure was slightly startled and looked around for a long time. Suddenly, a laugh came to his ears. Then Xia Yunji jumped over the wall next to him holding Wu Jin and landed steadily on the ground.

Xia Yunji put the black gold in his hand on the ground. Black gold was not used to it because it flew into the air twice in a row. It felt top-heavy and its steps were unsteady. It took a while for it to stabilize.

But in order to avoid being laughed at for being unsteady on his feet, Wu Jin chose to sit on the ground and look at the two people in front of him.

Xia Yunji looked at the person in front of him and couldn't help but touch his nose. "It's Madam Fan, but I don't know what Madam Fan wants to do by following me like this."

Fan Jinglan took off the veil on her head and smiled sweetly, "General Ji really noticed this a long time ago, but he jumped into someone else's house rashly just now, I'm afraid he would scare people." "No." Xia Yunji was very confident, "I just saw at a glance that there was a lot of dust on the door panels of this family's gate, and the door lock had a little rust. There were no new couplets pasted on the gate and door frame, which shows that no one has lived there for a long time. That's why I made the decision just now."

Upon hearing this, Fan Jinglan turned her head to look, and saw that the scene in front of her was exactly as Xia Yunji described. She couldn't help but nodded slightly.

However, Xia Yunji had been walking quite fast just now, and it only took him a moment to turn around. Excluding the time he took Wu Jin to climb over the wall, he did not have much time to observe.

In such a short time, he was able to observe so carefully and make the corresponding decision so quickly...

This Xia Yunji has some skills.

Fan Jinglan couldn't help but nodded again, "General Ji is indeed General Ji."

Although I had heard from my second brother when I went to the military camp before that Xia Yunji was a brave and skilled fighter, hearing is just hearing. Seeing it with one's own eyes is always different.

What's more, seeing the big picture from the small details can be considered as a small understanding.

But facing Fan Jinglan's praise, Xia Yunji did not appreciate it. Instead, his smile faded immediately and he looked at her with a pair of sharp eyes, "Madam Fan, you haven't told me yet why you followed me and Wu Jin just now."

"Well." Fan Jinglan tilted her head and smiled, "If I were to think about it, I want to thank General Ji."

"Thank me?" Xia Yunji was stunned.

He didn't remember doing anything beneficial to Fan Jinglan during this period.

"Yes, thank you, General Ji." Fan Jinglan said with a smile, "Just now, General Ji had already seen me sneaking around there, but he didn't come forward to say hello, so he didn't delay my work. Naturally, he helped me, so I naturally have to thank him."

It turned out to be because of this.

Xia Yunji suddenly realized, but he couldn't suppress his curiosity. "Since Madam Fan said that she was sneaky, what exactly is Madam Fan doing? Can you tell me about it?"

Speaking of this, Fan Jinglan sighed first, her face wrinkled into a bun, "It's okay to tell General Ji, but how do you say this..."

"I was misled at first, but after careful investigation, I found out something. I have handed these people over to the government office and asked them to deal with them."

"Oh?" After hearing Fan Jinglan say this, Xia Yunji's face became more curious.

Seeing this, Fan Jinglan explained the whole story clearly.

It turned out that when Fan Jinglan was strolling on the street these two days, she encountered two or three people acting furtively on the street, as if they were having a meeting. Especially when she heard those people vaguely saying "in stock" and "guaranteed authenticity", she felt that this matter was not very serious.

Considering that this is the capital of Changzhou Prefecture, adjacent to the border, and the current war between the Great Zhou Kingdom and the Jin Wei Kingdom is ongoing and the situation is tense, at this time, it is most likely to involve treason, smuggling of weapons and food.

Fan Jinglan was very sensitive about this matter, so she disguised herself and approached them deliberately to find out what those people were doing.

After some hard work, Fan Jinglan lowered her attitude and successfully got in touch with those people. She also successfully saw the so-called seller.

However, those sneaky sellers were not the so-called smugglers of weapons or food, but rather resellers of goods from the Wufu Workshop!