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Huang Ying said: "The dead scabbard is the name of our security agency. This name comes from the 'silver scabbard' used when escorting the official silver. Lin Shuai, do you know how we escort the official silver?"

Lin Yuan thought about it and said, "Put the silver in the box, and then put the box on the car, isn't that the case?"

Huang Ying shook her head lightly, and said: "That's not the case. If you put it in a box, if a bodyguard took a silver ingot out of it, who would know? If you meet a thief and a thief on the road, put it in the box. If you steal a few pieces of silver, we will ask our Escort Bureau to compensate you."

"Also, the government never directly gives us silver for us to transport. Think about it, we ship official silver at a minimum of 10 taels, and official silver ingots are 100 taels a piece, so there must be a thousand silver ingots , we can’t count them one by one! That’s why we need to use silver sheaths when transporting official silver.”

"The silver sheath is made of two pieces of wood, and a groove is dug out of the two pieces of wood. The size of the groove is the same as that of the silver ingot, and the depth is about half the height of the silver ingot. When putting the silver, the silver ingot is first placed on a piece of wood. and put another piece of wood on it, so the silver will be put into the trough?"

"Afterwards, the outside of the wood will be hooped with iron hoops, and the joints will be sealed. This will become a silver sheath. All the government officials give us are silver sheaths. We can't see the silver ourselves. If the silver sheath is missing Silver, that's their government's business, and I'm happy with it."

"A silver sheath like this can hold ten silver ingots, and a silver sheath weighs a hundred catties. It takes two people to lift it together! So it's also safe. Later, some customers also bought it for the safety of their own things. Put things in a wooden box with iron hoops and seals on the outside. We can’t let people touch them. If the iron hoops and seals are broken, people will say that we have bought goods without permission. In this way, the wooden box for silver is called a silver sheath. Sheaths, but we don’t know what’s in the wooden boxes of customers, so they’re called dead sheaths.”

Lin Yuan nodded and asked, "Do you know what's in there? Is it silver?"

Huang Ying shook her head and said, "No, the contents inside are much lighter than silver! Moreover, some boxes are light, while others are heavy. The difference is huge. Two of our bodyguards took a lot of effort to lift one. The dead scabbards, I thought they were all so heavy, and I used all my strength when I moved the next one, but the next dead scabbard was very light, and he sat on the butt all at once, so I remember this incident very clearly.”

Gao Yu giggled on the side, and Lin Yuan asked, "Is there anything wrong on the way to transport the things? When the things arrived in Tianshui, who took them away?"

Huang Ying smiled and said: "Don't worry, Commander Lin, I'll tell you slowly." Then she continued: "Although we may meet robbers on the way of walking the darts, it's over after a few words. After all, we are hardworking, Even if the robbers ate us, their mouths would be full of blood, and they were willing to pick soft persimmons, so it might not be once in a hundred times that the robbers actually took the darts! But when they were transported to Huangsha Town, something strange happened."

Lin Yuan asked, "Huangsha Town? The name sounds familiar!"

Huang Ying said: "Huangsha Town is quite close to Banruo Temple."

Lin Yuan nodded and asked, "What happened in Huangsha Town?"

Huang Ying said: "That customer went with us. This is also a strange thing. We have escorted others, and we have never met the owner of the goods who went with us! After staying in Huangsha Town for one night, the next day Out of the town, walking about ten miles, a group of people came in front. We thought they were villains, but when we got closer, we found that those people did not have weapons, and they were not like villains blocking the road. At this time, the customer spoke and asked We stopped and handed things over to the group that came."

"After so many years of darts, this is the only time I have given darts to others on the way. Although we feel strange, but the goods belong to other customers, and we will give them to them. At this time, the customer spoke again and asked us to wait in place. Now, he will rent our carriage for use, and he will send the carriage back to us after delivering the goods.”

"I said at the time, where are you going, I can just pull the things for you. Who knows that the customer disagreed and gave us a large sum of money, which is enough to buy our carriage! I didn't say anything, and asked them to take the carriage away, and the customer brought the carriage back to us in the afternoon."

Huang Ying stopped here, and Lin Yuan asked, "What about the rest?"

Huang Ying said: "There will be nothing in the back. He gave us the carriage and returned to Huangsha Town. We don't know where that batch of goods went."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It seems that the batch of explosives and ammunition found under the Banruo Temple should have been transported by them. The nitrocellulose is very light, and the guns and tools are very heavy!"

Lin Yuan then asked: "Who is that customer? What kind of business is he doing? Is there any business for him in Tianshui?"

Huang Ying shook her head and said: "We don't know these things. He didn't say anything. I tried to trick him a few times along the way, but he didn't get it out. He gave us a name. I think it's fake. It's Chu Youzhen!"

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "What's the use of just having a name, it must be fake! It seems that this clue has come to an end, so much effort wasted." Lin Yuan said: "If there is any more news about this person, You must inform me."

Huang Ying agreed to come down, Lin Yuan left Gao Yu and left Gao Yu in the escort agency. Lin Yuan returned to the station and saw Shen Wanqing staring at the window in a daze, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Why are you in a daze there? ?”

Shen Wanqing gave a "hush", and then said, "Don't make noise, I'm playing chess."

Lin Yuan looked around Shen Wanqing, there was neither a chessboard nor chess pieces, and he looked outside the window, but there was nothing there, so he asked, "Play chess? Who are you playing chess with?"

Shen Wanqing pointed to her head with her finger, and said with a smile: "Blind chess!" Suddenly her expression changed, and she said, "When you interrupt me, the chess is messed up." As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and waved it in front of her eyes, as if there was a chessboard in front of her. As if to scramble all the chess pieces on it, he said: "No more moves!"

Lin Yuan chuckled, and Shen Wanqing asked, "Why did you come back alone? Where's Gao Yu?"

After Lin Yuan talked about today's events, Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "Gao Yu often acted like a baby when we were together, but I didn't expect her to act even more aggressively at the Escort."

Lin Yuan said: "Now that the clue is broken, I can only think about how to solve the land issue later."

Shen Wanqing said: "Solving these problems requires manpower. Gansu is so big, you need a lot of people."

Lin Yuan said: "I've already made up my mind. Now that everything in Mongolia is almost done, I will call the people who are carrying out reforms in Mongolia, and then carry out the reforms."

Shen Wanqing asked: "Then what about the Qing court? You don't care?"

Lin Yuan said: "There are no land owners in Gansu now. I'm equivalent to cleaning up the mess for the Qing court, and they will praise me."

At this moment, I suddenly saw Gao Yu rushing in, and said to Lin Yuan, "Hurry up and go to the Escort with me!"

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

Gao Yu said, "That transporter is here again!"