Jin Yiwei is on duty, signing Fengshen Legs at the beginning

Huang Shaojie quickly checked dozens of corpses of officers and soldiers and came to two conclusions.

“These officers and soldiers were all killed with one knife, and there were not many messy traces of fighting on the ground. This shows that they had almost no resistance to the robbers at that time.”

“Either these robbers are highly skilled in martial arts, or these officers and soldiers have been drugged by San Kung Fu-type drugs!”

He looked at the internal organs and blood of the corpse, but unfortunately he couldn’t see it.

Regardless of this for the time being, Huang Shaojie decided to go see where the rut was going.

Three hundred thousand taels of silver, even if one cart contains ten thousand taels, it would still have to be loaded on thirty carts.

It’s mid-November now, the weather is dry, and it hasn’t rained much during this period, so the road surface is hard and the wheels only leave shallow ruts on the road.

Huang Shaojie followed the ruts and looked forward. There were many and messy ruts mixed with horse hoof prints as he moved forward.

In other words, the robbers drove the carriage containing official silver and fled forward.

“Are you looking for rut marks?”

Xiao Qiuyue came over, and she also followed the rut marks and looked over.

Huang Shaojie nodded and looked forward along the official road. Suddenly he noticed that there seemed to be a pile of ashes at the corner of the official road ahead.

“Mr. Xiao Qi, something seems to have been burned there. Let’s take a look.”

Huang Shaojie pointed to the pile of ashes dozens of meters in front and said to Xiao Qiuyue.

Xiao Qiuyue nodded, and the two quickly came to the pile of ashes.

Huang Shaojie took out the embroidered spring knife and fiddled with it a few times among the ashes. There were some dead branches and leaves that had not been burned inside, and there seemed to be nothing strange about them.

However, the two of them smelled the faint fragrance of sandalwood remaining in the ashes.

Xiao Qiuyue suddenly felt a little dizzy. She quickly held her breath and walked away from more than ten feet away and said:

“There is a scent in here, hold your breath and back away quickly.”

Huang Shaojie naturally smelled the fascinating fragrance, but he did not feel dizzy at all.

He knew that because he had cultivated the first level of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, ordinary poisons, incense and the like could no longer cause any harm to him.

“It does smell like…” Huang Shaojie stood up slowly, put the knife into its sheath, patted his head and said, “I see, I understand!”

Xiao Qiuyue also thought of this at this time and suddenly said: “The robbers burned incense here in advance. The officers and soldiers escorting the tax money came here and happened to smell the incense and became weak. No wonder these officers and soldiers were killed with one knife. It seems that No resistance.”

Huang Shaojie said: “This official road goes to the northwest, and it is winter now, and the northwest wind is blowing. The officers and soldiers came from the southeast, and when the northwest wind blew, all the incense was inhaled by the officers and soldiers. Waiting When they notice something abnormal, even if they hold their breath, it is already difficult for them to use their skills.”

Xiao Qiuyue said: “Come on, let’s tell Niu Qianhu about our discovery.”

After that, the two came to Niu Ren.

Xiao Qiuyue cupped her hands and said, “Sir, I have found some clues.”

“Oh?” Niu Ren’s eyes lit up and he looked at Xiao Qiuyue, “General Xiao, what clues did you find?”

Officials such as Governor Luo and Magistrate Liu also looked at Xiao Qiuyue.

Xiao Qiuyue said: “When Huang Shaojie and I were checking the rut for transporting tax money just now, we found a pile of ashes burning at the corner of the official road in front, so we went to check and found that it contained incense ingredients…”

“That’s it!” Niu Ren didn’t wait for Xiao Qiuyue to finish, and then he understood everything, “I didn’t expect that the robbers were actually burning incense in front. In winter, the wind is blowing from the northwest, and there are winds on both sides of the official road here. Mountains, when the wind blows, the fragrance is inhaled by the officers and soldiers escorting the tax collectors…”

Officials such as Governor Luo and Magistrate Liu were also stunned!

Just now Niu Ren only guessed that these officers and soldiers might have been poisoned, but he did not guess that the robbers used this method.

But this made Governor Luo breathe a sigh of relief.

This shows that there is no traitor to the robbers in the army.

Otherwise, he, the governor in charge of Suzhou’s military affairs, would be even more responsible for the robbery of the tax bank.

Now that the facts of the case are clear, there is no need to conduct too many on-site investigations.

Niu Ren said to Governor Luo: “Master Governor, the bodies of the officers and soldiers can be cleaned up. I will lead the Jin Yiwei to follow the track to trace the direction in which the robbers fled. Farewell!”

Governor Luo cupped his hands and said, “Thank you Niu Qianhu and all the Jinyi guards! If any traces of the robbers are found, Niu Qianhu can notify me to mobilize troops to assist in the encirclement and suppression!”

Niu Ren got on his horse and led a group of royal guards to chase forward along the ruts of the official road.

Although Niu Ren’s vision is not as good as Huang Shaojie’s insight, he is a fifth-grade master after all. With his binocular skills, he can easily trace the traces of ruts.

He and hundreds of royal guards galloped forward without dismounting.

After running for dozens of miles, we were about to leave the Gutuoling area.

, the rut suddenly disappeared.

“It’s really strange. How come the rut marks suddenly disappeared?”

Niu Ren jumped off his horse and looked around carefully on the road, but there were still no ruts.

It was as if these dozens of carriages escorting official silver suddenly disappeared out of thin air as they drove here.

Just when everyone was feeling puzzled, they saw Huang Shaojie coming over to Niu Ren and saying:

“Niu Qianhu, my subordinates found those carriages.”

“Where?” Niu Ren asked eagerly.

“Sir, please look!”

Huang Shaojie took Niu Ren to a hillside and pointed to a bunch of carriages at the foot of the hillside.

All these dozens of carriages were thrown down the hillside!

“No wonder we can’t find the rut marks of these carriages!”

Niu Ren looked at the pile of scattered carriages at the foot of the hillside and fell into deep thought.

The robbers fled here in a carriage containing tax money, but threw the carriage down the hillside. So where was the official money in the car?

“Go down and see if there’s anything else.”

Niu Ren ordered.

A man from Baihu led dozens of Jinyi guards down the hillside to search.

Soon, hundreds of households came forward to report.

“Sir, there are only dozens of broken carriages at the foot of the hillside, and not one tael of official silver was found.”

“So the robbers took the money and abandoned the car and fled!”

Niu Ren said while stroking the short beard on his chin.

Xiao Qiuyue looked around and said doubtfully: “Sir, there is no village in front of this area and no store in the back. Why did the robbers suddenly abandon the car here? There are three hundred thousand taels of silver in the car. How did they move it away? ”

Three hundred thousand taels of silver is enough for hundreds of boxes. If one person can carry one box, it will take hundreds of people.

Think about it, how far do hundreds of people have to carry hundreds of boxes containing money in a place with no village in front of them and no store behind them?

Isn’t this too striking?

Niu Ren thought: “The robbers abandoned the car and fled here to avoid being tracked by the government. There is no way they could carry away the 300,000 taels of official silver in broad daylight. They should have hidden the money nearby.” somewhere.”

“Send the order for everyone to search around here. Hundreds of people are carrying the boxes. They will definitely leave footprints.”