Da Song Private Investigator

Chapter 4 Dawan County.

After the group of people told their clues, Hwarang shook his head again and again, because no one found any trace of the carriage, as if those inkstones suddenly disappeared out of thin air.

Hwarang shook his head, wanting to say that this is simply impossible.

Hwarang took out the accompanying map and analyzed it according to the direction of everyone's investigation. It turned out that there are mountains and forests on both sides around the teahouse, and they stretch for a long time. It may be difficult to move forward even with a horse-drawn carriage, so if they want to hide the inkstone and transport it away, they must take the remaining two roads.

One of them is Duanzhou City, which is the one that You Dan and the others walked when they came, but would the thieves be stupid enough to return to Duanzhou City?

The other one is Dawan County in the northwest of Duanzhou City. Dawan County belongs to Duanzhou, and it is also the only way to go to Beijing. The thief is very likely to drive the carriage into Dawan County, and there is no carriage found along the way. The seal also proved this point, because the road leading to Dawan County is a major road, and it has not rained in the past few days, so the carriage mark will not be obvious.

If they were in Dawan County, it would be easier to investigate.

After saying this, Bao Zheng nodded slightly, and said: "In this case, let's go back to Duanzhou for now, and send people to investigate the mountains and forests in the two directions tomorrow morning, and then we will go straight to Dawan County."

Now, that's all they have.

When they returned to Duanzhou City, it was already late, and when the city gate was about to be closed, they caught up with them. After catching up, Bao Zheng called the soldiers guarding the city gate and asked, "Are there any guards today?" An extra-heavy carriage going into town?"

The doorman thought for a while, and said, "No, we have checked all the carriages coming and going, and we haven't seen any carriages carrying heavy things into the city."

In this way, they can rule out the suspicion that the thieves entered Duanzhou City.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Bao Zheng sent people to investigate in two directions in the mountains and forests, while he, Bao Zheng You Dan and others rushed straight to Dawan County, and when they arrived at the gate of Dawan County, Bao Zheng immediately He showed his identity and asked if someone could bring the inkstone into the city.

When Bao Zheng asked this question, the guard nodded repeatedly, and said: "Yesterday afternoon, several carriages transported inkstones into the city, and they said they were transported to the capital for sale. We know that there are many merchants like this in Duanzhou City, so we also There is no doubt, let them enter the city."

"Then did they ever leave?"

The gatekeeper shook his head and said: "We don't know about this. It was already late when they arrived. It should be impossible to leave through the north gate, but I don't know if we leave today. You can go and ask immediately." .”

After the guard said this, Bao Zheng immediately sent someone to the North Gate to inquire, and he went to the county government office in Dawan County with Hua Lang and others. After listening to Bao Zheng's words, Mei Sanyou Immediately ordered to go down, all the city gates are only allowed to enter but not to exit, to prevent the thieves from escaping.

This Mei Sanyou is quite courageous, and he looks like a literati, and he has a bit of character. After his order was passed down, the city gate of Dawan County immediately obeyed, and then Mei Sanyou said: "Dawan County said that Xiaobu It's small, but it's not big, if you want to go door-to-door, one day is enough, so how about I follow Mrs. Bao to do the inspection?"

For this matter, Bao Zheng naturally couldn't ask for it, so they followed Mei Sanyou and searched every household in the entire Dawan County until late at night, but they found nothing.

When they searched, the yamen servant who went to the north gate came back and said that no one was found leaving with an inkstone.

If no one transported the inkstone away, then the inkstone must still be here, but why didn't it be found?

Mei Sanyou led Bao Zheng and Hua Lang to the post house to rest. After Bao Zheng asked him to go back, he left in a hurry. After Mei Sanyou left, they all discussed together.

"If the inkstone hadn't been transported out of Dawan County, why couldn't it be found?" Bao Zheng looked at the crowd and said with some confusion.

Everyone was speechless, because none of them knew the reason.

At this time, Hwarang said: "The carriages driving into Dawan County will definitely be seen by people. Tomorrow we can go to the street to inquire and see if anyone has seen the carriages passing by and where they have gone. "

Bao Zheng nodded. This was their only way. Although they searched every house today, Dawan County is still very big, and they only searched the houses with people, such as those abandoned houses, and natural I didn't search for landscapes and other places.

The next day, everyone went to the street to inquire, and it didn't take them much time. They quickly found out some clues. A few horse-drawn carriages drove into Dawan County the afternoon before yesterday, and then went to Xijiao Hutong. See you out.

Everyone hurried to the Xijiao Hutong. The Xijiao Hutong smelled so bad that even beggars would not come here, and this place was even more deserted, with piles of rubbish making people avoid it.

The alley was very deep, and there were many turns in it. They went around the alley, and finally found a few carriages in a corner, and these carriages were the carriages of You Dan and the others. The carriage, but there is no Duanyan on the carriage.

After they pulled the carriage here, they transported the inkstone away, but the inkstone is so heavy, how do they transport it?

Pulling the carriage away, they found a box-sized hole at the base of the alley wall, and it was not difficult to transport the boxes containing the inkstones from here.

Everyone climbed over the wall, and found that there was an open space outside, very remote, less pedestrians, and carriage marks could be seen faintly, from this we can see that they changed carriages here, and then transported the inkstone away.

It's just that they didn't leave the city, the inkstone is still in Dawan County.

They searched along the carriage marks, and after about a stick of incense, the carriage marks suddenly disappeared, because the carriage was on the main road, and there was no carriage mark left on the road.

The road extends in all directions, and this area is just a passing road, not a street, so if no one happens to pass by here, no one will see them going in that direction, and even if they know which direction the carriage is going, these roads lead to In various places in Dawan County, who can be sure where they went?

The clue was broken again here, You Dan's temper became even hotter, and he wished he could knock down a wall with one punch.

Hwarang shrugged helplessly, and then sent someone to search every place in Dawan County, no matter if it was an abandoned house or a women's boudoir. Although it took time, it was better than finding it. The tribute Duanyan, Bao Zheng and You Dan were dismissed.