After Lin Yanyan finished speaking, Xiao Qian continued, "The one who found that the Meng family was suffering was an old man who made steamed buns on Changping Street. The surname was Zhang. Old Man Zhang was familiar with Meng Chao's father. When he was ugly every day, Old Zhang would get up to make steamed buns. Yin was carrying a load to go to the market in Xicheng to sell. Yesterday evening, Old Man Zhang had met Meng's father. Meng's father told him to leave him ten steamed buns for him today. Old Man Zhang went out to sell steamed buns on time today. When he passed by Meng's house, he saw that the door of the Meng family was half-closed. He thought that when he came back from the market, the steamed buns would be cold. It would be better to give the steamed buns to Meng's father now, so he went to call the door. Unexpectedly, after shouting a few times, no one responded. Old Man Zhang felt something was wrong, so he went in and took a look. Then he found that Meng Chao was lying in a pool of blood. He was so scared that he ran out and woke up the neighbors and reported to the official..."

"It's my turn..." Lu Zhaonan was eager to show his investigation results.

"you say."

Lu Zhaonan said: "I visited the neighbors of the Meng family. The Meng family was ten years ago, and Meng Chao moved here after becoming the guard of Dinghuai Gate. The Meng family has always been honest and has a harmonious relationship with neighbors. It has never been popular with anyone in the past ten years. It is impossible to make enemies with others."

Xiao Qian was still waiting for Lu Zhaonan’s following, but Lu Zhaonan started drinking tea.

"Not?"

"That's all, everyone said the same thing, I'll summarize it." Lu Zhaonan felt that his summary was very good, concise and to the point.

Xiao Qian was speechless, asking was equivalent to not asking.

"When I came out, I asked casually. One said that Meng's father used to work in a firecracker workshop. His left hand was missing three fingers and was blown off by firecrackers. The shopkeeper who runs a grocery store on the street said that Meng Chao came to his shop to buy things every now and then. Three days ago, Meng Chao went to buy soy sauce and left. He gave two extra copper coins but didn't notice it. He didn't hear him calling him, so the shopkeeper chased him and gave him the money. The shopkeeper asked Meng Chao if he had any worries. Meng Chao shook his head and said no, but seeing Meng Chao looked like he was lost." Lin Yanyan added.

"The old man who runs a grocery store on the street? I asked him too, but he didn't tell me this." Lu Zhaonan was disappointed.

Xiao Qian glanced at him: "What did you ask?"

"I... I asked the Meng family if they had made enemies with others. Didn't you ask me?"

Xiao Qian didn't want to talk to him anymore and looked at Guan Sheng: "How about you?"

"Sir, I asked the guards at Dinghuai Gate. They all said that Meng Chao was a little dull, but he was absolutely diligent in his work without any discount. If you want to say something strange, it should be four days ago that Meng Chao was scolded by the guard commander Guo Yongli. The reason was that Meng Chao was too slow when checking the goods of Shunchang Convoy, which caused congestion in the city gate. At that time, an official wife was about to enter the city, so Guo Yongli told him not to check. He refused to stop and was scolded by Guo Yongli."

"Train in public?" Xiao Qian asked.

"I also gave a few words to train in public. Later, someone saw Guo Yongli calling Meng Chao to give me a few words alone. Bei Zhi found Guo Yongli and asked. Guo Yongli's words were similar to what everyone said, so he thought Meng Chao was too lazy to do things and had no eyesight to see them."

"Have you read the registration book for entry into the city?"

"I only copied the registration record for that day." Guan Sheng took out a list.

After Xiao Qian looked at it, Lu Zhaonan reached out to pick it up, and Xiao Qian handed it directly to Lin Yanyan, and Lu Zhaonan curled his lips in disappointment.

Lin Yanyan said: "From everyone's description, Meng Chao is an honest and serious person. He insisted on checking the goods from Shunchang Cars, and he must have found some problems."

Xiao Qian nodded in agreement: "Guan Sheng, you go to Dinghuai Gate and bring all the registration book for the city that has been in the past month. Mr. Zhen, Mr. Lu, let's go to Shunchang Car Service."

The three of them came to Shunchang Car Shop, a car that specializes in transporting goods for people and is one of the three major car shops in Beijing.

Manager Ye, the head of the car shop, heard that someone from Shuntian Mansion came out to greet him.

"Four days ago? There were several trucks of goods, and the younger ones couldn't remember it clearly. Why should a few adults wait and the younger ones go and check the accounts."

"Go quickly, I'm busy." Lu Zhaonan urged impatiently.

Xiao Qian and Lin Yanyan looked at Lu Zhaonan together.

"Why do you think of me like this? I... said something wrong or did something wrong?" Lu Zhaonan was already hit hard today. He went to the scene excitedly, but after just one look, he vomited in a dark place. He went to the neighbors to ask questions but did not ask any useful information. He felt that the gap between reality and imagination was too big. So now he wanted to perform well. He saw that Guan Sheng and the others were so arrogant when they went out, and they were shouting, as if I was your uncle.

Lin Yanyan turned to Xiao Qian: You can teach your own people. No one in the yamen said that they were the master, and they even thought they were Prince Lu.

Xiao Qian sighed inwardly: "Don't talk later."

Lu Zhaonan: Uh...

He was wrong again?

After a while, Manager Ye took out the account. Xiao Qian flipped through the records four days ago and found three cars coming in from Dinghuai Gate. He flipped backwards. The next day, three more cars were transported from Ezhou.

"What are your freight trucks?"

"Sir, they are all local specialties, including bronze mirrors, Jiangxia's Zilian, Fasi rice, etc."

"Where is the thing now?"

"It has been delivered to the customer, the rice has been delivered to the Guangdami Grain Store, Zilian has been delivered to various restaurants, and the bronze mirror has been delivered to various rouge shops."

"All sent?"

"It's finished."

"Where is the carriage? Still there?"

"Sir, the carriage has been sent out. Our carriage business is very good and we can't even get busy."

Xiao Qianxin said: Then what else to check?

Lin Yanyan thought, "You should have a warehouse when you have so many goods every day, right?"

Manager Ye nodded and bowed: "Some in the warehouse, some in some."

“How many places are there?”

“Two places in total.”

"Take us to see."

"Sir..." Manager Ye looked embarrassed.

Xiao Qian raised his eyebrows slightly and released his majestic momentum: "What? Is there any difficulty? Could it be that there is something shameful in this warehouse?"

Manager Ye waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, the young man just thought that there were still many things to deal with. It's all the time to cooperate with the adults' official duties. The young man would accompany the adults."

"But sir, can you tell me where the wrong thing happened to our car dealer? When the boss asked, the younger one could reply, right?"

Xiao Qian said coldly: "I suspect someone smuggled prohibited items."

Manager Ye’s face changed drastically: “Sir, this is absolutely impossible. Our car dealer is doing serious business and never does anything illegal or disorderly.”

"Yes or no, you have to check it out before you know it." Lu Zhaonan said tactfully in Xiao Qian's tone.

The three followed Manager Ye to the back of the car shop.

After leaving the back door, there was a large yard with seven or eight carriages parked in the yard.

Lin Yanyan said slowly: "Manager Ye, isn't your car dealer business very good? Why are there so many carriages left empty?"
Chapter completed!