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Guo Tian is worthy of being the chef god. This bowl of ordinary fried noodles is so delicious that Bai Yutang couldn't help but praise it. Tianzun said, "The cooked Guo Da was better in the past. Please use it to visit this site."

Guo Er was so anxious that he jumped straight.

After eating, everyone should do serious things. According to the clues given by Guo Tian’s apprentice, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang found near the dock.

Tianzun and Yin Hou also took Xiaowu with him. However, Xiaowu was a little conspicuous. There were people everywhere near the pier during the day, so it was not easy to get close to him.

Yin Hou and Tianzun helped to hold Xiao Wu, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao quietly slipped into the mooring area where the ships were densely packed.

Bai Yutang counted, pointed to a fishing boat that looked a little dilapidated and very inconspicuous, and asked Zhan Zhao, "Is it that one?"

Zhan Zhao thought about it, "It looks a bit like."

"Slide up and take a look." Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao arrived next to the boat and looked around and found that there were no people guarding the area. So they sneaked onto the boat. But as soon as they got on the boat, they saw someone coming up with fishing tools. They hurriedly hid under a canopy nearby.

Behind the rain, several big men were drying fish nets, discussing while busy that the wind was strong these days, when would they still go out to sea, etc.

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly and looked at Bai Yutang - it seemed like he was a real fisherman.

Bai Yutang also nodded, looking into the distance - there are too many boats here, and it feels like everyone is almost the same...

While he was struggling, Zhan Zhao suddenly pulled him and pointed to his nose.

Bai Yutang was a little puzzled, so he leaned over to see Zhan Zhao's nose, and poked it with his finger, which was very tall and straight.

Zhan Zhao was speechless, grabbed Bai Yutang's sleeve with one hand, flashed... and went to another one to put it on.

Bai Yutang saw Zhan Zhao touching his nose, identifying the direction in the wind, and then reaching another ship.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao patiently using his nose to distinguish the direction, and was a little amused and asked, "Cat, what can you smell? There is a smell of salted fish everywhere.

"No." Zhan Zhao shook his fingers gently, "I seemed to smell a little bit of the fried noodles that Guo Er invited us to have just now, and it was a little close to that one."

"Can you smell it like this?" Bai Yutang felt incredible.

"Here!" Zhan Zhao seemed to have finally found the ship he was looking for and boarded the deck with Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang looked around and found that there was no one on the boat, but the cabin was locked with multiple chains, and the boards were a little worn, and it seemed that they hadn't gone to sea for a long time.

The two looked at each other and looked for a moment, but there was no place to go in.

So Zhan Zhao reached out to pinch the chain and looked at it. He gently broke the internal force, and with a snap, the chain was unscrewed.

Zhan Zhao opened the chain, Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and pushed the cabin door behind him, pushing it open to the side.

Bai Yutang turned around and went in, Zhan Zhao followed in, and then turned around and hooked the broken chain and closed the door. If he didn't look carefully, he wouldn't be able to find it.

The light in the cabin was dim, with only a few rays of light coming through the gaps in the boat boards.

Zhan Zhaohe Bai Yutang walked into the cabin and saw a staircase leading downstairs. There should be only one person downstairs.

The two walked downstairs and saw that it was a cell, with a man curled up in the cell, and they looked very familiar with their clothes.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other - this is the Imperial Academy's robe!

The two walked to the door of the cell, and Zhan Zhao gently patted the door of the cell.

The person in the door moved, as if he was awake. Then, the man slowly looked back at the... The man was unkempt and messy, and Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't see his appearance clearly, but the man turned around and suddenly turned over. Perhaps he was too anxious to get up. He rolled down from the stone bed, rolled into the straw pile and struggled, threw himself down at the door of the prison, grabbed the door and shouted, "Master Zhan! Master Zhan save me!"

Zhan Zhao squatted down and looked carefully. He removed his dirty appearance. He should be a teenager. He looked like Bao Yan and others, wearing an Imperial College robe... Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't help but think of someone, "You are..."

"I am Shi Ye!" the young man said excitedly, "Sir Zhan, help me!"

Although Zhan Zhao did not know Shi Ye, most people in Kaifeng Prefecture knew Zhan Zhao, and it was not surprising that Shi Ye knew him.

Bai Yutang pulled the chain of the prison door, and with a "slam", the chain was broken by him with internal force. Zhan Zhao opened the prison door and went in to help Shi Ye up, "We are looking for you everywhere, why are you here?"

"I was caught!" Shi Ye was finally saved and cried with excitement, "It's all me stupid. In order to save Yue'er, I tried the Yin-Yang Palace. After I found the place where Yin-Yang Fengshui gathered, I used the Yin-Yang Palace's formula. When I entered the gate, I didn't find any way to enter the Yin-Yang Palace. But two men in black suddenly appeared and pointed me in a hole and brought me here. I was locked up here for a long time. Every night, someone delivered me food, but no one came. I called the sky and the earth was not effective, and my voice was hoarse, but no one came.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked around. The ship walls here were very thick, the inside was hollow, and the outside environment was noisy. Isn’t anyone who could hear Shi Ye calling for help here?

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang will definitely alert him if they take Shi Ye away, but they can't keep him here. Looking at him like this, I guess he has had enough, and there are indeed important things to ask him.

When he arrived outside the ship, Zhan Zhao looked around and then reached out and snapped his fingers.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao with some confusion, that's what he meant - Maoer, what are you doing?

Zhan Zhao snapped his fingers twice in a row and touched his chin, "Oh, it turns out that only Zhao Pu is effective."

Bai Yutang was speechless and thought for a while, "Maoer, do you want to find a Yingwei to pretend to be Shi Ye?"

"Well, it's better to have a few more shadow guards, ambush nearby, and then let the shadows make up like Shi Ye. It's definitely useful for the other party to leave Shi Ye. And there's no evidence for Wang Feng. This may be the only chance to get the stolen goods."

Bai Yutang nodded, "Then you take him back first, I'll watch here. If someone comes, I'll find a way to lure people away."

"Uh..." Zhan Zhao was a little worried, and thought for a while, "You just wait from afar..."

Seeing Zhan Zhao hesitating, Bai Yutang patted him on the shoulder, "Don't worry."

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao thought for a while, and then reminded him, "Then be careful and don't take risks."

Bai Yutang nodded.

Zhan Zhao took Shi Ye back to Kaifeng quickly. When he passed the intersection, he saw that Tianzun and Yin Hou were there, he felt a little relieved and hurried to find Heiying.

...

Not only did Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang take action separately, but also said that Zhao Pu and Pang Taishi who went to the Ministry of Justice to investigate.

Zhao Pu was looking at the file in Si Tong's study. After a while, the Grand Master ran in, "Prince."

Zhao Pu asked with a smile, "Have you found out?"

"I've found out." The Master nodded, "It was probably two years ago that some people were lost one after another. Of course, it's more frequent. It started this year."

Zhao Pu calculated the time, "Two years ago..."

"Two years ago, the court strengthened patrols in Kaifeng, especially some wandering people and beggars, and also conducted some statistics." Mr. Pang said, "Because a beggar disappeared two years ago, his companions came to Kaifeng Prefecture to report the case. At that time, Zhan Zhao had just arrived at Kaifeng Prefecture. He lifted the entire Kaifeng Prefecture, and no one was found or the body was found. So he began to inquire whether there were other beggars missing."

Zhao Pu raised his eyebrows slightly, "It does look like Zhan Zhao's style."

The Grand Master nodded, "When he inquired, he found that most beggars and homeless people were not cared about, and no one knew about it even if they were lost. So Lord Bao thought of a way, on the one hand, strengthened the number and frequency of patrols in the imperial city. On the other hand, homeless people can register at the porridge shop after they arrive in Kaifeng. Because they often get free food and clothes, most homeless people will go. After a while, they have met more people and have taken care of each other. If anyone hasn't been there for too long, they can find it by looking at the registration booklet."

Zhao Pu frowned, "You suspect that the other party was originally using homeless people, but later Kaifeng Prefecture managed too tightly, so he turned to the Ministry of Justice. The prisoners of the Ministry of Justice were out of the control of Kaifeng Prefecture, and were mostly serious offenders without relatives, or even death row prisoners. The other party was very careful."

"I've roughly counted it." The Grand Master did not look like a fool, but his work was still unambiguous. "So far, all the lost prisoners have totaled more than 40."

Zhao Pu couldn't help frowning, "So many?"

The Grand Master nodded, "It's not that the death row prisoner was transferred, it's hard to count. And the corpses that were slapped by Yin Hou that day were just over thirty!"

Zhao Pu raised his eyebrows slightly, "In addition to the lost beggar, are there still some people missing?"

The Master nodded, "Well! There are at least twenty people!"

Zhao Pu touched his chin, "Where have so many living people gone?"

The Grand Master lowered his voice and said, "I asked the people from Haotian Tower for a while. It was fake for Yan Feng'er to be forced to death. That woman was missing!"

Zhao Pu admired the Grand Master a little, "Can you find this?"

The Grand Master smiled, "Money can make the devil push the mill."

Zhao Pu laughed, nodded, and waited for him to continue talking.

"Yan Feng'er really fell in love with a rich family. That boy is very good with her. She doesn't want to be a real family, but she really gives her all the heart. But one day the young master left Haotian Tower and never came again. Later, Yan Feng'er happened to meet him on the road and went up to talk to him. The young master didn't know her anymore." The Grand Master raised his eyebrows, "Yan Feng'er thought that the man was afraid that she would be bad at the time.

He pretended not to know him. After he went back, he sighed for a while. Many people in Haotian Tower knew about this. Many people advised her, saying that these rich young men took the sincerity of these firework women seriously. However, Yan Feng'er seemed to be resentful of this matter. She always felt that the young man really didn't remember her anymore, and she had changed. Two days after this incident, Yan Feng'er disappeared."

Zhao Pu frowned, "So strange?"

"Then." The Grand Master continued, "The princess who cleaned the Haotian Tower said that the princess seemed to like chanting scriptures and burning incense. Every time she sent a lot of incense ash from the East Cage where the princess lived. That day, the person who collected the incense ash sent a hairpin back, saying that it was in the incense ash. It looked quite expensive, and I wonder if it was lost by the princess. The servant looked at it and found that the hairpin was Yan Feng'er's. When he thought of Yan Feng'er's disappearance, the servant was so scared that he didn't dare to say anything, for fear that he would lose his life if he knew what he shouldn't have known, so he sold the hairpin. I asked the man from the jade shop, and the jade hairpin was the same as the hairpin that Lao Bao found in the temple later. The shopkeeper of the jade shop said that the hairpin was stolen later."

Zhao Pu touched his chin as he heard this, "Incense Ash?"

The Master nodded and touched his beard, "I heard that the amount is very large!"

Zhao Pu was a little puzzled, "Can you burn incense alone have so much incense ash?"

"Those who collect incense ash said that the amount is really similar to that of a temple." The Grand Master gently patted his belly, "I let those who make incense ash come out a little. They said that the incense ash in Haotian Tower had mixed in a lot of charcoal ash and bone meal, and they sprinkled it into the ground to make fertilizer."

Zhao Pu's mouth twitched, "Can it be the slag of refining medicine?"

"I thought so too, so I asked someone to go to the old farmer who collected incense ash to make fat and searched for it." The Grand Master smiled, "I have sent it to Mr. Gongsun for inspection."

Zhao Pu smiled, patted Tai Shi Pang's belly, and nodded in praise, "Tao Shi is really capable!"

The Grand Master is happy.

...

In the Imperial Academy, Zou Liang and Lin Yehuo were dizzy when they listened to the lectures of several teachers. Finally, they were over until the get out of class was over, and walked out with their groggy heads.

Lin Yehuo patted his legs, "No, I must skip class in the afternoon!"

Zou Liang also rubbed his eyebrows and slept well.

Bao Yan was in high spirits and turned around and wanted to ask Pang Yu where to eat, but couldn't find him. The three of them looked around and saw that Pang Yu was chatting with Lan Shaotian.

Lan Shaotian is often weird, so there are very few students who will get close to him. Pang Yu doesn’t know what to say to him now.

Bao Yan and others came up to listen, and then Lan Shaotianzheng said, "That black shadow has been unwilling to leave."
To be continued...