Fortunately, he had already taken a step! Shen Mo quickly agreed loudly, and then stood aside with his hands crossed.

He couldn't help but think: If he had been late this morning for a while, this crime would be accused of being less than 100% of the time, and there would be no need for this chief Xu Wang to think of any bad ideas to deal with me!

Sure enough, after hearing his Ying Mao's voice, Xu Wang raised his head and glanced hard at Shen Mo with the corner of his eyes. It seemed that he could not grasp Shen Mo's painful foot, which made him feel very unwilling.

Next to Shen Mo, his buddy, the stubborn donkey, Lu Qiang, looked up at Shen Mo and made a look of "Luckily, you boy came in time!" Shen Mo also nodded to him knowingly.

Shen Mo thought to himself: Judging from this situation, there must be a big case today. I guess the county magistrate wants to order all his troops to investigate the case. At this moment, Xu Wang would never dare to make trouble. It seems that he will be unemployed today.

Thinking of this, Chen Si relaxed his eyebrows secretly. I don’t know what the case is happening right now, which actually mobilized the entire Qiantang County Government in such a way?

After the dot, all the staff were already neat.

At this time, Lu Yue, the county magistrate of Qiantang County, walked out of the county government in a clean dress.

Under the leadership of the captain Xu Wang, Shen Mo and his group of people rushed out of the county magistrate's sedan chair, and went straight down the street to the west.

There were forty or fifty people in this group. The route they took this time was exactly the same route when Shen Mo went to work.

Along the way, they first crossed Jijia Bridge, then over Imperial Academy and Wuxue. After crossing directly across Yujie and Zhong'an Bridge, they turned a corner at the West Bridge of Miaoming Temple and walked north along the street.

"Along the way is the Maritime Bureau," said the silent person who walked here, and thought to himself: Today, the county magistrate mobilized so many people, is it...

Before he could think about it, the team had already stopped.

When Shen Mo saw the place where they stopped, he found that he was thinking well - something happened in Dashifang!

This Dashifang is located in the West Street of Miaoming Temple, closely connected to the Maritime Warehouse in front. The reason for this name is not because it is a place for food, but because this place is a place where Hu merchants coming from the sea and the West gather.

Because in China, the Western Regions and Hu people who came to do business were called "The Cannibals".

There are a total of five or six hundred houses in this place, which is approximately equivalent to a larger community in a modern city, where all kinds of Hu merchants live all year round.

Since it is close to Maritime Service, it is relatively convenient for these merchants to pass the pass back and forth. So it is like the Chinatown of modern New York. Although it is deep in Lin'an, there are many blond and blue-eyed foreigners here.

As a result, because there are many foreigners here, these streets are called "Dashifang" by the people.

After the county magistrate's car stopped, Shen Mo looked at it. The car stopped in front of a yard facing the street, with five big words "Wan Hesheng Old Shop" written on the plaque on the doorman.

In the inns in Dashifang, most of the people received foreign Hu Shangs. Shen Mo's mind changed and thought to himself: "It seems that I'm right at all. No wonder the magistrate of Qiantang attaches great importance to this case so much! Today's case is probably either Hu Shang's life or the bulk of money and goods were stolen."

These Hu merchants have always been extremely wealthy. They came from across the ocean and the goods they carried were rare treasures. It seems that there must be something wrong with Hu merchants in this old Wanhesheng store.

When they arrived, they saw that there were already a dozen people outside the inn waiting there tremblingly, and there were also a large circle of idle people watching the fun.

Outside the door, the county magistrate Lu Yue got out of the sedan chair and walked straight into the shop.

Under Xu Wang's instructions, Shen Mo and his other constables took care of the dozen or so people.

These people are Wan Hesheng's friends. If something happened in this store, each of these people was suspected. Therefore, Xu Wangyan ordered them to prohibit whispering to prevent these people from colluding with each other.

They waited outside the door for about a quarter of an hour, and then they heard from Wan Hesheng that the county magistrate asked to bring all these friends in. It seemed that Lord Lu Yue wanted to ask them about their confessions.

The captain Xu Wang ordered Shen Mo and the others to split a part of the constables and set up defenses around Wan Hesheng. The area of ​​the shop is really not small. The remaining constables serve a friend and take these people in.

Shen Mo led a prisoner in front. After passing through the gate of the courtyard, they walked straight inside.

Shen Mo entered the yard and walked through the doorman. He found that there was a huge hall in front of him.

As soon as he came in, Shen Mo smelled the smell of food. It seemed that this place was a place for guests to eat.

After passing through the dining hall, there are small courtyards in the back yard, scattered everywhere, looking like a modern villa group.

Those Hu merchants from afar came to Lin'an in gangs. They had fellow villagers or familiar with each other, so they booked a yard to live together. That's why this was the pattern.

It was rainy these days before the Qingming Festival, and the sun just broke out today. When Shen Mo walked in this yard, the water vapor on the ground was steaming by the sunlight, and the air around him seemed foggy and hot and humid.

The yard is very wide, and the flowers and trees planted are washed clean by rain. However, next to the stone corridor on the ground is very muddy.

There was no voice in the small yards on both sides of the road. It seemed that after a case occurred in the store, all residents were evacuated, so it was quiet like a ghost domain.

Every small courtyard with green tiles and white walls has doors and windows closed. In this popular capital of the Song Dynasty, it suddenly entered this extremely quiet place, which made people feel particularly uncomfortable.

After walking fifty or sixty steps forward, I saw a servant in front of me holding a paper umbrella to cover the sun. The county magistrate and his group stood under the umbrella.

These people surrounded the door of a small courtyard. The captain Xu Wang ordered everyone to stop at a distance of about 20 steps away from them.

Shen Mo grabbed the collar of the guy he was escorting him. He raised his head slightly and looked forward, only to see a few things on the ground that were covered with straw mats.

Without even thinking about it, there must be a corpse under the straw mat. It seems that this is really a murder case!

Thinking of this, Shen Mo turned his face slightly and turned his gaze to the back.

Behind him was the guys who were brought over.

Each of them was escorted by a yamen runner and stopped behind Shen Mo.
Chapter completed!