Soon after, Qiu Liang received Jia Cong's letter and the thousand taels of silver notes.
I couldn't help but feel happy. Brother Cong was still very generous. He only shot a thousand taels, which was much better than that bastard Li Rui.
I opened the letter and took a look at it, and couldn't help but take a breath.
After calming down, I read the letter carefully and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
In the letter, he asked himself to investigate the location and detailed information of the Li Family Trading Company, all properties in Beijing, as well as the time, number and size of the Li Family Caravan entering and exiting the city every month.
What do you want to do? No need to guess.
Jia Cong seems to be furious and wants to take action against the entire Li family business, but... is he really the Li family's opponent?
Qiu Liang turned his attention to the letters again, just searching for information. This was very easy for him. With 50% of his troops spread throughout the city, it could be said to be a piece of cake.
There is no danger, and there is money to be gained. If you don't do it, you will be a fool.
For the sake of one thousand taels of silver, I must do it.
Besides, that bastard Li Rui dared to anger me. He was really ignorant. Although he couldn't afford to offend him, he was happy to see someone trouble him.
This time I want to see if you will dare to be as aggressive as you are now after you have suffered a loss.
Qiu Liang was in a pretty good mood now, humming a little tune and putting the banknotes in his arms.
Then he burned the letters, called his cronies, gave them instructions one by one, and sent them out.
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On the Jia Mansion's side, Yan Hong has already made arrangements and is waiting for the fish to take the bait.
Ping'er and Yanhong divided the people in the backyard into two groups. Ping'er took charge of the overall situation and was responsible for the daytime, while Yanhong led the four people of spring, summer, autumn and winter to take charge of the night.
Several days passed without any disturbance in the backyard.
Fortunately, the soap storage capacity is very large, so there will be no problem even if work is not started for several months. The two strictly carried out Jia Cong's orders and waited for each other to come to their door.
That night, the sky was as dark as ink, and even though there were a few stars in the sky, it was of no avail when they fell on the earth.
Yan Hong, Chun Xia Qiu and Dong, and two dogs were hiding in the yard next to them. Suddenly, the two dogs lying in the house suddenly stood up and made a "whining" sound from their mouths.
The few people looked at each other and quickly calmed the two dogs so that they could not make any noise. Then they quietly came to the door of the courtyard, looked out from the crack in the door, and listened carefully to what was going on outside.
Through the starlight outside, I saw several shadowy figures, about five or six people, cautiously approaching the soap workshop.
Seeing them coming outside the yard of the soap workshop, they saw that the door was locked, and then they climbed over the wall and entered the yard.
The few of them looked at each other without saying anything. Their mission was not to catch the thieves, but to monitor them and watch them get the formula and leave smoothly.
If you are still dissatisfied after getting the formula and become greedy and want to loot the backyard, then let the two dogs bark and send a message to scare them away and bring in the guards from the front yard.
If they still don't leave, it means God won't let them live. I hope everything goes well.
But he said that those people climbed into the courtyard, took out the torches and lit them, and they were not afraid of being discovered because of the courtyard wall.
After looking around a few rooms, I stopped at the door of a room with a batching room. I saw that the door was locked, so I pried the lock open and entered the room.
The six people entered the room and immediately split up to look for them. One look at the tacit cooperation and they knew they were veterans.
Soon someone discovered a locked small box. After opening it, he saw a recipe inside. He took it out and put it under a torch to read.
There are names such as saponin and soap bean on it, so it must be a soap recipe.
"The materials above are all used to make soap. It should be the soap formula. Let's go look for it. If there is nothing else, we will go back and submit the work."
"What if this is not the case? Aren't we here in vain? How about we finish searching here and search elsewhere?"
"The formula here is not for making soap. What do you think it is for? Work with your heart and don't get into trouble. The owner here is also a ruthless person. Be careful of capsizing in the gutter..."
"There are several boxes of prepared ingredients here. How about we take a box back with us? It will be safer this way."
"You're right. Then bring a box of prepared ingredients. Now that the mission is completed, we'll leave now."
Several people came outside the courtyard, extinguished the torches, climbed over the courtyard wall, and retreated along the way they came.
Yan Hong, Chunlan and others saw these people coming out of the courtyard and retreating towards the courtyard wall along the original path. They felt relieved. Fortunately, everything went smoothly and there were no further complications.
Seeing them approaching the fence, they let the two dogs out. Suddenly, the sound of "barking" dogs came from the backyard, and at the same time, dogs in other places also started barking.
As the dog barked, lights were turned on in many places in the backyard, and someone was walking towards here holding a lantern.
The sudden barking of dogs startled the men in black, and without caring about anything else, they ran frantically towards the wall, followed the prepared rope, and climbed over the wall.
Several people came outside and said with a scared look on their faces: "Fortunately, they were fast enough, otherwise the dog would have discovered them in advance and they would have been in big trouble. I didn't expect that there were dogs in the backyard."
"Yeah, this time it's really a fluke. It's better to leave here quickly and go back to work."
Several men in black gradually disappeared into the dark night.
At this time, everyone in the backyard was awakened. Ping'er rushed over with people. Seeing that everyone ran away, he breathed a sigh of relief. If he said he wasn't nervous, he would be lying.
Zhang Fu also rushed over with his servants, "Miss Ping, are you okay? Did someone break in?"
Ping'er said: "Steward Zhang, everything is okay here. The person has escaped. Please take someone to check outside the yard."
Zhang Fu nodded and said, "Okay, Miss Ping, I'll take someone to check it out right now."
He turned to the servants and said, "Follow me and check around the wall."
Seeing Zhang Fu leading the people away, Yan Hong and others went to the soap workshop and checked carefully. The soap formula had indeed been taken away. They looked at each other and laughed.
Ping'er smiled and said: "Finally, the things arranged by Third Master have been settled. Thanks to Yan Hong's idea this time, I will write to Third Master about this matter.
We can also sleep peacefully. Everyone has worked hard during this period. This month, I will make the decision and give everyone double the monthly payment. "
"Thank you, Sister Ping'er."
Ping'er wrote a letter overnight, wrote down all the events, and gave it to Zhang Fu, asking him to send someone to deliver the letter to Zhuangzi and hand it over to Jia Cong early tomorrow morning.
