Cao Buxiu left, and Liang Chuan looked at this man's back with even more strangeness.
It happened that Su Wei was sending supplies and materials to the island again, and the two got together again.
"Iron ore found!"
"Really!" Su Wei understands the role of iron ore better than Liang Chuan. With iron ore, he can open furnaces to smelt iron, cast weapons, and cast larger artillery. In Liang Chuan's hands, he can still Make a bigger difference!
"Not much?"
Liang Chuan did not respond directly, but looked around and said: "I haven't asked this yet, but I think something is wrong with Cao Buxiu today."
A smart person only needs a little. Su Wei immediately responded: "Sanlang, you are always very accurate in judging people. Look, have you investigated the origins of Cao Bujiu?"
Liang Chuan smiled and said: "I only thought he was an Earth Master in trouble, but I'm afraid it's not as simple as I thought."
"Cao Buxiu can see that his background is not simple, his conversation and behavior are not ordinary people, and his vision is unparalleled. It turns out that the person following such a person is definitely not ordinary. You don't know what to do..."
This sentence really stopped Liang Chuan.
Along the way, Liang Chuan's most fatal weakness is also his biggest weakness, which is trust in people!
Whether it was Ye Xiaochai's group he rescued in Xinghua, or A Guo and others he met in the island country, he could talk to people heart to heart after a few words without any suspicion.
One of his principles is that people are already in trouble, so why bother scheming and making things difficult for each other.
But the reality is that he cannot control it again and again. The people he comes into contact with become more and more complex, and their levels become more and more different, like the two traitors Zhan Zhirong and Xue Gui. I have good intentions to help them make money for the sake of my fellow villagers, but they want to plot against me!
Liang Chuan was a little worried, and after thinking about it, he finally made a decision.
"Outside, find Ye Lihan for me!"
It is not easy for Yeluhan to meet Liang Chuan now. At least he has to report to him face to face. Such opportunities are rare. His immediate superior is Yelu Chongguang. Yelu Chongguang has no airs and cannot show off. However, this is the rule set by Liang Chuan. Although he is everyone's boss, there should be rules for everything and he cannot do anything random.
Yeluhan also had a dusty look on his face after arriving on the island, and the sea was something he was afraid of to the core. They were born on the grasslands, and even if they were in the mountains, the sea was too difficult for them.
Liang Chuan looked at Yeluhan and said, "How long have you been back? Don't you have anything to report to me?"
Yeluhan was a little dazed, and after thinking for a while he said: "Oh, I thought Cao Buxiu had told you, my boss, but I can't explain it clearly!"
Liang Chuan choked back his words and said to Yeluhan, "Those who are looking for iron ore should leave it alone. Did anything happen to you along the way?"
Yeluhan understood that there was something in what he said, but he had never dared to think about Cao Buxiu's identity, and he didn't know how to answer Liang Chuan's question.
"Master, you mean..."
Liang Chuan's eyes flickered as he looked at Yeluhan.
Yeluhan's back was chilled by this look. He had seen this look before, and it didn't mean anything good.
"I said Cao Buxiu."
Yeluhan fell into deep thought.
He thought carefully about what happened along the way, and said slowly to Liang Chuan: "Master, why did you expect everything? This is strange. I noticed it when our group first arrived in Tingzhou. Something’s wrong, I always feel like someone is following us behind us.”
"At first, I thought it was normal for a group of outsiders to come to someone else's territory and attract their attention. But then we caught them, and after questioning, we found out that the people following us were not locals either. Only then did we know there must be something fishy going on."
"Did you find any useful information?"
"I wasn't sure about this person's origins at the time. I scared him a few times and let him go without paying any attention to him!"
Liang Chuan shook his head and said: "You are careless. What we did is to lose our heads. How could we be like this..."
Yelu Zhongguang seemed to have remembered something and continued: "But Lao Cao is a very strange person!"
"How to say?"
"If you say this person is a cultural person, it's okay. He travels with a bunch of gentlemen to stay in hotels. He is always locked up by himself. He doesn't say a word on the road. He doesn't do anything in the room every day. Know."
"Did he come into contact with anyone special, such as the person you caught stalking you that day?"
"No." Yeluhan said simply, but I accidentally broke in a few times and found that Lao Cao was writing a letter home.
Letter home?
Liang Chuan stood up suddenly and said loudly: "He himself said that all his family members are dead, so he is writing a family letter to the underworld?"
ha? Yeluhan was a little stunned and murmured: "Then who is he writing to...?"
"Have you read the contents of the letter?"
"Master, you know what we are... We, Dou Da, don't know a single word, and we don't even know what a single word is when the pole falls down. Where can I find out what heavenly book he wrote..."
Liang Chuan was so anxious that he almost beat up Yeluhan: "I usually ask you to learn more about culture. Even if you know how to read, it would be a hundred times better than being blind now. You just don't live up to expectations!"
Although he had no ability, it was a mistake, which made Yeluhan shrink his neck in fright. He also wanted to learn, but now it was impossible to do it at the last minute.
"What bad thing did this guy do? Don't worry. How about I go tie him up and interrogate him for whatever you want?"
Liang Chuan was anxious and asked: "Do you think anything can be beaten out, and the melon will be sweet if you twist it? Go ahead and let Chongguang lead you to read more books, you guys!"
"I don't want to help my boss..."
"Are there any other discoveries?"
Yeluhan looked at Liang Chuan's expression as if he wanted to eat him, and said, "Let me think about it." Yeluhan didn't pay attention to it, but later he really found a lot of things wrong.
"Tell me, at the beginning, we were digging holes in other people's mountains. Others regarded us as tomb robbers. However, the government checked several times and didn't say anything. Where did our tombs come from in the south? As soon as the iron ore is found, we will immediately Something went wrong!”
Liang Chuan stared at Yeluhan and asked anxiously: "Is someone starting to cause trouble?"
Yeluhan nodded like a fool, and immediately said: "That's right, we don't interfere with anything else. We learned from our boss. We bought other people's land as soon as we went up. It's up to us to dig holes or dig graves." How can the local people control our freedom?"
"But the strange thing is that bad things happened one after another. Either someone came to steal the tools, or someone deliberately went to the government to report a false case. In the end, the mine was blown up!"
Finally got to the key point!
"What was used to blow it up?"
"It must be gunpowder!"
"Why are you so sure!"
"Hey, haven't you ever eaten pork and seen pigs running? We have been with our boss for so long. If we still don't understand what gunpowder is, what are we still doing? It must have been the gunpowder explosion, and the hole was bombarded It's flat. After finally digging it down, it all collapsed! Many of our brothers heard the noise. We chased it out and took a look. We couldn't see anything. It was just ashes all over the sky, and the smell of saltpeter was everywhere. It was unmistakable! "
Liang Chuan kept shaking his head. When he first started his business, even when he was in trouble in the northwest, these people gave him great help. However, as his ambitions grew bigger and bigger, the professional talents he needed became increasingly scarce. There were only a few useful and useful talents around him, and if it hadn't been for the addition of a group of people at the port, How can we continue to lead this team!
But fortunately, this group of people has another advantage, that is, they don't read many books, and they don't have as many eyes as others. Liang Chuan once thought that if they were allowed to learn Confucius' books, they would no longer be so simple!
Another advantage they have is that they are honest. If they smell the smell of saltpeter, they will never say it smells like fart. It seems that someone is really watching them from behind.
As soon as Yeluhan left, Su Wei walked out of the back compartment.
"Lao Wei, what do you think?"
"I don't know many people who know the formula of gunpowder. One is you, Sanlang, and the other is Murong Chao who is hiding in the dark!"
"I've been blaming myself for this battle. I didn't let you, Saburo, think of all the possibilities of the battle. I led a group of people into danger. If it weren't for destiny..."
Liang Chuan interrupted Su Wei: "Tell me the important point."
"If we say that our strategy is lost to others, then that's fine. Who can make the Taoist and the Demonic taller? But Yeluhan and the others went to Tingzhou to mine. Not many people knew about it. Our good deeds were ruined by others. , it’s clear that there is a mole within us!”
Liang Chuan sighed and said: "You are right. I had this worry at the beginning, but I couldn't be sure. We were fighting fiercely in front of us. It is logically impossible to involve them in mining. Even where they are... Something happened, it must be one of my own who leaked the secret!"
Su Wei said angrily: "Yeluhan and his group are Sanlang's cronies. They have followed him to conquer the world from the beginning and will not betray their master. According to me, they are Cao Buxiu."
"I thought I was sincerely devoted to him, but when I saw that he was homeless, I felt pity for his talent. I didn't expect that the farmer and the snake appeared again. They are so cruel! These people are so hateful, why do they keep deceiving me? !”
Su Wei looked at it from the side and thought to himself: Not many people want to deceive you. They are as smart as ghosts. How can people walk by the river without getting their shoes wet? Why bother if you want to do something big?
"Sanlang, you are so kind-hearted... Forget it, I won't say more. Our brothers suffered numerous casualties this time, and there must be an explanation. Otherwise, how can we face their relatives?"
Liang Chuan sighed heavily. He always thought that sincerity can be exchanged for true love and that he would be honest with everyone. However, he still forgot the old saying that it is necessary to be on guard against others.
"It seems that the political review work needs to be strengthened."
Liang Chuan said bitterly.
