Late at night.
People are quiet.
The passenger ship took off its sails and drifted with the current, and the sound of water discharging was clear and sweet.
Half a lantern swayed in the wind.
In order to contain the cold current, the sheepskin curtains were drawn down in the cabin. The passengers were tightly wrapped in their quilts, willing to hold in their urine even if they had to urinate. It was too cold in the late autumn night.
The third update has passed.
Song Che came to the bow of the ship first, and Liao Heng arrived a moment later. After a while, Jiang Yun also slipped out of the cabin.
"No one was woken up, right?" Song Che asked in a low voice.
Jiang Yun said: "Everyone sleeps like a dead pig."
"Tactical camouflage."
"good."
The three of them unbuttoned their belts at the same time, took out the "golden cudgel", and urinated into the river while discussing plans.
"Look, men with wives are different. They even wet their shoes when they pee." Liao Heng glanced sideways at Song Che and smiled mischievously.
"This motherfucker is obviously blown by the wind!"
Song Che rolled his eyes and stopped showing off:
"I have observed everything. The entrance to the warehouse is at the stern of the ship. Chu Zhou Rao's batch of goods is specially assigned to be guarded by Japanese pirates. The problem to be solved now is how to get in and inspect the goods without anyone noticing?"
Liao Heng suggested: "Knock the guard unconscious first. If it is verified that they are really Japanese pirates in disguise, we will kill them all without stopping."
Song Che shook his head and said: "No. There are hundreds of people on this boat, and they are still in the middle of the river, and the number of the other party is unknown. If they fight, innocent people will inevitably be hurt;
Furthermore, if they are really Japanese pirates, disguised as caravans and sneaked into Yangzhou, they must have a bigger conspiracy. We can just stand still and pretend that nothing happened, and then put our long-term plan to catch the big fish."
Then, he asked Xiang Jiang Yun:
"Brother Jiang, do you have a clever trick that can make him lose consciousness and pretend that nothing happened when he wakes up?"
Jiang Yun gently uttered four words: "I know how to acupuncture."
"This can be cherry blossom"
"Get started."
The three of them shook together.
He picked up his pants and crept toward the back of the boat.
Liao Heng was responsible for keeping watch at the entrance of the warehouse, while Song Che and Jiang Yun entered the warehouse to inspect the goods.
The passengers on the boat were very light, and there were not many caravans on board, so the warehouse was relatively empty. As soon as you entered the door, you could see a short man lying half on his cargo box.
It was late at night and he was fast asleep.
Song Che squatted behind the door and gestured to Jiang Yun to come forward.
Jiang Yun lowered his steps, as light as a feather, and came to the guard in a few steps, reaching out and pinching the back of his neck. The guard's whole body softened.
Song Che walked up slowly and softly.
"Hurry up, he will only be broken for a quarter of an hour at most." Jiang Yun urged in a low voice.
The two lifted the cargo box, and as soon as they opened the lid, a fishy smell hit their nostrils. It contained dried kelp, dried sea fish, and miscellaneous Australian dried seafood.
The two of them opened a box and rummaged through it several times, but couldn't find anything suspicious inside. They then picked up another box and picked it up, all containing dried seafood.
"Maybe they are really just businessmen?" Jiang Yun said.
Song Che rejected it flatly: "Impossible. Chuzhou is in the midst of a Japanese invasion. How can it be possible to produce so much fishery? Besides, Yangzhou itself is very close to the coast. Does it need to be purchased from Chuzhou in the north?"
The only explanation now is that these people just used their titles as merchants to hide their identities and did not smuggle anything.
"Huh..." Suddenly, the guard snored.
Song Che and Jiang Yun were both shocked.
Jiang Yun pulled out his sword, "He is about to wake up. If he wants me, he will not stop doing anything. He would rather kill the wrong one than let him go. I will pick them all directly and kill them all."
"No, no, their identities are unknown now. If they are really businessmen, if you kill them, you will become a gangster."
"What are you afraid of? Just kill him and throw it into the river to feed the fish. After three or five years, he will become a withered skeleton. Who knows that I killed him?"
"Brother, there are hundreds of pairs of eyes watching on the boat."
It has to be said that people in the world are really ruthless.
"Okay, let's restore the goods quickly. We have a long time to come, so there's no hurry."
Song Che was about to put the dry goods that he had dug out earlier and accidentally dropped on the ground back into the box, but when he picked up a roll of kelp, he unexpectedly found that it was unusually hard.
Kelp is not a sponge. No matter how hard the dried material is, it will never reach this level.
The kelp comes in rolls, like cloth.
Song Che uncovered the roll of kelp, and as the center got closer and closer, he saw a three-foot-long "Japanese knife".
There are seven or eight cargo boxes in front of him, each box contains seven or eight pieces of kelp. If there is a Japanese sword hidden in each piece, there are more than thirty Japanese swords. There are more than thirty Japanese pirates with one handle per person.
What are they going to do?
Why go to Yangzhou?
Yangzhou is the capital of Huainan Road, the economic, cultural, and military center... There must be no conspiracy!
"Hufu..." The guard snored again and his eyelids began to tremble.
"Put these things back quickly."
The two quickly cleaned up the mess, arranged the cargo boxes intact, turned off the lights and exited the warehouse.
The three of them returned to the bow of the ship, still in the same tactical disguise, but could no longer pee.
"In other words, are there thirty or forty Japanese pirates hidden on this ship?" Liao Heng frowned.
The Japanese pirates who dare to sneak into the inland must have good martial arts. No matter how good Jiang Yun's martial arts is, it will be difficult for him to fight against thirty. What's more, there are so many civilians on the ship.
Direct killing is not advisable.
And the most important thing is that these Japanese pirates are backed by traitors, and there must be a big fish behind them.
The nation's sorrow is not the invasion of foreign enemies, but the betrayal of the country.
Song Che's thoughts suddenly came to his mind:
"In this way, we will stay put until they arrive in Yangzhou tomorrow. If they want to enter the city, they will check the goods at the city gate. Then we will come out to report them and use the power of the city guards to catch them all."
Liao Heng clapped his hands and praised: "It's simply wonderful."
Afterwards, the three of them returned to the cabin and fell asleep as if nothing had happened.
The next day.
afternoon.
The passenger ship finally arrived in Yangzhou.
After Song Che and others got off the boat, they found a noodle stall and ate while waiting.
By the time the noodles were almost eaten, the Chuzhou man had finished unloading the goods and led the caravan towards Yangzhou City.
To Song Che's surprise, the caravan was not as large as he originally estimated. There were only eight people including the traitor who led the caravan.
There are at least thirty or forty Japanese knives hidden in this batch of goods, but currently there are only eight Japanese pirates escorting them, so there is only one possibility - this caravan is transporting weapons to their accomplices.
It is very likely that a group of Japanese pirates have already arrived in Yangzhou City, or there may be another group of Japanese pirates on the way.
But no matter what, this group of people must be plotting something big, and there is a big traitor in Yangzhou City secretly helping them.
"Boss lady, please help me give the money to the following. We are all sorting it out and can't find it."
Song Che dismissed Yun Niang and took the opportunity to tell Liao Heng and Jiang Yun that their plans had changed and that they would not take action against the Japanese pirates for the time being and continue to fish for big fish in the long term.
After settling the bill, Song Che went to the nearby post house to rent a carriage and quietly followed the caravan into Yangzhou.
