Chapter 222 The Liu Family Suffers a Setback

The head of the Liu family boarded the ship for a purpose. He also took the opportunity to have someone search the ship where Song Jin was.

This time the search was more thorough.

Song Jin knew that they were not searching for people, but for the lost account book. Only she knew that it was impossible to find these people because the account book was in her possession.

The head of the Liu family exchanged a few words with Song Jin.

Song Jin never tired of talking to him about Jianning's specialties, hoping to take the opportunity to make a deal. The head of the Liu family was feeling irritated and just said a few perfunctory words. When the searchers shook their heads to indicate that they had not found anything, the head of the Liu family hurriedly left the ship as if he was being chased by a dog.

"Hey, Master Liu, let's talk next time."

Song Jin shouted loudly behind the other person.

It was so warm, as if they were very familiar with each other.

The smile on her face gradually faded until the head of the Liu family left.

"Boss, are we going to continue with the schedule tomorrow morning?"

Xing Lun asked softly, bringing Song Jin back to his senses.

Song Jin said: "The itinerary remains the same."

Zhou Wei at the side said uncertainly: "Will the Liu family leave tomorrow morning? We need to leave. If the Liu family uses the excuse that the government is investigating a case and refuses to allow us to leave..."

"We have cooperated with the Liu family in the search. We can't delay our trip for the Liu family, right? Regardless of whether the Liu family lets us go or not, this trip has been scheduled long ago."

Song Jin pointed out the most suitable approach.

If you don't leave at the scheduled time, others might become more suspicious. You should always try to see if you can leave as you wish.

Chatting here.

The search of the docks is still ongoing.

From time to time, there would be some noise, and sometimes it was quite serious.

Whenever there was excitement, Qin Ba would go check it out, and when he came back he would share with Song Jin, "Boss Mo said that the jade ring in the room was missing, and he said it was an heirloom, and he was arguing with the Liu family."

“I knew these people were restless.”

Song Jin enjoyed listening to gossip. "The Liu family's men have done a lot of robbing and looting. When they saw the good stuff during the search, I knew they wouldn't be able to resist. What happened later?"

"The officers and the Liu family members who boarded the ship were detained. After a body search, the drug was found on one of the Liu family members." Qin Ba said with a gloating look.

The Liu family lost face! Then there was another incident, saying that the piled-up cargo boxes in the cabin collapsed due to the search.

Now, the losses are heavy.

The reason is that there are porcelains in the cargo box, and they will all be broken if it falls over.

Song Jin looked at it and laughed again.

The head of the Liu family has to pay compensation again.

Qin Qi couldn't help but remind him: "Don't you want to rest, Boss? It's getting late."

"I'm so energetic that I can't fall asleep even if I go back to my room."

Song Jin was not lying, he was truly full of energy.

Especially seeing that the Liu family was destroying themselves.

The Liu family offended a lot of people this time.

Song Jin dared to allow the Liu family to search openly because there was nothing on the ship that she could not show to others. After all, she was really doing business honestly and had not paid less commercial taxes every year.

Therefore, they are not afraid of the officials coming to search.

Some of them are different, they have many things that they are not willing to show to others.

The head of the Liu family soon discovered it.

The real difficult one is not Song Jin.

Song Jin has a backer, but as long as the profit is high enough, he can still cooperate with the Liu family in the search.

The search lasted most of the night.

There were two fleets that were very stubborn and refused to allow anyone to search them. They almost confronted the police and the Liu family.

The situation remains at a stalemate.

The Liu family surrounded the two fleets.

Song Jin is so lucky.

The head of the Liu family had long forgotten about her. Compared to a little grasshopper like her, the two fleets were more suspicious.

In order to watch the show, Song Jin stayed up all night.

"Do you know who those two caravans belong to?"

Song Jin was certain that the two parties had powerful backers, not small ones at that, and they were not afraid of the Liu family at all.

Qin Ba asked again, "Should I go and find out?"

"Forget it, I'll do it."

Song Jin flicked his sleeves, and surrounded by the crowd, he left the cargo ship and went over there to watch the fun.

It's not just Song Brocade.

People from other boats would also come down to take a look.

"Boss Song!"

Yoshikawa used his fat body to push through the crowd and squeeze to Song Jin's side.

Just as he was about to get closer, Qin Qi blocked him with his hand.

This behavior made Yoshikawa's eyes sparkle, "Boss Song, what a coincidence, you're here to watch the fun too?"

"I'm just curious."

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

Song Jin pointed to the largest ship not far away, which was also one of the fleets confronting the Liu family. "Those people on the ship are guards, they are fully armed and equipped, and they are not simple at first glance."

Yoshikawa nodded repeatedly and said in not very standard Chinese: "It's not simple. It's very difficult."

"Do you know whose fleet it is?" Song Jin took the opportunity to ask.

Yoshikawa shook his head and said he didn't know.

There are many large ships at this dock, and not all of them are caravans.

Then Yoshikawa pointed at a few of the boats and whispered mysteriously, "Those boats are not allowed to be searched, so they are probably not clean."

Not clean?

Song Jin suddenly pretended to be enlightened.

This is the ship in question.

Sure enough, the officers and the Liu family boarded the ship and searched it, and found more than a dozen innocent girls and a group of abducted children. This was a big case.

Patriarch Liu seized the opportunity.

Send these people to the yamen.

It can be considered as solving a case for the government and enhancing my reputation.

After this incident, the Liu family's forceful search of the dock could divert most of the public anger, and if handled properly, their reputation might even be improved. In addition, it would also serve as a warning to several other large ships.

Make the masses suspicious and refuse to allow the search.

Are there any secrets that cannot be told?

Finally, a very imposing middle-aged man appeared on the boat and handed a jade pendant to the leading official.

When the officer saw the jade token, he immediately knelt down.

Just as he was about to say something, he was kicked to the ground by the middle-aged man. He cursed at him and the officer dared not say a word.

Songjin Station is quite far away.

Can't hear what they say.

But after this incident, no matter how capable the Liu family was, they were unable to find the fleet.

The Liu family searched all night but returned empty-handed. The only fleet that had not been searched became a thorn in the heart of the head of the Liu family.

After evacuating the people.

Standing in the distance and watching the big ships at the dock.

Patriarch Liu spoke in a low voice to his confidant.

Then, Butler Liu stuffed a banknote into the leading officer's pocket and asked in a low voice, "Sir, ... can you tell me about the other party's background?"

The official took the banknote and said, "This is a distinguished person from Beijing."

Butler Liu understood what he meant.

The official said in awe, "That is a white jade axe-shaped pendant with a carved dragon and a chi."

This was the first time in his life that he had seen it with his own eyes. He had only seen patterns before.

In order to prevent its officials from offending nobles, the government would draw up items that symbolized status and send them to the government offices of various prefectures so that those who were there would identify them before taking up their posts.

The head of the Liu family learned of this result.

On the surface, nothing was said.

But behind the scenes he began to order others to investigate.