I remember, how could I not remember?
Ji Yanwen nodded.
Yu Shang took a sip of wine from the wine jug, swallowed the food in his mouth, and then said, "Are you really sure that batch of goods is in Pingshan?"
"March and I searched Pingshan thoroughly, but we couldn't find the thing."
"You're not lying to me, are you? If the thing was there, it should have been found by now. How come there's no trace of it?"
Thinking about how I spent March and I sleeping in the open in Pingshan, feeding mosquitoes in the dead of night, I felt inexplicably sad.
"Pingshan covers an area of more than ten miles, and it's just the two of you?"
To think that two people could traverse more than ten miles of mountains in just a few days is a joke, something to be taken lightly.
Yu Shang's expression turned somewhat unnatural. He raised his chin slightly and pouted, saying, "Although there are only two of us, we have searched every place, but we haven't found a single trace."
"Why don't you send a few more people to search?" Ji Yanwen raised his hand to his forehead, feeling a slight headache.
"We're just afraid of alerting the enemy!"
"Having a lot of people isn't necessarily a good thing. Wang Shaoyang sent a lot of people, right? As far as I know, there were at least ten. Guess what happened in the end? These ten people disappeared after entering Pingshan, and they still haven't been found."
Yu Shang lowered his voice and continued, "Look at me, it's different. Although San Yue and I didn't find anything, we're both safe and sound. If I had sent people in like that fool Wang Shaoyang, my men might have gotten into trouble too."
Ji Yanwen looked up in surprise and asked, "You said Wang Shaoyang sent people to Pingshan?"
“That’s right, he sent people to all the mountains in Nan’an County, not just Pingshan.”
Ignoring everything else, Ji Yanwen focused on the group from Pingshan and continued to ask, "The people he sent to Pingshan have disappeared?"
“Not bad.” Yu Shang nodded.
"Tell me, when did those people disappear?"
Yu Shang was confused, but he still told him all the information he had found.
Ji Yanwen's expression turned serious as he recalled the events of that period. Judging from the time when those people disappeared, it was exactly the time when Jiang Bai had finished looting the grain and was hiding it away.
He didn't find any cellars or other places to store grain in his home, and since Jiang Bai had taken a lot of grain, he later went to Pingshan under the cover of night.
The bow and arrows used in the grain raid were taken away by Jiang Bai after the raid was over, and he never saw them again at home.
He clearly remembered that on the day of the grain robbery, Jiang Bai's arrow was not retrieved, and the county government must have obtained the lost arrow.
Based on the timeline, it's likely that Wang Shaoyang discovered the markings on the arrow, which prompted him to send people to search the area within Nan'an County.
Based on this, he deduced that the items should be in Pingshan, and that Jiang Bai must know the location.
The disappearance of that group of people was most likely caused by Jiang Bai.
In other words, they likely discovered the hiding place, which is why Jiang Bai silenced them.
Thinking back to the day he followed Jiang Bai, intending to find out what she was doing in Pingshan, but lost her, Ji Yanwen became even more certain that the deaths of those people were inextricably linked to Jiang Bai.
"Hey, what are you thinking? Why does your expression keep changing?"
Yu Shang nudged Ji Yanwen, wondering what he was thinking.
Ji Yanwen opened his mouth, intending to tell him about his suspicions about Jiang Bai, but then suddenly closed it again.
What are you trying to say?
Seeing his hesitant expression, Yu Shang was completely baffled.
"Wang Shaoyang's men have all disappeared in Pingshan, doesn't that further prove that the item is in Pingshan? You should search there again!"
“The Wang family and we are not the only ones watching this batch of goods; there are other forces as well. So Wang Shaoyang’s people may have been discovered by other forces.”
“What you said makes some sense,” Yu Shang nodded in agreement.
At this moment, Ji Yanwen asked again, "Has that group of refugees been dealt with?"
The attack on the village by displaced people was originally Wang Shaoyang's tactic.
What appears to be a robbery of grain is actually a scheme to capture Jiang Bai and her siblings.
Fortunately, it was discovered early, otherwise Jiangjia Village would have been in serious trouble.
Later, after they escaped, Ji Yanwen was always worried that they would make a comeback, so he sent a message to Yu Shang when Yu Shang came to rescue the people.
"Don't you trust me to do things?"
"That group of refugees has been dealt with. The leader was killed, and the others have been secretly sent back to Luzhou."
Luzhou is currently suffering from a severe drought. Most of the original residents of Luzhou had fled to Xuchuan Prefecture. Now, Luzhou is probably a ghost town for miles around. Only Yu Shang could come up with such a terrible idea as sending these refugees back to Luzhou.
"That's good."
Ji Yanwen nodded, this way they could be prevented from harassing the surrounding villages again.
"Speaking of Luzhou, I suddenly remembered that you sent me a letter a few days ago, asking me to ask the hermit of Yunshan about the rain in Pingshan."
Ji Yanwen's heart skipped a beat. He looked at him, his expression unchanged, and asked, "What did he say?"
According to him, Nan'an County, which is adjacent to Luzhou, should not have rain for the next six months, at least not as heavy as it was a few days ago.
"Oh? But it did rain for a full half hour around Pingshan."
“I know, so I wrote down the scene of the rainy day in Pingshan in the letter and told Yunshan Jushi about it. Guess what he said?”
Yu Shang leaned closer with a mysterious look on his face, and Ji Yanwen asked in a cooperative tone, "What do you mean?"
"Do you still remember when the Princess Protector of the Nation performed a blood sacrifice to pray for rain at the founding of the nation?"
Ji Yanwen frowned. Everyone in the Qian Yuan Kingdom had heard about this matter. If it weren't for what happened later, it would have been known throughout the country.
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