Liu Mengru and Su Wenzhou exchanged a glance, both knowing that the escorts must have discovered Su Wenzhou was missing and come looking for him.
Although Su Wenzhou is dressed as a woman now, and you might not recognize him at first glance, his height is still quite unusual for a woman, and you'll definitely notice the problem upon closer inspection.
Liu Mengru pulled Su Wenzhou to the bedside, pressed a mechanism, and revealed a secret passage.
The passageway was small, only wide enough for one person to squeeze through.
"General Su, I'm sorry to trouble you. This passage leads to the outside of Yuanmeng Tower. Please hide inside and don't come out for now."
Knowing the situation was urgent, Su Wenzhou didn't care about such things and quickly hid in the passage.
After the soldiers left, Su Wenzhou, based on the information provided by Liu Mengru, hid himself and began to stake out the iron mine to look for clues.
He would only come to see Liu Mengru and have a chat if he saw her lighting incense at the window.
Until today, when I met Su Ruojin.
After listening to Su Wenzhou's account, Su Ruojin found it to be exactly as she had guessed.
Third Brother is certainly not someone who is afraid of death; he would only choose to flee if faced with something more serious.
Therefore, this Miss Liu can be considered a kind and righteous girl.
"Third Brother, what have you found out so far?"
Su Wenzhou said, "The mine operates during the day and transports ore, and it will transport it again at night. The iron ore will be transported to the Qinghe River to be loaded onto ships. The ships are all official ships of the Great Chu Ironworks. I didn't see the problem at first."
"Are all the ships, day and night, from the Great Chu Ironworks?" Su Ruojin asked again to confirm.
"Yes."
In addition to transporting iron ore, the ships of the Great Chu Ironworks would also transport some weapons to armories, border fortresses, or military camps, depending on the Ministry of War's dispatch.
"Third Brother, have you been to the ship yet?"
"No, the guards over there are too tight, I haven't been able to find an opportunity."
Without certainty, Su Wenzhou dared not act rashly. If he were caught again, he would have no way to explain himself.
“Xiao Jin, Tong Mingshan’s Guanhe Tower has also been burned down, and he hasn’t invited Miss Liu over recently. Miss Liu can’t get any information from him for the time being,” Su Wenzhou added.
"Yes, I know. I burned down Guanhe Tower," Su Ruojin said casually, as if she were thinking about something.
Su Wenzhou: ......
What did Tong Mingshan do to offend Xiao Jin? Xiao Jin has only been in Yulin for a few days.
"What did he do to you?"
"It's nothing, he just wants to take me to be his eleventh concubine."
Upon hearing this, Su Wenzhou slammed his fist on the table and stood up, shouting, "That damned Tong Mingshan, I'm going to kill him right now!"
Yanlu covered her mouth and chuckled softly.
General Su is truly a sister-protecting fanatic. He was relatively calm when talking about Tong Mingshan's affairs, but he couldn't sit still when he heard that Tong Mingshan had inappropriate thoughts about the young lady.
"Third Brother, if we could really kill him directly, why would we have waited until now? Don't worry, don't worry, we'll find something out of him eventually." Su Ruojin quickly tried to calm her agitated third brother.
Su Wenzhou also calmed down. "Originally, Miss Liu wanted to try to find evidence such as account books from Tong Mingshan and steal them, but Tong Mingshan never let her come to his home and would only meet her at Guanhe Tower."
I tried to sneak into Tong Mingshan's house to search, but once inside, I got lost, and there were several people in his house with considerable martial arts skills.
Su Wenzhou was afraid that Xiao Jin would worry, so he didn't tell her directly that he almost couldn't get out that time.
Generally speaking, if Tong Mingshan really did steal and sell iron ore weapons, there would definitely be an account book.
Su Ruojin knew immediately that there was a formation in Tong Mingshan's mansion. She didn't expect that a small prefect's mansion would actually use such a formation.
This Tong Mingshan is no ordinary person.
If that's the case, even if they manage to sneak in, they might not be able to find where the ledger is hidden. And if they alert the enemy, it will be even harder to find it.
Su Ruojin carefully recalled everything she encountered in Yulin.
Regardless of whether Tong Mingshan was truly involved in the theft and sale of iron ore and weapons as Liu Mengru claimed, even if it could be found that he framed an official of the imperial court, it would be a great achievement and could somewhat offset the crime of Third Brother's escape.
It seems that both things need to be done at the same time. Su Wenzhou was investigating these matters alone before, which was indeed a bit overwhelming.
"An Yi, take some men to Yicheng." After saying that, Su Ruojin whispered a few words in An Yi's ear.
An nodded and left.
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