The second set of cases in Case 45: The Granary of Heaven

  Happy Little New Year's Eve, eating dinner tonight, so more words are added, hehehe.

  Many times I've thought, I was originally a good person, but after entering the Guardian's Manor, I turned bad. Although I didn't want to leave the luxurious life of the Guardian's Manor, in reality, I still left myself a way out, just in case.

  Without knowing the wind is clear and elegant, I hid a lot of silver tickets, gems, jewelry, and took advantage of any opportunity to go out to hide them, such as last time with Chunyu. I dug a hole under a tree and buried it. Acting like a mouse, but I had no choice.

  I remembered that the jade pendant I snatched from my enemy back then wasn't thrown away, but was hidden by me in that broken temple. Who would have thought that hiding things had become my instinct?

  The horse carriage jolted for a whole day and night, with no one speaking. Xiao Chi kept staring at me with vigilant eyes, which made me feel strange. What's even stranger is that the horse carriage stopped on an official road.

  Lift the curtain of the car, a forest, a bright moon hanging in the high sky.

  "We're here!" Hou Xuan jumped off the horse carriage. "I really don't understand why Nan Gong told me to stop here. You guys wait, I'll go make a fire."

  "I'll go help." Xiao Ruo followed him over.

  "We have only three days." Xiaojiao said softly, "Things start from where they end, this is where the grain was lost."

  I jumped off the carriage, and Long Huang followed suit, starting to sniff around everywhere. Xiao Jiu stood on the carriage and continued to say: "Now Chu Yue and Chun Yu Zi Chen are implicated, still bearing guilt, the remaining officials will only wait for us to go, hum, they're all just a bunch of self-righteous old things."

  "So we're not going to Qingzhou, but instead starting from here?" It turned out to be the crime scene. I stretched out my hand to hug Xiao Jiu, but Xiao Jiu took a tense step back and jumped down from the other side of the carriage: "This... there's a group of mountain bandits here, but I don't think they're likely to commit a crime." Xiao Jiu walked out from under the horse's belly.

  "Why?"

  "Because... they never robbed official grain, however, the two hundred dan of official grain in front and behind, can't be moved away just by saying so. To move them away, it's inevitable that someone will see them. This is an official road, whether day or night, there will always be people passing through. And until now, nothing has been discovered, unless it was done by this group of mountain bandits, or these two batches of official grain are still here."

  "Hidden away?" I looked around, the dark forest was full of mystery everywhere.

  The bonfire rose, and the bright flames dispersed the gloom of this forest.

  "Whether it's Chu Yue or Chun Yu Zi Chen, when they rest here, they fall into a deep sleep, so it's either the mountain bandits or the internal traitors."

  Xiao Jiu's analysis was meticulous and thorough, his solemn face naturally reminded me of Conan. Unexpectedly, Xiao Jiu's gaze collided with mine, I smiled slightly at him, but he hastily turned away: "We'll split up, you go to the mountain stronghold, I'll investigate around here with Xiao Ruo."

  "Huh? I'm going to the mountain stronghold?"

  "Well, you can go now and maybe still manage to scrounge up a meal." Xia Jiu's tone was mocking as he gave me a sideways glance. "Isn't freeloading your specialty?"

  I narrowed my eyes, and Xiao Jiu's black and bright eyes were like black pearls. It can be guessed that in the near future, Xiao Jiu will also become a handsome young man.

  "Madam, dinner is ready." Xiaoyao's shout interrupted my sharp stare with Xiaojiao. I withdrew my gaze and walked forward, but my calf was kicked by someone. My patience has a limit, if he kicks me again, I will definitely fight him!

  "Not leaving yet? You've slept for a whole day, it's time to get some exercise. I don't want a pig's body."

  I turned around and glared at him fiercely, he coldly faced away and strode past me with big steps.

  Hey, what's with that? Forget it, I don't bother arguing with him since he's just a "kid".

  "Hey, you have to tell me where that broken mountain stronghold is too."

  "Mountain stronghold?" Hou Xian suddenly stood up with the rice cake in hand, his eyes gleaming with a sharp light. "Are you going to that mountain stronghold?"

  "Which mountain stronghold?"

  "Hey! What else can I do?" The short-sleeved shirt with the hemp-like fabric was jumping in the firelight, and the tooth-shaped ornament was swaying slightly with his movements. "I'll take you there, once we enter the rivers and lakes, it's my territory, Old Man Meng has some connections with me." Then he looked at the moonlight, raised an eyebrow, "At this time they should be cooking dinner, half a time of journey, ha..."

  I glared at him: "Hou Xian, you're not thinking of freeloading off me again, are you?"

  In the firelight were Xiao Rou and Xiao Jiu's smiling faces. Hou Xian twitched his eyebrow: "Who said that, I'm going to visit an old friend. Let's go, let's set off."

  Speechless...... Hou Xuan is indeed a good match for me. I wonder if Nangong asked me to bring Hou Xuan, did he have this intention?

  "Long Huang~~~" I lazily shouted, Long Huang closely followed by my side.

  Qingzhou lost grain, Xiaojiu divided the manpower into three branches. One branch is the Shadow Palace, which continues to investigate in Qingzhou. One branch is me, who goes to that mountain stronghold to investigate. The remaining one is him, who looks for clues near the lost grain. He thinks that it's impossible to move hundreds of dan of grain without being noticed, so the grain is either moved by familiar bandits or still hidden nearby.

  But why didn't he send someone to tail Jia Mingkai? If Jia Mingkai is related to this whole thing, then if they had tailed him, maybe there would have been some unexpected clues.

  "Hurry up." Hou Xian had to stop and go because of me, I gave him a glance: "How can I keep up with your speed, my stomach is hungry, I'm too weak to walk."

  "Hey." Hou Xian pointed at the Dragon Emperor in front of him, "Even a dog runs faster than you."

  He actually compared me to a dog, I'm so angry, I've got a belly full of fire, so I sat down and refused to move: "You go first, walking so fast just means you want to eat for free? I don't care, I won't move. I'm not going!"

  He walked up to me with a swagger, and I sat on the ground just in time to see his boots, white socks wrapped around with brown gaiters.

  "Ugh, what a hassle!" Suddenly, Hou Xian crouched down in front of me, pointing to my back. "Get on, or we'll be late for dinner."

  After hesitating for a second, I immediately jumped onto his back, lest he regret it, and the proud and arrogant Hou also had a moment of concern.

  The dragon king stood in front of us, turned around and saw us, then arched his back and carried me forward again.

  Although Hou Xian was small in stature, his agility was extraordinary. He carried me on his back and still had the energy to talk: "Hey! I've never carried a woman before, look how good I'm being to you, can't you reduce my tuition fees? I'm almost out of money to spend elsewhere."

  "Haha, wait until you've had enough fun with that clumsy guy and then come find me."

  "Your martial arts skills are truly unmatched, this is the most difficult martial art I've ever learned."

  "It's not difficult, once you understand it, it's all clear. Just remember that yin and yang generate and overcome each other, and softness can also overcome hardness."

  "Soft can overcome hard......" Hou Xian repeated in a low voice, "Soft can overcome hard...... it's done!"

  He stopped and put me down, in front of a brightly lit mountain stronghold, with wooden palisades, wooden gates, and wooden watchtowers. On the gate, two large characters read: Mountain Stronghold!

  Very good, very powerful. Indeed convenient!

  On the tightly closed door, a large white paper was pasted, with a row of big characters on it. Long Huang went to the edge of the door and sniffed carefully, wasn't there something discovered? I was excited for a moment. Suddenly, he lifted his hind legs...

  "Haha, as expected, still the same old thing." Hou Xian hummed and walked forward, reading the words on the white paper, "Qingzhou lost its good fortune, with Wula... Tian... Guan? What does it mean?"

  I read the note repeatedly and suddenly felt enlightened: "It must be Qingzhou's loss of grain, which has nothing to do with us."

  "Ah, yes! Ula is the local dialect, that's what we are." Hou Xian stroked his chin, "Full of typos, indeed it's Mong Laoda's style." After finishing speaking, he shouted upwards, "Mong Laoda, open the door!"

  Looking out from the internet, inside the wooden stockade, are living people.