CHAPTER 5

Lu Yi didn't seem to notice them. He was holding a cover cup in his hand, admiring the river, drinking the tea slowly, smells tea fragrant.

She want to sneak away. Maybe Lu Yi still remember about her tofu stall, she asked for money that night. If he recognize them and think of those two silvers, it will be difficult to say that he will have a good impression on her.

However, Yang Yue hesitated for a moment, thinking that his ranks way higher than them, he doesnt want to be rude, so he taking a step forward and greet him said, "Departement Six Yang Yue, see Lord Lu."

It was too late to grab him, Jin Xia had to keep up: "Departement Six Yuan Jin Xia, see Lord Lu."

Lu Yi raised his eyes, and gave a slight hum.

Such a short distance, Jin Xia, seeing that there was no strange color on his face, thinking that he didn't recognize them, she was relieved.

"Where is Yang Chengwan?" Lu Yi asked.

"My dad's legs is not well, he is resting in the cabin." Yang Yue replied.

Lu Yi raised his hand slightly, and made a gesture toward the cabin, which mean that he could lead the way, holding the tea bowl and handing it to the side, which was exactly the direction where Jin Xia stand still.

Probably it was too smooth for him, natural and smooth. As for Jin Xia, she had taken the tea bowl voluntarily and held it for him before she realized what just happen.

Yang Yue took Lu Yi to the cabin where Yang Chengwan rested.

After that, Jin Xia glanced at the tea bowl in her hand, and then she silently murmured: how come she suddenly changed her job from a Catcher to a Maid?

Then she quickly followed, her heart secretly wondered: Why he first want to see Boss, but not Liu Xiangzuo? Mr.Liu's rank is higher than Boss's rank, isn't it?

Heading to Yang Chengwan's cabin, Yang Yue tapped the door and called out, "Dad, Master Lu come."

There was no noise and no response was heard.

"My dad is old, and his ears are a little bit... eh... maybe he doesn't hear us..." Yang Yue busy explained to Lu Yi, "Master Lu, how about wait until he wakes up, then I will tell him to meet you?"

Lu Yi didn't answer, his face was like an ice sculpture, he stood quietly in front of the hatch, without any intention to leave.

"Master..."

Jin Xia worried that this Jin Yiwei's Master was deliberately trying to find faults and want to give Yang Chengwan trouble, she also trying to explain. As soon as she opened her mouth, the hatch creaked open, and Yang Chengwan's cloak stood at the door: "Lord Lu, Yang Chengwan is disabled, please forgive me for countless sins."

"Predecessor Yang is too polite." Lu Yi's tone was very mild.

Yang Chengwan smiled slightly, let in, and invited Lu Yi into the cabin.

Yang Yue and Jin Xia followed in unwillingly. Lu Yi was seated, and was waiting to talk with Yang Chengwan. He saw the two of them left and right in front of the door, his expression was light, but he didn't speak.

"You two, go out." Yang Cheng Wan said.

Yang Yue did not dare to disobey. Jin Xia, obediently went out and closed the hatch.

"Senior Yang ..." Lu Yi began.

"Lord Lu, wait a minute.."

Yang Cheng walked to the door, opened one of the hatches, Jin Xia and Yang Yue almost fell in. After confiscating all the small listeners, Yang Chengwan glared at them both: "Before dark, about this ship and the people on board, I want you to know about everything."

"Father..."

"Boss ..."

The two wailed at the same time.

"I will check it at any time," Yang Chengwan said briefly, then closed the door and turned to Lu Yi and smiled. "My kids are stubborn, please don't be offended"

Lu Yi only smiled slightly at this time: "My father once mentioned that in Jin Yiwei, your tracking technique was unmatched by anyone. It is such a blessing for them."

Yang Chengwan said nothing, just asked, "Lingzun's health is okay?"

"My father is getting old, easyly get sick if he is too tired." Lu Yi watched Yang Chengwan calmly. "I often advise him to rest, but he dont want to, he mentioned you many times, so I really hope that you can go back and help him."

"Thank you for remembering my old days." Yang Chengwan smiled slightly, alienated and polite.

"My father asked me to tell you something--" Lu Yi watched him, "--the deceased is dead."

After hearing that, Yang Chengwan sat quietly, it took a long time to slowly say, "Before, I also recognized one of the Jin Yiwei's Master. The official ranks are the same as Lord Lu. His surname is Shen."

Lu Yi was silent, this Master Shen from Jin Yiwei, he knew him too.

Shen Lian was a junior scholar for seventeen years, and later served as Jin Yiwei. Straightforward, because of witnessing the "change of Gengzheng", the people 's family broke the tragedy, Shen Lianren could not bear the count of the ten major counts of Yan Song, but was sentenced to a cane and sent to a place outside the prison. Later, Shen Chain was killed in Xuanfu, and his sons Shen were imprisoned and beaten to death.

Yang Chengwan smiled bitterly: "In the past, although Ling Zun was the highest commander of Jin Yiwei, he treated me differently, even like his brothers. This gracious encounter, I cannot repay in this life. Now Yang Chengwan is no longer useful. I am old and disabled. I can only hang around in the Departement Six and stop thinking about him."

The person in front of Lu Yi was only in his forties, but his hair already half-white and gray, and his fatigue was obvious. He was far away from what rumours in Jin Yiwei who repeatedly described him as person with the best tracking technique in Jin Yiwei history.

Lu Yi stared at him for a moment, only to say: "This matter is not urgent, senior please do not have to make a hasty decision now. This trip to Yangzhou has a lot of young people, but also depends on senior for guidance."

"Lord Lu, how kind you are." Yang Chengwan said busyly.

Lu Yi said no more, got up, arched, and left.

There was only one person in the cabin, Yang Chengwan, and he sat back in his chair and looked at the cup of tea on the opposite side, his eyes were complicated.

The boat stopped at night, and there was nothing to do for a long time. When the sky was bright, there was a big noise.

Sleeping, Jin Xia heard that the hatch was knocked loudly, thought it was a major event to leave the water. Suddenly her cabin door was opened, two officers and soldiers wearing ink-colored folding eaves hats and blue dresses and yellow combat skirts forcibly broke into her room. Without saying a lot, they turned the cabin contents upside down and found nothing. Jin Xia confused at the moment...

"Search on her!" One of them said.

"What are you doing?!" This group of people is extremely rude, Jin Xia is already outrageous. "I dont even know what you are looking for, why you need to search on me?"

"So brave, a little liar, dare to speak like that!" The tall officer and soldier said sternly, "What is missing now is General Qiu's birthday boxes for his mother He Shou, guard search on her body, just kill her if she refused."

It turned out to be Qiu Xun's men. No wonder he was so arrogant. Jin Xia, she hummed coldly: "Although your general is now a favored person, I urge you to go out of my room! you can't do anything on me!"

The tall officers and soldiers ignored it and went to search on her. Jin Xia, she took a two-step retreat, kicked them out with a flying leg, she kicked the officer and soldier sharply.

"Do you think you can bully me? Huh!"

"You little girl," the tall officer and soldier stood up holding the bulkhead, pulled out his waist sabre, and exclaimed, "I will chopped you!"

Jin Xia looked coldly at the knife coming over, avoiding it. When the danger of the knife was in front of her, she quickly swerved her head and at the same time a sword cut the entry board.

"Well ... for a long time, I heard that General Qiu cannot lead troops, and there are frequent reports. Even killing five Mongolians he do not dare to do it. No wonder it's true to say that you are just a bunch of useless people." Jin Xia laughed and mocked.

The two officers and men were even more angry, they were about to slash again. Coincidentally, Yang Yue rushed over and was relieved when he saw Jin Xia. She was busy in the fight and said, "Everyone is a man in the public service and serves the country. If there is something to say, then talk, no need to break in make a fuss like this."

As she said that, Yang Yue quickly dragged Jin Xia out and whispered in her ear: "This group is not easy to mess with. More is worse than less. My father is waiting outside."

Jin Xia was dragged straight to the deck, she saw dozens of torches on the deck, lighting the ship like daylight. The bow was densely packed with people, and not only the boatmen were driven out, Yang Chengwan, Liu Xiang, and Lu Yi were also there. There are many sergeants behind.

"Boss." Leaning next to Yang Chengwan Jin Xia, whispered, "This group is arrogant."

The two officers and men also rushed out of the cabin before, pointing to the man headed by Jin Xia yelling: "This little maid is not letting us search on her, and she dares to take action, and insults the general, it must be her the thief ..."

"Nonsense! you already search in my cabin room upside down over and over again, you still want to search on my body. How dare you, you think you can bully me?!"

"Search on the body?" Yang Chengwan was so serious in another place, "Isn't the general master saying that there are seven or eight birthday boxes, it cannot fit into my kid body"

Wang Fangxing, a veteran of Qiu's account, saw that his subordinates were so unchecked, in front of Jin Yiwei's master and in front of the lord of Dali Temple, he suddenly lost his face, and slap the tall officers and soldiers, he slaps them hard: "Useless things! go!"

As the highest ranking official here, Liu Xiang is also an honest man with the most temperament. He knows that General Qiu's people need to give three points. Woke up in the middle of the night, he wasn't angry. He asked gently, "Wang Shen, I'll wait for my official business. If the search is complete, I'll go back to rest."

Wang Fangxing hurriedly said, "I apologize my troops are not well controlled, and his reckless behavior has disturbed Lord Liu's rest. Please forgive their sins."

"Don't worry about them." Liu Xiang returned to the cabin, and his back disappeared quickly.

"Master Lu ..." Wang Fangxing turned to Lu Yi and was about to speak, but Lu Yi suddenly asked coldly: "When did you lose this birthday boxes?"

"The box was still there when the shift was made at that moment," Wang Fangxing replied without hesitation.

When they talk, Jin Xia leaned on Yang Yue, Jin Xia feel sleepy and yawning, ready to go back to sleep if they had nothing to do. She didn't really like the general Qiu Xie, who lost his birthday and wanted to applaud.

"Mr.Yang," Lu Yi turned to Yang Chengwan, "Your tracking technique is extraordinary, you might as well go to the scene of the crime scene to find a clue, which may help Wang Shen to trace the whereabouts of the birthday box."

"Here, please forgive me Lord Lu," Yang Chengwan said. "It shouldn't have been postponed after the lifting, but in the night, I cant see well, which is really hard to do the tracking."

Wang Fangxing saw that he was leaning on his body and his legs were not well He did not put him in his eyes either, but it was because Lu Yi's face was not good enough to push him away.

"So ..." Lu Yi stared at him for a moment, without seeing the slightest emotion in his eyes, and turned to, "It might as well let you go and see."

In this way, Yang Chengwan was naturally not good enough to resign, turning to Yang Yue and instructing Jin Xia: "You two should get on the boat, be careful ..."

"Boss, when am I not careful?" said Jin Xia.

Yang Chengwan stared at her fiercely, still admonishing: "General Qiu's birthday box is not the same. You two should pay close attention and don't talk nonsense, understand?"

For a moment Jin Xia, could not fully understand, but nodded ignorantly.

After all, it was both father and son. Yang Yue had faintly realized that there was something strange about it, he looked at his father, later he and Jin Xia go to the crime scene to find any clue.