Chapter 376: Everyone is messing around

In the middle of the night, Liu Xianghe finally swallowed his last breath, dying very unwillingly.

The handymen immediately moved the corpse away, cleaned the prison cell, and disinfected it to remove the bad luck.

Wu Bantou felt that Liu Xianghe must have had great resentment when he died, and worried that the resentment would remain, so he decided to leave the prison cell vacant for half a month or a month before arranging for another convicted official to live in it.

Chen Guanlou had no objection to this.

Throughout the whole process, Wu Bantou kept scolding the Six Shanmen for not acting like humans, being too sinister.

Chen Guanlou rested in the official office, sleeping soundly.

As soon as the sky brightened, he took a dozen or so prison guards and went out to Suizhou for official business.

With the Marquis's residence taking care of them, they either rode horses or took boats all the way, and in five or six days, they rushed to Suizhou.

The prison guards were leaving the capital for the first time, going on such a long trip for the first time, and spending public money for the first time; they looked at everything as strange.

Chen Guanlou first went to the yamen to exchange, and then contacted the manager left by the Marquis's residence in Suizhou. The manager took him into a warehouse, "These are the goods that need to be escorted."

The goods were all packed neatly, packed in wooden boxes, and covered with oilcloth on top.

Chen Guanlou asked the manager, "What kind of goods are packed inside?"

"Don't know." The manager answered crisply and neatly; it looked like he really didn't know.

"You haven't opened it to see?"

When the manager heard this, he seemed very strange and whispered, "Working in the Marquis's residence, first you must learn not to have curiosity. You are a Chen family member; you should understand better."

"I don't understand." Chen Guanlou grinned at the manager, "Can I open it to see what kind of goods are packed inside?"

"No!" The manager was made very irritable by him, "Chen Yucheng, do your own task well, don't create extra branches, can you?"

Chen Guanlou's hand slid across the cargo boxes and smiled, "Don't worry, I know the rules. Where are the people? Didn't they say they also wanted to send a person to the capital?"

"What person?"

"You don't know?" Now it was Chen Guanlou's turn to be surprised; the other party actually didn't know.

The manager said, "My task is to handle the handover of goods with Chen Yucheng and ensure that Chen Yucheng can successfully transport the goods out of the city. I really don't know about the person you mentioned."

Chen Guanlou:...

"Are there other people from the Marquis's residence in Suizhou?"

"There were before, but later several accidents happened, and everyone was withdrawn."

"What accidents."

"We were attacked, thieves, poisoning, in short, all kinds of accidents. Above were worried that everyone would have an accident, so they withdrew everyone. Only I and a few guards were left."

"Do you know the reason?"

"At first I thought this batch of goods was targeted. Later I found out, the reason wasn't with this batch of goods. I don't know the specifics." The manager looked bitter and deep, obviously having been tossed around quite a bit during this period, not eating well or sleeping well, the whole person highly tense and anxious. He was clearly middle-aged, but had acne on his face, which could be seen.

Chen Guanlou let out an 'oh'.

That night, he rested at an inn arranged by the manager.

He thought it wouldn't be peaceful in the middle of the night, but the whole night was quiet.

The next day, he handled the handover procedures with the local yamen and finished the necessary procedures. He went to the prison to see the people who needed to be escorted.

The list given to him was all middle-level generals in the Chu King's army. But he took the list down to the prison and looked at the people locked in the prison cell, and suddenly laughed.

He pointed at the few crooked melons and cracked dates in the prison cell, "You tell me, these are generals in the Chu King's army?" They were not even as good as street hooligans, all old, weak, sick, and disabled.

The official in charge of the local yamen secretly rolled his eyes, "We all do things according to the procedures; these are the people sent from the front, and there has been no mistake from beginning to end. If you suspect the people were swapped, then you go to the front to investigate; don't look for us. I heard you are clan brothers with the deputy general of the imperial army; you ask him!"

So arrogant.

Chen Guanlou sneered and shouted at the prison cell, "Who is General Ning Yu?"

An old man raised his hand, "I am Ning Yu."

"You are Ning Yu? How old are you this year?"

"Thirty!"

You are thirty, and I am thirteen.

Damn!

Before Chen Guanlou came, he knew this trip would definitely cause trouble, but he didn't expect it to be so chaotic. It started messing around from the source. Even if they wanted to find people to impersonate the generals of the Chu King's army, they should at least find a few decent ones. Such perfunctory practice, its unscrupulous style of conduct, was clearly manifested.

Was this the meaning of the Marquis's residence's heir Chen Guanfu, or the Head Manager's meaning, or the Eldest Master's meaning?

He suppressed the displeasure in his heart and said to the official in charge, "I'll come to take the people tomorrow."

"Leaving tomorrow?" The official in charge heard this, turned from cloudy to sunny, and smiled, "Why not stay two more days? There are several places with good scenery outside Suizhou city, you can go sightseeing."

"No! This task is urged tightly above, I have to hurry back to the capital."

The official in charge was just saying it casually and didn't intend to really keep him. Seeing Chen Guanlou was sensible, he followed along, "That's fine. I'll wait for you here tomorrow morning, and after handling the procedures, you can take the people."

"Who is sick in here, so I can prepare early, to avoid any accidents on the road. In case someone dies, I'll have to take the blame."

"Don't worry, don't look at them as crooked melons and cracked dates; their bodies are all fine. I guarantee they can reach the capital in one piece."

"Then I can rest assured."

Chen Guanlou returned to the inn and asked the boss to set up a banquet. He called the manager to drink together. Leaving tomorrow, drink some wine, chat, and get close.

This task was weird.

Always felt clouded and foggy.

He suspected that the Head Manager using him was to let him be a diversion to confuse external enemies. It's just that this diversion was not very clever; those few crooked melons and cracked dates of prisoners, anyone with eyes could see they were extremely perfunctory and extremely careless.

But the manager here, asked three questions and didn't know anything. The yamen side was doing things according to the rules, also asking three questions and knowing nothing.

The manager saw his frustration and kindly comforted him, "Chen Yucheng, don't think too much. This task shouldn't be difficult. I hired a well-known guild in the local area, plus the name of the Heavenly Prison, it should be very safe on the road."

Chen Guanlou smiled, "Were you safe before? Were those prisoners really escorted from the front?"

"I really don't know about the people; I'm only responsible for the goods. I work in a firm under the Marquis's residence; the head manager told me to watch this batch of goods, so I came; I really don't know about the others."

"I believe you!"

"Thank you, Chen Yucheng. You are leaving tomorrow, so I'll toast you first."

Chen Guanlou drank the wine and asked the other party, "After the task here is finished, are you returning to the capital, or returning to the firm?"

"Naturally returning to the firm. The firm is short of manpower, and I have been away for too long. Later, perhaps I will have to go to the front to send some goods to the heir."

"What does the heir need, why not go through the yamen or the Ministry of War? This is the Song family's world; the heir has no reason to take the Marquis's residence's property to fight for the Song family's world."

"The heir always has some private needs. Of course, they can't go through the yamen or the Ministry of War channels."

Chen Guanfu was the heir of the Marquis's residence, and Chen Guanlou hadn't seen him yet. The last time he saw him was more than ten years ago, when he was studying in the clan's private school, and he took a quick glance. He didn't remember what exactly he looked like, only a vague impression remained. ===== CHAPTER 377 =====