On her wedding night, she went into exile with her pharmacy arsenal

Chapter 2037 Take It All Away

Huo Changhe had been to the Rongzhou city defense military camp. He had seen with his own eyes that the soldiers were hungry, and some soldiers were so exhausted that they could only stagger while standing.

"Don't be angry." Yan Ruyu smiled lightly, the smile not reaching her eyes. "They are cutting off other people's livelihoods, so we will cut off their fuel supply."

Huo Changhe calmed down a bit. He looked around the warehouse, his eyes sweeping over the wine jars and grain stacks, and then at the few people who had fainted on the ground: "Okay!"

As he spoke, he walked towards the fainted people, squatted down, and carefully looked at the clothes of one of them. The material of the clothes was ordinary cotton, and there was a black belt around his waist with a small "Si" character embroidered on the belt.

He pointed it out to Yan Ruyu and said, "Look at this belt. It has the same character 'Si' as the one on the seal of the wine jar. It seems these people are indeed related to the surname Si."

"The surname Si..." Yan Ruyu frowned and searched her mind for clues about the surname Si, but she had no idea.

Huo Changhe was not impressed at first. "Embezzling military rations is no small matter. This person is able to cooperate with the Liu family and make Ding Hengshou work for them. He must be an extraordinary person."

He stood up, his tone heavy, "No matter who's behind this, we must get this batch of military rations back. Rongzhou City can't wait any longer. If we continue to be without food, chaos will probably break out."

Yan Ruyu nodded: "Let's take the grain here first, and then find out if they have other places to store grain or make wine besides here."

Huo Changhe nodded.

Yan Ruyu patted his arm and said, "Look around again to see if there are any other clues.

For example, account books. If we can find them, we can know how much military rations they embezzled, how much wine they sold, and how much money they made."

"As for these grains and wine, leave them to me."

The two of them acted separately, Huo Changhe went to check other places, and Yan Ruyu started to collect food and wine.

Although there were hundreds of jars of wine, it was nothing to Yan Ruyu and she finished them all quickly.

After taking away the wine jars, Yan Ruyu found some wooden boxes piled up behind the wine. She walked over and opened one of them, which was filled with silver ingots.

"My Lord, come and see."

Huo Changhe walked over quickly and frowned even more when he saw the silver in the wooden box. "So much silver, it seems they have made a lot of money. All this silver was exchanged for military rations."

Yan Ruyu picked up a silver ingot that had obviously been recently smelted. "This silver is of very good quality. I wonder if it was made with the money from selling wine."

Huo Changhe looked at the silver and became more and more angry.

"I will make these people pay the price. Even if they run to the ends of the earth, they can't escape."

Yan Ruyu put the silver back into the wooden box and closed the lid: "Of course, this trip to Rongzhou must not be in vain!"

"Yu'er, come and see," Huo Changhe pointed to a pile of grain. The date on it was written two days ago.

"This should be the batch of silver ingots they sent."

Huo Changhe poked a small hole in the sack, and inside it were indeed stale grain and broken grains, and even some sand.

"Leave these to them," Yan Ruyu sneered, "let them fight each other."

Judging from the current situation, these people have not yet discovered that there is something wrong with this batch of grain. In this case, let's help them so that they can discover it earlier.

There were still a few bags that were used to show off in case they were discovered during the inspection on the ship. Yan Ruyu was not polite and took all the good ones.

Going further in, there are some medicinal herbs, silks, tea and other things of quite good quality.

Huo Changhe opened a bag of tea and said, "No matter how you look at it, it's top quality."

"But the people of Rongzhou can't afford this kind of tea, and Rongzhou doesn't produce tea."

Yan Ruyu looked at these things and pondered, "Is it possible that this is one of their transit stations?"

"Transit station?" Huo Changhe's eyebrows twitched slightly. "You mean, they use the waterways of Rongzhou to transport goods from the south here, and then transfer them elsewhere?"

"Yes, Youcheng and Shencheng are both big cities, and the people there can afford them. These are rare items. Moreover," Yan Ruyu paused, "they can even be sold outside the Great Wall."

For people outside the Great Wall, these are even more sought-after commodities.

Yan Ruyu couldn't figure out who these things belonged to for a moment, but no matter who they belonged to, since they were not from a good person, she might as well take them all away without leaving any behind.

She put everything into the space, and in a blink of an eye, it became empty.

It's dangerous here, so don't stay here for long.

Yan Ruyu and Huo Changhe walked out quickly.

Just as they were about to leave the cave, a person moved, but they were in such a hurry that they didn't notice.

He left the cave and reunited with the silver ingot outside, then quietly entered the water and went somewhere else to see if there was another place to store goods and valuables.

Or, apart from these, are there any other places similar to Longyin Island?

After searching around, I haven't found anything else.

"Let's go first, there's no need to delay any longer," Huo Changhe said in a low voice.

"Okay," Yan Ruyu agreed readily, "Let's go."

The three of them left the water fort through a side door together. According to Yan Ruyu's plan, they called two lurking sailors and swam directly to the reed marsh outside the main gate to take out the boat.

The five people successfully reunited and swam to the reed marsh together.

Underwater, Yan Ruyu could also clearly see the underwater knife net in front of the water fort gate.

The web is flexible and dense like a spider web, and there are many thin and sharp little blades that flash coldly underwater.

Every few dozen centimeters, there is a string of small bells.

No wonder the guards upstairs aren't afraid of anyone sneaking in from below—it's impossible for them to sneak in.

As they were walking, Huo Changhe gently pulled her and pointed at the water.

Yan Ruyu looked up and saw a boat coming onto the water.

Liu Balang stood at the bow with Sun Qing. His injuries had not yet healed, but he had to come.

Something happened in the mansion, and he had to come here to take a look to feel at ease.

As soon as we entered the water fort, someone shouted, "What are you doing?"

The person at the bow waved a flag, and now the fog had dissipated, so the people in front of the water fort could see clearly.

As soon as he saw the flag, Li San said, "They are from the Liu family. I will go and report them. You stay here and investigate."

Zhao Wu nodded, and Li San turned and entered the village.

Zhao Wu brought a few people with him and watched the boat approaching, squinting his eyes.

There are not many ships coming here, only a few, and the Liu family has the most.

He also knew most of the people in charge.

This time, after a closer look, he recognized that the person who came was not the manager, but Liu Balang.

He was slightly surprised and stood up straight - Wow, today is really strange, why did the head of the Liu family come in person?

Is something big happening?

He forced a polite smile on his face: "Master Liu, it's rare to see you."