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Chapter 132 Another Yamen (asking for monthly tickets!)

The two men walked in one after another through the half-open door, with Xu Yuan holding a three-barreled musket in his hand.

Fu Jingyu also held a small triangular flag.

The pawnshop is actually not very big. There are only three rooms behind the storefront and a small courtyard about five or six steps wide.

There was no one in the house or the yard!

And except for some things placed in the front shop, the other rooms are empty with only the simplest wooden beds, cabinets, etc.

"This..." Fu Jingyu was puzzled. His teacher had specifically explained his "righteousness, profit and harmony", which didn't seem like a serious business.

Xu Yuan asked, "It seems like the people here are ready to escape at any time?"

These arrangements can be discarded at any time and you can leave at any time.

The two of them arrived at the shop in front, and Xu Yuan opened the small door under the counter to let Song Lu and Yu Yunhang in.

Fu Jingyu looked at the things displayed in the shop.

"They are all worthless. Some of them look good, but they are actually fake."

Young Master Fu came from a family of scholars, and he was far away from the counter just now, so he didn't suspect anything and didn't look closely.

Song Lu quickly found the cash drawer behind the counter and opened it to find only a hundred or so copper coins inside.

"This pawnshop... is weird in every way." Yu Yunhang was puzzled. No one wanted to question Ma Tianshou behind his back, but they really couldn't figure out the reason.

Xu Yuan observed the cash box.

This thing is made of fine iron, three feet high and one and a half feet wide.

The entire unit is embedded in the wall on one side of the counter.

The two iron cabinet doors had no locks and contained three drawers. The drawers and the partitions inside were made of fine rosewood.

The hundred or so copper coins are in the first drawer.

The two drawers below were also opened, and they were empty.

Xu Yuan removed all three drawers, and behind them was the iron plate of the cash box.

Xu Yuan knocked, and the sound was dull, not like there was a mezzanine.

Yu Yunhang said, "These people are ready to run away at any time. They won't really leave anything valuable in the store."

But Xu Yuan was still a little puzzled: "If they are ready to run away at any time, why don't they just leave? Isn't it risky to stay here? There must be some reason that forces them to stay here."

Unable to find any clues in the shop, the four went to the back.

Yu Yunhang opened all the cabinets and boxes in the other two rooms, and even lifted the bed boards of the two wooden beds.

Xu Yuan and Fu Jingyu just did a rough check.

"Hey! Adults, come and see!" Yu Yunhang suddenly shouted loudly in a room. Xu Yuan hurried in and found a box hidden under the bed. When he opened it, there were several sets of clothes inside.

The four people present were very familiar with it: the uniform of the Quhuisi!
Yu Yunhang drew out his sword with a clang and slowly picked out the clothes. There were four sets in total: one for patrol, one for inspector, and two for lieutenant with double patterns!
There are also corresponding waist badges.

The four pieces of clothing were laid out on the ground, and the waist badge was placed aside.

The four of them looked at each other and felt a chill in their hearts.

"These people are impersonating us?!"

"Are they the group of people Lang Xiaoba mentioned?"

Xu Yuan made a prompt decision: "Take the things with you and return to the Champa Office first."

"Are we going back?" Yu Yunhang asked, "There's clearly something wrong with this Champa Office."

Xu Yuan thought for a moment and said, "I have to go back."

It was still early, and it was noon when the four of them returned to the Champa government office. There was no one in charge.

Lin Zijin and Zhu Sili are not here.

Xu Yuan hurried back to his room, leaned over and looked under the bed. The bed was empty and the seed was gone!

In the corner under the bed, there was also a rat hole similar to the one in Song Lu's room.

Xu Yuan thought about it, took out the tendon pill, and condensed it into a thin thread. He was about to probe into the mouse hole when suddenly he had an idea. He stood up and went to Song Lu's room.

There was also a rat hole here, and Xu Yuan inserted the animal tendon rope into it.

Xu Yuan can already make the animal tendon rope extremely thin, not much thicker than silk, and a tendon pill can extend extremely long.

After integrating the tongue tendons of the Haikou toad, the tendon pill has almost reached the seventh-rate level.

Although he couldn't see it, relying on the control of the external elixir, Xu Yuan slowly extended the animal tendon rope and felt the twists and turns in the mouse hole, sometimes going down and sometimes turning up.

It took less than half an hour for the animal tendon rope to find the exit at the other end of the mouse hole.

Xu Yuan controlled the animal tendon rope and moved it straight up quickly.

At the same time, Xu Yuan rushed into the yard, jumped onto the roof and looked around.

Soon, I saw that in the northwest direction of the courtyard, about a hundred feet away, a thin animal tendon rope was pointing straight to the sky and swaying in the wind.

There were faint shouts coming from the other side.

Xu Yuan noted the location, jumped down, and with a thought, the beast tendon rope quickly retracted and turned into a tendon pill again.

"Let's go!" Xu Yuan simply said one word and rushed out of the office.

Fu Jingyu and the other two were watching Xu Yuan from the side, with confused faces, not knowing what Inspector Xu was doing.

But the three of them now trust Xu Yuan very much. When Xu Yuan says to go, the three of them will follow immediately.

The Champa captain who was guarding the government office gate looked at the four people strangely.

The leader was none other than "Zhou Leizi".

After the four of them walked away, they began to murmur again: "They've been in and out all day, they seem very busy. I wonder if they found any clues."

"Our Champa Office's cases must be handled by our own people. We can't rely on outsiders."

Xu Yuan was always on guard, fearing that someone in the office would stop him and his group.

After walking a long way out of the gate, there was still no movement from the office. Xu Yuan was puzzled: someone must have seen the animal tendon rope just now...

Xu Yuan deliberately circled around a few times before finally arriving at the approximate location of the animal tendon rope.

Xu Yuan was confused again: that place was separated from the Champa Office by two walls, and there was a small alley in the middle!

In other words, it is not the same government office as the Champa Office!
Xu Yuan took a few quick steps, preparing to go around to the front of the yard to take a look at the plaque, but his ears moved and he heard a commotion in the yard.

Xu Yuan stopped and said: No, if I stretch my neck and look at the gate at this time, it will easily attract attention.

Xu Yuan casually wandered around, found a stall, and bought two banana leaf cakes for ten coins. He then bowed and asked the stall owner, "Old man, we just arrived in your place today and are not familiar with this city. The courtyards around here look very grand. Are they some kind of government office?"

Dafu was at Xu Yuan's feet, stretching his neck to reach his hand.

Didn’t you buy this for me to eat?

Xu Yuan stuffed one into Dafu's mouth, and Dafu swallowed it happily.

Song Lu, who was standing by, looked very greedy and wanted to try it too. Fu Jingyu calmly took the rest from Xu Yuan and quietly gave it to his junior sister.

The old man was amused and laughed heartily, "Sir, these geese have become quite human." He then pointed in the direction and said, "That's the Department of Excretion, and this is the Department of Mountains and Rivers. Be very disciplined in the streets around here. If you're not careful and run into those officers, they're no joke."

Xu Yuan bowed and said, "Thank you for your guidance, old man."

(End of this chapter)