Compared with Bai Shier and Zhu Jinxuan, who have never seen the "world", Ye Bi, a thief who has been roaming the prosperous land of Jiangnan since he was a teenager, has long been accustomed to the lively bustle in Yingtian City in front of him.

Jiangnan is prosperous, Suzhou Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture... Basically, every prefecture is full of lively and prosperous scenes at this time. As a thief, he has seen almost all the lantern festivals in Jiangnan during his "siege career" in his nearly ten years.

During this period of the Lantern Festival, it is also the most active time for all kinds of thieves.

There are many people and eyes, and most people's attention is attracted by the various lanterns, riddles, fireworks in the sky and beautiful girls in the boudoir. This is heaven for the thief who steals for a living.

When Ye Bi joined Liushemen, he was able to quickly move from an ordinary constable to a head of the captain because during the Beijing Lantern Festival, he "stepped on" the heads of many people who had been with him because of his understanding of various thieves and stealing methods.

However, since becoming the fifth-rank captain, Ye Bi rarely catches thieves in person during the Lantern Festival. First, his credit is no longer necessary to accumulate these thieves, and second, it is because he feels that it is too boring to capture these guys with shallow Taoism. Basically, he can find out the flaws in the other party and know the other party's identity when he takes a look.

But this year, Ye Bi still asked Peng Zhenlei for his order to come to the street to catch thieves.

Of course this is just an excuse. What he really wants to do is to see if he can find Bai Shier's traces.

When he found out that the East Factory seemed to be secretly investigating the city staff, he specifically reminded Bai Shier. Judging from the news these days, his reminder should have worked.

However, although the investigation of Dongchang failed to capture Bai Shier, it seemed to have captured another important person.

Moreover, this character is directly related to the case of the Yangzhou prefect committing suicide by half a year ago.

Unfortunately, whether it is Peng Zhenlei or Hou Qing, it seems that they are only interested in the matter of Tianyan Sect. Although he is very interested in this news, it is beyond the reach.

So he thought of Bai Shier, the "ally".

The cooperation between Liushemen and Bai Shier did a good job before. Not only did Liushemen successfully wipe out Gao Tianyuan, but he also successfully captured an important figure in Tianyan Sect.

The relationship between him and Bai Shier was obviously going further.

First, Bai Shier cooperated with him to shook Hou Qing's face, which made him breathe a sigh of relief, and also forced Hou Qing to be grateful to him. After all, it was precisely because of his wonderful performance that Lu Zhongxing, the eunuch from the East Factory, finally successfully retreated and resolved the crisis.

Afterwards, he discovered the movements of the East Factory in time and notified Bai Shier to take precautions.

After a while, the relationship between the two should have gone further from ordinary allies to trustworthy friends.

In addition, he felt that if Bai Shier heard the news, he would definitely be very interested in it like him, so there should be no problem in asking Bai Shier for this matter.

However, while Bai Shier successfully avoided the search of the East Factory, he also completely lost Bai Shier's traces, as if he had suddenly disappeared.

So, in desperation, he had to put his hopes on the lantern festival, hoping that Bai Shier could play outside during the lantern festival like everyone else.

But before that, he needs to do one more thing, to shake off the tail behind him.

Hu Xiaolin, Gu Daliang and his group had left Yingtian City and went to Zhangzhou Prefecture to set up a net in advance to wait for the arrival of Bai Shier and Zhu Jinxuan, so the task of tracking Ye Bi fell into the hands of Dongchang.

Compared to Hu Xiaolin's subordinates who are not good at tracking and surveillance, the East Factory can be considered to be very skilled in doing this job.

Unfortunately, the East Factory encountered a fifth-grade six-door captain like Ye Bi who was born as a thief.

For Ye Bi, there is no difference between whether the tracking level behind him has improved. Even if he is already prepared, even a master who is comparable to his hiding skills, he will not be able to successfully track him.

Where can we meet in life?

When Ye Bi shook off the tail behind him through the crowded crowd on the street, looked at the street in front of him, and was about to start looking for Bai Shier's traces, a figure came into his eyes, and a poem echoed in his mind at the same time.

...

In the early morning, when the many people who were still in their dreams after traveling until midnight were still in their dreams, Bai Shier and Zhu Jinxuan had already left Yingtian City.

Ye Bi's appearance completely disrupted their original plan.

They originally planned to stay in Yingtian City until the 18th day of the first lunar month, and then leave after the lantern festival, but after Ye Bi learned from the news that Fujiwara Tomosuke was caught by the East Factory, an elite team of the East Factory also left Yingtian a few days ago and rushed to the south, the two of them had no idea of ​​playing.

Even Zhu Jinxuan, who had been looking forward to having fun at the lantern festival before, heard the news, immediately went south and followed the team from the East Factory.

The suicide case of the Yangzhou prefect was originally a case that Zhu Jinxuan had always wanted to investigate clearly. After wasting so long, she finally made such great progress, so she naturally didn't want to miss it.

And she also has some selfishness in her heart.

She hopes to use this incident to show her emperor brother that she is not just a canary who stays in the cage, and that she can also help him, serve the court and the emperor.

Zhu Jinxuan has no problem, so Bai Shier will naturally not "restrain" him.

Besides, he had seen the bustle and bustle of the Lantern Festival on the Lantern Festival. In his opinion, the remaining two days were nothing more than a repeat of that night.

In contrast, those things that were completely unpredictable were worth his time and energy.

...

Ye Bi's sudden disappearance and appearance did not cause too much trouble in the East Factory.

Not only because he did not disappear for a long time, it only took less than a stick of incense, but also because he was responsible for tracking and monitoring several Dongchang actors, he was worried that if he reported this matter, it would affect their impression in the minds of his superiors.

So they tacitly chose to conceal this matter.

Ye Bi, who didn't know this, should actually be glad that Hu Xiaolin and his group had left Yingtian City. The people following him were replaced by these Dongchang men. Otherwise, even if he had just disappeared for less than half a stick of incense, Hu Xiaolin would be alert immediately and ordered his subordinates and Dongchang and the people from the Six Gates to search for the whereabouts of him and Bai Shier.
Chapter completed!