In the end, Ciri, Yang Chen, Lord Loda, and Old Duke went to Heroda's mansion to inquire about the matter.

At first, according to Ciri's intention, he wanted to catch the night elf Jasmine in the city and then ask for questioning, but unfortunately, Ciri and the others were one step too late and were run away by Jasmine.

Now if you want to know the truth, you can only go to the Solon family to look for clues.

Again, Jasmine, a half-step sky-high powerhouse, would not assassinate a mere baron for no reason.

There will inevitably be something strange here.

An hour later, Yang Chen and his entourage came to the mansion of the Solon family, as the hereditary family with the highest rank in Kerry City, the mansion of the Solon family might as well be more than the ordinary viscount mansion!

The front doorman of the Baron's Mansion may not know Xili Yang Chen, but he will definitely not be unfamiliar with Luoda, the city lord......

But when the lord of Luoda asked to enter the mansion to investigate the assassination of Heroda, the doorman actually didn't think so, and used the excuse of going in to report, but he kept dragging it out, just letting Luoda and the others wait at the door.

After a while, no one invited the Lord of Luoda to come in and sit down.

The city lord of Loda turned pale, although he had long known that the nobles of Cree City had some opinions about him, but he didn't expect that after Heroda was killed, the Solon family would still put on a face in front of him!

More importantly, Miss Ciri was watching from the sidelines, which made Loda both annoyed and frightened......

Thinking of this, Luo Da waved his hand and asked the soldiers behind him to smash the door directly! As a city lord, he was assigned to the assassination of a nobleman, and the bitter lord still stopped him from letting him in? What a great shame!

Soon, the door was smashed open, and the people of the Solon family wanted to stop it, but in the face of the sharp spears of the guards of the City Lord's Mansion, the guards of the Solon family were also panicked.

There was no way, so the guards had to call someone who could take care of things.

Because Heroda had just been assassinated, most of the immediate family was arguing with the manor, and at this time, there was only one housekeeper in the house.

The butler seemed to be fairly talkative.

Seeing that it was the city lord who came in person, he asked and said everything, and knew everything.

Receiving Ciri's instructions, Loda first asked, "Has your lord had any dealings with the elven maids of the Joy Tavern?"

The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and said a little angrily, "Our master would go to that kind of place like this, and naturally he can't talk about having dealings with any elf maids." ”

Never acquainted? It's a bit of a trick.

Hearing that Jasmine and Shiroda did not intersect, Ciri couldn't help but frown.

Loda secretly glanced at Ciri, and then asked, "Then who do you think is most likely to kill your master?"

Since Jasmine and Heroda have no personal grudges, it is very likely that they are murder.

When the housekeeper heard this, he thought for a while and said, "My lord has always been kind to others, and he has no enemies ......."

"Yes, as far as I know, your Solon family runs several breweries, could it be that this is blocking other people's financial routes, causing some people to be impatient, so they ......" At this time, Yang Chen suddenly interjected.

"Huh...... Your Excellency said with a smile, our Solon family has been in the beer business for hundreds of years, and we have never had a conflict with anyone else over the years. ”

Yang Chen was silent when he heard this.

The butler was right, the Solon family had been running the brewery for so many years, and they had long since formed a dominant family in Cree City, and no one would assassinate a nobleman for this reason.

What's more, Heroda's death didn't have much impact on the beer business at all.

After a few questions, Luo Da stopped asking, but took the opportunity to ask if he could go around the house and look for some relevant clues.

The butler was still a little hesitant in his eyes, but after quietly glancing at Ciri next to him, he agreed.

......

In Solon's mansion, Yang Chen was randomly picking at the plants in the yard while putting forward some of his opinions to Ciri.

In his opinion, the assassination of Herodas can basically be concluded that it was not a personal vendetta, nor was it because of a business conflict.

But what else could be the reason?

Is it worth the effort of a half-step sky powerhouse to assassinate Heroda?

Yang Chen thought the same as Xili on this point, and there must be a deeper reason after this incident.

Ciri nodded secretly as he listened to Yang Chen's inference.

Old Duke had also mentioned some ideas to her before, guessing that Jasmine's move was to cause chaos and please the dark god!

If this is the case, then Jasmine's assassination of Herodar is likely to be just a trigger to cause even greater chaos!

However, Herodas was only a mere baron, and killing him would not make much of a splash.

Yang Chen and Xiri's brains hurt a little, and guessing out of thin air was really the most boring.

"What? missing, what's going on!"

At this time, Xili and Yang Chen suddenly heard the voice of the butler, and looked for prestige, and found that the butler of the Solon family was questioning the little guy standing on the side with a solemn face.

Yang Chen and Xili glanced at each other and walked towards the two together.

"Can you tell us what's going on......" Yang Chen asked with some curiosity.

"This ......" the butler was momentarily embarrassed. This is an internal matter of his own family, and it stands to reason that he cannot tell outsiders......

But the butler looked at Ciri again......

Ciri, as the direct heir of the Nornan Collar and the nominal allegiance of the Solon family, really did not dare to hide it.

"It doesn't matter, if it comes to the secrets of the Solon family, we don't have to be embarrassed...... But if it has anything to do with the assassination of Baron Heroda, then be sure to tell us the truth!"

Yang Chen seemed to see the housekeeper's embarrassment, and said.

Steward Solon was still a little firm when he heard the first half of the sentence, but when he heard Yang Chen say that it might involve the assassination of Heroda, he was a little entangled.

The housekeeper thought carefully for a while before telling all the content of the conversation with the little guy just now.

It turned out that the little guy reported to him just now that a team of people who were sent to collect grain a few days ago had disappeared for no reason.

Not only did the food not come back, but the people were nowhere to be found.

And, most crucially, the conscription team was sent out only yesterday, and that night Herodas died in the manor outside the city.

These two events are too much of a coincidence, the conscription team went to collect food, and then disappeared, and that night, Herodas was assassinated......

Wait a minute...... Levy food?!

Yang Chen found another point, "What kind of grain is levied this season? It's too early, right?"

Yang Chen was a little puzzled, although some crops have matured in the current season, most of the crops will not fully mature in a few months. Especially hops and barley for brewing beer.

"This ......" Who knew that when Butler Soren heard Yang Chen ask like this, he was actually a little stumbling.

Ciri glanced at the hesitant butler, and his heart suddenly burst into his heart, as if something bad was going to happen. hurriedly urged, "What is this...... Come on, why are you looking for grain from the peasants so early?"

"Because ......," the butler of the Solon family still wanted to hide.

"Say!" the coercion of Hiri's senior warrior slowly unleashed.

"Because, locust larvae have been found in the manor outside the city......" said the butler, bowing his head.

"What?!" shouted Yang Chen and Ciri. They never expected that the reason why the Solon family harvested grain early would be like this.

What they didn't expect was that the locust plague was about to attack the city of Kerry thousands of miles away!

You must know that Kerry City is the closest city to Cecil City in the west, and if a locust plague breaks out in Cree City, it is bound to spread quickly to Cecil City.

If a locust plague of this magnitude also breaks out in Cecil City, then it is really possible that it will affect the entire form of the Noonan Territory.

"Where is the place to harvest the grain?" Ciri and Yang Chen knew the severity of the locust larvae, and they wanted to nip the danger in the cradle as soon as possible.

What's more, this matter is also related to the assassination of Herodah.

"Twenty miles east of the city of Kerry, in the village of Xipo. The housekeeper of the Solon family no longer dared to hide it, and directly informed the place where the grain was collected.

Yang Chen informed the city lord of Luoda, and then hurried to Xipo Village with Old Duke and the others.

As the name suggests, Xipo Village is located in the western part of a hill, and because it is located in a backlit area, crops generally do not grow well.

It stands to reason that this kind of land, the malnourished crops that develop, will not attract locusts to eat the crops at all, but he just happened!

Not only do locusts lay eggs here, but also large numbers of locust larvae survive here.

The villagers didn't care at first, after all, the crops here are generally worse than in other places, but they soon noticed that something was wrong, and there were a large number of locust larvae crawling on the leaves and stems of the crops!

For a while, in order not to be blamed by the main family, he took the initiative to send someone to inform the Solon family of the truth.

At first, the Solon family didn't believe the villagers, thinking that they were going to find an excuse to pay less food, but the problem was that they sent professional experts to investigate, and sure enough, they found locust larvae living there!

Subsequently, in order to reduce the losses, the Solon family sent a grain collection team to the village to collect grain. The villagers had no choice but to cut off the unripe crops and hand them over to the grain collection team.

When Ciri and the others arrived, they found that the field where crops should have grown had been completely destroyed.

After inquiring about the villagers, I learned that the grain collection team that arrived yesterday had already left after harvesting the grain yesterday.

Yang Chen and Ciri glanced at each other, and they both felt a trace of powerlessness.

If the guess is correct, maybe the missing grain collection team has already been killed!

It's just that the clue that was finally found was broken again, and the unknown enemy first killed the grain collection team, and then assassinated Heroda!

In this way, it must have been discovered by the grain collection team here that they were murdered.

Moreover, as the patriarch of the Solon family, it is also possible that Heroda received the information of the grain requisition team, so he was also killed that night!

It's just that for Xili Yang Chen and others, the whole case is becoming more and more confusing.

What did the grain collectors find, and what did Herodas know?