Subsequently, Wen Qingzhu and Lu Tao went to the so-called Qianjia Commercial Bank.

There were a lot of businessmen coming in and out, but they weren't very happy to look at them.

After inquiring along the street, the shops above the seventh floor in Jinju turned out to be owned by Qianjia Commercial Bank.

"It's a little interesting, such a big Jinju, business is actually monopolized by a trading house, and everyone has no power to resist at all!"

Green Tao followed her thoughts: "Lord Qianwei said that the biggest problem in Jinju is in Jinzhou's second-in-command Sheng Tongzhi, Qianjia Commercial Bank can stand firm in Jinzhou, and the person behind it is——"

Wen Qingzhu looked at the busy traffic on this street, and the pedestrians were weaving: "That's right, I'm afraid that Jinzhou is only a model of collusion between officials and businessmen!" ”

It seems that Wei Shuang is really comprehensive.

On the officialdom side, I found them, and on the shopping mall side, I found Jing Yinuo.

After returning to the Wei family, Ming Xuan was already sitting in the courtyard.

Wen Qingzhu walked over: "Where's Han'er?" Why are you alone? ”

"I have something to find Sister A, let him take Linlin to play." Wen Mingxuan immediately stood up.

Green Tao and Xi'er turned and retreated to the door.

"What's going on?"

Wen Mingxuan's eyes were a little hesitant: "I'm not sure, but I have a gut feeling that Jing Yinuo's purpose is not pure." ”

"Really? Sit down and tell me more. Wen Qingzhu raised his hand and asked Wen Mingxuan to sit down together.

With Wen Mingxuan's narration, Wen Qingzhu began to understand the detailed life of Jing Yinuo in the Wei family in the past few days.

He is a very self-disciplined person, going to bed early and waking up early, and doing everything is fixed.

Get up at one hour, eat at three o'clock, and read at five o'clock until the hour.

Then he played the piano for two quarters of an hour, then went to his aunt's side to say hello, then went out and began to wander around Jinju City.

Wen Mingxuan sent someone to follow him and found that he was silently observing the situation of every shop in Jinju.

Not only Qian Yong's shops, but also every shop!

At noon, I went to the inn where I stayed before to have a lunch break, and then went to the prefect in the afternoon.

Eventually, he seemed to know some people in Jinju and began to visit friends.

Come back in the evening and have dinner with everyone.

"After coming back, Sister A should know, after he finishes eating, he will definitely find Sister A to discuss the matter of the Red Bean Competition, it is completely dark, he will hang out, Xiaohan sent someone to follow, his purpose at night is very casual, it seems that he is to understand the customs and customs of Jinzhou, and he prefers to explore the customs and food here."

After Wen Mingxuan finished speaking, his face looked a little relieved, but it was a little strange.

There's nothing wrong with a regular life, but it's too regular, and it inevitably makes people wonder if he has something hidden.

Wen Qingzhu pondered for a moment, Wen Mingxuan's intuition was not wrong, Jing Yinuo was so overborn, there must be a problem.

However, she felt that Wen Mingxuan's temperament had begun to become taciturn since Uncle Wen deceived him, and his mind had become more and more delicate.

As it stands, this is not a good thing.

So Wen Qingzhu didn't plan to make him care too much about the secret behind Jing Yinuo.

"There shouldn't be much of a problem with the person that Master Wei has found, you can just come at your pace as usual."

Wen Mingxuan sensed what Sister A meant, opened his mouth, and stopped talking.

But thinking that he also had something to hide from his sister, he nodded and agreed.

After returning to his yard, Jiang Yuanhan followed closely.

He took an analysis report and handed it to Wen Qingzhu: "Sister, look at it, this is what I just wrote." ”

Wen Qingzhu took it in disbelief, and couldn't help asking, "Aren't you taking Linlin?" When I saw Mingxuan taking her, she was very noisy! ”

"No, she was very quiet, she was doing her own painting, and she gave me a painting when she left." Jiang Yuanhan shook his head and said that it was not difficult.

Wen Qingzhu still felt strange, but she didn't say anything, picked up the report and looked at it.

Within two quarters of an hour, she had finished reading it, and immediately discovered points that she hadn't discovered before.

"There are still underground water storage channels in the city?"

This is the key point that Jiang Yuanhan deliberately listed, and he took out a map: "This is what I went to the yamen for two days, and found it from the corner of the workshop, I looked at it carefully, and found that the overall shape is very similar to the outline of Jinzhou City, and the layout of the passage is very similar to the streets in the city. ”

Wen Qingzhu took the map, looked at it carefully, and found that the terrain was indeed similar to Jinju.

However, she also found that this water storage channel has many entrances and exits that connect to the outside of the city.

"By the way, this underground water storage channel was built 30 years ago, when the Yuan River dried up, and Jinju Fortress was far from its current scale, so it was very difficult to get water from the ferry.

Later, in the last decade, the water level of the Yuan River rose and droughts were rare, and the underground water storage channel was abandoned, so that few people know about it now.

However, I still think that although the conditions in Jinju are a bit harsh, the officials who have taken office here are very capable, so I think this water storage channel is a little abandoned! ”

Jiang Yuanhan's face was full of expressions of 'you praise me, praise me, praise me'.

After waiting for a long time, I saw Wen Qingzhu concentrating and speaking, Jiang Yuanhan was a little discouraged: "These things I found out seem to be useless, except for proving that the thirty-year-old Jinzhou prefect is very smart, it is also useless." ”

Wen Qingzhu, who came back to his senses, put down the report and map in his hand, and said very seriously: "It's very useful, I may know where the poor people who disappeared live!" ”

"Huh?" Jiang Yuanhan felt that he didn't understand it a little.

How did it suddenly get to the poor!

This time, Wen Qingzhu used the people brought by Jiang Yuanhan for the first time.

She must be cautious, if her guess comes true, then the reason why Jinju is developing is planned by some people!

What's even more terrifying is that if this is really the case, the water storage channel under the bottom that was abandoned more than ten years ago may not be because the wind and rain have changed later.

After all, Jinju is now located between the plains and the mountains in the southwest, and even if the channel of the Yuanjiang River widens and the city of Jinju expands, the water for the people to cultivate is often insufficient.

In less than an hour, Green Tao came back with a title deed. 16

"It's been bought, we can go over and have a look."

Before setting off again, Wen Qingzhu thought twice and decided not to take Wen Mingxuan.

When they arrived at a remote and dilapidated mansion in the west of the city, Wen Qingzhu immediately instructed Jiang Yuanhan's people to start looking for a possible underground entrance.

In less than two quarters of an hour, a discovery was made in the backyard.

They hurried away, and the secret guard pointed to the dry well in front of them and said, "My subordinates have gone down to investigate, and there is no hole at the bottom of the well." ”

Wen Qingzhu was worried that there would be unexpected dangers, so she asked Jiang Yuanhan to stay on it for the time being, and she herself took Xi'er and the secret guard down first.

At the bottom of the well, the air was thin, and Wen Qingzhu didn't dare to blow the fire fold, and took out a night pearl that could illuminate one side.

The secret guard opened the way in front, and Xi'er stood behind Wen Qingzhu to protect her.

The three of them carefully observed the bottom of the well, and suddenly, there was a crisp clicking sound from the dry and hard ground.

Everyone was stunned, and Xi'er's feet stood still.

"Miss, I really want to step on something."

Wen Qingzhu recalled the crispy sound just now, and felt that it was very much like an old bone.

If you have bones, small animals may also fall here.

However, for the sake of insurance, Wen Qingzhu decided to take a look for himself.

Let Xi'er remove her feet and pick up the broken bones she stepped on.

Then the light of the night pearl, Wen Qingzhu carefully distinguished.

Slowly, her eyes became startled.

"It's human bones!"

"People, human bones!" Xi'er suddenly felt a chill rise under her feet.

She looked at the thick darkness around her with some unease: "No, there are human bones all around here." ”

Wen Qingzhu put down the human skeleton and turned his head to let the dark guard continue to lead the way.

The bottom of the well was huge, at least much bigger than they had expected.

They searched along the edge for half an hour before they finished searching, and Jiang Yuanhan above couldn't help but shout: "Sister! Are you alright? ”

"It's fine!" Xi'er's voice was loud, and she replied instead of Wen Qingzhu.

It was this voice that made Wen Qingzhu's left side come with a small shaking sound!

"Madame! Over there! The Dark Guard immediately found his way and took the lead towards the shaking place.

After a while, a terrifying scene appeared in front of everyone.

Large piles of white bones were piled up like a hill, and all postures were climbing upward, as if something terrible had happened.

Even the well-informed Dark Guard couldn't help but gasp.

It's not that Wen Qingzhu hasn't seen white bones before, but thinking about the white bones piled up like this in front of him, he is afraid that there are more than a thousand people.

They had been searching here for most of the hour, and they knew how vast it was.

"Little, miss, what the hell is here...... What do you do? Xi'er's voice trembled uncontrollably, all this in front of her was really terrible.

Wen Qingzhu held Xi'er's hand: "Don't be afraid, they are all dead." ”

Then she looked sideways at the pile of white bones, her heart was heavy, she would definitely investigate it clearly!

On this day, Wen Qingzhu left the house and sent someone to stay behind.

Back at the Wei family, she was always uneasy.

The matter is much more serious than she imagined, and these people they brought alone will not be able to solve these problems!

Wen Qingzhu sat at his desk, holding a pen in his hand, and was considering whether to write to Fu Lie.

Although she didn't deliberately understand the affairs of Cangzhou, the situation would only be more dangerous than that of Jinzhou.

After hesitating for a long time, Wen Qingzhu still put down the pen.

You must not distract him at this time!

"Miss, Jing Gongzi asks to see you."

Wen Qingzhu looked out the window, and Jing Yinuo was standing in the courtyard, still holding a letter in his hand.

After a pause, she got up and came out.

Stopped in front of Jing Yinuo and asked him, "What did you find?" ”

"This is a letter from my father, saying that he has investigated a little bit of Qianjia Commercial Bank, and I think it is necessary to show the girl."

Jing Yinuo handed her the letter in his hand.

Wen Qingzhu took it and looked at it, and then frowned: "Qian Yong came back from the sea by boat?" ”

"Yes, this is a strange point, when he first came to the Great Qi Dynasty, he had no identity, and the news about him could only be found out twenty years ago at most, my father mentioned that when he appeared in the field of vision, the Central Plains spoke very well!"

Jing Yinuo then raised his own question: "This is the first foreign merchant ship that appeared in my dynasty nearly forty years later, and Qian Yong's age is only about forty years old, I really can't understand, where did he learn such a good Central Plains dialect?" ”

"Is there a possibility that Qian Yong was a Daqi person before, and then left by boat?"

Jing Yinuo immediately shook his head: "It's impossible!" The wind and waves at sea are not something that ordinary people can withstand, like the big ship he came back from before, it is impossible to build without 100,000 taels of silver, thousands of shipbuilders, and powerful enough designers! ”

Wen Qingzhu was silent for a long time, Qian Yong's origin was strange, but this was not the point.

She looked up at Jing Yinuo: "I heard that you have been to the Sheng family?" ”

"The girl knows." Jing Yinuo was slightly stunned, but he didn't deny it, "Well, my grandfather's family has a bit of a relationship with the Sheng family, and I don't know where Master Sheng learned the news that I came to Jinzhou, as soon as I appeared, he sent someone to invite me to the Sheng family." ”

"And what do you think of Master Shan?"

Jing Yinuo twisted his eyebrows: "I don't like it very much, it's too strong, and it's ...... Extremely money-loving. ”