Yun County.

It's autumn, and the weather in Xuanzhou is still hot. Mei Xiaoren wore a green gauze skirt with a veil, and sat in her family yard fluttering embroidered fans.

It was only an hour after she arrived home, and her father couldn't wait to ask the housekeeper to bring a bunch of account books and throw them in front of her, each of which was not their family's business in Yunxian.

The account books formed a hill on the stone table, and her father pointed to the account books and said, "Girl, these are all sent by your uncle earlier. ”

Mei Xiaoren roughly flipped over, most of them were silk and satin shops in Xuanzhou, these businesses were monopolized by Xiao Lin in the past, and their family couldn't get involved at all.

She put down the ledger, continued to shake the fan, and nodded in response, "I know, I asked them to send it." ”

"Are they really willing to give us this business?" Father Xiao still looked incredulous, "I have estimated that this is at least half of your uncle's family business, are they really willing to do it?" ”

"If you are reluctant, you have to be willing, you have to take it early and late, they were unfair to you back then, and now you don't spit it out, how can you say it."

Her father has never set foot in Yun County, he is not very well-informed, and he is even more closed to the news of the government, so he should not know about Xiao Lin.

She can't tell her father about the things Xiao Lin did, otherwise her father will worry about her comfort and oppose her continuing to be an official. She only said that the Xiao family's conscience found out and wanted to make amends.

"In fact, when my father reaches this age, he no longer expects to share any family property or not, and the existing silver in our family is enough for our children and grandchildren to eat for a few lifetimes." Father Xiao sat down, put his hands on his knees, and sighed, "Dad can't rest assured that only you, Xiaomei, you are nineteen years old this year......"

"What about nineteen?" Mei Xiaoren picked up the teacup and blew the foam.

Her father said with a smile on his face, "But Dad doesn't urge you, because Dad met a master a few days ago and asked him to calculate a hexagram for you." ”

Mei Xiaoren raised his eyes with interest, "What is the result, has he calculated when I will be ranked as the first assistant?" ”

"Dad counts marriage for you, not a future!" Her father glanced at her.

Mei Xiaoren suddenly lost interest and lowered his eyes to drink tea.

Father Xiao moved his body, faced his daughter, and said seriously: "This hexagram is very good, Daddy believes it." ”

Mei Xiaoren couldn't help but smile, "How good?" Could it be that he pinched his fingers and concluded that your old man would have a son-in-law? ”

"What a door-to-door son-in-law." Her father beckoned, and said more and more seriously, "The master said, your life is not simple, your husband is either rich or noble, maybe he is a big official." ”

"Official, how old?"

Her father thought about it for a while, and said casually: "No matter what, you have to be on the same level as the prefect." ”

"Then I think your old man can go to the street tomorrow and ask, ask whose son is the fortune teller and find out his wife, and let him come to me." Mei Xiaoren knocked on himself with a folding fan, "Your daughter and I have just been promoted, and I happen to be on the same level as the prefect." ”

"Rising again?" Her dad leaned in and stared at her, "Really? ”

"Of course it's true, I'm coming back this time to bid farewell to your old man, and I've received an order to go to the capital to take up a post." Mei Xiaoren smiled, "I was in the officialdom, and I didn't meet the son-in-law that your old man wanted, but I met a lot of nobles. ”

"Alas, if you are a man, your father will definitely go to burn incense for your ancestors and thank your ancestors for their protection."

Mei Xiaoren glanced at his father, "It is precisely because I am not a man that you should thank your ancestors for their protection." ”

Xiao's father sighed: "But the son is not necessarily reliable, you see Zifeng, he has been out for more than a year, and he still refuses to come back, his father is sick, and he has no choice but to see him." ”

Speaking of Chu Zifeng, Mei Xiaoren only remembered the time when she and Chu Zifeng escaped for their lives.

At that time, it was the Living Yama King who wanted to take Chu Zifeng's life, and now she knows that the Living Yama King is Gu Chuyu's cronies, and she has always only acted on the orders of his master, indicating that the person who wants to kill Chu Zifeng is actually his cousin who has become the prime minister.

Why Gu Chuyu killed Chu Zifeng, she still didn't know, so she couldn't conclude whether Chu Zifeng could return to Daning in this life.

Mei Xiaoren stayed at home for only two days, and on the third day, he was ready to leave for Beijing. She was saying goodbye to her father in the hall, and the family hurriedly ran in and said, "Master, miss, something big has happened in the county. ”

Her father frowned, "What big things can happen in our small place?" ”

"The county magistrate ...... The county magistrate was killed last night......" said the family in a trembling voice.

Mei Xiaoren was shocked: "Who killed it, what hatred and what grudge?" ”

"I don't know, I heard that he died very miserably, the body was thrown outside the county office, and the murderer also wrote on the wall with his blood, and now the people in the city are talking about it, saying that we have a group of bandits here, killing people when they meet people, and killing officials when they meet officials."

There is no shortage of such rumors in border places such as Yunxian, but whenever any murder occurs, it can stir people's hearts.

If she is still by Lao Li's side, then this case will definitely be in her charge, although she has stepped down now, she still wants to go to the scene to see what kind of murder it is.

Mei Xiaoren and her father took a sedan chair to the outside of the county office, and when they got off the sedan chair, they saw that it was already crowded with people, and the people were blocking the discussion outside the county office.

Someone pointed to the ground in front of the mansion and said, "The county magistrate was lying there this morning, and he died a miserable death, and his neck was wiped by someone." ”

Mei Xiaoren looked at the ground through the crack, the body had been carried away, but there was still a pool of undried blood on the ground. She looked left and right again, and saw that there were several large characters written in blood on the walls on both sides - it is not a pity to die.

Judging from these words alone, this murder case was not committed by a gangster who killed an official or someone killed someone. The death of the county magistrate is most likely due to a feud with someone.

"Xiaomei, don't look at it, it's weird." Her father advised.

It was the county official who died, which is not trivial, and if the cause of his death is unknown, then this case will definitely cause an uproar. The government will send someone to deal with this case, and she has to rush to Beijing, so it is not suitable to meddle again, so she is ready to leave after just taking a look.

In the blink of an eye, her eyes fell on the drum outside the door, and the drum surface was also marked with blood, but it was not a word, but a pattern.

She had seen this pattern similar to a fire, on the envelopes exchanged between Gao Jingshu and the Drifting Fire Gang, but all the letters from the Drifting Fire Gang to Gao Jingshu were printed with this pattern on the envelopes.

So the murder was committed by the Drifting Fire Gang?

She is already quite familiar with this Drifting Fire Gang, who first helped the mountain bandits to kidnap her, and later helped Gao Jingshu to frame and assassinate Gu Chuyu, and now he has killed a county magistrate......

Everything was related to the yamen or officials, but they were not afraid once, and their arrogance was quite arrogant.

She wanted to check the details of the Flowing Fire Gang, but was stopped by Lao Li, who said that there were people from the court behind them who were manipulating.

The people of the court allowed them to kill the officials of the court, what does it mean?