Outside the Shili Pavilion, the two parties parted ways, one to the capital, and the other to Huozhou.

The capital of Huozhou is seven or eight hundred miles away from the capital of Yizhou, but in terms of the villages in the county, it is next to each other.

The affairs of Yizhou were handled very smoothly, and it was only more than 20 days in less than a month, thanks to Jiang Ci's cooperation.

But Huozhou is different, although the geographical location is close, it is not customary, and the people of Huozhou are not as lucky as the people of Yizhou.

In addition to the frequent change of officials, the local government and Taiwan policies also include frequent tax collections, frequent robberies, and landlords and bullies enclosing land and wealth are as frequent as eating and drinking......

Earlier, it had been passed that Huozhou had commanded Han Xi to go to Yizhou to raise military salaries, and he also sent someone to take the silver, but what about people?

Didn't you mean to pick yourself up in person? It's half the way down!

In the afternoon of that day, a group of them arrived in Yi County.

After a long time, Cai Dacheng decided to recuperate for a day, and by the way, check what the situation is in this descendant county.

Holding down Su Xuan and his two sons, who wanted to follow him, they were literati after all, and they were frail, so they let them rest early, and they took Zhu Quan and Huangshan alone and walked into the market.

The rest of the people did not stay in the official office, but found a nearby inn to live in.

Cai Dacheng took the two of them to take a look on the main road in the county, but found that the pedestrians on the street were acting in a hurry and behaving a little abnormally, and they wanted to inquire carefully, but because they were three new faces, they were avoided by guard, and finally they found a Chinese person.

This man's surname is Wu, and he didn't want to say much when he first asked him about the situation, but when Huang Shan threw him a piece of silver, he knew everything.

"Alas! Official, it's not that you don't say it, but you don't dare to say it! After speaking, he looked back and forth, left and right, and then suppressed his voice and whispered: "You see the pedestrians on the street look wrong, it means that you are amazing!" In fact, the yamen found a few spies to find someone in the crowd!

My neighbor's cousin's uncle and cousin are in the yamen, taking care of their relatives and friends, so don't run on the streets at this stage, lest you be caught if you mistake them for homeless people. ”

"Do you know who they're looking for? Why catch? Cai Dacheng asked.

"It's... This ......" Wuzhong people were a little embarrassed.

Cai Dacheng glanced at Huang Shan, who took out a piece of silver cup that was enough to weigh two taels and threw it to him, and threatened: "Be honest, otherwise you will be useless if you have a hand!" ”

Zhu Quan on the side also snorted in passing.

This scared the people of Wu Zhong a lot, and they didn't dare to take Qiao anymore, so they hurriedly told what they knew like a bamboo tube to a bean.

It turned out that three days ago, the county government arrested a group of people, who pretended to be soldiers and stole tens of thousands of taels of silver from nowhere, but the government did not pay attention to let the main culprit escape, which is why the plainclothes government is now looking for people in the crowd on the street.

"What?" Zhu Quan was taken aback when he heard this.

Wu Zhongren thought he didn't believe it, and boldly said: "This is a real thing! I heard with my own ears a messenger catch a pedestrian and ask him,

'You let the robbers go three days ago, right?'

After that, no matter how the man interceded, he was still arrested.

Actually, I know the person who was arrested, he has a little money at home, and he has long been targeted by the yacha, they just want to extort some money, it is estimated that if this person can come out, he will have to go bankrupt!

But being able to keep a life is not a creation, I'm afraid that the silver will run out, and my life will be gone......"

"Fucking dogs!" Zhu Quan was angry.

"Alright, what's it called here! Okay, you go, if someone asks you, know what to say, right? ”

Wu Zhongren nodded and said to Cai Dacheng: "Official, don't worry!" Even for the sake of the villain himself, he won't talk nonsense! Let's just say that you want to find the baby that is popular in our county, and ask the villain! ”

"That's a lot of nonsense! What treasures can you have here? "Huang Shan looks down on this person, he is a slippery scoundrel.

"This legend must be thousands of years old.

It is said that there is an official who has become a big official, and when he returns to his hometown when he is old, he feels that he is an outstanding person and a good place with excellent feng shui, so he wants to stay here to retire.

Unexpectedly, when he took his family to pass through the moat outside the county by boat, the boat actually capsized!

The whole family has not survived, and he also carries more than 100 boxes of valuables, and it is said that there is a jade plate of the country at that time, which was rewarded by the emperor when he returned to his hometown.

It stands to reason that the moat is not deep, and even if you fall into the river, you will not have to worry about your life, but unfortunately, it was raining rain, strong winds, lightning and thunder, and it rained for three days.

When the wind and rain stopped, the entire county was flooded, and no one had time to care about the official and his treasures.

A few months later, the county order came to the emperor to ask for an order, but he didn't protect the big official, and he didn't send someone to salvage the body of the big official, so he ordered the county magistrate to be dismissed, and replaced someone to continue the investigation.

Where can I find this? At that time, the river was overflowing, and the moat connected to the Yijiang River, and in the end, I didn't know where it went.

Therefore, everything that outsiders come to ask, they are looking for the legendary heirloom jade plate, and at first our county did not know whether there was this treasure or the news brought by the outsiders, and over time it was spread like this. ”

"Okay, there are so many treasures waiting for you to get them in this world, go ahead." Zhu Quan sent people away and came to Cai Dacheng's side, "Grandpa Guo, that county lord is not small, he dares to rob the military salary!" ”

"How dare he rob without support? Go back first, you let Feng inquire and find out the bottom with the blind man, and then talk about it. ”

The three of them returned to the intersection and saw the servant sent by Zhao Jiao waiting there, so they followed him back to the inn.

After some washing, Zhao Jiao asked people to bring food and let him eat and rest.

Cai Dacheng chatted while eating, "We're going to stay here for a few days." ”

"Something's wrong?" Zhao Jiao asked, "What big thing can happen in such a small county town with 3,000 households?" ”

"Humph! Be bold! Dare to rob the master's silver! As he spoke, he was still angry, and took a bite of the steamed bun viciously.

"Huh? Robbed you of your money? Could it be from Yizhou? Military salary? Zhao Jiao was surprised!

"A lady is smart! It's all conceivable! Cai Dacheng patted his ass.

"Cut! It's not so easy to get a bargain from you. Zhao Jiao glared at him.

Cai Dacheng laughed, "That's!" It just depends on how many heads he has! Tell me, how did you guess it? ”

"It's easy! Let's go to Huozhou, and this state has the 800,000 taels of silver you just allocated, and this descendant county belongs to Huozhou, and the commander must have been exposed when he received your news. ”

"Then you say, is it possible that Han Xi is in the county? At the beginning, he said that he would come to pick us up, but there is still no one. Cai Dacheng finished eating quickly, and told her the news he had heard.

"I can't guess that, you think too much of me!" After that, let people clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

Because everyone was tired, Cai Dacheng didn't bother the others, so he took Zhao Jiao to rest early.