Seeing that he was chattering again, Hagi Niang stroked his forehead helplessly, and when he raised his head again, he asked, "What's the matter?" What do you think? ”

Liu Muzhi's eyes rarely showed a trace of confusion, he patted the ashes on his hands, stood up, rubbed his hands in embarrassment, and said hesitantly: "No, your trip is too risky." ”

Isn't this nonsense, life is a place of blessing and misfortune, and misfortune and blessing lie in wait, if you can know in advance whether it is success or failure before doing anything, then what is the meaning of this life?

Hagi Niang pursed her lips disdainfully, but she didn't say what she thought, saying such things in front of this warlock, just afraid that the other party would be angry, and it was not necessary to lock herself up.

She said to Liu Muzhi seriously: "Instead of hesitating here, you might as well explore the roads in the city first, lest Bian Fanzhi finally take the bait for a while, but you lose people, then it is really a failure, and you take this risk in vain." ”

Liu Muzhi smiled slightly, took out a silk silk from his arms and handed it to her, Hagi Niang took it and took a look, sure enough, it was the map of Nankang County, it seems that Liu Muzhi was not busy in vain a few days ago, the surrounding farmland, rivers, and maybe even the place of the military camp are drawn in great detail.

However, there was a large blank space on the west side of the map, and Hagi pointed at it suspiciously, asking, "What's going on here?" ”

Liu Muzhi raised his eyes and replied without thinking: "Oh, over there, it's a valley, and the villagers in front of the valley said that because the fierce beasts in the mountains often hurt people, they didn't let us in, and I originally planned to wait for Liu Lang to come back and go to explore together." ”

Hagi Niang had a slightly strange expression on her face, and repeated word by word: "It turns out that the beasts in the mountains often hurt people......"

Speaking of this, Liu Muzhi also reacted, he raised his head sharply and said, "No...... Is this ......? It's too easy......"

He recalled, but shook his head violently, and said continuously: "Impossible, absolutely impossible, I looked carefully at the time, there is no trace of ruts on the ground, if it is really a place to hoard official silver, there will definitely be rut marks coming and going, and it should be very deep, but there are only footprints of people coming and going on the ground, and there is no trace of the car passing by." ”

Hagi Niang glanced at him hatefully, shook her head helplessly, and said: "You are too honest, you enter from there, but they may not enter and exit from there, maybe, there is another road behind the mountain." ”

Really, they just need to stop the ordinary villagers from letting them in, as for where they themselves get in, do they have to inform themselves that they can't do it?

Liu Muzhi couldn't help but nodded, and hurriedly persuaded Hagi Niang: "Since you have roughly guessed the place, you don't have to take risks, when Liu Lang comes back, let's just go to the valley and take a sneak peek." ”

Hagi Niang shook her head and said: "This is just speculation, we don't have much time, I still have to go, you just find a way to follow Bian Fanzhi, you don't need to think about anything else." ”

Liu Muzhi stroked his beard and said a little arrogantly: "What's so difficult about this? ”

In the residence of the Nankang County Guard, a rather young official was reading the official letters and some trivial bills, and if it were not for the dark red official robe and the fine embroidery on his body that clearly indicated his rank, I am afraid that it would have looked like a small paperwork. However, although he was not very old, he looked very old, with a sad look between his eyebrows and a solemn expression on his face.

He sighed involuntarily as he looked at the official document in his hand.

The little scholar who served hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Master, do you want to take a break?" ”

This young official turned out to be Bian Fanzhi, the Taishou of Nankang County, who was not yet thirty years old at the time, and his face was very delicate, quite elegant, but he did not have the frivolous look of the aristocratic young men nowadays, but rather the majesty of an elder.

But seeing that he only glanced at the scholar faintly, the little scholar retreated sneeringly, and fell to the side, not daring to speak again.

There was a dead silence in the room.

Only in the simple incense burner, the leisurely fragrance of plants and trees slowly swirled, this unremarkable ordinary spice is also very common in the homes of ordinary people, when it is time to purify, this inexpensive spice will be burned to remove the old and pray for blessings.

Compared with the magnificent appearance of the Nankang County Mansion, such a low-key spice seems very out of place.

However, if you look closely, the decoration in this room is very simple, except for a row of bookshelves full of books that are the envy of the readers behind Bian Fanzhi, there are almost no things to play with on this table, just a simple pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the ink is not a good ink, but it is just an ordinary official ink issued by the imperial court according to the rules, and there are several pens, but most of them are old, and they are purely practical.

If someone is interested in reading it, they will inevitably ask, since Bian Fanzhi is such a person who does not pay attention to pleasure, why did he build such a huge and exquisite Nankang County official residence?

I'm afraid that only Nankang County Shou Bian Fanzhi himself knows.

Sometimes, he really misses the time when he was a small county magistrate in Danyang, although he didn't have much real power and didn't have much money, but he quickly became familiar with all the government affairs, and after dealing with official business every day, he had a lot of time to play around and visit the people.

It's not that he wants others to be grateful to Dade, it's just that it seems to be his innate instinct to be a loyal minister, and it seems that all this is doomed.

But......

With his character, he is more suitable to be a person who plots behind the scenes.

Coming to Nankang County, it was really a helpless move for him, in terms of qualifications, on net worth, he was not qualified to do this Nankang County Shou, that is, the pawns in the county who looked at the granary were twenty or thirty years older than him, and there were not many officials in this official residence who were younger than him, if he could not maintain his prestige, he was afraid that others would bully him young.

It was really difficult when I first came, but fortunately, with the support of the county prince, I finally got to where I am today.

However, looking at the account books that came and went, he still couldn't help frowning.

Even from the layman's point of view, this is all full of mistakes and omissions, but the county prince ordered that he should turn a blind eye.

It's not that hard to turn a blind eye.

But what the county lord is plotting, even if he doesn't hint repeatedly, he can guess it.

Whoever becomes the king is naturally the best.

What if you lose......?

He didn't dare to think about it anymore, but silently picked up his official seal and stamped it firmly on the official letter that people couldn't bear to look at.