After solving the problem of eating in Shanggu Village, Zhuang Rou asked the villagers to tell all the things they saw last night, including all the robbers. It doesn't matter if you cover your face, you can talk about your body shape, your voice, and your movements.

She had taken into account what the little boy had said, but she had to listen to what other people had to say.

When this was mentioned, everyone talked about it, and it was so messy.

Zhuang Rou asked Li Zheng to maintain it with the village chief, and let them say one by one, it is not that there is food, what to rob.

Speaking of last night's incident, the villagers burst into tears one by one, and some people in their families cried the worst, and they knelt and cried and begged that the killer must be caught. The other villagers were also angry when they mentioned Qian Yin, and the man scolded the woman and cried, which was very pitiful.

If it weren't for this year's difficulties, Zhuang Rou would have taken some grain out of the granary and distributed it to them, but now he can't divide it.

However, compared with previous years, the price of rice has risen this year, and the local villagers have spare money on hand, and they will definitely buy grain to store, and they must still have surplus grain in their hands.

The money was tight, Zhuang Rou could only pretend to be stupid, only noted down the situation of the robbers, and did not squeak about the food.

The villagers of Shanggu Village are very sad, these officials really have no kindness at all. The food was all robbed, but there was not even relief food, and then I really had to go under the bed to rummage through the grain stored in the mud jar.

Zhuang Rou got a lot of information here, and she had to go back to sort it out if it was useless, so she ran away after asking, leaving the helpless servants to face the villagers' requests for help. They had no choice but to talk dryly, and blamed Zhuang Rou for not giving food.

And she returned to the yamen, and sorted out all the things she got from Shanggu Village in the small broken courtyard of office work.

Remove the useless things, there is not much useful information left, and those robbers are all prepared, and there is basically no evidence to make a decision.

Zhuang Rou copied everything she thought was useful, looked at the black letters on the paper and muttered, "Strong and tall." Now most of the displaced people are hungry and full, how can they be so strong as the villagers say. There are large muscles exposed under some tattered clothes, and the homeless people only have skin and bones, and there are no large pieces of flesh. ”

"This woman's words are really interesting, and she even said that although their clothes are patched and torn like vagabonds, they must have wives who are good at needlework......"

She tilted her head and thought about it, could it be that the guards soldiers came from somewhere, and their conduct was too bad and they wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, right?

This is very likely, Dahao has not fought for a long time, and the soldiers in the guards all over the country are now farming for a living, and it is normal for some people to gather some people with bad minds to come out and make a windfall.

Zhuang Rou grabbed the paper on the table and went to find Chu Xia, this matter had to be discussed with him.

In the middle of Qingfeng, Chu Xia was holding a soup woman, leaning lazily on the Taishi's chair, and said to the master: "Sir, according to what you can see, did those people do the robbery of the homeless people in Shanggu Village, or did the homeless people go by themselves?" ”

"My lord, the time is not yet ripe, and those people should not act so hastily. According to the information we have gathered, they will not do it until at least before the wax moon. The master touched his beard and said in a deep voice.

But he thought for a while and said, "But if the homeless people spontaneously, they shouldn't go to Shanggu Village." Although Shanggu Village is rich in food, for the hungry homeless people, they are prone to resistance and cannot defeat the villagers. ”

"It's more logical to grab some food or clothing from a small village, and it's better to try your hand at it."

Chu Xia was silent for a moment, and said with some suspicion: "Or where did the bandits come from?" ”

Master nodded, "There is this possibility, take advantage of the fire to rob." Now that our time has not yet come, why don't we send someone to sweep up the bandits in the surrounding area? ”

"Wait a minute, let's see this matter later, maybe we can take advantage of the fire." Chu Xia said to stop him.

This frightened the master, and he quickly said: "My lord, don't take any risks, the sword has no eyes, this time the situation is not the same as before, it is too dangerous." ”

Chu Xia smiled indifferently, "Don't worry, we'll be fine." There is no need to inform Mo Zuo about this matter, you can't startle the snake at this time, just send the officials out to look around. With so few people, if those bandits still want to do it, we can't stop it. ”

"Think twice, sir." The master reluctantly persuaded again, but he also knew that Chu Xia had decided to do so, so it was impossible to change it.

The matter was agreed, and the two talked about some other things, when they suddenly heard Xiao Ran, who was guarding the window, say, "My lord, someone is coming." ”

Chu Xia tilted his head slightly and looked out of the window, and saw the black and blue figure swaying over, he smiled and said to the master who was getting up to avoid it: "Sir, don't go, we have something to talk about later." She should have come to talk about the case of Kamitani Village, and it won't get in your way. ”

The master sat down awkwardly and muttered in a low voice, "I just don't want to see you and me." ”

"Mr. Hahaha, I've never done anything like this." Chu Xia laughed, feeling his master's deep disgust.

Before Zhuang Rou entered the door, she heard Chu Xia's laughter, and she quickly entered the room and looked at him and asked, "My lord, why are you smiling so happily?" ”

Chu Xia smiled: "Master saw that I was annoyed by official business, so I told a joke. ”

"......" Zhuang Rou looked at him like a fool, and glanced at the master who was disrespectful to the old man and still told jokes, "The master still tells jokes?" ”

"It's just gossip that the street performers heard, and the colt is looking for an adult, so I'll avoid it for a while." Master got up and said.

Zhuang Rou pressed him back, then took out the paper he brought, and said to the two: "My lord, this is the confession I collected from Shanggu Village, and after coming back to ponder the classification, I think those robbers are definitely not homeless, but most likely soldiers. ”

Chu Xia took a deep look at her, this guy seemed to be able to always push himself into the fire pit without hesitation.

"Are you so sure, is there any evidence?"

Zhuang Rou shook her head, "There is no evidence, but those people are definitely disguised as homeless people, and one child said that they also call one person an adult." Even if you are a bandit leader, you will not let people call yourself an adult. ”

The master couldn't help but say: "Maybe he wants to be an official, but he fell into a bandit before he became a bandit, and now let his subordinates call himself an adult, so as to realize his wish back then." ”

"It's possible what the master said, but there are no bandits around Hongzhou. It's impossible to come all the way to grab a village, even if Shanggu Village is a wealthy village, but there are no particularly powerful big families. Zhuang Rou explained.

"It's better to grab a village than to grab a big family. And what they stole was grain, and if it came from a distant cottage, the grain could not be transported away. They have to pull it in a car, which is inconvenient. ”

Chu Xia smiled slightly, "Where there are soldiers around Hongzhou, there are only guards, do you suspect that they did it?" ”

"I'm not sure, if I go to meet that Yang Rong for a while, maybe I can ask something. Last time he was angry, and if he was so angry that he would have done it directly at me this time, he would have been able to arrest him and interrogate him at will. Zhuang Rou grinned, as if Yang Rong was already in her hands and could use all kinds of punishments on him.

Seeing that she mentioned the last time she met Yang Rong, Chu Xia asked, "What did you say to him last time that made him angry?" ”

Zhuang Rou said disappreciably: "It's nothing, last time he compensated Chen Mufeng for his injury medicine, didn't he take a lot of iron ingots." So I asked him if the mine was under his control. ”

"I told him clearly that he definitely did it, but there was no evidence." She determined that Yang Rong was the mastermind behind the mine.

When Chu Xia and Master heard this, they finally knew why last night's incident happened when the time was not enough, it turned out that she had forced others to be anxious.