Chapter 458: Assassination in the middle of the night

However, today I only waited in the lobby of the inn for half a burnt incense, and the fire in the county mansion not far away has not been extinguished.

Lord Ye had already hurried back with the wife and children of the county order.

After rushing back, Lord Ye told Chen Mu what he had observed in the cottage.

"Fortunately, I showed up in time, and when we arrived at the cottage, the leader of the cottage was ready to kill the woman and the child with someone."

Chen Mu sighed, nodded, and responded when he heard Lord Ye say this, he also expected this.

After all, those people had already made up their minds to take action against the county order, and since this was the case, there was naturally no need to keep the lives of the county order's wife and children.

The county commander also heard that his wife and children had been rescued, he hurriedly ran down from the inn, and saw his wife and children standing in front of him safe and sound, the county commander cried with joy and rushed forward to take the two in his arms.

Seeing them like this, Chen Mu shook his head and sighed, he was an official from the capital, but he ended up in this situation.

Those adults in the capital are really bold.

Chen Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, immediately glanced at his subordinates, and went to the capital to arrest the masters of the Ministry of Engineering and the bachelor who conspired with them.

After this matter was resolved, the fire in the prefectural mansion had also been extinguished, and the prefectural magistrate left the inn with his wife and children, standing in front of his mansion, with a slight helplessness on his face.

"Anyway, even if my life is saved, I still have to thank His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Chen Mu shook his head when he heard the county order say this.

He remembered the purpose of his coming to this city, and asked about the place of silver.

Seeing this, the county magistrate also retracted his thoughts and reported the official affairs to Chen Mu.

"When the resettlement silver was allocated to me, it had been reduced to five taels per person per household, and I thought about it, and then asked people to mobilize the official silver accumulated by our county government, and then merged it with the resettlement silver and distributed it to the people."

"In this way, almost every household can get seven taels per person, and the silver accumulated by our county government is not much, and most of the silver allocated over the years has also been used by the people."

"If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is worried, he can also have someone to check carefully."

Hearing him say this, Chen Mu nodded and agreed, of course he understood what the other party meant.

He waved his hand indifferently, but he was willing to believe the adult.

The other party took out the silver of his own government to settle the people, Chen Mu thought about it for a while, and asked people to send news to the capital, and asked the henchmen in the capital to allocate some silver.

"Those few adults in the capital are greedy for so much silver, but I don't have time to do anything to them now, and after I trap them, I'll go back and carefully interrogate them."

"They took their houses, and the money they got was put into the treasury."

When Chen Mu said this, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and the county commander didn't understand the meaning of Chen Mu's words, he nodded silently, and responded to the peace, without thinking too much.

When Meng Qing heard Chen Mu say this, she glanced at Chen Mu with a sly face and smiled.

As soon as Chen Mu saw Meng Qing's appearance, he knew that Meng Qing saw his thoughts,

He smiled and shook Meng Qing's hand, and then said with a look at the county commander.

"You settle down in this inn first, deal with the affairs of the county government, and wait until your mansion is repaired, and then go back to the mansion to live."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince lives in this inn, and the county order has nothing to say, and after nodding his head and agreeing, Chen Mu asked the county order to take him to the camp where the people are settled.

There was no heavy rainstorm in the city, so there were no people gathered in the city by the officials, and the vast majority of the people were gathered in the nearby hills or in the villages around the town.

The county commander took Chen Mu to the mountains and the village for a turn, and Chen Mu nodded with satisfaction.

The tents where these people lived looked quite sturdy, much stronger than those built by the county officials in the towns and towns he had been to before, and were used to house the people.

It can be seen that the county magistrate of this town has put a lot of thought into the matter of relocating the people.

And the people who lived in the camp had smiles on their faces and did not see sorrow.

"This time the matter is done well, bring this matter to the end, you will serve in this town for another two years, and I will transfer you back to the capital."

Chen Mu praised with satisfaction, and the county magistrate was even more overjoyed when he heard Chen Mu say this.

After determining the situation of this city, Chen Mu originally planned to go to the next city on the second day, and then rushed back to the capital after inspecting it.

As a result, it didn't come to pass, but that night, someone quietly touched the inn where he and the county commander were stationed.

As soon as the group stepped into the inn, they were discovered by Lord Ye and the secret guards, and the secret guards immediately reported the matter to Chen Mu.

"I don't know who these people are here for, it's very likely that the killer sent by the Lord of the capital."

"I look at them as if they are searching for the whereabouts of the prefectural magistrate who lives in this inn."

Lord Ye said this, and Chen Mu nodded when he heard this.

He glanced out the door and heard a creaking sound coming from the staircase around the corner of the third floor.

Someone must be walking in the direction of the third floor.

Lord Ye narrowed his eyes slightly, and pressed his hand on the long knife arranged on his waist.

Seeing Lord Ye's action, Chen Mu shook his head quietly, and he said with a sneer.

"Wait, set up an ambush first, and when that group of thieves steps on the third floor, we will catch everyone."

"I didn't expect that those people in the capital would still have the strength to do anything to the county order, I thought I would send the order, and now they have been arrested."

Master Ye shook his head when he heard Chen Mu say this.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I estimate that most of those adults were indeed arrested, and the people who were sent at this time were intended to deal with the county order, and most of them were from the family behind those adults."

Chen Mu immediately understood when he heard this, he nodded in response, and heard the footsteps have reached the third floor.

Chen Mu glanced at Lord Ye.

Seeing this, Lord Ye nodded in response and walked to the door of the guest room.

When the footsteps approached in their direction, Lord Ye's eyes moved slightly.

With a thud, he kicked open the door to the inn guest room and charged towards the Assassins.

It was a few men dressed in black, their heads and faces so tightly wrapped that they could not be recognized, and they held shiny long knives in their hands.

Chen Mu heard the sound of Lord Ye fighting with those people, so he stood up and walked in the direction of the door.

As soon as he walked to the door, before he could look out of the door, he suddenly heard a nervous voice behind him.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, stay away from that door, don't be hurt by the people outside the door, the people outside the door are a group of bold people!"

Hearing Meng Qing's voice, Chen Mu nodded and responded.

Meng Qing didn't rest, she walked quickly in front of Chen Mu, took a step forward, and protected Chen Mu behind her.