The night fell, and the dark darkness swallowed up the last glimmer of light left in the sky

Xinyi, who had just woken up with a hint of confusion, patted his head, and couldn't help but ask the girl who had already cleaned up the question that had been buried in his heart for a long time: "Girl, what is the situation right now?"

Originally, they came to Pingxing to suppress bandits.

But this simple and crude thing has completely changed in the past few days of investigation.

The various decisions made by the girl are becoming more and more incomprehensible.

"The current situation, to put it simply, is that the prefect of Pingxing has been pinched by water bandits, and we have to find a way to get him out of trouble." Chi Xinian said lightly.

"What about the complications?" Xin Yi asked as he cleaned himself up.

Chi Xinian glanced at her: "To put it more complicated, let's talk about why the water bandits want to take control of the prefect, and how they plan to deal with the imperial court after holding the prefect.

"Governor Xu is an official who can do things, and we have confirmed this from the beginning. In this flood, except for hiding the water bandits from the imperial court, he did something wrong, and he did everything else.

"And our subsequent investigation also proved that the reason why he hid the existence of the water bandits from the imperial court was probably because he was targeted and had to do something stupid.

"And we are also sure that the person who is eyeing him is in Pingxing Yamen, by his side, so even if he meets me and the little marquis of the Zhu family, he doesn't dare to reveal the truth."

"That's why the girl plans to go to Governor Xu alone late at night to see if Governor Xu can tell some useful information when she gets rid of surveillance?" Xin Yi nodded as if he didn't understand.

"Not bad." Chi Xinian bowed slightly.

After a pause, she continued, "But that's only one aspect.

"After realizing that Governor Xu's Mansion is being watched so closely today, I have been thinking about a question.

"Just a few water bandits, where can they have the ability to infiltrate the imperial court and take Xu Ruxuan, a four-grade prefect, to death? If they don't have this ability, they can only do things for those who have this ability.

"Who has the ability to do this? Undoubtedly, he is a person who has deep roots in the DPRK and has great power.

"Xue Qin, who had something wrong before, was one of them.

"And if this is the case, the other party's purpose must not be to rob some money and materials, so that some ordinary people who are no longer ordinary people will lose their homes.

"From the fact that Governor Xu has stopped me from leading troops to suppress bandits several times, suggesting that I should not always focus on a few bandits, and care more about other things, it can also be confirmed from the side that this trouble caused by the bandits is not the point at all."

"But if the disasters caused by the flood are not the point, then what is?" Xin Yi couldn't help but interject.

Pingxing flood, everything revolves around these four words.

If the flood itself isn't the point, then what's important?

"That's what I want to know." Because when he discussed this matter with Yan Chujing before, he had some guesses, and at this moment, Chi Xinian's thoughts kept drifting towards those guesses.

Perhaps, the other party made such a big move, really just to divert the emperor's attention?

She silently pushed down the time in her heart and muttered, "According to the normal situation, before the Qin mission came to Pingxing, the Kyoto side would not know that the flood in Pingxing was also related to the water bandits in the Luojiang River.

"Because Governor Xu has been tightly concealing this matter, the water bandits did not plunder again when the Qin Cha stepped into the realm where they were mixed."