"Auntie, how many people still know about these things back then?" Su Liuye asked.

When the aunt heard this, she looked at her in surprise, a trace of surprise crossed her eyes, and then her face showed fear, "Little lady, what are you asking about these things?" Isn't it because you want to bring up these old things? ”

"Wouldn't it!?" The aunt next to her was also surprised when she heard this, "Little lady, I advise you not to do this!" Oh, that's what I'll tell you! You see that our Pingyang Town is on the edge of the capital, and it used to take a carriage for a day, but don't look at our town like a very beautiful appearance, in fact, the yamen here is very bastard! ”

"They wouldn't have been able to do so much if they weren't bastards!" Aunt He nodded in agreement.

They originally lived in the town, and naturally knew a lot of things, so they pulled Su Liuye and chatted carefully to know that in the past, the officials in Pingyang Town were all bought back at a clear price. It is precisely because Pingyang Town is at the feet of the Son of Heaven that the imperial court subconsciously thinks that it is very good, and every year it just sends people to come over to take a look, and occasionally it doesn't even come, as long as the officials of the yamen write a letter and hand it over.

Some people were wronged and wanted to sue the emperor in the capital, but they couldn't see the emperor at all, and they went in vain.

At the beginning of the tragedy of the Huang family and the Zhao family, one of the murderers was the nephew of the master, and the other was the grandson of the local landlord.

After their daughter disappeared, the Huang family went to the Yamen many times to report to the officials, but the Yamen had long known that the person who did it was the grandson of the big landlord and had a close personal relationship with them, so in this case, they would never help the Huang family.

It is precisely because of the indifference of the Yamen that even though more than ten years have passed, the Huang family still has not found the missing daughter, and they don't even know whether they are alive or dead.

The Zhao family is even worse.

The person who did it was originally the nephew of the master, and with the protection of the master, how could the yamen deal with it? Over the years, in order to take care of the unresponsive Zhao Qiang, Father Zhao could only make a living in the town, and lived under the gaze of Yamen and others all the time, like a clown.

The resentment between the two families has accumulated for so long over the years, once it erupts, it is absolutely possible to hand over the drawings of the mine to the barbarians, and the most effective way now is to find out what happened back then and give them justice.

Su Liuye thought so, and asked a few more questions to the aunts.

But the aunts were afraid that the yamen would know that they had leaked the matter, so they didn't even want the pastries in the bag, so they hurriedly ran away.

Su Liuye didn't expect them to run so fast, and when she came back to her senses from her surprise, the people in front of her ran away.

I didn't expect them to be so afraid of the people in the yamen.

When she stayed in the yamen yesterday, she didn't notice anything wrong with the people in the yamen.

But Chu Yan and Xiao Yun arranged it for her behind her, and the yamen didn't dare to do anything.

Back in the rented house, Su Liuye smelled the tempting aroma of rice wafting from the kitchen when she entered the door, and when she looked over, Xiao Wu was busy in the kitchen.

Seeing Su Liuye come back, Xiao Wu sped up the movements in his hands, served the hot meals one by one, and put them on the dining table.

"Madame, you're back."

"Xiao Wu, do you know who the master and master of the Yamen in Pingyang Town were more than ten years ago?"

"I don't know what happened more than 10 years ago." Xiao Wu put down the dishes and chopsticks and said, "Madame, do you want to know something?" If you want to know, I can help you go to the yamen to check. ”

"Is that okay? I don't want to alarm anyone. ”

"Naturally, you can. Now Master Zhang of the Yamen is a protégé of Master Xiao, so he naturally wants to give Lord Xiao some face. ”

Su Liuye thought about it and said again, "Little Wu, this matter is very important, you can't let anyone know when you go to the yamen to look for information, in case they destroy the evidence." ”

"I know ma'am, don't worry!" Xiao Wu suddenly became serious.

Su Liuye told her her guess, and asked her to find out all the information about the Huang and Zhao families back then, and at the same time find out who handled this case back then, and find out all the things about that person! ”

"Yes, ma'am!"

Xiao Wu knew that Su Liuye cared about Chu Yan and would definitely handle the matter well, so he didn't ask why he wanted to investigate these things.

They had dinner and went to rest.

Early the next morning, Su Liuye changed into men's clothes and wrote a letter for the post station to help send to Qin Lian, who was still in the capital, informing Qin Lian that she might not go back for the New Year, so that Qin Lian did not have to worry.

Pingyang Town is very close to the capital, and letters can be sent in a day.

She had to talk to Qin Lian's ward in advance, so as not to worry Qin Lian.

After receiving a promise from the post station that the letter would be delivered within two days, Su Liuye found a carriage and returned to the small village at the foot of the mountain, and found Uncle Niu and his wife.

The husband and wife didn't recognize her at first, and it wasn't until Su Liuye couldn't help laughing that Sister-in-law A Niu reacted suddenly and said in surprise, "Isn't this Mrs. Chu?" Aren't you—aren't you going back, why are you dressed like this? ”

"Uncle Niu, sister-in-law Niu, I'm here to find Ah Hu, is he there?"

"Are you looking for Ah Hu?" Sister-in-law Niu was even more surprised.

However, Uncle Niu reacted quickly and asked Su Liuye to wait here, and he immediately went over to find the person back.

Sister-in-law Ah Niu invited her into the house to sit and poured her hot tea.

Ah Hu soon came over, staring at her suspiciously and vigilantly, his dark face tense, like a nervous little beast.

Su Liuye knew that he was defensive of himself, so he didn't say much, took out a letter that had already been written and handed it to him, "I want to trouble Ah Hu to help me send this letter to the mine and hand it over to a steward named Zhou Shan, do you know who it is?" ”

"Zhou Shan?"

Ah Hu frowned, thought for a moment, and nodded, "Know." ”

Su Liuye suddenly smiled, "Then you help me hand over this letter to him, and I will pay you for the errands." And last time, I really bothered you! As she spoke, she took out five taels of silver from her money bag, "I'll pay you half first, and I'll wait for you to come back with the remaining half." ”

"Okay."

Ah Hu saw the silver and immediately agreed.

Seeing this, Ah Niu's sister-in-law hurriedly went to prepare steamed buns and kettles for Ah Hu to eat on the road.

Seeing Ah Hu running up the mountain, Su Liuye was a little nervous, wondering if Zhou Shan would understand what she meant after seeing this letter?

Zhou Shan is the old steward of the mine, and he is also a more trustworthy person, these are all things that Chu Yan told her.

It's just that she can't be sure of Zhou Shan's position, so she just hinted in the letter that he would check on the past of Huang Li and others and remind him to investigate these things.