Once you have a goal, it will be easier to handle. Li Jiang made a list of fifteen people.

During the day, they stopped looking for other places. Li Jiang and Li Wenxiu followed the pictures and searched for them one by one.

The order of finding people is divided according to the distance of the inn where you are staying.

In this way, one direction every day, it can be completed in four or five days.

However, Li Jiang was a little tired. During the day, he followed Li Wenxiu to find his relatives, and at night he had to work overtime and sneak into the government to continue searching for data.

It wasn't until he sneaked into Hangzhou Prefecture and saw the county summary book that he regretted so much that he wanted to slap himself in the face. If he had known that he would come here, why would he go to one county after another?

However, Li Jiang still took a serious attitude and checked it carefully. After checking, his face looked a little strange.

What surprised him was that after comparison, the county register and the government register actually did not match up in many places! It was not that there were more, but there were less.

This is really first-level deception. I am afraid that the total population sent to Qianlong's desk will be at least 20% less than the whole country.

Oh, it’s possible that the Jin family doesn’t care about people at all! Didn’t Emperor Kang, the first emperor of the ages, say that he would never increase taxes, and he didn’t even charge a poll tax? Do they still care about having more people and less people?

The people cheered and cheered for this, as if they had met a famous emperor through the ages. Yes, they are all divided into acres, who cares about charging you a poll tax?

After Li Jiang finished complaining, he still had to work and try to make sure nothing was missed.

After reading the two counties he had not traveled to, Li Jiang wrote down two more names.

After finishing his homework for tonight, Li Jiang turned off the small flashlight.

The small flashlight was specially exchanged by Li Jiang for searching for relatives. It was not very convenient to light candles on someone else's property.

After leaving the government office, Li Jiang was a little depressed. He ran out to look for the roster in the past few nights and found that the streets were guarded, or there were many patrols of soldiers, or there were people lurking in the shadowed corners.

This makes him have to be careful every time he travels.

The current situation further confirmed his suspicion when he went to the city that some big shots must have come to Hangzhou.

And there is another situation that confirms this speculation from the side. In ancient times, officials worked and lived in the yamen, but during this period, no matter whether it was the county yamen or the government yamen, the heads of them were not there, which shows that they collectively went to the same place.

Meeting? Possibly, but most likely they are waiting for a big shot and are afraid to leave or want to curry favor.

Could it be that Qianlong is here? Hiss, Li Jiang took a breath of cold air. It's possible. This man followed his grandfather as an example. He visited the south of the Yangtze River six times in total, only once less than his grandfather, all of which wasted people and money.

You see how good the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were. Most of them were locked up in the palace by the ministers and never ran around. The most naughty Ming Wuzong, he only ran around in the north. He died the only time he went to the south of the Yangtze River. He was still written as a faint king.

.Compared to the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, they were indebted.

Back at the inn, Li Jiang added two names and crossed out four more names in his notebook.

He doesn't plan to go to the yamen anymore in the future. He will finish looking for these first. If he can't find it in Hangzhou, he can only go to Hangzhou General's Mansion and check the data of the Manchu people.

Because he is not sure that the person with the compound surname Shangguan must be Han. What if the family is Manchu, don't you want them to raise a flag?

If you still can't find it, it will be really difficult. Thinking of this, Li Jiang sighed, fearing that Li Wenxiu had remembered it wrong. Her mother said it was near Hangzhou, so that would be the end of the story.

We can only go to the Chief Secretary to check the data. That is a province!

Li Jiang secretly prayed that he must be in Hangzhou.

Unfortunately, his prayers did not work, and he spent the next two days in vain, unable to find anyone who met the requirements.

After returning to the inn, Li Jiang took out a small notebook and crossed out sixteen names with a sigh.

Tomorrow there will be only one last place left, Haining. Haining now belongs to Hangzhou and will belong to Jiaxing in the future, so it is a bit far away.

They had passed by Haining when they came here, and now they had to turn around and go back.

The next day, Li Jiang enthusiastically called Li Wenxiu to get up, and he himself went down to prepare breakfast.

He has been here for more than ten days and he can still understand simple Hangzhou dialect.

For example, "Have you eaten?" "Didn't eat", "If you haven't eaten, go home and eat", etc., so it's a little bit of breakfast.

After asking the boss for a few steamed buns and filling two bags of water, Li Wenxiu rubbed his eyes and walked downstairs.

Li Wenxiu's state during this period is not right. It seems that she has lost confidence and is getting more depressed. She is not as active as Li Jiang in finding her relatives.

Maybe this is because the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

Li Jiang forcefully pulled her and almost carried her onto Dabai, then roared and the two horses headed out of the city.

Exit the north door and turn east.

Most of a day later, they ran to Haining.

After arriving in Haining, Li Wenxiu cheered up and asked for directions.

After asking and searching all the way, they finally found an alley. At this time, the sky was getting dark, and it started to rain lightly.

Here there was not a lilac-like woman walking out of the alley holding an umbrella, but a thorn-like woman riding a horse and walking in.

The sound of horse hoofbeats ruthlessly crushed Li Jiang's literary fantasy, causing him to regain his senses and lead the horse to follow.

Arriving at the target's house, Li Wenxiu turned around with a little trembling, stood with her back to the door, and asked Li Jiang to go up and call the door.

This was her last hope, and she couldn't bear to break it.

Li Jiang was also afraid. He took a deep breath, shook the rainwater from his head, fixed his hair, and stepped forward to knock on the door.

"Bah bang bang", the sound of banging on the door was very loud in this quiet alley in the rain.

After waiting for half a minute, there was no response.

Li Jiang did not knock on the door again, but put his ear to the crack of the door and listened carefully.

Well, there is breathing sound! It means there is someone inside.

Li Jiang felt happy and stretched out his hand again to "slap, bang, bang".

This time he finally reacted. Li Jiang heard what sounded like an old man mumbling, but Li Jiang couldn't understand what he was saying.

The sound of "tap, tap, tap, tap" was heard as he stepped on the water. Li Jiang quickly took two steps back and stood in front of the door.

The old man walked very slowly, and it took him a while to reach the back of the door. With the sound of the door bolt being raised, there was another "squeak", and the small door opened.

This is a very old woman, she is cleanly dressed, her hands that open the door are as dry as tree bark, she has white hair, her eyes have been sunken deeply, and her face is covered with wrinkles, which makes her look...

Extremely vicissitudes of life.

The old woman looked at Li Jiang with cloudy eyes, as if asking her why she came.

Li Jiang quickly called "Axiu" and motioned for her to come up and answer.

Li Wenxiu turned around slowly and started talking to the old woman in Hangzhou dialect.

Li Jiang was watching forcefully from the side. He didn't look at the old man, only looking at Axiu's reaction.

Li Wenxiu looked blank at first, then gradually became excited, and finally cried out "Yeah" and hugged the old woman, tears rolling down her face.

Now Li Jiang is sure that he may have found the right person.

He took advantage of Li Wenxiu's sobs to catch his breath and asked, "Axiu, is this the place?"

Axiu hugged the other party and still didn't let go. She just turned her head and looked at Li Jiang with tearful eyes and replied: "Yes, Brother Li, we have found the right one. She is my grandmother."
Chapter completed!