Chu Nanzhi looked around at the dense crowd of figures pouring out from everywhere, and suddenly had a bitter look on his face.
Although the clothes of those people were not all that different, they revealed their identities by showing off the special knives in their hands. At a glance, there must be twenty or thirty people in total.
This can be a headache.
This was the first time she met the Dongsang people, and she only had many terrible memories about them passed down by her elders in her memory.
I still remember that when she first came here, she boasted in front of Hu Maoxi in order to solve the tax case, saying that there were no Dongsang people in the Dahe Empire. She didn't expect that there were so many thieves hidden across a mountain range.
But she definitely didn't believe those witchcraft that were spread by rumors, but they were all flesh and blood, and besides the fact that these people looked uglier than Lin Jinxiao, there was no other difference.
The crystal eyes kept flashing, and he looked warily at the Dongsang people who were surrounding them. The leader was seen dancing the long sword in his hand in a mighty manner, and then he put it on his shoulder with a contented expression, and shouted loudly to the people at the city gate.
He said: "Tan Miaojun, let me solve this problem for you today."
Tan Miao looked at Chu Nanzhi and Lin Jinxiao in a daze, and quickly urged: "We must deal with them as quickly as possible, otherwise I will not be able to explain."
"good."
After the man finished answering, he led a group of people and strode over.
Chu Nanzhi clenched her fists and was about to go up to beat the thief, but was pulled back by Lin Jinxiao.
Lin Jinxiao calmly said to Peng Pai and Ma Laifu: "Get in the carriage."
Then he pulled Chu Nanzhi to board the carriage first, and Li Sanmu led a few people behind him to immediately surround the carriage, each of them holding their sabers tightly and their eyes filled with vigilance.
Chu Nanzhi turned around with a confused look, only to see government servants swarming from all directions with swords in hand, fighting towards the Dongsang people who were surrounding them.
Chu Nanzhi glanced at him angrily: "Have you been prepared?"
Lin Jinxiao replied casually: "They rested by the canal in the west of the city for a whole day and it's time to come back."
Chu Nanzhi followed him and sat down, and asked with some confusion: "Didn't Mr. Hu ask them to find clues?"
"Didn't the lady not want them to actually look for clues?"
Lin Jinxiao held her hand and looked at her lovingly: "It's just for show anyway. Why don't we let them find a shady place to rest and recharge their batteries so that they have the strength to fight."
Chu Nanzhi looked at this pretty boy who was getting more and more shameless. She didn't give him a good look in front of Peng Pai and Ma Laifu, and said in a very coquettish way: "Lin Dalang, you are really becoming more and more unruly."
"Who is a serious person who would stay in the county government office and watch an old man of half a hundred years acting cool and cute?"
Lin Jinxiao snorted disapprovingly, thinking in his heart that Tan Miao had deceived him for a whole day to get him out of the house, and now the old guy finally got what he wanted.
Or I am too young to resist temptation.
He was about to speak again, but there was a faint spasmodic pain in his leg. After bumping on the horse, he didn't expect that his leg injury was still a bit unbearable.
At this time, no one could notice anything. He forced himself to remain calm and continued to face Chu Nanzhi, and asked slowly and softly: "What clues can you find outside the south of the city today?"
"There are some, but we still have to find Chen Wu."
Chu Nanzhi replied thoughtfully.
"Chen Wu will show up today."
Lin Jinxiao's eyes looked very determined. He believed in Li Ce's ability.
This guy must have tracked down some clues after being away for so long, otherwise he wouldn't have left him alone.
"Um."
Thinking of what he said to Tan Miao just now, Chu Nanzhi asked curiously: "You have only been here for three days, why are you so sure of suspecting Master Tan?"
"Do you still remember the day you first arrived at the inn?"
Lin Jinxiao reminded with a smile.
"Remember."
Chu Nanzhi nodded and looked at him.
Lin Jinxiao said carefully: "That day, Kang Mingyuan interrogated the postmaster and the servants in front of the posthouse for a long time, but no one told the truth. However, Tan Miao was just a bookkeeper, and he found out the whole story in just a few words. It can be seen that this person
It's unusual, either he already knew what was going on, or his status in the county government is unusual."
"So you've suspected that you've fallen in love with Chief Tan since you first came here?"
Chu Nanzhi couldn't help but be impressed by this guy's delicate thoughts once again.
This guy's mind is so delicate that it's almost terrifying. He looked for clues through such small details and actually suspected Tan Miao before he did.
It seems that I have to be careful about this pretty boy from now on, but I can't let him get caught with anything.
Lin Jinxiao frowned with a half-smile and continued to look at Chu Nanzhi: "I haven't found enough evidence for the deaths of previous county magistrates, but you have found Chen Wu, which shows that the truth is not far away."
Having said this, he half lowered his head, looking a little angry.
Today I deliberately asked Tan Miao, and the man actually said that he was not familiar with Chen Wu, and that more than 500 acres of land could be named under his name, which showed that the relationship between the two was extraordinary.
Looking up at Chu Nanzhi, his sadness disappeared in an instant, and his eyes were filled with tenderness again: "Before coming to Haikang County, my two mentors told me something, which is the Dongsang people mentioned just now. They
Since he sneaked into the country two years ago, he has neither entered the mainland nor left again. Princess Shu has been sending people to secretly investigate the matter."
"So you suspect that they are lurking in Haikang County?"
Chu Nanzhi looked at him thoughtfully.
"good."
Lin Jinxiao replied: "Kang Mingyuan made a lot of money in Haikang County and plundered countless gold and silver. He must have looked down on the Dongsang people who took bribes. Moreover, as a county magistrate, he knew the court's attitude towards the Dongsang people.
Without the customs clearance document, he would never dare to risk his life and allow thieves to lurk into the county. Only low-level civil servants like Tan Miao would dare to do this. It happened that these two days were spent reviewing documents and interrogating Haikang alone.
I got some clues when I visited the county officials."
At this point, he smiled meaningfully at Chu Nanzhi: "Tan Miao is obviously greedy for fame, but he is not as pragmatic as you, madam. His behavior in the past two years is too abnormal, such a big move
How can you buy a house without making people suspicious?"
"No wonder you put all the government officials in solitary confinement as soon as you took office."
Chu Nanzhi showed an expression of enlightenment, but she did not want to explain more about the pretty boy's "praising herself for being pragmatic", whether it was a good word or a sarcastic word.
I am not an official of the imperial court now. I investigate cases and redress grievances for others based on personal preference. I also use money to eliminate disasters for others. I am doing serious business and there is no problem.
Thinking of this, she felt more and more urgent to reconcile with Lin Jinxiao.
If you continue to stay by his side, you will not be so at ease when you go out to investigate cases as the wife of a fifth-rank official and want to collect money from others.
If not, you might even be charged with accepting bribes from others.
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