Mentioning the county annals, Ye Chengguan immediately thought of something.
"About eighteen years ago, there was a major personnel transfer in the entire Jingzhou Prefecture. At that time, this place still belonged to the fiefdom of King Xiang, who is now King Yun."
As he said this, Ye Chengguan felt more and more something was wrong.
Just when Hua Rujin was listening with great interest, she suddenly saw that he was about to speak but hesitated, so she couldn't help but urge: "What next?"
Ye Chenggui smiled with half-squinted eyes: "This Prince Yun is the only son of His Majesty's favorite concubine Xue Guifei. He promoted many talents when he took charge of Jingzhou Mansion, including the late Tu Hong, Liu Cheng, and even Wen Yuming.
However, the scholars and children in the previous dynasty all rose from being mere petty officials to becoming county magistrates or prefects after King Yun returned to the capital, and they were extremely successful."
After a pause, the smile on his lips gradually turned deeper: "This picture is the most interesting. It is said that he was just an unknown scribe under King Yun before, but he became the magistrate of Jiang'an County."
Hua Rujin nodded suspiciously: "Perhaps this is when one person attains the Tao, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven."
Moreover, in her opinion, this matter is not unusual.
The Daye Dynasty has only been in existence for a few decades. It was the early days of the dynasty more than ten years ago, and there must be loopholes in the selection of officials.
She remembered that the uncle in the second room was the scholar who replaced the missing grandfather of the Hua family.
Hua Junnian is also just a scholar.
Being able to become a county magistrate or magistrate with such a low status is not easy, I'm afraid, you either have to have a good reputation, or you have to have made extraordinary achievements.
"Could it be that Mr. Ye thinks that the deaths of Tuhong and Liu Cheng, and even the personnel transfer that year are related to the Chu Jiang incident?"
Hua Rujin suddenly realized that what he said could not be just gossiping with her.
"maybe."
Ye Chengguan didn't dare to make a conclusion.
After taking a meaningful look at the woman in front of him who looked like a curious cat, he suddenly stopped talking.
"Let's just make do with it and rest early tonight. We have to go on a journey tomorrow."
After saying that, he got up and went straight to the guest room.
Hua Rujin curled her lips at him dissatisfiedly, always feeling that this guy likes to act serious now.
It seems that he still does not intend to involve himself in this case.
Hey, little chicken, you succeeded in irritating me.
Chasing after him, Hua Rujin kept asking: "There are many clues now, and Mr. Ye's intelligence must have answers to the monsters and zombies with red eyes and white eyebrows. As long as the source of the floating corpse is figured out, everything will be solved."
All problems can be easily solved."
While he was talking enthusiastically, Ye Chengguan suddenly turned around, and Hua Rujin ran directly into his arms.
Feeling a burst of blazing warmth coming against her face, Hua Rujin quickly stopped and raised her eyes to look into his dark almond-shaped eyes.
The reason why Ye Chengguan mentioned the current King Yun was that he hoped that she would retreat despite the difficulties. Unexpectedly, this girl showed no fear at all, which made him admire her.
"Everything you said is right."
Showing an evil smile at her, Ye Chenggui didn't want to annoy her anymore, so he immediately agreed: "I'll take you to Yizhuang tomorrow."
Seeing that he finally compromised, Hua Rujin smiled knowingly and returned to the room obediently.
Lying down on the couch, she kept thinking about what Ye Chengguan had said, and summarizing all the information in one place, she seemed to have thought of something.
There is a large amount of black water in the river, which can dye the vast river black, but it is only in the downstream section near the southeast. The strange thing here may not come from the bottom of the river. The mystery may really be in the southeastern part of the river facing the river.
In the mountains.
Tomorrow we only need to persuade Zhuangyuan Lang to take others to the mountains to find out what's going on.
Thinking like this, she closed her eyes happily and gradually fell asleep.
In the quiet inn, just after dawn, there began to be noises.
Ye Chengkui stood up slowly, smoothed a few strands of hair hanging down from his temples, and went out to see the store owner and the waiter sneaking downstairs.
"stop."
Ye Chengguan shouted softly at the two of them.
Seeing this handsome young man with eccentric nature, the store owner was so frightened that he stopped in his tracks and asked with a grimace: "What is this young man?"
Ye Chengguan strolled forward, spread his hands and asked directly: "Bring me some sweat medicine."
"Mongolian sweat medicine?"
The store owner was startled when he heard this, and the bitterness on his face became even more intense: "Young Master really knows how to joke. You are a very well-behaved kid. How can you have such a thing in the store?"
Ye Chengguan had a stern look in his eyes and did not answer, just stared at the two of them fiercely.
The store owner was so frightened that he trembled all over and quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Who is this young master? Although I am indeed well prepared, I have never done anything harmful to nature."
"Stop blabbering and go get some quickly."
Ye Chengguan walked past the two of them and sat downstairs.
Soon after, the store owner timidly handed a pack of Mongolian sweat medicine wrapped in paper to his hand, and timidly replied: "Sir, this is all the Mongolian sweat medicine in our store, and there is absolutely no secret of it."
Ye Chengguan was not worried about this matter. Mongolian sweat medicine was not a rare thing. The timid shopkeeper was probably just a guy with a thief's heart but no courage.
Taking the Mongolian sweat medicine, he hesitantly took out a prepared note from his hand and handed it to the waiter in the store. He ordered in a cold voice: "Go to the city for me and go to the Donglai Inn diagonally opposite Guanyi to hand this note over to the waiter.
The note was handed over to a young master named Shu."
Then he took out a tael of silver and gave them to him as well.
The waiter took the money and note, glanced at the store owner, and hurried out of the inn.
Ye Chengkui put away the Mongolian sweat medicine, went to the kitchen as if nothing had happened, cooked a pot of porridge and a few eggs, fried two vegetables, and then ordered the shopkeeper to call Hua Rujin to get up for breakfast.
Hua Rujin was sleeping soundly when she suddenly heard a knock on the door. She got up, put away her makeup hastily, and went out to take a look. She saw the store owner waiting at the door obediently, and whispered: "This young master, Mr. Ye personally prepared it."
Breakfast is ready, please go downstairs to eat."
Hua Rujin glanced at the scenery outside the window. The sky was hazy. The Number One Scholar was really a master of paper. He got up early and was greedy for dusk every day.
After briefly washing up, he hurriedly went downstairs and saw that Ye Chenggui had laid out the food and was sitting at the table, watching him calmly.
"Come on, eat quickly."
Ye Chengguan pushed a bowl of porridge in front of her and said with a faint smile: "After breakfast, I will take you on errands."
Hua Rujin picked up her chopsticks and was about to drink porridge when she accidentally saw the store owner looking sneaky, which seemed a little strange.
When he met Ye Chenggui again, he looked serious and acted like a normal person.
"Eat, don't waste time."
Ye Chengguan urged with a smile.
For some reason, Hua Rujin felt that the champion was not normal today.
He mentioned to himself some old events between King Yun and the Jingzhou Prefecture last night, and he obviously suspected that the incident on the Chu River was closely related to the government.
According to his temperament, he would not allow himself to interfere in this matter, so why did he compromise so easily.
She quickly thought of some common tricks in her mind. Could it be that he was pretending to agree to let her participate in the investigation, but was secretly causing trouble in order to send her back to Jiangling City?
Thinking of this, she lowered her eyes and glanced at the white porridge in front of her. She suddenly noticed something and deliberately turned to the store owner and scolded: "What are you looking at with such a sly look? Do you want to be disrespectful to Mr. Ye?"
Ye Chengguan heard the sound and immediately raised his eyes to see the store.
Taking advantage of this disapproval, Hua Rujin quickly changed the positions of the two bowls of porridge.