Joe's little lady

Chapter 568 is not unexpected
Qiao Anhao naturally thought of the Wu family on the other side of the state capital. She frowned slightly. At this point, the matter was at a stalemate. Suddenly, Mrs. Lin at the side seemed to think of something, and asked Mrs. Chen: "Mother, what about the usual husband and wife?" It is said that there is no shortage of money, and the silver will always come back in his hand, so where will he hide the silver when he gets back?"

Hearing what she said, Mrs. Chen's eyes lit up: "Yes, there is still money!"

She turned her head and was about to go back, but she was stopped by the yamen servant before taking two steps: "Mr. Chen, where are you going?"

Only then did Chen remember that she was still in the county office. She looked a little embarrassed and dared not speak, but County Magistrate Luo stared at him coldly: "Do you know where the money your son brought back is hidden?"

Chen also wanted to hide: "I, I don't know, I..."

County magistrate Luo was furious: "Hurry up and say it!"

Mrs. Chen trembled in fright, and said quickly: "It's right there, right under the floor of my house."

County Magistrate Luo immediately said: "Come here, go to the place where the Chen family's house was burned and find the money she said!"

"Yes."

Only their mother and son knew where Chen Shi and Chen Xiucai hid their money, so two days passed after the fire was set on fire, and the county government sent countless people to search, and there were other people whose houses were burned to find their own things, but they The silver in the house is still safe and sound, and I brought it over for a careful inspection, and it is still ordinary silver circulating on the market, and I still haven't found anything!
County Magistrate Luo had no choice but to let Lin and Chen go back. Just when Luo County Magistrate and Qiao Anhao didn't know how to investigate further, Lu Zhishu hurried over from the outside and brought a glimmer of hope to the two, saying: "I found out that the scholar surnamed Chen has very close contacts with the Zheng family."

Qiao Anhao turned her head sideways: "The Zheng family?"

Surprising, but not surprising.

The Zheng family hates her to the bone.

It's just that I don't know how this Chen Xiucai got into the Zheng family, or that he got into the Zheng family a long time ago, and now when the Zheng family needs him, they use him!

Lu Zhishu nodded: "That's right."

"And as far as I know, there has been a lot of kerosene stored in the Zheng family's home. Now we just need to find out which day the scholar surnamed Chen brought back the kerosene. Anyone who met that day will know whether it has anything to do with the Zheng family. !"

The County Magistrate Luo had already learned from Lin and Chen that Chen Xiucai brought the kerosene back one day. It was only two days before the fire, and Chen Xiucai spent most of his daily time in the brothel.

Two days before the fire, he went out of the brothel to a restaurant, saw the housekeeper of the Zheng family in the restaurant, and then returned with a bucket.

Lin and Chen proved that the bucket was exactly the one that Chen Xiucai had seen brought back by the housekeeper of the Zheng family.

And that bucket contained kerosene.

At this point, there is finally evidence that can point to the Zheng family, and the county magistrate Luo finally found out some clues, and he was very excited: "Come here, bring Zheng Yiqing to me!"

"Yes."

……

On the side of Guangshan County, the border city of Yanzhou.

The entire county is different from other capitals in Daling, it looks dilapidated, the people in the group are yellow and thin, as if they have suffered a lot, there is no trace of blood on their faces, but their eyes are vigilant and vicious.

This is unique to the border people.

Ever since there was no Beining Army, the people at the frontier had lived a life worse than death. They could not count on the imperial court, so they had to learn how to protect themselves, but this was not the way after all.

So, in order to survive, run away, run away.

There are less than tens of thousands of people in the entire county.

The so-called people living in dire straits is probably true.

But there is nothing they can do. If they don't escape, run, or resist, they will become the dead souls of the people of Beiliang. It's okay if they just die.

But some Beiliang people are not human. They eat human flesh, drink human blood, rape, burn, kill, rob, and do all kinds of evil.

They all doubted that when the Beining Army was there, the Beiliang people never dared to be so arrogant. They lived a life like a human, but who knew that the Beining Army would collude with the Beiliang people, and even the Beining Palace in charge of the Beining Army was full of people. The fate of being killed.

Honestly, they don't believe it.

But the imperial court has such a decree, and it is up to them to believe it or not.

There are quite a few empty houses in the city, so it is not a problem for these people to live, but there is not much food in the city, and the Beiliang army is still besieged outside, and food cannot be delivered.

Of course, food must also be brought in.

In the county government office, a middle-aged man stood in the middle of the courtyard, looking at the soldiers in front of him with a look of shock and disbelief: "What did you just say?"

"What did the state capital say?"

The visitor gritted his teeth, but still clasped his hands and said, "My lord, the state government said, let's, let's not resist stubbornly, just surrender."

The middle-aged man looked very elegant, but he couldn't help but yelled at this moment: "Fucking surrender, those Beiliang soldiers were blocked outside the city by us for a few days, and they were already hungry and crazy."

"We surrender and we're all fucking dead."

"Are the frontier soldiers and the governor's brains full of shit?"

The staff next to him couldn't help persuading him: "My lord, be careful with your words."

The middle-aged man cursed angrily: "Be careful what you say."

"It's fucking making us die, aren't we fucking human?"

The staff is also very collapsed, he looked at the middle-aged man: "Then, what should we do now, my lord?"

Next to him was a man who was the county lieutenant. He said, "Yes, my lord, the people in the city, men, women, old and young, have all been mobilized to resist."

"But it's not an option to continue like this in the long run."

"Although our city walls are solid, there are Beiliang troops outside. Those Beiliang troops are like wolves. The harder we resist, the more ferocious they will be."

The middle-aged man turned his head in vain: "If we don't resist, if we surrender, will they let us go?"

All the people in the courtyard were silent there. Yes, not resisting is death, and resisting is also a word of death. No matter what, they are all dead. In this case, why not resist desperately?
It's just that they don't believe that the state government doesn't understand this reality.

But they resisted here for seven days. During seven days, the state capital didn't even send a fart, and they even asked them to give up resistance. Are those people eating shit?
The more the middle-aged man thought about it, the angrier he became, and he wished he could go to the state capital now, kill all those heartless people one by one, let them open their eyes and take a good look at the people at the border.

(End of this chapter)