Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

"I have been in the mansion for more than a year, and I have never seen Mrs. Xian have contact with a man, let alone any foreign merchants."

"The night Madam disappeared, the housekeeper woke me up to cook bird's nest porridge in the middle of the night. The room was brightly lit. If Madam eloped with someone that night, would the master know?"
"More~~~" Cook Sun's eyes condensed, "Madam disappeared two days ago, the master sent someone to renovate the stove, the stove and everything were rebuilt, so he let me go for five or six days fake~~”

After Shen Yuan heard these words, his heart skipped a beat, as if he knew something.

Once again, his eyes fell deeply on the woman in front of him.

"So, you deliberately made the food unpalatable, so that Madam can fire you?" No wonder she was relieved when Butler Huang wanted to fire her.

Chef Sun nodded silently.

This matter was explained clearly enough, and Shen Yuan had a certainty in her heart, but she took out another 200 taels of silver and put it on the table.

"Tell me about 'Huang Xiucai'." Shen Yuan asked directly. Since she is a smart person, she must have already seen that something was wrong with "Huang Xiucai" and Huang Xiucai's house.

Cook Niang Sun looked at the silver on the table and was moved again.

After all, so much has been said, so what if I say more?
What's more, she felt that the woman in front of her was unusual, with a unique temperament and honest eyes. She was by no means an accomplice of County Magistrate Lei and Huang Xiucai.

As before, since she planned to speak, Cook Sun spoke clearly and directly.

"Huang Xiucai can't read, and he can't write."

"The dozen or so tables of guests from his natal family who came to him when he got married all spoke with foreign accents, and I don't know where they came from, but they were definitely not the accents of Lingzhou and Tongzhou."

"In addition, the relationship between Lei County Magistrate and Huang Xiucai is unusual~~ That's all I know."

"Okay, then we won't bother you, and we're leaving." Shen Yuan got up, secretly praised Cook Madam Sun for being a smart person, and a few simple words were crucial, "Sister-in-law Sun, take care." Meaningfully After saying this, Shen Yuan left the room.

She didn't go far, and hid in the dark with the shadow to observe.

After a while, I saw Cook Sun hurried out of the house and left the village with a bag on her shoulders. She didn't take the main road, but took a small path, and soon disappeared.

"Master, she has already left, let's go back to the city." Seeing the cold mountain wind, Shadow said.

"No, wait a little longer." Shen Yuan tightened the cloak on her body, "See if anyone comes after her, otherwise another innocent life will die."

After waiting for half an hour and no one came, Shen Yuan and Ying Ying left for the city.

They didn't speak along the way, and when they came to the restaurant for dinner after entering the city, the two chatted in a low voice.

"Master, if Cook Sun has not lied, Miss Gao's case seems to be clear." Shadow said.

"En." Shen Yuan nodded, "She is a smart person, she won't lie." Shen Yuan couldn't help but feel sad when he said a word, it seems that Miss Gao was murdered by Huang Xiucai that night, and her body was buried in the kitchen under.

The beast!
Of course, if you want to find out the truth, you have to dig up the stove and find Miss Gao's body, otherwise everything is just speculation.

"In addition, what does the master think of Huang Xiucai's identity?" Shadow asked again.

"What do you think?" Shen Yuan asked back with a smile.

"Well, it depends on whether Du Juan has her natal family. If there is, then you can't jump to conclusions. If not, then eight to nine out of ten are robbers."

"Du Juan is a kiln sister, and the possibility of having a family is extremely small." Shen Yuan affirmed, "So Huang Xiucai and the dozen or so tables of his wife's family are very likely to be robbers.

"Hey~~ Isn't this too crazy? The robbers who were hunted around by the government unexpectedly stabbed into the city, and became a respectable scholar~~" Shadow shook his head, and then scratched his head in confusion Browmen, "You said these robbers came to the city in full force. What exactly do they want? Are they really here for a wedding?"

Shen Yuan shrugged, she couldn't figure it out either.

Before, she thought about whether she was here to transport property, but she immediately shook her head and denied it.

But Cook Sun said that dozens of horse-drawn carriages came, and the Gao family would be able to afford 10 taels of money. What can be filled in a box needs such a lot of labor?
"If Huang Xiucai is really a robber, I don't know how much bribe Lei County magistrate has received from him~~" Shadow muttered.

"This matter must be more complicated than we imagined. Let's investigate it slowly." Shen Yu'an took a sip of tea thoughtfully, "Don't tell Miss Gao about Miss Gao, so as not to make her feel uncomfortable when she hears it. Lin Yi will talk about it when he comes back."

"Okay." Shadow nodded.

Not daring to disturb Huang Xiucai, but also not daring to disturb Lei County Magistrate, Shen Yuan and Ying Ying didn't dare to go any further after investigating here.At most, it's just walking around the street and listening to what everyone has to say.

Three or four days passed in the blink of an eye, and Ji Dong came back.

"The identity of this fake Huang Xiucai is really difficult to find out, but we are sure that none of those people who came to Lingzhou to hide from the famine with the real Huang Xiucai back then disappeared like that." Lin Yi said.

Shen Yuan nodded silently, "This result is enough to prove that Huang Xiucai and his party who came to Lingzhou to beg for a living are likely to be killed by robbers on the way, and then someone impersonated Huang Xiucai, and the real Xiucai became a fake." A scholar, marry a wife and settle down in Yanggu County."

No one objected to Shen Yuan's words, and Shadow nodded in agreement,

"There is also County Magistrate Lei." Lin Yi spoke again, taking out a portrait and spreading it on the table, "I went to the hometown of County Magistrate Lei and found this portrait painted by his family.'

Shen Yuan was shocked again when she saw it. The Lei County Magistrate in this portrait was completely different from the Lei County Magistrate she had seen before.

"Even the county magistrate of Lei is a robber pretending to be a robber? My God~~" Shen Yu'an's jaw almost fell from shock, which completely overturned her imagination. If she didn't come, this Yanggu County would have become a den of bandits. ?
Amidst Shen Yu'an's surprised voice, Lin Yi continued, "I also heard that there is a group of robbers entrenched at the border between Luozhou and the Western Regions. I don't know if they are the same group."
After listening to Ji Dong's report, Shen Yuan's mind was very messy, and he quickly sorted it out in his mind.

Both Huang Xiucai and Lei County Magistrate were robbers, so the two cooperated perfectly when blackmailing others.

However, there are only a few rich people in a county. Could it be that they are only trying to gain such a small profit? Or do they think that this matter can be kept hidden forever and will never be exposed?
"Master, do you want to close the net?" Shadow asked.

Shen Yuan is also quite tangled, if the net is collected, then their accomplices may be difficult to catch.

If you don't close the net, when will you wait? Is it possible to let a few robbers control the entire county?
Unless Shen Yu'an suddenly had a flash of inspiration and a plan popped up in his mind.