Chapter 279: Fraud and Robbery

"My eldest brother has mentioned me to the Third Prince, and naturally he has also mentioned the Third Prince and Lord He in front of me. It is naturally not difficult to guess the identity of the Third Prince." Su Yunruo said with a smile.

"I see." The Third Prince stroked his chin, "But how do you know that I'm not Lord He?"

After all, they are cousins, they look somewhat similar, and their ages are not much different. If you just listen to the description, it would be easy to confuse the two of them.

"I heard from my eldest brother that Lord He is older than the Third Prince..."

Sure enough, his cousin is older than him! "So Lord He is probably more calm and composed." Su Yunruo replied.

Third Prince, "..."

Is it true that he has a more irritable temper?

"The Third Prince is full of vigor and energy, and is easy to recognize." Su Yunruo pursed her lips and smiled, "And..."

Moreover, my eldest brother said that Lord He and Doctor Su have an unusual relationship. If that is the case, Lord He would definitely not say a word to a strange girl.

"What?" The Third Prince raised his eyebrows.

"Moreover," Su Yunruo paused, "the boots that the Third Prince is wearing are made of the finest Songhua brocade. This kind of brocade is a tribute from foreign countries. Although officials occasionally receive it as a reward, most of them cherish it very much and will make clothes out of it to show the grace of heaven. They would never dare to make it into shoes to wear on their feet."

Therefore, the person in front of him must be the Third Prince.

Just as Su Wenxuan said, Miss Su is extremely intelligent.

The Third Prince felt a little respect in his heart, and said to Su Yunruo, "I think these herbs were transported here by Miss Su, but why are they placed here?"

"These herbs were originally supposed to be sent to the government office, where they would be distributed to the people for use in treating epidemics. However, when we got here, two yamen runners stopped our carriage and said that these herbs didn't need to be transported to the county office, but could be directly delivered to the alley and distributed to the people."

Su Yunruo sighed and continued, "I saw that the man was wearing the common clothes of a yamen runner and had a clear and honest look, so I thought it was arranged by the yamen, so I followed him into the alley. But when we got to the alley, the two yamen runners told us to put down the herbs and leave on our own."

“I saw no other yamen runners nearby, nor did I see any people waiting to receive the herbs, so I asked if they needed help distributing them. As a result, the two yamen runners became a little impatient and wanted to drive us away.”

"Although I was unconscious due to poisoning when I was escorting relief grain to the Hong Zheng Mansion, and I didn't stay in the Hong Zheng Mansion for too long, I knew that the governor Zheng was an upright person and his rule was very strict. I also often heard my eldest brother say that the yamen runners were doing their job and were quite kind. This should not be the case, so I became suspicious and wanted to take the medicinal materials away and send them to the government office."

"When the two men saw that their actions were exposed, they called a dozen people to rob us. Although we drove them away, they cut the ropes and drove away the horses during the fight, destroying the carriage. We had no choice but to carry the herbs forward while looking for a carriage that could continue to transport them."

"When the Third Prince arrived just now, I took a servant to look for a carriage. I was worried that those people would come back, so I rushed back and asked the servant to stop a carriage on the street."

Su Yunruo said this with a wry smile, "We encountered many ambushes when we were transporting relief grain before, but most of them happened in the wilderness. The city is quite safe. This time, in order to allow the escort agency to escort other things earlier, we asked the escort agency to return after reaching the city gate. We never thought that something like this would happen."

"To be honest, I was a little careless. When the government receives medicinal materials, they must issue a document with a seal, so they must go to the government office. How could they only send two yamen runners to deliver the message?"

"Miss Su doesn't need to blame herself too much." The Third Prince said, "Miss Su is also worried about the people in the epidemic, so she thinks this matter is reasonable."

No wonder those servants were all like hedgehogs with their fur standing on end just now. It turned out that something like this had happened, so they were like frightened birds, fearing that they were also people who were planning to take the medicinal materials.

"But as Miss Su said, there are people in this city who are so bold as to commit such a fraud and robbery, especially when they are the medicinal materials used to treat epidemics. We must not let them off easily!"

After saying that, the Third Prince ordered a few people to find the yamen runners and inform Zheng Yakun to find out those who committed fraud and robbery. Then, together with a few other people, he helped Su Yunruo to carry the medicinal materials to the government office.

Seeing that there were people to help and there were enough people, Su Yunruo stopped looking for a suitable carriage and led the servants to carry the medicinal materials.

There were a lot of medicinal herbs, but there was strength in numbers. Following the Third Prince were some outstanding guards with great strength, so it was easy for them to carry these things.

In just half an hour, all the medicinal materials were delivered to the government office.

Su Yunruo went to handle the paperwork for the handover of medicinal materials, while the Third Prince went to find Zheng Yakun to urge him to catch the people who had committed fraud and robbery.

After he finished speaking, the Third Prince came out and saw the servant named Feng Zhu describing the appearance and body shape of those people to the yamen runners, and recounting the situation at that time, so he asked, "Where is Miss Su?"

"Your Highness, my young lady has returned to the inn." Feng Zhu replied.

"oh."

"If the Third Prince has something to do, shall I ask someone to go back and ask the young lady to come over?" Feng Zhu asked respectfully.

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"No need for that. Miss Su has been exhausted from escorting the herbs all the way. She should have a good rest." The Third Prince smiled and left the government office with his men.

Zheng Yakun felt that he was not in a good position to rule the city because someone had committed fraud and robbed medicinal materials. Moreover, he felt extremely ashamed that the Su family was involved in this matter. He felt sorry for the Su family who were kind and generous, so he ordered the runners to be on high alert and make sure to bring those criminals to justice.

The yamen runners were well aware of the severity of the situation and admired what the Su family had done. They were very motivated and searched the city for the whereabouts of the criminals in a carpet-like manner.

When the people in the city learned that someone had attempted such a heartless act during such a severe epidemic, they all shared a common hatred for the enemy and spontaneously helped in the search.

Less than two days later, all the criminals appeared in the prison.

The sound of beatings came one after another, and the wailing was endless... - In the early morning light, Kang rode in a carriage towards Qu's mansion.

His face was full of joy.

There was no way out. Chen gave birth to a daughter three months ago. As an aunt, she was promoted to aunt-in-law again, which was a great joy.

The kind that makes your mouth crooked with laughter! Qin Jiashu was quite nervous, rubbing his hands again and again anxiously, "Today is Sisi's 100-day banquet. I only sent two gifts. Wouldn't it be a little too little and seem like I don't care much?"

After all, this was his first time meeting Kang's family in a formal manner, so he had to be polite in everything.

The next day after the divine beast returned to the cage, everything was calm for the time being, except that the divine beast still didn't like to study, but there were no other problems for the time being...o(╥﹏╥)o 　　 　 (End of this chapter)