Chapter 387 Vendetta

The sky in Yongjiang was also gloomy.

The road was covered with rain, and it had been raining for several days.

Jiang Jing and Song Wang did not alert the government, but instead secretly launched an investigation. It was night time and there was no one around. Since the Cai family was wiped out, all the residents here had moved away.

I dare not appear on this street at all.

Mingheng pried open the door lock and carefully removed the seal. After the young master and Lord Song entered, he put it back on.

Jiang Jing turned on the flashlight and shone it around.

Song Wang said faintly, "Give me one."

After getting the flashlight, he studied it left and right.

"You are very lucky to have met Miss Jiu."

Jiang Jing's lips curled up, "Well, it is indeed my luck."

The Cai family's house was very large, and all the property inside had been emptied by the government and turned over to the national treasury. According to the government, no property was taken away.

Jiang Jing said, "He wasn't after money, only life. He was ruthless and left no one alive. His plan was meticulous and his hatred was deep. This case is easy to solve, but I'm afraid the perpetrators will be hard to catch."

The world is so big, maybe he has already escaped to the ends of the earth.

He and Song Wang walked around Cai's house several times but still found nothing. Until they went out, they looked up and saw a piece of cloth hanging on the tree, and Mingheng took it down.

Song Wang said: "This material doesn't look like something that ordinary people can wear."

Jiusu and Xiuying jointly opened Jinxiu Pavilion. Jiang Jing also paid attention to the fabric. He thought: "It looks more like the soft smoke silk from Huzhou. This material is expensive and ordinary people really can't afford it."

Jiang Jing ordered Mingheng to go to Huzhou to investigate.

When it was daybreak, they left Cai's house and went to the county government office. After going through the tedious procedures, the county magistrate was very enthusiastic and insisted on treating them to a banquet. The two did not refuse and went to the place prepared by the county magistrate.

Zuixianlou, just listening to it makes people linger.

Even the prefect of Nancheng came.

The dancer was beautiful and always flirted with the two men, but Jiang Jing and Song Wang didn't even look up.

The prefect asked cautiously, "Are you two masters dissatisfied with them?"

Jiang Jing said, "With an unsolved case on my mind, I naturally have no time for fun. Does the prefect have any opinion on this case?"

The prefect raised his hand and sent the dancer away.

The private room instantly became quiet, and the only sound was the sound of people putting down their chopsticks. Both Mr. Jiang and Mr. Song had stopped eating, so who would dare to eat?

He sighed and said, "I suspect it was a revenge killing."

Jiang Jing and Song Wang exchanged a glance, then took a sip of their wine, which tasted slightly spicy. After a pause, he said, "Prefect, could you please tell me in detail who the enemy is? Didn't the government interrogate him?"

The prefect gave the county magistrate a look.

The county magistrate smiled apologetically and said, "Your Excellency, you don't know. Those were mistakes Cai Qi made when he was young. It's been a long time since then. I don't know the specific circumstances."

Jiang Jing asked, "Do you have any information about that family?"

The county magistrate hesitated for a few seconds; he had not made any preparations in advance.

"We have to go to the government office to check this."

Jiang Jing was about to find an excuse to leave when suddenly, the person next to him stood up abruptly, as if frightened by something. He tilted his head and asked alertly, "What's wrong?"

Song Wang's back stiffened and he clenched his fists.

He looked at the bewildered woman with anger on his face, "What are you doing?"

The woman's eyes were filled with affection: "Master Song, I will serve you."

Song Wang frowned, realizing his reaction was too much. He sat down again, keeping his distance from her, and said, "I don't need your service. Please go back to your seat and eat."

As the Minister of Justice, he is extremely sensitive to the people and things around him.

This girl must be someone's daughter.

The prefect introduced them, "Yingying and Yanyan are my daughters. Since you two gentlemen have been exhausted from the journey, please let them take care of you personally."

Song Wang refused again.

"Need not."

The prefect said anxiously: "They are innocent..."

"Your Excellency," Jiang Jing interrupted him. "We are here to investigate a case. We have no intention of getting drunk, so we won't disturb your leisure time. Please, the county magistrate, take us to investigate the family that Cai Qi murdered."

The county magistrate looked at the prefect.

The prefect had no choice but to agree. He took the others and sent them all the way to the entrance of Zuixianlou. After they and the county magistrate walked away, he turned around and rolled his eyes.

Go back to where you were and drink alone.

"Why would the Emperor send such a stubborn person?"

A colleague laughed and said, "It seems that in recent years, these young ministers have been extremely old-fashioned, talking about serving the country and the people, and putting the world first. Besides Lords Jiang and Song, isn't there the An family?"

The prefect smiled with sarcasm.

"Serving the country and the people? Serving the world first? That sounds good. When we were officials, we all did that. What has happened to us now? Some adults should be reluctant and think they are still noble.

It's the difference between being greedy and getting less. Time will slowly assimilate them, and they will eventually become ours."

He ordered people to clean up Jiang Jing and Song Wang's residence.

Sent the two daughters over.

At the same time, the county magistrate was in the yamen, struggling to find the case files.

"My Lords, this is it."

Jiang Jing glanced at the case file and frowned. "Five years in prison for drunken murder, isn't that too light a punishment?"

The county magistrate smiled awkwardly and said, "The Cai family is powerful and wealthy, so they redeemed the man. Five years is a long time, and this was a ruling made under pressure from the government."

The address and name are on the file.

They followed it to find it.

Rowing a small boat, which was swaying and almost capsized, Song Wang took a deep breath and didn't dare to get wet at all. He still had the hand-painted amulet given by Qiu Man in his arms.

I don’t know if he got wet?

After landing, the land was extremely vast. Jiang Jing felt an indescribable desolation in his heart. There were only a few houses here and there, some of which had been demolished. When the two approached, they found that this was an uninhabited village.

The rain washed the house very clean.

Baijia was very close to the shore, and the door was covered with moss, but traces of blood could still be seen. As the weeds took root and sprouted, however, it was among the piles of grass.

But there is an empty space.

Next to it was a pile of pulled-out grass.

Jiang Jing looked at the burnt grass around him and said, "It seems that there are still people from the Bai family who came here not long ago to pay tribute to their family members. I don't know if they came here before or after the Cai family was wiped out."

Song Wang said: "Both situations are possible. There seems to be someone living in the house ahead. Should we go and take a look?"

The village is brand new and you can tell it’s only been here for a few years.

It was raining heavily and every household stayed indoors. Some people who happened to see strangers quickly dropped what they were holding and ran back into the house. They guessed that the villagers had moved here because they were afraid that the Cai family would go crazy.

They stayed indoors for fear of losing their lives.

The village built a gate and the villagers took turns standing guard.

"Our village does not entertain strangers. Please go somewhere else, gentlemen."

Song Wang said: "It's raining heavily, can we take shelter from the rain?"

The villagers were extremely vigilant. Even if they had a good first impression of them, they couldn't just open the door casually. After all, even if they looked like good people, they couldn't resist their ambitions.

There is only one village within a radius of twenty miles.

"I'm sorry, we don't allow outsiders into our village. You should go somewhere else."