"Sir... Sir... something... something happened, something happened." Another panicked voice broke in.
The lawyer was worried that Magistrate Ma's death would be discovered, so he hurried out and scolded him, "Why are you so flustered? The master is sleeping. How many heads do you have to wake him up?"
The visitor lowered his head in fear, but the situation was urgent and he couldn't keep it secret, otherwise his whole family would die. "Master, the county government office was looted. All the warehouses were emptied overnight."
The master's pupils dilated, and he said in silence, "Empty? Everything gone? Where's the money? Where's the gold? Where's the food? Everything gone?"
The visitor had a sad face and burst into tears, wailing for his own dying life. "It's gone. Not only are the things in the storehouse gone, but also the private storehouses of the ladies, concubines, young masters and young ladies are all gone."
The master staggered and nearly fell, repeating over and over again, "How is this possible? How is this possible?"
He personally checked and stored all the gold and silver, so he knew best how much they were worth. It took them more than ten years to accumulate them, so how could they disappear overnight?
Who could have done this without anyone noticing? Could it be those hundreds of people who showed up yesterday?
No, how could hundreds of people moving at night not alert the yamen runners?
By the way, as soon as the people of Zhengding County opened their eyes, they found twenty taels of silver in their home.
Every household has twenty taels.
It was just that the common people picked up twenty taels of silver. The reason why he rushed to the county government office in a hurry was because of the common people picking up the pie.
"Could it be..." The master had a bold guess.
Could it be that the silver that disappeared from the warehouse appeared in the homes of ordinary people?
If this is true, it would be too scary. The master rushed to the study, touched the secret compartment, and found that it was empty.
The lawyer fell into the chair in horror, his lips trembling, his hands opening and closing with shaking hands, telling of his fear.
"It's over, it's over."
The account book in the secret compartment disappeared. All the shameful things that happened over the years were recorded in the book, as well as the correspondence and financial transactions with the people above, all written down clearly.
Just one of the items in the notebook is enough to send him to jail for life. If he were to add more items to the list, he wouldn't be able to finish his sentence even if he died a hundred times.
No, we can't just sit there and wait for death. We must think of a way.
"Sir, please call Li Bantou and tell him that the Lord has something to tell you."
Let Li Bantou seal off Zhengding County, allowing only people in and no one out. The thieves must still be in the county.
At that time, we will go door to door to find the thief, so that the account books and secret letters will not be leaked.
"Master, don't you know? Captain Li came back from his shift yesterday, and just as he was about to step into the county government office, he suddenly died suddenly."
"Sudden death? How could that happen?" The master always felt that several things were connected, too unusual, as if they were woven into a web.
The housekeeper nodded quickly, "The doctor has already examined him. He said there was a problem with his heart. I don't know what triggered it, but he died suddenly."
The lawyer made a prompt decision and ordered, "Go and gather all the yamen runners to the county yamen. I have something important to tell you."
After the butler took the order and left, the lawyer walked in another direction and left without looking back.
Zhengding County is completely ruined, and he can no longer stay here. If he stays any longer, he will die here.
*
When Lu Changming went out, it was a donkey cart, but when he came back it turned into a horse carriage.
The appearance is neither new nor old, neither abrupt nor ostentatious, but big enough, even bigger than a donkey cart.
Su Sijin asked to replace the horse-drawn carriage because she felt that in the event of an emergency, a horse-drawn carriage could be used to escape, but a donkey cart would be much worse.
As soon as the carriage arrived at the inn, it naturally attracted a lot of sarcastic remarks.
Qin Qing is even more mean-spirited. She always remembers the food but not the beatings. Now she is directly confronting him again.
"This guy! That's just reality. Life was miserable before the family split and the relationship was severed. Now that the family split and the relationship was severed, he wants a house and a carriage. How can he do that? It's obvious that he doesn't want to give anything to the old lady at home."
Su Sijin looked at Qin Qing coldly and sneered, "I used my own dowry to buy a carriage just to make my family suffer less. Is that wrong?"
Su Sijin glanced at the red-eye disease present with innocent eyes. What she said was not a reflection of jealousy, "Can Aunt Qin San be willing to use her dowry to supplement the family income?"
"Can you use your dowry to buy supplies? Can you use your dowry to buy clothes for your family? Can you?"
Only a sucker would use her dowry to support her husband's family.
"I..." Qin Qing's face flushed red, and she was speechless after being squeezed.
Su Sijin suddenly stared at her with a cold look in her eyes. "Just because you can't doesn't mean I can't. I used my own dowry to buy it. What does it have to do with you?"
"If you have the ability, why don't you use your dowry to subsidize your in-laws? If you don't have the ability, then don't bother to show up in front of me."
Qin Qing was like a defeated rooster, dejected and reducing her presence because she felt the old lady's poisonous gaze.
Here, Lu Changming was vividly recounting what he saw and heard.
"Big brother, third brother, little sister, today a pie fell from the sky in Zhengding County and landed in the homes of ordinary people. Can you guess what the pie was?" Lu Changming expected them to get to the bottom of it.
But... everyone was busy with their own things, no one raised their eyebrows to look at him, even Xiao Qiuling was no longer curious.
Lu Changming hung his head in disappointment, but thinking of today's strange events, he had to "satisfy" everyone's curiosity no matter what, so he chattered away happily.
"This pie is like an ordinary person opening his eyes and finding a silver coin in his own home. It is not one or five taels, but twenty taels."
Lu Changming never thought that one day he would think that twenty taels of silver was a sky-high price.
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