Upon hearing this, Si Jinxing immediately turned around and walked out, asking anxiously, "Who did this?"
When she asked this question, she suddenly thought of the man in red, Qianchen.
The day before yesterday, he was looking forward to Jia Wen's life or death!
Could it be that he did it?
Mo Qiu said: "The murderer is still unknown."
Si Jinxing said no more, got on the carriage and headed straight for the prefectural government office!
When she arrived, she saw a person lying on the floor in the hall, covered with a white cloth!
Is Jia Wensheng dead?
Si Jinxing strode forward and pulled away the white cloth!
The person under the white cloth was indeed Jia Wensheng, who had died.
There were two fatal knife wounds on his body, and black blood was still oozing from the wounds!
That murderer is so vicious!
Not only was he vicious and deadly with every blow, but he also smeared poison on the knife!
When He Wenqin saw Si Jinxing standing in front of Jia Wensheng's body, he was worried that a girl like her couldn't bear it, so he waved his hand and asked someone to cover her with the white cloth.
Then he said with a serious expression:
"County Lady, the coroner has just examined Jia Wensheng and found that he not only suffered multiple serious injuries but was also poisoned!"
Si Jinxing frowned and asked, "Can you find out who did this?"
Qi Nancheng on the side said:
"The jailer at the South Prison said that only one person has been inside! That person is Mr. Huang, the lawyer who has been imprisoned in the Jia Mansion prison!"
He Wenqin sighed:
"Last night, Master Huang came to me in tears, begging me to make amends for my crime!
He said he would go to the prison and persuade Jia Wensheng to tell him the whereabouts of the millions of taels of silver!
So I agreed to have him come to the South Prison this morning.
Unexpectedly, when he saw Jia Wensheng, he did not try to persuade him, but instead took advantage of the jailer's unpreparedness and stabbed Jia Wensheng with a knife!
After stabbing Jia Wensheng, the man fled!
I never thought that man was such a master that even the secret guards the county lady left by my side to protect me couldn't catch him!"
Si Jinxing glanced at the secret guard who appeared outside the door and saw blood on his arm. It seemed that he had fought with Master Huang and was at a disadvantage!
She couldn't help but ask, "Wasn't he searched when he entered the Southern Prison? How could he have a weapon on him?"
Li Kunzheng said indignantly:
"Is there any place in this entire prefectural government office that that old fellow doesn't know about? He must have been buried in the Southern Prison before!"
Qi Nancheng asked doubtfully:
"I just don't know why he, a senior advisor, would have run away if he had the chance, but would have tried to assassinate Jia Wensheng at this critical moment?"
Yes, Jia Wensheng was going to be escorted back to Beijing tomorrow, but he was killed today?
Master Huang, who is he?
Si Jinxing turned his head towards the corpse covered with a white cloth on the ground and asked:
"Can I take some of Jia Wensheng's blood?"
Although He Wenqin didn't know what she was going to do, he still agreed:
"Of course, my lady, please do as you please, but please don't cause any more serious injuries."
Si Jinxing took out a syringe from his sleeve, drew a tube of the same black blood near the wound, put it into a vacuum bag, and threw it into his sleeve.
This wave of operations made Li Kunzheng stunned for a while.
The county lady carries a needle that can draw blood? Tsk...
Qi Nancheng warned, "County Lady, Jia Wensheng's blood is poisonous. Be careful."
Si Jinxing nodded, but then heard He Wenqin say:
"The county lady has arrived at the perfect time, having just received a letter from the capital via a flying eagle.
The emperor very much agreed to sell off Jia Wensheng's private property, and use the money obtained to provide relief to the victims and fill the Xuzhou treasury!
Now, the county lady can prepare the land deeds for those shops."
Si Jinxing was a little surprised when she heard that. She didn't expect that the flying eagle could deliver the letter so quickly!
She didn't waste any time, completed the formalities, and then said she would go back to get the banknotes.
In fact, the banknotes were on her, but it was extremely unreasonable.
Who would wander around the streets with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in their pocket for no reason?
When they returned to their own yard, Si Jinxing asked Qingchan and Zisu to wait outside the door.
She entered the room by herself and then slipped into Xinglin Yaxu.
Although he had taken the treasures from Jia Wensheng's two secret rooms, that man was very fond of gold and silver ingots. He only took a box of silver notes from the private warehouse underground in Heyan Village, but all of them were in denominations of one hundred taels.
Four hundred thousand taels, that would have to be counted out into four thousand pieces, that's not too much trouble!
Fortunately, when I emptied the warehouse of Zhou Bai, the second brother of the Zhou family, I received some silver notes with a denomination of 10,000 taels, which came in handy now.
She counted out forty sheets. Although it was just a stack of paper, it still hurt.
But when she thought of the hundreds of boxes of gold and silver ingots on the roof and the people who had no place to live during the winter, she felt that it was nothing.
She walked out of the room, handed the banknote to Mo Qiu, and said:
"Go there in person and bring back the land deeds."
Zi Su and Qing Chan are no longer curious about where their young lady usually hides these things.
After seeing Mo Qiu leave, Zi Su asked:
"Miss, now that something has happened at the government office, are we still going to Tongshan County today?"
Si Jinxing nodded and said:
"Of course I have to go, I just talked to Lord He about it.
There is only some finishing work left here. In two days, Lord He will set off to various counties to understand the people's sentiments.
Tongshan County was hit hardest by the disaster, and he must be overseeing the construction of houses and the rebuilding of dams. There's a lot to do."
An hour later, Si Jinxing sat in the carriage, with Zi Su and Qing Chan accompanying him.
In the second carriage behind were Gu Anxu's wife Cao and Gu Keying.
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