Lin Tongxi shook his head and gave a negative answer: "Why go back? Isn't this just to help Lord Gan?"
"It seems like there are fewer people in the yamen today. There are not many officials. Even Awei and Atao didn't come out." Su Ruoxue pointed out the strangeness of the yamen.
After hearing Su Ruoxue's speech, Lin Tongxi also discovered this blind spot.
Logically speaking, someone should come to maintain order in the yamen first, but today Gan Xingfan had to come out in person to maintain it.
It seems that something big may have happened in Ruihe Town.
The three of them walked in and found that there were only two officers in the entire yamen, and with Gan Xingfan, there were only three in total.
"Lord Gan." The three of them clasped their fists together.
"Hey! Don't cut in line! I was here first!"
"That's right! Don't try to cut in line just because you know Lord Gan!"
"Uh... I feel like I've seen them somewhere."
Seeing that the three men did not line up, the townspeople started talking about them.
Gan Xingfan was originally worried about the lack of manpower, but now when he saw the three people coming, his brows relaxed a lot.
"You've arrived just in time! Everyone else has been sent out, and there are only three people left in the entire government office."
"Three young men, please help me."
In response to Gan Xingfan's request, the three of them readily agreed and then helped to register the situation of the townspeople.
After several hours, the government finally sent away the townspeople who came to report the situation.
One commonality among them is worth noting, and that is the problem of theft in the town.
Many villagers protested against this and demanded that the government find out the culprit as soon as possible.
Of course, there are a few serious incidents, such as robbery.
"Robbery? Who said that? Let me see the name." Gan Xingfan took it and saw that it was the same old question again. He then cursed, "Damn it, it's those lunatics again. Why do they love to rob things so much!"
"Crazy?" Lin Tongxi asked.
According to Gan Xingfan's answer, there are three mentally ill people in the town. They have problems with their brains and occasionally rob others on the street.
"Why not just catch him?" Su Ruoxue quickly gave a solution.
"If I could have captured them, I, Gan Xingfan, would have done so long ago." Gan Xingfan sighed, then introduced the three men's identities: descendants of the Pang family, a prominent family in Xiangjiang County. If they were captured, it would attract the attention of that family, and in turn cause trouble for General Wen.
As for why these three young men went crazy, Gan Xingfan had no idea. Anyway, the Pang family sent them to Ruihe Town and then assigned someone to look after them.
But the supervision was too weak, and they would run out and steal things from time to time.
Although the Pang family expressed their apologies, such incidents still happen from time to time.
"Oh... forget it, we can't solve this kind of problem. Let's look at other things first." After Gan Xingfan said this, he took a stack of documents and started to look through them.
"...Another theft case? And most of them are new!" Gan Xingfan looked at the folded document and then passed it to Lin Tongxi and the other two to check.
After reading it, Lin Tongxi was also shocked. He didn’t expect the public security in Ruihe Town to be so bad?
Everything was fine a few months ago, how come so many people were robbed all of a sudden?
Could it be true that it was done by refugees as the townspeople said?
"What do you mean? Do you have any idea?" Gan Xingfan asked the three people for their opinions.
Chen Yunxuan looked at the information in his hand and then gave his own analysis: "Master Gan, I have noticed that most of these cases occur during the daytime market. Perhaps we need to use the market as a breakthrough point."
"In addition, some cases occurred at the same time but in different locations, perhaps they were committed by a gang."
"Yes, I have noticed it too. It's a pity that we are short of manpower. We have to wait for A Tao and the others to come back." Gan Xingfan sighed and then expressed the current situation helplessly.
"Then where did they go?" Lin Tongxi asked the question just now.
Gan Xingfan took a sip of water, then took out a map of the town and pointed to the north of the city. "Look, there's talk of a dozen gangsters fighting in the north. Fearing I couldn't suppress them, I sent most of the government officials out."
"Originally, I should have been there, but County Magistrate Huo was coming to inspect the yamen, so I had to greet him here."
"Just after we finished welcoming them, we ran into a bunch of townspeople reporting crimes."
"Hey, brothers, this is such a headache!"
At this moment, Gan Xingfan, who has always been generous, also became depressed because of the complicated affairs.
Just as the three were thinking about how to help Gan Xingfan, he seemed to remember something, sent the remaining officials to the gate of the yamen, and then told the three what he should have said last night.
"Brothers, I, Gan, formally invite you to join the Ruihe Town Yamen. Please don't refuse!"
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