She had heard gossip about the jailers during the day.
The county magistrate's wife stayed at home to take care of her parents-in-law, while the county magistrate took office alone.
After only a month, he took in two concubines, one of whom was the sister of Zhang Chang, the county magistrate.
Because she was good at acting coquettishly and coaxing people, she made the county magistrate call her her sweetheart, and suppressed the other concubine so that she could not get ahead. She herself acted like the hostess in the backyard of the county government office.
He coaxed the county magistrate into arranging his own brother to work in the yamen, thus sidelining the original county lieutenant.
Normally, Zhang Chang was idle and spent his days wandering around the streets with a group of yamen runners collecting "hardship fees".
This time, because there was a lot of money to be made from the house confiscation, we went to Lianhua Village.
As soon as he was carried back to the county government office today, someone reported him to his concubine, who is now in the backyard of the county government office.
After the mental power covered the entire county government office, it quickly locked onto Zhang Chang's position.
At this moment, he was standing in the study, and a slightly fat middle-aged man was scolding him.
"For your sister's sake, I specifically gave you this lucrative job. Now that the things are gone, you still want to bring people to the prison to cause trouble? Don't you think this place is chaotic enough?"
Zhang Chang's voice was weak, and it looked like his injuries had not yet healed. After hearing the county magistrate's words, he spoke in a flattering manner:
"Brother-in-law! The people of the Ji family have all become prisoners now. They knew our relationship and yet they dared to treat me so harshly. This shows that they don't even take you seriously! I must help you regain your face!"
Anger flashed in the county magistrate's eyes. "Idiot! You can't even tell priorities. Can't we deal with those untouchables anytime soon? The most urgent task now is to find those confiscated gold, silver, calligraphy and paintings! The day after tomorrow I'm going to see my superiors with this year's tax grain. Now these tributes are gone, what am I going to hand in?!"
Zhang Chang curled his lips and said, "I usually give you most of the money I collect. If you really can't find it, why don't you take out the money from your private room and use it first? I can find a way to make up for it later."
The county magistrate's small eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at Zhang Chang fiercely: "Do you think being an official is easy? There's no place like that that doesn't require bribery. Where would I get the money?"
Zhang Chang's eyes flickered. "We've been looking for it all day, and my brothers have interrogated it several times. It really disappeared suddenly, which is a bit strange... In my opinion, I'm afraid we can't find it anymore. How about-"
"Just say that the Ji family hid the item. We'll have the jailers torture them and say they'd rather die than reveal the item's location. The day after tomorrow, in front of everyone, the Ji family will be exiled, wounded and covered in wounds. When the news reaches the prefect, he'll probably believe it. Then you can show some appreciation, even if it means taking less. How do you do that?"
Ji Changying sneered when he heard this.
These two people are really in cahoots with each other, neither of them is a good person!
Even if she hadn't taken action yesterday, Zhang Chang would probably have been responsible for the deaths of members of the Ji family.
"How could so many things disappear out of thin air? Someone must have lied. The things are definitely still there. Find them for me!"
The county magistrate walked out without saying whether this idea was feasible or not.
Zhang Chang smiled knowingly, which was his tacit agreement.
Ji Changying went straight to the study.
She has found the county magistrate's private property.
She slipped in while Zhang Chang was following her out.
After waiting for a while and feeling that the people outside had gone far away, she prepared to take out the things inside.
She twisted a bottle on the antique shelf, revealing a brick under the floor with a small box inside. Just as she reached in, she noticed the county magistrate hurried back.
Ji Changying restored everything, and then stood in the study openly to see what he was going to do.
The county magistrate came back in a hurry and went straight to the secret compartment as soon as he entered the door.
He opened it and checked the banknotes and account books inside. He breathed a sigh of relief and sat down in the chair with a relaxed expression.
Just now, when Zhang Chang mentioned his private property, he was frightened and felt a little uneasy.
Only then did he send the person back for inspection.
Seeing that the things were still there, he put them back, locked the door and left.
As soon as she left, Ji Changying collected all the things. The lock was like nothing. She controlled her mental power and exerted a little force, and the lock fell off. She went out and locked it again.
Then he walked without stopping and cleaned out the houses of the two concubines and the county government's warehouse.
Then we arrived at the granary.
With a wave of her hand, she took away the newly collected tax grain this year and left behind the old grain.
Escort tax grain to see the superiors?
Haha, now that you have no money and food, let me see how you bribe your superiors to keep your official position!
After taking all the money from Zhang Chang's room, she threw the purse onto the antique shelf in the study.
Wait and see the two of them fight each other.
Before returning to the cell, she slipped into the space.
Apart from the piles of things that had just been collected, the rest of the place was full of greenery.
The entire space is divided into two by a small river one meter wide and calf-deep.
This side is well-maintained by Ji Changying, with different types of fruits, vegetables, precious flowers, crops, landscape trees, etc. separated by fences.
The chicken coop on the other side was empty and the fish in the river were long gone.
When she first got this space, the end of the world had not yet happened, and she was still a poor student who had just started college and relied on the financial support of kind people.
The money I had was only enough to buy a lot of vegetable seeds that cost a few dollars a bag.
After making money by growing off-season vegetables in the space, I started planting ornamental trees and precious flowers after I had the capital.
A tree or a pot of flowers can be sold for thousands to millions of dollars. Only when you make money can you have the capital to stock up.
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