The Chief Secretary kept flipping through the book: "If there is really no other way, we can only report it truthfully."
After his outburst, the governor calmed down: "Search! Keep searching! I don't believe there's no cure!"
We have already encountered a flood this year. If the grain production in Tongzhou decreases again, the emperor will probably be so angry that he will die.
In the current situation, if the emperor falls, the consequences are terrifying to think about.
The governor quickly shook his head and perked up to continue reading.
"Report! Lord Sima has apprehended three murderers in a small courtyard in East City."
As soon as the guard entered the room, he lowered his head and reported the news from below to the governor.
Now was a time of great annoyance. Upon hearing this news, the governor waved his hand impatiently and said, "Imprison him first and we'll try him later when we have time."
"But... Sima said that their identities are a bit unusual, so I'd like to ask the adults to make a decision."
These words made all the people who were buried in their books raise their heads.
"Unusual identity? How extraordinary? Could it be that some noble came to our Tongzhou City to commit murder?"
How could a small guard know the specific details? The governor looked at him, sighed, and threw the book in his hand onto the table: "Forget it, you ask Sima to bring the person here!"
"yes!"
The subordinate took the order and left. Soon Sima came with his men.
The three people in the middle were walking side by side, each one more leisurely than the other.
Xie Siheng had one hand behind his back and the other in front of him, with an upright posture, looking like he was strolling in a garden.
Ji Changying and Huang Lao looked straight ahead, calmly and steadily as if they were just passing by.
Sima and his men were following behind him, feeling nervous and showing it on their faces. They walked behind the three men like guards without noticing anything.
The governor only took a glance at Sima's behavior and couldn't help but glare at him: "Are those the three who committed the crime?"
Sima didn't see the governor's look, so he quickly stepped forward and bowed, answering, "Yes, sir! There were ten other men in black, highly skilled in martial arts, fighting with them, but they were no match for them and all died at their hands."
He waved his hand to let the people carrying the corpse come over and put the body at the door of the meeting room.
A group of adults frowned when they saw this and quickly put the books in their hands aside, for fear of getting them stained with blood.
Ji Changying moved closer and saw that they were reading some books about agronomy. He couldn't help but look at this group of people with admiration.
These adults are still reading books late at night, they are really hardworking!
"After inspection, we found these people had no identifying marks on them, but the material they were wearing was unusual. They were highly skilled, had calluses on their hands, and showed signs of training all over their bodies. They were armed with uniform swords, and had poison hidden in their teeth. We can conclude that these people are not ordinary people. They seem to be... like assassins raised by the nobility."
The governor frowned.
It even involves the assassins?
His eyes lingered on the three of them, and when he saw Ji Changying's black hood, his brows furrowed fiercely. "You're such a coward! Someone, take that thing off her head!"
Ji Changying didn't expect why he suddenly disliked her.
At first she just didn't want the assassin to remember her face, and later she simply forgot to take it.
Xie Siheng stretched out his hand to block it: "Those people are coming for me. My friend is afraid that those people will remember her face and bring trouble to her family, so she is covering it up. If you have any questions, you might as well tell me directly. I think her appearance has nothing to do with the case."
The governor then took a serious look at him, and was shocked by just one look!
"Crown Prince Xuanping?!"
As a third-rank governor of Shangzhou, Xin Zhongyuan had participated in palace banquets and had the honor of seeing the eldest princess's beloved son.
As an old hand in the officialdom, those princes and nobles would definitely remember it clearly once they saw him.
Otherwise, we might meet without knowing each other, which is a big taboo in officialdom!
But unexpectedly, he actually saw a living one in Tongzhou!
When Sima heard the governor admit it himself, he was startled and looked at Xie Siheng.
He actually guessed it right!
Several people around the governor all came over, and all looked at Xie Siheng with their eyes.
"Wait! Do you have any identification?"
When Xin Zhongyuan saw the ugly wound on half of Xie Siheng's face, his mind quickly calmed down.
Mr. Huang was very proud when he saw someone recognized Xie Siheng.
He spontaneously found a chair and sat down. "I didn't expect you, an official, to have such good judgment. I was afraid I'd run into someone who didn't know the value of it! Now that you've recognized it, it's much easier! Boy, quickly take out your fish token and let these gentlemen take a look."
Xie Siheng clenched his fists and said coldly, "The fish talisman is lost."
Before Mr. Huang could even sit still, he jumped up from his chair: "The fish talisman is lost?!"
Xie Siheng’s thoughts went back to the day of the accident.
On the night the incident happened, he was not on guard against Marquis Xuanping at all.
After drinking the bowl of drugged tea handed to him by Marquis Xuanping himself, he became weak all over, but was conscious.
He watched clearly as his father took away everything on him that could prove his identity.
I pinched my mother's mouth and poured bowl after bowl of liquid into her mouth, and then she started vomiting blood.
Then the man swung the butcher knife at him again. The scar on his face from behind his ear to his mouth was the masterpiece of Marquis Xuanping.
At that moment, he looked at the happy smile on Xuanping Hou's face and found that he seemed to have never seen him clearly.
"If you don't have the fish token, anything else will do. I heard the prince is the emperor's personal guard, so he must have a waist badge, right?"
"No!"
The governor's face showed embarrassment.
Sima hurried forward and whispered, "Huang Xing said he saw with his own eyes a Gaker Falcon beside him."
Xie Siheng could hear it, and he said expressionlessly: "Not here at the moment."
The governor glared at Sima, feeling very embarrassed. "Since we can't confirm the identity, how about you all go to the prison to rest for a while? Once we finish the things at hand, we will immediately try this case."
"Don't worry, everyone. I will definitely prepare the cleanest and most comfortable cells for you!"
The governor is in a very urgent situation now!
He just wanted to get rid of the person and quickly write a letter to say something.
If he really is the prince, then he has already informed his superiors about what happened to him here.
If he is not the prince, then someone who looks so similar to the prince cannot be allowed to run around freely!
"Is this the pest problem you want to solve?"
Ji Changying didn't know when she was holding an adult's records and reading them.
"What? Do you have any good ideas?" Changshi raised his eyebrows and asked.
"I don't have any good ideas, but I do have a few solutions. According to what you've written above, if we take effective measures now, we might only need to reduce production by 10%. However, if things continue like this, we'll have to reduce production by 30%, or even 50%."
Ji Changying returned the paper to them.
If it were anything else, it would be fine, but it had to be farming.
Ji Changying himself has grown crops and suffered hardships, so why can't he lend a helping hand to those ordinary people who depend on the weather for their livelihood?
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