After the update, the capital city became completely quiet.

Even in the prosperous capital, it is difficult to have nightlife after winter comes. Most people stay at home, fall asleep early, and wait for work in the future.

On the official road outside the capital, a carriage pulled by two strong horses was running south. The carriage carriage was not equipped with a roof cover. Six people sat on it, and more than a dozen people ran behind it.

A man in the car shouted loudly to the back: "Everyone work harder and try to get to the place early... The Marquis said that you can do whatever you want tonight, but you must handle the matter before dawn tomorrow and do not leave any trouble!"

A strong man following behind asked panting, "Master Zhang, aren't you fooling us? Are those women all the marquis banned? If you get to the place and you repent temporarily, wouldn't we have a trip in vain?"

The man was called on the carriage and was called Zhang Ju, with a rabbit-headed and deer-headed man, and he looked so naughty... When Zhang Yanling was kidnapped by Chen Xi Design, he was by his side. Now he is specialized in helping the Jianchang Hou Mansion with some shameful activities. After all, he is an old servant of the Zhang family, so Zhang Yanling can feel at ease when using it.

Zhang Ju said: "The Marquis told you in person, why are you lying to you? Who is going too late? Not to mention eating meat, you can't even drink soup!"

"Who, get off, I'll get in the car and rest for a while! You will naturally run faster than us when you ride in the carriage!" After hearing Zhang Ju's words, the runners rushed for a while and felt a little overwhelmed, and some people started to yell.

Zhang Ju cursed and said, "Don't push, except me, there are five places here. You can change it, everyone will go down and run for a while... When you get to the place, you will be arrogant and no one will miss it!"

Not only are the people below full of motivation, but even Zhang Ju was full of expectations. He muttered: "In the past, the Marquis ate meat, and we didn't even have the chance to drink the remaining soup and water. Now we actually want to enjoy it. Although it's just two soups, it's delicious!"

"However, killing people is not easy to survive. At that time, just let these bastards take action, and I will just watch from the side! Anyway, these guys are all desperate people, and they are taken by the Second Marquis, and they are delicious food and drinks for them on weekdays. Now they can finally come in handy."

Zhang Ju was timid and didn't want to get blood on his hands. Especially when he was a little uncomfortable with killing a woman, he could only leave it to the bandits he gathered with Zhang Yanling to handle.

The group left the city from Chongwenmen, and rushed south under the cover of night. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, they soon arrived at a vast farmland. Dozens of houses were connected together, supplemented by a circle of high walls as protection. In the night, they looked like giant beasts lying across.

Sanli River is adjacent to Xiannongtan and Tiantan, and is where the emperor cared for the land and rituals. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the farmland here has been strictly protected.

If history does not change, in more than 40 years, Emperor Jiajing will issue an order to build an outer city. The Sanlihe area will be encircled into the city walls, and soon the farmland will be occupied. Houses will rise up one after another, gradually forming lively markets such as the Jiaoshikou and Caishikou. Later, Emperor Wanli's grandfather, Wuqing Hou, Hou Li Wei, built a garden here, and with the many temples built one after another, it finally became a downtown.

But now it is still full of wilderness. Because the place is not far from the capital, there is a river channel that directly connects to the canal, which makes everything convenient. Zhang Yanling, the Marquis of Jianchang, forcibly bought the surrounding land and then built this large farm... He usually stores all the food, grass and military pay deducted from the Beijing camp here, and also privately hiding some beauties found by informal channels.

Every month, Zhang Yanling would take time to stay here for a few days, claiming to be "hiding from tranquility", but in fact it was just eating, drinking and having fun.

"It's almost here. Those who arrive first drink the soup first, those who arrive late will stand aside!" Zhang Ju looked at the Zhuangzi in the distance and shouted loudly.

"Okay!"

A group of people ran wildly. Now they were not as fast as sitting in the carriage as they were on their legs. Five people in the carriage except Zhang Ju jumped out of the carriage, and rushed to the gate of the farm. They were impatient and started to smash the door, and shouted and scolded: "Dog said, why don't you open the door quickly? The Marquis sent us to do things!"

"Open the door! Open the door!"

In the night, shouts came.

The farm was surrounded by a tall wall, and there were arrow towers at all corners... It was not that Zhang Yanling was afraid of bandits, but that he was worried that someone would come to spy on his bad deeds, because he sent people to plunder the women everywhere. Although these things were finally settled, they were still not so glorious.

The thick iron door blocked the way, but it was broken for a long time but no response.

Zhang Ju finally arrived at this time. He got off the carriage and walked to the door and asked, "What's going on? The door is not open inside?"

"Master Zhang, something is wrong... It's not that the boy inside robbed himself, ate meat and drink soup by himself, and wouldn't give us a chance to get involved, right?"

A big and thick man asked anxiously.

A person next to him echoed: "Yes, yes, Mr. Zhang, it's almost the second day. We finally arrived here. Before we came, I took Dali Pills and prepared to vent my vent... After finishing the matter, I had to deal with the person before dawn, and then find a place to bury it. Time is urgent, how can we delay more in front of this door?"

Zhang Ju said angrily: "What's the hurry? The Marquis just told me to do things, but did not appoint others... The people inside didn't get the letter, so how could they do things randomly? Maybe they were playing Paijiu Ma Dan in a room at this time, or they didn't hear the horse pissing... Keep smashing the door!"

The people below have no choice. It is very difficult to climb over the two-meter-high wall in front of you. If you are not sure what is going on inside, smashing the door is the most convenient.

After a while, there was still no response inside. Zhang Ju felt something was wrong. He raised his nose and sniffed hard, and asked, "What does it smell?"

"Master Zhang, it seems that there is a fire inside!"

A brother pointed at Zhuangzi in the distance and said.

Everyone, including Zhang Ju, subconsciously retreated and retreated for more than ten steps in succession, their vision became wider, and they saw the fire rising from the front.

"It's broken, something happened!"

Zhang Ju changed his color in shock and said nervously, "No, hurry up and find a way to go into the village to put out the fire. This is the largest warehouse in the Marquis' Mansion. You must not make any mistakes!"

The people below were also very anxious and said, "Marty, this mansion is not easy to enter."

"You can go in just by sticking here? Hurry up and find a ladder. If you don't have a ladder, you can climb in. You have done business of killing and robbing people before, but now you are stumped by this high wall?"

Zhang Ju was angry and anxious. After scolding him, he muttered in his heart: "It is natural that everyone will be happy if this matter is done. I will have a reward after I go back, but if it is not done well, the consequences will be unpredictable... The Marquis's bad temper may be punished! Previously, there were servants in the mansion who annoyed the Marquis, and they were even sent to the palace to be cleaned..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Ju felt a chill under his pants.

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A group of people were very skilled and finally found a place where the tree branches stretched out inside the wall. They first built a human wall, and went up from those who had been thieves before, and then used a rope to pull people up one by one.

When these people entered the yard, they found that there was no one inside, and several warehouses caught fire, and several rooms where the women were detained were also caught fire.

"What's going on? It's broken!" Zhang Ju panicked and shouted, "It must be the sons of the turtle accidentally lit the warehouse. Find a way to put out the fire and find someone!"

A bunch of people were trying to put out the fire while looking for the people guarding the manor.

But in the middle of winter, the sky is dry and the fire cannot be controlled together. The thunder bar sounded, and soon the fire became one, and the sky was red... But what is incomprehensible is that no one who guarded the manor before found it.

"Master Zhang, the situation is wrong. There is no one in the village. Everyone's house is empty... Isn't it a thief?" The subordinate who had been a thief checked the situation in the yard as quickly as possible, and came back with a dirty face blackened by fireworks.

Zhang Ju beat his chest and stamped his feet: "Impossible, absolutely impossible! There are more than a dozen brothers guarding the wealth here, plus the old mothers who came to cook and wash clothes before, and the women they caught... How could it disappear at the same time? Are there any traces of fighting? "

"No!" the thief shook his head.

"It's true! The place is clean everywhere, and it doesn't look like someone has ever come in outside, but it seems to have disappeared out of thin air!" Another subordinate happened to come and report it and agree.

Zhang Ju said anxiously: "This is rare. How can a person disappear for no reason? Go to the warehouse with a smaller fire and see if the goods inside can be saved?"

"There's no other way. The fire is so big, how can I save it? If I had arrived half an hour earlier, there might be a way, and it would have been burned into pieces now... Cough cough, it's smoky here, Mr. Zhang, why don't we go out and talk?"

Zhang Ju was full of doubts, but the yard was smoky and harsh, and the environment was harsh, and it was difficult to breathe. Moreover, the fire was spreading here, so he had to take people to evacuate.

When they came in, the people were still neat, and when they went out, they were in chaos. After about half an hour, the people left one after another.

"Ouch!"

A group of people fell to the ground, covered in dust, and their spirits disappeared when they came. Everyone felt like they were lost and didn't know what to do.

Zhang Ju looked at the burning sky ahead and was furious: "Get up and go find someone quickly! You have to see people alive and see corpses when you die. Could it be that if the person is missing, then you will ignore them? Someone must be making trouble!"

A middle-aged man with a sharp-mouthed monkey cheek said, "I think it's the trick of the turtle grandsons who are guarding here. Maybe they'll have all the money and goods... Damn, I thought I could come to have a drink of soup tonight, but it turned out that these guys not only had both people and money, but also set a fire before leaving to destroy the evidence of crime, which made us lose our noses... Humph, don't let me run into them!"

Another person said: "Master Zhang, why are we going to have a good life now?"

"What else can I do? Find someone first, I really can't find it!"

Although Zhang Ju was panicked, he knew that it would definitely not work to report back to Zhang Yanling like this. As soon as the other end said he wanted to kill someone to silence the evidence, the person here disappeared, and there must be hidden information.

Zhang Ju could only try it out and continued to look for clues around the manor.

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At the same time, Chen Xi sat in the high hall in Daxing County, the capital.

At this time, what he knelt in front of him was most of the people from the magistrate of Daxing County to the lower Yacha, and the men and horses around Chen Xi were the personal soldiers led by Wang Ling.

The magistrate Fu Tongkuan looked at Chen Xi and said righteously: "Mr. Shen, even if you are the Minister of War, you are not qualified to lead troops to the local county government office late at night. No matter how you say it is, it is the place where the emperor is at the feet of the emperor!"

Chen Xi held a sign that symbolized the power of the government and said coldly: "I am ordered by the emperor to investigate the crimes of corruption, abuse of power, and robbery of civilian women, killing and robbing people... Why, do you suspect that my official is usurping?"

"Don't dare."

Fu Tongkuan raised his head and replied sternly, "Who is the lord whom you want to investigate, the subordinates will definitely cooperate, but the lord wants to find the right yamen. What is the connection between the foreign relatives' case and our Daxing County yamen?"

Wang Lingzhi said angrily: "Why is it okay? The people who were captured by the two uncles are just detained by you?"

Fu Tongkuan was finally a little nervous, his face pale, and he tried his best to distinguish himself: "The criminal will only be detained here after he is convicted... The matter may involve Shuntian Prefecture, and the lower officials are not very clear about this. Lord Shen should ask the Shuntian Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture, instead of making things difficult for the lower officials!"

Chen Xi sneered: "The person is imprisoned by you, but you asked me to find the prefect of Shuntian... Could it be that you can kill someone to silence me when I leave?"

Fu Tongkuan was a little panicked and shook his head repeatedly: "I don't know what Lord Shen said."

Chen Xi shouted loudly: "Bring the good people who were framed by Jianchang Hou to the court!"

"yes!"

Ma Jiu responded, and then took people to send the people detained in the yamen cell to the hall... Chen Xi had already sent a meticulous worker to the county government office, and knew the situation here clearly. Before the action, Ma Jiu received specific instructions and took people there without much effort.

There were about 70 or 80 people involved in the case of foreign relatives. When these people arrived in the court, they were frightened to death when they saw the soldiers inside and outside the court. They knelt down and said they were "unfair".

"You unruly people, you are familiar with each other, have committed the crime of beheading. What are the injustices? If you don't shut up, you will cut off your tongue!" Fu Tongkuan threatened.

Chen Xi looked at Fu Tongkuan coldly and asked, "Magistrate Fu, are you trying to suppress others with power? Haha, I didn't expect that you will still show your authority when you reach this point! Come on, take Fu's cap, remove the official robe, and wait for me to ask for a crime!"

When Chen Xi arrived at Daxing County, he did not reason with Fu Tongkuan at all. He even had to step down Fu Tongkuan without conviction.

Fu Tongkuan shouted, "Mr. Shen, even if you have a high position and a powerful position, you cannot be so hasty in order to get your official position... This is the sixth-rank magistrate..."

Chen Xi slapped the arbor: "I have never liked to listen to people's long-term comments. Since you are found guilty, you will deprive your official position first. If you are dissatisfied, you can submit a memorial to the court for complaints... If you say more today, don't blame me for ignoring decency and directly punishing me!"

Chen Xi's strength is not to give a warning to Fu Tongkuan, nor to watch the soldiers he brought to him, but to let the unjustly wronged people who were escorted to the court see it. I have the ability to suppress a county magistrate. You can definitely make a mistake when you ask me for grievances.

Fu Tongkuan's official hat. After being forcibly removed by the soldiers, he stopped talking and looked as if he wanted to cause trouble for Chen Xi afterwards.

Chen Xi said to the "criminals" kneeling on the ground: "I was appointed by the court to investigate the case. I know you have wronged. Just tell me. If you don't take advantage of this today, there will be only a dead end... Do you know what to do?"

Chen Xi did not immediately reveal his identity as an imperial envoy.
To be continued...