The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 505 506 Mine

Zhaocai came out of Chengjia Village, and he was not in a hurry to go back to the city. He continued to walk forward with a basket. After a circle in a small village, he took an ox cart back to the city. He found a few restaurants in the city and sold them. After dropping the eggs, he still earned more than fifty cents, and happily walked to the small courtyard with the money.

  Before the city gate was closed, a few carriages came out of Chengjia Village and went directly into the city to the Chengjia mansion.

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Zhou Jia waited in the small courtyard until Ding Yi came back, and went to a teahouse called Biyuanchun with Ding Yi. After entering the teahouse, he went to the courtyard behind the teahouse. A middle-aged man in his thirties was waiting there. .

   The middle-aged man smiled and bowed and said, "The treasurer of the Sihai Qianzhuang in Yuezhou, Chu Shan has seen Lord Zhou."

   Zhou Jia returned the gift with a smile, "Treasurer Chu is polite, I'm sorry to trouble the shopkeeper Chu."

   After the two sat down, Ding Yi went to the door to guard.

  Chu Shan smiled and said, "Your Majesty ordered us to fully cooperate with you and protect your safety. The grocery store next to the inn where you live is ours, so you can live with peace of mind."

   "Thank you!" After Zhou Jia bowed his hands and saluted, he looked at Chu Shan and asked, "Manager Chu, how is the situation in Yuezhou?"

Chu Shan took out a file and handed it to Zhou Jia, "Feng Qing, the prefect, and the head of the Cheng family are very close, and Tong Zhi is Feng Qing's answer. The prefect's yamen only sent Wu Hualin down from top to bottom. Your Majesty."

Chu Shan paused for a moment and continued: "The secret guard found out that the Cheng family has been recruiting many young people in the past few years. I have asked people to check all the Zhuangzi of the Cheng family. I didn't find out where those people were sent, and I doubt if they opened an iron mine."

   "Iron mine opened," Zhou Jia stood up in shock at Chu Shan's guess, "Have you checked where there are iron mines in Yuezhou?"

Chu Shan took out a map from his pocket, pointed to it and said, "It's about ten days away from Yuezhou Prefecture. There is iron ore in Qingyuefeng Mountain in Qingyue County. At the beginning of the month, I sent the dark guard to check, and the dark guard found no abnormality in the original mining place.

   When he came back, he encountered heavy rain and hid in a cave. Inside, he found a corpse. From the bones, he looked tall and there were arrows left in his calf bone. I have sent the news back to Kyoto. "

   Zhou Jia looked at the map and saw that the Qingyue Peak generation was a continuous mountain forest. If Feng Zhifu really colluded with the Cheng family to open an iron mine privately, would he need to find other evidence? Just like this, the Cheng family and Feng Zhifu can be sent into exile.

   "There must be something wrong with the iron ore in Qingyue Mountain. They must be hiding in a quite hidden place to dig iron ore, or else where would the Cheng family have the confidence to steal the eldest prince,

  Since they are recruiting young and strong men and sending two sharp-eyed dark guards, what do you think? "

  Chu Shan nodded, "I also plan to use this method. Yuezhou is short of manpower, and the manpower here has their own things to do. I have already passed the news that the chief executive will send someone over."

"The big shopkeeper went to Liangzhou, and I'm afraid it will take half a year to come and go," Zhou Jia glanced at Ding Yi, "Ding Yi and Hu Jin are new faces, I think it is better to let them go to Qingyue County, and shopkeeper Chu Send someone to follow Ding Yi, if everything goes well, they should be able to find out where the Cheng family is mining the ore."

  Chu Shan hesitated for a while, then glanced at Ding Yi who was guarding the door, "Their mission is to protect you, so I'm afraid..."

   Zhou Jia waved his hands and said, "My two stewards still have a little work, and I can ask the people in the grocery store to protect me. It's decided in a hurry."

  Chu Shan had no choice but to nod, Zhou Jia said to Ding Yi, "Guardian Ding, you heard what you said just now, please go to Qingyue County with Hu Cheng to investigate Qingyue Mountain."

   "Yes." Ding Yi responded briefly.

Chu Shan said to him: "I'll check it out first, prepare a new road guide for them, and deliver it to the grocery store next door. After you arrive in Qingyue County, go to the Qingyue Inn in the town. If you are looking for work, someone will come to you, and if they take the bait, I will let someone secretly follow you."

   "Yes." Ding Yi responded briefly, and Zhou Jia took Ding Yi to leave and returned to the small courtyard.

  Zhao Cai told a few people about his discovery in Chengjia Village, "Master, the guards are heavily guarded there. I took the burden and left there, and some people followed me secretly until I left Chengjia Village, and they stopped following me."

Zhou Jia said: "It seems that the eldest prince really lives in Chengjia Village, and he lives in those houses, most likely the third one. If we can find proof that the Cheng family and Feng Zhifu privately opened iron mines, other The evidence of the crime is insignificant, only Ding Yi has seen the eldest prince here, and Ding guard and Zhaocai out of the city are also invited to investigate."

  Ding nodded in response, and said to Lucky: "Let's go after we leave the city.

  When you waited, Hu Cheng went to the grocery store next door to retrieve the guide for the two of them. Ding Yi did not like to talk, and he was a mute. He returned to Qingyue County to seek relatives.

  Zhao Cai and Ding Yi changed into coarse black and gray clothes. Ding Yi carried a bag with Hu Cheng and Zhao Cai, and the three went out one after another to the east gate.

   After leaving the city, Hu Cheng carried his luggage and continued to walk forward. Ding Yi and Zhao Cai stayed in the woods outside the city until midnight before they came out of the woods.

  Ding Yi took out a packet of medicinal powder from the basket, sprinkled some on himself, handed it to Lucky, and said, "Dogs don't bark when they smell."

   Lucky took over and sprinkled them on them, and the two hurried towards Chengjia Village.

  Zhao Cai took Ding Yi to the house not far from the row, Ding Yi motioned him to stay here to meet him, and disappeared like a ghost.

  As soon as Ding arrived outside the first house, he jumped up on the wall, tiptoed a little, then went to the courtyard, approached the house like a ghost, stood outside and listened for a while, then turned around and left the courtyard.

   When we got to the third building, there was still nothing suspicious, not even a guard appeared, and after checking those houses, nothing was found.

   As soon as Ding returned to the place where he was waiting for the lucky draw, the two disappeared into the night.

   After leaving Chengjia Village, Ding said to the lucky pair, "There is no guard there, and there is no guard."

   Zhaocai nodded, "Maybe my appearance will startle the snake, will you go directly to Qingyue County?"

  Ding Yi rushed to Zhaocai and hugged his fists to say goodbye, and the two parted ways.

   The next day, Zhaocai returned to the small courtyard and told Zhou Jia the results of the investigation. The three of them all sighed at the vigilance of the eldest prince.

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  Ding Yi and Hu Cheng went to Qingyue County before and after, and went to Qingyue Inn to stay. They both lived in the same room, and Hu Cheng became brothers and sisters with the black-faced man who lived with him in less than an hour.

A few people stayed in the inn for one night, and early the next morning, the black-faced man looked at Ding Yi who was sitting there blankly, and stabbed Hu Cheng, "Brother Niu, why didn't that little brother say a word? "

  Hu Cheng shook his head and walked to Ding Yi, "Where did the little brother come from?"

  Ding glanced at him, handed Lu Yin to Hu Cheng, and lowered his head.

  Hu Cheng took the road guide and smiled at himself, "It recognizes me, but I don't recognize it."

   "Show me, I can still recognize two words." The black-faced man stretched out his hand and took the guide from Hu Cheng's hand, "Alas! This little brother turns out to be a mute!"

   (end of this chapter)