vrcanaries Chapter 1827 Looking for Evidence
Chapter 1827 Looking for Evidence
"The emperor is my cousin, and he treats me very well." Chen Changli smiled faintly, "If he treats me badly, I will turn around and leave with my family, so Brother Cui doesn't need to worry about me."
Cui Shi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this: "I want to go to Yongzhou City to find you, just to understand your situation. After all, after the chaos, I heard a lot of news about you."
"I wanted to help you then, but unfortunately I had a lot of things to do, so I delayed my visit to you until now."
"Thank you, Brother Cui, for always remembering me." Chen Changli listened to his sincere words and immediately invited him, "I was thinking about you too, but I had too many things to do after returning to the capital, so I didn't have time to contact you."
"It is fate that we meet again here now. Brother Cui, after this matter is resolved, you can go to Yongzhou City with my husband and wife. My husband and wife will treat you well."
Wan Shufang nodded at the side. Cui Shi looked at the couple's enthusiastic invitation and blushed slightly. "I just wanted to confirm your situation and then continue to travel around. Now that I meet you here, I can be regarded as fulfilling my wish."
Chen Changli wanted to persuade them when he heard this, but Cui Shi changed the subject: "Okay, don't worry about me anymore, and quickly discuss how to deal with the county magistrate. The longer he lives, the more the people will suffer."
With 90% tax and no land left, how can people survive?
"The prices in the county are so high, maybe they are forcing people to sell themselves into slavery." Wan Shufang thought for a moment and quickly guessed this.
She was so angry that she was shaking all over, but her emotions were calm. "Da Yong has only been settled for eight years, and your majesty just restarted the imperial examination this year, so the people who are in office now are likely to be officials before Da Jing."
"These officials are of varying quality, so naturally they will deceive their superiors and deceive their subordinates, but I don't think an ordinary official would do such a big thing without being noticed."
"I suspect there is someone behind him, so we can't just kill him. We have to secretly investigate everything related to him."
"But how do we investigate? This is something that needs to be considered carefully." Wan Shufang thought about it and discussed it with the two of them. Then, she kept quiet on the surface, but secretly disguised herself and went to inquire about the county magistrate.
Two days passed in a flash. Chen Changli noticed that no one came in from outside the county town. He thought about it and ran to find the county magistrate. "Excuse me, sir, how is the investigation in Xingyun Town going? Do you need my help?"
"There are no clues yet. You don't have to worry. I have sent more people to investigate." The county magistrate's tone was perfunctory. He obviously felt that Chen Changli and his wife had stayed in the inn for the past two days and did nothing, so they posed no threat to him, so he did not plan to disguise himself.
Chen Changli carefully observed his expression and saw that his face was still dignified, like an honest man. Suddenly he felt how the saying "don't judge a book by its cover" should be used.
He sighed in his heart, but nodded calmly, "Something is wrong in Xingyun Town. The people must have suffered a lot of injustice. I hope the county magistrate can find out the truth as soon as possible and give justice to those people."
The county magistrate heard this and said seriously: "I am the parent official. I feel bad for the people who are suffering, but this matter is difficult to investigate, so the results will not come out so quickly."
"But don't worry, I will arrange this matter as soon as possible, help the people find out the truth, and give them peace."
His righteous words combined with his honest face made him look like an official who was dedicated to serving the people.
Chen Changli felt that the situation was becoming more and more ironic. He responded calmly and left, secretly asking Cui Shi to keep an eye on him.
"Untouchables are untouchables. Their lives are worthless. They don't need to be saved." The county magistrate watched Chen Changli leave until he could no longer see his figure, then he snorted in annoyance.
The county chief clerk walked in and heard this, and hurriedly flattered: "This man from Yongzhou City is ignorant, but also very easy to deceive. Wait a few days, we can find a few people to be scapegoats, and he will leave naturally."
"Haha, that's true." The county magistrate laughed happily. "Yongzhou City is far away from here. Even if he found something wrong and sent someone to re-investigate, we would have already cleaned up the mess."
After hearing this, the chief clerk continued to flatter him and then asked people to find a few beauties to play and drink with him.
Cui Shi hid in the dark and stared at the absurd behavior of the two men. He really wanted to rush up and kill one of them with a knife.
But considering Chen Changli, he did not act impulsively. Instead, he took note of those beauties who were forcing a smile and searched the yamen.
He found nothing and was very upset, but he showed nothing. He just went back and told Chen Changli and his wife about the private behavior of the county magistrate and the chief clerk.
"He is clearly confident." Wan Shufang stamped her feet in anger. "The court has been promoting new policies and often sends officials to tour the country. They are afraid that officials will fail to implement the new policies and let the people suffer."
"I never expected that under such strict control, there would still be such a cancer as the county magistrate."
"He was able to hide it from the people sent by His Majesty. Obviously, he is very skilled in such things. Maybe he did such evil things when he was in Dajing."
"The people resent Dayong. It is very likely that they have welcomed hope, but they find that the county magistrate has not been exposed and continues to be above their heads, becoming a nightmare they cannot get rid of. They think that Dayong is the same as Dajing and treats them as animals."
The more Wan Shufang spoke, the more she felt that this was the case. She became so angry that her eyes turned red and her teeth seemed to be chattering.
"This cancer cannot live, otherwise the people will despair of Dayong." She said this, thought for a moment and added, "Before we deal with him, we have to tell everyone the truth."
Chen Changli nodded quickly: "Shufang is right, Brother Cui, I'm afraid we two will have to be busy from now on, after all, there is some evidence to be found."
Cui Shi patted his chest and said, "I hate corrupt officials very much. If it were before, I would have mentioned killing people a long time ago. If it weren't for you this time, how could this official be alive today? But I know your concerns, so I will do my best to cooperate with you in finding evidence."
"By the way, I also saw a few beauties around the county. They seemed to be forced. You can ask your wife to contact them. Maybe you can get some information from them."
When Wan Shufang heard this, she immediately inquired about the situation. The next day, she disguised herself as an ordinary woman, disguised the powder as rouge, and went to visit a beauty who was kept outside by the county magistrate.
"Who are you? Why are you looking for me at this time?" When the beauty heard the knock on the door, a trace of fear flashed in the depths of her eyes, but she had to open the door. When she found that it was a stranger, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.