Stop acting, Your Majesty, the queen knows you're faking it

Chapter 553
The night fell, and the dark darkness swallowed up the only glimmer of light left in the sky

Xin Yi just woke up with a trace of confusion and patted himself on the head, and couldn't help asking the girl who had already cleaned up the house a question that had been buried in his heart for a long time: "Girl, what is going on right now?"

Originally, they came to Pingxing to suppress bandits.

But this matter, which sounds simple and rough, has completely changed in the past few days of investigation.

The various decisions made by the girl are becoming more and more incomprehensible.

"The current situation, to put it simply, is that the prefect of Pingxing is being controlled by water bandits, and we have to find a way to get him out of trouble." Chi Xinian said lightly.

"How about making it more complicated?" Xinyi asked while tidying herself up.

Chi Xinian glanced at her: "To make it more complicated, we have to talk about why the water bandits want to control the magistrate, and after they control the magistrate, how do they plan to deal with the court.

"Prefect Xu is an official who can do things. We have confirmed this from the very beginning. In this flood, except for concealing the water bandits from the court, he did something wrong. He did everything else well enough.

"And our subsequent investigation also proved that the reason why he concealed the existence of the water bandits from the imperial court was probably because he was being targeted by others and had to do stupid things as a last resort.

"And we are also sure that the person who is eyeing him is in the Pingxing Yamen, by his side, so even if he met me and the little prince of the Zhu family, he would not dare to tell the truth."

"That's why the girl plans to go to see the prefect Xu alone late at night, to see if the prefect Xu can tell some useful news when he is free from surveillance?" Xin Yi nodded with a half understanding.

"Not bad." Chi Xinian nodded slightly.

After a short pause, she continued: "But this is only one aspect.

"I have been thinking about a question since I realized that Prefect Xu is being watched so closely.

"How can a few water bandits in the district have the ability to infiltrate the court and keep Xu Ruxuan, a fourth-rank magistrate, under strict surveillance? If they don't have this ability, they can only help someone who has this ability.

"Who has this ability? Undoubtedly someone who has deep roots in the court and holds great power.

"Xue Qin, who had something wrong before, is one of them.

"And if this is the case, the purpose of the other party must not be to rob some money and materials, so that some ordinary people who cannot be more ordinary will lose the homes they rely on for survival.

"From the fact that the prefect Xu stopped me several times from leading the army to suppress the bandits, and hinted that I should not always focus on the bandits and pay more attention to other things, it can also be confirmed from the side that the trouble caused by the water bandits is not the point at all. "

"But if the disaster caused by the flood is not the point, then what is?" Xinyi couldn't help interjecting.

Pingxing floods, everything revolves around these four words.

If the flood itself is not the point, what is the point?

"That's what I want to know too." Because when he discussed this matter with Yan Chujing before, he had some guesses, and at this moment, Chi Xinian's thoughts couldn't help but wander to those guesses.

Perhaps, the other party made such a big commotion, really just to divert the emperor's attention?
She pushed the time silently in her heart, and murmured: "Under the normal situation, before the imperial envoy came to Pingxing, the capital would not know that the flood in Pingxing was related to the Minjiang water bandits.

"Because the prefect Xu has been keeping this matter a secret, and the water bandits didn't plunder again when the imperial envoy stepped into the territory where he was mixed up."

(End of this chapter)