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Chapter 390 Chapter 389: The Thief in the Sheriff’s Mansion
Back in the room, An Xin lit a candle and took out several account books and a box that he heard were hidden from the study room of the magistrate's mansion, hidden behind a landscape painting, and a box containing a hundred taels of silver. ticket.

An Xin sat at the table, poured a cup of herbal tea and drank it, stroking her chin and thinking. After that, she went to the study room of the Sheriff's Mansion.

Based on her experience of being a petty thief many times, except for a secret cabinet behind the landscape paintings, there is really no place to hide treasures in the study room of the Sheriff's Mansion.

It's just a very ordinary official's study room.

After coming out of the study, An Xin also took a tour around the county governor's mansion. Apart from the accounting room in the mansion, which had money for normal expenses, An Xin really couldn't find his belongings anywhere else.

Ordinarily, if a county governor does not say that his family is rich in gold and silver, it is impossible that he only has about 1 taels of silver in his family.

If that was the case, An Xin would give the two sleeves of Qingfeng to the county guard.

It's a pity that it's not, because every year the people sent out by the county governor's office will forcibly collect various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes from the people with clever names.

How could the Lingnan County Sheriff be an upright and honest official?

When An Xin opened the account book that the county governor kept privately, he saw that most of the various taxes collected by the county governor's office were pocketed by Prince Liang, and a flash of understanding flashed in his eyes.

In view of the situation in the Sheriff's Mansion, it also verified some of An Xin's guesses.

Next, An Xin counted the days until Leng Xiangbai and Zhu Shijing left with Gongsun Shangshu, and it was almost time for them to come back.

In this way, they can also move here and stir up the stagnant water of Lingnan. I don't believe that by then, the ambitious vassal king Liang Wang will continue to pretend to suppress bandits and cause poor health to deceive the people's hearts for his own use.

Before going to attack the bandits, An Xin went to Hujia Village.

When An Xin brought Jiang Chenxi, Feng Yujue, Liu Huai, Lu Qinlong, and Fang Qingping, who was dressed in neat women's simple casual clothes.

In the dark night, several people rode horses to Village Chief Hu's house. When everyone in the room saw them coming in, they rubbed their hands cautiously and stood up.

When Shan Yushi saw An Xin coming in, he snorted coldly at her, expressing his displeasure that An Xin had thrown him here.

"Mr. Shan, does he have a toothache?!" An Xin smiled and teased, "Aze, Mr. Shan is getting angry. Please let him drink more water these days."

Chen Runze, who followed Shan Yushi to Hujiacun, nodded very seriously and said in a sincere tone: "If Mr. Xiaoshan hadn't discovered that I didn't know that Mr. Shan was angry and had a toothache, I would have gone to his house right away. Make a pot of tea and bring it to him to drink."

Shan Yushi looked at the back of the solid-eyed young boy running out the door, stared at An Xin in annoyance, and said helplessly and angrily: "Isn't there something wrong with you?
After receiving the letter from you, Village Chief Hu has already called all the village chiefs from all directions whom he has interacted with and feels are trustworthy, including Li Zheng, to wait here. "

An Xin also knew that this was not the time to comfort the old man. Besides, Shan Jinzhe was just joking and was not really angry at An Xin for arranging for him to come to Hujiacun to teach the villagers how to build terraces.

Parts of Lingnan have many mountains and little land. If the terraces proposed by An Xin could be built, it would be a major event for the country and the people. How could he be angry about it?

Jiang Chenxi and Feng Yujue were surprised for a moment when they saw Shan Yushi here. They only knew that he had left the village, but they didn't know that he had actually come here.

An Xin was invited by Village Chief Hu to sit down on a bench in the middle of the main room. The wife of the family brought them sugar water in bowls, which was considered the best thing for a farmer to entertain guests.

There are about a dozen counties and villages in a county.

An Xin looked at Village Chief Hu and the leaders of each village in front of him. He contacted each other and thought that the village chief and village chief were more trustworthy. There were more than 30 people here, which was quite a lot.

But whether they are trustworthy or not really has little to do with An Xin and the others.

After all, if they are not strict with their words or some of the people they bring to work are unclear, then they themselves will be the ones who suffer in the end.

An Xin knew that during this period, bandits based in the five peaks were still snatching the newly harvested grain from each village.If her guess was correct, some of the looted food had been ordered by someone to be transported to another group of people who were more in need of food support.

Even if An Xin had the ability to deal with the bandits, the food would still have to be returned to the robbed villagers, just like the day they passed by the robbed Hujia Village.

The freshly harvested grain was still drying in the field. Before it could be taken home and hidden, bandits came to rob it.

Seeing that the food that the whole family had been working for for a year was robbed, more than a dozen people died in the village because of fierce resistance.

There are many villages where this happens. If the food is not returned to them as soon as possible, many people will starve to death this winter.

So An Xin said: "Three days later at night you will secretly take the strong laborers that the village can trust and go to several bandit dens near your village.

When you are here, I will send someone to wait for you at the foot of the mountain.

When the time comes, if you follow us up the mountain, you may be able to bring back some of the food that was robbed by bandits in your village. "

"Is this... is this true?" A middle-aged man squatting in the corner with a sad face asked, excited and unbelievable.

People from other villages also looked at An Xin in shock. Even Village Chief Hu, who didn't know about this beforehand, stared at her expectantly.

"You may not completely believe it if I tell you now whether it is true." An Xin said in a straightforward tone: "Anyway, you will know if it is true when you bring someone with you.

Even if it's not true, there's nothing to lose to you, right? "

All village chiefs, Li Zheng thought, aren't they?

Each of their villages is now so poor that they are almost chewing tree bark. They have no food and no wealth. They are the only ones left who are just a handful of bones. There is really nothing to worry about.

Jiang Chenxi glanced at his teacher, saw her nodded, looked at these people, and said seriously: "But I still remind you, if there is still food left there after we successfully suppress the bandits, you'd better not take it after we bring it back." Make a statement.

Otherwise, if other bandits find out and get robbed again, I'm afraid I won't be so lucky. "

The village chief, who heard this at the main gate, felt excited in his heart.

This situation, which was not taken seriously at first, was now alerted by Jiang Chenxi's reminder.

If it is robbed again, no one may be willing to fight with the bandits again to get it back for them.

After seeing An Xin and the others finished their explanation, they said hello to the old man sitting next to him An Ran and drinking tea, then mounted their horses and disappeared into the hazy night.

So these people all had a dubious attitude, and said goodbye to Village Chief Hu and left here. If An Xin could really take back the food that had been robbed in so many of their villages from the bandits, it would be possible for them to set up a sign for her.

With hope in their hearts, everyone prayed that what An Xin said was true and that they could get back the food that had been robbed in their village.

Especially those villages where the food was completely robbed before it was returned home.

Even if not all, even if they could get back half of the food, they would be satisfied.

Shan Jinzhe squinted his eyes and stood at the door watching An Xin and others hurriedly coming and going. He felt that there was a reason why this person was reused by the emperor.

(End of this chapter)