The Maid's Strategy in the Red Chamber

Want to eat prison food?

Hearing the man's question, Zhu Mei sneered: "Don't ask questions that shouldn't be asked, and do your job well."

The little boy, full of tenderness, was instantly smashed into snowflake-shaped fragments by her cold response. He couldn't even pick it up, and he drooped his head in silence.

Seeing this, Xueyan shook her head amusedly.She was still thinking about what happened just now, and she was not in the mood to pick and choose carefully, she just pointed to a few similar jewelry and let it go.

After hastily paying the bill, after returning to the mansion, Xue Yan said to Lin Ming: "The thieves you met that day probably have a lot of background."

Lin Ming nodded: "I know this. Uncle has been suppressing the bandits in Qingshan County for so long and there is no movement. There may be some officials behind him. It's nothing more than some collusion between officials and bandits."

"I'm afraid it's not just an ordinary collusion between officials and bandits." Xueyan said, untied the purse from her waist and handed it to him: "Look, what's in it?"

Lin Ming opened his purse and saw what was inside, frowning: "Why is there such broken gold?" He stretched out his hand and squeezed it: "There is sand here, where did you get it?"

Seeing that he hadn't reacted yet, Xueyan said angrily: "This is gold sand!" Then he said: "These gold sands were made from the room at the end. I suspect that group of people may be guarding a gold mine."

"What?" Lin Ming was very surprised. He asked, "Why do you think so? Gold mines are not ordinary things. Who can hide it from the government?"

Xueyan sneered: "It's not easy to hide from the local officials, but it's not so difficult to hide from the imperial court!"

"You mean that the county magistrate of Qingshan colluded with the bandits to mine gold mines privately?" Lin Ming was surprised from ear to ear.

Xueyan looked around, fortunately they found a secluded place just now, and there were no other people around.Xueyan still pushed him angrily: "Keep your voice down, these are just my guesses now, but I think they are about [-]% accurate, aren't they? Why don't you check it out?"

Lin Ming thought for a while, and said, "This matter is no small matter, if it's true, it's fine. If it's wrong, it's not right to report it to Uncle casually."

Xueyan pondered for a while, and said: "That's true, it's not good to talk big without evidence, or you should investigate secretly in private first?"

Lin Ming held the purse in his hand and said, "Leave this matter to me, don't worry about it."

After finishing speaking, he took his purse and hurried away.

Seeing his back going away, Xueyan stomped angrily: "Cross the river and tear down the bridge, see if I can help you in the future!"

Lin Ming went to look for Liu Xianglian in private. Originally, he wanted to ask him to go with him to investigate, but Liu Xianglian said, "I'd better go alone. It's not convenient for you to have injuries."

"How can this be done? It's too dangerous for you to go by yourself." Lin Ming was a little worried.

Liu Xianglian said firmly: "I have wandered outside many times before, and I have experience, but if I inquire about the news, I will keep it so that they will not be alarmed. With you following, I will miss you instead, which is even worse."

Thinking that he really didn't have much martial arts skills, and if he really followed, he might be slowed down, Lin Ming said: "Well, this matter is very important, please take care of it, Second Brother."

"Don't worry, it's not too late, I'll leave immediately." Liu Xianglian packed her things and set off immediately.

Xueyan went back to the courtyard with a lot of worries, Zhu Mei was talking to Daiyu, seeing her back, Zhu Mei smiled and said: "Sister came back just in time, I didn't see you coming back, the girl kept questioning me, for fear that I would Sold my sister."

Daiyu has always been careful, and Xueyan was afraid that she would be so worried that she would not be able to sleep after knowing this, so she hurriedly found other excuses to get past it.Afterwards, she found Zhu Mei: "You didn't talk nonsense about today's matter in front of the girl, did you?"

Zhu Mei shook her head: "I'm at a loss, how dare I go to Hu Qin with the girl, but I saw Master Ming's face was very bad at that time, what are those people doing?"

Xueyan pursed her lips and said: "This matter is of great importance, you should not ask. I will tell you when the truth comes out some other day. Alright, if you have nothing to do, go back and rest early. Remember that today's affairs should not be messed up. explain."

Zhu Mei curled her lips: "Thanks to my help at that time, sister, you are really killing a donkey, hum, I will never be with you again." After finishing speaking, she left in a huff.

Seeing her arrogant little back, Xueyan couldn't help laughing.

In the author's eyes, these two people, one crossing the river to demolish bridges and the other unloading mills and killing donkeys, are simply a match made in heaven, and they couldn't be more compatible...

Ever since Liu Xianglian left, Lin Ming was very concerned. He didn't dare to tell others, and he wanted to cover it up in front of Liu Shi and the others. Two big blisters formed on his anxious tongue, and he couldn't even eat. .

Fortunately, two days later, Liu Xianglian came back in a hurry, and brought back a definite news: there is indeed a gold mine in Qingshan County, which is only a dozen miles away from the place where it was robbed last time.

Liu Xianglian took a sip of the tea that Lin Ming handed over to her, and she breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I was a little surprised that the road we walked last time was a mountain road, but it was fairly flat, so there were not many people walking this time. I deliberately went to inquire about this first. Everyone said that there were a lot of people walking on that road, and there were no thieves who robbed goods before. Since two or three years ago, a group of thieves suddenly appeared there. Traders and merchants were not spared. The lucky ones just lost some belongings, and the unlucky ones lost all their money and money, and in the end they couldn't even find their bones. Later, no one walked that road."

"No wonder, when we were going to leave there last time, the guide was a little hesitant at first, but then he probably felt that we were too many people.

There are ruthless stops.It seems that these people deliberately made that place so that no one dared to leave, so that it would not be easy for people to find out that they were mining nearby. " Lin Ming said firmly.

The two of them knew that this matter was not a joke, and Liu Xianglian didn't care about resting for a while, so she and Lin Ming went to report the matter to Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai had already guessed that there was a problem in Qingshan County, but he hadn't moved away to deal with it recently. He was also very surprised when he heard the news: "Long Lang Qiankun, someone dares to do such a thing, this is Are you ready to rebel?"

He hastily summoned his staff and confidantes to discuss the matter, and then made multiple arrangements overnight.

Early the next morning, Jia Lian, Lin Ming and the others took a large group of people to Qingshan County, and went straight to the Qingshan County Government.

The guards in the county yamen had heard such a big momentum a long time ago, and two of the gatekeepers stepped forward and pointed at them and said, "Who are you? Want to eat prison food?"