Tea Merchants of the Song Dynasty

Jiang Yin reacted as soon as he finished asking the question. The high-ranking official that Yan Ge'er was talking about was probably Li Ji, the Supervisory Commissioner.

Although Li Ji is hiding his identity now, he can handle these things through other people.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yin felt relieved. At least, Li Ji's ability to solve cases was unmatched by those in Yazhou.

In addition, Li Ji is actually a selfless person who sticks to justice in his heart and doesn't think too much about it.

Under these circumstances, she believed that the truth of the case of Manager Cao would surely come to light soon.

But after thinking all this through, Jiang Yin was stunned for a moment, then laughed at himself.

In her previous life, Li Ji was unkind to her, but in this life, she placed her hopes on him.

If I hadn't been blind in my previous life, I wouldn't have known what was happening in Yazhou and I wouldn't be in such a passive position now.

In her previous life, she was still staying at home in the city, never leaving the house, living in self-pity.

She shook her head and sighed. Although Manager Cao was missing, the teahouse had to remain open.

Jiang Yin raised his eyes and said to Butler Zhao: "Butler Cao is missing, and the tea doctors are hiding at home. This is not a good thing. Grandpa Zhao, please send a few people from the mansion to help, and send a few guards to guard the house to protect everyone's personal safety.

The tea picking is about to begin. At this important moment, no mistakes can be made. All affairs in Yazhou must also be maintained.”

The Jiang family originally started out as a tea plantation family, and the tea plantation in Yazhou is their foundation.

Therefore, most of the servants in this mansion are family-born children, and they have at least some knowledge of the tea ceremony.

She didn't ask for mastery, only for the basics. As for the complicated tea arts, she could put them aside for the time being.

If she can't even do this well, then the foundation that Jiang's family has built over the years will probably be destroyed in her hands.

"Yes." Butler Zhao said respectfully, "Don't worry, young lady. I will definitely bring people to guard the teahouse in Yazhou City."

Jiang Yin nodded, secretly hoping so.

Although Housekeeper Zhao was only the housekeeper of the Yazhou Mansion, such a big thing happened in Yazhou. Even if she didn't help, she should at least send a message to her.

After all, it takes no more than a day to travel from Yazhou to the provincial capital.

However, so many days had passed since this happened, and she had not received any news from beginning to end.

Now they have found out all this information themselves after coming to Yazhou.

Butler Zhao agreed and took his leave to arrange for the taking over of the teahouse. The others also went their separate ways.

After everyone left, Jiang Yin called out a secret guard and told him to keep an eye on Yazhou's mansion and teahouse, and report any unusual movements in time.

Especially the teahouse, as well as the home and the teahouse's warehouse, must be guarded.

If this year's new tea is not enough, she will have to use tea from previous years to make up for it.

It was late at night, and after arranging all these, Jiang Yin was ready to rest. However, just as he was about to rest, there was movement outside the house again.

She looked tense, worried that it was another assassin. Fortunately, the person who came was not an assassin, but the secret guard she had sent out earlier who came back with a message.

The news came from one of the secret guards, saying that an official from the Mingshan Tea and Horse Bureau had arrived today, claiming to be a distant relative of the Tea Supervisor and would stay for a while.

Although he looks very noble and doesn't seem like a relative of the tea inspector, there is nothing unusual about him at the moment. We have to continue observing him to find out.

Jiang Yin understood that the tea supervisor of the Tea and Horse Bureau was originally the county magistrate, but later the government sent a special person to serve as the tea supervisor.

Mingshan is not far from Yazhou City, and Li Ji happened to come here. Therefore, the relative of this tea supervisor must be Li Ji.

In his previous life, Li Ji also visited the Tea and Horse Department in disguise as a relative and lived there for a long time. Later, he found an opportunity to reveal his identity.

In this life, Jiang Yin and Li Ji have met several times. So, some things can't be done according to the previous life.

She reiterated the next steps to the secret guard, and after sending him away, she lay down on the bed and closed her eyes to rest.

She asked the secret guards to relax their surveillance and not to follow so closely.

Firstly, Li Ji had many martial arts masters, and her people would be discovered if they were not careful. If they were discovered by Li Ji, who knows how much trouble would arise.

Secondly, in this life, she and Li Ji actually had no grudge against each other, so there was no need to pay too much attention to his every move. After all, she knew the final outcome.

She only needs to protect the Jiang family, she doesn't care about anything else.

Jiang Yin kept thinking about it and soon fell asleep.

It was a rare quiet night. Jiang Yin slept until dawn. After having breakfast at home, he set off for the old house in Mengshan.

It only took us fifteen minutes to leave Yazhou City and pass through the winding mountain road to reach the old house at the foot of Mount Meng.

Compared with the four adjacent houses in Yazhou City, the houses of the four major families in Mengshan are not adjacent to each other, but each is located at the foot of its own tea mountain.

However, it was not far away and the carriage could arrive in less than half a quarter of an hour.

Jiang Yin originally thought that this journey would be as thrilling as yesterday, but fortunately, today was extremely smooth, no special circumstances occurred, and no assassination was encountered.

Before the carriage came to a complete stop, Aunt Fu, who had arrived at the old house earlier, hurried over to meet them.

"Oh my little lady." Aunt Fu took her hand and looked her up and down, "If we had known earlier, we should have gone the same way as the little lady."

Jiang Yin gently patted Aunt Fu's hand and comforted her, "Aunt Fu, is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry. I want to eat the food Aunt Fu cooks."

Yesterday, when she was planning to stay overnight in Yazhou, she sent someone to leave a message.

She also had someone tell Aunt Fu about the assassination on the way here.

It’s not that she wanted to make Aunt Fu worry, but she wanted to tell them in advance so that they could be more careful.

After all, an assassin could commit the crime on the official road in broad daylight, so it is not ruled out that the assassin would do it in the old house.

"Yes, we have everything the young lady wants to eat."

Aunt Fu took her hand and walked into the house.

After walking for a while, Jiang Yin discovered something unusual about the old house.

In the entire old house, from her to the door until now, there is no one from the side branches.

Apart from seeing Aunt Fu, she only saw the guards who had gone ahead with Aunt Fu yesterday.

As for the original people in the old house, from the master to the servants, she didn't see any of them. Even the housekeeper of the old house was gone.

Jiang Yin couldn't help but ask, "Where are the others? Did Aunt Fu see them when she came yesterday?"

Aunt Fu paused for a moment, then smiled reluctantly: "I heard that they all went to the mountains, and some went to Yazhou and Fucheng and haven't come back yet. Young lady, please sit down first. I'll go to the kitchen and bring the food over."

Jiang Yin narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at Aunt Fu's back. So, there was something fishy going on in the old house?

What Aunt Fu just said was what she heard, which means that Aunt Fu didn't see anyone from the old house yesterday.

Aunt Fu was unwilling to say, so Jiang Yin decided to ask other people first.

She called in a few guards who had come with her yesterday and asked them to talk about what had happened from yesterday to today.