Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Yu Jiusi has one advantage, but it’s not entirely an “advantage”.

When something happens, he tries his best to think about it, but if he can't figure out the answer, he won't bother himself too much.

——He believed in his intuition that the case was handled too smoothly this time, there must be something fishy.

But he absolutely disagreed with what Xue Mai said - someone was secretly helping him.

Let's not talk about whether his father and grandfather who were far away in Liuyang Mansion knew about this. Yu Jiusi dared to assert that even if they knew, they would definitely not help in this way.

Based on his understanding of them, they would at most give him some specious hints and then let him go his own way.

There was no way they could bring all the hard evidence to him like they were doing now.

——What’s the difference between this and just chewing the rice into pieces and feeding it to him?

To put it bluntly, as long as his grandfather wanted, he could become an official by just lying in the Shangjingbo Mansion. Why bother with all this trouble?

He also didn't believe that apart from his family, there would be anyone who would help him so generously. He inexplicably felt that... there was a bigger conspiracy waiting for him.

But he couldn't figure it out just by thinking about it, so Yu Jiusi decided to try a different approach.

"Go to Luzhou Prefecture secretly again and investigate the flood release." Yu Jiusi said to Team Leader A, "Especially the fact that Ning Shunyou secretly tampered with the matter. It only took one day for the news to spread like wildfire. There must be someone who fanned the flames. Focus on investigating this matter."

Team Leader A was puzzled: "Lang Jiang, do you mean that Prefect Ning...was wrongly accused?"

"It's not that I'm wronged." Yu Jiusi paused, "But there must be something... that we don't know. Anyway, we should investigate in this direction. Be careful on the road."

Seeing Team Leader A leave with his orders, Hu Dan thought for a long time before speaking:

"General. If that's the case, I feel that it was too easy for me to sneak into the caravan that day..."

He frowned and said, "I hadn't noticed it before you said it. Now that you said it, I feel something is wrong."

Hu Dan thought about the scene of entering the city that day, and said slowly: "After I led people into the city that day, someone took us directly to Nanning Lane. At that time, I was completely in the dark and didn't recognize any place, but..."

Yu Jiusi looked over with scorching eyes.

"But along the way, the guide seemed to have… deliberately revealed the address to me. Even the time when the guards changed shifts was something I ‘accidentally’ heard from him."

Yu Jiusi's mind focused and he became more certain of his guess.

He asked Hu Dan, "Have you seen the guide in the past two days?"

A face flashed through Hu Dan's mind and his pupils suddenly shrank.

He raised his hand, pointed his fingers randomly in the air, and said in surprise: "It seems that the man disappeared before you and your men came here!"

Yu Jiusi felt that he had glimpsed a glimpse of the essence of the matter.

He paced two steps on the spot, frowned and whispered: "To be able to get someone under the prefect's nose..."

Hu Dan recalled the scene at Liuyang Prefecture and analyzed, "That person must be quite powerful. At least when I was in Liuyang Prefecture, no one dared to put anyone under Lord Yu."

A powerful person living near Changnan Prefecture?

The scope of the investigation was now narrowed. Hu Dan looked in the direction of Luzhou Prefecture. "Could it be the Luzhou prefect? ​​He was tricked by Ning Shunyou, so it's natural for him to feel resentful."

"It can't be him."

Yu Jiusi was very confident, "If he had this ability, why would he give the credit to me?"

The words may be rough, but the truth is there. Hu Dan also realized that he had been thinking too simply.

Yu Jiusi knew that he was too passive at the moment, and the feeling of being controlled by others was not good.

He was silent for a moment. "Well, I will send some people to you. You should give them a detailed description of the person who led the way that day. You should keep quiet for the next few days and try to find him in the city."

Hu Dan nodded, but still said, "General, please forgive me for being so nosy, but could that person... have already left the city?"

Now the city gates are already open.

Closing the city gates for two days was already their limit. If they closed the city gates again, it would inevitably cause panic among the people.

Yu Jiusi did not deny his statement, "That person may have left the city a long time ago, or maybe... he is still in the city now."

"Why?" Hu Dan was puzzled.

"It depends on what kind of person his superior is. If he is too complacent and thinks I can't find out what's going on, he might not withdraw his men. After all... he still has another move waiting for me."

Yu Jiusi thought for a moment and said a few names: "Lu Xian, Li Boyu, Yang Hu... Do these people have any grudges against my father or grandfather?"

The people he mentioned were all powerful people in nearby states, even the highest-ranking governor was among them.

Yu Jiusi had a feeling that maybe the person was hiding among these people.

But Hu Dan shook his head, looking apologetic, "General, I don't know..."

Yu Jiusi sighed, knowing that his question was still a little too difficult for Hu Dan.

He waved his hand and said, "It's okay, go find someone first."

......

Changnan Prefecture, Jimu Village.

Jimu Village is located next to the river and is the worst-hit village in Changnan Prefecture.

When Yu Jiusi first arrived two days ago, almost half of the village was submerged in water, with feces, dead grass, tattered clothes, and... corpses floating on the water.

At that time, he arrived at Jimu Village earlier than the grain transport convoy. After entering the village for a quarter of an hour, he saw villagers fishing for corpses on the water.

——The corpse had been swollen, bulging and white, and was unrecognizable, making it difficult to tell whether it was a man or a woman.

The villager who was fishing for the body was half-naked and had sunken eye sockets, but his eyes were bright and he stared at the body on the water without blinking.

At that time, Yu Jiusi thought that the villager wanted to fish out the body and bury the deceased.

Can......

The man was very focused on fishing out the body - he repeatedly threw the knotted hemp rope in his hand into the water, trying to use the knot to circle the dead man's neck and drag the dead man over.

But he tried several times without success. Instead, the rotten flesh on the corpse was repeatedly beaten and rubbed by the knot, gradually disintegrating, and a colorful oily sheen appeared on the water surface...

Yu Jiusi couldn't help but cover his abdomen when he saw this.

The sight made his stomach twitch and protest.

He still remembered how he dismounted, how he walked forward, and how he spoke to the villagers.

He said: "My fellow villager, these are your relatives, right? The relief soldiers will be here soon. The water in the village will be drained in the next two days. These dead people..."

Yu Jiusi was thinking about what to say in his mind, wondering how to comfort this poor man who had lost his loved ones.