Rich Peasant Girl: The General's Wife Has Space

Zhao Mingyuan never let his guard down and sent people to closely monitor Chunjing Hutong, where Ma Dahong's wife and children might be living.

However, after repeated checks, it was found that the residents of the alley all had legitimate origins and legitimate documents from the government, so it seemed that nothing could be found.

There was no woman living alone with her child in any of the houses, and Zhao Mingyuan's people were temporarily in a stalemate.

The information reported in the newspaper shows that there are three families where a couple lives with their children, and five or six families live with their elderly parents.

Zhao Mingyuan asked them to focus on investigating these families, among which the Li family was the most suspicious.

The Li family is an outsider household. The head of the household, Li Jin, fled from the west with his family to escape famine. He has lived in Chunjing Hutong for two or three years, and there seems to be nothing wrong with the household registration documents.

The family usually makes a living by the male owner selling goods from door to door.

But when the border troops were patrolling, some soldiers noticed something was wrong. They always felt that the atmosphere in this family was weird. The male owner was wearing clothes made of cotton, and the material was not very good, which was very consistent with his identity as an ordinary citizen.

But the clothes of the hostess and the children were made of fine silk. The children's handbags drying in the yard were also made of excellent material.

The pattern looks ordinary, but the material doesn't seem to be something ordinary people can afford.

There was a soldier in the border army whose family owned a cloth shop, so he could tell that the fabrics worn by the hostess and the child were not cheap.

This family relies on the male owner's work as a peddler for a living, how could they afford to wear such fine materials?

Even if the man would rather wear worse clothes himself and let his wife and children wear good materials, it doesn't make sense.

How much money can you make as a peddler?

I didn't think anything of it at the time, but later I thought about it and felt something was wrong. After the soldier came out, he complained to his partner as they walked, saying that this man was the head of the family in terms of household registration, but he looked and dressed like a servant to his wife and children.

The speaker may not have intended it, but the listener took it to heart. After hearing this, the soldier's partner secretly took note of this family and planned to investigate them more carefully later.

Zhao Mingyuan looked at the Li family, which was specially marked by the border troops during the patrol, and he knew in his heart that this family was indeed strange.

He did what he said. He immediately sent people to the county government to investigate the family's background, and at the same time arranged for the border troops to continue to guard Chunjing Hutong.

He always felt that although Ma Dahang had escaped this time, he would still come to see his wife and children.

Maybe he has already arrived, and he may have disguised himself to avoid the border troops' inspection.

In order to make Ma Dahang and his wife and children less vigilant, Zhao Mingyuan ordered most of the border troops to withdraw, leaving only a few unfamiliar faces to carry loads and sell things around Chunjing Hutong.

Just then, a clever "peddler" remembered something wrong. He didn't know if he was overthinking it, but was afraid of missing any important clues, so he reported it to Zhao Mingyuan.

He had previously questioned an elderly man who was walking around Chunjing Hutong with a bamboo basket on his back and a cane, saying that he was there to buy something.

Seeing that the old man was old and his legs and feet were not very agile, he did not question him in detail.

When he heard Zhao Mingyuan say that Ma Dahong might appear in disguise, he suddenly thought of the old man in his mind.

He vaguely saw the old man enter Chunjing Hutong, but did not see him come out.

He didn't take it seriously at the time, but now he realized something was wrong.

The old man said he came to buy something, so why did he go into the alley? He had been staying there checking passers-by and noticed that the old man didn't come out.

It’s not that he has a good memory, but the old man seems to be very old, but he still walks with a brisk pace.

Now I saw him go into the alley again and not come out, which made me feel a little strange.

Zhao Mingyuan's heart moved. This person was indeed a little strange. He would rather be wrong than let a suspicious person go.

Another border soldier remembered something and hesitated for a moment before asking his fellow peddler about what the old man looked like.

After the peddler's colleague gave a detailed description, the border soldier exclaimed excitedly, "General, that old man seems to have entered a household in Chunjing Hutong. His name is... the householder's name is Li Jin. Yes! It's Li Jin!"

Zhao Mingyuan suddenly looked up at his men. He was almost certain that the man was probably Ma Dahang!

There is something wrong with the family of the household head named Li Jin!

The Zhao family's army's observation and sharpness are all trained. Since they can see that there is something wrong with the old man, it is naturally very likely that they will not be wrong.