It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Jiang Wang was also a little worried at first. After discussing with Jiang Fa and Yu Qian for a while without reaching any conclusion, he bravely went to the outskirts of the county in the afternoon to inquire about the news.

Nothing happened in the county town. Even the disaster victims outside the county town who were expected to stay for at least half a year and who had a high probability of causing trouble disappeared... Everything was calm and peaceful.

On the way back to the village, Jiang Wang thought about it for a long time, but didn't find any problems, so he relaxed again.

When Jiang Yan and the others came to him in the evening and asked him "What big thing happened at noon", he saw that Jiang Yuan, who was following behind him, had no intention of hiding anything, so he told them directly that he had picked up a hammer, a shovel, a chisel and a soldier's sword in the mountains.

Jiang Wang also kindly reassured everyone that he had inquired outside and that nothing would happen, so there was no need to worry.

……

Seeing that even Jiang Yuan, who had just kept his mouth shut, unconsciously revealed an expression that said "It's not a big deal", and it was hard to tell whether it was disappointment or relief, Jiang Yan's brain, which had been severely influenced by all kinds of power struggles and palace fighting novels, frantically issued a danger warning.

Jiang Yan felt that she needed to broaden their horizons. Most importantly, she needed to share her agonizing anxiety.

She took the initiative and asked, "What if someone is stealing gold?"

"We still have gold mines here?" Jiang Wang was puzzled. He had lived for more than sixty years and had never heard of such a precious thing in Rongcheng County and its surrounding areas.

"There is some in Qinshan! You forgot that the gold sand we picked up these days was washed out from the mountain by the flood." Jiang Yan reminded.

"Ah - that's right. But we just picked up something, we didn't steal or rob, what's the problem?" Jiang Wang was still puzzled.

Jiang Yuan had heard the gossip of passing merchants in the county town, and now his thoughts were a little more diverse: "Are you saying that someone secretly opened a gold mine in Qinshan, was discovered by the soldiers, and unfortunately it rained heavily, and the weapons and stolen goods dropped during the fight were washed down to us by the water?"

This is still too conservative... Jiang Yan unconsciously glanced outside the door. There was no one there, so it was safe.

Then he lowered his voice and said, "We don't have to worry about thieves stealing gold, but what if the officials secretly mine without telling the court? The soldiers' swords and gold sand we found will be evidence of their crimes. If they are desperate and kill people to silence them..."

"Although our county magistrate is just a figurehead, he is not brave enough to kill everyone in the village. The most he can do is find a reason to put us in jail." Jiang Yuan felt that Jiang Yan's idea of ​​slaughtering the village was too exaggerated.

Being thrown into jail or killed is not a good thing. Jiang Wang couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Jiang Yan: "...What if it's the governor of our prefecture?"

"Since he is so greedy, it is not impossible." The governor of Heding Prefecture had been secretly hated and condemned by the people for his scandalous act of squandering the people's wealth to curry favor with the old emperor, and Jiang Yuan was no exception.

Hearing that the governor of Heding Prefecture might have committed a crime against the people of Dongshan Village, Jiang Nian became excited and racked his brains to help find the "motive and method of the crime."

Finally, he dug up an old piece of gossip from the corner of his memory: "I heard that when our county magistrate first took office, he married his third daughter to the youngest son of the governor's housekeeper."

"Doesn't our county magistrate have only two daughters?" Jiang Ying also knew about the private life of the county magistrate's family.

"Three. I heard the third daughter was born to a servant. The magistrate and his wife were ashamed of it, so they kept silent about it and didn't let her out. As time went by, everyone else thought there were only two daughters."

……

"So, the county magistrate will most likely follow the governor's orders..." Jiang Yan gestured at his neck.

Jiang Wang watched as Jiang Yan and the others engaged in a heated discussion about "how the Heding Prefecture Governor would deal with the Dongshan villagers who discovered him stealing gold." The more they talked, the more convinced they were that their doom was approaching...

"They have resettled all the disaster victims in the suburbs of the county." Jiang Wang wanted to remind them that the officials had done a good job.

But as soon as the words came out, Jiang Yan, Jiang Yuan, Jiang Ying and Jiang Nian all shut up, their eyes widened and their faces were filled with fear.

Jiang Wang suddenly felt uneasy.

No way...he took them all away to start a private mine?!