Crossing the Ming Dynasty to be the magistrate

Wen Yu was shocked, and hurriedly asked: "What's going on, isn't Wen Qiong studying at home, why was he robbed?"

Wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, Mother Qian explained with a choked voice: "Yesterday, the second master was scolded by the master, and he was a little depressed. In the early morning, he said that he wanted to go shopping alone in the street, and he didn't bring a servant. I didn't believe it for a whole day, someone sent this to the back door of the mansion just now."

Speaking of handing over a letter in his hand to Wen Yu, Wen Yu took a closer look and found that it was a blackmail letter, specifying that Wen Yu should prepare 500 taels of silver to redeem someone.

Every word in the letter was cut out from a book. It said that after two days, the money would be buried in a ruined temple in the suburbs. They would release the money when they received the money. If they sent someone to ambush and were discovered by them, Wen Qiong would die Not guaranteed.

Wen Yu was anxious. After reading the letter, she hurriedly went to the inspection department to find Xu Jing. The mastermind behind the scenes still doesn't know. If it is a bandit outside, then the inspection department is the best choice.

At this time, Xu Jing was training his subordinates in the martial arts field. Jiang Lei died, and Wang Huike could not be busy alone.Seeing Wen Yu's anxious expression, Xu Jing hurriedly put down what he was doing, went up to him and asked what's wrong.

Wen Yu walked too fast this way, and her body lacked exercise, so she couldn't help panting, and it was hard to speak out.

Xu Jing patiently led him into the hall, poured him a cup of tea himself, then stuffed the teacup into his hand, and waited for him to breathe slowly.

Looking at his calm and handsome face, Wen Yu calmed down somehow.Taking a sip of tea, Wen Yu felt a little embarrassed: "Master Xu laughed."

Xu Jing shook his head: "It's okay, if your lord can come to me like this, there must be something important. What happened?"

Wen Yu told Xu Jing about his younger brother's disappearance.Xu Jing frowned after hearing this: "Does your lord know when Brother Ling disappeared?"

Wen Yu was also not sure about the time, but only knew that Wen Qiong went out alone in the morning, and a beggar sent a letter a quarter of an hour before he returned to the mansion.Afterwards, Wen Yu also called the beggar to question him. It was a man who handed him the letter. The man obviously came prepared, and deliberately turned his face against the light so that his face could not be seen clearly.The beggar only said that he did not look tall and was dressed in linen clothes.

"This is not so easy..." Xu Jing explained: "Now Mengyang is no different than before. There are many more people going in and out of the city every day. Students, tourists, businessmen, and Mengyang locals go back to their hometowns, basically everywhere. They all have new faces, if it is really a foreign kidnapper, then we basically have no way to start."

Wen Yu is also aware of this: "Your Excellency, you misunderstood me. I never thought of catching those people. Even if it was 500 taels, I accepted it. I was just worried that the kidnappers would not keep their promises. After getting the money, they would treat Wen Qiong instead." unfavorable."

Xu Jing admired his heart to protect his younger brother. Since he was a child, his relatives had little relationship, and he had never felt the love of relatives other than his parents. He also rarely saw people like Wen Yu, so he couldn't help slowing down his voice: "My lord It is reasonable to be worried, I will arrange people from the inspection department to search secretly outside the city later, adults can go to various inns to check the records, and ask if there is any problem with the directions."

Wen Yu nodded in agreement, and Xu Jing proposed to go back to the mansion with Wen Yu and take a look at Wen Qiong's yard together, to see if they could find some clues from here.How could Wen Yu disagree? Xu Jing had been living in the county magistrate's mansion before Jiang Lei's death case, and now the room is still reserved for him.

When they arrived at the county magistrate's mansion, Wen Yu saw that it was getting late, so he suggested that it's better to have dinner first, but Xu Jing saw that he was a little distracted and said to go to Wen Qiong's place first.Wen Yu was grateful for his thoughtfulness, so she no longer refused, and the two went directly to the backyard.

Entering Wen Qiong's room, the two of them rummaged inside for a long time, and as expected, they found a pile of pornographic books...Wen Yu wanted to find a crack in the floor to get in, so she could only keep saying that she was incapable of discipline.

Xu Jing thought it was funny, and comforted him by saying that it was normal for a man to peek at such things when he was young, so he didn't have to take it to heart, and then he continued: "But there is indeed something wrong in Brother Ling's room."

Wen Yu hurriedly asked what was wrong.Xu Jing pondered for a while: "It's too clean."

"Clean? What does this mean?" Wen Yu was puzzled.

Xu Jingdao: "I just asked the big maid in the courtyard that Lingdi has kept all the money by herself, and now there is no loose silver in the room, and it can be seen that a few pieces of clothes are missing... This is obviously wrong. "

If Wen Yu cared about it, he would be chaotic. Now that he thought about it carefully, he also felt that something was wrong.

Xu Jing took out the blackmail letter again: "Every word in this letter was cut out from a book. At first glance, it seems that the murderer is very careful, but why is he so careful?"

Wen Yu suddenly realized that, indeed, he habitually substituted the thinking of modern people.But in ancient times, there was no handwriting comparison, and there were no such high-tech criminal investigation tools, so it was completely unreasonable for the kidnappers to do so.

"Unless... the kidnapper knows me? An acquaintance around me? But it shouldn't be... What are the people around me doing to kidnap Wen Qiong?" Wen Yu said to herself.

Xu Jing pondered for a while, and then said: "Master Wen, please be honest, the people who kidnapped Wen's family are actually not as profitable as other wealthy businessmen in Mengyang."

Wen Yu: "..."

Indeed, it wasn't long before Wen Yu first arrived in Mengyang, and he didn't show much money. How much is the county magistrate's monthly salary?Even though Mengyang is a small place, there are too many local people who are richer than the Wen family, and it is very doubtful that they will be kidnapped and tied to the government.

Wen Yu sat down and sorted out her thoughts again, the more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, so she asked Mama Qian to bring over the girl Nongfu who had a good relationship with Wen Qiong.

Nongfu greeted Wen Yu tremblingly, and Wen Yu asked her if she knew about Nongfu's being tied up.Before Wen Yu tortured her to extract a confession, the little maid was already shaking like a sieve, telling the whole story by herself.

It turned out that after Wen Qiong was taught a lesson that day, no matter how he thought about it, he felt unconvinced, and felt that this family had no place for him at all, so he decided to plan a kidnapping case by himself.Ask Wen Yu to take 500 taels of silver, and then take Nong Fu away.Of course, he only told Nongfu about this, and he hid in the cave to avoid the limelight, and they left Mengyang as soon as they got the money.

Wen Yu was trembling with anger, and Nongfu wiped away her tears: "I tried to persuade the second master, but he didn't listen at all."

Wen Yu waved his hand: "Forget it, you lead the way to find him first. Since he thinks so, I, the elder brother, will give him 500 taels of silver when he comes back. From now on, everything about Wen Qiong has nothing to do with the Wen family." , let’s split up.”

Nongfu didn't dare to open her mouth, so she could only obey the order and lead the way to find Wen Qiong on the mountain, but there was no one there, and everyone stayed there and waited all night, but Wen Qiong didn't come back.

Wen Yu felt a little uneasy in her heart, but under the comfort of the people around her, she also thought about it, thinking that Wen Qiong might have received the news in advance and hid herself.

After another two days, there was still no news. Wen Yu planned to send people to search further.

As a result, that night, the Wen family received a piece of bloody clothing...

The author has something to say: about the inn

In the TV series we watch, there are often heroes or ordinary people going to stay in inns at night. In fact, this is wrong. In ancient inns, ordinary people could not enter.The ancients also needed proof of identity to stay in a hotel!Although the ancients did not have our current ID cards, China has implemented the household registration system since the Western Zhou Dynasty: officials will hold official "talents" or "festivals" before going out, while civilians can hold "door rolls" "When staying in a hotel, such "tales", "sections", and "volumes" are all proof of identity for early hotel stays.If there is no such identification, the store cannot let him check in.

Just like modern times, when a guest checks in, the store needs to register detailed information about it, which is called "store book": in addition to the guest's name, gender, age and identity, the store also needs to record the guest's occupation, place of travel, and why thing.After looking at the store's records, guests need to press the red mark of their finger to prove its authenticity.One by one, the recorded store books need to be submitted to the local yamen for inspection every month, and the official yamen must go to surprise inspections from time to time to prevent the store from cheating.

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