Chapter 1576: Lizhou

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“The county magistrate of Dianhe County is a small official.” Xue Yan continued,” It’s true that he can’t directly contact and interact with the people at the top, but the magistrate of the Lizhou area has a high official position.”

Yaoshui Town belonged to Dianhe County, which was in the area around Lizhou. There are many counties under Lizhou, but there was only one magistrate in total.

This was similar to the settings of Da Ling.

They had come to this county yesterday, so they naturally knew that Dianhe County belonged to Lizhou.

“The people at the top, who are also the ones controlling everything, want to control Lizhou. If they can control Lizhou, they will have more money. The magistrate of Lizhou must be the mastermind’s man. There is a high chance that Lizhou is already under the influence of the mastermind. It wasn’t just Dianhe County, the other counties in Lizhou also had heavy taxes. It was all under the jurisdiction of the magistrate. It was such a big matter, and the commoners had gone through a few strikes because of this. It must be impossible for the magistrate to not know about it. Moreover, the county magistrate and even the officers under him were so rampant. It was obvious that the officials in Lizhou had been plotting all of this. Therefore, the person in Lizhou who has direct contact with the mastermind must be a magistrate.” Xue Yan concluded.

Since Xue Yan had made it so clear, Jiang Yue happily nodded along and agreed with his conclusion. “We have to investigate the magistrate of Lizhou. Not only do we have to find out who the mastermind is from this magistrate, but we also have to get substantial evidence from this to destroy the mastermind. We must show that the mastermind only wanted to seek benefits and harm others. To be able to become a magistrate, one must have a certain degree of scheming and must have left behind irrefutable evidence. As long as we get this, we can’t have a clearer path. We don’t even have to look for the mastermind to investigate anything. We just have to give this irrefutable evidence to Shi Yuan. Once the boss has been captured, we can find out whether it’s a big or small fry.”

Xue Yan nodded. This was what he meant.

“From what we’ve gathered, the magistrate is not in Dianhe County, but in the government office of Lizhou. Although it’s not far away, it takes time to investigate. Besides, we have to return to Stone Village tomorrow to pay our wages and also go back to Da Ling. We don’t have enough time. We can only investigate the next time we come to Dachen.”

“That doesn’t sound like an issue, we should head back soon.” Xue Yan nodded again.

They stayed in the county for another night. The next day, after having breakfast at the inn, Xue Yan drove the horse carriage and brought Jiang Yue back to Stone Village.

The carriage moved at a snail’s pace.

Along the way, on both sides of the road, and some trees, they saw the missing person notices posted on them.

When they returned to Stone Village, it was just past noon. The villagers asked them if they had eaten. Although they hadn’t eaten, they said they had.

The people of Stone Village looked better. It was obvious that they had drunk the well water. However, the people of Stone Village didn’t know that. They thought that they had more hope and were eating better than before, which was why they were more energetic and physically better than before.

It wasn’t until the sun had set that the 45 hired people were sent back by carriages.

After three days of busy work, the missing person notices were posted in all the conspicuous places in Dianhe County, including some villages. The missing person notices were also posted and sent to pedestrians. The tens of thousands of missing person notices were either posted or sent out at other places. The pate they made was also used up. Everyone in Dianhe County knew that there was a Xue family in Stone Village who was looking for someone, but they didn’t know who they were looking for.