Chapter 511 512 Evidence Falling From the Sky

After hearing the guard's report, Ruyi went to the door of the post house and saw the woman. She was about thirty years old and kept looking around with her eyes looking cautious.

When the woman saw Ruyi, she forced a smile with a begging look on her face, "Manager Zhou, my master is Mr. Zhou's classmate, and he asked me to bring some food to Mr. Zhou."

Ruyi glanced at her, wanting to see what trick she was going to play, "Okay, please come in."

When the woman heard Ruyi let her in, she hurriedly followed her into the post house. After entering the post house, Ruyi turned around and looked at the woman, "Tell me! What do you want to see my master for?"

The woman glanced at him, bent her knees and saluted, "I want to see Mr. Zhou and report something."

"My master won't see you. If you have anything, just tell me and I will tell him."

The woman looked at Ruyi and hesitated in her heart, thinking: The young master finally sent the message. If I mess up, how can I be worthy of the young master?

Ruyi looked at her calmly, "Since you don't want to say anything, please come back!"

The woman looked at Ruyi, gritted her teeth and made up her mind. She took out a letter from the sandwich of the food box and handed it to Ruyi, "Little brother, please give this letter to Mr. Zhou. Little brother, it is extremely urgent. Please don't leave." delayed."

Ruyi took the letter and glanced at the woman, "Okay, let's go!"

The woman bent her knees and saluted: "Little brother, my family lives in the fifth house of Tongluo Lane, Zhumen Street, Xicheng. There is a white magnolia tree at the door. My husband's family name is Wu. After reading the letter, you will go there to find me. You must Mr. Zhou came in person."

Ruyi nodded, "Okay, after I show the letter to the master, I will find you if anything happens."

The woman took out the food from the food box and handed it to Ruyi, "Little brother, this is the rice cake I made myself. You can try it."

"Okay, thank you." Ruyi took the rice cake, looked at her and nodded, turned around and left.

Ruyi put the letter in his pocket, returned to the yard, took a look at the rice cakes wrapped in lotus leaves, put the rice cakes on the table, and said to the secret guard sitting quietly in the chair: "Brother Chen, I Go out if you have something to do."

The secret guard nodded, Ruyi turned around and came out of the yard. He didn't go far before he spotted Tails behind him. After thinking for a moment, he simply walked into an alleyway with Tails and hid aside. When Tails caught up with him, he suddenly He appeared, grabbed the tail, threw him over his shoulder, threw him to the ground, put his foot on his chest, and shouted: "Tell me, who sent you here?"

Taiwei looked at Ruyi confidently and yelled, "This road belongs to you? Why do you hit me?"

Ruyi knocked him out with one punch, walked through the alley and walked towards the Qiaotou courtyard.

When I arrived at the small courtyard, I opened it and took out the letter paper inside. I found that it was a page torn from the account book. It recorded how many kilograms were received and how many kilograms were sent away on a certain day of the month. Judging from the quantity, it was a large amount.

In the margin below it was written: If you want to know what this is, ask for the messenger.

Ruyi looked at Zhou Jia and said, "Master, the woman who sent the letter lives in... I think she looks like she has something to ask you. Shall we go find her?"

"What if it's a trap set by them?" Zhaocai thought it was better to be cautious.

Zhou Jia held the thin piece of letter paper in his hand. Since he had repeatedly read the contents on it, he guessed that what was recorded on it was an iron ore transaction. Could it be that the Cheng family also sold the iron ore?

"Let's go! Let's take a look." Zhou Jia looked at several people and said.

Zhaocai looked at Zhou Jia: "Master, I think we should go find out first..."

Zhou Jia raised his hand and said, "If you are worried, go alone when you get there and check me out before I go in."

The round-faced secret guard strapped into his carriage and headed off. The four of them arrived at Tongluo Alley before dark, and a faint scent of magnolia blossoms wafted around.

Ruyi got off the car, walked under the flower tree, knocked on the courtyard door, and saw the woman and the tall man standing behind her.

The woman looked behind Ruyi, let Ruyi into the courtyard, and asked eagerly: "Is Mr. Zhou here?"

If he noticed that the yard was not big, with three main rooms and four side rooms, and two children, one old and one small, sitting in the yard, he glanced at the man and asked, "Is this Brother Wu?"

The woman's eyes turned red, "This is my boss. He was mute and unable to speak. Little brother, believe me, we are not bad people."

The man also nodded towards Ruyi. Ruyi nodded and walked to the door of the courtyard. Zhou Jia and the round-faced secret guard walked in. Zhou Jia glanced at the woman and said, "Tell me! Why did you use the account book to lure me here?" "

The woman looked at the bearded Zhou Jia and said boldly: "I can't tell you until I see your seal."

Zhou Jia took out a small seal from his pocket and handed it to the woman, "This is the only small seal I carry with me."

The man took it with both hands, nodded to the woman after looking at it, and returned the small seal to Zhou Jia. The woman turned and walked toward the house. After a while, she came out with an oil paper bag and handed it to Zhou Jia.

"Master Zhou, my young master gave this to us for safekeeping two months ago. Today, the young lady and the head of the house received news from the young master and asked the young lady and her husband to hand this package to you. Please save my family. Young Master." The woman and the man knelt down, and the two children burst into tears after seeing them.

"You two don't have to be polite, you're scaring the child." Zhou Jia hurriedly put the things in Ruyi's hands and helped the man up. The woman hurriedly ran to pick up the child.

Zhou Jia looked at the woman, "Who is your young master? Where is he now? Where did he get these things?"

The woman glanced at the man, who nodded and said, "I was originally the personal maid of the third wife of my Cheng family. My wife released me ten years ago, and the third wife of the Cheng family was a concubine. These things were secretly recorded by my young master. , the young master said it was very important, after the head of the Cheng family left, the eldest man in charge of the Cheng family detained the young master and his family."

It seems that the third bedroom of the Cheng family and the eldest and second bedroom of the Cheng family are not of the same mind. As soon as Mr. Cheng left, Mr. Cheng couldn't wait to eradicate his dissidents.

"Sister-in-law, I will do my best." After saying that, he turned and left. Ruyi and the secret guard also protected Zhou Jia and walked out.

Zhou Jia returned to the small courtyard. It was already dark. He went back to the house and opened the oilcloth bag. He saw that there were thirty or forty ledgers inside, which contained intermittently some accounts of the Cheng family's private sale of iron ore over the years. There is evidence of collusion with Magistrate Feng to sell iron ore.

It turns out that the Cheng family mined iron ore for the imperial court and sold iron ore privately when the late emperor was in power. It was only after he came to power that the iron ore was shut down. The Cheng family only stopped for two years before starting to secretly mine iron ore.

Chu Shan found out that the suspension of work was just a superficial effort by the Cheng family. After His Majesty relinquished the mining rights of the Cheng family, the Cheng family took a break for two years, but secretly prepared to continue mining in a hidden place.