Chapter 228 - Chapter 228: Willing To Die

Chapter 228: Willing To Die

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“When I found this young man, I had already personally checked the surroundings. I didn’t see anything resembling a bamboo slip. I also sent people to look for it after that, but I didn’t find anything.”

County Magistrate Shen sighed. “I think it’s really lost. It’s a pity that we’ve worked so hard to find a witness, but we lack a piece of equally important physical evidence. Even if we make a scene in front of the emperor, Yan Lu will probably say that we just found someone to slander him.”

He was really angry just thinking about it.

Rong Yan looked at the young man’s pale face and thought for a moment before saying, “If we lose it, we can find new evidence.”

Seeing his look, County Magistrate Shen asked, “Do you have an idea, Your Highness?”

Rong Yan said, “The Lei Family was determined to get this young man back then. If they knew that he was here…”

County Magistrate Shen’s eyes glowed. “They will definitely send someone to take the young man’s life!”

However, after saying that, he was a little hesitant. “But this way, wouldn’t the young man be in danger again after escaping death?”

Rong Yan suggested, “Can you hire someone to pretend to be him?”

County Magistrate Shen shook his head. “Let’s not talk about the Lei Family. Yan Lu is a cautious man. He would never do anything unless he was sure of the young man’s identity. Otherwise, I would have been able to find something in him after so many years.”

At this moment, a weak voice was heard from the couch. The young man was still weak, but his eyes were filled with hatred. “I’ll do it. As long as I can make Yan Lu submit to the law, Han Qing is willing to die!

The three of them looked at each other. Rong Yan and County Magistrate Shen both saw through Han Qing’s determination.

“Alright, in that case, please recuperate first. We’ll bring you out of the residence in three days.”

After settling this matter, they returned to the hall and returned to their respective homes.

It was already late. When Xiaoxiao and her brothers returned home, Ning Fengnian and Madam Song were waiting anxiously outside the house. Under the dim candlelight, Xiaoxiao realized that there were many bloody spots on her father’s clothes. When she asked, she found out that there were inexplicably many leeches in the rice field.

The leech was the most troublesome. They could not catch it all, nor could they ignore it.

Madam Song said with heartache and reproach, “Your father is also a big-hearted person. He used himself as bait to catch leeches when he was anxious!”

She glared at Ning Fengnian angrily. “Aren’t you afraid of losing yourself!” Her eyes turned red as she spoke.

Seeing this, Ning Fengnian hurriedly apologized and coaxed her. He repeatedly promised not to do this stupid thing again. It was so difficult to coax Madam Song until she smiled.

Only then did he dare to defend himself. “I just couldn’t bear to see our paddy fields fail. Besides, this matter is really strange. Why is it that other people’s fields are fine except for ours?”

Madam Song couldn’t figure this out either and could only guess blindly.

“Could it be because our land is especially fertile?

But didn’t they buy the middle quality land?

Xiaoxiao had a guess, but before she exposed Old Madam Ning, another big event happened in the village-the water level of the Dusk River rose again.

The rainy season in June was coming, and the rain for the past few days made the rising water worse than the previous times. If County Magistrate Shen hadn’t asked someone to dig the canal in advance, many families would have suffered.

Old Madam Ning was originally worried that it would not be easy to clean up after what she had done was exposed. When she saw the flood, she immediately relaxed and urged the old man and the other villagers to catch fish.

Although she had placed leeches in Fengnian’s fields on a whim in a moment of anger, she had also noticed that there was no one around at that time. No one could catch her wrongdoings. Now that the river water had washed over her, even if there were some traces left, they would be gone, right?

After she was relieved, she boldly went to put leeches a few more times. If Fengnian did not help them, their eldest branch would not have a good life either!

Rong Yan looked at the pouring rain. After discussing with County Magistrate Shen, he protected the young Han Qing and showed up on Dayan Mountain several times, trying his best to find something.

The Lei Family also left someone nearby. Seeing that, they hurried to report. Just as they were rubbing their fists and planning to stop them in the mountains, County Magistrate Shen and the others suddenly stopped coming.

There were only two reasons for this to happen. Firstly, they had given up on looking for the account book. Secondly, they had already found it.

This matter was of great importance, and the Lei Family did not dare to make the decision on their own. They could only send the news to Luo Prefecture. What was strange was that Lord Yan was still not in a hurry and only told them to wait for the news.

While the Lei Family was waiting anxiously, County Magistrate Shen and Rong

Yan were also anxious.

The rain over the past few days was just a small sign. The villagers might still cheer for the sky that suddenly cleared, but knowing that the rainy season was coming, they had already reached a point where they could not sleep at night. What was even more depressing was that Yan Lu’s transfer order had already been issued. He did not care about the impact of the continuous rain on the people along the river. He only cared about escaping and staying out of it with the official money he had hidden.

Even the guards had blisters at the corners of their mouths. When Rong Yan returned from the county office again, they couldn’t wait to ask, “Master, how was it? Did you find it?”

Rong Yan recalled everything that had happened these days and heaved a sigh of relief. “Fortunately, I found it.”

He did not look at the guards’ reactions. He only listened to the deliberately suppressed cheers behind him, hoping that everyone was sincerely happy.

He asked County Magistrate Shen to relax the city defense these days and make sure that the news could reach Yan Lu’s ears as soon as possible. However, he felt suffocated when he thought that it was the people around him who sent the news.

At this moment, he suddenly wanted to see Xiaoxiao and eat her food.

However, while Xiaoxiao was busy, there were inexplicably more leeches in their field. Her parents only guessed that it had something to do with the water that had risen a few days ago, but Xiaoxiao found out with Yun Er’s help that Old Madam Ning took the opportunity to go into their field in the middle of the night.

She didn’t think that this old woman would do anything good, but Xiaoxiao wanted to do something more than expose her.

When there was no one around again, Xiaoxiao flipped to the page she needed in the space’s Exchange Mall and happily chose to exchange it. Then, she found an opportunity to go to the fields and took out a few.

At first, the space was a little worried: [Master, this is an invasive species after all. Aren’t you worried that something will go wrong?]

Xiaoxiao smiled until her eyes couldn’t be seen. [With me around, will they have this chance?]

The space thought about it and agreed. With Master’s culinary skills as a supplement, it would be good enough if it was not eaten into an endangered species. Hence, it also sounded the notification happily.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the hidden mission—Origin of Species. You have completed the introduction of a new species. You have received 10,000 points. Current total points are 53,000.]

Aiya, why did it seem like she was going to level up again very soon? In the past, she thought that the higher the level, the harder it was to level up. Now, it seemed like she had misunderstood. Xiaoxiao happily reached out and stirred in the water. Every time she stirred the water, she could move dozens of crayfish out of the space.

This little guy did not hurt the rice and was beneficial to the fields. Most importantly, it was delicious.

At the thought of the crayfish’s cooking, Xiaoxiao felt that she could not help but drool.

There were garlic crayfish, dried-fried crayfish, Thirteen Spices crayfish, spicy crayfish, baked egg yellow shrimp, clear water crayfish, and her favorite ice Huatiao drunk crayfish!