Jin Yiwei starts from Ming Yugong

Chapter 44 Ledger
The ground collapsed, attracting many people to watch.

Xia Yan saw the people who were at the gate of the Yamen last time, so he said, "I found your child, it's in the prison of Qixia Town, you go and get it."

Hearing that the child was found, the faces of these people showed ecstasy. After thanking Xia Yan, they rushed towards the dungeon.

The crowd of onlookers immediately decreased by more than half.

"Yan Xiaoliu, whose house is this?" Xia Yan asked Yan Xiaoliu who was standing in the crowd.

"This is something that happened in Qixia Town, and it is under the control of Qixia Town. Why should I tell you?"

The matter of Zhu Wushuang's resignation made him think that it was Xia Yan's instigation, so he naturally didn't have a good face.

"My lord, this place is Ru Sheng, Ru Yuan's family." A round-looking middle-aged man with rich clothes and long beard said.

"Treasurer Qian, how can you tell someone who has nothing to do with it?" Yan Xiaoliu said angrily.

"Master Xia found the lost child, you, Yan Xiaoliu, only know how to yell here."

"Now that this kind of thing is happening in Yuanwai's house, do you have the ability to deal with it?" Shopkeeper Qian rolled his eyes at him.

"you you you…"

"What are you? If you don't have the skills, just stand aside and don't hinder Master Xia's investigation." Shopkeeper Qian said disdainfully.

Xia Yan couldn't help but feel amused seeing Yan Xiaoliu being beaten to the point of being speechless.

"Can shopkeeper Qian tell you more about the affairs of Yuanwai Ru's family?"

Shopkeeper Qian pondered for a while, and said, "Mr. Ru's family has three members, including four servants. They have been doing fruit and vegetable business in the town for more than ten years."

"The whole family is very kind, and it is unexpected that this kind of thing will happen."

After the shopkeeper Qian finished speaking, he sighed again.

Xia Yan nodded lightly. If it's what Shopkeeper Qian said, there are only two possibilities.

One is that Ru Yuanwai's family didn't even know there was such a big cave underground.

The other is that Ru Yuanwai's family is not as simple as it appears.

But everything is still to be confirmed.

Xia Yan performed the grass-flying qinggong, jumped down from the flat ground, and landed on the ruins.

"It's so easy."

Twenty or thirty people from the rivers and lakes gathered outside the scope of the giant pit, watching Xia Yan jump from a height of [-] meters without harming a single thing, one of the young people couldn't help cheering loudly.

Xia Yan followed the prestige, and the young man smiled and said: "Linghu Chong in Huashan Mountain, I met you."

It turned out to be the Holy Mother of Linghu!

Xia Yan bowed to him politely, and then inspected the ruins.

With a surge of true energy, he swept the large ruins to the edge of the cave, leaving only some scattered stones.

After careful inspection, Xia Yan found five corpses from under the stones.

The faces of the five corpses were bloody and their bodies were distorted. It was impossible to tell who they were just by their faces.

The blood on the corpse was bright red, the pupils were dilated, and the corpse was soft. It was obvious that he had just died.

There were no marks of knife wounds on the surface of the body, and no signs of poisoning, so the possibility of homicide was ruled out.

Xia Yan looked around again, and found a lot of clothes in the ruins, two 10,000+ tael bank notes, and three or four ledgers in broken wooden boxes.

The entry and exit items on the ledger are clear at a glance. Excluding the goods purchased, transportation costs and household expenses, I am afraid that the two 10,000+ taels of silver cannot be saved.

Putting the ledger in his arms, Xia Yan searched the ruins again, and after finding nothing, he sent the five corpses to the flat ground one by one.

"Treasurer Qian, can you recognize them?"

Looking at the bloody corpse, Shopkeeper Qian was filled with emotion.

A person who was alive one second, suddenly died at home in a sudden accident the next second, it is really an impermanent world.

"The fatter person is Ru Yuanwai, and the rest are the four servants of Ru Yuanwai's family, Lu Liu."

Xia Yan nodded slightly, "Where did the wife and children go today?"

Shopkeeper Qian thought for a while, then shook his head lightly, "I don't know either."

"Mrs. Ru has brought her son, who is not a member of the staff, to the Anhua Temple in Fuzhou City to offer incense and pray for blessings." Madam Qian said with a complicated expression.

Xia Yan was about to reply when a group of people walked up to him with their children, and knelt down without saying a word.

"Thank you adults for helping us find our lost children."

"Everyone, please get up."

Xia Yan raised his hand to help, and the innate qi surged in his body, pulling the five or six people in front of him up.

When someone stood up, the people behind him also stood up.

But there were still [-] people kneeling on the ground. Their faces were haggard and tear-stained, and they seemed to have been drained of energy.

With a hoarse voice, he cried to Xia Yan: "Please help us find another child."

"Please help us find another child."

"Adults, please help them find another child"

"Adults, please help them find another child."

Xia Yan sighed softly in his heart, pity the hearts of parents all over the world.

Now there are clues, and it may only depend on luck that the remaining children cannot be found.

After all, some teeth are extremely cruel, they will break children's hands and feet, blind their eyes and go begging on the road or let those children steal.

"Your children have been frightened. Let them rest well today. I will come back tomorrow and ask who abducted them."

"As for the remaining children, Jin Yiwei will try his best to find them."

Hearing that Xia Yan would still send people to look for him, the uneasy expressions of these people also calmed down.

"Thank you sir, thank you sir."

Xia Yan nodded slightly, looked at Yan Xiaoliu and said, "There should be a clerk in the yamen, let him come over and examine the corpse carefully."

Yan Xiaoliu was unwilling, but it was difficult to offend everyone, so he wisely went to Wu Zuo for an autopsy.

"Everyone, go home first and have a good night's rest." Xia Yan said with a smile.

The people who found the child left obediently, and the people who did not find the child hesitated for a while, then turned around and left.

Ling Lingfa saw the people walking away and walked up to Xia Yan, "What are you going to do next?"

"Step by step."

Now that I have some clues in my hand, I naturally have to follow the clues to find out.

"But last time you said that Xianci Temple had clues, why didn't I find any clues?"

"Where did you get the news?"

Xia Yan was a little strange. Based on the source of the secret agents, there should be no mistakes, but nothing was found.

"You didn't find out at all?" Ling Lingfa asked strangely.

Xia Yan nodded affirmatively, and described what Xianci'an had seen and heard.

Ling Lingfa touched his head and thought carefully, "Since you haven't found it, this clue may be broken. I didn't expect these teeth to be so meticulous."

As a woman, Zhu Wushuang is more emotional. She couldn't bear the tears streaming down the face of those people just now, and said worriedly: "My lord, the remaining children should be able to be found."

"Don't worry, I found other clues, and I will investigate slowly." Xia Yan said with a smile.

"That's good, that's good." Zhu Wushuang said, patting his chest.

(End of this chapter)