reborn princess

Chapter 360
Xuan Yu glanced at Ye Weilan lightly, and said vaguely: "He didn't take the exam, so he happened to have something to do, so he came here with me. Now that something happened, let him temporarily take the post of magistrate of Yunshan County, and deal with it. Official affairs, wait for the emperor's decree to come down. He has a reputation for raising people, so it is not too much for him to temporarily act as the magistrate of Yunshan County."

Ye Weilan said: "Then we have to do something, sitting at home, Uncle Song can't come back."

Xuan Yu asked with interest: "Then what's your idea?"

Ye Weilan pondered: "All criminals commit crimes with a purpose, either for money or profit, so why do these unknown kidnappers kidnap so many people? If they were human traffickers, they wouldn't kidnap middle-aged men. It's right to kidnap women and children, and kidnap mature men... that's not right!"

"Labor!" Xuan Chen made a firm judgment. "The only purpose of kidnapping a mature man is for labor!"

Ye Weilan puzzled and said: "Then why are they kidnapping so many laborers? To repair the Wanli City Wall? As far as I know, the corvees who repair the Wanli City Wall are paid. I don't know how many people are willing to do this work. There is no need to kidnap labor at all.”

Xuan Chen guessed: "Will any officials want to use this method to withhold the wages paid to the corvee?"

Ye Weilan shook her head, not quite agreeing with his guess, "A laborer's wages are twenty renminbi a day, only 200 renminbi a month, twelve months a year, a total of seven taels of silver, a thousand renminbi The corvee can only deduct [-] taels of silver, is such a small amount of money worth an official taking such a big risk?"

"More than 7000 taels of silver, that's a lot." Xuan Chen curled his lips. "For an ordinary farmer's family, more than 7000 taels of silver is enough for a family of three to spend several lifetimes comfortably."

"As the saying goes, 'Three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes', I don't think any official will spend ten years doing such a laborious and thankless task. More than 7000 taels of silver On average, the annual profit is only more than 700 taels, if it were you, would you take such a big risk to do this?"

Xuan Chen opened his mouth and was stopped by her question, then he raised his hand and scratched his scalp, "This is really a strange case."

Ye Weilan looked at Xuan Yu, "Uncle Xuan, may I ask what arrangement you have made now?"

Xuan Yu laughed and said, "How do you know I made the arrangement?"

Ye Weilan smiled, "Xuan Bo is famous all over the world, he is extremely intelligent, and he is best at strategizing, but it is just a small case, and the county prince must have been concerned about it long ago."

"This girl, put a high hat on me." Xuan Yu was very relieved by Ye Weilan's flattery, so he smiled and solved the mystery. "There is no rush for this case, we can only wait!"

Although he was smiling, there was a lot of bitterness and helplessness in his smile.

"Wait?" Ye Weilan murmured the word softly, and suddenly realized. "The other party can hide in the border for ten years and kidnap thousands of people. It must have become a trend, and they are not afraid of the government. We can wait until they attack again, and we can send people to pretend to be civilians. If our people are arrested Now, that's like finding a clue..."

"Daughter-in-law, you are so smart!" Xuan Yu laughed and praised Ye Weilan.

Ye Weilan was full of black lines about the title of "daughter-in-law", and thought to herself, this old man is not ashamed, he has only been serious for a while and then reverted to his old ways, and that shameless Xuan Chen is really a good father and son.

Xuan Chen comforted her and said: "Daughter-in-law, don't worry too much, with my father here, I will definitely be able to find Uncle Song back."

Ye Weilan shook her head unoptimistically, "This is a matter of finding a needle in a haystack. The opponent's range of attacks is too wide, with a radius of hundreds of miles, 23 counties, and thousands of villages. When will our people touch it?" On? And before, Uncle Xuan sent [-] iron cavalry to conduct a sweeping search, and we have already alarmed the enemy, so now we can only pray that the other party will not kill Uncle Song."

Shen Luo said: "Things have already happened, it's useless to worry, now we can only wait for the news!"

Ye Weilan thought for a while, and then said: "Master, I want to ask for a few days off, so I can check the clues myself!"

Shen Luo frowned slightly, "Are you confident?"

Ye Weilan bit her lip and shook her head, "But I don't want to wait like a fool, and I'm a girl, I believe I'm more careful than most men, maybe I can find things that others haven't noticed."

"Don't delay practicing!" Shen Luo said lightly, with a cold expression on his face, he actually agreed to Ye Weilan's request.

Xuan Chen said: "Then I will go with my wife!"

Shen Luo nodded, "Go, let Xihua and Luan Ying go with you!"

"Wait, wait, old Shen, how old are these children, you let them investigate the case, what if something happens?" Xuan Yu stopped him righteously.

Shen Luo said lightly: "When I was 15 years old, I went to Beichen country alone."

Xuan Yu opened his mouth, and said that when he was 13 years old, he had already learned how to deal with military affairs with his grandfather, and his precious son is now [-] years old, and he will be [-] years old in November up.

"But Lan'er is only ten years old..." He said coyly, still a little worried about letting his son investigate the case.

"She is 11 years old, she is already twelve years old, not too young!" Shen Luo said pointedly. "We can't pamper them too much. We need to let the children have more experience so that they can do great things in the future."

"Okay, okay, I can't say no to you, I handed over my son to you, and you have the final say." Xuan Yu compromised.

Shen Luo asked Ye Weilan, "Pick up your pack and go on the road tomorrow morning."

Ye Weilan said, "No, Master, I don't want to go to Yunshan County for the time being."

"Why don't you go to Yunshan County? How can you investigate this case if you don't go to Yunshan County?"

Ye Weilan thought about it and said, "Uncle Xuan said just now that the total number of missing people in the 23 counties is as many as a thousand, so I want to go to the county yamen tomorrow and look through the files, so that I can deduce whether the crimes committed by the other party are regular. "

Xuan Yu couldn't help but light up when he heard this, looked at Shen Luo and said with a smile: "Old Shen, my daughter-in-law here is amazing, she can think of such a crucial question at a young age."

Shen Luo said slowly: "She can think of such a simple question, don't tell me you didn't think of it."

"Of course I thought of it!" Xuan Yu said, put on his shoes and got off the ground. "Daughter-in-law, come with me, uncle will show you something good!"

Ye Weilan automatically ignored the three words "daughter-in-law". She had learned one thing a long time ago. When she was with thick-skinned people, she had to have thicker skins in order to survive.

She, Xuan Chen, Du Xihua, and Luan Ying followed Xuan Yu to the opposite courtyard of Xuan's family, and Xuan Yu directly brought them into the study.

In a huge study room, there are several tables in the middle to form a big table. There is a sand table on the table. On the sand table, mountains, city walls, roads, rivers, and a long dragon-like river are built on the sand table. The progress of the Wanli City Wall is breathtaking.

"Wow - this thing looks spectacular!" Du Xihua couldn't help but let out a cry of admiration.

Xuan Chen said proudly: "That's right, this is a sand table made by my father himself. During war, this thing is very practical. It can not only observe the deployment of troops between the enemy and us, but also observe the terrain."

"Come this way!" The study room was divided into inner and outer rooms, and Xuan Yu greeted everyone to enter the inner room.

It was only then that everyone discovered that there was also a large sand table in the inner room, but this sand table was different from the one in the outer room. The outer sand table was mainly for the terrain, while this sand table magnified each village, especially the one in the outer room. The roads connecting the various villages are all clearly identifiable, and they are covered with small flags of various colors.

Xuan Yu said: "Each flag represents a missing person."

Ye Weilan observed the sand table carefully, and then asked, "Uncle Xuan, what does the color of the flag represent?"

Xuan Yu grinned, "Look at this girl, you can see it..."

Shen Luo's voice came from behind everyone, "The color of the flag represents the hour!"

Ye Weilan turned her head, and saw Shen Luo walking to the side of the sand table with her hands behind her back, staring at the sand table and saying: "The twelve hours correspond to different colors, namely red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, and purple. , black, white, gray, lotus root, and orange red."

Ye Weilan then found that most of the flags on the sand table were yellow and green, with occasional gray and lotus-orange ones, and couldn't help saying: "So, these missing people were either in the early morning or in the evening? "

Xuan Yu nodded, "And they all have one thing in common, they all disappeared when they were alone."

Xuan Chen continued: "Then we can judge that the number of people attacked by the other party is very small, and it is very likely that there are only one or two people."

Ye Weilan said: "There is also a carriage, they kidnapped people, it is impossible to carry them away, they can only hide in the carriage."

But Xuan Chen said: "It doesn't have to be a horse-drawn carriage, it may be other vehicles, in short, it is a means of transportation that can hide people!"

Ye Weilan nodded, agreeing with his analysis, and then asked: "Uncle Xuan, are there more than two people missing at the same time? Or are there people missing in two places in succession?"

Xuan Yu smiled at Shen Luo: "This girl, does it mean that she really wants to go to the yamen to learn how to arrest and investigate cases quickly? These questions are all on point."

If two or more people disappear at the same time, or people from two places in succession disappear together, it proves that the other party is a huge kidnapping gang and is well organized.If it is the opposite, it proves that the other party is responsible for the kidnapping, and there are only one or two people like this.

Ye Weilan's face turned red. She didn't mean to show off, but she really cared about Song Hengzhi's life and death. She tried her best to wait for Song Hengzhi to become an official. I took a step, but I didn't expect Song Hengzhi to disappear.

(End of this chapter)