Farming in the Mountains: Max Level Jiaojiao Is Three Years Old

Chapter 1583: Fan Jianxi

Chapter 1583: Fan Jianxi

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After setting up the carriage, Xue Yan helped Jiang Yue into it. Then, he carefully drove the carriage. Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Shoushou insisted on sending them to the village entrance.

The cities around Lizhou were much further away from Stone Village than Dianhe County. After saying goodbye, Xue Yan did not go too fast because Jiang Yue was pregnant. They only arrived at the prefectural city at night.

Therefore, he did not go to the nearby government office to find an inn. He directly found the closest inn to stay the night.

Xue Yan brought Jiang Yue to their room to rest. Then, he asked the innkeeper about the exact location of the office in the city. He also asked about who he was looking for to rent a courtyard in the city, and who he was looking for in the city. He also asked about hiring people and carriages… And so on.

He would be staying in the prefecture for more than ten days, so he would rent a courtyard for himself and Jiang Yue to stay in. When the time came, it would be much more convenient to bring out the flour and missing person notice without people being suspicious.

The heavy taxes had to be resolved, and people had to be found.

After inquiring about this, he went to bed. After having breakfast at the inn the next day, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan rented a courtyard that they could live in for the time being and moved from the inn to that courtyard.

Then, he took out a lot of missing person notices and flour and placed them in a room in the courtyard.

Then, they went to hire people and carriages.

That afternoon, some of the hired people were responsible for boiling the flour into a paste, and some were responsible for posting and distributing missing person notices in Lizhou, including the prefecture. Except for Dianhe County, the hired carriages were responsible for transporting these people to other areas to distribute the missing person notice.

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan had agreed in advance that they would conduct random checks at any time. If there were any perfunctory ones — such as those who did not properly post and send out missing person notices — they would not be paid. Therefore, these hired people and carriage drivers were afraid that they would not get paid, so they diligently worked to stick up the posters.

Soon, it was night again.

They had already rented a courtyard and moved in. This would be where they would stay for the next few days.

Conveniently, this courtyard was not far from the government office.

In addition, the streets around this courtyard were quite lively, so the price of this courtyard was quite high.

They had arrived at the prefecture last night, and after another day, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan started to get familiar with this government office.

He learned that the magistrate of Lizhou was called Fan Jianxi.

He also knew that this magistrate had a good reputation in the prefecture. Everyone on the streets said that he was diligent in government affairs and cared for the people.

He also said that he was sometimes stopped by some commoners on the road and listened to them complain about the heavy taxes. Not only did he not blame the commoners, but he also shed tears with them. He empathized with them and wanted to help, but it was difficult to disobey the imperial edict. He could not solve it no matter how he tried. Anyway, none of the commoners blamed him for this.

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan both felt that Fan Jianxi was much more brilliant than the magistrate of Dian He, unlike that man, who said nothing in public but gossiped in private.

Xue Yan visited the county government. This time, he came to the prefecture to investigate the magistrate. The magistrate lived in the county government, so he naturally had to visit the county government at night.

That night, he let Jiang Yue go to bed early and only when she slept did he go to the government office.

He was dressed in a night-traveling outfit.

There were a few more officers on duty in the government office than in the county office, but to Xue Yan, it was just that. No matter the number, he still easily entered the government office without being discovered by anyone.

The magistrate must have hidden the evidence. After all, it was the magistrate’s amulet. So Xue Yan did not expect to find any evidence tonight. He just wanted to check Fan Jianxi’s office to see if there were any clues so that he could find out who was the mastermind.

Therefore, Xue Yan naturally snuck into Fan Jianxi’s office first.