Hearing Yunyao saying that he didn't dare to trust the people around him, King Yu suddenly laughed: "Yunyao, you seem to have something to say?"
"It's just a casual remark, the second uncle believes it or not, do you think so?"
"I see, thank you Yunyao for reminding me."
Mu Yunyao narrowed her eyes, where did she need to say that His Royal Highness Yu Wang was clear in her heart, but she kept pretending to be confused for some reason.
"Yunyao, if you hand over such a major case to me to investigate, are you not afraid that I will fool you?"
Mu Yunyao turned her head to look at him, with a slight smile on her lips: "If the second uncle fools things, Wei Guohou should be very dissatisfied, plus the old Min Ge... Maybe Miss Min will also be upset. disappointment… "
King Yu patted his chest: "Don't worry, Yunyao, I will definitely get to the bottom of this case!" Never let the mastermind behind the scenes feel better!
"Then I can rest assured. Please do your best, Uncle Second. I don't want Fourth Master's hard work to be in vain."
Fourth Master? Hearing this name, and thinking about the fact that Mu Yunyao came to look for someone from thousands of miles away, King Yu sighed: "Yunyao will not call me second uncle in the future, just call me King Yu first." , you should just change your name to the second brother...
Mu Yunyao naturally understood what King Yu meant, and then changed her attitude naturally: "His Royal Highness, please take a look at the files, I will go back and pack up and prepare to leave at dawn."
"it is good."
After Mu Yunyao left, King Yu quickly browsed the various files and testimony, and sighed after reading it: "It seems that I can't be idle during this time."
Siqin followed Mu Yunyao back to the room: "Miss, there are still a few hours before dawn. You should rest first. When it's dawn, the servants will come to call you, and Sishu and I will pack your luggage."
Mu Yunyao shook her head, walked behind the desk, picked up a pen and wrote a letter, and carefully sealed it after writing: "Tomorrow, send someone to send this letter back to Kyoto and give it to my grandmother."
"Yes, ma'am."
In the early morning of the next day, King Yu sent Mu Yunyao to the gate of the mansion: "Yunyao, be careful along the way. After you find the fourth brother, you must send me a letter as soon as possible."
"Okay, I'll leave it to His Royal Highness King Yu."
"rest assured."
Mu Yunyao didn't chat too much, and after getting on her horse, she quickly walked towards the city gate.
King Yu didn't sleep all night, and after sending Mu Yunyao away, he went back to the front hall of the county government to see the files and confessions.
He brought some food in person and said, "Your Highness, you haven't slept well these days. Eat something to rest."
King Yu raised his head and rubbed his neck: "Where is there time to rest? If this case is not investigated as soon as possible, there is no doubt that there will be troubles."
"Didn't Princess Wenxian leave a file and a confession? Aren't these things enough to close the case?" "Oh, go back and read more, don't think about practicing martial arts all day long. Just relying on the salt merchants, Linjiang Tongzhi and harmony A small county magistrate, even if he gave them ten more courage, would not dare to make such a big move. Fake salt tax account books, fake tax silver... Which of those officials is not a human being
If there is no benefit to them, would they do this kind of beheading business? "
"Your Highness, what do you mean..."
"The salt tax account book and tax silver must be fake, but the purpose is not to help the salt merchants escape the salt tax, but to obscure the real salt tax."
"This season's salt tax is nearly three million taels of silver. If this is the case, then they are too bold! Your Highness, where do you think they will hide the silver?"
"If you say that you are stupid, you are really stupid. Without the support of the people above, they can hide the evidence so smoothly? Naturally, they have found a way to send the silver into the capital!"
"In the capital... Your Highness, this... this matter is too big. If you don't handle it properly, the emperor is afraid that he will take anger on you."
There was a smile on the corner of King Yu's lips, but his eyes became cold: "My grandfather once said that men do what they do and do not do. There was no chance before, how can I watch them do evil now?"
Seeing his expression, he immediately stopped: My master usually looks like he's laughing and laughing, but he is also a ruthless man who can kill the enemy with a knife on the battlefield. Officials and salt merchants observed a moment of silence. The gloomy expression only appeared for a while, and King Yu returned to his smiling appearance before: "Alas, Yao'er threw a hot potato to me, and I had to continue, it's really a ghost, a ghost Yes, my honest fourth brother, I can't say that I will be eaten to death.
Musty be a strong man, alas! "
Jinsui couldn't help but pouted: You are a strong man with a smile on your face, and it seems that you are quite willing to work hard. Mu Yunyao and his party headed towards Yishui City. On the way, they met a kind old man and reminded them: "Ladies and gentlemen, don't go any further, a hill in front slipped down, and the sand, gravel and mud mixed with the flood flooded the road and Several villages along the way are impossible to pass, and the nobles have to enter
Yishui City, I am afraid that we will have to wait for the road to be repaired. "
Siqin looked at the old man who was talking: "Old man, do you know when the road was repaired?"
"Who can say for sure, but there is no hope for the next two months. Yishui City is more affected by the disaster than Linjiang and Huai'an. At this time, the city is still full of oceans. It's a sin..."
Mu Yunyao frowned slightly and said, "Old man, if you want to enter Yishui City, how many days will it take to detour?"
"Entering from the mountain road by detour, you need to climb two mountains, and it will take two or three days at the earliest. I advise you to forget it. Even if you go in now, I'm afraid there will be no life."
Mu Yunyao felt a dull pain in her chest: "Thank you old man for reminding me. Let's go and go around the mountain road and enter Yishui City."
The old man seemed to want to say something, looked at the determined looks of several people, and couldn't help shaking his head: "What are you going to do in there? There are no living people anyway..."
At this time, in a cave in the mountain forest, King Yue was sitting against the mountain wall, with one hand on his bent knee and the other hand hanging down by his side. There were scars on his drooping arm, which was wrapped in cloth and still had blood seeping out. His face was as pale as paper, and his lips were dry and chapped.
Inside the cave, many victims gathered together, lying or sitting, and they were all thin and out of shape due to hunger and starvation.
Suddenly, a woman screamed and scratched at a man beside her: "Let go, let go of my child..."
She was holding a blue-faced child in her arms, her chest heaving slightly, and it looked like she couldn't last long.
The man kicked the woman away, hugged the child and rushed to the door: "This child is going to die, so just use him to feed the wolves, otherwise, we will all die here!" King Yue suddenly opened his eyes, stood up against the wall with his sword, and stopped the man in place: "Return the child!"