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Jifu.
Late at night, the lights in the Jade Courtyard were still brightly lit, especially in the Book Pavilion. At that time, an official from the Ministry of Revenue just walked out of the Book Pavilion, yawning and left the Ji Mansion.
Just because Taifu Ji had repeatedly told him before that once something was discovered, he must come and tell him as soon as possible.
No, the Ministry of Household Affairs asked several people to investigate this overnight, and they found some clues. If they followed this clue, the situation gradually became clearer. The more the Ministry of Household Affairs sent people to investigate overnight, The letter has been delivered to Ji Mansion.
Once this matter is done, Taifu Ji owes the Ministry of Husbandry a favor, and it will be of no harm to the Ministry of Husbandry. Therefore, if Taifu Ji has a request, the Ministry of Household Affairs will naturally do its best to handle it.
At that time, Ji Xubai was sitting in the bookcase, flipping through the information sent by the Ministry of Revenue page by page. The more he turned back, the more Ji Xubai's face became colder.
Finally, my eyes stopped on the file of a man named Wen Cheng...
If he remembered correctly, Wen Zhigu told him that her father had a younger brother named Wen Cheng. He came to Beicheng to seek refuge with her father, but not long after, her uncle died there together with her father. In the midst of a robbery...
But, no.
Ji Xubai thought about it carefully now, everything was wrong.
Wen Zhiyu learned about this when he was in class at the academy. Ji Xubai knew that the matter was important and accompanied her to see the government. However, among the corpses carried back, only Wen Zhiyu's father was not found. Her uncle.
Wen Cheng seemed to have disappeared out of thin air...
It's just that Ji Xubai didn't take it to heart at first. He just treated his students as an inevitable disaster and didn't go into it further.
The further the information went back, the more Ji Xubai confirmed his intuition.
The man following Wen Zhigu looked very old, with scars on his face, and the facial features of a Southern Dynasty person...
No matter what the purpose was, Ji Xubai felt that Wen Zhigu's place was dangerous, and he could not just sit back and let Wen Zhigu get involved in danger.
Ji Xubai planned to go to the Yamen early tomorrow morning and ask the Yamen to retry the case in his name. In this case, he would have reason to arrest Wen Cheng for investigation, and Wen Cheng would not have the opportunity to follow Wen Zhi. So.
He also didn't intend to give him another chance to follow Wen Zhigu.
However, at this time, the guard on the night shift whom he had sent from the old dean to secretly protect Wen Zhigu came to report late at night, saying that an old man claiming to be Wen Zhigu's father had appeared and was talking to Wen Zhigu. So after talking for a long time, the old man looked very strange, and finally walked away laughing and talking to himself.
Ji Xubai was shocked when he heard these words. He didn't have time to think too much at that time, so he knew that it had something to do with Wen Cheng. He didn't care too much at that time. He just wanted to see Wen Zhigu immediately. No, it really didn't work. He could stay outside her yard all night and wait until daybreak before leaving.
But under the current situation, he really couldn't trust Wen Zhigu and Xiao Jian's mother and son to live there. The mother and son were unsuspecting and had no idea that someone would be watching them eagerly outside the door. If he didn't go, he wouldn't Really couldn't sleep.
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In the middle of the night, Wen Zhigu coughed several times and woke up. His mouth was very dry. He stood up in confusion and poured some water.