Later, Wen Qingzhu and Lu Tao went to the so-called Qianjia Trading Firm.
There were many businessmen coming in and out, but none of them looked happy.
After asking around on the street, I found that all the shops above the seventh floor in Jinzhou were owned by Qianjia Trading Company.
"It's interesting. In such a big Jinzhou, the business is actually monopolized by one trading house, and it seems that no one has the power to resist!"
Lu Tao kept up with her thinking: "Master Wei said before that the biggest problem in Jinzhou is Sheng Tongzhi, the second-in-command in Jinzhou. If Qianjia Trading Company can stand firm in Jinzhou, the person behind it is-"
Wen Qingzhu looked at the busy traffic and pedestrians on the street: "Yes, Jinzhou is probably a model of collusion between government and businessmen!"
It seems that Wei Shuang is really well-rounded.
On the official side, they found them, and on the shopping mall side, they found Jing Yinuo.
After returning to Wei's house, Mingxuan was already sitting in the yard.
Wen Qingzhu walked over: "Where's Han'er? Why are you alone?"
"I have something to ask Sister A. I asked him to take Linlin to play." Wen Mingxuan stood up immediately.
Lu Tao and Xi'er turned around and retreated to the door to guard it.
"What happened?"
Wen Mingxuan's eyes were a little hesitant: "I'm not sure, but I have a gut feeling that Jing Yinuo's purpose is not pure."
"Really? Sit down and tell me in detail." Wen Qingzhu raised his hand and asked Wen Mingxuan to sit down together.
As Wen Mingxuan narrated, Wen Qingzhu began to understand the details of Jing Yinuo's life in the Wei family these days.
He is a very self-disciplined person, goes to bed early and gets up early, and does everything on a regular basis.
Get up at the quarter hour of Mao, eat at the quarter hour, and read at the hour of the fifth hour.
Then he played the piano for two quarters of an hour, then went to say hello to his aunt, then went out and started walking around Jinzhou City.
Wen Mingxuan sent someone to follow him and found that he was silently observing the situation of every shop in Jinzhou.
Not just Qian Yong’s stores, but every store!
At noon, I went to the inn where I stayed before for lunch and lunch, and then went to the prefecture in the afternoon.
Finally, he seemed to know some people in Jinju and started visiting friends.
Come back in the evening and have dinner with everyone.
"My sister should know what happened after he came back. After dinner, he will definitely talk to my sister about the Red Bean Competition. When it gets completely dark, he will go out for a stroll. Xiao Han sent someone to follow him. His purpose at night is very random. , seems to be understanding the customs and customs of Jinzhou, and prefers to inquire about the customs and food here."
After Wen Mingxuan finished speaking, his face looked a little relieved, but also a little strange.
There is nothing wrong with a regular life, but if it is too regular, people will inevitably suspect that he has something to hide.
Wen Qingzhu pondered for a moment. Wen Mingxuan's intuition was correct. There must be something wrong with Jing Yinuo being so serious.
However, she felt that Wen Mingxuan's temperament had become taciturn and his thoughts had become more delicate since Wen Shuquan deceived him.
Judging from the current situation, this is not a good thing.
So Wen Qingzhu didn't intend for him to care too much about the secret behind Jing Yinuo.
"The person Master Wei has found shouldn't be a big problem. Just follow your own pace as usual."
Wen Mingxuan noticed what Sister A meant and opened his mouth, but stopped talking.
But thinking that he had something to hide from his sister, he nodded in agreement.
After returning to his yard, Jiang Yuanhan followed closely.
He brought an analysis report over and handed it to Wen Qingzhu to read: "Sister, look at this, this is what I just wrote."
Wen Qingzhu took it over doubtfully and couldn't help asking: "Aren't you taking care of Linlin? I saw that when Mingxuan took her, she was very noisy!"
"No, she was very quiet, painting by herself, and she gave me a painting as a gift when she left." Jiang Yuanhan shook his head and said it was not difficult.
Wen Qingzhu still felt strange, but she didn't say anything and picked up the report and read it.
In less than two quarters of an hour, she finished reading it, and immediately discovered something she had not discovered before.
"There are also underground water storage channels built in the city?"
This was the key point that Jiang Yuanhan specially listed. He took out another map: "I went to the Yamen for two days and found this from the corner of the workshop. I looked at it carefully and found that the overall shape is the same as the outline of Jinzhou City. It was very similar, and the layout of the passages was very similar to the streets in the city. Later, I took the name of my third uncle and found a retired government official to find out the origin of this map."
Wen Qingzhu took the map and looked at it carefully, and found that the terrain was indeed similar to Jinzhou.
But she also discovered that this water storage channel had many entrances and exits connecting it to the outside of the city.
"By the way, this underground water storage channel was built thirty years ago. At that time, the Yuanjiang River dried up and Jinju City was not as big as it is now. It was difficult to get water from the ferry.
Later, in the last ten years, the water level of the Yuanjiang River rose, and droughts rarely occurred. The underground water storage channel was abandoned, so that few people know about it now.
However, I still feel that although the conditions in Jinju are a bit harsh, the officials who take office here are very capable, so I think it is strange that this water storage channel is abandoned! "
Jiang Yuanhan's face had an expression that said, "Praise me quickly."
After waiting for a long time, Wen Qingzhu was talking attentively, and Jiang Yuanhan was a little discouraged: "What I found out seems to be of no use. Apart from proving that the prefect of Jinzhou for thirty years is very smart, it has no use."
After coming back to his senses, Wen Qingzhu put down the report and map in his hands and said extremely seriously: "It's very useful. I may know where the disappeared poor people live!"
"Huh?" Jiang Yuanhan felt that he didn't quite understand.
Why are you suddenly getting involved with the poor!
This time, Wen Qingzhu used the people brought by Jiang Yuanhan for the first time.
She must treat it with caution. If her guess comes true, then the development of Jinzhou was planned by certain people!
What's even more frightening is that, if this is the case, the reason why the underground water storage channel was abandoned more than ten years ago may not be because the weather has improved since then.
After all, Jinzhou is now located between the plains and the mountains in the southwest. Even if the Yuanjiang River is widened and Jinzhou City is expanded, the water used by the people for farming is often not enough.
In less than an hour, Lu Tao came back with a land deed.
"It's been bought, we can go over and have a look."
Before setting off again, Wen Qingzhu thought twice and decided not to take Wen Mingxuan with him.
Arriving at a remote and dilapidated house in the west of the city, Wen Qingzhu immediately ordered Jiang Yuanhan's people to start looking for possible underground entrances.
Less than two-quarters of an hour later, something was discovered in the backyard.
They hurried away, and the secret guard pointed to the dry well in front of them and said, "My subordinates have already gone down to investigate. There is a cave at the bottom of the well."
Wen Qingzhu was worried that there would be unexpected dangers, so she asked Jiang Yuanhan to stay up there temporarily while she took Xi'er and the secret guard down first.
At the bottom of the well, the air was thin. Wen Qingzhu did not dare to blow on the fire, so he took out a luminous pearl that could illuminate one side.
The secret guard opened the way in front, and Xi'er stood behind Wen Qingzhu to protect her.
The three of them observed the bottom of the well carefully, and suddenly, there was a crisp click sound from the dry and hard ground.
Everyone was startled, but Xi'er's foot did not move.
"Miss, I really want to step on something."
Wen Qingzhu recalled the crispy sound just now and felt it was like old bones.
If there are bones, small animals may also fall here.
But to be on the safe side, Wen Qingzhu decided to take a look in person.
Let Xi'er move her feet and pick up the broken bones.
Then Wen Qingzhu carefully distinguished the brightness of the night pearl.
Slowly, her eyes became horrified.
"These are human bones!"
"Human, human bones!" Xi'er suddenly felt a chill rising from her feet.
She looked at the thick darkness around her with some uneasiness: "It's not like there are human bones all around."
Wen Qingzhu put down the human skeleton and turned around to let the secret guard continue to lead the way.
The bottom of the well was huge, at least much bigger than they had previously expected.
They searched along the edge for half an hour and before they were finished, Jiang Yuanhan above couldn't help shouting: "Sister! Are you okay?"
"It's okay!" Xi'er's voice was loud and she replied on Wen Qingzhu's behalf.
It was this sound that caused a small shaking sound to come from Wen Qingzhu's left side!
"Madam! Over there!" The secret guard immediately found the direction and took the lead towards the shaking place.
After a while, a terrifying scene appeared in front of everyone.
Large pieces of white bones were piled up like a hill, and all the postures were pointing upwards, as if they were encountering something terrible.
Even the well-informed secret guards couldn't help but gasp.
It was not that Wen Qingzhu had never seen bones before him, but if he thought about the pile of bones in front of him, there would probably be more than a thousand people.
They searched here for most of an hour and knew how wide it was.
"Little Miss, what is... what is this place for?" Xi'er's voice trembled uncontrollably. What she saw in front of her was really terrifying.
Wen Qingzhu held Xi'er's hand: "Don't be afraid, they are all dead."
Then she looked sideways at the mountain of bones, feeling heavy in her heart. She would definitely investigate it!
Wen Qingzhu left the house that day and sent someone to stay behind.
Back at Wei's house, she had been feeling uneasy.
The matter was much more serious than she thought. The people they brought alone might not be able to solve these problems!
Wen Qingzhu was sitting at his desk with a pen in his hand, thinking about whether to write a letter to Fu Lie.
Although she didn't deliberately understand what was going on in Cangzhou, the situation was only more dangerous than in Jinzhou.
After hesitating for a long time, Wen Qingzhu put down his pen.
You must not distract his energy at this time!
"Miss, Mr. Jing would like to see you."
Wen Qingzhu looked out the window and saw Jing Yinuo standing in the yard with a letter in his hand.
After a moment of silence, she stood up and came out.
He stopped in front of Jing Yinuo and asked him: "What did you find out?"
"This is a letter from my father, saying that he has investigated some details about Qianjia Trading Company. I think it is necessary to show it to the girl."
Jing Yinuo handed her the letter in his hand.
Wen Qingzhu took it and took a look, then frowned: "Did Qian Yong come back from the sea by boat?"
"Yes, this is the strange thing. When he first came to Daqi Dynasty, he had no identity. The most information we could find about him was twenty years ago. My father mentioned that he appeared in sight. At that time, Zhongyuan spoke very well!"
Jing Yinuo then raised his own question: "This is the first foreign merchant ship that appeared in our country after nearly forty years. Qian Yong is only about forty years old. I really can't understand why he is so good at speaking Chinese." Where did you learn it from?"
"Is there a possibility that Qian Yong was from Daqi before and later left by boat?"
Jing Yinuo immediately shook his head: "Absolutely impossible! The wind and waves on the sea are not something ordinary people can withstand. A big ship like the one he returned before did not have a hundred thousand taels of silver, thousands of shipbuilders, and powerful enough designers. It’s impossible to create!”
Wen Qingzhu was silent for a long time. Qian Yong's origin was strange, but that was not the point.
She raised her head and looked at Jing Yinuo: "I heard that you have been to Sheng's house?"
"Girl, I know." Jing Yinuo was slightly startled, but he didn't deny it, "Well, my grandpa's family has some connection with the Sheng family. I don't know where Master Sheng got the news that I came to Jinzhou. I As soon as he showed up, he sent someone to invite me to the Sheng family."
"Then what do you think of Shanda people?"
Jing Yinuo frowned: "I don't like him very much, he's too forceful, and... he loves money very much."