Zhou Ci answered all Chen Anning's questions very cooperatively, just like when Xie Xun interrogated him.
Chen Anning asked: "Did Fan Dahai say those things to you when he was drunk?"
Zhou Ci replied: "Yes."
Chen Anning: "The fewer people should know about such a secret, the better. After Fan Dahai woke up, he didn't say anything to you?"
After thinking about it, Zhou Ci replied: "I didn't say anything, just patted me on the shoulder a few times."
Chen Anning looked at him questioningly.
Zhou Ci said: "He is a cautious person. When this happened, I was already their indispensable accountant."
Chen Anning didn't believe it: "Just a simple accountant?"
Zhou Ci said calmly: "Many major robberies were planned by me, such as this official ship case."
Chen Anning glanced at Xie Xun and immediately sat up straight, "You said you were the one who planned it, what's the evidence?"
Xie Xun also sat up straight.
He did not expect that Zhou Ci would be related to the official ship case, so when he was interrogated, he basically focused on the bandits' dens, Fan Dahai and Fan Wanyuan.
"There is no evidence." Zhou Ci said calmly, "They wanted a big case to distract your attention, so I casually mentioned that they could rob an official ship. They asked me to explain the steps, and I just thought about it. It was planned slowly, and I didn’t expect them to succeed.”
"Can I ask you why you want to advise them?" Chen Anning thought for a moment before asking.
Without thinking, Zhou Ci replied: "Because they avenged me."
Chen Anning said: "The county magistrate and the prefect are wrong, but how are those migrant workers on merchant ships so innocent?"
Zhou Ci said coldly: "When the magistrate took the lives of my wife and children, how innocent were they? When I went to the prefect's mansion to ask for justice, but they bit me back, how innocent was I? Besides..."
Zhou Ci looked towards Chen Anning, "Aren't you asking these questions and checking these things to avenge Yaowang Valley? Do you dare to say that you will not hurt innocent people when you seek revenge?"
"I won't talk about the distant ones, but let's talk about the children in the village of Zhang Gongshan. They were indeed robbed by Fan Dahai and others, but in order to capture Fan Dahai and others, you forced Fan Dahai and others to kill those children in order to protect themselves. Do you dare to say that those children did not die because of you?"
This man is hopeless.
Chen Anning stopped telling him any big truths and changed the topic: "After Fan Dahai told you that he obeyed King Anbei's order to massacre Yaowang Valley, didn't you secretly investigate the truth out of curiosity? "
"I checked." Zhou Ci's answer was still neither happy nor sad, "But after several years of checking, nothing was found."
"So, when he said that he was from King Anbei, he just said it casually without any solid evidence?" Chen Anning said.
Zhou Cidao: "What does it have to do with me whether I have solid evidence or not?"
Xie Xun held Chen Anning's hand and ordered the secret guard at the door, "Take him down!"
After Zhou Ci left, Chen Anning looked at Xie Xun's concerned eyes and said, "As for the clues, just look for them slowly. At least we know that Fan Dahai is indeed related to King Anbei."
Xie Xun did not stay long.
After dinner, Princess Guangling left again amid the dissatisfied voice.
Chen Anning heard the distress hidden in her reproachful words, so she did not interrupt.
Xie Xun was indeed very tired.
After verifying the path she mentioned, she immediately lurked in with the secret guards, and then worked with the Imperial Army to annihilate the bandit den. After catching Zhou Ci, they suddenly interrogated him overnight to find out the clues that he knew about the massacre in Yaowang Valley, and then immediately Take him back to Wuxing County.
During the process, he barely slept a full night's sleep.
They left in a hurry because Zhou Ci confessed, and the person in charge of the iron mine in the bandits' den was also captured by them. Regarding the iron mine, the person in charge of the iron mine knew more than he did.
"Third cousin, it's really hard." Hua Jin and Hua Rong watched Xie Xun go away at the door, and then both returned to the house. Hua Rong glanced at Chen Anning and pointedly said, "Thinner than when I was in the capital. I’ve eaten a lot, and I must have been living rough and sleeping all the way here, and I haven’t had much good food.”
"Yes." Chen Anning counterattacked, "You three cousins came all the way, and you couldn't eat or sleep well. And you..."
"What happened to us?" Hua Rong asked immediately.
Chen Anning shook her head, "You guys keep saying that third cousin works so hard, but in the end he eats better than anyone else and goes to bed earlier than anyone else. I'm surprised. It's not that when you really feel sorry for someone, it's tea." Don’t you want to stay up at night because of Sifan? Why are you doing the opposite? Or are you just pretending to feel sorry for your third cousin’s hard work?”
"Stop talking nonsense!" Hua Rong said, "Don't you eat well and go to bed early just like us?"
Chen Anning said: "I'm injured, are you injured too?"
"What's the big deal about being injured!" Hua Rong scolded coldly.
After Chen Anning thought about it, he said: "It's really not a big deal to be injured, but I used my injury to gain a secret route into the bandit's den. Not only did I avoid a lot of casualties to the Forbidden Army, but I also let your third cousin arrest me." Let’s go to the fourth in command of the bandits. The fourth in command, he is not an ordinary little thief. You are so amazing and uninjured. I wonder what contribution you have made to your dear third cousin?”
Hua Rong hummed, "Aren't we dealing with the kidnapped children these days?"
"Then you guys have worked so hard." Chen Anning stood up and poured a cup of tea for each of them. "Hurry up and have a drink of water and rest. Don't be tired, otherwise you will lose a pound or two soon."
"you……"
Chen Anning looked at her with a smile, "Miss Hua San has anything else to teach you, but it doesn't hurt."
"I'm too lazy to tell you!" Hua Rong threw up her sleeves and walked away.
Hua Jin took a look at her and Wen Huan and then left.
Wen Huan looked at the two people leaving and said softly: "You are so awesome!"
"Isn't it awesome?" Chen Anning said, "Learn a little bit, don't make anyone angry with yourself."
"Remember." Wen Huan nodded.
After a few days of rest, Chen Anning's injury gradually recovered. Knowing that she couldn't stop her, Princess Guangling followed her back to Jinling County, intending to supervise her and prevent her from overworking herself.
Xu Zan returned to Huainan Road less than two days after Princess Guangling arrived.
She was recovering from illness for nearly a month, and almost all the inns were occupied by the children she sent.
Therefore, as soon as they returned to Jinling County, Chen Anning and Wen Huan got busy.
Princess Guangling always wanted her to rest, but looking at the documents piled up in the room and the children, she swallowed everything she said. After asking the women and maids who came with her to help, and asking someone to send a letter to King Guangling asking him to send more people, she also joined in.
And when they were very busy.
Xie Xun is back again.
