Xie Rongzhao looked at the door anxiously, while Chen Xia subconsciously moved closer to his master. At some point, there was a sword in his hand.
Li Si led a few guards, followed by a few farmers.
"Miss Qi, when my subordinates were patrolling outside, they discovered that these people had brought copper oil. When my subordinates arrived, they had already poured a bucket into the corner. This is the remaining few buckets that will not be poured out in the future."
The three young men looked like they were dressed like peasants.
Xie Rongzhao is now an official's family member, so naturally he cannot break the law without knowing it.
"Tie them up and send them to Jingzhao Mansion Office early tomorrow morning, and keep them together with these evidences."
"Yes, miss."
As soon as Li Si agreed, someone came over crying and begging for mercy.
"Please, Miss, please show your respect! This is my incompetent nephew. He must have been instigated by others to do such a thing. Please, Miss, please spare him for once."
The person who came to complain was a middle-aged woman. Xie Rongzhao did not recognize her, but Grandma Wang on the side recognized her.
"Miss, she is among the people who make trouble during the day."
Xie Rongzhao was surprised and always felt that there was something weird here.
"Li Si, lock them up and guard them tightly. No one is allowed to visit."
"Yes, miss."
Li Si and others escorted the three young men out and walked out. The woman here was crying and wanted to rush forward, but was blocked by someone.
"Madam, you and I are strangers, but your nephew wants my life. I have to know why? There is no murderer in the world who wants to kill others who has been caught. How can you rely on you? I’ll let you go after crying a few times!”
This is really disrespectful.
The villagers who came with me were all pointing.
If it's just some trivial matter, that's all, but this involves human lives!
"Come, let's see you off."
It sounds nice to say that you are seeing off guests, so Grandma Wang directly ordered the people to be kicked out.
For such a big matter, the village chief was naturally called out, but before he could say anything, the door to the house was closed.
Early the next morning, Li Si and others had arranged for the three people to be sent to Jingzhao Mansion. When the woman came to plead for mercy again, they had already been escorted away.
Outsiders don't know, but Xie Rongzhao knows that things are not simple this time.
Those people's hands and feet were tied, and their mouths were gagged with rags. Li Si also found some poisons on them, which made it difficult to believe that they came here to cause trouble on a whim.
Both the witnesses and the physical evidence were sent to Jingzhao Mansion.
Although it was sent to the government, it was impossible for Li Si to just ignore it.
Moreover, Xie Rongzhao could also see that these people were clearly ordered to come here, so what were the intentions of the people behind the scenes? She had to figure it out.
The poison was confiscated, and the three of them were beaten, but no one confessed anything. The governor had no choice but to temporarily detain them and retry them another day.
Somehow the news reached the Weixinhou Mansion.
Zhao Heng wanted to send someone to investigate, but he was still young, and he couldn't instigate the really capable people in the house, so he simply went to ask his good father.
Zhao Yue was also shocked. He didn't expect that someone would dare to kill the little darling and set fire to him in the middle of the night. This was no small matter.
Zhao Yue sent his son away and went to Xie's Mansion in person to find out.
Xie Rongzhao didn't hide anything from him and told him everything.
Zhao Yue looked her up and down. This girl was really lucky. Otherwise, something might have happened.
"Have you offended anyone recently?"
Xie Rongzhao was stunned. She had always been adhering to the belief of being kind to others when interacting with others. She really didn't know when she would offend people.
And when she thought about it more carefully, she found that she didn't have many friends in the capital. Zhao Ying was one, Wang Yinuo from Duke Dingguo's mansion was one, and the others were just acquaintances, so they really didn't count. It is absolutely impossible to be a friend and an enemy.
"Looking at you like this, you must have offended someone without realizing it. Is your embroidery shop robbing other people's business?"
Xie Rongzhao shook his head: "Probably not. My uncle also knows that most of what my embroidery shop does is ordinary people's business. The profit is small, and many big merchants look down on it."
Several large embroidery shops in the capital only deal with high-ranking officials. One or two pieces of embroidery can earn dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver. How can her small embroidery shop compare? ?
Xie Rongzhao opened the embroidery shop, firstly, to pass the time when he had nothing to do, and secondly, he also thought about what he could do for the family with his own hands, so as not to make too much profit, and he also considered his father's official reputation.
Now Xie Xiuwen's official rank has reached the fourth rank, and he gets a lot of salary every year. In addition, there are so many farms, so he naturally has no worries about food and drink.
As for shops, Liu Ruolan only had two shops opened now, one of which was opened under the guise of making a dowry for Xie Rongzhao in the future.
The remaining shops are rented to merchants, who can make hundreds of taels of silver a year.
Zhao Yue also believed that Xie Rongzhao would not lie, so there was no need.
"Don't worry about this matter. I will arrange for people to investigate, but there will probably be no results in Jingzhao Mansion. These three people were most likely pushed out as gunmen. The three of them are afraid They don’t know anything at all, they are just greedy for money.”
Xie Rongzhao also deeply agrees with this.
When Li Si used a knife to scare them last night, he only said that he had received other people's money to do the work. He had collected a total of fifty taels of deposit, and had not given the balance of one hundred taels.
When asked who gave the money, they couldn't tell.
Obviously, the people behind it had long expected this would happen.
The matter ended without any problem, and Xie Rongzhao felt extremely depressed, but he had no other choice.
After several young men from the Xie family heard about this, they naturally advised her to go out less often in the future, and even if she did go out, they should not stay outside.
Xie Rongzhao, on the other hand, thought of Xiuzhuang.
The copper oil was indeed splashed on the wall of Zhuangzi, but it was splashed on the West Cross Courtyard, which is now under the wall of Xiuzhuang. So, the other party's real purpose was to burn the people in Xiuzhuang to death?
There are two reasons for this, so Xie Rongzhao is naturally worried.
"Uncle Temple, please make another trip. Tell the head of the village and ask him to arrange for people to patrol at night, not only inside the house, but also outside the village carefully. Let me tell you my idea. Next month, everyone will go to the village again. Give me an extra tael of hard-earned money."
"Yes, miss."
There are many long-term workers in Zhuangzi, there are dozens of people, ten or eight people are assigned to patrol every day, and they only take turns every few days, and they have money to take, so those who don't do it are fools!
Just as Li Si was about to leave, he came back and asked: "Do you want to tell the village chief? Do you want them to pay more attention in their own village? (End of Chapter)
