Chapter 311: The Missing Wife.

Regarding Fu Wei's question, Bao Zheng didn't know how to answer for a while.

Could it be that to tell the truth, saying that he is not corrupt and does not want to find a way to accumulate wealth, so the fiscal revenue will be lower than that of other counties?

This is obviously not possible, even if it is an unwritten rule to collect money, this layer of window paper is not something that Bao Zheng can pierce. At this time, he is just a small county magistrate, people are soft-spoken, and if he pierces the window paper, he will only become the object of everyone's dealing, although he Bao Zheng is honest and honest, but he is not a stupid person, and he knows how to judge the situation.

Thinking like this, Bao Zhengcai hurriedly said: "All the taxes of the lower officials are collected in accordance with the express regulations of the imperial court, and they dare not ask for a penny more, let alone a penny less, and the official has nothing to do with the tax in his own pocket, so if Master Fu thinks there is a problem with these financial revenues, he can investigate." ”

After Bao Zheng said these words, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but he also knew that he was honest and honest, and this Fu Wei couldn't grasp the handle, and he didn't dare to do anything to him.

It's just that after Bao Zheng said these words, the father-in-law snorted coldly on the side, and squinted at Bao Zheng, but he didn't dare to look at it for a long time at this time, because Bao Zheng's black face gave him a sense of panic.

Fu Wei heard this and nodded slightly: "Well, this official will investigate clearly, if Tianchang County only has these incomes, I will report it truthfully." ”

In this way, Fu Wei asked for some other things, and then lived in the post house in Tianchang County under Bao Zheng's arrangement.

The post house is about a mile away from the county government, not very far, after Fu Wei's men and horses were arranged, Bao Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't expect that being an official would have to endure so many thrills.

At this time, the sky was already dark, the temperature had dropped, Bao Zheng and Hua Lang and others were drinking at the county office, and the appetizer was just two plates of peanuts and a few cucumbers.

These dishes are the home-cooked dishes of Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce, after all, the small county order, the money is not very high, and Bao Zheng sometimes has to help the people, all the money is less, although Gongsun Ce is working in the county government, but there is no name in the imperial court household registration, that is to say, his salary is all provided by Bao Zheng.

The two who are so poor can only eat these things, and of course, their lives are not really so hard.

When everyone was drinking and chatting together, Hua Lang looked at Bao Zheng and said, "Brother Bao, that father-in-law seems to be here to find fault, we can't be careless!" ”

Bao Zheng also saw this, but he sighed and said: "He is a prisoner, I can't help him, everything is one step at a time!" ”

There was some helplessness in these words, everyone drank a drink, but they didn't feel comfortable, and they didn't drink more after the end, and went back.

When he went back, Hua Lang thought about Bao Zheng, hoping that Tianchang County would not have an accident in the past few days, if something happened, it would not be easy to do.

But things are not as Hua Lang thought, the next morning, Hua Lang and the others got up and just came to the county office, they saw someone beating drums outside the door, like that, it was really urgent.

After a few mighty ascensions, the official brought the person who beat the drum to the court, Hua Lang and the others stood in the hall, while Zhang Gonggong and Fu Wei observed Bao Zheng's trial behind the hall, which can be regarded as a way to investigate Bao Zheng's political achievements.

But after saying that after taking the drummer into the lobby, Bao Zheng immediately asked: "If you have any grievances, report them quickly!" ”

After he knelt down, he said: "Back to the adult, the villain's name is Yuan Ru, his family lives on North Street, because the family has some spare money, and there are dozens of acres of fertile land, so everyone calls me Yuan Yuanwai, I came to report the case, because yesterday, the insider went out to play, and has not come back yet, the villain is really worried, so I came to report." ”

After Yuan Ru finished saying this, Bao Zheng immediately asked, "Where is your wife going to play, can someone accompany you?" ”

Yuan Ru hurriedly replied: "I went to the creek on the outskirts of the city to play, she said that there was a summer escape there, accompanied by a maid, but now the insider and the maid are nowhere to be seen." ”

When everyone heard this, they felt that this case was so similar to the case of Jiang Hai's kidnapping of a woman they encountered in Yangzhou City, could it be that there was another mad demon in Tianchang County?

In this way, wouldn't the women in Tianchang County put themselves in danger?

However, before the investigation is clear, you must not blindly draw conclusions, so at this time, Bao Zheng continued to ask: "Can you send someone to find it?" ”

Yuan Ru nodded: "I found it, I didn't go home last night, so I sent someone to look for it, but after looking for it all night, there was still no clue, and I was really helpless after the last one, so I came to report the case and asked the adults to help find it." ”

After hearing this, Bao Zheng already had some understanding, so he asked Yuan Ru to draw the portrait of his wife and the portrait of the maid, and then posted rewards from all over Tianchang County, in addition, let Yuan Ru lead everyone to the suburbs to take a look.

Yuan Ru was the first to lead the way to leave the county office, while Bao Zheng hurriedly caught up with them after saying goodbye to Gonggong Zhang and Fu Wei.

A group of people came to the creek where Mrs. Yuan was playing to look for clues, but they didn't find any clues after searching for a long time.

This place is indeed very shady, a good place to escape the heat, but this place also seems a little too wide, it is not easy to find a person, there are many footprints by the stream, but it is very messy, indicating that many people have been to this place, but these do not prove anything.

When I found noon, a servant found an earring by a stream, everyone saw this, and hurriedly ran over, Hua Lang carefully checked in that place, and found that there were traces of scuffling by the stream, and there were traces of falling into the water on the side, seeing these, Hua Lang immediately let people enter the water to salvage, and at this time, Bao Zheng showed the earrings to Yuan Ru and asked if this was his wife's thing?

After Yuan Ru looked at it carefully, he shook his head and said: "This is not my wife's earrings, but I seem to have seen ...... there" Speaking of this, Yuan Ru suddenly shouted excitedly: "By the way, this is the earrings of the maid next to my insider." ”

The maid's earrings were found here, which means that Mrs. Yuan did come to this place.

Bao Zheng pondered for a long time, and at this time, a servant shouted loudly in the stream: "My lord, I found it." ”

Everyone looked for prestige, and saw a servant groping in the water with both hands, and then suddenly pulled out a piece of clothing, and after the clothes were pulled out, they found that there was a person in the clothes, it was a woman, who looked quite young, Yuan Ru saw the woman, and shouted again and again: "That's my wife's maid Xiaomei, she ...... How did she die here, then...... My wife ...... her."