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Chapter 1601: To the Capital First
Chapter 1601: To the Capital First
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan asked them if anything had happened in the past ten days. The people of Stone Village said that nothing had happened, but it was also possible that they did not know about it because they were busy in the village or the fields these days.
After that, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan didn’t ask any more questions.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
After staying in Stone Village for a while, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan went to the back of Zhang Dazhu’s house to hitch a carriage.
After leading the carriage out from behind Zhang Dazhu’s house, Xue Yan helped Jiang Yue onto the carriage. Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Shoushou said that they were fine and insisted on sending them to the village entrance.
It was not until they were some distance away from Stone Village that Jiang Yue poked her head out of the carriage and said to Xue Yan, “The main purpose of our visit to Da Chen this time is to give the evidence to Shi Yuan. So, let’s go to the capital first. When we reach the capital, we’ll hire people to post and send out missing person notices.”
The things in Fan Jianxi’s secret chamber were all in her space. He couldn’t take them there on a fast horse alone. He had to use a carriage.
Moreover, if he had placed those things in the carriage, there would have been checkpoints along the way that would have required inspection. How could he allow those things to be seen by others before he handed them over to Shi Yuan? What if the person who was inspected happened to be someone on the list?
So, just in case, Jiang Yue had to go to keep the evidence safe in her space.
“Yes.” Xue Yan naturally had no objections.
Jiang Yue continued, “We don’t need any proof of identity in Lizhou, but when we leave Lizhou and enter other places, there will be checkpoints, especially when we enter the imperial capital. There will be people checking us at the city gate, so we will need proof of identity. To avoid any accidents, we don’t want to implicate the people of Stone Village. Naturally, we can’t say that we’re from Stone Village, nor can we borrow their proof of identity. Therefore, we have to find a black market and get a fake identity.”
Xue Yan said, “No matter where it is, there’s no shortage of such black markets. There was even a black market in Lizhou. As long as we pay enough money, they can easily give us an identity card stamped with the official seal. Although the identity is fake, the official seal on the certificate is real. It’s either someone from the office secretly stamped it, or that the official is colluding with those people from the black market. He’ll do anything for money.”
Jiang Yue nodded. “Then we should go to the black market in the prefecture and buy two fake certificates before going there.”
“Yes.”
It wasn’t until 11:45 p.m. that Xue Yan arrived at the prefecture with his carriage. It was already this hour, and the sky was already dark. Therefore, he had to find a nearby inn to stay at first, and then go to the black market tomorrow morning.
The next day, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan went to the black market while observing for followers the whole way. They did not find anything unusual in the prefecture, nor did they hear that the government office had been knocked out last night and that there was a secret chamber.
Fan Jianxi had sealed the news and kept it from the people outside the government office.
Besides, they had not heard that Fan Jianxi had run away. If the magistrate had run away, the prefecture would be filled with hot gossip. However, they did not hear anything out of the ordinary. It was obvious that Fan Jianxi was still the magistrate of Lizhou and was still in the government office of Lizhou.
Fan Jianxi was such an insecure person. The things in the secret chamber had been taken away. Even if there were no more treasures, he could still run away. Even with everything against him, he did not. He was still in the government office and nothing was out of place. It was as if nothing had happened…