The Comeback of the Charming Farmer's Wife

Chapter 2564 - 48: Obstacles Arise

"This plan is feasible, anyway, those commoners don’t know what was written on the paper Xiaobai took away."

San nodded. "I’ll have someone handle it right away."

"Remember to first interrogate this person and find out who ordered them to do this," Li Luru looked at the bailiff at her feet, "Coming to town, ignoring everything else but heading straight for the drum tower, there’s definitely something wrong."

"Yes, I understand."

Afterwards, San left first with the bailiffs.

Li Luru and Xiaobai went to Nankai County and found an inn to stay.

In the evening, San and two guards returned.

"How did it go?"

San began to speak, "I interrogated that bailiff, these people aren’t even bailiffs from the county office, but local thugs from the town, said someone gave their leader five hundred taels of silver to do this job. A bunch of scoundrels, they’ll do anything for money. The person behind it probably just used them as tools, I figure these people will be silenced afterward for sure."

"And how about the things I asked you to prepare?"

Speaking of this, San looked troubled, "Miss Li, the fabric the Emperor wears isn’t something that regular fabric shops sell. Other than the four big imperial merchants and the palace, nowhere else has it. We could get it from the imperial merchants, but definitely not within two days. If we can’t get it soon, things might get out of control."

Li Luru held Xiaobai, pondered for a moment, and suddenly said, "You go prepare some high-quality brocade for me, along with dye... also find another courtyard... we’ll do it ourselves overnight."

San hesitated and asked, "Can this work?"

"My family owns a fabric shop, the fabric in the shop all comes from our own dyeing workshop, I know what I’m doing!"

"Okay, I’ll go right away."

After San left, Li Luru turned to the other two, "What about your side?"

The two guards looked a bit troubled, "We went to report the case, and without the prince’s name card, even after pounding the big drum for a long time, no one came out. We broke in, but the people at Nankai County office said Lord County Magistrate was injured in the earthquake and that cases would be registered first and reviewed later."

"Nonsense, Nankai County wasn’t affected, how did he get injured? Moreover, if it’s a real robbery and murder case, delaying the review would give the perpetrators plenty of time to escape," Li Luru thought, she had underestimated the Nankai County office.

Even for a big event like an earthquake, no one from the Nankai County office bothered to intervene, so why would they care about robbery and murder cases?

After thinking for a bit, Li Luru said, "The Prefectural Magistrate of Yun’an is now in Liyang, the two of you split up, one of you go find him overnight, and tell him that the people of two towns in Nankai County haven’t been settled yet, and he must send someone to arrange it immediately. The other should take the name card of Prefect of Yun’an Prefecture and beat the drum at the county office gate early in the morning."

Splitting forces to prevent anything else from going wrong at the Nankai County office.

"Alright, I’ll go," one of the guards said as he dashed downstairs.

One hour later, San returned, "Miss Li, everything is ready."

"Let’s go."

At the small courtyard San had prepared, Li Luru soaked the white brocade San brought, prepared the dye, and went through the dyeing process. Unable to wait for it to dry, she lit the heated brick bed, and fortunately, Yun’an is in the north, so even households in the county have heated brick beds.

After drying the fabric on the heated brick bed, she began to cut, sew, and write; busy through the night, finally by the first ray of dawn, the ink on the fabric was dry.