Chapter 56: Magistrate Zhang Is in a Panic

He was not only panicking, but also afraid.

"He should come to me, why not?"

In the room where the oil lamp flickered, Magistrate Zhang's voice was full of doubt and puzzlement, he couldn't figure it out.

Lin Fu was dead, but he still knew nothing about the account book. The box of the escort agency was empty. Someone had stolen the account book before, so it was the mysterious person who had conveyed the message to him before.

This person not only got the account book, but also wanted to convey the message to him to prevent himself from being tricked by Lin Fu.

The result was obvious. This person should have something to ask of him, or wanted to catch his handle, and then let him use the power in his hands to make things convenient.

The worst thing was to kill Lin Fu with his own hands.

Apart from these, Magistrate Zhang really couldn't figure out what else was possible.

But now it was night, and the surroundings were still silent, and no one came to find him.

"Doesn't he know what happened today?"

"No, it's absolutely impossible."

"Since this mysterious man has set his sights on me, he must be closely observing the changes around him."

"But why didn't he come to me?"

Staring at the oil lamp in front of him, Magistrate Zhang felt more and more dizzy, as if he was stuck in a dead end.

The night is long, but if you think about something, the night will be short.

Magistrate Zhang didn't sleep all night.

He couldn't sleep, and he couldn't sleep as long as the matter was not resolved.

The mysterious man became a headache for him, and now every time he thought of it, he felt a splitting headache.

"Master Zhang, didn't you sleep all night?" The master got up early and came to the county government early, and saw that Magistrate Zhang looked haggard and sat on a chair weakly.

On weekdays, this master was radiant, but why did he seem to be a few years older today?

Magistrate Zhang didn't answer, leaning back on the chair, his head resting on it weakly, his eyes dull.

Seeing this, the master did not ask any more questions. He thought that everyone has their own problems, so he went to do his own thing.

"Why didn't he come? Is he still plotting something?"

"The enemy is in the dark, I am in the light, I don't even know his identity, and I haven't even seen this person."

"If this person doesn't show his hand, how can I find him?"

A series of thoughts turned around in Zhang County Magistrate's mind, and the more they turned around, the more headache he felt.

In the end, he came to a conclusion.

- There is no way.

Anything you do may leave traces, but if this person doesn't come to him and doesn't do anything, then he really can't find the other person.

"Wait a little longer." Zhang County Magistrate thought.

Time waits for no one. No matter what changes happen in the world, time will always move forward, it will not retreat, nor will it stagnate.

In the blink of an eye, several days have passed.

In these days, Zhang County Magistrate has been tortured by the distracting thoughts in his heart.

As the saying goes, if you don't do bad things on weekdays, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night.

For people with a guilty conscience, once they feel that their affairs have been exposed, it is the greatest torture.

"Ahhh! I'm going crazy, are you coming or not!"

In the study, County Magistrate Zhang threw all the pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the table to the ground and overturned the table.

He pounded the ground with his fists, his eyes were red, his hair was disheveled, and a crazy breath flowed from his body to his body.

Five days!

Five whole days!

These five days seemed as if nothing had happened, as quiet as a pool of stagnant water.

County Magistrate Zhang knew in his heart that this was just the tranquility before the storm, and the quieter it was, the stronger the storm would be.

County Magistrate Zhang didn't know how strong the storm was, but he always felt that he was like a dangerous building, which would collapse in the wind and rain at any time.

The torture was like a bone-eroding wind, making him increasingly haggard and destroying him all the time.

The knife hanging over his head is the most terrifying, because you don't know when it will fall.

"Don't let me catch you... If you are caught by me, I will make you suffer all kinds of punishment in prison!"

The disheveled Magistrate Zhang sat on the ground, looking at the mess in the house. The torment in his heart not only did not decrease, but became more and more serious.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"Who!" Magistrate Zhang was startled, got up from the ground, and asked sternly.

"Sir, someone... is looking for you..."

Outside the door, the voice of the master trembled slightly.

"Someone is looking for me?" Magistrate Zhang was stunned, and then he was overjoyed.

After so long, the mysterious man finally couldn't bear it!

I knew it!

This guy was grinding me, and now he has no patience, I won!

It's finally my turn!

Magistrate Zhang looked at his disheveled clothes, tried to calm himself down, took a deep breath, and said: "Let him wait, I will clean up and go find him."

Haha.

You made me wait for so long in vain, now it's my turn.

Thinking of this, County Magistrate Zhang decided to clean up.

But before he could make a move, he heard another voice coming from outside the door.

"Sir, you'd better hurry up, it's... Daoling is here."

The master's voice was trembling, obviously very scared.

"Dao... Daoling?" County Magistrate Zhang sat on the ground with a blank face.

...

In the Great Chu Kingdom, there are four major categories for the classification of places - Jingzhou Prefecture Dao.

And under Dao, there are counties.

The so-called Daoling is in charge of a domain, and there are countless counties under it.

Rusheng County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Jingyun Dao.

At this moment, Li Daoling was sitting in the hall with a roll of account book in his hand.

There was no need to flip through it, because he had flipped through it countless times on the way here.

This account book was jointly presented by the capable disciples of Qingyun Academy and Vajra Temple. Even Li Daoling could not be careless.

On one side is Qingyun Academy, which continuously provides scholars for the Great Chu Kingdom.

On the other side is Vajra Temple, one of the ten major temples in the Great Chu Kingdom.

With the combined efforts of these two parties and the irrefutable evidence, Li Daoling had already sentenced Magistrate Zhang to death in his heart.

When he arrived at Sheng County, he had already learned about the history of every sum of money from the bank.

Magistrate Zhang was very careful about money, and he thought he had handled every sum perfectly.

Of course, that was his own opinion.

If Li Daoling couldn't find out, he would not be a magistrate.

If serious corruption had occurred within his jurisdiction, it would have been fine if it had not been discovered, but now that it was discovered, it must be severely punished.

As a magistrate, once there was a similar situation involving the beheading of court officials, a pigeon could be sent directly to the capital.

Before coming, he sent a letter first.

The capital gave a reply that if the matter was true, he would be executed immediately.

Li Daoling felt that Magistrate Zhang's days were over.

With this in mind, Magistrate Zhang, who was disheveled and dirty, was pushed in, and two eighth-rank warriors were holding him.

"Zhang Yi, you are guilty!"

In the lobby, Li Daoling slammed the table.

Zhang County Magistrate tried to look up, this scene seemed familiar.

He already understood why the mysterious man did not show up, because... the other party wanted to kill them all!