The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1772: Is It That Mysterious?

Chapter 1772: Chapter 1772: Is It That Mysterious?

"This... all of these are?"

He stammered, raising his hand to point at the several boxes, and asked the steward.

"Replying to your honor, these indeed are,"

the steward replied, eyes sweeping over the chests.

Although he had seen these things before, and his heart was no longer as enraged as it had been, to the point of wanting to charge into the jail and beat Su Wan to death,

the sight of those items still caused his anger to flare up.

"Your honor, the bulk of these things are the evils committed by Su Meihua, the eldest daughter of the Su Residence. The rest were done by the relatives of the Su family, and there are also several major incidents caused by Su Wan himself. Madam Su also has a few lives in her hands,"

he said.

In short, not a single person in the Su Residence had clean hands.

Even though they had already known what kind of people the Su family were, the sight of so many petitions and evidence of their crimes truly frightened Jin Jian and the steward.

"Leave these here for now. Steward, have you made a list of these items?" Jin Jian asked.

He had not anticipated that so many common people had been harmed by the Su family, hence he had only instructed that the petitions be recorded. But now...

Without a list, dealing with the contents of several boxes would be utterly unmanageable.

"Yes."

The steward immediately responded.

"It’s in another box; I will fetch it for your honor right away."

With that, the steward left the room. After a good while, he returned, carrying a moderately-sized box in his arms.

’Thud’ went the sound.

Jin Jian couldn’t help but swallow hard.

The list alone needed such a big box? That was terrifying, wasn’t it?

"Your honor, this box contains a list of the commoners’ complaints and some of the gold and treasures Commander Su’s residence had embezzled from the common folk over the years," the steward explained.

"Good."

Jin Jian took the box from the steward’s hands and then left the room.

...

Elsewhere, Lin Caisang and Sui Zimo sat together, listening to Zhe Jue, who had just returned from gathering intelligence from the outside.

"Lord, Miss Lin, I have only learned that every year in February, several slave traders come from the Man Kingdom and trade slaves in the black market of the Lotus Commandery. Of course, they also bring some young maidens from the Man Kingdom to sell in the Lotus Commandery. After the sale, they exchange them for male slaves to take back,"

Zhe Jue reported, looking at them.

"Is that all?"

Lin Caisang asked, looking at him.

She knew about the slave traders, but which ones, and from where in the Man Kingdom, she did not know.

Had he not found out anything else, the most important information?

"That’s about it," Zhe Jue replied.

That information was what he had managed to pry out of a black market figure known as Gold Teeth after spending a substantial amount of silver. He could not find out anything else.

The people in the black market were tight-lipped; they did not inquire about a person’s origins or destinations. As long as they received enough silver, they didn’t care or ask about anything else.

Actually, even Gold Teeth implied that he did not know from which part of the Man Kingdom these slave traders came.

"Although that’s all we have, I conjecture that since they come with many slaves, they mustn’t be too far from the Liang Kingdom, nor too far from the Lotus Commandery. It should be the Man Kingdom’s borderlands; perhaps it is in places like Yongxia City or Tiancheng, as these are the closest to Lotus Commandery,"

he speculated.

"Is the black market in the Lotus Commandery that mysterious?"