The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 894 - 872 Evidence

Chapter 894: Chapter 872 Evidence

Three heads bumped into each other, but none of the three retreated. Daji paused first, allowing the two smaller heads to peek inside, taking up all the space in the process.

Manbao blinked, allowing her eyes to adjust to the darkness before she saw a bundle resting at the bottom. She and Bai Shan exclaimed simultaneously, "There’s something down there."

The two small heads collided again, this time a bit more forcefully. Both had to back out and, after exchanging glances, Manbao was the first to act, rolling up her sleeves and reaching in, only to find she couldn’t quite grasp it.

She silently backed out and looked to Bai Shan.

Bai Shan laughed and volunteered to try, but Daji stopped him, saying, "Let me do it. The young master and Miss Man are about the same height."

Bai Shan: ...

Finally, they made room for Daji.

Daji looked inside and easily lifted the object.

It was a bundle, wrapped in fine cloth already grey and old but still intact. Daji quickly unwrapped it to reveal a pile of items.

There were several pieces of gold, silver, and a package wrapped in oil paper, along with a large box and a small box.

Daji felt that the small box seemed familiar and opened it first to find a seal inside. His heart raced as he picked it up to show Bai Shan, "Young master, take a look."

Bai Shan examined the seal’s base, his pupils constricting as he said, "It’s an official seal, yes, it’s the official seal of Shu County!"

Manbao had also opened the other box, which contained more gold and silver, two booklets, and a stack of documents.

Manbao flipped through a booklet, stunned for a moment before realizing, "It’s my uncle’s, no, my father’s household register—he made up the household registration in Shangzhou."

The other booklet belonged to her mother, Ms. Xia.

Bai Shan put down the official seal and sifted through the other items in the box, "These are land deeds and house deeds, all from Shangzhou, probably from your mother’s side."

Bai Shan handed everything to Manbao and then turned to the remaining package.

It was a large item wrapped in black oil paper. Bai Shan reached out to open it, but Daji firmly pressed down on it.

Bai Shan looked up at him, and Daji, bowing his head, said, "Young master, the Old Madam said that after we retrieve the items, we must take them back first."

"Can’t I look at it?"

Daji, head lowered, didn’t speak.

Bai Shan pursed his lips and said, "We’ve come this far, what more could be kept from me? Can I truly detach myself completely?"

He added, "I already know both what I should and shouldn’t know."

Daji still firmly held down the package, "It’s the same if we look at it back home."

Always impatient, Manbao couldn’t wait and pushed Daji, saying, "The items were found by me, they were hidden by my father, and I will look if I want to!"

Daji, who hadn’t budged from the push, seemingly allowed himself to fall backward as if pushed over by her words.

Manbao and Bai Shan: ...

They looked at Daji speechlessly and then proceeded to unwrap the oil paper, revealing various booklets, papers, and letters inside.

Bai Shan did not open the letters but instead examined the papers, "What are these?"

Manbao leaned in, tilting her head, "They seem like land deeds, but not quite."

Daji, out of options, looked and informed them, "These are land deed records stored by the County Governmental Office, they appear to have been ripped off."

The two couldn’t make sense of it and flipped through other booklets and papers, only to realize they couldn’t understand most of the contents. They recognized one as an account book and one as a registry, but what kind of account book it was unknown, and the registry had no indication either.

With heads aching from the attempt, their malevolent gaze fell on the stack of letters.

Bai Shan reached out to take one, but Daji firmly held down his hand, saying, "Young master, you truly can’t look at that now, at least not until the County Magistrate Tang has seen it."

Reminded of the stories they had read, Manbao agreed with Daji, nodding emphatically, "Right, it seems it needs to be reviewed by the principal official first, but we can look at the envelopes."

They quickly discovered, however, that they didn’t recognize any of the names on the envelopes. Bai Shan dropped the letters one by one, saying, "Mr. Yichen, don’t know him. Why are so many letters addressed to this Mr. Yichen? Who is Yichen?"

Daji shook his head; he didn’t recognize the name either.

"Bai Ziqi received..." Bai Shan was about to discard this letter as well when he suddenly realized, promptly picking it up delightedly, "This I recognize, it’s my father. Can I look at this now?"

Manbao was pleased, "Go ahead, open it."

Before Daji could react, Bai Shan had already opened the envelope and extracted the letter inside, "Respectful greetings to my parents, your humble son, a mere country villager..."

"Calling my father ’respected parents,’ that must be someone from Shu County," Bai Shan remarked, "How can one claim to be a simple country villager with such good handwriting, and he even wrote with his left hand..."

Manbao noticed something off, pointing to some smeared words, "It seems to be accidentally scratched, did he write the letter with his left hand?"

Bai Shan skimmed the letter rapidly and realized it was a secret accusation, reporting that the Prince of Yizhou was privately maintaining a guard and embezzling national funds meant for river work to support these guards.

Bai Shan looked directly at the signature, which merely read "a mere country villager."

Bai Shan nearly crumpled the letter, "This person must be someone close to the Prince of Yizhou. Calling themself a ’mere country villager,’ with such fine handwriting, even using their left hand..."

He paused, turning to Manbao, "Do you think it could be Old Master Guan? These past few days we’ve seen no one coming to our village. Could it be that Old Master Guan didn’t inform the Prince of Yizhou about our matters?"

Manbao pondered, fixated on the other letters and growing restless.

"You’re here! We’ve been shouting ourselves hoarse over there and you won’t answer us," Bai Erlang and Zhou SiLang, supporting each other, approached. Upon seeing the three crouched on the ground, they couldn’t help but loudly complain, "When did you come over here? Why didn’t you let us know?"

Bai Shan and Manbao quickly stacked the letters and documents, handing the wrapped oil paper to Daji. They stood up and waved at Bai Erlang and Zhou SiLang, "We followed the trail here. When searching, we can’t bunch up; we need to spread out, understand?"

Bai Erlang had already glimpsed the items on the ground and exclaimed, "You found it? What’s inside?"

Manbao didn’t mind showing her parents’ items to him, so she freely opened the box, "It’s my father’s... I mean, my uncle’s and my aunt’s household registers, along with money, and land and house deeds."

Zhou SiLang ran over but slipped on the slick ground, falling. Manbao winced at the sound but he didn’t seem to care at all. Scrambling to his feet without dusting off, he rushed to inspect the household register, using the limited characters he recognized. After a long struggle, he finally understood them all, crying and laughing, "Right, right, right, this is indeed my uncle’s household register, and there’s even a road pass attached. My uncle said he had to take these to collect items from the security escort bureau."

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