Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 107

Ye Xi couldn't ride a horse, so Douzi could only take her to the inn in a carriage.

The inn was quite some distance away from Suzhou City. When they arrived, they found the inn closed. They shouted outside the door for a long time and ended up meeting other guests who were resting outside the inn.

"Stop shouting, this store has been closed for two days." said a big man.

"Why?"

"I don't know. I've been going back and forth on this official road these past two days, and every time I pass by here, I see that it's closed."

Douzi panicked: "Madam, he wouldn't run away, would he?"

"No way? Isn't he the plaintiff? Why is he running away?" Ye Xi thought that it shouldn't happen, but this couldn't explain why the boss didn't open the door. Was he not doing business anymore?

She called Bean over, and they approached the gate and saw that it was locked with a chain. She pushed it, and the door was pushed open a wide gap.

She looked inside and saw that there was no one inside except for the furniture.

Ye Xi originally wanted to try to get in through the window, but then he changed his mind and gave up.

If someone saw it and thought it was a burglary, and arrested her as well, it would be a waste of time and effort, and we would be left without anyone to run errands.

They didn't give up and still wandered outside the inn for a long time. Douzi looked at the sky and reminded: "Madam, we have to go back, otherwise we may not be able to catch up with the closing of the city gate. It's not appropriate to stay outside at night."

What Douzi said made sense, so they drove back quickly.

The next day, they went to the government office again and asked about the case involving Pei Zhu. They were told that they would have to wait for the plaintiff to arrive to find out the further progress.

Upon hearing this, Ye Xi became anxious. The innkeeper did not show up at all. Did the government mean that Pei Zhu would have to stay in jail until the plaintiff showed up? How could this be possible?

She thought of the money again, and hurriedly took Douzi to a shop. She used her private seal to ask several shopkeepers for some silver, and in total she collected two thousand taels of silver notes.

She had no idea whether the money could do what she wanted, but it was better than asking for help with nothing.

She went to the yamen again, stuffed some silver into the yamen runners' pockets, and said that she wanted to see the prefect.

The yamen runner certainly couldn't help to pass the message, but he was willing to help pass it on to the legal advisor serving the lord in the mansion. Ye Xi changed his mind and asked the yamen runner if he could pass the message on to the legal advisor in charge of criminal cases.

She knew that a lot of the specific work of a prefect or county magistrate was actually done with the help of the legal advisors around him, and the adults only needed to make decisions based on the decisions of the legal advisors.

In this case, she doesn't have to see the prefect. She can also persuade the criminal lawyer to do the same.

When he met the so-called criminal lawyer, Ye Xi did not beat around the bush and directly stated his purpose. Then he took out a silver note and wanted to put it into the lawyer's hand.

As a result, when the lawyer heard that it was Pei Zhu who came, he not only confiscated the banknotes, but also said that the prefect had said that the matter was a bit tricky and that it should be handled with caution.

After hearing this, what else did Ye Xi not understand? The person who was higher in position than the prefect and was the so-called "superior" was Wei Jue, right?

No wonder she felt that the other party had not made any move in the past few days. She thought that the other party had a change of heart and was waiting for her here.

Despite this, Ye Xi did not turn around and leave. She stuffed a silver note of one hundred taels into the hands of the lawyer, hoping that he would take good care of Pei Zhu in prison. She also said a lot of nice things before leaving.

When Ye Xi left, she was thinking about Wei Jue's intention. She saw the flattering attitude of the master just now.

When the prefect gave instructions to him, he must have also said something else to let the other party know that she should not be provoked, so the other party's attitude was so good.