Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Chapter 1280 Someone Wants to Buy Your Life

Shen Zheng shut Xin Ji up with just one sentence.

“If you keep howling, tomorrow I will tell the people of Tongan County that the person who sneaked into the county tonight is named Xin Ji, Xin as in hard work and Ji as in season, and is the son of the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner.”

Xin Ji felt like she was a snake at that moment.

A small green snake whose seven-inch mark has been pinched.

A woman's heart...

Poisoned needles!

After confirming that Xin Ji had completely shut up, Shen Zheng asked, "What are you doing in Tong'an County?"

Xin Ji did not answer.

Shen Zheng: "I'll tell the people of the county tomorrow that your name is Xin..."

"I said! I said! I said! I am the one..." Xin Ji grinned, rubbing his lips with his fingertips, and mumbled something unintelligible.

"What?" Shen Zheng didn't hear a single word of the second half of the sentence.

Xin Ji turned to look at the small window, but before he could speak, Hua Duo's voice came in: "Master, he said he came to have dinner with Young Master Ziyan."

Xin Ji was greatly alarmed.

Is the female knight with the big sword born in the Year of the Dog?

Just as Shen Zheng was about to ask if Hua Duo was right, Xin Ji spoke up again.

This time, his expression turned serious: "But on my way here, I heard some rumors that are related to you."

"Me?" Shen Zheng laughed dismissively. "Could it be that someone wants to kill me?"

Xin Ji's eyes widened suddenly: "You knew everything?"

Immediately, he felt a surge of admiration.

She truly deserves to be called the First Female Official of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

To be able to remain so calm and nonchalant, simply laughing it off, even after learning that someone wanted to buy his life...

Shen Zheng's smile froze upon hearing this, and she was shocked: "No, someone really wants to kill me?!"

She just said it casually, how could she possibly win!

Avoiding prophecy...

In this world, one must indeed avoid prophecies.

Xin Ji was stunned: "So you didn't know?"

Shen Zheng: If I had known, I wouldn't have even left the house.

"Where did you hear that from?" she asked.

Buying a life can be a big deal or a small deal.

Whether the buyer succeeds or not depends entirely on the killer's qualities.

From that moment on, Shen Zheng was already praying in her heart that the person on the other side had hired an unprofessional assassin, because it's easy to dodge a spear in the open, but hard to guard against an arrow in the dark.

Seeing that she truly didn't know, Xin Ji suppressed his other emotions and said seriously, "I went to Yuanzhou a few days ago to visit my brother. On a whim, we went to that kind of place for a bit of fun..."

Shen Zheng looked disgusted.

"Not that kind of place!" Xin Ji's voice suddenly rose upon seeing this, and he quickly made a dice-throwing gesture towards her: "It's this kind of place! This kind of place!"

Shen Zheng still looked disgusted.

What was that saying again?

Gambling, prostitution, and drugs are inextricably linked!

Xin Ji had no choice but to continue, "I got tired of playing halfway through, so I went to a private room on the second floor to rest. I slept for about half an hour, and then I heard something going on next door. There was so much smoke that it even seeped through the cracks in the wood, and I was woken up by it. So I thought I'd call the manager to get me a different private room..."

Shen Zheng raised an eyebrow: "I thought you were going to knock on the door and confront them."

“That’s a shady casino!” Xin Ji looked at him with a “Do you think I’m stupid?”: “It’s okay to go to a place like that for fun. I’m not going to cause trouble. I’d rather go in upright and come out horizontal.”

Shen Zheng nodded in agreement, and then said, "But before I could even get up from the bed, guess what happened?"

What else can I do?

Shen Zheng said, "Did you hear my name?"

"That's right!" Xin Ji exclaimed excitedly, slapping his thighs with both hands, wincing in pain as he gasped for breath, "Their voices are like they're drunk, getting louder and louder, and a bit crazy. Some people say you're tired of living and deliberately going against them, while others say someone above has already offered ten thousand taels of silver to buy... to buy your life."

Shen Zheng clenched both fists.

She possessed a noble soul from the 21st century, a chosen one burdened with a system, and the destiny of a fourth-rank female official in her early twenties...

It's only worth ten thousand taels?!

“Are you afraid?” Sinji thought it didn’t seem like it.

Shen Zheng gritted her teeth: "I feel sorry for myself."

"Not worth the price?"

"..."

After a long silence in the carriage, Xin Ji asked again, "Have you guessed which side they are from?"

Shen Zheng nodded.

——Yuanzhou.

—Illegal casinos.

—Smoke swirled around.

—Go against them.

—He was in high spirits, as if he had been drinking.

These five fragments, when put together, are enough to reveal the other party's identity.

Shen Zheng wasn't surprised that the person behind "Ling San" wanted to buy her life. What surprised her was: "You said earlier that their private room was filled with smoke?"

Isn't "Ling San" meant to be ingested directly? So where does the smoke come from?

Is it a new formula? Or is there something else going on?

After thinking for a moment, she asked again, "Did you feel any discomfort after smelling that smoke?"

Xin Ji leaned against the armrest and thought for a while: "I felt like... a little nauseous? But it was stuffy inside, you know how casinos are. After I went out, I felt fine."

Shen Zheng nodded, but still remained cautious.

Xin Ji secretly observed her expression and tentatively asked, "Are you the person behind 'Spirit Powder'? I heard you went to Yuanzhou before, did you run into them?"

Shen Zheng saw a fleeting hint of worry in his eyes.

After a moment of silence, she said, "I still have to report your father for going to the illegal casino."

Such a fine young man, we can't let him be ruined like this.

Xin Ji stopped breathing: "What did you say?"

What is this called?

The Farmer and the Snake?

Letting a wolf into the house?

Ingratitude?!

"I shouldn't have been so kind as to tell you..." he lamented.

Before long, they arrived at the Guanding Inn.

Hua Duo cautiously glanced around, and only after confirming it was safe did he help Shen Zheng off the carriage.

Xin Ji, whose hands and feet were weak, called out from behind, "Heroine, heroine, I feel like I need help more than your family..."

"Squeak-"

Shen Zheng pushed open the small fence outside the inn, which was covered with green vines, and led Hua Duo inside.

Compared to before, there are more flowers and plants in the yard. The chrysanthemums are in full bloom. Regardless of whether they are red or green, they all turn yellow when illuminated by the small lanterns hanging on the grapevines.

Shen Zheng recognized one of the pots of yellow chrysanthemums.

About a year ago, Manniang said that it was a gift from Weijing.

"Tuk-tuk-"

Shen Zheng was looking at the flowers when Hua Duo gently knocked on the inner door of the inn.

A short while later, there was movement inside the door: "Wait a moment, coming—"

It was a male voice.

"Squeak—" The door opened.

"Lord Shen?!" Wei Jing was momentarily at a loss, but after a few seconds of reaction, he quickly stepped aside and said, "Please come in, are you... here to see Man Niang?"

Shen Zheng shook her head, stepped over the threshold and said, "No need to call her, I'm just bringing someone to stay at the inn."

Wei Jing was taken aback upon hearing this, and his gaze slowly shifted to Xin Ji.

Xin Ji stiffened his neck: "What are you looking at!"

Wei Jing quickly looked away.

He's a tough opponent; we definitely can't let Manniang come.

“His name is Xin…” Shen Zheng pondered for a moment, “Xin Haili. He is the son of a friend of mine, and he will be staying at the inn tonight.”