The Ninth Princess, who had been chatting and laughing with Qing Mulan before, immediately returned to her businesslike expression when she heard that the county magistrate was coming.
He said coldly: "Let him wait."
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Da Liu glanced at Jin Feng again, bowed and retreated.
At the foot of the mountain, the county magistrate and his party stood in the rain and waited silently, wearing raincoats.
Seeing Da Liu coming down the mountain, Magistrate Zhang rushed over to greet him.
"Brother Liu, what did Her Royal Highness say?"
"His Royal Highness is still eating and asked your Excellency to wait a moment."
"Did His Highness tell you how long to wait? Also, how does His Highness's face look?"
The county magistrate quietly approached Da Liu, took out a piece of silver from his sleeve, and quietly put it into Da Liu's hand.
"His Royal Highness didn't say how long he wanted you to wait. His face looked a little unhappy."
Da Liu answered truthfully, but did not accept any money from the county magistrate.
In order to avoid suspicion, he took two steps back.
Seeing this, County Magistrate Zhang had no choice but to take the money back.
"Sir, the rain is too heavy, please go inside and wait."
Da Liu wiped the rain off his face and pointed to a row of thatched huts next to him.
Nowadays, there is an endless stream of workers coming to Shuanghump to pull salt every day. Many times they have to queue up to go up the mountain. These huts are for them to rest.
"Thank you for your kindness, brother. We can just wait outside."
Magistrate Zhang shook his head and said.
"By the way, sir, there is one more thing."
Da Liu whispered: "Your Highness's big ship was sunk by water bandits. Sir, I asked you to remind your Excellency to prepare the salvage team."
Master Zhou, County Lieutenant Zhao and others were killed by Jin Feng one after another, which was equivalent to helping County Magistrate Zhang get rid of all the stumbling blocks.
So in recent months, Magistrate Zhang has been very friendly to Jin Feng.
In the afternoon, Jin Feng guessed that Magistrate Zhang would definitely come, so while the Ninth Princess was visiting the workshop, he asked Da Liu to remind Magistrate Zhang.
Then not long after, Magistrate Zhang arrived.
"Thank you sir for reminding me, I will go and do it right away."
Magistrate Zhang said gratefully.
He was really grateful to Jin Feng and Zhenyuan Escort Agency.
Magistrate Zhang has already learned how the Ninth Princess was attacked. If the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau had not taken action twice this time, the Ninth Princess would have been in disaster.
If the dignified princess died in his territory, Magistrate Zhang would know with his toes what his fate would be.
Soon, a government official left in the rain and went to look for the salvage team overnight.
Magistrate Zhang and others continued to stand in the rain waiting for the Ninth Princess to be summoned.
We waited until dawn.
The autumn rain was very cold. Magistrate Zhang, who was already in his forties, stood in the rain all night and was so cold that he held his arms and shivered.
After breakfast, the Ninth Princess summoned Magistrate Zhang.
"Your Majesty, Zhang Deming, pays homage to Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
Magistrate Zhang didn't care about the muddy water on the ground, and knelt on the ground and bowed: "I didn't know His Highness was coming, so I didn't send someone to protect him in time, and let the damn water bandits disturb His Highness. I beg Your Highness to punish him!"
"The Dali Temple of the Ministry of Personnel and Punishment will naturally be responsible for your crimes. I have no right to punish you."
The Ninth Princess said coldly.
But the more the Ninth Princess said this, the more frightened County Magistrate Zhang became.
Jin Feng glanced at Magistrate Zhang sympathetically, but said nothing.
The two of them had no friendship to begin with, so he reminded Magistrate Zhang to prepare a salvage team, which was already the most benevolent thing to do, and there was no need to intercede for him anymore.
The Ninth Princess didn't speak, and Magistrate Zhang didn't dare to raise his head. He just put his head on the ground and said tremblingly: "I know that my sins are serious and I can't atone for them even if I die, but I have prepared a salvage team. Please, Your Highness."
Allow me to salvage the sunken ship for Your Highness!"
"If you can raise the sunken ship, I will remember your contribution."
Hearing what Magistrate Zhang said, the Ninth Princess's face finally softened a little: "Get up!"
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Magistrate Zhang quickly kowtowed and thanked him.
When the Ninth Princess led the people over, Magistrate Zhang secretly bowed his hand to Jin Feng and thanked him for the reminder.
If Jin Feng hadn't reminded him to prepare a salvage team, today's level would not have been so easy.
Jin Feng nodded slightly in response to Magistrate Zhang.
Subsequently, Magistrate Zhang rushed to the Jialing River with his people and personally directed the salvage team.
Ninth Princess also wanted to go, but after learning from yesterday's experience, both Jin Feng and Qing Mulan tried their best to stop her.
The Zhenyuan Escort Bureau is not an official organization. Even if the Ninth Princess was killed by water bandits yesterday, she has little to do with Jin Feng.
But it's different now. Princess Ninth followed Jin Feng to the Double Hump. If something happens again, Jin Feng won't be able to escape.
Although now the total number of escorts in Shuang Hump and Ferry is more than a hundred, and with the heavy crossbows, they are not afraid at all even if they face three to four hundred bandits, but why take the risk?
Why don't you just wait for the news at the Double Hump, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack?
At noon that day, the Guangyuan County Sheriff, who was traveling through the storm, also arrived at Shuanghump.
The poor old county guard didn't even ride in a carriage in order to travel. He rode a horse from Guangyuan to here in the rain, and his old bones almost fell apart from exhaustion.
When the old county guard set out, he released all the hidden clues he had cultivated and tried his best to investigate the background of the water bandits who attacked the Ninth Princess.
Sure enough, as Jin Feng had guessed, the old county guard had been operating in Guangyuan for many years and had very high control over Guangyuan.
That night, the county guard's secret agent came to report that the person controlling the bandits was indeed Mr. Feng.
The old county guard immediately issued a sea arrest document and made every effort to capture Mr. Feng.
The county's government officials, government soldiers, and Xiaoyu's Zhongming Group all took action.
But Mr. Feng seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and no clues could be found at all.
Instead, the county guard's hidden clues followed the clues and found the party details that were in contact with Mr. Feng.
Unfortunately, during the arrest process, the meticulous worker discovered that he couldn't escape and jumped off the cliff.
For this reason, the Ninth Princess was very angry.
The heavy rain has not stopped in the past few days, and the water level of the Jialing River has been rising, which is actually not suitable for salvage.
But in order to show off, Magistrate Zhang led the salvage team to float on the river for several days, and finally found the location of the sunken ship based on the floating objects.
He was lucky. The big boat did not drift too far with the river, but was washed into a bay where the current was relatively gentle.
Magistrate Zhang mobilized hundreds of soldiers and civilians to drag the sunken ship up from the bottom of the river.
The cloth, silk and other items in the ship had been soaked and deformed and could no longer be used, but the gold and silver utensils and the like were all fine. They were repacked and sent to Shuanghump.
Qin Ming has been guarding the ferry for the past few days, waiting for the surviving guards to join him.
Fortunately, the river was not very strong at that time, and Daniel warned in time. Almost all the guards were able to get floating objects such as wooden pillars before the ship sank.
Within a few days, a total of more than thirty guards and five or six maids and servants rushed to the ferry to meet.
As for those who didn't come, they probably drowned.
Qin Ming told the bodyguard stationed at the ferry to ask them to go to the Double Hump if any guards came, and then took the survivors to meet the Ninth Princess.
The sunken ship has been found and the survivors have returned. It makes no sense for the Ninth Princess to stay in Shuanghump any longer, so she proposed to go to Xihewan to have a look.