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The 45 people hired by Stone Village had gone to post and send out missing person notices. Jiang Yue and Xue Yan were not idle either. They planned to make a trip to Dianhe County to investigate the heavy taxes.

They wanted to go to the county to see if they could find any clues. They also wanted to visit the county office at night. They knew they couldn't go back to Stone Village tonight. They didn't know if they could come back tomorrow night. They will have to come back the day after tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, they would go back to Stone Village to pay everyone's wages and return to Da Ling.

Therefore, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan asked Zhang Dazhu and his son to help them take care of their courtyard. When they were not in the village, if someone did not have enough missing person notices and came back to get them, they could take it from their place. The missing person notices were all in the central room and were packed in wooden boxes.