It was said that Chen Ruijin pulled out a musket in the Chulongzhai. The shopkeeper was so frightened that he quickly laughed and said, "Sir, I have something to say!"
Chen Ruijin looked at him with a smile and said, "Send the guests away."
The shopkeeper hurriedly called the waiters to disperse the guests. But I don't know where they got the confidence to do it, and they were so arrogant. There was a scholar in his forties who had already ran out, but he came back and forced himself on Chen Ruijin.
He cupped his hands in front of him and said, "My lord... I don't know how to try?"
Chen Ruijin said, "I'm here to find out why they force scholars to use the four treasures of their own study." The scholars froze. Chen Ruijin looked around and sneered, "The store has the freedom to sell your things at what price, and the court has no control over them."
He shook his sleeves and pointed to the north, "Even the imperial court has never been so overbearing in the spring. No matter how noble the Xie family is, how can they be so noble as the Tian family?"
The shopkeeper immediately breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward with a smile on his face: "Sir, we have never forced the scholars to use our items. However, our items are excellent, so we can make them cheaper..."
The scholar who had just been talking to Chen Ruijin in the store suddenly pulled out his waist, ran over a few steps, "poofed" in the face of the shopkeeper, pointed at him and said: "Your pens are losing hair, and I can't finish writing even if I buy ten of them."
During the exam, the ink cubes came out astringent and full of residue. Your paper bleeds with ink. I don’t know what it will bleed into with your ink. Your inkstone is just a dent made by an ordinary stone! You actually have the nerve to criticize yours.
Is the object good?"
The shopkeeper had a ferocious look on his face and raised his hand to hit the scholar in the face. The scholar was also hard-boned and stood upright without dodge. A guard flashed in front of the scholar and kicked the shopkeeper in the face.
Everyone went to look at Chen Ruijin. Chen Ruijin said with a smile: "Three generations of the Su family have passed the imperial examination. Mr. Su is a great scholar in the world. How can he associate with someone who is corrupt and perverts the law? Mr. Su has not touched you in the past six months. He is just watching the action quietly and arguing with his feelings.
It’s just adultery. Your boss is still dreaming!" The scholars immediately cheered after hearing this. Dozens of people shouted with all their strength, and their voices came from the bottom of their hearts, deafening. Chen Ruijin and the guards couldn't help but be moved when they heard this, and some guards were inexplicable.
His eyes were red.
A hint of fear appeared on the face of the shopkeeper, but it disappeared in an instant. He sneered and said with his hands, "The shop does its business properly and has never violated the laws. The government officials are interested in our items.
The business of gentlemen has nothing to do with the shop."
Chen Ruijin said calmly: "Your boss has violated the law and the incident has come to light. The court wants to seize his family property, and I have nothing to do with it. I am just following orders." Then he shouted, "Seal the store and check the accounting books!"
There are sixteen lattice doors in this shop. Several guards immediately went out and sealed the nearby ones. The scholars cheered again. Several waiters were anxious and tried to stop them, but they were all pushed aside by the guards. The shopkeeper's
He winked at a young boy, and the boy ran back. After a while, a dozen big-bodied men with round waists came out, all of them with bulging temples. They were obviously Lianjiazi.
Chen Ruijin smiled softly, put away the musket, and said, "I haven't practiced for a while." The guard near her had already stopped her, but upon hearing this, he immediately retreated behind her with a smile on his face. Chen Ruijin took a step forward.
Walking towards the thugs, the thugs slowly formed a semicircle. One of the thugs had just stretched out his hand to clasp his fist, thinking he was going to follow the rules of the green forest and say hello. Unexpectedly, he was suddenly kicked on the neck, and he couldn't hold on anymore.
He stepped back a few steps and hit the table behind him with a "thud". Before anyone else could recover, Chen Ruijin had kicked down four or five thugs in succession. The onlookers clapped their hands and cheered loudly.
After half a circle of thugs rolled on the ground, Chen Ruijin looked at the shopkeeper and smiled sweetly: "Do you still want to fight?"
The shopkeeper smiled stiffly: "No... no more..."
Several guards held up their hands and said: "Dear scholars, this store has been closed down. Please buy things elsewhere."
The scholars shouted one after another: "Thank you, sir!" They all laughed and went out as if they had been lucky. However, they refused to leave, and they all gathered around the shop to watch.
Chen Ruijin asked the shopkeeper: "Where is the account book?" The shopkeeper rolled his eyes. Chen Ruijin took out the musket again, turned it twice in his hand, and coughed.
The shopkeeper thought for a moment and asked tentatively: "Sir, don't you know the Seventh Prince?"
Chen Ruijin said calmly: "No more."
The shopkeeper was shocked: "What?!"
"The Seventh Prince has disappeared in the past year, so Xie Jing was transferred away from Jiangxi, and King Yan investigated the Dingcheng Marquis Mansion." Chen Ruijin said seriously, "If I am not wrong, Xie Jing thought that the Seventh Prince could be entrusted to Jiangxi in the early years?" The shopkeeper said
His legs went weak and he fell to the ground. Chen Ruijin said with a smile, "It's not too late to hand over the account book now. Anyway, you are just an accomplice. Implicating the nine tribes is not a joke. Back then, Prince Yi Zhong did something bad, inside and outside.
Probably thousands of people died."
The shopkeeper opened his mouth and gasped for dozens of breaths. He stood up tremblingly, lifted a chair to use the legs, climbed up and lifted a bundle of books from the top of a large wooden cabinet and smashed it to the ground. He climbed down again, and this time
Huizi stopped shaking. He untied the rope that bound the books, and everyone saw "Historical Records" written on the covers. The shopkeeper dug out a stack of "Historical Records" with a damaged cover, and flipped through each volume.
After counting the number, he held it in both hands and sent it to Chen Ruijin: "These are our account books."
Chen Ruijin smiled and said: "It's rare to see someone as smart as you."
The shopkeeper hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Please be kind to me, sir. I am just hired by my boss to look after the shop."
"It's easy to say. I don't want to cause any harm." He ordered people to tie up the account books and take them away. The first store was successfully closed.
Chen Ruijin has a good memory. When she walked out of Chulongzhai, she discovered that the silk and satin shop called "Jinxiu Mantang" opposite was the last one given by Su Zheng. Looking at the shop signs on Zhuzi Street again, she couldn't help but curse Dingcheng secretly.
The Hou Mansion was too greedy - 90% of the entire street was occupied by their shop. And seeing that the scholars hadn't left yet, they were surrounding her and looking at her, all of them with burning eyes and tears in their eyes, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
He bowed his hands to them, stood up and walked towards the Duobao Building next door.
Then they sealed and inspected the shops from beginning to end, and all forty-two shops were sealed. Using Prince Xian Yi Zhong to frighten the shopkeepers was very effective. There were too many account books to handle, so a rice shop shopkeeper simply offered one
A small car came to pull them. The group of scholars who came out of Chulongzhai followed them. After one of them wrote a poem on the street, others followed suit. When Chen Ruijin and others left, the street was full of people watching the excitement. In the end, I don’t know who got up.
At the beginning, everyone shouted in unison, "Master Su, Master Qingtian——" and the shouts continued until nine o'clock in the night.
Back at the Su Mansion, Chen Ruijin handed over the account books for the car. Su Zheng was overjoyed and praised her highly for being "good at doing things and reliable." Jia Cong was quite proud and sat beside him, feeling very proud and even happier than praising himself.
Order someone to call Su Tao.
After waiting for half a day, Su Tao did not come, saying that he was still interrogating the yamen officials. However, Su Cheng ran back angrily, and went straight to Su Zheng to complain: "Grandpa! My father can't find out the murderer and can't find the murder weapon."
, I reminded him kindly, but he kicked me out before I finished speaking!"
Jia Cong raised his eyebrows: "You haven't found the murder weapon for so long? You can't."
Su Zheng asked his granddaughter: "What did you remind him of?"
Su Cheng chuckled, folded his arms and sat down and said, "I said, I saw in the comment - I wanted to remind him that the murderer is usually someone who is not noticed, but he shouted at me before I could finish my sentence. I
So he ran back in anger."
Chen Ruijin thought: "I see, those government officials don't look like murderers."
Su Zheng said: "It takes a lot of effort to kill people. These government servants just came two months ago. It would be very easy if they were careful."
Su Cheng stood aside and said with a raised face: "In my opinion, these government officials are not murderers. I wasted so much time trying to interrogate them with white eyebrows and red eyes."
Su Zheng liked her the most, stroking his beard and asked with a smile: "Oh? What's the reason?"
Su Cheng said sternly: "Grandpa, what do you think? Today someone came to the Yamen to cause trouble, and my father arrested two people who were suspected of making trouble, right? These two people were suddenly silenced, right? The murderer was still an opponent in the Yamen.
Right? The government officials have changed three times, why should they be the last to install spies?"
Su Zheng was a little confused: "You know it from the beginning, why can't you plant the spies at the end?"
But Chen Ruijin's eyes moved: "What Cheng'er said is that the spies should be installed earlier, or they can't be inserted directly in the yamen servants - they are too conspicuous. There must be other people in Mr. Su's yamen, what kind of people, waiters and the like?
.”
Su Cheng said: "There are also those who sweep the courtyard, those who clean the toilets, and those who drive the carriages."
Jia Cong said: "Don't the magistrate's yamen have six rooms?"
Su Cheng said lazily: "They are all vacant~~Xie Jing's people have all left~~"
Jia Cong burst into laughter: "Senior Brother Hezhu is still a polished commander now! Why don't you hurry up and recruit people?"
Su Zheng snorted: "Why are you recruiting? If he doesn't take care of the Xie family, how can he establish his authority? It's useless to recruit a whole house."
"You are right." Jia Cong looked at the small mountain of account books piled up in front of the steps, "Didn't he bring some of his own people with him? How could he check so many account books in a short time?"
Su Cheng asked anxiously: "Grandpa, do you want to send someone to remind my father?"
Jia Cong said: "I'll go, just say that I was sent to go first, so that my senior brother won't lose face."
Su Zheng thought for a while: "That's fine. When you ask the case, tell him by the way that all the shops of Dingcheng Hou Mansion on Zhuzi Street have been closed down."
"ah?"
Su Zheng said: "Xie Jing and the Green Forest people have very close contacts. Those two who filed the lawsuit in the restaurant may not be the ones behind it, but they probably have something to do with their family."
Su Cheng immediately clapped his hands: "I already guessed it! I just didn't think of it and said it."
Jia Cong said amusedly: "You know again?"
Su Cheng said crisply: "Whoever's interests are threatened will be the first to attack. My father accepting Xie Jing's prefect seal is the most detrimental to his interests."
Jia Cong nodded: "That makes sense." He stood up to leave. Chen Ruijin went with him.
When the two arrived at the prefect's Yamen, Su Tao was questioning the yamen servant who came to report the news, which made the man cry loudly and complain. Jia Cong came close to him and whispered: "Brother, sir, sir, sent a young man to remind you that those who sweep the floor are
Anyone who boils water, works as a janitor, or cleans toilets are all suspects, especially those who were left over from Xie Jing's tenure." Su Tao was stunned, obviously not thinking about it. Jia Cong sighed: This senior brother has never been dealt with specifically.
, no guard against others.
Then he ordered the guards brought by the Taiwan government to summon all the various servants in the yamen. Most of them were left behind by Xie Jing when he was in office. Su Tao interrogated them one by one. While he was asking, Chen Ruijin suddenly raised his voice.
Tong Jia Cong said: "Do I need to tell my senior brother what I did just now?"
Su Tao heard this, turned around and asked, "What did my brothers and sisters do?"
Chen Ruijin said: "The old man sent me to lead people to seal down forty-two shops on Zhuzi Street, all of which belong to the Dingcheng Hou Mansion."
Su Tao asked curiously: "He actually asked you to check the Xie family's shop? Didn't you say earlier that you should write to Mr. Xie first and let them change it themselves?"
Jia Cong sneered and said, "He changed it himself? You're kidding. They must have treated your letter as if they didn't see it and threw it into the charcoal fire."
Su Tao hurriedly asked: "Since the Zhuzi Street area has been checked, have you checked the Chulongzhai?"
Chen Ruijin said: "The first one is Chulongzhai. The shopkeeper is honest and handed over all the secret account books."
Su Tao unconsciously smiled and said, "It's a shame that I checked their house. Otherwise, I'm about to have a government examination..." He didn't have the nerve to continue and just shook his head. Jia Cong rolled his eyes.
Then the servants were interrogated again, but nothing was found. It was impossible to lock them all in the cell, and it was getting late. So we had no choice but to let them go.
Su Tao and Jia Cong led the guards back to Su Mansion first. Chen Ruijin said that she would walk around the Yamen twice more. Seeing that the Yamen servants had left, the lobby was silent. The door had dinner early and sat at the door to take a nap.
Then I heard footsteps approaching, and when I looked up, I saw an old bearded man sweeping the floor.
Old Hutou said: "My old rheumatism has struck me again. While it's not completely dark yet, I think some drug stores haven't closed yet, so I'm going to buy two plasters."
Menzi said: "You are so old, you should be more careful."
The old bearded man sighed: "It's just a handful of old bones. It's only as long as you live." Then he slowly walked away with a cane.
After leaving the gate of the government office and turning around the street, he suddenly picked up speed under his feet. He didn't use the crutch anymore, just carried it in his hand. After walking down another street, Old Hutou walked even faster, and there was almost wind under his feet.
After walking through the streets and alleys for half a day, he came to the vicinity of Shengjin Pagoda. After looking around a few times, he walked straight into a restaurant. It was the Changfeng Tower that the two people who came to litigate during the day were fighting over. Little did he know that Chen Ruijin had been following him secretly.
Arriving in front of Changfeng Tower, she wanted to run into the building. She suddenly felt something wrong, much like she did at the door of the Biwan Mansion in the old years. So she stopped abruptly and just ducked aside to wait secretly.
Old Hutou stayed in there for half an hour, and then walked out with agile legs and feet. I don't know what kind of ointment he used, but it was better than elixir. But the ointment did not last long. When he turned into the street at the entrance of Fuyamen