When Zhang Shou left the county government office, he only took Ah Liu and Xiao Huahua with him. However, when he returned to the county government office, there were a lot of people cheering behind him.
Among them, Xu Ba, who was wearing a white turban, was the one who didn't want to come the least, but he had to come because Ah Liu was eyeing him. The others, except Cen San who was escorting Young Master Huang, and the three boatmen Cen San had fought with,
There were also a lot of melon-eating people who were just joining in the fun. However, when everyone arrived outside the county government gate, they heard a huge shouting coming from inside.
"It's unfair. I was just following Mr. Huang's orders! I have a reputation, Zhu Tingfang. You can't torture me, otherwise you will be against the world's scholars!"
Zhang Shou glanced at Mr. Huang, who was so angry that his whole face was almost deformed, and laughed again. Then, he saw Cen San, who had been holding on to someone just now, suddenly changed his expression slightly, and then it seemed natural.
He let go of his hand. He couldn't help but be a little stunned when he saw this, but when he saw the smile on Ah Liu's face, he knew that it must be this kid who had passed the message to someone.
Sure enough, Mr. Huang didn't realize at all that someone else had let go. He thought he had broken free from the restraint, and rushed into the county office like a gust of wind, followed by the angry roar of the person.
"Bi Yunru, it was you who gave me advice and encouraged me, but now you dare to blame it on me alone? Who are you? You are just a poor person who only passed the examination to become a scholar and has no future. You don't know how to punish people, and you don't understand.
Qian Gu, you are just a little smart, if my father hadn’t taken you in, you wouldn’t be where you are today!”
As if Master Bi was too frightened to say anything, Mr. Huang's scolding became even louder: "If you hadn't been cheating in the name of my father and me, how could you have tricked me so miserably!"
"Huang Wei, you were so cowardly on Maliu Mountain. After being teased by Miss Zhu, you became angry and uttered arrogant words. As a result, you were kicked down the mountain. You couldn't swallow this breath and ran to Cangzhou to seek revenge. It's you
You want me to give you advice, but if something goes wrong, you still want to blame me? You're blind! If you don't have a good father, who are you? You're a waste who can't even pass the exam to become a scholar!"
After hearing Mr. Huang inside yelling, Master Bi, who seemed stunned by the roar at first, also started yelling. The two people soon started tit-for-tat to undermine each other. Zhang Shou couldn't help but pick his ears, and then hehehe
Laughed.
Although the melon-eating crowd behind him could not see his smile, they could still understand the dog-eating-dog scene in the county government office, and they naturally started talking about it.
It was only then that Zhang Shoucai turned around and said to everyone: "Is it the case that Huang Zhifu of Hejian failed to teach his son well, so that the son, in order to vent his personal anger, listened to the instigation of Master Bi who was accompanying him and made trouble in Cangzhou in the name of his father? Or is it that Master Bi used Huang Zhifu to
He is cheating in the name of Mr. Huang and his son. I am afraid that this matter will not come to an end soon. After all, Master Bi is also half of the Huang family. Even a man like General Zhu who can make good decisions cannot be an upright official.
.”
He said to everyone sincerely: "As for the Cangzhou matter, I can't guarantee anything else, but I have already reported all the reasons to the court in detail with General Zhu, and there is Mrs. Ge as circumstantial evidence.
We will definitely not let these two irrelevant people ruin the stable situation that Cangzhou has just achieved."
Seeing everyone shouting "Hello", he paused again, smiled and nodded to Cen San.
"As for the hundred-guan note that Cen San just handed over, it is Mr. Huang's personal property. I can't give it away as a generous reward, so I naturally want it to return to its original owner. But you were able to give up the generous reward, but you gave it away to him.
Come here, you should be rewarded by the government for your righteous deeds. Of course, the reward is not much, and I am not the prefect's wife who can easily give eight thousand guan to my son as pocket money."
After a few words of teasing, Zhang Shou saw that Cen San was a little surprised, and Zhang Shou smiled and said: "You are worthy of a commendation for forgetting your wealth. You deserve a ten-gun bounty!"
As soon as these words came out, those good guys immediately admired them, and the three boatmen who had fought with Cen San at the beginning couldn't help but make a fuss. One hundred guan may seem like a lot, but if you want to send someone to the capital, you can't help yourself.
When returning from punting, when the canal is dry, sometimes we have to hire trackers. Although the income will definitely be more than ten guan in the end, it also costs a lot.
It's not like now, when you send a piece of shit to the prefect, and then you get a ten-gun bounty!
As for whether Cen San will suffer retaliation, no one cares about it anymore - in other words, they just experienced a scene where a dignified county magistrate was chopped down with a knife a few days ago, and today they heard with their own ears that the dignified magistrate and the master were trying to shirk the blame.
Damn it, the people of Cangzhou no longer take the Hejian magistrate seriously.
In other words, most people feel that the countdown to the resignation of the Hejian prefect should have begun.
And Cen San took the ten-guan reward that was redeemable on sight, and immediately beamed with joy, patted his chest and said loudly: "Dr. Zhang, don't worry, from now on, I will keep my eyes open for anyone who commits crimes."
If you want to get on the ship, I will definitely capture them and send them to the government! Who doesn't want our Cangzhou to get better and better?"
Hearing loud echoes all around, Zhang Shou couldn't help but smile. He never thought that he would have no intention of going to the canal pier today. It was just for shopping and eating, but in the end he encountered such an incredible strange thing. He smiled
Ke Jiechi said a few words to everyone, and when he turned around and entered the county government office, he looked again and found that Ah Liu had directly dragged Xu Ba, a white-turbaned man with a bitter look on his face, in.
He stopped and asked, dumbfounded, "Ah Liu, what are you doing? Where is his business cart?"
"This guy is very ghostly. He almost wanted to run away just now." Ah Liu grabbed the man's shoulder unceremoniously, and then said patiently, "As for his small business cart, young master, don't worry, I saw it with my own eyes."
Ask an acquaintance to take it away. Otherwise, this guy will dare to call you Chong Tianqu and say that he lost his meal because of his trip here."
Xu Ba's inner plan was exposed by Ah Liu so simply and directly, and he immediately did not dare to take any chances. In addition, now that he had set foot on the territory of Changlu County Government again, he did not dare to play any tricks. So, he
Immediately and honestly said: "How dare I have such blackmail intentions? Just now, Dr. Zhang, you wanted to arrest the prefect, and I didn't give you a shout out..."
"People can't run away." Ah Liu seemed to be annoyed that there was no use for it, and interrupted harshly, "Mind your own business."
"Yes, yes, brother, you are so powerful. He can't run away in the first place, but there's no guarantee that he won't ruin Dr. Zhang's reputation by yelling in a hurry, right?" Seeing Ah Liu, he snorted softly.
, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then said to Zhang Shou with a flattering look on his face, "It was my sin to steal things before, but before... can I be regarded as a crime?"
Seeing Zhang Shou looking at him with a half-smile but not saying anything, he rubbed his hands and said with uneasiness: "I know that the bottle of chili that I stole must be very expensive, and I can't afford to pay for such a small contribution.
But I have an elder and a younger child in my family..."
Ah Liu interrupted him again: "You are the only one in your family."
His little trick was exposed again. Xu Ba couldn't help but pull off the white scarf on his head to wipe the sweat. He glanced at Zhang Shou and finally said honestly: "I am the only one in my family, but the children next door neighbor
Seven or eight of them still refuse to learn from others and either drown to death or be thrown into a shrine or given away. They would rather work hard to earn money to feed them. Sometimes I also help them a little...
Afraid that Zhang Shou wouldn't believe it, he quickly explained: "Really, although I can't afford anything valuable, I just gave them the rice noodles that I couldn't sell out that day! Business was so good two days ago that the rice noodles were sold out, so I still
I bought some pancakes to give to them."
"If I really get sued for this theft, one or two of their family members may starve to death... Please show mercy, I will definitely take care of this restless hand in the future..."
This time, Zhang Shou finally smiled. He did not scare anyone anymore, and said calmly: "You are indeed guilty of stealing things without telling me, and that bottle of chili pepper is valuable, it is indeed something that the Ming Dynasty has never had before."
If it's old, it can be said to be priceless. But if you say it's cheap, it can be easily grown from seeds. It just comes from overseas, so it's actually not that valuable."
Seeing that Xu Ba was frightened at first, and then a little relieved, and his face was wrinkled in confusion, he said calmly: "It's just that since you used chili peppers to make delicacies that others like and praise.
, then it is considered a good deed. So, I can forget about this matter. Moreover, I can also give you some more chili pepper."
Xu Ba's eyes suddenly widened as big as copper bells, and then his face was instantly filled with ecstasy - not just the ecstasy of surviving a disaster, but also the ecstasy of making an unexpected fortune. But he quickly
He suppressed the urge to laugh out loud, swallowed hard, and asked stammeringly: "Is this... is it true?"
"Seriously." Zhang Shou chuckled and said very naturally, "It's just that the quantity won't be too much. You just need to tell people who like this taste that it comes from far away overseas, that's enough."
"Yes, yes, I must say this, I must say this!" Xu Ba was so happy that his voice changed its tone, and he nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "Dr. Zhang, you are really magnanimous and bodhisattva-hearted. In the future, the people of Cangzhou
I will definitely worship you as a Bodhisattva and offer incense to you every day..."
"No, I don't have that much merit to withstand such courtesy." Zhang Shou cut off the guy's endless flattery angrily, and then said with a half-smile, "You only have one mission, and you can pass it on to others.
Try to let more people know that you have a special spice from overseas. Of course, I don’t have much stock here, so I can’t give you more.”
"If someone really breaks down your door just for a bite to eat, then it's none of my business."
Hearing this cold joke, Xu Ba wiped the sweat from his forehead with a white scarf, almost feeling that he was about to faint from happiness. Not only did he not be held accountable for the crime of theft, but he would continue to give him such good things? God.
Who knows, there are such good people and good deeds in the world. He is so lucky! People break down his door for food? That's great, he welcomes people to fight!
He nodded quickly and said: "Yes, yes, I will definitely do it, Dr. Zhang, don't worry!"
"Okay, that's it. I'll ask Ah Liu to find you later. You go back first!"
If he didn’t want to come here just now, then Xu Ba didn’t want to leave now. Even Ah Liu’s expressionless face, which always looked a bit ugly, looked so cute to him at this time——
How can a person who allows him to continue doing business and earn more every day not be cute?
He turned back three times and reluctantly waved goodbye. After leaving the county government office, he couldn't help but jump three feet high and waved his fists like a child to express his joy. Then he sprinted towards the west gate, preparing to leave the city quickly.
Go and continue doing business. Just the time he spent in this round and round has caused a huge delay. He should let Na Cen give him a small reward!
As soon as he left, Ah Liu, who followed Zhang Shou to the lobby, couldn't help but snorted again. This time, Zhang Shou comforted him without looking back: "He stole something, but he was actually willing to be raped just now."
You want to vent your anger, but you don’t think so, right? For a condiment like chili pepper to be deeply rooted in people’s hearts, it must be spread first, and he is at least a channel.”
Ah Liu whispered unhappily: "There are many people selling food."
Zhang Shou couldn't help but laugh: "There are many restaurants and restaurants in Cangzhou, but who gave him such a fate to be brought back by you, and then he stole things by mistake? Anyway, if you are not satisfied, go find him in the future
When the time comes, you can teach him a lesson..."
When he finished saying this, he happened to go up the last step and saw clearly the scene in the lobby. He saw that the menacing Mr. Huang was being ridden by Mr. Bi! This pioneer in China
Master Bi, who was putting on airs in front of the shopkeeper, his hair disheveled at the moment, was beating Mr. Huang hard with his fists, and was still mumbling angrily.
"You know nothing and don't understand anything. Apart from having a good father, what else do you have?"
"When you call me, the master, your current master, have you ever thought that I am your senior in the examination room! Even a child passed the examination through stumbling, and you have the nerve to call yourself a scholar. Don't you feel embarrassed!"
"You blamed me for not accomplishing anything, and now that things are revealed, you still blame me, you irresponsible thing!"
Zhang Shou raised his eyes and saw Zhu Tingfang sitting leisurely on the main seat in the center, watching this absolutely unequal fight with cold eyes, as if he didn't care at all whether the poor Mr. Huang would be beaten to death.
When he thought that this ignorant boy had scolded Zhu Ying, and didn't know how to run away immediately afterwards, and even came to Cangzhou to seek revenge, his last bit of sympathy was gone. All in all, he deserved it!
He originally thought that Zhu Tingfang was waiting for him to come and show off his power, but what he didn't expect was that when he saw him coming in, Zhu Tingfang suddenly said: "Come here, I will take these two people who cheated, incited people, and fought in the court to be detained by me.