The steward's face tightened slightly, and he bowed his body to say: "This"

Haixi's originally gentle face became gloomy again, and he instructed those who were executed to work harder, and he said in a deep voice: "The big houses of the heavy family are now so depressed that they rely on other houses to make a living, and they dare to refuse this official?" Don't die! ”

The steward hesitated for a moment, and then said with a sad face: "It's not that the big family is unhappy about this matter, their son wants to take the imperial examination, and he has to rely on the master's support, how dare he refuse you?" It's Chonglan herself who doesn't like her being a second-room person, and she is separated from the big house all the year round, so the big house can't control her."

Haixi's eyelids lifted, his eyes were full of gloom, and he suddenly slammed the table hard: "This little. People are not small, but a businessman, the official is willing to accept her as a concubine, and she has already promoted her, and she dares to refuse the official, which is really unreasonable! ”

The steward saw that his face was grim, and he hurriedly took a few steps back, but he was still hit by a tea cup on his forehead, and he heard him say fiercely: "This cheap. Woo! It's cheap. Woo! The steward's forehead immediately bleed, and he knelt beside him with a trembling body, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, why did his master take a fancy to Chonglan?

In fact, Haixi also has a suffering word, people say that he has read countless beauty, but few people know that he is inhumane at all, although there is that object, but it is not much different from the eunuch, the more he does not work, the more prosperous the internal fire, better than ordinary people, but he can't enjoy himself, he can only abuse. To humiliate these women for fun.

He has seen a lot of beauties, and although Chonglan coveted it, it was not to the point of abandoning the official voice to coerce him to marry, but Chonglan was charming and natural, he glanced at it coldly a few months ago, and his body reacted, and immediately regarded her as a panacea, and tried his best to get it to the mansion.

He paced restlessly in place for a while, then turned his head and asked, "Are those homeless women all dealt with?" ”

The steward covered his forehead and replied, "If you go back to the master, you will be dealt with so that you will not be discovered." ”

He got up and left, but she was stunned. Jiang You paused for a moment, sighed before coming back to his senses: "Let the shopkeeper come in." ”

After a while, Jiang You noticed that her fingers in her sleeves were tightly twisted, her eyebrows were frowning, and she seemed to be extremely distressed, but as soon as she came in, she returned to her as usual, and bowed to her: "Zhang Jianjun, I didn't bother you, right?" ”

Jiang You shook his head and asked her to sit down: "How can you bother?" She turned her head and looked at Chonglan: "Is there anything wrong with the shopkeeper?" ”

In fact, it was the housekeeper of the Hai family who came to her again, coercing and tempting her to be a concubine for Haixi, she was annoyed, knowing that the Hai family did not dare to come to Xue Yuan Jiang You to ask for someone, so she specially came to the door, she thought of the prepared words, paused slightly, and asked carefully: "I heard that the factory and the supervisor came here specially for the price of rice?" ”

This is not a secret, but there is nothing to hide, Jiang You nodded: "You are doing business everywhere, you must have heard that Yangzhou grain is not only expensive, but also in short supply. Woe to me, so I came to see it. ”

At this time, the subordinate brought the tea, Chonglan took a sip lightly, and said casually: "As the saying goes, there is no treachery, no business, and I have been doing business for several years. ”

Jiang You's face was displeased: "There are government regulations above, how dare they be so rampant?" ”

She finally asked what Chonglan wanted to say, and Chonglan sighed long: "When the water is clear, there is no fish, officials and businessmen have been colluded since ancient times, these businessmen have a lowly status, and the prison army really thinks that they have the courage to raise the price of grain, so that the price of grain will rise several times or even dozens of times?" It's just that there is someone behind it. ”

Jiang You slapped the case hard: "Bastard thing!" I also know the truth that when the water is clear, there are no fish, and they usually turn a blind eye to the exchange of courtesies, and they dare to be so bold, thinking that there is no king in the world! After she was annoyed, she felt that it was wrong, and frowned and glanced at Chonglan: "Are you afraid that it is not only for this, but also for me?" ”

Chonglan is very clear about the current situation, she is just a businessman, if she wants to get rid of Haixi's entanglement, unless she completely collapses him, so that he has no chance to make a comeback, if she wants him to be unlucky, she has to rely on Xue Yuan and Jiang You, but she is just a businessman, Haixi is an official of Zhengsipin, if she frames the central government like this, Jiang You will kill her with a rod and no one will dare to beak. She hesitated: "The prison army has good eyesight, I do have something to report here, but"

Jiang You saw that she was embarrassed, thinking of her indifferent attitude towards Haixi today, and intuitively felt that this matter might be related to him, and asked: "You are usually good with people, why are you not pretentious to the Haixi prefect on the dock today, and you are not afraid that you will not be able to come to Yangzhou to do business in the future?" “

Chonglan didn't expect that this was also a delicate heart, she hesitated in her heart, but she gritted her teeth, crossed her heart, and knelt down to tell one by one the inquiries and investigations in these days: "Haixi coaxed the homeless women into the mansion and wantonly abused. When I □□ up, I colluded with grain merchants to raise grain prices, threatened the lives of other people in my family, forced me to enter his house as a concubine, and asked the prison army to be the master! ”

If Jiang You hadn't been to Haixi Mansion and hadn't seen the woman with a red mark on her neck, he might not have believed Chonglan's words, but now combined with her words, he was already suspicious. But this fourth-grade member is different from the white-body second ancestor she killed at the beginning, even if she shows her identity as the emperor, she can't kill people at will, and the evidence must be conclusive.

She originally wanted to ask Xue Yuan to investigate strictly, but thinking of Fang Cai's sullenness, she sat back in place: "I believe your words, I can force you to treat the matter of the concubine for the most improper charges, and it is useless to do nothing." What about the other two, do you have a drama? You have to verify it before you can be guilty."

Chonglan smiled bitterly and spread his hands: "It's me who is incompetent." ”

She is just a businessman, it is not easy to collect a lot of information, Jiang You is determined to get things done this time without relying on Xue Yuan, so that her daughter-in-law and others can also look up to her, she stood up and paced back and forth in the house a few times, and suddenly turned her head to look at Chonglan steadily, and muttered: "I have a way to verify here." ”