Lizheng's mother-in-law left obediently, but there was no more wording.

"You can talk about it now, right?"

Li Zheng stared at An Jingsheng, watched him pick up the bowl, took a sip of water slowly, and smacked his lips, and then drank the water in the bowl in one go, put the bowl down, and looked like he was not in a hurry to speak, and he couldn't help but gradually lose his patience.

"Let's not talk about it a few days ago, the emperor only gave us the 20-year tax in Wenyang Village's favor of halving. In the past ten years, hasn't the chief noticed that the people who went out of our Wenyang Village have hardly been bullied or calculated outside? Why do you say it? ”

An Jingsheng saw that he was really in a hurry, so he spoke unhurriedly.

After listening to it, Li Zheng "buzzed" in his head and looked at An Jingsheng. My mind became complicated for a while. How could he not be aware of this?

Even he knew far more than ordinary people. You must know that more than ten years ago, in front of those masters and officials who always had nostrils facing the sky in the county government, he was far less face-saving than he is now. It seems that it changed overnight, and he didn't have no doubts back then, but he couldn't find the root cause, so he gradually left that change behind.

As the saying goes, the yamen is open to the south, and there is no reason to come in if you have no money.

He still remembers a past. A member of their Da'an clan relied on the ancestral secret recipe to open a preserved fruit shop in the town, and the business was booming, and the family was able to buy a house in the town.

As a result, somehow he was targeted and calculated by the ruffians, and he even made trouble in the yamen. The family almost spent all their savings, but they didn't sell their houses or shops, and later heard that he was friendly with the people of the yamen, so they came to the door with luck.

At that time, he was also playing drums in his heart, but for the sake of his clan, he could only give it a try, so he led people to find the master of the yamen. Unexpectedly, when the master heard this, he asked, "Is he really from your Wenyang Village?" Why didn't you say it earlier? ”

At that moment, the master accepted the gift, but refused the silver they handed over, and refused to accept it, only letting them go back and wait for news.

The money was not given away, and they all felt that there was no room for things to turn around, and when they were in despair, what followed still felt like a dream. Not only the cases of the tribesmen were quickly decided, but the ruffian who calculated him was fined a board, not to mention that he also compensated their people with a large sum of silver, which was enough to compensate him for his losses.

They thought it was the master's credit, and they were very grateful to invite the master to drink, the master smiled and said nothing, and the wine was only half-drunk and half-awake to show a look of envy, and said, you people in Wenyang Village really burned high incense on the ancestors, stepped on the **** luck, if you said that it was Wenyang Village that didn't open your eyes, you would dare to provoke the door?

He couldn't understand what he said, and when he tested the master, the master looked at him with a look of envy and inexplicability, and flatly denied what he had said.

After so many years, he has pondered this sentence a thousand times. I didn't think about it when I turned it upside down, but it was really that there were no nobles in Wenyang Village, not to mention, even if the scholar was only fifty or sixty years old before he was admitted to Xiucai, and now he has opened a private school and accepted a few boys to barely survive.

Don't look at Li Zheng thinking so much, in fact, it's just a stunned kung fu.

"Do you know why?" Rizheng's voice was a little hoarse.

"I know about my own family, although the two branches of our An clan have been living in the same village, and outsiders think that we are a family, but over the years, the two of us have actually been in constant disputes in private, and the clansmen of your clan have always relied on our clansmen to be a little less, and they have been pressing our clan for so many years."

An Jingsheng sneered, "This time our branch finally came out with a rich and noble one, and some of you have people who are red and jealous, so they think of ways to arrange it, say those nonsense, and spread it to the surrounding villages." ”

"Okay, why are you mentioning this again, what proof do you say our team is bullying you? Isn't it just some trivial, what's the point of you always scheming? Li Zheng didn't expect that this time An Jingsheng could tear his face and talk about the matter between the two branches so naked. This has never been done before.

"Trivial? But what's the matter with our group always suffering? An Jingsheng was almost off topic by Li Zheng's shameless words, but fortunately he immediately realized that he quickly turned back and continued,

"Then let's not talk about other 'trivial' things. Let's just say that this time because of those gossip, it turned out to attract several groups of bandits, who came to the door at night to rob. Is it trivial? ”

"When did I hear about it?"

Li Zheng also panicked when he heard that there had been bandits in the village. At the same time, he was even more annoyed when he deliberately didn't talk about An Jingsheng for a long time. Don't think he can't see it, he's clearly playing around in circles.

"You didn't hear about it because those bandits didn't succeed, and they didn't even get in the door, so they were directly tied up by the guards and sent to the county office. Fortunately, the bandits didn't succeed. At that time, if they succeeded, I was afraid that the entire village of Wenyang Village would be buried together. ”

An Jingsheng was also scared when he said this, he looked at it with a slight disapproval, and couldn't help sneering, the circle was enough, and he simply stopped hanging his appetite.

"Who do you think they are? Did you really believe the rumors that were made up? One of them is the lady of Yipin's Decree Yiguo, and the other was originally the royal lord of Ping'an, and the husband she married was still the emperor's own Zhenguo Gong. That is, the Duchess of Zhenguo. ”

"Bang."

Rizheng stood up suddenly, his face turned white. The hand was too big to touch, and the stoneware bowl with white water on the table was placed. The bowl fell straight to the ground, and with a muffled thud, it fell apart.

"What you said is true?" He asked in a trembling voice, in fact, he already believed it in his heart, and no one dared to make up such a big thing.

No wonder, no wonder.

That's the only way it makes sense!

Li Zheng's mind was blank, and the words of the master rang in his ears again.

Is he really from your Wenyang Village? Why didn't you say it earlier?

The people of Wenyang Village really burned high incense and stepped on the **** luck, if you had said that it was any of the people in Wenyang Village who didn't open their eyes, they would dare to provoke them?

Someone in their clan made up such a bastard? And because those words have summoned bandits, this is to harm the whole village!

Li Zheng suddenly sat down in his chair as if he was deflated. (To be continued.) )