Chapter 72: Gathering Evidence
"Okay, I'll be back early tonight."
Although Zheng Wanguan was extremely disgusted in his heart, he still said with a smile.
"If you are comfortable serving me tonight, the affairs of the cloth workshop will not matter." Before leaving, Zhang Huilan reminded Zheng Wanguan. It seems that Zheng Wanguan hasn't done that kind of thing for many days in order to let Zhang Huilan come to him.
To Kee Cloth Workshop.
"Boss Du, Lord Lin is invited." A man dressed in a servant's costume shouted to the man at the door.
Of course, this is Lin Ruofan's trouble for Du Ruonan, originally because of Su Zhiyu's matter, Du Ruonan let her daughter return with a feather, and she has no good impression of Du Ruonan.
But because of the governor, he didn't dare to do anything in the open.
But just yesterday, the prefect sent someone to send a letter to him, asking him to trouble Du Ruonan, which made him very happy.
With the support of the prefect, what else does he have to worry about?
"Why did this Lin County order look for Du's shopkeeper at two ends in three days?"
"Yes, it's only been a few days, and I've been here so many times, and it's too frequent."
The guys in the store talked a lot, it was difficult to see what was going on in the Du Ji cloth stall, but looking at the shopkeeper's appearance, it didn't look like he was in trouble.
"Shopkeeper, the yamen is here again, and the person who names you wants to see you."
There was a guy in front of him who was coping, and then a guy came and secretly ran to inform Du Ruonan.
"I wonder what Lord Lin is looking for the little girl?" Du Ruonan said without humility or arrogance, without a little worry, which made the guys feel a lot more relieved.
"We just do what the adults instruct, and we don't know how much."
A few officials who came here replied with stiff faces.
Although Du Ruonan is helpless, there is no way, if he doesn't go, it will inevitably make people gossip, saying that he has a good relationship with the governor's wife and does not take the county order in his eyes.
So in order not to make trouble for the governor's wife, no matter how tired she was these days, she still went to see Lin Ruofan.
Every time I went to Lin Ruofan to investigate his taxes, and then I couldn't find any problems, I let myself come back again, and this matter has been going back and forth for the past few days.
"Shopkeeper, Mrs. Shen came to you just now, but you weren't there, so she said that if you come back, let you hurry up to see her, looking at her appearance and even anxious, she may have encountered something urgent."
When Du Ruonan returned to Du Ji Cloth Workshop physically and mentally exhausted, this guy came to Du Ruonan and said. Du Ruonan had to make another trip.
"Sister, I don't know if you're in such a hurry to let me come?" Du Ruonan soon arrived at the governor's mansion.
"Ruonan, have you provoked someone these days?"
Mrs. Shen did not answer Du Ruonan, but asked her.
"Sister, what you said, I thought there was something big, I opened the door to do business, and I was angry and made money, how could I provoke anyone."
As soon as Du Ruonan heard Mrs. Shen say this, her heart was also put down, and she said with a smile.
"Then why does Lin Ruofan come to you so often these days?"
Du Ruonan didn't expect that Lin Ruofan had been looking for himself three or four times in the past few days, and even Mrs. Shen knew about it. Of course, this is Du Ruonan's idea.
Mrs. Shen doesn't think so, she and Du Ruonan see things from different angles, so the things they worry about are different.
It is impossible for him Lin Ruofan not to know his relationship with Du Ruonan, even so, he looks like he is embarrassing Du Ruonan, if he was put in the past, he would not dare to do it if he was given another guts.
So where is his confidence in doing so? This is what Mrs. Shen is worried about.
"I'm also very surprised by this, in the past few days, he has checked the taxes I have paid in Du Ji Cloth Workshop over the years, and I don't know what he wants to do."
Du Ruonan is also strange about this.
"Okay, but Ruonan, you have to be careful these days in case of accidents."
Although Mrs. Shen did not tell Du Ruonan the seriousness of the matter, out of caution, she still reminded Du Ruonan. Du Ruonan also knew that Mrs. Shen was well-intentioned, so she nodded.
After returning to Du Ji Cloth Workshop, Du Ruonan was very upset, could it be that someone wanted to trouble himself? Su Zhiyu also noticed the events of the past few days.
Seeing Du Ruonan so helpless at this time, he knew that he couldn't stand by and watch, and he had to do something for Du Ruonan.
"Erhu, you go and inquire about what Zheng Wanguan has been doing recently, the more detailed the better."
Su Zhiyu said to a guy for a long time, and then asked him to inquire about Zheng Wanguan's news, Su Zhiyu felt that this matter had nothing to do with this person. 520
"Mr. Su, I have already heard what you asked me to inquire, he has not been out of the gate recently, he has not stepped out of the second door, and he doesn't even care about the business of the cloth workshop, and he has been accompanying his wife."
This guy is like Su Zhiyu reporting the news he inquired about.
"This is impossible, with his character, how can he not care at all, and there is a lady who accompanies him at leisure." Su Zhiyu muttered to himself.
"Who is his wife?"
Although Su Zhiyu has been here for a while, he has never been in contact with Zhang Huilan, so naturally he doesn't know her.
"She is a tyrant here, no one dares to provoke her, I heard that her father is the county magistrate of Linxian County, of course she can be so arrogant, mainly because she has a prefect brother."
This guy is still very knowledgeable about these things, so he opens his mouth to come.
"I see." When Su Zhiyu heard the guy say this, he instantly understood what was going on.
Although the guy didn't understand what Su Zhiyu understood, these things were not his responsibility, so he didn't make trouble for himself.
"Zheng Wanguan, and his wife, I know that you guy will definitely not give up, it must be her prefect's brother who asked Lin Ruofan to do this, otherwise with Lin Ruofan's courage, he would not dare to leave Mrs. Shen to nothing."
Su Zhiyu thought about the cause and effect of the matter, and quickly guessed the truth of the matter.
"No wonder Lin Ruofan is investigating the taxes of Du Ji Cloth Workshop these days, he must want to do something on this, it seems that he originally wanted to find out some things directly to punish Ruonan, but looking at the current situation, he has not succeeded."
With this figured out, a lot of things are explained.
But I don't think he will let Ruonan go so easily, this is really difficult. This damn Zheng Wanguan, Ruonan has let him go so many times, he is not grateful, and frequently asks Ruonan for trouble.
It seems that he can't be kept this time, this kind of person who doesn't know what to do must be cut down.
"Erhu, if you continue to listen to Zheng Wanguan's news today, you must keep an eye on him, and tell me everything you see when you come back."
Su Zhiyu also started to act, and the shooting guy monitored Zheng Wanguan day and night.
And he was not idle, he first got to know Zhang Huilan's brother, and sure enough, he was not young, and he became the prefect with his own ability at a young age.
After all, she doesn't have much ability, her father is just a county magistrate in Linxian County, so her brother can become the prefect, which is also quite powerful.
However, in Su Zhiyu's eyes, he is just a prefect, and his current identity is the son of the prime minister, although he seems to have never used this identity.
Su Zhiyu also used some connections to help him inquire about the news.
In the end, there was useless news, and he collected a bunch of them anyway, but it was enough for him to be busy for a while. And Lin Ruofan has not been idle in the past few days, and is still looking for problems from the Du family's account books.
Du Ruonan has now become a frequent visitor to this yamen, and now coming here every day has become a thing she must do.
After two days of screening, Su Zhiyu sorted out the news, but Zheng Wanguan, Lin Ruofan, and Zhang Huilan's brother didn't get any news about this matter.
However, although he didn't get what he wanted, Su Zhiyu also knew the evidence that Lin Ruofan and Zhang Huilan's brother took bribes.
This Lin Ruofan is a small county order, and he is greedy for tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, which is not a small amount, if he hands over this thing, he Lin Ruofan is afraid that he will not be able to see the sun the next day.
and Zhang Huilan's brother, who is even more hateful, since he became the prefect, he has not done any good things for the people, and he has also looted the people's fat and ointment.
The people hated him very much, but because of his power, no one dared to speak out.
In fact, it's not that there is nothing, but even if he reported the matter, he had already used the money he collected to buy off the relationship and solve the matter perfectly.
So in the end, the people who came to sue were either dead or maimed, and slowly no one dared to say anything anymore.
Although these news have some effect, he is still a little dissatisfied with the current Su Zhiyu, and what he wants is evidence of the collusion of the three.
However, these three people are really secretive, and they spent so much money that they didn't get what they wanted.
Su Zhiyu was also doing this in secret, first of all, he didn't want Du Ruonan to worry, and secondly, if the three of them knew, it would definitely be even more difficult to find evidence.
"Ruonan, there hasn't been any trouble lately."
Mrs. Shen was already used to sending her maid here, and she rarely came here in person, but recently she always felt that something was strange, so she came to Du Ruonan to find out the news.
"With my sister here, where can something happen."
Du Ruonan said with a smile, but her smile couldn't hide the tiredness on her face, it seemed that she had been tossed a lot these days, and she had to run back and forth every day.
However, Lin Ruofan is not tired of it, even if I can't find evidence that your taxes have not been paid in full, I can still let you run a few more times.
There are so many servants in my yamen, and each person goes once, which is enough for you to drink a pot. So Lin Ruofan plays his own tricks every day.
But after a long time, doing the same thing every day, he is also a little tired of it.