The courtyard of Tan's house was desolate, and the old and sick woman of the family had been working hard for many days without hope, but they were really looking forward to Tan Wenshi's news!

The family almost cried!

Tan Wenshi didn't know what method he used, so he sent a message to Luzi, and Luzi secretly went to Tan's house at night and brought Tan Wenshi's words to the Tan family.

Even Mrs. Tan, who couldn't get out of bed for a long time, insisted on crawling out of bed and sitting, Xue Qianqian held a big belly that was almost impossible to walk, and sat in the second position, even Du Qiutong ran over in a hurry after hearing the news, and didn't notice that her hair bun was scratched by the door frame when she ran over.

Lu Zi said in a low and hurried voice: "Tan Ye said, everything is fine with him, let the old lady have a good life, don't worry about him." ”

When Mrs. Tan heard this, her eyes couldn't help but turn red, and she stroked her chest again and again.

Luzi said again: "Tan Ye also said that the wife is about to give birth, and the body is the most important, don't worry about him, you just need to help him take care of the old lady." When he takes care of the outside affairs, he will definitely come back as soon as possible, and he will not make his wife wait too long. ”

Xue Qianqian's eyes were also red, she pursed her lips, and couldn't help but smile.

Du Qiutong stood aside and listened, looking at Luzi earnestly.

But Luzi said, "That's all." I should not stay here too long, I must go first, lest others be suspicious. ”

Xue Qianqian generously stuffed some reward silver into Luzi's hand, and said: "You have always been very important, do things for your master, and when your master comes back, the benefits will be indispensable to yours." ”

Luzi said thank you several times and left. Mrs. Tan and Xue Qianqian had been worried for so long, and finally got the news of Tan Wenshi, and immediately held hands to comfort each other, both of them were full of joy.

Du Qiutong stood aside, completely ignored, not happy, he didn't dare to turn his face and leave, he didn't know where to put his hands and feet when he stood there, like the only superfluous existence.

It's been more than 10 days since the night of August 14. Master Ning didn't know how much money he had used, and he finally won the opportunity to let Ning Zhiheng recuperate from his injuries. After Ning Yongjing learned the news, he was excitedly handling the procedures for borrowing Ning Zhiheng to come out.

Qi Gaoyuan also heard the rumors, it was like smoke! This matter is obviously the Qi family's reason, Ning Zhiheng's kid will definitely not be able to run away! But Master Ning took the silver and forced Ning Zhiheng to make a way out. It is clearly to bully the Qi family, and there is no power in the Ning family!

Qi Gaoyuan only felt extremely aggrieved. The Qi family is not as wealthy as the Ning family, so naturally there is no need for the Ning family to be generous in terms of relationships. Even if Qi Gaoyuan has his back to the Xiao family, he is just a pawn of the Xiao family, even if he wants to move around with the relationship of the Xiao family, he has to worry about the face of the Xiao family, so he is restricted everywhere.

Now, seeing that the Ning family is about to reverse black and white, Qi Gaoyuan has no way at all! It's not that Qi Gaoyuan didn't go to the government to complain, but what is angry is that the government actually persuaded Qi Gaoyuan to agree to reconcile with the Ning family! Qi Gaoyuan knew in his heart that even the official mansion had been bought by Master Ning with silver, otherwise how could he be so biased towards the Ning family to speak?

Qi Gaoyuan has nowhere to vent his grief and anger. Hmph, what kind of official morality and law? It's not a fart in front of the silver!

The only thing that comforted Qi Gaoyuan a little was that because the murder of the court official had not yet had a definite result, Ning Zhiheng had not completely gotten rid of the suspicion, so just when the Ning family was about to take Ning Zhiheng out, someone above stood up and mentioned the matter, and the Ning family was unable to take Ning Zhiheng out, and Ning Zhiheng was still in prison.

Only this one is the existence that can make Qi Gaoyuan feel a little sense of justice and justice. However, Qi Gaoyuan also knew that everything was only a matter of time, although Ning Zhiheng's release was delayed, as long as Master Ning continued to throw money and run, sooner or later, Ning Zhiheng would be released.

Qi Gaoyuan knew that there was not much time left for him, if he couldn't fight Master Ning anymore, Qi Kaifeng's fight would be in vain!

But at this moment, Qi Gaoyuan received a secret report, saying that the city department was about to secretly check his tax situation in previous years, and asked him to be prepared to deal with it.

It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight. Actually told him to be ready to deal with it? Joke! What can he do to prepare? If the City Ship Division really wants to investigate, isn't Qi Plateau the turtle in the urn?!

Qi Gaoyuan was so angry that his mouth was full of bubbles, the corners of his mouth were also red, it hurt if he didn't open his mouth, and his mouth was even more painful, and he couldn't sleep all night.

Soon, Qi Gaoyuan's cronies said that someone had stumbled upon that the Ning family seemed to be secretly investigating the nearly one million taels of material that the Chamber of Commerce had just entered.

Qi Gaoyuan couldn't believe it. The Chamber of Commerce will import a large number of materials from other places every year, and in terms of the scale of the Chamber of Commerce's purchases, nearly one million taels is not a very surprising amount, in this case, why did the Ning family suddenly start to investigate the goods this time?

The cronie was also confused for a moment and couldn't answer.

Qi Gaoyuan couldn't help but feel that he was really suffering from the enemy at the moment, on the one hand, the city department wanted to investigate the taxes paid by the Chamber of Commerce in previous years, and on the other hand, the Ning family wanted to attack the goods this time, the more Qi Gaoyuan thought about it, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help cursing a few words.

When the cronie heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned and said, "It's really strange to attack at the same time. The Ning family is an enemy of us, so it's not strange to attack us, but why did the City Division also get involved? The city has no grudges with us in the past, and there is no enmity in the near future, what do we do to embarrass us? ”

Since Gu Xuesong took office, he has said that he is unwell, so he has always lived in a simple place, and Qi Gaoyuan has long wanted to take care of it, but there has been no way.

If you are an official from an ordinary background, you basically can't resist the temptation of gold and silver, as long as you give something valuable. But Gu Xuesong was born in a famous family, and he has always been low-key, Qi Gaoyuan couldn't touch Gu Xuesong's preference and temperament, and wanted to stammer, but he was worried that the horse's ass would be lined up on the horse's hooves, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

Moreover, precisely because Gu Xuesong was low-key, Qi Gaoyuan didn't know if Gu Xuesong was standing in line, and if he was in line, he would be on the same team, so he didn't dare to rashly try to have a deep friendship with him.

Gu Xuesong has been in office for so long, and he has never made much movement in his political achievements, even if he is a mediocre person, he has never felt sorry for Qi Gaoyuan. The two can be regarded as having no intersection, and the relationship is neither good nor bad.

But Gu Xuesong suddenly wanted to check the Qi Plateau, which was really strange. Hearing his cronies say this at this moment, Qi Gaoyuan suddenly thought of something in his heart.

Gu Xuesong has been in the capital before, and he has just been promoted to the city of Meigong County for less than a year, the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, a young foreign official, suddenly wants to check the old accounts of the local chamber of commerce, how can he find out anything? !

Unless, there is someone local who helps him to listen to the news from the inside. At this moment, the only locals who can help Gu Xuesong listen to the news from the inside may be the Ning family!

Qi Gaoyuan frowned and asked, "Could it be that the eldest master of the Ning family went to beg Lord Gu?" But I've never heard of the two of them intersecting. ”

The cronie thought for a while, and suddenly mentioned Huacaiyuan, and said that Gu Xuesong had gone to the scene when Huacaiyuan opened.

Qi Gaoyuan reacted immediately: "I remember that the boss of Huacaiyuan is Ning Wangping's granddaughter, I have seen her in the Weaving Bureau, and I am very impressed with her!" However, her family has been on its own since Ning Wangping's generation, and I heard that her family's mulberry garden was still occupied by Master Ning, and they were not less involved with each other because of this matter, would she help Master Ning to come out? ”

Before the cronies could speak, Qi Gaoyuan had already suddenly realized: "In the end, they are all surnamed Ning." For her, even if there is a big conflict with her family, she has to help her family at this time, otherwise she will become a lost dog? ”

Qi Gaoyuan sighed again and again, and now he is a former wolf and a tiger, and it is difficult to move an inch. At present, I have to admit that I have no luck, and if I am really found out that there is a problem with the accounts by the city, I can only make up for the tax money I have lost. In short, even if the matter on the side of the city is troublesome, it can be solved with silver, but that batch of materials is tricky.

What if the cat in that batch of materials is really found out...... This is not a matter of Qi Gaoyuan's own bad luck, more importantly, he will implicate the person behind him. At that time, the fate of being settled by that person will be more terrible than being punished by the government! Now, for Qi Gaoyuan, it is already a trivial matter for his son to be seriously injured by Ning Zhiheng!

Qi Gaoyuan thought about it for a long time, and suddenly came up with a way to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, and said viciously: "If it weren't for that stinky girl from Hua Caiyuan, this thing wouldn't have become what it is today!" ”

The cronie asked, "Can you figure out how to solve the problem?" Do you want to hurry up and talk to Xiao Gongzi and ask Xiao Gongzi for help? ”

Qi Gaoyuan closed his eyes, very hesitant and contradictory.

The connections of the patriarch of the Ning clan were like meridians spread in the local chamber of commerce, and he soon heard a lot about the batch of materials from Chengsong County, and it turned out that there was more than one supplier of the materials.

Ning Xia Qing got a lot of information about this from the patriarch, and the most important thing for her was that she couldn't forget a name on the supplier list!

The man's name was Jing Qi.

Last year, in order to understand the dilemma of the blocked purchase channel, Ning Yongda and Miao Laosan jointly ventured to take the ship to buy the material, which was from a person named Jing Qi!

With such a rare surname, Ningxia Qing does not think that there is any possibility of the same name and surname! It must be the same person!

When Ning Xia Qing heard the news, he immediately went to the warehouse to find Gu Feng.

When she hurriedly stepped into the door of the warehouse, Gu Feng happened to almost fall, and Ning Xia Qing hurriedly went up to support her, it turned out that Gu Feng was dizzy for a while when he put materials on the upper shelves, and he didn't stand firm.

Ning Xia Qing couldn't help feeling guilty, Ah Zheng left, and the old Gu Feng had to do this kind of physical work again, in the final analysis, it was Ning Ningqing's poor arrangement as the owner.

Gu Feng seemed to see through Ning Ningqing's thoughts, waved his hand again and again, patted his chest and promised: "I don't usually do this, cough cough, just because I was thinking about things in my heart, so I ...... for a while Ahem...... Distracted, big girl, don't worry, I definitely won't in the future! ”

Ningxia Qing heard that Gu Feng was still coughing a little, and he didn't know if he was tired recently, so he hurriedly asked Cuiyu to go to the kitchen to cook a bowl of white fungus soup that replenishes his body and moisturizes dryness, pulled Gu Feng to sit down and rest, and said: "Uncle Gu Feng wait, talk to me, and when Cuiyu comes back, you will drink the white fungus soup, and then go home to rest today." ”

"Let the big girl bother for me, it's my old thing that is useless, I can't share the worries of the big girl, and I bother the big girl to worry about me." Uncle Gu Feng sat down with his waist on his back, first said a few polite words, and then asked seriously: "The eldest girl suddenly came to me, what did she want to tell me?" ”

Ning Ningqing's expression darkened slightly, and asked: "I asked Uncle Gu Feng to confirm that when my father and Miao Laosan jointly went south to buy the materials, did they take the materials from a person named Jing Qi?" ”

Gu Feng thought for a while and said, "Yes, that person's name is Jing Qi, and the surname Jing is quite rare, so I remember it quite clearly." Gu Feng asked puzzledly: "Headless and brainless, why did the eldest girl ask about this?" ”

Ning Xia Qing didn't answer and asked: "Uncle Gu Feng, do you know, what kind of person is that Jing Qi?" How did my dad get in touch with Jing Qi? ”

Gu Feng recalled it seriously. Gu Feng remembered that when Ning Yongda was about to buy goods with Miao Laosan, he originally wanted to buy some inferior goods produced by Xiao's. Shaw's reputation is outside, if you can get into Shaw's goods, you don't have to worry about sales.

But the Xiao family is the Xiao family after all, even if it is an inferior product produced by the Xiao family, the price is very high, Ning Yongda only dares to think about it, and he can't afford it at all.

At the same time, Ning Yongda happened to hear about this person named Jing Qi from Tan Wenshi. According to Tan Wenshi, this Jing Qi is a broker who specializes in reselling imitation materials, specializing in copying Xiao's materials, and the quality naturally cannot be compared with Xiao's, but it is also passable, and the price is much cheaper.

So, Ning Yongda specially found a way to contact this Jing Qi and ordered a large number of imitation materials from Jing Qi.

However, before that batch of materials arrived, Ning Yongda died, and the Ning family was busy with Ning Yongda's funeral at that time, and they didn't care about that batch of materials, so Miao Laosan swallowed that batch of materials. Later, although Ningxia Qing begged for material from Miao Laosan, it was not the one that came in from Jing Qi at that time.

Therefore, neither Gu Feng nor Ningxia Qing had seen the imitation material resold by Jing Qi with their own eyes, and they didn't know what the material in Jing Qi's hand was.

Ning Xia Qing couldn't help but fall silent. Jing Qi is actually a broker who resells Xiao's imitation materials, that is to say, this matter is actually related to Xiao's? And Ning Yongda actually heard about Jing Qi from Tan Wenshi, that is to say, this matter is still related to Tan Wenshi?

Ning Yongda couldn't help asking: "Since it was Steward Tan who introduced Jing Qi to my father, did Steward Tan get involved in the subsequent business?" ”

Gu Feng replied categorically: "No." Steward Tan just mentioned the person who had Jing Qi to the master, and it was the master who found a way to contact Jing Qi by himself. Later, when he heard that there was an accident on the river, the old man was anxious, and when he was desperate, he went to Steward Tan to talk about it, but Steward Tan had nothing to do with it, so naturally he couldn't help. ”

Ning Xia Qing asked Gu Feng again, if he still remembered the day of Ning Yongda's accident.

Gu Feng thought for a while and told the events of the day in great detail.

That day, Ning Yongda heard the news that there was a ship, and he was very anxious, and his face was full of burnt. At that time, Gu Feng was in front of the counter to code the account, and when he was pulling the abacus, Ning Yongda came in from the back door of the shop, and when Gu Feng saw that Ning Yongda's face was wrong, he put down the abacus in his hand and asked Ning Yongda what was wrong.

Ning Yongda said that there was news about the ship, and he had to ask about the situation. Gu Feng asked Ning Yongda who he was going to ask about the situation and when he would come back.

Ning Yongda didn't seem to think too much about it at the time, and was stunned for a moment when Gu Feng asked him like this, and then waved his hand and said that anyway, find an acquaintance to ask first, and told Gu Feng that he would come back soon, and then left.

And Gu Feng was also worried about the boat at that time, and when he heard Ning Yongda say this, he was also annoyed for a while, and when Gu Feng came back to his senses, he even forgot where he had just coded the account code, so he had to start all over again. Unexpectedly, Ning Yongda did not come back that day.

Ning Xia Qing couldn't help frowning and pondering.

What Ning Yongda said was to ask an acquaintance, could it be to find Tan Wenshi? Ningxia Qing didn't know. Ning Yongda may have gone to Tan Wenshi, or he may have gone to find someone else, which is really difficult to determine.

Ning Ningqing remembered that after Ning Yongda's accident, witnesses nearby said that Ning Yongda seemed to have made an appointment, and waited there for a long time, but he didn't wait for half a day, and he couldn't wait to leave, and then he fell to his death. So in the end, no one knew who Ning Yongda went to inquire about that day.

Was the fall really an accident? If it's not an accident, is it related to Tan Wenshi or Xiao Shi? If it wasn't an accident, what was the reason for Ning Yongda's murder? Ning Yongda is just an inconspicuous small businessman, he didn't block Tan Wenshi's way, nor did he stand in the way of Xiao's family, neither of them had a reason to harm Ning Yongda.

Ning Xia Qing felt that the only thing worth remembering in her family was the half of the notes left by Ning Wangping, but at that time, Li Tie and his son had not taken out Ning Wangping's half of the notes, in this case, what could others get by killing Ning Yongda?