Chapter 20: Father-Son Dialogue

On March 20, Jiang Xiaobai went to the yamen early in the morning and followed a yamen to the back garden of the yamen mansion. In the back garden, there are many flowers and precious varieties, which is less gloomy than the lobby of the yamen, which is comfortable.

Wang Yunlin was sitting in an octagonal pavilion in the small lake in the back garden, Jiang Xiaobai arrived and shouted respectfully, "Grass people Jiang Xiaobai, I have seen Lord Wang"

"This is not the lobby of the yamen, there is no need to be so restrained" Wang Yunlin waved his hand, motioned for Jiang Xiaobai to sit down, and asked the family on the side to make a pot of good tea.

Jiang Xiaobai was not polite, and then sat opposite Wang Yunlin, and said, "Lord Wang, Xiaobai came here this time to report to the adults."

"What?"

"Jiang's Liquor Workshop, Wanli Xiang."

"Oh?" The corners of Wang Yunlin's eyes jumped, and he asked, "But you have eyebrows?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai's expression was indifferent, and he said softly: "My lord is right, a few days ago, Xiaobai finally found some clues after a lot of hardships, and caught a group of people related to this matter, and now they are all imprisoned in Jiang Mansion by me" After that, he squinted his eyes and secretly observed Wang Yunlin's expression, seeing that Wang Yunlin's expression did not change, he always looked calm and calm, and he couldn't help but curse in his heart, "The old fox's psychological quality is quite hard. ”

I only heard Wang Yunlin ask lightly: "Who are they, they have a grudge against your Jiang family, why do they want to harm your Jiang family, but they have all figured it out?" The voice was flat, and he didn't seem to care about the third and fourth children in Jiang Xiaobai's mouth.

"Back to my lord, I've figured it out. This group of people is just a rag wandering around in Guangfu City on weekdays, and they have no grudges against our Jiang family. Jiang Xiaobai replied, "But He Feng, the winemaker in this brewing workshop, owes them a debt of money, and this group of hooligans saw that He Feng couldn't repay the debt, so they forced He Feng to poison the Jiang family's newly brewed wine, wanting to use this to blackmail the Jiang family for a sum of money." After He Feng threw poison into Wanli Xiang, he was ashamed, apologized for his death and left a suicide note... Xiaobai also used the clues left in this suicide note to lure the snake out of the hole and catch these people" Speaking of this, Jiang Xiaobai suddenly stopped, smiled and said, "Xiaobai also understands that it is illegal to detain people without permission, so I want to hand over this crowd to your lordship to deal with, and I hope that your lord will come forward to announce to the people of Guangfu City to clarify the innocence of our Jiang family." ”

When Wang Yunlin heard Jiang Xiaobai say this, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Jiang Xiaobai secretly. Wan Lixiang, he is one of the plotters, how can he not know the truth of the whole thing, and the explanation in Jiang Xiaobai's mouth can be said to be very different... But Jiang Xiaobai's face was straight at this time, and what he said was like a matter, so what did he mean? Soon, he understood that Jiang Xiaobai's approach was compromising with himself, he handed over the third and fourth children, and the yamen came forward to clarify the innocence of the Jiang family, and the matter ended here. Thinking of this, Wang Yunlin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "This kid of the Jiang family is very smart..."This is undoubtedly the best of both worlds, now that Qinghui has fallen, both sides don't need to be entangled in this matter, so they also smiled and said: "As the guard of Lingnan County, solving problems for the people of Lingnan County is within the scope of his duties, and how can this official shirk"

"My lord is wise, Xiaobai has thanked Lord Wang again" Jiang Xiaobai arched his hand and said respectfully.

Wang Yunlin bowed slightly, suddenly changed his words, stared at Jiang Xiaobai and asked, "The matter of Qinghui Wine, I think you have also heard about it, about this matter... What do you think?" said this unhurriedly, and his tone was extremely calm, but there was an inexplicable coercion, especially the staring eyes as if he could see through the hearts of others.

When Jiang Xiaobai heard this, he was stunned at first, his eyes were extremely calm, and he replied quietly: "Xiaobai has been busy investigating the matter of Wanli Xiang these days, and he rarely cares about things outside the mansion, and he is both shocked and lucky in this matter..."

Wang Yunlin nodded after hearing this, and with a wave of his hand, Jiang Xiaobai retreated.

....

On this day, three major events occurred in the always peaceful Guangfu City, the first was that the yamen came forward to post a notice to clarify the previous problem with the wine of Jiang's winery, and the content of the notice was roughly the same as the situation explained by Jiang Xiaobai to Wang Yunlin, and the truth was often not known to ordinary people. Another thing is that Qinghui Distillery was completely seized, and Qinghui, who previously controlled more than half of the distilleries in Dongcheng District, said that it would fall, which also made the people of Guangfu City feel different feelings... Qinghui fell, and some of the guys who were originally in Qinghui Liquor Fang have made other livelihoods, but because they were rampant and domineering in the fish and meat township when they followed Qingximen before, they offended many other liquor shops in the city, and the wandering workers of Qinghui Liquor Workshop were not hired, and there was no place for them in the huge city, so they gradually left Guangfu. Jiang's Distillery was clarified by the Yamen, and naturally restored its former status as the overlord of winemaking in Dongcheng District, and not long after the Yamen posted a notice... The Zhang family held a wine tasting contest in the city, which was the third event in Guangfu City today.

Just as Jiang Xiaobai thought in his heart, the anonymous competition won the favor of the city's good wine people, and when everyone was curious to ask about the name of this wine, the Zhang family announced loudly that this was the newly brewed Wanli Xiang of Jiang's Distillery, and it was also a semi-finished product! Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and there was an uproar, and some people who had tasted Wanli incense were even more uneasy in their hearts. Soon after, I found that the body was not already there, and I was amazed by the quality of the incense, although it was a semi-finished product, it was mellow and fragrant, which was evocative.

The audience of the restaurant shopkeeper who had purchased Wanli Xiang before all made a sound of admiration, and they also dared to try it, and they couldn't help but marvel at the word "good wine", but then they were already extremely remorseful in their hearts... After this wine tasting competition, almost everyone in the city knows the name of Wanli Xiang, such a high evaluation, the market potential is unpredictable... However, the Jiang family has already stated that Wanli Xiang will only be used for the Zhang family from now on, which makes the restaurant shopkeeper who had made a noise in front of the Jiang Mansion before very annoyed, and regretted why he didn't believe the Jiang family before, made such a big fuss about this matter, and missed this cup of soup...

Jiang's winery has cleared up the grievances, and it is approaching Jiang Xun's birthday, which can be described as double happiness, everyone in the house is happy, but it is more about the heartfelt respect for Jiang Xiaobai, the little young master.

In the main hall of the East Courtyard of Jiangfu, Jiang Xun and Jiang Xiaobai, father and son, were sitting upright, tasting the good tea on the table. Jiang Xun's condition has improved a lot, and his originally tired and sick face is now glowing, he looked at Jiang Xiaobai with a relieved face and said: "Xiaobai, my father has been sick in bed all these days, and the Jiang family will not fall down because of you." ”

Jiang Xiaobai grinned and was modest, and then told Jiang Xun about the investigation of Wanlixiang, of course, the private work he did secretly and Wang Yunlin's participation in it was not said, as for the reason, he naturally didn't want Jiang Xun to worry too much.

When he heard that He Feng was the one who poisoned Wanli Xiang, Jiang Xun sighed bitterly: "He Feng... I have always respected him as a confidant, and I treat him well, but I didn't expect... But..."

And when he heard that Qinghui Distillery was the mastermind behind this incident, Jiang Xun said fiercely, "I really didn't expect Qingyunqi to be so ruthless and want to ruin the Jiang family, but fortunately, God can't see it..."

Jiang Xiaobai turned around his head, pretending to be confused, and said with a smile: "Uh... Perhaps, as it has been said, they were bold enough to poison the king, or perhaps they were careless and went wrong with the wine they paid tribute."

Jiang Xun glanced at Jiang Xiaobai suspiciously, he naturally wouldn't believe what Jiang Xiaobai said, but he didn't ask much, sighed, and said slowly: "After this toss, this matter can be regarded as over..."

"It's my father's birthday, and it's not my mother's, what should I do if my father says what to do" Jiang Xiaobai blinked, and then smiled quite awkwardly, "But Dad... I'm not ready for your birthday gift. ”

Jiang Xun also smiled, his eyes were full of relief, and said, "Silly boy, you have already given the best birthday gift to your father." ”

....

As soon as Jiang Xiaobai walked out of the main hall of the East Courtyard with his front feet, he saw Ah Qi running over in a hurry, pulling him to the side corner, and seeing that there was no one left and right, he whispered: "Young Master, I found a strange thing"

"What's the matter?" Ah Qi's sudden mystery made Jiang Xiaobai scratch his head and asked suspiciously.

Ah Qi said: "Didn't you ask me to quietly dispose of the wine that was paid tribute to the Qinghui Wine Workshop, last night, I took a few brothers and poured the wine into the river outside the city" Speaking of this, his voice was a little quieter, and his expression was still a little nervous, "Early this morning, I went to the river to check, and found that there was a floating dead fish floating on the surface of the river where the wine was poured, you said that this thing is strange." ”

Jiang Xiaobai laughed secretly in his heart after hearing this, as for making this so mysterious, he laughed and scolded Ah Qi, "Maybe those fish can't stand the wine and get drunk to death." If you have time to ponder this, you might as well think about how to help the young master and me for the next birthday. ”

In the past two days, Jiang Xiaobai has been busy with his birthday, so he didn't notice the strangeness in Ah Qi's words. What he didn't expect was that it was his negligence that caused the Jiang family to suffer a real catastrophe in the future, but this is a later story.

At the same time, in the backyard of the yamen, there was also a father and son talking in the room, it was Wang Yunlin and Wang Ji.

Wang Yunlin has taken off his official uniform and put on his home clothes, today he first sent someone to post a notice to clarify the Jiang family, and then personally led the officials to seal the Qinghui Wine Shop one by one, the body of nearly fifty years old was already a little unbearable, and he was sitting in the room at the moment, slightly closing his eyes, and gently kneading his brain with both hands.

Wang Yi first made a pot of tea for Wang Yunlin, and then sat down as well. He is dressed in brocade clothes and jade belts, a pair of starry eyes are like Gu Tan, his facial features are also extremely handsome, his skin is fair, and he is really a beautiful man who is as humble as jade just by looking at his appearance. If Jiang Xiaobai was here, he would definitely be amazed at Wang Yunlin's genes, how good-looking Wang Ji's mother must be to give birth to such a magnificent, handsome and chic son.

He made the tea, and seeing that Wang Yunlin did not speak, he expressed the doubts in his heart: "Dad, the child is unknown, it stands to reason that the king of the county should die immediately after drinking the wine paid tribute by the Qinghui Wine Workshop, but why is it just a serious discharge, it is highly poisonous..."

"It's also puzzled to be a father, but this matter is over" Wang Yunlin's eyes closed slightly, and there was a hint of tiredness in his voice, "Although there are Qingyunqi and two fathers and sons as substitutes for the dead ghosts, the king of the county still let his faction mix me in the capital, if it weren't for your godfather's protection." Maybe by now, I've taken off this black gauze hat on my head."

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Wang Ji's eyes, and he said fiercely: "The king of the county usually looks at your father unpleasantly, when he first took office, he complained a lot, and now that he has seized the opportunity, he will naturally not let go of your father." ”

"This time it's also his fate," Wang Yunlin was still rubbing his brain acupoints, and his eyes were slightly closed.

"Dad, do you think it will be..."Wang Jian pondered for a while before he said, "Could it be that someone secretly dropped the wine we arranged?" ”

Hearing this, Wang Yunlin was no longer calm, as soon as he opened his eyes, pondered for a while, he felt that Wang Ji's analysis was reasonable, and said: "You mean..."

Wang Ji understood, he nodded, and said calmly: "According to the people in the county king's mansion, the county king's condition seems to be caused by an overdose of laxatives... So I suspect that someone has already dropped the highly toxic tribute wine we arranged and replaced it with a wine that is only infused with laxatives. And thisβ€”" a slicing look crossed his eyes, "I thought about it. It is very likely that Jiang Xiaobai did it! ”