Chapter 21: Misunderstanding

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding!" The county Cheng listened to Chen Yili's questioning, and knew that he had offended a terrible character, so he didn't refute it, and immediately kowtowed and apologized: "Chen County's order, it's all this god-damn Sun Youcai, and they all blame him for slandering Duke Xu, which made my brother misunderstood!" ”

"Sun Youcai?" Chen Yili glanced at the one on the ground, which seemed to have some reflections, and asked, "Aren't you Sun Mu?" ”

"What Sun Mu, it's all nonsense!" The county Cheng looked sad and indignant: "Gong Chen, hurry, hurry up and explain to Duke Xu, I didn't mean to." ”

Xu Qing was next to him, and he saw the three changes in the county Cheng's face clearly, so he said to Chen Yili: "These two people formed a party for personal gain, colluded with lake bandits, slandered the good people, and asked Chen County to be the public." ”

"Gong Xu, spare your life!" Sun Youcai and the two of them immediately kowtowed, Xu Qing flatly refused and stepped on the door.

Chen Yi said that Xu Gong should know Xu Qing's identity, even if Sun Youcai and the county Cheng were not convinced, they could settle it with the name of Luonan County Uncle. Xu Qing is naturally safe, this is the advantage of status.

The county resigned and returned to his hometown, Sun Youcai hanged himself to protect his family, and the water ghost was temporarily imprisoned to use him to deal with the bandits in the lake. Xu Qing did not continue to press, and recognized these practices, one is insatiable, the other is rich and unkind, and they are not good birds.

The details are unknown to Xu Qing, he only knows the result.

Chen Yili didn't have much effort to deal with the three people, thanks to the county Cheng who brought all the officials over.

Such a bad thing also swept away Shangguan Yi and Chen Yili's Yaxing, and when he saw Xu Qing, he only chatted about some gossip.

Although Xu Qing is his boss, he is not a direct line, and he can't talk about the current management, and he can't directly ask about this lake bandit.

So everyone drank tea. The tea in Xu Qing's house is different from other places, where tea cakes are crushed, boiled, and made with onions, ginger and garlic in the soup. The tea here in Xu Qing was the loose tea that Xun Xueer and others had specially asked to buy a few days ago. At first, there was none, but later it was specially made according to the method provided by Xu Qing, except that it was not crumbled into cakes, everything else was the same.

A pot of water is boiled, the tea leaves are put into the boil, boil for a while, take three large bowls out, and pour out a pool of clear tea.

In fact, the first cup can not be drunk, but to wash the tea, Xu Qing does not have this habit, the big leaf bowl is stuffy, while it is hot!

The two had never seen this way of drinking, so they were still curious. Pick it up and take a look at the steaming, tea leaves slippery. His lips touched the edge of the bowl slightly, and he took a sip. Xu Qing smiled, shook his head, picked it up, blew a few long breaths into the tea bowl, and then tasted it in a big gulp. While it was hot, he slowly swallowed it in his throat, and the phlegm that had accumulated in the cold wind just now suddenly dissolved.

When Shangguan Yi saw Xu Qing drinking tea like this, he also took it up, and learned to take a sip according to the gourd painting scoop.

"Hmmm......"

After drinking, Shangguan Yi exhaled deeply and praised: "This tea is extremely simple, generous, and fragrant!" ”

"Hi~" At this time, Chen Yili also finished taking a sip, and couldn't help but say: "Zi said: 'My way is consistent', yesterday I heard Xu Gong's article, and today I tasted Xu Gong's tea, so it can be seen that Xu Gong is really profound in 'light'." ”

"Hehehe......" Xu Qing smiled, but heard other meanings from Chen Yili's words, although Chen Yili had a county order, he had not been promoted for a long time, and now when he mentioned the word "light", I am afraid that it is the opposite.

"Where, it's just idle and fun." Xu Qingdao: "It seems that Chen County Order has nothing to do." ”

Chen Yili's eyes lit up, and he knew the elegance of listening to the string song, and Xu Gong understood my heart. So he asked: "Duke Xu, it's not that the lower officials are lazy, but the Qiantang squires are powerful, and the lower officials are constrained everywhere." ”

"Constraints? Haha......" Xu Qing said with a smile: "The so-called constraints are just two, one is white, the other is black, the white is kind and ruthless, and the black is ruthless." Both of them are hard bones, and they can't be gnawed, right? ”

"It's true, isn't the most helpless thing for us and other pro-people officials to be this black and white?"

"Hehehe, do you know what I did in Cangzhou?" Xu Qing smiled, but his complexion changed suddenly, and he said solemnly: "The big family raises private soldiers, steals taxes, and hides black households, so I cut them." The bandits roared in the mountains and forests, endangering the people, so I recruited state soldiers, gathered the people, and exterminated them! Xu Qing told Chen Yili what he did in his first year in Cangzhou, of course, it was easy to choose and good, in order to give Chen Yili confidence.

Sure enough, Chen Yili listened, and his eyes burst with ambition, but after a moment, he sighed again: "Gong Xu, I am different from you, I have no back road, and I am not as reliable as the back mountain." ”

Yes, Xu Qing dared to move the clan and the bandits, not only because he had soldiers in his hands, but also because he was tough in the background, so it was a big deal to slap his ass and leave. So he said to Chen Yili: "The big family in Qiantang is big with the trend, but it is not as deep as the Cangzhou family. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Chen Yili thought of something, but it seemed that he was separated by a layer of window paper, and he couldn't figure it out.

"When I was in Cangzhou, the family was a century-old family, intermarrying with each other, and I had already had you and me, and there was good competition between them, but it was more about cooperation. That is to say, the Cangzhou clan will move the whole body with one shot, hit one, and the others will fight back and retaliate. Xu Qing pointed out: "The big families in Qiantang are different, most of them are families that have suddenly risen in recent years, although they have business dealings with each other, but they only have the old, and there is no kin, and cooperation is far worse than competition." Knock one down, and the other will sit and watch, or even fall into the ground. ”

"How did Gong Xu confirm this?" Chen Yili asked.

"Just now, Sun Youcai was in such a difficult situation, and I didn't see anyone to help." Xu Qingxin said, I won't tell you that I have a dark river assistant.

"In other words, to divide and attack?" Shangguan Yi took his finger and drew a circle in the air, only to see Chen Yili then nodded, it seemed that he was asking a question instead of Chen Yili.

"Well, it's okay to split and attack, and the two are okay at first, but after a long time, they will be detected and still cause them to attack together." Xu Qing shook his head: "There are contradictions in everything, there are between big households and big households, there are also big families in their own families, there are even more between big households and lake bandits, and there are even more ...... between big households and lake bandits and ordinary people Do you understand? ”

"Oh!" Chen Yili patted his leg and said, "Xu Gonger means, to use these spears and shields to attack the shield of the son with the spear of the son?" ”

"Hmm......" Xu Qingxin said, is this what the sentence "Spear of the Son" means? I don't know, maybe the ancients thought differently, so he nodded ignorantly and said, "Yes, yes." ”

"Gong Xu, accept my worship......" Chen Yi couldn't stand up.

Shangguan Yi and Xu Qing looked at each other and smiled, and helped him up. At this time, Xun Xue'er and the others brought people to hold snacks and introduce them, Shangguan Yi didn't know that Xiaoyue and Huang Shimei had been included in the harem by Xu Qing. Shangguan Yi scolded Xu Qing for having a good fortune, and Chen Yili only said that Mrs. Xu was skillful and the snacks she made were delicious.

Chatting and chatting, Xu Qing mentioned the old boatman he saved that day and his son who was unjustly imprisoned.

Chen Yili was also surprised when he heard this, even if the lake bandits were caught, within a year, they would either be distributed, beheaded, or released. It dragged on for five or six years, and this thing is rare.

Shangguan Yi snorted, you are embarrassed to say that once the county commander, you don't even know who is in prison.

Chen Yili made amends and swore that he would definitely investigate. The public servants just now did not all leave, and many of them stayed at Xu Qing's house to beg for water and peace, while waiting for Chen Yili to have something important to order, which happened to be useful at this time. Chen Yili wrote a note and ordered the public to mention the old boatman's son who was imprisoned, and send it together with the case file.

At this time, there happened to be a public servant who came to start the ceremony, Sun Youcai lost his breath, and the family had already begun to hold a funeral.

The three of them sighed, and Xu Qing sent someone to invite the old boatman over, as well as the grandson of the old boatman. I continued to sit down and chat, talked about the article, and talked about the article.

Originally, Chen Yili proposed to write a poem, but Xu Qing suddenly made a fuss, couldn't remember the poems for the occasion, and said to the two, why don't I be your judge?

Fortunately, Xu Qing still remembered Wang Guowei's words in the world, and took out a sentence or two from it, what "artistic conception", what "weather", "no self has me", casually admired Shangguan Yi and Chen Yili very much. One by one, he obediently wrote down Xu Qing's words and put them in his arms.

The strength of the public's feet is not bad, and it is still early, so they have brought the file and the suspects.

Look at the prisoner, that is, the son of the old boatman, because of his years of prison life, his hands and face seem to have a thick scab. It wasn't enough to be sloppy, the man's spirit seemed to be in trouble, and he cowered when he saw everyone, hiding in the door and wrapping himself up.

Chen Yili didn't pay attention to him first, picked up the dusty file and looked through it carefully.

During the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Jiangnan suffered less war, and it is a miracle that this dossier is still there.

It's just that the dossier is written more sloppily, and in addition to the nonsense that supports the façade, Chen Yili can only sift out three useful pieces of information. First, it is certain that the son of the old boatman does not have enough evidence that he is a lake bandit. Second, the only clue is that he was in the same boat, and everyone else died, so he came back alone. It's someone else's ship. Thirdly, before he was imprisoned, the old boatman's son was already delirious. After this article, there was also the testimony of the patriarch at that time, saying that before the accident, he was still conscious and able to cross the river.

At that time, the county order only left these three pieces of information, and at the same time, you can see the helplessness of the county order at that time. The other people on the same boat died, but this one did not die, and the families of those dead people had long since condemned the old boatman's son as a gangster. Moreover, looking at these people, it seems that there are many powerful big families. The county magistrate knew that there was insufficient evidence to convict him, and that he could not reassure the families of the victims, so he temporarily held the old boatman's son in a shackle to appease the people. I don't know why, the county magistrate seems to have forgotten about this matter, and this case has been retained.

Xu Qing was a little puzzled, the old boatman had his own boat at home, and he wanted to cross the lake, why did he have to take someone else's boat? How can a bitter ferryman sit on the same boat with a large boat?

It seems that it is really the old boatman's son who is mixed up on the boat, and has other intentions.