"Thank you Brother Liu, I'm here mainly to inquire about someone." Shen Tingyu said.

"Shen Gongzi has something to say, you and I have a friend, I must know everything, and I will say everything."

"Does Brother Liu know about Li Wen?"

"Oh, Li Wen, I know a little bit about this person, this person's cousin is the governor of Qingzhou, so he often fights with people, bullies the weak and fears the hard, opportunists, and has a very bad reputation in the business circle."

"Then Brother Liu, have you heard that Li Wen once sold illicit salt?"

Liu Shen glanced at Shen Tingyu suspiciously, and said, "We are all legitimate businessmen, where would we know this?" ”

"Brother Liu, Li Wen framed my father, and asked Brother Liu to be sympathetic to my heart to save my father and tell me everything he knows."

"Okay, just call me at you, big brother, and I'll help you too. But I advise you, Brother Xian, you can't find out about this. ”

"If you can't check it, you have to check it, as a child, parents are afraid of difficulties, what face do you have to stand in the world?"

"Good! Very good! However, if you want to check the virtuous brother, you must follow the advice of the foolish brother, and remember not to check to the end. ”

"Brother Xie reminds me that I will do what I can."

"Well, it's good if you understand, this matter of selling illicit salt involves the powerful people in the DPRK, and he Li Wen is just one of the details, I can introduce a person to you, he will definitely be able to help you, but the virtuous brother must remember that until the point is reached, you can't delve into it, otherwise it will not be far from the disaster of killing."

After saying this, Liu Shen went to a room, and when he came back again, he had an extra name post in his hand, he handed the name post to Shen Tingyu, and said: "If you have time, take this post and go to the person on the post, remember, this matter must not be known to others." ”

"In this way, the little brother is here to thank Brother Liu, and then I won't bother you, Brother Liu, and say goodbye."

After Shen Tingyu came out of Liu Shen's house, when he saw the temple not far away, he started the idea of worshipping the Buddha and wanted to be auspicious. So he bought incense, came to the temple, lit incense, and after worshipping the Buddha, the abbot of the temple came to talk to him: "Shen Gongzi, poor monk, I see that your luck has been bad recently, and I am afraid that you will be imprisoned." ”

Shen Tingyu looked at the abbot, and saw that the abbot was wearing a robe, wearing a Buddhist hat, holding a Zen staff, and reciting the Buddha's name.

"Everything in the world is impermanent, let it come when it should come." Shen Tingyu said slowly.

"Shen Gongzi's calmness is admirable, I heard that Teng Snake will go through tribulations before turning into a dragon, if Shen Gongzi can survive this difficulty, he will be blessed."

"Shen Gongzi!" While chatting, Shen Tingyu suddenly heard someone calling him, and turned to see that it was Han Ling's personal maid Xiaoyu.

"Miss just saw that the sky seemed to be raining, and when she saw that Shen Gongzi was alone here, she asked me to hand over this umbrella to Shen Gongzi." With that, Xiao Yu handed over an oil-paper umbrella to Shen Tingyu's hand.

"And what are you and your lady going to do?"

"We're leaving soon, so we should be able to get back to the house before it rains."

"You better take the umbrella back, if it rains, I'll borrow it from the master in the temple." Shen Tingyu said.

"But the master said, there is only this umbrella in the temple."

Shen Tingyu immediately looked at the abbot, but the abbot just smiled and said nothing.

Prosperous! Prosperous! Prosperous! At this time, there was a sudden thunderclap in the sky, followed by heavy rain. The abbot said: "If you want to stay in the house, a few donors don't have to leave in a hurry, why don't you follow the poor monks to sit in the temple, okay?" ”

"Then there's Master Lao." Shen Tingyu said.

Thunder outside the temple, the rain will not stop for a while, the abbot invited everyone to the reception room, made a pot of tea for everyone, and said: "Wild spring fireworks and white clouds, sit and drink fragrant tea and love this mountain." The boat under the rock couldn't bear to go, and the green stream was murmuring in the twilight. There is nothing more pleasant in the world than drinking tea on this rainy day. The three of them used it slowly, and the poor monk went to prepare a meal for the three donors. With that, he left.

Shen Tingyu sat in the reception room with Han Ling's master and servant, although Han Ling was Shen Tingyu's wife who had not passed the door, he didn't know what to say at this time. At this time, Xiao Yu took the lead in speaking to break the somewhat dull atmosphere: "Why is Shen Gongzi so wooden at this time? ”

"Xiaoyu, don't be rude." Han Ling taught Xiao Yudao a lesson.

"It doesn't matter." Shen Tingyu said indifferently.

"Shen Gongzi must have been running for Uncle Shen's affairs recently, I don't know how it is going?"

"Alas, there are many difficulties, and for the sake of today, I just hope that it can be delayed for some time."

"Shen Gongzi has found evidence that Uncle Shen was wronged?" Han Ling asked.

"It will take some time, and the truth will be revealed by then."

"If Shen Gongzi successfully rescues Uncle Shen, then what will he do in the future?"

"Concentrate on studying and gain fame. In the past, I always thought that there were many ways to help the people of the world, even if I was in business, I could help them. But now that the family's property is almost exhausted, there is also the responsibility of my poor management, and it also makes me see clearly that what the people need more than a good businessman is a good official. ”

"Everyone said that Shen Gongzi has changed a lot, and now it seems that if Uncle Shen can get out of prison safely, then this unjustified disaster may not be a scourge." Han Ling said.

After that, Shen Tingyu chatted with Han Ling for a while about poetry and songs, and felt that it was very speculative. But as the dark clouds gradually dispersed and the sky gradually darkened, I could only say goodbye for a while.

......

One morning again, after Shen Tingyu drank the medicine after serving his mother as usual, he thought that it had been a few days since the county government had posted a notice for people to claim the body, so he decided to go to the county government to check the situation and casually ask about his father. At this time, in the county office, the county magistrate was walking around the hall constantly, looking anxious, and when he saw Shen Tingyu coming in, he immediately said to Shen Tingyu anxiously: "Virtuous nephew, I can expect you, I have posted the notice according to what you said, but no one has come to claim the body." ”

"Father, don't be in such a hurry, I see that Brother Shen looks confident, and he must be completely sure." Zhang Zhihong persuaded.

"Lord County Commander, I guarantee with my head that this case will definitely be solved within the time limit, but my father has been in prison for several months and spent tens of thousands of taels of silver, and I don't know when the result will be." Shen Tingyu said.

"It's not a secret, the last time you asked Brother Yuanjiang to donate the Daotai, it was from Yunzhou, and Brother Yuanjiang and I went to beg him to fulfill his promise many times, but he always shirked it repeatedly on the pretext that the jurisdiction was different and the whip was beyond the reach of the whip."

"Brother Shen, I can testify for my father about this, he did go on many trips." Zhang Zhihong said.

"So what should we do now?" Shen Tingyu asked.

"According to my plan, I can only test whether Lord Taishou is willing to help, but even if it is a temptation, it is estimated that this silver tael cannot be too different from the Governor's."

"How many silver taels is that?"

"At least five thousand taels of silver."

"Then Lord Lao County will make another trip for me, and then I will order someone to send the silver taels to the mansion."

"That'...... What about the case? ”

Shen Tingyu was about to persuade the county magistrate not to worry, when he saw a servant running in in a hurry.

"Your Excellency, Your Majesty......"