Let's say that Gong Kuishen accompanied the commander Si to seal the mountain and lock the forest outside the city, and searched for Jiangbei Village for ten days, but the official affairs in the city could not be ignored, and the black-clothed people who were arrested on the spot had not had time to be tried clearly.

On this day, Gong Kuishen really couldn't survive anymore, so under the pretext of investigating the case, he left a large number of soldiers, and he only brought a few people back to the city.

As soon as he entered the city, he heard the people talking about it.

"Hey, did you hear that? Daxing rice shop, I heard that it is a gang with bandits, and the boss of Daxing rice shop is the big boss of Jiangbei Village! ”

"Huh? There is such a thing, I heard that the Daxing rice shop is not an ordinary shop, I don't dare to talk nonsense. ”

"Hmph, why is it nonsense, everyone knows that this matter is still spread from the Ministry of Inspection, I heard that the official found the waist card of the Daxing rice shop from those thieves!"

"Is that true?"

"Of course!"

"This thing came out of the yamen, so is it false?"

"It's really a difficult way to live in the world, you see our honest people, make a lot of money a year and make the silver beautiful, those profiteers, colluding with thieves, killing people, but living a prosperous life, sleeping with gold and silver mountains, there is still heaven in the world?"

"The prefect and the garrison were both killed by the bandits."

"Come on, the thieves don't rob money, what do they do when they kill them, it must be because they have some money between them, so they start killing people and killing people."

"Huh?" The man gasped, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

Gong Kuishen's eyes widened and he asked, "Where did this come from?" ”

When the people saw that there were people wearing official boots and riding big horses, they quickly scattered as birds and beasts, and fled in a puff of smoke.

The soldiers wanted to chase after him, but he couldn't catch up for a long time, Gong Kuishen shouted: "Don't chase! "The law does not blame the public, besides, what kind of crime is spreading rumors, and what crime do you punish him?

Among the roadside vendors, the vendor happily pushed the goods into the hands of the big girl, and said with a smile: "Girl, this rouge is from the capital, there is no one on the side, it is so unique, if you miss it, you will regret it!" ”

The girl opened the rouge box, sniffed it gently, and said with a smile: "Ah, it smells so good!" ”

The seller squinted at the annoyed Gong Kuishen, raised his eyebrows, turned his eyes, and said to the girl: "Of course, although we are a small business, we also have to be undeceived in order to have repeat customers." ”

"How much silver is this rouge?"

The seller smiled, pretending to whisper mysteriously: "If I were someone else, I wouldn't be willing to sell it to him for two taels of silver, but girl, give me one or three taels of silver, and this rouge will be yours." ”

One or two more than a box of rouge, how can ordinary girls afford it? But this girl is different, her strong rouge smell shows that she is willing to spend money to buy these things.

As soon as the seller said this, the girl's thin skin turned red, and she whispered, "Okay, you can wrap it up for me." As he spoke, he blinked and secretly looked at the seller.

The seller put the rouge in a small red box, tied it with a thin hemp rope, handed it to the girl, and said, "Take it." ”

The girl raised her hand and put the silver in the palm of the seller's hand, and when she was done, she gently scratched his palm with her fingertips, and whispered, "The little brother is really handsome." After finishing speaking, she carried the rouge box, posed the willow waist, and walked away with a twist.

"I said, little brother, you have a good business, but what kind of business experience do you have, can you tell me about it to the old man?" The old man who was selling paper umbrellas at a stall on the side asked.

The seller looked at the old man's paper umbrella and said: "The fashionable patterns are elegant, your umbrella is too colorful, ordinary girls can't take it, and women in the dust can't look down on it, how can a woman from a big family come to this stall to buy something, do you understand?" ”

The old man nodded and said with a smile: "What the little brother said is, but I can't stop these umbrellas, old man." ”

The seller smiled and said, "Then I can't do anything." ”

The old man was a little reluctant, but he had to admire the seller's ability to do business, turned his face to the side, and shouted: "Sell umbrellas!" A beautiful oil-paper umbrella! Shelter from the rain on rainy days, block the sun on the first day! Sell umbrellas! ”

But no matter how much he sold, no one came to take a look.

The seller shook the rattle and said with a smile: "The news is not accurate, it must be a loss, don't bother to ask, don't get tired of picking, the business is prosperous and the store is full, the same goods, all kinds of sales, the mouth is sweet like honey and sells fast, the wine is tightly lifted, the oil is slow, the vegetables and melons are sold and the scales are raised, the goods flow smoothly, and the profits are endless." This big profit is wide, small profits are quick turnover, go with the market, the tide rises, the chickens want to be sold, and the fish are sold to jump ......"

The old man was a fool, and he didn't hear that the seller was teaching him how to trade, and because the seller was shouting loudly, he shouted with him.

"Sell umbrellas! A beautiful oil-paper umbrella! Shelter from the rain on a rainy day, and the sun is big! Sell umbrellas! Sell umbrellas! ”

Seeing this scene, the seller no longer shouted to him, but silently fiddled with the rattle, and looked at the gate and corner gate of the inspection department from time to time.

Gong Kui entered the gate of the Inspectorate Division, and several subordinate officials on the side stepped forward, all of them reporting something.

"One by one!" Gong Kui was a little angry, and said: "Let me ask, there are rumors outside, those thieves who were caught are people sent by Daxing Rice Shop, whether they have found out the truth, whether there is evidence, and who spread the news before the official tried the case!" ”

As soon as this question came out, the people below stopped talking.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a lower rank stepped forward and arched his hand: "We followed the routine and inquired, and found tokens from those thieves, and asked them in detail, but they couldn't answer, but this matter was not spread by me, and how to raise rumors outside, the lower officials really don't know." ”

Gong Kuishen snorted coldly and said, "Present the evidence, please Daxing Rice Shop Zhao Hongchuan, and go to the house for questioning!" ”

"Yes!"

Daxing Rice Shop is a really big store, like this kind of shop, there must be a high-ranking official behind it, in other words, this is the industry of high-ranking officials.

But the matter has come to this point, these black-clothed thieves have killed two lives of the court officials, and the people are all golden, if he wants to be this official, he must find out clearly, if he gently reveals it, his official reputation will be abolished, and his official career will be abolished!

After decades of hard study, it was easy for him to become this official, how could he hurt his hard-won power because of the good and bad things of others?

Having said that, this case must be handled with care, and if necessary, it is the smartest way to stop the loss in time and put the charge on a businessman.

Gong Kuishen slowly stroked his beard, raised his lips slightly and smiled, if this is the case, he can reply to the people of the city, the two families of Jiang Wang and Shangguan, wouldn't it be a great deal?