Uncle Tai's hometown is called Morning Glory Village, located on the side of the Cai River, there are only more than 20 households, it is a quiet and peaceful, simple small village, the villagers make a living from farming, thousands of hectares of fertile land in this area belong to the Zheng family, and the surrounding villages are almost all tenant farmers of the Zheng family, but young people all go to the capital to make a living, even if the tenant farmers are mainly middle-aged and elderly.

Uncle Tai's full name is Wang Tai, although he is a housekeeper in the capital, but his family is the largest family in Morning Glory Village, with the largest house in the village, covering an area of at least 20 acres, currently lived by his wife and old mother, Wang Tai also has a daughter and son, the daughter has already married to the neighboring village, and the son is in the capital to make a living and opened a snack bar.

Li Yanqing and his entourage arrived at Altair Village in the middle of the night, everyone got off the boat, and the boatmen helped to move more than a dozen large boxes into the village. ”

Li Yanqing smiled, "The house is very big!" At least it's a big house. ”

Wang Tai said embarrassedly: "The official said that the house here can't be compared with the capital, the twenty acres of land in this house are worth up to 300 yuan, it is the ancestral land of my family, and the newly built house the year before last only cost 2,000 yuan." ”

"But the surroundings are very quiet, there are many big trees, and it is very close to the Cai River, and the transportation is also convenient."

At this time, Wang Tai's wife came out and gave Li Yanqing a salute, Li Yanqing said with a smile: "I will trouble you during this time, and I will definitely make up for it." ”

"Officials don't have to be polite, let's go and rest first!"

Li Yanqing immediately led everyone into the village and into Wang Tai's house, Wang Tai's house is very large, there are enough empty rooms, and even half of the land in the house is empty, used to raise chickens and vegetables, and there are a few large persimmon trees, and the atmosphere of the farmhouse is very strong.

Wang Tai cleaned up the best small courtyard for the housewife and Hu Qing'er to live in, and everyone found an empty room to live in.

Li Yanqing looked at the room, although it was the best room, it was still too rough and empty, he said to Sisi apologetically: "Stay for a while, and then I'll take you back." ”

Sisi shook his head, "I don't care, it's just that my husband has to be careful." ”

Li Yanqing hugged her into his arms and kissed her on the lips, at this time, the door suddenly opened, and Qing'er came in from outside, "Sister, there is a well in the yard!" ”

As soon as she looked up, she saw that the two were making love, and she was startled, turned around and left with a red face, Li Yanqing stopped her, "Qing'er, wait a minute!" ”

Hu Qing'er walked in with a twist, "Big brother, what are you doing?" ”

Li Yanqing also hugged her into his arms, kissed her on the forehead, and said with a smile: "Protect your eldest sister!" ”

Hu Qing'er blushed, lowered her head and whispered, "Hmm! After a sigh, Li Yanqing smiled and said, "I'm leaving!" ”

"Is your husband going back by boat?"

"No, Uncle Tai will take me to Chicang Town, Zhang Bao and they will meet me there, I will ride back, I will go, you take care!"

"Big brother, take care!"

Li Yanqing smiled and waved his hand to them, and left the courtyard quickly, Sisi and Qing'er stood at the gate of the courtyard and watched him walk away, Sisi turned his head and winked at Qing'er and smiled: "It seems that there is no need to prepare any dowry for you." ”

Hu Qing'er's ears suddenly turned red, and she stomped her feet, "What is the eldest sister talking nonsense?" She turned and ran into the courtyard.

Sisi smiled and shook her head, this little girl only calls her husband her eldest brother, but she is not willing to worship Ah Gong as her father-in-law, she still wants to hide her little caution from herself?

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It was already morning when Li Yanqing rushed back to the capital, Yang Guang made a mistake last night, and lost Li Yanqing's horse halfway, when they found the war horse and rushed to Chicang Town, it was already five watches, and Li Yanqing waited for them for an hour.

The three of them entered the city from Chenzhou Gate, Li Yanqing's face was gloomy and he didn't say a word, Zhang Bao and Zhang Ying were full of anger, and glared at Yang Guang fiercely from time to time, this bastard was hanging all day long, and he didn't know that the reins of the horse were loose, and even the two of them were scolded, and Yang Guang drooped his head, like an eggplant beaten by frost.

Li Yanqing's home was not far from Chenzhou Gate, and although Li Yanqing was in a hurry to go to the military prison, he still took a little detour to take a look at the situation at home.

As soon as he arrived at the door, Hu Laohan, a gardener who stayed in the house, hurriedly ran over and said, "Official, the magpie came last night, so let you go to Yujie quickly." ”

"Is something wrong?"

"Looks like it was out of the water last night."

Li Yanqing was startled, turned the horse's head and ran towards Baoyan Zhai on the royal street, not long after, Li Yanqing ran to Baoyan Zhai, and saw from a distance that Baoyan Zhai was full of people watching the excitement, and more than a dozen officials stood in a circle, and no idlers were allowed to enter.

When I ran close to Bao Yan Zhai, I found that Bao Yan Zhai had been burned beyond recognition, only an outer wall remained, and the inside had been burned into ruins, pitch black, Li Er's scissors shop on the left and the gold and silver shop on the right were not affected because of the alley, and several houses behind were burned down a few houses, but it seems that the loss is not big.

Li Yanqing turned over and dismounted, squeezed in, and saw that Mrs. Sun was crying bitterly on the magpie's shoulder, and Tie Zhu led a group of family members to rummage in the store.

Li Yanqing hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Mrs. Sun cried so much that her eyes were swollen, and she sobbed and said: "I don't know what's going on, there was a sudden fire last night, and the surrounding neighbors came to put out the fire, but it was still not saved." ”

"What about the shopkeepers?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously, "Is there something wrong?" ”

The magpie next to him said: "Uncle Tuesday escaped, only burned his hair, and his injuries were not serious, and Steward Wu took him to the county government to record." ”

Li Yanqing breathed a sigh of relief, "As long as people are okay, it's a blessing." ”

Mrs. Sun cried again, "But there are tens of thousands of goods in it, and there is such a big store, this is a royal street!" How do I explain to the master? ”

Li Yanqing gritted his teeth with hatred, of course he knew what was going on, Liang Fangping, Wang Hao or Li Yan, there must be one of these three, he must find out the real culprit and seek justice today.

He comforted Mrs. Sun again, she would not be held accountable for this matter, and asked her not to blame herself too much, Li Yanqing asked the magpie to take Mrs. Sun to Hongqiao Baoyanzhai, and this side will be temporarily handed over to Tiezhu to deal with.

At this time, Tie Zhu saw Li Yanqing, and hurriedly jumped out of the ruins and reported to Li Yanqing: "Little proprietor, more than a dozen boxes of perfume and spices in the cellar have been saved, but the rouge and other goods in the warehouse have been burned, and the goods have lost about seventy percent. ”

"Have you found the cause of the fire?"

"It should be set on fire, the official just found a fire sickle, we looked closely, the fire was ignited from the warehouse, and in addition, someone saw a few people in black around the store before the fire."

"I know, you can transport the rest of the goods back to Hongqiao, and then find someone to clean up all the broken walls and tiles of the shop, level the land, and then set up a good tent on it, spread the carpet and continue to operate, so that there is no trace of burning, and it will be disposed of within two days."

"Aren't you going to build a new store?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "I won't repair it for the time being, and I will persuade my father to sell this land when I go back." ”

"I know, I'm going to find the 'Fang Family House Shop' to clean up the remnants of the wall."

Tie Zhu turned around to run, but Li Yanqing stopped him again, "Go back and tell Steward Wu again, we will compensate for burning the neighbor's house, and let him handle the relationship well." ”

"I see!"

Li Yanqing arranged the aftermath of the store, and then turned over and got on the horse, at this moment, there were faint shouts in the distance, and the people around who were watching the excitement were attracted to the past and ran to the south.

Li Yanqing didn't know what was going on? After a while, a government official came panting and shouted to the dozen or so officials who were maintaining order for Bao Yan Zhai: "The students are marching, Du Shaoyin tells you to go back immediately." ”

More than a dozen people couldn't care about Baoyanzhai, so they turned around and ran south, but Li Yanqing was overjoyed, he knew that he had worked to see Cai Jing yesterday.......

Nearly 2,000 students waved various banners and chanted slogans: 'People's livelihood is hard, oppose the Northern Expedition!' 'Cancel the big money, lower the tax!' 'Severely punish Liang Fangping and punish the huge corruption!' ’

The procession of college students was huge, coming along the royal street to the northernmost Xuande Building, Li Yanqing saw that the procession was getting closer and closer, he knew that he was not suitable to show his face here, so he said to Zhang Bao and the three people: "Let's go!" ”

The four of them turned their horses' heads and ran towards an alley not far to the north, and soon left the royal street.