A bright half-moon hangs in the sky. The cold moonlight shone on a few galloping horses in a corner of the earth, on the riders on horseback, on the swarthy road.

This group of people is Chen Ming and Chen Erbao, as well as the four followers brought back by Liu Wu and Chen Erbao. The group met outside the county seat, Chen Ming and Chen Erbao and their party had a light meal, changed horses, and then seven people and seven horses rushed to Tumenji without stopping.

Chen Ming didn't know if his whereabouts had been followed by Chang Rui, but he had already done everything that should be done in the county, and when he visited the prison in the afternoon, he also told the cheap dad about the time. Three days later at the latest!

Before leaving the city, Chen Ming also saw Chen Gang who returned disappointed again. In the past two days, Chen Gang searched for his classmates and seniors in the same department and field in the county, but almost all of them were served tea to guests. The gift money of two hundred taels of silver was wasted in vain.

Of course, Chen Gang's small two hundred taels of silver still made a little noise, and Chang Rui had already greeted these people. The greeting of the parents and the eldest man, they are a handful of talents and a few people, how dare they not listen? You must know that there is Li Zhoutong behind Chang Rui, who has been an official in Ruzhou for four years, and because of an official like Wang Jun, he has a deep influence in Ruzhou.

These two teamed up to clean up a small Haoqiang soap household, and didn't they pinch the snail with three fingers - they caught it?

Several classmates who are close to Chen Gang are already persuading Chen Gang to accept his fate, bow his head and admit defeat, as long as he can keep people. Money is not brought in life, it is not brought in death, and it is scattered when it is scattered.

These people don't have a backache when they stand and talk! -- This is Chen Ming's view. Money is not brought in life and not brought in death, this thing is the emperor Lao Tzu will not say, 'If it is scattered, it will be scattered', when the Chen family is a great monk, see through the red dust?

No money, what to eat, what to drink? The entire clan of the Chen family, there are two or three hundred people up and down the side branches, they are full of the entire Chen family's industry, playing their own role, and at the same time reaping the rewards of money, the whole family even the poorest family is living a well-off life in the current social conditions. It is even said that all the families in Xiaonangou, where the Chen family made a fortune, including those who have the same surname Chen but are not from the same family, or those who have come out of Wufu, can now live a life without worrying about eating and drinking; There are so many families in the entire Tumen Collection, and under the 'support' of the Chen family, they can also live a life with a full stomach.

The Chen family has fallen, and the fields and real estate have been stolen, can they still be so happy?

You read that right, happiness! In Chen Ming's view, the lives of the people of Xiaonangou and Tumenji in this era are happy lives. They are all blessed people who have met a clan like the Chen family.

Chen Ming didn't take those talents and children's fart seriously at all! Just like Chen Erbao, who rushed back today, after hearing that Chang Rui and Li Zhao teamed up to deal with the Chen family, and now there is almost no hope of rescuing Chen Hui by legitimate means, his face was instantly gloomy to death. As long as this kind of thing is done, it will be done, and the Chen family will never turn over in one fell swoop. This is a big issue related to the lives of their core figures of the Chen family, not just in terms of money.

If Chang Rui and Li Zhao could say clearly now, your Chen family took out 10,000 taels of silver, and this matter would be over. Chen Ming will definitely respectfully offer this ten thousand taels of silver.

But the problem is that Chang Rui and Li Zhao never thought about letting go of the Chen family at all, in their cognition, the Chen family's fields, houses, storefront industries, etc., are far more than the Chen family's floating wealth. This afternoon, the Chen family's pig iron shop has been sold, the price has been pressed very cheap, the huge shop and the big yard behind, as well as the pig iron shop should be the object, ironware, the buyer only paid 200 taels of silver.

The one who bought the shop was the new gentry of Lushan County -- Qi Jiyuan, the only one who passed the examination in Lushan in Yiyouke Township last year.

It's only been less than a year, and Qi Jiyuan's Qi family, originally a small landlord family, now has the capital to take out two hundred taels of silver to buy property in the county.

Chen Gang would only scold the surnamed Qi and take advantage of the fire to rob. But Chen Ming felt that this seemed to be a statement by the gentry group in Lushan County. You can't just see Qi Jiyuan taking advantage of the fire to rob and fall into the well, you also have to see why he did this? Does this mean that the gentry of Lushan County -- the gentry class that Chen Ming divided himself into specifically refers to the powerful landlords with meritorious reputations, not the gentry class in the traditional sense -- no longer thinks that the Chen family can repeat itself?

Anyway, Chen Erbao's face was gloomy, and he didn't hear a word from him when he galloped along the way.

Chen Ming didn't answer him either, and asked him to think about what kind of ending the Chen family would have when he fell. This is not a martial arts novel, the sect and gang have fallen, and you can also jump to another family to continue to be a thug. Now is the prosperous era of Qianlong, the powerful landlord's family is not very interested in the existence of the armed forces, if it is not for the Lushan land relying on barberry, and the development strategy of the Chen family, how can Chen Erbao blend into the core level of the family? The heroes and landlords of each family have their own children, isn't it more reliable than you with a foreign surname? The Chen family fell, and even if he wanted to go out, he couldn't find a place to take him in. If you want to save your life, you can only go away.

There are still more than ten miles away from Tumenji, and the horses can't run. Chen Ming, Chen Erbao and his entourage got off the horse, and asked Liu Wu and them to take the horse to drink water and feed some concentrates, Chen Ming pulled Chen Erbao away to talk.

"Uncle Erbao, in your opinion, is there a way to solve the current difficult situation of my Chen family? Is there any way to preserve my Chen family's estate? Standing on the edge of the Yinma River, Chen Ming looked at the clear water on the river surface being illuminated by the moonlight like a piece of white phosphorus, and the breeze was blowing, but the bottom of his heart was not level, and asked very calmly.

Chen Erbao's gloomy face melted. His face was full of bitterness, and his voice was full of sorrow: "Then what else is there to crack." One of them is the same state, the other is the county, they are all high-ranking masters, and if they want to rectify our Chen family, they can't handle it as much as they want! Comrade Chen Erbao's words fully expressed the admiration of the grassroots Chinese people in an official-oriented society for the officials and masters.

"Then Uncle Erbao is really willing to ......, and he is willing to let everything he has worked hard get taken away by these two dog officials?"

"It's not even known if your life can be saved?"

"Are you really willing to let your aunt and children be displaced, lonely, humiliated, and live without even enough to eat?"

"And our entire Chen family. How many people will die in this turmoil? How many people will be squeezed out of the last penny of silver by the government? Did our Chen family commit a heinous crime and commit endless evils? Just because of the two dog officials, the foundation laid by our ancestors for a hundred years, we should have lived a better life, but all of them were wiped out? ”

"Uncle Erbao, are you willing?"