On the second day of the double monthly pass, Lao Gao begged for a monthly pass - in the evening, Huangfu Weiming was sent back to Huangfu's mansion by the county officials, and at the same time announced that all criminal charges against Huangfu Weiming were withdrawn, and Huangfu Weiming completely recovered his innocence.

His wife Qi Xinlan and two children also came back, and the whole family welcomed Wei Ming into the house door with a very grand etiquette, to be exact, Wei Ming was carried into the house gate, he was interrogated twice in prison, he was beaten all over his body, he was no longer able to walk, and could only be carried into the house on a stretcher, Qi Xinlan was happy and heartbroken, happy that her husband finally returned safely, heartache was that he was tortured, she hid to the side and cried secretly.

Soon, the Huangfu family invited the best doctor to treat Weiming's injuries, and the situation was quite satisfactory, all of them were only flesh and skin injuries, no injuries to the muscles and bones, and ten days and a half months of recuperation could be healed.

The clan gradually dispersed, and the courtyard where Wei Ming lived was quiet again, and only their family was left in the room, Wei Ming could only lie on the bed, he was mainly injured by the whip on his back, and could not lie flat, at this time, he fell into a kind of contemplation, the darkness of the prison was gradually leaving him, and the red sunset shot into the room, dyeing the room with a layer of magnificent colors, which was exceptionally quiet and warm.

Luo Luo and Duoduo snuggled up to their father like two kittens.

Qi Xinlan walked in with a red lacquer plate, "Da Lang, it's time to eat!" ”

There was a joy in her words that the whole family was safe.

"What about Wujin?" Wei Ming asked a little strangely, since he went home to the present, he has not seen Wujin.

"He didn't seem to come back, and I was weird."

Qi Xinlan's heart was also full of gratitude to Wu Jin, she thought about it and said, "It should be in the pawnshop, or I will send him food now and let him come back." ”

Wei Ming shook his head, "Forget it, I guess he didn't sleep all night last night, let him have a good rest!" ”

He sighed in a low voice again, "I have a feeling of being a human being in two lives, last night in the county prison, I thought I wouldn't survive, but I didn't expect that I was released after only two days and one night, it was Wujin, I knew in my heart." ”

Qi Xinlan sat next to her husband, gently stroked his hair, her eyes were full of love and tenderness, "Don't think about it so much, take care of your injuries, my grandfather also commanded me." ”

Wei Ming smiled and nodded, "I know, don't think about it too much, lady, give me a pot of wine." ”

．．．．．．． After getting the news that his brother was released, Wu Jin planted himself on the bed and was no longer conscious, he had a dream, the dream was very dark, the only dim light, it seemed to come from a corner of the dark and dreary sea, it was a fairy in a long dress descending from the sky, holding a shining gem in her hand, he couldn't see her face, he could only see her back, the back was very familiar, it seemed to be Jiutian, and it was a bit like Qi Fengwu, she was leaving him, leaving him in the dark, no matter how fast he ran, he couldn't catch up, no matter how loud he shouted, she couldn't hear either, and when he was in a hurry, he woke up and couldn't sleep anymore.

He turned over and went to the toilet, and when he came back, the drowsiness had disappeared, it was already the beginning of June, and the day was getting hotter, but there was still a little cool in the middle of the night, Weiyang County was close to the sea, unlike the Central Plains, at this time everyone began to sleep in the yard.

Wu Jin looked up at the starry sky, the night sky was exceptionally clear, every star was unusually bright, he liked this feeling, it reminded him of his childhood, his world, sitting on the rice pile in the countryside, and seeing the same bright stars.

Suddenly, he heard a rustling sound, not like a rat eating at night, but like someone flipping through a ledger, and the sound seemed to come from the lobby.

'Is there a thief?' ’

Wu Jin quickly and lightly walked towards the lobby, the door between the lobby and the backyard was not closed, only the curtain was hung, he opened the corner of the curtain, looked towards the lobby, only to see a somewhat fat black shadow with his back to him, a faint starlight shot in from the window crack, shining on the chair, he was sneakily turning something, Wu Jin slowly walked up, kicked hard at his fat buttocks.

"Oops!"

With a loud shout, the black image was kicked aside like a ball, 'Fifth Uncle! Wu Jin heard the voice of the black shadow, he hurriedly lit the lamp, the light spread in the hall, and he saw the fat man lying on the ground, rubbing his ass in pain, it was his fifth uncle, Huangfu Gui.

"Fifth uncle, why are you?" Wu Jin scratched his head, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, "Why are you ...... like a thief?"

"You bastard, aren't I just worried about waking you up?" Huangfu Guiyi grinned, "Oops! It's sore and painful, help me sit down. ”

Wujin helped him sit down, and when he saw a pile of account books on the chair, he couldn't help but ask strangely: "Fifth uncle, what are you looking for account books?" ”

"I've been calculating the accounts for May for the past two days, and I always feel that I have miscalculated, and I can't sleep, so I want to find two accounts and go back to the room to calculate, and I'm afraid that the reckless guy who will wake up the seventh man by lighting the lamp, and he will yell and affect your sleep, so I didn't light the lamp."

As soon as Huangfu Gui finished speaking, he heard Lao Qi's broken gong shouting, and it was extremely harsh in the middle of the night, "Shopkeeper, what are you doing in the lobby without sleeping?" Do you want me to help? ”

"Look at it, this kid doesn't care about other people's rest!"

Huang Fugui immediately shouted back in a vicious voice: "You sleep your sleep, it has nothing to do with you!" ”

The courtyard was quiet again, and Wu Jin was a little strange, "Fifth uncle, when did this kid become so enthusiastic?" In the past, they used to hide if they could, but now they take the initiative to help? Well! The title seems to have changed, and it's strange to call the shopkeeper. ”

"What's so strange, this kid is behaving!"

Huang Fugui was disdainful, "I told him the day before yesterday that we might be going to open a money bank, and this kid immediately asked, who will be in charge of the pawnshop in the future?" He also said that he had followed me for so many years, and he was my apprentice, but he didn't worship me, and he made up for me, and his flesh was numb to death, so he worked harder than anyone else in the past two days, hum! I don't understand his mind yet? ”

Wu Jin couldn't help but smile, and said with a smile, "Actually, the seventh is not bad!" After doing it for so many years, he has a lot of experience, so he can stand alone! ”

Huangfugui shook his head, "He can't do it, he's too impetuous, I'd rather let the black pig be the shopkeeper, it's much more stable than him, this kid is a guy." ”

"Fifth uncle, I don't think he can say that, maybe he doesn't have a chance, Fifth Uncle should give him a chance to try."

"Let's talk about it later! Give him a lesson first, let him mature a little, and then think about doing something for him in the bank. ”

Speaking of Qianzhuang, Huang Fugui remembered that he hadn't told Wu Jin about the sale of land, so he quickly got up and took out a stack of contracts from the drawer at the counter, "Wu Jin, you look at these contracts, the land is basically sold, but the price is not as high as you think, except for the best Li Ji jewelry in the market, most of the rest are between eight thousand and ten thousand taels of silver, and a total of eighty thousand taels of silver are sold." ”

Eighty thousand taels of silver was in his expectation, and Wu Jin didn't care very much, after all, his second south bridge was not built, and it didn't show the true value of this land.

"Did Qi Ruifu's two acres of land be sold?"

Huangfugui shook his head, "Qi Shilang refused to give in and insisted on 10,000 taels of silver, so he couldn't talk about it." ”

"If you can't talk about it, forget it, don't sell it to him, sell it to someone else, anyone can do it."

"But ....."

Huangfu Gui was a little embarrassed: "Qi Shilang has already released his words, that piece of land is about to be decided by the Qi family, who dares to rob him?" ”

"Really?" Wu Jin's eyes narrowed, he was going to meet this strong Qi Jia Shiro for a while.

．．．．．．．． The sky was bright, a thin layer of morning mist shrouded both sides of the Zitong River, and the footsteps of people began to come and go on the street.

The street in front of the pawnshop is shuttled, very lively, Wu Jin first went to the new bridge to check the progress, the reinforcement of the new Baxian Bridge is still continuing, because the new bridge is more solid and spacious than the old bridge, and it is a flat bridge, which is convenient for the carriage to pass, so the flow of people is greater than before, so that he destroys the small Kowloon pattern of the statement is self-defeating.

And because many big stores with strong financial resources have bought the land of Wujin to make new stores, and now the shops in Baxian Bridge have basically recognized the fact that Xinqiao has been relocated, except for Yang Ji Restaurant, which will shout from time to time, other shops basically no longer pay attention to this matter.

When passing by the door of Yang Ji Restaurant, he suddenly heard a shouting and scolding, which seemed to be the proprietor Yang Jingzhou yelling.

"How can there be no accounts, all the account books from five years ago must be found out for me, I want to check them one by one, I don't believe it, if I find out, I will send you to the official!"

"Owner, five years ago, there was indeed no account, this is the custom, where do you let me find it?"

This is the voice of the shopkeeper Xu, and he swallowed his anger and explained: "Master, I have been with the Yang family for so many years, can't you still believe me?" ”

"Who knows? I can't trust anyone these days, and if you don't find out the account, then you must be greedy for my money. ”

Wu Jin heard from the fifth uncle yesterday that he borrowed five hundred taels of silver from this shopkeeper Xu and took it to treat his son, could it be that the five hundred taels of silver caused trouble?

Wu Jin saw that several guys standing at the door pursed their lips disdainfully, so he stepped forward and asked with a smile: "I'm an old guest of the shopkeeper Xu, I don't know what happened?" ”

Don't say that it is an old guest, that is, when ordinary passers-by ask, the guys will be happy to say that they want to promote this immoral proprietor.

"The guest officer doesn't know, our proprietor is really rare in the world, yesterday the shopkeeper Xu sent his son to the Baekje Hall in Jiangning Mansion to see a doctor, that is a few hundred taels of silver, this morning, the proprietor heard about it, and immediately came to check the accounts, he not only wants to check the accounts of the past two years, but also the old accounts of five years ago, that is, in a word, he suspects that the shopkeeper Xu is greedy for his money."

"I see!"

Wu Jin asked strangely: "Then why can't you check the account five years ago?" ”

"Guest officer, this is the rule of the industry, as long as the old account is more than five years, the government will not track it down, and this kind of running account, there are dozens of books a year, which takes up a lot of space, so the account for more than five years will not be kept in the general store, unless it is a big store like Qi Ruifu, there is a place to put it, a small store like ours, where there is a place to put it, so it will not be kept."

It turns out that this is the case, and it is understandable that the account books of later generations will be kept for 15 years, and the bank's customer records will only be kept for 3 years at most.

"So what? I mean, will you shopkeeper Xu be fired? ”

A few guys shook their heads, "I don't know about this, if the business gets worse, maybe it's possible, we used to be idle all day long, but since the bridge was moved, there is obviously a lot less business......"

"Ah Niu, don't tell this to the guests!"

A shopkeeper walked to the door and scolded loudly, so scared that the guy didn't dare to speak, Wu Jin smiled, walked into the restaurant with his hands behind his back, and sat down in the lobby on the first floor.

Not long after the opening of Yang Ji Restaurant, but there were already many guests who came to eat noodles in the morning in the lobby on the first floor, in front of the counter, Yang Jingzhou viciously seized the position of the shopkeeper, he crossed his waist, staring at the shopkeeper Xu with eagle-like eyes, his eyes were full of anger and distrust, he knew that this shopkeeper Xu couldn't borrow money everywhere, so he went to borrow usury, how could he send his son to Jiangning Baekje Hall to see a doctor, it would cost hundreds of taels of silver, there must be a problem.

Behind him stood another middle-aged man, his hands in his sleeves, his expression stiff, his eyes were full of an indescribable pride and disdain for the shopkeeper Xu, his name was Yang Erquan, Yang Jingzhou's uncle, who had just come from his hometown and was about to take over the position of the shopkeeper of Yang Ji Restaurant.

The shopkeeper Xu stood aside, with a look of grievance, he has been in the Yang family for decades, from the pharmacy to the restaurant, he has never been greedy for a penny, his son is sick like that, he still borrows money everywhere, and he does not take advantage of the restaurant, but this proprietor has repeatedly said that he is greedy for the money of the restaurant, and this accusation makes him feel extremely ashamed.

And he understood what Yang Jingzhou meant, so accusing him in front of the guests was obviously to ruin his reputation, and then he could be dismissed in a righteous manner.

Shopkeeper Xu's face was swollen red, and his strong self-esteem made him unable to be wronged any longer, and he argued with reason: "The proprietor, the account five years ago was burned down last autumn, just the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, have you forgotten?" I also specially asked you, you said at that time that you said that you would vacate the place for wine, you said it yourself, proprietor, can you not admit it! ”

"Bastard!"

Yang Jingzhou slapped the table hard, and his brush-like eyebrows raised up, "Did I say that?" I never said that you should burn the account, I am the son-in-law of the Qi family, of course I have to do it according to the rules of the Qi family, the account must be kept for a hundred years, how can I let you burn the account? ”

"Master, you said it yourself, right here, guys can also testify to me!"

The shopkeeper Xu did not give in, no shopkeeper dared to burn the account privately, if he admitted to burning the account privately, then he was suspected of corruption, which was related to his reputation.

He turned around and shouted: "Niu Er, Li Shilang, and Lao Qian, you were all present at the time, and you proved to me whether the proprietor agreed or not." ”

"Who of you dares to talk nonsense!"

Yang Jingzhou glared angrily at the dozen or so guys in the store, "If any of you dare to talk nonsense, I will be fired immediately!" ”

(To be continued)