Li You didn't dare to leave the county office all day, and his uncle didn't go there, and he didn't see what the good show in his father's mouth looked like, and he didn't know what the visitor talked about with the magistrate.

The next time, Chen Zhixian summoned Master Huang and Li You to continue to discuss water conservancy matters. It turned out that yesterday it was said that the guest surnamed Qian who held the name of Shangshu was a half-imperial businessman, and his usual business was to supervise the creation of gold bricks in Suzhou Mansion to supply the palaces of the two capitals and the princely mansions in various places. However, because of the proximity, he got the news that Xujiang County planned to build a twenty-mile stone pond embankment, so he wanted to take care of all the stone supplies, as long as he paid him a total of 50,000 taels of silver.

If it's 50,000 taels, it's really not expensive. But Master Huang was skeptical: "I have calculated before, all the materials are transported from other places, and the cost is equivalent to at least 80,000 silver taels." This money is as long as 50,000 yuan, dare to take it? What kind of medicine is sold in gourds? Isn't he afraid of losing 30,000 or 40,000 yuan? ”

Li You said: "He holds Lu Shangshu's name, obviously Lu Shangshu also knows about this, there must be some way to get cheap materials." ”

Master Huang retorted: "The stone used in the Shitang dam is not marble or other varieties, it is already the cheapest stone, and the cheapest is rammed earth." It's just that he can save some freight, but he can't save 30,000 or 40,000 silver. There must be something strange in it. ”

Li You thought about it for a while, even if it was shoddy, he couldn't find a worse stone, and the Qian officials wouldn't really be so bold as to use adobe bricks to pretend to be stones.

At this time, the three of them suddenly heard the noisy sound of the crowd from nowhere.

After another moment, a disciple broke in and shouted, "Master, there are two hundred people gathered outside the yamen!" It is said that the Zhu family gathered households to sue the official for grievances! ”

"When the yamen gathers people, there will be major grievances, and they will rise to the court quickly!" Hearing that hundreds of people came to complain, Chen Zhixian did not dare to slack off.

Since the Jiashen Rebellion and the invasion of thieves into Beijing in this dynasty, the court has attached great importance to things such as civil unrest and civil rebellion (not two parties gathering to fight). The imperial court also made a clear announcement that it would be dealt with quickly. Regardless of whether it is a method of suppression, encirclement and suppression, or pacification, it is only necessary to delay the spread of time.

More than 100 people sued this time, and Chen Zhixian naturally had to be more careful.

As soon as he heard about the Zhu family, Li You immediately knew that this was an incident caused by his father and uncle.

Just yesterday, when Li Dianshi was sitting in the county government during the day, something bad happened in Zhujiaji, where his uncle's house was located.

It is said that a grandson steward sent by the solemn family of Dachun to manage the affairs of Zhuang fell in love with the little lady of Zhu Zhili's family next to him a few days ago. talked a few times about buying a concubine, but Zhu Zhili didn't agree, and was about to stop mentioning it. Because Steward Sun knew that the Zhu family was a big village with hundreds of families, all of them had the same surname and the same clan, and they were very grouped, and it was inevitable that there would be any disputes in a hurry, unlike this village, which was easy to bully by its own tenants.

Who would have thought that Zhu Zhili suddenly sent someone to pass the word yesterday, and was willing to agree to this matter and asked him to come to discuss it today. He also said that although his daughter is small, she must not lose her dignity, and asked a few more people to be strong and show that she is valued. With that Zhu Zhili's poor and exquisite person, such a request is also normal.

Steward Sun was very happy, and he did not doubt him, so he took a few Zhuang Ding, changed into the same clothes, and came to Zhu Zhili's house with a solemn appearance. As soon as he arrived here, Zhu Zhili suddenly turned his face and didn't recognize people, and angrily scolded Sun for being delusional and eating swan meat as a toad.

The clay man also has a three-point fire surname, not to mention that Steward Sun is not a clay man, he felt that he was teased and humiliated by this mud leg, and he was furious and retaliated on the spot. Zhu Zhili had been prepared, but he actually fled, and Steward Sun and his subordinates smashed Zhu Zhili's house.

After taking a look, the outside has been blocked. At this time, Steward Sun was also a little anxious, how did the people of the Zhu family gather so quickly? In just a few moments, more than 20 people surrounded him, which was really unexpected.

When the two sides were still facing each other and had not yet started fighting, a fire suddenly broke out on the roof of Zhu Zhili's house. The crowd exploded at once, and the weather was dry and dry, and once the fire spread, there were more than a few families affected, and it was not impossible to burn down half of the village. The villagers of Zhu Jiaji panicked and hurriedly looked for tools to put out the fire. Steward Sun and his men took advantage of this opportunity to take advantage of the chaos to find a way and escape.

Robbing people, smashing, and arson are extremely bad, and they have not been bullied like this for many years. This situation made the Zhu family cluster angry, and gathered in front of the patriarch Zhu Zhifang, who was Li You's uncle, and asked to go to Dachunzhuang to seek justice. Zhu Zhifang didn't stop him, and when one or two hundred young men went to Dachunzhuang, he only said, "Find the slaves of the Yan family to seek justice, and have nothing to do with the neighbors." The people of Dachunzhuang didn't dare to stop it, but the Sun steward ran away first, and the people of the Zhu family pounced.

I don't know who got up, shouting that he was going to the county to seek justice, and when he boarded, he responded to the call and prepared the boat and other things separately. Today, he came to this county to gather the crowd to complain.

This Chen Zhixian was promoted to the church, and the Zhu family gathered the form of Zhu Zhili. One look wrote: Yan Fu instructed the house slave Sun to rob the people's daughter, and if he didn't succeed, he entered the house and set fire to the house, and now the evil slave hid in the Yan Mansion and disappeared, so he had to come to sue the lord for revenge.

I don't know who wrote it, and it distorts the facts.

Behind the form, there were more than 100 signatures or drawings. After Chen Zhixian finished reading his heart, there were hundreds of people who signed a joint name, most of this matter is true, otherwise why would the crowd be angry, this Yan family is a famous family in vain, and the house slaves keep causing trouble, which is really annoying.

Although it seems that there are no casualties, intemperance and other incidents, it seems that it is not a major case, but it is not a small matter to arouse public anger. While Chen Zhixian personally inquired about Zhu Zhili's relevant matters, he issued a summons and ordered the on-duty arrester to go to Yanfu to arrest Steward Sun.

It is no coincidence that the catcher on duty today is Zhao Catch. Zhao Zhuhai was ordered and led a few helpers to Yanfu in Ershui Lane to explain the matter.

The housekeeper of Nayan Mansion saw that someone was arrested, and he hurriedly reported to the head of the house. After hearing this, Master Yan came to see Zhao Zhukuai in person and said, "Steward Sun is really not in the house, I don't know where to go, please ask Zhao to go elsewhere to find it." And gave two taels of silver for the legs and feet.

Zhao Zhukuai naturally didn't dare to be presumptuous in Yan's mansion, so he returned to the county government after receiving the money, and secretly reported in Chen Zhixian's ear: "Master Yan doesn't hand over Steward Sun, but he is not in the mansion." "Seeing that Zhao Zhukuai's words are almost straightforward, he said that Yan Fu ignored the royal law and shielded the house slaves.

Chen Zhixian was furious in his heart, how could a house slave easily escape without a trace? Isn't he afraid of being caught as a fugitive slave and exiled for 3,000 miles, it is obvious that the Yan family deliberately hid it. This Yan Mansion is so disrespectful for the sake of a mere domestic slave, is it really a dumb bodhisattva who is a clay and wood sculpture?

In fact, Master Yan didn't lie, and Steward Sun really didn't flee back to Yan's mansion, and he really didn't know where to go.

It turned out that yesterday Zhu Zhili was deliberately capricious because he was instructed by Li You's uncle Zhu Zhifang, and Zhu Zhili himself also wanted to get rid of the entanglement of Sun Zhili. The fire in his house was lit by the brothers of the Wang family under Li You's father behind the house while people were not paying attention, but Zhuang Min misunderstood that it was the fire set by Steward Sun.

The Wang brothers finished lighting the fire and watched Steward Sun flee back to Dachun Village. They each pushed a straw cart and lay in the remote places of the two roads outside Dachunzhuang.

When the Sun steward saw that the Zhu family had gathered people to kill him, he was afraid that there would be too many people on the waterway to be so frightened that he didn't dare to take the boat, so he fled by land to Yanfu, the county seat. On the way, Steward Sun was stopped by the Wang brothers in a no-man's land and ate sticks, and his surname was also terminated, and his body was buried and transported away by the Wang brothers in a straw truck.

Except for Father Li, Uncle Li You, brothers of the Wang family, and Zhu Zhili, no one knows. Chen Zhixian issued a summons again, giving Yan Fu three days to hand over the Sun steward, and if he couldn't hand it over, the head of the family would replace him in court to respond to the lawsuit.

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