"Is Uncle Zhang at home?" Amid the discussion of the villagers, the group of people in civilian clothes stopped in front of the door of a house in the village, and a young man in the lead turned over and dismounted, came to the gate of the courtyard and shouted loudly.

"Are they here to find Zhang Laohan?"

"Zhang Laohan has been in the village all his life, and he rarely even goes to the town, when did he meet people outside?"

"These people seem to be from a lot of backgrounds, I haven't heard Zhang Laohan say that he knows any rich and noble people!"

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Seeing this situation, the villagers who followed behind immediately blew up the pot, exchanged heads and ears in private, and buzzed and discussed, no one would have thought that these people with a lot of money came to find Zhang Laohan.

"Are you ......" Zhang Laohan was not at home, his wife was doing housework at home and hurriedly came out to check after hearing the shouting, and was stunned when she saw the formation outside the door, and looked at the young man in civilian clothes standing in front of the door with some suspicion, in her impression she had never seen this person before.

"Auntie, my eldest brother said that he was treated two days ago, and I heard that the third child of your family is going to have a happy event, so I asked me to send you a congratulatory gift." This young casual man is naturally Li Zixi, and said after smiling at Zhang Laohan's wife.

Without waiting for Zhang Laohan's wife to react, Li Zixi waved his hand, and the people who followed drove the two carriages into the courtyard of Zhang's house.

"Are you the merchant's brother two days ago?" Looking at the car full of items, Zhang Laohan's wife reacted at this time, looked at Li Zixi with a shocked expression and said, her face was full of disbelief.

The Zhang family usually has no guests, if it comes to "hospitality", it is the two merchants who have stayed in the past few days, although Zhang Laohan's wife feels that Li Zixi is a little familiar, but Li Zixi has now had amazing changes in both clothing and momentum, which makes her dare not recognize each other.

"Sister-in-law, there are still trivial things to do, so I will leave." Li Zixi did not admit or deny it, smiled at Zhang Laohan's wife and arched his hand to her, turned over and led the group of people in civilian clothes to gallop away, and even the carriage and horses that pulled the goods were given to the third child of the Zhang family as a wedding gift.

"Sure enough, it's them!" Looking at the backs of Li Zixi and the others who had gone away, Zhang Laohan's wife couldn't help muttering, she was now coaxing in her mind as if she was in a dream.

"Sister-in-law, who are these people?"

"These two car gifts are not light, at least a few hundred taels of silver."

"Look at how good the coat of these two horses is, they look like good horses."

"These two horses are a male and a female, and you will wait to raise foals in the future."

"This wine is the best in the Zhao Ji Distillery in Jianning City, and one jar costs twenty taels of silver."

After Li Zixi left, the villagers gathered outside the courtyard gate rushed up, chattering to Zhang Laohan's wife while checking the two truckloads of goods.

Zhang Laohan's wife was blank in her mind at this time, and she didn't know how to answer the questions of the surrounding villagers, so she hurriedly asked her second son to find Zhang Laohan and tell him that the dowry for his third son was there.

It turned out that Zhang Laohan went out today to borrow money from relatives, and his third son's relationship with the daughter of a military family in another village was originally scheduled for a few days later, but the day before yesterday, the woman's family suddenly proposed to add another twenty taels of silver to the promised dowry, which made Zhang Laohan difficult and anxious.

Twenty taels of silver is undoubtedly a huge amount of money for Zhang Laohan, he finally prepared a dowry for the third child, and now he has to be cheeky to borrow it from relatives and friends, after all, the third child is also in his twenties, and it is early to start a family.

However, it is not easy to borrow twenty taels of silver, after all, the relatives of the Zhang family are also poor families, and if there is no twenty taels of silver, the woman's family will definitely not agree to marry their daughter.

To tell the truth, Zhang Laohan and his wife are very satisfied with the third child's family business, the daughter of the woman's family is not only beautiful but also well-behaved, very likable.

Later, Zhang Laohan learned that a big family in the town had taken a fancy to the daughters of the woman's family and wanted to give her fifty taels of silver to take her as a concubine, so the woman's parents came up with a way to add a dowry, hoping to make Zhang Laohan retreat.

Although Zhang Laohan is honest, but this person is more stubborn, and he is also stubborn, he was very angry after knowing about this matter, and he had to marry such a daughter-in-law back.

When Zhang Laohan hurried back when he heard the news, Zhang's house was already in the market, and the three floors outside the courtyard were full of people watching the excitement, just like a market.

Seeing Zhang Laohan coming, the onlookers greeted him one after another, asking him about the congratulatory gifts he was given at home, Zhang Laohan was still confused and didn't know what was going on, so he naturally couldn't answer, so he had to deal with it with haha.

Because Zhang Laohan did not come, so Zhang Laohan's wife did not let people unload the two carts of goods, when Zhang Laohan saw the two carts full of congratulatory gifts, the whole person was stupid, especially the two fat and strong horses made him love it, if it was him, he would definitely rather pull the cart himself than be willing to saddle the horse.

"Boss, look." Zhang Laohan's wife took out a jewelry box, and when she opened it, there was gold and silver jewelry for women, which looked very valuable.

Thinking about it, Li Yuntian, as a dignified loyal and martial king, how could the congratulatory gifts he gave be shabby?

"Zuo Du commands Lord Tongzhi to arrive!" Just when Zhang Lao looked at the jewelry box blankly and thought he was dreaming, a voice came from outside the courtyard gate, which made the noisy scene quiet in an instant.

Tongzhi, the commander of the left capital, is the second person in the capital after the commander of the capital, and the big man of the imperial court is from the second grade, and these ordinary military households like Shangma Village usually don't see this kind of big man at all.

"Knock on your lordship." When Song Min walked into the courtyard gate surrounded by his own soldiers, the courtyard of the Zhang family, which was originally full of people who came to see the excitement, suddenly became more crowded, Zhang Laohan hurriedly handed the jewelry box in his hand to his wife on the side, and was about to kneel down and salute when he stepped forward.

"Brother don't need to be polite, the official heard that the brother is going to have a happy event at home these days, so he sent a congratulatory gift to express his heart." Seeing this, Song Min hurriedly stepped forward to support Zhang Laohan, who was halfway kneeling, and said with a smile on his face, his attitude was very kind.

At this moment, Song Min had already inquired about what was going on, he knew that Li Zixi was the military attache next to Li Yuntian and it was the first time he came to Jianning Mansion, so he would definitely not give gifts to the Zhang family for no reason, so nine times out of ten, the eldest of the two merchants who went to the Zhang family to stay a few days ago was Li Yuntian.

The reason is very simple, if it weren't for Li Yuntian's dispatch, Li Zixi would not have done this gift-giving errand at all.

After thinking of this, Song Min was extremely shocked in his heart, he never imagined that Li Yuntian would deign to come to Shangma Village to investigate the situation in person.

However, when he thought about it, Song Min was relieved, Li Yuntian has never played cards according to common sense, even in the martial arts hall, he went down to inspect without saying hello in advance, so it is normal for Li Yuntian to visit Shangma Village privately.

Since Li Yuntian called Zhang Laohan an elder brother and sent two cars of congratulatory gifts, it was naturally impossible for Song Min to bear Zhang Laohan's kneeling, otherwise wouldn't he secretly take advantage of Li Yuntian?

Under the stunned gaze of Zhang Laohan and others, Song Min waved his hand, and several pro-soldiers carried in silk, gold and silver jewelry and other items.

These items were urgently transported from the city by Song Min, and it was better to say that they were gifts for the Zhang family than for Li Yuntian, and their purpose was naturally to curry favor with Li Yuntian.

"Fellow villagers, this official sent the King of Zhongwu and the commander of the capital to come to thoroughly investigate the conflict not long ago, and if there is anything to do, you will have your own decision, so you should not have any worries and tell the truth to the official, and the official will definitely deal with it impartially."

When those pro-soldiers placed the gifts in the courtyard, Song Min solemnly announced to the military households present that in fact, since Li Yuntian came to Jianning City, he knew that Jianning's right guard was over, so he would definitely not help him cover it up, and this was the time for him to take a stand and beat the water dogs.

The surrounding military households suddenly became commotion when they heard this, although they had a premonition that the attitude of the Dusi Yamen in handling the case of Yan Zhong and Zhao Laosan this time had changed, but when Song Min personally said that he would strictly investigate the case, everyone still felt a lot of shock, wouldn't this mean that Yan Zhong was going to be finished.

Song Min didn't stay in the courtyard for a long time, and after a few words of greeting with Zhang Laohan, he left quickly, no matter how he said that he was also a member of the second grade, and now that he had shown favor to Li Yuntian, there was naturally no need to stay here anymore.

"Second brother, you said that the person who drank with us that night wouldn't really be King Zhongwu, right?" Zhang Laohan hurriedly bowed down and sent Song Min out, and after Song Min walked away, the thin and tall middle-aged man who had participated in the Zhang family's wine party that night stood aside said to him with a stunned expression.

The people around looked at Zhang Laohan curiously when they heard this, being able to drink at the same table with Li Yuntian and be able to pour wine by Li Yuntian was an honor that they couldn't even think of, I am afraid that even the commander of the capital of the Yamen did not have this honor.

"It's not wrong, it must be the King of Zhongwu, no wonder the prince asked the people of Zhao Laosan's family to sue the martial arts hall at that time, it turns out that he has personally paid attention to this matter." At this time, the round-faced middle-aged man who had been drinking together that night nodded and replied seriously.

"Oh, I complained so much at the time, and said that the prince wouldn't care about such a trivial matter, and I don't know if the prince would blame me." The black middle-aged man standing beside him couldn't help but reach out and pat his head, and said with a look of annoyance.

"Lord Wang has a lot of knowledge, he will definitely not meet you in general, he poured you wine last night." The thin and tall middle-aged man immediately laughed when he heard this, and then after smashing his mouth, he said with a long aftertaste, "No wonder the wine I drank that night was full of aroma, it turned out to be a good wine brought by King Zhongwu." ”

"Second brother, you have to let us taste this good wine, and it will also be touched by the nobility of King Zhongwu." Hearing this, several middle-aged people around immediately began to beg Zhang Laohan for wine, but they heard that Zhang Laohan and the thin and tall middle-aged man who drank that night were all drunk, but they were still alive and well after waking up the next day, which shows the subtlety of this wine.

"Okay, good ......" Zhang Laohan nodded his head in a panic, his mind was blank now, he had not yet recovered from the shock, and he felt that what he had experienced was like in a dream.

The thin and tall middle-aged man and the others secretly felt annoyed in their hearts at this time, they were called cattle drinks when they were drinking, and now it seems that they have completely ruined the jar of wine brought by Li Yuntian, and they should taste it carefully.