After listening to Zhaogui's words, Tao Niangzi jumped to her feet and scolded the Tao shopkeeper: "The dog thing that suffered from the plague, the old lady has already said, let him not listen to the shopkeeper, is it okay now?" didn't tie up with Zou Xiancheng, and put himself in. ”

can be scolded and scolded, after all, it is his own man, and after Tao Niangzi finished scolding, she could only pack up her things and go back to her parents' house to ask for help.

After the Tao shopkeeper was caught in the priest's workshop, the two scribes in the secretary's workshop were shocked when they saw the Tao shopkeeper, but they didn't ask anything.

As scribes, they are only responsible for collecting money and grain taxes in the town, but they are Zou County's people, and when they saw that the shopkeeper Tao was arrested, they still asked the subordinate to go to Fuguilou to inform the shopkeeper Zeng, and asked the shopkeeper Zeng to send someone to the county to inform Zou County, don't be bitten by the county lieutenant Jiang again.

The shopkeeper Zeng received a message from the scribe's subordinates, and gave the subordinate a sentence with a smile: "Go back and tell Lu Zhang and the two scribes that it was the shopkeeper Tao's own crime, and it has nothing to do with us." ”

He just invited the shopkeeper Tao to come to Fuguilou for a meal, hinted a few words, and didn't say anything too straightforward, even if the shopkeeper Tao wanted to bite, he couldn't bite him and the county lord.

And the shopkeeper Tao has been doing business for so many years, and the shopkeeper Zeng believes that he will not be so stupid, and after offending Jiang County, he will not want to offend Zou Xiancheng again.

The man relayed the words of the former shopkeeper to the two scribes.

The two scribes of Lu Zhang listened to it and put their minds at ease.

Lao Kong is a quick person, and he also wants to show his face in front of Jiang County, and after catching all the beggars of Tao Shopkeeper, Zhaofu, and Liu Sanzi, he will ask the third grandfather again, and let Haizi write down the confession of the third grandfather, and let the third grandfather draw a post, and immediately escort the Tao shopkeeper to the county seat.

The third grandfather went back to the tofu stall and told everyone about the matter: "Lao Kong said that there is all the evidence and material evidence in this matter, and there is Jiang County Lieutenant here, at most there will be results the day after tomorrow, so let us rest assured." ”

After hearing this, everyone was relieved, they believed in Lieutenant Jiang.

On the same day, they sold tofu and bean dregs cakes, and after harvesting soybeans in the town, they deposited some soybeans in the hanging pot workshop, and one of them returned home with a load of soybeans.

Gu Jinli went to the iron shop and got the finished discus and hammer, ready to make soybean oil.

On this day, the Luo family also collected 2,000 catties of soybeans and filled a side room and a hall house.

The third grandfather told a few families about the tofu stall, and everyone was very angry, but after hearing that the shopkeeper Tao was arrested, he was very relieved.

"The shopkeeper Tao should be arrested, it's really a loss of conscience." The third grandmother scolded.

"It's better to take him to the official mine to work, and exhaust him to death!" Chen said, and told several families again about the pictures of those beggars being beaten and Zhaofu being arrested.

Several families were relieved to hear this, waiting to see what happened to the shopkeeper Tao and them.

The next day, the county's verdict came down.

The shopkeeper Tao did not confess to the shopkeeper Zeng, he took everything on himself, saying that he was obsessed with his mind, and saw that the business of the Gu family's tofu stall was good, so he raised the price of soybeans and wanted to make a profit from them.

Who knew that the Gu family did not agree, and began to harvest soybeans by himself, he was angry, so he spent money to find a beggar, wanting to teach the Gu family a lesson.

After the shopkeeper Tao pleaded guilty, the matter was not investigated, and the county order sentenced the shopkeeper to ten boards and fined one hundred taels of silver; Zhaofu was also beaten with ten boards and fined ten taels of silver.

As for Liu Sanzi and his group, they were all sentenced to five years of labor in the official mines.

As soon as Liu Sanzi heard this, they fainted to death, the work on the official mine was the most tiring, they couldn't bear it at all, let alone five years, even a year.

But no matter how much they regret it, it's too late.

Because of this, the Yu family also hated the Tao shopkeeper, although the Tao shopkeeper was smart and good at doing business, and he had made a lot of money for the Yu family in the past ten years, but this time he almost dragged their Yu family into the fight between Zou County Cheng and Jiang County Captain. Old Man Yu was so angry that he personally spoke and asked the Tao shopkeeper and Tao Niangzi to get out of the Tao family grain shop, and this shop would not be operated by them again.

It turned out that the Tao family grain shop was not the Tao shopkeeper at all, but the Yu family, because the Tao shopkeeper married the Tao lady, Tao Niangzi's father begged to the head of the old man Yu, and the old man Yu handed over the grain shop in Qingfu Town to the Tao shopkeeper to take care of.

When the shopkeeper heard the news, it was like a bolt from the blue, and he fainted at that time. After waking up, he dragged his injured body and knelt in front of the door of Yu's mansion with Tao Niangzi, begging Old Man Yu to take back his life.

But Tao Niangzi is not Old Man Yu's own daughter, but a niece, who is willing to protect them, let the servants drive away Tao Shopkeeper and Tao Niangzi.

Tao Niangzi's father loved his daughter, so he gave Tao Niangzi the one hundred taels of silver he had saved, and asked them to open a small shop in the county town and continue to live.

Therefore, when the Taojia grain shop opened again, the plaque had been changed and it had become a Xiangjia grain store.

The Yu family didn't want to get involved in the fight between Zou Xiancheng and Jiang Countywei, so they didn't run this grain shop personally, but gave this shop to a relative surnamed Xiang to run it, and it was still four or six accounts, but Old Man Yu told the shopkeeper to let him do his duty and not get involved in anything that caused trouble for them.

Xiang shopkeeper knew about the Tao shopkeeper, so he was very cautious, after the opening of the grain shop to the family, he did not visit the shopkeeper Zeng, nor did he come to Gu's house to say anything if he didn't give them a price increase, so he opened the door to do business as usual.

The third grandfather was worried that Xiang's grain store would target them, so he went to buy soybeans in person, greeted the shopkeeper with a smile, and sold them to them according to three pennies a catty.

At this point, the matter has settled down.

After Shang Xiucai heard about this, he came to Gu's house in person and said that he would let Gu Jinan go to his house to study.

Gu Jinan waited for so many days, and finally waited for Shang Xiucai's reply, he was both happy and excited.

He suppressed his excitement, knelt in front of Shang Xiucai, kowtowed to him, and knocked him halfway, but was helped up by Shang Xiucai.

Shang Xiucai said: "You don't need to worship the teacher, I don't accept apprentices, just be a gentleman, teach you to study, and tie these things your family still has to give." ”

After Shang Xiucai read Gu Jin'an's answer to Wen Zhi, he thought of his performance on the day he arrested Lu Laosan, and heard that he did not go to private school, but relied on the thousand-character essay he learned by self-study, so he was very satisfied with him.

Gu Jinan is a piece of jade, as long as he polishes it well, he will definitely be able to become a talent in ten years, and the master-apprentice status is not the same as the father-son name, once he apprentices, it is a lifelong thing, and as a master, he can decide many things about his apprentice, even marriage.

Shang Xiu only knew his identity, his family was a little famous in Tianfu County, and when he went out of Tianfu County, it was nothing at all, Gu Jinan deserved a better master, as a gentleman, he could teach him for a few years.