A few days later, the arrest of the Hangzhou City Government Yamen quickly caught several thieves who were making trouble in the waters of Hangzhou. I heard that these thieves had just arrived in Hangzhou Mansion and were arrested before they could start their actions.

The other thieves caught and beat them, searched for the money and returned it to the owner. But these thieves were shackled and went directly to the government prison.

Within three days, these thieves confessed to the cases they had committed in the past six months, including one case in which they were instructed to stun several foreign silk dealers on the Taihu Lake boundary and replace the new silk in their warehouse with the old raw silk. The reason why they remember this case deeply is also because they moved raw silk on the boat in the middle of the night, which was really tiring and exciting, and of course, they got a lot of commissions afterwards.

They made such a big noise, naturally it was not that no one saw it, but more is better than less, who let this sufferer be a foreigner, no one will offend a local big merchant for a foreign dealer.

Who knew that the Hangzhou Mansion Yamen actually moved the real character, and exchanged the documents for arresting people with the Taihu County Shou, and directly arrested the two big families who instructed the thieves to change silk.

These two big families are very arrogant, and the Taihu County Yamen has to give three points of courtesy when they see it, so they directly call the Hangzhou Mansion Yamen to arrest them. During this period, there were still people who put pressure on the Taihu County Yamen, wanting to prevent the Hangzhou Yamen from taking people, but the Hangzhou Mansion did not hide it directly, revealing that the foreign silk dealer was related to the prefect's wife.

The words have come to this, where do the Taihu County guards dare to obstruct it, and the two big silk families were caught in Hangzhou Mansion in full view of everyone.

They couldn't believe it when they were killed, they actually used their crooked brains to move to the head of the prefect of Hangzhou. I thought it was just a big wronged person from out of town, who would have thought that there would be such a big background!

"There is no need to be tortured, starve them for two days first." Yuan Zhiheng commanded.

"Yes!" At first, they didn't know why the adults asked them to catch a few unknown thieves, but now it seems that the two silk merchants behind them provoked the lady.

The dog dared to provoke Mrs., no one up and down the yamen on weekdays did not eat less food from Mrs. Niang, and those with family members often received head and face jewelry from Mrs. I was thinking about what to do for my wife, and these two happened to commit it!

Two large silk families were sent to one of the worst prisons, where there were also several vicious death row inmates......

Under the hint of the cell boss to turn a blind eye, the condemned prisoners immediately understood that these two people could be bullied at will, and look at these two people who were white and fat and dressed in brocade clothes, and a few of them came up and stripped their clothes in an instant.

"Hey, hey, it's not in vain to be able to wear such good clothes before you die." The condemned prisoner laughed arrogantly.

The two well-sleek wealthy businessmen, who were all local figures with a face outside, were already ashamed at this time, and they were even more frightened when they looked at these gang of death row prisoners. After a day without a drop of water, and at night when he was about to fall asleep, he was dragged from the ground and circled around the prison several times. In the end, I was forced to curl up on the edge of the toilet, and it was inevitable that my head and face would be stained......

In this way, before waiting for two days, early in the morning of the next day, the two wept and howled like slaughtering pigs:

"We ask to see the adults, let us meet the adults! Let us out, we're going to die......"

Before they could finish their words, they were dragged back by the condemned prisoners, and the flea straw on the ground stuffed their mouths.

The cell boss was eating porridge, but he didn't seem to hear the movement here, and he didn't raise his head, but only sucked and ate porridge.

The two of them almost despaired when they saw that no one was paying attention. If this continues, they will probably be tortured to death before they can be brought to trial.

Fortunately, the cell boss finished eating the porridge and staggered over.

"Who wants to see your lordship?" The cell boss asked lazily.

"It's we who want to see the adults, we want to meet the adults......" The two of them didn't care about the shame of being naked, pulled the straw out of their mouths, and replied loudly.

"Go! Do adults say that they can see it? The cell boss said disdainfully, and was about to turn around.

"Wait, wait, we have something important to tell the adults, about the matter of the boat, there is another mastermind......" Seeing that he was leaving, the two hurriedly shouted, what do they care about now, they just want to get out alive.

"Oh?" The cell leader's eyes flashed, he coughed, and said impatiently, You wait, I'll go and inform the adults, the adults are busy with affairs, and they may not see you.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you." The two of them hurriedly kowtowed to the cell leader.

After waiting for a long time, the two of them trembled as if they had waited for a long time, and the cell boss came in, took two tattered but clean clothes in his hand, and threw them at them, saying that you are lucky, and the lord has promised to see you, so quickly put on and follow me.

The two of them held these two tattered clothes, and they thought that this was more pleasing to the eye than the silk and satin they had before. The two of them put on their clothes quickly, and two cell bosses pressed to the front.

"Remember, don't play tricks with adults, otherwise you two will live here for the rest of your life." The cell boss hated them.

"Yes, yes, yes." At this time, where did the two dare to play tricks.

The cell boss did not take them up to the lobby, but went to a small side hall, and when they entered, they saw a very good-looking young man sitting there reading a book and eating tea slowly.

The two of them were stunned, and the two cell bosses kicked them to their knees one by one, and reprimanded in a low voice for blinding your dog's eyes, don't you see that the adults are there, don't you hurry up.

Is this young man the prefect? The two only saw that he was wearing an inconspicuous straight-fitting cyan robe, and he was not wearing an official robe. The two of them secretly glanced at each other, wondering why the adults didn't interrogate in the lobby, but this was more in line with their hearts.

There are no outsiders here, and they all have a rough idea of what is going on.

It turned out that the shopkeeper Liu collected raw silk in Taihu Lake, and the price was high and the amount of harvest was large, which gradually attracted the attention of local counterparts. Sando gave him all the best raw silk, didn't this cut off the way of life for others? Everyone was already resentful of him, so they found a few habitual thieves in total, and dropped the new silk collected by the shopkeeper Liu on the cabin. In this way, they changed the raw silk in the three cabins of the willow shopkeeper before and after.

"I know all of this, and I can say something useful." Yuan Zhiheng said coldly.

was originally an indifferent Lord Yuan, but as soon as his face changed at this time, the whole room seemed to be covered with a layer of ice, and the two people who were cold only felt out of breath.

These two people are also old fritters who are used to seeing wind and waves in the business field, and now they are defeated by this young prefect to the point of trembling.

"You will answer whatever I ask," Yuan Zhiheng said impatiently and coldly: "Those old raw silks, where did you come from." ”

Those raw silk were evenly thickened and neatly bandaged, and they were considered to be first-class goods at that time, but wouldn't it be suspicious that such good goods had been left to his backlog and stored for so long?

The two looked at each other, and one of them closed his eyes fiercely, and said:

"My lord Mingjian, if I don't wait to say it, I'm really afraid to say it. The lord forcibly sold the old silk to us who did the silk business at the price of new silk, and we had to dare to be angry and dare not speak, this time it was also a ghost, and it was in the hands of the adult, and we were willing to return the original ship of new silk to the willow shopkeeper, and please raise your noble hand. ”

After speaking, he kowtowed violently again.

"Who's that adult?" Yuan Zhiheng said slowly: "So far, you can only tell me what you know, otherwise we won't talk in such a hidden place." If you make trouble in the lobby, whether you recruit or not, can that adult spare you? If you tell the truth, I will consider giving you a way to live, and no one else will know about today's events. ”

Yuan Zhiheng spoke very slowly, but what he said was right, and the two of them knew it in their hearts:

"Thank you for being willing to give the two of me a way to live, that adult is not an outsider, it is really the current Jiangnan weaving Cui master," once these words came out, the two of them did not care: "This lord is now known as a clean and honest virtuous name, but it was not like this before, I heard that three years ago a silk merchant offended him, and he found a reason to confiscate the family property, among which the merchant had a large number of newly harvested fine raw silk that was not confiscated, and he withheld it privately." After such a long time, he thought it was all right, so he forced and sold those old raw silk to me and others, and we were really miserable. ”

After this person finished speaking, Yuan Zhiheng frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Who else knows about this besides you?" ”

The man thought about it, shook his head and said that he didn't know, even if everyone knew, they all pretended not to know, and this dumb man had to knock out his teeth and swallow hard.

"Please also make the decision for us!" The other kowtowed a few more times, and wept bitterly: "With this Master Cui here, the life of the silk merchant is really not easy." I heard that adults have always loved the people like children, and they are upright, and the surname Cui is so full of private pockets and fish and flesh for the people, and he also asks the adults to be the masters of the people! ”

Yuan Zhiheng looked the two of them up and down, the faces of the two people who had been tortured by hunger and hunger in the past two days were like vegetables, but this round and fat body showed that their life was not difficult.

The two of them were stared at by Yuan Zhiheng, and they both lowered their heads, trembling and not daring to say more. The reason why they want Yuan Zhiheng to make decisions for them is just that Yuan Zhiheng can bring down Master Cui out of a moment of righteous indignation, so that they can sit back and relax, but unfortunately their abacus is too loud, and they also underestimate Yuan Zhiheng's mind.

Although Yuan Zhiheng is a good official who is heroic and decisive in a sense, he is by no means the kind of upright and unruly who goes to the dark, and now in such a situation in the court, even those cabinet chiefs in the court know that Mingzhe protects himself, and he is a local official of the fourth grade.

"Don't worry, I know that the two of you know about today's events, and no one will reveal this matter to Master Cui. Go back and suffer a few more days, and make a show, and then you can go back. He only said that he had been taught a lesson in prison, and he didn't say anything. Remember, give back all the raw silk! Yuan Zhiheng warned.

"Yes, yes......" The two of them cried and mourned, and they didn't dare to ask how many more days they would be imprisoned.

This time, the cell boss did not put them in the same cell as the condemned prisoners, and both of them breathed a deep sigh of relief.

Sure enough, after another five days, the cell boss came to inform them that they could leave.

The two of them finally saw the light of day, and went back in embarrassment, and they didn't care about anything else, so they quickly hired a boat and personally returned the new silk they had exchanged.

It was the shopkeeper Liu who connected with them, and the shopkeeper Liu was angry when he saw them. Thinking that he was also a respected figure in the business field in Yunzhou, who knew that Huluo Pingyang was bullied by dogs, and was stolen by these two people who should be killed. He was ashamed of his trust in his wife, and he couldn't raise his head in front of Miaozhu.

"Shopkeeper Liu, the two of us...... Please forgive me for ......," the two said ashamedly.

Shopkeeper Liu snorted coldly, brought an old silkworm farmer over, carefully checked the things they sent, and the old silkworm farmer nodded at him, which meant yes, and he beckoned the young men to unload.

"Come with me, my wife wants to see you." Shopkeeper Liu had a gloomy face and said coldly.

The two of them were stunned, and they didn't dare to ask more questions when they saw that the shopkeeper Liu was like this, so they had to follow in a gray manner.