"As a person, he is also very cautious, he is an honest scholar, and he listens to his neighbors that he is a good boy who is sensible and knows how to advance and retreat."

"It's Shi Huaifu, the people in the village have a lot of complaints, saying that this Shi Huaifu is quite selfish and stingy, and he loves to calculate, often because of some trivial things and others have conflicts, in short, he is not very popular, I heard that last year, because of the gambling money, the family owed money, and the cattle in the family were led to the account."

"The relationship between Shi Huaifu and Shi Yongkuan is not good, nor is it bad, as far as Shi Huaifu's temperament is concerned, he should often take advantage of Shi Yongkuan's nephew, but Shi Yongkuan has a generous temperament, and it seems that he doesn't care about small things, but there is no major conflict, in general, it should be passable on the surface."

"But I heard others say that some time ago, I don't know what happened, Shi Yongkuan and Shi Huaifu quarreled, across the two courtyard walls, they all listened to the movement, but it seems that the next day Shi Huaifu came to apologize, and this matter passed, and later the matter of finding someone to beat furniture was also Shi Huaifu's Zhang Luo, so the big guys didn't take it seriously."

After Song Chenggao finished speaking, Song Chengcai also followed: "I told the patriarch about these things, and I also asked the patriarch to go to Shijia Village, the patriarch of the Shi family has some meaning of playing Tai Chi, and he does not leak a drop of water, only saying that this kind of thing Shi Yongkuan is the bitter master, and this matter has to be based on personal intentions, although he is the patriarch of a clan, but this kind of thing, he is not easy to interfere in." ”

"Looking at what he means, I don't know if he doesn't want to reach out to take care of this matter, or if he wants to protect the Shi family, and he doesn't want to fall into this infamy as a patriarch."

After hearing this, Xie Yinan lowered his head and thought for a moment.

When he raised his head again, his brows were already furrowed.

"It's ......"

Xie Yinan paused, and then said, "I think we can go to the yamen for this matter." ”

"To the Yamen?" Everyone in the Song family was stunned.

Especially Song Chengyou, the noodles on the chopsticks slipped down and fell into the bowl.

"If this matter goes to the yamen, I'm afraid it will not be good for us, if Shunzi is sentenced to hard labor, our family will also be greatly damaged, and Shunzi is only afraid that it will be more than lucky, but I am afraid that it will not be appropriate." Song Chengtian has a lot of concerns.

"Uncle, let's not go to the yamen to let the county magistrate sentence the eldest brother, but to beat the drum and voice the grievances, and ask the county magistrate to clear our grievances and treat Shi Huaifu for the crime of extortion and framing."

Xie Yinan's voice was firm.

Wash away grievances and cure Shi Huaifu's crime of extortion?

Everyone was stunned again.

Song Chengtian was the first to react, and his eyes lit up: "You mean ......?"

"In order to ask us for money, Shi Huaifu deliberately made it bad and injured Shi Yongkuan, using this as a bargaining chip?"

"Exactly." Xie Yinan nodded.

"However, we are just guessing about this, although Shunzi said that the chair is extremely strong, but it is not guaranteed that there is an occasional omission, not to mention, your second uncle didn't inquire about it, although Shi Huaifu and Shi Yongkuan have some contradictions, but the face is still passable, Shi Huaifu also helped find a carpenter to make furniture or something, it can be seen that the relationship between the two families is good, after saying this, I am afraid that others will not believe that Shi Huaifu is bad from it."

"You can look at this thing this way, but you can also look at it from the other side."

Xie Yinan explained: "The quarrel and reconciliation and helping to fight the furniture, it can be understood that Shi Huaifu was full of hatred for Shi Yongkuan because of the quarrel and had murderous intentions, so he planned to plan a thing, so he reconciled with Shi Yongkuan's nephew on the face, but behind his back, he planned to destroy Song Yongkuan. ”

"Whether Shi Yongkuan died because of this, or because of his disfigurement, he can take the opportunity to ask us for a large sum of silver, and then take it for himself, as for Shi Yongkuan, who was lucky not to die, he can also find a chance to end it, after all, a scholar who studied hard in the cold window, there is no future to speak of in the future, and it is understandable that he is disheartened and wants to leave the world."

"In this way, Shi Huaifu, the second uncle, can take over all the family property on the grounds of the Shi family's generation, and no one can question it."

"Shi Huaifu's hatred may have been there for a long time, his family background is average, and he is stretched thin because of his good gambling, but Shi Yongkuan's family is rich because of his father's good management, and he has long been jealous."

"Again, this chair is left unattended, Shi Huai is rich in time and opportunity to do things, and it is he who instigated Shi Yongkuan to sit on the stool, which inevitably makes people think more."

"If you string these piles and things together, this has enough reason to believe that Shi Huaifu deliberately murdered for money and pulled our family into the water."

"I asked you to focus on these things, uncle, in order to confirm my conjecture in my heart, at this time, listening to your meaning, it should be eight or nine and ten."

"That's why I said that we should go to the county office, let the county magistrate administer justice for us, restore our innocence, and punish Shi Huaifu, a wicked man."

Xie Yinan said.

A remark made the entire Song family's eyes widen again.

This was followed by a downward contemplation.

"This thing...... Third child, you can say it. ”

Song Chengtian hesitated, but this matter was a matter of Song Cheng's family, so it was naturally subject to his wishes.

"That's it."

Song Chengyou, who had been listening and never saying a word, raised his head at this time: "I think what Shanzi's daughter-in-law said makes sense, we should go to the county government here and let the county master call the shots for us." ”

"Big brother, what do you say?"

"What Shanzi's daughter-in-law said makes sense, but how can this county government be a place where ordinary people can go? As the saying goes, the county yamen is open to the south, and there is no money to come in, so you have to spend a lot of silver taels, I don't know if we can make up too much. ”

"Again, if this matter is as Shanzi's daughter-in-law said, it's okay, Shunzi can be rescued safely, and Shi Huaifu's wicked person can be cleaned up, but if Shanzi's daughter-in-law says the wrong thing......"

When Song Chengtian said this, Song Chengcai also nodded: "What the eldest brother said is good, if we guess wrong, then what should we do?" Although this matter is about Shunzi and is the business of your family, it is also the matter of our old Song family, we have to sum it up, and we can't make a decision so rashly. ”

"The second uncle can rest assured, even if the guess is wrong, it is just a loss for the historian's money, or the eldest brother is convicted, and there is no difference from now, but if it is as Nan'er said, then we will be able to pass this hurdle smoothly."

Song Leshan interjected: "The worst thing is just this result, so why don't we give it a try?" If you try, you may be able to live, but if you don't try, you will die, so we naturally have to give it a try. ”

"That's it." Song Chengyou also nodded.

"As for the money......