The next day, Xiangcai closed for a day, and the people in line were all sighing when they heard it. I finally waited in line for so long, but I couldn't get my turn.

Zhou Caidie was studying the recipe for the biscuit bowl in the place provided by Yun's shop, and Mei Niang also talked to Ji Xiang next to her and ate some of the broken biscuits.

"You mean, Jia Dafu, Fu Xianling and Zhang Gu used to be sworn brothers?" It's hard to imagine that one is an official, the other is a businessman, and the other is a subordinate.

Mei Niang ate a few bites of the crunchy biscuits in her hand, she didn't get tired of eating too much, and patted off the biscuit crumbs, and her tone was understated. "It's not a secret that can't be said, everything has to go forward. It was about 20 years ago that the county ushered in the Fu County Order. With him was Zhang Gu. ”

Zhang Gu was not a head catcher at that time, he was just a beggar picked up by Fu County's order. On the way to office, Fu Xianling saw that he was beaten and almost died, so he rescued people. Zhang Gu wanted to repay the favor, so he escorted Fu Xianling all the way to this side.

In the beginning, the county seat was not so prosperous. There are few people here, plus there are high mountains outside, there are many small roads but it is difficult to walk, and the national highway has not been built, so no merchants will pass by this kind of county town at all.

The lives of the people were barren and miserable, especially in the years of disaster, and the farmland was hit hard. There are many things recorded in the history books that changed children and ate them, which did happen in those years. Fu County Ling is young and vigorous, and if he wants to make a career, he must lead the people to survive the disaster year.

So, he asked everyone to go to the mountains to find edible grass roots and asked people to hand over the food stored at home, and then each household divided the grain according to the capitation. If someone disagreed, he asked his subordinate Zhang Gu to persuade him.

How to convince, Mei Niang didn't say, but her expression was sad and helpless. Ji Xiang probably guessed it, and didn't continue to ask. Mei Niang didn't stay here for too long, but continued to speak. "It was very difficult at that time, but fortunately, in the end, the imperial court opened a warehouse to release grain, and finally survived. Fu County's virtue was rewarded by the Son of Heaven, and his family still has a holy decree, which is estimated to be preparing for heirlooms. ”

I can hear Mei Niang's mockery of Fu County's order, she is not like an ordinary person, she is naturally afraid of officials. The seniors of the traverser are worthy of being seniors, and the people under his hands are really transparent.

"Where did I go?" Mei Niang also knew that she had said too much, and she digressed, so she hurriedly pulled the topic back. "The year of calamity has passed, and the cold winter has passed, and the people are considered alive. After the farming was busy, a wealthy businessman surnamed Jia moved to the county seat. Jia Dafu is not a local, I heard that he came from the northwest, although the place is wild, but it is full of mines. Jia Dafu can be regarded as having a lot of money, and Fu County Ling is naturally willing for him to settle down. ”

Jia Dafu's ancestral family is northwest, but the eldest brother's family occupied the property given to him by his father, and drove him away with some money. I accidentally found the county seat in the high mountains, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and I was too tired to listen to the words of Fu County's order.

With the help of the county order, Jia Dafu started a business with the capital in his hand. Of course, it won't be so easy to do at first. Fu Xianling is a person from the surrounding areas of Kyoto, and he is studying in Kyoto Academy, so he naturally knows the importance of cultivating students.

After Kengjia Dafu built the school together, he began to move the mountains again, first clearing the roads between the county and other places, so that it would be much easier to trade back and forth.

In this way, the county developed slowly.

"Until the Marquis of Anguo made Huaguo stronger with the way of a businessman, he proposed a lot of regulations, such as the merger of the county town and the townships below, unified management, and what else if you want to get rich, build roads first, have fewer children and more trees. The latter doesn't have to be taken seriously, even the Son of Heaven has criticized it, I just read it out of my mouth. ”

Ji Xiang: ...... The seniors are simply idols, and they started instilling ideas so early.

"At that time, roads had to be built everywhere, and the national highway on the edge of our city was built at that time. Fu Xianling smelled a business opportunity and immediately asked Zhang Gu and Jia Dafu to raise funds to repair the road together. ”

No wonder the roads in the city were quickly smoothed and smoothed, and in some places green bricks were used. In the process of road construction, Fu Xianling was almost hit by a stone, and it was Jia Dafu and Zhang Gu who saved him regardless of life and death.

So the three of them became brothers at that time, Fu County Ling made Zhang Gu his right and left hand, and Jia Dafu became the most powerful businessman in the county.

"Listening to it this way, this Fu County Order seems to have done a lot of feats." Even if you do something wrong, it seems that the merits outweigh the faults. Ji Xiang's dislike of Fu Xianling was a little lowered, she herself admired a good official with clean sleeves, but she felt that this was too pedantic and would lead to death.

She has never been in officialdom, she can only rely on her own imagination, maybe Fu Xianling is a good person.

Those who can do practical things for the people are not clean officials, but they can also be regarded as good officials.

Mei Niang didn't answer, she remembered Meng Tian's words. If Fu Xianling really smoked Wushi San, then ...... This official is definitely not a good official.

Wushisan is such a thing, and when you touch it, you will be addicted. She had seen a man who was filial to his parents and loved by his children touched this thing and killed all the people in his family. Many, many examples, she could find by just thinking about them.

"Why are you asking this, why are you interested in the matter of the prefectural order?" Mei Niang pinched her waist, half-raised her eyebrows, and her charm jumped on her face. "You little girl, what are you holding back, shouldn't Jia Dafu's death still make you suspect something."

"Maybe I'm thinking too much. I just felt that something was wrong, especially when the news of Zhang Yaqing's death came out, which made me feel very unreal. "It stands to reason that Jia Wanwan is stupid and sweet, Jiang Liyun was still her father-killing enemy at that time, but she could not care at all and resolutely wanted to save Jiang Liyun.

In the face of Zhang Yaqing, they grew up together, and their father was still a brother of the opposite sex. The relationship will definitely be better than Jiang Liyun, but after Zhang Yaqing admitted that she killed Zhang Gu, Jia Wanwan never went to see Zhang Yaqing again.

"After Zhang Yaqing died, I went to help collect the body. In the yamen, I saw Jia Wanwan and Jiang Liyun. They didn't notice me at first, and they were talking happily, as if they were talking about something funny. But as soon as he saw me, his expression immediately changed. Especially Jia Wanwan, her smile immediately became sad, when she saw me, she said a lot of things about Zhang Yaqing, and told me that she was very relieved that I had found her father's killer, and now she has revenge, and she feels comfortable. That feeling, like acting, Ji Xiang has a very strange intuition, I can't say it but I can feel it.

Especially when Jia Wanwan left, her solemn expression made her feel that something was wrong. "Maybe it's because I'm thinking too much, and now that Zhang Yaqing is dead, the clue is really completely broken."

"Don't think about it, these things have a top, they will take care of it themselves." That Xu Zhutou is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she has already revealed a little bit of the past, just see if he can understand it immediately.

It's funny, the water here is getting muddy.

"By the way, do you know Zhang Mingzhu?" Mei Niang suddenly asked, and after Ji Xiang nodded, she covered her mouth, as if she was half tired and squinted her eyes. The good-looking eyes are raised at the end, like a lazy fire fox. "How's she getting along with you?"

is not familiar, in fact, it can be said to be bad, but Zhang Mingzhu seems to be dead set on Chen Jie'an, so it probably doesn't matter.

looked at Mei Niang suspiciously, and said what's wrong, Mei Niang touched Ji Xiang's hair and sighed euphemistically. "She's a little pitiful girl, if you don't know it, I won't say it for you to hear."

"It's okay, you can say it. Is it because of Meng Tian? ”

It's really because of Meng Tian, after Meng Tian's mother died, because of filial piety for a year, but Meng Tian refused to let go of Zhang Mingzhu, so he let her enter the door of the Meng family without a name and no share, and let Zhang Mingzhu watch the spirit for her mother.

In fact, at this point, Mei Niang also felt that Meng Tian was stingy and held grudges, so she would not sympathize with Zhang Mingzhu. But later, the more Meng Tian played, the more he played, he actually let his subordinates bully Zhang Mingzhu.

"What? He did this kind of thing. In Ji Xiang's eyes, Meng Tian has a fierce and vicious face, but his heart is purer than many people. He doesn't look like a man who would do such a thing.

If she hadn't done something to find Meng Tian that day, I'm afraid Zhang Mingzhu would have really been defiled by other men. "Meng Tian and I have known each other for almost ten years, and the most excessive thing he has ever done is to snatch things from children's hands, but you say, now he actually ...... Even if you hate Zhang Mingzhu no matter how much you hate it, you have to have a bottom line. I don't want him to do something wrong and regret it in the end, so I took Zhang Mingzhu directly these days. ”

"What does that mean now?" Mei Niang will not say this matter for no reason, since she said it, she has something to ask for, sure enough, Mei Niang said that Zhang Mingzhu lived here and was known by Meng Tian, she couldn't fall out with Meng Tian, so she wanted to ask Ji Xiang to take care of Zhang Mingzhu.

Again?

Last time, it was Sister Wuyu who asked her to take her in, and at that time, Yunxiang helped to speak.

"Nope." Ji Xiang doesn't like that there are more people in the family who don't know, not to mention that they are still former rivals. Moreover, my home is not a shelter, so it is not something that anyone can enter with a little difficulty.

Mei Niang thought that Ji Xiang would be happy to help, but she didn't expect to be rejected so categorically. Zhou Caidie, who was on the side, listened to a few words, and didn't want to say much, but she was afraid that Ji Xiang would have a bad reputation, so she explained to Mei Niang about the next Zhang Mingzhu.

"I see, it's that I'm not thinking it through. But I really hope you can help, not for Zhang Mingzhu but for Meng Tian. Mei Niang frowned, "I can tell that Meng Tian is still in love with Zhang Mingzhu." It's just that now I'm carried away by hate, so I do things that I can't even understand. ”

"To explain in advance, I don't like Zhang Mingzhu. She is really pitiful, so let's ask someone to send her to Yun'an Village, my mother is in the countryside, and she knows the specific address. Also, I can't guarantee that Meng Tian won't be able to find it, so don't say that I leaked secrets when the time comes. ”

After thinking about it, let's help. Meng Tian went too far this time.