The carriage roared, and Su Jiudong lost the leisure of looking at the scenery outside the window in the past, and had been staring at Wen Yiheng since he got into the carriage, sitting opposite him without saying a word.

Wen Yiheng also looked back at Su Jiudong without being scared, and his good-looking eyes were even full of warm smiles.

After returning home, the two greeted Liu Yunniang and went into the house to talk about things. Su Jiudong felt very uncomfortable staring at him with a smile, so he asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just laughing at your innocence." Wen Yiheng got up and sat down beside Su Jiudong, his warm shoulders were also close to her shoulders, and he said lightly: "The world is sinister, and being simple is the most dangerous trait." But your innocence is good, keep it up. ”

Su Jiudong snorted angrily, and sighed a little depressedly leaning against the body.

"I know what you're thinking. If you listen to Mrs. Lei say a bunch of things, you must think that I am the minister of the Imperial Mission. ”

Wen Yiheng didn't want to see Su Jiudong's random speculation, so he simply said bluntly: "You still misunderstood." If you pay attention to inquiring in the county seat, you will know that Lord Qincha's surname is Chu, not Wen. He is now patrolling the Shanxi area, and he has not yet visited our small mountain village. ”

"Even if you are not Lord Qincha, but looking at the behavior of the Lei family, you must have a certain relationship with Lord Qincha, otherwise they will not be afraid of you while scolding you."

"You guessed it right, I really have a little relationship with the current minister...... I was a childhood classmate with him, but after contact, I found out that he and I were not all the way, so we gradually communicated less. Wen Yiheng put his hands behind his head, as if recalling the memories of his classmates.

"That's all?" Su Jiudong still didn't believe it. With a close layer of childhood classmates, it is still impossible for the Lei family to respect him. No matter how much the Lei family stretches their hands and feet, they will not please Wen Yiheng in every way because they find out that he is a childhood classmate of the current minister.

"When I was a child, I was a classmate, and now I am a relationship between superiors and subordinates. The Holy Lord sent him to patrol the hunt on his behalf, and if he couldn't figure it out, let me help me mention it from time to time. Speaking of this minister, Wen Yiheng always showed a little disdain and contempt from time to time.

"That's the only way......" Su Jiudong's tone couldn't hide his frustration, and he couldn't cry or laugh because he wanted to deviate from the direction. I thought it was really a big official like the minister...... Wen Yiheng said in a high-sounding manner that the relationship between "upper and lower officials" turned out to be just a subordinate of the minister of the Qin Mission, but a small assistant.

Wen Yiheng explained: "Actually, if you think about it, you can know the answer. You see that I have been with you for so long, far away from the court, I have never made any rounds outside, and I have not done anything to investigate public opinion, how can I be a minister? ”

"I know you're still wondering why I went out so often during the plague last year, though you never asked."

"I'll tell you right now, at that time, the minister was going to inspect the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the imperial court suddenly issued an order for the minister to be urgently transferred to Shanxi for inspection, so the minister came to me during that time to discuss the postponement of the inspection in Zhejiang, and asked me to keep an eye on him first."

Wen Yiheng explained to Su Jiudong in 1510: "Maybe it's because I often went in and out with the minister at that time, so that others saw an official who thought I was the same level as the minister." ”

"The minister left urgently, and I was the only one who stayed in Zhejiang, so many people suddenly came to me."

"I see." Su Jiudong nodded approvingly, thinking about it before and after, it was indeed like Wen Yiheng said, before the plague, there were indeed no people who came to him, only after the plague, all kinds of Lei family, Li family, Wang family, and Wang family came out one after another, wanting to tie him up and hug his thigh.

However, the family is just a small assistant, not an official, let alone anything, the Lei family wants to be promoted by currying favor with Wen Yiheng, but it is estimated that it is just a bamboo basket for water.

"Didn't you explain your identity to the Lei family? Did you do this on purpose? Su Jiudong's curiosity was aroused. Wen Yiheng was heartbroken, maybe he deliberately wanted to hang the Lei family to play and watch the Lei family play a monkey show.

"I made it clear from the beginning that I was just an auxiliary officer of the minister, but some people didn't believe me, saying that I was very powerful, and I often discussed things with the minister, and I must also be a big official, and I was arguing to curry favor with me, what kind of statement do you say." Wen Yiheng spread his hands and shrugged helplessly.

"How can anyone boast about himself like this!" Su Jiudong punched Wen Yiheng in the chest.

She changed her serious expression: "Although you are not the minister of the Qin Mission, you can help from the side, so what do you think of the Lei family's affairs?" ”

Under the banner of a county official, the Lei family has done all kinds of bad things behind their backs, and Su Jiudong is indignant that the Lei family has not been punished as it should be.

"The Lei family? Of course, the fate of the Lei family is determined by the minister. But I can assure you that it will be a result that satisfies you and the people of Qishan County. ”

When Su Jiudong heard such an answer, he was barely satisfied. However, at present, the minister of the Qin mission is far away in Shanxi and has not toured Zhejiang, and the time to punish the Lei family may still be far away.

The Lei family has not fallen for a day, and Qishan County is still surnamed Lei, so Su Jiudong still has to rent a house from Li Yangtou.

On this day, Su Jiudong came to Xiangyun Tea House to meet Li Yangtou according to the agreement, and the two wanted to go to see a suitable store.

Li Yangtou changed his previous arrogant attitude again, and was much kinder to her, and explained to her in detail every time he went to a shop.

Su Jiudong noticed that Li Yangtou's change in attitude should have been instructed by the Lei family, so he just pretended not to know.

Going around and seeing the afternoon, Su Jiu took a fancy to a street shop in the east of the city, which was two alleys away from the main street of the county, not close or far, and the distance was appropriate.

"Miss Su, are you planning to buy this shop?"

Li Yangtou seemed to be very surprised that Su Jiudong chose this shop, and said with a difficult face: "Actually, everything in this shop is good, but because the well in the courtyard of the second entrance is dry, it can't get water, so I have to draw water from the well at the intersection every day." The water consumption of the shop is large, and many people are afraid of the trouble of fetching water back and forth, so they are reluctant to build this room. ”

"It's okay, I'll just hire one more strong guy to dive when the time comes." Su Jiudong didn't care much about this, anyway, she had enough money in hand, and she didn't mind recruiting an extra guy.

"Okay, since you don't dislike this, let's also sell your personal favor." Li Yangtou mysteriously approached Su Jiudong and whispered: "It's inconvenient to fetch water for this, let's give you a rental price lower than the market price." The original rent price was 220 taels per year, but now you will be given an annual rent of 150 taels of silver. What do you think? But don't tell anyone. It's not easy for me to do this business if people know about it. ”

"That's... How do you calculate this 'house repair fee'? Su Jiudong deliberately mentioned the protection fee, wanting to know how ruthless Li Yangtou collected.

"It doesn't cost a lot of money to renovate this house, so I won't charge you. It's just that because there are still some parts of the house that have not been repaired, it will take some time to hand it over to you, and it is estimated that it will not be until the end of September this year to hand over the shop to you. ”

Li Yangtou deliberately inquired about Su Jiudong's affairs, and learned that Su Jiudong still wanted to rent a house in the city, so he mentioned it by the way: "Didn't you say before that you disliked that the house in the village was not big enough and wanted to rent a small courtyard?" I still have some houses to rent, if you are interested, you can also buy them with me. ”

"I don't need this for the time being, I don't have a lot of money, I just plan to build another room at home and live casually."

Su Jiudong thought that if he rented the house in Li Yangtou's hands, he would probably be monitored by the Lei family. So categorically refuse.

Li Yangtou was willing to give a low price and did not charge protection fees, Su Jiudong was happy to see it, and nodded generously and agreed.

After taking down the shops in the city, Su Jiudong began to be busy preparing more prescriptions for food.

It's June now, and there is still enough time to close the shop in September, Su Jiudong plans to take advantage of this time to match some medicinal recipes, and also look through the ancient books to check the antidote to Wen Yiheng's Bailuo skirt poison.

After the unhappy breakup of the Lei family last time, Su Jiudong went to the Lei family less, and asked Dr. Yan to check the situation, and then sent a letter to inform her of the situation, and then she adjusted the recipe for increasing or decreasing medicinal diets. In the blink of an eye, in August, according to Dr. Yan, Mrs. Lei was full of energy, no longer the old and old posture of the past, and the whole person was a little younger.

Looking at the letter sent by Dr. Yan, between the lines was praising Su Jiudong's medical skills and dispensing ability, Su Jiudong was even more convinced of his determination to open a medicinal restaurant.

On this day, Su Jiudong and Liu Yunniang squatted at home to boil medicine, and Wen Yiheng took Su Tingan and Ah Rong out to play. The two of them heard the rumbling of a carriage outside the door, and the voices of people were noisy.

When Su Jiudong went out to take a look, a long line of carriages and wooden carts of the Lei family stopped in front of Su Jiudong's house. Pedestrians in the village stopped and looked over one after another.

Lei Jingyun lifted the curtain and got off the carriage he stole from, and snapped his fingers at the carriage behind him, and a young man got down from the carriage and turned around to unload the things on the wooden cart. Su Jiudong couldn't see what kind of goods it was, and he didn't know what Lei Jingyun's idea was this time.

"Young Master Lei, what are you doing here? If you have something to say, don't mess around. Su Jiudong was puzzled, did he want to come to fight in a group? Wen Yiheng is not here, and she, an old and weak woman and child, is not enough for this group of middle-aged men to play with.

"Miss Su misunderstood. Jingyun is here to give you and Heng Gongzi a thank you gift. Thanks to the careful preparation of the two of you, my mother is now in good health and full of energy. My father specially asked me to return the gift to the two of them. Lei Jingyun tilted his head and asked his subordinates to carry a small wooden box forward, and when he opened it, he saw that it was a silver ingot, full of a box, and it was impossible to estimate how much it would cost.

"This is one thousand taels of silver, which is our Lei family's gratitude to Miss Su and Master Heng. It happened that Jingyun learned that Miss Su wanted to build a new house, so she brought enough manpower and materials to help Miss Su build a new house. ”