The day after Mrs. Gu bought the grange, Mingyue sent two people, a man and a woman, to Mrs. Gu's village.

These two subordinates are a husband and wife, the man is good at tending to fruit trees and taking care of the pond, and the woman has been helping Mingyue raise poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and rabbits on the Zhuangzi.

Before lending these two people out, Mingyue specially called them to her house and told them in detail that they must not hide their secrets.

As soon as the two of them heard that they were going to the county magistrate's house to help teach the subordinates, they didn't dare to slack off at all and responded, and Mingyue let Ping'an send them to Mrs. Gu's Zhuangzi.

After this was done, Mingyue began to prepare the field for planting rice.

After discussing with Yu Jiayan, the two decided not to use their brains on the existing grange.

In order to facilitate the use of water, Yu Jiayan suggested that Mingyue buy a new grange near the river and lake as a test field.

Mingyue had this intention, so the two took advantage of Yu Jiayan's leisure and went directly to Sun Ya's house and asked him to help find a grange that was convenient for introducing living water.

Sun Yaren happened to have two medium-sized Zhuangzi in line with Yu Jiayan and Mingyue's requirements, and after listening to Yu Jiayan and Mingyue's words, he took a mule cart very quickly, and accompanied Yu Jiayan and Mingyue to the east of the city to see Zhuangzi with great interest.

“... The youngest son of the old man Wang had a dispute with someone when he was running a merchant a year ago, not only was he beaten half dead, but his family's goods were also detained by the local yamen. Now his house is full of places to use money, and Master Wang has no choice but to take out these two Zhuangzi to exchange for money. ”

Sun Yaren shook his head as he spoke, his face full of pity and sympathy for the Wang family.

As soon as Yu Jiayan recalled, he thought of which Wang family Sun Yaren was talking about, and he asked Sun Yaren, "Master Wang's youngest son... Is it very white skin, a little short, and a small sesame seed in the right corner of the mouth? ”

Sun Yaren nodded again and again, "Isn't that kid." ”

Yu Jiayan frowned slightly, "I remember that his family and the Chi family are in-laws?" ”

Sun Yaren slapped his thigh, "No wonder Yu Xiucai, you also know him." His family is not in-law with the Chi family, and his second sister is the lobby brother who married Chi Xiucai. ”

The Chi Xiucai in Sun Yaren's mouth is the Chi Zhen Chi Xiucai who asked him to buy Guanyan before, because of his good relationship with Ming Xu, this Chi Xiucai has not been to Ming's house to eat over the years.

Of course, the Ming Xu brothers and Yu Jiayan, the son-in-law of the Ming family, did not eat less than the Chi family.

This is also why Yu Jiayan even has an impression of Brother Chi Zhen's brother-in-law.

The Chi family has a total of two rooms, Chi Zhen is in the second room, his family is thin, Chi Zhen's father only has one son, fortunately he is a person who loves to read and has a talent for reading, and his father has nothing to be dissatisfied with.

The situation in the house of his eldest uncle was just the opposite of his family, and his eldest aunt gave birth to three sons in one go, not to mention that none of them liked to study.

It was useless for his uncle to beat and scold, and in the end he had to resign himself to his three sons learning to do business.

Fortunately, his three sons are quite talented in business, and after several years of unremitting efforts, his three sons have all relied on their father's support and their own intentions to live a prosperous and stable life.

And the one who has done the best business among the three is Chi Zhen's cousin, on the one hand, he is indeed more talented than the two younger brothers, on the other hand, in addition to his father's help, he also has a hand in his father-in-law's family, which makes it easier for him to achieve success.

Now that something happened to his father-in-law's family, he naturally began to help run without hesitation.

It's just that Yu Jiayan is not familiar with him after all, a person who is just a nodding friend, it is impossible for Yu Jiayan to pay too much attention to him.

If it weren't for Sun Yaren suddenly talking about it, Yu Jiayan wouldn't have known that his family was in dire straits.

He looked at Sun Yaren, "I used to buy things in his shop, and I had the impression that Wang Xiaogongzi was a very kind person, why did he go to a foreign country and conflict with others?" ”

"Hey, why don't you say that people are cheap when they leave their hometowns!" Sun Yaren sighed, "Don't you know, he went all the way to Fucheng to buy a batch of new goods, and he saw that he could make money by shipping them back, but when he went to the next county, the brother-in-law of the new criminal master in that county had to let him sell this batch of goods." The Wang family Xiaolang thought that the price he gave was too low, and he didn't agree to do this business with him, but the man directly robbed the Wang family's batch of fabrics with a glaring eye. Wang Xiaolang brought his men and wanted to snatch it back, but the two groups of people were pulling, and the criminal master who rushed to hear the news took the messenger to arrest Wang Xiaolang. ”

Mingyue was dumbfounded when she heard this.

Since she came to ancient times, the only officials she has seen are those in Fuxing County.

Needless to say, Gu Zhixian is a very clean official.

The county magistrate of Fuxing County, who Mingyue had never even met before, although people like to brag about their exploits, and usually collect some filial piety or something, but at least there is no problem in the general direction.

There are also county officials, master books, canonical histories, and even errand servants in Fuxing County, these people are also greedy for small profits at most, such as if you want to go to the red deed, hand over the paper, visit the prison, etc., then you have to give the person who handles it tea money.

Of course, they also have all kinds of other ways to make money, but Mingyue has never heard of anyone who will rely on himself to rob the street when he is on an errand in the yamen, and the most important thing is that these people not only rob openly, but also fabricate charges to put people in prison after the robbery.

Thinking that Sun Yaren said that Wang Xiaogongzi was now half-dead, Mingyue immediately realized that the criminal master in the next county was afraid that he had also used a big punishment on him in private.

There are generally only two possibilities in this situation, one is that Wang Xiaogongzi refuses to give up his batch of goods, he does not change his words, and the other possibility is that the other party is not satisfied with the goods, and they even want to continue to blackmail the Wang family.

For the first time, Mingyue realized the great authority represented by the word "official" in ancient times.

A bullshit master who is not an "official" or an "official" can fabricate charges and send people to prison at will, so as an official, the county order, the county officer, the master book, the canon history, the errand officer... How easy it will be to clean up a common man who has no backing.

It is no wonder that the common people of this era are so afraid of the word "yamen".

The county order of the broken family, the history of the assassination of the door, Mingyue had an extremely deep understanding of this proverb for the first time.

She looked at Yu Jiayan, who reached out and patted his wife's hand to appease.

"Then didn't the Wang family think about going over to ask Lord Zhixian for help?"

Hearing Yu Jiayan ask, Sun Yaren was obviously very surprised.

He scratched his head, "I heard that they found the county lord, but the county lord said that he is just the county lord of Fuxing County, and it is not easy to cross the line." ”

After a little hesitation, he said to Yu Jiayan in a very small voice: "But he suggested that the Wang family report directly to the prefect." ”