Dajin was waiting for them at the intersection, and when the three of them were seated, he drove the ox cart straight to the downtown area.

After turning a corner, the market gradually became lively, with rows of shops, banners and signboards covering the cornices and pavilions, wine shops, tea houses, embroidery shops, shouting and selling one after another, and they were always dazzled. On the street, there was an endless stream of sedan chairs, horsebacks, burdens, and carts, and Daikin had no choice but to jump out of the car, pull the reins of the ox, and slowly walk through the crowd.

Wanfu Qianzhuang is the largest in Qinghe County, and its face in the market is also the most magnanimous. Dajin didn't need to ask for directions, he looked up, and saw the gilded signboard shining in the sun from a distance.

Daikin drove the ox cart to the secluded alley behind the store and waited, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law gathered their hair and lifted their feet into Wanfu Qianzhuang.

When I went out today, my mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were all taken care of. Wei wore a purple padded skirt made last year, and a brown cardigan. Zhou wore a small slanted skirt with a dark concubine-colored half-arm. Xie was young and beautiful, wearing a cherry red muslin skirt and a smoky blue gown, which made her eyebrows and lips more and more slender.

Even if they have been dressed up so carefully, in the eyes of the shopkeepers who have seen a lot of rich people in the bank, they are still authentic country women.

The three of them came in curiously, looking around, like Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden. There were five or six people in long robes or short beats in the bank, and they were busy with their own accounts, accounting and bookkeeping, and the abacus beads clicked and clicked, and they didn't lift their eyelids, and they didn't take them seriously at all, and it was not strange for the countrymen to enter the city.

"Hey, let me ask, is Xiao Wu'er here?" Look at the strange and look at the strange, Zhou has not forgotten that there is still something serious.

A young man on the side was stunned for a moment, this country woman actually ran to the money village to find someone.

"Which little five?" An older man in a robe stood in the barn and looked over.

"Lao Wangzhuang's." Zhou didn't know what Xiao Wu'er's name was, but she only remembered that her second sister-in-law's surname was Wang, and her mother's family was from Lao Wangzhuang.

"Oh, Wang Gui'er......" the young man was clever and shouted back with a long voice.

"It's coming, it's coming." A seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, with his hands still wiping his sleeves, came running from the back hall.

"Ah, someone's looking for you." The young man looked at him inexplicably, and the older one looked at his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

"You are ......" After all, he is the nephew of Zhou's second sister-in-law, and this relative climbs a little around, and it is understandable that Wang Gui does not know them.

"I'm your aunt's sister-in-law." Zhou finally let Wang Gui know their relationship, and introduced Wei and Xie with him.

"You are looking for me......" The second monk Wang Guizhang was puzzled, what could these relatives who couldn't beat him do.

"It's all a family of relatives, so I'll trouble you with a trivial matter." Wei finally had a chance to speak, and she whispered as she approached Wang Gui as she pulled out a handkerchief from her arms.

Wang Gui saw the yellow pimple that Wei was holding in his handkerchief, and his face changed.

"Wait a minute, I'll go and invite Master." Wang Gui turned around and went back to the inner room.

After a while, a fat and beardless middle-aged man came out of the room, and Wang Gui waited carefully.

"This is my master Cui's shopkeeper." Wang Gui introduced the three of his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Cui Xishun motioned to Wei to put the handkerchief wrapped in the jaund on the counter, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law held their breath, their eyes did not blink, watching him take the jaund in his hand and watch it carefully, distinguish the color, and open a delicate wooden box, take out the japin and weigh it.

"Excuse me, auntie, where did you get this?" Cui Xishun raised his eyes and asked Wei.

"This ...... This is naturally mine. "Wei is here to argue the truth or falsehood, and when he heard Cui Xishun ask this, he couldn't help but feel empty.

Cui Xishun has been a shopkeeper for more than 20 years, and he can see what kind of people use what kind of things. The three women in front of them are obviously from a rural village, how can they have such a fine gold bill.

Usually, gold bills are not commercially available for sale and circulation. It is a gift given by elders to younger generations, or by peers during the New Year's holidays. Most of them are cast with auspicious words, expressing good wishes and expectations.

The gold coin in front of me is first-class in terms of color and workmanship, or 10 taels of one. Don't talk about Qinghe County, that is, the capital Jiangling, I'm afraid there are not many households with such a big deal.

As the saying goes, the emperor still has three poor relatives, and the Wei family insists on saying that it is his own, Cui Xishun rolled his eyes in his heart, but his face was not obvious.

"Shopkeeper Cui, is this real gold? How much money can I get in exchange? Zhou saw that Cui Xishun was just playing carefully, and he didn't say anything. She was desperate for a letter, so she asked impatiently.

Before the words fell, three officials patrolling the streets stepped into Wanfu Qianzhuang. Wei's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law turned their backs to the door and couldn't see it, but Cui Xishun could see it really.

In a hurry, Cui Xi stuffed the gold coin into his sleeve. Zhou thought he was going to swallow it privately, so he hurriedly shouted: "Bum, bum, that's ours, why did you pick it up?!" ”

"That's it, we're just here to see if we can redeem it, what's the matter with you collecting it for nothing?" Xie Shi looked at Cui Xishun's happy expression, and he was sure in his heart that the jaund was real gold.

"In broad daylight, you dare to ignore our gold, and see that I don't scratch you to death." Zhou wanted to step forward and scratch Cui Xishun across the counter.

Cui Xishun hurriedly glanced at them, but the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were puzzled and made a fuss together.

When the three officials heard the word gold, their eyes lit up. The laws of the Dashun Dynasty stipulated that commoners were not allowed to use gold and silver. The three women in front of them really ate the gall of the bear-hearted leopard, and dared to do this kind of thing in the largest money village in the county.

"Shopkeeper Cui, do you want to take it out yourself, or do you want us to do it." The fat servant who smiled like Maitreya Buddha half-leaned on the counter and said.

Cui Xishun saw that he couldn't hide it, so he had to take out the gold bill. The leading eight-character bearded servant reached out and snatched it over.

"Hey, it's ours!" Wei saw her yellow pimple running from Cui Xishun's sleeve to the hand of the servant, and she hurriedly turned around and stepped forward to ask for it.

"Yours?" The other thin servant rolled his eyes.

"Where did you get that?" Bazihu lazily glanced at Wei and asked.

"It's my thing, you don't care where I got it from!" Wei Shi wondered in his heart, how could these two people care about the road.

"Yo, I'm a lot older, and I'm quite sideways!" The fat servant smiled.

"Don't you say yes. Let's go, go to the county government and say go! The thin servant stepped forward and shoved.

"We didn't break the law, why did we go to the county office?" The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were scared.

The countrymen can't go back to the county several times a year, and in their eyes, especially the women's families, entering the yamen is similar to seeing the king of Hades, and their hearts tremble.

"Shopkeeper Cui, you can go with you." The fat servant was still grinning.

Cui Xishun's eyes darkened, and his hand clenched into a fist at his side, but he quickly let go again, greeted the shopkeeper as usual, and walked out of the door with his feet raised.

Seeing that he was going to move seriously, Wei Shi shouted at the top of his voice: "There is no royal law, I didn't steal or rob, why detain me!" ”

The three officials were also lazy to talk nonsense with them, pushing and shoving out of the bank. Dajin was staring at it from a distance, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he hurriedly ran over to ask, but he was taken away with the people and the ox cart.

"You give me back my gold!" Wei was so angry that his liver hurt, and he sprinkled his anger on Cui Xishun on the side.

"You're in big trouble for me!" Cui Xishun said to Wei in annoyance.

"What are you muttering nonsense, don't talk, don't collude!" Mustache glared at them.

Above the county government hall, the left and right officials wore one-color soap clothes, each holding a killing rod in their hands, and stood viciously. Where had Wei's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law seen this battle, trembling, and trembling to the middle of the lobby. Although Du Dajin is a man, he is not much better, the two are trembling, and his legs and stomach are turning tendons. But Cui Xishun forced sedation on the side.

"Kneel down ......" coldly, and the officials shouted in unison.

The Wei family was immediately frightened and weak, and knelt on the ground, and Cui Xishun also knelt down in his robe.

"Who is kneeling in the hall?" A cold voice.

Wei dared to look up, only to see a young man about twenty years old sitting above the majestic lobby, with a dignified appearance in official uniform.

"The people's woman Du Wei, Du Jiagou, this is my eldest son, two daughters-in-law." After all, the Wei family is over fifty years old, and seeing that the county magistrate sitting above is not as old as his youngest son, he is not as afraid as before.

"Where did you get this gold coin?" Shen Zhanghua, the magistrate, asked again. The eight-character beard has already been reported in the back hall like this.

"It's my own." Wei Shi was terrified, and couldn't understand why they were all pursuing this.

"Do you know that I am strict with the law! If you don't recruit from the truth, you will be punished! Shen Zhanghua drank vigorously.

"Wei ~ Wu ~, Wei ~ Wu ~ ,......" The two chambers dragged out their mouths, and the killing rod in their hands hit the ground rhythmically.

"I can use my things however I want, what kind of trick did I commit?" The Zhou family really wanted money and didn't want to die, so he actually stalked his neck and made a fuss.

"Palm!" Shen Zhanghua took out a white slip from the lottery holder on the public case and threw it on the ground, the old woman was inconvenient for him to do it, this ignorant and stupid woman would not be convinced and tell the truth if she didn't give a little bit of power.

Hearing this, the two officials stepped forward to hold Zhou, and Hu Jianbu stepped forward, without waiting for Zhou's defense, picked up the bamboo board, and opened the bow left and right at Zhou's face.

"Papapa" didn't take half an hour, and it took 20 mouths to stop, Zhou's face was red and swollen, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and his teeth were loose.

"Ah...... Ah......h

Wei was paralyzed by fright, crooked, and fell into the arms of the trembling Xie.

"Lord Qingtian, we don't dare to ask for this gold bill, you can take it yourself." Du Dajin saw his mother-in-law being beaten with a mouth full of blood, and his heart was shocked, and the words came out of his brain.

"Dare to slander the people, dare to slander this official!"

"Pull it out, hit 20 kills, and come back to talk!" Shen Zhanghua was so angry that he slapped the wood and threw out a red order sign.

"I didn't, I didn't! The grass people don't dare! Daikin shouted.

"Don't hit my son!" Wei wanted to turn around and save him, but was pushed to the ground by the impatient servant.

The two officials with big shoulders and round waists opened their arms, and each board hit Du Dajin firmly. The clothes on the ass were torn, the skin was open, and the blood was dripping. With his pig-like howl, Wei and Zhou kowtowed and begged for mercy like pounding garlic.

"Shopkeeper Cui, they are dull and don't know the law, don't you know it too? Or pretend not to know! Shen Zhanghua ignored them, only stared at Cui Xishun, and asked word by word.

Qinghe County is the closest county town to the capital Jiangling, Shen Zhanghua took the examination at the age of 18, ranked fifth, his family is honest, the eldest brother is in the silk business, his father thinks that there is a scholar in the family Guangyao lintel, so he sent him to the highest school in the Dashun Dynasty Guozijian to study for two years.

Shen Zhanghua also fought hard, lived up to expectations, passed this year's court examination, and he was assigned to Qinghe County as a magistrate.

When he first came, the wealthy businessmen in the county were polite to him, but when he encountered the construction of roads, digging ditches and distributing money, he pushed back one by one, and played haha.

Shen Zhanghua intends to use the things in front of him as a raft to kill chickens and monkeys, and deter those old treacherous and cunning wealthy businessmen who deceive him.

"Back to the county magistrates, they are my apprentice's relatives, I'll help take a look, and I don't have any other intentions." Cui Xishun said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"So, you didn't know it was gold?" Du Dajin had already been carried back, and Shen Zhanghua asked the trembling family with cold eyes.

"Yes, we didn't know it at first. This gold coin is the eldest daughter of my second uncle's family......" Xie Shi saw Du Erjin and his wife, one was beaten into a pig's head, and the other buttocks were blooming and lying on the ground. Mother-in-law Wei was even softer beside her, and she had to speak.

"Where did she come from?" Shen Zhanghua frowned.

She ...... She said...... It was given by a passer-by one morning. Xie stammered.

"Ask passers-by what they look like?" Shen Zhanghua didn't believe it.

She didn't say anything...... I do not know. Xie replied honestly, she was so trembling that her upper teeth and lower teeth fought.

"It is rumored that Du Jiagou is in harmony with ......," Shen Zhanghua paused.

"Dumay." Xie swallowed.

"It is rumored that Du Jiagou is and Du Mei." Shen Zhanghua repeated. The old county man on the side hurriedly took two messengers to drive the carriage.