Gu Yanzhang had an old relationship with his own family, he saved his father and sister in the past, and then his wife came to the door to ask for medicine, although the two things before and after cannot be mixed up, but after all, they are also frequent contacts. The left and right parties will not stay in the Criminal Division for a long time, as long as they are not directly under their own control, and they want to help with it, but it is not difficult, and it is enough to be used as a right-hand man, and it is also a good talk to talk about it in the future.

While walking, countless thoughts flashed through Sun Bian's mind, and in just a few moments, he had already assigned how to bring that Gu Yanzhang under his command at that time, what to do for himself, what to manage, and how he could use him.

Gu Yanzhang didn't know that he had entered the palace once, and when His Majesty saw it, it actually provoked Sun Bian to have so many thoughts that he couldn't go up to the sky and couldn't go down to the ground.

Regarding Chen Ducai's case, there are actually many things in the temple that he has not yet explained to the Son of Heaven.

From Chen Ducai's confession, the businessman who secretly contacted him and lured him into the water when he was in the middle of the examination was brought out, and Li Chengwei, who later resold the grain with him in Yongqiu County.

Gu Yanzhang didn't want to startle the snake, so he didn't summon Li Chengwei for a long time, and only asked people to stare at the other party secretly.

But common sense speculation, Gu Yanzhang felt that it was not so simple.

The misappropriation of the silver grain in the regular liquidation is naturally a business without capital, which can lead to many people who are difficult to control themselves, and can also make businessmen who are full of money rush to it, but for Li Chengwei, his father-in-law family has the right to buy and sell wine, and originally did tea, cloth, horses, etc., and also did the unpacking of the warehouse, among these many things, especially the unpacking of the treasury and wine as the most expensive, only relying on these two, he no longer needs any additives, he can make a lot of money.

For him, although it is advantageous to move that Chang to close the position, the risk is so big that the benefits are difficult to cover, even though he has two county lords in his family and his son also has an official body, but he can't help at all, once the matter is exposed, not only will he have to get in, but the whole family will also have to get in.

Gu Yanzhang himself is a businessman, he thinks that his family is already very bold and can live with it, if he is Li Chengwei, he will definitely not be involved in such a deal.

One by one, it's not a lack of money to the extreme, so why bother exchanging your life for money?

What's more, hundreds of thousands of stone grains, if they want to transport them away, how can they not move at all? Whether it is a ship or a coolie, it takes effort to organize, and it is very easy to expose the stuffing.

This time, he had the intention to arrest people, so he did not act as before, and on the one hand, he went to interrogate Chen Ducai in detail, unified all the officials involved in the case, and on the other hand, he collected relevant criminal evidence, hoping to find out Li Chengwei's experience.

Gu Yanzhang returned to the mansion, thinking that Ji Qingling was also visiting Li Chengwei's mansion, so he had to tell her the news he had learned here, and the two of them were a couple, and they felt more and more that there were many mysteries.

Compared with the main case, Ji Qingling's affairs are naturally simpler, and she doesn't bother Gu Yanzhang to take care of it, so she asks someone to arrange some actions, just waiting for the results.

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It was in the evening that there was a heavy rain, and the autumn wind came slowly, blowing the whole body comfortably.

In a wine shop on the edge of the Cai River, there were only three or four square tables outside, and a few people sat sporadically, but there was a very clever running hall sitting at the gate.

This person didn't look like a running hall at all, and the posture was put out, but I didn't know it, and I thought he was the owner of this wine shop, and he was very anxious because there were no guests, and he actually came to the door to solicit him.

He wore a scarf over his shoulders, and he stood and sat at each other, occasionally looking into the distance.

This street was originally a prosperous place, and there were not many people coming and going, so he stood for a moment, occasionally greeting acquaintances passing by, but he never caught any customers, but he was not discouraged, nor was he lazy.

Seeing the sun set, the shops along the way were hanging lanterns or torches outside, and this one also hung lanterns and went out, but the running hall still never entered the door, only stood outside.

This time, but half an hour, he welcomed twenty or thirty guests into the house, as soon as the people were taken in, there was another running hall in the hall and then brought into the back compartment, the outer hall was always sitting only a few people eating, occasionally two happened to pass by, came in and wanted to order a dish, but then did not order this, did not order that, and had to walk out in a daze, looking for the rest of the shops.

The runner was standing at the door, and suddenly saw a regular customer outside, and hurriedly greeted him, and looked left and right, there were no other pedestrians nearby, so he stepped forward and greeted: "Outside Master Xu, why are you here again!" ”

The person he called Xu Daguan was about fifty or sixty years old, the whole person was a little fat, the head was swollen, even the steps were vain when he walked, and there was a smell of wine on his body, which made people look at it at a glance, and four words couldn't help but appear in their hearts: "wine bag and rice bag".

When Xu Daguan heard him greet himself like this, his face was a little ugly, and he squinted and said, "What's the matter, you still haven't come to me?" ”

Runtang said with a wry smile: "Don't mind, our small business, it's just a mess to eat, just to make ends meet, who doesn't come out with real money, I really can't afford you to toss like this!" ”

While he said, he couldn't stop the other party from lifting his leg and going into the shop.

As he entered the house, the person who ran the hall hurriedly called someone out, and was about to try to persuade the person to stop, but suddenly saw that Mr. Xu took out a large piece of silver from his sleeve and threw it on the table next to him, saying: "What, the silver of others is silver, and my silver is not silver, can't it?!" ”

When the person who ran to the hall saw the silver, the expression on his face changed in just a moment, and he took the piece into his arms with a smile, and said attentively: "But I have eyes and don't know gold and jade, uncle, please!" ”

Someone had already brought the surnamed Xu in.

A sitting "guest" outside turned his head to see someone entering the room, and Fu Cai whispered to the strange man who ran the hall: "This surnamed Xu has already run out of money, why is he suddenly rich again?" ”

The one who ran the hall smiled contemptuously, and said: "Where do you know, his family is really a skinny camel bigger than a horse, I heard the owner say that his family was originally a horse seller, this whole street and the Xinmen Street next to it, together with half of the shops in the Suzaku Gate tile, were originally the Xu family's industry, and half of the horses in the entire capital were bought and sold by his family. If you can get him a tael, it's a tael. ”