Chapter 307 has nothing to do with me

When the officials of the government took people to Xujiazhuang to find Xu Dazhuang, it actually took a lot of work.

Xu Dazhuang this person has been idle for many years, his father and mother used to have a small business, and later died in a landslide, and the landslide is a natural disaster, inevitably, not Guo Min'an is a good prefect, this disaster he reported to the imperial court that year, the court also allocated a consolation money, and later distributed to the hands of each family, according to the number of dead and injured in the family, the deceased made up 50 taels, seriously injured 30 taels, lightly injured 10 taels, is to Xu Dazhuang on this, but also got a hundred taels of silver.

At that time, the neighbors next door were still angry with him, his father and mother died in the landslide, he was a very uncompetitive, and the neighbors also regretted it, lamenting how the child would live in the future, but he didn't want to comfort the money, and he got a hundred taels of silver, plus his father and mother were diligent and diligent at that time, and they did manage with their hearts, although the business was small, but they did have a lot of savings.

It's just a pity that Xu Dazhuang didn't succeed, the shop left by his father and mother was originally a good business, after all, his father and mother were simple and honest, and the shop had some reputation, but after it came to his hands, he didn't have to take care of the business, and cut corners, and in less than a year, he was forced to close down and never opened again.

But three or five years have passed, although he is lazy and lazy, but he never gambles or squanders, so the savings left by his father and mother back then are enough to support him to live until now, and he can be regarded as worry-free about food and clothing, maybe he still has some silver in his hands now.

When the officials went to Xujiazhuang to look for him, he was not at home, and the leading officials at first ran away, but after some inquiry, they knew that he was going to the wine store to buy wine and eat, so he took someone to hurry over, but he didn't want Xu Daqiang to eat too much wine during the day, and when he met the people in the yamen, he heard that he was going to take him back to the palace, and he didn't know whether he understood it or not, in short, he was lying on the ground and splashing and rolling, and it was very tossed, so that the officials were helpless, and then the leading officials spoke, and simply knocked people unconscious, carried all the way back to the mansion.

And when they returned to the mansion, Xu Dazhuang did not come to his senses.

Guo Min'an looked coldly at him lying on the ground, the smell of alcohol was sky-high, and the hall was full of drunkenness.

He subconsciously twisted his eyebrows, and his face became more and more ugly: "I asked you to bring people back, what are you bringing here?" ”

The official who led the previous heard his unkind tone, shrank back, and took half a step forward to reply: "My lord, he was drunk and drunk in the middle of the day, and we really had no choice, so we explained to him what he meant, and I don't know if he was really crazy with alcohol, or pretending to be crazy with wine, so he sprinkled it on the spot, saying that he would not go back to the yamen with us, and I had no choice, so I called him unconscious and carried him back." ”

Guo Minan immediately realized that something was wrong.

A drunk, will he splash and roll around when he sees the officials in the yamen?

He didn't think so.

In other words, Xu Dazhuang was not completely drunk at that time, but he just ate a few more glasses of wine, and he was a little upset for a while, and when he met the people in the yamen, he knew in his heart what it was for, so he didn't dare to come to the yamen, so he would borrow wine and pretend to be crazy, rolling all over the ground, making the officials helpless.

Guo Min was relieved and waved his hand: "Drag him down, splash cold water on him and wake him up, tell him to sober up, and then take him to the hall." ”

The chief of the officials breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly ordered the left and right upper hands to carry the person down without mentioning it.

Guo Min'an turned to look at Tian Xiang: "You have never heard Wang Quan mention this person?" ”

Tian Xiang's face was dazed, and she shook her head at him: "The slave maid has never heard him say it, and he also truthfully replied to the adult just now, the slave and maid don't ask about the outside affairs, and Wang Quan never says it." In fact, the slave and maid know how much that he has some fox friends outside, so he can do such a thing for him, and he also knows some people who are not careful, not to mention how deep the friendship is, anyway, he pays the money to hire someone to do things for him, and after the matter is completed, he divides the silver to others, but who are they, the slave and the maid never ask. ”

Guo Minan touched his chin with his backhand, and called Liu Ziwang: "Who did you ask about Xu Dazhuang in the first place?" ”

Liu Ziwang lowered his head and pondered for a long time, as if he was really thinking about the things of two months ago, and only after about half a pillar of incense had passed, he raised his head and looked at Guo Min'an: "At the beginning, it was the young man in the pawnshop who said that in fact, Xu Dazhuang had already gone to Thirty Miles to let go of Dang, and he was also dead, but the things were not worth much, more than a dozen taels of silver, dozens of taels of silver, let go of two or three times, saying that he seemed to be a person from Xujiazhuang, and the details were not clear." After hearing this, the grass people went to Xujiazhuang, probably after inquiring, they found him. ”

In this way, Xu Dazhuang has long run out of money to spend?

Shouldn't it......

Guo Min calmed down: "You little guy, are you still on the counter now?" ”

Liu Ziwang didn't understand why he asked, but still replied to him: "Naturally." ”

That is, there is no running.

Guo Minan was about to ask something again, but the previous official had already returned with Xu Dazhuang.

Xu Dazhuang was wet all over this time, obviously the officials were not polite to him at all, and poured basins of cold water on his head, and he was completely sober.

In fact, he really knew it in his heart, at that time, Wang Quan found him, took such a valuable thing, and killed him to tell him that it was not appropriate to give him two thousand taels of silver, saying that it was not appropriate to give him two hundred taels of silver after the matter was completed, he felt that this transaction was a sure profit, and he knew that that thing would cause him trouble.

From the time the yamen surrounded the Wei family, he faintly felt that something was wrong.

Although he is idle and does not do his job, he is not a fool, he walks outside, and he also makes friends.

He didn't feel that he had made any big mistake or committed any crime, but the affairs of the government were uncertain, and if he was charged with any crime, he would be alone, and no one would vindicate him.

So when the yamen officials found him today, he chose to borrow wine and pretend to be crazy, but he didn't expect this method to work, and they directly knocked him unconscious and brought him back.

He was woken up by cold water just now, and he wanted to continue to pretend to be crazy and stupid by taking advantage of the smell of alcohol, but the officials jumped out and scared him, saying that he was not honest again, and he would go to the lobby and put on the torture instrument later, but to see how hard his bones were.

He was not a hard-headed person in the first place, and he was honest on the spot when he was so scared.

This time he knelt in the lobby, wet, and the November day gradually became colder, looking at Guo Min'an's expressionless face, he shivered for no reason.

Guo Min'an squinted at it, sneered, and asked someone to find a blanket to wrap him, before he opened his mouth and asked, "Xu Dazhuang, is it?" ”

Xu Dazhuang stumbled and said yes, Guo Minan pouted: "Do you know why I brought you to the mansion?" ”

He froze, not knowing for a moment whether to nod or shake his head.

Guo Min'an saw that he didn't say anything, and he didn't rush him to answer, but continued to ask: "Wang Quan, who is on an errand in the Wei family, you should be very familiar with it, right?" It doesn't matter, I can't think of it for a while, so I think about it slowly, when I understand it, and when I will return to my own words. ”

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Xu Dazhuang to himself, and saw that the corners of Xu Dazhuang's mouth twitched, and his shoulders trembled, thinking that this person was really timid and scared, as soon as he got into the lobby, he was scared first: "I heard that this official heard that a few months ago, you went to Thirty Miles to let go of Dang, all of them were dead, more than a dozen taels, dozens of taels...... The officials have inquired that your father and mother had a score before their death, and their business was good, and when they were alive, they were low-key, simple, and never extravagant, and they should have saved a lot of silver. Besides, when the landslide occurred, the imperial court allocated a batch of consolation money, according to your family's situation, you should have received a hundred taels. It's only been a few years, and although your shop is closed due to your poor management, you also put the shop out and exchanged it for a sum of silver, why do you suddenly have to take something and put it to death? What's the matter, when your father and mother were alive, they didn't leave you any silver? ”

When he asked about this, Xu Dazhuang was actually a little unable to kneel.

It seems that the yamen inquired about him clearly before bringing him back.

He panicked: "Your Excellency......"

"The official said it, don't rush to reply." Guo Min'an raised his voice, but instead of asking Xu Dazhuang to reply, he stopped his words as soon as he opened his mouth, "This official asks you again, since you have such a valuable thing in your hand, why did you take those worthless things a few months ago?" If you were the official and you lacked the money in your hand, you should have taken the most valuable thing in the family and put it away. Thirty miles is a well-known good reputation in Qizhou City, the price is fair, a piece of jade pendant, two thousand taels of silver, you are alone, and you have no family, and you don't have to support your wife and children, two thousand taels of silver in your hands, not to mention your life, even the next life, it is enough. You're such a fool that you take some worthless things first? ”

Xu Dazhuang's face was pale, and he had long lost his blood.

Guo Minan has never asked him to speak, but every time he asks him, it is a question that can make him speechless.

How could he refute it? Said that he didn't know Wang Quan at all? Or was he just reluctant to give up this jade pendant at first?

The jade pendant was not his, and he dared to guarantee that there must be something wrong with this jade pendant, and the problem was big.

Although he has no real evidence, no matter how he thinks about it, he should guess that in the first two months, the government surrounded the Wei family, and he was not allowed to enter or leave, and the eight achievements were for this jade pendant, otherwise he would not have been vacated today, and Guo Min'an asked everywhere, in fact, it was all related to the jade pendant.

Xu Dazhuang swallowed his saliva stiffly, and after thinking about it again and again, he still felt that telling the truth was the wisest choice.

He tightened the blanket wrapped around his body, but he still couldn't help but shudder: "The villain knows Wang Quan, that jade pendant...... That jade pendant, it's not a villain either. ”

Guo Min'an's face sank: "Wang Quan gave you something and told you to take it, but you should just put it for him casually for two thousand taels of silver?" He is a minion, and he is not a minion of the Wei family, why does he have such a valuable thing, you haven't asked? ”

Xu Dazhuang cried with a sad face, and almost shouted: "He promised to give the villain two hundred taels of silver, where can the villain take care of so much, and besides, these people, who are on an errand in a high-ranking family, have a few valuable good things in their hands, which is not unusual at all." The villain knew him, he had used to take valuable things to find someone to sell or put them on his behalf, and in exchange for some of the silver, he would give some to the people who did things for him, and the villain was not a fool, and it was estimated that the thing was either rewarded by the masters, or he stole it from the house. He bit two thousand taels of silver to death with this jade pendant, and said that he couldn't sell it without one tael of silver, such a valuable thing, just like what you said, my lord......"

He paused slightly, secretly looked at Wei Ye, and quickly retracted his gaze: "Wang Quan is not a dignified minion, how could the masters of the Wei family be so generous and reward him with such a good thing, and he stole the eight achievements." But the villain thought, there are too many good things in the high gate, especially in people like the Wei family, maybe no one will find out at all, and if he sells it for him, he can get two hundred taels of silver if he changes hands, why doesn't the villain do it? But how did the villain know that he was so unlucky...... Today, an official from the yamen found the villain, and the villain knew that it was all over. ”

"So you borrowed wine and pretended to be crazy, because you already knew that there was probably something wrong with this jade pendant?"

Xu Dazhuang said hesitantly: "At that time, the government surrounded the Wei family, and the villain was already a little panicked, and he always felt that it had nothing to do with this jade pendant, it was too coincidental, not long after this jade pendant was shot, something happened to the Wei family." The villain is the people of Qizhou, His Royal Highness the King of Qi and ...... and ......"

He was a little afraid, afraid that what he said was wrong and would lead to death, so he timidly went to see Guo Min'an, and sure enough, when he saw that his face was extremely ugly, he hurriedly revealed the words: "Anyway, the government must be very strange to the Wei family so much, and the villain is very afraid, until today, the official of the Yamen finds the villain, and I ...... it."

As he spoke, as if he couldn't go on, he propped his hands on the ground and kept kowtowing to Guo Min'an: "My lord, you know it, it really has nothing to do with the villain, and the villain doesn't know what is going on with this jade pendant, it is just greedy for money for a while, and for two hundred taels of silver, he agreed to do this kind of thing for Wang Quan, you know it, my lord." ”

"There are so many people in this Qizhou City, why did Wang Quan find you?" Guo Min'an didn't take his confession to heart at all, he was calm and calm from beginning to end, looking at the kneeling people in the hall with cold eyes, and calmly analyzing what loopholes there were in his words.

Yes, there are so many people in Qizhou, how did Wang Quan find Xu Dazhuang, who lives outside the city? Fupin Chinese