Zhu Dianshi stood stiffly with his hands raised, very embarrassed, and when he wanted to scold him with some annoyance, he suddenly found a man in brocade standing at the door, and the expression on his face was even more embarrassing than his.

He immediately scolded: "Who is at the door, how can you break into the county government at will!" With that, he jumped off the table and put the chair back on the floor.

"He is the ninth son of Chen Shangshu's family in the Ministry of Officials, and there is a case related to him, so he came with me." Zhuang Rou said, not minding his attitude at all, anyway, it will change soon.

Sure enough, Zhu Dianshi was almost frightened when he heard this, and hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Chen Gongzi, I offended a lot just now, please forgive me." I don't know what happened, could it be the collision a few days ago? ”

He could only think of this matter, then Li Zhongxin was the housekeeper of the Chen Mansion, he really didn't expect the Chen family to value this housekeeper so much, and even the young master of the Chen Mansion came. Zhu Dianshi was a little nervous, but he received one hundred and twenty taels of silver, and one hundred taels had been brought back and handed over to the lady at home, and the twenty taels were deducted by himself, and they were placed on the roof beam last night, and he didn't want to be bumped into when he wanted to take them down today.

This Chen Mansion doesn't think it's too little to lose, right?

Zhu Dianshi said with a smile: "Gongzi Chen, I have already sentenced Liu Zizhi to compensate the housekeeper of your mansion with 12,000 taels of silver, I don't know if there is anything inappropriate?" ”

"So much! How can you be like this, judge indiscriminately without asking! Chen Mufeng didn't expect that he would be sentenced to 12,000 taels of silver, and he didn't even have 500 taels himself, what kind of official is this!

Zhu Dianshi looked at him inexplicably, isn't Li Zhongxin from his family? Why do you still scold yourself, there are more suspicions, it must be that this young master is about to say something wrong, it must be too little. It's really a lion's big mouth, and 12,000 taels is too little.

Zhuang Rou hurriedly said: "Zhu Dianshi, then Li Zhongxin and Lin Laicai were arrested by me, and they murdered for money. Chen Gongzi felt that this matter was important, and for the reputation of the Chen Mansion, he asked the public to deal with it, and he was afraid that we would have scruples, so he came here. ”

"Murder for money?" Zhu Dianshi looked at her puzzled, it had only been a few days, and it was immediately reversed?

So Zhuang Rou told the case from beginning to end, and naturally mentioned what happened when she first met Lin Yubao, but she was just suspicious at the time, and now it can be sure.

At this time, the master also heard about it and rushed over, and by the way, he also heard it, and just happened to see Zhuang Rou take out the field deed, and the two of them looked at the name on it, and sure enough, the owner was that Li Zhongxin.

Without further ado, the little county king was not there, Zhu Dianshi himself was in charge of the criminal case, and he hurried to the lobby that was being renovated. He called Ma Dezheng over and asked him to take three catchers and a dozen miscellaneous servants to Nadachi Village to go to Lin Laicai's house to pick up people and search.

Ma Dezheng got the order and hurriedly took people away, and when he went to Li Zhongxin's house to search, Zhu Dianshi handed it over directly to Zhuang Rou. That kind of dangerous thing naturally has to go to her, who let her even know the son of the Chen family.

Zhuang Rou didn't care about this kind of thing, anyway, she wasn't afraid to go to Chen Shangshu's mansion, so she took Chen Mufeng over.

Seeing that he was about to arrive at Shangshu Mansion, Chen Mufeng asked a little awkwardly: "Sister Zhuang, what should I say when I go home, obviously I am going to study, why did I go to Douhu County halfway to take care of this matter?" ”

"Just tell your dad who I am. Said that in order to respect the teacher, you went to my house early in the morning to see my brother, and met me and talked about this case, which happened to be your family's business, so you had to bite the bullet. Otherwise, he would have a bad character in front of my brother and lose the virtue of the Chen Mansion. Zhuang Rou opened her mouth and made up a reason for him, which sounded flawless.

Chen Mufeng clapped his hands and praised: "This reason is really great, Sister Zhuang, why are you so smart, if I had known you earlier, I might have even joined the army." ”

Zhuang Rou glanced at him, smiled and said, "You are a young and stupid scholar, I dare to say that the other eight young masters of your family are definitely not as scolded as you." ”

"No, my seventh brother and fourth brother were scolded worse than me, but they are idle and like to soak in fireworks all day long, so they are scolded all day long. I'm different from them, I'm just ambitious but not welcomed. Chen Mufeng said unconvinced.

"Your father is a secretary of the ministry, and his youngest son is going to be a soldier in the military department, if there is any contradiction between the court, you will be in danger. It's easy to get killed, anyway, your father has several sons, and it's nothing less than you. But if you are taken hostage, no matter if you can't talk about it, it will make the old man very embarrassed. Zhuang Rou said as he rode his horse.

"He won't let you go, there must be this consideration, otherwise you see that most of those generals also get their sons to join the army, even if they love to read, they are just strategists. Anyway, even if you want to be an official, the civilian officials will not agree, you still have to think about it, you can't join the army to protect your family and protect the country, you can also eliminate violence and be arrested. ”

This ninth young master is powerful and has money, so he doesn't need to ask the yamen for money when he goes out to handle cases, if he keeps being his follower, it would be better. Zhuang Rou looked at him with a smile, just hoping that he could handle a few more cases, anyway, he was idle and had nothing to do.

Chen Mufeng frowned, this truth seems to have been said by the elder brother in the family, and he mentioned it when his father scolded. But people just don't like to listen to their elders, and they always feel that they are just trying to prevent him from doing what he likes, and he didn't listen to them back then.

Now after listening to Zhuang Rou's words, he somewhat understands that this is indeed the case, joining the army is more dangerous than others for his status. But I've been willful and unwilling to listen to it, and I don't want to give up.

"It's here, Chen Shangshu shouldn't have returned home yet, whoever is in charge of your family now, take me to see him." It's not like climbing over the wall to get in, and you have to see the owner to do it. Seeing that the gate was not far away, Zhuang Rou said.

Chen Mufeng didn't think about anything else for the time being, nodded and responded: "My eldest brother is an official in the court, and the second brother is loyal and honest, so now he is in charge of the mansion, and I will take you to see him." ”

When the people in the house saw Chen Mufeng coming back, they greeted him attentively, but they didn't dare to say too much nonsense. Because Zhuang Rou also came with him, he also had a good attitude towards her, and if she came alone, she would definitely be blocked from the door.

After the two entered the house, they went straight to the front hall, and without asking anyone to tell them, Chen Mufeng took Zhuang Rou into the front hall to find his second brother Chen Mushan.

Chen Mushan is a man in his thirties with a lot of bearing, although Chen Mufeng said that he was the most loyal and honest, but in Zhuang Rou's eyes, this was not the case. At a glance, you can feel that this person is not a loyal and stupid person, presumably Chen Shangshu has looked at it among his sons, and thinks that he is the most suitable person for the housekeeper to hand over the mansion to him.

When he saw Zhuang Rou's performance, there was a comfortable speech in the majesty, if this person went to business, he would inevitably achieve a career.

However, Zhuang Rou knows that these officials will have private properties, otherwise the officials will be in vain, where can their families live such a rich life. Chen Mushan should be in charge of all the Chen family's industries, and he manages them very well.

When Chen Mushan heard this, his face was a little surprised, his housekeeper would do such a thing, and he remembered a long time ago. He had just taken over the affairs of the house, so Li Zhongxin gave him a jade carving, and he also said good things to many people around him, and saw that this person was not bad, so he promoted him to be the second housekeeper.

Now it seems that the jade carving, which is very valuable to the housekeeper, is indeed unaffordable if you don't get money from outside.

hated this kind of thing, and he had to bear some bad gossip in the house, so he said: "Mu Feng, you did the right thing in this matter, if you hadn't learned about it by chance, this tolerance would have made a fuss when it came to investigate, and it would have made people even more laughing." ”

"Second brother, this is what the younger brother should do." Chen Mufeng said quickly.

Chen Mushan took out a silver ticket from his sleeve, put it on the coffee table on the side of Zhuang Rou's hand and said with a smile: "This is just a trouble for Miss Zhuang to make such a trip, please don't be polite, take it for a cup of tea." ”

This is the rule between the arrests, if there is a tolerance to come to the door, you have to give some tea money, otherwise they will be difficult to entangle if the rules are broken.

Although this rule is useless for a mansion like Chen Shangshu's Mansion, Chen Mushan has already heard from his younger brother that this person is Zhuang Xuewen's younger sister. The little teacher of Guozijian can't be offended, and he has made friends with his sister, and for the two younger brothers who are still studying in Guozijian, there are only benefits and no harm.

Of course Zhuang Rou understands this rule, Ma Dezheng can tell her all these things about collecting gray money, and she is not polite, and she doesn't look at how many taels the silver ticket is, and directly received it in the purse. Then he smiled and said: "The second young master is too polite, the ninth young master gets along very well with his brother, and his brother also praises him for being smart." Usually it's fine, the ninth young master can come to my house more often to talk about learning. ”

"That's great, we've wanted to visit Brother Ling for a long time, but we haven't been able to find an opportunity, so we'll have to bother more in the future." Chen Mushan also said politely, when the two brothers in the family heard about this, they couldn't be happy.

"Then I'll leave first, and I'll go to Li Zhongxin's house to search, otherwise it's too late to go back." The greeting was also called, and the benefits were also in hand, so Zhuang Rou stood up and wanted to investigate the case.

Chen Mushan didn't do much to stop him, so he got up and sent him off, "Mufeng, take Miss Zhuang to Li Zhongxin's residence, you can help more." ”

"Okay, second brother." Chen Mufeng couldn't wait to help, and when he heard it, he quickly responded, and felt that the second brother had no dislike for this business. I was a little secretly happy in my heart, maybe it won't be long before I proposed to be arrested, and my family would agree.

No more than being a thief at night, Chen Mufeng swaggered and took Zhuang Rou to Li Zhongxin's house, pushed open the courtyard door and walked in.

Last time, the rough little girl was sweeping the floor, and when she saw that the ninth young master was here again, and she brought a woman in a catchment suit, she was stunned, this woman seems to be the one who came last time!

"No need to sweep, it's none of your business here, go down." Chen Mufeng waved his hand at her, asked her not to stand in the courtyard and get in the way, and took Zhuang Rou to the house.

Zhuang Rou came to handle the case, so naturally she followed him in, and she had to rush back after raiding the house.

The rough envoy Yahuan stood in the courtyard and was stunned, threw down the broom and ran out, rushing to find Madame, and the Ninth Young Master took the woman to Steward Li's house again!