Chapter 190: Scholars and Merchants

Winter mornings are always exceptionally cold, the sky is just cloudy, and there is a faint morning fog in Anning County. As soon as the city gate was opened, someone flew in, and the little man guarding the gate was about to stop him, but someone had already thrown down the road. The city gate official had sharp eyes, and he had already seen the waist card that had been lit up for a while, and the person who came was actually a family member of the Qingzhou prefect.

The city gate official rubbed his chin in his hand so hard that he almost rubbed his skin. In the past ten years since Bai Jianran took office, this Anning County has been calm, everyone abides by the law, everyone knows etiquette, and there are even few thieves of chickens and dogs.

On the bluestone-paved road, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves, which naturally went all the way to the county government. A lot of early risers, just pointing at the back, is there something going on? But what could happen?

"Young Master, Wang Gongzi and Bai Gongzi are visiting." Zhou Bo had breakfast in the morning, and was just about to go to Xu's house to visit Xue Jian, Xue saw that he had come back to live in the past two days, and his tone was slightly relaxed, which made him see a rare smile on his perennial frozen face.

Zhou Bo was waiting for Wang Conghan's reply, and when he heard that he was coming, he was overjoyed, and immediately hurried out to greet him.

"......" Zhou Bo snorted, because he was not on guard at all, so he was hit squarely this time, staggered a few steps and fell to the ground. He was about to jump up, Wang Conghan had kicked one foot head-on, Zhou Bo had to roll on the spot a few times in embarrassment, so he avoided it, and Wang Conghan was also hugged by Bai Yitian, who was completely frightened.

Early in the morning, such a full martial arts was staged at the door of Zhou's house, and there were many Zhou family nursing homes, at this time, when I heard the sound, I surrounded it early, and the main family was knocked on the door.

Duofu came over early to help Zhou Bo pat the soil on his body, and at the same time hinted to the nurses to retreat with his eyes. And Wang Conghan on the opposite side, although he was held down by Bai Yitian's shoulders, his eyes were wide open, as if he was about to burst into flames.

Zhou Bo is even more angry, this is good, it is an old punch when he comes up, is this guy taking the wrong medicine in the morning? Or didn't take any medicine at all? He covered half of his face with his hand and said angrily: "May I ask Young Master Wang, I came to the door early in the morning, what does this mean?" ”

"Cousin!" Bai Yitian glanced back at Zhou Bo Tieqing's face, he was also surprised, gritted his teeth and said to Wang Conghan in a deep voice: "Cousin, are you crazy?" Do you know what you're doing yourself? ”

Wang Conghan shook his shoulders and shook him away, and clapped his hands again, as if he had punched Zhou Bo and dirty his own hands. He glanced at Zhou Bo coldly, and said straight to the point: "Don't tell me anything about the fire in the stove or thieves from other counties, it may be okay to deceive Yitian, I won't believe it!" ”

Early this morning, Wang Conghan rushed to Anning, hurriedly greeted Bai Jianran and his wife, and pulled Bai Yitian to come to Zhou's house, and didn't say anything along the way, Bai Yitian only rushed back when he had read his letter.

This made a fuss for a long time, and Bai Yi only reacted, it turned out to be for Xue Jian. He never knew that his cousin, who had always been calm and indifferent, had such an angry and thunderous side, and when he looked at Zhou Bo's face was even more gloomy, he was also very surprised in his heart.

In any case, it is too much to knock on people's doors at dawn this day. Bai Yitian grabbed his arm tightly and said in a low voice, "Cousin, what did you say?" ”

Bai Yi Angel gave him a look and pulled the two of them into the house without saying a word, and invited all the idlers and others out before he said, "Take a sip of tea first, and lose your heart." Cousin, do you have any basis for this to prove that there is something else going on in this matter? ”

Seeing Bai Yitian's question, Wang Conghan took a deep breath and said coldly: "This matter is so obvious, do you still need me to make it too clear?" ”

I'm afraid that if this is too plain, everyone's face will be even more ugly!

Speaking of which, Wang Conghan was really angry. After receiving the vague letter from these two people, he felt that something was wrong, and immediately sent someone back to Dongsheng Village to inquire about Yukimi. As a result, Fang knew that Xuejian's home had been fired, and he heard from the village that the family affected by the fire had moved back to Anning with his son's family. Originally, after Wang Conghan's report at the end of the year, he went home and was waiting for his new appointment, but after hearing the news, he couldn't take much care of it, and he prevaricated with his family, so he took a few family members and hurried to Anning.

"The stove fire is already ridiculous, the stove fire is so far away from the main house, how can the main house be destroyed and the wing room next to the kitchen has been extinguished and saved? This is one of them. Second, if it is really a thief from another county seeking wealth, he will definitely step on it in advance, Xue Jian and his party are just newly settled in Dongsheng Village, not a rich family, and just a few women at home, where can they use such a laborious and time-consuming matter, and disguise themselves as stove fires? Wang Conghan said very quickly, he was more familiar with the small courtyard of Xuejian, and he always felt that this could not be an accident. Although Bai Yitian had also been to the scene of the disaster, he did not know the structure of the courtyard itself, and Yukimi did not talk about the details of the accident to the two of them.

Wang Conghan paused slightly, and then said: "Naturally, you can also explain that this matter has nothing to do with you Zhou Bo!" ”

Bai Yitian and Zhou Bo looked at each other when they heard this, and their analysis and investigation of this matter were based on their lack of understanding of the environment, so it was inevitable that the conclusions would be biased. Moreover, Wang Conghan came up to obviously target Zhou Bo, why is this?

Seeing the ignorant appearance of the two of them, Wang Conghan lightly clasped the table with his hand, and sneered again and again, "I have always looked down on you, but I forgot that businessmen value profit over affection, in order to marry the daughter of another official, it is also appropriate to kill them all!" ”

Zhou Bo got up openly, "Young Master Wang, I know that you have always looked down on us businessmen, but I am afraid that these words are not intended to add to the crime, right?" ”

Wang Conghan shook his head disdainfully.

Bai Yitian hurriedly came over and pressed Zhou Bo, turned his head to Wang Conghan and said cautiously: "Cousin, did you misunderstand, Brother Bo, he is not this kind of person......

Wang Conghan frowned, then smiled, "Isn't he?" Let me ask you, when the snow sees its people, is there an enemy? No! You know no, don't you? Then let me ask you again, whose way is it that the snow sees its existence? Of course, you can deny it all and insist that it has nothing to do with you! ”

Zhou Bo's face turned even more blue when he said this, he was not a person who could bear it, so he said angrily: "Wang Gongzi, why bother to have something to say, if you have something to say, please just say it!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Wang Conghan nodded, laughed, and then looked at him: "Okay!" Good! Good! Wang just said it directly. It turned out that when I heard Xiaomei and others talk about it, I was still skeptical, thinking that you Zhou Boyuan should not be such a cold person. Unexpectedly, Wang helped Xue Jian send a 'letter of harmony', but let you find her address, which was my negligence, blaming me for believing you wrongly, so I hurt Xue Jian's master and servant! I really didn't expect that when they arrived at peace, you came here again to hypocrisy and hypocrisy, are you looking for a good time to start again? ”

Bai Yitian preemptively said: "Cousin, it seems that you really misunderstood!" Bo Ge'er didn't know Yukimi's address, and he had asked the sender, but he didn't know that the sender didn't know her address. In the past few months, Bo Geer has not stopped looking for Yukimi's manpower......"

"Is that really the case?" Wang Conghan interrupted him and said lightly: "Then I might as well make it clearer." It's true that the sender doesn't know Yukimi's address, but for the sake of it, I was on the official road from Dongsheng Village to Qingzhou, and I found an escort in the official post station to deliver the letter, so it's impossible for you not to ask him where he received the letter, right? Anyone who asked, even if he couldn't guess that it was Dongsheng Village, but if he looked for it nearby, he could find it in three or a few days. What Wang said, but the truth? How do you explain this? ”

Zhou Bo and Bai Yitian almost vomited blood, and glanced at each other, but they really couldn't explain it. They really didn't think that they could find a way to find Xue Jian so easily, after all, Zhou Bo was not an official, and Bai Yitian usually sent letters from all his family members, so he had no experience in this area. At this time, Wang Conghan's aggressive words were directly asked, and he was speechless.

Zhou Bo couldn't help but look at Wang Conghan deeply, he knew in his heart that the more Wang Conghan said it was reasonable, the more it could prove that he had worked this matter, when did he and Xue Jian have such a deep friendship?

Although Bai Yitian couldn't see through this, he also felt that Wang Conghan's attitude was too radical.

However, although they did not agree with Wang Conghan's attitude, they had to admit Wang Conghan's statement. I had to sigh, this fact is really infuriating!

Wang Conghan saw that they were speechless, so he pointed at Zhou Bo and said, "Young Master Zhou, even if you saved Xue Jian's life, didn't she give you back your life?" What else does she owe you? What makes you so unrelenting? Returning you and leaving the book, giving you the opportunity to marry a bride, and you refuse to let her go? Could it be that you want to cover up the fact that you bullied a weak woman in the first place? "If Zhou Bo had let her go after saving people, or had not forced her to stay with such despicable means as a girl who had sex with her, everything would have been different now, right?

Zhou Bo was annoyed and angry, and said, "This is Zhou's family matter!" "I admit that I am selfish and despicable, but in order to leave Yukimi, if I had to choose again, I would still do it without hesitation!" Is Wang Gongzi too lenient? ”

Bai Yitian looked at Zhou Bo, and then at Wang Conghan, the two people who were originally few words and were also cold, but at this moment, they looked at each other like black-eyed chickens, and their anger went straight to the beams of the house. He knew that Wang Conghan's analysis was very reasonable, and he had heard that he had a lot of heart, but if he believed that Zhou Bo was the murderer, he would never agree.

After thinking about it, he turned to Zhou Bo and said, "Brother Bo, have you ever let others see the letter that my cousin sent you?" "If it is seen by someone with a heart, and this person with a heart happens to know about the official post station, the next thing can make sense.