When Qian Hao was twelve years old, Concubine Liu and Qian Xuan's ex-wife He were placed together by Wen Jin, losing tens of thousands of silver, and now he himself was taken away by the lord of Yujie more than 10,000 taels of silver, he was angry and hateful and helpless, these experiences made Qian Hao also have the idea of cheating, the target was Huo's, he thought about it for more than a month, and finally arranged a big net, just waiting for Huo's to be fooled.

Huo's is not good at management, Huo Dudu let her put the funds on hand, all buy a façade house for rent or buy land, Huo's really luck is not bad, not long after the separation, he met a suitable opportunity, in the suburbs of about 100 miles outside the capital, bought a small farm of more than 300 acres, although it is not big, but on the land of the farm, there is a sweet spring, the water is bubbling all year round, no matter how dry the weather has not been interrupted, the land in the north, nine droughts in ten years, with this spring, the income of the farm is quite good, Huo's spent 8,000 taels of silver to get the title deed, not to mention how proud she was, she greeted several brokerage firms in the capital, hoping to buy more land.

On this day, a brokerage firm named Fu Lutian sent someone to inform Huo's that they had received an entrustment at hand, and someone wanted to sell an orchard, 700 acres of land, and the fruit trees had pears, dates, and begonias, and asked Huo's if he wanted it.

Huo's very happily agreed, immediately sent a steward, followed the agent to check on the spot, sure enough, it was a good orchard, one hundred and ten miles away from the capital, close to the official road, begonias are only two or three years of fruit of the small tree, pears and dates are old trees with thick bowls, it is the spring letter, the fruit trees in the garden are full of flowers, the fragrance is fragrant, there is a steward to direct the farmers to be busy fertilizing and watering.

The steward came back and reported to the Huo family: "The original main price was 30,000 taels of silver, leaving twenty-four gardeners who were good at serving fruits, and there were seven wells in the garden, and the water quality was sweet, and it was indeed a high-quality orchard." ”

"Thirty thousand taels of silver? It's a little expensive, you go and see if the other party can still make a price. ”

"Madam, someone has already bid for 26,000 taels of silver, it's not that they don't want to increase the price, but they really can't take it, and the slave estimates that the price can't be reduced much."

"If you go for another run, you can tell as much as you can."

Huo's people ran five or six times, and only two thousand taels came down there, she originally wanted to pull it again, but who knew that on this day, the steward ran back with a panicked face: "Madam, the people of Fu Lutian are too bad, they have found a buyer, and they have already taken it to see the garden, I heard the man say that their master doesn't care about money, as long as he can buy a good garden." ”

Huo Shi also panicked when she heard this, she liked this orchard very much, so she hurriedly ordered: "You go to Fulutian, let them leave the orchard to me, and the price of 20,000 will be as promised." ”

"Yes!" The steward agreed, but did not go away, Huo Shi knew, there was no basis for the words, there must be a note, pay a deposit, she took out a silver ticket of five hundred taels of denomination, gave it to the steward, and at the same time asked him to bring a handful of broken silver, rewarding Fu Lutian's agent, the steward ran out, and soon came back, the other party asked for a deposit, that is, two thousand eight hundred taels, Huo Shi ordered someone to take it, gave it to the steward, things went very well, it didn't take long for the steward to come back with a receipt, Huo Shi was very proud, looking at the sky, knowing that his father must have gone down, She took her son to her parents' house.

Huo Dudu looked at the notes, listened to his daughter's story, and felt that there was no problem, but he was an old man, and he didn't go through it himself, so he still didn't feel at ease, so he asked Huo: "Find an excuse to postpone the payment by two days, and I'll let people check it again." ”

"Father, the garden is very good."

"I'll know if it's good or not."

Huo Shi was still a little unconvinced, thinking that her father was too cautious, but she knew that her father and mother were also good for her, so she didn't say anything and went home with her son.

Huo Dudu arranged for his right-hand man, Li Tao, to ride out the next day to inspect the orchard.

Li Tao found the orchard according to the address written on the note, and was stunned, it was a small mound, full of barren grass, during which there were some small saplings growing thinly, there was no cornucopia-like orchard described by Huo, he also corrected the address several times for the sake of insurance, and asked the people nearby to make sure that he was not mistaken, so he galloped and came back to report to the master.

When Huo Dudu heard that someone had deceived his daughter, he was so angry that he ordered someone to say hello to the Dongcheng Soldiers and Horses, and he personally brought it in and copied the Fu Lu Tian, who knew that he was so aggressive that he had already lost a single figure among Fu Lu Tian's agents.

Seeing that the house was in a mess, and apparently fleeing in a hurry after hearing the news, Huo Dudu immediately ordered several other colleagues to be notified to help arrest the liar.

The people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division were busy up and down for eighteen days, and the portraits of liars were posted all over the capital, but in the end, no one was seen again, Huo Dudu followed the map to check the original owner of the barren hill, it was not owned by a private person at all, the land was still in the hands of the government, and the saplings on the mountain were all wild.

Pingbai lost nearly 3,000 taels of silver, Huo Shi was so angry that he fell ill, Huo Dudu loved his daughter so much that he vowed to catch the liar and avenge his daughter.

Mrs. Huo also felt very angry, she sarcastically mocked the man: "You can do it, your son-in-law was beaten and disabled, and you also swore a heavy oath, what is the result?" It's not that the thieves have been at large for more than ten years, and you haven't found the perpetrator of the murder until now. ”

"That villain ran out and never returned to the capital, my ability is only in the capital, a country is so big, there are more places to hide from people......" Huo's fierce, all with her mother, Huo Dudu was a little afraid of his wife, he muttered and defended for a long time, Mrs. Huo snorted, and she was angry.

Huo Dudu's subordinate Li Tao is really a little capable, and he actually found out the liar's real name and place of origin, Huo Dudu took a look, his face turned green, and he turned out to be the brother of his own family who was the thief who killed Qian Xuan more than ten years ago.

"It's no coincidence, someone is targeting us Yan'er."

Mrs. Huo was shocked: "What person?" Does the lord have eyebrows? ”

"Not for the time being, this liar escaped from the capital more than ten years ago, and not long ago he suddenly sneaked in, rented a house and opened a shop, and deceived us Yan'er, only two months before and after."

"Two months? How can you have time to open a shop, there must be helpers in the capital. Mrs. Huo concluded. Huo Dudu asked people to go to the Dongcheng Terracotta Division to check who opened this shop, and the answer was that there was no license at all, and Huo Dudu quietly arrested the officials patrolling the street and interrogated them secretly. "Lord Huo, they said that they would soon apply for a deed in the Yamen, so that the villain would be convenient, and the villain didn't know that they were going to cheat, so my lord spared his life."

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