Twilight haze.

The rain didn't stop.

Linhefang, Qingshui Street.

Lu Yun closed the door of the wine shop early, stood under the eaves of the hall, and watched her little husband work in the vegetable field.

Xu Zhou came back for a while, and he didn't tell Lu Yun about his revenge on Qian Dazhong, but plunged into the vegetable field.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and he was afraid that a few pepper seedlings in the field would drown.

So he braved the rain alone, carried a hoe, dug a drainage ditch around the vegetable patch, and built a simple rain shelter above the pepper seedlings.

I don't know how long this rain will last, if all the pepper seedlings die, Xu Zhou will not be forced to do so.

It's not a hanging, so how can you play?

"Husband...... Xiaozhou, come into the house, it will be a little cold. Lu Yun tightened her collar and rubbed her arms, shivering from the cold.

Xu Zhou thought that the wet clothes were sticking to his body, so he had already taken off his shirt, and his trouser legs were pulled up high, and he was working hard.

"No, Yun Niang will go cook dinner first, I'll be here right away."

Taking good care of his pepper seedlings, Xu Zhou is like a little beauty who has stripped naked, which is very rare.

At the same time, he was thinking about how to use the only pepper seedlings to create the maximum profit.

Being a vegetable seller is obviously unreliable by selling chili peppers.

That needs to be spread out of the human hand, Xu Zhou now trusts, and the people who can use it can be counted on one hand, and this method is decisively passed.

So the chili peppers can only be sold to others, let him sell them.

It is better for this person to have some strength and be able to see the broad prospect market of chili peppers.

It's not easy to find such a person.

After getting the canopy and drainage ditch in place, Xu Zhou hid in the kitchen.

Taking a towel to wipe the rain on his body, Xu Zhou took the initiative to sit behind the stove and take on the heavy responsibility of guarding the stove.

Lu Yun wore a skirt around her waist, the oil lamp in the room flickered on and off, and the woman's white tofu-like face could pinch out water.

Finding her husband staring at her, Lu Yun was a little uncomfortable.

"Xiaozhou, what are you always staring at me?"

Xu Zhou smiled, propped his chin, and attacked with love words: "Because it's good-looking, Yun Niang is the best-looking." ”

Lu Yun's face turned red instantly, and she lowered her head and didn't dare to look at each other.

"Yun Niang, do you know a merchant who wholesales vegetables, and a second-class dealer is fine, preferably with relatively strong strength?" Xu Zhou was ill and rushed to the doctor.

Lu Yun shook his head.

She came from a ravine, a little woman who ran a wine shop, and where did she know a vegetable seller.

"By the way, there's one more thing I want to tell you." Xu Zhou scratched his brows and said, "In the past two months, I may not be able to get back a single copper plate, and I have spent all my money." ”

When Xu Zhou said these words, he was a little pity and a little distressed.

He gave all the expenses for two months to Chunxiu in advance, after all, it costs money to hire someone to do things.

Also, when he advanced himself for two months in advance, Xu Zhou found out that the jailer was really not done by people, and he really couldn't live if he didn't make some oil and water.

Xu Zhou is now an ordinary jailer, and after working for a month, the government only gave more than four taels and one tael, and gave Chunxiu ten taels, and he also asked He Bao to borrow a lot.

Therefore, the current Xu Zhou is a poor bastard, and he still owes money to others.

Lu Yun looked up at Xu Zhou blankly, suddenly smiled again, and said, "It doesn't matter, I have money, I can support my husband." ”

Xu Zhou: [Smile JPG]

Could it be that this is the joy of eating soft rice?

Lu Yun does have money, there is a box of money, and the forty-seven taels are enough for Xu Zhou to work for a year.

Xu Zhou nodded and smiled: "Yun Niang is so good, it's good not to dislike me." ”

"It's good if my husband doesn't dislike me..... That, Xiaozhou, I...."Lu Yun wanted to speak and stopped.

Xu Zhou looked at her: "Just say anything, there's nothing to be embarrassed about." ”

"I want one, I want a child!" Lu Yun spoke, her heart flustered like a deer.

Xu Zhou: "......."

I just want to eat soft rice, and you want me to give you a baby?

.....

Meanwhile.

Xishui Lane, Xufu.

The attic as warm as spring, the dim candlelight swayed, hitting the woman's snow-white face, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, maybe tired.

Xu Baizhi sat behind her desk, flipping through the stacks of account books as high as a hill in her hand.

The candles in the house are bright, and the incense is faintly rising, which has the effect of calming the nerves.

Xu Baizhi closed the account book she had just finished reading, raised her hand and rubbed her stunned forehead.

It was late at night, and the man downstairs had already stopped coughing and fell into a deep sleep.

It stands to reason that she should feel relaxed at this hour.

She was most afraid of hearing the man's cough, which sounded like a talisman.

Squeak –

The door to the attic was pushed open, and a small maid of fifteen or sixteen years of age entered.

The maid's name is Qingque, who has taken care of Xu Baizhi since she was a child and is loyal to Xu Baizhi.

"How's it going?" Xu Baizhi didn't raise her eyes and asked softly.

Qingque put her hands close to her lower abdomen, and then replied: "Miss Hui, it took a lot of effort to find out." ”

With that, the maid Qingque took a few steps forward and took out a piece of letterhead from her cuff.

In the afternoon, leaving from Old Man Xu, Xu Baizhi instructed the maid Qingque to start secretly investigating the strange things that happened on Guangshun Street today. Asked someone to investigate, spent a lot of silver taels before and after, and finally, the hard work paid off.

Xu Baizhi stretched out her hand to take the letterhead, looked at it carefully from the front to back, and had a rough idea of this matter in her heart.

Hand the letterhead back to Qingque, and Xu Baizhi asked her to look at it too.

Qingque is Xu Baizhi's most trusted person, and it doesn't matter what she knows.

"Qingque, what do you think about this?" Xu Baizhi held her delicate and smooth chin with one hand, wanting to listen to Qingque's opinion first.

Qingque looked at it, blinked, and bowed slightly: "The slave maid thinks that she can ask this person out to meet alone." ”

"Oh?"

Xu Baizhi spoke, raised her eyebrows, and motioned for her to continue.

Qingque said again: "This person is thoughtful, designed a series of schemes, and the pressure of Qian Dazhong is out of breath, and there is nowhere to shout grievances, if we don't send someone to investigate, I don't know that Qian Dazhong has offended people, just think that Qian Dazhong is a rotten person...... We can go and meet this person, he is also the jailer of the county government, although he is just a small official who does not enter the stream, but maybe we will use it one day. ”

The letterhead made it very clear that the person who arranged the matter was a jailer named Xu Zhou of the Ping'an County Ya.

The Xu family started their business and was no less sensitive to news than the government.

Starting from the prostitute Chunxiu and the troublesome Guan Arrest Leader, it is not difficult to find out the mastermind behind it.

Chunxiu was invited by a jailer named He Bao for money, and Guan Zhutou was temporarily invited out to drink by a jailer named Chen Wude.

And He Bao and Chen Wude don't have much contact on weekdays, at most they are bosses and subordinates, and they have only gotten closer in recent days, and the bridge between the two is Xu Zhou.

Let's start with the most critical person in this matter, Qian Dazhong.

Qian Dazhong has no enemies in the capital, the only thing is that this old man is a little more lustful, combined with where he has gone and what he has done in the past half a month, the result is clear at a glance.

Xu Baizhi nodded and agreed with Qingque's opinion.

"Then make an appointment and ask him out to meet him." Xu Baizhi said lightly.