The case of the Chen family is the biggest and most interesting case that Han Mu has received since he took office, and he is curious, so he does not want to just wait for news in the county office.

Moreover, he also has to inspect the people's situation

Gu Junruo can handle county affairs just by reading the official documents, but he can't, he has to actually read it before deciding, so he saw the two Li Zheng who came over, told them to do a good job of persuading the farmers to do a good job, and after handing over the grain to them, he patted his ass and pulled Gu Junruo out.

"In this war, you have to eat and sleep with the soldiers, in order to boost morale, and the same is true for officials, you must know what the people are thinking, you always stay in the yamen to settle accounts, although the accounts in the account books are settled, but the accounts in the hearts of the people may not be cleared, in case someone embezzles and takes bribes and abuses my people outside?"

Gu Junruo was pulled out by him like this.

Xiaochan glanced at the hands held by the two of them, and hurriedly grabbed Xiaobei.

Xiaobei was dragged back, "What are you doing?" ”

"Don't get too close," Xiaochan looked at him with disgust, "You are still a little servant like this, do you know what your master is thinking?" ”

"I don't know, do you know?" Xiaobei raised his chin and said: "Naturally, it is to suppress the Yao family, help the people, make the people live in peace, and then return to the capital in a beautiful manner." ”

Xiaochan sighed in disgust and ran to chase the two.

Xiaobei followed behind her, frowning, "Then what do you think of my master?" ”

Xiaochan pointed to the two people holding hands in front of her, "Did you see it?" ”

Han Mu led Gu Junruo to walk fast, and didn't slow down until he was on the street, but he still didn't let go of her hand, Gu Junruo glanced down at his hand, and struggled slightly, but didn't break free.

Han Mu turned his face away from her, but looked at the rock sugar gourd sold at the stall next to him.

He took out two pennies and bought one and handed it to Gu Junruo, "Don't you like to eat this, give it to you." ”

Gu Junruo stretched out his hand to take it, looked at him and asked, "How do you know that I love this?" ”

Han Mu was stunned for a moment and said, "Just ...... I know, if you don't eat it, if you don't eat it, I'll eat it. ”

Gu Junruo pursed his lips and smiled, took a bite and said, "Thank you, I like it very much." ”

Han Mu couldn't help laughing, and pulled her to continue walking, "Let's go, let's go to County Lieutenant Xue." ”

County Lieutenant Xue had already visited all of Mr. Chen's neighbors, and then brought the neighbors who had valid confessions to Han Mu.

Living on the left side of Chen's house is an old couple, they have children and grandchildren, but the children and grandchildren have long fled from Yixian, and the couple feel that they are a burden, and they do not want to leave their homeland, so they did not flee with them.

They successfully waited for Han Mu's relief food alive, and they were very respectful to Han Mu and Gu Junruo, so they knew everything and said everything, "The fire that started in the middle of the night, we woke up and saw that the house was burning, and there was no choice but to quickly ring the gong and call people." ”

Han Mu asked, "You are the one who struck the gong to call people, what about Mr. Chen's servant Chen Shi?" ”

The husband and wife thought about it seriously and said, "I don't remember much, anyway, in the end, he also followed us to shout for firefighting, and also brought water to extinguish the fire." ”

"So you were woken up by the sound of fire, not by the sound of gongs and shouts of fire?"

The husband and wife immediately nodded, "Yes, this is for sure, we only found out about the fire after we woke up." ”

Han Mu frowned and looked at County Lieutenant Xue, "Didn't you say that Chen Shi was the first person to discover the fire?" ”

Xue County Lieutenant said: "It was a dereliction of duty, I didn't pay attention to it at the time, and this question was only asked to Chen Shi alone." ”

Han Mu asked the husband and wife, "You live on the edge of Chen's house, do you know what the relationship between Mr. Chen and Chen's master and servant is?" ”

The old man said: "It's good, Mr. Chen is a kind person, and it should be good to treat his subordinates, so Chen Shi looks honest." ”

The old lady paused for a moment and said: "That's not necessarily, once I wanted to cut the loofah hanging on the wall, I saw Mr. Chen make a lot of fire, and directly smashed a cup at Chen Shi, the cup was still hot tea, that Chen Shi knelt on the ground, didn't dare to say a word, and it didn't look so good." ”

Han Mu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Apart from this, is there anything abnormal?" Other people who have been in contact with Mr. Chen are also counted. ”

"Mr. Chen knows a lot of people, and there is no one in this county who doesn't know Mr. Chen, if you want to say that you have the closest contact with Mr. Chen, except for Master Zeng, that is the Luo Jiao of the county school."

"Among so many people, is there any conflict with Mr. Chen?"

"Seriously, I have been a neighbor with Mr. Chen for many years, and I have never seen Mr. Chen and anyone red-faced," the old man glanced at the old lady, "Could it be that you are mistaken, Mr. Chen slipped his hand and dropped the cup, not intentionally hit Chen Shi." ”

"My eyes are amazing, the farther away I can see, the clearer I can see, at that time, our house was so far away from their yard, I saw it so really, even the anger on Mr. Chen's face could be seen clearly, there would never be a mistake." The old lady said angrily: "You yourself have bad eyes, don't talk about me." ”

"I have bad eyes, my eyes are better than yours, you tell me to wear needles, can I be bad?"

When Gu Junruo heard this, he decided to believe the old lady's words, and it was obvious that the husband and wife were one farsighted and the other short-sighted.

She hurriedly intercepted the words of the two and asked, "Then in the past few days, has anyone come to Mr. Chen?" ”

The husband and wife nodded together, "Yes." ”

"There are seven or eight of them, all of whom are here to return the grain."

Han Mu squinted, "Return the grain?" ”

"Yes," the old man smiled, "before the adults came, the grain in the grain shop was too expensive, and many people couldn't afford it, so Mr. Chen was kind-hearted and borrowed a lot of food." ”

"We are Mr. Chen's neighbors, so we also cheekily borrowed some, after the adults made a little money after the work relief, we bought food and returned it, by the way, this is not finished yet, the result is gone, alas~~ It's really a good person who doesn't live long."

"Who will pay the food?"

"Mr. Fang, there is Ma Shuifeng in the back street, oh yes, the daughter of the Luo family also came with a grain bag to return some, and then there are the neighbors."

Gu Junruo squinted slightly, "Ma Shuifeng in the back street? Did he take the craftsmen who repaired the bridge? ”

"Then I don't know, but he is indeed a craftsman, often build houses for large families, the houses he built are good-looking, Mr. Chen is a drawing, usually Mr. Chen paints, he leads people to build, the craftsmanship is very good, Jiangling has people to invite it."

Gu Junruo looked at Han Mu, Han Mu comprehended, and said to County Lieutenant Xue: "Send someone to lead Ma Shuifeng back to the county office, we will go back to ask questions in a while." ”

"Yes."

Han Mu asked the husband and wife to go down, and the old man was about to leave, after a pause, he said: "My lord, in fact, I got up at night before the fire that night, and I seemed to hear a clang, I don't know if this is abnormal, I thought it was a wild cat from where it knocked over someone's jar, so I didn't take it to heart." ”