Lin Ruhai asked about Li Chaozong's whereabouts, even if everyone knew, it was hard to say, Old Man Xiao opened his eyes and said weakly to Lin Ruhai: "Lord Lin, Chaozong has something to do, and he still looks at Haihan, the old man is here to compensate Lord Lin." ”

After speaking, he was about to get up to make amends to Lin Ruhai, but a group of salt merchants stepped forward to dissuade him.

"Master Xiao, let's sit down."

"yes, your body can't hold it."

"Let's just come, you better have a good rest."

..........

Lin Ruhai saw that Old Man Xiao did not listen to persuasion, and he had already coughed and stood up, supported by Xiao Qingxuan, and wanted to make amends for himself, Lin Ruhai immediately walked to him and held Old Man Xiao's arms.

Lin Ruhai really can't stand this gift of Old Man Xiao, not to mention the seniority, the scholars who came out of Yangzhou in the court have received the favor of the Xiao family, and they really accepted his gift, I am afraid that Lin Ruhai's infamy will be spread in Shilin the next day.

The most successful place on the imperial examination list of the imperial court is Beijing, and the second is Yangzhou, which basically bears sixty percent of the places on the imperial examination list.

Because the two places are mostly prosperous places, and the famous teachers are also prosperous, and at the same time, in order to highlight the differences, the two places also have higher requirements for the gift of respecting teachers.

Although the Xiao family is not the richest in the whole Yangzhou, it is the most inoffensive in the whole Yangzhou, they used their own wealth to support almost the entire Yangzhou scholars, and they are famous in the clear stream of Shilin, which is also one of the reasons why Xiao Qingxuan is famous.

After all, rather than a wealthy businessman, Shilin would rather regard a talented woman from the Shili family as his own.

Lin Ruhai stopped Old Man Xiao and confessed at the same time: "Old Mr. Xiao is really tormenting the junior, this official is just curious about Li Zongshang's whereabouts, you don't have to be like this." ”

After speaking, he slowly helped Old Man Xiao to sit back in place.

After the salt merchants sat down, Lin Ruhai regained his momentum, and Ah Li and Li Er's bright blades were in their hands, and the salt merchants were different from the salt gang, although they also did private thugs, they never did their own dirty work.

Usually, I have never even seen a knife, but now the blood-smelling knife is placed in front of me, and many salt merchants feel dizzy.

wanted to remind Lin Ruhai that there was no blade visible in the lobby, but Old Man Xiao didn't speak to the chief merchants, and he could only hold back.

Not long after, Zuo Lingtian, who was covered in blood, walked from outside the door, and a swarthy man was pressed behind Xiao San.

Ma Dequan thought a lot, and was the first to ask, "Lord Lin, is this?" ”

Lin Ruhai explained to Ma Dequan with compassion: "Recently, there has been a very arrogant thief in Yangzhou City, who is driving a horse and hurting people. ”

Zuo Lingtian also stood up at this time, the injury on his forehead was very eye-catching, Bao Yi'an couldn't help laughing when he saw it, but Yin Dechang suddenly felt that the sky was falling.

scolded in my heart, laughing at your horse head, this is the prince, do you want to live.

Zuo Lingtian saw that Bao Yi'an was very happy, so he walked up to him and smiled: "This chief businessman, is the injury on Zuo's head a little indecent. ”

Zuo Lingtian came in behind Lin Ruhai, Bao Yi'an thought that Zuo Lingtian was an unimportant little guy, and immediately laughed: "It's not just indecent, it's like a sore on the top of your head, I said don't go out either, it's a shame." ”

Xiao Qingxuan also recognized Zuo Lingtian, and wanted to remind Bao Yi'an with words, but was reminded by Xiao San, who didn't know when he stood behind him: "It's better for the girl not to meddle in her affairs." ”

Xiao Qingxuan is not an ordinary woman, but her heart has not been honed and matured, and she was a little flustered for a while, so she could only say unconvinced: "Don't let your son-in-law go too far." ”

Xiao San just replied: "My generals have a number, don't worry about the girl." ”

After that, he was silent, and Xiao Qingxuan could only look at Zuo Lingtian with depression.

After Zuo Lingtian listened to Bao Yi'an's words, he asked softly: "The thief hurts people, what do you say?" ”

After listening to this, Bao Yi'an said casually: "Hahaha, you are really useless, someone dares to hurt me, I will definitely let him not eat and walk around." ”

"That's right."

After speaking, Zuo Lingtian walked up to the man and said to him.

"You also heard it, it's not that I don't want to spare you, but this chief businessman has said that he can't spare you easily."

When the man heard this, he broke away from the sergeant who was escorting him and threw himself at Bao Yi'an, and only then did everyone see the man's face clearly.

Where is the leader of the thieves, it is clearly a gang leader in the salt gang privately raised by Bao Yi'an's family.

The man hugged Bao Yi'an's thigh, wailing and crying: "Uncle Bao, you can't ignore me, I do what you tell me, those private ......"

It is not a secret that the salt gang sells illegal salt, and the salt merchants present are selling official salt on the surface, but the official salt tax is heavy, so how can there be private salt to make money.

In Yangzhou, all the salt merchants with some strength have more or less channels for selling illicit salt.

But everyone knows in private, forget it, and it's a capital crime to say it.

So the man didn't say the word salt, and he was shot dead by Lao Liu in the shadows.

Zuo Lingtian didn't stop it, anyway, the goal had been achieved.

Everyone looked at the corpse of the man on the ground, and only then did they understand why Lin Ruhai came so late.

It is to bring them together to prevent someone from ventilating and reporting the news, encircling and suppressing the salt gang to kill chickens and monkeys.

Lao Liu saw Zuo Lingtian again, and he laughed twice and wanted to retreat.

was stopped by Zuo Lingtian stretching out his hand, "This person killed the killer before he was tried, is Your Excellency a member of the same party?" ”

"Also, this Chief Merchant Bao, what did this thief call you just now? Uncle? And private salt, right? ”

As soon as these words came out, the temperature of the entire lobby suddenly dropped by three points.

Bao Yi'an was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and his mouth kept chattering, "This, this ......"

Ma Dequan's eyes rolled on the side, as if he was thinking.

Old Man Xiao woke up again to preside over the overall situation, and said with great difficulty: "Ahem, this son, the thief is obviously a mess and wants to murder Bao Zongshang, and my old Liu is also thinking about Bao Zongshang's safety." Every general merchant is related to the important salt tax of the imperial court. ”

These few words seemed to have exhausted all the strength of Old Man Xiao, and he kept coughing after speaking.

When everyone saw Xiao Lao come out to solve the siege, they felt that there should be no problem now, after all, there were few people in the capital who did not give face.

But they underestimated one thing, Zuo Lingtian was a military general, and he didn't understand the civilian official set at all.

Zuo Lingtian sneered: "Don't talk about anything else for me here, Yangzhou City intercepted this official from entering the capital to face the saint, you said that you have enough heads to dare this crime." ”

After speaking, he took out the holy decree that had been placed on his body, and saw that on the black and gold brocade scroll, Shuanglong and the word holy decree were remitted.