The general laughed. Our uncle has always been a law-abiding businessman, and our young master is a scholar, and our master has also been the master of the five products. How could someone like us have an affair with some pirates? Someone must have maliciously slandered. Please let the general call us go! Cao An said, took out two ingots of silver from his sleeve and quietly stuffed them into the arrogant officer's hand.

When the officer saw the silver, he removed his big upturned foot from the table.

"Someone reported to me that some of your subordinates went to sea by boat without permission and were suspected of being bandits. So I had to bring someone to check it out. What a stake for pirates these days! The governor transferred 10,000 sailors from each guard for the purpose of suppressing bandits, and we have no choice! The officer said, picked up the tea bowl on the table, and took a sip. I also praised it by the way, "good tea".

Cao An hurriedly answered, "This is the Longjing of the Ming Dynasty produced in Hangzhou West Lake, if the general likes it, I will ask someone to send a few catties to the house when I go back."

It's just that this is a matter of bandits, and I hope that the adults will know it. A gentry family like ours usually avoids this kind of thing, so how can they take the initiative to provoke it. Someone must have framed it. General, you also know that our uncle suddenly fell ill a while ago, and our young master has been in charge of things recently.

There are more than 100 people in the Shen family, and our young master has not been here for a long time, so it is inevitable that the subordinates will be a little deceived and deceitful. Recently, a number of new staff have been added. The stewards at the bottom took the opportunity to recommend some cronies, and there may be some who are not very clear. It's also possible.

But it really has nothing to do with our family! ”

After Cao An finished speaking, he handed over a silver ticket of five hundred taels.

The officer's eyes lit up when he looked at the silver ticket. He was only a junior officer, and five hundred taels of silver was a huge sum of money to him. The officer looked at Yu Ren, as if he was a little weak-hearted.

Yu Ren lowered his head and pretended not to see it. He also knew that the current situation could only be dealt with by Cao An's methods. But if he really wants to bow his head and get close to such a guy, he really can't do it. Although he clearly said that he was a businessman, he still had the arrogance of a scholar in his bones. He really can't do this kind of knee-bending work. Fortunately, Cao An appeared in time to make up for his shortcomings.

Yu Ren secretly sighed in his heart, this is just a short two or three months, Cao An seems to have completely changed people, the ignorant scholar back then, as if he has become a veteran in the shopping mall.

Of course, this is first of all due to Yu Ren's belief in him, which gives him full authority to manage such a large plate of the Shen family. In addition, it has a lot to do with the guidance of the old man in Cai's tent.

There have been too many things in the Shen family recently. Yu Ren was often away from home, and all big and small things fell on Cao An. This is also the key to his ability to quickly change from an ignorant little scholar to a delicate character who is good at observing faces and colors. Stress is indeed the best factor that contributes to a person's growth!

Seeing that Yu Ren didn't look at him, the officer quickly reached out and took the silver ticket in Cao An's hand.

"You have a point." As he spoke, the officer walked briskly to the door and shouted at the four or five men who were still searching outside. "Don't search for your long-sighted things, come back to me. How did I tell you, Shen Yuan's family is different from other places, so let you all be careful and be a little more restrained. It's so unbelievable that you dare to be so presumptuous. ”

Yu Ren couldn't help frowning when he heard what the officer said. This is clearly a veteran of yin and yang. It seems that he should have done this kind of thing of blackmailing and blackmailing the squire in the past. If the guess is right, this person is so unreasonable when he just entered the door, in fact, he deliberately wants to give them a disadvantage, and then take the opportunity to blackmail. Now that he saw that the money was in his hand, he naturally became polite.

However, this also put Yu Ren at ease. Such a person has no principles, as long as he has money, he can do things, and he is easy to deal with.

When the soldiers heard the boss's order, they naturally withdrew their swords. Cao An hurriedly stepped forward and gave each of them another ten taels of silver.

When the soldiers saw the silver, they were naturally happy, and they were all polite.

Yu Ren really didn't want to deal with such a mercenary figure, so seeing that Cao An could handle it easily, he excused himself to go down and order his subordinates to prepare a banquet, and took the opportunity to retreat.

After a while, the banquet was served, and Yu Ren called Cao An aside and whispered to him, asking him to find a way to find out the reason for today's incident from the mouth of the officer. Although this matter has been revealed today, the reason for the incident cannot be found, and Yu Ren is still not at ease. More importantly, he wants to find out who the person who denounced him is. He has always been cautious in his work, especially when the wind has been tight recently, so he has been even more careful.

Under such circumstances, some people found that someone in their family had gone to sea, and it was obvious that this person had already paid attention to them and sent someone to whistle in secret. Otherwise, it would not be possible to find out.

Being able to spend so much effort to find him Yu Ren's handle is obviously bent on bringing down their Shen family. Who is it that has such a great enmity against their house? What Yu Ren is most anxious to know at the moment is this matter. The so-called open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are difficult to prevent. If he didn't find out this person, Yu Ren felt that he couldn't sleep well.

Cao An accompanied a few soldiers to eat and laugh while eating, and these soldiers became honest people one by one when they saw the wine, and they didn't need to be persuaded to drink at the table, and they drank almost after a while. and Cao An also began to call each other brothers.

Cao An saw that the time was almost up, so he asked, "Brother Yan, you said that this matter was troublesome today." Although we don't know each other anymore, it still hurts our Shen family's face too much. Our young master said that we must find out the person who sowed discord. ”

Officer Yan hurriedly said, "It's all to blame for the surname Xu." It was he who sent someone to our camp and said that he saw someone from your Shen family go to sea by boat. ”

"Which surname is Xu?" Cao An didn't reflect for a while.

"It's the great-grandson of Old Xu Ge, Third Young Master Xu! This bastard is the most unruly thing. I heard that he recently sold his weaving house to your family in order to pay off his brother's gambling debts, right? It must have been because of this that he held a grudge, so he deliberately framed him. ”

Yu Ren heard very clearly next door. I couldn't help but be taken aback. It seems that he still underestimated this Xu Sanshao. It almost caused a catastrophe because of him. He secretly decided in his heart that when this matter was over, he must give this Third Young Master Xu a dismissal, so that he would know that their Shen family was not so easy to mess with.

Sending away these soldiers who took the opportunity to blackmail, Yu Ren breathed a sigh of relief. But if the threat of the Xu family is not eliminated, this flying disaster may happen again at any time. Yu Ren called Xu Qian into the room and wanted to discuss with her how to deal with the Xu family.

Xu Qian couldn't help but laugh when she heard Yu Ren ask her about it. "Brother-in-law, why did you forget, didn't we just deal with such a thing not long ago! You can draw a scoop according to the gourd! ”

Yu Ren shook his head. "No, I can't. We were able to do that because those greedy ghosts did bad things themselves. Kill them, and no one will sympathize with them. But this Xu Sanshao is different, he didn't make any mistakes. What's more, their Xu family is a gentry clan in the end, and it is the first clan in Susong. If he dies so inexplicably, I'm afraid that the government can't give up easily.

If we really do this, I'm afraid that it will become a mess and make the government pay more attention to us. ”

"Then either send someone to deliver a threatening letter, and then add a finger from the fourth child of their Xu family." Although Xu Qian is only a fourteen-year-old girl, when she talks about this bloody thing, it is like talking about a trivial matter like cooking rice and stir-frying.

This is also the influence of the environment she has been exposed to since childhood. Although his father is mainly in business. But at the same time, there is still a pirate atmosphere and style. Although she is a girl, this style and temperament are no less than his father's.

Yu Ren still shook his head. He knew that the best way to deal with the Xu family was to start with their own problems. Able to dig up their own problems and then justifiably bring them down. That's the best way to go. Just like how Xu Sanshao dealt with him now.

"You first ask someone to collect the illegal things of their Xu family, and then we will see where to start." Yu Rendao.