In the old house of the Hua family in Shangliang Village, Meng Yutang was sorting out Hua Junxu's clothes in the bedroom, and whispered to him:

"I heard the boss say last night that he was going to Yuezhou with the sixth child to deliver food."

"You have to ask about this kind of trivial matter, too."

Hua Junxu glanced at her angrily: "Lord Hengzhu doesn't want to mix salt and tea, he just wants to guard the business of the rice shop." ”

"A profit of a few hundred taels of silver."

Meng Yutang glared at him dissatisfiedly: "If the boss does this, he will be proud in the Lu family from now on, and the sixth child is also different from the past, and the fish into the sea is completely free of his mother's constraints, If he earns this first pot of gold, he may be able to be proud of what he will be like in the future." ”

"After all, it came out of a mother's womb, and his mother ruthlessly separated him, so that he had the ability to support himself."

Hua Junxu's eyes paused slightly, and he was slightly dissatisfied in his heart: "Madame can't even calculate the silver of the sixth child's life, right?" A lot of the rice they bought this time was purchased from their father-in-law's rice shop, and I heard that they bought it at a price higher than 10%, so they also took care of your Meng family's business. ”

"My Meng family lacks his three melons and two dates."

Meng Yutang looked indignant, and scolded: "You have no brains, it doesn't matter if the boss is proud, but he is a son-in-law, you have to let the sixth child turn over, and let Shu Jiagao take a look at it in the future, what do you want to do, her eldest sister had no way but to marry the blacksmith family back then, do you still want this girl to marry a blacksmith, and let the sixth room step on our heads as a prestige?" ”

Hua Junxu was startled by her sharp words.

Meng Yutang continued to vent his dissatisfaction: "Jinxuan's stupid boy has been focusing on Rujin's cheap girl for so many years, if he can't make Liufang completely unable to raise his head, how can he die?" ”

Thinking of her niece who was the same as a different person, Hua Junxu half-squinted her eyes and looked gloomy: "This rice, grain, tea and salt is a matter of the government, even if you are dissatisfied, what can I do with the discipline of a county school." ”

"I've already figured it out."

Meng Yutang suddenly smiled sadly: "Recently, many merchants are buying rice and grain to send to Yuezhou, even if my father raised the price by one percent, there are still many people who are happy to do it, Your father has been working on the matter of entering the house for some time, and now there should be news, today you just go again, meet the prefect, and by the way, I will tell him about the businessmen sending grain to Yuezhou." ”

Hua Junxu looked confused: "How can the prefect meddle in this matter?" ”

"What's so hard about that?"

Meng Yutang slowly took out a box from the cabinet and said in detail:

"Here is a thousand taels of silver, my father and I have already discussed it, you only need to mention the Yuezhou Tang Governor and his festival Lord Wen will understand that there is only one place for our province to promote the salt transport envoy of the household department, but after the Jingcha, these two people have become the hottest candidates, will Lord Wen watch the people under his rule go to the states and counties of political enemies?"

Wrapping the box and putting it in his hand, Meng Yutang pursed his lips with a smile:

"You talk to the prefect again, as long as he orders to stop this batch of grain, those rice merchants will be helpless for a while with so much rice and grain, and my father will unite with the entire rice bank to reduce the price of rice, and then they can only sell it to my father at a discount, so that they will not have to travel to the north to take risks."

"Understood."

Hua Junxu suddenly understood it, put away the silver and said with a yin smile: "Or Mrs. has a vision, I will go to the prefect's yamen." ”

Hua Rujin bought a cat in Huangliu Lane and raised it in the backyard, using this to keep the backyard airtight, Cai Baiwei was worried that the cat would run out of the yard, and she was even more afraid that the two three-year-old little beans would be stained with cat hair, so she never let Hua Youen and Hua Muyang go to the inner yard.

And in the innermost west wing, Hua Rujin put some things that could not be used in it and locked it, so it was logical to hide Cheng Nini in the room.

When I go out every day, I buy some food in Huangliu Lane and bring it back secretly, and give it to the girl when no one is paying attention.

In this way, after a few days, Cai Baiwei and the two little beans didn't notice that Hua Rujin was hiding someone in the inner courtyard.

Even if she found pheasants, hares and other prey in the yard every morning, although Cai Baiwei gradually had doubts in her heart, she didn't find the specific reason after all, and she didn't investigate it in detail.

Moreover, she had something even more worrisome in her heart:

It has been more than ten days since the child's father went out, and there has been no news.

Seeing that it has entered August, Cai Baiwei is becoming more and more worried.

Early in the morning, the family had eaten morning food in the pergola, and Cai Baiwei hurriedly instructed Hua Rujin: "Rujin, your father hasn't come back yet, I'm afraid something has happened, today you are watching your younger brothers and sisters at home, I will go out to inquire about the situation." ”

"It shouldn't be."

Hua Rujin replied thoughtfully.

She has been studying the "Law of Great Karma" painstakingly these days, and she almost ignores what is going on outside the window, and rarely cares about what is going on outside.

But Hua Junnian should be nine out of ten in the matter of sending food.

After all, it was a kind of disaster relief activity advocated by the government, and no one even the mountain bandits dared to commit such a crime against the wind to rob a disaster relief fleet of thousands of people.

What's more, it is not far from Jiangling City to Yuezhou, and the river sections in the two places have always been peaceful, and I have never heard of water bandits and bandits in my impression.

Could it be that someone in the government is deliberately embarrassing this fleet?

But who would be so stupid to go against the court?

Nearly one million people in the eight counties of Yuezhou are waiting for grain from all over the country to be transported to solve their urgent needs.

She couldn't figure it out.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the hospital.

Cai Baiwei hurriedly went to open the door, and saw Shu Jinxuan leading a young man Lang Jun in a hurry.

"Oh no, Aunt Six, my father and sixth uncle were detained in the Yamen of the Inspection Department of Jiang'an County, a neighboring county, and many people were imprisoned when they clashed with the government, and hundreds of thousands of stones of grain were detained on the surface of the Chujiang River."

"Detained in the Inspection Division?"

Hearing this, Cai Baiwei almost fainted in fright: "The Yamen of the Inspection Division is comparable to the living Yama in the world, how can there be a good one in their hands." ”

Hua Rujin hurriedly supported her, glanced at the person who spoke, it was Hua Minze, the widow of the original owner Sanbo Hua Junqiao, who was adopted by Hua Junyao in the Lu family, two years older than himself.

He is also the only one surnamed Hua among the several heirs of the Lu family.

Speaking of which, I have to call him a cousin.

She first helped Cai Baiwei to sit down in the pergola, and then ordered the two cousins to sit together.

After a few people sat down, Hua Rujin asked unhurriedly: "Why is this so, there is no shortage of official documents, and it is also a legal and compliant business, why does the Inspection Department block it?" ”

"I heard that it was Wen Yuming's temporary order, saying that Jingzhou Mansion's grain was not allowed to be shipped abroad."

Shu Jinxuan was confused until this moment.

Looking at the worried mother and daughter, he hurriedly comforted: "Little uncle, cousin, you don't have to worry, the eldest aunt is already in contact with all the families of the rice merchants involved, and is ready to ask the lawyer to write a complaint to the yamen to complain." ”

After a pause, he suddenly showed a depressed face: "It's just that I know that my cousin went to the provincial capital, and the other two famous lawyers refuse to offend the prefect, so I'm afraid I can only ask Miss He to come forward." ”

"But Miss Hejia asked for 5,000 taels of silver before she was willing to help write this complaint."

Hua Min Ze Qingjun's face was full of bitterness: "Even if my aunt is willing to make up this amount of silver, the rest of the rice merchants may not be able to get this lot of silver, after all, this trip to Yuezhou will only be a few hundred taels of silver at most." ”

Hearing this, Cai Baiwei's face became even more anxious and ugly.

And Hua Rujin slowly fell into contemplation.

(End of chapter)