After appeasing Xiao Douding, Hua Rujin was casually looking at the dishes placed on the table, and saw a middle-aged woman dressed in red in the restaurant walking out, and shouted to Shu Jinxuan with a half-sad and half-happy face: "Yo, it's the second son of the Shu family who is here, I'll let the girls who sang on the stage withdraw." ”

"Not necessarily."

Shu Jinxuan glanced at her dazzlingly, knowing that she liked to listen to music, she took out two ingots and five taels of silver from her arms and threw them into the hands of the middle-aged woman: "There is a happy event in the family today, let them sing, just sing some cheerful ones." ”

Hua Rujin looked at it, and saw the woman who was about to get up with a pipa under the innermost red silk tent sat down again.

Cai Baiwei looked at her cousin and gave ten taels of silver to the shopkeeper of the restaurant, and persuaded with a distressed face: "Jinxuan, let's just have a meal, don't listen to any songs, don't waste the silver." ”

"Ouch, good sister, I see that you don't go out much on weekdays, and it's hard to come out once, so naturally you have to eat happily."

The red-clothed shopkeeper knows the temper of the second son of the Shu family the most, he only likes the dishes in his own restaurant on weekdays, but he doesn't like to listen to music, and every time he comes, he gives five taels of silver to send the girls to stop their work.

In this way, the girls are happy to be lazy and lazy, but they make themselves and the other diners miserable.

It's rare that he gave more silver today and it didn't affect the other diners in the restaurant, and the shopkeeper hugged Cai Baiwei and said with a smile: "It's rare that the second son of Shu has such a face today, I'll give you a Four Seasons Color." ”

After the words fell, Cai Baiwei shouted happily to the shopkeeper as he walked inside: "Baiwei sea bass soup, goose and duck steak steaming, stewed soft-shelled turtle, and one lamb." ”

Listening to the names of a few hard dishes, Hua Rujin looked at the dishes in front of her again, and sighed helplessly:

This elegant cousin is afraid that he will change his way to save money for himself again.

Shu Jinxuan smiled at their sister and brother smugly: "No way, cousin's popularity is like this everywhere he goes." ”

Hearing this, Hua Rujin secretly looked around, only to see a series of strange eyes staring at the elegant cousin, as if they were as disgusted as when they met the plague god.

She hurriedly withdrew her gaze and showed an embarrassed smile: "Naturally, my cousin is not only popular, but also lucky." ”

Come to think of it, this is the legendary money ability.

The effort of one meal made a dignified county magistrate in January.

And don't let others listen to music and watch beautiful women.

Hua Rujin had no choice but to order two seasonal dishes and pork knuckles that the little beans wanted to eat, and ordered two grilled fish for Xiao Er to pack, and then followed the elegant cousin to the inside unhurriedly.

Thinking of his maverick nature, he didn't forget to advise: "I don't think my cousin should come to this restaurant again in the future." ”

"Oh? Here's why?"

Shu Jinxuan said that he was very puzzled: "This shopkeeper likes your cousin and me very much, and every time I leave, I have to tell me to remember to come often." ”

"She says that to everyone."

Hua Rujin smiled bitterly.

As the two were talking, they suddenly saw two figures slipping out of the side in a hurry.

"Hey, aren't these the two who just came in, why did they leave so quickly?"

Shu Jinxuan turned his head in confusion and looked at the large and small disappearing figures.

Hua Rujin turned her head to look, only to see that the young man just picked up the child and ran away, sneaky, as if he had done something unseemly.

"Why is that?"

Shu Jinxuan clenched his chin, puzzled.

"Presumably it's really because of your popularity this time, cousin."

Hua Rujin Fox said suspiciously.

What's happened recently is really getting weirder.,There's a little girl hidden in the house who can't be seen through.,I met these two people who behaved strangely in front of me.。

I'm afraid that they really deceived Ye Chengwei about something.

In Maoyuan Village, five miles outside the city, Ye Chengwei led Ting'an, Lu Xiuyuan and several messengers to slowly knock on the door of the Han family.

It was Han Chun's younger brothers Han Qiu and Han Dong who came out to open the door.

When they saw the county magistrate, the two brothers were both panicked and uneasy.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

Before the two brothers could speak, Lu Xiuyuan waved his hand to stop the two: "Today, the magistrate of the county will come to ask in person, and your brothers must explain truthfully, and there must be no concealment." ”

"Yes."

The two replied dejectedly.

Ye Chengwei looked at the two brothers with cold eyes, and slowly walked to a dilapidated wooden chair in the courtyard and sat down.

After thinking for a moment, he said in a deep voice: "Your brother has confessed in prison and personally admitted that he killed Zhang Yuan, but this county feels that he is not a murderer. ”

Hearing this, Han Qiu and Han Dong cautiously raised their eyes and glanced at each other.

"Tell me, why did he confess his guilt?"

Ye Chengwei looked meaningfully at Lu Xiuyuan, who was standing on the side, and the warning could not be more obvious.

Lu Xiuyuan looked at it in his heart, and lowered his head silently.

"Your Excellency."

Han Qiu and Han Dong hesitated and were about to speak, but Ye Chengwei emphasized sharply: "This county asks today and only once, and your brother's life is only between the two of you. ”

"Your Excellency."

The second Han Qiu gritted his teeth and said: "The three of us brothers went to visit Zhang Yuan's house that day, Zhang Yuan died at home as soon as he entered the door, and his head was cut off, and the house was also in a mess, it must have been a thief, if the report is to the official, it will definitely be recognized as our three brothers robbing money and killing people, we have no choice but to ask Gu Langxi for advice, he gave us an idea, asked us to transport the body to Dou's house, and then lied that Zhang Yuan went out on a long trip." ”

"Now that the East Window incident happened, Han Chun took this trumped-up felony on his own in order not to let the two of you brothers be affected?"

Ye Chengwei looked at Han Qiu and Han Dong coldly.

Both brothers bowed their heads in shame.

"Confused."

Ye Chengwei reprimanded angrily: "He himself doesn't know where the head of the corpse went, it was obviously tortured into a trick, this Jiangling City has countless clever mouths, and he is a brother, and you don't know how to ask someone to defend him and seek justice for him, and watch his flesh and blood brother be unjustly killed?" ”

"My lord."

The two brothers were in tears: "If there is a way, how can the grass people be willing to let their brother die unjustly, since the old mother beat my brother and went to prison, she is almost blind from crying." ”

Han Qiu's voice trembled and said truthfully: "Forgive the grass people for daring to offend, since ancient times, the yamen has been open to the south, and there is no reason to come in without money, not to mention that these lawyers in Jiangling City are all demons who can only suck people's blood." ”

Han Dong also kept choking and added: "There is a way to die poor and not be a thief, and to die without a lawsuit, even if we can go bankrupt and scrape together some silver, it is not enough for those clever mouths to pay for the pen of a complaint, and no matter how much they go to court, there is no bottom at all, this is also the reason why my brother would rather die unjustly than let us get involved, he doesn't want the whole family to have no way to live." ”

Hearing this, Ye Chengwei looked around at the old and young women and children hidden in the house with solemn eyes, and sighed slightly after a long time: "This county will show you a clear way." ”

With a flash of light in his eyes, he glared at Lu Xiuyuan fiercely with some anger, and then looked back at the two brothers: "Your brother has now taken the initiative to admit his guilt, and this county can only choose a public sentence, if you feel that there is something else hidden, you can go to the Chengnan Hua family for help and appeal." ”

Only then did Lu Xiuyuan realize that he had beaten people into a trick, and he hurriedly echoed in fear: "Today, Miss Hua persuaded the prefect to release grain into Yuezhou with just a few words, she is fair and upright, and she will definitely be willing to help you." ”

"Thank you, sir."

Han Qiu and Han Dong thanked them for their kindness, and watched with great emotion as the county officials hurriedly left their thatched huts.

(End of chapter)