Chapter 228: The Two Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Days of Becoming an Old Lady
Above the lobby, there was an uproar, but Wang Yuanwai, who was a party to the incident, was late.
To the old lady's surprise, Wang Yuanwai and Zhou Rui seemed to have a good relationship. As soon as they met, Wang Yuanwai first asked, is the silk brocade house he sent good for use?
The bribery was exposed in this way, and Wang Yuanwai showed that he had no fear. And Zhou Rui's response was also very peculiar. He actually got up from his seat to greet the arrival of the king.
"Wang Yuanwai is polite, is there a bad reason why silk brocade is so expensive? I'm going to leave for dinner today, and I'll have the kitchen ready for dinner. ”
In front of everyone, Zhou Rui made no secret of his affinity with Wang Yuanwai. If no one is next to the two of them, the relationship is so good that it can't be done.
The old lady thought that Zhou Rui deliberately pretended to be unfamiliar with her in order to avoid suspicion, but with the comparison of Wang Yuanwai in front, the old lady realized that there was no pretense at all, and she and Zhou Rui were just not familiar.
The Wang family and their ancestors are outsiders, and after several generations of hard work, they have become the hegemon of Qinghe County, and even officials like Zhou Rui have to be friendly with them.
And looking at the current situation, neither of them has covered it up, and Zhou Rui may not be able to act impartially for a while. The old lady only wanted to muddy the waters and force the people behind the scenes to show up. But the people behind the scenes appeared, but they had an inextricable relationship with the government, and it has not been easy for the people to sue the officials since ancient times.
No matter what the old lady thought, the interrogation continued.
What the old lady didn't expect was that Wang Yuanwai was not white, he also had a reputation for showing off his talents, and he didn't kneel when he saw the county officials.
Above the lobby, there is a big difference between kneeling and not kneeling. But the fame of Wang Yuanwai is there, unless the old lady can remove the fame of Wang Yuanwai like she did with Boss Hu, otherwise he will not kneel.
Whether to kneel or not is not the point, now that everyone has put the blame on Wang Yuanwai, how can he prove his innocence?
Inevitably, Wang Yuanwai didn't know what others said about him, so Zhou Rui pointed to people and said them one by one. That positive posture is like a follower outside the king.
The dignified county master has done this, and the old lady has no face for him.
The onlookers were silent, and when the king did not come, they dared to shout a few more words with people. But when the king appears outside, especially when he sees that his relationship with the county lord is so good, where is there anyone willing to be hostile to him?
They just came to join in the fun, but they didn't want to take their lives because of this.
The county magistrate told the current situation in a few words, and Wang Yuanwai was not surprised by this, and even agreed:
"I did buy the Hu family's dim sum recipe."
She doesn't think it's anything wrong, the Hu family's people sell their sons, and he buys their sons, it's all mutually beneficial, don't say who owes whom. As for other things, he did not admit it. Including threatening Oda, he didn't know about it at all.
Moreover, people complained that there was a problem with the farm tools made by the Hu family, and the old lady opened her mouth to say that the drawings were missing, and someone assassinated the Hu family. He also said that the Hu family deliberately shirked responsibility, and that no drawings were lost, everything was justified by the Hu family.
"Wang Yuanwai, do you dare to take out the recipe that the Hu family sold to you? Whether it is the lost drawings of the Hu family, we will know at a glance. ”
The old lady couldn't help Wang Yuanwai's words, and the matter of the dim sum formula was settled, and the old lady had to bear the charge of stealing the drawings from Wang Yuanwai. Now that he has admitted to buying the Hu family's formula, then everything is easy to say. As long as he comes up with those formulas, he will naturally prove himself.
The old lady vigorously encouraged Wang Yuanwai to come up with the formula, and Wang Yuanwai, who didn't feel anything, was keenly aware that something was wrong. He didn't dare to be careless, the old lady of the Hu family was by no means an ordinary peasant lady, she was still able to change her face in the face of everyone's siege, and she was still looking for a breakthrough.
But what if you have a backhand? Not only does the Hu family have a backhand, but he also has a backhand.
Wang Yuanwai followed the old lady's wishes and took out the recipe that Cong sold him.
These recipes were copied by Cong from Hu Yan'er, and on them were her handwriting.
The Hu family hated this, and their resentment towards the Oda clan was even worse. The family finally came up with a way to make money, and it was a recipe that Hu Yaner racked her brains to come up with. The old lady had long said that she didn't want the money the children earned, and she didn't allow others to worry about it, and Xiao Tian also sold her recipe as an elder, which was too much.
Hu Laosan wanted to divorce his wife before, and now he still thinks so.
Seeing Oda kneeling helplessly in the lobby, he was really angry that he could marry such a woman. If she wasn't Guangqing's mother, if it weren't for the old lady who didn't allow him to divorce his wife, he wouldn't have bothered to look at her at all.
Xiao Tian seemed to be aware of Hu Laosan's gaze, even though she didn't know the importance of selling her admiration before, now she also knew it in front of everyone. She wanted to tell Hu Laosan that she knew she was wrong, but as soon as the eyes of the two people met, Hu Laosan moved away.
Oda had nowhere to say the words in his stomach, and his whole body was trembling.
Soon, Zhou Rui also looked at those recipes. He has also eaten the dim sum made by the Hu family, and the taste is indeed good, even compared to the dim sum workshop in Lin'an Mansion. I have to say that Hu Yan'er is indeed a talent, but it's a pity that there is such a mother.
Zhou Rui knew the affairs of the Hu family clearly, but he couldn't say much at the moment. He put the recipe away and asked the old lady kindly:
"But these?"
There are many dim sum recipes written on the paper about a finger thick, including almost all the dim sum made by the Hu family. The old lady took the formula, read it and nodded.
Suddenly, she shouted, "My lord, the thief who stole the drawings has been found!" ”
Got it?
Where is it?
The old lady pointed to those dim sum recipes and told Zhou Rui that these were the drawings of the Hu family's farm tools.
"What kidding, these are dim sum recipes!"
Wang Yuanwai was the first to stand up and refute, as if anyone didn't know how to read, there were only ingredients for dim sum on it, not even a picture.
The old lady was not in a hurry, she asked Zhou Rui and brought a candle, lit it and went over it above the formula paper. After the paper was heated, the original place where only the formula was written gradually disappeared, revealing the complete design of the farm tool.
The old lady did the same, and several other pieces of paper also revealed the design drawings of the farm tools one by one.
Wang Yuanwai went from calm to incredible, to loud reprimand:
"It's your Hu family who hurt me! I had no idea there was anything like that up there! ”
From the very beginning, Wang Yuanwai never thought of stealing the Hu family's farm tool design drawings. First, the Hu family did business with the government, and all kinds of drawings were filed with the government, and the imitations made by others were enemies of the government. Second, he was about to frame the Hu family with this, so naturally he couldn't pour dirty water on himself.
But the old lady's actions dismantled the situation he had built up with great difficulty, and the recipe for the dim sum was bought from Xiao Tian's hands, and there were indeed drawings of the Hu family's farm tools on it. It was like an interlocking knot that disrupted all his plans.
"It's you, you did it on purpose!" In the flash of light, Wang Yuanwai suddenly figured it out.
It was he who underestimated the old lady of the Hu family, and it turned out that he had fallen into the trap of the Hu family from the beginning. There is no such thing as Oda stealing the seller, it is all secretly deployed by the old lady.
Wang Yuanwai was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat, if what he expected was true, didn't it mean that the old lady had discovered his intentions since that time?
With such intentions, how could she be an ordinary old peasant lady?
Oda was trembling at the fingers of Wang Yuanwai, and she still didn't understand what was going on. She knew that she had done something wrong, and the Hu family accused her, she could understand it, but why did Wang Yuanwai do the same?
Wang Yuanwai said that the old lady framed him, and the old lady said that he jumped over the wall in a hurry. It has been confirmed that he has drawings in his hand, and he has a grudge against the Hu family, so it is common to arrange a few people to come to the door to make trouble. The old lady was sure that the county magistrate would go to the troublemaker's house to search now to see if there was any silver tael that could not be said to come from.
Wang Yuanwai was so angry, he didn't detain the basin on the Hu family, can he still be deducted by the Hu family?
At the suggestion of one of his eyes, the plaintiff immediately scolded the old lady for changing the subject. It's the Hu family's agricultural problems, otherwise why would so many people support him?
He doesn't care what kind of grievances the Hu family has with the Wang family, he only knows that the Hu family's farm tools killed his uncle, and he wants to seek justice!
He begged the county magistrate to punish the Hu family and take back all the farm tools sold to prevent any more accidents.
The onlookers were watching the excitement, how could they imagine that this fire could still burn on themselves. Take back the farm tools you sold?
How can this work!
Although the Hu family's farm tools have such and such problems, it is true that they are easy to use. This time the harvest has made everyone feel the convenience of using farm tools, and who wants to go back to the past?
At this time, someone seriously thought about the old lady's words. But above the lobby, there is no room for thought.
Zhou Rui also said that the theft of the Hu family's drawings was another case. Hu Jiada can be the plaintiff and the trial will be reopened. But the case is coming to an end.
"Smack!"
As soon as the stunned wood was shot, Zhou Rui was about to finalize the case.
It is true that the death caused by the Hu family's farm tools......
"The Divine Decree to ......"
A high-pitched voice disturbed the peace, and as the county magistrate of Qinghe County, Zhou Rui took the lead in taking the holy decree.
Qinghe County is not far from Lin'an Mansion, and it is a place where dignitaries and nobles often come, and the relationship with Lin'an Mansion has always been close. But Zhou Rui has been an official here for five years and has never received a holy decree. And now suddenly a holy decree arrived, and his heart was surging.
The little eunuch who passed the decree was no stranger to Zhou Rui, and after the two exchanged ideas, they learned that the old lady of the Hu family was also here, and the little eunuch took out another holy decree.
There were originally two holy decrees, one for Zhou Rui, and the other for the old lady of the Hu family who made the rice harvester.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the Ninety-Five Emperor, who had lived in the deep palace for a long time, would actually know the old lady of the Hu family? Zhou Rui didn't care about this, but Wang Yuanwai was already frightened.
He couldn't help but think of the jade pendant that the old lady took out at the beginning, which was said to be a noble thing in the palace, and he had seen it with the prince, but the prince didn't know it. At the beginning, he suspected that this thing was fake, but Zhou Rui told him that it was real.
But whose object, Zhou Rui refused to say.
Now it seems that it is not even the emperor's object!