"Wait, I can't figure it out again, what does this Luo family's financial resources have to do with it? This Luo family is not a rich and noble family, but a rich family, what is there to check here? Heck, don't get the point wrong. Dai Chang patted his thigh and said, "I'm going to die in a hurry, but you have registered this case in front of the saint." You can't afford to make a difference. ”

"Lao Dai, don't worry, it's clear here, and the trial will be soon." Su Huangzhe patted Dai Chang's shoulder and said, "I have a way to hold it up to the saint." He winked at An Ying again, motioning for her to continue.

An Ying immediately understood, and immediately said: "Although the Luo family is just an ordinary rich family in Huzhou, I have made a list of the Luo family's traceable income and expenditure in the past thirty years, and adults can take a look at it and understand why I have been staring at this." ”

Su Huangzhe took this watch, took a cursory look, and said in his heart that this little girl can figure it out by herself, which is really rare.

Dai Chang hurriedly stretched his head over to look, only to look at it twice and was shocked: "This Luo family is so rich!" ”

After Guo Langzhong took it from Su Huangzhe's hand, he took a closer look and shook his head and said: "It turns out that the Luo family looks ordinary, and they didn't think that the cost of thirty years of income and expenditure would be so big. Miss Anjia, you did a good job of copywriting. ”

An Ying said with a smile: "Actually, it's normal for adults not to feel that there is a problem, this Luo clan is just a rich peasant with a little assets in the family, and he can't be called rich and noble, not to mention that the Luo family's economic resources in the yamen can also be checked, and it looks innocent." When I was in Shuanglin Town, I had doubts about this because of Li Facai's words, he said that this old Luo family is lazy, but life is getting better and better day by day, what kind of world. Others may think that it is the jealousy of neighbors, but I think this thing is really strange, farmers are not as good as merchants, income does not change much, and the rich farmers rely on years of accumulation. So I checked the file book and made a record, from the eighth year of Jianxing to the third year of Yongkang, the income on the Luo family's books was only 20 acres of silver and millet rented from paddy fields, but the large expenditure was a lot, Luo Mao was seriously ill, asked the doctor to take medicine, and built a new house. The income and expenditure of these silver coins are unbalanced, and it can be explained by the Luo family's sale of their youngest daughter, I also checked the dental stalls back then, and the highest value of a four-year-old girl is only six or seven taels, and Luo Mao's money to buy medicine is more than that. In the next four years of Yongkang to the twelfth year of Yongkang, the Luo family bought the Li family's house, and then successively purchased 30 acres of fertile land in Linghu Village next door, where did the money come from. What is particularly interesting is that the Luo family bought five acres, three acres or even one acre of land so carefully, quite like an ordinary rich peasant who saved some money to buy a little bit of land, but you can see that the time of purchase is very close, but it was bought every ten days and a half months. In the second year of Qinghe, Luo's marriage, the Luo family had a large amount of expenditure, but her family only had a few dozen acres of fertile land at that time, but Luo's dowry was a real eighteen, at that time, the people of Shuanglin Town also sarcastically ridiculed the Luo family's dowry or the Zheng family's money to support the face, but this matter was also known by Lord Su at that time, Zheng Ying, the daughter of the Zheng family, was in charge of the Zheng family's inner house at that time, and did not let the Luo family take advantage of the slightest advantage, but targeted Luo everywhere. The eighteen dowries of the Luo family were indeed purchased by the Luo family themselves, and I asked Mrs. Shen to check the account books of the Shen family's shop, and I found a lot of records at that time, and what I could find was that the Luo family bought the latest material in Suzhou Mansion 20 horses, six pieces of wool in the north, and more than 20 pieces of gold and silver jewelry, which were converted into hundreds of taels of silver, and it was said that the Luo family could not afford this money. After the Luo family got married, with the cover of Zheng Luo's family, the Luo family's expenses became larger and larger. You see, later Luo Youde said that in order to give birth to a son, he also bought a concubine from Yaxing, which cost nearly 100 taels of silver. Externally, it was the money from Zheng Luo's family, but when I looked at the Zheng family's account books, I didn't spend so much that year. Zheng Luo has just married into the Zheng family in the past few years, but he can't touch the Zheng family's money at all. The income of the Naluo family's fields in a year is only 100 taels. ”

Guo Lang nodded and said: "That's true, Miss An is really careful." Looking at it this way, there are a lot of things hidden under the Luo family's cover. ”

An Ying: "After so many years, I preliminarily estimate that the Luo family has an unknown income of more than 30,000 taels. This is just what I saw the Luo family's expenses from the books. ”

I only heard Guo Langzhong gasp: "This small farmer actually has more than 30,000 taels of silver." ”

"You're not mistaken, are you? Thirty thousand taels of silver is not a small amount, although it is an accumulation of decades. Doesn't this Luo Jiamo have a cornucopia, right? Dai Chang squinted at the paperwork and shook his head.

Su Huangzhe pointed his finger at the table and said, "So the Luo family has always had a lot of income, but the government can't find it. Then Luo was plotting to frame the Zheng family, which was also related to this income? Have you figured out where the Luo family's income comes from? ”

Although Guo Langzhong and Dai Chang both looked at her hopefully, An Ying still shook his head and said: "I don't know how the Luo family's income came from, the Luo family's income is shady, and I can't find anything in the archives of the government and the Shen family." I especially checked the account books of the Shen family's money village, and the Luo family's silver money transactions were clean, and they were decent rich farmers, who would exchange some copper and give red envelopes to the children in the village during the Chinese New Year every year. Every year after the autumn harvest, the copper is exchanged for silver taels. The Luo family didn't even redeem a large amount of silver tickets. ”

Guo Langzhong sighed and said, "That's the same, then let's go back to the judge." ”

Su Huangzhe glanced at it, looked at An Ying and said, "Miss An doesn't need to be so cautious, it's okay to talk about your ideas, you don't have to say that there must be evidence." ”

"Well, if it's an idea, there's a direction that adults can look it up." As soon as An Ying's words fell, he felt a burst of chagrin in his heart, he shouldn't have been led by Master Su to say, if this idea is wrong, it will have to be blamed, this investigation is their job, but the words have been spoken, An Ying can only stubbornly continue: "When I checked the account books of the Shen family, I found something interesting. The Shen family's tea business has seen a slight decline in income since three years in Yongkang, and if I hadn't been in the tea business all year round, I wouldn't have noticed such a small decline. ”

"Why did this year's decline catch your attention?" Su Huangzhe asked rhetorically.

"Because my family's tea business also went down a little bit that year." An Ying said: "I also saw that the Zheng family's tea business was also a little worse. However, I didn't check the others. I asked Mrs. Shen that the tea business had dropped a bit that year because there was less border sales. My father also said that in those years, my family collected less tea from the northwest border. But it is only a little less than the previous year, not too much, and it does not affect the livelihood of the family. But since that year, the number of marginal teas has never gone up. ”

"You mean that the Luo family's income is to steal and sell tea?" Su Huangzhe nodded lightly and said, "If this is the case, it is easy to explain, but there is no evidence." ”

Guo Langzhong also said: "If the Luo family has been secretly selling tea on the side, it really makes sense." However, although the Luo family has the craft of making tea, his family does not have a tea garden, where does the tea come from? That's a reasonable idea, but it doesn't make sense. ”

An Ying said: "That's true, I'm also very strange, so I didn't dare to tell the adults at first." Master Su said let me talk about it casually, and I didn't have to have evidence, so I dared to say it. However, I think that if the Luo family is framed successfully this time, looking at this posture, it is very likely that the Zheng family's tea shop will fall into the hands of the Luo family, and the Luo family will be truly whitewashed. ”

Guo Langzhong's face was solemn, and he obviously thought of this. Su Huangzhe got up and said, "It seems that this case is really not so simple. If it is selling illicit tea, this will involve tea and horses. Lao Guo, the people on your side who are focusing on the Luo family are the key to figuring out the Luo family's side. Lao Dai, you go to Yin Gushan, if it is private tea, you must go to the tea and horse division, and check the situation of tea sales in Huzhou. Xiao Yi, you take someone to Shuanglin Town, if the Luo family has tea, they must be nearby, and the nearby mountains and forests will be looked for. ”

"I think Master Xiao Yi can go to the vicinity of those wild tea plants to find them." An Ying thought for a while and said.

Xiao Yi immediately looked at it in surprise, and when An Ying saw this, he smiled and said, "Of course, I'm also speculating. The Luo family's confession mentioned that after the Zheng family bought the tea trees, they sent people to guard the tea trees and waited for idlers not to let others go up. When I went to Shuanglin Town, the old man there told me that there were wild beasts infested with this Shuanglin Mountain, and several people had died, and Shuanglin Mountain was already steep, and Shuanglin Village under the mountain was relatively rich, so fewer people went up to the mountain to make a living. According to the records of the county government, the wild tea trees are on the south side of the mountainside, and I went to the site to see that the south side of the mountainside is relatively gentle, and the local villagers only move from the foot of the mountain to the vicinity of the mountainside. The north pole of the mountain is steep and has little vegetation, and few people pass it, but it is possible for tea trees to grow. Brother Xiaoyi, you can try it. ”