Luo Qiaoniang's interrogation took half a day, and by the time she signed the thick pile of confessions, it was already the beginning of the day. Before being taken away by the jailer, An Ying suddenly asked, "I entered your teahouse that day, and you took out that little phoenix group to eat, but did it on purpose?" ”

Luo Qiaoniang was stunned, nodded and said: "I actually saw you on the second floor that day, I saw you wandering around there, and you still had that conflict with my husband, I feel that you are very persistent in saving your father, even if there are many difficulties ahead." That stubbornness is a bit similar to me, and I can't help but give it a try even if it's a dead end ahead. So somehow, I took out that half of the cake and made it for you to see. However, there was no movement after that, so I didn't pay attention to it. How? Did you really push the case out of half a cake? ”

"That's not it, it's just a clue that makes me think you must have something to do with the case."

"Miss An, I am a capital crime, and I will report my determination to die when I plan. But what will happen to my husband and little girl, please send me a message when you arrive. I will repay your kindness in the next life. After that, he kowtowed to An Ying, An Ying looked back at Guo Langzhong, and when he saw him bowing his head, he said: "When the case is closed, I will tell you the original text, you can rest assured." ”

Guo Langzhong and An Ying sorted out their confessions overnight, and it didn't take long for the guards to find the batch of account books from the Zheng family's teahouse, which clearly recorded the number of tea cakes and silver money He Qing bought from Shuanglin Village, An Ying said while looking at it: "This is really He Qing's life talisman, He Qing has paid nearly 500,000 taels of silver to the Luo family in the past ten years, Xiao Yi will come tonight, sort out these account books and send them to Master Su." ”

Guo Langzhong took a bite of the steamed bun and swallowed the tea, "I transferred the file of Qiantang Mansion, let's wait and see what is going on in this case in Qiantang Mansion?" ”

"Did Master Su control He Qing's family before? This Luo Huanniang and He Qing's wife also have to see each other again. By the way, I made some rice noodles in the morning, and I just told the cook in the military office that I made soup with the chicken and pork bones left over from noon, and ate rice noodles. ”

"Yo Yo, your girl is really good at eating. Then I won't eat this steamed bun, choking and panicking. You're really suitable to come to our criminal department. Guo Lang put down the steamed bun with a smile.

"Is it because of food? Wouldn't that be a better place to go to the kitchen? An Ying said with a smile, feeling that Guo Langzhong had been fooling himself to go to the Criminal Department, although it sounded very good, he was still a civil servant, but there were too many things at home, and it was impossible for him to leave the house.

"Eat comfortably, work happily? Yo, this rice noodle is ready, I'll try it. Tsk, there's chicken in it, it's so fresh. "The official brought the rice noodles that had just been made in the kitchen, and Guo Langzhong was blowing and eating them, very happy.

An Ying couldn't eat it so hot, so she smiled and looked at the dossier first.

After Guo Langzhong snorted and drank the rice noodle soup, he saw An Ying's rice noodle without moving, and said: "Miss An, you have to eat this meal, it is a protracted battle to investigate the case, and if you don't eat and damage your body, it will affect the investigation of the case." ”

An Ying raised his head from the file at this time, realizing that his stomach was empty and he was hungry, so he left the desk to eat rice noodles, and said while eating: "Guo Langzhong, at first glance, the case of Qiantang Mansion was exposed by Wang Steroid's illicit tea, and in the end he was fined 2,000 silver, and his family did not have any property, and he was exiled to Zhangzhou, and he was not allowed to take the imperial examination within three generations. But Wang's case was very complicated, he smuggled smuggled tea from Jiangxi to Minzhou, and sold the tea to merchant ships that went to sea. In the dossier, there is a judgment of the then Fu Yin, who said that when the Great Qi Law was first decided, in fact, the scope of private tea was only limited to the tea households did not sell tea cakes to the northwest and southwest regions through the Tea and Horse Division, but in fact, there was no restriction on the tea that went to sea, and in the two hundred years since the founding of the Qi Kingdom, it also mainly traded tea to the Xia Kingdom in the northwest and the Annam Kingdom in the southwest, and there were almost no official tax accounts for those who sold tea through sea trade. Wang Steroid smuggled tea up to 120,000 taels of silver through Fujian sea ships for several years, and slowly the amount of private tea became larger and larger, and there were many contradictions between several of their fellow villagers, so he honestly started a medicinal material business after quitting. If it weren't for the fact that the fellow villagers who had cooperated with him reported and exposed him out of jealousy, the government would not know about it at all, because the goods inspected by the Minzhou City Bosi were mainly porcelain, silk, wine and weapons, this Wang Steroid was very smart, he every time he imported a large number of blue and white porcelain jars and porcelain bottles from Raozhou, Jiangxi, he did not press the tea into tea cakes, but stuffed loose tea into porcelain bottles and jars as filling. Every time in the city, the company honestly reported to the official according to the price of porcelain, but the tea was like straw and bean sprouts, and successfully evaded the inspection. Therefore, this is not a simple and clear case of illicit tea, strictly compared with the Daqi Law at that time, it is actually not easy to judge, Wang Steroid mentioned in his self-defense that those teas are just porcelain fillers rather than goods, and cannot be regarded as smuggled tea. In the judgment of Qiantang Fu Yin, it was written that if it was filling, it could not be regarded as goods, but the price of porcelain sold by Wang Steroid was one or even two times more expensive than that of the same goods. I think in fact, this is not a reason, the price of the sale is a good thing between the buyer and the seller, even if it is abnormal, it is not evidence, in fact, the core is that his fellow villagers handed over the tea sale account book. Because of this entanglement, the verdict in this illicit tea case does not seem to be serious. ”

Guo Langzhong listened and looked at it for a while and said: "This case is indeed more complicated, and this judgment is reasonable, especially Wang Lamb, who has been doing good deeds, donating money to more than a dozen good halls in Ganzhou, Qiantang, and Minzhou, and after doing the medicinal materials business, he also donated a large number of medicinal materials to the army stationed in the border, so you see that the general department of the military in Minzhou also came to intercede." ”

"This case was told to Luo Qiaoniang two years ago, whether it was intentional or unintentional, and who is Secretary Cheng of this mansion?" An Ying said: "This case is too coincidental. ”

"Secretary Cheng has been imprisoned, and I just read Secretary Cheng's resume, but there is no problem. Cheng Lu, Chinese New Year's Eve, before the age of twenty-two, he took four township examinations and failed, it should be that the trustee found a clerical job in Qiantang Mansion to make a living, and later became a small official in charge of execution, and Qinghe came to Huzhou to be a clerk because of the recommendation of the master of Shangfeng Guo Wei. Guo Langzhong said: "I have asked people to call Guo Wei and the current Huzhou master book to ask." What about Zheng Ping? Zheng Ping is only the manager of the Huzhou Tea Shop, and he should not know the details of the case in Qiantang Mansion, but he has only heard about it. ”

An Ying said: "Let's figure out the matter of Cheng Lu first, and then find Zheng Ping." I will immediately write these cases into a case file and send them to Master Su immediately. The more information he has, the more initiative he will have in the trial. ”