On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Zheng Ping had a banquet in Wuzhang Building, and a few days ago, several tea shops who were involved in prison because of tribute tea gathered together.

Zheng Ping came earlier than the others, after all, it was the main house, he chatted with the shopkeeper of Wuzhanglou for a while, and then went to the private room to prepare to go to the private room to sit and wait for someone, and as soon as he entered, he saw that An Ying was already there.

He walked over with a smile: "Miss An, are you here for the banquet today?" What about your father? The body is fine. ”

An Ying saluted and returned: "Father is fine, but after a walk in prison, this will not ease up." Unlike Zheng Daguan, who has hands and eyes all over the sky, he came out with all his beards and tails. ”

Zheng Ping sat down with a smile and said: "Today, we, the tea farmers in Huzhou, have a good gathering, and I will compensate everyone when the time comes." I heard that the case is almost over now, hasn't Miss An been helping in the Criminal Department, but what news do you know? ”

"I really have news." An Ying looked at Zheng Ping's face with a smile on his face, and continued: "I heard that in the eighth year of Yongkang, Master Zheng broke his leg in Shuanglin Village? ”

The smile on Zheng Ping's face suddenly closed halfway, and he became a strange expression that he wanted to laugh but didn't want to laugh, and he pulled the corners of his mouth: "What's the matter?" Isn't it just those tea trees in Shuanglin Mountain? I went to see it every year, and I accidentally broke my foot that year. ”

"I've been to Shuanglin Mountain. The tea trees of your Zheng family are all on the south side of the mountainside, which is not steep at all, and it is very flat. Tea farmers like us, who run on the mountains all year round, how can this kind of mountain break their legs and feet. ”

Hearing this, Zheng Ping lowered his face and said, "What nonsense do you girl, no matter how smooth the road is, you will fall." Wrestling in the mountains was nothing but an accident, what the hell do you want to say? ”

An Ying stood up and said as she walked: "I felt strange when I saw the account book of your purchase of medicinal herbs at the Shen family that day, but unfortunately there were too many things in the back and I ignored this matter. Recently, I asked the shopkeeper of the Shen family's pharmacy, and at that time, there was a doctor in their pharmacy in the entire Shuanglin Village, and they still remembered that you were Yao Chengli from Shuanglin Village who sent you. ”

Zheng Ping impatiently called Xiao Er to come over, and Xiao Er answered downstairs, but he didn't come in.

An Ying ignored Zheng Ping's restlessness and continued: "I also asked your Zheng family's guards and servants, after you went up the mountain that year, the Zheng family's guards didn't see you, and you broke your foot alone, because he was also fined silver money for this matter. I looked at the terrain of Shuanglin Mountain and the village, and if you went to see the twelve tea trees of your own family, your guards would never have noticed you. ”

Zheng Ping sneered, "It's just a guard's prevarication, why don't you believe him or not." That's a bit biased."

An Ying nodded, "That's true." It's also possible that the guards are lying. However, I have seen the location of Yao's house, at the foot of the north of Shuanglin Mountain. Do you know why Luo Youde arranged the venue for making tea to Yao's house? It is because of the location there that the idle villagers will not go over, and it is close to the tea plantation in Beishan, so it is convenient to transport it down. ”

"What is the tea plantation of Beishan? I don't even know what you're talking about? Zheng Ping's face sank, and he stood up abruptly and shouted: "Man, man, why haven't you come up yet." ”

"Master Zheng, don't worry. I'll be done right away. I think you should have climbed the North Mountain that day and saw the tea trees. The mountains there are steep and difficult for ordinary people to climb, so you fall and break your leg. And the place where Yao Chengli found you is behind his house, presumably you discovered the secret of the Yao family at that time. ”

"Nonsense, I don't know what you're talking about!" Zheng Ping looked at An Ying alone in the room, and then leaned back and lifted Erlang's legs.

"Yao Chengli has already recruited. He found you dying in his backyard that day, and he didn't want to take care of you, but you promised him a hundred taels of silver and begged him to save your life, so he risked being caught secretly making tea and rescued you home. He later sent you to Shuanglin Town for medical treatment, and you stayed for three months. ”

"Isn't it normal to break your muscles and bones for 100 days and recuperate for three months?"

"I asked the doctor at the time, you have skin injuries, in fact, you will basically recover after a month. Besides, most of the Zhengjia Tea Mountain is in Gu Zhu Mountain, you don't go there to watch it, but spend three months here, in fact, you have been wandering around Shuanglin Village, right? ”

"What proof is there for this? Besides, what's wrong with me wandering around? I can't take a break? Zheng Ping crossed Erlang's legs and said disdainfully.

"Then let's talk about another matter, do you know Cheng Lu, the secretary of the Huzhou Mansion?"

"I know, I know all the big and small officials of the Huzhou Mansion. Fu Yin and Shao Yin also ate together. What's wrong with this? ”

"Luo Qiaoniang mentioned that Cheng Lu often went to the tea shop to drink tea, and accidentally saw Cheng Lu take Daqilu back to copy it, and heard from him about the private tea case of Wang Steroid in Qiantang Mansion, only to feel that the punishment for private tea was not as heavy as she imagined, so she prompted her to expose He Qing."

"I don't understand what you're talking about, expose He Qing? Qiao Niang exposed He Zhizhou? ”

An Ying ignored Zheng Ping's pretending to be deaf and dumb, and continued: "But I know that Cheng Lu's family is poor, and he even has a careful budget for food, how can he go to the tea shop to eat tea from time to time, unless someone pays for him to go." In addition, Cheng Lu only does three-thirds of the work in the yamen, and he will never take his official work home to do it, he is afraid of spending the candles at home. Therefore, the so-called going home to copy the Great Enlightenment Law that day was just his deliberate arrangement. As for Wang Steroid's case, it is indeed a case of a light sentence for private tea, but there are other hidden secrets. Cheng Lu deliberately half-concealed and told Luo Qiaoniang that he deliberately misled Luo Qiaoniang into thinking that the punishment for illicit tea was not severe. ”

"What does all this have to do with me?" Zheng Ping looked disapproving.

"All of this is from you." An Ying saw Zheng Ping's fists clenched, afraid that he would suddenly make a move, so he deliberately walked to the other end.

"It's really nonsense, why did I mislead Qiao Niang, didn't she hurt me badly enough?" Zheng Ping smiled bitterly, looked at An Ying and said, "You girl, are you crazy, do you think you will push the case if you do some miscellaneous work in the mansion?" ”

An Ying ignored Zheng Ping's ridicule and continued: "Actually, when you went to Shuanglin Village in the eighth year of Yongkang, you had already discovered the Luo family's tea trees on the north side of Shuanglin Mountain. You stayed in Shuanglin Village for three months to find out the bottom of the Luo family, which is why you want to marry Luo Qiaoniang. Luo Youcai mentioned in the interrogation before that he had seen you wandering around his house, and he thought you were peeking at Luo Qiaoniang, but in fact you were observing the situation near Luo's house. ”

"Hmph, I'm about to be killed by Qiao Niang."

"After you found out the situation of the Luo family, you took the initiative to marry Luo Qiaoniang and let her take over your family's tea shop. This was originally the expectation of the Luo family and He Qing, Luo Qiaoniang not only managed the Zheng family's tea shop, but also made the Luo family's account books. Those account books are all in the Zheng family's tea warehouse, you have actually secretly seen that the Luo family's annual private tea flow goes from your Zheng family's tea shop. You are planning and arranging everywhere, which is to brainwash Luo Qiaoniang, so that she thinks that the sin of private tea is not big, if she comes forward to report and expose He Qing, once the incident happens, you can take advantage of the chaos to swallow the Luo family's disgraceful silver. ”

"Miss An, it's a pity that you don't write a drama with this brain." Zheng Ping ignored it.

An Ying glanced at him and continued: "It's just that you never thought that Luo Qiaoniang would use the method of poisoning Gongcha. Fortunately, she still remembered her husband and wife relationship with you, and deliberately framed you to get you away. You said that I had a big brain, but in fact, when I first started thinking about it, I also thought that I was thinking too much, until I heard that Cheng Lu's sister's family was making tea and lived in the north of the city, and I remembered your eldest daughter Zheng Ying. Your eldest daughter married a family that makes tea in the north of the city, and there are not many people who make tea in the north of the city, and it is clear that her mother-in-law is Cheng Lu's sister, and you and Cheng Lu are in-laws. ”

"At the beginning, I heard that you treated your eldest daughter Zheng Ying harshly for Luo Qiaoniang, and even got married from your uncle's house, and I felt that if you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather, although your character is poor, but there are more such people, so you don't think much about it. But when interrogating Luo Qiaoniang, she said that you take care of Zheng Ying's mother and even her mother's family, so I think you will be a good husband. This is very contradictory, how can he be affectionate to his ex-wife, even if his wife dies, he still takes good care of her mother's family, and at the same time treats the only daughter left by his ex-wife. ”

An Ying glanced at Zheng Ping, saw that his gloomy face bowed his head and was silent, and continued: "Until I confirmed that you and Cheng Lu are in-laws, I inquired about the situation of Zheng Ying's husband Ding Zhanqi. Although the Ding family is not a wealthy family, they can study for generations, Ding Zhanqi is young and famous, and his future is limitless. Although the tea shop of the Ding family sells coarse tea, I took a look, it is all the quality of tea from Guzhu Mountain in Huzhou, but the picking time is a little late, and it is all provided by your Zheng family's tea mountain, right? ”

Zheng Ping sneered, "It's still wrong for me to find a good son-in-law for my daughter." Besides, Luo Qiaoniang targets Ying'er everywhere, and it's normal for me to secretly subsidize my daughter. ”

An Ying replied: "Of course it's normal. What is not normal is the running water of the Ding family's tea shop. ”

Zheng Ping's face changed, and he suddenly rushed forward and reached out to grab An Ying. An Ying had already taken precautions, and one sideways dodged, but Zheng Ping stretched out his leg and hooked An Ying down. An Ying fell heavily to the ground, Zheng Ping grabbed An Ying's neck, and said with a hideous face: "You girl, what do you think is the use of you inquiring about this?" Which one is the evidence? Are you bluffing me? ”

At this moment, a few people rushed behind the screen in the private room, it was Su Huangzhe, Xiao Yi, Lao Guo and others, Xiao Yi kicked Zheng Ping away, Su Huangzhe helped An Ying up, and asked anxiously, "Are you okay?" An Ying shook her head.

Seeing this, Zheng Ping sneered a few times, "What are you doing?" Is there a confession? ”

Lao Guo: "Zheng Ping, you attempted to kill, so many people witnessed." You can't escape the crime of attempted murder. The other crimes will be determined after the criminal department has ascertained them. ”

An Ying touched his neck, thinking that this turned out to be fishing law enforcement, and Guo Langzhong was too good.

After Zheng Ping was escorted away, Su Huangzhe asked, "What is the situation with the running water of the Ding family's tea shop?" Didn't hear you mention it before? ”

An Ying drank the soup to moisten his throat and said: "I lied to him, I haven't checked the running water of the Ding family's tea shop, but I just feel that the shop in that place can't make money, but it has been open for a long time, so I think this shop is probably not to sell tea to make money, but a disguise." Then I thought that if Zheng Ping wanted to quietly embezzle money from the Luo family's accounts, the best way to settle the accounts was another set of innocent tea books, in this case, the Ding family tea shop was the best choice. It is estimated that Zheng Ping's idea of marrying his eldest daughter to the Ding family is also the same. ”

Xiao Yi on the side sighed with emotion: "Zheng Ping is so deep in the city, I thought he was just a stepfather with no conscience, and then I felt that he was deliberately paving the way for his daughter, and now I feel that he is just for himself." ”

An Ying said to Su Huangzhe: "I want to go and meet Luo Qiaoniang." ”

Su Huangzhe sighed: "I know. ”