Chapter 240: Showing the Horse's Feet
"Poof...... Hahaha!"
Mu Jiaojiao laughed directly when she heard this. She hurriedly pushed Cui Pu: "I really didn't expect that you will also be disgusted by the little ladies one day." Dare to ask the county master, how do you feel now?"
"I want to kill. Cui Pu gritted his teeth.
Without thinking too much, he knew that it must have been the Jiang family's incident that spread outside. It's just that he hasn't heard any of these news in the county, but it has spread all over the world. Needless to say, someone must have done it on purpose!
Moreover, he deliberately spread the news to Liujia Village, and in the past few days, the news has been so hot that the whole village has avoided him, which is obviously deliberately provoking the relationship between him and the people, making everyone disgusted with him and not cooperating with him.
Anyone who can come up with such a poisonous plan can be punished!
It's just that no matter how much he asked, Li Zheng only said that it came from Linzhen, but they didn't know who exactly got it. Cui Pu can only give up for the time being.
Originally, they also brought sweet potatoes dug up in the greenhouse, and planned to make all kinds of food for the villagers to taste, so that they could truly realize the benefits of this thing. It's just that as it stands, their plan has been aborted.
No, Cui Pu had to ask someone to divide the sweet potato into one point and give each family a small portion.
Just as he was about to call Li Zheng to turn around and send it from house to house, he heard a weak voice at the door: "Excuse me, has the county master arrived?"
hurriedly looked over, and saw that it was Liu Sanxiao and his wife and three little dolls standing at the door, looking at it with a cautious face.
Finally showed him a few little ladies of normal age!
Cui Pu was suddenly extremely excited, and quickly stood up: "This county has already arrived!"
Liu San's family hurriedly walked in and knelt down in front of Cui Pu: "Our husband and wife specially brought their children to kowtow to the county lord and his wife! Since the county lord returned the innocence of our husband and wife, our life is getting better and better, all thanks to the selflessness of your grandfather and the county lord! We have been thinking of going to the county to kowtow to you, but we are afraid that the county lord will be too busy and disturb you to do things. Today, we heard that you are here, so we hurried over with our children!"
As he spoke, the family began to kowtow with a bang.
The couple can be real. Cui Pu hurriedly called someone to help them up.
Liu San and his wife were still grateful, and they kept saying thank you. Even the three little dolls looked at them with admiration on their faces, and there was no fear on their faces.
These children didn't run away when they saw him! Especially the little lady who was very smart, Cui Pu was secretly surprised: "These days, you must have heard a lot of rumors about this county, right? Aren't you afraid?"
"We're not afraid! Those are all bad people's slander, county master, you are not such a person at all!" Liu San hurriedly shook his head like a rattle, "You just came to Tianchang County, you can pay a private visit, and you don't have the slightest frame of being an official; later, you are not afraid of power to make decisions for the people; in the past year, you have built new water conservancy projects for all parts of the county, and you have also paid for the people's vegetables to add meat, so that we can eat enough every day." How could a person like you, who is bent on making our lives better, deliberately do something that separates the wives of the people? Therefore, I have long decided that this matter must have been deliberately slandered by someone with a heart! It is because they are jealous that you are too capable of the county master, but they themselves do not have that ability, so they can only slander you in terms of personal morality!"
"It's just that we never believed it. The rest of the people in the village were only temporarily blinded by other people's words, and after a while, when the rumors were cleared up, everyone would know that you were a good county master, and the big guy still believed you!" Mrs. Liu San also stumbled.
The three little dolls nodded their heads like pounded garlic.
Cui Pu was so moved.
Although he had already thought of these things as they said. It's just that such words come out of the mouths of these simple people, which are extraordinarily convincing, making his heart, which has been hit by various blows recently, seem to be shone by the warm sun, and immediately resurrect on the spot full of blood!
He quickly nodded: "You're right. The county is doing the right thing, and it is not afraid of any rumors! Now if they want to arrange the county, they can arrange it as they please, and the county is not afraid!"
Then, he insisted on leaving Liu San's family to eat.
The main course of this meal is naturally sweet potato.
Sweet potato cakes, sweet potato balls, shredded sweet potatoes, sweet potato porridge, sweet potato steamed buns, sweet potato glutinous rice fruits...... The sums of money came up, which made Liu San and his wife dumbfounded.
"County master, this and this...... These are all the food you plan to make from the things we planted?" asked Liu San in a low voice.
Cui Pu bowed his head and personally sandwiched a piece of shredded sweet potato for him: "You try this, whether it's delicious or not." ”
"It's delicious, it's glutinous and sweet, sweeter than the best dim sum I've ever eaten in town!" The dishes that the county magistrate personally sandwiched were naturally extremely precious to the people of Pingtou, and the taste was automatically increased countless times, Liu San hurriedly praised it.
Cui Pu was happy, so he asked Xiao Si'er to clip everything to their family. Coupled with the other dishes on the table, the family has a round stomach.
After eating enough, Cui Pu also wrapped the rest of the dishes and took them home to continue eating. Liu San's family was even more grateful, and almost knelt down for them before going out.
With the encouragement of this family, Cui Pu's morale was high again. After roasting the remaining sweet potatoes and distributing them to other families in the village, he took Mu Jiaojiao back.
Because the cultivation of sweet potatoes is very important, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Wu have to stay in Liujia Village to guide them in person. And Mr. Zhang is indeed a talent, and soon after observing sweet potatoes up close, he proposed a method that can be planted separately using vines, which is much lighter than the method of cultivating seedlings of sweet potatoes that Mu Jiaojiao used years ago. In this way, they can plant sweet potatoes on most of the dry land under the name of Liujia Village without too much effort.
When he returned to the county, Cui Pu immediately called the squire from the town of Wuxing Town. When the squire learned that he was going to ask about it, he immediately kicked the ball out, saying that the news came from Linxian.
Cui Pu sent another post to the magistrate of Linxian County, inviting him to come over and feast with sweet potatoes.
Linxian and Huangzhi counties were invited. When the wine was hot, Cui Pu naturally mentioned this matter again. Huang Zhixian put down his wine glass when he heard this: "As early as after receiving your letter from Cui Zhixian, I already guessed that you would definitely ask about it." That's right, this matter did come from our county, and when I first heard about it, I was shocked, and hurriedly sent someone to investigate, and guess what? Someone first spread the news in the teahouse, and then spread it like this. As for the person who first spread the news, I also asked someone to look for him, and it turned out that he had only stayed in the county for less than ten days, spread the news, and left! ”
This is already the ultimate that others can do for him, and they are not obliged to help him clear his name. Cui Pu took the portrait, thanked him, and toasted Huang Zhixian.
Full of wine and food, Huang Zhixian couldn't help touching his stomach and sighed: "This sweet potato is indeed a good thing, it can make so many delicious things." If you can really cultivate successfully, then Cui Zhixian will have a great credit for you this time!"
"Since Huang Zhixian is interested, why don't I also share some of your seedlings, and you can take them back and find a place to plant them?" Cui Pu smiled, "Let's plant them in two counties together, if they are all planted, it will be a double credit!"
"Then forget it!" Who knew that as soon as he heard this, Huang Zhixian hurriedly waved his hand, "The spring plowing matters in this county have been arranged, and the people are even ready to plant seedlings and seedlings, and they will wait for the next planting in the past two days, where is there any vacant land to plant this?
Next year, at this time next year, he will either have succeeded, then the sweet potato will naturally be promoted to the entire Yangzhou City, and Linxian County is also included. Either he fails, then there is no need to mention it.
Huang Zhixian said that the next year was simply a euphemistic refusal.
Cui Pu has long been used to being hit. Since the other party disagreed, he didn't say more, and talked to Huang Zhixian about other things.
It was only in the second half of the year when Liujia Village had a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes and became famous in one fell swoop, and Cui Pu's reputation became famous all over the country, that Huang Zhixian began to feel heartbroken and regretted not being at the beginning.
And now, after eating, Cui Pu sent Huang Zhixian away, and returned to Mu Jiaojiao with the portrait.
Mu Jiaojiao unfolded the portrait and looked at it: "The person above this has a mediocre face, and there is no special mark on his face, just a public face." Just take this picture and go to our county to grab a handful, how can you find this?"
"Isn't this the effect that the people who spread the rumors want? it not only smeared my reputation, but also made me unable to catch the culprit, so I can only endure this breath so stubbornly!" Cui Pu said angrily.
"Not necessarily. Mu Jiaojiao shook her head suddenly.
Cui Pu's eyes widened suddenly: "Do you have a way?"
"Not yet. Mu Jiaojiao shook her head.
Cui Pu immediately became deflated again.
However, once a person is complacent, he will inevitably get carried away. Now that they have tarnished your reputation in Linxian, they must be proud of the fact that they have done it very successfully, and you are powerless to do anything. And if you have been indifferent to this, but your affairs are getting more and more hot, they will also be anxious, then they will definitely not stop smearing you. And as long as they do it, the more they do it, there will always be some clues left. Mu Jiaojiao said slowly.
"That's right!" Cui Pu suddenly realized, and quickly hugged her and kissed her hard, "It's still my lady who is smart!
He hurried out.
Half a month later, sure enough, there was more and more exciting news in another county. It's just that the person who spread the news was so shrewd that he slipped away from the people who were ambushed there by Cui Pu.
A month later, news broke out in another county.
Another month, another county......
Faced with such a passive beating situation, Cui Pu's mood was also the same as this hot weather, and he was so irritable that he couldn't explode.
And in June, an unsigned letter was handed to Mu Jiaojiao.
Mu Jiaojiao took a look, and suddenly his eyes darkened, and he ordered Hongdou: "Go and invite Lang Jun over." ”
Cui Pu has been angry for a long time. But as soon as he saw her, his face still looked much better: "I'm so anxious to find me, but what's the matter?"
Mu Jiaojiao handed him the letter. "Look at this. ”
Cui Pu took it and looked at it, and immediately sneered: "Okay, you can find their clues for me!"
Mu Jiaojiao bowed: "This person is really getting bolder." It's not enough to spread rumors everywhere to slander your reputation, and now you are actually using your name to write a letter to the prefect of Yangzhou and the history of Yangzhou assassination. As a result, he didn't properly investigate what the relationship between the Cui family and Yangzhou Assassin Shi was! These two people, do you need you to make a sycophant?"
"Now, pack up your things, let's go to Shouchun to visit the second sister's family!" Cui Pu immediately said.
"Okay!" Mu Jiaojiao immediately agreed.
"By the way, and the owner of this letter, you'd better find out. Mu Jiaojiao reminded him. Even if it's just a few words of reminder, it's extremely important to them. And the identity of those who can learn the news so quickly must not be simple. Although I don't understand what this person's purpose is for helping them, they have always been people who will be quick to repay their kindness. So the identity of the benefactor, they must figure it out.
"Do you still need to say this?" Cui Pu smiled at her.