Hope for luck

Chapter 483
In the 17th year of Tianfeng, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

Gao Pan and his wife, who just came back from Shen's house, saw a tall boy standing in the east courtyard.

When the boy turned around, Gao Pan and his wife realized that this tall boy was actually Gao Ming.

After Gao Ming saw Gao Pan, he was very pleasantly surprised, and hurried to Gao Pan to salute and say hello:

"Fifth brother, you are finally back, I miss you!"

Gao Pan raised his hand and first introduced Shen Jinhua beside him:

"I haven't seen you in half a year, and you've grown taller again... Come on, let me introduce you, this is your fifth sister-in-law."

After speaking, Gao Pan looked at Shen Jinhua again, and talked about Gao Ming's identity.

Shen Jinhua had met Gao Ming a long time ago, and when she first met Gao Ming, she was just Gao Pan's follower.

When we met again this time, he was already an important assistant beside Gao Pan, and he was also the seventh young master of Gao's family. Shen Jinhua did not dare to underestimate him and gave Gao Mingfu a gift.

This made Gao Ming's face instantly flushed, and he was at a loss. Shen Jinhua was so polite and beautiful, so Gao Ming didn't know how to return the greeting.

Gao Pan saw Gao Ming's embarrassment, and hurriedly smoothed things over, and asked Shen Jinhua to go back to the backyard first, while he took Gao Ming out of the house and came to Baiheju.

Someone arranged a private room, and ordered a table of good wine and good food, and the two brothers began to chat about old times.

Gao Pan said happily:
"I can't see it, but I haven't seen you for half a year. You, the section chief of Dantang County of the intelligence station, are becoming more and more like that. When did you come back? Why didn't I hear any news?"

Gao Ming drank a glass of wine on his own first, then he laughed:
"Hey, I deliberately told them not to tell you. I just wanted to surprise you, brother five, but I didn't expect that when you came back yesterday, you took sister-in-law five to Shen's house. You didn't surprise me!"

After Gao Pan listened, he couldn't laugh or cry:
"I'm also very happy now...By the way, since you're back, where's Brother Yujun? Has he arrived home?"

Gao Pan asked Gao Ming to assist Xie Yujun, and Gao Ming was allowed to come back only after Xie Yujun completely controlled the situation.

Earlier, Gao Pan had just received the news that he was going to investigate Xie Yujun and give him a promotion. Unexpectedly, Gao Ming had already returned after this meeting.

And Gao Ming didn't hide anything, he replied carelessly:

"I came back with Big Brother Xie. By the way, he also said that this time I'm coming back to prepare for a big wedding and marry my big sister!"

Hearing Gao Ming talk about this, Gao Pan felt a little distressed in his heart, but after thinking about it, he knew that the deal was done and could not be changed, so he felt a little better in his heart.

But as long as he thinks about calling Xie Yu the eldest brother-in-law, Gao Pan can't help feeling a little melancholy in his heart.

After taking a sip of wine on his own, Gao Pan looked at Gao Ming again and said:

"Very good. It seems that you are doing pretty well in Dantang County. Tell me, what have you done for him in the past six months?"

Seeing Gao Pan's praise and recognition, Gao Ming was overjoyed, and opened his mouth to talk about some "big things" he had done for Xie Yujun in the past six months.

Such as tracing the murderer, investigating the squire who evaded measurement, investigating corruption within the county government, and so on.

Gao Pan didn't care much about some of the things Gao Ming said earlier, but Gao Pan's face changed slightly when he heard that Xie Yujun was investigating corruption within the county government.

Then he asked Gao Ming seriously what was going on, Gao Ming thought that Gao Pan didn't believe it, so he talked about it in detail.

It turned out that although Xie Yujun had listened to Gao Pan's advice, when he heard someone testify to him that someone was taking naka to fill their own pockets, Xie Yujun was furious.

Mingli asked his own people to investigate, secretly asked Gao Ming to investigate, and soon found out that the biggest corrupt person was the county magistrate Deng Wenshan!
After Xie Yujun knew the result, he strictly ordered Gao Ming not to tell anyone, including Gao Pan, and he privately handed over all the criminal evidence under his control to the prefect of Shangning Prefecture.

As a result, of course, Deng Wenshan was stripped of his official position and thrown into a prison, awaiting the final review by the Ministry of Officials.

After Gao Pan heard the news, he was horrified, looked at Gao Ming firmly and asked:

"Confused! Why didn't you tell me such a big thing? Deng Wenshan is a good official, you..."

Seeing that Gao Pan seemed to be about to beat him, Gao Ming couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly got up, bowed his waist and said:
"I'm sorry, Fifth Brother. At that time, Brother Xie said that Deng Wenshan committed a heinous crime. I thought it would be good for such a corrupt person to be sentenced. At least he would be worthy of the people of Dantang County. That's why I didn't tell you."

Gao Pan patted the table heavily, and angrily said:
"Fart! Deng Wenshan has always been an honest person. If he hadn't supported me back then, I wouldn't have been able to control the situation so quickly. Let me ask you, how much money did he embezzle?"

After Gao Ming heard this, he replied tremblingly:

"Brother Xie said that it was 500 taels, and it was obtained from measuring the corruption in the fields. The evidence is solid and true!"

This made Gao Pan calm down in an instant. 500 taels is not too much, and it is not too much. The combined salaries of all officials in the entire Dantang county government in one year are just that much.

Could it be that after Deng Wenshan was promoted, he became corrupt?

Later, Gao Pan denied this observation in his heart, and he still knew Deng Wenshan from the bottom up.

If it wasn't for him at the beginning, Deng Wenshan wouldn't even have the right to speak, and after Deng Wenshan got close to him, Gao Pan would see every move he made, and he was by no means a corrupt person.

Thinking of this, Gao Pan asked again:
"Do you know when Deng Wenshan will be brought to the capital's Criminal Department for inspection?"

Gao Ming thought for a while, then frowned and said:

"I heard it was the end of the first lunar month, but I don't know when it is... Fifth brother, do you think Deng Wenshan was wronged?"

Gao Pan nodded with a gloomy face:

"Deng Wenshan is a man, I am still clear, he can't be corrupt... You can tell the whole thing again, don't miss half of it!"

Seeing this, Gao Ming didn't dare to disobey, so he said it again.

"...By the way, I remember that when Deng Wenshan was arrested, many small officials in the county government spoke for Deng Wenshan. They said that the money was originally intended to be a reward for them, not that Deng Wenshan himself was greedy for money, thank you The eldest brother is stern and selfless, thinking that being greedy is greedy and should be punished!"

After listening to Gao Ming, Gao Pan still didn't understand what was going on. Deng Wenshan was not greedy for himself at all, but just to pay a little hard work for the many low-level people in the county government.

After all, Dantang County has experienced various things in the past year, and the tax on summer grain and autumn grain has been doubled, so everyone should be rewarded.

500 taels may seem like a lot, but if it is distributed to the people in the county government, it will only be a few taels, which is nothing, but Xie Yujun actually blamed Deng Wenshan for all the crimes, which made Gao Pan feel a little unacceptable.

He had persuaded Xie Yujun a long time ago, sometimes it is rare to be confused, such innocuous 'welfare' should be given, after all, many officials below have to support their families, a few taels of silver is not much, but it is enough to be happy field.

(End of this chapter)