Fenghou

When Wang Lianqing returned to the mansion, he seemed very preoccupied. He closed the study door and saw no one. At this time, his eldest son Wang Jian hurried to his father's study. Gently push the door open.

"Father, are you looking for me?"

The room was very dark, the thick curtains had been drawn down, and the setting sun outside cast thousands of rays without a trace entering the room. Wang Lianqing sat alone on a soft chair with a bleak expression, as if he had become very old all of a sudden.

"Come in!"

With a hoarse voice, Wang Lianqing pointed to a chair next to him, "Sit down!"

Wang Jian was confused, so he had to sit down obediently.

"How is the situation in Wenshui County?" Wang Lianqing asked.

Wang Jian was the magistrate of Wenshui County. Chen Qing dismissed all the officials in Taiyuan Prefecture, so Wang Jian had to go home.

"Father, I don't even know about the situation in Wenshui County."

"You go back tonight!" Wang Lianqing ordered.

"But the child is no longer..."

Wang Lianqing waved his hand, "I know you are not the county magistrate, but you are the parent official of Wenshui County after all, and you have responsibilities to your people. , Catch criminals and leave them to Xinzhi County. Before Xinzhi County takes office, you can’t just slap your ass and leave. You are already 36 years old. I shouldn’t let me teach you this kind of thing.”

Wang Jian was a little confused, it was obviously his father who asked him to come back, why did it change now?

"Father, why did you change again..." Wang Jian couldn't continue.

"Do you want to say that I changed the order day and night, that I asked you to come back, and now you are saying that you shouldn't come back?"

"Child dare not!"

"It was!"

Wang Lianqing smiled bitterly at himself and said, "I was confused. I didn't know that I was being used by others. I just realized it now."

"Father, what happened?"

Wang Lianqing sighed, "Zhang Yang and I went to see Chen Qing today."

Wang Jian said with a smile: "I should meet the gentry of Taiyuan Mansion!"

"Seeing that Chen Qing himself has no problem, when we talk to Chen Qing today, I also hope that Chen Qing will not dismiss all officials across the board, and also consider the feelings of the local gentry. He also promised to make Taiyuan Prefecture the same as other state capitals. Self-assessment first, there is nothing wrong with the meeting itself, the problem is that I did a stupid thing before, which suddenly turned the meeting into a threat to Chen Qing."

"What did father do?"

"I asked all the clerks and archers of the county magistrate to go back to work in the yamen, but none of the clerks in the government office were allowed to go back. This is to warn Chen Qing that Taiyuan government is under our control."

Wang Jian's expression changed, and he said in shock, "How could father do such a thing?"

Wang Lianqing sighed, "So I scolded myself for being stupid. I was used by Zhang Yang. It was obviously his idea, but he asked me to do it. Also, when we talked with Chen Qing, we said that we would test Chen Qing's attitude towards the officials of the Kingdom of Jin who surrendered." Attitude, Zhang Yang praised Chen Qing for being open-minded and tolerant, but I was a villain, saying that officials also had difficulties, etc. In the end, Chen Qing turned against me on the spot, saying that it was a matter of national integrity, and that he did not pursue it did not mean he Support surrender, you look stupid! This is what Zhang Yang wanted to say, but I said it out of my mouth, I blame me for being too stupid, this time I was cheated by Zhang Yang."

Wang Jian also felt that his father did something wrong, but he could no longer talk about his father, so he could only comfort him: "Father, my boy believes that Chen Qing will not draw conclusions after listening to a few words, and he will definitely send someone to investigate. Originally, our Wang family did not It's a big problem, and my father has long kept a distance from Zhang Yang, nothing will happen, father doesn't need to worry too much."

"Maybe I'm worrying too much. Well, you should hurry back to Wenshui County."

"The child is leaving first, father take care!"

Wang Jian saluted and retreated slowly.

Wang Lianqing was fidgeting, he finally took out a small wooden box from a box, opened it and looked at it for a while, then he sighed and put the wooden box back into the box.

Chapter 785 The Old Case

Wang Jian and several family members rode back to Wenshui County overnight. At dawn, the group finally arrived at Wenshui County. Vegetable farmers, next to a caravan, headed by a short, fat middle-aged man.

"Officer, should we call the door?" Several followers asked.

Wang Jian looked at the sky, shook his head and said, "The city gate will open soon, so it's okay to wait."

"It's Wang Zhi County!" Several vegetable farmers recognized Wang Jian.

Vegetable farmers shouted to the top of the city: "Quickly open the city gate, Wang Zhi County is here!"

Wang Jian quickly waved his hand, "Hey! Don't shout, it will open later."

At this time, the two yamen servants on the top of the city looked down, and it was true that Wang Zhixian had returned, and they quickly opened the city gate.

Vegetable farmers don't care about March 21, [-], they want to grab a good place to sell vegetables, they rushed in, a caravan clerk whispered: "Shopkeeper, the city gate is open, let's go in!"

The chunky middle-aged man was Zou Hong. He also rushed to Wenshui County overnight. Unfortunately, the city gate hadn't been opened yet, so they waited outside the city for half an hour.

Zou Hong was a little surprised. Haven't all the officials in Taiyuan Mansion been dismissed?Why is this Wang magistrate still alive?

He saw a few yamen servants surrounding the magistrate talking about something, they were very excited, so he walked forward slowly and listened carefully.

"Nothing happened in the county these two days, right?"

"Return to the county lord, with us watching, who dares to mess around with those bastards."

"Mr. County, have you been reinstated?"

"No! I'm just worried about the county. I'm afraid there will be trouble. Remember to continue to donate porridge tomorrow. Li Shan and the group of orphans in the Charity House. Go and see them. I won't be here for the next two days, so don't let anything happen."

"Let's go at dawn!"

Zou Hong nodded secretly. This county magistrate is good, and he still misses the lonely old man. Seeing that the other party looked at him suspiciously, he clasped his fists and said with a smile: "I just want to know how to get to Sanyuan Restaurant?"

Wang Jian pointed forward, "Go straight, it's on the left side of the road, and you'll see it after a mile or so."

"Thank you!"

Zou Hong bowed and saluted, then turned and left. Wang Jian looked strangely at the back of Zou Hong and his party, looking for Sanyuan Restaurant. Who were they?

Sure enough, after walking for a mile along the main road, Zou Hong saw Sanyuan Restaurant at a glance. The reason why he could see it at a glance was that this Sanyuan Restaurant was exactly the same as the Sanyuan Restaurant in Taiyuan City. The same is true, both are inscriptions by Prime Minister Zhang Dun, but this plaque is obviously a copy, and the original one is in the Sanyuan Restaurant in Taiyuan City.

Zou Hong shook his head. At the beginning of the year, he came to him to buy back the plaque. It turned out that the original owner had done a fake show.

The restaurant has already opened, and several clerks are cleaning in the lobby. A clerk came up to greet him with a smile and said, "The small restaurant does not serve breakfast, so you have to go to the opposite side for breakfast."

Zou Hong turned his head and saw that there was a steamed bun shop on the opposite side of the street, surrounded by people buying breakfast, and it seemed that they could still dine in.

Zou Hong said to several of his subordinates: "Go and have breakfast first, and leave me alone!"

Several subordinates led the donkeys past, and then Zou Hong clasped his fists to the waiter and said, "I came from Taiyuan City. If I have urgent business with your proprietor, you should tell him that someone from Taiyuan Sanyuan Restaurant is here."

The guy's expression changed all of a sudden, and he ran away, and heard him shouting from a distance, "Proprietor, the debt collector you fear the most is here."

Not long after, a tall, thin, middle-aged man came out. It was Yan Changli, the proprietor. He had approached Zou Hong at the beginning of the year, and he clasped his fists in a salute and said, "It turns out that the shopkeeper Zou is here, please come in!"

The two came to the backyard and sat down in the shopkeeper's room. Yan Changli poured him tea again and asked, "Why did shopkeeper Zou come here alone?"

"There are also a few guys who have breakfast on the opposite side."

"Ah! I said why no guests came to have breakfast. It turned out that these guys were lazy and drove all the guests away."

Yan Changli was really annoyed and said: "I will take care of them later."

"Your restaurant also provides breakfast?"

"No, we can provide dine-in food! There are so many small shops selling breakfast around. If the customer wants to eat, the buddy will help you buy it. What I want is the customer!"

Zou Hong secretly praised Yan Changli's ability to do business, and he said lightly: "I came here this time to find Dongzhu Yan, so I will speak openly and honestly!"

Yan Changli was really a little nervous and said: "Is it about the restaurant's signboard? Let's discuss it! We can pay for it."

"It's not a restaurant brand, you misunderstood."

Zou Hong took out a waist card and put it on the table, "This is my identification card. I am actually an officer of the Intelligence Department of the Western Army. I was ordered to open a restaurant in Taiyuan to collect information."

"Ah!" Yan Changli was so frightened that he stood up, bowed quickly and said, "I don't know, Master Zou, please forgive me!"

"Sit down, I don't blame you, I just want to help you, you are lucky, our county king is very concerned about your affairs."

"Junwang?" Yan Changli was a little confused.

"It's the county king Chen Qing, you know, last time you mentioned his name, I hope he will call Taiyuan quickly and lower the price."

Yan Changli was terrified, fortunately he didn't speak ill of the county king last time, otherwise he would be finished.

"You mean, the county king pays attention to me?"

"To be precise, the county king is concerned about your case."

Zou Hong got up and closed the door, came back to sit down again, and said in a low voice: "The king of the county wants to clean up Zhang Yang, and needs to investigate several major cases, and the case of occupying Sanyuan Restaurant is one."

Yan Changli was very timid and fearful, he waved his hands repeatedly in shock, "Master Zou, please let me go! I'm such a lowly person, I can't afford to offend the Zhang family!"

Zou Hong's face sank, "The king of the county wanted to avenge you, but you retreated. Are you afraid of offending the king of the county?"

"Ah! Xiaomin dare not! Dare not!"

Zou Hong seduced him again: "Think about it, how miserable your son died, don't you want to avenge him? Let him die in peace, and don't you want to take Sanyuan Restaurant back? It's your ancestral property! Your grandfather's life's work."

Tears flowed from Yan Changli's eyes, and his voice choked up, "Why don't I want to avenge my son, I want to kill that villain even in my dreams!"

"The Zhang family has done a lot of evil. It's not that they don't want to report it. The time has not come. Now is your chance to take revenge. Dongzhu Yan, be brave. Your son is watching you from heaven!"

Yan Changli wiped away his tears and said, "Just now you said that I can still get Sanyuan Restaurant back?"

"Of course, my mission is over. The Sanyuan Restaurant is meaningless to us. If the Zhang family is killed, the restaurant will of course return to its original owner. You don't need to pay a penny. We will get back the money we spent on buying the restaurant from the Zhang family."

Yan Changli nodded, "Tell me! What do you need me to do?"

Zou Hong took a stack of white paper, picked up a pen, dipped it in ink and said, "From the beginning, let's talk about the whole process of occupying Sanyuan Restaurant."

"Actually, it's not complicated. About three years ago, Zhang Yang's youngest son, Zhang Tie, sent someone to me and offered to buy my Sanyuan Restaurant. Of course, I refused straight away. How could I sell my ancestral business? Later, he sent people to look for me three times. , the price was lower than the previous one, and the last time I asked for a penny, I felt bad, so I begged him not to go to the restaurant again, and I would give him a thousand pennies as an apology.

He didn't say anything, and then two days later my son disappeared, and two days later, his men came into the store with my son's head, saying that the restaurant must be handed over before dark, otherwise my two will be next Grandson, I will be the next one to wipe out the Yan family.

I was terrified at the time, and hurriedly handed over the land and store deeds of the restaurant to his subordinates, begging them to spare my grandson. "

"And then?" Zou Hong asked through gritted teeth.

Yan Changli wiped away his tears and said: "It's still not enough, Zhang Tie said that I promised to give him [-] guan in compensation, so I had no choice but to ask Mr. Wang..."

"Wang Lianqing?"

"Yes! It's him. I begged him to help mediate. My father had a little friendship with him. He agreed. In the end, the Zhang family let me go because of Wang Daguan's face. Then I gave Zhang Tie four thousand coins as an apology. , because Zhang Tie approached me four times and slapped him four times, each time with [-] yuan."

"go on!"

"Then this matter is over. Mr. Wang asked me to move to Wenshui County with my old wife and two grandchildren."

"Wait, you're not from Wenshui County?"

"No, I'm from Yangqu County, because Wang Zhixian of Wenshui County is the son of Wang Daguan, and he is currently the magistrate of Wenshui County. If the Zhang family makes trouble again, Wang Zhixian can help me."

"Will the Zhang family trouble you again?"

"Zhang Tie won't, but all of his subordinates are villains and hooligans. Sanyuan Restaurant has been open for decades, and I have some savings. Those villains probably won't let me, a cowardly fat sheep, go."

Zou Hong nodded, and asked again: "Who killed your son, I mean the person who did it."

Yan Changli gritted his teeth and said: "The person who brought my son's head to the door should be one of them. His name is Ge Wu, and everyone calls him Fifth Brother. He is one of Zhang Tie's confidant killers. He has done so many outrageous things. "

At this moment, a clerk came running outside and said, "Proprietor, the magistrate Wang is here and wants to see you!"

Chapter 786 Fake Death

Zou Hong put away the records, stood up and said to Yan Changli, "You'd better come back to Taiyuan with me now."

Yan Changli nodded, "I'll clean up."

Yan Changli turned and walked out, Zou Hong said again, "Don't reveal my identity!"

"I know!"

Yan Changli and Zou Hong came to the lobby quickly, only to see Wang Jian, the magistrate, with several yamen servants, questioning Zou Hong's subordinates.

Yan Changli hurried up to meet him, "Why is the county lord here?"

"Passing by here, let's take a look at Yan Dongzhu."

Wang Jian chuckled, his eyes fell on Zou Hong, and he asked with a smile, "Dongzhu Yan, who is this?"

"He is Zou Da, the shopkeeper of Taiyuan Sanyuan Restaurant, and he asked me to talk about the transfer of the signboard."

"So that's how it is. I have something to do if Master Yan can go to the county government office at noon."

Yan Changli was a little confused: "I'm not going to lie to the county lord, I'm going to Taiyuan with shopkeeper Zou Da soon, can I go to the county lord when I come back?"

Wang Jian was really annoyed. If he had sent a word like usual, Yan Changli would immediately run to the county government office. If he hadn't supported him, would his new restaurant be able to open?

Now that he is not the county magistrate, he immediately ignores himself?