"Who are you? How dare you come here to cause trouble!" Although the inspector was subdued by Mu Zhiyuan, he still showed off his official authority.

"Who am I? I am the biological parent who pays taxes to you!"

The officer on the side recognized Mu Zhiyuan and hurriedly lay on the ground and whispered in the inspector's ear: "Master Inspector, the one who beat you is Prince Mu."

When the inspector heard that it was Prince Jia, he immediately changed his face and said kindly: "My lord, please spare my life. I don't know what is good or bad, so please forgive me if you can."

When Mu Zhiyuan saw the old man knocking on the drum three times and being taken into the county government office by the yamen servants, he let go.

"When did you have such great power? When people complain about their grievances, they still have to go through a lot of procedures?"

"What you don't know, sir, is that it was stipulated by the newly appointed magistrate of Jingzhou. He thought there were too many private cases last quarter, so he asked us to screen them as required before hearing the cases. We also follow the procedures."

The inspector's words trembled slightly and his legs trembled, for fear of offending Mu Zhiyuan and losing his iron rice bowl of royal food.

Mu Zhiyuan did not intend to pursue the case any further, and there was no way he would pass the blame to the prince when he was appointed as the new magistrate.

He took the piece of paper and turned to look for Zhang Tou.

Inside the yamen, Zhang Tou heard the explosion on the street and was about to go out when he met Mu Zhiyuan.

After learning about the situation at the scene from Mu Zhiyuan, Captain Zhang accepted the note and took three detectives to the scene for verification.

Shu Xi and Lou Lan'er also had the grievance note in their hands, and they were also at a loss about the matter.

"Brother Mu, the shop is still busy. Lou Lan'er and I will go back to Lihua Town first. I'll keep this note for you."

After taking the note, Mu Zhiyuan turned around and entered the Yamen.

Back at Liuxiang Snacks, Xiaoqing, Zhang Xiucai and Lu Da were waiting for the guests calmly.

Xiaoqing's cooking skills have become independent. Mao Xi returned to the kitchen and made peach blossom jam with Xiaoqing.

After the peach blossom jam was boiled and canned, Mao Xi asked Xiaoqing to take it to the Liu Family Fruit Cake Shop.

Lou Lan'er helped knead the dough and talked with Shu Xi about what she had seen in Kaitang County today.

"Ah Shao, you said that there were so many love notes scattered beside the rice shop today. Didn't the murderer reveal his identity immediately?"

"No, it will be clear after this investigation which people are hired to work in the rice shop and who are not paid their monthly wages. However, the victim is not necessarily the person who did this. There may also be someone who works for those who suffer. Fight against injustice."

Listening to the chat between the two, Zhang Xiucai and Lu Da also became curious and asked Mao Xi.

Luda: "What happened in Kaitang County today? Another explosion somewhere?"

Lou Lan'er told everyone what happened. Because she was used to telling stories in the food shop, her voice was not consciously loud.

In the end, Lou Laner did not forget to conclude: "In short, in my opinion, there is no 'tiger monster' at all, but someone is warning the county government. Let's see how our county magistrate will serve the people in the future."

The diners in the shop also listened with interest and asked questions one after another.

"Lou Lan'er, did you pick up the love note scattered by the tiger demon lantern?"

"Is anyone injured in the Mipu explosion?"

"Bah! It's so troublesome to go to the Yamen to complain."

……

Lou Lan'er took out the note she left, held it up high and displayed it in front of everyone, and read out word for word:

"Chen Qingqingtian: The shopkeeper of the Xu family is in arrears with monthly payments! You can see clearly that there is no tiger demon at all. It is the people who are dissatisfied with the government for not accepting the case and want Chen Qingqingtian to redress their grievances!"

Seeing that Lou Lan'er was addicted to talking and talking more and more openly, Mao Xi hurriedly pulled her into the back room and warned her: "The government does not allow you to make arbitrary comments. Sister Lan'er, you should restrain yourself. Don't talk about the government." If you don’t take the case anymore, isn’t Brother Mu going to handle it?”

After the story was told, calm gradually returned to the restaurant, and today's incident spread in Lihua Town as the diners enjoyed their meals.

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe in tiger monsters. There have been a lot less people eating grilled squid and oysters in the past two days." The shop has not yet been sampled, so Ma Xi is studying new dishes while waiting for Mu Zhiyuan to return from Kaitang County. .

Inside the old house of the Sun family in Kaitang County.

Old man Sun was frying scallion pancakes and porridge at the stove, waiting for his son to come to him at noon.

When Mr. Sun heard the explosion, he was about to take Miss Zhou back home, but when he passed by the Sun family's old house, he smelled the aroma of Mao Xi's scallion pancakes.

Every day at noon, he would go to his old house to visit his father.

"Madam, please wait here while I go to visit my father first."

Miss Zhou insisted on going together: "Sir, I will go in with you."

As soon as Mr. Sun opened the door of Sun's house, a big man with a masked face walked out. When he saw Mr. Sun, he gave him a brief salute and then ran away.

Mr. Sun was shocked. He had never seen this person before. Judging from his figure, he guessed that he was his father's brother who used to work as a coolie.

"Father, who came to visit just now?"

"My old friend." Sun's father was drinking porridge and eating cakes when he saw Miss Zhou getting up to greet her.

Miss Zhou saluted and said, "Hello, father-in-law. Today, I went out to enjoy the peach blossoms with my husband. Unknowingly, I came to the old house. After we open the house and go out to live alone, we will take my father-in-law to live with my husband."

Sun's father knew that Miss Zhou was a sensible and honest person. He added two pairs of bowls and chopsticks to the dining table and asked, "Do you want to eat something here before going back?"

Miss Zhou had long been attracted by the smell of scallion pancakes, so she and Mr. Sun had a simple home-cooked meal at the Sun family's old house.

After learning that scallion pancakes were Mr. Sun's favorite food, he didn't forget to learn how to make pancakes from Mr. Sun after the meal.

"My craftsmanship is not as good as his mother's. My son's favorite food since childhood is the scallion pancakes made by his mother."

Miss Zhou made a large plate full of scallion pancakes and said, "Mr., I will make these scallion pancakes for you later."

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