The return of the son-in-law

Shi Guogan hit a soft nail on Guo Zhanan's side the first day, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, but he couldn't find any mistakes in Guo Zhanan to make a big fuss.

When the anger subsided, Shi Guogan suddenly thought of the files that had not been collected in time, and hurriedly called to Wang Jiusan: "Go, put away all the files in the cabinet on the left! If Guo Zhanan asks, just say that someone has borrowed them!"

According to the rules of the imperial court, these files could never be taken away from the house where they were located, but most of the people obeyed. After all, when needed, it might take several days to check these files.Staying in the same room for days on end is something most people don't want to do.And as long as the dossier is put back later, no one will pursue it.

Wang Jiusan took the order, hurried over, and saw Guo Zhanan sitting in front of the table in the room, looking at the file in his hand with great interest, and there was a stack of papers on one side of the table, the top one had several lines. The ink was still wet, so it was obviously written not long ago.

Guo Zhan'an heard the noise, raised his head, found that it was Wang Jiusan, and said without getting up, "What's the matter?"

Wang Jiusan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Hello, Mr. Guo, I'm sorry to bother you. Actually, it's nothing serious. My lord wanted to see some files, so he asked me to look for them."

Guo Zhanan nodded, said "Please go ahead", then looked down at the file again.

Wang Jiusan snorted, and looked down on Guo Zhan'an very much, he was just a small county magistrate, how dare he take Joe when he came to Xuzhou?I really don't know how much I weigh!

He didn't bother to please Guo Zhan'an, and took away all the files from the shelf on the left according to Shi Guogan's instructions.

"Why are there two missing?" Shi Guogan asked Wang Jiusan with narrowed eyes after checking all the files brought back by him.

Wang Jiusan's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly said, "My lord, I did follow your instructions and brought all the files from the shelf on the left."

"How could it be all the dossiers!" Shi Guogan was furious, "Three dossiers are missing here!"

Wang Jiusan suddenly thought of the file that Guo Zhanan was looking at. If he remembered correctly, there seemed to be some other files on the table!

"Yes, yes, yes, Mr. Guo is reading those files!"

When Shi Guogan heard this, his hand trembled, and the file in his hand almost fell off: "Has he read it?"

Wang Jiusan knew that something was wrong, but he could only answer honestly: "I should have read it. I remember that there were still some things written on the paper."

Shi Guogan yelled "No!" He walked back and forth in the house a few times, and finally ordered anxiously: "Forget about these files for now, you immediately take someone to take the family of Xu Laowu who lives in the south. Drive away. Remember, you must not let anyone notice, and you must pretend that Xu Lao Wu's family left by themselves. Do you understand!"

As soon as he heard the name, Wang Jiusan knew that something was wrong, he nodded quickly and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I'll go right away!"

When Wang Jiusan left, Shi Guogan hid those files carefully, and just wanted to go to Guo Zhanan, but then he thought, what can he say after he has gone there?Don't fool Guo Zhan'an by that time, but confess yourself!

Today he found out that this Guo Zhan'an is not a good person, even if his eyes and mouth are poisonous, his heart is still dirty!When dealing with him in the future, you must be full of energy!

Who is this Old Fifth Xu?What is the intersection with Shi Guogan?I am afraid that apart from Xu Laowu, only Shi Guogan and Wang Jiusan knew about it.

At that time, Shi Guogan had just been in office for a full year, and he had also established a relationship with the fourth prince Li Shaojin. He was full of ambitions, and he was almost a local emperor walking sideways in Xuzhou.

However, with Li Shaojin supporting him, he is bound to get some benefits from him.Shi Guogan also knew this well, but he never expected that Li Shaojin would ask him to be greedy for Mo's military salary to support his own private soldiers!What's worse, Li Shaojin directly raised his private soldiers near Xuzhou!

Shi Guogan once wanted to persuade Li Shaojin, but he didn't ask for anything else, he just hoped that Li Shaojin would not place his private soldiers near Xuzhou, so that he would have no room for defense after the matter fell through.It's just that Li Shaojin's kick on his heart made him realize that he was just a running dog of Li Shaojin.

He has been on Li Shaojin's boat for too long, if he wants to get off the boat, it will be a dead end.In desperation, Shi Guogan had no choice but to take the risk and embezzle part of the military salary.

At the beginning, Shi Guogan was still timid, and there was a general watching by his side, so he could only carefully covet a small amount of military pay.Of course, this made Li Shaojin very dissatisfied. After being furious, Shi Guogan returned to Xuzhou with his whole body covered in bruises, and dared to embezzle the military salary for the second time.

Gradually, Shi Guogan discovered that in Xuzhou, no one dared to take care of him; and the judge had been bought by money, and never fulfilled his responsibilities and powers; Someone will be sent to check the account.

The bad thing is that Xu Laowu.

Xu Laowu was the clerk in the Xuzhou military camp at that time, and all the military salaries sent to the military camp had to be counted by the deputy general and the clerk, and then recorded by the clerk.Xu Laowu was careful, even though Shi Guogan was careful and cautious, and the amount of military pay for greedy ink was not large, he was still discovered by Xu Laowu.

In fact, it is also very simple. The military salary sent to the military camp is a certain amount every quarter. There has not been a large number of personnel changes in the military camp recently, and I have never heard of reducing soldiers. Why is the military salary sent less than usual? Five thousand stones?You must know that the Xuzhou military camp is very important because it directly faces Tatar harassment. There are a total of 5000 people in the military camp, and [-] shi of food is not enough to eat on weekdays. ?

After discussing with the deputy general of the military camp at that time, Xu Lao Wu reported it to the general Fang Weiqing at the time. Under the latter's instruction, he and the deputy general investigated secretly together. Not long after, the clue pointed to Shi Guogan.

What I never expected was that there were several people in the barracks who were all from Li Shaojin.No matter how careful Xu Lao Wu and the deputy general were, they still noticed it.

After Li Shaojin found out, he knew that this matter must not be exposed, so he asked his own people to tell Fang Weiqing the false information.Fang Weiqing only thought that Tatar was coming, so he sent troops to fight.In the end, Li Shaojin was so mad that he even sent his own private soldiers to pretend to be Tatars, and cooperated with the people he had placed in the barracks, and wiped out all those troops, leaving only one small soldier——Xu Laowu's alone. Thai.

Afterwards, those people put all the crimes on Xu Tai, and found Tatar's letter from him—of course, this was also planted by Li Shaojin to Xu Tai.The evidence was conclusive, Xu Tai couldn't argue with a hundred words, and directly beheaded in public in the barracks.

As Xu Tai's father and the clerk of the military camp, Xu Lao Wu was inevitably implicated.But fortunately, he has worked hard for more than 20 years and has a good reputation in the military camp. No one else can find fault, so Fang Weiqing dismissed his clerk and let him go home to retire.

But where can there be old people to support?The only son died for no apparent reason, and his head was still hanging in the barracks for three days and three nights. Finally, all the corpses were thrown into the abyss.The wife at the head of the family cried so much that her eyes were almost blind because of her son's incident, and she couldn't see anything at night.And because of Xu Tai's incident, Xu Laowu and his wife can be said to be in the same situation as rats crossing the street in Xuzhou. No one looks down on them, and no one is willing to help.

In desperation, Xu Laowu can only make a living by pouring Yexiang, and Xu Laowu's wife, Aunt Xu, can only barely earn some copper coins by washing clothes for others.

It's not that Xu Lao Wu has never thought about leaving this place, but the crime of his son's death is like a shackle, tormenting him all the time.Xu Tai is his son. He has made up his mind to defend his family and country since he was a child. How could he have an affair with Tatar?

Xu Laowu didn't believe it, and he was even more unwilling to leave here, because once he left, he would not even have the last chance to clear his son's grievances!

After coming out of the barracks, Xu Laowu secretly investigated clues while enduring all kinds of censure from the crowd.It was also because he knew how to be a man before, and several people in the military camp did not believe that Xu Tai would do such a thing like him. They investigated slowly and found some clues.

However, their means were limited, and they did not find Shi Guogan, only found out that there were other spies in the barracks.Because of Xu Laowu's current status as a commoner, he sent a pleading to the Xuzhou government office, and was handed over to Shi Guogan by the general judge at that time.

Shi Guogan was terrified. In order to avoid being implicated, he could only hastily close the case and hand over the spy to the military camp for disposal.As for Xu Laowu, Shi Guogan missed him.

Xu Laowu still has some contacts in Xuzhou, especially in the military camp. Shi Guo dare not take the initiative to expose himself, so he can only send someone to watch secretly to see if he can continue to make waves.What made him feel at ease was that Xu Lao Wu only thought that he had really avenged his son, and did not continue to investigate.

Today, Xu Lao Wu no longer sells Yexiang. He used his previous savings to buy tables, chairs and carts, and opened a shop near his home. He started selling steamed stuffed buns with soy milk and noodles in the morning, and even stir-fried vegetables in the evening. .

Shi Guogan originally thought that this matter was over like this, but now that Guo Zhan'an is here, he is not as easy to fool as Xu Laowu. If Guo Zhan'an intervenes in this matter, the matter will probably be exposed!

For the current plan, we can only expel Xu Laowu's family as soon as possible, the farther the better, when the time comes, Guo Zhan'an will never be able to find him again, Shi Guogan can rest assured!

Poor Old Fifth Xu is still taking stock of his income during the day, preparing food, noodles, meat and vegetables for the evening, and he doesn't know that his own death is coming.

On the other hand, Guo Zhanan, who made Shi Guogan have not lived in peace all day, did not go back to the house directly after leaving the Yamen. Instead, he went to the Huiwei building to pack two snacks before going home.

There are still few people in Guo's mansion now, Wu Xin guarded behind the door, seeing Guo Zhan'an came back, he hastily saluted: "The young master is back."

Guo Zhanan nodded and asked, "Where's Huo Yu?"

Wu Xin said: "Second young master went out today, and just came back, maybe he is in the house."

Guo Zhanan looked at Wu Xin again, and said, "I should have brought someone over to watch the door last time."

Wu Xin smiled and said: "Being outside is no better than being in the capital. It's not easy for the young master to bring so many people. Although the work of opening the door looks easy, if someone unreliable comes to watch the door, how can I sleep peacefully inside? Thank you The young master is sympathetic, anyway, the three of us take turns, so it doesn't matter."

What Wu Xin said made sense, Guo Zhanan didn't say anything else, and went straight to look for Huo Yu inside.

Huo Yu was just coming out of the house, when he saw Guo Zhanan coming, he rushed up to greet him, and said with a smile, "Brother is back."

Guo Zhanan gave the snack box to Huo Yu and asked, "Did you and Jia Huan go to find Ren Yazi today?"

Huo Yu nodded, holding the snack box in both hands, followed Guo Zhanan, and said as he walked, "I just found out today that there are really too few people in the mansion, not to mention other things, such as gardeners, sweepers, and starchers. None of that. There’s only one person in the kitchen, so it’s too busy.”

Guo Zhanan also felt the same way, but he could only bring these people with him that day, and the rest of them could only make plans after arriving here. Seeing that Huo Yu was so concerned about this matter, he was happy to be a hands-off shopkeeper, which happened to be able to exercise Huo Yu , and said: "I will leave this matter to you. Whether I can sleep peacefully at home is up to you."

Huo Yu pursed his lips and said, "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely not let you down."

Guo Zhanan stretched out his hand and pinched his cheek: "Aren't I very relieved of you?"

The two brothers were having dinner in harmony, but Xu Laowu was having a hard time.