dressed as a scholar

"Be careful, don't rub heavy objects on it."

On the bustling street market, a carriage pulling goods passed by and drove out of the city. Seeing the carriage and horses leaving the city smoothly, Zhang Shiyuan, who was hiding in the dark to check, secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

The amount of moldy rice he collected was large. Previously, the price-reduced rice was sold in the city. Seeing that the profit was very considerable, he immediately collected several hundred catties of moldy rice. Unfortunately, something happened in the city before it was put on the grain line. After closing the charity field, he had no choice but to suspend selling rice.

At that time, the moldy rice was eaten badly, and people should have disposed of it. Unfortunately, he was worried about the profit, and he was backed by his brother-in-law. After the limelight, if you are lucky enough to sell it in other counties, you can make a lot of money. Who would have thought that the wind direction would be reversed like this.

Hurry up and get rid of the moldy rice right now, even if there is no physical evidence in court, you still have to argue.

Before concentrating on his thoughts, the servant rushed over: "Master, many officers and soldiers have come to our house, and our food store has also been temporarily closed! Madams and young ladies are terribly frightened, I want you to go back and preside over the overall situation!"

Zhang Shiyuan looked up to the sky and closed his eyes and took a long breath, the one who was supposed to come finally came, and the speed was really fast.

"But County Magistrate Qian brought troops here?"

"Exactly."

Zhang Shiyuan was a little relieved when he heard the words, he was relieved that it was his brother-in-law who came, but he was a little surprised why the general judge didn't come since he was so concerned about this matter, and he hurried back before he had time to think about it.

Back at the house, Zhang Shiyuan saw that the house was in a mess, as if he had been turned upside down, but he seemed to be really looking for evidence, looking at Qian Wuzhang standing in the house with his hands behind his back.

"Sir, this..."

Qian Wuzhang whispered in Zhang Shiyuan's ear: "Mr. Tongju is watching, and I'm just going through the motions. But I don't know if I don't go. It's very unexpected when I go. I don't know that my uncle has treasured a lot of treasures. "

Zhang Shiyuan felt chills in his heart, these years he has been filial to his brother-in-law, and now he searched the Zhang family all over by collecting physical evidence, in order to see the Zhang family's family background.

Right now, he can only ask for help from others, he hurriedly said: "If it's a family, these little gadgets are also my brother-in-law's."

Qian Wuzhang's skin and flesh moved slightly, although he didn't say yes or no, he still showed an imperceptible smile.

Zhang Shiyuan escorted him through the city. Although the battle was low-key and not as good as Qiao Xinnian's previous escort, the people in the city are now paying close attention to the mildewed rice, and even the slightest disturbance in the government office can stir up waves.

"I was just wondering why the Yunchang Grain Bank was so kind this year and would sell rice at a lower price. Unexpectedly, it went out of its way to sell moldy rice."

"I realized something was wrong when I brought the rice back. I wanted to take the food back, but I was chased out by the waiter at the other end. It really is tricky!"

"Bah! The Zhang family committed crimes. They forced so many farm laborers to death over the years. When the autumn harvest was not good, they dragged their innocent children to their own house as maids, and even sold them in kilns. Now it can be regarded as a failure." tower."

Qiao Hezhi stood in the crowd and watched the officers and soldiers pass by quickly. The people chased up to watch the excitement while discussing, cursing one after another.

Thinking about the fact that the Zhang family has been relying on the county magistrate for many years, it was the Zhang family who hated the Qiao family's good business, picked on the Qiao family everywhere, and secretly reported that the carriages and horses of the Qiao family did not comply with regulations, etc...

At the beginning, the Zhang family was just a merchant family, engaged in the wine business, and the Qiao family was a business rival, but the reputation was not good and the business was relatively sluggish. Later, the daughter married to the county government and got the help of the county magistrate. After becoming a farmer, he stopped working in the wine business and turned to buying and selling land and became a big landlord, even more domineering.

He always knew that Qiao and Zhang's family were not in harmony, and his father and him tried their best not to interfere with each other, but he didn't expect that Zhang's family would secretly plot to put them to death.

"Siyu."

Thinking of this, he winked at the girl next to him, so a handful of rotten vegetable leaves fell from the sky and hit Zhang Shiyuan.

"Bah! Wicked!"

Zhang Shiyuan, who was being detained, screamed: "Who!"

The yamen servant next to him also put his hand on the knife at his waist vigilantly, but he hadn't found who threw it. Immediately afterwards, another egg came from behind, and it cracked on his forehead with a bang, and there was a foul smell The smell dissipated immediately.

The yamen servants who were still guarding all of a sudden dispersed, silently pinching their noses with their hands to cover up the smell. The yamen servants dispersed and the common people were not afraid of hitting the officials by mistake. Some people took the lead and threw yellow cabbage leaves and rotten soles of their shoes one after another.

"Dogs, if you want profit, you don't want to live."

"Bah! Eat the moldy rice!"

Zhang Shiyuan, who was smashed by the moldy rice that came all over the sky, had stars in his eyes, howled and begged the officials to go faster, and turned into a prisoner rushing to the government office.

Seeing that Zhang Shiyuan was in despair, Qiao Hezhi finally let out a sigh of relief.

After Zhang Shiyuan was referred to the government office, he was dumbfounded to find that the case was accepted by the judge. He turned his attention to Qian Wuzhang for help, and he felt a little more at ease when he saw Qian Wuzhang also looked at him.

"Bold Zhang Shiyuan! How dare you blatantly sell moldy rice to disturb the atmosphere in Yuncheng! What else do you have to say!"

Ji Congyong had a hard time waiting in the government office until the escort was dirty, even if he was sitting far away, he could faintly smell a stench, and everyone in the hall looked a little unnatural.

He would also like to wash this stinky thing, but it is a pity that he has done so many evil things and caused him so much trouble, and he has been thrown into such a state in just one street. There are no less fish and meat people, so he can't afford to give him such a good treatment.

Zhang Shiyuan knelt in the lobby, seeing the thick pile of confessions pointing to the Yunchang Grain Store one after another on the ground, witnesses and the moldy rice left by the people, and the doctor’s testimonial about the relationship between the moldy rice and the disease, he felt a little guilty.

False to false, but he knew that it would be a serious crime if he admitted it: "My lord, although the grassroots know that there is moldy rice in the city, they don't know that the rice comes from Yunchang grain business!"

"Yunchang Grain Company is your property, how would you not know about it?"

"Look at my lord's lesson, the grassroots really don't know, there must be thieves in the grain business, who committed such a heinous crime!" Zhang Shiyuan kowtowed and said: "The rice in the grain business is all good rice that has been hard-grown by farm laborers. It is recorded!"

Ji Congyong looked at the account books presented by Zhang Shiyuan, and it was true.

Seeing that Ji Congyong frowned, Qian Wuzhang angrily reprimanded at the right time: "Zhang Shiyuan, you have no way to control your subordinates! You actually check the supply of food from time to time, which makes the steward feel guilty and make such a big mistake."

"Small convictions, only because of the heavy rain this year and the disasters suffered by the farm laborers, the grassroots focused on helping the farm laborers, so they neglected to manage the grain business."

Qian Wuzhang looked at Ji Congyong, and asked for instructions: "My lord, all the managers and employees of Yunchang Grain Bank have been detained, do you need to bring them up?"

Ji Congyong put down the account book, glanced at Qian Wuzhang, and asked without answering: "You are quite protective of this person."

Qian Wuzhang's eyes froze when he heard the words, and hurriedly said: "My lord, the dismissal is not to defend, but just to give justice to the common people!"

Ji Congyong ignored Qian Wuzhang, and asked Zhang Shiyuan: "Since you said you didn't know about this matter, and that it was moldy rice sold by the manager of the grain bank, why did you send the criminal evidence outside the city in a hurry to hide it?"

Zhang Shiyuan was startled when he heard the words, but before he had time to argue and complain, he listened: "Bring the evidence of the crime!"

Immediately, Zhang Shiyuan saw with his own eyes that the mildew rice who had been sent out of the city appeared in the hall together with his servants.

"Master Zhang, you don't really think that the time-consuming donation of medicine and the collection of confessions from refugees is to find out the source of the disease, right? The medicine is true, but wouldn't it be enough for Master Zhang to make false accounts like this? Raising food to prepare for the steward's punishment?"

When the moldy rice was intercepted from outside the city, Fang Yu rushed to send these criminal evidence back to the government office, otherwise why would only Qian Wuzhang, who is related to the Zhang family, go to detain the person, but he and Tong The judge first tortured the person who sent the moldy rice out of the city and took a confession.

"Master Zhang thinks that he can do whatever he wants in Yuncheng with one hand covering the sky, and he thinks that he can rest easy if he loses the Qiao family and goes out to cover the bag. I dare not sue even the powerful and powerful, but have you ever thought that the people of Shou Enqiao's family are willing to testify against him?"

"A little investigation into this matter shows that the moldy rice this time came from Zhang's family. The reason why it took a lot of time to make a statement is really for charity, and secondly, it's not for the Zhang family to send evidence of guilt."

Zhang Shiyuan stared at the young man in front of him: "You have long suspected that you went to the Zhang family, and because you didn't have enough criminal evidence, you deliberately released the news early to make the Zhang family uneasy, so you sent the rice away, so you can catch them all. You are so scheming." ah!"

Fang Yu shook his head: "Where, an ordinary person can be convicted of a crime just by giving a confession, but Mr. Zhang is so powerful that he has to spend more effort to save you some embarrassing effort."

He didn't mention Qian Wuzhang a word, but Qian Wuzhang was startled when he heard the word "power".

"Criminal Zhang Shiyuan, what else do you have to say?"

Zhang Shiyuan hesitated and slowly turned his eyes to look at Qian Wuzhang. After receiving a cold gaze, he immediately retracted his words.

Ji Congyong handles this case comfortably, and he successfully solved the case almost without any effort. Fang Yu has arranged all the criminal evidence properly, and he is more and more satisfied with this student.

Zhang Shiyuan ransacked his home and sent him to prison, and was exiled into the army after autumn. All his family members were demoted and returned to business status. In addition, he paid Qiao's family 3000 taels of silver. Each of the people who suffered this time can receive [-] taels of silver as compensation, and all the moldy rice they bought before can be returned. In order to be equivalent to good rice, all these expenses are paid by the Zhang family.

As soon as the notice came out, the people of Yuncheng rejoiced, and it was like celebrating the new year for a while.

Not only that, Tong Juan also came forward to greatly praise the good deeds of the merchants who donated to the people. He listened to Fang Yu's opinion and awarded a medal to the merchants who had donated before. The heat was held again.

Yuncheng can be considered to have regained its peace.