"My lord, what's the matter with you?" The magistrate of the county has been thinking deeply since he came down from the hall, and now his brows are wrinkled.

"You go and bring the few pieces of silk that are presented as evidence in court, and I will have a look."

The master asked: "Sir, do you think this case is strange?"

The magistrate raised his eyebrows, and said in a low voice, "If you are told to fetch it, then go and fetch it!"

The master sent someone to quickly bring the few pieces of silk and satin. The magistrate was about to reach out to check, but then reacted and glared at the master who was standing beside him.Master lowered his eyebrows and bowed his body back.

The magistrate of the county raised his hand and only flipped the corner of the silk satin lightly, and saw the business emblem of the Zhu family. He knew this small pattern very well. Most of the silk brocades at home were sent by the Zhu family.

The magistrate's face was livid, gloomy, with prominent veins on his forehead, and he slapped the tea case over with a slap.

"Come on, call me Zhu Jianye!"

At this moment, Zhu Jianye is still enjoying the beauty at home. His newly adopted concubine is lying in his arms in a charming way, and a jade hand is constantly teasing him on his chest.

"Master." The woman's vermilion lips parted lightly, her voice was sweet and greasy, and she spoke in a tone of admiration that was really provocative. "You are really amazing. Isn't that Zhou Jing usually very happy? You put him in prison as soon as you made a move. He will never recover. It seems that his ability is nothing more than that. After all, it is your hand." A grasshopper after autumn here, it can jump for a few days depends on your mood."

Ever since Zhou Jing was born in Liuzhen, first sausages, then Buzhuang, and now the unique soap, I don’t know how many people’s eyes are red, and it’s not like there are people who want to plot against him, but when Zhou’s shop was young, they didn’t Looking at it, Kuang has another Yang catcher covering his head, the big man disdains to make a move, and the small man dare not make a move.Later, when the Zhou family's shop grew bigger, the little people didn't dare to provoke the Zhou family.But when the big man wanted to make a move, he found that the Zhou family had grown into a towering tree, and if he wanted to move, it would inevitably cause backlash. Not to mention a bad one, who would have decayed by now, not necessarily someone.

Zhu Jianye didn't pay attention to it all the time, but the growing business of the Zhou family still made him jealous, but there was a county magistrate who suppressed him and didn't allow him to do anything wrong, so he had to endure it.Until he took a concubine.The concubine was sixteen or seventeen years old, she was born with a beautiful face, and she was kind and understanding.Not to mention serving him comfortably in bed, she can also help him solve problems in business.You can talk with him as soon as you talk to him. When someone accidentally mentioned Zhou Jing in a conversation, the concubine agreed to demote Zhou Jing to the dust and lift Zhu Jianye to the clouds.It happened to satisfy Zhu Jianye's vanity, and Zhu Jianye loved his concubine more and more since then.

And this time the idea was proposed by the concubine.

Zhu Jianye laughed loudly, and rubbed his big hands roughly on the concubine's body. He was a rough man, and he didn't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade.Tears came out of the concubine's eyes in an instant, but she still looked at Zhu Jianye gently with a forced smile.

"Everyone in the world says that red sleeves add fragrance to a confidante. Master, I thought it was just a gimmick made by those scholars to cover up their romance. Now that I have you, I have given you a strange trick. Only then can I know what a confidante is. Confidante Good friend, you can sleep and use it at the same time.”

These words were extremely vulgar, and the words did not make any sense, but Zhu Jianye still allowed himself to be flirtatious when he said it, disgusting the concubine in his arms, but the concubine had to laugh and agree.This made the concubine feel a strong sense of humiliation, thinking that all this was thanks to Zhou Jing.

It turned out that the person in Zhu Jianye's arms was none other than Li Dong's cousin Sun Jiao.At the beginning, because Sun Jiao colluded with the Li family and persuaded Li Dong to go to the Zhou mansion to talk about marriage, he lied to Li Dong that Sun Jiao and Zhou Jing had secretly agreed on the song, and now they are in love with each other, only a layer of window paper has not been pierced.Sun Jiao has some looks, and what Li Shi and Sun Jiao said is so swearing, they believe it to be true.Unexpectedly, in the end, he made a big embarrassment, Li Dong was furious immediately, and sent a letter to Sun Jiao's father.The wording in the letter was fierce, describing Sun Jiao as a woman who shamelessly seduced her husband.Although his father wanted to hold on to the Li family, he was still a respectable figure in the town, and he was furious immediately, and asked a matchmaker to marry Sun Jiao immediately, regardless of whether he was a minor or not.Just like that, Sun Jiao was carried into Zhu's mansion in a soft sedan chair, and became Zhu Jianye's first concubine.

Zhu Jianye was full of pride, "Just wait, sooner or later everything in the Zhou family will be mine. Now that Zhou Jing is in prison, there is not even a person in charge in his house. What can a pair of children do? I know panic. At this time, as long as I come to the door and pretend to be a good person, and say that there is a way to save him, I will give you nothing!"

Sun Jiao was obviously smiling, but there was hatred in her eyes.Zhou Jing, if you don’t marry me, I will make you regret it!

"My lord, the magistrate of the county sent someone to invite you, but I didn't find anything. It seems that the matter is very urgent. You should hurry up!" The door placed several officials who came to invite people in the hall, and served tea and cakes , I rushed over to report.

Zhu Jianye was stunned for a moment, "Governor of the County, what is he looking for me at this late hour?" Zhu Jianye's heart skipped a beat and he panicked. "Could it be that he knew that I did it, and told me to go over and settle accounts with me!"

Sun Jiao saw his cowardly appearance of being afraid of the magistrate and becoming a dog, and a strong sarcasm flashed in his eyes.Then suppressed the sarcasm, got up and put on a pajamas to wait for Zhu Jianye to get dressed.

Seeing Zhu Jianye's trembling look, even though he looked down on him, Sun Jiao comforted him: "My lord, even if the magistrate of the county knows about it, there is nothing to be afraid of. He knows, and we will share his share of the pie, don't you also say so?" Well, the magistrate of the county loves money, and since that's the case, the Zhou family has such a big family property, so I don't believe that he won't be tempted!" Sun Jiao got up and brushed off Zhu Jianye's collar, and met his eyes, like a poisonous snake that spit out a letter, " Master, don’t forget, money can turn ghosts around.”

Sun Jiao's words had a kind of magical power, which made Zhu Jianye inexplicably calm down, and swaggered into the backyard of the county magistrate's mansion with a more relaxed mood than usual.

He was not allowed to speak at all, so the county magistrate smashed at Zhu Jianye with a bundle of silk and satin covering his head and face.

"Okay, Zhu Jianye, you've grown your skills, and you've fooled me. At the beginning, I really thought that Zhou Jing was just committing the habit of bullying the weak that you merchants are accustomed to. He really thought he was doing it for profit. Buying low and selling high, the farmer was killed by mistake during the dispute between the two sides. I didn’t expect that I fell into your trap at all. All of this was designed by you, and even I calculated it together. I really underestimated Zhu Jianye. about you!"

Sweat dripped down Zhu Jianye's forehead in an instant, and the words of his concubine Sun Jiao who advised him behind his back could not calm him down.

Zhu Jianye still refused to admit it: "My lord, I don't understand what you mean!"

"You really think I'm a fool. I just didn't expect that someone would dare to frame Zhou Jing under my protection. At the same time, I didn't understand Zhou Jing's character and thought that he was also a profit-seeking businessman. So when the incident happened, the first The reaction is that what those farmers said is true, it should be manslaughter during the dispute." The county magistrate angrily said: "But that's not the case at all! Look at the few pieces of cloth on the ground, whose family owned them? ! Are you bluffing, you are using the silk and satin produced in your own shop to harm people by those farmers, are you afraid that others will not know that you made it?"

"This... villain..." Zhu Jianye wanted to explain, but the county magistrate smashed the teacup under his feet and spilled tea on him.

"What are you talking about? Could it be that those farmers paid their own money to buy your silk and satin, and then sold it at a low price at Yuyu Cloth? What are you trying to do? They want to make trouble, and where can they get the money? With the money to buy silk, a family of old snacks can’t eat!”

Unexpectedly, Zhu Jianye was seen through by the magistrate, and knelt on the ground shaking non-stop.

The magistrate gritted his teeth and said, "I thought you didn't have the guts, but I didn't expect... Heh, because I took it for granted, I was tricked by you in the end!"

At this point, Zhu Jianye knew that the county magistrate was not a complete fool, but he didn't expect it at the time of the incident.Fortunately, he was willing to go all out, and said temptingly: "My lord, the matter has come to this point, we might as well make the mistake and take care of Zhou Jing. The Zhou family's property is not small, sir, you eat meat, and the villain can drink soup!"

"You bastard, you've ignored what I've said before! I've said a long time ago that I love money, but I have to 'get it in a proper way'. I won't accept the ones you send me, because I'm afraid you'll be uneasy day and night. , I have no choice but to accept it to comfort you for your contribution to Liuzhen’s tax revenue.”

"This official is an official. How can this small county magistrate be the end of my official career? I have been trying to be fair to the people for so many years and have never treated the people harshly. What I can only get is the reputation of the people. , and now being disturbed by you merchants who are ungrateful for profit, it seems that the success will fall short!"

Zhu Jianye was so scolded that he was fighting with each other, and he didn't dare to speak.

The magistrate had enough scolding, so he stopped.After all, Zhu Jiawei was related to him, otherwise what business would he do with his pig head.He raised Zhu Jianye, so why didn't Zhu Jianye also raise him.If you want to be promoted, it is so easy to get promoted, and you need money to pave the way.Zhu Jianye is the rafter, and most of the money went into his pocket for management.After finally getting through with a high-ranking official, he got the news of the imperial envoy's private visit, and knew that this was a good opportunity for promotion, but he really couldn't think of a way, so he turned his idea on the merchant.I didn't expect it to be done, it was named, as long as he builds other roads in Liuzhen, and the high-ranking official he arranged a memorial to, the promotion will be done.

But now all of this has been ruined by Zhu Jianye's pig brain.Now that such a side issue has arisen, what should he do?

Originally, he took it for granted that Zhou Jing's rapid rise in such a short period of time must be due to treacherous means, and what the farmer told him must be true.No wonder the magistrate of the county thinks so, most of the merchants steal and play tricks for the rich and unkind, and this trick is really normal.In order to protect Zhou Jing, although he arrested people with great fanfare, it was just to appear impartial, otherwise why he didn't open the trial, he planned to deal with it quietly.

His idea was that neither side should be offended, so Zhou Jing pretended not to know anything, and shifted all the responsibility to the shopkeeper. Anyway, the shopkeeper killed him by mistake, and he couldn't escape, so Zhou Jing was still clear. Bai is still the benevolent businessman praised by the emperor.And the farmer also had an explanation, Zhou Jing gave a compensation of 20 taels of silver out of benevolence and righteousness, and his reputation would not be damaged at all.In this way, both parties can negotiate well, and he is still the good county magistrate who makes decisions for the people.

At that time, Zhou Jing refused to admit that he thought he was playing tricks on him, so he was so angry that he slapped him [-] times to make him reflect on himself.I have thought of him so much, he is not on the road yet, I didn't expect Zhou Jing to be wronged at all, so naturally he refused to admit it.

The county magistrate was so angry that he really wanted to kick Zhu Jianye to death, but he knew he was holding back.But he can't kill him, they are grasshoppers on the same rope.

"Okay, hurry up and let me go. I told you that you are not allowed to interfere in this matter. I must save Zhou Jing. The emperor just praised him. It happened at this time. Doesn't it mean that this official is stupid!" The grandfather warned viciously: "If you interfere again, I will punish you!"

Zhu Jianye shivered in fright and sat on the ground.After sending Zhu Jianye away, the county magistrate sat on the desk and meditated for a long time, then got up and went to the prison.

Zhou Jing had money on his body to buy the yamen servants to take the medicine. It wasn't too miserable, but he was lying on the straw mat and couldn't move.Seeing the magistrate coming, he wanted to get up to help, but was held down by the magistrate.

The county magistrate expressed concern with a pleasant expression: "Does the wound on the body still hurt? Is the medicine enough? If not, I will ask someone to buy it!"

Zhou Jing lowered his eyes, thinking about it, and guessed something in his mind in an instant.

"Everything is fine with the villain, Mr. Lao is worried."

"Hey, you!" The county magistrate suddenly sighed, and his tone instantly became bitter, "You are such an exciting person, why didn't you guess what this official intends to do? It's for the people to see, or why the judge didn't open the trial of this case, isn't it just for your sake. You have to give an explanation for the life of your shop, otherwise the people will obey. But this explanation is not what you really want , Waiting for the lobby tomorrow, you can pretend that you don’t know, and push everything to the head of the shopkeeper. In this way, the people will have an explanation, and you will become a deceived person, so everything will be saved. Don’t worry, I will never accept the money you send in vain, and when needed, I will think of a perfect solution for you."

Zhou Jing was unmoved, and said indifferently: "Thank you for the great kindness of the county magistrate, but the villain was indeed wronged. Since the county magistrate has such affection for the villain, please investigate clearly."

The magistrate of the county saw that he couldn't move him, and was not only angry: "Zhou Jing tells you the truth, even if you have been wronged, you have to admit it. Now that the evidence is overwhelming, how can you commit a crime without evidence? The way I give you is the clearest way." one."

But Zhou Jing couldn't recognize it, and if he recognized Shopkeeper Zhao's life, he would die.

"Zhou Jing, you are so stubborn, don't blame me for not remembering the past, think about it tonight, if you are still so unrepentant tomorrow, I can only handle it fairly."

"What?" Shen Mo shook, feeling dizzy for a while, as if the whole world was spinning, and couldn't help falling backwards.However, after falling halfway, he firmly grasped the armrest of the seat with a strong willpower.He murmured: "I can't fall, I can't fall, Brother Jing still needs me!"

"Ah!" Zhou Yu was going to school, and was notified by his family's servants to come back. He stepped forward to support Shen Mo, and Shen Mo was like a drowning man catching duckweed.Mingming looked at Zhou Yu, but he didn't know whether he was speaking to him or to himself, "Brother Jing, you are still waiting for me to save him, I can't fall down."

Shen Mo was supported by Zhou Yu to sit down and stabilize his mind, desperately telling himself to restrain himself, Zhou Jing was still waiting for him to save him, but his brain was dizzy and chaotic.Shen Mo touched the candy in the fruit plate and stuffed a few into his mouth together, and his brain seemed to be better.

"Jiang Wei, you bring a few men to bring the money to see if you can bribe the jailer to meet with me. Wei Yuanshan, ask someone to help me quickly call all the shopkeepers to come over for questioning. I want to know everyone who has targeted our shop recently. In addition, you go to check Check the details of the three farmers, the sooner the better."

"Yes." Everyone took the order to retreat, leaving Zhou Yu and Shen Mo sitting in the quiet hall.Shen Mo held Zhou Yu's hand tightly, not knowing if he was comforting him or comforting himself.

"Don't be afraid, someone as smart as your father will definitely find a way to get out, and I will also find a way to rescue your father."

Several people moved very quickly, and the shopkeepers gathered in just a cup of tea, including Shen Lin and Wang Ren who rushed over when they got the news.The shopkeepers asked around and got a bunch of lists, which were useless at all. So many people are like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Shen Mo looked more and more confused, he had no clue at all, he could only wave his hand and let him go.At the same time, Jiang Wei didn't dare to procrastinate, and begged for several places to no avail, so he hurried back to report.

"Brother, what should we do now? We don't have a clue, and we can't get into the prison. How can we help brother-in-law!"

Shen Mo motioned him not to interrupt him, he was thinking.

"Wait a little longer, there is Wei Yuanshan, he will bring news."

Today's hope lies with Wei Yuanshan.

"Fu Lang, Manager Wei is back!"

Shen Mo got up and ran to the entrance of the hall, Wei Yuanshan saw him and said, "Fu Lang, the villain has found out."

Shen Mo nodded, pulled Wei Yuanshan into the hall, closed the door, and the guards outside the door quickly lined up and guarded tightly.

"Those three people are all from Shenjia Village. The family where they died was really poor and white. There were old parents in their 60s who were chronically ill. The young ones were eight and ten years old, and a mother-in-law with poor eyesight. The other two are rogues from Shenjia Village, who spend their days idle about eating and drinking."

"When you go to investigate them, can the other party send someone to secretly protect them?"

Wei Yuanshan finally showed a strange expression, "No one protects them!"

"No one to protect?" Zhou Yu is just a nine-year-old child who knows that this is a strange thing. He has framed someone and has no one to protect him. What does this mean.

In fact, in the final analysis, Zhu Jianye is too stupid, so stupid that even a pig's brain thinks highly of him.Without the support of the magistrate in business, he might not succeed in a day.It was not Zhu Jianye's idea to come up with such a way to frame people, but Sun Jiao's.But Sun Jiao is just a woman after all, the women here are beautiful without talent and virtue, it is really good to come up with such an idea, how could they think of the follow-up and other issues.But the magistrate could think of it, but he didn't think about it at all.Now that Zhou Jing has been imprisoned, the Zhou family has lost its backbone. There are no brothers or uncles, no clan members, no one in charge at all.As for Shen Mo, a husband with two sons, the magistrate doesn't pay much attention to him at all.Shuang'er can have any insight, except crying and fear.And that nine-year-old adopted son is even more incompetent, so let's wean him first!

It is true that other couples or women would panic when encountering this, but Shen Mo was not. From the day Zhou Jing started doing business, he would talk to Shen Mo about everything, and some businesses would even bring them back if possible. Follow Shen Mo, so Shen Mo is no longer the old Shen Mo.

The county magistrate and others bullied that the Zhou family had no one in charge, but they didn't know that Shen Mo could be in charge.That night, Shen Mo gathered all the nursing homes in the family, and walked into Shenjia Village overnight.

In the dead of night in Shenjia Village, the sound of chickens and dogs could not be heard.A few skilled people entered the house of the three people, and no one in the neighbors was alarmed, and they were stunned. They tied zongzi and tied a dozen people out of the village. When they woke up again, they were all holding guys with big arms Man, several women were scared to cry at that time.

Shen Mo completely lost his patience. Seeing that it was dawn, he had no chance.The person became extremely cold, "Try to make them shut up, I don't have time to listen to them cry now, I have something to ask."

"Yes." Wei Yuanshan agreed to come out, he took the women who cried the most and operated on them a few times on their fingers, and there was a burst of screams. "Shut up for my husband, if you dare to cry again, he will be next!"

The women were frightened by the screams and dared not speak out for a while.

"I'm not talking nonsense, you should have guessed our identities, and I'm not afraid that you will know, it belongs to the Zhou family. You know what your own family has done, and you are invited here in the middle of the night to ask you to retract your confession tomorrow. Bring out the one who ordered you."

Li Chuan boldly said: "It's Zhou Jing who seeks money and kills you, if you still dare to kidnap us now, don't be afraid..."

The threatening words could not be uttered, because Wei Yuanshan removed his jaw, and the saliva flowed down his mouth that could not be closed.This was not over, Wei Yuanshan directly took off his clothes, and let them see clearly in front of everyone what he had done to Li Chuan.There was obviously no blood and no injuries outside, but Li Chuan's face was distorted in pain, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Shen Mo desperately.

Shen Mo's heart was hardened at this moment, and he didn't think it was enough. If they didn't need them to retract their confessions in court tomorrow, without any injuries on their bodies, Shen Mo wouldn't let Wei Yuanshan and others just unload their bones and stick needles for them.

"You are the family member of the dead man. You should know what your man has done to us. Don't think that there is no evidence for death. You are still here. He wants you to live with his life, but He thought it was all right to offend the Zhou family, and it would be settled with one life, and I tell you it is impossible."

The woman tightly protected the child, "I don't understand what you're talking about, it's obvious that your family murdered for money."

"Really?" Shen Mo sneered, looking like a devil.

He gestured to an old man, and the crooked old man was caught.

"This is your old man who is in charge of the dead ghost. This old man has been sick all day long, and his life is also a burden. He might as well die." He said, pulling out the knife that the nurse was carrying on his body, and when he stabbed down, blood gushed out. When he came out, the old man wanted to scream, but someone gagged him.When he looked down again, Shen Mo actually eunuched the old man.

Shen Mo was really furious, thinking that if Zhou Jing could not be rescued, he would have a crazy idea of ​​killing everyone who framed him, and then committing suicide.He is not afraid of anything now, and he will do whatever is the most deterrent to scare this group of people.

"Look, have you figured it out now? If you still can't figure it out, the next one is this little baby. This is the only incense stick left by your man. You said that if you give me a eunuch, your death will be worth it." Not worth it anymore?"

The woman was already trembling with fright, and hugged the child tightly.She just felt that she was in hell now, didn't she say that the Zhou family was kind, so who is this devil in front of her.

If Wang Hong knew that he would suffer such crazy revenge for framing the Zhou family, he probably wouldn't have dared it at all!

"I'm going to ask you something again, answer me!"

The woman nodded desperately, "Zhu Jianye instigated us, my family can't survive anymore, both parents are sick, the child, and now the child is also sick, I really can't do anything about it..."

"There's no other way. If there's no other way, I have to drag my guy! It's a pity that you got Shura!"

When Shen Mo pressed the woman, the others were not idle, and entertained them one by one. Don't look hurt on the face, but the pain in the bone.Each of the three families picked three children to stay.

"I will detain these children. Tomorrow, when I return home, the children will be released to you. If you don't come back, then no one will think about it!"

A few timid ones even peed in fright.The people were put back, but the people from the Zhou family also mixed in with these people in order to monitor them at any time.

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