Exclusive golden branch

Chapter 463
"Justice is in the hearts of the people!" Chun's mother finished, took the water handed by Xiangli and drank it in one gulp, and said, "One more bowl."

Having said that, my mouth is really dry.

The girl on the opposite side was sitting in the carriage, the carriage was shaking, the girl went to sit in it firmly, for some reason, just sitting there like this gave people an unspeakable sense of security : It seems that as long as she is there, all troubles can be solved smoothly.

But...Mother Chun looked at the extremely cramped carriage containing her, Xiao Xuebai, Xiangli, and Fourth Miss Jiang.

Uh... Maybe it's because Miss Jiang Si is bigger.

Thinking this way in her heart, the girl in that room raised her head at this moment, and glanced at her without avoiding her eyes.

Chun's mother's heart skipped a beat, and she instinctively felt that she had been caught speaking ill of others.

"Justice is in the heart." The girl spoke at this moment, repeated the words, and said lightly, "Master Zhuang seems to be a stingy person, whoever offends him will definitely not make it easier for him."

Isn't it stingy?Thinking about the troubles in the Yang family, Chun's mother felt that she might not be able to handle it.

"Right now, the Yang family can only admit it." Chun's mother said, "Although the Yang family did not violate the law, it has earned the reputation of being 'ungrateful'. Anyone in the Yang family who dares to let go of Li Da and Li Er As for the matter, that Master Zhuang will definitely clean up the Yang family while listening to the opinions of the people, and at the same time poke into Chang'an City... Tsk tsk tsk." Mother Chun couldn't help shaking her head when she said this, "If Master Yang knows these things, I'm afraid They're going to be crazy!"

As soon as these words came out, the girl who was sitting opposite the old god raised her eyelids and looked at her, then shook her head.

shake your head?What is Miss Jiang Si shaking her head for?Mother Chun was a little surprised.

……

Good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles away. Naturally, the actions of Gusu City cannot escape Ji Chongyan's eyes and ears.

After hearing what happened in Gusu City, Ji Chongyan couldn't help shaking his head.

As for the reason for shaking his head... Ji Chongyan said: "It's more than that!"

The two young maids who were arranged through the internal struggle between Mrs. Yang and Dali were his people, so he knew more about it.

"The crutch that Mrs. Yang used to caress constantly, and never left her body, disappeared together with Dali."

Speaking of Dali...Although Lin Yan on the opposite side knew it was impossible, he still asked: "That Dali should still be locked up by you!"

This closed nature refers to the real Dali.

Ji Chongyan nodded, "Yes", and said, "The Dali who escaped with a cane should be Xiaoxuebai."

As for who arranged Xiao Xuebai... The result is obvious.

As soon as Lin Yan thought about it, he couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth: "If I were Yang Yan, I thought that everything in the old house in Gusu City would be as usual, but when I came back, my second wife, Dali, was gone. The man lost his crutches, the house was full of smog, and the newly appointed county magistrate of Gusu, Zhuang Haoran, obviously wanted to take the Yang family under the knife, and his head would be blown."

It's just that although he said "the head is going to grow big", Lin Yan didn't sympathize with Yang Yan's experience. On the contrary, he gloated a little, after all, the enemy!

Sympathy for the enemy, isn't that a disease of the brain?
"It's okay to pay for it for a while, but the trouble with this matter is that if it goes on for a long time, you can't get rid of it. This is not something that can be settled with 1000 taels or 2000 taels," Ji Chongyan said, "With Zhuang Haoran here, the Yang family What you do to your own children is what you do to Li Da and Li Er's eight children, a pair of parents and two widows. .This is a long-term trouble, more trouble than can be solved in a short time."

Of course, this caring person refers to none other than Zhuang Haoran.

Lin Yan has a deep understanding of this: "I handled a case before, and it was just like this. Two colleagues were friends, but one day they drank too much and fell into the river. When he got up, he saw that his colleague was still struggling, so he went down to the river to save someone. In this rescue, another colleague was rescued, but he himself died. In this way, the one who was saved will repay the kindness of saving his life, and will After saving the two sons of my colleague, my mother and wife were taken to the capital and helped to take care of them."

"Although he is an official in the capital, his salary is not bad, but this salary is enough to support his three children, his parents and his wife, and there is not much left. If he joins the family of his colleagues, it is really unbearable. The three children You need money to send them to the Imperial College, and you need money for honoring your parents every year during the holidays, and you need money for eating, drinking, and messing with your wife. If this is the case, treat your colleagues and your family, and your own three children have entered the Imperial College. You must not treat your life badly. The benefactor's child! Then you have to find a way to enter the Imperial College! This is how you treat your parents and wife's money and dress, and you can't lose the benefactor's parents and wife."

"How can he afford his salary alone? After discussing with my parents and wife whether I can give less to my benefactor's family, my parents and wife are naturally dissatisfied that they can't compare with outsiders, so they argue with him..." Lin When Yan said this, he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, "He was pretty good at first, but he was so disturbed by these things, how could he have the heart to do things? People are going crazy, and finally made a big mistake one day, trying to make him Something happened to the benefactor’s two sons, but they are both from Dali Temple, so how could it not be found out? Besides, he didn’t intend to hide it, and he surrendered himself before being interrogated after being found by Mr. Ji..."

Before Lin Yan finished speaking, Ji Chongyan interrupted him: "Li Da and Li Er's affairs are such a big mess, if something happens to the Li family, the Yang family will not be able to get rid of it. Your colleague can kill people." , but the Yang family can't."

The Yang family is obviously more troublesome than that colleague.

Therefore, with Zhuang Haoran around, the matter of the Li family is not something that the Yang family can just get rid of if they want to.

"If it causes trouble for the Li family, but if Dali and the crutches are found, the troubles will be troublesome!" Lin Yan nodded and sighed, "At present, Dali and the crutches have not been found, and they have caused trouble for nothing. The Yang family This Hou Zhai's ability to help is so unhelpful, if I were Yang Yan, I would have a big head."

In fact, with Yang Yan's method, the master of the Yang family's house... no matter if it's Mrs. Yang or Dali, they are not stupid in terms of personal virtues.It's just a pity that I met Miss Jiang Si...

It's about Miss Jiang Si... Lin Yan couldn't help but look at Ji Chongyan.

Ji Chongyan sneered: "After finishing the business in Gusu, she arrived in Baoling at dusk yesterday."

Looking at Ji Chongyan whose eyes and brows softened a lot, Lin Yan was silent, and before he could speak, he turned out the file at hand and said, "I know what you mean. Don't rush! The young woman in hand I will finish the murder case as soon as possible, so that you can return to Beijing with Miss Jiang Si."

After saying this, he threw the file in hand and said, "Here, let's take a look!"

The files thrown over were the identities of the remaining female family members who were found out, and the result of checking the identities of these women is not surprising.

"Ms. Zhou's family in Liaocheng, Miss Zheng's family in Linzhou, and Miss Qian's family in Shannan, like the Liu family in Chang'an, Miss Wang's family in Luoyang, and Miss Dong's family in Kaifeng, they are all daughters of merchants in various places." Lin Yan said, "That person kidnapped her." Those who left were all the ladies from those merchants' homes, but so far, I haven't found anything in common between these girls."

"What's in common?" Ji Chongyan asked at this moment, raised his eyebrows, and said to Lin Yan, "Didn't you see such a big commonality?"

Lin Yan, who was asking rhetorically, was startled, opened his mouth instinctively, and asked, "What's in common..." But before Ji Chongyan could speak again, he suddenly realized, "You mean those women are all merchants. daughter?"

"And it's a top-ranked merchant in the local area." Ji Chongyan said indifferently, "The top-ranked merchants in this row should all be members of the local chamber of commerce!"

As the old saying goes, it often happens that Mount Tai cannot be seen by a leaf, and it is dark under the lamp.The commonality among merchants in these women is so obvious that people ignore the others and only focus on the word merchant, but ignore the chamber of commerce.

Local well-known merchants will organize associations, and any situation of the imperial court can be conveyed through the chamber of commerce in a timely manner.At the same time, if there is any problem with the local price, the Chamber of Commerce can also respond in time to make adjustments.

"During the previous dynasty, the county magistrate of Mobei, the largest city near the Xiongnu, secretly colluded with the Xiongnu, and used the Xiongnu's troops to secretly eradicate local dissidents for their own benefit. The absurd thing about paying tribute to the Xiongnu for several months. Although he is only a county magistrate, he is not a high-ranking official, but there is an old saying that "a strong dragon does not overwhelm a local snake". Coupled with the Xiongnu's military assistance, this county magistrate can be said to be a real emperor in the local area." Lin Yan couldn't help but sigh when talking about these old events, "The people are afraid of the Xiongnu's despotic power and dare not resist. Later, the local chamber of commerce came together to resolve the matter."

The entire Mobei city is controlled by the Xiongnu. If anyone dares to report something, his head will be lost before the letter is sent.

In those few years, dozens of righteous men "died of illness" in Mobei City.

Later... there was a "discord" between several big local merchants, and the quarrel was so intense that the infighting even started to close the shops and closed the market, and the prices of rice, grain and other necessities for the common people soared...

Of course, the "wink" merchants had already greeted the county magistrate and the Huns before the internal fight, and the rice and grain were delivered to the Huns and the county magistrate in advance.

The Huns and county magistrates who got the benefits turned a blind eye and turned a blind eye, pretending not to see it, and even sold the rice bought at the original price from the merchants at a high price, making a fortune.

The profitable county magistrate and the Huns naturally did not stop them, and when they were complacent, they did not notice the changes in the people who lacked rice in the city.

"The soaring prices of necessities such as rice and grain in one place will inevitably affect the prices in other places," Lin Yan said. "In the past, the people were afraid of the Xiongnu's power and did not dare to resist, but now the price of rice and grain in the city is so different from that in other places. With such great profits, naturally many people are desperate to sell rice, and the supply of rice in the city is in short supply, causing the price of rice in the surrounding cities to skyrocket..."

Although the Huns and county magistrates are villains, when it comes to shrewdness and the impact of rice prices, they don't understand at all.Shrewd and experienced businessmen knew how big the reaction would be when the price of rice rose, and this move soon caused the price of rice to soar in most of Beizhou.

The soaring price of rice and grain naturally attracted the attention of the imperial court, and the source was soon discovered - Mobei.

"Later, the imperial court sent troops to suppress and directly killed the county magistrate who colluded with the Huns and the surrounding Huns." Speaking of these things, Lin Yan couldn't help feeling, "It was not until this time that everyone discovered that these things were local in Mobei. The merchants united to form a bureau to convey what happened in Mobei to the imperial court. After the incident subsided, the local Mobei people raised money to carve stone statues for the [-] merchants in the joint bureau, known as "Mobei Ten "Bayi Shang', the reputation is spread all over the world."

Of course, what the Chamber of Commerce does is not entirely righteous.

"There are many cases of colluding with each other, raising prices together, and profiting from the common people." Lin Yan said, his eyes fell on the file in front of him, "Given the influence of these people in the local area, they must be members of the local chamber of commerce. They are all able to speak in the chamber of commerce."

Those who can enter the local chamber of commerce are of course wealthy businessmen with some reputation in the local area, and the women who have accidents are all top-ranked in the local area... The weight of the members of the chamber of commerce is also related to personal financial power, so what Kaifeng Dong family, The Liu family in Chang'an must be the very influential existence in the chamber of commerce.

This... is indeed a common point, although it is not sure whether the killing of these women is related to this, it may not be impossible to find out if you can check from this angle.

It is a good thing for those who handle the case to have the direction of investigation.Lin Yan breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously: For people like them, they are not afraid of trouble, but they are afraid of having nowhere to start like headless chickens.

Lin Yan will arrange these things on his own, and Ji Chongyan will naturally not intervene. He just paused and asked Lin Yan: "What about justice after the people's hearts? Although it is difficult, if the Yang family just retreats like this... then it is not the Yang family." .”

Lin Yan didn't expect that after finishing the case, Ji Chongyan asked about what happened in front of Yang's house yesterday, he couldn't help but fell silent, and said, "Chongyan, you also like to watch the excitement!"

Some people look unapproachable like the flowers of Gaoling on the outside, but in private they like to watch the fun like ordinary people.

Ji Chongyan glanced at him, and said, "I like to watch things where Miss Jiang Si gets involved."

Lin Yan: "..." That's too much!Asu, who bullied him, is not here, so Chongyan opens his mouth to Miss Jiang Si and shuts his mouth to Miss Jiang Si. He is deliberately bullying, right?

It's just the slander, Lin Yan still said: "With Zhuang Haoran intervening, the villagers of Yushui Village are naturally 'tough'. The two daughters-in-law of Li Dali and Li Er, because they did not let the deceased husband bear the reputation of being greedy for money and killing his life, are here. In front of the Yang family's gate, death is a sign of ambition."

Of course, with so many people present, if the two women really "dead", it would be nothing but nothing.

People did not die, but their reputation spread out.

(End of this chapter)