Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 334

"Big brother, big brother!" A man wearing a cloth hat slanted into the hall quickly, but his silk clothes were worn crookedly, "I'm back from work!"

The man sitting on the main seat is about forty, looks a little thin, with a touch of official authority and literati demeanor.

"Second brother, don't yell, now you are the official of the Yamen after all, you don't have to let the people below see the joke!" The man sitting in the first place scolded him with a frown, and then asked him again.

"How are things going?"

"Damn!" Fang Chaoxiang spat fiercely, "That old slave is so arrogant that all the hundred taels of silver I sent was thrown out. It's just that he broke a leg once. You should know that the second master will buy another." Life is only twelve!"

"Oh?" The face of the boss of the Fang family also became gloomy, "I'm afraid this servant is showing off when he hears that his master is coming. Second, go on to Xiushan and tie up Gu San and the other three." Go, break one leg right in front of the Zhang family mansion! One leg is not enough to relieve hatred, so break two! Explain clearly to Gu San and the others, and ask them to take care of everything completely. One leg is worth 50 taels , but only half a year of training."

The second son of the Fang family was a little unconvinced: "Why did you lose your own brother? We didn't have to weaken our Fang family's reputation first! The whole county is full of our people, so why are you afraid that he is a scholar? The public's methods have been used a little bit. Come on, let’s make him feel overwhelmed. Besides, there is still Bai Experience in the army, and our Zhaoyang is under military control, so even if he has any official documents, he can be rejected by the army. What can he do to us?”

"Second brother, you are so confused!" The man sitting on the side looks similar to the brothers of the Fang family, and it is the third brother, Fang Chaozhu. "We don't care about this Zhang, but about the relationship with the Gu family!"

"Although this man surnamed Zhang is the number one scholar, he is a stupefied young man. He has only been an official for a few days, and he is stunned to remonstrate. This is because he was demoted from Beijing. How much power can he have in the court? But this person is The only grandson of the old lady of the Gu family, if he gets in the way, the Gu family will most likely abandon their marriage with our Fang family. Dalang's future involves our family, so it is a last resort!"

"What the third child said is reasonable," Fang Chaoli also nodded, "The most important thing now is to talk about this marriage for Ci'er. When our family and the county prince's mansion become brothers-in-law, what else is going on in Zhaoyang?" What can't be done? At that time, it won't take much effort to find an excuse to get that old guy from the Zhang family to our house. At that time, the second child, you can vent your anger however you want, but now you have to press the ground."

Fang Chaoxiang didn't dare to disobey his elder brother's wishes, so he could only leave angrily.

After he left, Fang Chaoli, who was still calm just now, frowned.

"God's will is really fickle. I heard that Zhang Xinzhi received the imperial staff, and said that after this year, he took the Zhang family's 1000 mu of land into his hands. The crimes are all ready-made. But who knows His Majesty But he was sent to Zhaoyang! He even became our immediate boss. This man is a relative of the Wangfu, and the army's Bai experience may not be able to do much. If he uses the big seal to suppress me, what will happen? It's also a problem!"

"That's easy to handle!" The third child's thinking is very sharp, "If he uses his official authority to suppress the elder brother, the elder brother will take a leave of absence to recuperate, so that the subordinates will be delayed in their errands, and the idlers will also take to the streets to make trouble, and secretly call the servants to make trouble. It would be enough for him to have a headache if he lost his life. If it doesn't work, he will force this stunned young man to deal with those wealthy Zhuangzi in Lianyang County, and see what he will do?"

Hearing what the third child said, Fang Chaoli felt relieved, and turned around to ask another person.

"The one surnamed Yue and the one surnamed Wei are really troublesome, but Xiushan happens to be the starting point for the county to sail north. You must hurry up to deal with the matter of Xiushan. The one surnamed Yue has some friendship with Zhang Xinzhi. If he Talking too much, I don't know how much trouble it will cause."

"Brother, don't worry!" Fang Chaozhu bowed his hands confidently and agreed, "That Yue Tang was originally from Wu, and he didn't have a deep foundation in the court. He even married an orphan girl recently. There is a new recruit named Yue Servant, I sent someone to arrest the servant's mother to the Zhuangzi. I have full control of the situation there. Give me a few days, and I will definitely find him! As long as the surnamed Yue is soft, the surnamed Wei will be helpless .”

"Among our brothers, you are the most meticulous in doing things, go!"

Just as Fang Chaozhu left, he remembered something again.

"By the way, brother, the families from the Wu country have sent people here several times. How do we reply to them?"

Faced with this question, Fang Chaoli touched his chin for a long time, and finally said in a dejected way.

"This time the mutual market is dominated by that letter. It is up to him alone to decide who to buy or not to buy for the 400 million yuan. We really have no way to intervene."

"Brother filtered it, didn't he, a scholar can do this? As long as the people below are willing to return, won't it be easy for us to do it? Hey, if we are also relatives of the Gu family, then we can get a share of the 400 million yuan .”

"400 million guan?" Fang Chaoli snorted suddenly, "I don't know how much I can really give, and besides, the price is up to the other party to decide. This job is actually not easy! You go ahead and win over the surname Yue first. good."

at night.

Xiushan County, Wutong Inn.

In the upper room of the inn, the drunken Fang Chaoxiang was beating a woman with a horsewhip, his face flushed.

"Old stuff, don't know how to flatter!"

"Look up, bitch!"

"Crack~~~!"

The woman was bloodstained all over by Fang Zhaoxiang, but she held a handkerchief in her mouth and dared not make a sound.Because as long as she yells for pain, it will arouse the other party's desire to hurt even more.

When Fang Zhaoxiang finally collapsed from exhaustion and went back to the back room to fall asleep, the woman who was limp on the ground slowly started to move again.

The woman's surname is Cai. She is only 19 years old this year.Her family was killed for resisting Zheng Jun.But because of her beauty, she was brought by Fang Chaoxiang's side to serve her, and she fell into the devil's cave ever since.

She was originally from Xiushan and was familiar with the street terrain here. She had been detained in the county before and had no chance to return to Xiushan for two years.But today, Fang Zhaoxiang was going to spend the night in Xiushan, so he deliberately chose her who was born in Xiushan to take him with him to vent his anger.

Cai Wenniang was pretending to be dizzy just now, because she had already made up her mind to run away tonight.

Not only because this is Xiushan, but also because a group of people passed downstairs in the evening.Everyone talked and said that the leader riding the horse was the county magistrate of the current county, and the magistrate's wife was on the carriage.

When the lady looked out, Cai Wenniang felt as if she had received an electric shock for a moment, because she was so familiar with that face.

That is the granddaughter of the Chen family, and also her former best friend, a collateral daughter of the Chen family, the number one general in Wu.If she remembered correctly, Chen Yushuang was hidden by her grandfather when the city was broken, and she tried to escape out of the city in a panic, but was captured by Zheng Jun.

The Chen family actually married the county magistrate of Zheng Guo, and she was also the first wife. This discovery made Cai Wenniang have mixed feelings.

She decided to take the risk of escaping from Fang Chaoxiang's grasp, and immediately went to the county government office to seek asylum from Chen Yushuang.As early as Fang Chaoxiang's endless scolding, Cai Wenniang could tell that the two sides were enemies rather than friends.

And she has a big gift to give!

The energy that a person explodes in a desperate situation is amazing. Cai Wenniang tied the torn sheets and quilts into cloth ropes and tied them down from the second floor of the inn.On the cold winter night after the new year, the thinly dressed Cai Wenniang stumbled towards the county government.

She clutched her chest tightly, because there were a few pieces of paper in her clothes, which she stole from Fang Chaoxiang's booklet, and it was the evidence of the Fang family's crime.

Emperor Zheng ordered Xintuo's southern counties to sell land at low prices to officials, aristocratic families, and dignitaries. The imperial edict clearly stipulated that only those with the highest quality grades were eligible to buy acres of land from officials at a preferential price, and were exempted from tax for three years.

Fang Chaoli is just an official of the seventh grade, and the number of acres that can be purchased at a discount according to the imperial edict is [-] acres.However, the Fang family took advantage of the opportunity to take charge of the government affairs of the county instead of Liu Laotong, and actually assigned [-] mu of fertile land to the Fang family in various counties.

The [-] acres were purchased separately in the name of a large number of "non-existent" officials from other places, but in fact it was the Fang's left-handed and right-handed.Fang Chaoxiang was the person in charge of the family's farm affairs, and the pamphlet he carried with him contained the names, taboos, places of origin and the number of purchased farms of all the "fabricated" officials.

What's even more extraordinary is that the Fang family didn't even spend a penny.

In Fang Chaoxiang's pamphlet, one of the records is as follows: Official XXX purchased [-] mu of fertile land on a certain day, and received [-] guan in cash, and added a note at the end: build the official road outside Xilu Village in the city, and buy stones in the county Some, pay [-] guan.

Cai Wenniang knows how long the official road can be built with [-] guan stones, because the official road outside Lu Village was built by the Cai family together with several families two years ago.The official road had only been repaired for less than two years, and it was completely rebuilt by the Fang family in one day on the ledger.

On several pieces of papers of Cai Wenniang's, the Fang family's criminal evidence valued at "30 guan" was recorded. As long as they follow the pictures, they can reveal the Fang family's secrets to the public.

In the middle of the night, Cai Wenniang also spent countless words to open the back door of the county government.She pretended to be the lost sister of the county magistrate's wife, which made the doubtful servant bold enough to wake up Chen Yushuang's nanny.

The reason why the maid did this was because no one knew about Chen Yushuang's background, and they all thought that Chen Yushuang was an orphan who had a broken family.

This is all because Chen Yushuang's grandfather was promoted to lieutenant general by the emperor, and also infiltrated into the territory of Wu State. Chen Yushuang, who was the only weakness of Mr. Chen, was also concealed by Luan Yiwei.

Therefore, except for Chen Yushuang's servants and nurses who lived together since childhood, the general servants in the county government don't know where the county magistrate's wife's real natal family is.They can only judge that Chen Yushuang comes from the Wu family through his wife's behavior and speech.

Cai Wenniang's demeanor and accent are all from the Southern Wu family.

Chen Yushuang's nanny naturally knew that Chen Yushuang didn't have any younger sisters, but she still came out to take a look, because she was also worried that something happened to the old master in Wu country, and this person was actually here to deliver a letter.

Looking repeatedly at Cai Wenniang's haggard face under the lantern, the nanny finally let out a cry of surprise and recognized her.

In the middle of the night, the lights in the backyard of the Xiushan County Government were turned on again.

Chen Yushuang and Cai Wenniang were crying and reminiscing about the old days, while Yue Tang was walking back and forth excitedly in the study.The few pieces of paper that Cai Wenniang brought are too important!What the Fang family did in Zhaoyang made Yue Tang extremely disgusted. He had long wanted to bring down the Fang family, but unfortunately he never had any real evidence that could kill the Fang family.

"In a few days, when the letter arrives, someone will send you this great gift!" Yue Tang was no longer sleepy at the moment, and he quickly thought about Fang Chaoxiang's reactions after he found out that Cai Wenniang had escaped after dawn.

"Cai Wenniang knows about the existence of Fang Chaoxiang's booklet, so just in case, the Fang family will never let Cai Wenniang go!" His mind was spinning rapidly, "Cai Wenniang is a local, if someone came to infer, it would be very helpful Maybe sneak back to Cai's old house, which is now Xinzhi's mansion! Wonderful! Just because of their fear of Xinzhi, it can be delayed for a few more days."

"No! We must secretly strengthen the defense of Houya. Firstly, Cai Wenniang is here, and secondly, the wife is already pregnant, so I have to prevent Fang's family from jumping over the wall." Yue Tang looked at the night outside the window and pondered for a long time. After making a decision, he immediately called a servant.

"Li Gao, take my handwriting and documents, and immediately ride to Wei County Wei's office outside the city! He should have patrolled Daxi Village today, and you just ask him to bring someone back to the city immediately! Don't delay!"

Li Gao is Yue Tang's new servant, especially good at riding horses, so Yue Tang entrusts him with this task.

Amidst the horseshoes, Li Gao leaked out of the city gate with a document stamped with the county magistrate's seal, and rode straight towards Daxi Village for more than ten miles.But gradually, Li Gao's horse speed slowed down, and struggles appeared on his face.

But thinking that his mother was still in the hands of the other party, Li Gao could only look apologetically at the county town in the night behind him, turned his horse's head and went straight to the county town.

At the end of the ugly hour (three o'clock in the middle of the night), the Fang's house in the county city was brightly lit.

"Second brother ruined my big deal!" Fang Chaoli's face was livid and distorted, and he slammed Yue Tan's handwriting on the table heavily.The old Sanfang Chaozhu who was just invited was also eagerly walking around the room. At this moment, the Fang family has reached the edge of the cliff, and the next step is to die!
"Brother!" Fang Chaozhu's trembling voice suddenly sounded, "I can't wait, the first strike is the best, and the second strike will suffer! Let Li Gao take people back to Xiushan immediately, and immediately kill Yue Tang! Take the things that that bitch gave Burn them all!"

"Ten people! Patriarch! Give me the ten most loyal members of the Fang family," a big man walked out from Fang Chaoli's side, "We rode to Xiushan overnight, sneaked into the back office and slaughtered the couple. Li Gao was responsible for destroying them." Those pieces of paper!"

"Go~! Do it neatly! Kill that woman too!" Fang Chaoli's red eyes were full of calm and suppressed madness.

Eleven knights with drooping sable hats entered Xiushan at the end of Yinshi (five o'clock in the morning), with Li Gao's cover and the county magistrate's paperwork. people.

But two quarters of an hour later, the county government suddenly became angry.

(End of this chapter)