Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 442
Yang Yuntao sensitively captured two words: "The script? The teahouse? Are you talking about the Boyue Teahouse?"

Old man Shen was surprised this time: "Master Yang, you also know Boyue Teahouse?"

He heard Yao Shuqi, Wang Fulai and others often brag about the teahouse and script, so he knew.But I didn't expect this teahouse to be so famous that even the magistrate knew about it.

"You just said that this Young Master Du opened the teahouse by relying on his ability to write scripts? What scripts did he write?" Yang Yuntao asked, staring into old man Shen's eyes.

"What's it called..." Old man Shen frowned and thought about it, "What is the legend of a hero?"

He knocked on the head and apologized to Yang Yuntao: "I'm sorry, I heard someone from the Du family mention it, but people have poor memory when they get old, so I can't remember the full name at once."

"Is it called "Legend of the Condor Heroes"?"

Old man Shen slapped his forehead: "Yes, yes, this is it."

Du Yuntao's face flushed faintly, and he seemed a little excited: "Really?" Then he remembered the age of Du Jinning mentioned by old man Shen, and said in disbelief, "You mean, a 12-year-old boy wrote this script? Is he the head of the case this year?"

Worried about fraud in the examination room, the magistrate is not allowed to interfere in the examination, so Yang Yuntao did not pay too much attention to the examination.Even if the college has passed the test, it is still a scholar, the level is extremely low, and the college has two exams every three years, which is usually tight, so there is no need for him to care too much about who is admitted.So until now, he didn't know that the owner of this garden turned out to be the case of this court examination.And I heard from this servant, is it still Xiao Sanyuan?
The 12-year-old Xiao Sanyuan is really rare, and he can be regarded as a child prodigy.

"Isn't it? Young Master Du is only 12 years old this year and has only studied for two years." Old man Shen said this with a very proud expression, as if Du Jinning was his master.It was all because of Wang Fulai's powerful brainwashing skills, which made old man Shen unconsciously carry such emotions.

At this time, the two had already reached Du's house.Old man Zhu was ordered by Qi Bokun to keep staring outside.Seeing old man Shen coming with a middle-aged man at this moment, he knew that this was the magistrate.

He hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and asked: "But Master Yang?" After receiving Yang Yuntao's affirmation, he said, "Master Qi and Mr. Yuan, let the villain wait here in the inner courtyard, and lead the Master over."

Yang Yuntao followed old man Zhu and walked in. He felt good when he looked up and saw the rockery. Then he turned around and saw the road leading to the hall. Even the well-informed Yang Yuntao was dumbfounded by the scenery.Walking all the way forward, although the flowers and trees have not been planted, it looks very messy, but the prototype is still there, and Yang Yuntao can also see the benefits of this garden.

"Who built this garden?" He couldn't help asking.

"The picture drawn by my young master was made by the artisans of the Liang family." Old man Zhu replied honestly.

Yang Yuntao was very surprised: "Where did your young master know how to build a garden like this?"

Old man Zhu hesitated for a moment: "The villain heard from the butler that this garden was conceived by my young master himself."

"I thought about it?" Yang Yuntao raised his eyes to look at the scenery, and deeply doubted whether he had lived all these years in vain.

At this time, seven or eight yamen servants invited by the Zeng family's servants finally came to the door.

"This is the place." A servant of the Zeng family pointed to the Du family's gate, "The young master said that the gate was built to be overreached, so the servants can just smash it down hard, and he will take care of anything."

"okay."

Coincidentally, it was Zhang Butou, the brother-in-law of Qin Baozhong, the former owner of Jiangbei, who led the team to smash the door.Hearing this, he greeted the yamen servant and said, "Everyone, hurry up and go to Defulou for dinner. Master Zeng invites you."

When the yamen servants heard this, they were all full of energy. They lifted the big hammer and threw it at the gate: "Boom..."

Old man Shen sent Yang Yuntao here and then went back, old man Zhu accompanied Yang Yuntao to the kitchen, only Zhu Xiaoliu was here to watch the door.Hearing a loud noise, even the ground shook several times, and he was shocked.Thinking of the young master's order, he didn't stop him, and ran to the back house.

So, Yang Yuntao arrived in the hall of the back house, just said hello to Qi Bokun, and looked at Du Jinning a few times, before he had time to sit down, he saw a child about ten years old rushing up like a cannonball, mouthing Li yelled: "Young master, young master, it's not good, someone came and smashed the door of our house."

"What?" Du Jinning stood up awkwardly, stared at Zhu Xiaoliu and asked, "Who is it?"

"It seems..." Zhu Xiaoliu panted heavily, "I heard them talking, it seems like some kind of arrest."

"What?" This time it was Yang Yuntao's turn to exclaim.

"Go, take a look." Qi Bokun waved his hand and went out the door first.

When the group arrived in front of the gate, the gate of Du's house had been smashed, one door had fallen to the ground, and the other one was not, but there was a big hole in it.A hole was also smashed into the wall next to the door.It is estimated that after a few more hits, the wall will collapse.

With such a big commotion, several people stood in front of the Du family's gate to see what happened.These people saw that it was the servants knocking on the door, but no one came up to ask.

"Brothers, hurry up, I'll be in the yamen in a while, finish work early." In front of others, Zhang Butou couldn't talk about eating, so he just urged the yamen servants.

He pointed to a lazy yamen servant and said, "Are you working? Didn't eat at noon? Be stronger, don't be soft." Then, he made a demonstration for his subordinates, "Look at me."

But he didn't expect that as soon as he raised the hammer, he suddenly heard a familiar shout: "Stop." Just as he was in a daze, he saw a person walking out of the gate.Zhang Butou is very familiar with this person, he met him half an hour ago in the yamen, isn't he the magistrate Yang Yuntao?
Why is he here?
Yang Yuntao saw that almost all the arresters in his yamen were here, each with a hammer in his hand, no different from the robbers who robbed houses, he blushed with anger, and shouted vigorously: "What are you doing? What? Why did you smash the door of the house?"

Catcher Zhang looked at Yang Yuntao, and then at the gate of Du's house, feeling bad in his heart.

If they smashed the gate so badly that it couldn't be seen right now, it would be easy, just say that the gate was trespassed. Anyway, no one has any evidence to say that what he said was a lie.Although the people on this street have seen this gate, who would offend Zeng Tongjuan?Isn't it what they say?
But now he was directly caught by Mr. Yang.

How to do?How to do?
Even though it was already September, the weather had cooled down again in the evening.But Zhang Tutou was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.

"I'm asking you something, why did you smash someone's door?" Yang Yuntao heard the footsteps behind him and knew that Qi Bokun and the others had followed him, and looked at Catcher Zhang with even more annoyed and fierce eyes.

Under his rule, such a scene unexpectedly occurred, how would he explain to his old boss?Now that the situation in Beijing and China has changed again, the old boss will soon be able to return to his post.If he thinks that he is not capable enough, that he can't even control a few of his officers, would he still want to be promoted in the future?I'm afraid it's hard to even dream, it would be nice if his official position wasn't dismissed.

At this moment, he was determined to eat Zhang Butou raw.

This play is directed by Qi Bokun, what else does he not understand about the scene in front of him?But he pretended not to know anything, and asked Yang Yuntao with a frown: "What's the matter? Xiao Ning'er is a good gate, and it was smashed like this not long after it was built. Who is he offending?" gone?"

Embarrassed, Yang Yuntao said with a sneer, "I'll ask, I'll ask."

He turned his head and yelled at Zhang Butou: "You don't tell me, and I won't force you. You can go back to the yamen and leave."

He looked directly at the other arresters: "Anyone who speaks out and usually performs well, I will mention him as a new arrester."

Zhang Butou's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly said: "My lord, I..."

But before he finished speaking, there was a policeman rushing ahead of him, and his voice was louder than that of Zhang Zhang: "My lord, it was the servants of Mr. Tongsan who took Mr. Zeng's token and called us to come here." Yes, it is said that the construction of this gate is trespassing. We don’t know what trespassing is, and since Catcher Zhang told us to come, we had no choice but to come.”

The other arresters were afraid of losing their jobs, and seeing that catcher Zhang could no longer wear his clothes, it would be better for him to take the blame alone than to be punished by a group of them, and they all echoed: "Yes, catcher Zhang He also said that he invited us to dinner after finishing this matter. Although we don’t care about eating this meal, but he is our boss, we dare not not listen to his words.”

Zhang Butou's expression was very ugly, and he glared at this group of colleagues who had made trouble: "You, you..."

However, he soon realized that self-rescue was the most important thing, and he would not be able to settle accounts with these arresters in the future, so he hurriedly said to Yang Yuntao: "It is the order issued by the judge, and the subordinates have to follow it. Just like everyone said, He is our superior, and his subordinates are inferior, so they must always obey the superior's orders."

"Your arrest was given by the court, not by the judge. He told you to kill people, do you want to kill people too?" Yang Yuntao said coldly.

He has been in Guangxi Province for a year, but he has not yet gained a foothold; while Zeng Tongpan has worked here for many years, and he has a group of people under him.Usually when Yang Yuntao handles affairs, it depends more or less on his face.Especially when the gang of policemen asked them to do something, they always used various reasons to shirk; but Zeng Tong gave an order, but they ran like grandsons one by one.Yang Yuntao had long wanted to take down this catcher Zhang.Reluctantly, Zhang Butou acted cautiously and had nothing to catch.As soon as his airborne magistrate came, he took Zhang Butou down for no reason at all. This approach is simply untenable. When the time comes, Zeng Tongshou will file a lawsuit in Beijing, and he will have to walk around if he can't eat.

At this moment, arrester Zhang has given him a ready-made handle. If he doesn't use it again, he will be really incompetent.At that time, he will be eaten by Zeng Tong so that there is not even any dregs left.

(End of this chapter)