Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

After all, the Gu family had a good time before, so it's easy to find.

When he reached the ground, Su Mu walked straight into the gate, and said to a servant: "Go and ask your master Gu to come out, and tell Mei Fugui from the inspection department to see you."

Seeing that Su Mu was dressed for work, the servant didn't dare to do anything wrong, so he hurriedly invited him into the flower hall, and then quickly ran to report.

To be honest, this Gu family is really not small. In terms of the scale of the old house, it is no smaller than the mansions of the salt merchants in the city.It's just that the houses and furnishings inside look dilapidated, with a shabby look in their bones.

Su Mu sat idle and was bored, so he walked to the bookshelf, took out a copy of "Shangshu", leaned on the bookshelf, and flipped through it casually.

After a while, a 26-year-old young scholar came out. Seeing that Su Mu was out of shape, he frowned unconsciously.Although he was a boy, he had a natural sense of superiority over the yamen servants, so he couldn't help coughing.

Su Mu threw down the book and asked with a smile: "You are Master Gu, why do you look so young?"

Seeing Su Mu's rudeness, the scholar flashed a trace of anger on his face: "Gu Lin, the young student, is the eldest son of Gu. My father has a minor ailment, so it's inconvenient to see an official. But I don't know why inspector Mei came to my Gu family, why? "

"Oh, it's the same when looking for you." Su Mu asked, "Who are you, Gu Facai and Gu Jixiang?"

It turns out that this person is Gu Run's eldest brother!

"It's Xiaosheng's cousin, what happened to them?"

"It's not a big deal, just selling a thousand catties of private salt has already been taken down by the inspection department. This is a capital offense!"

"What!" Gu Lin yelled, and hurriedly put away the displeasure on his face: "Inspector Mei, please wait a moment, I will go and ask my father to come out to meet you."

After speaking, he hurried out.

Gu Facai and Gu Jixiang were arrested for selling illegal salt and committed capital crimes. This was an earth-shattering event for the Gu family.In a short while, the outside of the flower hall was full of people, men, women and children, all crowded together.

Among them were two women who were crying so loudly that they kept banging their heads against the wall, and they were dragged back desperately by the crowd.If you guessed right, these two are the wives of Gu Facai and Gu Jixiang.

Su Mu looked at the crowd for a long time, but he didn't find anyone who looked like the legendary Gu Huashao.

Just when he was disappointed, he saw an old man in his fifties walking in with the support of Gu Lin and another young man: "Old man Gu Wenwen, I have seen Mei inspecting."

Su Mu stood up and saluted once, but his eyes fell on the other young man: "Is this Mr. Gu San?"

The man cupped his hands: "Gu Run is my brother-in-law, and I am Gu Rong."

"So you are the second child of the Gu family." After the host and guest sat down, Su Mu explained the case to Gu Wenwen and his two sons in detail.

He said: "I've heard that the Gu family in Cangzhou is a famous poet and book family. This matter has a lot to do with it. After thinking about it, it's better to talk to Master Gu first."

After hearing what Su Mu said, the Gu family also knew how powerful it was.

Gu Wenwen glanced at the two sons, Gu Rong understood, and took out a bag of things and put it on the coffee table beside Su Mu: "Thank you for the inspection Mei, I hope you will accept it."

Su Mu opened it and saw that there was white silver inside, he smiled, but pushed the burden away.

Gu Laoer was a little anxious: "My lord, do you think it's not sincere enough?"

Su Mu smiled wryly: "Tell the truth to the second son, I have an old relationship with the third son of your family, so this favor should be sold. It's just..."

"Just what, please ask Inspector Mei to make it clear." Boss Gu couldn't help but interjected.

But Su Mu didn't answer: "Where is the third son, why isn't he here?"

Gu Lin: "My third son went out the day before yesterday and hasn't come back yet."

Gu Wenwen used his crutch angrily: "This third child!"

When Su Mu heard that Gu Run was not there, he felt a little disappointed, and then slowly said: "Accordingly, this case is not big, but it is not small. But anyway, it is from a villager, and the death penalty is indeed too much. But everyone is watching I got the stolen goods, Ma Quan Ma Xun is stern and selfless, and I have nothing to do."

Gu Laoer said cautiously: "Vice-inspector Ma is your deputy, sir, so it's possible that he dare not listen to what your excellency says."

As soon as he said this, Gu Wenwen shouted: "Don't talk about the second child. It is a great favor for the adults to come and inform my Gu family today." Just now, Su Mu vaguely mentioned that he and Ma Quan had a quarrel. Unfortunately, Ma Quan wanted to use this case to dampen Su Mu's limelight.

Master Gu couldn't tell why, he stopped his son immediately, and then stretched out his hand to push the money to Su Mu: "Mei inspector, thank you for your kindness, this old man has his own cares about this matter. I hope you will accept it if you have any kindness. The second child , Send Mei for inspection."

If you don't charge money, it's hypocritical.Su Mu came here today mainly because he wanted to meet Gu Rui. Since he is not here, there is no need to stay any longer.Besides, with this relationship with the Gu family, it won't be too late to meet again in the future.

Pick up the burden immediately and go out.

The boss of the Gu family couldn't hold back his breath: "Father, how can I save my cousin and the others?"

Mr. Gu hesitated: "Why don't you go to Qiuzhizhou."

Boss Gu: "Father, Mr. Zhizhou is easy to talk about. Then there will be a political performance appraisal. Yang Zhoutong's term of office has expired, and you are unhappy with your father. I can't guarantee that he will use this case as a political achievement!"

Gu Laosan, who was beside Su Mu, suddenly turned around and said, "Father, they really think that my Gu family has fallen, so let them know that I am not easy to mess with, the north side... "

"Shut up!" Master Gu yelled loudly, "Before the horoscope is written, you are thinking of using the tiger skin as a banner. If it spreads, won't it ruin your third brother's good deed?"

"But... Fa Cai and Auspicious..."

Old Master Gu sighed, slumped on the chair dejectedly, and murmured: "I've done my own crimes, I can't live!"

It seems that he has no choice!

"Wow!" With a sound, the wives of Gu Facai and Gu Jixiang cried loudly again outside the house, and knelt on the ground at the same time, grabbing the ground with their heads: "Master, save them!"

Su Mu watched and shook his head for a while. Through the conversation between old man Gu and his son just now, he suddenly understood: just because Gu Run is going to be a son-in-law, the Gu family values ​​their reputation even more.If they use the royal banner to save people, I'm afraid they may not be able to save them, which will damage the Queen Mother's reputation and even ruin the marriage.

To be honest, from the perspective of a modern person like Su Mu, although smuggling salt is illegal, it is not a capital crime.In later generations, smuggling of smuggled salt will be fined at most.If the amount is huge, it will be a few years in prison.

Seeing the two women whose heads were covered with blood, and seeing the children beside them crying with snot and tears, Su Mu couldn't help feeling compassionate.

When he came to report the letter today, he just wanted to let the Gu family go out to save people, and to dampen Ma Quan's limelight.

But looking at the Gu family, it seems that there is no way.

It seems that only I, Su Mu, can fight Ma Quan.You can't back down in this official battle. If you take a step back, others will never take you seriously when they see you being overwhelmed by the horse.When the wall falls and everyone retreats, you will be bullied by others in the future.

Su Mu stopped, smiled and said to Mr. Gu: "You don't get paid for nothing, maybe I can think of a way."