Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 221 Misunderstanding
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding!" Hearing Chen Yili's questioning, the county magistrate knew that he had offended a very important person, and he didn't refute. You slandered Mr. Xu, and that's why I misunderstood my brother!"

"Sun Youcai?" Chen Yili glanced at the one on the ground, seemed to have some reflections, and asked, "Aren't you Sun Mu?"

"Sun Mu, he made up all this nonsense!" The county magistrate looked sad and indignant: "Chen Gong, hurry up, explain clearly to Xu Gong, I didn't mean it."

Xu Qing was standing next to him, and he could clearly see the three changes in the county magistrate's face, so he said to Chen Yili: "These two have formed a party for personal gain, colluded with the lake bandits, and slandered the good people. I invite the county magistrate Chen to be a public servant."

"Grand Xu, have mercy!" Sun Youcai and the county magistrates immediately kowtowed, but Xu Qing flatly refused and walked in.

Chen Yili said that Mr. Xu must have known Xu Qing's identity. Even if Sun Youcai and the county magistrate were dissatisfied, they could settle it with the name of Luonan county uncle.Xu Qing is naturally safe, this is the advantage of status.

The county magistrate resigned and returned to his hometown, Sun Youcai hanged himself to protect his family, and the water ghost was temporarily imprisoned to use him to deal with the banditry in the lake.Xu Qing didn't continue to press, and approved of these practices, one is greedy, the other is rich and unkind, neither is a good bird.

Xu Qing didn't know the details, he only knew the result.

It didn't take much effort for Chen Yili to deal with the three people, thanks to the county magistrate who brought all the officials here.

Such a nonsense incident also wiped out the elegance of Shangguanyi and Chen Yili. Seeing Xu Qing, they only chatted about some gossip.

Although Xu Qing is the boss, he is not directly related, nor is he in charge. If he wants to ask about the Lake Bandits, he can't ask directly.

So everyone drank tea.The tea in Xu Qing's house is different from other places. Other places are made of tea cakes, which are ground into tea powder, washed with water, boiled, and made into soup with onion, ginger and garlic.The tea that Xu Qing here is the loose tea that Xun Xueer and others specially asked to buy a few days ago.It didn't exist at the beginning, but it was specially made according to the method Xu Qing provided. Except that it was not made into pancakes, everything else was the same.

Boil a pot of water, put tea leaves into the boil, boil for a while, take out three large bowls, and pour out a stream of clear tea.

In fact, when drinking tea carefully, you can't drink the first cup, but to wash the tea. Xu Qing doesn't have this habit, so the big leaf and the big bowl are stuffy in one mouthful, while it's hot!
The two of them had never seen this drinking method before, so they were curious.Pick it up, and take a look at the steaming green tea.His lips touched the edge of the bowl slightly, and he took a sip.Xu Qing smiled, shook his head, picked it up, took a few long breaths into the tea bowl, and then tasted it.Taking advantage of the heat, he swallowed slowly in his throat, and the phlegm accumulated in the cold wind melted away.

Seeing Xu Qing drinking tea like this, Shangguanyi picked it up and took a sip imitating the gourd painting.

"Um……"

After drinking, Shangguanyi took a deep breath and praised: "This tea is extremely simple, thick and thick, and it leaves a fragrance on the lips and teeth!"

"Hi~" At this time, Chen Yili also took a sip, and couldn't help but said happily: "My master said: 'My way is consistent'. I heard Xu Gong's article yesterday, and I tasted Xu Gong's tea today. From this, we can know that Xu Gong is above the 'light' one. It’s really a profound attainment.”

"Hehehe..." Xu Qing smiled, but heard other meanings from Chen Yili's words. Although Chen Yili had been appointed as a county magistrate, he hadn't been promoted for a long time. Now that he mentioned the word "lightness", it might be ironic.

"Where, it's just having nothing to do for fun." Xu Qing said, "It seems that County Magistrate Chen has nothing to do."

Chen Yili's eyes lit up, and he knew the elegance after hearing the string song, Xu Gong understood my heart.So he asked: "Grand Xu, it's not that the lower officials are lazy, but the Qiantang gentry is powerful, and the lower officials are everywhere."

"Constraints? Haha..." Xu Qing smiled and said, "The so-called constraints are just two, one is Bai Sha, the other is Hei Sha, Bai Sha is kind and cruel, and Hei Sha is ruthless. move, don't you?"

"It's true, the most helpless thing for me and other people-friendly officials is this black and white evil?"

"Hehehe, do you know what I did in Cangzhou?" Xu Qing smiled, but his face suddenly changed, and he said solemnly: "The rich and powerful families raise private soldiers, steal taxes, and hide black households, so I cut them off. Bandits The whistling mountains and forests endangered the people, so I recruited state soldiers, gathered the strong people, and wiped them out!" Xu Qing told Chen Yili what he did in his first year in Cangzhou, of course, it was easy to choose, nice, The purpose is to give Chen Yi confidence.

Sure enough, when Chen Yili heard this, ambition burst out in his eyes, but after a while, he sighed again: "Mr. Xu, I am different from you. I have no way out, and I am not as reliable as a back mountain."

That's right, Xu Qing dared to move the family and the bandits, not only because he had soldiers in his hands, but also because his background was strong, and he would slap his ass and leave at worst.So he said to Chen Yili: "The big family in Qiantang grows with the trend, but it is not as deep-rooted as the Cangzhou family."

"How do you say that?" Chen Yili thought of something, but it seemed that there was a layer of window paper behind him, so he couldn't figure it out.

"When I was in Cangzhou, the aristocratic families were centuries-old families, and they continued to intermarry and marry each other. There was already me among you and you among me. It was good to compete with each other, but more of them were cooperation. Move your whole body, hit one, and the others will retaliate." Xu Qing pointed out: "The big households in Qiantang are different. Cooperation is far worse than competition. If one is knocked down, the other will just sit back and watch, or even make trouble."

"How did Mr. Xu confirm this?" Chen Yili asked.

"Just now, Sun Youcai was in such a difficult situation, and no one came to help." Xu Qing said in his heart, so he would not tell you that I have an assistant from the dark river.

"That is to say, to divide and strike?" Shangguanyi swiped his finger in the air, only to see Chen Yili nod afterward, it seems that he asked the question instead of Chen Yili.

"Well, it's okay to divide and attack. It's okay to start with two, but after a long time, they will be noticed and they will still attack together." Xu Qing shook his head: "There are contradictions in everything, between big households and big households, within the big households. There is also, there is more between the big family and the lake bandits, and there is more between the big family and the lake bandits and ordinary people... so, do you understand?"

"Oh!" Chen Yili clapped his legs and said, "Grand Xu, uh, you mean, you want to use these spears and shields to attack the shield with the spear of the son?"

"Hmm..." Xu Qing thought in his heart, is this the meaning of the words "Yi Zizhi Spear"?I don't know, maybe the ancient people thought differently, so they nodded ignorantly and said, "Yes, yes."

"Xu Gong, accept my worship..." Chen Yili fell down and couldn't get up.

Shangguanyi and Xu Qing smiled at each other and helped him up.At this time, Xun Xue'er and the others brought people to bring snacks and introduced them. Shangguanyi didn't know that Xiaoyue and Huang Shimei had been brought into the harem by Xu Qing.Shangguanyi laughed and scolded Xu Qing for being beautiful, but Chen Yili only said that Mrs. Xu was skillful and the dim sum she made was delicious.

While chatting, Xu Qing mentioned the old boatman he rescued that day, and his son who wronged him in prison.

Chen Yili was also surprised when he heard that, since the lake bandit was captured, within a year, he would either be assigned, beheaded, or released.After five or six years, this kind of thing is rare.

Shangguan Yi snorted, you have the nerve to say that a county magistrate doesn't even know anyone in prison.

Chen Yili apologized and vowed to investigate.The officials just now didn't all leave, and many of them stayed at Xu Qing's house to beg for peace, while waiting for Chen Yili to order something important, which happened to be useful at the moment.Chen Yili wrote the invoice and ordered the public to bring the imprisoned man. The old boatman's son came and sent it along with the case file.

At this time, a gentleman just came to report, and Sun Youcai passed away, and the family had already started the funeral.

The three of them sighed, and Xu Qing sent someone to invite the old boatman and the old boatman's grandson.Continue to sit down and chat, talk about literary affairs, and talk about articles.

Originally Chen Yili proposed to compose a poem, but Xu Qing suddenly got stuck and couldn't think of the poems for the occasion, so he had a flash of inspiration and said to the two of them, why don't I be your judge?

Fortunately, Xu Qing still remembered Wang Guowei's words in the world, and borrowed a few sentences from it, such as "artistic conception", what "weather", "I have me without me", casually refer to Shangguanyi and Chen Yili The two were in admiration.One by one, they obediently wrote down Xu Qing's words and put them in their arms.

The public's feet are not bad, and it's still early in the sky, so they brought the files and the suspects.

Look at the prisoner, the son of the old boatman, his hands and face seemed to have a thick layer of scabs due to years of prison life.Not to mention being sloppy, the man seemed to have a problem with his spirit. He cowered when he saw everyone, and hid at the door and wrapped himself up.

Chen Yili didn't bother him first, picked up the dusty file and looked it up carefully.

During the great chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Jiangnan suffered fewer wars, but it is a miracle that this file is still there.

It's just that the dossier was written rather sloppily. Apart from the nonsense to support the appearance, Chen Yili could only filter out three useful pieces of information.First, it is certain that the son of the old boatman does not have enough evidence to prove that he is a lake bandit.Second, the only clue is that he was on the same boat, and everyone else died, so he came back alone.It's someone else's boat.Third, before he was imprisoned, the old boatman's son was already insane.After this article, there is also the testimony of the patriarch at that time, saying that before the accident, he was still sane and able to cross people across the river.

The county magistrate at that time only left these three messages, and at the same time, the helplessness of the county magistrate at that time can be seen.The other people on the same boat were all dead, but this one was not dead. The family members of those dead people had already identified the old boatman's son as a gangster.Moreover, looking at these people, it seems that there are many powerful and powerful households.The county magistrate knew that there was insufficient evidence to convict him, and he could not appease the families of the victims, so he temporarily held the old boatman's son in shackles to appease people's hearts.I don't know why, but the county magistrate seemed to have forgotten about this incident, and this case was left behind.

Xu Qing was a little puzzled, the old boatman had his own boat at home and wanted to cross the lake, why would he take someone else's boat?How could a bitter ferryman sit on the same boat with a big family?
From the looks of his heart, it was really the old boatman's son who was on board with ulterior motives.

(End of this chapter)