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Chapter 774 Finding Money

"This is?"

Chen Xin watched Li Xiruo take him to an open field, the land full of weeds made Chen Xin feel unusual, and after a little thought he understood Li Xiruo's meaning: "Is this a trap you set up? "

Li Xiruo nodded: "Our brother and sister live far away in the mountains, and the traps and traps in front of the door are indispensable. This road is the one that people who come and go up the mountain must pass. I fell into a trap, just because this hole is only for trapping animals, and it is relatively shallow for humans, so it cannot form too many obstacles."

Li Xiruo lifted the grass branches above, revealing a wide trap. Sure enough, there were traces of climbing inside the trap. Chen Xin squatted down and looked at the hole carefully. Li Xiruo picked up a long branch and held it inside. Pick, a slender rope is set on the branch, and there is a small thing tied to it.

Li Xiruo smiled at Chen Xin: "Everyone who has been here must leave traces."

Chen Xin took the thing on the branch, looked it over, and his brows became darker: "This is Cai Lizheng's wooden whistle."

There is one mile for one hundred households, and five households for one guarantee. Li Xiruo was in the time before Li Xiruo became a fairy, and it was equivalent to the position of a village official. , He can meddle in matters big and small.This kind of official position can be regarded as a half-official, with little power but no serious official position. It is just an upright position arranged by the superior who needs a person to handle notification affairs.

And among the hundreds of households that Cai Lizheng happens to be in charge of is the tax corvee of Chen Xin's family. What he likes is blowing his rough whistle, ordering people to do this and that everywhere, holding chicken feathers as arrows, and acting like a villain.

If it was really him who stole the money, they didn't dare to identify it without sufficient evidence, otherwise the life of the Chen family would be difficult in the village.

Although Chen Xin was ruthless, his parents had the gift of giving birth after all, he couldn't just think about himself and go to ask for money rashly, there was no guarantee that Cai Lizheng would not think of revenge in the future.

However, Chen Xin turned his head to look at Li Xiruo, if he didn't return the money, wouldn't he have failed Li Xiruo's wishes.

Li Xiruo knew what Chen Xinxin was thinking, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Since we don't have full evidence, and we can't ask him to hand over the money in public, let him spit it out by himself."

Chen Xin took Li Xiruo to the outside of Cai Lizheng's house, and saw several pieces of good mutton were hung in this guy's yard, how much silver did Lizheng have every year, if he hadn't stolen the money, he would have paid it back during the festivals. Can I have lamb?
This Cai Lizheng not only went to buy meat, but also went to the county to buy the best wine. He reeked of alcohol and came from not far away. He was wearing a brown coat, with a mustache on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were narrowed into slits, as if See where there is oil, and drill there.

Cai Li was humming a ditty, gesticulating with the gestures he had just learned from the theater, feeling that life was so unhappy, and before he could be happy for a long time, he saw Chen Xin and Li Xiruo seemed to be arguing in the distance, he was startled, Quickly hid.

Li Xiruo said to Chen Dao: "Is it still the problem of losing the silver tael now? There is a bigger problem in it now."

"The top priority now is to get the money back. As long as the problem is not discovered, it is not a problem."

Cai Li was eavesdropping at the side, but he was confused, so he couldn't help but lean closer to listen, and he heard Li Xiruo say: "If you lose the silver taels, you can make more money, but if the contents are found, it will be a great crime to lose your head."

Cai Lizheng's eyelids twitched, and Chen Xin pursed his lips and said, "It's just a piece of official silver. With so much silver, that person probably won't pay attention."

"But if he didn't find out that he had used it, it would be a capital offense to circulate official money privately. If he was caught, he would be the first to confess us."

Cai Lizheng heard the word "official bank", and his head was stunned. If he was struck by lightning, his God, how could there be official bank? Only money can be used, and if he dares to trade official money, he is doomed.

Seeing that Chen Xin and Li Xiruo walked a little farther, Cai Lizheng rushed to the courtyard, went under the tree and took out a shovel to dig. He just dug out a hole and saw a small package with only about 50 taels of silver hidden in it. Cai Lizheng rummaged through it, and hurriedly dug another hole. After digging four or five holes, he searched all the silver he had hidden, but he didn't find a single ingot of official silver.

"Cai Li happens to be smart, the cunning rabbit has three caves."

As soon as Cai Lizheng heard the voice, he looked behind him. Chen Xin and Li Xiruo had already stood in the yard of his house at some point, but he was eager to find the official banker and didn't find it at all.

Chen Xin looked at the pits all over the place, and was glad that Li Xiruo was smart enough to come up with such a trick to ask Cai Lizheng to hand over the money by himself, otherwise, according to Cai Lizheng's burial, even if they knew that he stole it, they might not be able to find all the money .

"You, you."

Cai Lizheng realized now that he had been tricked. Where did he get the official money? He was cheated by a little girl.

When he saw Lin Shang escorting Chen Xin and Li Xiruo to the mountains that day, he felt that something was wrong, so he observed secretly, and heard Lin Shang's servant said that Lin Shang spent a lot of money on something, asking for 200 taels. For the people in the village, this is to ensure that they will not worry about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.

Although Li Zheng was a half-official, he could earn a little money in this remote village to keep himself from starving to death. After all, his family had no fertile land, and his source of livelihood depended entirely on this position.And it's fine for Chen Xin to be admitted as a scholar, but for no reason, Li Xiruo, who looks like a fairy, appears by his side, and now he has made a lot of money, how can he not be jealous.

Cai Lizheng knew that they already knew that he took the money, but even so, they couldn't produce any evidence to prove that the money belonged to Chen Xin.

Cai Lizheng patted the dirt on his body and stood up. He looked at Li Xiruo with anger and said, "Little beauty, what do you think it's good for you to follow Chen Xin, a nerd? In this way, you follow me, brother, I will use this money to support you , to ensure that you will not worry about eating and drinking in your next life."

Li Xiruo looked cold, if it wasn't for Chen Xin being here and she didn't want to reveal her identity, Cai Lizheng would already be dead.

Cai Lizheng looked at Li Xiruo's cold eyes, and suddenly felt cold all over, and couldn't help taking a step back, but in Chen Xin's view, this Cai Lizheng had been staring at Li Xiruo with malicious intentions at all.

Chen Xin frowned, and stepped forward to stand in front of Li Xiruo: "Cai Dazhu, if we don't choose to report to the police, we will give you face. Don't be ignorant. If you return the money to me now, I will treat it as nothing. happened before."

Cai Lizheng heard this and raised his head with a long smile: "Hahaha, you scholar, you have never heard that the emperor does not go to the countryside, the gentry is in charge of the four directions, and the current head of the village is my godfather. You go to report to the government, and you have to see the government take care of you." , not to mention, how do you prove that the money is yours?"

Li Xiruo looked at Cai Lizheng's villainous face, and just wanted to make a fool of himself.

It was a small trick to let him taste the pain, but when she heard a lot of footsteps outside, she withdrew her hand and said to Chen Dao, "It seems that someone is coming."

Chen Xin frowned, and turned sideways with Li Xiruo, only to see the village chief coming with a big family sitting on a sedan chair.

In fact, what Cai Lizheng said just now is correct, the emperor does not go to the countryside, and the country gentry governs all directions.However, the squire does not refer to the head of the village, but refers to the big households in the village. They have a lot of fertile land assets, and they either failed the imperial examination in the early years, or they thought their official position was too low after the examination, and it was difficult for them to survive in the court. It's not as good as the idle cloud and the wild crane, so I live in seclusion in the countryside and live off my family property.

They are rich and talented, but it is difficult for honest officials to decide on housework. If all the big and small things in this village are decided by the officials and lords in the county, it will not be efficient, and it will be difficult to sort out right and wrong, so these squires also have the qualifications to judge , Who is guilty and who is not guilty, sometimes not only to ask the opinions of these squires, but also a matter of their words.

This rich man's surname is Liu, his name is Fu Neng, and he has a brilliant literary talent. It's a pity that he was destined to be a small official in his early years. The court fought so fiercely. If he made a careless move, he was framed and punished to be an official in a poor place. I thought it was boring to go, so I returned home due to illness, I was an idle person, and I didn't go out very much all day long, but today it's strange that I rushed here.

The head of the township and the squires from the village came, and there were more and more people watching the fun, but they didn't know whether they were watching the fun, or whether they were staring at the money on the ground and couldn't move.

Cai Lizheng looked at the head of the township and immediately the villain complained: "Head of the township, you have to make the decision for me. These two people broke into my house and insisted on stealing my money. You said it was broad daylight. How could Chen Xin be a scholar? do such a thing."

"It's obvious that you stole my silver, so why are you wronging me instead?"

Cai Lizheng stared at Chen Xin with wide eyes: "No one in this village knows how poor your family is, and your parents regard you as the foster husband of the Su family for your education. Yinzi, can your parents sell you?"

Hearing this, Chen Xin was angry and annoyed, he was not good at arguing with others, he could only hope for justice in this world.

He turned to the head of the village and Liu Funeng and said: "May the head of the village and sir please uphold justice, this money was indeed handed over to me by Mr. Lin's own hands."

The mayor looked at the silver covered on the ground: "What is your relationship with Mr. Lin, he wants to give you such a large sum of money?"

"I……"

Chen Xin glanced at Li Xiruo but didn't speak.

Seeing this, others booed: "Chen Xiucai, why don't you say anything? Could it be that you really robbed Cai Lizheng of money, or robbed a house, then you are not the first scholar in the village to be imprisoned."

When he said this, the people around him burst into laughter, but Chen Xin still refused to open his mouth to defend himself.

If Li Xi felt strange, Chen Xin could just tell the truth. As for how the precious peony came, she had her own way to deal with it, and now she had to solve the current predicament.

(End of this chapter)