Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

dong dong dong~

A sound woke Cui Yigui up, he jumped up from his chair, and was about to open the front door to welcome Shopkeeper Hu's return.

But who knew that the sound came from the back, it turned out that a guy ran in from the backyard and shouted in a low voice, "Boss, it's time for dinner!"

Evidently, it was nearly dusk, and it was time for dinner.

Cui Yigui saw that shopkeeper Hu had not returned for a long time, and the unknown fire suddenly arose, and he yelled at the clerk: "Eat, eat, eat your mother's eggs, you will know how to eat, I raise you just to eat? Get out, Get off, I won't eat!"

The guy was scolded and suffered an innocent disaster, so he naturally retreated resentfully.

If the dim front hall is lit, Cui Yigui's face must be extremely ugly now, he could only hear him talking to himself with a trembling voice: "Could it be that something really happened? Otherwise, shopkeeper Hu It’s impossible to return until now?”

Something went wrong?

800 million taels of silver in vain?

Or is that person surnamed Wu a complete liar?

No~!

Cui Yigui once again found a reason to convince himself, because at the dinner at the Lion's Head Restaurant that day, Chen Juncheng and Guo Jieshi couldn't have cheated, it was true.

dong dong dong~

While thinking wildly, a burst of hasty footsteps sounded from behind again, obviously it was another guy from the backyard.

Without further ado, Cui Yigui turned his head and scolded: "Is it over? How many times do I have to tell you to understand, I am not hungry and I don't want to eat!! Believe it or not, I will tell you to pack up and leave now?"

This guy was obviously not the guy who greeted him for dinner, but a new face.

The guy ignored Cui Yigui's scolding, but yelled with fear on his face and shudderingly: "Boss, there was a message from the ferry at the pier just now, saying that shopkeeper Hu and us were found on the shore. The corpse of the banker, let... let us send someone over to collect the corpse!"

"what?"

Cui Yigui's body was on the verge of falling, and with a bang, his legs softened and he sat down on the ground.

The mood at this moment seems to have gone from heaven to hell in an instant, full of haze and panic.

But he didn't know the pain, and screamed loudly: "You mean shopkeeper Hu and the others are all dead?"

The buddy hummed, and didn't dare to look at Cui Yigui again.

"Quick, quick, help me up quickly..."

Cui Yigui was so frightened that he couldn't use any strength in his legs. He stretched out his hand to let the man help him up, and then said with trembling lips: "Prepare the car, go...go...go to the governor's mansion, go to the governor's mansion now House..."

Chapter 834

At the beginning of the night, the sound of curfew drums resounded throughout the city of Yangzhou.

Cui Yigui had someone drive a car all the way to the outside of Yangzhou governor's mansion. After a lot of noise, he wanted to see Guo governor, but several yamen servants forcibly blocked him from the gate on the grounds that the yamen was closed at night.

However, the noisy movement outside still disturbed the inside. Just as Cui Yigui was extremely depressed and lost all thoughts, suddenly a servant ran out from inside and preached: "I heard that Cui Dong's family from Yangzhou Bank is visiting, and the Lord Cheng specially asked the younger one to come out and invite him!"

After all, he stretched out his hand to beckon.

As soon as he heard that Chen Juncheng invited him, Cui Yigui immediately came back to life, shook off his clothes, gouged out a vicious look at the few yamen servants who blocked him just now, snorted coldly, and spat: "The dog's eyes look down on people, my master I have already said that I know you, Chen Juncheng, and Guo Cishi, hmph!"

After spitting, he swaggered into the gate of the government office.

He was taken by the yamen servant to a flower hall next to the court hall in the front yard. Several candlesticks were lit in the hall, making the flower hall extraordinarily bright.

The yamen servant said to Cui Yigui: "Cui Dong's family, please sit down, wait a moment, I will invite my Lord Cheng."

"Hey, your Guo..."

Cui Yigui wanted to stop the yamen servant and ask him to invite Inspector Guo to face him. After all, at the dinner party, the Inspector surnamed Guo negotiated the price of Slender West Lake with him face to face.

It's a pity that before he finished speaking, the yamen servant had already rushed out of the flower hall.

After a while, Chen Jitao, the prefect of the county, entered the flower hall under the guard of two yamen servants.

Today's Chen Jitao is very formally dressed, wearing a goose-winged hat, a green robe and official uniform, and black leather boots.The look of receiving the gentry in the city for official business.

And from the moment he entered the flower hall, his face did not smile as familiarly as Cui Yigui imagined, on the contrary, he looked rigidly as if he didn't know himself.

Cui Yigui walked up to Chen Jitao, and asked in a low voice: "Chen Juncheng, what happened to the delivery on the river this morning? Why did my shopkeeper Hu and his staff lose their lives, and their bodies floated to the shore?"

Chen Jitao suddenly looked at Cui Yigui with doubts on his face, and asked in a puzzled manner: "What is the delivery on the river? You are Cui Dong's family of Yangzhou Bank, right? Don't worry, the death of the shopkeeper Hu and several associates of Guiyin Bank , the governor of this county has already sent someone to investigate, and the results will come out in a few days."

As he said that, Chen Jitao's face turned slightly sad, and he sighed in a low voice: "Alas, people cannot be resurrected after death, so I hope Dong Cui's family mourns and changes."

"what?"

Cui Yigui's face changed drastically, he looked at Chen Jitao as if he had seen a ghost, and screamed: "Chen Juncheng, what do you mean by saying this? Do you want to deny Cui's deal with your Yangzhou Governor's Mansion?"

Chen Jitao immediately turned down when he heard the words, frowned and looked at Cui Yigui with a gloomy face, and shouted: "Presumptuous! Cui Dong's family, do I know you?"

"what?"

Cui Yigui was even more confused now, and shouted angrily and resentfully: "Chen Juncheng, you pretend not to know me? I have met you twice, and the first time I paid you 5000 taels of silver to buy it from you." Insider information, the second time was to discuss the purchase of Slender West Lake in the private room of Lion Head Restaurant. On that day, I sat at the same table with Wu Maocai, Wu Dong’s family, and Guo Inspector of your Yangzhou government office, and finalized the purchase of Slender West Lake in Yangzhou. The price of this land. What? Chen Juncheng, do you want to deny it?"

"presumptuous!"

Chen Jitao was full of official power again, and shouted loudly: "My mouth is full of nonsense. I have been walking around the counties under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou Prefecture for the past few days. I just returned to Yangzhou this afternoon. How can I have time to meet you twice? Mr. Cui, you actually framed this official for accepting bribes, aren’t you afraid that the Yangzhou government will punish you? As for the sale of the Slender West Lake you said, it’s even nonsense, this official has never heard of it, so don’t talk nonsense. .”

"No, it's impossible!"

Seeing that Chen Jitao not only pretended not to know him, but also categorically denied the matter of buying and selling Slender West Lake, Cui Yigui's resentment can be imagined.

I saw him rushing forward suddenly, grasping Chen Jitao's shoulders with both hands like crazy, constantly pulling at Chen Jitao's green robe official clothes, and shouting loudly with red eyes: "Fart, you obviously know me, You clearly talked to me about the sale of the Slender West Lake, but now you don’t admit it at all? Chen, you give me back my silver, 800 million taels, and 950 million taels of snowflake silver, you are a liar, I will tell you Fight!!"

"presumptuous!"

"seek death!"

The two people behind Chen Jitao suddenly stepped forward and pushed Cui Yigui away forcibly, and each of them held him up, making him unable to move at all.

Cui Yigui kept struggling and wrestling, and hissed, "Chen, you liar, give me back my money."

Chen Jitao's face was full of innocence, with an expression of anger at being insulted, and then he waved his sleeves and cursed: "Crazy talk, I'm too lazy to have the same knowledge as you. Come and listen, what will happen?" What's going on?"

Seeing that Chen Jitao was still pretending to be his grandson, Cui Yigui became even more annoyed, but he still yelled and cursed and told the whole story.

Finally, he shouted hysterically with angry eyes: "You must have seen the money on the river, murdered the shopkeeper Hu and the staff of my bank, and then swallowed the money for yourself. Chen, return my money quickly!" !"

Chen Jitao sighed, looked at Cui Yigui with sympathetic eyes, shook his head and said, "Cui Dong's family, it seems that you have been tricked by someone. If I guessed correctly, your partner surnamed Wu should be The culprit."