Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

In the afternoon, Qin Yunhe still took time to take Chen Er to visit Li Chang.

Li Chang comes to the government office less often nowadays, so when Qin Yun needs help from him or Zhang San or Li Si, he asks Zhuzi to come and invite them.

Li Chang naturally knew that the two children of Qin Yunhe's family were turning one year old today, and he also knew that their entire family was coming over to celebrate the children's first birthday.

However, since it was so rare for Qin Yunhe's family to get together, he did not come to join in the fun, but just asked someone to send some congratulatory gifts.

Qin Yunhe naturally didn't need to wait for the servants to inform him. The servants invited him in immediately. Li Chang was in the study directing several people to move bonsai.

“Is this a pot of crabapple?”

Li Chang turned around and saw that it was Qin Yunhe, and said with a smile: "Yes, it is the Little Spring in October, please come and enjoy the flowers when they bloom in a few days."

Li Chang has always been particular about changing bonsai flowers and trees according to the seasons.

As soon as he saw Qin Yunhe and Chen Er coming in, Li Chang roughly guessed why the two people came. He put down Haitang and asked them to sit down.

Chen Er and his wife also knew that Li Chang had everything he needed, and all they could give him was their thoughts.

Yunniang prepared a lot of millet, peanuts, fruits and so on grown at home, and made some cakes and pastries that she was good at. They looked rustic but full of sincerity.

Chen Er was a little reserved. He put down the things he brought and said, "Mr. Li San, thank you for helping to introduce the shopkeeper Chen Ji."

In fact, this was just a piece of cake for Li Chang, and he just waved his hand indifferently to express his gratitude to Chen Er.

"Don't be polite to me, just call me Zigao. I am just a matchmaker, whether it will be successful or not depends on your own stuff. Your Scutellaria baicalensis is of good quality, and you are honest and straightforward in your work. The owner of the pharmacy has praised you several times."

Apart from anything else, it is certain that Chen and his wife are honest in what they do.

Qin Yun was relieved and proud.

Chen Er also felt relieved, thinking that he had not brought shame to A Wen.

Li Chang added, "Now that the connection has been established, you can just contact them on your own from now on. Chen's Pharmacy is a big shop, so it's a piece of cake for them to buy your herbs. You can contact them on your own if you have as many as you want."

Chen Er thanked him profusely again.

Li Chang picked up a piece of the biscuit brought by Chen Er and waved his hand indifferently: "It's just a small thing, no need to thank me. Your biscuit is really good..."

"Mr. Li San likes it. I'll make it later and ask someone to bring it back to Mr. San..."

Qin Yunhe said: "Zigao tastes good, let's see if there is any way out..."

Li Chang held his forehead and laughed: "Sir, you won't let go of even the slightest chance..."

Chen Er quickly said, "It's okay, it's okay, Third Master, don't worry."

"Haha, I'm just joking with you, sir," Li Chang said, "I really don't have any suitable sales channels right now. I'll pay attention to it later to see if there are any suitable sales channels."

……

After leaving Li's house, Qin Yunhe took Chen Er to a teahouse, wanting to ask him what he had said before.

“…..Actually it’s been a while. It’s said that Yunniang’s elder brother had an argument with someone and then a fight broke out. Normally, a fight wouldn’t necessarily be reported to the police, but her elder brother had severe elbow pain after returning home, saying that he had broken a bone, so he wanted to ask that family for compensation.

Of course the family refused, so her brother filed a complaint with the county.

Originally, the county magistrate asked them to go find the village elder, and the village elder also asked the man to compensate his brother for some medical expenses, but the family refused to do so.

Her brother was so angry that he went to the county to file a complaint.

As a result, the family went there and insisted that their own injuries were more serious, with bleeding ears and foaming blood from the mouth..."

When Chen Er said this, his expression became somewhat speechless.

"...Maybe Yunniang's brother was so angry that he kept talking about it, and the situation got even more serious. Anyway, in the end...the county magistrate had both of them imprisoned."

"Do you know exactly how long this has been going on?"

"I heard it will take at least a month."

Qin Yunhe calculated that it was just after the busy farming season.

"How long has it been locked up?"

"It's been almost a month now. The county magistrate neither sentenced nor released them. The two families had no choice but to pay a lot of money. Now both families regret that they shouldn't have fought over this..."

In fact, if this kind of fight is really to be prosecuted, it will probably be over in just a few words.

Qin Yunhe understood as soon as he heard it. In fact, Wei Chengji just wanted to deliberately drag both sides into collecting money.

He had been a prosecutor for two years, so he knew that many county magistrates would deliberately delay cases to collect money from both sides. And with Wei Chengji's greed, he would not miss any opportunity.

It's just that even such a small matter has been dragged on for so long, it's really a bit too much.

"Do you know how much silver the Zhao family gave?"

"Her mother said that she had to pay 40 to 50 taels of silver to the yamen runners, jailers, Dianshi and the county magistrate, but the jailers were still not happy and ignored her. The food was also the worst. On the other side, I don't know who had the connection, but the jailers were also polite and there were fewer people in the prison..."

Uh... Qin Yunhe had a vague guess in his mind.

"They didn't mention me, did they?"

Chen Er said, "They did mention it, but they couldn't see the county magistrate. At most, they could establish some relationship with the county magistrate through the registrar."

Qin Yunhe held his forehead with his hand, expressing his speechlessness. He could probably guess what was going on.

It would be fine if his family didn't mention me. Maybe Wei Chengji would just take some money at most, and then let me go when he had collected enough.

When they mentioned him, Wei Chengji would naturally make a fuss. And if he said he was too busy to judge, he would not be able to find any reason.

Even if he was displeased, he could say that he didn't know that person was related to him.

Qin Yunhe never told his family about the conflict between him and Wei Chengji.

One is that they don’t understand officialdom affairs, and telling them would only increase their worries.

Besides, those twists and turns were not actually obvious conflicts, so he was not that worried.

In the past two years, he has almost seen through Wei Chengji. Although he is greedy and hateful, he will not do anything to provoke enmity with others.

Although his family, teachers, and childhood friends are all in Fuyu County, he knows his family well. They are not trouble-makers and will not let Wei Chengji catch any evidence against them.

Chen Er didn't understand what Qin Yunhe meant, so he asked, "Ah Wen, can you talk to the county magistrate about this..."

Qin Yunhe didn't know how to tell Chen Er, so he asked first: "What did Yunniang say about this?"

"Yunniang..." Chen Er's expression was a little unnatural: "Yunniang..."

"If Yunniang disagrees, don't get upset with her because of this. After all, you two are a couple."

“No, no.” Chen Er seemed a little helpless: “In fact, her mother came twice before, and although Yunniang didn’t say she agreed to help, I saw that she looked like she wanted to help.

I saw that she was always worried and distracted during those days, so I said, why not let Brother Si write a letter to you and see if you can think of a solution. Yunniang didn't say no, and nodded.

Si Ge was not at home that day, and we had agreed to write to him when he came back. Who knew Yun Niang's mother came again and brought her dowry bracelet..."

"Yunniang suddenly got angry and threw the bracelet away, and she also stopped me from mentioning writing a letter..."

Qin Yunhe sighed.

It turns out that household chores are the hardest to explain.

No matter how heartbroken she was, Yunniang probably still cared about that little bit of blood relationship in her heart.

But her mother gave her the bracelet as if she was going for the dowry...

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The crabapple blossoms in spring, but during the Indian Spring in October of the lunar calendar, the climate is somewhat similar to spring, and the crabapple will also bloom for a while, which is called the Little Spring Crabapple. In some periods of ancient times, there was indeed a custom of appreciating the Little Spring Crabapple.