Crispy little husband

Tang Dong understands what Zhou Zheng means, and he thinks the same way: "Well, Lao Zeng and the others need to ask carefully. Besides them, we can also ask other people in the county. Everyone we know should try their best to inquire. Tomorrow In the afternoon, we will still discuss here and tell what we have learned."

Director Tang didn't let everyone go to the Tang's house to discuss matters, because now Su Xin is often in the Tang's house, and it is inconvenient for the brothers to come in and out.

Fortunately, since Tang Ji came into being, everyone got used to working at the Peanut Workshop, and rarely went to Tang's house again, but no one thought it was strange.

After discussing it, from now on, everyone is busy and no one is idle.

Su Xin wanted to try making Yuanbao candy. Aunt Chun and Liangzi continued to make the business order. Eight hundred catties of candy could not be made so quickly. Su Gaoping, Tang Dong and others asked someone to investigate Tang Ji's affairs. For the time being, let Tang Xilai handle it.

The next day, Tang Dong and Su Gaoping appeared together in Tang Ji's peanut workshop.

In the past, because of Su Gaoping, he often came to see Tang Dong, and he was familiar with Tang Dong and his brothers. Seeing that he also came to discuss matters now, Zhou Zheng and the others were not surprised.

After all the people gathered, Zhou Zheng looked angry and couldn't wait to tell what happened to him yesterday: "Brother Dong, Zeng Guang and the others have all gone out these two days, and they couldn't find anyone at their house."

Surely Zeng Guang also knew what he was doing was unethical, and knew that sooner or later Lu Lin would guess what they had done, so he dared not face Tang Dong and them, so he used the excuse of running out of business.

However, although Zeng Guang and the others ran away, their family members were unwilling to say anything, but Zhou Zheng did not let go of this clue easily, so he asked Zeng Guang and his neighbors.

After asking patiently, he finally found something useful: Someone had seen Xu Ji's groceries guy enter Zeng Guang's house before.

It's very common for the guy from the grocery store to come to your door. For example, if you buy something at the grocery store and you can't carry it by yourself, you need to ask the guy from the grocery store to deliver it for you.

But what surprised the neighbor who lived next door to Zeng Guang was that the guy from Xu Ji entered Zeng Guang's house empty-handed and left empty-handed, and only stayed at Zeng Guang's house for a few words. .

After the boy left, Zeng Guang also went out after a while. Before going out, he still looked around his house, as if he was worried that others would see him.

Because both Zeng Guang and the little guy were a little strange, the neighbors looked at it twice at the time and had some impressions. When Zhou Zheng came to ask about it yesterday, he remembered it after a short thought.

The neighbor's words revealed a very important thing: Xu Ji groceries.

Xu Ji is the one with the most grocery stores in Chong'an County. Not to mention there are three grocery stores in three directions of the county, their family also has stores in several towns that belong to Chong'an County.

Groceries, miscellaneous goods, of course everything is sold, there are grains such as rice noodles, beans, and corn, as well as dried goods such as melon seeds, peanuts, walnuts, and pine nuts, as well as dried fruits such as plums, raisins, longan, and dried red dates. , including brown sugar, granulated sugar, caramel, all kinds of sugar cubes, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other seasonings, tea leaves, tobacco leaves, and even table and chairs, from food to use, as long as it is not a few days, it will go bad. They are all for sale.

Compared with used ones, what I eat is the most expensive item in Xuji Grocery, because the food is consumed quickly, unlike the used ones, which can be used all the time as long as they are not broken.

Among the food, fried seeds and candies are the fastest and best sellers during the Chinese New Year.

However, this year, Tang Ji appeared out of thin air, taking most of Xu Ji's two businesses away. Although Tang Ji sells more expensive, many people are still willing to choose Tang Ji's peanuts, melon seeds and candies.

Because Xu Ji's peanuts and melon seeds are simply stir-fried, unlike Tang Ji's, which has various flavors and is more delicious. The men in the family can drink and entertain guests.

Not to mention the candies, Tang Ji’s candies taste good and have a better meaning. When others put candies on display, if you don’t put some candies in your own home, it seems that you are not as good as others.

In this way, a little hand?Those who are not so nervous are willing to add some things to buy Tang Ji, and Xu Ji's business is greatly affected.

Zhou Zheng thought that Xu Ji might be with Zeng Guang from Xu Ji's little guy going in and out of Zeng Guang's house. He didn't go to the door immediately, but went back to his neighbors near his home to do some shopping at Xu Ji's grocery store. , "chatting" with their little buddies, and inquiring about the Xu family's sugar and roasted seeds and nuts business.

The boy didn't think too much about it, he wasn't wary of the inquiring customers, and whispered that this year's two sales were not as good as in previous years, and now there are still a lot of goods in their warehouse that have not been sold, and the shopkeeper and the owner are in a hurry.

With the information he found, Zhou Zheng can basically be sure that the Xu family, Zeng Guang and others made up this incident, so there is no need to say more about why.

The facts are similar, Xu Ji made his fortune earlier than the Su family, and they can be considered to have some family property, because they saved money after opening the shop and bought a lot of fertile land to find tenants to cultivate the land.

Although Xu Ji Groceries is not a specialized grain store, but because their own land can produce grain, the types and prices of the grain they sell are not expensive, and their business has been quite stable all along. With the continued reputation and popularity of grain, they sell roasted seeds and nuts and work. , candies, seasonings, etc. to make money.

But even if their income has decreased recently, if Zeng Guang and others did not come to talk to them, Xu Ji would not do anything easily.

After Zeng Guang approached them, Xu Ji thought that even if he couldn't get Tang Ji's prescription, it would be no harm to them if he just ruined Tang Ji's business.

With Xu Ji's contacts and skills, it was impossible to buy all the county magistrates. They only bought the master, and asked the master to stop this matter, so as to drag Tang Ji.

If the master failed to stop the matter and Tang Ji made a fuss to the county magistrate, that's fine. Anyway, this kind of case is related to a secret recipe of a certain family, and it's not easy to explain the matter clearly.

In fact, since Tang Ji started selling candy, they have hired someone to make candy. Tang Ji asked them to take evidence, and they can produce some. If you want to judge the case, let’s take it easy. Xu Ji is exhausted. rise.

Xu Ji did a relatively secret job of finding someone to study the word candy. They deliberately hid it from others, but after Zhou Zheng and Dahai spent a lot of money asking people, they found some clues——Xu Ji Candies can already be made, but their candies are not as good in shape and taste as Tang Kee.

On the other hand, Su Gaoping and Tang Dong also learned from the government that only the master was bribed in Tang Ji's case, and the county magistrate, county lieutenant, county magistrate and others didn't know about it.

The two young officials who came to Tang Ji to seal Tang Ji that day dared to temporarily seal Tang Ji because the hooligans told them that the matter of sealing Tang Ji was approved by the master, and the master wanted to investigate this case himself.

The county magistrate will not personally handle all kinds of cases that happen in the county. The master will go through them beforehand. The person who has the most contact with the guards is the master. Compared with the magistrate, most of them follow the orders of the master.

The situation of the county government and the people behind it were quickly found out, and this problem was easier to solve than they thought.

If Tang Ji can't produce other candies to testify, this matter is actually not easy to handle, but Tang Ji has Su Xin, they can produce more types of candies, and they can expose Xu Ji's lies at once. Who is it? Who is not at a glance.

After going through all the found information in his head, Tang Dong pondered for a while: "Zhou Zheng, you continue to search for someone to see if you can prove that Xu Ji started selling Tang Ji's candies before they started making it." It’s best to get a few witnesses to come out.”

Zhou Zheng nodded and asked, "Brother Dong, shall we make a big deal now and let the county magistrate notice?"

"I think it's best not to." Su Gaoping reminded from the side.

Su Gaoping was present yesterday, and he also heard Su Xin talk about golden candy and jelly candy. Su Xin is sure to make these two candies, but they haven't made them yet, and it will take time.

If the matter is made a big deal now, the county magistrate will try the case after he finds out, but Tang Ji can't immediately produce evidence to refute Xu Ji, and the magistrate may not have the patience to wait until Tang Ji's side to prepare.

If you want to solve this problem, it is best to solve it once, without procrastination, not only the county magistrate, but also the views of ordinary people in the county on this matter.

Because if the case has been tried but there is no definite result, when everyone passes the news to each other, it may change from the government's no judgment to Tang Ji's prescription.

Only by solving the problem once and for all, so that the magistrate has no possibility of hesitation, and let everyone have a deep impression on Tang Ji, will there be no more troubles in the future.

Tang Dong agrees with Su Gaoping's idea: "My brother is right. There is another point we have to consider. Although we have found out the relationship between Zeng Guang and Xu Ji, Zeng Guang and the others ran out and wanted to find them. If no one can be found, why don't we wait for them to come back and confront them on the spot. And I also want to wait and see if there are other people besides Xu Ji who have hooked up with Zeng Guang and the others."

Zhou Zheng thought about it carefully, and felt that he was really impatient: "That's the truth, then let's continue to investigate and wait for Zeng Guang and the others to come back."

According to past experience, it only takes five or six days to go out for a business trip. They wait for a while, ten days at most, and wait for Zeng Guang and the others to come back, and then tell them to look good.

After confirming that the matter of Tang Ji had something to do with Zeng Guang and the others, Zhou Zheng no longer had any brotherhood with them, and Zhou Zheng only thought that he had misjudged the wrong person before.

I thought that everyone used to be brothers at any rate, and they could be forgiven for not wanting to follow Brother Dong, so they could continue to run businesses to earn money to support their families.

Now, huh...

When Tang Ji's matter was settled, Zhou Zheng planned to take the time to go outside in person, to seal off all the routes they had traveled before, and to say hello to people he knew in the county, so that Zeng Guang and the others could do nothing.

Zhou Zheng is much more ruthless than Tang Dong.