The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Chen Ruijinli pulled out a gun in the Chulongzhai, and the shopkeeper was so frightened that he hurriedly laughed with him: "My lord, I have something to say!"

Chen Ruijin looked at him with a smile and said, "Let's send the guests away."

The shopkeeper hurriedly greeted the staff to disperse the guests.It's just that they don't know where their confidence comes from, and they are so arrogant.There was a scholar who was over 40 years old. He had already run away, but he gritted his teeth and came back. He pressed his hands in front of Chen Ruijin and said, "My lord...doesn't know the government examination?"

Chen Ruijin said: "I am here to investigate that they force scholars to use the four treasures of their own study." All the scholars stagnate.Chen Ruijin looked around and said with a sneer, "It's the store's freedom to sell your things, and the imperial court has no control." Nai shook his sleeves and pointed to the north, "Even the imperial court Chunwei has never been so overbearing. No matter how noble the Xie family is, they can Can Gao Gui succeed in Tianjia in the past?"

The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief, and stepped forward with a smile on his face, beating Qian'er: "My lord, we never forced you scholars to use our things. But our things are very good, so they are cheap..."

The scholar who was talking to Chen Ruijin in the store just now pulled out his back suddenly, and ran over a few steps and gave the shopkeeper a "bah" in the face, pointed at him and said: "Your pens are hairy, and you can't finish writing if you buy ten pens." In the exam, the ink cubes are astringent and full of dust when they are ground. Your paper oozes ink, and you don’t know what it will become when you use your ink. Is the item okay?"

The shopkeeper's face was full of ferocity, and he raised his hand to hit Xiucai in the face.The scholar's bones were also hard, and he stood upright without dodging or dodging.A guard flashed in front of the scholar, and kicked the shopkeeper's palm with a flying kick, causing the shopkeeper to stagger abruptly.The shopkeeper clapped his hands and yelled, and the surrounding scholars booed and applauded.The shopkeeper's face turned into a pig's liver, and he pointed at the scholars and shouted: "Short-lived ghost! Mr. Su is a friend of our boss!"

Everyone rushed to look at Chen Ruijin.Chen Ruijin said with a smile: "Three generations of the Su family's imperial examinations, Mr. Su is a great Confucian in the world, how could he make friends with people who are corrupt and pervert the law. Mr. Su has not touched you in the past six months, but he is just watching the action quietly and defending adultery with his feelings. Your boss is still dreaming !” The scholars immediately cheered when they heard this.Dozens of people shouted with all their might, their voices coming from the bottom of their hearts, deafening.Chen Ruijin and the guards couldn't help being moved when they heard this, and some guards blushed for no reason.

Fang Zifang had a trace of fear on the shopkeeper's face at this moment, and it disappeared in an instant. With a sneer, he cupped his hands and said: "The small shop does business according to its own duties, and has never violated the laws of the country. If the master of the government takes a fancy to our items, that's it. The matter of the gentlemen has nothing to do with the small shop."

Chen Ruijin said indifferently: "Your boss violated the law, and the Dongchuang incident happened. The imperial court wants to seal up his family property, and it has nothing to do with me. I just follow orders." But he said, "Seal the store and check the account books!"

There are sixteen latticed doors in this store, several guards immediately went out and sealed the next few doors first.The scholars cheered again.A few guys were in a hurry, and they stepped forward to stop him, but they were all thrown aside by the guards.The shopkeeper winked at a boy, who ran back.Not long after, more than a dozen men with big arms and round waists came out, all of them had bulging temples, obviously they were Lianjiazi.

Chen Ruijin smiled lightly, put away the musket instead, and said, "I haven't practiced for a while." The guards around her had already stopped her, but they immediately retreated behind her with a smile on their lips.Chen Ruijin walked towards the thugs, and the thugs slowly formed a semicircle.A thug leader just stretched out his hand and wanted to make a fist, thinking that he was going to say something in accordance with the rules of the green forest; but he was kicked on the neck suddenly, he couldn't hold it anymore, he stepped back a few steps, and hit his back with a "boom". On the table behind him.Before others could recover, Chen Ruijin kicked down four or five thugs in succession.The onlookers applauded loudly.

After half a circle of thugs rolled on the ground, Chen Ruijin looked at the shopkeeper with a sweet smile: "Do you still want to fight?"

The shopkeeper smiled stiffly: "No... no more..."

A few guards cupped their hands and said: "Scholars, this shop is sealed up, please buy things elsewhere."

The scholars all shouted: "Thank you, sir!" They all went out laughing as if they had won a lift.They just refused to leave, and they all gathered around the shop to watch.

Chen Ruijin asked the shopkeeper, "Where's the account book?" The shopkeeper's eyeballs rolled, and Chen Ruijin took out the pistol again, twirled it in his palm twice, and coughed.

The shopkeeper thought for a moment, and tentatively asked: "My lord, do you know the Seventh Prince?"

Chen Ruijin said calmly, "It's gone."

The shopkeeper was shocked: "What?!"

"The Seventh Prince is gone in the old year, so Xie Jing was transferred from Jiangxi, and King Yan checked the Dingcheng Hou Mansion." Chen Ruijin said seriously, "If I guessed correctly, Xie Jing thought that the Seventh Prince could be entrusted in Jiangxi?" His legs went limp, and he fell to the ground.Chen Ruijin smiled and said, "It's still too late to hand over the account books, anyway, you are just accomplices, implicating the nine clans is not a joke. When Prince Yizhong broke something, probably thousands of people died inside and out. "

The shopkeeper opened his mouth and gasped for dozens of breaths, got up tremblingly, straightly picked up a chair to step on, climbed up and lifted a bundle of books from the top of a large wooden cabinet and smashed them on the ground.He climbed down again, no longer shaking.Then he untied the rope binding the books, and everyone saw that "Historical Records" was written on the covers of the books.The shopkeeper took out a stack of "Historical Records" with a torn cover, flipped through the volumes, and after counting the number, he held them in both hands and sent them to Chen Ruijin: "These are our account books."

Chen Ruijin smiled and said, "It's really rare to see someone as smart as you."

The shopkeeper hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Please forgive me, the villain is just hired by the boss to look at the store."

"It's easy to say, I don't want to commit any crimes." Nai ordered someone to tie up the account books and take them away.The first store was closed smoothly.

Chen Ruijin has a good memory.After walking out of Chulongzhai, she discovered that the silk and satin shop opposite was called "Jinxiu Mantang" was the last one on the list given by Su Zheng.Then he raised his eyes to look at the shop signs on Zhuzi Street, and couldn't help cursing the Dingcheng Hou's Mansion for being too greedy - [-]% of the entire street was occupied by their shops.Seeing that those scholars didn't leave, they were all around looking at her with burning eyes and tears in their eyes, so I couldn't help but sigh with emotion.Nai cupped his hands at them, got up and walked towards the Duobao Building next door.

So they sealed and searched from beginning to end in order, and all 42 shops were sealed.It was very effective to scare the shopkeeper with Prince Xianyizhong, because there were too many account books, so one of the shopkeepers of the rice shop simply offered a small cart to pull it.The group of scholars who came out from Chulongzhai followed them all the time.After one wrote a poem on the street, others followed suit.When Chen Ruijin and the others left, the streets were full of people watching.In the end, I don't know which one started, and everyone shouted in unison, "Lord Su Qingtian——" The shout went straight to Jiuxiao.

Back at the Su Mansion, Chen Ruijin explained the account books for that truckload.Su Zheng was overjoyed and praised her for "being able to handle affairs and being reliable".Jia Cong has a lot of face, sitting beside him complacently, more joyful than boasting himself.He ordered someone to call Su Tao.

After waiting for half a day, Su Tao didn't come, saying that he was still interrogating the government servants.But Su Cheng ran back in a fit of anger, and went straight to Su Zheng to complain: "Grandfather! My father couldn't find the murderer or the weapon. I reminded him kindly, and he kicked me away before he finished speaking! "

Jia Cong frowned: "Have you found the murder weapon for so long? No way."

Su Zheng asked his granddaughter, "What did you remind him?"

Su Cheng smiled, sat down with folded arms and said, "I said, I saw it in the commentary - I wanted to remind him that the murderer was mostly someone who was not noticed, and he shouted at me before I finished speaking. I Then he ran back in a fit of anger."

Chen Ruijin thought about it: "I see, those yamen servants don't look like murderers."

Su Zheng said: "It takes a lot of energy to kill people, and these yamen servants have just arrived two months ago, so it would be very easy to do it carefully."

Su Cheng raised his cheeks and said, "In my opinion, none of these yamen servants are murderers. My father wasted so much time trying to interrogate them."

Su Zheng was most used to her, stroked his beard and asked with a smile, "Oh? What's the reason?"

Su Cheng said solemnly: "Grandfather, think about it: Someone went to the yamen to make trouble today, and my father arrested two people who were suspected of making a fuss, right? These two people were silenced suddenly, right? The murderer was still the opponent in the yamen." Right? The yamen servants have been changed three times, why is it the last time they want to install spies?"

Su Zheng couldn't understand: "Everyone understands before, why can't the spies be installed at the end?"

However, Chen Ruijin's eyes moved: "What Chenger said is true. It would have been earlier to install a spy committee, or it could not be inserted in the yamen in a daze - it would be too conspicuous. Mr. Su's yamen must have other people, what kind of door, waiters and the like .”

Su Cheng interjected: "There are also those who sweep the courtyard, those who dig out the latrines, and those who drive horse-drawn carriages."

Jia Cong said, "Isn't there six chambers in the prefect's yamen?"

Su Cheng lazily said: "They are all vacant~~ Everyone who thanked Jingjing has left~~"

Jia Cong couldn't help laughing: "The co-author brother is still a polished commander now! Why don't you hurry up and recruit people?"

Su Zheng snorted, "What are you recruiting for? If he doesn't clean up Xie's family, he won't have any prestige. It's useless to recruit people all over the house."

"You're right." Jia Cong looked at the books piled up in front of the steps, "Didn't he bring some of his own people? How can I check all these books in a short time?"

Su Cheng asked urgently, "Grandfather, do you want to send someone to remind my father?"

Jia Cong said: "I'll go, just say that my husband ordered me to go, lest my brother lose face."

Su Zheng thought for a while: "Alright. When you ask the case, tell him that all the shops in Zhuzi Street of Dingchenghou's Mansion have been sealed up."

"what?"

Su Zheng said: "Xie Jing has very close contacts with the people of the Green Forest. Those two who are suing the restaurant may not be the mastermind behind their family, but it is likely to have something to do with their family."

Su Cheng immediately clapped his hands: "I guessed it in my heart a long time ago! I just didn't think about it."

Jia Cong laughed and said, "You know again?"

Su Cheng said bluntly: "Whoever's interests are threatened will be the first to attack. My father received Xie Jing's prefect seal, which hurts his interests the most."

Jia Cong nodded: "That makes sense." Then he got up to leave.Chen Ruijin went with him.

The two went to the magistrate's yamen and saw that Su Tao was questioning the yamen servant who came up to report the letter, which made the man weep and cry for injustice.Jia Cong leaned over to him and whispered, "Brother, Mister sent my younger brother to remind me that those sweeping the floor, boiling water, guarding the door, and digging out the toilet are all suspected, especially those left behind from Xie Jingren." Su Tao was stunned. , obviously never thought about it.Jia Cong sighed: This brother has never been deliberately dealt with, and he has no defense against others.

So he ordered the guards brought by the Taiwan government to gather all the servants in the yamen.Most of these were left behind by Xie Jing.Su Tao interrogated them one by one.As he was asking, Chen Ruijin suddenly said to Jia Cong in a half-loud voice: "What I did just now, do you want to tell senior brother?"

Su Tao heard it, and turned his head to ask, "What did my younger brother and sister do?"

Chen Ruijin said: "The old man sent me to lead people to seal up 42 shops on Zhuzi Street, all of which belonged to the Dingcheng Houfu."

Su Tao wondered: "He actually asked you to check the shop of Xie's family? Didn't he say to write to Mr. Xie first, and let his family change it?"

Jia Cong sneered and said, "He changed it himself? Just kidding, they must treat your letter as if they hadn't seen it, and just throw it into the charcoal fire and burn it."

Su Tao hurriedly asked: "Since everyone in Zhuzi Street has been checked, have you checked Chulongzhai?"

Chen Ruijin said: "The first one is Chulongzhai. The shopkeeper is honest and handed over all the secret account booklets."

Su Tao smiled unknowingly: "It's a pity that I checked their house. Otherwise, I will have to go to the government to test..." He had no face to continue, just shook his head.Jia Cong rolled his eyes.

Then the handyman was interrogated again, but nothing was found.It was impossible to keep them all in cells, and it was getting late again.Helpless, I had to let them go first.

Su Tao and Jia Cong led the guards back to Su's mansion first, and Chen Ruijin said that she would go around the yamen for two more times.Seeing that the yamen servants had all left, there was silence in front and behind the lobby.Menzi had an early dinner and sat by the door to take a nap.Then he heard footsteps coming, and when he looked up, it was an old beard who was sweeping the floor.

The old Hutou said: "My old rheumatism has happened again. Before it is completely dark, there is a pharmacy that is still closed, so I will go buy two plasters."

Menzi said: "You are so old, you should be more careful."

The old Hutou sighed: "It's just an old bone, and it will count as long as it lives." Then he walked away slowly on crutches.

After leaving the gate of the government office and turning around the street, he suddenly got up under his feet.There is no need for crutches, just carry it in your hand.After another street, the old Hutou walked even faster, and he could feel the wind under his feet.

After walking through the streets and alleys for half a day, he came to the vicinity of the Shengjin Pagoda. After looking around for a few times, he went straight into a restaurant, which was the Changfeng Building that the two people who came to litigate during the day were fighting for.Little did he know that Chen Ruijin had been following him secretly.Arriving in front of Changfeng Building, I wanted to sneak into the building.She suddenly felt something was wrong, as if she was at the gate of the big mansion in the old days.Then he stopped abruptly, just dodged aside and waited quietly.

The old Hutou stayed inside for half an hour, and then walked out nimbly.I don't know what kind of ointment he used, it is better than elixir.It's just that the plaster doesn't last long.When he turned into the street at the entrance of the government office, he had to use crutches again.