Scholar and old attack

Xu Shuizhou's mind turned quickly, and he immediately thought of what Jiang Jingyuan said just now that the medicine was poisonous. Although he couldn't believe it in his heart, Jiang Jingyuan could never make such a joke with his reputation, it was probably true.

"Hurry up and collect the dregs of the medicine I drank before, and borrow an ox cart by the way, speed." Jiang Jingyuan seemed to have thought of something in the middle of writing, and immediately told Xu Shuizhou.

Without saying a word, Xu Shuizhou, like a dexterous monkey, got out of the house and went to a corner of the kitchen to collect the medicine residues that Jiang Jingyuan had drunk before.

He turned around and ran to a stone-tiled house not far away, and borrowed an ox cart from the farmer's family.

When driving the ox cart back to Jiang's yard, the elders of the clan also persuaded the people in the yard to disperse, just in time to meet Chen Xiuxiu who was about to enter the house.

Chen Xiuxiu's face was a little pale, especially when she saw that Xu Shuizhou didn't take care of her son and ran out to play, her face turned ugly.

Knowing that Chen Xiuxiu had misunderstood, Xu Shuizhou didn't explain, put away the ox cart, ran into the house, and whispered to Jiang Jingyuan, "Brother Jingyuan, I've prepared all the things you asked me to prepare."

When Chen Xiuxiu entered the room, he heard Xu Shuizhou's words sincerely. When he learned that this was all arranged by his son, and it was not Xu Shuizhou who ran out for fun, his face looked better.

Chen Xiuxiu's face fell into Jiang Jingyuan's eyes, and he felt a little funny in his heart. His mother seemed shrewd, but she was not as slick as Xu Shuizhou.

"Son, what do you want the bullock cart for?" Chen Xiuxiu was puzzled.

"Go to the county to submit a petition." Jiang Jingyuan wrote the petition, and asked Xu Shuizhou to take it to the window to dry the ink with the wind.

It was the warm spring season in March at this time, and the spring breeze was warm, and the ink on the paper was blown dry in a short time.

Chen Xiuxiu was startled, thinking that her son was upset about causing trouble for the members of the Fangcai clan, so she wanted to report to the officials, and hurriedly dissuaded her, "Jing Yuan, this must never happen, the clansmen are indeed a little unreasonable, but how can such a small country matter Please trouble the county magistrate..."

"Mother, you misunderstood. I'm not going to sue the clansmen, but Li Sanquan of Ji Ren Tang. He fed me with poison, which made me almost die of poison." Seeing Chen Xiuxiu's misunderstanding, Jiang Jingyuan interrupted her.

"what!"

Chen Xiuxiu turned pale, trembling all over, leaning against the wall as if her body was boneless, "Jing Yuan, do you have evidence?"

Jiang Jingyuan nodded, "If it's not what I expected, the evidence is all in the medicine dregs, and my mother will naturally understand all the reasons when I get to the county."

"Okay, mother trusts you, go to the county." Chen Xiuxiu made up her mind and didn't delay any longer. She helped Jiang Jingyuan out of the house, sat down on the bullock cart, and found a few cotton clothes that had been washed to starch in winter. Okay, so that Jiang Jingyuan can sit more comfortably.

Xu Shuizhou took the initiative to act as the driver, driving the ox cart on the country road, bringing up a thick dust and bumps.

In the fields on both sides of the road, dozens of farmers were busy weeding and plowing, shuttling back and forth between the fields.

Looking away, such a picture full of vitality is really pleasing to the eye.

But Jiang Jingyuan is not in the mood to appreciate these things now, sitting on the bullock cart, frowning and meditating, and from time to time he gestures twice with his fingers on the palm of his hand, it seems that he is thinking about countermeasures.

The country road is indeed difficult to walk, with potholes, even if Xu Shuizhou deliberately avoided it, he would inevitably hit him. Unfortunately, Jiang Jingyuan got motion sickness.

The body that was originally thin due to illness seemed to be even weaker. When encountering a more difficult road, Jiang Jingyuan couldn't hold back and vomited.

There was no food in his stomach, and all he vomited was watery matter, but after he vomited it out, Jiang Jingyuan still looked pale, but his energy was getting better and better.

Jiangyu Village was originally adjacent to Wutong County, and it took less than half an hour to walk, and it took about a stick of incense to drive the ox cart. The three of them hurried and finally arrived at the county government office.

Xu Shuizhou sent the lawsuit to a janitor outside the county yamen, and handed it a dime to the yamen, and whispered a few words in the yamen's ear, coaxing the yamen to happily enter the government office with the lawsuit.

"What did you tell him?" Jiang Jingyuan was a little surprised. Although he spent most of his time in the hospital in his previous life, he still understood the most basic common sense.

The seventh-rank officials in front of the prime minister's gate, the county magistrate is the largest in the entire Wutong County, and these yamen servants under the county magistrate are naturally rising.

Before coming here, Jiang Jingyuan was prepared to be made things difficult, but Xu Shuizhou would coax the other party to be happy, so the plan he had prepared earlier was naturally useless.

"Just gave him a penny, and told him about your identity, and exaggerated your relationship with the former prefect, and he happily went in." Xu Shuizhou came back and explained with a smile.

Jiang Jingyuan nodded, first he used money to win the favor of the other party, and then raised his identity to overwhelm the other party, and his words were a little softer, making the other party feel that they valued him, so he naturally made the other party happy. It seems that Xu Shuizhou is not only slippery, Still very smart.

Zhang Mingyuan, magistrate of Wutong County, was sitting in the backyard of the government office with a sad face. Xiao Kaiqi, the former magistrate of Wutong County, had been the magistrate of Wutong County for 12 years. Prefect, if there is no accident, after a few years in this prefect position, he will be promoted to governor.

And he, Zhang Mingyuan, was born in a farming family and had studied for more than [-] years before he won the honor of being a fellow Jinshi. one liter.

As the saying goes, there is a gap between reality and dreams. He was still in high spirits when he first came to Wutong County for a day or two, but after three months, he just felt bored.

Wutong County is indeed close to Jiangnan, but it is also thousands of miles away from the bustling Jiangnan. The good places are all occupied by people with family backgrounds, and the slightly better places left behind will not be given to him. This kind of Jinshi only has the same fame as Jinshi.

In addition, the geographical location of Wutong County is not good, the annual tax is not much, and the daily management is only a few trivial matters. If you want to have a career in this kind of place, don't even think about it.

Even wanting to make more money is delusional.

County magistrate Zhang was planning how to find a way to get promoted, the yamen servant with the lawsuit hurried in and found magistrate Zhang.

"Master County Magistrate, there is a petition from a scholar outside. His father is the first nannie in this county. He has a friendship with the previous county magistrate. The younger one dare not stop him."

This yamen servant's eloquence is not bad, and he can explain things clearly in a few sentences.

"Let's leave it to the county magistrate to deal with such trivial matters." County magistrate Zhang didn't take it seriously at first, but when he thought about it carefully, his eyes immediately lit up.

After hearing the words of County Magistrate Zhang, the yamen servant responded and wanted to go out to find the magistrate, but he was called back by County Magistrate Zhang just two steps away.

"Wait, you just said that this scholar has some friendship with Zhifu Xiao?"

The yamen servant's face brightened, and he said without thinking, "Jiang Xiucai's father and the magistrate were like brothers and sisters, but it's a pity that he died young, but his son also lived up to his expectations, and was admitted to the scholar at a young age, but he didn't know What kind of people's eyes did you provoke?"

The yamen servant received the money, so he naturally wanted to say something nice for Jiang Jingyuan. He is from Wutong County and has worked in the government office for more than 20 years. He has heard about the Jiang family's affairs, but he is exaggerating. Take a look at the kindness between the magistrate and Jiang Yuanmao.

The two people did have the same family back then, but they didn't have much friendship, but now, one of them has passed away long ago, and the other has been promoted long ago, so there is no way to verify it.

"Bring in quickly." County magistrate Zhang was overjoyed, and ordered the yamen servant to bring in Jiang Jingyuan quickly, maybe his way to promotion lies in Jiang Jingyuan.

Not long after, the yamen servant led Jiang Jingyuan and the three of them in. Jiang Jingyuan was dressed upright in an indigo-blue robe, and his face was pale, but his eyes, which were as clear as streams, gave people a sense of stability, and his thin cheeks The outline highlights his facial features, he is handsome and handsome, like a young scholar.

"The student has met the county magistrate." Jiang Jingyuan's eyes lit up when he saw Zhang Mingyuan. Zhang Mingyuan was only [-] years old, probably because he had only taken office for a short time, and he was full of books. In addition, he deliberately catered to him, and unconsciously thought Make people close.

"En." County Magistrate Zhang nodded in satisfaction, and ordered the yamen servant next to him to give Jiang Jingyuan a seat. He had already read the lawsuit just now while the yamen servant was out calling for someone.

After Jiang Jingyuan was seated, he asked a few more questions carefully, "Little scholar Jiang, just tell me, do you have any evidence to sue Dr. Li at Ji Ren Tang?"

"Reporting to the county magistrate, there are naturally some students." Jiang Jingyuan took out the small cloth bag that he had been holding in his arms all the time. It was the medicine residue that Xu Shuizhou found.

Zhang Mingyuan has read books for decades, but he doesn't understand the theory of medicine, but he also pretended to observe carefully, and made a draft in his heart, and then said slowly, "This medicine is indeed different from ordinary wind-cold medicine. As a county magistrate, you can't order people to be arrested on the basis of one-sidedness."

Jiang Jingyuan had already seen the expression of County Magistrate Zhang, and smiled softly, "What the magistrate said is very true. I also ask the magistrate to invite all the doctors in the county, except Ji Rentang."

County magistrate Zhang nodded in agreement, and gave a few instructions to the yamen servant next to him. It took only a quarter of an hour, and there were eight doctors standing in the yamen.

Jiang Jingyuan divided the medicine dregs in his hand into eight parts and handed them to them for inspection one by one. He didn't let them discuss it, just write down the conclusions he got on paper.

Soon Jiang Jingyuan received eight pieces of paper, all of which had almost the same answers. There is nothing wrong with the medicines for treating wind and cold, but almost all the medicines are wrong. There was even a rather extreme doctor who wrote on the paper, "That The prescriptions prescribed by the quack doctors, I am afraid that even the thousand gold prescriptions have not been memorized."