The New Biography of the Consort

People must be hinting at my private salt business."

"Yeah, I just arrived in this small town not long ago. After a few days of investigation, I think it's a collusion between the government and businessmen to drive up the price of salt and smuggle and sell private salt."

"Brother Zhang, did you find any solid evidence?"

"It's a pity that I haven't found any definite evidence, but I found that a salt merchant named Du Hailiang has close contacts with officials here."

"Since there are salt merchants smuggling illegal salt, there must be illegal salt coming in and out of the port. In this way, I will investigate the port."

"It's great that Brother Feng can help. Then I'll go to Du's house to investigate and see if I can find evidence of them smuggling and selling illegal salt."

"Okay, Brother Zhang, let's split up, and I'll go to the port right away"

"Well, okay, Brother Feng, be careful."

"Brother Zhang should also be careful, where are we going to meet after the investigation?"

"Brother Feng, where do you live?"

“I stayed at the Encounter Inn”

"Okay, I'll go to the Encounter Inn to find you after I'm done."

"it is good",

So the two split up, one went to the port, the other went to Du's mansion. In the middle of the night, Zhang Shaomin came to Du's mansion, climbed over the wall with light work, and came to Du Hailiang's study door. Du Hailiang was discussing something with someone In order to hear their conversation clearly, Zhang Shaomin leaned tightly outside the door and listened.

In the study, Du Hailiang said, "When will the next batch of salt leave Hong Kong? County Magistrate Yang has been urging me to give him silver taels."

"Master Du, the next batch of salt will leave the port in three days, and I have already made arrangements with the port,"

At this moment, a few servants who were patrolling the courtyard came outside, but Zhang Shaomin didn't notice anyone coming over.

Seeing Zhang Shaomin eavesdropping in front of Du Hailiang's study, he shouted, "Who is eavesdropping there?"

After Zhang Shaomin heard this, he hurriedly ran away. At this time, Du Hailiang in the study also opened the door and said

"Send all the servants, be sure to catch the eavesdropper",

More and more servants chased after Zhang Shaomin, and what Zhang Shaomin didn't expect was that all the servants in the Du Mansion knew martial arts. Seeing that he alone could not resist so many servants, Zhang Shaomin wanted to find a place to hide. In the room, without thinking much, Zhang Shaomin pushed the door and ran in and closed the door. After closing the door, Zhang Shaomin breathed a sigh of relief. Zhang Shaomin turned around and found that there was someone in the room.

The man was holding the embroidery and staring at him blankly, as if he had just been frightened. Soon the owner of the room came to his senses and said, "Who are you? Why did you come to my house late at night?"

Just when Zhang Shaomin was about to answer, he heard the voice of the servant running over outside the door. Zhang Shaomin ran to the man quickly, covered his mouth with his hand and said:

"Miss, don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, and I won't hurt you, please keep quiet."

At this time, I heard a knock on the door, and Du Hailiang knocked on the door and said, "Zihan, are you asleep?"

Zhang Shaomin whispered, "Miss, please believe me, I am really not a bad person",

The person nodded, so Zhang Shaomin slowly let go of his hand covering her mouth. At this moment, Du Hailiang outside seemed very anxious, and knocked on the door again and said, "Zihan, Zihan, are you there?",

The man said, "Dad, I'm here, I just fell asleep just now, what's the matter?",

Du Hailiang outside said, "Oh, it's okay, then you can continue to rest, dad is leaving first"

"Well, Dad, go slowly",

Then Du Hailiang took those servants and left. After hearing no sound outside the room, Zhang Shaomin cupped his hands and said

"Thank you, Ms. Du, for not exposing me."

"Why did you come to my house late at night?"

"Miss, please forgive me. I can't say why I came here, but please rest assured that I am not a bad person."

Only then did Zhang Shaomin notice that this Ms. Du was born slim and graceful, with a graceful demeanor, and calm and calm in every situation.

"How long will this young man have to watch? It's late at night, please come back, young master. If this happens again next time, please forgive me for not being able to help."

Hearing Ms. Du's words, Zhang Shaomin realized his impoliteness, and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, Ms. Du, I lost my mind next time. I will definitely repay Ms. Du's kindness for helping me someday, so I will take my leave first."

After speaking, Zhang Shaomin opened the door and walked out. The reason why this Miss Du helped Zhang Shaomin was because she knew that her father, Du Hailiang, paid too much attention to money in his daily business, and would inevitably do some unknown things. On weekdays, she opposed Du Hailiang's doing things that were only for profit, and she didn't think Zhang Shaomin's behavior looked like a bad person, so she decided to help Zhang Shaomin,

After Zhang Shaomin left Du's mansion, Du Zihan's words and deeds kept lingering in his mind. At this time, Feng Shaomin had already finished exploring the port and returned to the Meeting Inn to wait for Zhang Shaomin's news.

Speaking of Tianxiang and Shangguanyun, when they woke up together in the morning, they were thinking, where will Feng Shaomin go?Whether they are also in this town, both of them have a feeling that Feng Shaomin is in this town, and not far from them, so they decided to live in this town for a few days, looking for Feng Shaomin's whereabouts. He spent the whole day looking for Feng Shaomin in the small town, and didn't return to the inn until evening to rest.

Chapter 70

Zhang Shaomin came to meet Feng Shaomin at the inn, Zhang Shaomin came to Feng Shaomin's room and knocked on the door a few times,

"who is it?"

"Brother Feng, it's me, Zhang Shaomin"

Feng Shaomin opened the door from the inside and said, "Brother Zhang, you are back, please come in quickly",

The two sat at the table, and Zhang Shaomin asked, "Brother Feng, did you find any news when you went to the port?"

"I didn't find anything unusual when I first arrived at the port, but I found that many porters were busy moving things to a cargo ship, so I pretended to be a porter to ask if porters were hired, but the people there said they didn't It made me feel a little strange to recruit outsiders. Later I found out that they were carrying cotton on the ship, but looking at the expressions of those porters when they were carrying sacks, I thought that the sacks should not be cotton, because they seemed to be carrying sacks. It’s hard work, if the sacks are made of cotton, it won’t be so heavy. I guess the sacks should be illegal salt, but they have a lot of people guarding the cargo ship. It’s hard for me to get close to the cargo ship to find out, and see them rushing to load the ship. , I think they will definitely have a batch of goods to leave Hong Kong in the next few days, brother Zhang, how about you? Have you found any news?"

"Brother Feng's guess is correct. I overheard the conversation between Du Hailiang and others in the Du Mansion. They said that a batch of private salt would leave Hong Kong in three days."

"Really? Then we must find evidence of the smuggled salt before this batch of smuggled salt leaves Hong Kong."

"Yeah, if we don't take advantage of this batch of private salt leaving Hong Kong to catch them, then we don't know when the next batch of private salt will leave Hong Kong, and it will be difficult for us to catch their evidence."

"Brother Zhang, government approval is required for cargo ships to leave the port. Do you think the government will know about their smuggling of salt?"

"I investigated Du Hailiang before, and found that he has a close relationship with the prefect Tan here. I feel that the government must have something to do with this matter."

"In this case, we can't expect the government to help investigate this matter."

"Well, it seems that we can only rely on ourselves, Brother Feng, what do you think we should do?"

"Well...how about it, Brother Zhang, I'll go to the port tomorrow to investigate, and you can monitor Du Hailiang's every move. How about we come back here to meet at night?"

"Okay, let's do what Brother Feng said. Brother Feng, it's already late at night, so you should rest first. I'm also going to open a room, so it will be more convenient for us to contact you."

"okay"

"Brother Feng, let me take my leave first."

"Brother Zhang, walk slowly."

On the second day, Feng Shaomin still went to the port to inquire about news, while Zhang Shaomin went to Du's mansion to monitor Du Hailiang. On the way Zhang Shaomin was going to Du's mansion, he saw many people running towards Du's mansion.

Zhang Shaomin was very surprised, so he grabbed someone and asked, "Brother, where are you going in a hurry?"

"You don't know yet, the Du family is going to open a warehouse to release salt, if you don't go there quickly, all the salt will be robbed, I have to go quickly"

After speaking, the man ran to Du's mansion. Zhang Shaomin was very surprised. Why would a businessman like Du Hailiang who sells salt for a living open a warehouse to release salt?Could it be that I suspected the wrong person?Is Du Hailiang a great kind person?So Zhang Shaomin went to Du's Mansion with doubts to find out what happened.

When I came to the gate of the Du Mansion, I saw a long line waiting to receive salt, and in front of the Du Mansion, the salt was indeed being distributed. Zhang Shaomin approached and took a closer look. It turned out that it was Du Zihan, Ms. Du, who was distributing salt to the people. Du Zihan With a smile on his face, he distributed salt to everyone in line, and everyone who received the salt said

"Miss Du, you are such a kind person, a living Bodhisattva",

But at this time, Du Zihan in Zhang Shaomin's eyes was a fairy radiating light. Zhang Shaomin couldn't help but sigh, "There are such kind and beautiful people in this world",

Zhang Shaomin began to gradually doubt his previous conjectures. The Du Mansion did not seem to be doing things like smuggling salt and driving up the price of salt. At this time, the door of the Du Mansion suddenly opened, and many servants came out to line up. All the people were blown away, and Du Hailiang also walked out of the Du mansion.

Du Hailiang walked towards Du Zihan and said, "Zihan, who allowed you to open a warehouse to release salt?"

"Without anyone's permission, it is my own decision"

"Bold, you dare to do such a thing without my permission. Do you know how much money I will lose if you do this?"

"Silver, silver, you will always only have silver in your eyes. With so much silver, can you exchange it for my mother? Can you exchange it for our once happy home?"

"You... presumptuous"

At this time Du Hailiang raised his hand to hit Du Zihan, suddenly Du Hailiang