Dressed as a little farmer's lucky treasure, God sends blessings and asks for forgiveness

"Dad, second brother, you must save me. I was wronged. I did not embezzle public funds. I did not take the three thousand taels of silver at all." Zhao Guochang told the story before waiting for the questions.

"Third brother, tell us in detail what happened. What was your job? How come something went wrong after working for less than a month? And why was it three thousand taels instead of thirty taels?" Zhao Dagen's eyes were red, and he grabbed the third brother and said anxiously.

The father and son were talking through the iron gate.

Zhao Guocheng just nodded: "We came here to ask clearly, this matter must not be that simple, have you been calculated from the beginning?"

Zhao Guocheng's reminder reminded him of something.

"Yes, that must be the case. The person who introduced this job to me said that this position was lucrative, but before I took any action, the people above said they wanted to check the accounts, and then found that three thousand taels of silver were missing. I happen to be the person in charge of these accounts and documents, and then they arrested me." The more Zhao Guochang spoke, the clearer it became. The previous person found out that the superiors were coming to check the accounts, and then transferred the position to him and asked him to take over. That must be the case.

"Where are you working?" Zhao Guocheng asked.

Zhao Guochang's eyes were a little evasive, not knowing whether to say it or not.

"It's already this late, why don't you say anything?" Zhao Guocheng asked sternly.

"I...I am Master Sun's aide. Master Sun has several aides, and I am the newest one." Zhao Guocheng said with his eyes closed.

"The county magistrate's adviser's aides? What does a adviser need so many aides for? Moreover, you just passed the imperial examination and have no qualifications. How can you become an aides so easily?" Zhao Guocheng was puzzled.

Is it so easy to be the master's aide?

Zhao Guochang immediately retorted, but his voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke: "It's not that easy. I used connections and asked someone to help me get this position. I also spent a lot of money to arrange it."

What else did Zhao Guocheng not understand now?

So the reason for taking the money is just to get this ridiculous job as a backstage advisor!

It's obvious that he was being plotted against, yet he's still being so self-righteous.

Zhao Guocheng suddenly realized why his third brother was so stupid.

How could he pass the imperial examination with this kind of brain? It must have been cheating.

Bah, bah, bah~~It’s a crow’s mouth. It’s better not to be like that.

"Then how did you find the person who offered you a job?" Zhao Dagen asked.

"That man is a distant relative of my father-in-law's family." Zhao Guochang said, looking at him, he still believed in that man very much.

"In that case, your wife has to talk to your father-in-law about this matter and see what that person knows first. And Master Sun's aides sound unreliable. Does the county magistrate know about this?" Zhao Guocheng asked.

Zhao Guochang shook his head, looking confused: "I don't know."

Zhao Guocheng and Zhao Dagen asked a few more questions in detail, but before they finished, they heard voices outside telling them to leave quickly as the visiting hours were over.

If Zhao Guocheng hadn't stuffed enough silver in, the two of them wouldn't have been able to get in.

Wait until the two of them come out.

"Dad, we need to find the person who introduced the job to the third child to learn more about the situation, and also find that Master Sun, but with our current conditions, we will definitely not be able to ask anything." Zhao Guocheng's mind is very clear now, but it is useless. The current difficulties are not something that a commoner like him can solve.

The key point is that he didn't expect the third brother to do such a stupid thing. He thought he had got a good job, but it turned out that he was just a behind-the-scenes agent.

"What should I do?" Zhao Dagen was so anxious that he was running around in circles. He had no idea what to do. He was not familiar with the county, and the key point was that he didn't know anyone there.

"Dad, let's go to the third brother's house first, find his wife, and let my third brother's wife take us to her parents' home to look for someone." Zhao Guocheng finally decided.

"Okay, let's leave now."

After finding out the address, the two of them headed west of the city.

When we arrived at the address Zhao Guochang gave us, we found that the gate was locked and there was no one inside.

"Where could the third son's wife go?" Zhao Dagen became puzzled and suspicious.

"Don't worry, let's ask." Zhao Guocheng first introduced himself and then asked several neighbors next door, only to find out that the third son's wife had packed up and left.

"Dad, could it be that my third brother's wife has gone back to her parents' home for help? Why don't we go to my third brother's father-in-law's home to ask." Zhao Guocheng suggested.

"Let's go now without delay." Zhao Dagen walked out first.

Zhao Guochang's father-in-law's family lived in the county, but they had little contact with each other. He only knew where his family lived and had been there once. Zhao Dagen came to Zhao Yu's parents' home based on his memory.

"Third son's wife, father-in-law!" Zhao Dagen shouted while patting the gate.

It took a while before someone came out to open the door.

"Who is it?"

"You are the mother-in-law, right? I am Zhao Guochang's father. Is the father-in-law here? Is the third son's wife back?" Zhao Dagen asked a series of questions.

When Zhao Yu's mother, Yu Li, saw that it was Zhao Dagen, she didn't look happy at all.

"Hmph~~ Why don't you go home and wait to be squeezed dry by your Zhao family? Tell me what you are doing." Yu Li rolled her eyes and blocked the door with disdain.

"Who's here?" Yu Youcai came out and frowned when he saw it was Zhao Dagen.

"Come in, Miaomiao is back. If you don't come back and live here, you'll be worried every day. There will also be people trying to cause trouble at night. It's naturally safer to go home." Yu Youcai said as he walked inside.

Yu Li snorted at Zhao Dagen and Zhao Guocheng before letting them in.

It can be seen how much Yu Li disliked the two of them, and she didn't even bother to put in any superficial effort.

He waited until the two of them came in before closing the gate.

Zhao Guocheng felt a little embarrassed. What was going on? His third brother's wife's family didn't like him coming to help. If it wasn't for his father's sake, he would have wanted to go home right now. Who would care about this shit?

When they arrived at the room specially used for entertaining guests, Yu Youcai asked them to sit down and Yu Li brought them tea.

Although Zhao Dagen saw that reluctant look, he pretended not to see it.

"What does my father-in-law mean? Why is there someone causing trouble at night? And how much do you know about Guochang's case? Why did he go to jail?" Zhao Dagen asked anxiously.

"Yes, we don't know who it was. Anyway, Miaomiao and the others found someone trying to climb over the wall, but fortunately Jue Qian discovered it and prevented the man from succeeding. After that, they came back to live. I don't know much. It seems that they said that the son-in-law embezzled 30,000 taels of silver while in office, and now he can't take it out, so he was thrown into jail." Yu Youcai frowned.

"What? Thirty thousand taels? Isn't it three thousand taels?" Zhao Dagen asked in surprise. At first, someone reported that it was thirty taels, but the third brother said three thousand taels. Now the third brother's father-in-law said thirty thousand taels. How much is it?

Zhao Guocheng also frowned. What was going on?