Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

The next day, the two had eaten early and came to the county office early in the morning.

The first month is the most leisurely time of the year, but Yamen is not.The county magistrate is in charge of the government orders of a county, from the common people to the chickens, ducks, dogs, and geese, and the trivial matters of each household are judged by public judges in his hands.

At this moment, he was sitting in the courtroom, looking at a young man and an old man kneeling below, his eyebrows raised unconsciously.

Originally, the two-horse carriage collision accident that had been concluded on the second day of the Lunar New Year turned out to be another hidden story, and it turned out that someone deliberately framed it.

That's okay, he would never allow unjust, false or wrongly decided cases to happen under his command, and immediately ordered the yamen servant to arrest the driver who was driving drunk that day.

When the defendant was brought into the court, Meng Zhen looked up and saw that it was the man named Dashu who asked for money in Xingxianglou yesterday.

Then there was a sound of falling boards next to his ears: "Bold Liu Dashu, you deliberately killed yourself after drinking and deceived the imperial court officials, what crime should you deserve!"

"My lord, I've been wronged!" Liu Dashu knelt on the ground, his voice hoarse, not as domineering as yesterday.

"There are all the witnesses and material evidence, so why would you say it in vain!" The county magistrate ordered someone to dump the money collected from Liu Dashu's house on the ground. When Liu Dashu saw it, he was stunned and couldn't say a word for a long time. .

Early in the morning, when Meng Qing and Meng Zhen came to report to the officials, Meng Zhen told the county magistrate about Liu Dashu's begging for money in the restaurant yesterday. Here comes.

Meng Zhen looked at the white silver on the ground, at least there must be hundreds of taels.

Pointing to the silver coins on the ground, the county magistrate said, "You usually earn a living by hauling goods. Where did you get so much silver money? Why don't you get them as they are?"

Liu Dashu was already terrified in his heart, but he insisted on saying: "Master... my lord, this money is saved by ordinary people, and I never stole it. Please be careful."

The magistrate of the county snorted: "Yesterday, someone in Xingxianglou heard you say that you framed Meng Qing and his wife for money, because the man only gave you half of the money afterwards, and you refused to obey, clamoring to report to the Yamen as a threat The rest of the money. Now that the person suing you is by your side, you still have to deny it!"

Liu Dashu glanced at the two people kneeling beside him, one was Meng Qing who was hit by his carriage that day, the other was an old man, he seemed to have seen Xingxianglou yesterday, but he had no impression of it.

While he was in a daze, the magistrate went on to say: "Don't think that since you have an injury on your leg, this officer won't dare to punish you. I want to see if it's your stubbornness or my toughness." ..."

"Come on!" The county magistrate shouted, and immediately two yamen servants took sticks and put them on Liu Dashu's back.

Liu Dashu suddenly turned pale with shock: "Big, my lord... small, I am wronged... so wronged..."

He stammered and couldn't finish a sentence for a long time.The magistrate of the county glanced at him, and said coldly: "If you are recruited now, I can give you a lighter sentence, otherwise, hmph... deliberate murder, deceiving the imperial court officials, and refusing to confess. I will eat bad vegetables and cold rice for a lifetime."

"Your Excellency..." Hearing this, Liu Dashu didn't dare to hide anything anymore, knelt down on the ground, and truthfully followed up the antecedents of how he collected money from people.

However, there is a family named Zhu in Xianghe County, who has a vast area of ​​fertile land and many helpers. Liu Dashu helps to deliver goods to the family in his spare time.

Old Wu Nian is strong, honest and capable, and often introduces jobs with a lot of money to him so that he can subsidize his family.

On New Year's Eve, Liu Dashu was at home with his children to put up Spring Festival couplets. Old Wu suddenly came to him and asked him to do something for him. The reward was 100 taels of silver. He would give him part of it first, and then give the rest .

The temptation of 100 taels of silver was too great, so he hurriedly agreed without asking any questions.

Old Wu told him that he wanted him to drink more early in the morning on the second day of the new year, and waited in an alley in Nanguan Street, and when he heard the whistle, he drove out immediately.

When that day came, he fed himself a lot of wine.His capacity for drinking is not bad, and the wine is not too strong, so he only smells of alcohol on his body, but his head is sober.

The moment he heard the whistle, almost without thinking, he tightened the reins and rushed out like flying.

The next moment he saw another carriage driving on the street. Before he had time to think about it, the two carriages collided with each other, followed by a whirl of the sky, and then he fell unconscious.

When he woke up, he found himself lying in a hospital with bandages all over his body, and two yamen servants were guarding him, asking him to narrate what happened in the morning.

He only said that he drank too much wine last night, and that he accidentally bumped into another carriage when he was delivering goods this morning, and he didn't know anything else.

It was only later that he found out that there were Meng Qing and his wife sitting in the carriage that he hit with his car.

Meng's family is one of the best big families in Xianghe County. Meng Qing is the pillar of the family and a businessman. Anyone who has some experience in the county has heard of his name.

It's just that I don't know what kind of enmity Lao Wu has with others, so that he can kill others like this.Thanks to the fact that I tightened up a little at the time, otherwise I would have been killed.

Fortunately, the magistrate of the county judged the matter as a traffic accident, and Meng Qing did not pursue the responsibility, so the matter was left alone.

It was his own fault to say that, when he first agreed to this matter, he asked Old Wu to invite him to Xingxianglou for dinner after the matter was completed.It was delicious to eat, and I ate it directly in the county government.

Liu Dashu regretted it at the beginning, he knew that the other table had ears, no matter what he said, he would not go to Xingxianglou to eat some rouge goose, and he would just ask for money from any place in private.

In the final analysis, it was his greed that caused it.

Looking at the white silver coins on the ground, Liu Dashu's intestines were about to turn green with regret.

After hearing his confession, the county magistrate here immediately sent a yamen servant to Zhu's house to arrest Lao Wu.

Lao Wu knelt on the ground and confessed to Liu Dashu's confession.The magistrate of the county sat in the courtroom, looked at the submissive culprit, the gavel fell heavily, and sternly reprimanded him: "What enmity is Meng Qing with you? You want to send someone to secretly murder you." The person shivered.

Old Wu raised his head slowly, neither humble nor overbearing, but a bit generous and awe-inspiring, gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "No resentment, no enmity, the grassroots are just not used to him, and they want to get rid of him quickly."

The magistrate of the county knocked on the board again: "Bold, you are a grassroots, how can you talk to this official? Liu Dashu said that you were acting on behalf of your master, and said, who exactly did you instigate to get rid of the Mengqing couple?" quick."

Old Wu lowered his head: "No one instructs the grass-roots people. It's the grass-roots people who don't like him and want to get rid of him. It has nothing to do with others."

Meng Qing, who was kneeling by the side, couldn't help but look at this person a few more times. He knew this person, and he was a head laborer of his ex-wife Zhu Zhenmei's family.

He has never had any contact with this person, but he has seen each other several times and never said a word.Even if he is not used to him, there is no need to get rid of him.

Although Meng Qing was honest, he was not stupid, and after turning his mind a little, he figured out the reason for this.

He guessed that it wasn't that Old Wu wanted to get rid of him, but that Old Wu was ordered to get rid of him.

That person was probably his ex-wife Zhu Zhenmei. After all, when the two reconciled, Zhu Zhenmei gritted her teeth with hatred for him, wishing to cut him off.

Not only did he have suspicions about this matter, but the magistrate also had a lot of doubts. If one person doesn't like another person, just avoid it. There is absolutely no reason to kill someone.

The county magistrate knocked on the board and asked: "But your master ordered you?" The Zhu family is considered a big family in Xianghe County, and the county magistrate had to be courteous when he saw it, and the Zhu Meng family had an in-law relationship before, but they didn't know it later. Why was it explained, the county magistrate thought about it, maybe there is some love and hatred entanglement in it.

Old Wu was stubborn, and refused to utter a single word. He just kept knocking: "No one instructed the grassroots. It was the grassroots who wanted to murder Mengqing. It's just that the heavens are not blessed, and the grassroots failed to get what they wanted."

The magistrate snorted and said, "Your words are hard to convince the public. I asked your master to ask questions!"

"My lord!" Old Wu was obviously anxious when he heard that he was going to call his master, "My lord, Cao Min is telling the truth. My young lady reconciled with Meng Qing half a year ago. After returning home, she was devastated and washed her face with tears all day long. Cao Min couldn't bear Miss being wronged." , so I came up with this plan to frame Meng Qing, so as to vent my anger on my young lady. This matter was planned by Caomin alone, and has nothing to do with anyone in the Zhu family, so please learn from me." The lady that Old Wu said was Zhu Zhenmei.

The magistrate of the county was skeptical, but no matter what, this reason for harming people was indeed much stronger than after seeing that people were not used to getting rid of it just now.

Now that the man had pleaded guilty, the county magistrate said nothing more, ordered someone to sign the painting and put Liu Dashu and Lao Wu in the county government jail temporarily.

Meng Qing and Meng Zhen came out from the yamen, Meng Qing asked his father to sit in the carriage and wait for him for a while, then took a small box from Ah Qing and entered the gate of the county yamen.

Meng Zhen knew what was in that box, when the two of them came out of the house in the morning, Meng Qing prepared some silver taels and put them in a small gold box, thinking that since there was going to be a lawsuit, there would always be something useful for the money.

Meng Zhen sat in the carriage, closed his eyes and rested his mind for a while, but after a while, Meng Qing turned back.

Meng Zhen saw that his hands were empty, so he knew that the county magistrate took all the box of money.

The corner of his mouth twitched unconsciously, "As a parent official, it's his duty to do things for the people, so what does it mean to collect people's money afterward?"

Meng Qing also twitched with a smile on his face: "Everyone has a love of money, and the county magistrate is not a saint. If someone gives him money, how can he refuse to accept it. Besides, my Meng family has been doing business all year round, so it is a must." When dealing with the government, if you can use money to win over your relationship, why use other things. Dad is also a person who has lived most of his life, so you should not understand this truth."

He threw the words to Mengzhen, but Mengzhen didn't continue.The business of the family's grain farm is all managed by Meng Qing. Every year when he goes out to buy and sell grain, he has to ask the government to get the grain.

Meng Zhen has been here for more than a year, and he knows that this family is able to be as rich as it is today, thanks to Meng Qing's contribution.

It is said that the government and businessmen protect each other. If the businessmen are protected by the government behind them, the road to business will be much smoother.The reason why Mengqing's business journey went smoothly was due to his own efforts on the one hand, and the help from the government on the other hand.

In turn, Mengqing gave some money to the government in return, and so on, the government and the businessmen formed a self-contained body.

Meng Zhen devoted himself to cultivating Taoism in his previous life, and he was completely clueless about government and business affairs. Now that he listened to Meng Qing's words and turned his head a little, he could figure out the way.

Mengqing and the government are just taking what they need.During the jolt of the carriage, Meng Zhen closed his eyes.

He thought to himself, fortunately, he did not take the imperial examination to be an official, otherwise he would have to deal with so many people, and he would feel headache and flustered just thinking about it.

The sun was rising, and the carriage arrived at home before I knew it.

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