Stingy Husband Farming

My own father has already spoken, and besides, Mr. Song's own father also expressed that he doesn't care about the issue of fame. What else can Xue Hai care about?It seems that the whole family is pedantic by themselves.

Before it was dark, Xue Hai took a large amount of banknotes provided by the Song family and went to meet the county magistrate.

If he wanted to search the entire county, he couldn't be so big as an inspector. He had to have the county magistrate's order.However, Xue Hai has always been on good terms with his colleagues, and it is not difficult to ask the magistrate for personal favors. Xue Hai explained everything clearly, from Song Xie's disappearance to the business dispute between Song Mei and Song's family. The person is the Mei family.

Sure enough, the county magistrate was surprised and annoyed when he heard Xue Hai's intentions: "How does the Mei family do things so carelessly? Do business as you do, each according to his own ability, but they have to use such dirty tricks behind their backs."

The county magistrate didn't pay much attention to how these businessmen in the county fought, but the kidnapping was too much, and it involved the Song family.

For the county magistrate, the Song family is not like an ordinary merchant.

Master Song, as a traveler, came here and became a landlord. He planted a large amount of high-yield grains such as sweet potatoes and corn, which made Xing'an County and surrounding counties leap from ordinary or even poor cities to agriculture. The big city became prosperous.Therefore, although Mr. Song's family was not too rich back then, it had a huge influence on the state and county where it belonged, and he was quite famous in the political circle.The county magistrate of Xing'an County is undoubtedly a position with a lot of money and good performance assessment.

As for the officials who come to work here, because Xing'an County produces more crops every year, the tax revenue is naturally higher than other areas, and the performance evaluation is naturally excellent.The current county magistrate has been in office for two years, and there is still one year left. If he gets the news early, he will be promoted, and many of them are honored by the Song family.

Based on this, he is willing to sell the Song family a favor.

Xue Hai hesitated for a moment, but still told the truth: "We are only suspicious, and there is no conclusive evidence that the Mei family did it. Earlier, I visited the Mei family for a few days on the grounds that there were thieves in the city, and the Mei family did not show their feet... ...That's why I want to ask the master for an order to search the whole county, not just Mei's house."

Whether it was made by the Mei family or someone else made no difference to the county magistrate. Anyway, these merchants did not help him in performance appraisal.What the county magistrate cares about is whether the Song family's children can be found - he has already heard that the eldest son of the Song family has married into Yuhu Prefecture, and if the younger son disappears, the Song family will move away from Xing'an County when he is in office. If it affects the local agriculture, his performance appraisal will not be considered excellent, and his promotion will also come to naught.

The county magistrate immediately agreed: "Yes, when the gates of the city are closed after dark, we will search from house to house. I want to see who dares to do such illegal things under my rule!"

It's just that the county magistrate didn't take money from the Song family - he also had his own considerations.

The Mei family has been rooted in Xing'an County for many years, and has its own way in the Yamen.Although his official position is not as good as his own, and the county magistrate doesn't take it seriously, but if someone reports impeachment, it will still be troublesome, and the money will be collected.

If you don't take money to do things at all, you can only say that your methods are strong and fierce enough to disturb the people, which is completely different from accepting bribes.

But even if the county magistrate didn't accept the money, the Song family still gave some of it to the other two inspectors and the county lieutenant, and distributed it to the brothers below who worked hard, so that they could do their best in the search.

It was night, the gate of the city was closed, and a fire suddenly lit up from the direction of the county government office. Teams of police officers and garrison troops with torches searched the city from house to house.

This was also discussed by the county magistrate with Xue Hai and the Song family, and they were only given one night.Taking advantage of the closure of the city gate can prevent the kidnappers from taking advantage of the chaos to send people out of the city. When it is dawn, such a surprise attack may not be able to guarantee that the person will be in the city.

Secondly, the county magistrate really didn't want to make too much of a fuss. There were too many people involved in the city-wide search. Who knows if there are any big figures living in seclusion in the county, or people who have relatives with some officials and turn around to report this If something goes wrong, don't be afraid of [-], just in case.

Xue Hai personally led the team, and the first to check was the Mei Mansion and its other courtyards.

"What are you doing! There is no law!" Xue Hai led the soldiers to break in, and Master Mei, who was resting in the concubine's room, came out disheveled, frightened and guilty.The concubine was even more frightened by the battle and hid behind Master Mei.

The soldiers under him had scattered to search for people, Xue Hai and the members of the Song family were standing at the door waiting for the news. Hearing this, Xue Hai took out the county magistrate's letter: "The second son of the Song family was kidnapped by gangsters in the downtown area. The county magistrate Your Excellency thinks this is very bad, and if we want our inspectorate to conduct house-to-house searches, we must recruit people back and bring the thugs to justice."

Mr. Mei opened his mouth. He didn't expect that the Song family really didn't care about their reputation...their family still has a daughter who hasn't left the court. Song Xie's reputation is bad, and he is not the only one affected!

At this time, he could only force himself to calm down, and kept comforting himself in his heart. Song Xie had been sent out of the city long ago, and the Song family had no evidence!

The incident happened suddenly, and the city inspection department and the policemen acted separately to wake up the sleeping residents and search them.For a moment, there were terrified shouts in the city, protests from wealthy families refusing to be searched, and cries from children. It was very lively.

Seeing this scene, Mr. Song felt mixed emotions, thanks to the imperial power society, where rights are paramount, as long as the parents and officials of this party give permission, even house-to-house searches are acceptable.As a family member of the missing person, this is naturally a good thing, only pity those innocent and frightened people...

Song Bai also thought of this, frowned and listened to the crying voice of the child next door, and said in a low voice: "That's it, if you find Xiaoxi, our family will definitely send gifts like red eggs from door to door. Let’s celebrate. Also take this opportunity to make amends to everyone.”

Master Song glanced at his son: "It's rare for you to be so generous." Naturally, everyone agreed.

Song Bai stopped talking.Since he was born, everything went smoothly. Because of his family background, no one dared to bully him, he was smart and did not suffer in the mall, and his temperament was stingy, and his family followed him.And since he got to know Shen Mu, the incidents that have happened have made him feel many times that many things are more important than money.

But ordinary people are easy to appease, or even if they are dissatisfied, they dare not express it, but those big families can't be fooled by a little profit, and they have to spend more time.

This trip offended a lot of people, but for the sake of their own children, it is necessary to go all out.

It's a pity that Song Xie was not found in Mei's house.Master Mei immediately trembled, and said in a strange way: "Even if you lost someone," he bit these three words hard, and the faces of the Song family all changed: "The county magistrate shouldn't make a big move, but allow you The full name is search. It must be that someone used the money... Hehe, I'm not afraid to spread the word, and the defendant is colluding with the government and businessmen!"

"Go and sue if you have the guts." Song Bai turned cold, and gave Master Mei a hard look: "The matter of Xiaoxi's disappearance had better have nothing to do with you, otherwise..."

He didn't finish the second half of the sentence, but Master Mei was frightened by Song Bai's sudden release of force, and stopped talking embarrassingly.

A group of people left the Mei Mansion and went to the other courtyard to which the Mei family belonged.

Master Mei summoned the housekeeper with some fear: "Go, send some people to follow them." He was stared at by Song Bai, and he always felt uneasy and felt that something was going to happen.

The housekeeper wondered: "Master, there are people from the inspection department outside, I'm afraid they will be discovered, and it will only cause trouble... Don't worry, master, the person has been sent away for several months. If the body is thrown in the forest If the corpse is buried in the ground, it would have already been turned into bones, and it would have been impossible to find out."

After hearing this, Master Mei also took it for granted, so he felt a little relieved, and took his concubine back to his room to rest.

However, they searched through the six other courtyards belonging to the Mei family, but did not find Song Xie's whereabouts.

Not only that, the soldiers who went to search other people's homes also came back and reported that they had not found any trace of Song Xie.

"How...how could this be..." Song Xiaomei stood at the door of the smallest and most remote courtyard of the Mei family, panicked a few times: "I obviously sent someone to look at it immediately. If you stay at the city gate, my brother must still be in the city!"

At this time, the fourth watch has passed, and the gate of the city is about to open at the fifth watch. Is it possible that this rare opportunity given by the county magistrate will be for nothing?

"I don't believe it, it must be because you didn't search carefully!" Song Xiaomei pushed away the maid at the door, and rushed into the other courtyard of Mei Mansion to check for herself.

There is no master's house in this other courtyard, only two stewards and some maids responsible for cleaning, so no one dares to stop Song Xiaomei.

Song Bai frowned, and clasped his fists at Xue Hai's soldiers: "My little sister was impatient for a while, and didn't mean to blame the adults for not being dedicated. It's hard work for the adults tonight."

Those generals were originally Xue Hai's subordinates, and they also understood that Song Xiaomei's emotions would inevitably get out of control when her relatives disappeared, and they all expressed that they would not care.What's more, for such a beauty, it is pleasing to say a few harsh words to them, and they only want to make people feel distressed, so these soldiers even comforted the Song family a few words.

Song Bai said so, but he followed Song Xiaomei into another courtyard, thinking about it, he was not reconciled.Even if you can't recruit anyone, you still want to find some clues.

But I didn't want to, the brother and sister searched, although they couldn't find the person, they did find some clues.

"This is the clothes my second brother wore the day he disappeared. I won't admit it!" Song Xiaomei held up a scrap of cloth. "This is the blue and gold satin brought by my elder brother from Fengshui County. It's strange that there is only one piece. We didn't put it in the shop, but kept it and cut the clothes ourselves. I also have a piece of the same material."

This blue-gold satin costs twenty taels of silver a piece, which is expensive and difficult to sell. Song Bai and Shen Mu didn't buy this kind of fabric when they were at Senior Brother Zhong's house. The only one was that Senior Brother Zhong thought Shen Mu liked it. extra gift.

However, Shen Mu was not willing to cut and make clothes, so they shipped them to Xing'an County to remake the goods and sell them.

In the end, Song Xiaomei cut off her Hu, and she and Song Xie had their clothes cut off.The Mei family didn't have this kind of material. Even if it did, the weaving method of the fabric produced in Xing'an County and the fabric produced by Mr. Mei's purchase cannot be exactly the same. Those who are used to needlework will know it by a little comparison.

Thinking about it, Shen Mu couldn't have imagined that such a karma would be planted in a moment of stinginess.

"It was found under the mattress in a wing room...it must be the second brother who was locked in that wing room and deliberately tore off his robe to leave a clue for us." Song Xiaomei thought for a while, then is close to the truth.

"But only with a piece of fabric..." Xue Hai was a little embarrassed.Of course he believed what Song Xiaomei said, but he took a piece of cloth and told the county magistrate, might he believe it?Mr. Mei must have many sophistry.

"It's okay, even if you don't believe me, at least we know that this matter has something to do with the Mei family. Sooner or later... sooner or later the Mei family will show their feet." Master Song's voice was hoarse.

As long as... as long as his child is still alive, there will be no movement in Wuchou Mei's family after this method of scaring the snake.Master Song closed his eyes, not without the worst plans in mind.

"As evidenced by the lack of that piece of fabric, what about this one." Just as he was talking, Song Bai came out of the yard with a few small makeup boxes in his arms and a few purses hanging from his fingertips, followed by a row of The maid who shakes like chaff.