It's hard to be a prodigal

"Brother Zong, does the headache relieve?" Le Lian filled a bowl of medicinal soup and gave it to Jiang Zong, rubbing his temples for him.

Jiang Zong leaned on the kang, blew the cold medicinal juice and drank it up, frowning in distaste: "You didn't give me honey, it's so bitter. Next time I will make it myself."

Le Lian stuffed a sweet date into Jiang Zong's mouth to relieve the bitter taste, and retorted: "Putting so much sugar will affect the efficacy of the medicine, why are you so delicate."

Jiang Zong frowned: "What happened to me?"

Lelian sighed.

"Tch, I don't know as much as a child." Jiang Zong put down the empty bowl with a bang, and raised his hand to get the ledger. Just as he touched the corner, Le Lian grabbed his wrist and pulled him into his arms to kiss him fiercely. , snatching the bitter taste from his mouth into his own.

Jiang Zong habitually catered to the little brat's kisses that seemed to be exasperating, and took advantage of the opportunity to sit on Le Lian's knees, bowed his head and deepened the kiss fiercely, without giving way.

Until the two of them had had enough quarreling and separated angrily, Le Lian turned his head and bit Jiang Zong's earlobe again, Jiang Zong let out an ouch and cursed, "Puppy."

Le Lian supported Jiang Zong's waist, put his forehead on his shoulder, and murmured: "Brother Zong, I am anxious to make you better. You often have headaches, this is not a good thing."

"It's all right, I can count my body." Jiang Zong stroked his head on his shoulder, comforting him softly.

At the end of the life in the previous life, there seemed to be something unfinished in the past. Whenever Jiang Zong tried hard to recall, he always had a severe headache. Something in the dark prevented him from seeing the plight of others beyond the end.

Lelian refused to believe him no matter what.

"Afraid I'll die? I've already died once." Jiang Zong patted him on the back and said with a smile, "Baby, even if I really die, I can become a star in the sky to protect you, more powerful than a Bodhisattva. "

Le Lian took a deep breath, put his hand on Jiang Zong's cheek, and said solemnly: "If there comes a day, I will be the one who becomes the star for you."

Hearing these words, Jiang Zong was inauspicious, so he threw Le Lian and sat on his hip bone, bit his lip with his mouth and bit a small bloodstain, and threatened fiercely: "Little brat, if you talk nonsense again, I will punish you."

Le Lian licked away the blood from his lips, rubbed against Jiang Zong's chin, and hugged his hands around his waist tightly, clinging like a big wolf dog.

Suddenly there was a sound of chaotic footsteps outside the door, and two servants ran over in a panic, slammed on the door and shouted in panic, "Master Lian! Master Zong! Open the door quickly, something has happened! The government has been alarmed, you two Go and see it!"

Jiang Zong's face was slightly cold, he glanced at Le Lian, took off the chair and put on his coat, hurriedly opened the door and went out, Le Lian followed closely behind.

A large group of onlookers had already gathered at Chaohai ferry, Jiang Zong hurriedly separated from the crowd and squeezed forward, cursing impatiently: "Get out of here."

Le Lian gave Jiang Zong a hand, raised the scabbard to open a way for him.

A large number of officers and soldiers gathered beside the merchant ship at the ferry, and the magistrate was talking with the second son of the Shi family with a cold face. The officers and soldiers had already arrested more than a dozen Shi family craftsmen, tied them into a bunch and knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands, crying "wronged".

The second son of the Shi family, Shi Youde, saw Jiang Zong, his eyes immediately lit up, pointed at Jiang Zong and said, "Master Zhifu, he is Jiang Zong!"

The magistrate was furious, and shouted in a deep voice: "Bold! Take it!"

A group of officers and soldiers immediately stepped forward, but Le Lian raised his hand and stopped Jiang Zong three feet away. Jiang Zong's face turned blue, and his chest heaved due to violent panting. , I don’t know which crime I have committed, may I trouble you to come to the door to ask the teacher personally?”

Shi Youde sneered: "How dare you speak harshly. You colluded with Shi Youcai and deliberately exchanged inferior goods for the stone pearls we prepared for Lord Lu. This is a serious crime of deceiving the royal family, and the entire Chaohai will be implicated with you! "

No wonder the magistrate made a big fuss, the stone pearls prepared for the nobles of Tianhuang were determined not to make mistakes. Once something went wrong, it would range from a crime of dereliction of duty to a serious crime of deceiving the emperor.

Jiang Zong laughed back angrily: "Your Shi family prepared all these goods, and we loaded them on the cargo ship. It is obviously for the sake of your Shi family's urgent errand, and we specially offered [-] catties to you from it. This matter You also agreed, and now you bite back and give us a shit basin, what do you mean?"

"Master Jiang, your delivery receipt is still here, with black and white letters and red handprints, do you dare to say it's fake?" Shi Youde took out a page of deed paper from his sleeve, "You have inspected the goods. I gave you my fingerprints, Shi Zhuzhu and I gave it to you, but you exchanged it for a batch of fake products, and even sent forty bodyguards to guard the ferry day and night, even refusing to let flies in, and you said that you have no ghosts in your heart?"

At this time, Shi Youcai, the boss of the Shi family, hurried over with a fat belly, the flesh on his face trembled, his face paled with shock, he pointed at Jiang Zong and asked, "Jiang Zong! We have no grievances or enmities with you, Why did you bring us to this point!" Turning around, he bowed to the magistrate, crying, "Master magistrate, the villain was tricked by Jiang Zong! He and Le Lian worked together to make a conspiracy, and asked the villain to prepare [-] catties of stone pearls as soon as possible , but on the other hand, he replaced his own fake goods on the cargo ship of Prince Lu’s Mansion, he is murdering for money! Master Zhifu’s lesson!”

Jiang Zong glanced at Shi Youcai coldly.

The boss of the Shi family looked simple and honest, but his mind was also shrewd.

He had expected that Jiang Zong might have discovered that the stone was fake, but he allowed him to replace the [-]-jin fake on the cargo ship of Prince Lu's Mansion, and secretly reduced his own craftsmen, so that all the workers became craftsmen under his second brother Shi Youde , when the time comes, he will be the first to tell Prince Lu's Mansion that these are all due to his second brother Shi Youde. As soon as the cargo ship enters Cangzhou, he will immediately expose Shi Youde's stealing of stones and send his second brother to the west.

Now even Jiang Zong has received the news that the magistrate came to inquire about the crime, but Shi Youcai waited until now to arrive late. It seems that he has been watching the situation in secret. Brother, he quickly jumped out to clear his suspicion.

Jiang Zong clenched his fists and said mockingly: "Master, you are also one of the people who exposed the fraud by the second master, so don't shirk it."

Shi Youcai's fat face was tense, he gave Shi Youde a vicious look, and said nothing, he knew that his second brother had been coveting the Shi family's property for a long time, and now it's no surprise that his troubles will come to an end.

The magistrate had to think about it, and asked Jiang Zong severely: "Jiang Zong Lelian, can the two of you plead guilty?"

Le Lian's expression was indifferent, and his hand was already on the handle of the blood-red knife on his waist. It would not be difficult for him to lead Jiang Zong far away by himself. These wine pockets and rice bags could not stop him.

Jiang Zong's voice trembled slightly: "I...don't plead guilty...I have a clear conscience, why do I plead guilty, the goods are all from the Shi family, and have nothing to do with us..."

"It seems that I deliberately wanted to pretend to be stupid." Shi Youde snorted, and bowed courteously to the magistrate, "Master Zhifu, you just inspect the goods in public."

The prefect waved his hand and ordered the officers and soldiers to unload all the goods and check them one by one.

Jiang Zong was kneeling on the ground with his arms pressed, watching the officers and soldiers dismantle every bag of stone pearl powder, and dumped them all in the open space in front of him. There were two thousand bags of stone powder piled up on the ground, and the smoke and dust flew up. Cough straight.

After the inspection was completed, officers and soldiers came to report solemnly:

"Reporting to the magistrate, it is a genuine stone pearl of [-] catties, and it has not been faked."

The Shi family brothers were all startled, their faces turned pale.

Jiang Zong slowly raised his phoenix eyes, with a sly gleam in his eyes, and said softly: "Master Zhifu, the villain is really wronged, not to mention being broken into dirty water, and you have been tired here for a long time. How can I bear it?"

He glanced at Shi Youde, whose face was livid and his legs trembled slightly, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and said silently in the lip language commonly used among private salt dealers:

"Mastering the stick, but aiming for the yard."

The magistrate was furious, and was tricked by Shi Youde all the way. He immediately ordered Shi Youde, the second master of the Shi family, to be taken down, beaten thirty times in public, and brought back to Chaohai Prison to wait for his release.

Shi Youcai was terrified when he saw it, his throat was choked with extreme fear, his fat thighs were trembling, and he sent the magistrate away tremblingly.

The crowd gradually dispersed, Jiang Zong walked up to Shi Youcai rubbing his wrenched arm, patted his heart and said fearfully, "Master, what do you mean by this, even if Second Master doesn't like me again, You don't want to frame me like this, you actually want to bring your uncle into trouble, he is really not a thing!"

"That's right, we two brothers worked together to build the Shi family's family business, and Youde harmed me so much..." Shi Youcai's face was full of fat, and he looked up and down Jiang Zong in confusion. He must have been frightened by his distressed appearance. Could it be that this person is really not as smart as he thinks, in fact, he didn't even see that there were fakes in the 30 catties of stone pearls, did he think too much?

Jiang Zong thoughtfully said: "Master, quickly pack up the goods and send them to Lord Lu. You see, this incident will cause another day of delay."

Shi Youcai didn't dare to ask Jiang Zong to load the goods for him, so as not to be disturbed, he politely said: "You are also shocked, go back and rest first, I will take care of it here, after I clean up this mess, I will treat the two of you to a meal Suppress the wine."

Jiang Zong smiled: "By the way, sir, have you finished packing the [-] jin of stone pearls that you rushed to pick? Give us the [-] jin of pearls. Our side is also casting material for the Prince's Mansion, although we don't need much Urgent, you can’t delay too much, can you? We should return as soon as your goods arrive.”

Shi Youcai promised again and again: "It will be ready in three to five days, and then you go and count."

Jiang Zong nodded, "Okay, then let's take our leave first. Sir, you are busy."

Shi Youcai watched with his own eyes his subordinates repack the turned upside down Shi Zhuzhu overnight, put it on the cargo ship of Prince Lu's Mansion, and saw the cargo ship sail away with his own eyes, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

Three days later, the newly minted [-] jin of stone pearls were rushed out. After this incident, Shi Youcai did not dare to go against the wind and make a fake out of it, so he honestly prepared [-] jin of stone pearls for Jiang Zong. Restocking, thinking about the [-] catties of fake goods mixed with ashes on Jiang Zong's boat, I was uneasy, not knowing whether I should confess, I had ghosts in my heart, and I couldn't sleep every night.

During the inspection this time, Jiang Zong also ordered people to pour out all the stone powder for inspection, and after confirming that it was correct, he let his own people load the goods on board, and ordered the bodyguards to guard them strictly, and said beautifully: "Master, don't worry too much. , We were also frightened, we all found out, so that no one would harm us, right?"

Shi Youcai had no choice but to nod his head, worried that Jiang Zong would have a whim, and he would pour out all the remaining Shi Zhuzhu on the boat to check, it would be a waste of time.

Shi Youcai pretended not to know, and if Jiang Zong really went to investigate, he would blame his second brother, and he didn't know anything.

Jiang Zong leaned against the tree with his arms folded and looked at the masters who were loading and unloading the goods, his eyes were peaceful.

Taking advantage of the night, Le Lian held his waist, and said calmly: "I brought [-] catties of real stone powder to Prince Lu, and Shi Youcai gave us [-] catties of powder, and we still have [-] catties of powder mixed with ashes on board." Fake."

Jiang Zong leaned against him, curled his lips and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'd rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go. Since I don't know which one of the Shi family brothers is playing dirty tricks, let's take revenge on all of them."

No one in the previous life dared to challenge Jiang Zong's authority in the business world like this.

Those who challenged Jiang Zong with the unafraid of tigers, all of them were retaliated wildly until their families were ruined.

Even Le Lian from the previous life was not spared, Jiang Zong's desire for revenge was too strong, and the anger that turned from love to hatred was even more unbearable.