Guo Jincheng gave the Qiao family a hundred taels of silver, but it caused a conflict between Qiao Si's father and son, Qiao Shuigen didn't want Mr.'s money, and insisted on returning it to Mr., but Qiao Si was greedy and refused to pay back the money, when he learned that Mr. Guo was only fourteen or fifteen years old, he was very worried that Guo Jincheng's parents would come to ask for the silver, and he immediately decided to flee back to his hometown overnight.

Although Qiao Shuigen was unwilling, but after all, his arms couldn't twist his thighs, so he had to follow his parents aggrievedly and left Ju'anfang overnight, and when he had lunch at a roadside tea shed in Baqiao, Qiao Si drank a few more glasses of wine, and then he got a little carried away, bragging to the shopkeeper about his luck, and met the world's number one fool, and actually gave himself a hundred taels of silver for nothing.

His smugness made his wealth exposed, and was heard by several local scoundrels in the tea shed, and as soon as their family left Baqiao, they were robbed by this group of scoundrels, Qiao Si pressed the package containing a hundred taels of silver with his body, and refused to let go, his vest was stabbed twice, and he was killed on the spot, and the silver was also robbed.

After Guo Jincheng listened to Wang Yue's story, it was like five thunderbolts, he never imagined that his hundred taels of silver would cause such a big disaster, and Qiao Si gave his life for it.

After a while, he asked in a hoarse voice, "Has the murderer been caught?" ”

"There are five murderers in total, two of them were caught, and the other three escaped, and the government has filed a case for arrest, and the stolen silver has been recovered for forty taels."

Wang Yue saw that the prince was in a heavy mood, so he comforted him and said: "This is not the responsibility of the son, the bane is greed, if Qiao Si is grateful, he will not brag about making money exposed, if he doesn't take money so seriously, he won't die, and his death is not necessarily a bad thing, his neighbors all say that he has dragged down his family,

Wang Yue's persuasion had no effect, Guo Jincheng still thought that it was his own hundred taels of silver that killed Qiao Si, causing the two children to lose their father, and he returned to his aunt's house depressed.

Wang Yue looked at the ox cart of the prince and walked away, he actually didn't tell the truth to the prince, there is an iron law in the internal guard, and he can't tell the truth to the prince before he reports this matter to His Royal Highness the King of Jin.

.......

After Guo Song listened to Wang Yue's report, he was really surprised, he didn't expect this matter to develop so absurdly and bizarrely, but after thinking about it carefully, it was reasonable, the root cause was Qiao Si's greed.

Moreover, Guo Song checked in the Ministry of War, a total of 374 soldiers who lost their combat effectiveness due to injuries returned to their hometowns in the Battle of Youzhou, and there was not a single soldier surnamed Qiao here, nor a soldier from Fenzhou, indicating that this Qiao Si lied.

There is also the fact that he was cheated out of a hundred taels of silver by the traveling doctor, when Guo Song heard his wife talk about it before, he thought that Qiao Si was making up a story, at least exaggerating the loss, how could a person who was half paralyzed have an effect.

The facts of Wang Yue's investigation proved that there was no such thing at all.

It can be seen that this Qiao Si is definitely a sophisticated person, he saw through his son's simplicity at a glance, and wanted to impress him with his miserable situation, maybe he wanted to save a few pen, ink, paper and money, but he didn't expect that his son would be a hundred taels of silver as soon as he made a move, prompting him to flee overnight.

On Guo Song's desk, there was a report about the Qiao family that Wang Yue hurriedly produced, which was very different from what Wang Yue had told Guo Jincheng before.

Wang Yue sighed again and said: "Before getting His Highness's consent, I didn't dare to tell His Highness the truth, but I felt that the story I made up casually hit the prince." ”

Guo Song waved his hand, "It doesn't matter, the prince is stronger than we imagined, but it is more appropriate for me to tell him the truth of this matter." ”

Guo Song thought for a while, and said to Wang Yue: "Since it is my son, I naturally can't stand by as a father, I will persuade him, your internal guards will concentrate on chasing down the three fugitives, and exchange the hundred taels of silver on the black market for copper coins, and return them all to Qiao Shuigen's mother, so that my son's efforts cannot be in vain." ”

Wang Yue immediately assured, "The humble position will never let them escape!" ”

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Guo Song then came to Andingfang, Andingfang is located in the southernmost part of Xi'anmen Street, Guo Ping bought a five-acre house here, and moved his family here, which is two or three hundred steps away from Xi'anmen Street, and it is very convenient to go to the wine shop from home every day.

Coincidentally, Zhang Lei's new mansion is also on Guanghuamen Street, not far from Guo Ping's mansion, and after the two families became in-laws, they often corresponded.

But it's still early, Guo Ping and his nephew Guo Jincheng are at the wine shop, and they will return to Andingfang after dark.

Guo Song took a carriage directly to Xi'anmen Street, stopped at the back door of Meishou Liquor Shop, the shopkeeper knew Guo Song's carriage, and immediately ran to report to the proprietor, Guo Ping hurriedly came out.

"Little brother, it's only been a few days, and you can't help but come to see your son?"

Guo Song smiled and said, "What about Cheng'er? Is he not in a good mood? ”

"Hey! It's true that you say that, he went up to the third floor as soon as he turned around, and he never saw him come down, and he would come down to help with the bartending a few days ago. ”

"He likes bartending?" Guo Song stopped and asked.

"This kid likes to do a lot of things, especially interested in novelties, mixology is one of them, he likes spices."

The wine and tea of the Tang Dynasty will be paired with a little spice, and all the liquor shops are racking their brains with all kinds of novel spices, and Meishou wine is of course no exception, with dozens of spices.

Guo Song nodded and went directly to the third floor, the third floor was originally a place to put sundries, and there was a small room next to it, which was originally a place for Guo Ping to take a lunch break, but now it is given to his nephew.

The door was closed, Guo Song knocked on the door, and Guo Jincheng's voice came from inside, "Who!" ”

"It's me!"

There was a pause inside, followed by the sound of running footsteps and the door opened.

"Daddy, why are you here?" Guo Jincheng looked at his father outside the door in astonishment.

Guo Song looked at the room and said with a smile: "It's too narrow here, let's go sit next door!" ”

Next door is the Pearl Restaurant, Guo Ping arranged a private room for their father and son, and brought them a bottle of fine wine and more than a dozen plates of side dishes.

Guo Song's children can also drink, generally on festivals, the whole family gets together to drink some wine, but it is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol at ordinary times, which is the rule of Princess Xue Tao.

"Daddy, today isn't a holiday! Mother will be angry. Guo Jincheng said with a smile.

Guo Song poured himself and his son a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Your mother just doesn't allow you to drink secretly, today is with your father, the situation is special, besides, you are learning to mix in the wine shop, don't you drink?" ”

Guo Jincheng's face flushed, and he whispered: "Every time I only sip a little, in fact, except for wine, I don't like other wines very much." ”

"It's okay to drink less, just don't get drunk."

The father and son drank a glass of wine, and Guo Song smiled and asked, "Guess why I came?" ”

Guo Jincheng lowered his head and said, "It must be that Commander Wang has gone to see his father." ”

"You're right, I just found out that something happened to one of your students' homes, which made you very depressed."

Guo Jincheng sighed, "Anyway, without the one hundred taels of silver I sent, Qiao Shuigen's father would not have died, and I indirectly harmed him." ”

Guo Song shook his head, "Looking at the same thing, different people have different interpretations, because everyone is in a different position, for example, Qiao Shuigen is sad to lose his father, but his next-door neighbor thinks that the three of them are relieved, Qiao Si died well, and more importantly, have you ever considered what Qiao Shuigen's mother thinks?" ”

Guo Jincheng shook his head blankly, and Guo Song said lightly: "Then let me tell you, as a wife, her husband died, although she felt very uncomfortable in her heart, but as a mother, she was uncomfortable at the same time, she also had a great relief. ”

"I understand what my father meant, she has to raise two sons, and she has to take care of her paralyzed husband, earning money every day and working tirelessly, I guess she can't bear it anymore."

Guo Song shook his head, "Actually, you don't understand what I mean, Wang Yue specially investigated the situation of the Qiao family, in order to treat Qiao Si's illness, they still owe a hundred yuan to others outside the house, and there are debts in their hometown, I don't know how much they owe, but I know that they escaped debts and came to the capital." ”

Guo Jincheng opened his mouth wide all of a sudden, he was in debt! How did you not know? Of course he couldn't have known, he had only been teaching for a few days?

Guo Song glanced at it and continued: "In the past two years, their family has owed another hundred yuan in foreign debt in the capital, which is actually the stalk he told you that he was deceived by the traveling doctor.

In the past few months, people have come to the door every day to force debts, if they don't pay back, Qiao Shuigen's mother will be forced to sell themselves, Qiao Shuigen and his younger brother will also be sold into slavery, so the one hundred taels of silver you give them is not what you think is a disaster, but saved the lives of their mother and son, this afternoon, those people gathered at the door are actually creditors, do you understand? ”

Guo Jincheng didn't hear his father's words revealing that he had known about this for a long time, how could his father know what Qiao Si told him about You Yi? The father knew that Qiao Si's hometown was in debt, which meant that his father had been investigating for several days.

It's just that Guo Jincheng's heart is messy now, and the people around the door are creditors? He suddenly thought of the last words of the old man, 'My two coins should be thrown into the water,' and it turned out that they were really creditors.

"But..... But instead of paying their debts, they fled overnight. ”

Guo Song looked into his son's eyes and said slowly: "After all, you are still young, you don't understand people's hearts, those who have escaped the debt once, will definitely escape the second time, even if there is no one hundred taels of silver from you, Qiao Si will also escape the debt, but your one hundred taels of silver made Qiao Si decide to flee that night."

Commander Wang actually didn't tell you the truth, the person who killed Qiao Si was not a gangster, their family just left Baqiao, the first five creditors to get the news chased after them on horseback, they searched Qiao's luggage, found silver, in the scramble, Qiao Si was killed, five people robbed the silver and fled, among which two creditors who did not participate in the killing surrendered, and three creditors who participated in the killing fled.

At the strong request of other creditors, the three of them had to come back, think about it, without your one hundred taels of silver, what would be the fate of the three of them? ”

Guo Jincheng was relieved by his father's words, he was most worried that Qiao Shuigen would hate his silver and kill his father, and now he understood the truth about Qiao Si's killing.

It turned out that his own 100 taels of silver was a lifesaver, not a bane, and with his own 100 taels of silver, the Qiao Shuigen brothers and their mother were completely liberated.

At this time, Guo Jincheng suddenly remembered something and said hurriedly: "But the silver was robbed, what will their mother and son use to repay their debts?" ”

"Don't worry! The commander of the Inner Guard King personally went out, and they will definitely not be able to escape, and I believe that they will be able to catch up tonight. ”