In the study in the backyard of "Qixiangju", Wu Yuanwai listened to the report of his subordinates, and his face was like the bottom of a pot.

After listening to the anger of force, Wairen Wu said sharply: "It's just a small thing, how did you get this step of the field?" Han Lian has been selling wine for my family for many years, and he has always been cautious, and he dares to help outsiders frame my family? ”

The subordinate who was standing whispered: "The little member has fallen in love with the little lady of the Han family and wants to take her back to the mansion as a concubine." The disagreement was forced to be a little anxious, which annoyed Han Lian, so he partnered with Du Juren's family and stopped drinking on credit from our restaurant. ”

Wu Yuanwai couldn't help frowning: "This is Han Lian's." His little lady entered our house, naturally silk and satin, good wine and good meat, why don't you want to? A girl from a poor family is not a golden branch and jade leaf, and she is hypocritical! ”

After thinking for a while, Wu Yuanwai waved his hand: "Don't talk about it, let me ask you, did the Du family make wine privately?" ”

The subordinate said with a bitter face: "Outside the staff, the Du family is very careful about this matter. They built a shed outside their dwelling, tightly enclosed, and made wine in the shed, where did outsiders know? Now the old pious woman of the Du family is guarding the shed day and night, and she has nowhere to start if she wants to take a look. ”

"In this way, whether the Du family is brewing wine privately, this matter cannot be determined?" Wu Yuanwai pondered for a while. "It's a bit tricky. If the Du family really filtered the residual wine from the lees, Erlang would not be able to escape the suspicion of false accusation. ”

"Outside of the staff, you can't say the same. The wine from the Du family has tasted it small, and the flavor is different from other wines, which is very powerful. No matter how good the wine is, one or two bowls are drunk like mud. And the smell of the wine is very strong, and it is definitely not filtered out of the lees. If it is a residual wine filtered out, the taste of the wine should be similar to that of 'Yaojiazhengdian', but the taste is completely different. ”

"Well, anyway, it's a bit tricky. If the Du family really has any magic method, it is not a private brew, and Erlang's sin is not small. In this way, you will go out, go to the state city, and go to He's house. Su Tongju, who came this time, was a Jinshi in the first year of Jingyou, and was the same year as my cousin He Guanren. They always have some love in the same year, so they are not too ugly. ”

The subordinate crossed his hand and turned to go.

The so-called big households, of course, are not only rich, but also have a few decent relatives. Xuzhou's Fukuo County is Changshe County, and Wu Yuanwai has a cousin there. That cousin was angry, and in the first year of Jingyou, there was a cousin of Wu Yuanwai, He Zhongli, who was lucky enough to be admitted to the Jinshi, and it happened to be the same year as Xu Zhoutong, who was going to judge Su Shunqin. Su Shunqin is a scholar of Enyin, and after being an official for many years, he has been admitted to the Jinshi, and now he has become a general judge. He Zhongzhong's starting point is lower, and now he is a Jixian school manager in the capital and a pavilion official.

The place where the pavilion cultivates talents, when you enter there, you will enter the fast lane of promotion, and the future is limitless. has a future, plus in the same year, Su Shunqin has to sell He Zhongzhong's face. This time there are thousands of mistakes, so as not to punish too much. Foreigner Wu wanted to come, fined some money, reprimanded, and the matter passed. Of course, if the Du family really brews wine privately, it is another matter, and their son will have a reward.

Su Shunqin's handwriting arrived in Linying County, and everyone had their own thoughts, and they didn't say anything all night.

Lin Ying is only fifty or sixty miles away from the state city, and the next morning, there will be a report to the tolerance, and before noon, Su Tong was sentenced to the outside of the city.

Shi Xian Ling put on his official uniform tremblingly, cleaned up, and did not dare to be sloppy, greeting the officials and preparing to go out of the city to greet him.

Wei Zhusi, an old official, has already smelled a different smell, and knows that the general judgment is coming this time, and it is likely that he will have to clean up the Shi County Order. It's just that since Shi Xianling took office, he didn't care about everything, and his relationship with his subordinates was not very good, and no one told him.

The atmosphere in the county government is a little delicate. Several old officials secretly laughed and watched Shi County's jokes together. The county commander himself was unaware, and he prepared seriously, bent on leaving a good impression in front of Shangguan.

Although Su Shunqin was born in Enyin, he later became a high school scholar, and the person he looked down on the most was people like Shi Xianling. There is no half of the talent in the chest, purely relying on qualifications, the court remembers his hard work and rewards him for being an official. As an official, he is not diligent in political affairs, but just messing around.

Before the sun reached the middle of the sky, Su Shunqin arrived outside the city with a group of people.

Shi Xianling's old eyes were dizzy, and the people around him pointed at it, only to see Su Shunqin's officials who were walking slowly. Seeing that Su Tongju was in his thirties, full of energy, with a wisp of black hair on his chin, and extremely majestic on a horse, Shi Xianling sighed: "Tong Judge is only in his early thirties, and he has become such a high-ranking official. I am already in the last years of my life, so I only have a county order, but I want to welcome him here as a teenager. Wealth is in the sky, this is really true. ”

With a group of officials in the county, only the county order stepped forward.

Su Shunqin got off the horse and greeted everyone, and there were elders, guild leaders, etc., who came to offer gifts, and then entered the city together.

Du Xun followed behind the crowd, looked at the brand-new clothes on his body, and sighed. The Buddha wants to be dressed in gold, and people want to be clothed, which is true. On the way back from Kaifeng Mansion, he was ragged, like a beggar. When I was going through the state and county, I also thought about asking the officials for some travel expenses, and I didn't want to look at myself as a gatekeeper, so I blasted out early. This time I went to the state city, and I deliberately wore a new dress, and sure enough, as soon as I handed over the name thorn, I met Zhizhou and the general judge.

There are not many township tributes in a state, and according to the convention, officials such as the governor of the state will go to visit them when they take office. Not long after Mei Xun arrived in Xuzhou, it was the time to meet Du Xun and these people. When the two met, Du Xun first talked about the difficulties of returning to his hometown after the fall of the capital, and finally became a bad citizen, which made Mei Xun sigh. In the end, he said that the family used sake lees to make wine, and when the situation improved slightly, there were big families in the township to make trouble.

In the end, Du Xun said that in the early morning when Wu Kejiu took Chen Jiejie to arrest people, Yueniang from the Han family's foot shop was serving porridge there, which aroused Mei Xun's interest. Asked in detail, knowing that the wine was indeed made from the lees, Yueniang was afraid of cutting off the food and clothing of the bad people, so she set a daily soup soup according to the amount of lees collected, which attracted Mei Xun's admiration. How to make wine, how much money can be made, Mei Xun doesn't care at all. At his status, he doesn't have much concept of money, and any memorial text, epitaph and the like can be exchanged for hundreds of dollars, how can a little money be put in his eyes. What interested Mei Xun was that these two families of winemakers did not forget the food and clothing of the poor when they made money, and they even went to soup porridge.

After asking the Du Family Liquor Committee in detail whether he violated the alcohol ban, at most after playing a side game, Mei Xun found Su Shunqin and asked him to go to Linying. This time, the case of violating the alcohol ban is a small matter, and Shi County's order for the corpse to eat vegetarian food is the problem. The facts of the case were so clear that Shi Xianling turned a blind eye, which made Mei Xun very annoyed. Based on the amount of alcohol sold by the Du family and the Han family in the past few days, it is a felony to really violate the alcohol ban, and the county has no right to try it, so it must be reported to the state as soon as possible. As a result, things dragged on so inexplicably, there was no news in the state, and the county did not deal with it, which is simply ridiculous.

Su Shunqin is different, he is sensitive to the affairs of scholars, and when he heard that Xianggong Jinshi was bullied like this in the county, he was already angry. Today is the time for the world to persuade students and guide the people to study, and a big family in the township dares to bully people like this, and it will be repaid.

On the day Du Xun arrived in Xuzhou, the state sent Su Shunqin to investigate thoroughly on the grounds that the amount of banned alcohol was too large and the case was serious. It's just that he came back with Su Shunqin, and there is also Du Xun, a person from this county, and a discerning person can know what it means at a glance.

After entering the county seat, Su Shunqin and his officials went to the county government to receive the wind, while Du Xun quietly left and returned home.

The afternoon sun shines on the body warmly, making people not feel lazy. When Du Xun arrived at the door, he saw his wife sitting in front of the shed, napping there alone. The shed was tightly enclosed, and there was no room for any way to see inside.

When he arrived, Du Xun woke up his wife and asked, "In the two days I have been gone, has anyone come to check?" ”

The wife shook her head: "But it's strange, no one from the county came." It's just that early this morning, two people probed their brains over there, and it wasn't a good way to see it. I'm afraid they'll come and make trouble, so I've been staying here. ”

Hearing this, Du Xun couldn't help frowning.

Normally, everyone has been arrested, and the first thing the county has to do is to come to check the Du family's method of making wine. It turned out that Wu Kejiu was used to being arrogant in the county, and he didn't report to the official according to the normal procedure at all, but directly found Chen Jiejie and arrested people like that. He decided that the Du family was brewing wine privately, and he didn't even come to search for evidence, nor did he ask others, so the matter was so unclear.

Du Xun secretly said that he was lucky. If there is a lawsuit in the county, no matter what, the method of making sake will not be hidden. Now the people in the state are different, and the governor and the general judge have no interest in this method, as long as they know that it is not a private brew.

The method of making wine from sake lees is the key to the revival of his family business, and Du Xun is more careful than Du Zhongxiao, for fear of being learned.

After entering the shed, seeing that all the wine-making utensils were there, Du Xun breathed a sigh of relief.

told his wife about his experience of entering the state city this time, Du Xun said: "Although I am relaxed, I came back with the state magistrate this time, and the magistrate took great care of me. I think that tomorrow at the latest, Dalang will be put back. We still make wine, and we will rebuild the family business first. ”

The wife asked: "Official, I heard that Da Lang was beaten with dozens of canes by the junior staff of the Wu family, which was very miserable. If we hadn't violated the alcohol ban, wouldn't the Wu family have violated the king's law? Will it be imprisoned? ”

Du Xun frowned, was stunned for a while, and said helplessly: "According to the law of the country, that little animal should be imprisoned." It's just that they have a big family, and there are many ways to talk to the people in the government, who knows what will happen in the end? Let's look at it in our county. ”

Hearing this, his wife was a little anxious: "Didn't that Da Lang be beaten in vain?!" ”

Du Xun sighed: "This kind of thing is not clear. Da Lang will not be beaten in vain, but what kind of punishment the junior members of the Wu family will suffer will have to be seen again. ”