Chapter 249: It's hard to argue with a hundred mouths

The Boling Cui clan is one of the best in the five surnames and seven hopes, and it is too late for others to climb the relationship, how can there be a reason to rush to recognize relatives?

In Cui Geng's cognition, as soon as he said it, Cui Xiang would at least brush his sleeves away angrily.

But who knew that the other party was not in a hurry or annoyed, but gave himself a thumbs up with a mysterious face and praised: "I understand!" Big brother, good job, you have a kind! There are ancestral teachings, right? If you don't recognize it and don't care, the younger brother can understand. ”

Cui Geng was completely stunned and said, "Zu Xun? What ancestral teachings? ”

Cui Xiang smacked his lips and said, "It must be Ling Zushang, that is, the son of the old man Cui Ting, who was kicked out of the Cui family before he was born, and it is difficult to dispel the evil breath in his heart." Therefore, I left an ancestral training for your descendants, and future generations are not allowed to recognize their ancestors and return to the Boling Cui clan, right? ”

What kind of mess is this?

Cui Geng found that as soon as Cui Xiang's brain hole was opened, this matter became bigger and bigger, and I am afraid it would be difficult to come back if I didn't tell the truth.

Immediately, he quickly explained: "Stop, stop! I'll be honest with you, this piece of jade is not my ancestral heirloom, someone gave it to me. ”

"Who gave it to you? What is the last name? Where do you live? Where did you get this jade? How much silver was spent? ”

"Uh......" Cui Geng couldn't expose Cui Xiufang, let alone where Cui Xiufang's ancestral home was, and he was dumbfounded for a while.

"Look, can't you say it?"

Cui Xiang proudly patted Cui Geng's shoulder, squeezed his eyes, and said, "The eldest brother doesn't need to explain, the younger brother understands it, and he knows it." Although you refuse to recognize each other, what flows in your bones is the blood of our Boling Cui clan, and this will never change! ”

With that, he tugged Zheng Su's sleeve and walked away.

Cui Geng looked at their distant backs, was speechless for a while, and muttered, "You know, you know a fart!" ”

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But since the day of the fight, Cui Xiang has never mentioned this matter again. Even after more than ten days, the two took the initiative to resign to Cui Geng.

These two living treasures are suddenly leaving, and Cui Geng is really a little reluctant. Before parting, he was worried that the two goods would be spent and he would not be able to explain to his family, and even gave Cheng Yi 200 yuan per person.

Cui Geng personally went to the ferry port and saw the two leave.

When the boat was about to sail, Cui Xiang patted the bulging backpack, and said with a smile: "Big brother, the shot is really generous, it is not in vain for you and my clan!" You think Yangzhou, we eat your flowers, and we have to take your silver before leaving, righteousness! You can rest assured, this matter of recognizing your ancestors and returning to your ancestors is wrapped up in the little brother's body. ”

Why did you bring up this stubble again? Cui Geng hurriedly stopped: "Wait, this official didn't mean that, it really has nothing to do with your Boling Cui clan!" ”

Cui Xiang didn't care about that, as soon as he turned around, he quickly boarded the boat, waved his arm and said with a smile: "Big brother, don't be reserved, don't stick to the ancestral teachings, our Boling Cui clan has finally produced such a talent as you, whether you recognize the ancestors and return to the ancestors, you can't help it!" ”

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In the next few days, Cui Geng lived a relatively peaceful life.

Lai Junchen was demoted, Meng Shenshuang died, Lu Yanfei surrendered, although Jiangnan Lijingmen could barely be maintained, it was already yesterday's yellow flower, and it was extremely low-key.

The felt hats researched by Chun Yuliang are not only very popular in Yangzhou, but also exported to Chang'an, Luoyang, Jinyang and other famous cities.

Even Lin Zhixiang and Zhang Yuanchang, who were far away in Quanzhou, heard the reputation of Yangzhou felt hats, admired Cui Geng's foresight, and discussed with him whether they could open a felt hat workshop in Quanzhou, focusing on foreign trade channels.

Although Cui Geng's business skills are not as good as these two old businessmen, he has a great dream of a thousand years of insight, and after a little thought, he shook his head and vetoed the proposal of the two. The reason is very simple, although Yangzhou felt hat is famous, but there is no record in history that all parts of the country have followed suit, and there must be a reason for this.

Cui Geng was still worried about how to find a suitable reason to persuade these two, but who knew that he only said slightly that he did not agree with this proposal, and Zhang and Lin dispelled this idea, and did not ask the reason at all.

It can be seen that Cui Geng is now more and more important in the minds of Lin Zhixiang and Zhang Yuanchang.

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Wang Youcheng of Jufenglong Silver is also progressing very smoothly in Huainan Province to carry out the business of Jufenglong.

This is not only due to Cui Geng's care, but also Cui Xiang and Zheng Yu also helped write a few letters to the clansmen in various places. The latent power of the Boling Cui clan and the Xingyang Zheng clan is still very amazing, and almost everywhere Wang Youcheng goes, he has a green light.

However, the progress of Jufenglong Silver in Shanxi Road is relatively slow, although Cao Yuechan did not write to her, but Cui Geng guessed that she should have encountered a lot of obstacles on the side of Shanxi Road.

However, Wang Youcheng threatened to reassure Cui Geng, with Cao Xiaoniang's ability, he should be able to deal with the mess in Shanxi Road. As long as this year's semicolon business of these three provinces is won, Jufenglong will be able to sit firmly in the position of the No. 1 money bank in Dazhou.

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During this period, there was also good news from Chang'an, Hou Sizhi, the servant of the Suzheng Observatory who had handled a case with Cui Geng in Huainan Province, was the Hou Sizhi who had wanted to get involved with Wang Ruiyue and was taught by Cui Geng.

It is similar to Wei Miaoyin's death of Meng Shenshuang, this Hou Dayushi was also beaten to death by the executioner's hand slippery for a while.

At the beginning, Cui Geng fooled Hou Sizhi to stay away from Wang Ruiyue, and he was really worried that he would understand the taste one day, but now it can be regarded as a complete solution to the trouble.

At the same time, the case of the fire at Chun Yuliang's house has been announced, except for some Lijingmen pawns, in the case of Meng Shenshuang's ambush, Lu Yanfei, who is the deputy head of Lijingmen, could not escape justice.

In order to win over Chun Yuliang's conscience, Cui Geng simply damaged the public and fat, and let Chun Yuliang personally avenge the blood revenge in the county government, and declared that it was "Yu killed". The so-called death of a prisoner refers to the death of a prisoner from starvation in prison, and later also refers to death from illness. According to the usual practice, the government is not responsible for the death of a prisoner.

Chun Yuliang is now avenging, Yangzhou felt hats are popular in the market again, and naturally he quickly revived the family business with the help of Cui Geng.

He rebuilt his homestead and prepared to start a new life.

Since he has started a new life, Chun Yuliang naturally wants to pick up his only son under his knees, cultivate a good life, and inherit his family business and mantle in the future.

But at this time, there was a moth.

The reason is that his son who took refuge in Dayun Temple, no matter how Chun Yuliang lobbied and how the monk Zhiman persuaded him, this child just refused to return to the world.

even alarmed the abbot of Dayun Temple to personally persuade him, and in the end...... Instead, he was persuaded by the six-year-old child to allow him to stay in the monastery.

Not only that, but the abbot of Dayun Temple also praised this child for having wisdom roots and will become a great tool in the future.

Although Chun Yuliang disagrees with it in his heart, he can only accept the status quo temporarily, and only hopes that one day the child will change his mind.

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Time passed, and another three months passed, and Cui Geng received a letter, and the person who wrote the letter was Lu Xiong, who almost became his father-in-law's pole.

He has always had correspondence with Lu Xiong, after all, Lu Xiong has always been quite concerned about Cui Gengdu after the loss of his daughter, and there seems to be a tendency to regard him as a righteous son. This old man basically comes with a letter every month or so, most of which are cold and warm, and there is no substance.

This time, however, the letter mentions a case.

He mentioned in his letter that there was a governor in Chang'an City named Lu Jingzuo, who was ranked nine pins.

There was a small official named Zhang Shen in the warehouse in charge of Lu Jingzuo, who accused Lu Jingzuo of stealing and selling the grain in the warehouse, and took out a document as proof.

Lu Jingzuo didn't admit that the document was written by himself, saying that I was born with five surnames and seven hopes, and being a cantonal was enough to disgrace my ancestors, how could I do this kind of thing?

Dali Temple is in charge of the case of the central hundred officials and the Beijing master above the prison sentence, Liu Youqiu is Dali, and the whole is the right management of the case.

The officials with the five surnames and seven wangs wrote letters to Liu Youqiu, asking him to be sure to clear the case and not let the good people be wronged.

Not only that, but some people asked Lu Xiong, who had a good relationship with Liu Youqiu, and asked him to say the item on his behalf.

Of course, Lu Xiong couldn't persuade Liu You to bend the law for personal gain, but he also vaguely felt that this Lu Jingzuo was wronged, and that little official Zhang Shen was likely to be the real one who stole and sold grain.

Think about it, guess it, but all the superficial evidence points to Lu Jingzuo.

The handwriting on the document is indeed like Lu Jingzuo's writing, coupled with the testimony of the little official Zhang Shen, it can be said that there are both human and material evidence, how to clear Lu Jingzuo's innocence?

When Lu Xiong was in trouble, he thought of Cui Geng, a child. This guy is known as "Lingnan Cui Qingtian", why not let him come up with ideas?

Hence the arrival of this letter.

After reading Lu Xiong's letter, Cui Geng didn't think it was a headless case. In his opinion, this kind of method of framing people seems to be clever, but it is not uncommon in history, and it is just a matter of finding a case and copying it.

He immediately wrote a reply and told Lu Xiong how to dissect this mysterious case.

First of all, he took the official document written by the little official Zhang Shen in the past, pressed all the other words, and only revealed one word for him to guess whether he wrote it himself, if yes, write yes, if not, write no.

Then, take the material that framed Lu Jingzuo, cover up the rest of the text, or continue to let the little official Zhang Shen guess whether he wrote it himself.

If it's really not a false accusation, it should be guessed that it should be eight or nine. If it's a false accusation, I'm afraid it has to be half right and half wrong.

This is actually a matter of probability, even if Zhang Shen is confused for a while, and he guesses too many times, he will definitely show his feet.

Sure enough, not long after the letter was sent to Chang'an, Lu Xiong came back with another letter, praising Cui Geng for really living up to his reputation, the case was really solved, and Lu Jingzuo was returned to his innocence.

After praising and saying that he really didn't see the wrong person, Lu Xiong asked in the letter again, saying that it is now rumored in Chang'an City that Cui Geng is another descendant of the Boling Cui clan, and it is already boiling, is there such a thing?

Cui Geng hurriedly replied, saying that it was pure fiction, and the old man should not believe these gossips.

But this kind of thing is getting darker and darker the more it is depicted.

At the beginning, Cui Xiang's rhetoric before leaving, it was a two-headed gamble, Cui Erlang, you admit that you are a member of the Boling Cui family, well, please recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors.

Cui Erlang, you don't admit it? Yes, you are not allowed to admit your true identity because of the ancestral teachings. After all, it was the Boling Cui clan at the beginning, and I can't live with your ancestors, and it is normal to have resentment in my heart and not want to recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors.

As for the ancestral training that Cui Xiang came out of? Now Cui Geng's family is the only seedling in his family, and no one has to testify.

What's even more impressive is that your Qingyuan Cui family is all from wine-making, and you Cui Erlang is a wine dealer, and in just two or three years, he has been in charge of Jiangdu County. Moreover, he also defeated the fierce power of the court, and the ministers avoided the three-point Lai Junchen.

Saying that you are a child of a poor family, saying that you have no family background, who believes it?

Seeing that this trend was spreading farther and farther, the export was transferred to domestic sales, and it was transmitted back to Yangzhou from Chang'an, so that Zhang Qian, who was obsessed with Yingying Yanyan all day long, specially called Cui Geng over to ask.

Cui Geng's mouth was worn out in the end, Old Man Zhang was suspicious, and Cui Geng could only cry out in vain.

Fortunately, people saw that Boling Cui and Cui Geng had no new moves, and this trend gradually passed.

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On this day, Cui Geng was sitting in the county office, and the official came to report, saying that it was Wang Youcheng, the big shopkeeper of Huainan Road, who was in Fenglong, and asked to see him.

Cui Geng asked people to bring him in.

As soon as Wang Youcheng entered, he shouted in a panic: "Cui County Order, something is wrong!" Let's get into big trouble! ”

Ooh~

Cui Geng stood up suddenly, he had been used to a comfortable life in the past half a year, so that he had long lost his vigilance to be prepared for danger in times of peace.

At this time, when I heard that Wang Youcheng came to report the bad news, I couldn't help but have an ominous premonition in my heart - Yuechan has been making poor progress in Shanxi Road, could it be that something happened to her over there?