Tian Wenhai finally figured it out, and exclaimed in surprise: "How is it possible? How bold is the surname Yan, who dares to kidnap a wealthy family in the imperial city? Don't worry, let's go to his apartment, lock up the shopkeeper and force him to hand him over, and then go to Yuan County to report the case. In this way, it will not alarm Shuntianfu so that it will become a laughing stock, but it can also oppress the county government with its power, and it may be able to be caught while the surname Yan has not gone far. ”

After speaking, he couldn't help but habitually complain, "Your old man only cares about scolding me, and his head is going to explode in his late life, and he almost can't even think of an idea." ”

Zhu Kui, like many sons, has a ghost idea on weekdays, but when it comes to the end, there is no serious way to deal with it, or there must be a staff master or helper around him, and the bystanders are clear.

After Tian Wenhai's reminder, Zhu Kui said yes, hurriedly ran to the stable with a group of housekeepers, and rushed out like a fast horse.

Along the way, chickens and dogs jumped, and when they arrived at Yan Gongzi's apartment, people must have gone away. Zhu Kui ordered the family to arrest the shopkeeper and asked, "Where is Yan Gongzi now?" ”

I don't want to be unaware of Yan zhòng's sex The shopkeeper said, "Here." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Kui was suddenly surprised, and hurriedly asked the family to guard the front and back doors.

Just about to break in, the shopkeeper suddenly said: "I don't know what Zhu Ye is going to do?" ”

Tian Wenhai said angrily: "Didn't you say that people are inside? ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly said**: "The villain still hasn't said anything about it, what are you going to do, who are you afraid of getting away?" ”

"Afraid of whom? I'm afraid that the surname Yan will run away. Zhu Kui said angrily.

"Yan Gongzi left early in the morning." The proprietor looked surprised.

Zhu Kui also said in shock: "You just said that you were here, why did you say that you left again?" Is it in it or not? ”

"The villain hasn't finished speaking, why is the uncle in a hurry? How can such a villain go on. The owner looked innocent.

Zhu Kui shouted angrily: "Say it quickly, say it quickly." ”

"Well, the people are gone." The owner's expression was begging, and he liked to pant when he spoke, "But the things in his room are there, and he told the villain when he left." If Zhu Ye came to him, he would say that he would go out for a while, please help keep these things, and he will be back in about a month. ”

Zhu Kui was immediately so angry with him that he hit the shopkeeper in the head with a fist, and kicked him a few times.

"Oops, oops!" The shopkeeper squatted on the ground with his head in his hands.

Tian Wenhai hurriedly came over and pulled it, Zhu Kui was still angry, and he ordered the shopkeeper to be tied up, kicked open the door and walked in. I saw that everything was gone, and all that was left was some heavy things, not even as good as a table that was sold cheaply that day.

Seeing Zhu Kui lose his mind and smash things and scold, Tian Wenhai frowned and said, "Don't delay the time, it's important to go to Shangyuan County to report the case." The surnamed Yan set off early in the morning, walked dozens of miles at most, and quickly ordered the county to send fast soldiers to intercept them on various key roads of the waterway, and he should be able to arrest the case. ”

Zhu Kui nodded yes. On the one hand, he called the local security guard and others to come and guard here, and on the other hand, he rushed to the Yamen of Shangyuan County with the shopkeeper.

On the road, there is another round of chickens and dogs, and people are very unlucky today.

The shopkeeper was inexplicably punched and kicked by Zhu Kui, covering a black circle under his eyes. I don't know what big sin I have committed, but I only understood it after asking my family, and I was suddenly full of grievances, and I cried and wiped my tears:

"Okay, your surname is Yan. I'm cǎo your mother and the eighteenth generation of ancestors, you kidnapped the Zhu family's silver, but you made me suffer. What kind of enmity did I have with you in my last life? Gentlemen, let's accumulate some yin virtue. I beg Second Master Zhu to spare my dog's life, I really don't know at all. ”

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the wealthy family has lost so much silver, and it is impossible for the innkeeper not to be implicated. Even in the future, if you have a scammer living in your store, who used a fake ID card or did not register in detail at all, you will be warned and educated by the Public Security Bureau after the incident, fined some money or ordered to close the business for a few days.

It was even more troublesome in ancient times, even if the government was not excessive, the Zhu family would not be able to sprinkle their anger on the head of the shopkeeper, anyway, if this kind of thing was put on the stall, it was really a blood mold.

The housekeepers ignored the pleading shopkeeper and dragged him behind the horse's butt and ran away in dust.

When he arrived at the county office, Zhu Kui got off his horse and broke in directly. The official guarding the door saw that the people were violent, and he didn't dare to stop him, so he hurriedly went in to report first.

Shangyuan County Commander asked if it was the second young master of the Chengguo family, please go into the inner office and talk well, Tian Wenhai said it again, the county magistrate ordered to be promoted immediately, first carefully interrogated the shopkeeper, really did not know, ordered to take it down for the time being, immediately issued a fire sign, sent 16 arresters, and limited his subordinates to solve the case within three days, without delay.

Zhu Kui also knew that the county's capacity was limited, so he moved out of several nearby barracks to set up checkpoints or something, so this matter was coaxed out, and in just a few hours, everyone inside and outside Jinling City knew about it, and the newspapers also reported it one after another, and it was rated as the first fraud case in recent years.

Sixteen thousand taels of silver, who can't shake their heads when they see it? It is said that the liar surnamed Yan is really a good means, and sighed that Zhu Kui is ridiculous and confused, he doesn't want to be honest when his family is bad, and he still expects to burn out 160,000 taels of silver? Isn't this a pipe dream?

When Zhu Kui returned to the house, his subordinates and relatives were talking to each other, and when they saw that the people were back, they all stepped forward to ask if the liar had been caught?

The three wives and concubines were most concerned about this, and Zhu Kui knew that he was embarrassed this time, so he could only sigh, "Don't say anything about it, I can't really dream of it." Now that the report has been made to the official, the officers and soldiers have been engraved, and the county government has also limited three days to hand over the case, so let it be fate. ”

When the wives and concubines and relatives heard this, they all sighed, the Zhu family had already crossed, and now they had no money. I also want to count on the Xu family and others to help. If your family has been cheated of money, can you still expect them to help you clear the pit? The face is lost.

Zhu Kui returned to the study dejectedly, even if he chased the silver back, he couldn't make up for the fact that he was incompetent, Xu Hao didn't like himself, and he didn't want to pass on the title of head of the family to himself, so it was even more impossible. If you don't drive your family out of the capital, thank God.

Sure enough, the Xu Mansion and other major families were indifferent to this, and at most sent someone over to ask and leave some condolences money.

Looking at the owner who sighed, Tian Wenhai persuaded: "Young master, please take a good look, the silver is cheated is just a trivial matter, if the body of ten thousand gold is broken, it is not worth it." ”

"You say it lightly." Zhu Kui glared at him angrily, "I don't even dare to go out of the door." Who will look up to me in the future? It was also published in the newspapers, and it became the laughing stock of the whole city. ”

Tian Wenhai said: "There is no way to do it. Fortunately, he has already learned the smelting spell, and his supernatural power surnamed Yan can abduct 160,000 taels of real gold and silver, why don't we smelt it slowly? ”

"That's right!" This sentence reminded Zhu Kui, his eyes lit up, and he still believed that it was true when he came to this point, first, seeing is believing, and secondly, it was a life-saving straw.

It turns out that these days, his wife and concubine are worried about being deceived, and Zhu Kui himself is a little suspicious. So I tried it myself, and the result was really successful.

The question is how can such a big scam not be expected by the other party?

Soon after three days, Yan Gongzi seemed to disappear out of thin air, and let Zhu Kui use all his own energy, half of Gyeonggi's army was mobilized because of him, but it was still unsettled.

It is impossible for the army to toss for a long time, not for more than two days, so it is exhausted. They returned to camp and lifted the road. Zhu Kui only went to Yamen every day to urge the case, and Shangyuan County sent some additional manpower to reinstate it for three days.

At this time, the shops that had borrowed the money found out. They all panicked, who doesn't know that the current Zhu Mansion is an empty shell? hurriedly asked Tian Wenhai to come over, asked for a loan together, and said that we were willing not to pay interest. But we can't wait until the three-month deadline is up, God knows what arrears the Zhu family still owes outside?

Tian Wenhai came back to discuss with Zhu Kui, but Zhu Kui was unable to repay. All the current accounts are managed by the Xu family, and the Zhu family's fields and shops have been confiscated, and there is nothing in their own name.

took the remaining jewelry of his wife and concubine, his own books, etc., and pawned them, and barely scraped together hundreds of taels of silver, and smelted them in the pavilion, hoping to make ten times more.

The result naturally did not work, but the so-called mother silver was burned some, only then did I know that it was all fake. Zhu Kui, who was unwilling, thought that it was because of the lack of medicinal power, and he stubbornly dispensed the medicine according to the prescription, but it was still completely useless.

Finally dumbfounded, those creditors wandered outside the gate every day, but they didn't dare to forcibly force debts, and they didn't dare to say anything, but the dignified Zhu family couldn't hold their faces!

Let's sell it, as a cart of furniture and bonsai and the like are pulled out, everyone sees it, and everyone else knows that the Zhu family is really poor.

The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and Shangyuan County sent people to report that the messengers tried their best to no avail. And a reward was offered, informing the informant that the reward was 50 taels of silver, and the person who twisted the criminal to the yamen was rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and the nearby county towns all posted rewards.

At first, Zhu Kui also went to the county government to urge trouble, but later heard that some people took the opportunity to blackmail past business travelers and local people, which made the people's resentment boiling, and he didn't dare to urge anymore.

The Xu family still ignored this, and did not mention that Zhu Kui was asked to go back to Dongfu to live here.

In the blink of an eye, the New Year passed, the Zhu Mansion was miserable, the family saw that the master's family was failing day by day, and the little master Zhu Yi was only one year old, and they wanted to count on the prosperity of the Zhu family, so it would have to wait at least eighteen years.

And because Zhu Kui beat and scolded them from time to time, he drank all day long and often took down the face-to-face people to get angry, more than a dozen family members of Zhu Yong's branch hid back in the Xu Mansion, and the rest of them proposed to be dismissed, and even the girls and mother-in-law around the Zhu family sisters also dispersed with most of their relatives.

Zhu Kui has nothing to do about it, even the slaves of the Manchu era have the right to ask to leave, of course, whether they can leave is another matter, and the domestic servants of the Ming Dynasty are protected by the law, and besides, the people's hearts are scattered, the team is not easy to bring, and it is not interesting to forcibly stay?

In the end, there were only a dozen or so people left with his wife and two concubines, as well as a daughter just born to a concubine, four relatives, and the rest of the male and female servants, all of whom were old people who had received his favor or father's kindness in the past, and they couldn't bear to abandon it, which gave Zhu Kui a little comfort.

Tian Wenhai also went home under the pretext, because he had no customers to invest in for a while, so he came over and walked around once a month.

The huge Zhu Mansion was empty in a blink of an eye, and even if the Xu Mansion sent people over to maintain the cleaning, Zhu Kui also felt that he had no face to live in, and his daily expenses could not be maintained. After the New Year, the Xu Mansion cut off his family's money and food.

Fortunately, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the whole family moved to the manor villa outside the city, that is, the worship of the old prince Zhu Neng, a mansion that is not big or small, with 200 acres of fertile land.

Of course, this ancestral property is shared by the Zhu family, but at least the problem of eating can be solved.

After this incident, Zhu Kui also realized the lesson, and honestly practiced martial arts at home, begging any elder, arranging a military attache for him to support his family. (To be continued......) R1292