Tongzhuang Shili Rice Flower Fragrance

Chapter 69

In the city, Juxian Teahouse, the same private room, the same two people.

Du Xian's face was tense, his expression was depressed, and he kept moaning.

But Liu Chengye looked indifferent, and said indifferently: "Tongzhuang is not a climate, so there is no need to take it too seriously."

"Now that the old man has been dead for so long, I thought I could make the Ming family brand disappear no matter what in the past few years, and I didn't expect that Pingle County still only recognizes the Ming family and not the Du family. It's too busy!" Du Xian said, and couldn't help but put the cup down heavily angrily.

"It's not worthwhile to spend five thousand shi in exchange for a reputation. After all these days, these untouchables still don't remember who you are. According to me, it's better to keep it and sell it for money."

"What money do you want to exchange? Their shop sells cheap food and porridge. Not many people come to buy high-priced food. They wanted to take advantage of the flood to make a fortune, but this bitch Ye Qiuniang ruined it." The plan really pissed me off."

"Brother Du, I'd better find a way to get Tongzhuang back as soon as possible. According to their way of spending money, you will lose all your Wanguan family property." Liu Chengye looked regretful.

Du Xian also looked pained: "Who says it's not, these rice grains are all vain taels of silver, but this old boy Fu Gao has gotten very close to them recently, and the rebellious girl has already been borrowed for half a year. It’s been a month, and I haven’t seen anyone and can’t do anything.”

"This old man Fugao is getting more and more out of control. Eunuch Chongming said a few days ago, let us take down this old man as soon as possible, and turn Pingle into his father's back garden. The mountains are high here, the emperor is far away, and the land is fertile. If there is no flood, it will still be a prosperous land, and in the future, adults will return to their hometown when they are old, we must be happy."

"But what if he doesn't obey?"

Liu Chengye rubbed his chin and said: "At first, I thought that if Fu Gao didn't cooperate, he would be abolished directly. It would be fine to win the new county magistrate when a new county magistrate came, but my father-in-law didn't think so. This guy Gao is very useful, let me find a way to win him over. After so many years, this old boy is not honest and loves the people. And it must be Fu Shuiyao. I am just such a son, so I thought about fulfilling his wish. Anyway, Fu Gao has a couple of sons and daughters. The daughter will marry our Liu family, and the son will marry your daughter. By then, he will not be able to fly solo without joining us."

Du Xiandao: "That is to say, Fu Gao's son seems to have a little thought for my rebellious daughter, but does his daughter have a good impression of Min'er? I'm afraid it's useless if she shaves her head and picks her head and makes her hot."

Liu Chengye leaned on the back of his chair and thought for a while: "Fu Gao's second wife's natal family is from my clan, so I can use this to make a fuss."

"Brother, don't you want Min'er to cook rice?" Du Xian smiled wretchedly.

"Hey, if the little old man refuses to eat hard and soft, I can't rule out the possibility. Let's talk about it at that time. When the people grow up, I have my own ideas."

The two were chatting when there was a light knock on the door, and the door was pushed open, with a man in black behind the servant. When Liu Chengye and the two of them saw the man in black, they were shocked and looked at each other quickly. stood up.

"What happened to Lord Chongming?"

"The little emperor is getting more and more dissatisfied with his father-in-law now. It seems that his wings are stiff and he wants to kick him away. The news about the flood disaster in Pingle has been heard from the higher-ups. The little emperor has appointed the magistrate to investigate the matter thoroughly. We will arrive at Pingle, father-in-law let the two adults get ready."

The two of Liu Chengye were taken aback, they didn't expect this matter to come to the emperor so quickly.

The man in black seemed to see the timidity in their eyes, and said: "My lords, there is no need to panic. The little emperor was brought up under the care of his father-in-law. Now, even though he listened to slander and deviated from the road for a while, he will be pulled back by his father-in-law's skillful hand. These are not big things.”

The two breathed a sigh of relief when they heard what the man in black said. As long as the one above is as stable as Mount Tai, they have nothing to be afraid of below.

Thinking of being as noble as the Son of Heaven, and also being played by Chongming's father-in-law, he couldn't help but look at each other and smiled very complacently.

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After Fushuiyao ate a meal of snails in Tongzhuang, she rushed back to the city. Although the flood peak has passed, the water level of the river has dropped slowly, and the yamen has to send people to continue monitoring the water level. The production work has to continue to advance, and the county magistrate is very busy, and as a daughter, he can't stay out of it.

As soon as he returned to the yamen, he was called by the county magistrate Fu.

"Just received the imperial decree from above, the magistrate of Mingzhou brought people down to Pingle to investigate the flood, and arrived early the morning after tomorrow. This matter will definitely involve the construction of flood control dams and wharves that year, and we must not neglect it."

"What does dad want me to do?"

"Nowadays there is a lot of commotion in the city, and it is said that the fault of the dam was the fault of the Xu family, but you and I already know that the matter is by no means that simple. You should go to the Xu family immediately to investigate the relevant evidence of the year and the people mainly involved at this time. Be prepared, Yu Mingyuan can't be trusted, if we don't leave a hand, we will fall into a situation of being slaughtered by others."

Hearing her father's words, Fu Shuiyao thought of the news she had received from Xu Zhengde, and Yu Mingyuan's upcoming party, and suddenly felt a throbbing in her temples. There was no need to delay, so she immediately took orders to leave.

After Xu Zhengde went back, he went to the shopkeeper who had signed the purchase contract with Zhang Huan, a small procurement official in the yamen, and asked where the original contract was now.

After rummaging through the box for a while, I finally found two chapters of crumpled rice paper. Just as I was about to put it away, I heard the butler come to announce that someone was coming to visit.

Xu Zhengde has been plagued by all kinds of troubles recently, and his precious daughter was almost humiliated. At this time, he was like a bird frightened. When he heard someone visiting, he couldn't help but his legs went weak, and asked who was visiting?

Hearing the response, there were two groups of people, one group was the daughter of Fu County Magistrate, and the other group was also a woman, but they didn't explain where they came from. The two groups bumped into each other at the door, so they had to throw them away. They invited to inquire.

Hearing that one of them was the daughter of the county magistrate's family, and thinking that her daughter was saved by her, she couldn't help being close to her, and she was no longer panicked like before, so she straightened her sleeves and went out to greet her.

As for the two groups of people sitting face to face in the hall, the atmosphere was a bit dignified.

Fu Shuiyao looked at the woman in front of her. She was very beautiful, but she exuded a cold aura from top to bottom. She was so luxurious that people dared not look directly at her. A man of strong stature, it seems that he has a lot of background.

Unlike ordinary people, coming to find Xu Zhengde at this moment has to make people think deeply.

Seeing Xu Zhengde coming out, both parties greeted each other separately. Xu Zhengde looked at the strange woman in front of him, a little puzzled and said: "Where is the girl from, why did you find Xu?"

But who would have thought that the woman saw that there was a third group of people present, and she didn't want to reveal her identity, so she sat motionless on the chair and didn't show any face to the people around her.

Xu Zhengde saw that she was so arrogant and had something to say to Fu Shuiyao, so he said to her directly: "Miss, please go back if you have nothing to do. Xu has something to deal with now, but he doesn't have time to receive you, please go ahead." Bar."

The woman chuckled lightly and said, "If Boss Xu has something to do, he can do it first. I have plenty of time, so I can wait until the two of you finish talking."

When the woman said this, Fu Shuiyao felt more and more that she was not simple, and at this time, when she came to the door, she was looking for Xu Zhengde who was on the cusp of the storm, and the visitor was not kind.

Just when Xu Zhengde was hesitating, a housekeeper came to report that the county lieutenant had come to visit.

Xu Zhengde couldn't help his temples throbbing. He didn't know why several groups of people came at the same time today, and he didn't know if they came for the same thing.

In this way, Xu Zhengde was even more confused, but Fu Shuiyao who was at the side asked the housekeeper: "Have you ever told Mr. Liu that there are other people visiting?"

The butler hurriedly shook his head: "No, I just said that the master may be busy, so please invite him to the study to wait."

Fu Shuiyao turned to Xu Zhengde and said, "Boss Xu, why not go to see Liu Chengye first, check his tone first, and see what he wants to do this time, but don't forget what I mentioned this morning."

Of course Xu Zhengde knew what she was talking about, so he nodded hurriedly.

He just turned his head and glanced at the uninvited woman next to him, hammered his head with a bit of a headache, ignored them, and went out behind the housekeeper.

Fu Shuiyao said: "This young lady came from nowhere, and she doesn't want to reveal her name, so please wait here with me for a while."

The woman gave Fu Shuiyao a meaningful look, and said with a fake smile: "Of course there is no problem. It is my wish to be able to share the same room with the county magistrate's daughter."

Fu Shuiyao was slightly shocked when she heard that the woman she had never met before guessed her identity all of a sudden.

"The girl has seen me?"

"Never seen."

"Then why can you guess my identity?"

"It is rumored that Fu Gao, the county magistrate of Pingle County, has a daughter who is regarded by her father as his right-hand man. She is highly regarded on weekdays, but she will be responsible for any important matters. The number of people affected by the disaster in Pingle County is the highest among all counties. The area affected by the disaster was the largest, and the number of deaths was the highest. The investigation into the collapse of the flood control dam was a certainty. There were rumors in the city that the culprit of the project was caused by the Xu family's shoddy materials. It will be reached in a few days, and the Xu family will definitely be a breakthrough point for all forces, and the woman who appears here at this time, is there anyone else besides Miss Fu."

Fu Shuiyao immediately locked her identity when she saw the other party easily, she became vigilant in an instant, and stared closely at her eyes: "Who are you?"

The woman was not intimidated by her, and she snorted lightly: "With such a big event, and now that there are so many new graves in and around the city, I don't know if Mr. Fu can sleep peacefully in the middle of the night—I guess he must have slept restlessly, or else he wouldn't have slept soundly." I would have hurriedly let my capable daughter come to get the evidence back at this juncture."

Seeing that the woman didn't put herself in the slightest, and still turned right and wrong like this, Fu Shuiyao's face was as cold as an ice cube.

"A person who shyly hides his head and hides his tail, and dare not even mention his name, who will believe you if he speaks nonsense!"

But the woman was not affected by her provocation, she sat on the chair without any fluctuation on her face.

It was the first time for Fu Shuiyao to meet such an opponent, and she couldn't help but feel a little anxious. Although Xu Qionghua was rescued in the morning, it was not enough to dispel Xu Zhengde's doubts. The people were tricked into destroying it, which would make this matter even more difficult.

About half an hour later, Xu Zhengde came back,

She held back the anxiety in her heart, stood up and wanted to find another place to talk with Xu Zhengde, but she also heard a woman's indifferent voice behind her: "Xu Zhengde, do you know that the person in front of you is talking about acting for the government?" Doing business, but not having any official position, just a dog of the county magistrate. Now you are on the cusp of the storm, isn't it thanks to the corrupt officials in Pingle County Yamen? The biggest official, can he stay out of the matter, I fully agree with the boss that it is better to be cautious in words and actions."

Sure enough, when Xu Zhengde heard the woman's words, he stopped instantly and looked at Fu Shuiyao with some hesitation.

Fu Shuiyao looked at him like this, there is no way to get the contract today, she stood up and punched Xu Zhengde and said: "Boss Xu has a special status now, it is always good to be cautious, but don't Just guard against me."

Xu Zhengde said with a sneer: "It is true that the thing has not been found yet. If it is found, it will be handed over to Miss Fu as soon as possible."

Fu Shui Yao snorted, turned and left.

Then Xu Zhengde said to the woman: "Who is your honor? It seems that he knows the situation in Pingle County well, but he doesn't know why he is looking for Xu?"

The woman stood up and handed him something.

When did Xu Zhengde see this yellow-orange brocade silk, a sense of unease rose in his heart, he opened it, and said, "The third princess, Zhang Zhen, is appointed as an imperial envoy to visit Pingle County..." This line of words caught my eye , Where did he dare to continue watching, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the woman: "Xu Zhengde, a grassroots man, kowtowed to the imperial envoy, it was a crime of disrespect just now, please punish the princess."

The third princess withdrew the imperial decree and said casually: "Stay flat, His Majesty the Emperor sent me to thoroughly investigate the flood. I have something to ask you, and you must answer it truthfully."

"Yes, the grassroots never dare to speak half a lie. It's just that Lord Liu came here just now and said that the prefect of Mingzhou will arrive in Pingle tomorrow, and the princess will come with Lord Yu?" After Xu Zhengde got up, he wiped his hands quickly Wiped the sweat from his brow.

"No, this is what I want to remind you. From Mingyuan's point of view, Pingle County is a county under his rule. It's just his job to do things. I'm different. If he bends the law for personal gain, It is impossible for the holy majesty's Shangfang sword to spare him."

Xu Zhengde didn't know what the third princess meant, so he nodded his head.