Chapter 240 Unexpected Relationship
The peach blossom dessert hit Yao Zhifu.
Because at that time, he was reading the letter while eating the snacks from Peach Blossom Dessert. The snacks from Peach Blossom Dessert were given by his junior brother Lu Zhaoyang.
And he heard that the reason why Lu Zhaoyang's illness was recovering was thanks to Widow Tong of Peach Blossom Dessert.
Subconsciously, Magistrate Yao did not believe that Widow Tong could prepare fake medicine to destroy crops.
So Magistrate Yao did not rashly believe that Senior Brother Zheng, who had forgotten that he looked similar to a stranger, urgently called Junior Brother Lu Zhaoyang to the mansion to inquire.
It just happened that Lu Zhaoyang received good news from Lu San, the housekeeper of Pingchuan County. He used the medicine prepared by Tong Huaqiong to eliminate ear rot in hundreds of acres of corn fields, and the corn damaged by Xu Yong's fake medicine was sprayed again. The real medicine also saved a lot.
Lu Zhaoyang came to Magistrate Yao and told his senior brother about the counterfeit medicine incident in Yanguan Town.
Prefect Yao was extremely excited when he learned that the medicine prepared by Tong Huaqiong had benefited the corn in Pingchuan County.
The climate, water and soil in Ningcheng are very suitable for growing corn.
However, corn has been plagued by ear rot for so many years, and yields are reduced every year due to ear rot.
Now that someone has formulated a pesticide to eliminate ear rot, how can he, the prefect, be unhappy.
A golden harvest scene appeared before his eyes.
To be on the safe side, Magistrate Yao went to the Lu family’s cornfield in Pingchuan County and found that the ear rot disease on the Lu family’s corn had indeed been eliminated.
The large swaths of green gauze tents billowing in the wind made Magistrate Yao extremely excited.
Lu Sanjiang told Magistrate Yao and Lu Zhaoyang the ins and outs of how Xu Yong prepared counterfeit medicine and ruined the crops, and Tong Huaqiong righteously sent the real medicine. Magistrate Yao was wondering why Zheng Juren wanted to bite Tong Huaqiong.
Lu San told the whole story about the relationship between the eldest daughter of the Zheng family and Xu Yong.
“Xu Yong is on trial at the county government office at this time.” Lu San said.
So Magistrate Yao and Lu Zhaoyang went straight to the Pingchuan County Government Office.
Lu Zhaoyang was very excited when he met Tong Huaqiong, and Magistrate Yao was even more so.
Can Governor Yao be unhappy?
Tong Huaqiong is the person who can make the corn harvest abundant. This is not only a political achievement for him as a prefect, but more importantly, it allows the villagers in the area under his jurisdiction to better fill their stomachs.
Prefect Yao is also an ambitious and ambitious young official.
"Aunt Tong, how did you prepare this medicine?" Magistrate Yao asked.
Tong Huaqiong told Gu Jingzhe the lie about trying to prepare the prescription she read in the book.
Finally, he said: "Master Yao, farmers will think of ways to make their crops have a good harvest. Everyone knows how to fertilize and prepare medicines. I am like a blind cat who meets a dead mouse, just like the king who made tofu by making alchemy." . ”
Tong Huaqiong means it’s best not to ask for details, it’s just luck.
Prefect Yao, Magistrate Liu and Lu Zhaoyang all laughed when they heard this.
"Aunt Tong, what you say is interesting. Is that the recipe of the snacks at your home that you came up with? It smells so delicious, but it's a pity that I can't eat it. I gave all the ones you gave me last time to my senior brother." Lu Zhaoyang noticed that Tong Huaqiong seemed unwilling to talk too much about how to discover the pesticide formula, so he changed the topic.
Tong Huaqiong saw Lu Zhaoyang again after more than half a year.
He was completely different from what he was in Spring, his whole person was completely transformed.
Tong Huaqiong said: "Auntie is very happy to see that you have recovered now. There are so many delicious foods in this world, as long as you can live healthily, it doesn't matter if you don't eat cakes."
So about how to The topic of discovering pesticide formulas got sidetracked.
Prefect Yao no longer pursued the topic of pesticide formulas, and began to ask Magistrate Liu with concern about Xu Yong's manufacturing of counterfeit drugs to destroy crops.
With the care of Magistrate Yao, it is impossible for the case not to be rigorously tried.
It has been two days since Zheng Juren's letter was sent out, but there has been no reply from Magistrate Yao.
He was thinking that he was afraid that this junior fellow apprentice would not agree with him. After all, Magistrate Yao was from the Shengjing family, and coming to Ningcheng to be the magistrate was just for experience.
Zheng Juren regretted that in the letter, in order to get closer to each other, he called out one junior to another.
He did not dare to send someone to the Fucheng hall, and he did not want to go to Fucheng himself to deliver a message to visit. If Junior Brother Yao really didn't want to see him, wouldn't his old face be so embarrassing that it would make him a joke.
Xu Zaohua hid in the house and did not dare to see her parents-in-law because she felt uncomfortable in her stomach.
I don’t know anything about Fucheng.
Xu Zaohua naively believed that her father-in-law had great power as a judge. He sent the letter to the prefecture. The prefect would definitely beat Widow Tong to death with fake medicine on her head for her father-in-law's sake.
She sat in the room and waited, waiting to see Tong Huaqiong unable to explain, waiting to see Tong Huaqiong taken into custody.
She even asked someone to go to the prison and tell Xu Yong that the Zheng family had asked the prefect to accuse Tong Huaqiong of counterfeit medicine. You can go back to Qinghe Bay.
After learning the news, Xu Yong was like a drowning man grabbing a piece of driftwood with hope in his heart.
When he was tried in court for conviction, he changed from biting Xu Zaohua to biting Tong Huaqiong.
The whole county magistrate Liu thought Xu Yong was insane.
He didn’t use torture either!
Magistrate Liu found this strange, why Xu Yong suddenly changed his tune.
Magistrate Liu concluded that there must be something fishy involved, so he wanted to torture Xu Yong.
Xu Yong received Xu Zaohua's guarantee and thought it was just a formality, but he didn't expect that he would actually use it.
In desperation, he shouted: "Do you know the relationship between the prefect and our in-law Zheng Juren of the Xu family? The prefect already knows about this. If you dare to torture me, you will be punished by the prefect." "My lord, let me punish you."
Magistrate Liu: "."
Prefect Yao, who was closely concerned about the outcome of the counterfeit drug incident at the back of the county government office, learned that the news was filled with dark clues.
What does the Zheng family mean? It’s impossible to sell fake medicines under his banner.
It had only been two months since he came to Ningcheng from Shengjing, and his senior brother who had forgotten his appearance interfered with Magistrate Liu's case in his name?
Prefect Yao was extremely angry.
Aunt Tong is right. Xu Yong alone would not have the courage to prepare counterfeit medicine. In fact, this may be the work of the strange senior brother Zheng Juren.
No need to ask, the Zheng family must have been involved in this fake medicine, and not only were they involved, they also slandered Aunt Tong.
Magistrate Yao was very angry.
When Magistrate Liu saw Xu Yong clinging to Magistrate Yao, he ordered his servants to beat Xu Yong severely.
"I've done it all, done it."
Xu Yong told him that Xu Zaohua sent someone to tell him that the Zheng family had left Magistrate Yao's relationship.
Liu County Magistrate was still wondering about the relationship between Yao Zhifu and the Zheng family. Lu Zhaoyang went through the relationship between the Zheng family and Yao Zhifu in his cousin's ear, and concluded that it didn't matter.
Magistrate Liu was furious. The Zheng family was using an unfounded relationship to suppress him.
So he ordered people to go to the Zheng family to bring Zheng Juren to court.
Isn’t his daughter-in-law pregnant?
Then let him accompany you to the court.
Magistrate Liu did not slander Zheng Juren. Xu Yong, as the uncle of Zheng's daughter-in-law, and Xu Zaohua caused the fake medicine scandal. Zheng Juren, who was Xu Zaohua's father-in-law, might also have participated.
As a parent official who cares about Nongsang, Magistrate Liu must investigate clearly.
He will not wrongly accuse anyone who is innocent, and of course, he will not let anyone off who commits crimes.
When Zheng Juren was summoned, the entire Zheng family thought they had heard wrongly.
Zheng Juren is a juren who doesn’t even need to pay homage to an official. How can he go to court?
But the official who came to arrest people meant that the prince broke the law and was as guilty as the common people, not to mention that he was an official.
Zheng Juren asked him what crime he had committed, and the official said that he was involved in the counterfeit medicine matter and needed to go to court to find out.
Since Zheng Juren was a judge, Gongshi gave him the dignity of a scholar and did not tie him up. He just asked him to follow him to the county government office.