Chapter 276 Almost exposed
The shopkeeper smiled mysteriously and said proudly: "This is where our county governor is smart. You must have seen the refugees outside. Several big families in Yonghe County ordered the county governor to be unable to save them, so we adults found another way and borrowed the wedding ceremony of our beloved daughter. When there is a flowing banquet, the unfinished food will naturally be left at the door. As for who picks it up and eats it, does anyone care? "
After Xie Fengyue heard the truth, she suddenly felt that she was narrow-minded. She actually learned to convict people with a little unfounded suspicion.
She felt guilty, bowed her hands and said: "No wonder I listened in the lobby for a long time. Some people scolded the local gentry, and some scolded the soldiers. But no one said anything wrong with the county governor."
The shopkeeper happily took the gold and said, "That's natural. Mr. Yu ensures that we, ordinary people like Shengdou, can still live happily under the attack of several big families in Yonghe County. Mr. Yu is a very good person."
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As soon as the shopkeeper left, You Heng spoke: "I heard my father say about this residual value."
Xie Fengyue frowned: "My father-in-law was an official in Shengjing?"
You Heng's heart stopped for a beat, and he quickly added: "Both of them are officials in Qian'an, so what's the difference between being in the imperial court and being in a state or county? Official reputation spreads the fastest."
Xie Fengyue nodded: "Indeed, Qian'an literati love to write rhymes and poems to praise such good officials. You continue."
You Heng collected her thoughts and then continued: "This woman has a prosperous official career and is a decent person. The only thing that can be criticized is her first love."
Xie Fengyue asked a lot, what was the name of that first love.
You Heng said with a gossipy face: "That is a strange woman. Although she is just a young lady from a merchant family, she managed to support the family business by herself after her parents passed away. Later, she became an old girl, so she was given a sixth-grade girl." The junior official did the house filling.”
When Xie Fengyue lamented that this woman was a talent, You Heng added: "The great ones are yet to come! Do you think how did she, a second-married woman, become the concubine of the county governor? She sold off all her family property. He hired more than a hundred bodyguards to pull more than a dozen carriages filled with money, and rushed to Yonghe County. This matter was really big at first."
Xie Fengyue was really impressed when she heard this, and she asked: "What is that strange woman's name?"
"It seems to be called Zhou Yun. I have heard several ladies say this at home, but I can't remember exactly."
"Zhou Yun." Xie Fengyue recited the name silently. She remembered that Yonghe and Yongning were not far away, so she could have more contact with this courageous and decisive lady.
"No, how do you, a son-in-law who lives far away in Jiaozhou, know the gossip about Shengjing?" Xie Fengyue asked after recalling the gossip.
You Heng took a sip of tea and said: "I have relatives in the family who are on duty in Shengjing. When I returned to my ancestral homeland, I told the story as a joke to the younger generations. I just listened to it."
In fact, he had heard that the Wang family was the "escort" that Zhou Yun hired at a high price. Otherwise, the ordinary escort team of more than a hundred people could safely deliver hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to Yonghe. Just daydreaming.
As a result, his father and his party not only got half of Zhou Yun's property in vain, but also made Yu Zhi owe a big favor. His father would definitely tell him about this kind of hugely profitable deed.
Seeing that Xie Fengyue's expression softened slightly, You Heng said: "You have been too nervous these days. Why don't we go sit in the lobby and continue to listen to the gossip of Yonghe City?"
Xie Fengyue sneered at this: "I have always been like this. I have never been tense. Don't worry about it. The lobby is hot and smelly. Why should I suffer like this?"
After these harsh words, You Heng started to cover his chest again and looked weak. "I have been weak since I was a child, and my parents didn't let me go out. This is my second trip away from home. Alas, I have been trapped in the back house for many years, and I know nothing about the outside world. Alas~"
Xie Fengyue.
As a result, Xie Fengyue and his party moved to the lobby after a lot of trouble.
"The sky is high and the emperor is far away. In this year of severe drought, people can still sit down and have a cup of iced drink and gossip in their spare time. It is obvious that the local parents and officials are very good."
While You Heng was cracking melon seeds, he could still comment on the surrounding gossip with gusto.
Xie Fengyue glanced at him lightly and didn't comment too much.
"Let's go, that's all. It's time to go to the Sheriff's Mansion." Xie Fengyue stood up and straightened out the wrinkled hem of her skirt.
Several people were walking around in Yongning City, and the people were very discerning. Although they were not riding in carriages, they were followed by about a dozen fierce-looking guards, and each of them looked at them very vaguely. .
When they arrived at the Yonghe County Sheriff's Mansion, Xie Fengyue secretly exclaimed: "The remaining value is just that of a small county magistrate. Looking at it, you can't see the walls of the mansion. You can roughly know that the county governor's mansion occupies a very wide area." , almost the same as her princess’s mansion.”
While thinking, the boy at the door took what Li Xiaobao handed over and trotted into the house to report.
Two-quarters of an hour later, I saw a middle-aged man who seemed to be in his thirties walking quickly towards the door of the mansion. His clothes were made of ice-blue fine silk, with elegant bamboo leaf patterns embroidered on the snow-white piping and on his head. The mutton-fat jade crowns complement each other. The black hair on his head was mixed with a few white hairs. Although the man's face was inevitably stained by the traces of time, he could still clearly see the handsomeness and elegance of the past.
Xie Fengyue had never met Yu Zhi, but when she saw this good-looking person who could not hide his appearance despite his age, he knew that this person must be from the Yu family. There were really not many ugly sons in the aristocratic family.
Thinking of this, Xie Fengyue glanced at You Heng furtively.
You Heng seemed to feel something and looked at her: "Madam, what do you think of me?"
Under his pure eyes, Xie Fengyue felt a little embarrassed.
This embarrassment was eliminated when the middle-aged man said, "Greetings to the princess, I am the eldest son of the branch of the Yu family in Jiangnan, and is now the governor of Yonghe County, Yu Zhi."
If you want to ask why Yu Zhi is so polite, it all owes to Prince Zhou's private seal. There is an unwritten rule among the Qian'an nobles, seeing the private seal is like seeing the person himself.
Since Yu Zhi bought this account, Xie Fengyue naturally gave him a junior salute with all manners and manners, and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Master Yu is so polite. I am just a junior and cannot bear such a big gift."
After finishing the polite remarks, Xie Fengyue did not forget to introduce You Heng beside him.
Yu Zhi's eyes seemed to be looking at You Heng: "Youjia in Jiaozhou? I have traveled there before, and I have heard about the frail head of the Youjia family. The distance between Shengjing and Yonghe County is also good. How have you been, Dalangjun, for the past month and a half?”
Thanks to Qinglu for the monthly ticket~
I forgot to send it late today, sorry~
Three months have passed. Starting from this month, this book is purely for love, but I will continue to do so, and I will definitely publish a happy end