Under Qian Jiujiu's nagging, Nan Nan quickly said, "I know, mother. I will ask someone to investigate this matter now. Is that ok?"
Qian Jiujiu was satisfied: "Okay then, you should pay more attention. Even if you can't be with Xiaoxi in the future, Xiaoxi is still your junior sister who needs to take care of her."
Nan Nan was a little speechless: "Mom, please think of me a little. But do you really want Aunt Qingye to bring the person back? This bacon tastes good. It's a token of my sister's love. Maybe she wanted it herself!"
Qian Jiujiu didn't want to say anything more about this topic and ignored Nan Nan. Nan Nan muttered and said nothing more.
The next morning, Qingye followed the secret guards and set out with others to pick up Beibei and take him home. Not long after Qingye left, Mu Yexiao also went to the county government office.
But when he arrived at the county government, he received a case, which was sent by the prefect to arrest someone. The people who came were two runners of the prefect, and they were not very polite to Mu Yexiao.
"Master Mu, we all know that this Miss Fang is your wife's apprentice, but the hot sauce she made killed people. You can't be biased towards her in this matter."
Mu Yexiao was stunned. Someone suddenly came to tell her early in the morning that Fang Xiaoxi's hot sauce had killed someone? How could a bottle of hot sauce kill someone? Besides, who was Fang Xiaoxi? How could she do such a thing
Mu Yexiao couldn't help but ask one more question: "Have you already convicted him? Are you coming here to arrest him directly? Can you tell me the details? You also know..."
Before he could finish his words, the bailiff interrupted Mu Yexiao and said, "What do I know? Why are you, a county magistrate, talking so much? Just go and arrest someone when I tell you to. Why are you so long-winded?"
Yelled at! Mu Yexiao was stunned. He really didn't expect that he, the regent, would be yelled at by a yamen runner. It was unbelievable. He looked at the yamen runner and said, "There are only three days before the New Year. You suddenly come to arrest someone. Can you not give a proper reason?"
The bailiff laughed: "You are obviously showing partiality. Okay, don't you worry about losing your official hat?"
The prefect has the right to supervise the county magistrates, but he really does not have the right to make a county magistrate lose his official hat. After all, this is a privilege only for imperial envoys, and the prefect can only report problems to the court at most.
He snorted, "Are you threatening me? Well, I'm going to follow you and see what you're going to do. If Xiaoxi is innocent, I will definitely not stand idly by."
The two yamen runners looked at each other, curled their lips in disdain, and waited for Mu Yexiao to go and call for help: "You'd better go and call for help earlier. If we go earlier, you can come back earlier after we're done."
It just so happened that Fang Xiaoxi came to find Qian Jiujiu early in the morning, preparing to make snacks for Qian Jiujiu. While she was still talking to Qian Jiujiu in the government office, she saw Mu Yexiao coming back angrily.
"Greetings, Master. Are you angry?"
Mu Yexiao saw that Fang Xiaoxi's expression was more restrained. He snorted coldly, "I'm not angry with you, but some people are blind. It just so happens that you are in the government office, come with me."
Qian Jiujiu looked at Mu Yexiao curiously: "Where are you taking Xiaoxi?"
Fang Xiaoxi also looked at Mu Yexiao with a puzzled look on her face. Mu Yexiao explained: "I think someone is targeting you, saying that your hot sauce has poisoned someone, and now they are taking you to the prefectural government office to be convicted. I plan to go with you to see what's going on. You can ask the maidservant beside you to go back and tell your parents that you should stay at the county office for a few days so that they don't worry."
Mu Yexiao's words made Fang Xiaoxi silent, her eyes still a little confused: "My hot sauce poisoned someone? Dongmai, go back and tell my parents, I will stay in the county government and go back in a few days."
Since her master was going with her, there would be no problem. But she was still a little confused, what was going on
Qian Jiujiu asked directly: "Can your hot sauce kill people?"
Fang Xiaoxi was speechless, then shook her head: "Master, that won't happen. Even if the hot sauce is bad, it will just grow mold and become inedible. It won't poison people. And I've given instructions. Everyone in the factory is very careful. This kind of thing shouldn't happen."
That means there is something wrong here. Nan Nan happened to come back at this time. After he finished his meal yesterday, he sent someone to inquire about the problem over there and got the answer.
Yes, Nan Nan didn't pay attention to the problems Fang Xiaoxi encountered, but she sent someone to follow and protect Fang Xiaoxi. So she knew the problems Fang Xiaoxi encountered very clearly, and asked very clearly.
I came here intending to tell my mother and chat with Fang Xiaoxi, but when I got here I saw that my parents seemed very angry.
"What happened?"
Fang Xiaoxi told the story in surprise, and Nan Nan immediately said, "I know about this. Xiaoxi always sends her hot sauce to hotels for trial and gets orders every time she goes to a place. But there are no orders in Rongcheng. That's because someone in Rongcheng has taken a fancy to your hot sauce."
"They want to take your hot sauce for themselves, so the first thing they do is to catch you and ask for your secret recipe. In the best case, they would let you make it, and then they would sell it and make money."
Rongcheng? Mu Yexiao's mouth twitched. He seemed to be so busy being angry that he hadn't even asked which prefectural government office the person came from.
Logically speaking, the prefect of Rongcheng could not control him. But after narrowing his eyes, he still wanted to feel the so-called dark side of the court.
"You know this from what you said, right?"
Nan Nan nodded and said, "I know about this. I sent someone to spread the word this morning. But I didn't expect this person to be so bold as to send the bailiffs directly over."
Mu Yexiao looked at Nan Nan with some dissatisfaction: "You knew you were going to send someone to spread the word? Did you have no plans to deal with it?"
Nan Nan was stunned. He thought that such a thing was just a small matter. If he was doing business, he would probably encounter such things many times, so he didn't care too much and just suppressed it.
"Yes, send someone to let him know that this hot sauce is not something he can get his hands on, and he will stop."
Mu Yexiao became even more angry: "So what about next time? Will he also steal things from people without backers? I suspect that I didn't teach you well. You are so young to be a businessman, are you so mean? You are just competing with such a person for backers?"
Nan Nan was speechless after being scolded, so should he just kill the other person just for something that the other person hasn't done anything yet
Qian Jiujiu looked at the father and son with some helplessness: "Well, the incident hasn't happened yet, why are you in such a hurry? Nan Nan, send someone to change the tasks of the people who sent the people, and let them find evidence to prove that Xiao Xi's hot sauce didn't poison anyone."
"As for the man who wants Xiaoxi's hot sauce, since we have nothing to do now, let's go and see how powerful this man's backers are. He seems to be very familiar with this and this is not the first time he has done this. Why don't we just take away his backers?"
Such a person must have a backer, and he must have many enemies. If you remove his backer, all the enemies he has made due to his previous sins alone will be enough to make his life a living hell.
The government was supposed to be closed for the New Year, so Mu Yexiao decided to take the day off and took Qian Jiujiu and Nan Nan with him to go out with Fang Xiaoxi.
The bailiff looked at the family and was somewhat speechless: "Is it really worth it for a county magistrate like you to bring your whole family to plead for mercy for a criminal?"
Mu Yexiao glared at the yamen runner, but the yamen runner stopped talking and continued to mock him. After all, this glare still made his back cold, and then he became a little angry, but he could only endure it.
He is a county magistrate after all. If he is really offended, who knows if he still has connections with the higher-ups. Anyway, they can't afford to offend small yamen runners. At most, they can just be rude and make some sarcastic remarks.
Following the yamen runners, it took two days to reach Rongcheng. They were directly taken to the prison of the government office in Rongcheng.
So he was sent to prison like this? Mu Yexiao opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. The bailiff who came was frightened by Mu Yexiao, so he did not tell him his identity.
Mu Yexiao and Qian Jiujiu looked at each other. They were locked up in the prison. Qian Jiujiu squinted his eyes and said, "I was wondering if this is my first time in prison. Why does it feel a bit new?"
Nan Nan pouted speechlessly: "I don't know if this is your first time in jail, but it is definitely my first time in jail."
The prison boss saw that they were still chatting and couldn't help but shook his head pitifully: "Another poor family, and now they still have the mood to chat."
After the yamen runners who went to Xianyou Town threw Mu Yexiao and his group into the cell, they went to report the news: "Master Zheng, the people have been locked up in the prison. How to deal with them is all up to you."
When Zheng Huarong heard this, his eyes lit up instantly: "Okay, go and bring the person up to me now. Oh, right, let's take the little girl first."
I heard that the girl is also pretty, but she is a little young. When Zheng Huarong thought of this, he laughed in a very obscene way.
The bailiff came to the cell where Mu Yexiao and the others were imprisoned, pointed at Fang Xiaoxi and said, "Come out, someone wants to see you."
Qian Jiujiu immediately pulled Fang Xiaoxi behind him: "She won't go with you. She is still young, you can come to me if you have any problems."
Qian Jiujiu knew that Fang Xiaoxi was good at cooking, but she really didn't know anything about kung fu, so she was not willing to let Fang Xiaoxi go out alone.
Hearing this, the guard was a little angry: "You thought you were in the jail and listened to your orders? In this place, you have to coil up if you are a dragon and lie prone if you are a tiger. Hurry and call her out, or I will make you suffer."