Wen Jiaxiang and Wen Jiagui left the house and walked to the town. Neither of them mentioned calling Wen Jiarui.
They really can't do such an unkind thing.
When they arrived in town, Wen Jiagui took Wen Jiaxiang back to the drug store to sleep.
"Second brother, aren't you going to find your aunt? What about the eldest brother?"
"Looking for it, but we are rushing to Fucheng now. The city gates are closed. Can you go in? Let's sleep for a while and get there before the city gates open tomorrow."
His mother is a mess, and if they don't come out, she will force them out.
But they couldn't be so stupid and really obeyed and rushed to Fucheng overnight to find someone.
It’s useless to go!
Wen Jiaxiang touched his head: "Second brother is still thoughtful."
―――
the next day
Outside the dungeon and above the court, Nalan Jinnian sat lazily under the upright plaque, putting one hand on the table and playing with the hall wood, looking cynical.
The county magistrate knelt on the ground, his forehead covered with cold sweat: "Prince Jin, spare your life, the official didn't know that it was the jade mine that the prince had bought. The yamen said he could buy it, so the official asked him to sell it to the Wen family.
Li Wei from the Yamen can testify about this! The lower official thought that he could increase some income for the yamen. Now is the slack time for farming, and Xiaguan wants to spend more money to build river embankments, so that the people will have more security in the coming year. "
After Nalan Jinnian heard this, he looked at him seriously: "Oh? It's rare for the county magistrate to have such a heart for the welfare of the people."
"The lower official is the county magistrate, and it is the lower official's responsibility to seek the welfare of the people."
Nalan Jinnian nodded: "That's right! Since the people in the yamen didn't know that I had bought the jade mine, which resulted in more than one mine being sold! As the saying goes, he who doesn't know is not guilty, so I won't care about this matter! "
The county magistrate breathed a sigh of relief and kowtowed quickly: "Your Majesty is wise."
"But..." Nalan Jinnian changed the topic: "Half of my jade mine has been mined by you. You must compensate this king for this part of the loss!"
The county magistrate nodded after hearing this: "That's right! I won't get back the 30,000 taels I bought for the jade mine. How about giving it to the prince as compensation?"
That inferior jade mine should be given to King Jin! It would be nice to get to know King Jin for a while.
Nalan Jinnian said nothing, and continued to play with Tang Mu with one hand, while looking at the county magistrate coldly.
Ouyang Huaian slapped the table hard: "Mr. Li, King Jin's mine is an emerald jade mine! Any piece of jade mined out is raw jade, and the jadeite is a good jade of imperial green quality. Are you going to pay 30,000 taels to King Jin? You Are you sending beggars away?"
The county magistrate was startled and quickly kowtowed: "I dare not, but the raw stones from the jade mine are not jade but all low-quality jade!"
If the compensation is based on raw jadeite, how much money will he have to pay
"Nonsense! What comes out of the jade mine is most likely jade, but you actually want to deceive King Jin! How audacious!"
The county magistrate was so unjust: "Xiaoguan is scared, Sir, the jade mined from the jade mine is really low-quality jade! If you don't believe it, you can send someone to dig out a few pieces, and then cut them out to see! I don't think I have any luck. I don’t have the guts to deceive the prince!”
Nalan Jinnian sneered: "In order to prevent Mr. Li from saying that I use my power to suppress others and threatening Mr. Li to pay me huge compensation, I will take Mr. Li there now and open up some rough stones to show him whether the one I have is jade. The jade mine is still inferior jade mine!”
So the county magistrate was taken to the partially mined jade mine. Under his own witness, several pieces of rough stone were opened and cut out on the spot. The pieces were bright green in color and crystal clear! Very typical good jadeite!
Ouyang Huaian looked at the county magistrate and snorted: "Master Li, what else do you have to say?"
County Magistrate: "......"
The county magistrate felt that he was about to die unjustly: "Return to your lord, all the jades that the official opened are really low-quality jade! If the official makes even half a lie, he will be struck by lightning! This may be because the jade that the official has just finished opening. , now finally a good jade appears!"
"That's nonsense!" Ouyang Huaian was furious!
"Li Huai'en, you, Wen Jiafu and others mistakenly mined King Jin's jade mine. I order you to..."
In the end, the county magistrate, Wen Jiafu and Song Guiqiang were fined to compensate Nalan Jinnian 200,000 taels, plus the 30,000 taels spent on the jade mine, for a total of 230,000 taels of silver.
The county magistrate wants to die!
Two hundred thousand taels. After being the county magistrate for so many years, he had only been greedy for about one hundred thousand taels, and now he had to pay another 130,000 taels!
Wen Jiafu was imprisoned for two days and one night before he was released.
Although he was not tortured to extract a confession in prison, the cell he lived in was the worst. It would be an exaggeration to say it was a rat's nest. As soon as he took a nap, a rat bit off his toes!
Forget it, there was still a lunatic next door. He somehow got into his cell from the next cell. His hair was disheveled, and his whole face was scratched with bloodstains. He couldn't see his face clearly. He strangled his neck and demanded his life. He almost killed him. His fate!
Later, some prison guards came to pull him away, and he saved his life, otherwise he would have died in prison!
Later, the lunatic was chained up by the guards, but from time to time he would suddenly scream and say that a ghost was coming!
The man in another cell was telling stories in the middle of the night, telling stories about how the previous prisoner in his cell died, and how the previous prisoner died...
From time to time, rats come over and bite people.
It almost drives people crazy!
He was so nervous that he felt like there was a cold wind blowing all night long, as if something was approaching him.
Suffered physical and mental torture!
Mr. Wen watched his eldest son walk out of prison with a pig-headed face and a haggard face, and he burst into tears!
His son suffered!
"Dad!" Wen Jiafu burst into tears when he saw Mr. Wen rush towards him again.
Mr. Wen hugged him and patted his back: "It's okay, it's all a misunderstanding!"
Wen Yu said with red eyes: "Dad, are you injured? Are you okay?"
Wen Wan smelled something and took a few steps back calmly.
Little Zhu watched her husband come out. She wiped her tears and did not come forward: "Sister-in-law, our family dug King Jin's jade mine. The county magistrate said that we and my aunt's family will have to pay a total of 70,000 taels!"
Seventy thousand taels? !
Wen Jiafu's eyes darkened and he fainted!
It's fatal!
―――
After my aunt Wen Baozhen returned to the Wen family's old house and learned the news, her eyes became dark for a while!
After mining the jade mine for more than half a month, I didn't make a penny back, and I had to pay another thirty-five thousand taels!
How dare they not pay for King Jin's money
Don't dare!
Mrs. Zhu was anxious and angry!
Their family couldn't even come up with 10,000 taels to compensate, so how could they have 35,000 taels
The whole family looked sad.
Wen Wan lowered her head and sighed softly: "Well, if my fourth uncle's family hadn't picked up a rough jade stone, our family would not have caused such a disaster."
Little Zhu's eyes lit up.
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