"Wait a minute, I can't figure it out again. What does the source of the Luo family's finances have to do with it? The Luo family is not a wealthy family, it's just a wealthy family. What's there to investigate? Oh, don't make things up. The key point is wrong." Dai Chang patted his thigh and said, "I'm going to die of panic. You have registered this case in front of the Holy One. You can't let it get into trouble."
"Old Dai, don't worry. We've figured it out here, and the trial will be quick soon." Su Huangzhe patted Dai Chang on the shoulder and said, "I'll support you, Your Majesty. I have a way." He winked at An Ying again, He motioned for her to continue.
An Ying understood immediately and said immediately: "Although the Luo family is just an ordinary wealthy family in Huzhou, I have made a list of the Luo family's income and expenditure in the past thirty years. Adults can take a look and understand what I mean. Why do you keep looking at this?"
Su Huangzhe took the watch and took a quick look at it, thinking that it was really rare for this little girl to be able to figure it out on her own.
Dai Chang hurriedly stretched his head to take a look. After just two glances, he was shocked: "This Luo family is actually so rich!"
After Guo Langzhong took it from Su Huangzhe, he took a closer look and shook his head and said: "It turns out that the Luo family looks ordinary, but I didn't expect that the income and expenditure for thirty years would be so huge. Miss An, you copywriter Well done.”
An Ying said with a smile: "Actually, it's normal for adults not to think there is a problem. This Luo family is just a rich farmer with some assets in his family. He can't be called rich. What's more, the financial source of the Luo family can be found in the yamen. He looked innocent. When I was in Shuanglin Town, I had doubts about this because of Li Facai's words. He said that the old Luo family was lazy, but their lives were getting better day by day. What a world. Others may think It was the jealousy of the neighbors, but I felt that there was something really fishy about this. Farmers were no better than merchants, and their incomes would not change much. Rich farmers relied on years of accumulation. So I checked the archives and made records. In the five years since arriving in Yongkang, the Luo family's income on their books was only money and millet from the lease of twenty acres of paddy fields, but they spent a lot of money. Luo Mao was seriously ill and asked for medical treatment and to build a new house. The imbalance of money and expenditure can be explained by the fact that the Luo family sold their youngest daughter. I also checked the dental industry at that time and found that the highest net worth of a four-year-old girl was only sixty-seven taels. Luo Mao spent more than that to buy medicine. From the fourth year of Yongkang to the twelfth year of Yongkang, the Luo family bought the Li family's house, and then successively purchased 30 acres of fertile land in Linghu Village next door. Where did the money come from? What's particularly interesting is , the Luo family always purchased five acres, three acres, or even one acres of land with great care, just like ordinary rich farmers who saved some money to buy a little bit of land, but you can see that the purchase time is very close, but ten and a half months apart So I bought it. In the second year of Qinghe, Luo got married, and the Luo family had a lot of expenses. However, her family only had a few dozen acres of fertile land at that time, but Luo's dowry was a real amount of eighteen units. At that time, Shuanglin The people in the town also ridiculed the Luo family's dowry because the Zheng family paid for it, but Mr. Su also knew about it at the time. Zheng Ying, the daughter of the Zheng family, was in charge of the Zheng family's inner house at the time. She did not let the Luo family take advantage of it, but instead targeted her at every turn. Luo family. The Luo family's eighteen sets of dowries were indeed purchased by the Luo family themselves. Moreover, I asked Mrs. Shen to check the account books of the Shen family shop. I found a lot of records from that time, and the ones I could find were those of the Luo family. I bought 20 pieces of the latest fabrics in Suzhou, six pieces of wool from the north, and more than 20 pieces of gold and silver jewelry, which is equivalent to a few hundred taels of silver. It is said that the Luo family cannot afford this money. After the Luo family got married, they had Because of Zheng Luoshi's cover-up, the Luo family's expenses increased. You see, later Luo Youde said that it was to have a son, and he also bought a concubine from a dental shop, which cost nearly a hundred taels of silver. It was said to the outside world that it was Zheng Luo who Luo Shi paid money, but I looked at the Zheng family’s account books and found that there was no such large expenditure that year. In the past few years when Zheng Luo Shi first married into the Zheng family, she couldn’t touch the Zheng family’s money at all. Then the Luo family spent a year The income from the fields is only a hundred taels."
Guo Langzhong nodded and said: "That's true. Miss An is really attentive. It seems that there are a lot of things hidden under the Luo family's bedding."
An Ying: "After so many years, I initially estimate that the Luo family has unidentified income of more than 30,000 taels. This is only the expenditure of the Luo family that I saw on the books."
I heard Mr. Guo take a breath: "This small farmer actually has more than 30,000 taels of silver."
"Did you calculate correctly? Thirty thousand taels of silver is not a small amount, even though it is accumulated over decades. Isn't there a cornucopia in the Luo family?" Dai Chang squinted at the document and shook his head.
Su Huangzhe pointed at the table and said: "So the Luo family has always had a large amount of income, but the government can't find it. Then the Luo family deliberately framed the Zheng family, is it related to this income? You have already figured out the Luo family's income. source?"
Although Guo Langzhong and Dai Chang both looked at her hopefully, An Ying still shook his head and said: "I don't know where the Luo family's income comes from. The Luo family's income is inherently shady. I'm here." Nothing could be found in the official and Shen family archives. I especially checked the Shen family bank account books. The money transactions of the Luo family are clean. They are a well-behaved peasant family. They exchange some copper coins every year during the Chinese New Year. Red envelopes are given to children in the village. After the autumn harvest every year, the coppers are exchanged for silver. The Luo family has never even exchanged large-value silver notes."
Guo Langzhong sighed and said: "That's true, then let's go back to judging people."
Su Huangzhe glanced over, looked at An Ying and said, "Miss An, you don't need to be so cautious. You can just express your thoughts. You don't have to have evidence for what you say."
"Well, if you're talking about ideas, there is a direction that adults can look into." As soon as An Ying finished speaking, he felt annoyed in his heart. He shouldn't have been led by Mr. Su. If there was anything wrong with this idea, he would have to take the blame. , it was their job to investigate the case, but after the words were spoken, An Ying could only bite the bullet and continue: "When I checked the Shen family's account books, I found something interesting. The Shen family's tea business started from Yongkang San After the year, the income dropped slightly, and if I hadn’t been in the tea business all year round, I wouldn’t have noticed such a small drop.”
"Why did this year's decline attract your attention?" Su Huangzhe asked rhetorically.
"Because my family's tea business also dropped a little that year." An Ying said: "I also saw that the Zheng family's tea business also declined a bit. However, I didn't check other families. I asked Mrs. Shen , the tea business dropped a bit that year because of less border sales. My father also said that my family received less tea from the northwest that year. But it was only a little less than the previous year, and it was not a huge amount. It does not affect the family's livelihood. But since that year, the amount of tea sold in this border area has never increased."
"You mean the Luo family's income comes from secretly selling tea?" Su Huangzhe nodded lightly and said, "If that's the case, it makes sense, but there is no evidence at all."
Guo Langzhong also said: "It would make sense if the Luo family had been secretly selling tea to the outside world. But although the Luo family has tea-making skills, they don't have a tea garden. Where do they get the tea? You guys The idea is quite reasonable, but this doesn’t make sense.”
An Ying said: "That's true. I was also very surprised, so I didn't dare to tell the adults at first. Master Su asked me to talk about it casually without any evidence, so I boldly said it. But I think if Luo Shi If the frame-up is successful, looking at this situation, it is very likely that the Zheng family's tea shop will fall into the hands of the Luo family, and the Luo family will be truly cleared."
Guo Langzhong's face was solemn, and he had obviously thought of this. Su Huangzhe stood up and said: "It seems that this case is not that simple. If it is selling private tea, it will involve the tea horse department. Lao Guo, you are focusing on interrogating the Luo family. The key is to clarify the Luo family. .Lao Dai, you go to Yin Gushan. If you want private tea, you need to go to the Tea Horse Company to check the situation of tea sales in Huzhou. Xiao Yi, take someone to Shuanglin Town. If the Luo family has tea, it will be here. Look around the nearby mountains and forests."
"I think Mr. Xiao Yi can go look for those wild tea plants." An Ying thought for a while and said.
Xiao Yi immediately looked over in surprise. When An Ying saw this, he smiled and said: "Of course I am also speculating. The Luo family's confession mentioned that after the Zheng family bought the tea tree, they sent people to guard the tea tree and wait for no one to come. Let others go up. When I went to Shuanglin Town, the old man there told me that there were wild beasts in Shuanglin Mountain and several people died. Moreover, Shuanglin Mountain is already steep, and Shuanglin Village at the foot of the mountain is relatively wealthy and has fewer people. Go up the mountain to make a living. According to county government records, those wild tea trees are located on the south side of the mountainside. I went to the site to see it. The south side of the mountainside is relatively gentle, and local villagers only move around from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside. The northern part of the mountain is steep and has little vegetation. Few people go there, but tea trees can grow. Brother Xiao Yi, you can try it."
