After Zhu Shuo drank the first bowl, Guo Renjie, Guo Zixiong, Qian Fufei and the government servant Lao Zhang. They took turns toasting to Zhu Shuo. In just one stick of incense, Zhu Shuo drank more than a dozen bowls of wine. Zhu said his eyes were blurred and his face was red. Even so, he still held the wine bowl and said to the people who had been toasting him, not to be outdone: "Come on! Drink! Don't you want to toast me?" !" Suddenly, Zhu said he burped, turned around quickly, bent over and vomited. A pungent smell of food mixed with wine and acidic water in his stomach emanated from the ground. After vomiting, Zhu said he wiped the stain at the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, turned around again, gasped and said, "It's okay, I just had enough to eat!"
Seeing what Zhu said, Guo Renjie was very proud. He picked up his wine bowl and said, "Master Zhu is such an open-minded person! Guo admires him! Come on, Guo will give you another drink!" Guo Zixiong, Qian Bufei, and Lao Zhang They were also clapping and applauding from the sidelines!
Zhu Yue picked up the wine jar swayingly, filled the bowl with wine again, picked it up and drank. Jiang Zhixian raised his hand and knocked the bowl of wine that Zhu Shuo was drinking to the ground. Zhu said he was confused at Jiang Zhixian's sudden behavior, looking at the wine bowl on the ground in a daze, and then looked at Jiang Zhixian with blurred eyes. Jiang Zhixian angrily yelled at Guo Renjie and others: "Okay! That's almost it! Don't think I don't know what you are thinking!" Jiang Zhixian felt a little guilty at this time. If he hadn't come with Zhu Yao today, these people would probably have targeted them. The goal is yourself. Now that Zhu Shuo has been tricked into being like this by them, County Magistrate Jiang can no longer remain silent.
Qian Fufei said: "Master Jiang, what are you doing?"
Jiang Zhixian knocked on the table and said word by word: "This is the end of today's wine! Let's get down to business!"
When the business was mentioned, Zhu Yao came back to his senses, waved his arms, and muttered: "Yes! Business!"
Guo Zixiong smiled evilly and said, "Master Jiang, what's the matter?"
Jiang Zhixian looked solemn and said bluntly: "Where is Jiang Hongjiang?"
Guo Zixiong said: "Jiang Baotou was slightly injured yesterday and is resting in a humble house now."
Upon hearing that Jiang Hong was injured, Jiang Zhixian's face became even more ugly and he asked, "How dare you hurt the county government's head catcher?"
Guo Zixiong immediately showed an innocent expression and said: "Master Jiang! It's not a villain who wants to hurt Jiang Captou. It was Jiang Captou who suddenly stopped in front of my sedan yesterday and said he wanted to compete with me. At that time, Jiang Captou had his face covered. , I also hurt him because I didn’t know what to do. Yesterday, Mr. Qian was also with me. If you don’t believe me, ask him. "
Qian Fufei said: "Zhi County Jiang, it is indeed true. At that time, Jiang Captou had his face covered. It was not until Mr. Guo Er knocked him to the ground and we took off his veil that we discovered it was Jiang Captou. We hurriedly He was sent to Guo Mansion for treatment, and he is still in Guo Mansion now."
Guo Zixiong said pitifully: "If I knew it was Mr. Jiang, give me ten courages, and I wouldn't dare to fight back."
Qian Fufei said: "Mr. Jiang, you don't know that Capt. Jiang is holding a spear and attacking vital parts everywhere. If Mr. Guo Er doesn't fight back hard, I'm afraid you will have to do it today." Participate in Mr. Guo Er’s extravagance!”
Yamen servant Lao Zhang reminded: "Exceptor Qian, why do you talk like that!"
Qian Bufei immediately apologized: "Bah, bah, bah! I drank too much! I said nonsense! I said nonsense!"
Guo Renjie said word by word: "Master Jiang, please explain this matter! Then Jiang Hong is the county government's head catcher. Did my second brother break any law? I want him to be a head catcher. , blocking the road and hurting people!"
Jiang Zhixian was a little embarrassed, "This, no way!"
Guo Renjie continued: "We brothers have grown up in Xinyang County since we were young. Xinyang is our home. Even if my brothers don't do anything great, they shouldn't be bullied like this by your county government! Could it be that Jiang Zhixian wants to do this again? Is it going to recreate the situation where the world and the imperial court were incompatible with each other more than ten years ago?"
Jiang Zhixian was left speechless. He lowered his head, thinking, and said, "Jiang is here! Let him speak out!"
Guo Zixiong said: "Okay!" Then he said to the two Yiyang Gang members: "You two, go to the Guo Mansion and invite Mr. Jiang over." The two men nodded and left.
Qian Bufei muttered to Lao Zhang: "Old Zhang. What kind of crime is this blocking the road and attacking and violating the law?"
Yamen servant Lao Zhang said: "Hey! This is considered a crime of robbery, and it is a serious crime. If someone robbed property, they must be convicted based on the amount of property robbed. Those who did not rob property must also be sentenced to exile. Okay. There was no killing in Jiang Captou, otherwise it would have been the death penalty!"
Qian Fufei said in surprise: "Ah! It's so serious!"
Lao Zhang said: "That's right! The group of robbers who are at the county government office now are probably all exiled, and none of them can escape!"
Qian Bufei said flatteringly: "Old Zhang! To be honest, I think you have to be the head catcher of this county government!"
Lao Zhang said: "Oh, I can't help it, it doesn't matter to us!" Then he looked sideways at Jiang Zhixian.
Jiang Zhixian looked at the two people, helpless and unable to argue. Seeing the other party's vow, Jiang Zhixian was basically sure that what they said was the truth. Now, let's see Jiang Hong first, and then find a way to protect him. The most important thing is to give the other party some benefits. He doesn't want to do anything like using power for personal gain, but Jiang Hong is his nephew. As long as the other party doesn't make excessive demands, Zhixian Jiang can still accept it. Zhixian Jiang sighed when he thought of this. .
Zhu said drunkenly on the sidelines: "Okay! Don't talk about this or that! Just tell me how you want to solve this problem now?"
Zhu said that this sudden question made Guo Renjie and the four of them fall into thinking. Guo Renjie was the first to speak: "Then let's do something about it!"
Although Zhu said he had drunk a lot of wine, his consciousness was not completely blurred. He snorted coldly and said: "Humph! What to do? This afternoon, I interrogated a person named Li Chunlin!" When Li Chunlin's name was mentioned, the old government officer Zhang and Guo Zixiong were stunned for a moment, looked at Zhu and said. Zhu Shuo said in a stern voice: "Inducing gambling, private loan sharking, and occupying private houses, what are the crimes?"
Yamen servant Lao Zhang said: "Master Zhu, those bandits are very cunning. Don't believe everything they say!"
After Jiang Zhixian heard this, he immediately reacted and said: "Believe it or not, I will make my own decision. But when the time comes, I will also ask Mr. Guo Er to go to the Yamen to confront Li Chunlin. If he fabricates it, I will definitely punish him severely." Not lazy. But, if the situation is true,"
Zhu Shuo continued: "If the situation is true, then Jiang Captou was ordered to arrest, not to block the road and attack."
Guo Zixiong never expected that they would uncover this matter. At that time, it was true that he wanted to buy Li Chunlin's house, but Li Chunlin's house had just been renovated at that time and he was not satisfied with the price offered by Guo Zixiong and was unwilling to sell it. Later, Guo Zixiong arranged for someone to get close to Li Chunlin. After getting acquainted with Li Chunlin, he took him to gamble. The place he went to was naturally Guo Zixiong's gambling shop. First, he let Li Chunlin make a small fortune, and then when Li Chunlin became addicted to gambling, he started to make him lose. After losing, he was penniless, and then he lent him a loan at high interest rates. As a result, Li Chunlin, who originally only borrowed 50 taels of silver, had his loan increased to 500 taels in one month after the loan shark interest was compounded. After Li Chunlin realized that he had been deceived, he was naturally unwilling and reported it to the official. However, the county magistrate at that time had long been bribed by Guo Zixiong through the government official Lao Zhang. Naturally, he favored Guo Zixiong. The final result was that Li Chunlin was sentenced to death. Pay back the money. Later, when Li Chunlin went to collect money, Guo Zixiong forcibly demolished Li Chunlin's house and occupied his land, saying that he wanted to pay off his debts with capital, and finally drove him out of Xinyang City.
Qian Bufei and Guo Renjie naturally knew the reason, so the four of them looked at each other at this time. Qian Bufei smiled and said: "Master Jiang, why are you bringing up this old thing? I saw Jiang Captou at the time. He just drank too much. As for this matter, our Mr. Guo Er will not deliberately embarrass Jiang Captou." Qian Fufei pushed Guo Zixiong's arm.
Guo Zixiong said: "Yes, County Magistrate Jiang, we actually don't intend to embarrass Jiang Captou. When Jiang Captou comes later, as long as he apologizes to me, let's just pretend this never happened. Come on, Let’s keep drinking.”
At this moment, the two gangsters came back in a hurry and said a few words into Guo Zixiong's ear. Guo Zixiong was shocked: "What! He is missing!"
When Jiang Zhixian heard this, he became more confident and said, "Who is missing?"
Guo Zixiong asked in a low voice to the two gang members: "Is it really missing?"
The two gang members nodded and said, "It's really gone."
Guo Zixiong said angrily: "Where's Zhang Haiwei! Didn't he let him watch?"
The two gang members said: "When we went to the room to look for Mr. Jiang, there was no one in there."
Guo Zixiong said to himself: "Zhang Haiwei is a man who fails to accomplish anything but fails more than he can!"
County Magistrate Jiang asked: "Mr. Guo Er, where is Captain Jiang? Where have you been taken?"
Guo Zixiong smiled awkwardly and said, "President Jiang, maybe after Jiang Baotou recovered, he left on his own. Anyway, as everyone said just now, it was a misunderstanding."
Zhu said that he sneered at this time and said: "Misunderstanding? You said that Capt. Jiang attacked you. You haven't seen Capt. Jiang yet. So is what you said true or false? If it is false, then Slandering court officials! In addition to what happened with Li Chunlin just now, let's have a serious discussion here." Zhu said that his head was dizzy, and his stomach was turbulent. Now, he had to let the other party drink wine for him just now. things to pay for.
Guo Renjie's face turned livid, and he said with a fierce look on his face: "Then it seems that you are planning to pursue this matter to the end?"
Jiang Zhixian looked at Guo Renjie's murderous eyes and clenched fists, raised his hands and said: "It's getting late, Master Zhu and I should go back. Let's discuss this matter another day."
Guo Renjie immediately jumped in front of the two of them and said in a stern tone: "Today, please stay with our Yiyang Gang for a while!"
At this moment, a gang member rushed into the hall and said breathlessly: "Gang leader, go and take a look! There's a fight behind us!"
