Portable Space: Reborn Little Couple

Chapter 263
Early the next morning, Huaxian Cheng was tied up and went to the prefect's mansion.

Tang Yanxiu first revealed her identity, and then told what happened. At the same time, she asked the injured Zhang Da and Zhang Er to be witnesses and the small knife as physical evidence.

Even though the magistrate felt that the matter was a bit strange, after interrogating Huaxian Cheng and getting a positive answer from Huaxian Cheng, he immediately convicted Huaxian Cheng of entering the house and wounding people. If he is alive, he will be dismissed from his official position and compensated to the injured party with 50 taels, and the matter will be considered settled.

This result was within Tang Yanxiu's expectation.

After all, there is still a saying that one cannot be sentenced to a doctor these days.

Although Huaxian Cheng is only a mere county magistrate, he is also famous.The sheriff can directly order him to be dismissed from his official position, but his fame is not something that the sheriff can interfere with.And because only two guards were injured, it is impossible to impose a severe sentence.Today, this result is considered fair.

As soon as he left the sheriff's mansion, Tang Yanxiu gave Zhang Da and Zhang Er the 50 taels of silver that Huaxian Cheng compensated, which was regarded as their hard work, and at the same time told them to shut up.Naturally, Zhang Da Zhang Er, who has an extra extra money, will not be talkative.Even, in their view, they wished that there were more such things, since the other party was not severely punished for this anyway.

As for Huaxian Cheng, since he had been brought to the Sheriff's Mansion and received the punishment he deserved, he naturally regained his freedom.

But as soon as Tang Yanxiu left, he chased after him.

"Young Master Tang, this is my fault. Now that I've lost my job, I don't know if I can keep my fame. You are relieved, right? Dare I ask, where is my son now?"

Tang Yanxiu rolled her eyes and waved her hands angrily: "Your son? Who is that? Do I know him?"

You know, just now, when Tang Yanxiu left, Huaxian Cheng told the county sheriff to send someone to follow him, in order to expose Tang Yanxiu's true colors.But he never expected that Tang Yanxiu would turn his face and deny anyone, completely refusing to admit that he had kidnapped his only son.

Unexpectedly, he didn't have the slightest evidence in his hands to prove that his only son was in Tang Yanxiu's hands now.

But in the end, he had experienced many things, so he calmed down immediately, and said again: "Then can I ask Young Master Tang for your convenience, let me search your shop in Wanhua County?"

Tang Yanxiu looked at him with a half-smile, and looked behind him.

"Of course you can search if you want to, but if you don't find out, what should you do?"

"Then what if I search him out?"

"That's all right, let's go back to the Sheriff's Mansion and ask Mr. Sheriff to prove it. If someone is found in my shop, then I will kowtow to you to admit my mistake and give you 1 taels of silver as compensation. But if Didn't find it, so did you, how?"

Huaxian Cheng changed his face again, carefully sizing Tang Yanxiu's expression, Huaxian Cheng was very disturbed.

However, after thinking for a while, Cheng Hua gritted his teeth and agreed, but he made another request: "Since we want to search, we can't just search one place. I know that your property in Wanhua County is definitely more than that shop. You Are you willing to announce all your properties and then send government servants to investigate?"

"Yes, but I have to add a condition. If anyone is found, I will give you the shop you went to yesterday. On the other hand, if no one is found, you will give you the store in Yu County. Give me the real estate. Will you agree?"

"I... promise it!"

That's what he said, but Huaxian Cheng's heart was beating non-stop.

Although the Hua family is one of the three major charity merchants in this dynasty, the Huaxian Chancellor is only a collateral branch of the Hua family, and it is also a collateral branch of the collateral family, and has not inherited much property from his ancestors.Today, his family business has two parts, one part comes from his wife's dowry, and the other part comes from his 20 years of hard work.

Even so, all the belongings are estimated to be 8000 taels of silver, plus the property in Yuxian County and the [-] acres of paddy fields in the countryside.

If he loses this time and no one is found, then he might lose his fortune and not be able to pay back the bet.

however……

What if he wins this time?

His only son will come back immediately, and he will also have an extra 1 taels of silver, and a shop in the outer city of Wanhua County.That's definitely a steal.

However, after thinking about it carefully, he suggested again: "Why don't you simply include the eldest daughter of the Mo family? If I find someone, the eldest daughter of the Mo family will be my daughter-in-law. Otherwise, I will definitely not I will go to harass the Mo family again."

"dream!"

Originally, Tang Yanxiu was still smiling, but when he heard this, he immediately turned his face away.

Of course, it's not that he doesn't have confidence, but that he can never bet on Mo Qianrui.

Mo Qianrui is his most beloved woman, and also his wife for two lifetimes, how can he be used as a bet and teased?Besides, he wasn't worried about this time at all.Huaxian Cheng will never be able to find Hua Gongzi. If this happens, the Hua family will go bankrupt. In addition, Huaxian Cheng lost his official position before. The son's fame is gone.

In this way, what threat is there to Huaxian Cheng's family?

However, what Tang Yanxiu didn't expect was that his resolute refusal to take Mo Qianrui as a bet made Huaxian Cheng misunderstand.

Cheng Huaxian believed that his only son was in a certain property of Tang Yanxiu. Tang Yanxiu had plenty of money. He could afford to lose the money, but others couldn't.

Immediately, Cheng Huaxian turned around and returned to the Sheriff's Mansion. Together with Tang Yanxiu, under the witness of the Sheriff, they wrote down the contract and stamped it with the official seal. Afterwards, the two of them did not go anywhere, but waited quietly in the Sheriff's Mansion. Waiting for news from the yamen servants.

Because in the early days, Huaxian Cheng had tried every means to investigate all the properties under the name of Tang Yanxiu in Yuxian County, including those in Mingyue Town.Therefore, this time, there was no need to rush to Yu County to investigate.

After half a day, the yamen servant came back to answer, but got nothing.

Immediately, Huaxian Cheng's complexion changed drastically.

"This is impossible! You must have not checked carefully! It must be like this!"

He can't lose, he is different from Tang Yanxiu, he can't afford to lose!
Shocked and desperate, Huaxian Cheng immediately yelled, but didn't notice the frown of the Sheriff.

Although Huaxian Cheng didn't directly accuse the county magistrate of covering up or other things, what he said was that the yamen servant didn't check carefully.This is tantamount to accusing the county magistrate of not supervising his subordinates, and even allowing his subordinates to neglect their duties.

"If it's the county magistrate Hua... no, no, it should be Mr. Hua. Look at me, I'm used to it, and I forgot for a while that you are no longer the magistrate of the county magistrate. Okay, let's get back to business, I said, or else we should go together Check? My property is recorded in the Sheriff's Mansion, and outsiders are usually not allowed to see it, but now I allow it, can the Lord Sheriff make it easier for Master Hua to take a look first?"

The governor of the county took a deep look at the so-called Master Hua, and then ordered people to bring all the documents and contracts. After confirming that Tang Yanxiu had only one shop in the outer city and one house in the inner city in Wanhua County, he personally led the The yamen servant first rushed to the Tang residence in the inner city.

Checked every corner, even according to the original floor plan, even the cellar and hidden compartments were not spared, all of them were searched carefully, and even some places where people could not hide at all were found by Master Hua. I have seen it.

Then, they went to the shop located in the outer city.

In fact, according to Master Hua, he felt that the shopfronts in the outer city were more suspicious than the mansions in the inner city.After all, carriages and horses are allowed in the outer city, but people are only allowed to walk in the inner city, at most they are allowed to carry soft sedan chairs on the way.Therefore, he focused on the pavement in the outer city from the very beginning.

This time, Master Hua didn't even let the yamen servants do it, and personally searched the shop inside and out.

Unfortunately, nothing came of it.

"This is impossible! This is absolutely impossible! It must be here, there is absolutely nothing wrong! By the way, I know, you must have bribed the county guard and the yamen servant to hide the person in advance , right? That’s right, that’s it, you bribed the sheriff!”

Tang Yanxiu twitched the corners of her mouth, and cast a speechless glance at Master Hua.

This person, has his brain kicked by a donkey?

Accusing him of bribing the county sheriff in front of the sheriff and many yamen servants?
Tsk tsk, if it weren't for the tense atmosphere, Tang Yanxiu really wanted to give Master Hua a thumbs up and praise, "You look so brave, you are so courageous."

You know, bribery is a crime no matter in your previous life or in this life.But obviously, the crime of accepting bribes is much more serious than offering bribes.Even, it seems that these days, bribery is not illegal?

After careful recollection, Tang Yanxiu finally remembered.

According to the laws of this dynasty, officials who accepted bribes were sentenced to different penalties according to the amount of bribes.As for bribery, no matter whether it is ordinary people, merchants or simply small officials, there is no penalty.Of course, the money you took out will not be returned to you, but there is no other penalty other than the confiscation of the bribe money.

"I can swear to God, I never bribed the sheriff or other officials."

Glancing at the already livid Sheriff out of the corner of his eye, Tang Yanxiu decided to behave himself.

"What's the use of your swearing? It must be like this, and the fact is like this! Otherwise, where is my son? Tell me, where is my son?"

Tang Yanxiu looked up at the beams, alas, why didn't he know the beams of his shop were so beautiful before.

"Hua! Have you said enough!"

This Tang Yanxiu decided not to intervene in this matter. Anyway, to him, being slandered for a crime of bribery is nothing at all.But for the sheriff...

The sheriff is very angry, something is wrong.

(End of this chapter)