Chapter 228： Toadstool mushrooms

Amid the busyness of everyone, May passed in a blink of an eye.

Now is the time to pick apricots and peaches.

Yingbao doesn't have to worry about it this time. The second cousin invited a few friends to start working.

The Jiang family and the villagers have already picked the mushrooms once, and now they are planting them again.

Some villagers also sold their excess strains to villagers in West Village.

As a result, there were several more households in Xicun living on the south slope, including Chen Laoshuan's family.

That’s right, Chen Laoshuan seemed to have figured it out after the flood, and spent a lot of money to hire people to build five large tile-roofed houses on the south slope.

This house was built on the field owned by the younger son Chen Changhai.

As soon as it was built and the plaster was not even dried, Chen Laoshuan, his wife, Xu Bao, Chen Zhao and Chen Tiantian came to live there.

So, when Ying Bao went out to dig herbs, she often saw Chen Zhao and Chen Tiantian taking their younger brother Xu Bao to play in Dongchen Village. Sometimes they even ran to the martial arts training ground and stayed there for half a day.

Yingbao was puzzled. She didn't understand why they were so free. Could it be that they didn't go to the medicine hall to be apprentices?

What's even more outrageous is that these two guys took Xu Bao to their orchard and asked Jiang Quan for apricots and peaches, and their second cousin actually gave them to them.

Yingbao wanted to give her second cousin a few words, but thought about it and decided not to.

She wanted to see what they wanted to do when they were hanging around her house.

Before she could figure it out, a large group of guards suddenly came to the village, and the leader was Xiao Mo.

Coming with him was Cao Shen, the county lieutenant of this county.

“Where is Dongchen Village?” Cao Shen rode on his horse and looked at the villagers watching the excitement.

Jiang Sanlang happened to be at home and ran out immediately after hearing someone's message.

He saw Cao Shen at a glance and hurried forward to salute: "Jiang Sanlang, the village chief of Dongchen Village, has met Cao Guanren."

Cao Shen raised his chin and said, "Do you know that a villager named Chen in your village sells poison to poison nobles?"

Jiang Sanlang was stunned, and quickly clasped his fists and said: "A villager named Chen sells poison? Who is it? Please tell Mr. Cao clearly."

Cao Shen snorted, turned his head and said behind him: "Come here and tell him!"

A man came out from among the soldiers, a servant named Aqiu.

 He ​​raised his hand to Cao Shen and then said to Jiang Sanlang: "Two months ago, the master of the slave family paid a high price to buy more than ten kilograms of mushrooms from the Chen clan leader's family. Unexpectedly, they had ulterior motives and sold the toadstool mushrooms to us."

“The patriarch’s family sells mushrooms to you?” Jiang Sanlang didn’t believe it at all: “How is that possible?”

Without any remaining mushrooms in their village, they all sell them to Fu Ruifeng Trading Company, where Manager Zhou works, including some of the Jiang family's golden ears.

Where did this person buy the mushrooms? You're not here to blackmail people, are you?

"How is it impossible? It was Patriarch Chen's daughter-in-law who sold it to us."

A Qiu said firmly: "If you don't believe me, call them here and we will confront them."

Jiang Sanlang frowned and asked a villager to call Patriarch Chen and his daughter-in-law over.

Not long after, Patriarch Chen hurried over, followed by Chen Zhu and Chen Zhu’s daughter-in-law, Shao.

“Sanlang, what happened?” Patriarch Chen was startled when he heard someone said that his daughter-in-law was selling toadstools to others, and he hurried over.

Chen Zhu was worried about his father, so he and his wife followed him.

Jiang Sanlang: "This man said that your daughter-in-law sells toadstools."

"How is that possible?" Patriarch Chen glanced at Shao and shook his head: "My daughter-in-law has her duty. When did she sell toadstools? Ah Qiu, you can't talk nonsense."

Ah Qiu was anxious: "Clan Chief Chen, I swear to God, I am your daughter-in-law. That day our carriage passed by your house, and your second daughter-in-law, Han, stopped us to talk and said that she had mushrooms in her hand and wanted to sell them to the slave master. ” ˆ ˆ Chief Chen was stunned.

Han family! It's Han again!

He was almost **** off by that stupid thing.

Cao Shen said: "Clan Chief Chen, please hand over this person quickly, so that we can hand him over as soon as possible."

Chief Chen’s hands were trembling. He turned to his younger son and said, “Go and call your second sister-in-law quickly.”

I can't let a Han family affect my whole family.

Just when Chen Zhu was about to run to call someone, he heard Xiao Mo say: "Since the evidence is conclusive, there is no need to delay any more. Lieutenant Cao can send people to capture them all."

Cao Shen:…

Looking around, Cao County Lieutenant ordered the county soldiers he brought: "Let that man lead the way and capture the criminal and his family. Be sure not to let anyone go!"

“Yes!” More than a dozen county soldiers immediately followed Chen Zhu and ran down the mountain.

Jiang Sanlang looked solemn. He wanted to ask Patriarch Chen what was going on, but he held back.

Hearing that his family members were also being arrested, Patriarch Chen was stunned and quickly shouted: "A high-ranking official, one person is responsible for the work, and it has nothing to do with the rest of the Chen family."

Chen Fu couldn't figure out what happened, so he asked Xiao Mo from Fucheng to come and arrest him personally, and even arrested the whole family.

Xiao Mo ignored him and turned to Jiang Sanlang: "Xiao is not only here to catch the criminals today, but he also has something to ask Jiang Cunzheng for help."

Jiang Sanlang felt his scalp numb, "Commander Xiao, you are polite, I don't want to help you, just give me your instructions if you need anything."

Xiao Mo: "I have been ordered by my superiors to find a child with medical skills. I see that your Yingbao has good medical skills. I want to tell you that I will take her to Beijing tomorrow to treat the noble man."

"No! My daughter is only a few years old. How can she treat people's illnesses? Official Xiao, please be careful." Jiang Sanlang cupped his hands towards Xiao Mo and said.

Xiao Mo didn't comment and just glanced at Jiang Sanlang and the others quietly.

Soon, Patriarch Chen’s eldest son’s family and second son’s family were brought, and even Chen Boyuan, who had difficulty walking, was carried over.

Aqiu pointed at Han Miaoniang and said to the county lieutenant Cao Shen: "She is the one who sold the toadstool mushrooms to us."

Han Miaoniang was frightened and exclaimed: "I don't have any, what kind of toadstool mushroom? That is the golden ear grown by our family, how can it be a toadstool mushroom?"

Cao Shen sneered and waved his hand: "Take them into the prison car!"

All the soldiers cheered and gathered around, revealing two large prison carts pulled by two horses.

Amidst the screams of Patriarch Chen and his family, the soldiers picked them up one by one and put them into the prison van.

Now the villagers started rioting, and someone shouted: "Why are you arresting people?"

“Let them out quickly!”

“What crime have they committed! Are you going to arrest them all?”

After all, Patriarch Chen is the backbone of the family and the Chen family’s reputation. Once the Patriarch is arrested, their Chen family’s reputation will be tarnished. How can they hold their heads high in front of outsiders?

Seeing this, Xiao Mo signaled to Cao Shen: "Let Patriarch Chen and his wife go free, and the rest will be brought back to the county government for trial."

So Patriarch Chen and his old wife were taken out of the prison car and thrown aside.

"Dad! Daddy! Help me! Help me!" Han Miaoniang kept shouting with her face turning pale with fright.

Now she is more frightened than anyone else, because she knows that there must be something wrong with her golden ears, causing the noble man to suffer from the disease.

Perhaps the noble man had been eaten to death, so these people came to arrest their family.

But she really didn’t know that the thing would eat people to death. If she knew, even if she was given a thousand taels of silver, she would not dare to sell it to others.

Han Miaoniang grabbed the wooden fence and shouted: "It's all the Jiang family who harmed me. It was the Jiang family that gave me a defective inoculum, that's why I was like that. I was wronged! Officials! We were wronged! If you want to arrest the Jiang family, just arrest them." Already…”