Chapter 174

Mrs. Ji frowned:

"I don't remember what contract I made."

She didn't know that when jigo sent someone to find her, she had issued a search warrant and asked the people to go to be divided into two groups. A group went to catch Mrs. Ji; The other group stayed in Ji's house to find the information in Mrs. Ji's room.

Just now, the master handed him the shop contract found, which is the contract of the twilight Pavilion. Mrs. Ji is also a big hearted person. She thinks it easy to get money from the shop, so she doesn't pay much attention to the shop. Moreover, she believes that the people in her yard are trustworthy, so she puts the contract of the shop directly in the dark layer of the dressing box.

The Yamen soldiers experienced many such things, but in three breaths, they found a lot of evidence. In addition to the contract of the shop, there are several prescriptions in the shop.

"How dare you search my yard?"

Mrs. Ji used to be an official lady and has always been respected. Even the important officials in Beijing gave her some face. Even if she did something disgraceful, she would cover it up for her. Where had she been searched?

"Since someone testified, I sent someone to check what was wrong?"

Jigo is very cold. He is not one of those people who will follow suit, and Mrs. Ji is no longer Mrs. Shangshu. A civilian with only fame and reputation, jigo will not deliberately please. Moreover, this lady was not nice to him in the past.

In fact, those prescriptions are the real evidence, but this contract can't prove anything. After all, the shop is run by the shopkeeper. If she says it's all done by the shopkeeper, it has nothing to do with her and makes sense.

Sure enough, Mrs. Ji soon realized the shortcomings of the evidence and wanted to directly blame the shopkeeper.

She is very clever. Instead of saying it clearly, she uses hints:

"Although this shop is mine, I didn't intervene in the shop. Maybe something happened in it that I don't know."

Mrs. Ji said that beautifully, but she had dug a pit and was waiting for her. Now she saw half of her foot on the edge of the pit and just wanted to push it.

"You mean, you don't know what the shopkeeper is selling?"

After what had happened before, Mrs. Ji had been on alert for a lot and did not dare to answer directly. The light is that Mu Yun is around, which is enough to make her cautious enough. In the past, she didn't take out words from Mu Yun.

"I know the shop is selling cosmetics and other things, but I don't know the details."

"Well, then search!"

Jige threw the "warrant" to the ground. Jige yamen pushed aside the people at the door and went to the twilight pavilion to catch people for evidence.

Mrs. Ji is nervous.

She felt that the development of things was a little strange, as if she was walking on the route designed by others. She shook her head and comforted herself: the shopkeeper is a familiar hand. She should know that she will destroy the evidence.

When the shopkeeper of Twilight pavilion was brought here, he looked confused and didn't know why. When he saw Mrs. Ji and Muyun, he realized that things were going to be bad. He subconsciously stepped back and was knocked on the knee by the Yamen behind him.

He could not stand steadily and knelt directly beside Mrs. Ji.

Without even saying a perfunctory greeting to Mrs. Ji, she knelt on the ground trembling, as if she were confessing.

After routine questioning, jigo called the shopkeeper's life and asked him if the spices in the store were copied from others.

Before the shopkeeper spoke, Muyun stood by and warned:

"Mrs. Ji has explained everything. You should think clearly before you answer."

When Mrs. Ji heard what Muyun said, she almost didn't jump up and scolded her insidious. According to what she said before, she is "accountable", but not "all" is open to discussion.

When she saw the shopkeeper suddenly look at her after hearing this, she hinted:

"The shopkeeper was in charge of this shop. I didn't intervene in what he sold. Is that an explanation?"

"Yes, you just said that you don't know anything about the things sold in the shop. Even if someone accused you of stealing the things I made, you don't know."

The second half of Muyun's sentence is that she deliberately misinterpreted Mrs. Ji's previous words. Mrs. Ji was about to refute, but she was interrupted by Ji Ge.

"Don't whisper!"

Mrs. Ji hated Ji Ge even more, but she was afraid that Ji Ge would hit her board, so she held back without explanation. Her injured part still hurts. Although she doesn't bleed, she must be red and swollen. She couldn't sit on her knees, so she had to kneel straight.

Half of what the shopkeeper said, his mind became active.

Mrs. Ji's words obviously want him to top the cylinder! Since the county magistrate arrested him instead of directly putting him in prison, the matter is still unclear. But according to what Mrs. Ji said just now, once the matter is finalized, he must be the one who will be sacrificed directly. He always flatters Mrs. Ji, but it's only because Mrs. Ji is the one who gives him money, but if the money is to be exchanged for his life, he doesn't want it.

"This... My Lord, I'm a puppet!"

As soon as the shopkeeper spoke, Muyun showed her joy, while Mrs. Ji looked at the shopkeeper in disbelief. She doesn't understand why the shopkeeper suddenly turned back?

No matter how everyone reacted, the shopkeeper said another fact. This fact coincides with what Yuyi said. That is, Mrs. Ji did ask him to steal Muyun's ideas, buy skin care products in Muyun's store, find a spice master to match the same taste, and then sell them at a cheaper price, so as to win Muyun's customers.

"You lie!" cried Mrs. Ji.

"Roar court, stick ten!"

Jige left the order again, and the Yamen soldiers rushed up.

Pleasure flashed in the shopkeeper's eyes. When he gets along with Mrs. Ji on weekdays, Mrs. Ji always puts on a high look, as if it was normal for him to please her. It was nothing, but he couldn't stand the disdain that Mrs. Ji often showed. I think he has always been in front of the shopkeeper. When outsiders see him, even if he is not respectful, he also has a good face. Where has he received Mrs. Ji's attitude. He had long held a grudge and was happy to see Mrs. Ji suffer.

He told Mrs. Ji what he was told to do, and took out his contract with the spice master, which also had Mrs. Ji's handprint.

Mrs. Ji wanted to spit blood when she saw him pour the plate and tell him everything she secretly told him to do. As soon as the boards of the Yamen soldiers stopped, she felt dark in front of her eyes. But she was well raised in Ji's house. Her body was strong. She didn't faint. It was dark and bright again.

"There are both human and material evidence. Ji Bai, what else can you say?"

Mrs. Ji also wanted to argue. Suddenly, a man rushed out of the crowd. The man almost didn't fall when he saw the people in and out of the hall.

"It's true!"

"Master, you're here at last." Mrs. Ji whispered as if she saw the Savior.

Ji Han saw her, but she glared at her.

He made an appointment to have morning tea with squire Ji Ge this morning. When he was halfway through the meal, suddenly the servant reported that he had entered the Yamen service at home, took Mrs. Ji away and was searching for something at home. The servant didn't make it clear, so he thought it was Ji Ge who asked Mrs. Ji to come over. As for things, he guessed that something fell in Ji's house in Ji Ge's early years. Now he came to find it, so he didn't care.

They talked to the squire at one breath. At noon, they made an appointment to have dinner together.

When they changed places, they were staggered with the servants who came to inform them again. When he learned that his wife had been caught and interrogated by the government, he finished his lunch. Regardless of his stomach full of soup, he rushed to the government office in one breath.

But it's still late. Mrs. Ji has been convicted. Ji Ge is holding a warrant in her hand. If the order is signed, Mrs. Ji will be dragged into prison and imprisoned.

"Son... Jigo, you..."

"Who's under the hall?" jigo asked routinely.

As soon as he saw Ji Han, he thought of the time when he had been bullied by Mrs. Ji. What Ji Han did is called helping Zhou to do evil.

"I'm Ji Han who resigned and retired."

As soon as Ji Han finished, someone said:

"Living in such a big house, he swaggers through the market every day, returns to seclusion, and is not afraid of blushing."

Ji Han is not easy to investigate. He only reads about his old wife who has been with him for many years and eagerly looks at Ji Ge.

"What can I do for you?"

Seeing Ji Ge's business appearance, Ji Han originally wanted to take Mrs. Ji home with affection. I'm afraid it's going to be yellow.

He pondered and said:

"My wife Ji Bai is too weak to stay in prison. Sir, look..."

"It's ok if you don't want to go to jail. You can redeem her with silver money." jigo motioned to shiye to come forward, said something to shiye, and then said, "Muyun reports the losses in the store... In fact, it's not necessary. Just hand in all the profits of Muluo Pavilion these days. Master Ji will pay the ransom price stipulated by the Ministry of justice. Finally, the official's labor and money are also included in the scope of compensation."

Shiye had already looked through the account book of the twilight Pavilion, then twisted his beard and calculated it, and reported a number:

"The income of the twilight Pavilion in recent days is 27241 Wen; the total price of the ransom is 120 Liang; the salary of the court and the Yamen servants is 12800 Wen. The total is 1372841 Wen."

Before the reaction of the people in the hall, the people outside the door began to sigh.

"I can't see that the income of a small shop in less than ten days is almost twenty-two. Isn't it too profitable?"

"Redeem one hundred Liang at a time? No wonder those rich people bully others. I'm afraid this money is only small money for them?"

No matter what happened outside the door, jigo still had a cold face. He didn't have a good face because there was his father under the hall.

"Do you understand? Pay the money first and then give it to others."

Ji Ge looked at Ji Han without expression, gnashing his teeth, while he exchanged a wink with Mu Yun.

Mrs. Ji wilted like a defeated rooster. After Ji Han came in and gave him a look, she didn't dare to make a sound or look at Ji Han's face.

After this court incident, Mrs. Ji really settled down for a long time.

When the new year was coming, she couldn't help it and came out to do something. This is not to say that Mrs. Ji had been unable to go out before, but after she was summoned to the court, she was locked up in the ancestral hall by Ji Han for seven days, and then banned in the yard for another month.

In a twinkling of an eye, it was November, and the weather began to cool. As soon as Mrs. Ji came out, she first went to Muyun's shop and bought fur for several people at home.

Muyun heard the news in the shop and confirmed it again and again. Does Mrs. Ji really come to buy something? Did you give me the money? After getting a positive answer, she was still a little confused.

that day.

Mrs. Ji seldom comes to Muyun's courtyard and gives things as soon as she comes, which makes Muyun flattered.

"In the twinkling of an eye, the new year is coming. We have been frozen. I'm afraid the new year will not be good. I sent something today to repair our relationship, so that it won't be difficult for the master to do or let outsiders see jokes."

How many times has Mrs. Ji made peace? The third time?