On the side of the Bian River outside Yongcheng County, there is a small tavern with a wine flag being carried at the intersection.

He Ai Si stood at the intersection and sniffed, looked at the road and saw that there were no pedestrians, lifted the curtains and entered the tavern. There were seven or eight tables and benches inside, and only three guests sat at the innermost table.

Seeing He Ai Si come in, he waved to a middle-aged man sitting outside: "Brother, come and sit down!"

Seeing that Wei Ai Shi was greeting him, He was a little uncomfortable, but he did not show it on his face and walked up to him to salute.

The two who were with him also stood up together. After the greetings, they sat down separately.

After a few greetings, Wei Ayeshi said, "Mr. Lou and the brothers of the Cai family are about to travel far away. Brothers are here to hold a drink and say goodbye to them."

He Ai Si made some polite words and told Lou Yuanwai: "Zhengwai has been in the county for several years and has been in a prosperous business, why should he travel far?"

Mr. Lou shook his head and sighed: "I am a foreigner. Thanks to my brothers' help in Yongcheng, I have made some money. As the saying goes, "Don't return home without returning home is like walking in brocade. After leaving home for a long time, I will eventually return to my roots. Of course, if you leave just because you miss home, you will also deceive yourself. When we do business here, we have always been the boss of Ma Daguan on the other side of the river. I don't know what he has done these days, and the whole family was arrested in the inspection camp, and there is no news. If something happened to Ma Daguan, it's just one person who is not doing business, and if the business is not easy, it's another person's panic. I won't be able to stay for a long time."

He Ai Shi looked up at Wei Ai Shi and said casually: "There is a farmhouse opposite the river, and there is only one of the Ma Daguanren. I heard that it was because of the escaping from the service, and it was taken to investigate thoroughly. What else can I do? The official's office needs to worry, and the business will be done as usual."

Mr. Lou shook his head, sighed, and stopped talking.

Yaren is the core of business in this era. It not only introduces buyers and sellers, but also provides guarantees and stabilizes market prices, and many functions. When foreign merchants come here, there are no trustworthy Yaren, and the goods are either not sold or it is difficult to make money if they sell them. Mr. Lou relies on Ma Meng to sell goods from Zhenzhou. Now he is too lazy to curry favor with others if something happens. Moreover, he has some rumors. Ma Meng’s case is not simple, and he is afraid that he will be implicated, so he will escape. As the saying goes, there is no businessman, and how can he be honest in cooperating with people like Ma Meng?

Wei Absas shook his head slightly to He Absas. He Absassas understood and no longer persuaded Mr. Lou.

The two archers in the county basically controlled the lawsuit, and of course they formed two small gangs. He Ayeshi and Wei Ayeshi were usually in disagreement, and if it weren't for this sensitive period, he wouldn't have come to sit with Wei Ayeshi at all. Sure enough, after a conversation, Mr. Lou left because Ma Meng was arrested. This is a difficult problem faced by He Ayeshi and Wei Ayeshi, so it's hard to say anything else.

Cai Zi, the surname Cai, was a boatman, with more than a dozen ships under his command, and he specialized in the route from Sizhou to Yongcheng. In previous years, half of his men took the opportunity to rest during the winter of the Bian River, and many people lived in Yongcheng temporarily. Few people who were on the river were not involved in the affairs of the river. Even Lou, the businessman, knew that he was going to run away, so he didn't need to ask. Because he had a very short relationship with Ma Meng, the gang involved many cases.

After drinking for a while, chatting for a few gossips, Cai Zi said to He Ai Si: "In the past, most of the people around him were doing the words. No one knew better than Ai Si. Everyone here was his own people. The Ai Si gave him a message. Is the Ma Da official in trouble?"

He Ai Si said: "I heard that many of the shopkeepers in Ma Guanren's village had no written contracts. He also treated people as slaves. He heard that they had sued the lawsuit. This matter involved hiding the population and evading the deed tax--"

Cai Zi waved his hand: "Absai, everyone knows these things now. If it were just that, how could there be no reason to lock dozens of people there and not be any noise outside? We are just not sure what to do, so everyone is panicked, otherwise what would Lou Manwai run away? At this point, we are all grasshoppers on the same rope. If one is in trouble, no one can escape. Brothers have been with us for many years, so when will the Absai hide it from us?"

He Ai Si spread his hands: "I'm not hiding it to you, I don't know the details of this matter. There are all kinds of rumors. Who knows the truth or false?"

Cai Zi looked at Mr. Lou and said, "Absou, we have been friends for many years, and we don't look at monks and Buddha's faces. You just need to tell your brothers whether to leave or stay at this time? If you stay, how risk is it?"

He Ai Si lowered his head and kept silent, fiddling with the wine glass with one hand. After a while, he said, "I'm sorry for my brothers if I don't say it in a fog. The inspection camp opposite was blocking the news very tightly, and I just had some fragmented rumors here, I don't know the exact thing. But it was weird to do so tightly, and the state judge Liu Tong arrived yesterday-"

Wei Ayeshi on the opposite side was stunned: "Have the magistrate arrived? Why didn't the county go to greet him? No one went to guard him."

He Aishi said: "There is a patrol village opposite, what should I do? The judge now lives in the patrol village and does not want to come to the county town. I am afraid that it is just to hide it from us. Adding up these scattered news, I can only say, let everyone go as far as you want!"

Speaking of this, He Aishi bowed: "We have been with each other for many years, so I can only say this. Everyone should do it!"

Cai Zi was surprised: "According to what the Abbottler said, isn't the situation already broken? Official Ma is afraid that there will be more misfortunes!"

Wei Abssi said impatiently: "Can you still have a man surnamed Ma? He said bad things about him in front of the Du official from the state. Magistrate Gu only broke his leg and was already merciless. What else do you think! Now he was taken to the inspection camp and was in the hands of Du official, how could there be good fruits to eat? What we are afraid of is that Ma Meng doesn't know what he will say and bite out whom he will bite out!"

"No one in the yamen is afraid now! Ma Meng has been proud of us for many years, and no one can do better than him. Alas, I just don't know how big it is to be and how many people it involves this time, which makes people worry!"

After hearing He Ai Si's words, Wei Ai Si leaned forward and lowered his voice, "At this point, we can only overcome this difficulty by working sincerely. Yesterday I met Jin Kongmu who came to the county town. He leaked a little bit of anger and only handled the evil, and never asked about it."

After hearing this, He Ai Si suddenly became energetic and asked hurriedly: "What is the chief evil? What is the assistant?"

Wei'ashi smiled mysteriously and knocked on the table and said, "I have collected some money from Mamon over the years, but I have never done a case with him. No matter how bad the evil ones follow, I probably have nothing to do with me."

He Ai Shi's face was gloomy and did not respond. Wei Ai Shi mainly deals with affairs on the Bian River and has little contact with Ma Meng. Instead, He Ai Shi's handling of local affairs and has more involvement with Ma Meng. However, he is only providing convenience, and I don't know if it is the primary evil or the assistant.

The two guards were thinking about their own thoughts and planned their future plans. They were both local households, and their families had land and industries. If they wanted to escape, they had to abandon their families and businesses. They could not make up their minds for a while. Using a large household as an official means using their family property to protect their careers. It is not easy to run away. As for Song Jiang's trick of cutting off the relationship between father and son in Water Margin, he had no place to use his skills now, and he was not qualified to do these public officials positions.
Chapter completed!