Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 34 I went to Fuchun

Mu Si shook her head, dispelling the sudden flash of inspiration that had occurred to him.

Even if Yang Yuan was really a spy hired by the Jin people, what was his identity? Why did he need to personally contact a woman who would become the princess of the Jin Dynasty?
The big joke of slipping the world.

So……

Fei Tianlu, the royal merchant of Hangzhou embroidery..., given this relationship, do you think Yang Yuan quit his job?

Okay, then let’s put Feijia aside for now.

But what about the young widow of the "Shuiyunjian" restaurant?
The more Mu Si thought about it, the more confused she became.

Seeing that Da Chu was still staring at him blankly, Mu Yaban knocked on the table and said thoughtfully: "This Yang Yuan has a big secret!"

Da Chu said excitedly: "Guard, should we bring him back and torture him severely?"

"That's a good idea, but you better put it aside for now."

Mu Si glanced at the idiot with displeasure and ordered, "Let's talk about it when Kong Mu comes back from Fuchun!"

Da Chu obeyed the order and retreated.

Mu Yaban picked up the tea, but the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became.

He originally wanted to deal with the matter of investigating Yang Yuan casually, but he didn't expect that he would actually find out a lot of suspicious points about Yang Yuan.

It would be a good thing if the investigation could yield some results.

But Mu Yaban did not feel happy at all, instead he felt a little depressed.

If a big secret is really uncovered from Yang Yuan, the credit will eventually be taken away by Li Yaban, and he is unwilling to accept that.

However, he could not go past Li Yaban to see Qin Xiang.

Mu Yaban was holding the cup of tea as he thought about it, and he became more and more frustrated. For a long time, no "whoosh~~hiss..." sound was heard from the signing room.

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Fuchun County is a county that specializes in papermaking.

Kyoto's number one scholar Fuyang paper, ten pieces of Yuanshu for the Jinshi examination.

This Fuyang is Fuchun.

It was renamed Fuyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty to avoid the name of Empress Dowager Xuan, the biological mother of Emperor Jianwen.

But now it is called Fuchun again.

Dingjia Paper Mill in Fuchun County is a three-room wooden building with a ground floor, a basement and a corridor.

With green mountains at its back and a big river in front of its door, spring water gurgles down from the mountain, passes through Dingjia Paper Mill and flows into Fuchun River.

To make good paper, the first thing is water quality.

A good piece of paper is half due to human labor and half due to water color.

The Ding Family Paper Mill occupied a good location, and with the help of clear mountain spring water, the paper it produced was first-class.

The Ding family became rich because of this.

Yang Yuan rushed to Ding's Paper Mill, tied the rented horse to a stone monkey-shaped hitching post, and walked to the door of Ding's Paper Mill.

On the left and right sides of the gate of Ding's Paper Mill, there is a stone-carved standing person with a smiling face and a naive look, with his hands clasped together, as if bowing to welcome guests.

The doors and windows of the house are also decorated with various carvings, with cranes, unicorns and deer leaping on them, making it seem that the owner is well-off and worthy of being a major papermaking family in Fuchun.

Yang Yuan asked someone to go in and report, but the person he wanted to see was not the head of the Ding family, but the hostess of the Ding family.

Although the Ding family is a well-known papermaking family in Fuchun County, it is also a family workshop where children, grandchildren and sons-in-law all work together.

Only seven or eight outside workers were hired, and they were only responsible for the heavy and miscellaneous work, and had no contact with the core technology of Ding's papermaking.

The person who just went in to report to Mrs. Ding was the grandson of the old man from the Ding family.

Soon, the young man from the Ding family got the old lady's instructions and hurried out to bring Yang Yuan in. Yu Jiguang followed from a distance to the Ding family paper mill, and when he saw Yang Yuan enter the door, he slowly came over.

He dismounted, tied up the horse, and walked into the building.

There was a river in front of the building and no pedestrians on the street. If he did not go into the paper mill but just wandered around outside, he would be more easily exposed.

When Yang Yuan came here, he brought some silver in his arms, which he exchanged with the five Hepu pearls at a jewelry shop in Zhongwazi, Lin'an.

This time he asked to see Old Mrs. Ding instead of Old Man Ding because he wanted to save money or spend less money.

The old man of the Ding family had a beautiful bride who was about to be in his arms but now she disappeared. He was feeling very upset and probably couldn't say anything, but it might not be the same for old lady Ding.

When Yu Jiguang entered the paper mill, he did not see Yang Yuan and could not ask anything, so he pretended to look around and said that he was a businessman who came to buy paper.

The old man of the Ding family was instructing his grandsons how to make a trough. When he heard that a guest was coming, he hurried over to greet him with a big smile on his face.

"Sir, what kind of paper do you want to buy? My Ding Family Paper Mill is best at making bamboo paper and mulberry paper.

This bamboo paper is soft, smooth and tough. If you want whiter bamboo paper, our Ding Family Paper Mill also has a unique method of making it.

And this mulberry paper is soft, anti-moth, non-fading and water-absorbent, and can be used for calligraphy and painting, mounting, making umbrellas... It is excellent. "

The old man from the Ding family talked endlessly about his own paper.

Yu Jiguang just made perfunctory responses with "hmm" and "ah" and casually flipped through the paper samples.

Because he still couldn't see Yang Yuan, he couldn't help but wonder:
Why is Yang Yuan not in the store? Could it be that this paper mill is his secret meeting place?
Yu Jiguang became more cautious, fearing that he might alert the enemy.

So he didn't dare to ask anything about Yang Yuan, and just chatted with the old man from the Ding family.

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Yang Yuan met the old lady of the Ding family in the living room of the Ding family's back house.

Dan Niang told him that her parents tricked her back home, abducted her and sent her to the Ding family paper mill, where they wanted to sell her to the old man of the Ding family as a concubine.

As a result, upon hearing the news, Mrs. Ding, who had been tricked by the old man of the Ding family to go back to her parents' home to visit relatives, hurried back and gathered her four sons, three daughters, three sons-in-law, and more than a dozen grandchildren.

Dozens of them broke into the bridal chamber, scolded the old man of the Ding family, and kicked her out of the paper mill.

Therefore, in Yang Yuan's mind, he thought that this old woman was a very aggressive woman.

What I saw at this time was an old lady with a kind face.

The old woman asked Yang Yuan to sit down, looked him up and down, and asked tentatively: "I heard from my grandson that you are an official serving the county master?"

"Yes! My surname is Yang, and I am a captain in the fast team in front of the county governor's office."

Yang Yuan spoke with a smile and lied without blinking.

The old woman became a little reserved after hearing this.

Although the Ding family was considered a wealthy family in Fuchun, they only made paper in the countryside.

The Ding family didn't have much contact with officials in the county, so when they suddenly saw a captain of the police coming out of the county government, they were still a little nervous.

Yang Yuan called himself Dutou, which was actually a title used by the captains of the police at that time to flatter themselves.

Du Tou is actually a military position. The leader of the three shifts of runners in the county government, namely, the fast, strong and pickpocket shifts, should be called Bu Tou.

"Grandson, hurry up and give Yang Du some tea."

Old Mrs. Ding forced a smile and gave her grandson some instructions first.

Then she said to Yang Yuan in a friendly manner, "I wonder why you, Captain Yang, have come to visit me? Do you want me to call the old man over?"

"No need for that. I am here on the orders of the county lord. It is you, old lady, that I want to see.

As for the old man in the mansion, if he were here, some things might not be easy to say."

Old Mrs. Ding was even more surprised when she heard this. She asked cautiously, "I wonder what instructions the county lord has for you?"

(End of this chapter)