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Chapter 240

"Pfft...hahaha!"

Mu Jiaojiao burst out laughing when she heard the words.She hastily pushed Cui Pu: "I never thought that you would be rejected by the girls for your high spirits. Dare I ask the magistrate, how do you feel now?"

"I want to kill someone." Cui Pu gritted his teeth.

He didn't need to think too much, he knew that the news about Jiang's family must have spread outside.It's just that he hadn't heard any of these news in the county, but in the end it spread everywhere.Needless to say, someone must have done it on purpose!

Moreover, deliberately spreading the news to Liujia Village, and in the past few days, making the news so hot that the whole village can't avoid him, this is clearly deliberately trying to provoke the relationship between him and the people, so that Everyone hates him and doesn't cooperate with him.

Anyone who can come up with such a poisonous plan will be punished!

It's just that no matter how much he asked again, Li Zheng only said that it was from Linzhen, but they didn't know who it was.Cui Pu could only give up temporarily.

Originally, they also brought over the sweet potatoes dug out from the greenhouse, intending to make all kinds of food for the villagers to taste, so that they can truly realize the benefits of this food.It's just that according to the current situation, their plan has been aborted.

Helpless, Cui Pu had no choice but to ask someone to divide the sweet potatoes and give each family a small portion.

Just as he was about to ask Li Zheng to go back and send them from door to door, he heard a weak voice at the door: "Excuse me, is the magistrate here?"

Looking over quickly, I saw Liu Sanxiao, his wife and three little dolls standing at the door, looking inside cautiously.

Finally, he saw some girls of normal age!
Cui Pu was suddenly very excited, and quickly stood up: "This county has already arrived!"

Liu San's family hurried in and knelt down in front of Cui Pu: "Our husband and wife brought our children here to kowtow to the county magistrate and his wife! Since the county magistrate returned our innocence to our husband and wife, our current life has passed The better, all this is thanks to your selflessness! We had always wanted to go to the county to kowtow to you, but we were afraid that you would be too busy and interrupt your work. Today we heard that you are here, so we will Hurry up and bring the kids here!"

With that said, the whole family began to kowtow.

This couple is real.Cui Pu quickly asked someone to help them up.

Liu San and his wife were still very grateful, and they kept saying thank you words.Even the three little dolls looked at them with admiration, without any trace of fear on their faces.

These kids didn't run away when they saw him!Cui Pu was secretly surprised, especially the young lady who was so watery: "You should have heard a lot of rumors about this county these days, right? Aren't you afraid?"

"We're not afraid! Those are the slanders of the bad guys, the magistrate, you are not such a person at all!" Liu San quickly shook his head like a rattle, "You just came to Tianchang County, and you can visit privately without any airs of being an official; Later, he was still not afraid of power and made decisions for the people. Over the past year, we have built new water conservancy projects in various parts of the county, and even paid for the addition of meat to the dishes of the people, so that we can have enough food every day. Like you, you have devoted all your attention to making us The days are getting better and better, how can you deliberately do things to separate the wives and children of the common people? So I have long believed that this must be a deliberate slander! It is because they are jealous of the magistrate, you are too capable, They don't have that ability themselves, so they can only slander you in terms of personal morality!"

"It's just that we have never believed such words. The rest of the village is only temporarily deceived by other people's words. After a while, when the rumors are cleared, everyone will know that you are a good magistrate, big guy I still believe in you!" Mrs. Liu San also stumbled.

The three little dolls followed suit and nodded like pounding garlic.

Cui Pu was overwhelmed with emotion.

Although what they said, he had already thought of it.It's just that such words are extremely convincing when spoken from the mouths of these simple people. It makes his heart full of blood that has been hit by various blows recently seem to be illuminated by the warm sunshine, and immediately revive in place. !

He nodded quickly: "You're right. This county is doing things right, and it's not afraid of any rumors! Now if they want to make arrangements for this county, they can do whatever they want. The county is not afraid!"

Then, he insisted on keeping Liu San's family for dinner.

The main course of this meal is naturally sweet potatoes.

Sweet potato cakes, sweet potato balls, shredded sweet potatoes, sweet potato porridge, sweet potato steamed buns, sweet potato glutinous rice fruits...all kinds of things were served, which made Liu and his wife dumbfounded.

"Grandfather of the county, this... these are all the food you want us to grow?" Liu San asked in a low voice.

Cui Pu nodded, and personally picked up a piece of shredded sweet potato for him: "Try this, is it delicious?"

"It's delicious! It's glutinous and sweet, and it's sweeter than the best dim sum I've ever eaten in the town!" The dishes made by the county magistrate are naturally very precious to ordinary people, and the taste is automatically added Countless times, Liu San quickly praised it.

Cui Pu was very happy, so he asked Xiao Si'er to pick up everything for the whole family.Coupled with other dishes on the table, the whole family's belly is full.

When they were full, Cui Pu wrapped up the rest of the dishes and brought them home to eat.Liu San's family was so grateful that they almost knelt down before they left.

With the encouragement of this family, Cui Pu's morale was high again.After roasting the remaining sweet potatoes, he asked Lizheng to distribute them to other families in the village, and he took Mu Jiaojiao back.

Because the cultivation of sweet potatoes is of great importance, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Wu will stay in Liujia Village recently to guide them personally.Moreover, Mr. Zhang is indeed a talent. Not long after observing the sweet potatoes at close range, he proposed a method of separating and planting vines, which is much easier than the method of cultivating sweet potato seedlings used by Mu Jiaojiao years ago.In this way, without too much effort, they can plant sweet potatoes on most of the dry land under the name of Liujia Village.

When he returned to the county, Cui Pu immediately called the squire from Linzhen, Wuxing Town.Knowing that this was what he wanted to ask, the squire immediately kicked the ball smoothly, saying that the news came from Lin County.

Cui Pu posted another post to the magistrate of Linxian County, inviting him to come and have a sweet potato feast.

Huangzhi County of Linxian County was invited.When the wine was hot, Cui Pu naturally mentioned this matter again.Huang Zhixian put down his glass after hearing the words: "As early as after receiving your letter from Cui Zhixian, I already guessed that you would definitely ask about this matter. That's right, this matter did come from our county. I was also shocked when I heard about it, and I quickly sent someone to investigate, but guess what happened? It turned out that someone first spread the news in the teahouse, and then spread it around. As for I also asked someone to find the person who first spread the news, but it turned out that he had only stayed in the county for less than ten days, and left after spreading the news! However, I still called people who had seen him I left a portrait for me, and I brought it here this time as well."

This is already the extreme that others can do for him, and they were not obliged to help him get rid of his crimes.Cui Pu took the portrait, thanked him, and toasted Huangzhi County.

Satisfied with wine and food, Huang Zhixian couldn't help touching his belly and sighed: "This sweet potato is indeed a good thing, and it can make so many delicacies. If it can be cultivated successfully, then you, Cui Zhixian, will have a lot of credit this time! "

"Since you are interested in Huang Zhi County, why don't I share some seedlings with you, and you can take them back and find a place to plant them?" Cui Pu laughed, "Our two counties will plant together. If both counties are planted, then it will be a double share. Thanks to you!"

"Forget it!" Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Huang Zhixian quickly waved his hands, "The spring plowing matters in this county have been arranged, and the people have even prepared the rice seedlings and so on. Planted it, where is there any open space to plant this? Otherwise, let’s talk about it next year!”

next year?At this time next year, if he has already succeeded, then the sweet potato will naturally be promoted to the entire Yangzhou City, including Lin County.Either he failed, then naturally there is no need to mention this matter.

Huang Zhixian's explanation of next year was simply a euphemistic refusal.

Cui Pu was already used to being hit.Since the other party disagreed, he stopped talking and started talking about other things with Huang Zhixian.

It wasn't until the second half of the year, when Liujia Village had a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes and became famous in one fell swoop, and Cui Pu's reputation became famous all over the country, that the magistrate of Huang County began to feel sad and regretful.

But now, after dinner, Cui Pu sent Huang Zhixian away, and returned to Mu Jiaojiao with the portrait.

Mu Jiaojiao unfolded the portrait and took a look: "The person on this one has an ordinary face, and there is no special mark on the face, just a common face. Just take this painting, and you can grab a lot of it in our county. How can I find it?"

"Isn't this the effect people who spread rumors want? It not only tarnishes my reputation, but also makes me unable to catch the culprit. I can only bear this tone so abruptly!" Cui Pu said angrily.

"Not necessarily." Mu Jiaojiao shook his head suddenly.

Cui Pu's eyes widened immediately: "Don't you have a solution?"

"Not yet." Mu Jiaojiao shook his head.

Cui Pu was immediately discouraged again.

"However, once a person is proud, he will inevitably forget himself. Now they are discrediting your reputation in Lin County. Seeing that this matter has been very successful, and you can do nothing, they must be proud. And if you have been indifferent to this, but your subordinates If the things you do are more and more enthusiastic, they will be anxious, so they will definitely not stop smearing you. And as long as they do it, the more they do it, there will always be some clues." Mu Jiaojiao said slowly. the way.

"That's right!" Cui Pu suddenly realized, and quickly hugged her and kissed her deeply, "My wife is smart! I know what to do!"

He ran out in a hurry.

Half a month later, as expected, more explosive news spread from another Lin County.It's just that the person who spread the news was so shrewd that he slipped away from Cui Pu's ambush there.

A month later, news spread from another county.

Another month, another county...

Facing such a situation of being passively beaten, Cui Pu's mood was the same as the hot weather, and he was so irritable that he wanted to explode.

And in June, an unsigned letter was delivered to Mu Jiaojiao.

Mu Jiaojiao took a look, his eyes darkened immediately, and he said to Hongdou: "Go and invite your lord to come over."

Cui Pu has been angry for a long time.But as soon as he saw her, his face still looked a lot better: "You are so eager to find me, but what's the matter?"

Mu Jiaojiao handed the letter to him. "Look at this."

Cui Pu took a look, and immediately sneered: "Okay, I have found their clues!"

Mu Jiaojiao nodded: "This person is really getting bolder. Spreading rumors everywhere to slander your reputation is not enough, and now he actually uses your name to write letters to the prefect of Yangzhou and the governor of Yangzhou to flatter him. But he didn't investigate the Cui family and the governor of Yangzhou properly. What's the relationship! These two people, do you need to flatter me?"

"Now, pack up, let's go to Shouchun to visit the second sister's family!" Cui Pu immediately said.

"Okay!" Mu Jiaojiao immediately agreed.

"By the way, there is also the owner of this letter, you'd better find out." Mu Jiaojiao reminded him.Although it was just a few simple reminders, it was extremely important to them.Moreover, the identity of the person who learned the news so quickly must not be simple.Although they don't understand what the purpose of this person helping them is, they have always been people who will repay their kindness quickly and repay their kindness.So they must figure out the identity of the benefactor.

"Do you still need to say this?" Cui Pu smiled at her.

(End of this chapter)