Fisherman Fubao made his fortune by fishing

Chapter 199 The injustice is settled

The crowd began to riot, and Cao Dongjia did not dare to act rashly. He quickly put on a fake smile like a profiteer and said, "Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding! I'm just worried that this girl will be involved with the thief and be implicated by him."

At this time, the man who kept calling the thief no longer called Cai the accountant.

Cai Chengping looked at Cao Dongjia coldly. What was there to not understand at this moment? They were in the same group.

Zhang Mingwei is Cao Dongjia's nephew. After passing the examination to become a student, he failed in the exams many times. He gave money to Magistrate Wu and his son, and could have gotten a job in the county government. However, Magistrate Wu and his son got into trouble. Naturally, he did not dare to go to their house to ask for the money, for fear of being implicated by Magistrate Wu. He could only swallow his anger and accept his defeat.

So he went to Cao Dongjia again, hoping to make a living at Cao's.

The shopkeeper was Cao himself, so he could only settle for being the accountant.

Zhang Mingwei wanted to be an accountant, and Cai Chengping became his stumbling block, so he tried every means to squeeze him out.

Originally, Cao Dongjia could have come forward and explained things to Cai Chengping. After all, they were cousins, and it was only natural for them to keep things within the family.

However, there is another group of people behind this, namely the Zheng family, a medical family. The Zheng family and Doctor Huang have an unspeakable relationship, and the Cao family wants to curry favor with the Zheng family, so Mr. Cao has always been concerned about Cai Junyi's situation.

They wanted to squeeze Cai Chengping out, but they didn't want to let him go easily. They wanted him to be disgraced, or even die in prison.

So, today's situation was designed.

If he was convicted of stealing 100 taels of silver, he would be sentenced to at least 50 lashes with the cane. Fifty lashes with the cane would be enough to kill Cai Chengping, a weak scholar. They would then do something in the prison, bribe the jailer and the bailiffs, and ensure that Cai Chengping would never come back.

At that time, not only would he get rid of Cai Chengping and save his own face, and not be accused of being cold and selfish, but he would also be able to gain benefits from the Zheng family.

Cai Chengping naturally had no idea about the underworld behind this, and was completely unprepared, and easily fell into the trap.

Li Yuer walked towards the clerk and asked with a burning gaze, "You said he stole something, where is the stolen money?"

Under the pressure from Li Yuer, the guy looked at Cao Dongjia guiltily.

Cao Dongjia took out a silver note from his pocket and said, "Here!"

Zhang Mingwei added: "Many of us searched through his clothes with our own hands."

"When did you put the banknotes there? Where did you put them?"

Cai Chengping's eyes lit up and he said, "How come I didn't know that there were banknotes of such large denominations at the counter?"

The clerk panicked and stammered, "He put it in just now when he went out. It's in the drawer where the money is usually kept at the counter."

Li Yuer continued to ask: "Who put it there?"

The waiter had wrongly accused someone in the first place, and he had no idea how to answer Li Yuer's barrage of questions. There was no banknote at all on the counter.

"I put it in there." Zhang Mingwei saw that the clerk was useless, so he said, "The shop is planning to purchase a large batch of goods recently, and we need some money temporarily, so I took out a hundred taels of silver. I thought that my shop should not be stolen, so I put it in the counter drawer. Who would have thought..."

Seeing that the other party was about to lead the discussion again, Li Yuer interrupted him directly and said, "When did you discover that the banknotes were missing? When did you search for them?" Li Yuer asked.

Zhang Mingwei did not give the clerk a chance to make up a story and answered directly: "Just now, I went back to get the banknotes and found that they were missing. There were no customers in the store in such a short time, so it must be a traitor. Therefore, everyone present had to be searched. We searched in front of everyone, and finally found the banknotes in a cotton coat, and this cotton coat belonged to Accountant Cai."

As he spoke, his eyes fell on Cai Chengping, and a smile of unknown meaning appeared at the corner of his mouth.

“Hahahaha!” Li Yuer suddenly laughed. In the puzzled eyes of everyone, he pointed at Zhang Mingwei and said, “You are lying!”

"I didn't! There were so many people there at the time, what do you think I could have done?" Zhang Mingwei argued confidently.

Li Yuer quickly snatched the banknote from Cao Dongjia's hand and showed it to the onlookers, "Everyone, please look! Is this banknote clean and spotless? There is no stain at all."

Cao Dongjia rushed forward anxiously, wanting to take back the banknotes, but Li Yuer of course did not give him the chance to destroy the evidence and dodged to the side.

Cai Chengping was now confident. He stopped Cao Dongjia and said, "Cao Dongjia, please be patient. With so many people here, she can't take the banknotes away. She just wanted to make it clear to the people."

Under his cold gaze, Cao Dongjia turned his face away guiltily, "What am I afraid of!" He flicked his sleeves and stood aside.

The people who saw the banknotes said, "It is indeed very clean, without any stains."

Li Yuer said loudly, "That's right. You are looking at Accountant Cai's hands. He just went out to help the old man carry oil, and his hands are all greasy. If he stole the banknotes, would there be no greasy stains on them?"

Zhang Mingwei was shocked. What a clever little girl, with her sharp tongue, they were fooled.

He quickly defended himself by saying, "Maybe he stole it before?"

"Hahahaha!" Several mocking laughs broke out from the crowd. A scholar said, "Didn't you just say that he released the banknotes after he left?"

Other people also reacted, "Yeah! I heard what you said!"

"I heard it too!"

"Oh my god! Could this be a frame-up?"

"How vicious! Accountant Cai has worked here for more than ten years and has made great contributions, but in the end he is still wrongly accused! This is like killing the donkey after it has done its work!"

The crowd was outraged, Cao Dongjia was scared, and he looked at Zhang Mingwei.

Zhang Mingwei also began to sweat coldly, and suddenly, he looked viciously at the guy who testified against Cai Chengping.

"It was him! He was the first to expose Cai's accountant!"

The guy looked at Zhang Mingwei in disbelief. They were obviously in the same group, but he actually betrayed him.

Just as he was about to expose the dirty tricks, Zhang Mingwei took the initiative and said, "I know! He owed gambling debts to the gambling house, and the gambling house wanted to kill his whole family. He was scared and stole the money. Before he could steal the banknotes, he was discovered. In a panic, he hid the banknotes in the clothes of Cai the accountant, trying to frame him."

The look in his eyes when he looked at the waiter was full of warning, and the waiter also understood the meaning of his words.

If he didn't take the blame himself, his entire family would be killed by the gambling house.

Those people in the gambling house really killed people, and they killed many people.

Many people who had no money to pay off their gambling debts were wiped out by the gambling houses. The men were sold to the mines, the women were sold into prostitution, and the entire family was killed.

Thinking of this, the guy regretted very much. He shouldn't have believed Zhang Mingwei's words, and he shouldn't have gone gambling.

He cried with snot and tears, and was sent to the county government office amid the curses and spit of the angry people.