Old Lady Zhao slowly picked up a chair, hammered her waist, and sat down, "Wei Huang, do you remember, when did this Master Zheng come to us?"

Zhao Weihuang glanced at Old Man Zhao suspiciously, and thought for a while, "About seventeen or eighteen years ago?"

"To be precise, it was nineteen years ago..."Old Man Zhao took over the conversation, still in a steady and deep voice like Hong Zhong Dalu.

"When he first came to us, he was just a desert fugist who couldn't stand the heavy taxes, but at that time we were already quite rich, and every family had surplus food, and every household could eat some meat from time to time..."

Old lady Zhao's eyes showed a look of reminiscence, and the corners of her mouth were still smiling.

"For someone like him who can't get enough to eat, this is a paradise..."

"When he first arrived, he was also well-behaved and hardworking, built a small cabin by himself, and often helped the neighbors, and I was quite optimistic about him at the time."

seemed to remember the time of the year, the beautiful and peaceful time, and a trace of blush appeared on Mrs. Zhao's face.

Tang Qi suddenly felt that something was wrong, and there were some familiar scents floating around?

This seems to be the strange and familiar fragrance that smells in the Wang's toilet?

"Don't talk about it here, Mrs. Zhao, let's go out first, there's a problem here..."

Old lady Zhao waved his hand, and he said with a red face, "It's okay, you continue to listen to my story..."

"Later, he took a wife, and the eldest sister of the Li family's son is now Lixi, and the two are still in love, and they have a cute male doll the following year..."

The red light on his face became more and more obvious, and even his eyes were about to appear, Tang Qi didn't wait for him to continue, and was just about to turn his head and shout Zhao Weihuang to drag his old man out, but found that this Zhao Weihuang was also in the same situation, and he didn't want to think about why he had no problem, Tang Qi dragged the two of them out of the room one by one.

Everyone outside the house was still there, and they were blown by the cold wind again, but Zhao Weihuang woke up first, "Brother Tang, what happened to me just now?"

"I don't know, but I guess your father may know something..."Tang Qi said and looked at the situation of Old Man Zhao on the left, the flush on his face subsided a lot, and the whole person was about to fall into a state of stupor.

Tang Qi frowned, "Your father may not be in a good state, send him back to rest first, let's talk about it tomorrow, it's best to explain here to determine the cause of death, I suspect that Wang Kui's cause of death has something to do with this..."

It's this dim street again, only the stars and the bright moon shine, the difference from the previous time is that it was not the old man who accompanied Tang Qi, but the old man's son who carried the old man on his back and walked on the road with difficulty...

Everything seems to have a reincarnation, accustomed to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze, accustomed to watching the tide rise and fall, flowers blooming...

There was nothing to say all night, but Tang Qi's mind was always the red eyes of the crazy and crazy old man Zheng, and he didn't fall asleep until almost three o'clock...

In the corner, the courtyard of the Zhao family

As soon as Tang Qi went out, he didn't see Zhao Weihuang, but only saw Old Lady Zhao sitting alone on the chair in front of the kitchen, looking at the landscape furnishings in the yard blankly.

"Old man Zhao, you got up early, why don't you sleep more..."

Tang Qi came to say hello first, Old Man Zhao tilted his head for a moment, and glanced at Tang Qi with a blank expression, "Tang Gongzi, the story I didn't finish last night, are you still interested in continuing to listen to it?"

"I'm curious. Tang Qi didn't beat around the bush, he was indeed very curious about this paragraph.

This old lady Zhao struggled to get up, still looking a little weak, his eyes drifted to the corner of the eaves, and there were two finches standing in the eaves, combing each other's feathers, so unkind...

"This Master Zheng is also a talent, he is good at pondering the thoughts of others, often doing some small business, life is gradually getting better, just like a few years, in the middle of the harvest every year, everyone's life is also rich, for those of us who have no big ambitions, prefer to live in a corner of the people, this kind of life is actually really dreamed..."

Old lady Zhao's eyes lit up, it was a feeling of pride, after all, the people under his rule were rich, and the grain and grass were harvested, which was also an honor.

"But even if I hope everyone is safe, even if it is in a corner, it is very good, this kind of life is enough for most people, but I missed this Master Zheng..."

Remorse, hate, if he is given a chance to do it again, maybe this old man Zhao will not accept Old Man Zheng to settle here...

"That year, there was a severe drought in the state, and many townships and counties even had no harvest, but thanks to the blessing of our mountain, the spring water in the country was not broken, and it was still a good year. The price of grain in the state has risen wildly, but this old man Zheng is greedy together, and he has secretly shipped and sold grain one after another, just like the rolling river flowing eastward. ”

Tang Qi was silent, greedy for this kind of thing, like moss growing on a wetland with no light in the shade, dotted into pieces, inexhaustible.

I don't know when, Zhao Weihuang has come to the courtyard, he stood still, and he was listening quietly.

The two chaffinas at the corner of the eaves suddenly flapped their wings and flew out of the courtyard, leaving a few crisp chirps.

Old lady Zhao's eyes swept to Zhao Weihuang, and he didn't say much, and continued to say, "Someone in the state capital thoroughly investigated this batch of high-priced chestnut rice that suddenly appeared, and a batch of resold rice was caught at that time.

As if recalling the sad thing, Old Lady Zhao frowned, he flicked his sleeves, and the two freshly stained leaves slipped off and fell to the ground leisurely.

"At that time, I had no master, as long as I carefully checked the accounts, I would be exposed for tax evasion in the middle, and there would be no peace in the whole world. ”

"If punished for the crime of tax evasion, the people of the country should be sent into exile, and although there is a sign of defeat in the house now, it does not seem to be like exile, how did you avoid this crime at that time..."

Tang Qi was a little puzzled, the state government came to check the accounts, there was no way to avoid it, and there must be no such force in Qinghe, so he could easily escape responsibility...

"Maybe I really did it wrong. Old Man Zhao sighed with emotion, "This Old Man Zheng is a character, he heard the situation, and arranged for someone to attack and kill the people from the state capital in the middle of the night, and then killed two innocent people in order to blame the ghosts and gods... Although this calamity caused by it, it was ended by him, although two of the people who died in vain and the people from the state capital should not have died, and in the end it was a boat, but I was afraid of implicating the people in the middle, so I could only acquiesce..."

Old lady Zhao talked about this matter with embarrassment, in his opinion, it was right to exchange the lives of three people for the lives of the people here...

Tang Qi suddenly felt ridiculous, he knew what the last sentence of Master Zheng meant, not to mention that the state capital came, but the death of innocent people was for this disaster caused by others, and finally added a sentence to sacrifice for the righteousness of all the people?

Zhao Weihuang, who was standing beside him, trembled, and he raised his hand to point at Old Lady Zhao, "This is the way of benevolence and righteousness that you taught me since I was a child? Innocent people who should not have been implicated were killed, but the murderer was able to get away with it for more than ten years or more? This is what you told me about justice and integrity? This is what you want to tell me, our family tree is upright?"

A series of hysterical questions, showing Zhao at this time for the Huang chaos and lost mentality, he has always respected the father since childhood, the one who said that half his life for the people under the rule, the noble person who gave up his wife and daughter before the crisis, actually has such a past?

Old Lady Zhao closed his eyes, and he said faintly, "In that case, what Master Zheng did can be regarded as a glimmer of life for the hundreds of families here, and I can't blame him for this." And if I rush too much, then he and I will be killed, and the prosperity here will cease to exist..."

The wicked man wears the mask of good, and the sublime light is his glory, but he does not know that the face under the mask has long been riddled with holes, rotting maggots...