Hu Zongxian said a total of five words, and every word was like thunder.

Many years later, when I look back on this experience, if I hadn't escorted Hu Zongxian to the north, if I hadn't heard these five words, maybe my life would have taken a completely different path, and I wouldn't have been involved in the disputes between temples and rivers and lakes. I even suspect that the big shopkeeper Lu Zhongyuan threw me in Jiangnan, and in the dark it was for me to intersect with this matter.

My mind was in a mess, my thoughts were immersed in these five words, and even when Zhang Youqian, Jiang Nan and Li Muge wanted to pick me up at night, I was still in the clouds.

In the Drunken Immortal Building, I, Jiang Nan, Zhang Youqian, and Li Muge drank together.

After the Japanese Rebellion, the business of the inn restaurant in Jinling City was very cold, and the price was too expensive to bear, but fortunately, Zhang Youqian was not bad for money, and he was a VIP of the Drunken Immortal Building, so he could book a place here.

Zhang Youqian also brought a handsome girl, and the two behaved very intimately. I said in my heart that before leaving Jinling, Zhang Youqian and Wang Linglong, one of the two masters of Jinling, were still fighting hotly, how could they work hard for more than a month, and why did the woman around them change again?

Originally, I shouldn't have asked these questions, but today's events made my mind a little confused, so I asked, what about Miss Wang?

When Zhang Youqian heard this, he said coldly, it's just a woman, three-legged toads are not easy to find, two-legged beauties are all over the street! The woman leaned on Zhang Youqian's shoulder and smiled, That's it, Zhang Gongzi, with me, forget about that Wang Linglong.

Zhang Youqian impatiently pushed her away, what are you, get out of here.

When the woman heard this, she looked aggrieved, and she almost wanted to cry, which was very pitiful. Seeing this, Zhang Youqian's heart softened, and he still said to the woman, don't mention her in front of me in the future.

I guess he should have been stimulated by this time, so he didn't ask much, and said, what happened to my brother this month can be described as frightening step by step, nine deaths, a few times I almost thought that I would not see you again, this time I can come back alive, I have to go through everyone's cup.

When you came back from Songjiang Prefecture, did you kill a few Japanese pirates? When you heard about the Battle of Chongming, General Yu and General Zhang swept away the Japanese pirates, did you see them with your own eyes? I said that you not only saw them, but also fought with them. So he told everyone about the destruction of the thief ship.

Jiang Nan heard the screams, and he couldn't wait to go into battle to kill the Japanese in person. The woman leaned on Zhang Youqian, listened with relish, talked about the critical place, covered her mouth with her hand, and her expression was just right. I can see that this woman follows Zhang Youqian everywhere, takes care of his face, and behaves just right in front of his friends, which will not make people feel bored or rude.

Li Muge looked absent-minded, now he is the proud protégé of Xie Shiting, the leader of the Jiangnan literary circle, and he was going to go north with Xie Shiting recently to prepare for the autumn test, but he was trapped in Jinling City because of the Japanese rebellion.

Several people talked about the recent events in Jinling City, after the defeat of the Japanese invaders, the displaced people outside the city refused to disperse, and these days also made the Song prefect worried.

Although the Japanese did not touch Jinling, but the impact was great, the price of goods was ridiculously high, a stone of rice was sold for three taels of silver, almost five times, which made some people miserable, and the people at the gate of the yamen continued to demonstrate every day. In the matter of appeasing the displaced people, the prefect's yamen and the Jinling garrison played football with each other, and no one refused to come forward.

The rivers and lakes of Jinling City are not peaceful, half a month ago, Li Mingxiu issued an alliance leader order, announced the ten deadly sins of the Netherworld God Sect, and even pushed the disappearance of the Jinling girl some time ago to the head of the Netherworld God Sect, calling on the famous families in the rivers and lakes to hunt down and kill Xu Ruonan.

Zhang Youqian said No matter what, you are finally back, you don't know that there have been so many cases in the recent period that I want to die.

I said that you have so many cases, and you also went to give porridge outside the city gate, you are really a good person.

Zhang Youqian sighed, I have not worried about food and clothing since I was a child in my life, everyone does what I want, I feel that life is extremely boring, there are so many displaced people outside the city these days, and the porridge of the government is not enough, I want to do my part, only at this time, I feel that I have a feeling of being needed.

I didn't comment on his young master's illness, so I asked about the case at hand recently.

Zhang Youqian rolled his eyes, can we not talk about work during the shift, it is very boring to say. However, two days ago I came across a weathering case, which was quite interesting. There is a Pang family in the south of Jinling City, not long ago, Master Pang's main house came to report, saying that Master Pang was missing, she suspected that the concubine of the Pang family had an affair with Mr. Ledger, and was touched by Master Pang, and the two secretly killed him.

I wondered, the Pang family you are talking about, but the nephew of Feng Linggan of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau?

Zhang Youqian said that it is not this, who else?

Pang Tiande is a relatively famous invisible rich man in Jinling City.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang are silk provinces, Jiangnan weaving is the imperial business, for the royal to take care of the silk business in the south of the Yangtze River, every year to pay tribute to the palace or export Fanbang, to obtain a rolling source of wealth, the income to hand over to the inner treasury, is the emperor's private property. It's just that Pang Tiande's name is not obvious, and his reputation in the Jiangnan generation is far inferior to that of the Jinling Wang family and the Xie family, and I only knew that there was this family after entering the six doors.

Jiangnan weaving is independent of the military and political system, reporting directly to the emperor, this kind of yamen young eunuch has great power, and even has the ability to supervise the army in wartime. Not long ago, Hu Zongxian accepted 500,000 taels of silver from Feng Shaojian, but in less than two days, Hu Zongxian was arrested.

I then asked, has Pang Tiande's corpse been found?

Zhang Youqian smiled bitterly and said that if he could really find it, things would not be so tricky. The main house insisted that the concubine and the account room assassinated Pang Tiande, stole the account books, and swallowed up the Pang family's 500,000 taels of silver, but the two refused to admit it.

500,000 taels of silver?

A few days ago, Feng Linggan went to supervise the army, saying that he had borrowed 500,000 taels of silver from more than 100 households in the name of Hu Zongxian.

This account book was in Hu Zongxian's hands that day, and I also had a backup in my arms, and I studied it not long ago, but there was no clue. Hu Zongxian said that the account book recorded clues about the fornication between the big families in Jiangnan and the Japanese invaders, and now that he has been imprisoned, he has not written a letter to ask for guilt, nor has he refutated.

If it is announced, it is very likely to cause an earthquake in Jiangnan officialdom.

Thinking of this, several doubts in my heart gradually strung together, forming a vague line.

Hu Zongxian is the former dynasty of Yan Shan Gao Yan Pavilion old hand to promote the person, Yan Pavilion old Zhishi, and take refuge in Yan's proud protégé, now the cabinet auxiliary Yang Pavilion old subordinates, I heard that now the Beijing Cabinet, Yang, Xu two factions are fighting openly and secretly, you sing it, we appear, the eight immortals cross the sea, each shows their magical powers, attacks each other, do everything they can, the struggle is close to white-hot.

This kind of political ~ struggle, tilting against each other, there is no right and wrong, everything is aimed at defeating the opponent. took advantage of Zhu Runze's southward march to the south of the Yangtze River, which led the flames of war to the officialdom of the south of the Yangtze River, and Hu Zongxian was very likely to be the key point of this struggle.

I'm not interested in politics, but although Hu Zongxian has a dirty character, he is a capable minister who does practical things and resists the Japanese after all. Thinking of this, I decided to find a way to help him, of course, there is selfishness in doing so, I want to wait for him to come out safely, and then return the five words he gave me to him.

I said to Zhang Youqian, wait tomorrow, transfer the Pang family's file to take a look, maybe I can help.