Chapter 47: Doubts in Qingzhou (1)
Jiang Li opened the reply letter with trembling hands, and the familiar handwriting made her heart feel a little warm. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info himself occupies this body, so Qingzhou is his biological father, and the deep nature of father and daughter is still strong in the past and present life.
A few years ago, Jiang Li deliberately delayed Xiao Wu, and delayed the departure of the ship under the pretext that he wanted to purchase goods first. On the other hand, she hurried in advance to ask Shopkeeper Ge to bring a letter to her father.
Although the letter was full of homely conversations between father and daughter, Jiang Li asked about the bandits in Qingzhou, and then, at the end, he deliberately told his father to go to the dock to pick up the boat when he arrived.
The Mei family has a transit station in Qingzhou, which is used for the distribution and transit of materials from the south to the north of the Mei family. In today's terms, it is a logistics substation. The post station is located on the canal side of Qingzhou.
The people at the post station are also from the Mei family's side. It is said that the post station is on the edge of Qingzhou City, and it is only a dozen miles away from the state government. Smuggled goods from the capital sometimes go to that post station to load and unload. Before leaving the ship this time, Jiang Li even explained to Ge Hai and Sixi that he must find a way to let the ship rest at the post station for half a day.
However, the Jiang family knows that Jiang Zongjin never asks about his wife's private property, and he has never even taken the post station in Qingzhou to the border. It is estimated that he didn't even know that the post station was facing south and north. Therefore, his daughter Jiang Li said this abruptly, he should be suspicious.
In the memories of Jiang Li's two lives, there are still many good memories of his father Jiang Zongjin in this life. However, those were all when I was a child, before my father married Aunt Zhao.
At that time, the father in my memory was heroic, heroic and arrogant when talking and laughing, and he looked like a hot-blooded husband for the country and the people. When he opened his mouth to speak to Jiang Li's mother, he couldn't move around to see some dynamic trends in officialdom, as well as the strategic layout among the surrounding powers, and the impact of these on the Great Song Dynasty.
His mother, Mei, often showed impatience when she listened to it, and sometimes made a ridiculous comment, saying that he was a talker on paper and a bookseller.
Of course, my father was not convinced, and replied that my mother was a little woman and had no knowledge. However, every word and every look at that time contained doting and warmth, without a trace of indifference.
daughter Jiang Li is really a father, and she is a real hero. imagined that one day my father would really be a general, and he would be able to dominate the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.
At that time, Jiang Li was still the treasure in his father's hands and the vanilla in his father's heart.
All the good and warm life ended nine years ago.
Nine years ago, the imperial court issued an edict to dismiss his grandfather Jiang Shi from the official position of the transfer envoy of Qingzhou, and transferred him back to Beijing to wait for his fate.
During that time, the grandfather often looked for his father, who was the third child, and the two stayed in the study for a day and a half. Since then, my father has rarely seen a smile on his face.
Jiang Li can't remember what happened later. I only vaguely remember that my grandfather died before the court punishment came down, and as a result, the crime of dereliction of duty was gone.
Not only was there no punishment, but it is said that even the three divisions and six departments came to the funeral. The family is all proud of this, and the second uncle thinks that the Jiang family is afraid that he has borrowed the light of the old man, and he is afraid that he will go straight to the top from now on.
For many years to come, Uncle Jiang Zongwu was saying that at that time, some people in the court wanted to promote one of the Jiang family brothers to be a general, and the Jiang family had always been optimistic about Jiang Zongjin. Because Jiang Zongwu and Jiang Zongwen both thought that they had no talents, they had always recommended Jiang Zongjin, the old man who was outstanding from Xiaowen Taowu, to the post.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Zongjin didn't go anywhere, he only chose to go to Qingzhou, saying that it would be better if he was just going to be a jailer. In this way, the imperial court really complied with his wishes and let him go to Qingzhou to make a famous judgment.
Jiang Li can't remember these things clearly, but the older sons and daughters of the Jiang family have been familiar with them since childhood. Jiang Li found out as soon as he inquired about Jiang An.
Jiang An also said that his grandfather had an accident in Qingzhou, and the imperial court said that his grandfather was not good for inspecting smuggling. It's just that the adults can't tell the inside story clearly, and the third generation of the Jiang family is even more ignored.
Now, Jiang Li is sitting in the study, and the place where he sits is the window where his father used to sit in his memory. The plum blossoms of a tree outside the window, holding a letter from Qingzhou, feel more able to feel the feelings of my father in the past.
At the beginning of the letter, my father also asked for warmth, and even said such words: 'Jiang Liwu, since your mother passed away, my father has been in Qingzhou for a long time, and he is getting old. ā
There are also children in the letter, 'I want to be empty and full of blood, but also accompanied by your mother and daughter, imagine that the sky is high and the earth is wide from now on, let me believe in the reins, and sway my feelings. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden change in the family, and your grandfather's heart was not over, so I had to come to Qingzhou again. For your mother and daughter, for the father's heart. Mei Niang died early, and I regret it. Pity you for being lonely, why don't you have relatives for your father. ā
Two lines of clear tears slipped down Jiang Li's face. She didn't know why the tall and majestic father in her mind had the sad feelings of her mother in the past.
Next, Jiang Zongjin solemnly warned his daughter: "Since the goods from the capital are smuggling, they are now sealed according to law, and when the fines and taxes are paid, they will come to pick up and sell the goods." This was all what Jiang Li expected, she was unmoved and continued to watch.
As for the inside story, Sixi has told them one by one. It's a pity that there is no evidence, and the thief is hidden, so let's leave it alone. It's just that this reselling and smuggling work has been repeatedly warned by me before, and I am not allowed to do it again in the future! There was a bang in his head, and Jiang Li was blinded all of a sudden!
Dare she send a few boatloads of goods to Qingzhou, and call her father to be an inspector of smuggling, just to seize her own goods? Forget about a few boats of spices being detained, anyway, if you pay enough fines, you can still take them out and sell them, and besides, she didn't pay a penny, no matter how she counted, she made a lot of money.
However, the strange thing is that where did the shipload of thieves they carried go? Sixi and Ge Hai, Jiang Li is still relieved, at least he thinks that they will not join the bandits.
However, since Sixi and Ge Hai arrived in Qingzhou safely with a few boatloads of goods, and Jiang Zongjin came to check the ship and arrest the ship according to Jiang Li, obviously even the two of them thought that the dozens of boxes of treasures from Xiao Wujiao were still on the ship.
Jiang Li thought that Xiao Wu must have made trouble from it. It's just that I don't know how they stole the beams and pillars halfway and transported the treasures. It may not be difficult for them to hide Sixi, but all the way to the river, the boat is an old Jianghu Gehai, Jiang Li really can't think of when they will make a move, and he hasn't alarmed the people on his boat.
Jiang Li couldn't guess what Sixi and they had experienced along the way, and it was rare that he had a sense of justice for a while, and he wanted to come back to fake his private affairs, and by the way, he supported his father, who was silently struggling on the front line of inspection and smuggling, but he didn't expect to make a big joke for a while, and became a stupid bird who threw himself into the net.
Jiang Li was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. But touching his chin and having no beard, besides, Sixi and them are safe and sound all the way, and the meaning of doing their best for their father has arrived, and it is none of her business if she can't catch the thief or get the stolen goods. How to deal with this matter and what the consequences are, presumably my father has the bottom in his heart, Jiang Li thought, his goal has been achieved.
Sure enough, his thoughts were not in vain, and the old father praised Jiang Li at the end of the letter, and praised Jiang Li unashamedly for 'tiger father and no dog girl'.
He also said that for Jiang Li's sake of being so brave and resourceful, he would solemnly entrust her with one thing - "Brother Ru is young, after I am a hundred years old, I hope you will take you back to you for the sake of your closest relatives." Don't forget! ā
Jiang Li's smug heart just now hung up again, and he didn't understand what was going on in Qingzhou, so that his father, who was in the prime of life, said this.
Qingzhou is thousands of miles away, and Jiang Li only hopes that Sixi will come back as soon as possible and ask him clearly in person. Count the days, and in ten or so days, you should be able to come back.