Although the people in the village are poor, fortunately, the fields are all their own fields left by their ancestors, and the land deeds are all in the hands of the villagers themselves, so they can grow enough food by themselves without having to be tenants. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But the farmers who were forced to buy their fields can no longer support themselves, but the situation is much better than that of Li Tuwa's family.

After all, if the family has enough labor, they can still barely survive with food and clothing.

However, Li Tuwa's family is different, because his father is sick and bedridden, he can't leave the iron village to help in the city, so he can only help the same village or neighboring villages to do some casual and short-term labor in the village, just like Wang's Grange.

Three days is the limit, or Li Tuwa asked the neighbor's uncle, and it was also the neighbor's uncle's family who pitied Li Tuwa, a young man who had no mother and was almost without a father, and promised to help take care of Li Tuwa's father for three days, but it would not work for a long time.

came out of Wang's Grange once as a helper, and Li Tuwa didn't go again.

Luo Gong asked, "Why didn't you go?" ”

After chatting, perhaps a little more familiar, Li Tuwa was no longer afraid of Luo Gong, hearing Luo Gong's question, he thought about it and answered:

"It's not that I don't want to go, it's that they don't want me to ......"

The head of the Qu Zhuang of Wangjia Grange made it rumored that people who were too thin and had little strength should not be recruited into Wangjia Grange to help, and Li Tuwa was one of the people who was eliminated.

After going there once, he got medicine for his father twice, and bought some pork back, so that he and his father had more oil and water in their intestines, and Li Tuwa spent his salary.

The most expensive of them is his father's medicine, but the medicine can't be stopped.

As soon as he stopped, his father would cough incessantly for half a while, as he did today.

Luo Gong asked, can you take him and Liancheng to the foot of the mountain in Li Tuwa's mouth?

Li Tuwa was a little hesitant, obviously worried about her father at home.

In the end, Li Tuwa didn't take Luo Gong and the others there, but only gave directions.

Following the direction, the two walked all the way and asked all the way, and they came to the foot of the mountain in Li Tuwa's mouth smoothly.

At the foot of the mountain is a barren place, the once green fields have been deserted, and the weeds are growing wildly, almost reaching the knees of adults.

After looking at it for a while, Luo Gong didn't go up the mountain, and the mountain didn't have a name, the people in the village called it the nameless mountain, pointed to the nameless mountain and let Liancheng recognize it clearly, and turned around to tell Li Xinshu about it, and let Li Xinshu take people to this nameless mountain to check it.

After that, he himself returned to Li Tuwa's house, and Liancheng returned to the city to investigate the affairs of the Nameless Mountain and the fields of the villagers of Naqiang Maitatie Village, according to his instructions, and let Li Xinshu check them out.

Liancheng didn't follow Luo Gong back, Li Tuwa only asked, knowing that Liancheng had returned to the city, so she didn't ask again.

When it was almost time for dinner, Liancheng came back with a sumptuous cooked meal.

In addition to the cooked food, Liancheng also went to buy a bag of rice, several catties of pickled meat, fresh vegetables and fruits, and put a lot of food on the table in the house, but he couldn't put it on the table, so he had to put it at the foot of the table.

Li Tuwa was dumbfounded, staring at Liancheng, and then staring at a large pile of food, standing stiffly for a long time, unable to make a sound.

Luo Gong looked at it but showed a knowing smile.

Most of the people brought out by Yushi are like her, kind and upright, nosy, but in the end, they can make heart-warming surprises.

Liancheng patted Li Tuwa on the shoulder: "Don't stand stupidly, those cooked foods, let's eat them for the four of us at night, those cured meats are okay if they are left for a long time, vegetables and fruits have to be eaten while they are fresh, after having this bag of rice, you and your father don't have to eat only those wild vegetables to satisfy hunger......"

It wasn't until dinner was finished that Li Tuwa returned to the outhouse after feeding her father in the inner room with the food, and he gradually came back to his senses.

The food bought by Liancheng had been placed on an old low cabinet in the corner of the outhouse, and the rice bag that could not be put was leaning against the edge of the low cabinet.

The solid bag of rice, the aroma of cured meat, and the freshness of vegetables and fruits made his hands tremble uncontrollably.

It's all true!

He and his father were finally able to eat for a long time!

Lian Cheng wanted to step forward and say two or three words, but was stopped by Luo Gong.

After a long time, Li Tuwa came back to his senses from the sudden joy of harvest, he walked back to the table and wanted to sit down, it can be seen that the two stools were sitting on Luo Gong and Liancheng, and he walked a few steps to the threshold of the house and squatted down:

"What do you want to spend the night for?"

Luo Gong didn't answer: "Can you tell me why the villagers of Datie Village refuse to let outsiders stay overnight?" ”

Li Tuwa fell silent again, only this time he was not silent for long, and then he spoke:

"Because before you, someone came to Wang's Grange and gave a lot of silver...... Not only in our village, but also in Edamame Village and Linjia Village are the same. ”

Sealing his mouth with wealth again, Liancheng looked at Luo Gong and said:

"They're pretty fast!"

Luo Gong ignored Liancheng's words, and just asked Li Tuwa again:

"You don't have a cashier?"

Li Tuwa said: "Yes, I took it, and my father said that I must accept it, otherwise they would be suspicious, but my father asked me to put it up, and I didn't spend half of it." ”

As she spoke, Li Tuwa entered the inner room, and when she came out, she was holding a cloth bag in her hand, and inside was a silver ingot with a full hundred taels.

He said that every household in the village has it.

At dawn, Luo Gong left Li Tuwa's house early in the morning with Liancheng as promised.

When Liancheng gave Li Tuwa 100 taels for the lodging fee, he refused to accept it, saying that the food that Liancheng bought for him and his father was enough and could no longer be collected.

In the end, Liancheng failed to resist Li Tuwa's temper like nine cows once he decided it.

It was Luo Gong who said something to Li Tuwa, he looked at Luo Gong in a daze for a long time, and then ran into the back room to talk to his father.

When he came out again, he neatly accepted a hundred taels of silver that had been rejected by Liancheng for a long time.

On the way back to the city, Lian Cheng asked Luo Gong what he had said to Li Tuwa.

Luo Gong said, it's nothing, just one meaning - accept it, and when the time is ripe in the future, return the silver ingot given by Wang's Grange.

Liancheng nodded, and thought of another question:

"My lord, you said that we have been to Li Tuwa's house like this, if the Wang family knows about it, they will not kill it, right?"

Luo Gong said: "Don't worry, the person who came is me, they are not also blatantly at this point, not to mention that this will be an extraordinary period, if they do it at this juncture, it will undoubtedly not be self-defeating, Wang Hai is not so stupid, the foreign steward around him is not stupid, and Mrs. Wang will not allow such a stupid thing to happen." ”

Liancheng listened, and finally returned to his original place.

As soon as he returned to the city and stepped into the Jinyu Inn, Bingwei greeted him:

"Your Excellency!"

Li Xinshu was also there, and followed forward to salute:

"Your Excellency!"

Not in the lobby, Luo Gong motioned for everyone to go upstairs to talk.

When I got to the upstairs platform and sat down on the side of the alley downstairs, the shopkeeper quickly went to breakfast.

Luo Gong and Liancheng have not been used, and Bingwei and Li Xinshu have both been used.

The four of them sat down, two sat back to check the progress of the matter, and the two had breakfast.

Speaking of which, the situation on Bingwei's side is similar to the situation that Luo Gong secretly visited, they are all sealed by the Wang family's money envoys, and they don't let people stay overnight, and even the xenophobic situation is much more serious than the situation encountered by the two of them on Luo Gong's side.

Bingwei said: "Those villagers just took a broom to drive me out of the village!" ”

Li Xinshu talked about the situation of the Nameless Mountain.

The hill had always been a dense forest, with wild boars, poisonous snakes, and wolves, as well as some tame and non-aggressive small animals such as rabbits, which were occasionally hunted by the villagers of neighboring villages for income and tooth sacrifices.

There will be a few hunters in the village, who go to the nameless mountain to hunt for many years, except for their own tooth sacrifices, most of them are sold in the city in exchange for silver to make a living.

Li Xinshu did not take a few brocade guards up the mountain, but found nothing.

Later, when he heard that some hunters often went up to the mountains to hunt, he asked a hunter from a village.

Of course, it is not a gentle and reasonable way like Luo Gong, Liancheng and Bingwei, but directly arrests people to a secluded place and asks them.

When Li Xinshu said this, seeing Luo Gong raising his eyes and looking at him while drinking gruel, he hurriedly promised:

"Don't worry, sir! Absolutely did not expose the identity of Jinyiwei, nor did it hurt anyone...... At most, they have suffered from flesh and skin, otherwise they will all grit their teeth and refuse to let go! ”

This point is deeply experienced by Liancheng and Bingwei, who went deep into the bottom to contact the villagers and failed to communicate.

Bingwei can still hold himself, and he has no expression.

Liancheng was biting on the crispy pancakes, nodding and dropping his mouth full of sesame seeds to the table.

Luo Gong nodded slightly and motioned for Li Xinshu to continue.

The Orion was coerced and intimidated by Li Xinshu, and soon recruited all of them.

After all, compared to the thorns that Jinyiwei usually tortured to extract confessions, the hunters who had lived in the small village for most of their lives were simply vulnerable.

Orion said that they had not gone up the mountain to hunt for months, and they did not know what had become of the Nameless Mountain today.

As for what it used to be, Orion couldn't come up with an anomaly after thinking about it for a long time.

In Orion's opinion, Nameless Mountain is a mountain that can sustain him, where can there be anything abnormal?

Does a sudden loss of a few wild boars count?

And all of a sudden, it seems that the lack of wolves counts?

And the weak rabbit pheasant has also been drastically reduced, does it count?

"Wait......" Luo Gong cut off Li Xinshu's last count, put down the bowl of porridge that had been drunk, and asked: "Orion said that in the past month before they stopped hunting in the mountains, there were suddenly fewer fierce and non-aggressive animals in the mountains and forests?" ”

Li Xinshu nodded, then hesitated:

"Do you think there's something wrong with this?"

If so, what if there is a problem?

He didn't ask!

Just when Li Xinshu was nervous, fortunately, Luo Gong didn't want to ask anything more, but let him continue to speak, which made him greatly relieved.

Orion makes a living by hunting, and if they no longer go up to the mountains to hunt, it will undoubtedly cut off their livelihood.

Li Xinshu asked.

Orion said that it was not that they did not want to go up the mountain to hunt again, but that someone had let them go and forbade them to go up the mountain again!

Liancheng wiped the oil stains on the corner of his mouth: "Why? Who put the words? ”

These two questions were also what Luo Gong and Bing Wei wanted to ask, and Liancheng looked at Li Xinshu with three pairs of eyes.

Li Xinshu felt pressured, mainly because he hadn't thoroughly found out:

"Why don't you let Orion go up to the Nameless Mountain again, Orion doesn't know, and I can't find out the reason for the time being...... As for who put it, I only know roughly that there is a rich family in the city, and the specific person is still ......"

In the end, Li Xinshu became quieter and quieter.

Luo Gong didn't show any dissatisfaction, he had finished breakfast, and when he heard Li Xinshu's answer, he only said:

"Find out the family as soon as possible, I want the specific name and purpose, and the land of the villagers in Datie Village at the foot of the mountain should also be bought by this family, and the reason will be investigated together."

Li Xinshu should be, and after listening to Luo Gong's instructions, he immediately left the Jinyu Inn to run errands.

Luo Gong turned around, and also instructed Bing Wei to continue to stare at Wang Bian, if Wang Zhongtong didn't make any movement, let Bing Wei go to Wang Zhongtong's private mansion to explore again, especially about the problem he mentioned, it must be confirmed.

Bing Wei took his life and left quickly.

After Liancheng finished breakfast and asked the shopkeeper to go upstairs to clean up, he asked Luo Gong what he was going to do?

Luo Gong thought about it, and asked Lian Cheng to go to Wang's mansion to explore the movements of Wang Hai and Mrs. Wang, and the foreign steward should also pay attention.

At the end, when Liancheng was about to leave, Luo Gong added:

"You go into Wang's Mansion to investigate, and see if the Wang family has anything to do with the strangeness of Nameless Mountain?"

As for himself, there are people who have mixed up with Li Xinshu in the two Wangjia Granges, and the news will come sooner or later, and he plans to meet Meng Jun for a while.

So after Liancheng left, Luo Gong also left the Golden Jade Inn.

He could not come openly, so he came secretly.

With his skills, it was easy to avoid the servants and subordinates in the Meng Mansion and quietly enter the courtyard of the Meng army.

But the problem was that he was a little unsure of which of the several courtyards in the backyard Meng Jun's yard was.

After he quietly walked through one by one and walked through two courtyards, he finally found it.

Meng Jun stood under the corridor, holding a letter in his hand, which he had already opened and read.

After being stunned for a while, Meng Jun turned back into the house and burned the letter clean.

When Luo Gong entered the house, he only saw a little black ash in a copper basin:

"Is it a letter from Yushi?"

Meng Jun was taken aback, pointed at Luo Gong and couldn't speak for a long time, and finally swallowed the breath that was almost choked by fright, and replied calmly:

"Yes...... How did you get in? When did you come in? What do you want to do by sneaking in? ”

A series of questions burst out like crackling sparks, and Luo Gong raised his eyebrows to one side, took a few steps to himself, and sat down in a circle chair in the room, looking anti-customer-oriented:

"Yushi is asking you to tell me unreservedly, and give me the evidence that you have in your hand to prove that Wang Zhongtong is the head wolf, isn't it?"

Meng Jun looked at Luo Gong, and it was really hard to imagine that the person in front of him was actually the supreme commander of the Jinyi Guard Yamen in Beijing.

Why didn't this person have the slightest sense that he shouldn't trespass into people's houses? (To be continued.) )