In the new year, spring is blooming.

Song Fang felt depressed that day, so he brought two or three Qing guests, attracting seven or eight house slaves, to go out of the city to his own pasture in the suburbs to relax.

Although Longzhou is short of water, the river network is dense near Guyin, from Qin to the present, the successive dynasties have built water conservancy, the suburbs of the city are ten thousand hectares of fertile land, and the grassland is everywhere.

It was the mid-spring season, just after the community day, and the grass grew and the warbler flew. The willows on the shore are thousands of branches, the bubbling clear stream, the large and small springs are surrounded by abundant wild grass, mixed with colorful small flowers, and occasionally rabbits and rats are scurrying around. In the neat and endless fields, the wheat seedlings are tender and green, and under the breeze, they are swaying, exuding a light fragrance, like an undulating ocean.

Song Fang sat in the ox cart, leaning on the siderail, enjoying the scenery.

A few miles out of the city, I passed by a dock fort.

There was an earthen altar outside the wall of the fort, and a big tree was planted on the altar, which was tall and towering. There are several offerings under the tree. This earthen altar is the altar used by the people of the village to worship the shrine god on the shrine day, and the tree is the shrine tree, which is regarded by the people as the embodiment of the shrine god.

Song Fang glanced at the community altar a few times, turned to the village, and remembered something.

He beckoned, summoned the Qing Ke who followed on horseback to come closer, and asked, "Is the dock master that Xin Agua killed last year from this dock?" ”

One of the scavengers replied, "Yes." ”

"Why did he kill the dock master? To whom to avenge, right? ”

"I heard that the auxiliary general was to avenge his maid, so he killed the dock master. At that time, he sent Lan Baozhang and led Hu to ride more than 100 horses, went straight into the dock, found the dock owner, recounted his crimes, killed him immediately, and hung his head on the dock door for three days. ”

Song Fang slapped the car rails hard, was furious, and said in a loud voice: "Even if you are guilty, you should be handed over to the division for investigation!" Lynching and murder, what kind of system! In his eyes, there is no royal law! Arrogant to such an extent, hateful and hateful! ”

The words are very righteous and awe-inspiring, but his front teeth, after being dropped that day, finally fell out, and then although he found a doctor, using ivory as the material, he was given a denture, in the end it was not as easy to use as the original, and when he spoke, it was slightly leaky, resulting in a loss of three points of majesty.

The cleaners were submissive, and they all said, "Yes." ”

Among the people who followed the Song side, one of them also rode in an ox cart.

The man urged the coachman to drive the ox cart parallel to Song Fang, propped up his elbows, probed outside the car, and said to Song Fang with a smile: "Brother, Xin Agua is arrogant and lawless, and he is indeed a bastard. He killed the dock owner without anyone reporting it? I'll impeach him tomorrow! ”

The person who spoke, with a white curtain and a feather fan, was a celebrity and gentleman, not someone else, but Song Pian.

Song Fang glanced at him and said with a sneer: "Youde, Xin Agua is your current Shangguan, I heard that he is really good for you." When he came back from the Western Regions last year, he not only rewarded you with gold and silver, but also played the court, saying that you had made great contributions, and asked you for the title of middle doctor.

"Youde, you are not grateful, and you want to impeach him? It can be said that En will take revenge. Is there anyone who has done this for you? ”

Today, Song Fang traveled and was not called Song Pian. Song Pian came by herself. He rushed to curry favor with Song Pian, it was precisely because Xin Er treated him too well that he had aroused the suspicion of the Song family, and he had to find every opportunity to justify himself.

Song Pian's face was full of grievances, and she wanted to complain without a way, and said sadly: "Brother! The heart of Pian, heaven and earth can be learned! Thinking about the Western Regions, I didn't even go, where did the credit come from? This is Na Xin Agua sowing discord, brother! ”

Song Pian was appointed as a subordinate official by Xin Er in the name of the imperial court, and it stands to reason that he should follow the conquest of the Western Regions, but on the way to Jiuquan, he was sick and refused to go west from Xin Er. Xin Er didn't force him, so he left him in Jiuquan.

Song Fang "hummed" and said: "Yes, you haven't been to the Western Regions, and there is no shortage of merit and rewards. Xin Agua treats you better than your son! ”

Song Pian had a hard time arguing, wanted to cry without tears, and said, "Brother! Xin Agua is cunning, this is his trick! Brother, don't believe it! ”

Song Fang didn't bother to pay attention to him, and told the coachman to speed up.

Where will Song Pian forget about it? If he doesn't explain it clearly, I'm afraid he will become a street rat in the clan in the future.

He then hurriedly urged the coachman to chase after Song Fang's car.

The two ox carts, one in front of the other and one behind, seemed to be in a race, and the two oxen who were driving were pitied, and they were whipped out of the speed of the approaching horses.

Even the Qing guests and slaves with the Song side had to rush to speed up.

The pedestrians on the road hurriedly gave way, covering their noses and covering the dust, and they were all surprised to watch the two cars compete.

Some couldn't help whispering, thinking that this was some new style of play invented by the noble children in the city.

Arrived at the ranch.

More than eighty percent of the fertile fields and pastures in the suburbs of Guyin belong to the gates and the county.

The Song family is not a native of Guyin, but they occupy a lot of fields and pastureland.

This pasture is more than 100 miles in circumference, with herds of cattle and horses, which is unique to the Song Dynasty.

Hearing that Song Fang was coming, the head of the ranch rushed to greet him.

The principal is a bearded man, with a small braid and hakama boots, and bows down.

"Get up."

The chief stood up respectfully.

Song Fang didn't look at him, his eyes were attracted by the number of horses in the distance.

He pointed to it and asked, "Who is that?" ”

Although it was far away, the sun was shining brightly, and the pasture was unobstructed, and Song Fang's eyes were good, because he could tell that the riders were dressed differently from the slaves of this pasture, and they were richly dressed, and they were holding bows and swords.

The principal turned his head to look at who Song Fang was asking, and replied, "Back to everyone, it's An Chong and his companions." ”

"An Chong? The Sogdians? ”

"Yes."

"What is he doing on my ranch?"

"The day before yesterday, he captured dozens of Hu people and wanted to sell them to ranch."

"Where did the captives come from?"

"He claims to be an oasis in the desert."

Song Fang said in disgust: "This Hu Lu, what are you doing badly, you are taking Hu and buying and selling everywhere." Get rid of him! ”

An Chong, whose name is Jingsi, has a small reputation in Guyin and even in the entire Longdong region, but his reputation is not a good reputation.

The surname An is one of the great surnames of the Sogdians. His family, like most other Sogdian families in Longzhi, was also in business, mainly dealing in spices in the Western Regions, but in his father's generation, the business went bankrupt and the business could not continue.

The An family has settled in Longxi for several generations, and there are no relatives in the ancestral hometown, and there is no way to return to the hometown.

An Chongsheng had a big waist and a round waist, a little good ranger, and made friends with more than ten evil teenagers with similar temperaments, so he simply took another opportunity, and the spice business could not be done, so he led these evil teenagers to change his career to the slave trade.

His "slave trader" is not a serious middleman, buying and selling on both sides, and making a difference, but going deep into the desert, raiding Hu Mu's tribe, abducting his men and women, and bringing them back for sale, like a thief.

It is no wonder that high-ranking nobles like Song Fang look down on him.

When the principal responded, he was going to drive An Tie away.

Song Fang's heart moved, but he changed his mind and said, "Wait." ”

The principal asked, "Everyone?" ”

Song Fang pondered for a moment and summoned Song Pian over.

Song Pian was overjoyed, hurriedly got down from the ox cart, stepped forward, and said, "What do you want from my brother?" ”

Song Fang said: "I have something to do with you. If you can do it well, I am confident that you have nothing to do with Xin Agua. ”

Song Pian patted his chest and said, "Brother just explain, I will do it!" ”

Song Fang retreated from the left and right of everyone, and said like this.

After hearing this, Song Pian was shocked and said, "This ......." ”

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