Hearing the question of the pseudo-Tang official in front of him, Dong Songan immediately said: "Our Dong family has always been a scholarly family that cultivates and reads heirlooms, and is definitely not a villain, and now our family of more than 30 people temporarily lives here to avoid the war, and there are many female dependents in the family. ”

When he said this, the little guy next to him was already holding the silver and handing it to Qu Guangtai!

Qu Guangtai did not selflessly push away the silver, but took it, this is five taels of silver, more than his monthly salary, and this money is not his alone, there are a bunch of brothers waiting to share the profits.

However, receiving money does not mean that they have to be let go, the money must be taken, and things must be done, as a retired soldier of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, he is so principled.

This has something to do with his former military status, the military law of the Datang New Army has always been strict, and those who dare not obey orders and neglect their duties have always been punished very harshly.

So in a short period of time, he didn't dare to neglect his duties, but the poor and scared people will always not let go easily when they see money.

It can also be seen from this that the current rules and regulations of the Tang Dynasty are not perfect, and the rule of officials can be regarded as a blank.

Qu Guangtai quietly accepted the silver, and at the same time secretly thought about what the origin of this Dong family was, and whether it would cause any trouble to his village.

Dong Songan's simple sentence before basically explained the origin of the Dong family and the reason for coming here, Qu Guangtai nodded slightly after hearing this, because even if Dong Songan didn't say it, he could probably guess the reason why the Dong family appeared here.

Because big families like them are basically fleeing, and as long as they don't do any radical confrontational reactions, the Tang Dynasty will generally not embarrass them, and treat them the same as other gentry and big families!

Even if it is a pseudo-civil official family, as long as you don't make trouble, don't openly promote that Lao Tzu's family is a big official in the Ming Dynasty, and when the imperial army comes back, he will kill all of you mud legs and other remarks, the Tang Dynasty often turns a blind eye.

There is no way, the big gentry families in these years are often scholars, and the scholars have studied hard for decades in order to participate in the imperial examination to become officials, so there must be people in those really big families who were officials in the Ming Dynasty.

If they are all arrested and killed, then Xingquan Mansion will honestly not be left with any real scholarly families.

Moreover, you have killed all the family members, and those officials who were officials in the Ming Dynasty have no intention of encouraging the imperial court to send troops to suppress their Tang Dynasty.

Today's Tang Dynasty needs time, so in many things it is better to have less than more, anyway, as long as these gentry are big families, then it is a family with someone in the Ming Dynasty who is an official, as long as they don't take the initiative to make trouble and pay taxes honestly, then the Tang Dynasty will not take the initiative to make trouble.

Therefore, even if Qu Guangtai guessed that the Dong family might be an official family, he didn't plan to make more trouble, but Qu Guangtai was about to say a few words about the scene, so that they would honestly stop making trouble, and then take the money and prepare to go back, when he suddenly remembered something, and said to Dong Songan in a serious tone: "You said that your Dong family is a scholarly family that cultivates and reads heirlooms?" Where is it from? But Chint Dong's? ”

Hearing this person's words, and seeing this person's serious expression again, Dong Song secretly said in peace of mind that it was not good!

How could this pseudo-Tang official leader suddenly say the four words Zhengtai Dong? Could it be that they know that their family is Zhengtai Dong, and they know that their father is an official in Jiangnan?

Dong Songan's guess is not right!

Qu Guangtai did guess that the Dong family was an official family, but the reason why he asked a 'Zhengtai Dong family' was because he overheard the officers above say that their Tang Dynasty Empress Dong was the daughter of the Zhengtai Dong family.

And Zhengtai Dong's family, and Zhengtai County is in the forefront of the reputation of a scholarly family, there are people in the past generations to participate in the imperial examination as an official, it is rumored that the Dong family more than ten years ago was admitted to the top three Jinshi, and now is in Jiangnan as an official, I heard that it is still a Zhizhou.

Such a Dong family is naturally a real scholarly family and an official family, and the queen Dong family is also a real lady.

Although this rumor only circulated in a small area within the Tang Dynasty, he had occasionally heard the officers above him talk about it, and he didn't think there was anything before, but after seeing this Dong family today, he immediately had a conjecture, this Dong family, could it be the Zhengtai Dong family? Queen Dong's maiden family?

When Dong Songan heard this, he was slightly stunned, but he said: "No, our Dong family originally lived in Xingquan Mansion City, and it is not the same family as the Zhengtai Dong family!" ”

No matter why the pseudo-Tang official in front of him asked this, Dong Songan would not admit it stupidly, but in his heart, he had already made up his mind that he could not stay in this village, and he had to leave this place as soon as possible, this Xingquan Mansion was too dangerous for his family.

After Qu Guangtai heard this, he showed a hint of suspicion, he suspected that this person was lying.

But even if he told a lie, he couldn't break in for a while, because if this person really told a lie, they were Zhengtai Dong's words, this person was the uncle of the country, and he broke into the queen's house and disturbed the female dependents.

immediately suppressed the suspicion in his heart, and then nodded slightly: "Well, since that's the case, then I'll go back first!" ”

After all, he didn't stop here, he just took people away.

But after this went away, he instructed his two subordinates: "You take a look at the people of the Dong family, and report to me as soon as they have any movements!" ”

After leaving someone to monitor the Dong family, Qu Guangtai quickly sent someone to the town and reported the relevant situation to the sheriff.

The town sheriff is also a retired soldier, but he was an officer before he retired, and a lieutenant platoon commander before he retired.

It's just that he was born as a bandit in his early years, and Li Xuan has now successively cleared out those bandit-born officers back then, either transferred to the garrison camp or transferred to the sheriff, and he is also one of them.

Although this person is not good at fighting, but the kind of cleverness of the bandits is there, as soon as he heard about the situation of the Dong family, he immediately guessed, I am afraid that this matter is not simple, maybe this Dong family is really likely to be Zhengtai Dong's family, the queen's mother's family.

Immediately, he quickly sent someone to report the relevant situation.

In less than a day, the news reached the ears of the relevant person in charge of the Hanlin Academy, who was responsible for finding the Dong family.

However, the relevant person in charge of the Hanlin Academy did not inform Li Xuan as soon as possible, because there had been several oolongs before, saying that he had found the report of Dong Jiaxing Chongchong to Li Xuan, but later it was officially that it was not the Dong family.

This time, they planned to find out whether this Dong family was the Zhengtai Dong family and then report it to Li Xuan.

Immediately, they sent people to the courtyard where the Dong family had originally settled in Xingquan Mansion, and took away two of the few people who were watching the house and had seen the owner of the Dong family, and prepared to go to Guanghe Village to recognize people.

The next day, seven or eight people rushed to Guanghe Village, and by the end of the evening, Qu Guangtai had seen someone coming.

He was taken aback when he saw the visitor, because the identity of the person who came was not simple.

Not only his immediate boss, the town sheriff, but also the town mayor and a bachelor from the Hanlin Academy, the head of the intelligence section.

After the restructuring, although it also imitated the Hanlin Academy of the Ming Dynasty, there are titles such as bachelor in charge, bachelor of waiting, bachelor of waiting, waiter reading, waiter lecture, etc., but at the same time a total of eight departments were set up, and the section chief of each section is a real power person, and the waiter bachelor is the servant.

As for the bachelors, there are only a few, usually as Li Xuan's entourage secretary, and as for the bachelor in charge of the academy, he is naturally the head of the Hanlin Academy.

The staff of each department is served by the attendant and the attendant, and there are also non-fixed officials such as compilation and editing, and the position in each department is the probationary clerk.

The bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, the head of a section, is also a middle-level official in the Tang Dynasty, and Qu Guangtai has never seen such a high-level official.

After seeing this waiter, his legs trembled a little!

After talking about the situation of the Dong family intermittently, I saw this waiter and said, "Let's go, go to the Dong family and have a look!" ”

This attendant has been in charge of finding the Dong family for a long time, and there has been no progress, and now that he has a clue, he will naturally not let it go, so he did not hesitate to personally rush to Guanghe Village for a day.

So, Qu Guangtai and a group of more than ten people were ready to go to the Dong family manor again.

At this time, the Dong family was packing up their things, preparing to leave at night.

Qu Guangtai's performance yesterday made Dong Songan suspicious, and his intuition told him that he couldn't stay in this Guanghe Village, and he originally thought that he would leave overnight last night, but they had been running around for so many days, and the family was already exhausted, especially the female dependents were even more tired and couldn't walk, and it was not suitable for escape during the day, so they were ready to wait until tonight.

They packed up the fines, set up the carriage, and waited for the night to fall, but before it was dark, someone hurriedly ran in to report, saying that the official messenger of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty came again, saying that the Ming army spies had been found during the day today, and they wanted to check the personnel in the village in detail to prevent the Ming army spies from escaping into the Dong family manor.

"These thieves are really lawless, they just gave them silver yesterday, why did they come again one day!" Dong Laoweng couldn't help but scold at this time.

Immediately said: "An'er, you go out and send those thieves away!" ”

Dong Songan was ordered to go out, but on the way out, he had a very bad intuition in his heart!