Wang Xun died violently, Su Rong didn't shed a single tear, just sat still and didn't say a word, and her seven-year-old daughter Wang Yue didn't seem to care much about her father's death, and she was very impatient with the people who came in and out of the house, and she lost her temper several times. Four-year-old Wang Ling didn't know that her father was no longer there, so she flipped and moved in the arms of the nurse, making a lot of trouble, and when she saw her aunt coming, Wang Ling was overjoyed and opened her arms to ask for a hug. Su Qing barely squeezed out a smile, hugged her nephew in her arms and kissed and pinched her heartache. Seeing that the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, the nurse took Wang Ling over and took her out.

"Don't say it, don't say it."

The tears that Su Rong had been holding back finally burst out of her eyes, and it was difficult to suppress them.

"Before returning to my hometown for my birthday, he handed me the key, and when I asked him what he meant, he smiled and said, 'You're not too small, it's time to share the burden for me.'" After getting married for so many years, he has always treated me as a child, arranged everything well, and didn't let me do anything. I feel very surprised, it is said that Maohua is very powerful in Yunzhou, and the Wang family in Qingzhou, the Li family in Yingtian, and the Fang family in the Yajun have all been handled by him, arrested many people, and killed rivers of blood. He has stepped through the door of our house since he married you, and this time he has nothing to do, and I don't think it's a good thing...... I asked him, but he didn't say anything, and called me suspicious. ”

Su Rong wiped away her tears and chattered: "He has been in charge of Caozhou government affairs for more than a year, and he doesn't rise, fall or leave, how can I not worry?" I asked someone to go to Yunzhou to inquire, they said that in the early years, he and Jieshuai were brothers, and then they fell out because of something, and he was a member of the Wang family, Wang, Wang, Li, and Fang, and the three families were all recruited, how could the Wang family be spared? Maohua is here at this moment, what good things can he do? I persuaded him not to go to Chengwu, but he didn't listen, but comforted me and said that he was the head of Caozhou, and the judge of the military government came, how could he not come forward, this is not in accordance with the rules. You don't know his temper, how dare I persuade him, I have been with him for a few days, and I lived in fear. ”

"When we returned to Caozhou safely, we all thought we had escaped. The day before yesterday, he suddenly transferred the salt patrol team back, and I had a premonition that something was going to happen, and sure enough, Maohua came at dusk. I persuaded him to leave Caozhou, go away and fly high, go to Chang'an to find my brother, our savings are enough for us to live the rest of our lives, even if we eat chaff vegetables, I am also willing, he yelled at me, saying that I am a woman's opinion, he sent the salt patrol team back to the city to protect the safety of Maohua, Maohua offended too many people, how many people hated him. I think this can also be said in the past, I asked the people in the state court, and they said that Maohua went to Nanhua County to inquire about the case, but only through Caozhou. I...... I even believed it......"

Su Qing was speechless to comfort her sister, it was too difficult for her to judge the truth and falsehood in the officialdom. She wiped her tears and persuaded Su Rong: "I asked Maohua, he has nothing to do with this matter, brother-in-law, he ...... It was really an accident. ”

Su Qing didn't dare to say anything later, she found that Su Rong's gaze was like an awl, her sister Su Rong's temper has always been very good, gentle to almost cowardly, growing up from a young age, no matter how rude and willful she is, bullying her, she has always laughed and never bothered with her.

"Get out, get out!"

Su Rong, who was furious, became a completely different person, and Su Qing was stunned, standing there at a loss. Su Qing's nurse Meng Shi was in the courtyard at the moment, pretending to look at the flowers, but her ears were pricked up to listen to the conversation between the sisters, and when she saw that the situation was not good, she hurriedly rushed in and pulled Su Qing away. Su Qing was really frightened by her sister's hideous face, and stood there motionless, letting her pull her arm and drag her away.

Back at the Su family's business inn in Caozhou, Su Qing locked herself in the house alone, and Meng Shi didn't let her close the door in order to monitor her and prevent her from doing anything stupid, Su Qing smiled faintly and said to the nurse: "Don't worry, I'm not that stupid." Su Qing thought a lot alone, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, Li Mao had only met twice before marrying her, and the words he had said added up to no more than ten sentences, and he couldn't talk about any feelings.

After marriage, the relationship between husband and wife has become closer and closer, but Li Mao has always been lukewarm to the Su family, Su Qing did not dare to complain in the slightest, after all, the Su family was ashamed of him first, and it was really difficult for him to love himself and the Su family at the same time. This time he offered to congratulate Su Zhen on his birthday, which made her feel extremely surprised, she analyzed with Meng for a long time, and came to the conclusion that Li Mao's official had become bigger, and he wanted to come back to show off and raise his eyebrows in front of her mother's family. It's okay, he raised his eyebrows, the Su family also had face, and he was even more polished, which was a good thing for everyone to be happy about.

When she went to Caozhou to invite her brother-in-law and sister, Su Rong asked her if there was anything else to do when Li Mao returned to her hometown, she was completely carried away by joy at that time, and she didn't hear her sister's voice at all, so she replied smartly: "No, the dead ghost is an official, come back and show off, so what's the problem?" ”

Now think about how stupid and cute I was at that time, Li Mao even handled a serious case in Yunzhou, how many people he offended, it was already a rare thing to go out of the city and return to his hometown at this moment, the dignified military judge and the shogunate picket did not return to Yunzhou after the completion of the work, but was tripped in Caozhou by the case of a small county lieutenant, which itself is very unreasonable, and as soon as he appeared in Caozhou, his brother-in-law Wang Xun died suddenly of drinking, Wang Xun is upright, life is very self-disciplined, how can he get drunk alone?

After getting drunk, he played with a sword, and poured cold water on his head when he was hot, this argument is untenable. Wang Xun is a child of a family, how can he not even understand this way of self-cultivation?

Su Qing found a wine shop near Wang's house, and paid for Xiao Er to invite Wang Xun's housekeeper Wang Yong to come out and see him. Wang Xun has been in charge of the judicial circles of Caozhou all the year round, and he has the life and death honor and disgrace of hundreds of thousands of small people in his hands, and there is an endless stream of people who ask him to do things.

Wang Yong is Wang Xun's companion reading boy, he grew up together, and he has lived a very nourishing life with Wang Xun's power over the years. After Wang Xun's death, he was warned by Qingmo not to talk nonsense, otherwise he might be killed. Wang Yong has been in the officialdom for many years, how can he not know the evil of officialdom, and where he dares to talk nonsense. At this moment, when he heard that someone was begging him, he smiled bitterly in his heart, the secret road must have come from a remote place, and he didn't know that today's Caozhou was not yesterday, and his market was not as good as before.

I don't see it, and I think that I will soon go back to Shouzhang's hometown to farm the land, and since then I have faded out of the rivers and lakes, the money sent to the door, not for nothing, so I secretly changed out of the mourning clothes and slipped out, the waist pole is still quite straight, still swaggering, still eyes above the top, empty eyes, but the feet are not as solid as in the past, slightly fluttering, but the more and more empty.

Seeing the shopkeeper who was too lazy to take a look at him in the past, Wang Yong saw the light like a thief, and his nervous heart fluttered. Xiao Er was still full of spring breeze, bowed down and introduced into the backyard, everything was as usual. Wang Yong stood in front of the steps of the main house, looked up at the white sun, the sun was still warm, how could he have a little cool autumn feeling, the environment has not changed, but the mood has changed.

The door of the main house was closed, he frowned, a little unhappy, who is coming, so ignorant? If he turned his head and walked away in the past, today is not the same as in the past, he coughed, straightened his clothes, squeezed out a little smile, pushed the door and walked in.

A quarter of an hour later, Su Qing slammed the door angrily, and after half a cup of tea, Wang Yong helped the door out, his face was bruised and swollen, his head was sweating, his steps were weak, and the person seemed to have been hollowed out, the sun was still warm, but his heart was frozen. Under Su Qing's coercion and temptation, he said everything that should be said and what should not be said, Su Qing coaxed him to keep it a secret, but seeing that this posture was going to kill someone, the housekeeper didn't even feel bitter, and ran away with a sad face.

"You're lying, you're lying to me, you're forcing him to death."

Li Mao's door was kicked open, Qingmo, who was sitting opposite the public case, and Mo Qi, who was standing behind him, jumped up in shock, seeing that Su Qing's eyes were slightly red, and he was angry, the two left Li Mao and withdrew silently.

"Don't be cranky." Li Mao smiled, unfazed. He grabbed Su Qing's arm and tried to appease her, but she threw her away roughly. Li Mao's perfunctory behavior made Su Qing even more convinced that Wang Xun's death was related to him.

"Stooge, lackey!" Su Qing is like a crazy leopard, "I don't care whose lackey you are, but you bite my family, I can't forgive, I will never forgive, I hate you!" Su Qing ran out crying, Qingmo, who retreated to the porch, listened outside the door, and when Su Qing opened the door, he was full of smiles, trying to explain something, but was rudely pushed to the ground by Su Qing.

Mo Qi's divine power asked Li Mao whether to recover Su Qing with his eyes, Li Mao shook his head helplessly, with Su Qing's personality, chasing her back at this time would only add fuel to the fire.

Wang Xun's violent death, Zheng Heye was investigated, Liang Chengdong was silent, and after hesitating again and again, he took the initiative to come to Li Mao to express his willingness to return to Yunzhou. Li Mao soothed: "I am also very sad about Wang Changshi's death, but it was just an accident, Zheng Heye did say something that should not be said, but don't worry, brother, I will verify it one by one, and I will never let my brother be wronged." Over the years, you have worked hard in Caozhou, and the marshal is still very satisfied with you, and you still have the opportunity to go up with your qualifications. If you go back to Yunzhou at this moment, I am afraid that there may not be a suitable position. Walking in officialdom is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. Have you really figured it out? ”

Li Maoneng put himself in Liang Chengdong's shoes, which made Liang Chengdong very grateful, he got up and thanked him, and sighed: "At the beginning, I was sent to Caozhou by the commander of the festival to assist Wang Changshi in investigating Mi Rulong, and I have been stranded here since then. Now, Wang Changshi is martyred, Yunzhou will inevitably send an assassin to come, my mission has been completed, my wife is in Yunzhou, as the saying goes, it is difficult to last alone, I don't want to be so wasted at this age. ”

Li Mao saw that he had made up his mind, so he stopped persuading, laughed, and said: "This is a big deal, my brother has really made up his mind, and my brother is willing to help." ”

Before the arrival of the new assassin Shi, Li Mao used the Zheng Heye case as a breakthrough to turn Caozhou's one city and four counties upside down. Caozhou is located in the southwest of Ziqing, connected to Xuanwu, Biansong, Zhenghua three roads, isolated and unvalued, officialdom self-growth, inbreeding, self-contained, although after suppression, still maintains a relatively complete system.

Now this system has become full of holes with the sudden death of Wang Xun and the resignation of Liang Chengdong, and is on the verge of collapse under Li Mao's vigorous purge. Li Mao's purge of Caozhou officialdom was not instructed by Li Shigu, he was an official in Chengwu, and he knew the darkness of the officialdom here, and now he is in power, so he is just doing something good for the local people.