On the third day after Ding Baotong was arrested, he divided the floating wealth of the Ding family, and confirmed that Ding Baotong's wife and children were all fake, and began to torture him, preparing to force him to interrogate the property he had purchased and the gold and silver in the cellar.

The eunuch of Datong town sent his own personal entourage, and at this time the people who tortured Ding Baotong knew that he had dedicated all his property to the eunuch, as for why the timing was so coincidental, it was because there were people staring at Ding near the house, Ding Baotong was arrested, and he quickly went to Datong City to report the news, and someone in Datong City had already established contact with the eunuch's house, and the list of Ding family's properties and goods was quickly handed over.

It is impossible for eunuchs to have descendants, so they attach great importance to gold and silver goods, but it is not so easy to make money, the civil officials are very close, once they find out, they will hold on to it, and there is no more incident that can increase the reputation than criticizing the internal officials, and the risk is still very small.

To collect money, you have to do things, not to mention that the house shops and cellars that occupy a large part of the family property have to be directed and assigned by Ding Baotong himself, and this person must also be saved, and the town guard eunuch is not ambiguous, and directly sent his cronies to go.

On the ground of Datong, there are four characters at the top, the civil official is the governor of Datong, the military general is the general of Datong, the internal official is the eunuch of Datong Town, and the vassal king is the acting king.

“...... Ding Bao's plan is actually good, and the solution is satisfactory, but he has been pampered for a long time, and he has not experienced hardship, although the torture has only been half an hour, and he has been whipped with a few salt water and pulled out two toenails, but the whole person is already frightened......"

And those who covet property have not completely let go, Ding Baotong has to leave Datong several times and turned back halfway, because someone is following, if he really gets together with his wife and children, I am afraid that the death of the whole family will come, so it has been tormented for more than ten years, the town guard eunuch has been transferred, but the civil and military generals who plotted against him have also changed, and the remaining people can also be sheltered by the power of the salt stack, Ding Baotong dared to come out to do things.

“...... He was so dead of heart that he didn't even dare to send a letter...... Look at him carefully, there are so many people in the salt stack because of his family, in front of Lao Ding, he can't do anything in business and accounts, and after being found out, he ......"

These past events made Zhu Da listen to it very enjoyable, not only the life legend of the shopkeeper Ding, but also let him know more information about Datong, the chief soldier, the governor, the town guard eunuch and the acting king, from Qin Xiucai's endless talk, he can probably judge what they are in charge of, and then he can speculate and guess more.

However, Zhu Da also has his own doubts, "Father-in-law, I heard you say that these were more than ten years ago, how old was the shopkeeper Nading when he went through this, I see him in his early forties today......"

"Ding Baotong was only thirty when he had an accident, if he wasn't young and vigorous, he wouldn't have sinned so many people, if he wasn't young and vigorous, he wouldn't have made money so ruthlessly, it is said that the list sent to the town guard eunuch's mansion back then was appalling, and after experiencing so many things, he was frightened, and he had to rely on us for protection, so he was extremely cautious and did a little too much." Qin Chuan said with a smile.

Except that Qin Qin was not interested in these stories, even Zhou Qingyun listened very carefully, these past ups and downs, and the response and planning of the shopkeeper Nading were also amazing, which was really exciting.

"Father-in-law, what happened more than ten years ago? Master also always says, and many people are saying. After waking up from a sudden illness, Zhu Da listened carefully to any conversation, and he had long noticed that many people liked to say that more than ten years ago, as if it was an important node, and today he finally asked.

Qin Xiucai was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You don't know? Yes, you shouldn't know that more than ten years ago, Emperor Wuzong led our Ming soldiers and horses to fight a big battle with the little Mongolian prince, repelled the Tartar army, and kept the peace in the north for all these years. ”

"Emperor Wuzong", Zhu Da couldn't react to who this was, he knew the name of Jiajing, but he couldn't remember who it was before and after, Xiucai Qin Chuan said this but sighed with emotion, "The royal driver is personally conquest, and the battle is engaged, such a brave son of heaven is comparable to Emperor Taizu and Emperor Chengzu......"

After sighing with emotion, Qin Xiucai seemed to remember something, quickly stopped, looked at Zhu Da and them quite seriously, and said: "What I said just now, you must not tell the outside world, that is the sin of killing the head, understand?" ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, in fact, except for Zhu Da who listened carefully, Qin Qin and Zhou Qingyun couldn't notice it, Qin Xiucai saw their reaction and also judged, and said again: "Now it's all ridiculous nonsense, and this is not bad." ”

After dinner, Qin Xiucai still had a lot of words, asked Zhu Da and the others in detail about their martial arts practice today, and told them some things about Yanzhan and Zheng Jiaji, so that they could go to bed early.

"Mr. Qin talked a little more today." Before going to bed, Zhou Qingyun said a word, he just mentioned it casually, and fell asleep after speaking.

Zhu Da knew why Qin Chuan talked a lot, and today's conversation about the fame of the imperial examination made Qin Xiucai a little excited, even nervous and frightened, so he used endless talk to cover it up, or divert his own attention.

The Ding Baotong who talked about tonight was in his twenties, extremely smart, well-planned, and purchased a large property, but in the end, he could only be an unusually careful shopkeeper in this salt stack semicolon, and spent the rest of his life in a plain and ordinary way, and he knew where his family was, but he didn't dare to reunite in the past, I don't know if Qin Chuan thought of himself when he talked about Ding Baotong, these two people are really similar in a sense.

I slept better this night than the night before, one was tired, the other was adapted, I got up early the next day, but I saw snowflakes floating outside, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun were not very excited about this, in the memories of the two of them, the winter was cold and difficult, and there were too few good memories.

Speaking of which, since the first time I saw it in Baibao Village, after the villagers were in turmoil, everyone became more and more accustomed to this beacon smoke, although it symbolized danger, but always shouted that the wolf came, the wolf always did not come, and everyone was numb again and again.

If you are in Baibao Village, you don't practice in rainy and snowy weather, not because you are afraid of hardship, but because you are worried about the cold and cold, and the house is warm here, and there are dry clothes to change, so you don't have to be careful.

Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun practiced in the snow, originally Zhou Qingyun's morning exercise was a fixed posture to repeat the action of opening the bow and repeating the six swords of the Arhat, since worshipping Xiang Bo as a teacher, these postures have become a variety of standard fitness movements, these normal postures made the Qin family amazed, and felt that it was not like practicing martial arts but like inviting God.

It didn't take long to practice, Qin Xiucai came out of the house, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun stopped their movements to greet each other, Qin Chuan smiled and agreed, Zhu Da deliberately looked at Qin Xiucai's expression at this time, there was nothing wrong, and he couldn't see so much emotion last night, as well as emotional disorders.

"After practicing today, I will take you to walk around the street, and in the future, you will live in Zhengjiaji for a long time, so you must be familiar with it."

Hearing this, Zhu Da and the others were very excited, Zhu Da felt that it was novel and interesting, and Zhou Qingyun was yearning for the prosperity here.

After Qin Qin got up and cleaned up, everyone had breakfast together, although Qin Xiucai doted on this only daughter very much, he did not relax in the details of life, such as never letting Qin Qin sleep lazy.

"Brother Zhu, is there a monster in the smoke in the sky?" was eating breakfast, Qin Qin suddenly said this.

"Fengyan said that the Tartar is here, and the Tartar is not a monster." Qin Xiucai was wrong and explained with a smile.

Qin Qin shook his head again and again, and hurriedly said, "I'm talking about birds and beasts that have changed and know mana." ”

Hearing this, the porridge in Zhu Da's mouth almost choked out, and Qin Qin had not forgotten yesterday's story, and after he swallowed it, he hurriedly explained: "The smoke in the sky is for a warning, and it has nothing to do with yesterday's story." ”

The girl didn't seem to understand, and when she heard "It's okay", she continued to eat in disappointment, Qin Xiucai shook her head with a smile, and said to Zhu Da: "At your age, you know too much, which is not a good thing." ”

Without waiting for Zhu Da to answer, Qin Xiucai asked again, "Do you know what's going on with this beacon smoke?" ”

"Master said, the first time I saw this beacon smoke, the whole village was frightened, but my master could see it clearly, and said that there was no need to be too anxious, the signal of the beacon smoke was that the enemy had not yet entered the border wall, but was only moving outside."

After listening to Zhu Da's answer, Qin Xiucai nodded, put down his chopsticks and explained: "If the enemy really enters the blockade, one by one the beacons will warn, and the wolf smoke will rush to the sky, even if you can't understand the signal at that time, you will know that something big has happened, but now it is just a routine matter, and the officers and soldiers guarding the wall are dealing with it." ”

"Father-in-law, when I was in the village, I heard that the smoke had not risen for more than ten years, but these days have not stopped, and the Mongols have called again?" Zhu Da asked, he had too many questions, waiting for the right time to ask, this is one.

Qin Xiucai took a sip of tea, and Zhu Da could see that Qin Chuan was also seizing every opportunity to educate and teach: "Didn't we talk about the Battle of Yingzhou yesterday?" After that battle, the little prince soon fell ill and died, the nobles below him had no leader, and the war was endless, the grassland was not a monolith, no matter how small the tribe was also given the opportunity to go to the land of abundant water and grass, the Mongolian tribes were afraid of the Ming Dynasty again, and no matter how big the tribe was, they did not dare to easily offend. ”