Chapter 16: Gossip and Midnight Storm (I)
One. Night rain
I don't know what year it is, in short, Du Duzhen is about twenty years old, and he is walking outside to come back, it is getting late, and it is raining heavily. Du Duzhen was unlucky, and saw an old house with a hidden door in front of him, and there was a fire inside, so he decided to go in to hide from the rain.
The house was still cold, Du Duzhen sniffed, and saw that there were many people sitting by the fire in the house.
The closest to the fire was a girl, who seemed to be about the same age as him, and she didn't even glance at him, and she looked very difficult to get along with. Across from the girl sat a man who looked like a teacher, with his back to Du Duzhen, unable to see his face clearly. There seemed to be a couple next to Mr. Teach, and the man was breaking bread for the woman to eat, and the woman looked pale, perhaps suffering from the cold. Leaning on the broken wooden board in the house, there was a gorgeously dressed man, who looked like the young master of a large family, as if he disdained to be in the company of this group of people, so he hid far away. In the end, it was the man by the door, who seemed to be weak, and he also bowed his head to think about his own business and ignored others.
Du Duzhen also walked in, and Mr. Teaching moved: "Do you want to bake the fire?" ”
Du Duzhen nodded embarrassedly.
"This brother has a yellowish complexion, and he seems to have a bad spleen and stomach." The husband of the couple said, "Shall I show you? ”
"No need." Du Duzhen hurriedly said, "If Mr. is really free, tell me a story." It's also fateful for everyone to meet today, so let's talk about our own stories. ”
Everyone was attracted by his words.
"I can tell a story." Mr. Teaching said slowly.
Two. Wang Yiliang's story
"I am an antique dealer, my name is Wang Yiliang. My family used to be a big family, but then my family fell into the middle of the road, and I made a living by selling antiques. No one who is in the antique business knows that the best jade in the world today is the third jade found by Sikong Zhan from Wind and Rain City, also known as Sikong Jade. At that time, Sikong Zhan only found three pieces of wool that could be carved, and later made jade seals, Hou Yin, and general orders respectively. The jade seal has been hidden in the Yangri Palace, the Hou Yin has also been hidden in the Hou Mansion, and the general's order is used as a token for the dispatch of the Chenguo army, which is kept by the generals of the past dynasties. The major event that happened a while ago was the death of General Zheng Ling, the general of the left, and this general order was naturally to return to the capital. When the founding of the Chen State was founded, there were regulations that those who got the general's order got the army, and the jade seal and the Hou seal were passed down from generation to generation, but the general's order was different. But anyone who has the ability to snatch the general's order can come and grab it, and whoever grabs it can come and be the left general.
"For a while, all the masters in the rivers and lakes poured into Wucheng, just to give orders to the general. And the person in charge of escorting the general's order is Ge Tianjian, who accounts for half of the court's red and purple color, and it is strange to say that this Ge Tianjian is famous in the rivers and lakes, but no one has ever said the level of his martial arts, only that he can mediate the contradictions between the people in the rivers and lakes and the court, at most he is a diplomat. Therefore, the people in the rivers and lakes thought that he was a bully, so they robbed him on the road. What's even more strange is that when he came back all the way, no one noticed the marching procession, and his team quietly appeared in Wucheng.
"Of course, I'm not telling ghost stories, but I don't know how Ge Tianzhen managed to escape everyone's eyes and ears. In short, he came back intact with the general's order, and you also know that this Ge Tianjian is the brother-in-law of the current prime minister, so he has been living in the prime minister's mansion since he came back, but the prime minister died the day before yesterday, and suddenly died, and yesterday, General Zheng also died. So King Ping handed over the general order to Zheng Duoyi, the son of General Zheng.
"I'm not from Wucheng, because I was curious about the appearance of the general's order, I rushed to Wucheng to see the excitement, I didn't think of the prime minister, now the people from the rivers and lakes are gathered in Wucheng, I feel that it is not safe here, so I plan to go back to my hometown."
After Wang Yiliang finished speaking, the husband of the husband and wife said: "The boss is so boring to tell this story, if you want to say that this general makes me know a little, because I am Ge Tianjian's doctor." ”
Three. Chen Lixia's story
"My name is Chen Lixia, maybe you haven't heard of the name Chen Lixia, but you have always heard of the title of famous killer."
As soon as he said this, all the people looked at him.
"You are the doctor who trades people's hearts for people's lives?" Wang Yiliang raised his eyebrows.
"Yes, I have been a doctor since childhood, and my self-proclaimed medical skills are unmatched, but I, Chen Lixia, have never liked to be restrained, even if it is Ge Tianjian, I only go to check his body once a month. This time, he happened to go out to get the general's order, so he was delayed. I usually live in the suburbs with my lover, and that day he should come back, so I came to Wucheng.
"Ge Tianyan lives in the prime minister's house, which I never expected. To be honest, Houmen is really different from what you imagined, the relationship between the prime minister and Ge Tianyan is very complicated, I can't tell whether they are sympathetic to each other or jealous of each other, in short, they are two people with almost the same personality and merits, and they have become relatives. For the family banquet of the prime minister's family, Ge Tianjian didn't go if he could, and he often asked me to prescribe medicine for him and pretend to be sick.
"Then I went to the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Prime Minister has a son named Zhou Yulan, the Prime Minister often beats, because he doesn't like to read, he sneaks out every day to play with the little marquis, Zhou Yulan also hates the Prime Minister always cares about him, and he also hates Ge Tianzhen - there are rumors that Zhou Yulan is not the Prime Minister's biological son, otherwise how can he be incompatible with the Prime Minister's Mansion? In this regard, he is very similar to Ge Tianjian, Ge Tianzhen was very capable of making trouble when he was young, and almost made the national teacher angry to death.
"I went to the Prime Minister's Mansion that day, and the Prime Minister taught Zhou Yulan a lesson as usual, and then met Ge Tianjian. At that time, Ge Tianzhen said that he put the general order in a place where he 'knew that he could not do it', which I heard strangely, and then Ge Tianzhen said, 'Just ask Yu Lan to know'. Coincidentally, Zhou Yulan happened to go out with the little marquis. The prime minister didn't ask much. There was also a banquet that night, which was regarded as washing the dust for Ge Tianzhen, and there were probably a lot of people. I checked Ge Tianjian's body as usual, and the prime minister left me to stay in the house for one night, and the prime minister died that night. ”
"Your story isn't much better than his." The rich kid standing at the bottom said, "I also have a story." I also went to the banquet that night. ”
Four. The story of Chen Hanshi
"My name is Chen Hanshi, my father is the largest real estate developer in Wucheng, sixty percent of the land in Wucheng is mine, and the remaining forty percent is farmland under the management of the six departments. So I'm pretty good at talking in Wucheng. My father and the prime minister were old acquaintances, and my father had passed away a long time ago, so I inherited the family business and went to that banquet. What Chen Lixia said is one thing for sure, Zhou Yulan and Hou Ye He Yunsheng did not come last night.
"If you want to talk about the prime minister's family, it's really weird. As Chen Lixia said, the relationship between Ge Tianzhen and the prime minister is a bit strange. Although I haven't seen Zhou Yulan, but looking at the portrait at home, I also feel that he is not like the prime minister, I heard that his mother is the prime minister's original wife, and he died in childbirth when he was born. Who knows if his mother died in childbirth or was solved by the prime minister? Maybe it's his mother's cheating outside, and that person is likely to be Ge Tianjian.
"Maybe the prime minister wanted to take the opportunity of this general's order to kill Ge Tianjian, but he didn't expect to die. And Zhou Yulan and He Yunsheng didn't show up at night, who knows where they went? It is not impossible to say that Zhou Yulan killed the prime minister after knowing the truth. He Yunsheng and Zhou Yulan grew up together, and Zhou Yulan must have been the knife handed by He Yunsheng if he wanted to kill, which is also reasonable.
"Plus, why did Ge Tianzhen say, 'Ask Yulan'? We can imagine that Ge Tianzhen deliberately said this, letting the prime minister enter the trap, he and Zhou Yulan had already planned to get rid of the prime minister, and those disharmony were all pretended. ”
"You have a mouth, it's okay to tell books, who allows you to slander the Zhou family?" The girl who was sitting there roasting the fire spoke, "Isn't it the rich second generation of Chen Tuhao's family, what do you know?" ”
"What do you know?" Chen Hanshi asked rhetorically.
"Of course I understand, I am the Zhou family."