After Song Dingyuan heard the news, he expressed his concern for the Song family. After learning that the bandits had been cleaned up, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It seems that Master Fan takes great care of his aunt, and the gangsters were copied by the official before they started, which is also rare." The little nephew brought a lot of entanglements with Uncle Tian this time, although there were some nurseries at home, but if thieves were rampant in the city, the little nephew was still difficult to rest assured. I also asked my aunt to ask a few people to protect me in front of Master Fan, and the little nephew was more relieved. ”

"What do children know, don't talk nonsense!" No matter how bold the Song family was, she couldn't directly admit her relationship with Fan Jin in front of her nephew, especially since this nephew was still a half-grown child in her eyes, so she had to change her words.

"My family is a big family in Shangyuan, and the yamen naturally takes special care of it. The big family is a new deal made by Master Fan, and each big household has two officials who are responsible for taking care of it, and the yamen will give priority to taking care of anything that happens, and the officials who are sent are extra fast. If you really want someone to protect you, your aunt will hire a dart master for you from Mingfeng Dart Shop. In fact, if you want me to see it, you don't have to, Shangyuan is not a place where these bastards can do whatever they want, this time I don't know where the little thieves dare to commit crimes in Shangyuan, most of them are homeless people who don't know where they come from, and they have to do a businessless business when they are desperate, but they don't know how to listen to the situation first and dare to commit crimes in Shangyuan, and kill themselves! Our Shangyuan County is in good order, and the people are all good people who keep to themselves, and there will be no villains who kill people and set fires. ”

Song Dingyuan said: "Auntie, is the ground in Shangyuan really that good?" Listening to those guards saying that the Shangyuan Gongren didn't even check the road, wouldn't the thieves come and go freely? Mr. Fan may have some ability to govern the county, but the means of restraining the ground are really not very clever. ”

Song snorted, "What do you know about this little child, you will be laughed at if you talk nonsense outside." Our Shangyuan is now smiling and welcoming customers from all over the world to do business here. Otherwise, who else will my aunt's land and house be rented to? According to Master Fan, he planted the sycamore tree and only asked the phoenix to come. What you want is the convenience of businessmen, the easy circulation of goods and people, and don't do any business if you check the road. So Lu Yin definitely doesn't check, but this doesn't mean that the bandits can run amok. In order to ensure that everyone can do business with peace of mind, Master Fan deliberately took the opportunity to rectify after the slave mutiny last year. Don't talk about Jiang Yang's thieves, even those thieves who steal chickens and dogs and pull out cigarette pouches, they are all cleaned up fiercely. In Shangyuan, people are not afraid of poverty, as long as you have a Shangyuan household registration, you will definitely have food to eat and not die of hunger. But if you do evil, it's over, even those skin-wrenching tigers are finished, let alone real robbers? Several well-known gangs in Jiangning City either cooperated with the government or were defeated, and some thieves who were not on the stage did not need the government to take action, and these gangs that were recruited would deal with them. The officials and the people in the rivers and lakes all have pipes, the government and the people cooperate in the defense, and even the Jinyi Guard and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division have to obey the dispatch of Master Fan. Do you think that so many yamen cooperate with each other, where are the robbers running? In the past few days, the robbers have been following me, and some people have already found out, if it weren't for Master Fan's long-line fishing for big fish, they would have been cleaned up a long time ago. When I ask where their cottage is, I promise that there will be no grass left on this mountain! Even my Buddha Bao dares to move, and I must not spare it! ”

Song Dingyuan looked surprised, as if he couldn't believe it. Song sneered, "This kid still has little knowledge, and your father has never been afraid of the Jianghu people, and your aunt is naturally not afraid." Give me some money, and some will die for you. When I give a bonus, the officers and soldiers will do it for me, do you say that you will be afraid of robbers? ”

The aunt and nephew talked for more than half an hour, and then Song Dingyuan got up to say goodbye. Although Song Jin was dissatisfied with Song Guofu, he admired this nephew. It's not a problem that the edge is exposed, as long as he is sharpened a little, he will inevitably be a horse of thousands of miles one day. Besides, this kid can speak politely, and his family loves him, and the Song family even thought that if Song Guofu stopped messing around with the precipice, for the sake of this nephew, he would also ask Fan Jin for personal favors. Only copy the property of the Song family, don't hurt people's lives.

Song Dingyuan visited the Yang family several times, and he became familiar with the people in the family, and when he came out, a few maids came to see him secretly, and he also smiled kindly. got into the carriage all the way unhurriedly, until he lowered the curtain and made sure that no one could see his movements, Song Dingyuan's fist slammed into the wall of the carriage, and the huge pain made his handsome face distort a little, and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Fan Jin...... Master underestimated you! ”

Returning to the inn where he was staying, Tian Minshan hurriedly greeted him, pulled Song Dingyuan down in the room and whispered: "Eldest prince, something happened to Tie Jiao!" ”

"I already know. I didn't expect that Shangyuan Yamen had so many tricks, but I miscalculated. What's going on now? ”

Tie Jiao rushed out, but everyone else was trapped inside, and several were caught. Now ......"

"Only Tiejiao escaped?" Song Dingyuan frowned, "Then I have to go out." ”

"Da Shao, now the city is only afraid of catching latte Jiao everywhere, it is too dangerous for you to go out at this time. The love of children is long and heroic is short, and the daughter of a stove household can't do this. ”

Song Dingyuan's face was cold, although he was young, but the majesty he exuded at this moment made Tian Minshan dare not say any more. "How to solve this matter, I have my own opinions, and I don't need to worry about Uncle Laotian. I didn't want to stay longer if there were robbers in the city, so I contacted a ship to prepare to enter Beijing. Also tell our semicolon to do two things. The first is to make Gu Xiancheng's Gu family bankrupt in the shortest possible time, and he will be penniless. And then let someone come forward to fund him, so that he can be grateful to us. This person is a famous person in the southeast, and the end of this department is very promising, and he is cynical and inherently wrong with Zhang Juzheng. We want a friend from the government, and this person is the best person. ”

"Dashao, is it too hasty for us to go to Beijing now, after all, our relationship in Beijing has not yet been fully laid out."

"We've got so many Golden Orders, are they all in vain? As long as you have money, it doesn't matter where you go, I can't open a way with gold. ”

Song Dingyuan, who came out of the inn, did not bring an escort, walked by himself, seemed to be tired after walking for a while, hired a sedan chair, and hired foot force halfway, and after several tosses, he finally arrived outside the city. This is already the boundary of Jiangning County, although it lives in the same city as Shangyuan, but the difference is very obvious.

In the past year, the people of Shangyuan County have prospered, and a large number of hukou have flowed in, and Jiangning is the first to suffer. After the slave mutiny, the original Jiangning County Order was taken from the seal, but the life of the newly appointed Jiangning County was not much better, and he wrote letters to the government several times asking for help, asking the government to intervene in official documents, otherwise his life would not be able to live.

Originally, it was just a rich family in Jiangning who moved to Shangyuan, and later it was a poor people. Because Shangyuan County built houses for the poor, as long as the household registration was settled in Jiangning, there were all kinds of relief, and the rent of the houses provided by the yamen was also extremely low, and the quality of the houses was far better than that of the slums. These poor people naturally flocked to it, and even after settling down, they realized that the price they had to pay was to bear labor and not feel bitter. After all, this kind of service is not an obligation for the Zhu family, but the imperial court uses money to hire himself to work, and there is no dissatisfaction.

Later, even ordinary people envied welfare and began to migrate to Shangyuan. At this time, the Jiangning county order realized that the situation was not right, and it was too late to control it, so Fan went in and out of money to buy the houses in Jiangning County, and on the one hand, the county order shouted that the household registration was not allowed to be moved, and the people left the household to stay, and on the other hand, they still went through the relocation procedures. Up to now, Jiangning's urban population has decreased by more than half, and even many peasant households have gone to Shangyuan to work as tenants or workers, and Jiangning's population has been greatly reduced. The result of this beggar-thy-neighbor development method is that Jiangning County is depopulated, and there are basically no pedestrians outside the city.

Song Dingyuan was not afraid of this silence, but he was very vigilant, his steps were light and fast, he looked behind him from time to time, and only after making sure that he was not following did he suddenly speed up his pace, all the way to his destination: a ruined temple.

There was no incense here a long time ago, and now Jiangning County is like this, and no one will patronize it. Seeing the open temple door, Song Dingyuan knew that he had come to the right place, stepped in, and soon found Tie Jiao leaning against the corner.

The famous little pepper on the salt flats is no longer alive before, and the big red short is covered with blood, and the person is leaning there motionless, making people wonder if she is still alive. Song Dingyuan didn't step forward, but coughed from a distance, and after a while, he heard the girl murmuring: "Brother Dingyuan......"

"Jiaomei, how are you? Let me see you. Song Dingyuan ran to Tie Jiao's side and hugged the person tightly in his arms. Tie Jiao struggled, "Brother Ding Yuan, blood ...... I also have blood on my body. ”

"I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid. Jiao'er, how are you? ”

"I'm fine, but the other brothers are all ......," Tie Jiao leaned on Song Dingyuan's shoulder and sobbed in a low voice. If those officers and soldiers can't beat me, I'll let them go, despicable villain. When I'm healed, I'll settle accounts with them! ”

"Don't worry, I will do my best to rescue those people. What I have is money, a big lawsuit and a lot of silver, and I will break the money, and I am not afraid that I will not be able to save people. I'll take you home to treat your wounds, and when you're healed, I'll marry you and let you be a side house. This time it's my fault, I shouldn't have let you do such a dangerous thing, not in the future, I swear I won't let you suffer like this again. ”

Tie Jiao lay down obediently, and let Song Dingyuan untie his clothes, "Brother Dingyuan, I'm fine, I was hit by two arrows and stabbed in the back, but it doesn't matter." I've already pulled out the arrow, and I'll be able to recuperate for a while. I've been practicing since I was a child, and it doesn't matter if I'm injured. This matter is useless to me, it's none of your business, and when I return to Huaishang, I must take revenge! I don't want any name with you, as long as you have me in your heart, it's more useful than any name. ”

"Fool, how can you do without a name? If the name is not right, I can't let you be wronged. You are my first woman, of course I want you to be good, and in the future I will not only give you a name, but also give you a lot of silver, so that you can wear gold and silver, and live a good life. ”

Song Dingyuan said love words in his mouth, and he had already untied the girl's clothes. Although the girl didn't understand why she was completely stripped naked after the medicine, she was already his person after all, and she had nothing to worry about, lying there quietly motionless. Standing behind the girl, looking at the body that once brought him great pleasure, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and a strange smile appeared on his face.

Reaching into his arms, he took out not a medicine bottle, but a dagger, gently pulled out the knife, carefully wiped the wound with one hand, and stabbed the dagger in the back of the woman's heart slowly but forcefully in the other! The girl still had a smile on her face, and in order not to worry the lover, she comforted him:

"It's okay...... I don't hurt at all, Brother Yuan, you just take the medicine, don't care about me......"

With a muffled snort, the smile froze, and the woman's face showed a crying and puzzled expression, she wanted to turn her head and ask what was going on, but Song Dingyuan had already pulled out the knife at this time. With the blood splashing like a fountain, the girl's physical strength was also drained in an instant, and she couldn't even do this action. And Song Ding Yuanjun's face was hideous, and the dagger in his hand stabbed down one after another, blood splattered, and his hands were sprayed all over his face!

The fire is blazing.

A bonfire was lit, and the brocade robe, stained with the woman's blood, was reduced to ashes in the flames. The blood on Song Dingyuan's face and hands had been carefully wiped clean by him, and he was wearing a brocade robe that was exactly the same as when he came. No one would have thought that this noble prince was wearing two identical clothes, and unless he stared at him deliberately, he would not be able to find this mechanism.

The once energetic girl has now turned into a cold corpse. The clothes were stripped off and made to look like they had died of humiliation, and the dagger that killed people was already in Song Dingyuan's arms. He left the ruined temple briskly, as he had come, and he didn't care if the girl's body would be found or devoured by wild beasts. Even if the yamen found the body, it would be impossible to find him, and the woman who had sworn an alliance was now out of his calculations. Song Dingyuan was calculating while walking, but it was other things:

"Iron Boss is such a daughter, she was stabbed by an official, and then she was killed alive by several officials, this feud is a dead knot. I just hope that he won't be stupid to come to Shangyuan to take revenge, then it will be worthless. Those stupid pigs who were caught usually like to talk about righteousness the most, and they shouldn't talk nonsense at this time. There are three battalions of Zaoyong in Huai, and the officers of the three battalions are in-laws of each other, sharing the glory and loss, as long as they marry the sow of the Lan family, these three battalions of soldiers and horses are the same thing as my Song family. Coupled with the iron boss's stove households, if the government has to force each other, then it can only take risks. On that day, Zhu Chongba, a beggar, could win the world, why was my family rich in the enemy country, and the surname Zhu was grasped. Since the Ming Dynasty used merchants as livestock and slaughtered and plundered them at will, let you see how powerful merchants are! ”

The sunlight shone on Song Dingyuan's face through the treetops, and due to the blocking of the leaves and the mottled light and shadow, Song Dingyuan's face was partly exposed to the sun and partly shaded in the shadows. The founding hero, the rebellious minister and thief, is like light and shadow.