053 Blood-stained Li Mansion
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When the first rays of sunlight broke through the thick clouds and brought its light to the earth, the people in Wujiang County were immersed in a piece of joy, whether they were rich or poor, they all got up early in the morning today, and every family hung a red lantern that had been prepared for a long time outside their doors.
Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which is the annual Shangyuan Festival, and according to custom, every household will put up lanterns and hang red lanterns high to celebrate.
The festival of Shangyuan Festival has a long history and was established in the Western Han Dynasty. During the dispute between Chu and Han, Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu, won the world, and established the Han Dynasty, but after Liu Bang's death, his wife Lü Pheasant controlled the power of the court, and after Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty died of illness, Lü Pheasant, as the queen mother, monopolized the power of the court, and rewarded the people of the Lü clan, wanting to turn the Liu family into the Lü family. Although the ministers of the court and the central government were indignant, they dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, until after Empress Lü died of illness, the Lü family conspired to rebel, wanting to completely turn the Liu family into the Lu family.
However, the news that the Lu clan wanted to rebel was accidentally leaked, and was learned by the elders of the court, so some of the elders of the court and the central government secretly contacted, in order to stabilize the Liu family, they started in advance on the fifteenth day of the first month, and finally put down the Lu rebellion, and after the rebellion, Liu Bang's second son Liu Heng ascended the throne as the emperor, for Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Heng felt that the peaceful and prosperous times were not easy to come by, so he set the fifteenth day of the first month of the first month of the pacification of the Lu rebellion as a day of joy with the people, every household in the capital was decorated with lanterns, and then all the counties began to follow suit, and soon spread throughout the country, and because the fifteenth day of the first month was the first full moon night of the year, so it was called the Shangyuan Festival afterwards.
In the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also set the sacrifice of the "Taiyi God" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, making the day of the Shangyuan Festival more grand. After that, the Han Dynasty will have a day off on the fifteenth day of the first month every year to show the grandeur of this day's festival, after the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms and the Western Jin Dynasty have continued this day's festival, and have been saying today.
Shangyuan Festival was supposed to be a happy day, but at this moment, in the mansion of Li Cheng, the richest man in Wujiang, the people in the mansion were like ants on a hot pot, messing around, more like headless flies, rushing indiscriminately, and nearly a thousand people up and down the Li Mansion were looking for the envoy of Zhao State, the great housekeeper Li Yong, the Seventh Lady and Gao Fei.
The collective disappearance of these four people gave Li Cheng a hint of foreboding, and Li Cheng called all the relevant people for questioning, but they all said they didn't know.
Li Cheng was so anxious that he mobilized everyone in the mansion to look for them, even if he dug three feet into the ground, he had to find these four people.
At this moment, Li Cheng walked around the hall anxiously, among these four people, the envoy of Zhao State was the most important to him, once someone knew that he colluded with Zhao State and planned a rebellion, it was when he was in great trouble.
Li Cheng's secret treason with the enemy is not a matter of one or two days, as early as two years ago, Zhao's envoy found him, at first he did not agree, but then he couldn't resist the conditions of the huge temptation offered by Zhao, and finally failed to keep the bottom line, agreed to Zhao's envoy, and secretly planned a rebellion.
Since then, Li Cheng has begun to secretly train the army, and used his status as the richest man in Wujiang County to buy real estate and real estate outside the city, and build a village, which is actually used as a secret training army. Most of his army came from the homeless people, and there were many robbers among them, no matter who they were before, they were all integrated into his army, in order to smelt weapons, he let private soldiers disguise themselves as robbers, to rob the people of Wujiang County, obtain the iron tools he needed, and then smelt them, cast them into weapons, battle armor. In addition, he secretly smuggled salt to Zhao State, solved Zhao's urgent need, and obtained a lot of benefits from it, and even more, he secretly planned a horse theft case, and stole all the only horses in the county government, and he didn't know it, and the ghost didn't know it, so that people couldn't find it.
A series of activities were to show loyalty to Shi Hu, the general of Zhao Zhao, this time Shi Hu personally sent an envoy to negotiate with him, Shi Hu was ready to launch an attack on the Jin army on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, hoping to rebel in the rear of Li Cheng, so as to disperse the Jin army's forces and make it impossible for them to look at each other.
Of course, it is not realistic to expect Li Cheng's rebellion at all, there are more than a dozen rebels in the development of Qianzhao, but they are all near the front line, only Wujiang County is a more in-depth one, and it is also the most troublesome one in Zhao, in the past two years, Guangzhao Zhao's envoys have not been in and out of Wujiang County, secretly contacting Li Cheng, helping Li Cheng train the army, planning riots, etc., because the geographical location of Wujiang County is relatively close to the capital of the Great Jin, so it is also the top priority of this ****.
Seeing that the rebellion was imminent, but the envoy of Zhao suddenly disappeared, how could Li Cheng not be in a hurry? If the envoy of Zhao State cannot be found, then how will tonight's rebellion continue?
Just when Li Cheng was frowning, Bai Yuan suddenly walked in from outside, and said to Li Cheng with a nervous face: "Master, the entire Li Mansion has been searched up and down, and there is still no trace of the envoy of Zhao State. ”
Li Cheng's brows furrowed even deeper, as if someone had written a big word "Chuan" on his forehead, he was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Have Li Yong, Seventh Lady and Gao Fei found it?" ”
Bai Yuan shook his head and said, "I haven't found it either, and all the people around them have asked one by one, and they don't know the traces of these three people." But ......"
"But what?" Li Cheng asked.
Bai Yuan hesitated for a moment, clenched his fists and said, "There are some subordinates who don't know how to say to the master......"
Li Cheng said: "Say whatever you want!" You've been following me for so long, don't you know who I am? Say! ”
However, the subordinates made an unexpected discovery, according to the maidservants next to the housekeeper Ding and the Seventh Lady, the chief housekeeper Li Yong and the Seventh Lady may ...... Possible...... There is an affair ......" Bai Yuan said cautiously, his eyes still staring at Li Cheng tightly, wanting to see what Li Cheng's reaction was.
"What do you say! Li Yong had an affair with the Seventh Lady? Which dog minion said this! As soon as Li Cheng heard this, he immediately jumped like thunder, the seventh lady is the woman he has just married and is also the woman he loves the most at present, he will give her whatever she wants, but he didn't expect her to get involved with other men behind her back, and that other man is still his most trusted housekeeper Li Yong, this fact, he can't accept it no matter what!
Seeing Li Cheng like this, Bai Yuan took a few steps back again and again, and hurriedly said: "The master is angry, the master is angry, and the master is angry......"
"Go and call all the people around Li Yong and the Seventh Lady, and I will interrogate them one by one!" Li Cheng roared angrily.
Bai Yuan hurriedly turned around and went out, and came back after a while, and there were four people who came back with him, one man and three women, the male was Li Yong's sidekick, called Dog, and the female were all personal maidservants beside the Seventh Lady.
As soon as the four of them entered the hall and saw Li Cheng, they knelt on the ground together and bowed, "Meet the master!" ”
Li Cheng suppressed the anger in his heart and asked: "What are the abnormalities of Li Yong and the Seventh Lady recently, you all tell me one by one, if there is half a lie, be careful of your heads!" ”
The four of them were so frightened that they didn't dare to lie, so they told Li Yong and the Seventh Lady about their abnormalities, but they didn't directly say that they had an affair, but they were in close contact, and sometimes when they got together, they always held them back, and they didn't know anything else.
Li Cheng was not satisfied with such an answer, so he casually pulled out the dagger he was carrying, stabbed it at a servant girl, and stabbed the servant girl into the heart of the servant girl, who was bleeding profusely and died in the hall.
When the rest of the people saw it, they were all surprised, and the maid screamed even more, Li Cheng pointed to the maid who died and said, "If you don't tell the truth, this is the end!" ”
The maid was so frightened that she was incontinent, and hurriedly told all the things about Li Yong and the Seventh Lady without any reservations.
After Li Cheng heard this, he was already very angry, he didn't expect the two of them to really hook up together, and both of them were still his most trusted and favorite people, this kind of betrayal was like being stabbed in his back.
Li Cheng lowered his voice and asked, "Are they...... How long has it been......"
"Big ...... It's been more than half a year......" replied the maidservant.
After Li Cheng heard this, he said with a smile: "It's been half a year? It's only been seven months since I married the Seventh Lady, which means that in the second month after I married the Seventh Lady, they were already ......."
He didn't say any more about the next words, his face suddenly showed an incomparable murderous intent, he pulled out the dagger on the handmaid he killed, and stabbed the two handmaidens in the hearts with lightning speed, both of which were killed with one blow.
Seeing this, the male slave dog was already paralyzed in fright, and the and urine were pulled into the crotch of his pants, and the smell of urine and feces suddenly filled the entire hall, and a pair of eyes widened, looking at Li Cheng in horror, and said tremblingly: "Lord...... Master...... Other...... Other...... Kill me...... What am I...... I don't know......"
Li Cheng's eyes were full of hatred, looking at the male slave dog who was wagging his tail and begging for mercy beside him, he sneered and said, "But you know everything now......
As soon as the words fell, I saw Li Cheng's figure shake, and a dagger was inserted into the dog's heart, and he was killed instantly.
After Bai Yuan, who was watching from the sidelines, saw such a scene, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which was fleeting, this was exactly the scene he wanted to see.
Bai Yuan has always been at odds with the big butler Li Yong, and it's not a matter of a day or two, Bai Yuan, as Li Cheng's strategist, is not as good as Li Yong, and he has long complained, so he took advantage of this opportunity to push Li Yong into the point of no return, so in the future, he Bai Yuan can be Li Cheng's confidant and strategist, and he can also be the big housekeeper of the Li Mansion.
"Master, there is one more thing that my subordinates need to report, it is about Gao Fei." Bai Yuan hurriedly said.
Li Cheng wiped the blood on his hands and couldn't wait to say, "Say it quickly!" ”
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