Chapter 11: Awakening and Doubt
On the evening of May 20 in the first year of Chongzhen, at the Wellcome Inn in Daxing City, I don't know how long I was asleep, Xiao Mu opened his eyes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"You're awake." It was a familiar voice that came into Xiao Mu's ears, Xiao Mu looked around twice, it was still a typical seventeenth-century inn upper room, Xiao Mu's familiarity with this room was probably more than the imperial couch in the Forbidden City.
The difference is that this time it was Lin Yi who was sitting on the edge of his bed talking in the typical 17th century noblewoman, while Wang Chengen, who was dressed as a typical 17th-century butler, was not in the house.
"How long did I sleep?" Xiao Mu tried to get up.
"A little more than a day and a night, from yesterday afternoon when you fainted until now." Lin Yi said as he reached out to help Xiao Mu sit up.
"Oh, that's okay, isn't it common for the protagonist on TV to be unconscious for three days and three nights when he encounters me?"
"What does the protagonist in TV have to do with you, people like you are the protagonists, can the TV series still have ratings?" Lin Yi scoffed.
"You still have TV to watch in 2333? I didn't watch much TV there in 2007. Xiao Mu asked.
"Oh, you don't understand, it's very high-end anyway, it's not your antique TV." Lin Yi replied rudely, and then took a cup of tea and handed it to Xiao Mu: "Your body is really not good, I fainted twice in two days." ”
"How can contemporary college students be in good health, and I am still an economics college student who has been repeating a grade for two years." Xiao Mu took the tea handed by Lin Yi and replied casually.
Lin Yi touched Xiao Mu's forehead, "The fever has subsided, could it be said that it burned out your brain?" Your original small body didn't cross with you, and you are now using the body of Emperor Chongzhen......"
"That's right, no wonder, it turns out that Emperor Chongzhen's body is not good, such a poor body can still manage all opportunities every day, and work continuously day and night for more than ten years, Emperor Chongzhen is really not simple." Xiao Mu took a sip of tea, shook his head and said.
"What does it have to do with Emperor Chongzhen, it's not that you have to run out and toss when you have a cold......" Lin Yi's voice became smaller and smaller, because if he continued to talk about his fooling Xiao Mu, he would talk about the matter of fooling Xiao Mu.
Xiao Mu politely didn't mention what Lin Yi did, but lowered his head and thought about something.
"Still angry about Xie Lianhui's affairs?" Lin Yi asked, "Yang Tao and Hu Yun interrogated that Du Lao Liu separately, because they were targeting you when they walked out of the inn, Du Lao Liu and his gang saw that you were a young son, and you seemed to be a rich man, a potential buyer, so they started to think about using you to rush the performance......
"Then why didn't Xiaohua say anything?" Xiao Mu asked, and then he understood himself: "Yes, what can Xiaohua say?" If she exposes Du Laoliu's lies, I don't believe it, let's not say it for the time being, even if I believe it, it won't do her any good, after all, no one thinks that an ordinary passer-by can call the shots for Xiaohua on the territory outside Liang Yuan, so if I don't buy it in the end, Xiaohua will definitely have to suffer a lot afterwards. For Xiaohua, it is definitely better to be sold to a Sven son than to continue to suffer at the hands of thieves. ”
Lin Yi nodded, agreed with Xiao Mu's analysis, and then said, "I asked Xiaohua during the day, and there is no one in her family, why don't you let her and Da Zhuang and Huzi go back to Beijing with us?" ”
"That's what I mean." Xiao Mu said, as for the idea of cultivating a few children to become talents and becoming heroes, it just flashed in his mind, after all, there are so many ordinary people in the world, and even if there are a few heroes who are famous in history, even if they are a hundred years old, how can they let themselves meet? Thinking of this, Xiao Mu sighed again.
But this time I came out or gained a lot of knowledge, it turned out that the history I saw was written about the emperors and generals, if you don't come out, where can you know about the civil society of the Ming Dynasty? The things he encountered in the past two days made Xiao Mu fully feel the complexity of society, and Xiao Mu felt that the original Chongzhen Emperor must not know these things.
Just when Xiao Mu was thinking nonsense, Wang Chengen entered the house with a basin of water, and when he saw that Xiao Mu had woken up, he was naturally overjoyed: "The emperor is awake, God bless him!" ”
"Well, Otomo has worked hard too." Xiao Mu asked again: "Then how did Liang Yanyang and Liang Yuehao get convicted in the end?" ”
Wang Chengen put the basin away, "Back to the master, then Liang Yanyang will be beheaded and executed after the autumn; Liang Yuehao was dismissed from his post and assigned to Liaodong, and the Hongyuan Restaurant was confiscated and changed to a county school. In fact, after this incident, there can be no good business in that place, whether it is a restaurant, an inn, or any other business. Directly confiscated and returned to the public, as a county school, this punishment is studied by the elders of the pavilion at a glance, and it is naturally immeasurable to educate the people, and it can also use the words of the saint to wash away the dirt contaminated here, which kills two birds with one stone.
Xiao Mu didn't understand the criminal law of the Ming Dynasty, and felt that this sentence was not unreasonable, so he pretended to nod and said, "Well, it's okay." Then he handed the finished teacup to Lin Ye, who took the teacup and said, "I think what Liang Yanyang said is not complete, and there should be something to hide." ”
In fact, when Lin Yi was watching the trial, he felt that Liang Yanyang's statement was problematic, and the reason was very simple: Liang Yanyang spent a lot of money to buy the most prosperous restaurant in the city, but instead of seriously operating it to make money, he did something about stealing property and abducting people in the hotel, so how could the restaurant's business be good? Anyone with a bit of economic acumen wouldn't do that. Even if the theft of property and human trafficking are really a lucrative business, there is nothing left in a restaurant without customers - there is no property to steal, and there are no women and children to abduct and sell. Liang Yanyang bought the restaurant, but he didn't manage it well, and let the restaurant lose money, which shows that he didn't plan to make money by running the restaurant at all, Liang Yanyang must have other ways to make money, and it must be a way to hurt nature.
Moreover, Liang Yanyang was too cooperative in the process of trying the case, and he didn't deny it like a normal prisoner at all, and he didn't even try to deny it, so taking the initiative to explain the problem made Lin Yi feel that he still had something to try to hide.
Although he thought of this, after all, it was still an ancient society in which men were superior to women, and Lin Yi did not say it in the hall, but quietly in front of the puppet, planning to find an opportunity to hint at Xiao Mu in private. As a result, I didn't want Xiao Mu to see Du Lao Liu, and after finding out that he had been deceived again, he vomited blood and fainted, everyone was so frightened that Lin Yi couldn't care about saying this. So it wasn't until Xiao Mu woke up and mentioned this matter that Lin Yi remembered the suspicions he had discovered.
After listening to Lin Yango's thoughts, Xiao Mu also felt that it was very reasonable, so he asked Wang Chengen what he thought, Wang Chengen said that what Lin Yan said was reasonable, but according to the results of the later interrogation of Liang Yangyang's minions, what Liang Yanyang did in Daxing City was only a drop in the bucket, before he took over the restaurant, in the surrounding towns and villages, he had already done many years of human trafficking, so he bought this Hongyuan Restaurant but it was not to make money to explain, with this Hongyuan Restaurant, Liang Yanyang can find buyers more conveniently - only to find buyers, Only the abducted women and girls can be turned into white flowers.
Xiao Mu listened to Wang Chengen's words and felt that it made sense, didn't he act as Liang Yanyang's customer without knowing it?
Lin Yi also felt that Wang Chengen was reasonable. Seeing that it was not early, and that he had been taking care of Xiao Mu all day without resting, Lin Yi felt a little tired, said hello, and went to another room to rest - in fact, the entire inn had been wrapped up by Wang Chengen, and the original guests in the inn had already been blown away, so in the entire inn room, Lin Yi could sleep in whichever room he wanted.
Wang Chengen was very pleased in his heart: Niangniang understood that Banzai's body was weak, and she was afraid that Banzai's blood and qi would not be able to control it, so she endured the pain of separation between husband and wife and went to other rooms to rest. The mother of the mother is the world, and she is really extraordinary.
"The old slave has also retired, and the emperor should rest early." Wang Chengen said and walked out of the house.
Rest early? Thinking that he had slept for more than twenty-four hours, Xiao Mu felt that he must not be able to sleep, so he turned out the "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" again, and thought while flipping through it: I heard that the emperor Taiji in history also loved to watch the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and even used it as a military book, and the effect seemed to be not bad - after all, there was no way to prove that the effect was not good, anyway, in the end, the Ming Dynasty was gone, and the Qing Dynasty appeared. Xiao Mu suddenly felt that this Romance of the Three Kingdoms had become very important: I am now on the side of the Ming Dynasty, how can I lag behind Huang Taiji? I'm going to take a good look at it from the beginning, think about it carefully, and learn more from his two clever plans.
Early the next morning, when Wang Chengen came to serve Xiao Mu to get up, he found that Xiao Mu hadn't slept all night - this time Xiao Mu looked much more serious, so at this time, he saw "Baimenlou Lu Bu died", what was written in the book "Two tigers compete for food" and "Drive the tiger to devour the wolf" Such strategies have benefited Xiao Mu a lot, after all, when I used to read it, it was just to watch the excitement.
When Wang Chengen was muttering words like "take care of the dragon's body" and waiting for Xiao Mu to freshen up and change clothes, Lin Yi also entered the house, and Xiao Mu could see that she was sleeping well.
After freshening up, Wang Chengen brought breakfast, Xiao Mu and Lin Yi sat at the table and began to eat, and Wang Chengen was busy taking care of Li Shiyao's children. When Wang Chengen went out, Lin Yi immediately switched from a dignified state to a less sven eating appearance.
Watching Lin Yi eat, Xiao Mu was thoughtful, and said to Lin Ye after a while: "I think what you said yesterday is very reasonable. ”