Chapter 40: Entering the Room III
Shen Jia waved his hand to make Gan Liang stop first. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ infoSince Jin Yiwei's interrogation has been fruitless for so long, and he may not confess if he continues to toss along with this line of thinking, Shen Jia decided to take a look first.
"Brother Gan, you wake him up first, let me ask him a few questions."
Gan Liang saw Shen Jia speak, so he threw away the awl in his hand, picked up a basin of cold water, and splashed it on the reckless man's face without saying a word.
The water splashed everywhere, and there was a thin layer of mist on Shen Jia's shoes. Shen Jia frowned and looked up at the reckless man.
This reckless man was so excited by the water that he came to his senses. He slowly raised his head, and through the gap in his hair saw a vague figure in front of him.
"What's your name? Why kill me? β
The reckless man seemed to be deaf and unmoved. Shen Jia said in his heart, did he meet a player with excellent psychological quality, so confident, he didn't say a word.
Shen Jia was thinking about whether to use "waterboarding" or catch a mouse to try, when he suddenly heard someone shouting outside the door: "Young master, it's time for breakfast." β
Shen Jia's eyes stared at the reckless man, and said casually: "Ruyi, you can bring it in." β
The maid Ruyi is already sixteen years old, and she is said to be a big girl in the Ming Dynasty, but Shen Jia still doesn't want her to see the bloody side in front of her. However, when Ruyi shouted "eat" just now, Shen Jia found that the reckless man's head moved slightly.
Shen Jia thought that this might be an opportunity, so he stared at the reckless man, so he asked Ruyi to bring breakfast in.
After Ruyi came in, he was startled by the reckless man covered in blood and his hair was scattered, but fortunately, Shen Jia was prepared and steadily caught the breakfast in Ruyi's hand. Ruyi's face turned slightly red, and he said softly: "Young master, who is this person, why is he here?" β
Shen Jia stared at the reckless man in front of him and said slowly, "This is the person who took my life last night." β
Ruyi was shocked, looked at the reckless man in front of him again, and shouted with his little hands on his waist: "This rough embryo actually wants to assassinate the young master, I don't want to starve him for a few days, he won't reflect on it." β
Shen Jia secretly said that this little girl is kind-hearted, just thinking about being hungry for a few meals, but unfortunately she doesn't want to do this, as the saying goes, cutting grass does not remove roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows.
When the reckless man heard that someone was going to starve him for a few meals, he couldn't help but raise his head and make a uh-uh sound from his mouth. Shen Jia felt that there was a play, so he took a steamed bun and walked to the reckless man and shook it, then pulled out the cloth stuffed into his mouth, and said, "Tell me who you are, and this steamed bun will be given to you." β
Shen Jia beckoned Ruyi to go out first, after all, this place is not suitable for girls to stay.
The reckless man stared at the steamed bun at this time, his body frantically struggling to get rid of the restraints, his neck stretched out, trying to rush towards the steamed bun in front of him.
Shen Jia quickly took back the steamed bun and said coldly: "If you tell me who you are and why you want to kill me, I will give you the steamed bun, if you are so deadlocked, then I will decide to starve you for seven days." β
Shen Jia put down the steamed bun and was about to turn around and prepare to leave, when he suddenly heard a hoarse and honest voice behind him say: "My name is Tong Erniu, why did I kill you, I don't know, I came with Second Brother Qi, Second Brother Qi asked me to help him kill someone, and he will give me a bag of steamed buns after the incident." β
Shen Jia tore half of the steamed bun, stuffed it into Tong Erniu's mouth, and asked, "Who is Second Brother Qi?" β
"Second Brother Qi is Second Brother Qi."
Listening to this reckless man's nonsensical reply, Shen Jia roughly guessed that the benevolent brother in front of him might be an out-and-out man. Shen Jia tore another piece of steamed bun and sent it to Tong Erniu's mouth.
Wei Liangyu saw that the interrogation was progressing at this time, so he interjected: "Tong Erniu, who is your second brother Qi usually with?" β
This Tong Erniu was probably hungry, his eyes stared directly at the steamed bun in Shen Jia's hand, but he didn't speak.
Seeing this, Shen Jia shook the steamed buns in his hand and said, "You answer the question, and I will continue to feed you the steamed buns." β
Tong Erniu continued: "Second Brother Qi usually helps some shopkeepers in the east and west cities to look after the shops, but the east and west markets have stopped in the past two days, and Second Brother Qi has to help Liu Shunfu take care of the warehouse. β
Shen Jia suddenly understood why he was plotted by someone. It turned out that after the destruction of Fushun City, Shen Jia used the excuse that Fushun was a military city, so he canceled and closed the east and west cities of Fushun. Originally, Shen Jia planned to wait until the surrounding order was restored, and let the Han merchants come to Fushun before considering reopening.
Fushun is located in an important place, and the grain, salt, tea, and iron tools from the eight major merchants of Shanxi were transferred to Fushun through the Horqin Mongols, and then traded with the Houjin Tartars, which was actually an out-and-out behavior of capital enemies.
Shen Jia now has no ability to manage the heads of the eight major merchants in Shanxi, but he can't sit idly by and watch Houjin continue to sit big, so he used the excuse that Fushun is a military city to block the main trading channel of the eight major merchants in Shanxi, Mongolia, and Houjin. It's just that Shen Jia didn't expect the other party's revenge to come so quickly.
Shen Jia doesn't want to expose the old background of the eight major businessmen in Shanxi at present, these people are more or less connected with the officials of the current dynasty, and he is currently white, so he is really powerless to fight them directly.
Thinking of this, Shen Jia turned to Wei Liangyu and said, "These merchants may be angry that I closed the eastern and western cities, which made it impossible to trade horses and pig iron between Mongolia and Jiannu, so they did not hesitate to take risks. Hermes-Epitek had no commercial activities in Fushun, and I really can't think of anyone else who could be so bold except for the Mongols and the merchants of the Later Jin. β
Wei Liangyu pondered for a moment and said: "What the adults said is extremely true, it seems that it is necessary for us to catch a group of profiteers and teach a lesson to the ruthless, so I will go and investigate." β
Shen Jia said: "Don't worry, you have a good chat with Tong Erniu, don't hurt him, figure out the leader here, you go and inform Master Chen in a while, as long as the facts are confirmed, we will raid the house and arrest people." β
"Yes, sir."
Shen Jia glanced at Tong Erniu, sighed, and turned around and walked out of the firewood room.
Back in the backyard, Shen Jia's sullen expression quickly fell into Wen Qing's eyes, and she walked over and asked, "Is there anything embarrassing?" Not happy to see you for the first time. β
Seeing Senior Sister coming over, Shen Jia couldn't help but want to tease her, so he said with a smile: "Someone came to our house today and proposed to me, saying that he had taken a fancy to you, Senior Sister, so I am in a dilemma now." β
"Bah, if you call the other party over, I want to see who wants to marry me, I want to see if he has the ability to marry me."
Looking at the queen-like Wen Qing, Shen Jia stuck out his tongue, and then slowly said the reason: "Last night, someone almost killed me for a bag of steamed buns, I just sighed that my life was so worthless,"
"you, what are you thinking, you have to live well, haven't you been looking forward to the three palaces and six courtyards, I think it's almost together, Sister Wu in Shenyang, and now Sister Qu, if you work hard, maybe you can really realize your dreams."
Shen Jia looked at Wen Qing with a wry smile, he didn't expect that a joke he said in the army was so tightly remembered by Wen Qing, and he said it from time to time to sarcastically mock himself.
After breakfast, the two bodyguards took the prisoners to find Chen Ce and He Shixian, Shen Jia stayed at home for a long time, and the maid Jixiang came in to report that a friend had come to visit.
Shen Jia couldn't help but be a little strange, when he first arrived, how could there be so many pig friends and dogs, and he wanted to refuse, but unexpectedly, Jixiang told him that it seemed to be someone from Shenyang.
Shen Jia was shocked, it was Wu Shihan from Shenyang. Shen Jia walked quickly to the front yard, but found that it was the three Xiucai he met in the Shenyang Big Buddha Temple a few days ago.
"Brother Shen, I haven't seen you for many days, my demeanor is shining, Brother Shen has five phoenix marks on his face today, this is very auspicious, this is very auspicious."
"Brother Liu, Brother Ge, Brother Wang, be polite, hurry up and invite in the house."
Shen Jia was thick-skinned, ignoring Liu Wencai's ridicule at all, and greeted everyone into the hall with a smile.
In the middle of people's halls is either Tiger Roaring Nanshan or Danqing Miaobi, only Shen Jia's hall has a few baskets of steamed buns piled up on the table in front of the hall.
Liu Wencai, Ge Yishan, and Wang Ziheng saw the steamed buns placed randomly on the table as soon as they entered the door, and they couldn't help but twitch their faces, and sat down with a smile.
Shen Jia hurriedly smiled to hide his embarrassment, and said at the same time: "The junior brother has helped the two chief soldiers to take care of the affairs of the hungry people in the city for the past two days, and in order to fill the stomachs of the hungry people, he has been busy with this every day. β
After speaking, he pointed to the steamed buns on the table, these were actually for the Ming army in the nursing home, and Shen Jia didn't break it.
From the moment Ge Yishan entered the door, his face was slightly red and he looked around. Shen Jia felt a little strange, and couldn't help but glance at him again, but saw that this brother was wearing a green shirt, elegant and graceful, and he looked like a sven scum with a fan in his hand.
Seeing that Shen Jia was looking at Ge Yishan, Liu Wencai coughed lightly and said: "Don't hide it from Brother Shen, the three of us are the showmen of Shenyang Mansion, the Tartars killed my border people and plundered the assets, we have the heart to serve the country but have no power to kill the thief, the day before yesterday next to the flying chicken outside Shenyang City, the three of us made an appointment to come to Fushun, and wanted to join the army to set up a career, I don't know if Brother Shen can accept it?" β
Shen Jia was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "I am naturally overjoyed when the three of them join the army, but I am afraid of delaying the opportunity for the three brothers to gain fame." β
The prince didn't speak for a long time, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but blush, and said: "I'm afraid that the three of us have come to the end of our knowledge, so I considered finding another way. β
After hearing this, Shen Jia smiled slightly, noncommittal in his heart. People in this era are all interested in fame, and military attachΓ©s are especially spurned by literati along the way. The three of them were just talking about whether they wanted to do it or not, and Shen Jia wasn't sure. However, there is indeed a lack of literate and hyphenated people around me, and with these three helpers, I can indeed do more.
Thinking of this, Shen Jia smiled, hugged the three of them and said: "The three brothers are coming, I naturally can't be happy, there are a lot of things around me, when I am free, I will talk about the three brothers carefully." β
All four laughed at the same time.
The three of them chatted with Shen Jia for a while, and then said goodbye. After sending the three of them away, Shen Jia tossed all night last night and was a little tired, so he planned to take a nap in the chair in the backyard.
Closing his eyes and feeling the warmth of the April sun, Shen Jia felt comfortable all around. Hearing movement in the courtyard, Shen Jia closed his eyes and shouted casually: "Ruyi, help me beat my legs." β
The days of being an uncle are really cool, especially when a maid gently knocks on her legs.
After lying down for a while, Shen Jia felt a little better in spirit, and considering that he still had business this morning, he was ready to get up and go out.
When I opened my eyes, I found that Qu Xiaoyi was sitting next to him with a smile on his face. Shen Jia was taken aback, fortunately he didn't touch it just now, otherwise the consequences would be much more serious.
"Xiao Yi, how long have you been here? How not to squeak. β
Qu Xiaoyi smiled shyly and said, "I've been here for a while, I saw you resting with your eyes closed, so I didn't want to wake you up." β
Qu Xiaoyi seems to cherish this sudden "encounter", she lost her parents since she was a child, grew up in the countryside, and only knows about etiquette. Since Qu Xiaoyi was hugged by Shen Jia, he heard Shen Jia's intention to punch him, so he didn't pay much attention to it in the back house.
Looking at Qu Xiaoyi, who had a graceful posture, a spring at the corner of his mouth, and a smile on his face, Shen Jia had an urge to embrace him in his arms. Shen Jia stared blankly for a while, and said goodbye to Qu Xiaoyi with a smile.
Not long after coming to the command yamen in the city, Shen Jia entered the door with a scratch on his face, and happened to be seen by He Shixian. He Shixian shouted at him: "Are you bullying the girl, how did the injury on your face come about?" β
Shen Jia's old face flushed, and he waved his hand and said, "Uncle He, how dare I bully her, if she doesn't bully me, I'll thank God, my injury was scraped by rolling into the ground last night." β
He Shixian knew that Shen Jia was lying, but he didn't break him, and continued: "Did the main assassin culprit last night be caught? β
"Uncle He, I was about to ask my two bodyguards, if they can't handle this thing, go back to Shenyang as soon as possible."