Chapter Thirty-Eight: The East Window Incident
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Growing up in the northern border of Xinyue, I am accustomed to seeing the meandering waters of the Yellow River, the turbidity waves emptying, the turbulent streams, and the rolling waves, and I can't help but sigh that the river water in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River is also so elegant.
followed the hurried crowd on the top layer of a three-layer painting boat with eight lanterns and three layers of yellow juansu wrapping. After getting on the boat, I sat down and listened to the rhythm of the yaoqin, the sound of the piano seemed to be on the vast plain and the breeze and water, galloping thousands of miles;
It is like stopping at the height of the clouds in an instant, the wind and smoke sticks, a glance and a song, the swaying realm in the south mountain of the wind and moon by the lake.
I listened to the piano music, so I talked to myself and ordered it to the little master of the Wu family:
Jiangmi vermicelli duck stuffed balls, Yipin Hanshan tofu, Jiujiang Linxian red powder balls and golden ginkgo oyster mushroom pinched daylily.
The fire monkey bouncing next to him was always beside him.
He looked up at me like a little adult and said, "Uncle Fu, I want to go rafting on a bamboo raft." As he spoke, he shook his handsome little nose, the wings of his nose flickered, childish and cute.
I hugged him over, scratched his little nose, and said with a smile, "The bamboo raft is not very safe, how good is the painting boat, and it is stable and can see the beautiful scenery on both sides of the strait."
"It's not fun, Feng'er hasn't had a chance to play on a bamboo raft for more than a year," he pursed his lips and said, "Last year, the year before yesterday, there was water here, and many people gathered to fight, and my father and mother didn't let me go out at all." β
When I saw his cuteness, I thought to myself, so I said, "Okay, but we just ordered food, and we have to eat before we can play." β
"Really?" There was a look of joy in his clear and crystalline eyes.
"Of course, retractor," I staggered as I reached over my big hand and hooked his little finger with my little finger.
When I went to the river to look for a bamboo raft after dinner, I looked for a lot of effort, and I looked sideways at the little cutie I was leading:
He was covered with a blue and blue flowered eight-ball satin tassel gown, a pair of small court boots with soap-colored turmeric deer skin bottom on his feet, a red cherry mouth, a small nose bridge, and a pink face that was so white and red that he could almost wring out water.
The dark and bright eyes were full of light, and the long eyelashes cast a faint shadow on the eyes, which made people's hearts suddenly rise with infinite love.
I was looking at this little cutie, but I heard him suddenly shout to the other side, "Uncle, uncle-" Before the words fell, he ran straight to the unkempt young men who were sitting in the prisoner's car and were pressed by a group of officials.
"Feng'er, wait," I also hurried to run with him, and for fear that the unknowing yacha would hurt him, I stopped him in my hand, and the fire monkey behind me ran after him, panting all the way, and finally jumped on my shoulder.
When I saw Feng'er's situation, I confirmed with him softly, "Is this really Feng'er's uncle?" β
The child blinked and nodded in horror and firmness.
I had to gradually follow and surround myself, and I stuffed a gold leaf into the yacha while the people were unprepared, and asked in silence, "Dare to ask this master, what crime has this prisoner committed?" β
The yacha looked around, waved his hand and gently took the golden leaf, and said to me naturally:
"He is a weaving merchant in Fengyi City, and in the past few days, he has come to visit the farmers who have changed their fields to mulberry in the past few years, and the county officials who have broken the embankment and flooded the farmland, and this, these weaving have depressed the price of farmland, and they can't subdue those farmers to plant mulberry well, causing the farmers to be in a big mess a while ago......"
I only kept my face strained and pressed all kinds of thoughts in my heart, but the more I listened, the more my heart tightened, and there was actually a county official who deliberately decided that the Yangtze River embankment flooded the farmland of several counties because the peasants in the whole village forcibly refused to plant mulberry fields for the country.
And I thought and thought, with the Wu family's family assets, there is no need to lower the rent price of farmland, even if there is this practice, a little beating, it will not be a big thing for the interests of this district, and there are many doubts in the middle.
I had to think about it carefully, and before I knew it, the line of officials had already pressed the businessman who was called his uncle by Wu Feng and walked away, Wu Feng grabbed my sleeve and hurriedly said, "Let's go back to find Daddy."
I answered, and I didn't have the heart to wander around anymore, so I took Wu Feng and hurriedly returned to the Fengyi City Mansion.
After entering the mansion, the official family and grandmother of the Wu Mansion who came to the mansion to find the little master were already anxious and sad, and when they saw Wu Feng, they hurriedly greeted and took over, and they were going to take Wu Feng back to the house. I didn't say much.
I only asked when Wu Xize would be able to come back. The official said with a sincere face, "We are all just called by the house, and we don't know the official affairs of the lord on the side of the mansion, and when we left, the lord has not yet returned to the house." β
I only hummed, and then returned to my guest room in the palace, and touched my jade pendant letter, Shi Shiran drank two cups of tea at the table, and saw that Wu Xize had not returned, and it was inconvenient to ask more, so he fell asleep on the bed.
I hurriedly pushed open the window lattice to see, and saw that there were many contact flowers in many places for a while, so I hurriedly took a scimitar, changed into night clothes, pulled a face towel, and turned over the courtyard wall to find the flower battle one by one.
The night was like ink, followed by the green shadow of the green clothes who contacted the flowers, and went to the first place to stand on a canopy boat with soapy clothes, and on the bow deck four or five boatmen sat lazily around the window and smoked dry smoke.
The window of the painting boat was unexpectedly opened, and a secret messenger like me handed out the letter and handed it over to me to confirm it, and then handed out a thick piece of paper, which seemed to have handwriting in the light.
I took it, and I didn't say much to follow the rules, so I went straight to the foot of the hill where the second contact flower battle was made, and there was a hut outside the mulberry field bamboo row at the foot of the mountain, which was also my contact point in Fengyi City.
When I was about to go to the third place, I felt that the sky was already slightly white, and sure enough, there was no one when I went, so I hurried back to the mansion, rushed into my house and closed the door to change my clothes.
Suddenly, he felt that there was someone in the room with his six senses, so he only gently pressed his hand on the full moon scimitar on his waist, listened to the angle of the visitor, turned back and struck the side hand and hooked the front hook to pinch the person's neck in his hand, and said lightly, "What person?" β
When I touched my neck, I felt that the tentacles were very soft and smooth, and I felt that there seemed to be a woman's earrings on it, but I heard the man whisper, "Please General Fu save my master."
Before I could say a word, something bit my hand, I was stunned for a moment, and then I let go of my hand when I heard the words, and lit the fire and lit the lamp and candle in the room.
Only then did I see that the left hand that was holding the woman's neck just now had been bitten by the fire monkey and a large piece of flesh had been bitten, and a woman was kneeling on the ground and weeping.
Seeing that she looked at me dressed like this, although it was a little strange, she didn't care about it, as if she knew who I was, and knelt on the ground and refused to get up, only holding a mutton fat jade engraved jade hairpin with colorful and fancy gems on it and a jade wrench, and handed it to me with a bloodstained Luopa, while crying:
"My lord and I are both assigned by the master mother of the Xing family of the Prime Minister's Mansion to help promote the transformation of the field into mulberry, and those extraordinary means of breaking the embankment are also the main mother's own instructions, asking in every way, saying that it is to implement national politics. Now, now the old man and the younger brother of the slave family have been pressed into the palace, and the envoy of the DPRK and China has personally been tortured, and he is in danger, so he begs the general to see it."
"Get up and speak first," I took a few ornaments, helped Mrs. Wu up, looked at the Mrs. Wu in front of me, opened the bloodstained Juanpa, and said, "But, why did you come to me?" You should know that I am Fu Shao's nephew. β
"Lord Shan Tingfeng and my lord have always been friends, they are all people with a good temperament, Lord Shan said General Fu, you are the secret envoy of the eldest princess, and the investigation may not be related to the root cause of the peasant army chaos in the Pengcheng street battle last year.
My lord, you have a good temperament, and you don't have anything to do with officialdom, if you want to live, this time I will be honest with you, and asking the eldest princess to secretly investigate is the only way to survive. My lord has felt that he has been guilty of a lot since the peasant military hair, but I still hope that the adults will see it, and this matter is really different. β
Mrs. Wu's eyes were red and swollen, pearl-like teardrops slowly slid down her white jade cheeks, and the wind collar and placket above the embroidered Luo Luo skirt were already ****, and the pear blossom with rain was becoming more and more poignant and poignant.
"Madame, don't worry, this matter will be carefully examined, and Mrs. will be asked to drink a cup of tea to warm up her body first, and she will explain the situation before and after carefully and clearly, but" I poured tea with her and handed it over, while lowering my head and looking at the ornaments in my hand, and then turned to Mrs. Wu and said, "It's just that what is the matter with Brother Ling?" β
"The year before last, the ancestors of the family were looted by Luo Wei and ruined, and now my lord has committed another crime, and Lord He of Chengfeng County, who has coveted the weaving business for a long time, took the opportunity to provoke the younger brother of the slave family to weave crimes, in order to force the slave family to hand over the weaving business completely, in additionββ"
She bit her lip, her face turned pale, and after a while, she said slowly, "In addition, the silk weaving produced by the sea trade in the first two years was insufficient, not that my little brother failed to complete it in time, but that all the adults should have something to offer.
After the layers of offerings, the remaining silk weaving was slightly lacking, and in the end it had to be donated by the private collection at home, but when the adults saw that there were still private collections at home, they were even more exploited," she said, taking out a book from her embroidered jacket and handing it to me with both hands:
"General Fu, this is the account book, if it weren't for my little brother refusing to hand over this account book, or the old man and the little brother would have been bad at this time. Ask the general to be clear. β
My heart sank and I listened to her explain the cause and effect of her coming, and I thought carefully about the joints.
I also know that this matter is very high, and I need to think about it carefully.
And now it sounds like what Mrs. Wu said, or there are excesses caused by her own emotions, but the basic facts are still clear, and the evidence is also there, but why did Xing Qiuyan want to make the Wu family bear such a crime in such an aggressive way of breaking the embankment and flooding the fields, so that the Wu family should be in a hurry to change the fields to mulberry?
Just to implement Fu Shao's decree? However, Fu Shao did things, most of them still persuaded people with reason, so that the people were willing, and he was not a person who blindly coerced or even used extreme means, and it was completely impossible for Xing Qiuyan to interfere in political affairs.
As for Xinyue, although Beiming needs to buy some rice and grain from Xinyue after changing the fields to mulberry, this is not a huge trade, and it does not have to be done by such means?
It won't be for Fu Shao's national politics, nor is it like it is for Xinyue, as for saying that Xing Qiuyan is a Luo Wei ninja, this is too ridiculous, no matter what, it is impossible. So, what's going on here?
After listening to Mrs. Wu's complaints, I also knew that I could not solve the matter for a while, so I had to comfort Mrs. Wu with gentle words first, and asked her not to disclose the account books to anyone.
Although she was a woman, she was also very strong, and when she had finished her speech, she quickly put on her own carved silk robe and cloak.
"The slave family was afraid that this time he came to inform General Fu that this matter would be investigated, so he was dressed in the clothes of a close-fitting girl, and he did not return to the house for the time being, and rested in the side room next to him.
At night, the slave family took the general to the nuclear warehouse in my Liu's weaving workshop, although it was already sealed, but the general went to know that the slave family's sentences were true. After speaking, he leaned over and bowed, slowly pushed the door, and looked around again before leaving.
I sat down and looked at the light of the lights and candles that kept dancing and the dream-like paintings on the four walls, and a silent sense of desolation came to my mind.
He opened the thick silk that received the messenger at night, and read silently with the lamp and candle until dawn. There was a slightly sad feeling.
If this Wu family is not a building and a courtyard, a brocade family, and a big family, however, whether it is a victim of struggle, or it is not completely innocent, or it has become a poisonous snake of exploitation and jealousy and sin spits out its core and sucks the fat sheep,
It seems that some kind of unwillingness and truth that does not admit defeat is pushing me. I memorized everything along with the silk account book, sealed it with the official letter to Fu Shao, unopened it, sealed it, opened it - at last I took out the blood book and the account book, and sealed it with a letterhead.
The white belly of the fish on the horizon and the golden light of the sun have sprouted a new day slightly, but I gradually fell deep into sleep, floating and sinking, I don't know what to do.