Chapter 31: Bad News

"A few poor masters, what's going on?" The sudden arrival of the yacha made the shopkeeper Liu at a loss, and stepped forward to stop the yacha and pushed it away and hit the corner of the table, and the shopkeeper Liu had to get up and ask the Jinyi guard who was standing aside: "Two officials, we are serious business, I don't know which way of the gods we have offended." A brocade guard said: "We are the Jinyi Wei from the capital to do the emperor's mission, your lord was imprisoned for private teaching, and his family property was also confiscated into the imperial court, and now he is here to seal the shop." ”

"What?" Shopkeeper Liu was shocked and couldn't believe how such a terrifying "bad news" could come, and asked calmly: "Bad master, could it be a mistake?" Our lord is law-abiding and does serious business, how can he get into a lawsuit? ”

Jin Yiwei said coldly: "How can we make a mistake in handling the imperial mission. ”

"Oops." After receiving an affirmative answer, Shopkeeper Liu was stunned in a daze, for a long time, came back to his senses, bowed down and asked, "What about the others, are they also going to prison?" There is only one son in the master's family, Li Qingyu, and the shopkeeper Liu is very worried about his safety, Jin Yiwei said: "That's not it, the commander said that only the people in the house and the family property were seized." ”

"The people of the house?" Jinyiwei's answer was unclear and unpredictable, but seeing his fierce and vicious appearance, the shopkeeper Liu stepped forward and asked carefully, and now he must save his strength and wait for Qingyu to come back, worried about whether Qingyu will not catch it, and at the same time anxious about the safety of his hometown and wife.

Thinking about it, he wanted to be in a hurry, and the shopkeeper Liu suddenly sat on the chair and couldn't move for a long time, how did the owner who had followed him for nearly ten years get involved with someone for no reason, and he was imprisoned and his family property was also filled with the court. I couldn't accept it for a while, and I was in a trance, but then I seemed to remember something, so I didn't care about the inside and ran outside without looking back.

He thought that the young master was outside and should hurry up to let him know about it, so he ran to the dock without stopping, stood on the pier and shouted at the crowd: "Liu Yong, Liu Yong!" After a while, a man ran out of the busy crowd and shouted, "Uncle, why did you get here?" From time to time, he wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead with his hands, it turned out that Liu Yong was the nephew of Liu's shopkeeper, who carried things for people at the dock for a living.

Shopkeeper Liu held Liu Yong's hand tightly and said anxiously: "Did you drive a carriage for a few years in the early years?" ”

Liu Yong responded: "Yes, what's wrong?" He looked at Shopkeeper Liu with wide eyes and doubts.

"Yes." Holding Liu Yong's hand, he walked out of the crowd without saying a word, and said anxiously: "Let's go, you and I will go to the post station to hire a fast horse and go to Jinhua to find someone." Liu Yong said in surprise: "Uncle, I drove a carriage in the early years, but I can't ride a horse!" Shopkeeper Liu was also in a hurry to go to the doctor, and said categorically: "If you can drive a horse, you will ride a horse, I said that you will, and if you are a dead horse as a live horse doctor, you will not be able to do it, and I can only count on you now." ”

Liu Yong had no choice but to say: "Then you wait for me, I have to go and say to the foreman." Shopkeeper Liu let go of his wrist and said, "Then you hurry up, this matter can't be delayed in a hurry!" Liu Yong trotted all the way back to the dock and said goodbye to the foreman.

"It's too late, let's talk as we go." Shopkeeper Liu urged, Liu Yong followed behind and listened to Shopkeeper Liu: "You ride a fast horse to Jinhua to find a family surnamed Sun, his family is also a little famous in Jinhua Mansion, and our owner does cloth and tea trading, you can find it when you go over there like a passer-by to inquire about one or two, and when you arrive at Sun's house, you and Li Gongzi say that there is a big incident in his family and let him go home quickly, and he is afraid that it will be too late." Liu Yong walked behind without saying a word, nodding his head like a chicken pecking rice.

Before leaving, the shopkeeper Liu handed over a string of keys on his waist to Liu Yong and said: "I'm afraid that Li Gongzi won't believe you, so you can just put this string of keys in his hands." After repeating his confession, he slapped the horse the horse's back, and the horse was in pain and rushed forward, and Liu Yong was caught off guard and almost fell off the horse.

"Young master, I hope you are still in a hurry to come back." Looking at Liu Yong's distant back, Shopkeeper Liu's eyes were full of melancholy.

Liu Yong remembered his uncle's instructions, did not dare to delay on the road, slept on the ground when he was tired, drank the stream water by the mountain when he was thirsty, and finally arrived at Jinhua Mansion three days later. Leading the horses to wander on the streets of Jinhua Mansion, talking about the liveliness of Jinhua Mansion, in fact, Songlin County is also very lively, the past merchants are endless, just work at the wharf during the day and return home at sunset at night, the street has long been unable to see the figure of people, so I can't feel the liveliness of Songlin County, and occasionally passing by is also busy, and I don't care about him.

Now, on the contrary, I felt the liveliness of Jinhua City by looking for people, leading the horses to look here and there in Jinhua Mansion, and stopped to fiddle a few times from time to time, but Liu Yong did not "lose his mind and forget the business".

Liu Yong asked the old woman walking on the road: "Auntie, do you know the family of this Jinhua Mansion surnamed Sun?" Xing is in a hurry, sweating a little, Liu Yong's "bare chest and breasts" is very unsightly, the old woman saw Liu Yong like this, and replied angrily: "I haven't seen it!" So he left in a hurry, and the old woman ignored him, so he had to ask again, and this time he found a young girl, thinking that the young man might be patient and better talking.

He led the horse and went over to stop the woman's way, and asked, "This girl asks you something?" Seeing him like this, the young woman was stunned and did not dare to move, and after a while she whispered, "What do you have to ask?" Hurry up and ask. Liu Yong thought that it was better for young people to speak, so he said unhurriedly: "Let me ask you where the Sun family in Jinhua Mansion lives?" The woman said softly: "There are many people surnamed Sun in Jinhua, and I don't know which one you want to inquire about?" When the woman said this, Liu Yong was blindsided.

Liu Yong didn't know what to say for a while, scratched his ears and cheeks and sat on the side of the road, and the woman saw that she was out of the way and blushed and hid her face. A quarter of an hour passed, Liu Yong slapped his head, stood up abruptly and said: "How did you forget this stubble, the uncle said in person before leaving that his family was doing cloth and tea trading, and he remembered clearly how he came to Jinhua and forgot, it seems that it is important not to patronize the excitement or to do business." As he spoke, he rushed into the crowd and inquired about the address of Sun's house.

After asking a few people one after another, an old man finally told him the detailed address and was willing to take Liu Yong to Sun's mansion. The two chatted while walking and arriving unconsciously, the old man pointed to the high-walled compound in front of him and said that this was the Sun Mansion he was looking for, Liu Yong thanked the old man and stepped forward to knock on the door.

After knocking several times in a row, I heard footsteps inside, slowly came to open the door, and when the door opened, a person leaned out of it and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Liu Yong asked in a low voice, "You guys are 'Sun Mansion' here." Seeing that he was disheveled, he looked sour and said impatiently: "This is the 'Sun Mansion', what are you going to do?" I don't have time to talk to you here. ”

Liu Yongyong explained: "I'm looking for a Li Gongzi from Songlin County, I specially rushed over to tell him that there was a big incident in his family, can you let me in." Liu Yong pointed to the courtyard and wanted to enter the mansion.

The subordinate put his body at the door and said, "There is a son you said who is drinking and eating with our son here, but you said that there is any evidence that something happened to his family, so he is not here to slander people." Liu Yong shook his head again and again, and took out the string of keys that the shopkeeper Liu gave him before leaving.

Liu Yong took the key and said, "You help me give him this set of keys, and he will come to see me when he sees it." The next person took the key and looked at it, it was just an ordinary person's key, it looked very old, and it was not a big deal.

Liu Yong looked at this person pitifully, and the next person was a little embarrassed by him, so he shook off the sentence "wait" and closed the door, Liu Yong had to sit in front of the 'Sun Mansion' and wait for the person.

Liu Yong didn't wait long before he heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming inside, Zhu Men opened, and three sons came out inside, Qingyu and Zhou Jin were both well-known people in Songlin County, so Liu Yong stepped forward and shouted: "Li Gongzi." Qingyu stepped forward and grabbed Liu Yong's arm and asked, "Say what happened to my family?" Liu Yong poured beans into a bamboo tube and said everything he knew: "My uncle works in your house, and when he saw that your house was seized by the government, he went to the dock to ask me to come here to find you, and I don't know anything else." ”

Qingyu was full of worries and had no intention of staying Jinhua turned to Sun Youwei and said: "Sun Gongzi, thank you for your hospitality in the past few days, now that there is something at home, we have to go back quickly, if there is a chance, we will continue." Saying that, he was about to leave Sun's mansion, and Sun Youwei stayed: "If you want to leave, you won't be in a hurry for a while, or stay for the time being, and we will discuss some countermeasures and make plans tomorrow." Sun Youwei thought to himself, even if he rushes back now, it will be too late.

Qingyu was worried about the situation at home at the moment, and he couldn't wait to return to the pine forest immediately to find out where he would stay here again, so he politely refused: "Thank you, Brother Sun, I'm afraid that I don't have the heart to stay here now, and now I only hate that I haven't grown a pair of wings to fly like that bird, so that I can arrive in an instant." Qingyu was very anxious in his heart, and his face was extremely ugly.

"In that case, I won't force it to stay, butler, you go and bring the horse I rode to the kitchen and bring some dry food for the road." Sun Youwei said to Qingyu like a subordinate, and at the same time said to Qingyu: "If you go to the pine forest day and night, you should arrive in three days" Qingyu did not refuse Sun Youwei's kindness, knowing that the help given by Sun Youwei at this time was what he needed most.

Zhou Jin saw that Qingyu was going back in a hurry and said to Sun Youwei: "Cousin, since Qingyu is going back, then I will also take care of this on the way back with him." Without waiting for Sun Youwei to speak, Qingyu hurriedly stopped: "Absolutely not, I have been going all the way hard, how can I let you accompany me to suffer." Qingyu shook his head again and again, and Zhou Jin said: "Since we came out together, we should go back together, and if you go back, why should you ask?" "I just didn't think of a way to deal with it, and I was embarrassed to say this.

Zhou Jin said: "I'll go back with you, but I'm also the son of the county order, and I can find out some news from the government so that you can deal with it, and no matter how bad it is, you can put something out of my father's mouth." Qingyu didn't speak, presumably what Zhou Jin said was some truth, Qingyu walked around in place vigorously, sighing from time to time, and seeing that others were also anxious.

After a pillar of incense, Zhou Jin and Qingyu had already ridden a fast horse out of the city, Qingyu rode a fast horse on Sun Youwei's house and Zhou Jin rode the fast horse brought by Liu Yong, Liu Yong was left by Sun Youwei to stay for a few days and then take a boat back.

On the official road, the two rode side by side, Qingyu didn't speak, his face was full of sorrow, Zhou Jin looked at the strange taste in his heart, and spoke to him: "Qingyu, you have a relaxed heart, uncle, he is kind to others, he is kind and kind, and he will not get into any lawsuits, it must be a misunderstanding, maybe we have already returned to the house when we arrived." ”

"Hey, I hope God will bless me, today in Brother Sun's mansion, I feel that there is a knot in my heart and there is always something to happen, it seems to be a real miracle." Qingyu said.