Chapter 5 Let Him Go
It is said that although Zhou Yihan and Zhou De'an were taken care of by Wang Kunjun at the beginning and placed in Yuqingguan and Huanglong Temple for foster care, Wang Kunjun did this more out of pity for the two sisters and brothers, and did not think too much about them. Especially when he realized that the hatred of the sister and brother for the "Qingyuan" brothers was difficult to dissolve, and even the possibility of Zuihou taking it for his own use did not exist, Wang Kunjun was even more resigned to it and no longer paid too much attention to them. It is precisely because of this that Zhao Dawei, who stayed in Beiping, heard the news of the departure of the Zhou family siblings from his niece Jingyue, who came to report the news on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and did not take it too seriously at first, feeling that there was no need to disturb the fifth brother with such an inconsequential matter when the battle of Yangzhou was about to start. Therefore, he suppressed the matter, on the one hand, let Jingyue play in Beiping City and the surrounding places of interest for a few days and rest. On the other hand, they waited for the end of the battle of Yangzhou and then passed the news to Kaifeng. Although Damao Mountain is not too far from Beiping City, it is more than 300 miles away, and Uncle Shi let him play for a few days and rest, Jingyue naturally couldn't ask for it, and he lived happily in Beiping City.
The battle of Yangzhou was decided on the first day, and the news was transmitted to Beiping City through Kaifeng on the 25th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Zhao Dawei, who learned that the counterinsurgency army had won a complete victory, was happy for the fifth brother and others, and at the same time, he planned to tell Kaifeng about the departure of the Zhou family sisters and brothers. As a result, just before he was about to send a telegram, a message he inadvertently received from Shizuki caught his attention and postponed the telegram.
Speaking of which, I would like to thank Yu Xuzi's apprentice, Qingchen's junior brother, and Feng Zhida (Qingfeng), who is currently the protector of the "Dark Feather" Beiping Branch (head of the Beiping Station Action Group of the Ministry of Intelligence). When he was chatting with his senior sister Jingyue, he keenly caught the clues that made him suspicious from some of the things that happened in Yuqingguan casually mentioned by the other party, and after carefully asking his senior sister about the relevant details, he came to a conclusion that surprised him himself - Zhou Yihan and Zhou De'an's departure was probably related to the original "Feiyan Hall" head hall advocated Yan who had been wanted by the Beiping Army for many days but had not been able to find it.
When the relevant situation was reported, Zhao Dawei and Zheng Zhiwei naturally did not dare to slack off, and the two immediately brought Jingyue to understand the situation. According to Jingyue, since the Zhou family siblings were sent to Yuqingguan, although they have always been haunted by the fact that their father was killed by the "Qingyuan" brothers, the two of them were young at the beginning, and even if they had any grievances, they were powerless to do anything. Second, as time goes by, especially Chang Shengjun, who is familiar with them, he will visit them from time to time, and try his best to dispel their hatred and appease their hearts. Therefore, in the past two years, the two sisters and brothers, especially Zhou Yihan, who is the elder sister, no longer always talk about revenge as they did in the first few years. When he met his younger brother who was transferred to Huanglong Temple for foster care, he no longer always taught the other party not to forget his father's hatred as before, but more to understand his younger brother's life and study in the temple, and taught his younger brother to study hard, so that one day he could get ahead and glorify his ancestors, so as to comfort his father's soul in heaven.
Since May and June this year, for some reason, the words "revenge and hatred" have suddenly become more and more frequent from Zhou Yihan's mouth, and even Zhou De'an, who is already 14 years old, has gradually shown his strong hatred and dissatisfaction with the "Qingyuan" brothers, and has repeatedly threatened to return blood for blood and tooth for tooth. For this sudden change in the thinking of the Zhou family's sisters and brothers, Yu Qingzi and even everyone in Yuqingguan and Huanglong Temple were very puzzled, and they couldn't understand why the sisters and brothers who had already let go of their hatred were like this. After all, whether it is Yuqingguan or Huanglong Temple, they have received a lot of care from the Beiping Army, whether it is the Taoist aunt in the temple or the monks in the temple, they have always been grateful to the Beiping Army and the "Qingyuan" brothers, and it is not too late to appease the Zhou family sisters and brothers, and it is impossible to stimulate or induce the sisters and brothers to regain their hatred for the "Qingyuan" brothers.
Since he couldn't find any problems from the insiders of Yuqingguan and Huanglong Temple, Feng Zhida (Qingfeng) began to pay attention to outsiders who entered and exited Yuqingguan and Huanglong Temple, and who might have contact with the Zhou family's siblings. In this way, it reminded Jingyue of a group of outsiders who had temporarily lived in the view. According to Jing, this group of people came to Yuqingguan at the end of the second month of the lunar calendar. According to their own introduction, they were rich merchants from Lanzhou, because the Zhenning army made Zhang Yongde rebel, and the city of Lanzhou became a battlefield, in order to avoid disaster, they had to abandon their family business, and several masters and servants fled to the north in a hurry. Originally, I planned to go to a relative's house in Tang County, not far from Damao Mountain, to live temporarily, but I didn't want the other party to move out last month, and I didn't even leave a new address. And because of the hurry of coming out this time, they didn't have much coils on their bodies, and they had spent all their food and accommodation along the way, and they couldn't continue to live in the inn in the county town. When he was hesitating, he was fortunate to hear that the guys of the inn said that there was a Yuqing Temple and a Huanglong Temple on Damao Mountain not far from the county seat, and the abbots of both places were helpful living Bodhisattvas, and if they went to ask for each other, they would definitely be taken in. So, the male and female masters of that family came to the temple with their servants, begged the master Yu Qingzi to take them in, and said that after the war in the south was over and he returned to Shanzhou, he would definitely send someone to send a heavy reward to reshape the golden body of the Sanqing patriarch in the temple.
Although Taoism pays attention to pure cultivation, firstly, this family looks really pitiful, and secondly, the monks emphasize doing good deeds and accumulating virtues, so Master Yuqingzi only thought about it for a while, and then nodded and agreed. However, considering that the temple is full of Taoist aunts, and men should not live in the temple, so Yu Qingzi repaired a book and sent a disciple to introduce the other party's male to the Huanglong Temple to borrow - with Yu Qingzi coming forward, the Huanglong Temple naturally agreed happily. As a result, this group of outsiders stayed in Yuqingguan and Huanglong Temple, and lived for more than two months, until the end of April and the beginning of May of the lunar calendar, when their family members who stayed in the city of Lanzhou came to report that everything was peaceful there. Moreover, although Yuqingzi and the abbot of Huanglong Temple repeatedly refused, the other party still sent a large amount of money and goods about a month after leaving, to express his gratitude for the affection.
Maybe it's because it's too boring to get along with the Taoist aunt in the view for a long time, or maybe it's the other party's business knowledge that has attracted the interest of Zhou Yihan, who has lived in the view for many years and knows little about the shijie outside, or maybe the other party's hostess is about the same age, and has a cheerful personality and extraordinary conversation, so that Zhou Yihan is very willing to be close to him, in short, no matter what the reason, anyway, since the woman who claims to be her husband's surname Li, her mother's surname Cao, and her nickname Yanniang live in Yuqingguan, it is only a few days, Zhou Yihan had a hot fight with her. The two of them often chatted and played together, and they were as good as sisters—this can be seen from the fact that one of the gifts that the other party gave to Yu Qingguan afterwards was designated to be given to Zhou Yihan.
In this regard, Yu Qingzi didn't care too much. In her opinion, Zhou Yihan, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, is a vigorous and energetic age, and the Taoist temple as a place of pure cultivation is not a place where she, a worldly person who has no intention of taking refuge, should stay, and it is also a good thing for her to have an outsider to talk, contact, and communicate with her. What's more, she has already reached the age when she should get married, and if she can find a family affair for her through this Li family lady, it will also be a good thing for this ill-fated little girl who has urinated since she was a child. After all, it is also the wish of the general Chang who often comes to visit them to let the sister and brother have a good home. Therefore, Yu Qingzi not only did not interfere with Zhou Yihan's contact with the Li family's lady, but supported and encouraged it.
After listening to Jing Yue's story, especially after carefully inquiring about the family's clothing and body shape, Feng Zhida (Qingfeng)'s first reaction was that the appearance of the male and female hosts seemed to have been seen somewhere, giving people a very familiar feeling. After some hard thinking and meditation, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and two people came to mind. So, he quickly brought two portraits from his room for Jingyue to identify. As a result, the other party quickly recognized that the portraits were the male and female owners of the family who came to Guanzhong to live temporarily, and the two portraits were painted by the former "Feiyan Tang" head hall advocate Yan and his henchman's subordinate Shi Ran, the deputy head of the "Feiyan Hall" Beiping Branch, who had been wanted by the Ministry of Intelligence for many days.
Because the two portraits were painted by the professional portrait painter of "Dark Feather" based on the descriptions of Liu Jingming, the owner of the Beiping branch of the captured "Feiyan Hall", and many other spies who had seen Zhang and Shi, they were almost the same as real people. Therefore, after Feng Zhida (Qingfeng) received an affirmative answer from Jingyue, he had already concluded that the so-called wealthy businessmen of Lanzhou, who had taken refuge in Yuqingguan and Huanglong Temple, were the remnants of the Beiping branch of the "Feiyan Hall" who had escaped arrest by "Dark Feather" at the end of last year and had been at large. Moreover, according to the information provided by Jingyue and the news sent by the relevant branches of "Dark Feather", after fleeing from Beiping City, the other party should not have returned to Lanzhou City to ask Zhang Yongde for his guilt, but absconded all the way to Damao Mountain, and hid in Yuqingguan and Huanglong Temple.
In addition, Feng Zhida (Qingfeng) can also be sure that with Zhang Yan's intelligence, it is not difficult to get her origin from the mouth of Zhou Yihan, who is not deeply involved in the world and has no scheming, and thus understands that it is not difficult for her to have a grudge with the "Qingyuan" brothers. And with Zhang Yan's insidious cunning, it is also easy to take advantage of the entanglement between the Zhou family sisters and brothers and the "Qingyuan" brothers to rekindle their hatred for the "Qingyuan" brothers, and lure them to run away for the so-called "revenge". Now, the only thing that Feng Zhida (Qingfeng) can't be sure of is whether the Zhou family sisters and brothers left Damao Mountain to find their own way out, or went to Zhang Yan. If it is the former, with the current strength of the Beiping Army, as well as the actual situation of the two sisters and brothers' lack of experience and scheming, there is no need to worry about what they will do to the "Qingyuan" brothers. If it is the latter, then with Zhang Yan's scheming, it is entirely possible to use the hatred of the Zhou family sisters and brothers, and the resources left by the original "Feiyan Hall" that they may still have in their hands, to induce the sisters and brothers to do something at any cost and recklessly. After all, when people are carried away by hatred, it is entirely possible to do things that ordinary people will not do or dare not do.
Therefore, after clarifying the relevant ideas and sorting out his analysis and relevant evidence into a detailed report materials, Feng Zhida (Qingchen) reported to his boss as soon as possible, and was sent to his boss's boss Zheng Zhiwei with the report by his boss.
Seeing that the matter involved "Feiyantang" and Zhang Yan, Zheng Zhiwei naturally did not dare to slack off. He first brought Jingyue over, and personally learned first-hand information from this Taoist aunt, who still didn't quite understand why a businessman from Lanzhou who had come to Guanzhong to avoid trouble, had attracted so much attention from the adults of the Beiping Army, and then exchanged views with Zhao Dawei, and then wrote a report on the relevant situation and sent it to Kaifeng City by telegram.
Although Beiping City, especially Zheng Zhiwei, Zhao Dawei and others attach great importance to this matter, and Zhang Weixin, Xu Shaoan, Liang Ziyue and others on the Kaifeng side are also more concerned about this situation, and suggested strengthening the security of the brothers in Kaifeng City, especially Wang Kunjun, who is regarded as the primary enemy by the Zhou family's sisters and brothers, Wang Kunjun, who got the news, laughed it off.
Of course, Wang Kunjun's performance is neither arrogant nor pretentious, but based on the judgment of the strength of both sides. In his opinion, because Zhang Yan has absconded for a long time, Zhang Fei's whereabouts are unknown, and Zhang Neng has been imprisoned in a hard labor camp by his own family, the leaderless "Feiyan Hall" has now existed in name only. Even if Zhang Yan was able to use his prestige to gather some of the old troops and die-hard elements, his strength was far less than before the Battle of Lanzhou. And even in the heyday of "Feiyantang", it was not the opponent of "Dark Feather", let alone the current state of dying and lingering. In the final analysis, Wang Kunjun trusts his own strength and the ability of the "Dark Feather" agents, so he didn't take the Zhou family's siblings to heart and may defect to Zhang Yan. As for Liang Ziyue's suggestion to invest more manpower to track down the whereabouts of the Zhou family's sisters and brothers, and to hunt down Zhang Yan and other leaders of the "Feiyan Hall", Wang Kunjun's answer was only half agreed.
On the point of strengthening the pursuit of Zhang Yan and others, Wang Kunjun held a fully supportive attitude, and proposed that he could take advantage of the favorable conditions of his own control of the government to carry out a comprehensive wanted arrest of Zhang Yan and others in the area controlled by the Hou Zhou Dynasty through the official channel of the Later Zhou Dynasty; In tracing the whereabouts of the Zhou family's sisters and brothers, Wang Kunjun's answer was a common saying that all brothers are familiar with: "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, let him go!" ”