Chapter 641: Black Cauldron
Xie Mulin touched his nose a little unnaturally, and looked away weakly.
Cao Shuqing and Fang Wenshan have quarreled to this point, and she suspects that it may be her own pot.
Back then, Fang Wenshan sent people to attack Xie Pu in an unsuccessful attempt, and lost a man in the hands of King Yan. King Yan's men tortured the man severely, but they were unable to ask for useful information. Later, one day, the jailer in charge of the guard was a little lax, and the man died in prison, seemingly suicide.
King Yan severely punished the jailer for this, and suspected that someone with a heart had reached into his palace. Even if he has always been kind to the descendants of the family of the previous generation of King Yan, he is a little intolerant - who wants someone with bad intentions to appear in his family?
After that, some people seem to have suffered a lot of hidden losses, and even the people involved in the case who were served were severely punished. Originally, King Yan, who had also considered lightly sending some people, suddenly became ruthless, and he also had the intention of tracking down the case and arresting all the suspects. Beiping and several surrounding military towns were once in a rumor, and many people secretly cursed the person who instructed the dead soldiers to attack Xie Pu, thinking that he had nothing to do and made a big deal about the small things, which caused everyone's bad luck.
However, if it weren't for the Wen family's arrival in Beiping and the news of the real instigator to Xie Pu, the Yan Wangfu might not have discovered that Fang Wenshan was the mastermind behind the scenes.
It's very simple, the case has nothing to do with him, his black history in Shaanxi is not known, and others at most know that his friend was involved in the case, and he came to save people very righteously. Who would have thought that he would be able to carry out a riotous operation to attack officials who have nothing to do with the case?
But since this news was revealed by Fang Wenshan's newlywed wife's henchmen and maidservants, and it came out through the mouth of Cao Shuqing's own children, of course it couldn't be made up. Xie Pu reported the news to King Yan, originally just to remind King Yan not to check the wrong direction, but King Yan followed this clue and found out to the heads of a group of military attaches in Shaanxi. Although in the end, he did not find out the exact evidence of Fang Wenshan's crime, but he found out the second-in-command of the Shaanxi Dusi, searched his home, went to prison, and beheaded him, and the crime was clearly convicted.
The Shaanxi capital is much more honest. Those who had complaints did not dare to complain anymore, and those who were supposed to do things in the armaments and military resources also withdrew their hands, and a few small pigtails on their heads were too obvious to quickly resign and leave, trying to hide, if they could dodge, it was his creation, and if they couldn't hide, they would keep secrets, so that their colleagues could help take care of the family.
At this time, Fang Wenshan, an old friend who was involved in the case in Beiping, finally asked someone to bring out a message and told the old people in Shaanxi: He won't talk nonsense, but he has to ask the brothers for the aftermath.
Most of this person didn't know what was going on in Shaanxi Dusi, so he wanted to reassure his old friends. He can't keep the people in Beiping, but he can sit on the wall and watch from the wall here. He knew he couldn't escape, but he always had to think about what was going on.
It's normal for him to do this, but after the words reached the Shaanxi Dusi, everyone couldn't help but think more: Since he didn't leak the secret, how did the second-in-command leak it? Originally, it was just a case of being subdued by a few military towns around Beiping, but how could it be found out that it was strictly handled, but it was their people from the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division?
This suspicion is that Fang Wenshan, who has been to Beiping and stayed for several months, claiming to save people, but there is no follow-up after coming back, it is very suspicious. Although I couldn't find out what he shouldn't have done, there were a few fewer people who went to Peking with him, and everyone could still see it clearly. Some people also privately heard one of his own soldiers crying after drinking, complaining that he was not kind to his brothers in disregard of the lives and deaths of his brothers. Although it is not clear what this complaint is about, and this personal soldier cannot be found afterwards, this does not prevent everyone from thinking about it.
Everyone even came up with the reason why Fang Wenshan betrayed the second-in-command: his official position was already very high, and in addition to the commander and the two commanders, it was him. Wouldn't he be able to rise to the top by killing a second-in-command?
After King Yan finished investigating the case of Shaanxi Dusi, he withdrew his hand and continued to investigate the case of being served. Although the Shaanxi capital is much more honest, the resentment in his heart always has to find an outlet. King Yan and they don't dare to complain, but now that they have an object to complain about, they will naturally not be polite. Even if you have to take care of the eyes and ears of the Yan Wangfu, you don't dare to make the exclusion too obvious, but there are a lot of stumbling blocks in secret. After Fang Wenshan returned to Shaanxi, his life became more and more difficult day by day.
Although he could guess what was going on, he couldn't justify it. Telling others that he sent someone to attack his wife's ex-husband made King Yan furious, and increased the punishment of the military attache involved in the case, which is not necessarily easier than making people misunderstand that he betrayed his boss. The latter will only let him bear the resentment of the middle and upper echelons of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division, and the former will directly pull the hatred of several major military towns around Beiping. He can still tell which is more important.
Just when he was under tremendous pressure, endured the misunderstanding and exclusion of his boss and colleagues, and struggled to live in the capital of Shaanxi, his new wife Cao Shuqing came back from the capital. Not only did she not bring back a pair of children and add bargaining chips for him to threaten Xie Pu for his own use, but she also calculated some trivial matters, and even asked him to take the old concubine away, or remarry someone else, and send several children back to their hometown.
Fang Wenshan had indeed placed the old concubine and his children in his hometown, but since they had gone to Shaanxi to join him, and several older sons had also reached the time when it was time to practice martial arts, it would be more beneficial for them to grow up by staying in the army, so there was no need for him to send people back. Cao Shuqing was able to tolerate Xie Pu's flat wife and concubine back then, and was able to treat other women virtuously for the children born to Xie Pu, why can't she do the same for him today? Where is he worse than Xie Pu?
Although he married two ex-wives, both of them had their own purposes, but they were all dead, and the children were all sensible and filial, why couldn't Cao Shuqing tolerate them? Now that he is not young, Cao Shuqing is also in his thirties, God knows if he can give birth to a son? If not, wouldn't it be possible to leave him with no successor? If his son can become successful in the future, won't he be able to be filial to Cao Shuqing in the future, so that she will have something to rely on after she is old and frail?
Could it be that Cao Shuqing is still counting on going back to find her and Xie Pu's son in the future to provide for her in the future?!
Fang Wenshan couldn't understand Cao Shuqing's thoughts, so he naturally rejected her proposal. But in Cao Shuqing's opinion, this is completely against what Xie Mulin said before. He didn't take her seriously at all!
Perhaps, because she is the daughter of the high-ranking prince, the unattainable dream of his youth, and the daughter of his old master, he has always hoped to get her, and he can sacrifice everything for this. But when he got her, he wouldn't cherish it anymore, because his long-cherished wish had been fulfilled. He may begin to regret that he sacrificed too much for her, and began to feel that she had such and such shortcomings, that she was not as gentle and considerate as the old concubine, that she was not as affectionate as the two deceased wives, and even felt that she was old and decrepit and could not give birth to a son, so in order to support the elderly, even if he knew that she didn't like it, he had to leave a few children......
Once suspicion takes root, the ensuing quarrels are inevitable. Cao Shuqing used to love Wenshan deeply, and now her suspicion and resentment are deep. She began to quarrel with Fang Wenshan day after day, coupled with Fang Wenshan's concubine and several children secretly sowing discord, the differences between the couple became bigger and bigger. Fang Wenshan has to deal with the troubles of official affairs and the difficulties of his boss and colleagues, and on the other hand, he has to deal with the conflicts at home.
It's hard to say if he regrets it now, sacrificing his good future and pursuing Cao Shuqing, the flower of kaolin.