Chapter 12 Hidden Arrows Are Hard to Defend Against
"What you say is true? Is it a hundred miles of song? ”
"Really, really! Dad, are you annoyed, your daughter was bullied by the female county order, why do you ask an irrelevant person? Shang Nanyun clenched her handkerchief irritably, her face full of unhappiness.
However, what she didn't expect, Master Shang didn't comfort herself as usual at this time, but instead had a black face, frowning, and looked evil.
"Daddy......" Shang Nanyun shouted dissatisfiedly.
Master Shang came back to his senses and met Shang Nanyun's incomprehensible and dissatisfied gaze, he wanted to smile to comfort her, but the suspicion in his heart made him unable to laugh no matter what, so he could only give Shang Nanjue a look beside him, "Dad knows, you go back first, Dad will deal with this matter." ”
Shang Nanyun's eyes lit up, "Dad! Your daughter is being bullied, don't you care at all? ”
Shang Nanjue comforted: "Little sister, that person is a county order, even if her father wants to teach her a lesson, she has to think of a countermeasure." You are obedient, go back first, and wait for our good news. ”
With his kind words, Shang Nanyun reined in her temperament and left reluctantly.
Looking at her back gradually walking away, Master Shang's face was as gloomy as water, and he ordered Shang Jinquan: "Go and call the second young master over." ”
A quarter of an hour later, Shang Jinquan led Shang Nancheng, who was full of sleep, over.
"Dad, what's the matter?" Shang Nancheng yawned, he went out with a few friends last night, drank a little too much, and was in a mess all day today. By this time he hadn't been much awake.
Old Man Shang looked at him with a complicated gaze, "I originally wanted to train you so that you could take over the affairs of that guy in Xia Qingshan." How do you feel you are doing? ”
"Huh? Aren't I doing a good job, Dad? Those bandits have already agreed to cooperate with us, and I keep all the letters that come and go. Shang Nancheng didn't know what was going on, but at this time, he would never say that he was not doing well. Although he is also a concubine, he still has a big brother on his head, and his father can't see himself, he only thinks that the eldest brother is the best. Fortunately, Xia Qingshan's gang of mountain bandits are easy to deal with, and they only need enough benefits to drive.
Now that Wang De is gone, and the Xie family is gone, that female county magistrate must have no ability - in this way, Qingfeng County will be the world of their Shang family sooner or later.
Shang Nancheng thought well, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously, but as soon as he saw Old Man Shang's dark face, he realized that something was wrong. He hurriedly looked at his eldest brother and saw that he was also full of helplessness.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Shang Nancheng said tentatively.
Master Shang didn't bother to go around in circles with him, and said bluntly: "Today, Nanyun found out that Baili Song and the county order had met, and it seems that they have discussed a lot of things. ”
Shang Nancheng was dumbfounded, "This, this...... But...... Dad, isn't this what we think, the plan of the bandits? Pretend to cooperate with the county order to let them relax their vigilance and ...... again "kill with one blow."
But he couldn't go on, the mountain bandits could use such a plan to deal with the county order, how could they not use such a plan to calculate the Shang family?
"Dad, I, I'm going to ask Brother Baili! Maybe it's just a misunderstanding! ”
Master Shang didn't refuse, Shang Nanyun didn't hear anything after all, maybe this was really a mountain bandit plan. However, his youngest son is becoming more and more stupid, thinking that he can sit back and relax if he has an agreement with the mountain bandits, but he doesn't know that if the county order allows more benefits than the Shang family, then what will happen to those mountain bandits?
Fortunately, this matter was discovered by Nan Yun, otherwise when things are out of control, everything will be in vain.
People will have a fluke mentality, especially Shang Nancheng, he just thinks that things are really as light as he thinks. However, just when he was in a hurry to contact Baili Song and couldn't get in touch, he was shocked to realize that the praying mantis was catching cicadas, and the yellow finch was behind. The county order is the cunning yellow finch, but he and Baili Song, who is the praying mantis and who is the cicada?
In the evening of the same day, Baili Song finally paid attention to Shang Nancheng, but what he sent to Shang's house was only a thin piece of paper......
"Daddy! Eldest brother! Shang Nancheng's face was full of horror.
The paper was torn from the ledger they had hidden!
"What can I do about this...... What to do! In the secret room, the three of them surrounded a candle flame, and their faces were the same serious. Shang Nancheng realized that he had caused trouble, and his face was full of panic.
"Are you scared now? I told you that the most important thing to do when dealing with outlaws is to be careful! Be careful with your life, be careful with your secrets! As for you, no one wants your life, they want the life of our family! ”
Old Man Shang was so angry that he gasped, and in the wall behind him, there was an empty and abrupt hole, where there should have been a disgraceful account book of their Shang family, but now there was nothing. Without him, the ledger would have been stolen by the mountain bandits.
Shang Nancheng was speechless, "I, I, I didn't expect it...... But Dad, what benefits did the county order give them to make them do this? ”
Shang Nanjue raised his hand and pressed down his shoulders that were trembling with excitement, his eyes were cold, completely lost his usual softness, and he only heard him speak: "Dad, since the mountain bandits want to cooperate with the county order, those account books will fall into her hands sooner or later, and it's time to do it." ”
His voice was calm and calm, and in this small and dimly lit secret room, it was inexplicably reassuring.
Master Shang nodded, "Time is pressing, and we must not let Wen Zhesang get the account book alive." In addition......" He paused, feeling more and more uneasy, "Send Nan Yun out to avoid it, and wait for the limelight to pass." Pick her up again. ”
Shang Nanjue and Shang Nancheng glanced at each other and nodded. Now this county order is not Wang De, and those mountain bandits can only become enemies with the Shang family, in such a situation, they can only rest assured if they send their little sister out.
The plan was set, but they didn't seem to move.
In addition to arranging for Shang Nanyun to leave home early in the morning of the second day.
The matter of lobbying Shang Nanyun fell on Shang Nanjue, "It's spring now, and the scenery in Jiangnan is especially good, haven't you been clamoring to go to Jiangnan to see?" It just so happened that a friend of mine was in Yuecheng, and a few days ago he wrote to invite me to play, but the eldest brother didn't have time, so this good thing was cheap for the younger sister. ”
Shang Nanyun has never been out of Qingfeng County since she was a child, and when she heard such words at this time, she couldn't help but smile, "Is what the eldest brother said true?" But Daddy ...... You won't necessarily let me go. In the end, the excitement on her face faded considerably.
Shang Nanjue said softly: "If my father doesn't agree, how can I come to tell you?" Rest assured, my friend is reliable. Even if you go to Jiangnan to play, you just have to bring a few more people. ”
Hearing him say this, Shang Nanyun finally put her mind at ease, pulled Shang Nanjue and asked what things to prepare for going to Jiangnan. The two of them commanded their subordinates to work for a while, and only then did they barely miss anything.
Another day passed, Shang Nanyun happily took the maid guards to Jiangnan.
The Shang family had a big show, Shang Nanyun went to Jiangnan, and brought more than a dozen carriages, not like going to play, but like moving.
Across a wall, the laughter and laughter of the street climbed over the wall and rushed into the yamen. In two days, Wen Zhesang pulled Song Hanshu and finally pieced together to find out who belonged to the fields in the northern suburbs before the Xie family.
At this time, she was doing the final tidying up.
"I really didn't expect that even if the Xie family fell, the people would not dare to take back their own fields." Song Hanshu sighed, he was a scholar and didn't do anything about farming, but he also knew how important the fields were to the people.
"Didn't Aunt Li say it, everyone is scared." Wen Zhesang put down his pen, and just then, a new notice was completed. "The fields in the northern suburbs are rich, and the rich families want to get it, even if the Xie family is gone, there are still the Shang family and a group of people who follow the Shang family. Even if they return to the northern suburbs to farm, no one knows if someone will suddenly appear and seize their fields. ”
Aunt Li is the cook in the back kitchen, she sees everyone with a smiling face, her family originally had a field in the northern suburbs, but it was later taken away by the Xie family.
"That's true, but I think the situation in the northern suburbs should also be the work of rich households, who don't want the people to go back to the northern suburbs to farm, and the best way is to abandon it. If no one finds out, after a year and a half, the rich families will send people to cultivate in the northern suburbs, and then they will not forcibly occupy the fields, but 'reclaim the wasteland'. ”
Song Hanshu is also writing notices, they just want to publicize the fields in the suburbs of Jiangbei, although they have a list in their hands, but not everyone knows it. In such a situation, it is best to let the people claim it. Moreover, this is more convincing to the yamen.
"My lord, someone found a woman who had fallen into the water by the river in the suburbs, and we wanted to send him to the hospital, but she refused to live or die, so we had to bring him back first." Xie Yikou walked in with a few catchers at this time carrying a drenched woman.
Wen Zhesang glanced up, "Have you asked for a doctor?" ”
Xie Yikou nodded, "This person looks a little familiar, but when I asked her whose family she belonged to, she refused to say." ”
Wen Zhesang asked them to carry the people in, and then commanded, "I know." Wen Shi, you take a few people to post the notice, so that the people can come and claim the fields as soon as possible. ”
A moment later, the doctor came, and many of the people who were in high spirits came.
Wen Zhesang asked people to put a few bookcases in the yamen compound, with a list and a pen and paper on the other.
The woman who was rescued by Xie Yikou and a few people was already unconscious, and there was a scratch on one of her cheeks, and the wound should not have healed when she fell into the water, but now she was soaked in water, which made her even more hideous and terrifying. Her face was pale, like a paper figure.
The doctor tried his best to pull the man back from the ghost gate, but as soon as the man woke up, he cried with a "wow".
This heart-rending cry formed a huge contrast with the joyful laughter of the people in the courtyard, but fortunately, there were many people in the courtyard and the voice was loud, so I was not tormented by the woman's cry.
"To live is to suffer, it is better to let me die, a hundred!" The woman was heartbroken, crying and crying and vomiting a mouthful of blood, which was shocking.
Wen Zhesang rubbed her ears, and was about to speak, when she saw the old doctor shaking her goatee and reprimanding her: "You doll, you don't spare your life!" ”
Xie Yikou stepped forward and stared at her sharply, "If you want to die, remember to go farther, this is the Yamen, if you die here, you will only cause trouble for adults." ”
"Ya...... Yamen? The woman suddenly stopped crying, and looked up tremblingly, revealing a white face. Her eyes rolled, and her gaze fell on Wen Zhesang.
She struggled abruptly, "My lord! Please help me! ”