Wei Shishi said softly, "When you were in Ruyang, did you hear the locals talk about the Seven Spirits of Ruyang?" ”

Bai Ling shook his head, and after a while, he seemed to remember something, "It seems that I have seen their ancestral hall and stone monument on the mountain." Zhou Zhou is like, and "

"Zhou Mengru." Wei Shishi said softly, "There are also Yan Xikang, Li Yang, Pei Lin, Shen Yan, Yang Niankai and Jiao Wenjie. ”

"Ah yes, it seems like these names." Bai Ling nodded, "There are still many old people who will take their children up the mountain to pay respects during the Qingming cold food, which is very lively. Has Fourteen seen these people? ”

Wei Shishi shook his head, "I haven't seen these people with my own eyes, but my master has an old friend with this Lord Zhou Mengru Zhou, so he knows the whole story, and when he was a child, he told me the story." ”

Bai Ling straightened his back, "Fourteen tell me about it?" ”

Wei Shixi's pace slowed down a little, and he said softly, "When Jianxi was more than 20 years old, there was a riot in Ruyang, the cause was that someone in the court accused Zhou Mengru of being a foreign country and being involved with the remnants of the old Qi, and intended to secretly assist in the restoration, so he was to be arrested and brought back to Beijing for interrogation, which angered the people of Ruyang, so on the day that Zhou Mengru was released and entered Beijing, there was a civil rebellion in Ruyang, and the people of the whole city gathered to rob the prisoner car and killed many guards. ”

Bai Ling tilted his head slightly, "Is Litong's foreign designation a false accusation?" ”

"Then it will be a matter of opinion, at that time, there was a lot of evidence to prove that Zhou Mengru was suspicious, and it can be said that there was a complete amount of human and material evidence, but my master insisted that Zhou Mengru was definitely not a person who could be bought with money." Wei Shishi said softly, "If you go back further, it was caused by the floods in Ruyang for many years. At that time, it was the third year of the prefect of Ruyang, Qian An, and he and several prefects under his command worked together to rebuild the river embankment for three years, but every year the river embankment would still burst, and the villagers were overwhelmed by the new taxes, so they entrusted the matter to the squire Zhou Mengru.

Although Zhou Mengru was only in his early fifties, because his mother was seriously ill, he had been at home for many years. This person's previous official was the governor of Liangzhi and the governor of Liangzhou, and since he was entrusted by his hometown father, he went to secretly investigate this matter. Although his current embankment is being repaired every year, the number of strong men who are transferred to the dam every year is obviously far from enough. When he investigated carefully, he realized that the shocking repair of the river embankment was just an excuse to ask the imperial court for food and appropriations, and the river embankment was repaired to the end of the business, so that these officials made a lot of money.

"So this Lord Zhou asked his former classmates to hand over a complaint to the capital, and all the officials of the three divisions and yamen of Ruyang Mansion were sued."

Bai Ling frowned, and had vaguely guessed the ending of this story.

Fourteen continued, "After arresting Zhou Mengru and stirring up the people's uprising, several more people wrote books one after another and continued to avenge Zhou Mengru's grievances. But they all forgot that the Ruyang riot was a sub-civil uprising that the emperor had encountered since he ascended the throne, and the emperor was furious about it, and immediately asked Song Bozong to take care of the matter personally, but Qian An, who was the prefect of Ruyang at the time, was a student brought out by Song Bozong.

He took a deep breath, "In short, Zhou Mengru and the other six people who spoke up were finally found to have incited the people of Ruyang to rebel, and they were all ambushed after the autumn of that year. The folk call it the Seven Spirits of Ruyang. ”

Bai Ling listened to it with a sullen heart, "Where are those officials who fish and eat the common people now?" ”

Wei Shishi said softly, "The others don't know, but Qian An was transferred out of Ruyang at that time and moved to the Yamen of the Huizhou Mansion, and after a few years, he was transferred back to Pingjing, and now he is already a servant of the Ministry of Officials." ”

Bai Ling couldn't say anything, it was too difficult to live in such a world.

The two were silent, Bai Ling looked up, the moon was already half circle tonight, the moonlight pulled a short shadow behind her, and dogs barked from time to time in the alleys on all sides. She hugged the horse's neck and slid off the horse's back again.

"What's wrong?" Wei Fourteen asked.

Bai Ling took one of the reins from Wei Shishi's hand and said softly, "Still walking on the ground, steadfast." She walked on Wei Fourteen's right hand side, raised her head in a low voice, and said, "Fourteen, this Shen of Aunt Shen will be the Shen Yan of the Seven Spirits of Ruyang back then?" ”

Wei Shixi shook his head, "It's hard to say now. ”

Bai Ling sighed lightly, "Just now, I actually wanted to ask Ah Li how he came up with this clue about Aunt Shen, and what people and things enlightened him in the process." But he was worried that he wouldn't be able to hold his breath, so he revealed the news in a blink of an eye. Bai Ling's voice was very soft, "But I can talk to you about some of my thoughts now." ”

"Hmm."

"I think it's no accident that we can visit Baihuaya and visit Aunt Shen tonight." Bai Ling said softly.

"You mean?"

"Do you remember, Ah Li said that Aunt Shen sold a snuff bottle of forty wen, and it was a huge profit of a few taels and dozens of taels when she changed hands. But Aunt Shen said again, she has lived alone in the flower lane for 20 years without leaving home, do you think this is possible? ”

Wei Shishi's eyes moved slightly, and he suddenly realized that he had indeed felt that there was a discord since he entered the house, so he had been trying to find the source of this sense of discord.

But now he understands that this sense of disobedience is that the very existence of the old man has allowed a helpless old woman, alone with a pile of priceless snuff bottles, to live alone in a flower street frequented by drunkards and gangsters?

Is this possible?

Bai Ling led the horse, her eyes were a little thoughtful, she thought about it, and said softly, "Either the others never knew that there were treasures in her house, so no one had ever beaten her idea, or someone secretly guarded her, so that the people in this street who knew that she had a special skill were quite jealous of her and did not dare to do it."

Thinking of this, a thought irrepressibly sprouted in Bai Ling's mind. She looked at Wei Shishi with a somewhat determined gaze, believing that the other party probably thought of the same thing as herself.

"If so, could our visit today be in the plan of some secret person?"

Wei XIV did not respond. This speculation is a bit too bold, someone is secretly paving the way for them, leading Bai Ling to explore the life behind Lin Jieyu? Who has the motivation to do this? Who has the power to do that? In this Pingjing, who has the intelligence to be keen, and when they just started to search for the news related to Lin Jieyu among the industries of the Jiaofang Division, they took the opportunity to send clues to Bai Ling?

"By the way, there's another possibility." Bai Ling looked at Fourteen, "This, Fourteen will go and check Aunt Shen's identity together." ”

"Hmm."

"Check to see if this old man has really lived in the flower for twenty years." Bai Ling whispered, "If someone leads us here, then everything we see tonight may be adulterated. ”

Fourteen answered.

But both of them had a hunch in their hearts, and they were afraid that everything they saw tonight was true.

What is Lin Jieyu's real identity?

If she was actually the descendant of Ruyang Qilie back then, it would be a little too ironic. was a loyal minister and good general who died for the people, but his descendants grew into a demon who cares about people's lives in the flower street of Baihuaya?

No, that's not even the most ironic

The most ironic thing is that if this identity is true, then Lin Jieyu's death will probably come soon, but this is not because of how she lost her conscience and was full of evil, so she was retributed by heaven.

After a loyal martyr whose family was copied and all the men asked and beheaded, she changed her identity and entered the palace as a concubine, so the identity of her father's "loyal martyr" was enough for her to die thousands of times.

Bai Ling only felt cold all over his body.

She looked up and saw the gate of the palace not far away, which had already faintly appeared in the night......