Qin Ling and Duan Chengwen were born in the imperial examination at the same time, and he and Duan Chengwen, who was born poor, met in a student poetry meeting before the imperial examination, and the two had similar interests and soon became close friends.

Duan Chengwen has achieved a good name, and he has won the blue eyes of King Xian under the list, and he is willing to marry the lord of Duansu County from King Xian's mansion and marry him. The Xianwang Mansion sent the princess to the Zhenguo Mansion to ventilate the situation, but the Duchess of Zhenguo politely refused the marriage on the grounds that Duan Chengwen could not climb the county lord of the palace. Duan Chengwen, who has been hiding and being obscure for many years, has already committed her taboo, how can she tolerate Duan Chengwen to get a powerful Yue family again, and when his wings are really hard in the future, wouldn't he have to go against her son.

The princess of King Xian's Mansion went back and completely relayed the words of the Duchess of Zhenguo to King Xian and Princess Xian.

Princess Xian was furious, the county lord of Duansu was her daughter-in-law, and now the Xian Wangfu didn't care about Duan Chengwen as a concubine, and sent the princess to the palace in person, but the princess of Zhenguo wanted to find out about this matter, as if the marriage of the county lord of their palace insisted on a concubine of the Zhenguo Mansion.

King Xian appeased Princess Xian, and he stopped Zhen Guogong directly outside the military headquarters, invited him to drink, and told him his plans at the banquet.

Duan Chengwen in the impression of Zhen Guogong has always been a poor little concubine whose biological mother died early, and every time Zhen Guogong saw him in the past, he always looked thin and cowardly.

But on that day, when the person who reported the good news entered the Zhenguo Mansion, the concubine who had been bent over his waist and had never taken the initiative to raise his head in front of him suddenly stood up straight and raised his head the moment he heard his ranking.

Although Zhenguo Gong has been martial for generations, it does not mean that Zhenguo Gong is not happy to hear this news.

There is only one son-in-law under the knee of the Duke of Zhenguo, although he was crowned the prince early, but he was used to being a gentleman who only knows how to have fun and indulge in wine.

The Duke of Zhenguo has been leading the troops all the year round, and the concubines, concubines, and women in the mansion have all been suppressed by the powerful Duchess of Zhenguo, not to mention what can be raised.

Therefore, Duan Chengwen is really an unexpected joy for Zhen Guogong, and now the Xian Wangfu has taken the initiative to hand out an olive branch, where is there no reason for Zhen Guogong.

After returning home, the Duke of Zhenguo and the Duchess of Zhenguo had another quarrel. Although the Duchess of Zhenguo was strong, she was weak in front of her husband, so she had to go to the Xianwang Mansion with the Duke of Zhenguo to finalize the marriage of Duan Chengwen and the county lord of Duansu.

When Duan Chengwen was going smoothly, Qin Ling, who only had a sick and widowed mother in the family, although he was also on the list, his ranking was not as good as Duan Chengwen, and he was only considered to be below average.

In addition, his family is poor, for many years for him to study, study, and owe a lot of foreign debts, he has no extra money to dredge to stay in the imperial capital, fortunately, his luck is not bad, although he only got the official position of a county, but was not assigned to any barren and desolate places, but was assigned to the counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangnan Fucheng.

Over the years, because he is an honest official, does not know how to flatter, and is in the front, his results in the annual evaluation of the officials are not very ideal, so he has been in many counties and counties for many years, but he has never been promoted.

At the end of last year, he and the county officials of neighboring Songchen County and Wannian County discovered something.

After discovering a trace of clues, the three of them decided to investigate privately, and the three of them really found out something.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and they were quickly targeted, and they calculated that they would copy three copies of everything that the three of them had found, and keep one copy for each of them, so that even if someone unfortunately died, the rest of them would always have a piece of evidence to file with.

Not long before the incident, Qin Ling noticed that there were some more fresh faces outside the county government and around his house.

Qin Ling's ailing widowed mother died of a serious illness two years ago, and his wife Wen had five children in addition to his family.

After thinking about it, Qin Ling finally decided to send his wife and children back to his wife's maiden home. His wife, Wen's maiden family, is the general manager of Jiangnan Caoyun, and her official position is not high, but she is very prestigious in the local area, because there are many good martial arts in Caoyun's family. Wen's was originally a second marriage, her first husband died in an accident falling into the river, she was accused by her in-laws of the newlywed Kefu to death, and directly threw a letter of resignation to her.

Fortunately, Wen's father walked the rivers and lakes for many years, and immediately took Wen, who was widowed and divorced, back home.

But the daughter was married for half a year and lost her husband, and she didn't even have a child under her knees, and now her parents and brothers are still willing to treat her well.

At that time, Qin Ling took his mother to Huaishu County to work, and he was still unmarried at that time, so someone recommended him to Cao Yun, who was choosing a new son-in-law for the Wen family.

The general manager of Cao Yun immediately came to invite Qin Ling to come to the house, and Qin Ling knew the identity of the general manager of Cao Yun, so he went to the banquet. At the banquet, Wen Shi, accompanied by his mother and sister-in-law, glanced at Qin Ling behind the curtain. Waiting for the banquet to disperse and Qin Ling left, his parents came to ask Wen if he was willing to marry Qin Ling, and Wen responded shyly and timidly.

In fact, Qin Ling's appearance is not bad, but his family is too poor, and his old mother is not in good health, taking medicine all year round, and the family can't save any money. It turned out that there were also rich people who took a fancy to Qin Ling and wanted to marry their daughters, but Qin Ling knew that those rich ladies might not be able to treat his mother well, so they rejected all those marriages. So when he is over thirty years old, Qin Ling has not yet married.

After Wen nodded, he invited Qin Ling again after five days, and invited Wen to appear at the banquet.

Wen Yanming already knew his family background, and she was willing to marry Qin Ling, and be filial and kind to his old mother.

Eventually, Wen remarried Qin Ling. The Wen clan unexpectedly knew some literature and ink, and he could be in love with Qin Ling. In addition, Wen's personality is gentle and thoughtful when serving Qin Ling's mother. In the years she married Qin Ling, she not only worked hard for Qin Ling to manage housework and support her mother until her death, but also gave birth to five children for Qin Ling.

After Qin Ling knew that his family had been targeted, he could think of the best way to save his wife and children was to send his wife and children back to his wife's maiden home to live temporarily.

Wen had always been submissive in front of Qin Ling, and after listening to Qin Ling's words, she promised to take the children back to her parents' house for a while until Qin Ling personally returned to pick them up.

Qin Ling borrowed an oxcart from a neighbor early that morning, pulled his wife and children, and sent them back to Wenfu.

It just so happened that Wen's mother was sick, and Wen took the children back to live in the house for a while. After watching his wife and children settle down, Qin Ling said goodbye to his father-in-law and turned to leave.

"Qin Ling." The father-in-law suddenly stopped him. "Take care, remember that you still have your wife and children here, remember to come back alive to take them home, and don't let my daughter be widowed again."

Qin Ling turned his head in shock when he heard this, he opened his mouth but couldn't speak, so he could only bow deeply to his father-in-law and leave the Wen Mansion quickly.

He drove the ox cart home, and after returning it to his neighbor, he returned home and hid his treasures.

It was dark that day, Qin Ling was sitting alone at home, the darker it was, the more panicked he became, and he always felt that something bad would happen tonight.

When twilight came, it was raining outside again, the rain kept falling for a while, and it was getting heavier and heavier, Qin Ling looked at the rain outside, he got up and found a cloak to drape on his body, he didn't extinguish the lights and candles in the house, and then quietly walked out to the back door.

He was really frightened in his heart, and remembered the strange faces that had been haunting him all these days, and they were really not good. Worried about the safety of his two friends, he decided to take advantage of the night to go to the door to warn him.

He took advantage of the darkness of the night to hide and turned his head to go to the county Cheng's house in Wannian County. He came too late, Wannian County Cheng's family had already been poisoned, and he was also slaughtered, and even the little grandson who had just reached the full moon in Wannian County's family was picked out and thrown on the ground.

The only difference is that the murderer has long since left, leaving behind only a mess and corpses.

Outside, lightning and thunder roared, and Qin Ling knelt in front of his friend's separated corpse and wept bitterly.

Fortunately, this heavy rain not only provided convenience for the perpetrators, but also successfully concealed Qin Ling's whereabouts.

He secretly lurked for a few days, met with the officials from Fucheng, hurriedly brought the victim's corpse back to Fucheng, and defined the two cases of extermination as mountain bandits looting and murder after hastily closing the case.

In desperation, in order to make the unrighteous people pay the price, in order to prevent the friends and their families who died in vain from dying in vain, Qin Ling blended in with the local beggars, and only after a few days did he make sure that there was nothing abnormal around the Wenfu before he set off for the imperial capital with peace of mind. That's how he begged all the way and walked to the imperial capital.

After many years of re-entering the imperial capital, he was still in the shape of a beggar, and after begging for food in the imperial capital for many days, when he confirmed that there were no pursuers behind him, he only according to the news he inquired about, on the way home from Duan Chengwen, a man fell in front of his carriage.

After Duan Chengwen got out of the car in person and wanted to check his injuries in person, he grabbed Duan Chengwen's shirt and called out his name.

Duan Chengwen was startled by his movements, and immediately recognized him, Duan Chengwen saw that he was injured in the leg, so he asked the attendants to carry him into the carriage.

"Qin Ling, why did you suddenly come to the imperial capital?" Duan Chengwen ordered the attendants to disperse. "Still looking so embarrassed?"

"I have a complaint for you." Qin Ling took out a bloody complaint from his arms. "Now I have no choice but to ask my old friends for help."