Chapter 312: The Secret of Yicheng
"I have been with Yang Zhen for five years, and I have done a lot of vicious things for him in the past five years, and I don't say that I am forced to be helpless or anything else, but I want the princess to promise me one thing," Liang Jin was silent for a long time before he slowly spoke: "Spare Liang Liu's life, I only have such a son left, if I am arrested, those women are afraid that they will run away early, but my son is mine, I can't ignore it, and I can't ignore it." ”
"You don't seem qualified to negotiate conditions with me, and Yang Linshan is with me, if it weren't for not wanting to poke Yang Linshan's memory, I wouldn't have come to ask you," Qian Fan shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "I think you also know Liang Liu's character, will I stay with such a person?" ”
"As long as the princess is willing to transform him, I am willing to tell the princess everything I know!" Liang Jin immediately pounced on the door of the cell and said anxiously: "Liang Liu was not like this before, it was my negligence in disciplining him that allowed Jiang Bo to take advantage of the loophole, and I begged the princess to save him once." ”
"Since you say so, then I will give him a chance, I will arrange for him to go to the battlefield, and then it will depend on his own creation, if he is willing to improve, he must also gain something on the battlefield, if he is unwilling, then the sword has no eyes, and life and death are fate." Qian Fan looked at Liang Jin so anxiously, but he relented and agreed.
Liang Jin knelt on the ground with a puff, kowtowed to Qianfan, and then immediately got up and said in a deep voice: "Back then, the Yang family was a great Confucian in Yicheng, and they were plain and gentle, and they were very popular with the people. ”
After Yang Zhen sat on the history of the assassination, because he had a mansion in the village, he took his grandmother over, and only occasionally went back to the Yang family to visit the old lady, and the people of the Yang family also welcomed Yang Zhen, especially Yang Linshan, who was the county order at the time, and always thought that Yang Zhen was a law-abiding Qing official, and admired Yang Zhen very much.
That year, Mrs. Yang was 80 years old, Yang Zhen took Liang Jin back to Yicheng, in fact, Yicheng and Cunzhou are not too far away, so he didn't plan to stay for a long time, but that day he discovered the secret that the Yang family had not told to outsiders.
Yang Zhen was very popular when he returned to Yang's house, so there were many people looking for him to drink, and soon he was too strong to drink, so Liang Jin helped him to the guest room to rest, but when he passed by the ancestral hall, he accidentally found that Mrs. Yang avoided everyone and walked in.
Yang Zhen drank very well, and he was just looking for an excuse at that time, so he took Liang Jin to follow him out of curiosity, and then they found that Old Lady Yang had entered a secret passage, and they found a mountain full of silver at the end of the secret passage.
"Silvermountain?" Hearing this, Qian Fan couldn't help but interrupt Liang Jin, and asked in surprise, "Is this Yang family so rich?" Are the silver piled up into a mountain? ”
"It's true," Liang Jin nodded, a trace of yearning appeared on his face, and said excitedly: "At that time, we were really dazzled, seeing that the silver had completely lost our minds, so we were discovered by Old Lady Yang. ”
When Mrs. Yang found out that the secret of the Yang family was known by Yang Zhen, she couldn't help but be very worried, so she told Yang Zhen not to say it, but Yang Zhen was completely immersed in the silver mountain at that time, where did he remember what Mrs. Yang said?
After we were kicked out by Old Lady Yang, Yang Zhen kept nagging about the silver mountain, in fact, Liang Jin was also moved, after all, for a mountain bandit, if you can get these silver taels, wouldn't it be glory and wealth at your fingertips?
But the Yang family is such a big family, and they are kind to Yang Zhen, so they can't do it blatantly, but the bright silver makes them like they are obsessed.
Coincidentally, not long after, there was a flood in Yicheng, and the Yang family was relatively high, so it was not affected, and the emperor immediately allocated two disaster relief silver, but Yang Zhen felt that those people were dead, and he didn't need so much silver, so he took the silver to fill the hole in the past
"Does Master Xu know the Yang family's silver?" Hearing this, Qian Fan interrupted Liang Jin's words again.
"I didn't know it at first, but later Yang Zhen told him that Yang Zhen was trying to curry favor with Bachelor Xu at that time, but he just said that the Yang family was very rich, so Bachelor Xu gave Yang Zhen an idea to kill the people of the Yang family, and then take all the silver for himself."
Liang Jin sighed helplessly and said: "At that time, I was really against this matter, after all, it was too risky, in fact, Yang Zhen didn't understand, his approach was tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs, if the Yang family was here, then he needed to take care of it in the future, the Yang family would naturally not stand idly by, and the old lady Yang also borrowed silver to gag his mouth, but unfortunately he didn't care so much at that time, so he wanted to get those silver." ”
Later, Yang Zhen really listened to Mr. Xu's words, and went to Yang's house with the government soldiers overnight, but he didn't expect the Yang family to take in a lot of refugees, they disguised themselves as mountain bandits to burn and loot, and Yang Linshan escaped from the secret passage with some people.
"Yang Zhen didn't care about chasing Yang Linshan at that time, so he forced the old lady to open the secret room, but the old lady recognized Yang Zhen and told him sadly that all the silver had been relieved, but Yang Zhen didn't believe it, and when the old lady opened the secret room, he went in to see that all the silver was gone, Yang Zhen felt as if he had a dream, and he made up his mind to be ungrateful, but he didn't get anything."
Liang Jin shook his head, as if he felt very incredible, and said: "But Yang Zhen firmly believes that the silver was transferred by the Yang family, so he forced the old lady, the old man was also a tough man, and he died directly in the ancestral hall. ”
"And then?" Qian Fan looked at Liang Jin, knowing that he was not lying, and continued to ask, "Were you there at the time?" ”
"At that time, I was on the sidelines, after the old lady Yang died, Yang Zhen turned over the entire ancestral hall, but he didn't find the batch of silver, so when Yang Linshan appeared later, he forced Yang Linshan where those people went," Liang Jin seemed to fall into his own memory, and said lightly: "Yang Linshan naturally won't tell Yang Zhen the whereabouts of those people, and Yang Zhen decided that those silver two Yang Linshan knew the whereabouts, and Yang Linshan was fortunate to live until now." ”
"Then do you think Yang Linshan knows the whereabouts of that batch of silver taels?" Qian Fan stood in place and asked lightly: "You have been asking Yang Linshan for so many years, and there is no clue at all?" ”
"Does the princess also want this batch of silver taels?" Liang Jin looked at Qianfan and said in disbelief: "It's not that there are no clues at all, but Yang Zhen followed the clue for a long time and didn't find it, so he always thought that the clue was wrong. ”
"That batch of silver belongs to the Yang family, but now the Yang family is gone, so except for Yang Linshan, the rest will be handed over to the treasury, I am not interested in looking at the silver mountain every day, but is Qingshan the mountain on the outskirts of Yicheng?" Qian Fan thought for a moment and asked again, "You won't send someone to dig the mountain, will you?" ”
The most penetrating thing in this world is the silver tael, the Yang family is kind to Yang Zhen, but because of the inexplicable silver mountain, Yang Zhen killed the Yang family, and the whole house was slaughtered, even the baby was not spared, and Yang Zhen is still looking for the silver tael until now, how is human nature in the face of money?
"Yang Zhen really planned to send someone to dig the mountain, but then he thought that the goal was too big, so he had been looking for caves all along, but there were not a few caves on the green mountain, Yang Zhen sent people to look for a long time, and even turned those caves upside down, and finally found nothing."
"Then Yang Zhen didn't find that batch of silver taels, how did he explain to Master Xu?" Qian Fan suddenly remembered that Yang Zhen had told Master Xu about this before, so Yang Zhen didn't find this batch of silver taels, would Master Xu believe it?
"Yang Zhen used the silver for disaster relief to appease Bachelor Xu first, although Bachelor Xu was very dissatisfied, but he didn't say anything because he took the silver," Liang Jin pondered for a while and said: "I have received all the letters from Bachelor Xu to Yang Zhen back then, and I can give it to you if you need it." ”
"You guessed that you would be arrested one day, why did you stay with Yang Zhen?" Qian Fan asked a little puzzled: "To say that you are really competent as a strategist, but why do you want to stay by Yang Zhen's side?" And do so many vicious things for him? ”
"People can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, I was just a coward in the grass back then, but then I got tired of the life of licking blood from the knife, so I left there, and only brought a brother with me at that time, my brother had no father and no mother, only me was such a big brother, but he was killed by Yang Zhen."
Liang Jin seemed to be a little remorseful when he said this, looked at the prison door and said in a daze: "I have always felt that if I hadn't coveted that batch of silver taels and let him impersonate Yang Linshan, then he would not have died, so everything I do now is repentance, I am willing to testify against Yang Zhen, and I am also willing to pay the price for it." ”
"For the sake of your willingness to change your past wrongs, maybe I can ask the emperor to spare your life, but you have to stay in prison for the rest of your life," Qian Fan looked at Liang Jin and asked, "Do you think it is better to be beheaded or to live in guilt for the rest of your life?" ”
"It's too easy to die," Liang Jin suddenly smiled and said: "Prove that Yang Zhen will ask the princess to beg the emperor to give me a good time, I want to go down to see my brother, it's better than letting him go alone." ”
"Okay, I promise you!" Qian Fan got up slowly, and asked again: "After I get those evidences, I will send your son away, which is the last affirmation I give to you that you still have a little bit of humanity." ”
After speaking, Qianfan didn't care what Liang Jin thought, turned around and strode away, and Nalan Minhao, who was waiting outside, greeted her when he saw her, and asked with concern, "Did he say everything?" ”
"Say," Qian Fan recounted what Liang Jin told her to Nalan Minhao, and then said: "Whether or not that batch of silver taels has been used for disaster relief now, I'm afraid only Yang Linshan himself knows." ”
"Do you think Yang Linshan will tell you the whereabouts of that batch of silver?" Nalan Minhao shook his head and said, "He may still suspect that you and I will covet that silver, and then say that he doesn't know the whereabouts of the silver, what can you do?" ”