The eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou and the Yangzhou Mansion Ya, in addition to the women and children overnight, the rest of them, including the Yangzhou Zhizhou, were killed Jingguang, and the anti-thief leader Hua 12 wrote seven anti-poems in the lobby of the Yangzhou Mansion, shocking the world.

The official Zhao Ji was furious, in addition to ordering Lin Ruhai to act as an agent for Yangzhou affairs, on the other hand, he also appointed Wang Huang as the envoy of the imperial history to go to Yangzhou to investigate the case.

On this day, Qin Cha was still on the way south by boat, and Lin Ruhai was in Yangzhou Mansion to review the official documents until the time of the lantern.

Hua Twelve and Lin Daiyu went to the mansion together, and the latter ran to his father with a food box in his hand and said angrily:

"Daddy, you don't pay attention to rest when you're better, what time is it, and you can't even think of going back to dinner when you're busy!"

After speaking, he put the food box on the public case to express his dissatisfaction.

Lin Ruhai frowned slightly: "How can you be so unruly!" ”

After finishing speaking, he sighed heavily:

"What do you do for the Father to go back? Watch my jade throw stone locks? Playing with a big knife? I'm panicking in my heart, a good girl, a dignified lady, why haven't you seen her for a year, and it has become like this? ”

After Lin Ruhai finished speaking, he glared at Hua Twelve and Lin Daiyu who were sneering angrily, and saw that the expressions of the two were as if they were sighing!

Hua Twelve hurriedly changed the topic: "Uncle, my sister also cares about your body, you should rest for a while, eat, take the medicine, and pull out the poison again today, and you won't need to pull out the poison in the future!" ”

Lin Daiyu, who had known the situation for a long time, pretended to be surprised and said: "Brother, is the poison in Daddy's body cleared?" ”

Hua Twelve pretended to explain: "This is not true, but after today, there is only some residual poison left, and it will be gradually excreted from the body with the reincarnation of the five grains, and it will not be harmful!" ”

Lin Daiyu pretended to breathe a sigh of relief: "I'm relieved!" ”

Lin Ruhai was worried: "You two don't act, I am familiar with this conversation, did you say it this morning?" If you want to change the topic, can you change a fresh set of rhetoric! ”

Lin Daiyu's face turned red, and she shook Lin Ruhai's arm uneasily:

"Daddy!"

"Okay, okay, my old bones are going to be shaken apart by you!"

Lin Ruhai didn't have anything to do about his daughter, he glanced at the official business piled up on the public case, and he didn't know when he would deal with it, so he simply followed the good way:

"Okay, sharpen the knife and don't cut the wood, eat first, and then take medicine."

Lin Daiyu hurriedly put the food she brought from the food box and served her father to eat.

Lin Ruhai had a meal, took a sip of the tea handed over by his daughter, and asked Hua Twelve to say with deep meaning:

"I was born only to chase the deer, kill all the kings and ministers to cast the golden platform, Chong'er, you look at the tone of this Hua Twelve, its plan is not small!"

Hua Twelve smiled faintly: "I think he is just writing and playing, just blowing nonsense, uncle doesn't have to take it to heart!" ”

Lin Ruhai smiled noncommittally, and then said earnestly:

"I heard that the silver ship in Shangjing sank and lost 400,000 taels of gold, and those gold exchanged for silver may do a lot of things.

Although Lin Daiyu didn't know that her brother was this Hua Twelve, she had been by her father's side that night, and she could still guess some of her father's brother's plans in just a few words, knowing that the events of that night were inseparable from her father and brother.

At this time, when he heard his father suddenly beat his brother, he was silent on the side, looked at his father, and then at his brother, his eyes were full of worry.

Hua Twelve smiled: "What Uncle said is very true, I think those thieves also understand the truth!" ”

He knew that Lin Ruhai judged that he had anti-intentions from the Seven Killings poem, which was half-beating and half-reminding him.

Hua Twelve felt that this kind of thing was not to argue about anything, and there was no need to analyze the general trend of the world for Lin Ruhai.

The current Northern Song Dynasty is the last glorious period before the decline, the flowers are full of flowers, the fire is cooking, the Western Army and the Western Xia are fighting and winning one after another, at this time he wants to say that it will not take many years for the Great Song Dynasty to decline, and Zhao Ji will be captured, no one can believe it.

Just do more and say less, be prepared, and wait for the right time.

Seeing that he accepted it humbly, Lin Ruhai was finally relieved and nodded:

"Soldiers are dangerous, after all, it is more dangerous, this time if it is not the end of the road, for the sake of Yu'er, I will not take this step with Chong'er, now the willows are bright, Chong'er, you are still young, the future is great, you have to calm down to do things, everything must think twice!"

After saying these words, Lin Ruhai mentioned the matter of Wang Hao's trip to Yangzhou again:

"Wang Huang is good at grasping the situation and likes to weigh the pros and cons, now the situation is in me, and the matter of Yangzhou should be safe!"

Hua Twelve knew that it was Lin Ruhai who told him not to worry about what the imperial court could find out, so he was reassured, and immediately nodded.

A few days later, Wang Hao arrived in Yangzhou, and Lin Ruhai led Yangzhou officials to greet him, and there was nothing to do with Hua Twelve.

However, when Wang Hao launched an investigation into the Yangzhou case, he specially summoned Hua Twelve to ask Lin Ruhai about the attack on Yanzheng Yamen that night.

Hua Twelve had already confessed to Yang Zhi and Luda, and his answer was not leaky, but at the last moment, his heart suddenly moved.

To say that he killed the eight major salt merchants and Yangzhou Zhizhou in Yangzhou this time, firstly, to help Lin Ruhai break the situation, and secondly, to scrape out the black-clothed people who attacked the building ship in Huai'an.

At the beginning, when I thought about it in Hua Twelve, those black-clothed people must be Lin Ruhai's opponents, that is, the people of the eight major salt merchants did not run away.

But after he destroyed the Eight Great Salt Merchants and Yangzhou Zhizhou, he couldn't find any clues about the black-clothed people in Huai'an, especially the battle between the black-clothed people and Lu Zhishen, and the two masters who fought with him, and he didn't even see a shadow.

That's unscientific!

So at this time, Hua Twelve had an idea, planning to lead the water to the east, and before retiring, he seemed to suddenly think of something and said:

"My lord, I suddenly remembered a clue!"

Lin Ruhai, who was listening, frowned slightly, not knowing what kind of moth this nephew was going to do.

Wang Hao said happily: "What kind of clue, if it is helpful to the case, the official will definitely ask for credit for General Lin in front of the official!" ”

Hua Twelve told the story of the attack in Huai'an that day, and then pointed out the key to it, just saved the birthday gang during the day, and someone attacked the ship at night, obviously a gang.

Lin Ruhai was shocked when he heard it: "Why haven't you told me about this matter?" ”

Hua Twelve confessed: "At that time, my uncle was not in good health, and my nephew and sister were afraid that my uncle would worry, so they hid it!" ”

Then he linked the two things together, saying that it was because he saved Suo Chao and others and destroyed the thief's plan to rob the birth gang, so he was retaliated.

Finally, he began to splash dirty water: "That gang of thieves is strong in martial arts, not like ordinary thieves, and the last general thinks that they can do such a big thing in Yangzhou, and the eight achievements are them!" ”

Wang Hao was entrusted with the important task of the official Zhao Ji, but when he arrived in Yangzhou for several days, he couldn't find any clues about the bloody case that day, and it was when he was in a hurry, when he heard Hua Twelve say this, his eyes immediately lit up, and he said conclusively:

"General Lin has made a great contribution, this official doesn't think it's eighty percent, and the bloody case should be done by this gang of thieves!"

Wang Hao doesn't care if he can find the real murderer, what he cares about is whether he can find a murderer who takes the trust of the official's family is the key, the province can't do an errand well, and if he loses his holy family, it will be a big loss because of a small loss.

Besides, in Wang Huang's mind, this group of strongmen even dared to rob Cai Jing's birthday, and it was not impossible to kill officials and rebel, even if it wasn't those thieves, they all committed crimes left and right, and it wouldn't be a big deal to add a few more capital crimes.

Hua Twelve gave Wang Hao a thumbs up in his heart, good official, you are nailed, you are so good!

Wang Hao had a clue, and a smile appeared on his face, and he couldn't wait to call his subordinates to handle the case, and Hua Twelve asked about the appearance and characteristics of the gang of strongmen.

Hua Twelve didn't expect that his trick would lead to trouble and gain the next day.

The day after the official document was issued, a merchant ship from Suzhou docked at the Yangzhou wharf, and after the people on board disembarked, they were interrogated by officers and soldiers as required.

Among them, two people are highly similar to the two people depicted in the official document of sea fishing, one is a fat monk, and the other has sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and there is a half-inch long scar on the tip of the eyebrow.

These features, with the exception of the 'black scarf mask', are completely consistent with Hua Twelve's description of the shadow figures.

The officers and men on duty checked the pictures in their hands, and even if they wanted to take the two people back to the yamen for further interrogation, dozens of people on the other side of the ship started at that time, all of them copied knives, killed the officers and soldiers, and ran away in the direction of re-boarding the ship.

When Wang Hao got the news, he immediately sent people to hunt him down, but unfortunately there was no news in the past few days, and the chance of catching these people was not very good.

It's just that this time it's not completely without gain, because this time the people on the boat were not masked, and there were a lot of people on the dock at that time, so they wrote down the faces of those people, and Wang Hao immediately asked people to redraw the shadow and posting portraits of thieves all over Jiangnan, so that someone finally recognized the identity of the thief on the portrait.

The burly monk is called Deng Yuanjue, and he is known as Baoguang Rulai.

The one with the sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and the scar on the tip of the eyebrows, is the No. 1 master in Jiangnan, and there is no opponent in Jiangnan with a wind splitting knife.

Both are said to be one of the four protectors of Manichaeism.

Hua Twelve knew about this from Lin Ruhaikou, and immediately felt that he should have found the right master, in the original plot of the Water Margin, Baoguang Rulai Deng Yuanjue was a master with a similar figure to Lu Zhishen, with comparable strength, and fifty battles without winning or losing.

Now thinking back to the sturdy man in black who fought against Lu Zhishen that night, isn't that what he looks like.

Thinking about the good knife player who fought with him on the ship, Hua Twelve remembered that he had a scar on his eyebrow at that time, and now he thinks that he is the number one master in Jiangnan, the Wind Splitting Knife Stone Treasure.

However, Hua Twelve scoffed at Shi Bao's title of 'the first master in Jiangnan', this Water Margin World Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger, he didn't dare to say that he could be invincible in Jiangnan, as far as Shi Bao's strength was concerned, forget it.

Hua Twelve was a little puzzled, what was the purpose of the Manichaean attack on the Rongguo Mansion ship?

Is it really to rob the birth gang, and find the wrong target?

He told Lin Ruhai this question, and the latter said lightly: "Don't doubt it, Chong'er, the man in black who attacked you in Huai'an that night is a Manichaean person nine times out of ten!" ”

Hua Twelve looked at Lin Ruhai with questioning eyes, and the latter explained:

"The Manichaean religion has always wanted to meddle in the illegal salt business, but the private salt trade has always been in the hands of the eight major salt merchants, and Hu Yinian even controlled the Tsing Yi Gang and helped the eight major salt merchants to monopolize the illegal salt business, as far as I know, Manichaeism has been involved in illegal salt several times, but it has ended in failure."

"Later, in Manichaeism, some people realized that the eight salt merchants could monopolize private salt, the main reason was that they represented the powerful people in Jiangnan, so a man named Fang La in Manichaeism came to the door and said that he wanted to cooperate with me and use the power of the salt government yamen to fight against the eight salt merchants and the forces behind them!"

When Lin Ruhai said this, his eyes froze: "To be honest, I was also tempted at that time, if I could use external forces to defeat those salt merchants and give them some sweetness, it would not be impossible, but I saw something called anti-bone in the eyes of the person named Fang La."

Hua Twelve corrected: "Uncle, shouldn't you look at the back of your head?" ”

Lin Ruhai pointed at Hua Twelve: "You also have anti-bones in your eyes!" ”

"Uh, maybe I didn't wash my face this morning, but what you saw was my eyes!" Hua Twelve wiped his eyes and never mentioned the anti-bone matter.

Lin Ruhai ignored him, and continued:

"Later, I learned about Manichaeism again, and found that they had developed a lot of believers in Jiangnan, and they seemed to have a plan, I was afraid that it would be easy to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and when the time came, the tail would not be big, and let Manichaeism become bigger, and I am afraid that the harm would be even greater than those salt merchants, so I directly refused!"

"After that, they looked for me twice, I avoided them, and then there was no news from them, I thought I had given up, but now it seems, hum"

Lin Ruhai showed hatred on his face, gritted his teeth and said:

"That Manichaeism probably meant to hurt Yu'er and set up blame, and when the time came, I mistakenly thought that it was the hand of those salt merchants, so that I had to give in and agree to their request to join forces!"

After Lin Ruhai finished speaking, he slapped the table fiercely: "Dare to attack Yu'er, when I calm down everything in Yangzhou, I will definitely make them look good!" ”

Hua Twelve was taken aback, but he knew that Mingjiao was powerful, and hurriedly said:

"Uncle, there are many masters in the Manichaean Sect, Deng Yuanjue is not worse than Ruda, and Shibao's martial arts are even higher than Yang Zhi, you must not take the liberty of doing it."

On the one hand, he is really good for Lin Ruhai, for fear that this uncle will provoke those lawless outlaws of the Ming Sect without knowing the sky, provoke the other party, and assassinate a court official, is it still a big deal for that kind of criminal group that wants to rebel?

On the other hand, Hua Twelve didn't want to confront Fang La so early, he still wanted to keep Mingjiao for our Great Song Dynasty to raise tigers.

Even if you deal with Fang La, you have to ask for greater military power from the imperial court.

Before Hua Twelve finished speaking, Lin Ruhai interrupted him and said with a solemn expression:

"Chong'er, you're right, you have to think long-term about dealing with Manichaeism, but judging from the attack on your Huai'an, Manichaeism does things unscrupulously, Yu'er and Zhang Yatou are afraid that it will be dangerous for them to stay in Yangzhou, so you can take Yu'er back to Beijing in a few days."

Lin Ruhai's decision was unquestionable, and two days later, everyone was forced by him to board the building ship of Rongguo Mansion and embark on the journey home.

Hua Twelve originally wanted to leave Yang Zhi and Luda in Yangzhou, but Lin Ruhai of the province was harmed by Mingjiao.

However, Lin Ruhai rejected this proposal, saying that the imperial court had sent a master over to protect his safety, so that Hua Twelve could rest assured.

Hua Twelve immediately thought that it should be the people from the Worship Division who arrived, these people are always elusive, and they can't even see the figure when they don't make a move.

Knowing that there were people from the worship department who were secretly following Lin Ruhai, Hua Twelve did not want to stay in Yangzhou for a long time, and the province was seen to have any flaws, so he happily agreed to return to Bianjing.

Before getting on the boat, Lin Ruhai and Lin Daiyu explained that they could visit Jia's mother during the New Year's holidays in the future, and they would not have any contact with each other.

This is the meaning of the Lin family's cold heart and wanting to distance themselves from Rongguo Mansion.

Since Lin Daiyu knew that the Jiangnan Zhen family and the eight major salt merchants had attacked her father, and Jia's mother also knew about it, and acquiesced, she no longer had any feelings for that grandmother, and she agreed very happily when she heard the words.

On the boat, everyone waved goodbye to Lin Ruhai who saw him off on the dock, and when he couldn't see anyone, Hua Twelve turned to Jia Lian, who was about to escape into the cabin, and smiled:

"Second Brother Lian, how about talking!"

He is going to deal with Rongguo Mansion, and now the head of Ning Guofu is his younger brother, if he can help Jia Lian to become the head of Rongguo Mansion, then he can naturally obtain the Jia family's connections in the army, which will be of great benefit to his mastery of military power, and can also add to the prince's troubles.

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