The news of Gu Xixi's death, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, split in Wanwan's heart, both shocked and sad.

"I've got to go see ......"

Seeing her hurriedly walking out, Zhao Mengqi hurriedly stepped forward and stopped, "Wait, what can you do if you go in such a hurry?" ”

"She's my senior sister, I can't let her die in vain......" Wanwan's eyes were red, and her eyes were full of mist.

This appearance made Zhao Mengqi feel distressed, and he couldn't help but hold her hand, but he felt cold, and he shivered slightly, making him realize that this Gu Xixi was very important in Wanwan's heart.

"Don't worry, let me figure things out first, and I'll accompany you later."

Zhao Mengqi exerted a slight force in his hand, transferred the heat of his palm, comforted Wanwan, and turned his head to look at Hua Die, "Do you know where Xu Gongzi and the others are now?" ”

Hua Die didn't know Zhao Mengqi, and when he saw that he could hold Wanwan and understood that it was very close, he replied, "When the slave family ran out, they were still in the Wu Building...... Even if someone died, they didn't care at all, and went to sleep again, and when the yacha came, they just brought the body of the lady back to the county office, but they didn't dare to disturb them. ”

, so arrogant!?

Anger rose in Zhao Mengqi's heart, "Geng Zhi! ”

Outside the hall, Geng Zhi heard the call, and quickly stepped inside, "Ah Lang, please command." ”

"You go to Hou Tao quickly, you and him take people to the county seat, arrest Xu Tianyi and others, show your identity if necessary, and inform Chang Geng that I will also go to the county seat later."

"Whoa!" Geng Zhi received the order, did not put on rain gear, turned around and walked out of the main hall, and rushed into the rain.

At this time, Zhao Mengqi remembered that the two members of the Liu family were still there, so he said noisily, "Are you all right?" You can go, but you won't be far away. ”

Liu Xiuren, who was thinking about the changes in front of him, was stunned for a moment, but he didn't say anything, pulled up Liu Weizhen on the ground, said goodbye and walked out.

Out of Jiang's house, not far from the river, they got on the boat, but Liu Xiuren did not want to go home, but ordered the boatman to go to Wujiang County.

The boat departed, the uncle and nephew returned to the cabin, Liu Weizhen asked a little puzzled, "Uncle, what are we going to the county for?" That kid from the Xu family is none of our family's business, right? ”

"It's none of our family's business, but obviously King Yan intends to interfere, so we naturally have to pay attention, not to mention, I'm still Zhizhou."

Liu Xiuren must have other ideas, but he didn't plan to talk more about his nephew.

Liu Weizhen asked again, "Then did you find out something?" Does King Yan know about our family? ”

"Wait, I'll take a look at ......it first," Liu Xiuren closed his eyes and thought carefully for a long time, "In my opinion, he didn't know about it, and he didn't notice the leakage of his identity, and he didn't have much defense against our family. ”

"Then why didn't he just identify himself to us?"

"Actually, he didn't hide it too much, it was still Jiang Chen's who made a turn for him, after all, it is not a good reputation for the prince and his subordinates to rob women."

"Oh...... Is our family okay? ”

"I can only say that it should be okay for the time being, after all, the conclusion of the speculation may not be ten out of ten, and the details of the canal incident have not been explored, and it is not clear whether Jiang Manhai is dead or not, not to mention that this King Yan has not left Wujiang for a day, and the threat of our family cannot be lifted for a day, who knows if he will know through other channels, so we have to work hard to deal with it and clean up the finishing dishes as soon as possible."

Liu Weizhen had a hint of enlightenment, "Well, in this way, that kid from the Xu family has also done a good thing, attracting King Yan to the past, and he won't have time to pay attention to our family for the time being......"

"Exactly." Liu Xiuren nodded, with a look of relief on his face, "It seems that as long as you calm down, you are still a little smart, but your heart is too floating, and you lack experience and polishing...... With the matter of the Xu family's boy, we may be able to make some more articles, try to make some trouble for King Yan, and buy a few more days for our family. ”

……

Zhao Mengqi's side finally figured things out.

Gu Xixi is an official who belongs to the music camp of Pingjiang Prefecture, and it is a generational music book, and her mother is also an official player, and her father is said to be a (this chapter is not finished!) )

180. Gu Xixi

The negative scholar disappeared before she was born.

The official tricks of the Great Song Dynasty, the main function is to provide singing and dancing services for banquets and drinks, and it is not the official organization that they sell their flesh and skin, it is more appropriate to say that it is an art troupe.

Of course, there are many people who voluntarily or involuntarily sell their bodies in and out of the big dye vat of Fengyue Place all day long, but there are also people who can keep the bottom line, especially those with relatively high skills and cultural accomplishments.

In principle, as long as they themselves are unwilling, even the prefect of the prefecture, who has complete control over them, cannot touch their bodies, because the laws of the Great Song Dynasty clearly stipulate that officials are not allowed to take official positions privately.

Although the Great Song Dynasty has always been generous to scholars and doctors, and the implementation of this law is not strict, if they are reported to the imperial court, they still have to be punished, and they may not have to go to prison, but there are punishments such as replacement, dismissal, and transfer.

In order to deal with Tang Zhongyou, the governor of Taizhou, he arrested and tortured the camp trick Yan Rui, asking her to admit that Tang Zhizhou had slept with her, but she didn't expect Yan Rui to be an iron-clad woman, and would rather be killed than frame Tang Zhizhou.

and Wang Anshi also forced a confession to the official trick Xue Xitao, asking him to admit that he had fornicated with his ancestors, but Xue Xitao refused to admit it until he died, which shows that once this crime is implemented, it is still very serious.

Therefore, for the sake of political future, officials generally will not have an affair with the officials, let alone persecute the officials, it is too easy to make a big fuss, and they have no need for this, after all, there are other ways to be happy, whether it is a market trick, or a family trick, it is safe and free.

In this case, there are still many officials who can keep themselves clean, and Gu Xixi is one of them.

In addition to providing singing and dancing performances at official banquets or celebrations, the official officials of the Great Song Dynasty also had a major function, which was to sell wine.

The Great Song Dynasty should be the most profitable court in the past dynasties, and basically all the profiteering industries were monopolized by the government, so naturally they would not leak the wine.

The vast majority of liquor on the market, even if it is not brewed by the government, has to buy high-priced koji from the government, if ordinary people travel to this era and hope to make money by making distilled spirits, it is basically very difficult, either to give the government a large share, or it is copied within two days.

In order to increase the income from selling liquor and fill the treasury, the government specially selected those beautiful officials to perform songs and dances in the government-run restaurants to induce guests to buy and drink alcohol.

It's not just the officials who have this task, even the girls in the private green buildings will be transferred to serve, which is regarded as the obligation of the Fengyue industry to the country......

Wu Lou is a government-run restaurant, Gu Xixi is the resident in it "wine salesman", because she is talented, glamorous, it has become the signboard of Wu Lou, many people directly call Wu Lou "Gu Xixina".

Gu Xixi has been happy for generations, her mother's piano skills are superb, and other musical instruments are also first-class, so Wanwan followed her to learn musical instruments for a long time when she was young, and she is commensurate with Gu Xixi's sisters, and the relationship has always been very good.

Even Jiang Chen's family treats Gu Xi as a number of daughters, but it's a pity that this kind of hereditary music, compared to other ways to become an official, is the most difficult to get out of the country and become good, and it generally requires amnesty from the emperor or the center, so it is powerless to get her out of the sea of suffering.

Here Wanwan still plans to wait for the time to be ripe, so she will ask Zhao Mengqi for personal favors and relieve Gu Xixi's cheap status, who would have thought that bad news would suddenly come.

At this time, her veil was already soaked with tears, and Zhao Mengqi gently took it off for her, revealing a face full of misery, and the corners of her mouth were already foaming.

"You can't be resurrected from death...... If you want to mourn at the beginning, don't damage your body, your sister Gu's justice, I will definitely get it back for her, you calm down first, and when Chang Geng comes, let's go to the county. ”

Wanwan nodded silently, her eyes red and swollen, "Well, I know." ”

Jiang Chen took Wanwan back to the back house first, and Zhao Mengqi walked to the gate, listened to the sound of rain in the street, and fell into thought.

This sudden incident made him have to change his original plan, he had planned to leave Wujiang for a day or two, and then find a reason to leave Wujiang after the Liu family relaxed.

He himself is not afraid of anything, but he is unwilling to let a few little ladies take risks, and now he can only wait until the matter of Gu Xi is dealt with.

Li Xiang, Li Xiang, it seems that I have to be sorry, who let you do this (this chapter is not finished!) )

180. Gu Xixi

Sun died like this, I hope you don't like him so much, don't hate me, otherwise I have to deal with you together.

Thinking about it, Zhao Mengqi couldn't help sighing, but at this time, he heard the old army sigh at the same time, which made him wonder, "Uncle, why are you sighing?" But what's so hard? Need my help? ”

"The old man is half cut into the ground, and he still says what is difficult or not." The old soldier's face was wrinkled like orange peel, but with obvious worry, he raised his hand and pointed to the pouring rain curtain, "This year's rain is no less than last year's, if it goes on like this, it may be a big flood again, it's hard to say in other places, but Wujiang will definitely suffer again." ”

"Big water!?" Zhao Mengqi was stunned, last year's flood was rumored to be the rise of his "black Jiao", which made him a little impressed.

"After the disaster last year, didn't we look for the cause and clean up the water conservancy? What is this Pingjiang Mansion for!? ”

Lao Jun shook his head, "Everyone knows what the reason is, originally there were three rivers out of Taihu Lake, but in the past hundred years, the Dongjiang River and the Loujiang River are gone, and there is only one Wusong River left, which is still shallow and narrow, as long as there is a lot of rain, where can it be discharged in time." ”

Zhao Mengqi's expression was solemn, "Why are these two rivers gone!?" And why didn't Wu Songjiang dredge? ”

"What else can it be, silt and encircling the lake to make fields, in the former Tang Dynasty, this Taihu Lake is much more than now, the two mountains of Dongting are in the middle of the lake, these hundreds of years, so much land has been piled up, while enclosing the fields, in order to protect the canal, and in the east bank of the water outlet to build a lot of long causeways and long bridges, slowing down the water potential, the sediment is becoming more and more difficult to wash away, are silted in the river, want to manually dredge how easy it is to say, the court is afraid that it will not be able to take out so much money, food and manpower."

Hearing that this old army had quite an opinion, Zhao Mengqi couldn't help but be surprised, "Boss, you are proficient in water conservancy!?" ”

"Huh? Lang Jun misunderstood, the old man has been a big soldier all his life, a rough man, where do you know what water conservancy, what I just said was all from an old scholar. ”

"Old scholar? What's his name? Where are the people? "Zhao Mengqi really wants to find this person, talk to him, and see if there is any way to govern it.

"The old man only knows that his surname is Wu, not from Wujiang, it looks like he should have been a big official, or a big one, last winter, he rented a month in the Zhou family in the next alley, he likes to wander around, and he can say a few words when he meets anyone, Lang Jun, if you want to find him, the old man will go to Zhou's house to ask, maybe he can know where to go."

"Well, it seems that this is the only way, you must ask carefully."

At this time, Zhao Mengqi saw Chang Geng coming with someone, so he had to put this aside for the time being, and wait until the matter of Gu Xixi was solved.

180. Gu Xixi