Five hundred and eleven, the hand of the game
When he asked softly, "Madame, what else is undone?" The tiger can do it with all his might." At that time, Kui Zi finally cried bitterly, and led the rickety child to kneel in front of the hall and begged: "Thank you for the grace of Zhaogong to help, the concubine is a daughter, the young son is still young, and the only thing the concubine can do for her deceased husband is to raise the young son to grow up. However, my husband has been heroic all his life and sacrificed his life for the country, and I can't bear to bear the stigma of his body in the world, and I ask Zhao Gong to clear my husband's name, so that my son can live uprightly."
With tears in his eyes, Zhao Bohu held up his assertion finger and said, "Madame, rest assured, Hu has sworn that he will clear Ziliang's name and let the annals of the Great Zhou Dynasty record Ziliang's great military exploits and loyalty." After speaking, he took out the dagger from his waist: "This is a dagger given by Wei Jun, when this son grows up, you can take this dagger to the Wei Palace to retrieve Ziliang's Tianyue Sword, in order to inherit the will of the father."
Kui Zi was grateful for his kindness, but the son and father He on the side were stunned. When his daughter and grandson stepped down, Zhao Bohu asked softly, "What do you mean?"
"Si'er is a Chinese man's asset, and his father is incomparable, and he may be forced to be a Chinese official in the future. Hold the Sky Moon Sword and shake the world...... It seems like it's unacceptable." Father He said and shook his head.
"The child is still young, and the future is unknown."
After leaving the Song Realm, he walked for a few days, and there was Fancheng in front of him, and Zhao Bohu suddenly moved in his heart: After a few months, I don't know how the market of Lanxiang Madder is now? At that time, when I was in Luoyi, I experienced a storm for this strange grass worth a thousand gold. He knows very well that "when things go wrong, there must be demons", a dyeable plant with its own fragrance, being raised to such a high price, the driving force behind it must be extraordinary, and its purpose is unfathomable.
So, he ordered most of the people to stay in the dense forest outside the city under the leadership of Qiang Xing, and he took Uncle Mi and Boyan and dozens of followers into the city to listen to one or two. After all, when I was in Luoyi, everyone said that this grass and Qi were both transferred from Fancheng, and there must be some clues here.
At that time, the official road into the city was not so wide, and generally speaking, it could only be used by three troikas side by side, and once the wrong car was to go, sometimes one side had to give way. In the distance, there was a funeral procession with white flags, and Uncle Mi shouted bad luck. Zhao Bohu disagreed: "The dead are respected, let's give way."
As he spoke, the group circled their horses and got off the official road to make way for the wide avenue. The mourner was a slightly slender young man, who bowed deeply to Zhao Bohu and his party to show his gratitude, behaved in a gentle and courteous manner, and had obviously read poetry and books. Zhao Bohu had a good impression and returned a salute.
At this moment, smoke and dust billowed behind the funeral procession, and a group of people and horses came on horseback. The young man's face was alarmed, and the rest of the group was also terrified.
A middle-aged short and fat man with a meaty face rode a tall horse to the young man, raised his horsewhip and pointed at him arrogantly: "That kid of the Chen family, what's the matter? Do you think that if your father dies, this account will be settled? It is only right for the father to repay the debt of the son."
The young man surnamed Chen stepped forward and arched his hand and said in an almost pleading tone, "My lord, my father is dead, and the land and houses in the family have been divided among the rest of the creditors. Even the money for my father's funeral was barely scraped together by selling a few house slaves, please be accommodating!"
"Accommodating? How can you be accommodating?" Humpty Dumpty whipped down, and a long blood mark suddenly appeared on the young man's fair face. Humpty Dumpty was still angry, and pointed at him and yelled, "You blame us for being slow, aren't you? What kind of funeral can the family do if they have no money? Your father owes my master ten loaves of gold, and he will not take it today, and all the people of your household, including you, will be my master's slaves. By the way, there's this coffin......
He pointed to the coffin and said viciously, "Come on! Pull all these people back to the house, lift the lid of the coffin, and throw the corpses out. This coffin is worth dozens of dollars!"
"No!"
With this call, the group was divided into two teams, one team to catch people; A team of copyists swarmed up and surrounded the coffin, really trying to pry the lid of the coffin. For a moment, the cries of anger and fear were mixed with the sonorous sound of weapons rubbing together, and the official road was chaotic.
Uncle Mi cast an inquiring glance at Zhao Bohu, and after getting an affirmative nod, he straightened his chest, stood in the middle of Wangguan Dao, and shouted, "Stop-" while shouting, while throwing away the two house slaves who were pulling the young man surnamed Chen
Get out.
This move really succeeded in attracting the attention of the short and fat middle-aged man, and he pointed at his horsewhip and shouted, "What thing that doesn't know life and death dares to do something bad about the uncle?"
"It is natural to repay debts, but the king of the world, the supremacy of humanity, how can there be a reason to lift the coffin and throw the corpse in public? Let alone the world, how can there be something that destroys humanity?" Zhao Bohu came up from the dense forest of the official road, and his words were chiseled, without the slightest fear.
"Humph! Do you also know that it is natural to repay debts? Then you can't see it, there is a kind of paying them back?" The short and fat middle-aged man rolled his eyes, obviously not taking Zhao Bohu and his party dressed as merchants in his eyes.
"You ......" Boyan Tie blushed, and he pressed the long sword on his waist and wanted to step forward, but he was stopped by Zhao Bohu stretching out his arm: "Press it, after all, this place belongs to the Hubei country, and you can't make a mistake."
appeased Bo Yan, and summoned Bo Hu to give Uncle Mi a look. The latter understood, took off the leather bag around his waist, and with a bang, ten golden cakes of gold rolled on the ground. The Humpty Dumpty man looked happy, picked up the whip and dismounted, picked up the logarithm one by one, biting and blowing, until he confirmed that the fineness and weight of the cake gold were correct, and suddenly he looked forward and bowed, and said to Zhao Bohu with a smile on his face:
"This lord, the amount of your money is correct, and the debts between my lord and their Chen family have been settled. People are yours, what to do with them is your business! Get on the horse and go!"
When this group of fierce and vicious masters walked away, the young man surnamed Chen dared to step forward and give a deep salute, and even thanked him. Zhao Bohu gently helped him up and said, "When the road is uneven, you should help each other, and you don't need to thank you anymore. It's just that my Guan Gongzi is not a person from a poor family, so why did Ling Xianzun owe such a huge debt!"
"Alas......" The young man shook his head, and an angry flush appeared on his pale face, "It's all that Lan Xiang madder!"
"Orchid madder?" Zhao Bohu was slightly shocked in his heart, the reason why he had to enter Fancheng was to understand this matter, and he didn't want to have a path in front of him, so he wanted to explore it to the end: "I have heard of this matter, and now the nobles and high-ranking families marry and dye the colored incense cart with this grass, so that the price of this grass has risen. Even with ordinary madder and Qi Xuan, it is a price a day."
"It's all in the past." The young man sighed again and said in a low voice, "Now that the market of orchid madder has collapsed, the price has plummeted, and I don't know how many people in Fancheng have lost their money. Selling sons and daughters, jumping into the river to wipe their necks, every day. My father is not a big businessman, he has always only been in the business, and he has lost all his family property. Not to mention those who are selling madder!".
"Oh, that's it?" Zhao Bohu asked, "Is it that the trading company suddenly stopped accepting madder?"
"That's right, half a month ago, the Yi family trading company suddenly stopped buying orchid madder. Since then, the number of business travelers and high-rollers coming and going to Fancheng has been decreasing, and the price of orchid madder has fallen to the point that it is not even as good as grass. Even with it, the price of ordinary madder and Qi Su also collapsed. Now this city is full of depression, and one day all people will die."
"Yi Clan Trading Company?" Zhao Bohu silently read these words, but his heart suddenly brightened. When he came, he passed by Luoyi, and he had a vague premonition at that time, Lanxiang Madder seemed to be a huge game, and someone must be behind the scenes, who is it? What is it that you want to get caught up in? He already had a vague point, but he wasn't sure at the moment.
"Boyan."
"What do you command?"
"You go to the camp of Chengzhou with this Xiang's handwriting, and you will stay there from now on to listen to it, and you don't need to follow this Xiangxiang back to Beijing." Zhao Bohu said categorically.
"But...... Didn't Xiangye say that he wanted me to go to Hokyung as a witness, thinking that General Kui would help clear his name?" Boyan was puzzled.
"You didn't go to the Great Wall at all, what can you prove when you return to Hojing? Staying in Chengzhou may be of great use."
"What do you mean...... Something big is going to happen in Luoyi?" Boyan seemed to understand.
Zhao Bohu waved his hand: "You just listen to the order."
"No!"
Boyan went to Manan, and Uncle Mi stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "That young man surnamed Chen said that he has no family and no place to stand. Intending to follow us, the old slave didn't dare to be self-conscious, so he came to ask Xiangye."
Zhao Bohu thought for a moment and said, "Let."
After his father's funeral, he went to the prime minister's official residence in Luoyi and took care of the house for the time being! The rest, let's speed up our journey south to Luoyi."
"Aren't you going to Fancheng?"
"It's gone, and there's no point in re-entering Fancheng."
"No!"
Zhao Bohu's speculation about the behind-the-scenes work behind the earth-shattering situation of "Orchid Madder" was verified in a few days. In the eastern capital of Luoyi, everything was as usual, but when he left Luoyi and boarded the boat in Luoyang, Zhao Bohu clearly saw the hand that made the game, and accurately predicted what the hand would do next.
Luoyang ferry just entered the winter, although the river has not yet frozen, according to common sense, it has also reached the winter period, except for a few passenger ships at this time in previous years, there should be no cargo ships. However, this year is unusual, the large cargo ships of Luoyangdu are connected by masts, and they are all grain ships, and they are all new corn grains from Guanzhong Weishui Ferry to Luoyi. With this amount, I am afraid that the granaries on both sides of Luoshui and the Chengzhou military camp will be filled before winter.
That's it, the person who escorted the grain and grass is also extraordinary, a person who was unexpected by many people but expected to summon Bohu - the crown prince Fu Rongyi.