Chapter 115: A knife in the back
The Zheng family had been waiting for news from Fang Qingying, and when Zheng Changfang heard that Fang Qingying was coming, he immediately sent the people around him to his mother's yard to listen to the news.
Old Madam Zheng was full of praise: "Miss Fang is really a noble person of our Zheng family, so great, come here, go and deliver a letter to the front, load the car and set off immediately." ”
The cold woman next to her eyes were red, why couldn't such a good girl look down on her grandson?
The main thing is that no matter how good she is, she is also a little widow, and her grandson is an innocent young man.
Fang Qingying exchanged a few words with Mrs. Zheng, and made an appointment with the Zheng family's convoy to meet after arriving at Lijiazhuang, and Fang Qingying led the team to hand over to Qin Yuanfeng, and the deal was completed.
After all the talks, Fang Qingying went out and got into the carriage and went back home.
The carriage is given to Fang Qingying by the cottage for walking, and he can't go out to get busy, Fang Qingying has to rely on two legs to go out, for Qingwa Village, this is a big boss!
When she returned home, Fang Qingying put the poison scripture in her baggage, and the time spent sitting back and forth in the carriage could not be wasted, and she didn't have to worry about the things in the yard, and she became the most idle person in the orderly busyness.
On the road, I looked at the farmland on both sides of the road, the farmers were watering the fields under the scorching sun, and the long-drought land cracked, and the problem could not be solved at all.
There are far fewer people collecting medicine in the village, and even children of a few years old are eager to carry bowls of water to water the ground.
Fang Qingying packed up his baggage and went out to Li Changming's house.
Min's mouth was blistered, and his voice was hoarse, their family was a big family with a lot of fields in the village, and now that the Tang River was cut off, this year was about to be in vain, who could not be in a hurry?
"Auntie, stock up on more food." After Fang Qingying sat down, he got straight to the point: "Take advantage of the fact that the price of grain is not high now." ”
Min waved his hand: "That's not necessary, there has been a severe drought for so many years, but the harvest in previous years was good, and every household had surplus grain." ”
"That's good." Fang Qingying didn't say deeply, so far, he can be regarded as a favor and will repay it.
Min asked, "Ah Ma, is Jingtai living with you?" ”
"No, no tricks, Jinghe went out to do things, the Xiangzhi sisters are maids in Qinghe Mansion, I'll just wait, he is also sensible." Fang Qingying sighed: "There's no way. ”
The Min family has lived for half a lifetime, and it is the first time that Fang Qingying has encountered such an unlucky person, and the husband who died at the door put it aside and didn't say anything, and looked at what happened to the people in this mother-in-law's family!
Ordinary people talk about personal death and debts, and when Zhou died, the few children left behind were even more pitiful in the eyes of others, and no one mentioned Zhou's gossip anymore.
"You are a good person, although most of the Zhuangzi are surnamed Li, but there are not many relatives, if you really want to say that you can take care of Jingtai's relatives, there is no one, you can only suffer you." Min asked: "Sister Xiangzhi and they don't come back after burning Wuqi?" ”
Fang Qingying shook his head: "There's no news, they didn't say a word to me when they left, they can do it themselves, auntie, I have done everything I can, and I won't say much else." ”
"That's fine." Min doesn't ask anymore, Zhou's death is too miserable, no one dares to ask for that house, it's a pity to throw it over there and look at it, but what can be done?
Fang Qingying handed the words to the Min family, and his heart was also steady.
Go home and wait for the Zheng family to come to the door.
In the middle of the night that night, Fang Qingying left Lijiazhuang in a carriage, followed by a long convoy of grain, and the person driving the car was Zhao San under Qin Yuanfeng.
I kept hurrying day and night, and arrived at the boundary of Qingwa Village in the second half of the night of the third day.
The carriage was hung with a dead wind lamp, and it could be seen at a glance in the dark night that Qin Yuanfeng took two hundred people to receive the grain cart at the foot of the mountain and escorted him to Jinghe Mansion.
After the handover, Fang Qingying didn't stay long, on the way back, he opened the curtain on the carriage window, read a book by the light outside, stopped after watching for a while, and thought of the Zheng family's food coming.
Originally, it was going to be transported from Qinghe Mansion to Jinghe Mansion, but the time was not right, could it be that the Zheng family had hoarded grain in advance?
Zhao San shook his whip, the carriage clattered on the pipeline, Fang Qingying lowered his head and read the book, wondering in his heart how to stock up on more grain, calculating that the eldest brother should settle down in Jinghe Mansion in the future, Duan Chengde and they still have to arrive in the capital in ten days and half a month, so wait.
The foundation is thin, and this time the hoarding of grain has emptied the belongings, which is not easy.
As soon as Fang Qingying's carriage arrived at the entrance of Lijiazhuang Village, Zheng Changfang got down from the carriage and clasped his fists and saluted without waiting for Fang Qingying to get off.
"Miss Fang, send it away again, okay?" Zheng Changfang said.
Fang Qingying looked at Zheng Changfang in embarrassment: "Master Zheng, this matter is really urgent, I haven't breathed a sigh of relief yet." ”
Zheng Changfang could only smile at it: "This trip has given Miss Fang more hard money, and I have to worry about it." ”
"Okay, I'll go back to Qingwa Village and meet at the foot of the mountain." It was impossible for Fang Qingying to refuse, so he asked Zhao San to drive to Qingwa Village again.
Zheng Changfang went back to arrange for the convoy to deliver food.
After running back and forth for two days and one night, Fang Qingying couldn't help but fall apart, and called Zhou Fuzheng and a few people together.
"Where did the Zheng family get so much grain?" Zhou Fuzheng frowned: "Could it be that the grain depot of Qinghe Mansion has opened?" ”
Wang Chengliang narrowed his eyes slightly: "If the grain depot is really opened, let's not be polite, how about sending grain directly to Nanban?" ”
"Don't worry, I'll send my brother out to find out the news, and I'll talk about it later." The people under Zhao Taichang are the scout team responsible for finding out the news, and they are good at this.
After listening to them, Fang Qingying said, "Who will escort this trip?" There are not many people, just a car and a person. ”
"The big boss is worried about the Zheng family?" Li Zhizhong asked.
Fang Qingying nodded: "I suspect that after the first trip, the Zheng family's grain trucks will always be there, if they want to take this opportunity to hollow out all the people in the cottage, and then attack in one fell swoop, I am afraid that those people in the cottage will suffer." ”
Several people looked at each other.
Fang Qingying suddenly thought that this node was when Jinghe Mansion destroyed Qingwa Village, even if Qingwa Village did not rob Zheng Baozhu as the wife of the village now, nor did it move the dowry of the Zheng family, but Jinghe Mansion really wanted to do something to Qingwa Village?
So, it has to be guarded against.
Zheng family.
Zheng Changfang arranged for someone wearing the clothes of the Zheng family nursing home to escort the cart full of grain out of Luwu County.
The person sitting in the study was drinking tea, and Zheng Yuanwai was accompanying the last seat.
The two people sitting on the upper seat were He Yunzhou, the county magistrate of Luwu County, and Cao Zhirong, the prefect of Qinghe Prefecture.
"As long as the bandits in Qingwa Village can be exterminated, there will be no obstacle to trade, and Zheng Lao has made a great contribution." He Yunzhou said in an official tone.
Zheng Yuanwai hurriedly lowered his head and returned respectfully: "Lord He is serious, the Zheng family is a merchant, and it will be beneficial to us without hindrance to trade, so how can we not help." ”
"The soldiers of the government are disguised as the guards of the courtyard, which not only supplies the military rations of the imperial court, but also can level the Qingwa Village, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone." Cao Zhirong put down the teacup: "However, what happened to Miss Fang mentioned by Elder Zheng?" ”