Chapter 169: Assassination
Early in the morning, Plum Berry was woken up by a cacophony.
"What's going on? Aunt Wang and your mother eat melons again......"
Halfway through the conversation, Plum Berry opened her eyes and remembered that she had moved.
"Meow~"
Fat Tiger heard Plum Berry's movement, and jumped from the cat nest made of a bamboo basket on the side to Plum Berry's bed, and Plum Berry reached out and grabbed Fat Tiger in his arms and got up from the bed.
Walking to the window, Mei Berry stretched out her hand to prop up the closed window, and the misty river scenery was in full view.
Her bedroom window is facing her backyard, and the view from the backyard is naturally visible in her house.
Until the slender rain fell on the fingertips of the plum berry with the wind, the plum berry felt the slightest coolness and retracted her hand.
Only then did she realize that the rain had not stopped in the second half of last night.
Just as she was looking at the misty Jiang Jing in a daze, the noise that had woken her up earlier came from the front yard again.
Mei Berry hurriedly changed her clothes and went to the front yard, Mei Berry saw that there was no one in the yard, and she listened to the sound and stood at the dead end of the entrance, and secretly observed what was going on outside in a place that was out of sight.
Mei Berry could see her father and mother standing at the door, looking at them as if they were talking to someone.
And the mule cub grazing in the "stable" on the edge of the entrance because of the "geographical location", heard the whole thing, and from time to time snorted, and finally it couldn't help but roll its eyes.
γSycophant~γ
Hearing the mule's disgusted comments, Plum Berry almost laughed out loud.
She wondered who her father and mother were talking to at the door, and who could make the mule cub speechless.
It's just that where she stood, she could only see her father smiling all over his face, holding a small copper coin in his hand and quietly stuffing it somewhere outside the door.
I didn't see anyone, but I heard the sound somewhat.
"Early in the morning, I beg you to bring your brother to the door. My two brothers had just returned to their hometown, and we didn't expect to encounter this.
Thanks to everyone's discernment, this is the innocence of the small people, and it is raining on this day, so I will give a few people a hot tea money. β
There was a crisp sound of copper coins bumping outside the door.
Immediately afterwards, Mei Berry heard the Wang Zhukuai who was called by her father speak in a very brisk tone, and he said, "It's okay, this is what we should do." It's been a tight storm in the city these days, so there's no need not to move around at will, you know? β
"I understand, I understand, we naturally understand this."
Mei Berry watched her father standing at the door and looked at the mouth of the alley with a smile, and after a while, her father turned around and closed the door and immediately pulled a face, as if someone owed him money.
"What's going on?"
"Zhizhou is dead, the whole city is catching documents, searching for suspicious characters, and even the city gate checkpoints have been under martial law in the past few days, as if they are only given in."
"Huh?"
This battle directly frightened Mei Berry.
"When?"
"I heard that it was last night, and when people found it, the bodies were all hard."
"So what are you searching for at this time?"
When Mei Berry heard the time of death, she was speechless, "Last night was not a curfew, and many people went out of the city and down the mountain overnight...... If I were ......"
As she spoke, Plum Berry suddenly covered her mouth.
Even if she doesn't say some of the next words, everyone knows it in their hearts.
And Wei Meili also said to those who caught such a big move, "I am used to pretending, such a showmanship, I'm afraid that there are big people coming over in the back, showing performance, no merit and hard work." β
"Low-level officials like them, with such a complaining futile effort, I don't know what this matter will be like in the end."
Mei Berry sighed, the officialdom seemed to be far away from their family, but it was also very unpleasant to be suddenly involved like today.
Besides, this happened to them just after they moved in, and it was a bit of a bad thing.
***
Jinghu Pass, an abandoned wharf somewhere on the Jinlan River.
A group of people were dressed in lichen and hurriedly carrying everything onto the ship.
"If you move it up, cover it with an oilcloth, if it's wet, just spread it out and dry it in time when you go back!"
Gu Pingyu was wearing a cloak and a hat to direct the people to carry all the grain they bought this time onto the ship.
Several times during this period, he also went to the field by himself, carrying several sacks of grain on the boat.
Occasionally, the river wind was heavy, blowing evilly, and directly crossed the hat and pasted Gu Pingyu's face.
Gu Pingyu didn't have time to wipe the droplets of water on his face, and after helping to move the grain, he looked up at the mountain in front of him again, and then his eyes fell on Jinghu Pass in the distance, his eyes flashed, and others didn't know what he was thinking when they saw it.
"Shizi!"
His subordinates rode horses and galloped from a distance, and as soon as they arrived at the dock, Gu Pingyu immediately went up to greet them.
"Old Five, what's wrong?"
Last night, Gu Pingyu went down the mountain and rested in an inn at the bottom of the mountain with some of his subordinates, but when it was not dawn, a sharp arrow suddenly shot into their room.
It was not found out who did it, and there was no trace engraved on the arrow, so it was impossible to see whose family it was.
It's just that the arrow carried a letter on it, which read, "Whereabouts revealed, leave quickly."
So, out of vigilance, they were still at the Jinghu Pass checkpoint this morning, and a group of people rode away.
Fortunately, the food bought had already been delivered here one step earlier.
Seeing that all the grain was loaded onto the ship in an orderly manner, Gu Pingyu was not at ease, so he sent someone back to investigate.
"Jinghu Guan has been closed, and the people over there can't come, but the people here can pass, which means that they are not allowed to leave within three days, so I haven't passed the pass."
After Gu Pingyu's brows furrowed, the veteran who called Lao Wu had already sensed that something was wrong.
With such a big move, could it be that it was really because his own group was exposed?
Immediately afterwards, he listened to Lao Wu say: "But I pretended to be a nearby vegetable farmer and went to ask the soldiers guarding the pass, and they told me that a senior official above had died, and they were just acting on orders to prevent the gangsters from escaping." β
"Official?"
Gu Pingyu was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the majestic Xianyun Mountain again.
I haven't received any news from any big officials recently, and it can only be officials in the city.
He thought about the well-known people in Fucheng for a while, and only said: "Except for Wang Qilun, who is a related household in Zhizhou, the other officials who are a little higher are all from poor families. If someone else died, Wang Qilun would not have made such a move.
made such a big move, I'm afraid it wasn't Wang Qilun himself who died. β
After Gu Pingyu finished guessing, a look of joy flashed on his face: "If it is really Wang Qilun, a bastard, who is dead, it will be really happy!" β
Gu Pingyu still remembered that when he was brought back to Yanzhou by his father last year, he also passed by here, and what did he hear?
The water bandits on the Jinlan River have been arrested and will be beheaded soon.
He just listened to it for a while, but suddenly discovered the origin of this "water bandit".
Can he know if there are water bandits on this river?
That Wang Qilun was the lackey of the King of Qi, and the King of Qi embezzled military salaries, and as the governor of Yunzhou, Wang Qilun was convenient for the caravan of the King of Qi, and transported those things to Hanzhou through Jinghu Pass.
The matter was revealed, King Qi threw his body in front, and Wang Qilun found a reason to help him cover up the things he did in the back.
arrested a few ordinary people who came to Yunzhou from Xianyao to beg for a living, tortured them into tricks, and finally used the lives of those poor people to whitewash the peace.
If it weren't for King Qi's follow-up cleaning up too clean and leaving no evidence, Gu Pingyu would have stabbed this matter out a long time ago.
"Go back first, and then send someone over to find out the news when the limelight is over."
Gu Pingyu resisted his curiosity, retracted his gaze and turned around to leave by boat with everyone.
Before leaving, he stood on the bow of the boat, and couldn't help but look up at the mountain, and couldn't help but worry about Mei You, who lived in Fucheng......
I have to go to the hospital early today for the annual physical examination, and today's second may be a little later, but rest assured, there will be da~ (I have always been changing). Last night, in order to prevent some strange values from being detected in today's body examination, I temporarily crammed and didn't stay up all night and lay down directly to the ......
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