Chapter 204: Clues to the slaughter of the Medicine King Valley
Although Xie Xun said that he would behave well and not let Princess Guangling scold him after she came.
But when Chen Anning relied on the memories of the bandits along the way when she was taken by the bandits into the bandits' den in those days, estimating the reason why the bandits were stubbornly guarding the bandits' den, and it was likely that the abandoned den was where they forged weapons, Xie Xun immediately left her and returned to the scene of the bandits.
Chen Anning and Wen Huan couldn't let go of the children who were rescued from Hualou, and after forcing Xu Zan to arrange for someone to send those children's information from Jinling County, they also dealt with the information while recuperating from their injuries.
Therefore, after Princess Guangling arrived in Wuxing County, she immediately became angry when she saw the picture of Chen Anning and Wen Huan working with injuries.
Hua Jin and Hua Rong smiled proudly.
Not long after the two were forcibly sent out of the capital by Xie Xun, when they heard the news that they had left Beijing, they immediately went back to the capital. After weeping bitterly and admitting his mistake to Princess Guangling, he stayed again logically.
This time he followed Princess Guangling to Wuxing County, which was also the result of the hard work of the two.
Seeing that she was injured and still had to work, Xie Xun had not stayed to accompany her, and Hua Jin's originally extinguished extravagant hope was revived.
"Don't say nice things to him!" Listening to Chen Anning's explanation, Princess Guangling said with a cold face, "The emperor has sent so many generals to suppress the bandits, who does he think he is, so he has to compete with them?" ”
"The third cousin is not a person who will compete for credit, maybe the situation is urgent, so I have to leave Miss Chen Er busy." Hua Jin pressed the corners of his mouth that was constantly upturning, and persuaded with a needle in his mouth, "Now that we are here, take good care of Miss Chen Er for the third cousin, and my aunt will not be angry." ”
"That's right," Hua Rong echoed, "Second Miss Chen has been injured for so long, and the third cousin didn't leave until yesterday morning, and I don't know how much has been delayed." ”
"Miss Hua Da and Miss Hua San are right, the princess should not be angry anymore." Seeing that Princess Guangling's face did not improve, Chen Anning said gently, "Besides, Xie Xun didn't plan to leave, I pushed him away." The princess also knew that I had been taken by bandits to the bandits' den, and although I was blindfolded when I went, I heard a lot of ping-pong tapping on the way there, and I suspected that it was the bandits forging weapons. The generals of the forbidden army have suppressed bandits for nearly a month, and their experience is getting richer and richer, but those bandits have been rampant in Jiangnan Province and Huainan Road for almost 20 years, and they are more familiar with the terrain here than the generals of the forbidden army. If my suspicions are true, those bandits are desperately guarding the bandits' den, and the forbidden army is still fighting in the current way, I am afraid it will be difficult to break them. ”
"Of course, the most important thing is that I am afraid that the forbidden army will not believe that I can remember the way the bandits took me into the bandits' den even though I was blindfolded. So I want Xie Xun to take someone over to explore the situation first, if my memory is not wrong, then that road is likely to be a rare gap to attack the bandits' den. ”
"You can't judge the truth or falsehood, let the third cousin go, if something happens to the third cousin, you ......" Hua Rong's blurted out words were stopped by Princess Guangling's cold eyes. Princess Guangling shook Chen Anning's hand and sighed lightly: "Thank you for your hard work." ”
"It's not hard." Chen Anning looked at Xu Zhan, who came into the house, and said with a smile, "Although Xie Xun is gone, there is still Xu Wugongzi calling." ”
Princess Guangling looked at Xu Zhan, who was much thinner than before leaving Beijing, nodded, and asked the mother-in-law and maidservants who came with her to take over the work in his hands, and said, "I've lost a lot of weight, hurry up and sit down and rest." ”
After Xu Zan handed over the refreshments in his hand to his mother-in-law, he said, "It's only when you're thin that you're in good spirits." ”
Princess Guangling said with a smile, "I used to be spiritual, and I was blessed with a spirit. ”
Xu Zan immediately said, "What about now?" ”
Princess Guangling looked him up and down, "Now I am also in spirit, and I have the spirit of rushing." ”
Xu Zan quickly glanced at Wen Huan twice, and said, "Ah Xun said, when I return to the capital, I will also arrange an errand for me." ”
"It's long overdue for you." Princess Guangling said, "It was because he was reluctant to help him that you were busy running back and forth, so he has been detaining you until now." It's because you have a good temper that you tolerate him until now. ”
"No, no," Xu Zan hurriedly denied, "If Ah Xun hadn't taken me in, your father would have made an insignificant idle life for me at most, and he would never value me like Ah Xun and think about my future." ”
"You're going to lift him up." Princess Guangling smiled and asked some more about Wu Jujun before letting him go.
"Actually, my injury is not serious," Chen Anning hurriedly said as her gaze fell back on hers.
"If it's not serious, you have to take care of it!" As if she had seen through her thoughts, Princess Guangling said without a beak, "Save those children and let them be busy themselves." ”
Hua Jin said: "Second Miss Chen, just take a good rest, when we were in Jincheng County, Rong'er and I followed our third cousin to inspect the ranch, so don't worry about these things Rong'er." ”
Before Chen Anning could answer, Princess Guangling said first: "Then it's hard for the two of you." ”
Hua Rong hurriedly said: "It's not hard to share the worries and solve problems for the third cousin." ”
Princess Guangling didn't say much, and turned around to arrange for Chen Anning and Wen Huan to come.
Although Chen Anning and Wen Huan repeatedly assured them that they were fine, in the next half month, Princess Guangling still kept an eye on them and forbade them to participate in anything.
Fortunately.
On the twentieth day after leaving, Xie Xun returned with the four-in-command of the gangster led by Fan Dahai.
The fourth-in-command is called Zhou Ci, and he works as a bookkeeper in a bandit gang.
After Xie Xun verified the road she provided, and then broke through with the forbidden army, Zhou Ci was inspecting the mining area where copper coins and weapons were minted. He came over the day before the bandit den where the forbidden army surrounded and suppressed Chen Anning, and it was a routine inspection, but he didn't expect that there would be no return.
Zhou Ci was very calm about the arrest. There were also questions and answers to Xie Xun's interrogation.
Zhou Ci was originally a scholar in Yuyang County, Yongyang County, but because of his poor family background, he failed the three exams, and he was very disdainful. Just when he was about to take the exam again, if he didn't win, he would abandon his book and start farming, but the new magistrate of Yuyang County fell in love with his wife, and after several times he couldn't trade for twenty taels of silver, the new magistrate simply made someone forcibly take her over when his wife went to work in the field, and forcibly destroyed her innocence. Zhou Ci's wife was so humiliated that she committed suicide by jumping into the river. Zhou Ci's son went to the county government to ask for an explanation, but he was also killed. After that, the newly arrived magistrate threw twenty taels of silver to Zhou Ci, who went to collect the body, as a settlement.
Zhou Ci was not angry, and after burying his wife and children, he went to Yongyang County to beat drums and voice grievances, but the new magistrate had already greeted the people of Taishou Mansion. Zhou Ci not only did not get an explanation, but was imprisoned for two years on false accusations.
After being released from prison, on his way back to Yuyang County, he shouted injustice when he passed the river where his wife committed suicide. It happened that a bandit who had gone down the mountain to rob passed by, and he searched him, saw that he had no money, and after beating him, he adhered to the principle of robbing people if he couldn't grab money, and robbed him back to the bandit's den.
After a period of unloved, he suddenly came up with the idea of using the bandits to take revenge, so he tried to behave. He already has real talent and learning, and in less than two years, he was recognized by Fan Dahai. After learning about his experience, Fan Dahai took the initiative to kidnap the magistrate and let him take revenge.
Zhou Ci knew that Fan Dahai was openly avenging him, but secretly testing his loyalty to the bandits, so he did not hesitate to kill the magistrate.
Because he hurt the officials of the court, he will not be tolerated by the court, so Zhou Ci was even more recognized by Fan Dahai. Soon after this, Van Dahai put him in charge of the bandits' accounts.
Seeing that he was so cooperative, Xie Xun tentatively asked him if he had heard Fan Dahai mention the slaughter of Yaowanggu before the end of the interrogation.
Zhou Ci's answer was that he had heard of it.
According to his confession, once after Fan Dahai drank too much, he had no intention of mentioning a few words to him. Fan Dahai said that when he followed King Anbei to Fuhua Mountain to plot with the general of the Jin State to overthrow the rule of Wei, he was bumped into by two disciples of the Medicine King Valley. Subsequently, according to the order of the king of Anbei, he led 5,000 dead soldiers to slaughter the entire Yaowang Valley.
Fan Dahai also said that it is a pity that the whereabouts of the two miracle doctors are unknown, no matter how they look for them, they will not see anyone alive or dead.
When Xie Xun heard him say this, he immediately brought him back to Wuxing County and asked her to interrogate him personally.