I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 314
Although it is very risky to imprison Zhang Yiyi, a concubine, in the Zhang family, once someone finds out, the Zhang family will be charged with robbery and harboring fugitives.

But Zhang Minxian also understands that this is a shortcut to catch up with the Yang family. He is Yang Xu's uncle in name, and the Zhang family in Linzhou Prefecture is also his natal family. To help Yang Xu when he needs help is the only way to help each other. next of kin.

Under the dim candlelight, Zhang Minxian quietly looked at Yang Xu, who was standing up straight like a green pine. Although his face was still immature like a child's, there was a touch of toughness between his brows and eyes, his dark little face was tight, and his eyes were resolute. , indeed has the demeanor of a general.

Seeing that Zhang Minxian didn't agree immediately, and Yang Xu didn't urge him, he thought a lot in his mind.

Perhaps because he experienced blood and death in the army during this period, the kindness and innocence of children in Yang Xu's bones faded a little, and he gained a new understanding of family, blood, life and death.

"Xiao Xu, you have really created a problem for uncle." After pondering for a moment, Zhang Minxian said helplessly, as if it was extremely embarrassing whether to help or not.

Thinking of the Yang family that is about to recover, Zhang Minxian is more inclined to help. After all, Zhang Yiyi is still Yang Xu's biological mother, and now Yang Xu doesn't have much affection for this biological mother in his heart.

But what about ten or twenty years from now?
When Yang Shoucheng passed away, or Yang Shoucheng remarried in a few years, Yang Xu's hatred for his biological mother might fade away. Besides, Yang Xuri's heart might soften when he had a child and became a father.

At that time, if the relationship between their mother and son is restored, then the Zhang family will be Yang Xu's veritable natal family.

With a decision in his mind, Zhang Minxian looked at Yang Xu with complicated and deep eyes. Even if he wanted to help, the Zhang family couldn't wait 20 or even 30 years to collect the benefits.

At present, the Zhang family is taking the risk of ransacking the family and exterminating the family to help hide Zhang Yiyi. The Yang family can't afford nothing. His father is old and will be retired in two years. As a fellow friend, I can go up a promotion. .

"Xiao Xu, it's a very important matter. It's better to let your father come. After all, you are still young. This is a matter between adults." Zhang Minxian said with a gentle smile, "As for your mother, I will come and settle it first. No one will know that you brought her to Linzhou Mansion."

Hearing this, Yang Xu didn't appreciate it, "Cousin Zhou's death made me think a lot. My father said that I am immature and need to practice, so I have full power to handle this matter."

"Xiaoxu, Shuyao's death has nothing to do with you. She just couldn't think about it for a while, and she also felt guilty because of Fu Langhuan's death. This is my uncle's carelessness. I should find out that Shuyao's emotions in those few days were wrong, otherwise She wouldn't be tempted to commit suicide."

Zhang Minxian's cold and serious brows were stained with remorse, and he closed his eyes after speaking, as if to cover up the deep and solemn pain in his eyes.

In the dim light of the candle, Yang Xu's gaze fell on Zhang Minxian for a moment. Hearing his suppressed painful voice, and seeing his expression of grief that could not be concealed at the moment, Yang Xu really didn't notice any flaws.

If it wasn't for his absolute trust in Zhan Feiyu, Yang Xu wouldn't have believed that Zhou Shuyao had died at the hands of this man in front of him. He was Zhou Shuyao's real uncle!
Whether it was in Xiangwu County that day or at this moment, his pain was so real and heavy.

Grandpa is right, if you are not sure whether the person you are facing is loyal or traitor, then you have to stick to your nature, as long as you are determined, no one can deceive or deceive you.

Just like at this moment, Yang Xu can be sure that he will never agree to harbor criminals from the court. Even if she did not personally kill the eight local scoundrels, they are definitely ordered by her. The mastermind, according to the law of Daqing, will still be executed after autumn!
As for Zhang Minxian's silence and evasion, Yang Xu also understood that it was not beneficial to see the rabbit and not to scatter the eagle, so he refused to agree, and it was just to negotiate better conditions for his father to come over.

In the silence, suddenly, a sharp shout rang out. Through the doors, windows and walls, the sound could not be heard clearly, and it disappeared after that.

Yang Xu raised his eyes and looked outside through the window, presumably the medicine had worn off, and he shouted when he woke up, but the guards stopped him immediately.

Zhang Minxian, who also heard the shout, also turned his head and looked out of the window. Judging from the direction of the sound, this person should be detained in the side room on the left side of the main hall.

After seeing it through, he doesn't want to waste time here, and the Chinese New Year is coming soon, Yang Xu wants to return to Xiangwu County immediately, whether it's to Shitou Village or Qiu Mansion.

"Xiao Xu?" Looking at Yang Xu whose expression suddenly became firm, Zhang Minxian felt a panic in his chest, and a wave of uneasiness arose.

"I left her in Zhang's house, as long as she was kept alive, and I also repaid the favor." Yang Xu spoke seriously, and continued without waiting for Yang Xu to speak: "As the price of exchange, When Cousin Zhou died, I took it as suicide, not because someone grabbed her hand and cut off her neck."

His complexion changed suddenly, Zhang Minxian stood up with a jerk, the movement was so large that the chair behind him fell to the ground with a clang, and in the silent night, Feng Pingqing and the leader of the guards outside the courtyard were startled, unable to bear it. Immediately shouted "Master".

"It's okay, you don't need to come in!" Zhang Minxian said eagerly, and looked at Yang Xu with a cold expression in shock, how could he know?

With a mocking coldness on his dark face, Yang Xu turned around and walked towards the door, opened the door, and the chill outside the room spread across his face.

"If you don't want others to know, you have to do nothing!" After leaving a sentence, Yang Xu strode into the night and made a gesture. In an instant, four people appeared from the yard, and two more came from the prison where Zhang Yiyi was detained. The side room came out.

In the yard, the commander of Zhang's guards and several subordinates immediately put on guard.

Yang Xu walked outside without looking back, followed by six people. After a while, the sound of the door opening and closing, followed by the sound of horseshoes.

"Mr. Feng?" The commander of the guards was a little puzzled, so Young Master Yang Xu left just like that, leaving the hot potato in the small courtyard of Hongfeng?

Feeling that something has deviated from the original track, Feng Pingqing frowned and looked at the direction Yang Xu was leaving, and said after a moment of deliberation: "Send someone to follow them from a distance to see if they entered the city or left, and in which direction they are going. of."

"This subordinate understands." The commander of the guards retreated a few times in response, and several figures quickly chased in the direction Yang Xu left under the cover of the night.

A gust of cold wind hit, Feng Pingqing, who had stood in the yard for almost two quarters of an hour, rubbed his cold hands before walking into the main hall.

After closing the door with his backhand, Feng Pingqing looked at the fallen chair and Zhang Minxian standing beside him in a daze, and couldn't help asking: "Master, what happened?"

When he came back to his senses, Zhang Minxian rubbed the center of his brows and let out a long sigh. Thinking of all the things in Xiangwu County that day, his expression became even more ugly.

"Master, the boat is naturally straight when it reaches the bridge, and the willows are dark and the flowers are bright and there is another village." Feng Pingqing, who came over, helped up the chair on the ground, thinking of Yang Xu who left and Zhang Yiyi who was left behind, "Master Xu is determined to send people away." stay?"

Sitting down on the chair, Zhang Minxian was silent for a long time. A chill spread from the soles of his feet to his whole body. After moving his icy hands and feet, Zhang Minxian said, "Yang Xu knows the truth about Shuyao's death."

"What?" Feng Pingqing's expression changed suddenly, he opened his mouth in shock but did not make a sound.

Looking at Zhang Minxian who nodded, Feng Pingqing finally understood why he just heard the sound of a chair falling to the ground.

"We underestimated the Yang family!" Zhang Minxian was really remorseful at this moment. He killed Shuyao with his own hands, but not only did he not make Yang Xu feel guilty, he would help the Zhang family in the future, and even self-defeating because of this, pushing Yang Xu away. farther.

Feng Pingqing quickly went through everything that happened in Xiangwu County that day, and carefully considered every detail, "Master, Fu Langhuan's death has nothing to do with you or me. Both she and Miss Shuyao were raped." A large amount of sweet-scented osmanthus made Miss Shuyao lose her mind, and finally accidentally strangled Fu Langhuan to death."

Later, County Magistrate Zhu came to investigate the case. Ms. Shuyao insisted that she had no memory of what happened that night on the grounds that she had been drugged too much.

It's true to think about it, Zhou Shuyao, the daughter of an official family who is golden and jade, also shot a servant in a fit of anger, but she was just giving orders.

It was the servants who did it, and they dragged them to the most remote corner of the yard, gagged their mouths, and died without anyone making a sound.

But Fu Langhuan's death was different, it was strangled to death by Zhou Shuyao himself.

Even though she was delirious at the time because of the medicinal properties of the cinnamon grass, there were still frames of fragments in her mind, and she could clearly recall the scene of the murder.

Since Zhang Minxian agreed to Feng Pingqing's proposal at the beginning, he also dared to make a move after ensuring that everything was safe, "Shuyao listened to me that day, deliberately had a big fight with Yang Xu, and even said that one life is for another. Come, Yang Shoucheng brought Yang Xu over, and Qiu Zongxi also came."

"I remember that at that time, Young Master Yang Xu just stood outside the door and didn't go in. Qiu Zongxi stood by and accompanied him. General Yang entered the room alone, but he came out after only one glance at Miss Shuyao's body. Half an hour." Feng Pingqing added a few words.

The next day, after putting Miss Shuyao's body into a thin coffin, the group of them left Xiangwu County, and sent someone to deliver a message to the Qiu Mansion half an hour before leaving.

Although General Yang rushed over with Yang Xu, he only met at the gate of the city and burned some yellow paper. The coffin was taken away on the carriage, so how did he find out that Miss Shuyao's death was not a suicide?Where is the flaw exposed?

What Feng Pingqing didn't understand was also what Zhang Minxian couldn't understand.

They thought the matter was safe, so they dared to kill Zhou Shuyao, made Yang Xu owe the Zhang family a life, and took advantage of Yang Xu's guilt and self-blame to help the Zhang family when necessary in the future.

"Master, Zhan Feiyu was the first to come to the other courtyard." Feng Pingqing said suddenly, his expression changed suddenly, "Zhan Feiyu is accompanied by a person, I suspect it is the person from the Forbidden Dragon Guard!"

The reason why Zhang Yiyi went to jail was not because Zhan Feiyu sent someone to the guard with the token of the Forbidden Dragon Guard, and Dou Qianhu personally sent troops to arrest Zhang Yiyi.

It's just because of Yang Xu's identity, and because of the restraint of the town's Marquis Mansion, he was arrested, but County Magistrate Zhu didn't dare to be promoted, so he had to keep Zhang Yiyi in the cell all the time.

"Forbidden Dragon Guard?" Zhang Minxian's face was ashen and ugly, and his hands on his knees even trembled slightly.

No matter how secret it is, as long as the Forbidden Dragon Guards come to investigate, they will definitely find out the truth!At this moment, Zhang Minxian even suspected that when he killed Zhou Shuyao that day, the people from the Forbidden Dragon Guard were watching from the dark, and even saw the process of his killing clearly.

Feng Pingqing didn't notice Zhang Minxian's frightened and panicked expression. He was carefully recalling the room where Zhou Shuyao died that day. From the blood stains to the murder weapon scissors that fell on the ground, to Zhou Shuyao's body at the end, he recalled every detail. Under the flaw.

Then why did the Forbidden Dragon Guard know that Zhou Shuyao didn't commit suicide but was killed by the master himself?
Panicked, Feng Pingqing clenched his fists nervously, and he also thought of the most unthinkable possibility, when the master made a move, the people of the Forbidden Dragon Guard were in the dark, but the master never noticed it!

After a long silence, Zhang Minxian and Feng Pingping's expressions turned extremely ugly. If only Yang Shoucheng and Yang Xu knew the truth, they would not be afraid.

After all, Zhou Shuyao's body had already been buried. Even in winter, the body began to rot after these days.At that time, even if the coffin is opened for an autopsy, there is no evidence to be found.

But if the Forbidden Dragon Guard knows, it means that the Holy One knows, it's over, everything is over...

Zhang Minxian suppressed the panic in his heart, and the panic and helplessness he could feel in his voice said, "Forget it, it's useless to talk too much, let's see if there will be an oracle from the Holy Majesty."

In fact, Zhang Minxian also knew that he was just a small colleague, and he was not qualified to be investigated by the Holy Spirit.

"My lord, this matter involves the Yang family after all. The Holy Majesty is planning to use the Yang family. Maybe it will turn into a trivial matter. If the Holy Majesty will investigate, how dare General Yang ask Yang Xu to send someone to Linzhou Mansion? "Steady your mind, although Feng Pingqing also feels that this matter is difficult, but it is not at the end of the mountain.

Hearing these words, Zhang Minxian's expression was not at all relieved, and his heart was heavy. Even though the sage was worried about the Yang family and was afraid of hitting a mouse or touching a jade bottle, his official career had already come to an end.

After all, he has struggled in the officialdom for decades. Even though he feels that the future is bleak and he may even be killed, Zhang Minxian still plans to deal with the most difficult things first. You go to Gu County for me and bring Aping back."

"Master plans to put people in the secret room behind the studio?" Feng Pingqing is indeed Zhang Minxian's most trusted subordinate, as soon as he opened his mouth, Feng Pingqing knew Zhang Minxian's plan.

Zhang Minxian is good at painting, so he purposely built a studio in the northeast corner of the courtyard, where he spends his spare time splashing ink, and beside the waterside pavilion behind the studio is a pond.

Between the pond and the waterside pavilion is a half-foot-wide grassland, through which no one can pass, but the mandarin ducks kept in the pond occasionally swim to the grassland to roost.

But who would have thought that a secret room was built under this, and the entrance of the secret room is under the floor of the water pavilion.

(End of this chapter)