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Chapter 467: Ye Family's Past Events (5K+)

After realizing this, Qiuyue immediately showed regret on her face. She shook her head and said helplessly: "But Ayun didn't notice the fragrance itself at all, and only told me that the fragrance is very fragrant. As for the fragrance, it is It wasn't mentioned at all."

Lin Yan fell silent again when he heard this: ...the clue seems to be broken again.

Ji Chongyan didn't say anything immediately, but asked Qiuyue again before Lin Yan could speak: "What happened after that? Did anything strange happen?"

Qiuyue thought for a while and said: "Miss got this blank letter before she disappeared. After Miss disappeared, Liu's family reported to the official. Mrs. Ayundao often wakes up at night and sleeps very restlessly."

Mrs. Liu is now old, and her family has told her to be docile and obedient. Ordinarily, ordinary things will not make Mrs. Liu such "restless sleep", it must be an old thing.

If it's an old story... Lin Yan was silent for a moment, and asked Qiuyue: "You have been with the old lady for many years, but you know that the Liu family...uh..." Lin Yan and Ji Chongyan looked at each other, and paid attention to the wording, "The relationship between the Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce Something old?"

Qiuyue was stunned when she heard this, but she shook her head and said, "The Chamber of Commerce's affairs are foreign affairs. I'm a person close to the old lady, and I only know internal affairs..."

At this moment, Ji Chongyan suddenly interrupted her, and he said, "Will it affect the past affairs of the chamber of commerce in the inner house, and make the old lady sleep as restlessly as if she read this letter?"

Not only the old affairs of the Chamber of Commerce, but also the things that can affect the back house, and make the old lady sleep restlessly... There are not many things that require such a request.

Qiuyue frowned, drooping her eyes and recalled seriously.

"I remember...a few years ago, there seemed to be such a thing," Qiuyue said after a long time, "I just entered the old lady's courtyard at that time, and I was a maid in the outer courtyard, so I didn't know much about it. I only vaguely remember those days in the old lady's house. The lights in the house have to be on until very late, sometimes even all night. The old lady will call a few gentlemen to come over to discuss things, but even though it is a discussion, whenever we go in for tea, the gentlemen just sit at the table and drink. Cha, didn't say a word, but his face was not very good, and he was frowning..."

Qiuyue is a smart and beautiful woman. From her words, a few words are enough to make Ji Chongyan and Lin Yan see the situation at that time.

Ku Zuo frowning and not saying a word, obviously encountered trouble, but there is no countermeasure, if there is a countermeasure, even if it is not a good countermeasure, they would have spoken out and started arguing.

It's a no-brainer thing.

Of course Qiuyue knew what Ji Chongyan and Lin Yan wanted to know, and would not talk nonsense. After recalling it carefully again, she said: "Those days... It seems that a batch of medicinal materials were brought in from the yard, but I will not talk about any medicinal materials. I don't know."

She is just a maid, not a proficient in medical theory, and she tried her best to think of this.

Qiuyue, who was frowning and thinking hard, didn't pay attention to the expressions of Ji Chongyan and Lin Yan who were sitting across from her at this time, and naturally she didn't notice the slight change in the expressions of the two opposite at this moment.

"The Liu family is a member of the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce. There are many businesses involved. There are also several drug stores, but they are not very good. I don't know what happened at that time." Qiuyue couldn't help but smile bitterly when she said this, "I think To avenge the lord's family, but only then did I realize that I don't know much about it."

"It's okay." The two on the opposite side didn't show any disappointment. After they looked at each other, they got up and sent Qiuyue out.

After Qiuyue left, Lin Yan couldn't help but ask Ji Chongyan: "If I remember correctly, the Luoyang Wang family that first made trouble here started as a drug dealer?"

The speaker has no intention of the listener, and Qiuyue felt that she hadn't said anything important, but as far as Ji Chongyan and Lin Yan were concerned, the word medicinal material she mentioned reminded them of Luoyang Wang's family.

So... the connection between Miss Wang's family and Miss Liu's family seems to have emerged.

Then search along this line... Lin Yan unfolded the backgrounds of the Kaifeng Dong's and Shanxi Liu's merchants that he had found earlier.

"The Luoyang Wang family first started as a medicine merchant, but they gave up the medicine business decades ago and switched to other businesses."

"The Dong family in Kaifeng and the Liu family in Shanxi also started as medicine merchants, but they don't do medicine business anymore."

"The rest has nothing to do with the drug dealer." Lin Yan looked at the backgrounds of the other companies and fell into deep thought. "If it's just that, it seems that this matter has little to do with the drug dealer, and it may be a coincidence."

Checking down this line seems to have stalled again.

At this moment, De Lu trotted in holding a pigeon with a ribbon on its foot: "Lin Shaoqing, your Zisu girl has sent a letter!"

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At dusk, a few tables of guests in the tavern facing the street in Chang'an City were chatting.

The tavern mainly sells alcohol, although there are also snacks and appetizers for sale, but it is not as good as a serious restaurant. Zisu, the proprietress of the tavern, knows this very well.

What to do, those who are capable can naturally do everything, but she can't do it. In this case, if she knows how to make wine, then it's better to specialize in wine.

But also because of this, every meal time, the business of the tavern is not very good, Zisu drags her cheeks, puts one hand on the abacus and flicks the abacus in a daze, while the other hand subconsciously touches the abacus. to his waist.

It was a sachet, a specially formulated sachet with a unique taste.

On that day, after she gave the perilla wine to the wealthy businessman from other places, she waited for several days without any response, and she also found out that the wealthy businessman from other places had already left with the caravan, so it was useless to pretend that her temptation was useless.

But seven days ago, she received a box.

There was this sachet inside the box, and the smell of this sachet was very unique, as soon as she smelled it, she could tell that it was the sachet prepared by Uncle Eight.

In addition to the sachet, there was also a letter. Zisu lowered her eyes, thinking about counting the time. Lin Yan should have received her letter by now.

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In Baoling City thousands of miles away, Ji Chongyan fell silent looking at the note in front of him.

Lin Yan, who was on the opposite side, was hugging a pigeon with a colored ribbon on his feet at this time, and while stroking the pigeon's feathers to feed, he said, "I know what's going on in Asu's house..."

Ji Chongyan, who was looking at the note in front of him, looked up at him and said, "Of course you know, after all, some people wanted to help the Ye family reverse the case a few years ago, so they searched all the files about the Ye family." .”

Some people—Lin Yan touched his nose and laughed dryly, but he didn't deny it.

The Ye family in Jizhou has practiced medicine for generations, and the reputation of hanging pots to help the world has been ranked somewhat in the Xinglin of Dazhou.

Of course, those who practice medicine also have to eat. The Ye family is prosperous, and it is impossible for everyone to come out to be a doctor, so someone needs to run the family.

Compared with other businesses, they may not be able to handle them well, so the Ye family naturally started to start a drug dealer based on their old business of practicing medicine.

This is a good choice for the Ye family. There are countless doctors in the family who are good at medicine. They will not worry about mistaking the medicine or not knowing the medicine, and if they are a drug dealer, the cost of medical consultation can also be reduced. .Patients can trust the Ye family's medical skills, and they can trust the Ye family's pharmacy even if they take their own medicine for minor illnesses.

Therefore, the Ye family's medicine business is also doing well.

The incident with the Ye family happened more than ten years ago, when Zisu was young, but the real beginning of the incident dates back to the previous dynasty decades ago.

"In the past, in order to facilitate the collection of medicinal materials, the Ye family bought a large amount of farmland in Lingnan to reclaim the medicinal fields. The Ye family selected the medicinal seeds, found someone to plant them, and then collected and sold the medicinal materials... and so on to maintain the entire Ye family. Home." Lin Yan said here, after a pause, he continued, "After the business of the Ye family improved, Yinben was well-known in Jizhou, and the general soldier of Jizhou at that time had a lot of friendship with the Ye family. It is also common to have bruises and the like, and the general soldier of Jizhou thought that it would be troublesome for outsiders in the army to come in and out, so we should find a professional medicine dealer for the supply of medicinal materials in the army."

After this search, it would be strange if the Ye family's reputation was not seen by the general soldiers of Jizhou.

The cooperation between the Ye family and the Jizhou army began.

This cooperation has been going on for many years, and the two parties have been living in peace and harmony. The general army of Jizhou also trusted the Ye family very much, so they drew the line and introduced the Ye family to the troops of other states.

Since then, the Ye family has cooperated with the armies of Suzhou, Liangzhou and Beizhou in addition to Jizhou.

"...there have been no incidents for the next few years," Lin Yan said here, and stopped.

Ji Chongyan raised his eyes to look at Lin Yan: the matter has happened so far, and this peaceful relationship should come to an end.

Lin Yan's next words also confirmed his guess.

"Twelve years later, there were some small problems among the soldiers in the army. During the drill, the tall soldiers who were in their prime suddenly couldn't hold their weapons because of trembling hands." Lin Yan took a deep breath when he said this. Looking at Ji Chongyan, "Chongyan, you should understand that this is not a trivial matter in the army."

What is the difference between a soldier who cannot hold a weapon and commits suicide when he goes to the battlefield?
"The matter quickly became serious. There are not a few soldiers who suddenly become weak in their hands and feet, and the troops of Jizhou, Suzhou, Liangzhou, and Beizhou are all involved." Lin Yan said, "The army that happened this kind of thing is the same The Ye family's medicine supply army is so coincidental, the Ye family naturally became the object of serious suspicion immediately."

When Lin Yan said this, it still happened in the previous dynasty, but it happened after the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the Ye family, so the Ye family naturally picked up everything about that incident.

"The Xinglin family of the Ye family has a great reputation and has always had a good reputation among the people. When encountering such things, they must find a way to prove their innocence." Lin Yan explained. There is absolutely no reason to collude with outsiders to harm our compatriots, so after such things happened, even the investigators at the time did not quite believe that the Ye family would do such things."

Although the investigators must rely on evidence to speak, if they encounter unreasonable or private investigators who already believe that there is something wrong with the Ye family, the Ye family may not even have a chance to prove themselves.

Now the attitude of the investigators gave the Ye family a chance, and the Ye family naturally began to search for the truth.

"Later, the Ye family found the instigator of this incident." Lin Yan said, "The medicinal materials are indeed from the Ye family's farmland, but it was not the Ye family who was in charge of escorting them to the army, nor was it someone in the army."

"It was the Linfang Zhang family that was responsible for escorting these medicinal materials back then." Lin Yan said, "There is no Linfang Zhang family anymore, but before that incident, the Linfang Zhang family held tens of thousands of shipments. Carriages, cargo ships, the entire Dazhou, oh, the river, official roads, and mountain roads called Dajing at that time are all very familiar, and the escort of such a large number of objects is often escorted by the Zhang family in Linfang."

Those few but fine and valuable things that may be robbed will be escorted by a special bodyguard agency, but if not, such a large amount of medicinal materials are also belongings in the army, and ordinary robbers will not be idle to stop these things. Therefore, it is the best choice to escort Zhang's family in Xunlinfang instead of escorting them by yourself.

"Of course, even if the investigators don't think that the Ye family will do such a thing, they trust the Ye family in their hearts, but the investigation is based on evidence after all, and they can't be what the Ye family says." Lin Lin Yan said, "After checking, the investigators went to the Ye family medicine field at the source and found no problematic medicinal materials. Then in the middle of the night, they suddenly searched the Linfang Zhang family's shipping base, but found something."

"At that time, the Ye family sent a batch of medicines to Zhang's wharf, but in the warehouse of the wharf, they found many herbs that were very similar to the medicinal materials sent by the Ye family, no matter how they were packaged or the medicinal materials themselves. Later, the doctor identified them as Lingnan. A kind of medicinal material called Ma Mengcao, after taking this kind of medicinal material, it will make people feel weak in limbs and body, but its appearance is very similar to the medicinal materials commonly used in the military to treat trauma..."

The words have come to this point, in fact, there is no need to say any more, in the eyes of everyone at that time, it was the Zhang family who mixed up the medicinal materials, which caused these things to happen in the army.

Moreover, compared to the fact that Ye's family was all Han Chinese for several generations, Zhang's family is not very "clean".

"From everyone's point of view, the Zhang family's move to make soldiers unable to hold weapons is to cause accidents in the army. Who can benefit from an accident in the army?" Lin Yan shook his head, "Of course they are Huns, but the Zhang family is not pure. Han Chinese."

"Many members of the Zhang clan still have some characteristics of people from outside the Great Wall, and there are also many Han people who were born of different races in the warehouses at the wharf to carry goods."

Hearing this, Ji Chongyan suddenly said: "If you are not of my race, your heart must be different."

right!When Lin Yan said this, he couldn't help sighing: "Although most of the Zhang family is of Han descent, they always have some appearances of foreign races mixed in, which was seen by everyone at the time as alien."

In this way, receiving such ironclad evidence and the fact that the alien appearance of the Zhang clan had a motive for doing this, the investigators have already convinced most people that this is the real murderer before the trial begins.

"Later, the Zhang family was convicted and exiled to death. The Zhang family, which was once ranked among the merchants in the Central Plains, naturally disappeared." Lin Yan couldn't help but sigh when he said this, "And this The occurrence of this incident indirectly caused the people who originally accepted the combination of Han people and alien races to start to exclude these people again, thinking that these people are alien races, not our race. After a long period of time, the situation of the descendants of these two races Neither is very good."

Speaking of this, Lin Yan frowned subconsciously, and said: "Actually, I don't think it's surprising that these two clans were squeezed out after the combination. What the members of the royal family in the previous dynasty on Jiulongling did was to squeeze out foreigners." People, must think that the people born of the Duan royal blood are the most noble? The emperor was furious and lay dead for thousands of miles. Don't underestimate the emperor's preferences, sometimes just a word from him can make the common people follow their example. Naturally, people will not have a good time.”

"It wasn't until after the change of dynasty that His Majesty ordered the abolition of many laws of the previous dynasty, some of which clearly excluded the laws of the two clans, which made these people feel better. But it was only better. We have to go back to the time when we were truly equal. I'm afraid it will be a few years later." Lin Yan said, with a little regret in his expression, "How many years of hard work, but it returned to the past overnight. After the combination of the two races, for the foreign race outside the Great Wall , These people are different, the Central Plains culture originally accommodated Baichuan, but after that incident, the Han people were unwilling to accept them.”

"In short, after the incident happened, the Zhang family and the two clans represented by the Zhang family retreated from the public. Then came the Great Zhou Xinli. His Majesty's attitude of abolishing the law made some people see the opportunity. Thirteen years ago, someone Then a paper of complaint was handed over to His Majesty, requesting to investigate the past affairs of the former dynasty."

Of course, it is not easy to check the old affairs of the previous dynasty.Although Lin Yan and Ji Chongyan were born in a wealthy family and had a successful life, they are not dandies raised under the shadow of their ancestors who don't know the sufferings of the world.They knew that even if Mrs. Zhang was really wronged, it would take a lot of manpower, material resources and influence to re-investigate an old case from the previous dynasty.

This is a multi-party game process, which involves disputes between the powerful, the party and the government, and even Xinglin.But no matter what, the only remaining descendants of the Zhang family grasped this opportunity keenly, and presented the opportunity of redressing their grievances to others.

Regarding the multi-party game, Lin Yan also explained a little bit: "The Ye family in Jizhou is quite famous among the Xinglin clans in the entire Central Plains, but even the Xinglin clan that hangs the pot to help the world still has fights, and there are people who want the Ye family to come down." Quite a few."

"Your Majesty will abolish the unfair laws of the previous dynasty not only for the sake of governing the world, but also because the leader of the Xiongnu who took office 20 years ago has been uniting with foreign races outside the Great Wall. Some foreign races are still neutral, and some have secretly turned to the Huns."

"Your Majesty's show of goodwill to these two races mixed between the foreign race and the Han people is to win over these people. It shows that our Central Plains is tolerant of all rivers. Of course, it is also for the sake of those neutral and hesitant foreign races."

"There are also factional disputes in the court, and some people want to drag the descendants of those officials involved in the case back then into it."

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In short, under the multi-party game, the Zhang family seized the opportunity, filed a complaint, and re-examined the case.

This time, the investigators obviously also had a bit of "selfishness" and preferred Zhang's innocence. After all, the Zhang's are like that now, and even if the Ye family is moved, they will not be able to return to their former glory.But still brooding about it, most likely innocent.

For one thing, the "selfishness" is different, and the views are also different.

"This time the old case was re-investigated, and the Ye family was found." Lin Yan couldn't help sighing when he said this, "The Ye family has fallen."

This is also the reason why Asu was sent to Ye Ting as a palace slave.

(End of this chapter)