imperial psychologist

Chapter 239 Lin Jieyu's Identity
Wei Shisi said softly, "When you were in Ruyang, did you hear the locals talk about 'Ruyang Qilie'?"

Bo Ling shook his head, and after a while he seemed to think of something again, "I seem to have seen their ancestral halls and stone monuments on the mountain. Zhou... What is Zhou, and..."

"Zhou Mengru." Wei Shisi said softly, "There are also Yan Xikang, Li Yang, Pei Lin, Shen Yan, Yang Niankai and Jiao Wenjie."

"Ah... yes, it seems to be these names." Bo Ling nodded, "During the Qingming Cold Food Festival, there are still many old people who bring their children up the mountain to pay homage. It is very lively. Have you seen these people on Shishi?"

Wei Shishi shook his head, "I haven't seen these people with my own eyes, but my master has old friends with this Lord Zhou Mengru, so he knows the whole thing and told me a story when he was a child."

Bo Ling straightened his back, "Tell me about Fourteen?"

Wei Shisi's pace slowed down a bit, and he said softly, "In the [-]th year of Jianxi, there was a riot in Ruyang. The intention was to secretly assist the restoration, so he was arrested and brought back to Beijing for interrogation. This incident angered the people of Ruyang, so on the day Zhou Mengru was released from prison, there was a civil uprising in Ruyang. Killed quite a few guards."

Bo Ling tilted his head slightly, "Is the accusation of 'Li Tong Foreign Countries' a false accusation?"

"That's a matter of opinion. At that time, there was a lot of evidence proving Zhou Mengru's suspicion. It can be said that there are all kinds of witnesses and material evidence, but my master insists that Zhou Mengru is definitely not someone who can be bought with money." Wei Shisi said softly, "The matter will go forward In retrospect, it was caused by successive years of floods in Ruyang. It was the third year that Qian An, the prefect of Ruyang, took office. He and several magistrates under his command worked together to rebuild the embankment for three years, but the embankment still broke every year. The villagers were oppressed by the new taxes, so they entrusted the matter to the squire Zhou Mengru.

"Although Zhou Mengru was only in his early fifties, because his mother was seriously ill, he had been serving at home for many years. The highest official before this person was the governor of Liangzhi and the governor of Liangzhou. He was entrusted by the elders of his hometown and went to secretly investigate. He found out that although the river embankment was being repaired every year, the number of strong men transferred to the dam every year was obviously far from enough. After he checked carefully, he realized that the embankment was just a matter of asking the court for food and It was nothing more than an excuse for appropriating funds, and the embankment was finally repaired and turned into a business, which made these officials earn a lot of money.

"So Master Zhou entrusted his former classmate to hand over a paper of complaint to the capital, suing all the officials of the three divisions of the Ruyang Mansion."

Bai Ling frowned, already vaguely guessing the ending of this story.

Fourteen continued, "After arresting Zhou Mengru and stirring up the civil uprising, several people wrote letters one after another, continuing to complain for Zhou Mengru. But they all forgot that the Ruyang riot was the first civil uprising that the emperor encountered since he ascended the throne. Longyan was furious, and immediately asked Song Bozong to handle the matter personally—but Qian An, who was then the prefect of Ruyang, was a student brought out by Song Bozong.

He took a deep breath, "In short, Zhou Mengru and the other six people who spoke out were finally found to have incited the people of Ruyang to rebel, and they were all punished after the fall of that year. The folks called them the Ruyang Qilie."

Bo Ling felt depressed when he heard this, "Where are those officials who are fish and meat people now?"

Wei Shisi said softly, "Others don't know, but Qian An was transferred from Ruyang at that time and moved to the Niesi Yamen in Huizhou Prefecture. After a few years, he was transferred back to Pingjing. Now he is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials."

Bo Ling couldn't say anything—it was too difficult to live in such a world.

The two remained silent, and Bai Ling looked up. The moon tonight was half-circle, and the moonlight cast a short shadow behind her, and dogs barked from time to time in the surrounding alleys.Holding the horse's neck, she slid off the horse again.

"What's wrong?" Wei Shishi asked.

Bo Ling took a rein from Wei Shishi's hand, and said softly, "Stay on the ground, be steady." She walked on Wei Shishi's right hand, raised her head and said in a low voice, "... Fourteen, Aunt Shen's Could this Shen be the Shen Yan from Ruyang Qilie back then?"

Wei Shishi shook his head, "It's hard to say now."

Bo Ling sighed softly, "Just now I really wanted to ask A Li, how did he find out about Aunt Shen's clue, and who and what happened during the process inspired him. Just leaked the wind." Bo Ling's voice was very soft, "but I can tell you some of my thoughts now."

"Ah."

"I think it's not by chance that we can visit Baihuaya and Aunt Shen tonight." Bo Ling said softly.

"you mean……?"

"Do you still remember, Ah Li said that Aunt Shen sold snuff bottles for 20 yuan, and she was able to make a huge profit of several tens of taels. But Aunt Shen also said that she lived alone in Hua Lane for [-] yuan without going out. Year... do you think this is possible?"

Wei Shishi's eyes moved slightly, and he suddenly understood - he had indeed felt that there was some disharmony since he entered the room, so he had been trying to find the source of this discord.

But now he understands that this sense of disobedience is the very existence of that old man—letting a helpless old woman guard a pile of priceless snuff bottles safely in a drunkard's, Living alone in Huajie, where gangsters frequent?

is it possible?
Bai Ling was leading the horse, her eyes were a little thoughtful, she was thinking, and said softly, "Either, others never knew that there were treasures in her house, so no one has ever thought of her; or, Someone was secretly watching over her, so that people in this street who knew that she possessed special skills were quite afraid of her and dared not do anything.

Thinking of this, a thought uncontrollably sprouted in Bo Ling's mind.She looked at Wei Shishi with some determination, and believed that the other party probably thought of something with her.

"If that's the case, is our visit today also in the plan of someone in the dark?"

Wei Shishi did not respond.This speculation is a bit too bold—someone is secretly paving the way for them to lead Bo Ling to explore Lin Jieyu's background?Who has the incentive to do so?Who has the ability to do this?In this Pingjing, who's intelligence is so keen that when they just started to search for news about Lin Jieyu among the Jiaofang Division's industries, they took advantage of the opportunity to send clues to Boling?

"By the way, there is another possibility." Bo Ling looked at Fourteen, "Well, Fourteen and Aunt Shen's identity should be investigated together."

"Ah."

"Check to see if this old man has really lived in Huaneng for 20 years." Bai Ling whispered, "If someone led us here, then everything we saw tonight may be adulterated .”

Fourteen agreed.

But both of them have an intuition in their hearts - I am afraid that everything they saw tonight is true.

What is Lin Jieyu's real identity?
If she is actually a descendant of Ruyang Qilie back then, that would be a bit too ironic.The loyal minister and good general who died for the people back then, but the descendants grew up in the flower streets of Baihuaya into a demon who caressing about human life?

No, that's not even the most ironic...

The most ironic thing is... If this identity is true, then Lin Jieyu's death will probably come soon - but this is not because of how she lost her conscience and was full of evil, so she was punished by heaven.

After a Zhonglie whose whole family was confiscated and all males killed, she changed her identity and entered the palace as a concubine, so the identity of her father's "loyalty"... was enough for her to die thousands of times.

Bo Ling only felt cold all over.

She raised her head, and saw the palace gate of the palace not far away, already faintly silhouetted in the night.

　Thanks to mistywow and Duoduo cat's house for the monthly pass~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)