imperial psychologist

Chapter 677
Mrs. Liu put down her daughter and asked the maid to take the child down first.

"What's going on?" Mrs. Liu asked, "Didn't your father-in-law tell you not to go back to the capital again..."

"Look." Zhang Jingzhen handed the letters to his wife, and Liu took them and looked at them carefully one by one.

After reading the full text, she also paled.

"The person who wrote this letter is...?" Liu Shi asked.

"I don't know." Zhang Jingzhen frowned, "But... there may be some background."

As Zhang Jingzhen spoke, he handed the note to his wife, and then told the story of a few people watching the snow at the Huxin Pavilion in the third year of the Ming Dynasty.

Mrs. Liu seldom heard her husband talk about his past in Pingjing, at first she listened to it with a bit of curiosity, but she didn't expect to hear it, and then she felt a little embarrassed.

"That's how it is..." Liu cast down her eyes, and put the letter paper on the stone table, "At first, I thought that since the origin of the messenger was unknown, what he said might not be credible."

"I thought about it too," Zhang Jingzhen looked at his wife, "but the time, place, and experience are very clearly stated in the letter. I think even if the Huizhou government government has suppressed this matter, there will always be clues left. The bodyguard agency, the inn, and the village in Qingzhou... these are all things that can be visited openly and secretly."

Mrs. Liu said softly, "Who do you want to present this letter to when you come to Beijing?"

"...I haven't thought about it yet." Zhang Jingzhen replied, "It can be presented to my father, and he can present it to the emperor, or... directly to the emperor."

Both of them fell silent for a moment, only the sound of the wind wrapped around the fallen leaves, making a rustling sound.

"What does Madam think?" Zhang Jingzhen looked at his wife.

Mrs. Liu sighed, "I'm not saying that my father-in-law is bad, but...Master Zhang probably won't have the courage to submit."

"why?"

"Master Zhang is in a high position in the temple, and he knows the undercurrents best. Now that the autumn war is approaching, everything should be based on the overall situation." Liu said softly, "I think the same is true for the emperor. If you want Going to Beijing to submit a letter can only be a gamble, to see if the emperor regards himself as the father of the world, and if he sees the innocent people suffering, he will feel pity."

Zhang Jingzhen's throat moved - he really thought so too, but he couldn't say it out.

"'The water that capsizes the boat is the tears of the common people'," Liu said softly, "Sometimes you may not know it, but you know it, but you don't care... It's also a helpless thing."

"If he doesn't care, I'll be back after delivering the letter." Zhang Jingzhen looked at his wife and said with a smile.

Mrs. Liu didn't smile, but just looked at her husband quietly, "I'll go with you."

Zhang Jingzhen was stunned for a moment, "You are gone, who will take care of Yuan'er?"

"Put Yuan'er to her grandmother. Their grandparents kissed each other." Liu said in a low voice, "It's too eye-catching for you to come to Beijing for no reason. Why don't you take me with you. We are in Jiangzhou It's been three years, and I just took advantage of this autumn to prepare some Jiangzhou specialties and go to Beijing to meet my father."

There was a shock in Zhang Jingzhen's heart, and he didn't know what to say for a moment, so he could only hold his wife's hand tightly.

"Hold the hand of the son, what more can the husband ask for."

……

Bo Ling and Li Yiru were waiting outside the crowd, and after a while Mu Cheng squeezed out.

"Understood," Mu Cheng said, "it means that the government office of Jiangzhou recently received a tip-off that several groups of thieves were active between the official roads from Jiangzhou to Zhuozhou. , so it is inconvenient to send soldiers to encircle and suppress at the moment, and the merchants who want to go north, it is best to live in the city until next spring, when the government will clean up the remnants of the bandits on the official road."

"No wonder travelers are not allowed to travel alone." Li Yiru understood, and looked at Mu Cheng, "Then shall we find someone to join us now?"

Mu Cheng and Bo Ling looked at the tea shop pointed at by the officers and soldiers at the city gate in unison.

To be honest, at first glance, there are only a handful of those people who seem to be able to make people feel at ease. They robbed...

However, ordinary people would not insist on going north at this time.

"Let's go and have a look." Mu Cheng said softly, "There seems to be an announcement about partnering at the tea shop, let's see if there is anyone who can leave today... Even if we don't get along, it's okay, after we get out of the gate of Jiangzhou Prefecture, we The three can still go alone."

The three of them were leading their horses to go to the tea shop when they were suddenly blocked again.

——It was the same traveler who held Li Yiru back just now.

This person was wearing a gray and white cloak whose original color could no longer be seen, and only one face was exposed from the whole body, with a kind expression.

At this moment, there are six or seven more horse-riding companions behind him, and they are all wearing cloaks of similar styles, so it seems that they are not a temporary team.

The traveler still smiled as before, "I was abrupt just now."

Mu Cheng didn't speak, but his left hand was silently pressed on the hilt of the sword at his waist.

"...We are just three people short of ten." The traveler said politely, and he raised his hand, signaling Boling and the others to look at the horse team behind him, "It happened that the three of you were all leading the horses, so it would be convenient for you to go on the road together , so I came to ask, do you have the willingness to go out of the city together?"

"No." Before Mu Cheng could answer, Bai Ling had already said, "We are still waiting for our friends, and we can only go on the road when we have all of them."

The traveler looked a little surprised, and then sighed with some regret, "That's really a coincidence. When I saw the three of you, I thought it was a good match, and I thought I could go for a walk together. Who would have thought—— "

"Goodbye." Mu Cheng cupped his hands and led Bo Ling and Li Yiru to the tea shop on the other side of the city gate without the slightest hesitation.

Although this was a bit impolite, the traveler did not stop him. The people behind him even took the initiative to lead the horse to make way for the three of Bo Ling.

When the three of them sat down at the tea shop, Li Yiru still looked sideways with some concern—those tightly wrapped cavalry were still standing at the gate of the city, and seemed to be planning to continue looking for someone to get out of the city together.

"Why didn't you go with them just now?" Li Yiru looked at Bai Ling and Mu Cheng on the left and right, "Didn't brother just say that even if we don't get along, we can go out of the city and go alone?"

"These people... feel strange to me." Bai Ling lowered his head and sipped his tea, and said softly, "Brother Mu also feels the same."

Mu Cheng stared at the table the whole time, without looking up for a moment, "It's a bit weird, it makes people feel uncomfortable when you get close."

"Well, anyway, let's wait," Bai Ling said softly, and she glanced at Li Yiru, "To be on the safe side, we should not have anything to do with this kind of person."

(End of this chapter)