Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 241 A Conspiracy Against Liumu
The content of the happy news is naturally the matter of Princess Changping's wedding.In the happy news, it is written: There will be a spectacle on the south bank of the Jinghe River. The people of Chang'an are welcome to go and have a look, and they will not be disappointed.

"Liu Mu, this must be what Liu Mu did." After reading the happy news, Pei Shiqing naturally guessed it.

"Fu Yin, are you going to tear down this wooden sign?"

"No, not only can't it be demolished, but also someone has to be sent to protect it. I'm here to ask for a reward for the willow wood, and I still have to reward it. It's a great achievement to educate the people, so you arrange it immediately." Pei Shiqing ordered his entourage .

Immediately someone went to do it.

When Pei Shiqing first arrived at the gate of the Taiji official, his subordinates came to report: "Fu Yin, the wooden sign is also in the West Market, and there is a scholar explaining it. The wooden sign is also being built in the Mingde gate in the south of the city, and it seems to be the same thing. "

"Understood, send someone to protect it so that no one can destroy it. Then send someone to Wenyue Pavilion, and ask Liu Mu to pay 20 people's public rations, or he can send 20 people here to get the waist card from the mansion and guard it by himself." Pei Shiqing ordered Afterwards, he entered the Taiji Palace and reported the matter to Li Yuan.

No one dares to stop the promotion of the achievements of the Great Tang Emperor's personal conquest to the people of Chang'an.

But what Liumu wanted to do was another matter.

When the sign was put up there, Liu Mu and Ma Zhou were discussing.

"By the way, this matter needs to be resolved. You have to travel to Sanyuan to meet the family. I don't remember the Zhao family in Dongzhuang at all, and my mind is empty. But I feel that this matter is a conspiracy, and it is definitely not about the broken marriage certificate. .”

Liu Mu talked about his thoughts, and Ma Zhou also said, "There is deceit in it, but I can't figure out why."

Ma Zhou agreed to this matter, and went to the backyard on purpose while setting off.

In the backyard, Fang Xuanling was looking through the recently collected information. Ma Zhou begged to see him and greeted him in person. Fang Xuanling valued Ma Zhou very much and believed that Ma Zhou was a talent.

"Fang Gong, the thing is like this." After Ma Zhou told Fang Xuanling about the willow tree, Fang Xuanling frowned, and after thinking for a long time, Fang Xuanling said: "This seems like a trap, but I can't imagine it. What exactly is the trap when you come out. You must go, but remember to be careful in everything and step by step."

"Thank you, Mr. Fang, for your advice."

When Pei Shiqing entered the Taiji official, Ma Zhou rode out of Chang'an alone and went to Sanyuan.

Don't look at Ma Zhou as a literati, his riding skills are definitely better than Liu Mu's. Ma Zhou can be said to be proficient in all the six arts of a gentleman.In the evening, Ma Zhou had already arrived at Dongzhuang, contacted the person who had been sent here earlier, and went straight to Zhao's house.

Standing at the gate of Zhao's house, Ma Zhou looked at the family. The people who had come here earlier said to Ma Zhou, "There are one man and one man in his family, 270 mu of land, [-] mulberry trees, and [-] miscellaneous trees. Last year For the harvest, about [-] shi of grain was harvested from [-] acres of fertile land, and [-] shi of the rest. Thirty catties of silk."

Ma Zhou once worked as a small official. In the Tang Dynasty, there were one hundred acres of land. In fact, it was considered good if there were [-] acres that could grow grain. Moreover, there were [-] acres of land, and there was not enough manpower to do intensive farming.

That's why willow trees turn many fields into fields that are easy to grow and don't require manpower to take care of them.

"Knock on the door." Ma Zhouyi said, pointing to the Zhao family's door made of twigs and grass.

This kind of door really can't be knocked, only shouted.

Soon, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy came out to open the door, and seeing Ma Zhou in silk, he couldn't help taking two steps back.He only remembered that a person wearing silk came yesterday, which made his whole family sleepless all night, it was frightened.

"Please pass it on. My name is Ma Zhou and the history of Qianniu Guards is inspected by Rulin Lang."

The young man galloped into the house, and after a while, an old man and a middle-aged man from the Zhao family came out of the house, welcomed Ma Zhou outside, lit an oil lamp and ordered an old woman to boil water.

Ma Zhou glanced inside the house, and saw a bolt of high-quality silk placed on the rattan box.

"I heard that I didn't sleep well last night." Ma Zhou asked.

Old man Zhao nodded: "I'm a small citizen, I've never seen an official. I'm afraid!"

"I am an official, but I am not an official. I usually do some clerk work, not for the yamen, but for Mr. Mu Lang of the Liu family in Sanyuan. Tell me, what did you promise you. Or let me guess, be a concubine?" Ma Zhou's tone was flat, but there was a sharp edge in his words.

"Yes!" Old man Zhao readily agreed.

"Stupid." Ma Zhou asked after giving such an evaluation, "What do you think?"

"Is it okay to talk about it from the beginning?" Old man Zhao squatted on the ground while talking, his old face was full of sadness.

Ma Zhou nodded: "No hurry, tonight is still long."

"Last year, it wasn't my family's intention. It's just that the matchmaker asked for money, but he broke the rules. So he asked the Liu family to add a bride price, but the Liu family didn't. It's not my family's intention to divorce. My family has food every year, which is not bad. Those three stone millet, three sheep." Old man Zhao talked about the past.

Ma Zhou knew about it: "Yes, I know. Later, when I met the official, the three matchmakers also confessed the same way. She also said that she betrothed your daughter to a family in Gaoling, and that family gave ten sheep as a bride price. Stone millet."

"There is such a thing. But you are a big shot, that day in Sanyuan, Lao Mengtou almost hanged himself, who would dare to ask my daughter again."

The old Mengtou that old man Zhao was talking about was the one that the old lady of the Liu family was going to marry.

On the day of Aunt Liu's engagement, no one in Sanyuan knew about it.

"What do you think now?" Ma Zhou asked.

"What can I do, I can't run away, and I can't hide. After hearing about this yesterday, I feel that the person who came here is right. My daughter may not be able to get married in Sanyuan. It is better to marry as a concubine than to wait for an official match." But when I come back, the more I think about it, the more wrong I am."

Ma Zhou asked again, "What do you think now?"

"I don't know, I'm just afraid. Mr. Mu Xiaolang is a man with a temper, and he will never tolerate my daughter."

"Let's go, let's go tonight. I will give you three places to choose for yourself. No matter where you go, Bingzhou, Yunzhou, or Laizhou, I will give you [-] acres of good land. No matter what happens here in Chang'an, it has nothing to do with you. I'm not afraid to tell you that I know this. This matter will kill someone, and the one who will die must be an official."

The old man Zhao didn't answer in a hurry, he dragged the whole family into the inner room, discussed for half an hour before coming out.

"Dare to ask, the farthest is there."

"Youzhou, it's the farthest from Chang'an. When you get there, I can give you ten more acres of land... No, it's not good." Ma Zhou stood up abruptly and walked back and forth.

Suddenly Ma Zhou opened the door and ordered loudly: "Come here, make arrangements quickly, take everyone in the Zhao family to the Weihe pier, and set off overnight."

After Ma Zhou shouted, he grabbed the person who followed him: "Go to Zhuangzi quickly, and ask General Su to be the master. I feel more and more uneasy. This must be a trap, so I need people, and moreover..." Ma Zhou Dab it lightly on the neck.

(End of this chapter)