The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 319 Death news reaches Beijing

Although the Song Dynasty was rich, beggars can also be seen everywhere on the streets. After all, not everyone in this world is willing to be a decent striver, a lazy man who actively lies down, or a passive laborer who lies down passively. As long as he can live, It doesn't matter if it's decent or not.

However, there were not many beggars in Muzhou, and even fewer old beggars who were waiting for the old, weak and dying. He searched the whole city but only found one who was similar in stature to Zhang Dun.

In desperation, Ergou went to the management prison of Shenquan Prison in Muzhou and found a death row inmate who had committed a serious crime and was awaiting trial to serve as Da Su's substitute.

Death row prisoners have no human rights, so Ergou punched him to death, and then waited until Mr. Guanying sent someone to discard and bury the body before he intercepted him and took him away.

As for the old beggar, Ergou treated him to a feast of wine and meat. The wine was the top-grade daughter's red from Tianxianlou in Muzhou, and the meat was lamb stewed slowly over low heat by Tianxianlou's chef, and suckling pig soaked in honey. .

The old beggar ate very fiercely, and then he stretched himself to death.

Ergou then moved the two corpses to the boat, and in front of Da Su and Lao Zhang, performed a plastic surgery on the corpse that stunned them.

As far as surgery is concerned, Ergou can be regarded as the best person in the world today.

Without him, Ergou has had too many surgeries in the past five years.

Even an ordinary person with average talent can be called a top surgical expert if he can perform thousands of surgeries in five years.

What's more, Ergou is a clever and ingenious person, and he also has the [Practice Makes Perfect] talent bonus, which makes him almost reach the ultimate level of mortals in the field of surgery.

Coupled with the assistance of psychic powers, it only took Ergou half a day to assemble two corpses that were almost identical to the original Su Shi and Zhang Dun.

If they hadn't watched Ergou carve the two strangers' corpses into such shapes with their own eyes, they would never have been able to tell that the other's corpse was fake (of course they wouldn't have to tell the difference between their own fake corpses).

Su Shi looked at the two fake corpses and said with some melancholy: "You faked your death just for me and others, but you lost two innocent lives. It's really sad!"

Ergou pointed at the two corpses with a smile and said: "This fat man who is my grandfather's stand-in is a death row prisoner in the Shenquan Supervision Camp. He deserves to die for his crime, so what a pity!"

Mr. Weizhang's substitute turned out to be an old beggar on the street, and he had no strength to beg.

I felt pity for his old age, so I explained the reason to him first, and then gave him a meal of good wine and meat in Tianxian Tower.

Who would have thought that this old man would eat and drink too much and stuff himself to death, so I wouldn't need to do anything. "

Zhang Dun said, "Even so, it's not benevolent for you to trample their bones like this!"

Ergou laughed and said, "Xiangong Zhang, what you said is wrong! Why don't you think about it, he will get some benefits after his death after taking over your identity. The imperial court's posthumous title, the cries and worship of the filial sons and grandsons of Zhang Su's family, There is also a grand funeral that ordinary people can only dream of.

If the two of them knew each other, they would die without regrets! "

Su Shi and Zhang Dun thought about the scene of their children and grandchildren crying and being buried in front of two fake corpses, but their expressions suddenly changed and they each snorted coldly.

He and others just hope that Ergou is not a deceiver, otherwise the two of them will suffer big losses.

After the carving of the two corpses was completed, Ergou put on the clothes that Su Shi and Zhang Dun were accustomed to wearing, and then dug a hole under the big ship and allowed the big ship to sink slowly to the bottom.

Of course, Ergou also did something that made Su Shi and Zhang Dun angry in the past two days. He deliberately threw Su Guo and Zhang Yuan into the water when they were about to wake up, and let them float under the water for a while, and then knocked them unconscious and fished them out. .

To torture his son in front of his father, this guy is not a son of a man!

Su and Zhang were submerged in water for the last time, but it was at the leaking bow. They watched their dead "father" fall silently into the cabin, and then were knocked unconscious again by Er Gou who was hiding aside.

After Ergou's operation, when Su Guo and Zhang Yuan woke up from their final coma, they found themselves lying in a fisherman's house with their clothes taken off.

But the last memory in their minds was that a vicious thief attacked, defeated the guards, knocked them unconscious, and killed their old father. Then the ship sank and they fell into the water and struggled...

Just thinking about this, Su Guo and Zhang Yuan couldn't help but feel sad and angry in their hearts.

However, when the two of them vowed to hunt down the ferocious beast and avenge their father, they both found a last-minute letter belonging to their old father that had been beside them for a long time.

The literary talents of Lao Su and Lao Zhang need no introduction.

Lao Su's articles are countless in the entire history of China, and as Lao Zhang's enemy, his writing style is no less sophisticated.

Xiaosu and Xiaozhang only read a few sentences and were convinced that the letter in their hands was indeed written by their father. The writing style could be biased and the handwriting could be imitated, but the writing skills and the deep meaning hidden in it were astonishing. The love of a child. But it can never be faked by ordinary people.

In Lao Su's and Zhang's final letters, they explained to their sons in different ways the current difficulties faced by their families (targets from officials), their worries about the future of their family's descendants, and their "death" plans. Necessity and so on.

Of course, in the end, both of them unanimously demanded that the children of the clan should not seek revenge, let alone reveal the identity and whereabouts of the murderer, and that the safety of the family must be the top priority.

The core content of the two letters has only one meaning, which is to let the children of the two families keep their tail between their legs from now on.

Su Guo was okay with this. After all, Da Su had been in a state of wandering for half his life. Su Guo was used to seeing tense situations. Although the hatred in his heart could not be eliminated, he knew when to prioritize and make some choices.

But Zhang Yuan was different.

The Zhang family has been a prominent family in Jianzhou (now Fujian) for generations. Since Zhang Dun came to power during the reign of Shaosheng, the Zhang family has become even more prosperous, with many of its descendants enjoying luxury and arrogance.

At this time, Zhang Dun had just been trained by the officials, and the children of the Zhang family had not yet been completely awakened from the dream of being the prime minister's children.

Therefore, Zhang Yuan did not take the hidden meaning contained in his father's suicide note to heart, or it should be said that he deliberately ignored it.

He folded the letter and put it away, then went to find Su Guo and said to him: "Brother Su Xian, the dog thief of the Chen family killed Uncle Su and Jia Yan. This hatred is irreconcilable! Please come to the capital with me and knock on the door to ask for help." , I beg you to avenge the Zhang and Su families!"

Su Guo wanted to agree, but when he looked at the folded suicide note in his hand, he couldn't help bursting into tears and cried: "Brother Zhang Shi, there is no rush for revenge. I just pity that the whereabouts of the bodies of my father and Zhang Shibo are unknown. Thank me. As a son of man, I should first retrieve the remains of my father and bury them properly, so as to prevent the souls of these two old people from disappearing into nowhere."

Zhang Yuan looked embarrassed when he heard this. Indeed, he only thought about revenge, but he forgot that his father is now alive and dead, and his body is not seen. If he goes to the capital to knock on the door like this, he is afraid that he will be borrowed by Jin Shang. The machine punishes the crime.

Therefore, Zhang Yuan bowed his hands and said, "Fortunately, Brother Su Xian reminded me, otherwise Yuan would have lost the righteousness of the Son of Man!"

The two of them thanked the fisherman who took care of them, and then started to go their separate ways. Su Guo had a trick here. He went to the Muzhou government office to report the disappearance of his father Su Shi and Zhang Dun, but he asked Zhang Yuan to find someone to search along the Lanxi River.

Zhang Yuan had no doubt that he was there, so he went to find someone to recruit people.

When Su Guo arrived at the government office, he saw Zhizhou, but he said that because the ship was in disrepair and leaked, it capsized in Lanxi River. All five people in the group fell into the water. Only he and Zhang Yuan, Zhang Dun's son, were rescued by a fisherman's family along Lanxi River, but the two elders were rescued. No one can be seen in life, no corpse in death.

The magistrate of Muzhou was a close figure in Cai Jing's party. The reason why Cai Jing kept Zhang Dun in Muzhou was because he believed that the magistrate of Muzhou could be optimistic about Zhang Dun.

After hearing Su Guo's report, Muzhou Zhizhou was overjoyed. He didn't know that Su Shi and Zhang Dun were the most feared opponents of Xianggong Cai. I only care about the reputation and status of the two people in the scholarly society, but I can't frame them directly, so I can only try to do it slowly.

Now that both of them have passed away due to an accident, it can be said that the hearts of Cai Jing and his party are very happy. The magistrate of Muzhou received the report, but he did not delay at all. He immediately ordered people to summon the personnel of the Muzhou government office and various camps, and issued cards to recruit fishermen to go to Lanxi to find the whereabouts of Zhang and Su.

He also said: Anyone who finds the bodies of Zhang and Su will be rewarded heavily.

At the same time, the magistrate of Muzhou also wrote the memorial and the secret letter to Xianggong Cai, and sent someone 600 miles to rush to Bianliang.

It took Muzhou six days to salvage the awning boat that sank in Lan River, and found two almost unrecognizable corpses soaked in the river water. Only the clothes they wore were different. They were exactly the same as Zhang and Su back then.

From this, the life and death of Zhang and Su were finally "confirmed".

Not to mention the subsequent series of local actions.

However, it is said that when the governor of Muzhou sent the first urgent and secret letter to the capital, Ergou returned to Bianliang, another incredible journey of thousands of miles.

After returning to Bianliang City, Ergou went to see Li Qingzhao first.

Only compared to the previous few days, the Qingzhao lady's brows were less gloomy and gloomy, but more determined and determined, as well as almost imperceptible pride.

After confirming that his father was indeed burning his way to protect his mentor as Ergou said, Li Qingzhao felt that the world was vast and the world was full of righteousness.

Dad is dad, and he never disappoints her.

After Li Qingzhao confessed a little about his misunderstanding of his father, he fell into a strange state.

She only felt that something was shaping her spirit, purifying her heart, making her transparent, tough, and transcendent.

Of course, one thing that made Li Qingzhao very unhappy was that it was Ergou who really had a connection with his father, while her biological daughter had to rely on outsiders to wake her up.

Li Qingzhao felt heartbroken when he thought of his old father's relief when he heard what Li Qingzhao said and Ergou revealed his feelings.

Straight bitch! I am my real daughter!

confidant!

A close friend is amazing!

Of course, a confidant is great. Even if Li Qingzhao has millions of resentments in his heart, at least her marriage to Ergou is fully approved by Li Gefei.

Even if Li Qingzhao found out later that Ergou had made a lot of mess behind her back, he would never regret it.

Of course Ergou didn't know this.

When Li Qingzhao saw Ergou, he looked at him carefully, but suddenly his heart moved and asked: "Ergou, have you done something very wrong behind my back?"

Ergou's face froze when he heard this, and he couldn't help but trembled in his heart. He just waved his hands and said, "I'm not! I didn't! Madam, don't talk nonsense!"

Li Qingzhao snorted coldly and smiled slightly: "It seems that I have done something! Well, I am not a petty person, and I am too lazy to ask about your private affairs! Seeing that you are here in such a hurry, what's the matter? ?”

Ergou breathed a sigh of relief, but said with a smile: "Madam, Mr. Li can now submit a letter of resignation!"

Li Qingzhao asked in surprise: "Oh? If my father retreats now, wouldn't Mr. Su be tortured by traitors?"

Ergou whispered: "I got the exact news. A few days ago, Xianggong Dasu and Xianggong Zhang were boating on Lanxi River in Muzhou. Unexpectedly, the boat was in disrepair and leaked and capsized. Xianggong Dasu and Xianggong Zhang both fell into the water. Their whereabouts are now unknown."

Li Qingzhao was extremely horrified when she heard this. She panicked: "How could such a thing happen? Where did you...where did you get the news?"

Ergou said: "You will know the source of the information in the future. Now is not the time to investigate. By the way, I also have a secret letter here written by Xianggong Su to Xianggong Li. I should present it to Xianggong Li in person."

Li Qingzhao stretched out his green-white jade hand and said, "Bring it to me!"

Ergou shook his head and said: "This is not okay! Maybe you will peek! I will show Mr. Li in front of him!"

Li Qingzhao snorted coldly, stamped his feet and walked away.

She walked a few steps, then turned back and shouted to Ergou: "What are you still doing? Come with me!"

Ergou smiled to himself and walked to follow Miss Qingzhao. They went to Li's Mansion with her and met Li Gefei who was writing and practicing calligraphy at home.

Speaking of which, Ergou was dressed like a pedestrian, with leggings and shorts, like a messenger from afar.

Moreover, Ergou's appearance had changed a lot in the past five years. Li Gefei only thought that he was somewhat kind-hearted, but he never recognized that this was the son-in-law he had chosen back then.

Li Gefei didn't stop writing and just asked: "Abao, what are you doing here?"

Li Qingzhao made a cross-hand gesture and said, "Dad, a letter from Grandpa Su has arrived!"

Li Gefei was shocked when he heard this. The pen in his hand couldn't help but paused for a moment, but it returned to smoothness. Only that one word had some flaws.

Li Gefei sighed, put down the pen in his hand, and then cleaned his hands, then asked Ergou: "Where did you come from, little brother? When did you meet my teacher, and when did you arrive in the capital?"

Finally, he paused and asked, "Is my teacher in good health?"

Ergou knelt down and said, "My son-in-law Chen Shen pays homage to my father-in-law."

Li Gefei was surprised when he heard this, and asked in surprise: "Are you Ergou? Why do you dress up like this?"

Ergou said: "I would like to teach my father-in-law to know that my son-in-law met Mrs. Qingzhao a few days ago, so he rushed to Hangzhou without stopping to talk to Mr. Su about the inside story. Then Mr. Su wrote a handwritten letter to me. Show your face to your father-in-law."

But Li Gefei said seductively: "How can such a trivial matter alarm my mentor! Ergou, you are too presumptuous!"

Ergou said seriously: "Father-in-law, do you think that with just one sacrifice, you can resolve the overthrow of all the disciples of the Su clan?!"

Li Gefei frowned and said, "What do you mean by this?!"

Ergou stood up and said, "Your Excellency, you only look at the present, but don't see the trouble in the future! There are thousands of children in the Su family today, and apart from Mr. Su and Mr. Su, the father-in-law has the most prestige. Unfortunately, due to the involvement of the past, it is difficult for Mr. and Mrs. Su to protect themselves. It is even more impossible to protect the children of the Su family, and the only person who can protect the children of the Su family is my father-in-law."

(End of this chapter)