Sui Dynasty: I, Yang Guang, am both scrupulous and stable

Chapter 171 His backer is King Jin
"Your Highness, you always feel something is wrong. Is it because there is something wrong with Magu?"

Yang Guang looked solemn: "Didn't you say that his appearance is not good?"

Yuan Tiantian smiled slightly and said: "Your Highness finally began to believe my words."

"This man was sent to me by Yuan Xiaoju. I was keeping a close eye on him. When you said he looked bad, you reminded me that he was not mine, so I asked Wang Yi to check his background. I have been keeping a close eye on him for the past few days. I relaxed my vigilance when nothing was found, but today Wang Yi also said that he had been in prison and was recently released. Although there is no record of this matter, it may not be true, but I also want to understand what I was worried about before."

"what?"

"I'm worried that everything happening now is a trap deliberately set up by Yuan Xiaoju against me. The current situation is too abnormal. Except for the Bai family not allowing Kaishan, everything is going too smoothly."

Yang Guang touched his chin and continued: "Before, even when I entered Luoyang City, I was made things difficult in every possible way. After I entered the city, the prince left immediately. Yuan Xiaoju not only did not make things difficult, but also helped me everywhere, and even gave me a powerful helper. , I didn’t think so before, but now that I think about it, it’s too abnormal, inconsistent with my position, and inconsistent with my character.”

"Your Highness, what is personality?"

"It's just...character and stuff."

"Then do I have someone to set up, Your Highness?"

"...There should be some..."

Yuan Tiantian nodded as if he didn't understand: "Does His Highness have someone to set up?"

"No……"

Yang Guang brought the diverted topic back: "I think it's too smooth, something is wrong. Now that Wang Yi has found some clues, he will continue to check. Tiantian, the Bai family seems to want your help, think of some words to fool them." them."

"Your Highness, I don't call this cheating."

"Then you can just perform normally as before."

"They'll probably ask me to help find a cemetery."

"Can you fool me?"

"I'm afraid it will be difficult."

"Are you so professionally religious?"

Yuan Tiantian sighed: "The Bai family obviously believes in Feng Shui very much. If I lie, they will definitely find some Kanyu warlocks to verify it. If the lie goes too far, it will be counterproductive. Everything I said to him before is true. I just gave it to him. He just ignored a little bit."

"Which point?"

"Man-made changes are hard to say for good or bad, but if this place diverts water from His Highness's canal, or lets His Highness directly dig the canal to replace their original river, then the long snakes will inevitably flourish again? I just didn't tell this. them."

Yang Guang asked curiously: "Why are you so sure?"

"Because the canal is a river that connects the north and the south, it will be extremely prosperous according to His Highness's plan. According to Feng Shui, it is said that when it encounters water, it will prosper. There is no reason for such prosperous water not to prosper."

Yang Guang laughed: "It seems that I have to be more careful with you. I'll hold back a little bit when I say something. I'm all right at the beginning. If I don't talk to others about this, I'll be fooled by you."

"Others can fool you, but your Highness must not be fooled."

"Why?"

"Perhaps this is the personality His Highness is talking about. I have a personality."

"enmmm"

……

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Two or three days later, Wang Yi came to see Yang Guang in a panic. Yang Guang rarely saw Wang Yi in such a panic and asked, "What's going on?"

Wang Yi still looked panicked and could not calm down for a long time: "Your Highness, I...I investigated Magu and found out some things. They are too shocking, but it is difficult to determine whether they are true or false."

Seeing how panicked he was, Yang Guang asked seriously: "What's going on?"

"My servant asked people to investigate Wang Yi among the people. Your Highness still remembers the craftsman Zhang Dabao who built the ship."

Yang Guang was not very impressed, but he remembered that Zhang Dabao was a shipbuilder near the shipyard when he visited the shipyard before. At that time, he asked him about it and recruited him to come to his shipyard.

"What's wrong with this person?"

"Let him speak for himself."

Zhang Dabao was brought in. The timid craftsman was already trembling with fear when he entered the house. He just met King Jin and knelt on the ground: "Your Highness, King Jin, spare your life, spare your life, I will never do this again." You dare to talk nonsense."

"Zhang Dabao!"

"The common people are here, the common people are here."

"Tell His Highness Prince Jin what you told me before." "The common people know nothing, nothing."

When Zhang Dabao arrived at the house, he immediately changed his story. He looked frightened as if he was afraid that he would be killed.

Wang Yi said angrily: "You just asked me to tell me, why don't you tell me now? What do you mean?"

Zhang Dabao kowtows like he is pounding garlic: "Manager Wang, Manager Wang, it's the ordinary people who talk too much, and the ordinary people don't know anything."

"you……"

Seeing that he was so scared, Yang Guang waved his hand to tell Wang Yi not to press him and said, "Zhang Dabao, why are you so scared? Is someone threatening you?"

Zhang Dabao, an honest craftsman like Zhang Dabao, naturally has very bad acting skills, and he was at a loss for a while.

"About Magu, you can tell me whatever you know. Don't worry, if anyone dares to threaten you, I will stand up for you."

Zhang Dabao swallowed his saliva and looked at Yang Guang with a questioning expression: "His Royal Highness King Jin... do you really think you don't know about Magu?"

"whats the matter?"

"It's... it's... it's... the matter of eating two-legged sheep."

In the end, Zhang Dabao told the story, and Yang Guang's eyes widened when he heard the words.

"Two-legged sheep?!"

Yang Guang repeated it angrily, and his momentum scared Zhang Dabao to the point where he didn't dare to breathe heavily.

The two-legged sheep are naturally not some kind of sheep, but people who are used as food.

An old, thin man with a thin body is called "Rao Baohuo", a woman with a young age is called "Buxian Sheep", children call her "Hegulan", and they call her "Two-legged Sheep".

Counting back a few days in this era, in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which were praised as absurd and beautiful by mediocre people who didn’t know the truth on the Internet, things like two-legged sheep happened frequently.

In war-torn times, materials are scarce, people exchange their children for food, and the army plunders. People are also an important resource to plunder. Of course, there are exceptions, but this is the best thing to do.

The famous lunatic Emperor Gao Yang of the Northern Qi Dynasty liked to make peace with beautiful bhikkhunis and his ministers' wives and concubines, and then killed them and cooked them with beef and mutton.

Shi Hu's son Shi Sui also liked to eat bhikkhunis. Those who adorned the beauties of the palace would beheaded and washed with blood, placed on a plate, and everyone looked at them. Bhikkhunis with good looks would be killed in obscene ways, and boiled with beef and mutton and eaten. It is also given to the left and right, in order to understand its taste.

They all seemed to strongly believe in Buddhism and felt that bhikshuni had magical powers.

This is the chaos of troubled times. When the world is in chaos, human life is as worthless as grass. However, with the confrontation between the North and the South and the situation gradually stabilizing, this kind of thing has become less and less, and has not been heard of much in recent years.

And now I heard that Magu eats two-legged sheep, it is obviously not because there is nothing to eat, but because he likes to eat it just like the Northern Qi Emperor Gao Yang and Shi Hu's son Shi Sui.

Yang Guang was also furious about such an appalling thing.

"Is this true?"

Facing Yang Guang's questioning, Zhang Dabao was not afraid and nodded: "Your Highness, Prince Jin, this is true. The son of an old couple from my hometown, the Wan family, died young and their daughter-in-law ran away, leaving only a grandson. They depended on each other for life, but his grandson was abducted some time ago. It was the Bai family. The old couple from the Wan family came to ask for his son, but the wealthy family didn't take them seriously at all and beat them out. Later, they reported it to the official ”

Yang Guang didn't know why Zhang Dabao became more confident at this time, and asked: "What happened next?"

"It was later found out that the Bai family made Magu a "lamb feast" with the grandson of the old couple from the Wan family in order for Magu, who was the river envoy at the time, to find a way to open the river and divert water. Magu... liked to eat "lamb". After discovering it, Magu was also arrested. He thought he would be sentenced to death, but he didn't expect to be released again some time ago. On the contrary, the old couple from the Wan family who reported to the police disappeared. I knew about it because I was next door, and the government has ordered everyone around not to mention it."

Yang Guang's eyes narrowed slightly, full of anger and ferocity: "Do you have any real evidence for this matter?"

"Grass people... No, but this thing is definitely true. Many people have heard the rumors. My parents-in-law even saw the government coming to the house of the old couple Wanjia many times. The old couple of Wanjia said everything themselves. , before they were lamenting that the government was clear and bright, they caught this evil guy, but they didn't expect to release him after a while."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier if there was such a thing?"

Zhang Dabao became frightened again and said hesitantly: "Your Highness... Your Highness, there are rumors outside that you are Magu's backer, so Magu will be reappointed as an official even if he is caught eating two-legged sheep. We How dare such a common man dare? This time I encountered Mr. Wang asking someone about Magu. I felt strange. After thinking about it, I wanted to take a risk."

Yang Guang understood Wang Yi's panic at the beginning. This thing was indeed shocking. He also understood why Zhang Dabao didn't dare to say it at first, but later he dared to say it. He should have noticed his attitude and felt that he was not Magu's supporter. Instead, he was checking Magu, so he dared to tell the truth when he was angry.

Zhang Dabao immediately kowtowed: "Your Highness, Prince Jin, please uphold justice for ordinary people like us!!"

Wang Yi helped Zhang Dabao stand up: "Since our Highness has checked Magu, he will naturally make a decision after checking."

Yang Guang asked Wang Yi to settle Zhang Dabao in the house first, and then sat alone in the middle hall, hiding himself in the darkness with deep eyes.

After a while, Yuan Tiantian came over and walked to Yang Guang's side: "Your Highness, I happened to meet Wang Yi on the way here about Magu. He told me."

Yuan Tiantian's words did not receive a response from Yang Guang. At this time, she looked at Yang Guang as if a beast with wild eyes was biting the air. The extremely solemn atmosphere made Yuan Tiantian sweat unconsciously.

After a long time, Yang Guang looked extremely stern, as if darkness was his true nature, and softly uttered a few words.

"Tiantian, you are really good at judging people."

(End of this chapter)