Cao Thief

Chapter 202 Tragedy ([-])

Li Jing was a handsome man before his death!

Since he died suddenly, even the mourning hall was not ready yet, and the corpse was quietly placed in a side room.

Cao Peng stepped forward to salute seriously, and at the same time looked at him carefully.Then he walked out of the wing room, bid farewell to Mrs. Li and left.

"Afu, what's wrong with you?"

On the way back, Huang Yueying couldn't help asking softly.

"Li Yifeng didn't die suddenly from a heart attack, but was poisoned to death."

"what?"

"This Mrs. Li is also weird. As soon as her husband died, she was eager to sell her property and wanted to leave Wu County... There must be something tricky about it."

"What is tricky?"

"Uh, it's weird..."

"Is it also the dialect of Zhongyang Mountain?"

"Uh, so be it."

Cao Peng discovered that, no matter in ancient times or in the future, women's ability to gossip is equally powerful.We were originally discussing the death of Li Jing, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a discussion of dialects?Seeing Huang Yueying's curious expression, Cao Peng also felt quite helpless.

However, it can also be seen from this that Huang Yueying doesn't like this kind of conspiracy and tricks very much.

Cao Peng did not discuss this issue any further.

But in this heart, there is a question that cannot be erased.

First sent Huang Yueying back to Ge's Mansion. Before leaving, Cao Peng said: "Yueying, I may not be able to accompany you tomorrow...I will go to Huating with Mr. Xiuruo to attend a wedding banquet."

"How long will it take?"

"It will probably take two or three days."

"Well... you come back early, my father seems to be leaving on purpose these two days, I'm worried..."

Cao Peng's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously squeezed Huang Yueying's hand tightly, as if afraid that she would leave, and the two would never see each other again.

"Then I'll tell my husband, I'm not going!"

"No...a man should put his career first. Since Mr. Xiuruo asked you to accompany me, it must be something important. You have been with me for the past two days, and you have not done a good job. If you refuse tomorrow, you will definitely let Xie Ruo If Mr. is unhappy, it will be of no benefit to you."

Cao Peng said: "Then what should we do?"

"Stupid Ah Fu, I only said that my father intends to leave, but if he really wants to leave, how can it be so fast?
You go early and come back early... Also, you always have to explain our affairs to my father. Is it possible that we haven't seen each other all this time? "

When saying these words, Huang Yueying lowered her head.

The sunset glow reflected her profile, and one could vaguely see the blush.

Cao Peng was overjoyed immediately... Isn't Huang Yueying's words reminding him to propose marriage to the Huang family?

He didn't even remember how he parted from Huang Yueying, as if stepping on cotton all the way back to the station.That night, Kan Ze happened to be on duty again. When Cao Peng saw Kan Ze, he finally regained his senses and asked someone to unload the books from the car and put them in Kan Ze's room.

"This is……"

"Brother Kan, I know you are a good book.

Today we happened to know that there was a family selling books, so we bought them all.I am bothering you to take care of me these days, and there are no gifts.These books are given to you, right as a brother's kindness, you must not refuse. "

Kan Ze was overjoyed immediately, took Cao Peng's hand, and thanked him repeatedly.

After putting all the books into Kan Ze's room, Cao Peng returned to his residence.

Xun Yan hadn't come back yet, and the Xiaokua courtyard was also quiet.The two housekeepers greeted Cao Peng and went back to their rooms.

These days, Cao Peng is busy with tenderness and sweetness, so he can't help being a little slack.

However, as time went by, Cao Peng gradually understood Xun Yan's thoughts.Xun Yanming was visiting relatives and friends, but he was actually making things difficult for Sun Ce.Xun Yan and Cao Peng said that Sun Ce is frivolous and forthright, with the air of a man.Relying on the reputation left by Sun Jian and the prestige created by his own bravery, it is very easy to gain a firm foothold in Jiangdong and become a prince.

However, there is still a huge omission in Sun Ce's rule in Jiangdong.

He was born in a rich family, and he can be regarded as a celebrity in Kuaiji.But compared with those scholars who have lived for hundreds of years, the foundation of the Sun family is much weaker after all.In addition, at the beginning of the conquest of Jiangdong, Sun Ce used extremely iron and blood methods to attack and annex the trilogy of the scholars, which also caused the relationship between Sun Ce and the scholars to be not particularly harmonious.After annexing Kuaiji of Wu County, Sun Ce did not immediately repair the relationship with the scholars and stabilize his position.On the contrary, he continued to conquer, and took the opportunity to continue to annex the trilogy of the Shijia and attack the power of the Shijia.

As a result, the relationship between Sun Ce and the scholars became more and more alienated.

Don't look at Sun Ce's many scholars' children, but in fact he has not been recognized by the scholars.

Sun Ce himself is an extremely proud person.If it were ordinary people, he might bow his head instead.But for scholars, Sun Ce was still unwilling to give in.

Later generations often say that Cao Cao used a large number of Han scholars.

But actually?Sun Ce also used many children from poor families.It's just that because he died early, it wasn't obvious.

Sun Ce's refusal to accept softness does not mean that he is not afraid of the Jiangdong scholars.

Xun Yan kept visiting Jiangdong scholars' homes, no matter how magnanimous Sun Ce was, he would still be suspicious.

But he couldn't stop Xun Yan's actions, so he could only watch helplessly.As time goes by, Sun Ce's suspicion will become stronger... In the end, there will inevitably be a fierce conflict with the Jiangdong scholars.This was a conspiracy, even if Sun Ce knew it in his heart, there was nothing he could do about it.Can't kill Xun Yan?In that way, not only will Cao Cao be offended, but it may even cause the world's gentry to hate the Sun family.You know, the Xun family in Yingchuan is not a Miheng, and even Bianrang can be compared.

The influence of the Xun family in Shilin is so great that ordinary people can't even imagine it.

Cao Peng opened it and admires the person who designed this plan!

This person has grasped the psychology of a normal person very accurately.It is not so much a divorce as it is a psychological warfare.

Moreover, it is a psychological warfare where you are well aware of the ingenuity, but are helpless.

However, what Cao Peng is considering now is not who designed this strategy.There were indeed many psychological warfare masters in the Three Kingdoms period.

Regardless of whether it is Jia Xu and Sima Yi of Cao Wei; or Lu Meng and Lu Xun of Soochow; They are good at using psychological warfare.

But for now, there are only two people under Cao Cao's account who can devise such a strategy.

Either Xun Yu or Guo Jia.

So Cao Peng didn't need to spend too much thought on this.

What he was thinking about at the moment was what Huang Yueying said just now.If Huang Chengyan didn't propose marriage while he was still in Wu County, it would be troublesome to propose marriage when Huang Chengyan returned to Jiangxia.Proposing marriage is a science.For a famous family like Huang Chengyan, those who propose marriage must have equal status, no matter how bad they are, they cannot be too different.So, Cao Peng thought about it and thought of Xun Yan.

The name of the Xun family in Yingchuan is a hundred times stronger than that of the Huang family in Jiangxia.

Moreover, Xun Yan's reputation seems to be higher than that of Huang Chengyan... If Xun Yan can be invited to come forward, Huang Chengyan must also seriously consider it.

The question is, can Xun Yan agree?
Cao Peng was also a little uncertain, so he sat in the room, dazed.

After a while, he took out a stack of light green Zuo Bo paper from the box at hand, carefully observed it under the candlelight, and began to figure it out.

He always felt that there seemed to be a secret hidden in this Zuo Bo's paper.

After a while, Cao Peng got up suddenly, put the paper away and put it away.

He hurried to the concierge, and saw Kan Ze sitting on the floor, facing a huge wooden box, smirking once or twice from time to time.

He suddenly took out a book and stroked it lightly.

Suddenly he put the scroll under his nose, closed his eyes and sniffed, with a contented expression on his face.

This guy is really a bookworm.

"Brother Kan!"

"Ah..." Kan Ze was startled, quickly put the book into the wooden box, and turned around to look vigilantly.

"Ah Fu, if you don't go to rest, what's the matter?"

"I want to ask, do you know a man named Li Jing?"

Kan Ze was taken aback, "Are you talking about Li Jing and Li Yifeng who were elected as Xiaolian in Kuaiji County last year?"

"Exactly."

"I know this person, but I have never been in contact with him. Although I am from the same town as him, we are not very familiar with each other... But I know that Li Jing did not behave very well when he was in Kuaiji at the beginning. He was a bit greedy for money, and he A bit lustful. This person can write good handwriting, and is good at imitating. No matter what kind of handwriting it is, if he imitates it for a while, he can learn it almost exactly.

For this reason, that guy was once appreciated by Wang Lang, and even served as the secretary of Kuaiji County for a while.Later Wang Lang was defeated and Li Jing was afraid of being implicated, so he moved from Kuaiji to Wujun.He is still good at learning, but his morals are too bad...By the way, why did you suddenly inquire about this person? "

Cao Peng hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "Li Jing is dead!"

"what?"

Kan Ze was on duty at the station today and didn't go out, so he didn't know much about what happened outside.

In fact, even if a small person like Li Jing was killed, he might not know it even if he got out.If Cao Peng hadn't heard it by chance in the restaurant today and was moved to buy a book, I'm afraid he wouldn't have paid attention to it.Kan Ze looked at Cao Peng, and then at the scroll in front of him.

"Ah Fu, these books..."

"Well, I bought it from the Li family."

Kan Ze was startled, and quickly put the scroll back into the box.

"You guy, why don't you tell me clearly?"

"what happened?"

"This thing, bad luck."

As Kan Ze said, he took out a box from under the bed, and put some cattail leaves on the front.

"I usually put this thing away, just to get rid of bad luck. I didn't expect it to be really used today."

Said, Kan Ze first took out two cattail leaves, washed his hands after dipping them in water, then sealed the bookcase, cleaned it a few times with the cattail leaves, and respectfully placed the cattail leaves on the bookcase.

Afterwards, Kan Ze breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's a good thing you said it early, otherwise I would definitely be in bad luck.

Let's deal with it like this first, and tomorrow I'll go get some talismans and stick them on the bookcase. It will take three days and three nights to completely get rid of the bad luck on them. "

Chu people are good at ghosts and gods, and there is a lot of witch culture in Chu Ci.

So Cao Peng didn't care much about Kan Ze's actions.His eyes fell on a branch next to Kanze's bed.

There are a few red beans hanging on the branch, the color is very bright.

"Ah Fu, how did Li Jing die? I saw him strutting through the market in bright clothes yesterday. This guy doesn't seem like a short-lived person."

"Uh, I..." Cao Peng came back to his senses and organized his words: "I also occasionally heard people say that Li Jing died and his wife was selling property. I know Brother Kan, hello, So I came up with the idea and went to buy Li Jing's collection of books.

but……"

"But what?"

"I don't think Li Jing died suddenly."

Kan Ze was startled, and couldn't help laughing: "Ah Fu, how old are you, how do you know that he is not a sudden death?"

"I've seen his corpse... On the surface, there seems to be no problem. But I noticed that his lips were a little black, and his expression was very peaceful. Generally speaking, if it is a sudden death, there must be a death I struggled a lot, but from the body, I can't see any traces of pain before Li Jing died. I think he probably died of poisoning, but I don't know what kind of poison it is."

"The government..."

"The government said he was a sudden death, which made me even more weird.

Such an obvious loophole, even I can see it, but the people in the government turned a blind eye.Moreover, Mrs. Li didn't seem to have any opinion. Before the corpse was buried, she was in a hurry to sell the property and prepare to return to her hometown... I always felt that Mrs. Li had received some warnings, so she behaved like this.In short, I find this matter very strange, so I came to ask. "

Kan Ze was silent.

After a while, he raised his head and said softly, "Ah Fu, do you believe me?"

Cao Peng was startled, nodded and replied, "Brother Kan, where did you say that? If I didn't believe you, I wouldn't have said so much to you."

"Leave it alone."

"what?"

"The government can blatantly ignore the loopholes and judge that Li Jing died suddenly; Li Jing's body was not cold, and Mrs. Li hurriedly wanted to leave. There must be something strange, but it is definitely not for you and me to intervene. I also know that you have the ability, but sometimes You and I must learn to pretend to be deaf and dumb. Even the county government of Wu County can suppress it. If there are people behind the scenes, it is definitely not you and I who can resist... You told me that one thing more is worse than one thing less, which is quite reasonable. Leave it alone, or you and I might get into trouble."

Cao Peng was silent...

Kan Ze's words were sincere.

He could feel Kan Ze's kindness.In the previous life, some people persuaded me like this, but what happened?He didn't listen, and in the end his family was ruined.

Thinking of this, Cao Peng suddenly felt aggrieved.

"Brother Kan, I'm tired."

"Then have a good rest, don't you want to go to Huating with Mr. Xun tomorrow? Go to bed early, if there is anything, I will tell you."

Cao Peng nodded, and before leaving, he wanted to leave the branch of red beans planted beside the bed.

Looking at Cao Peng's back, Kan Ze stood on the porch with a thoughtful expression... After a long time, he sighed and returned to the house.

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