Zhe Jinchun

Chapter 93

"Zuo Sikuang is going the way of the Marquis of Han'an Township, so he is right." Xue Yunheng read the letter again, then put it aside casually, with a very leisurely tone.

He also heard a few words from the steward who gave gifts to the Qin family, and then he remembered that there was a Zuo family in Jiangyang County, but it was a very small/gentry family, worse than the Qin family, so he didn't have the mood to ask more questions.

However, the steward surnamed Dong was also interesting. He obviously came here for the Qin family, but he seldom spoke. Instead, he asked another steward accompanying the Zuo family to take the lead. The name Zuo Sikuang was repeated by him over and over again. Mentioned many times.

Xue Yunheng asked someone to investigate Zuo Sikuang, and it was because of the Qin family.

This is not because he is interested in Zuo Sikuang, but because Xue Yunheng does not have a bad opinion of the Qin family.

To be precise, he has no ill feeling toward Liu Niang of the Qin family, and even has a faint appreciation for it.

A little girl who was only 12 years old returned home alone for a funeral, but she acted and spoke in a very orderly manner. The whole journey was so quiet that she seemed to have disappeared.

Later, when he met a strongman on Taomujian Road, he fired arrows, Qin Liuniang was also very calm, and did not cry when he was thrown down by his servants, which saved Xue Yunheng a lot of hands and feet.Until the final farewell outside the city of Qingzhou, Qin Liuniang's every word and deed is also advancing and retreating with restraint.

Frankly speaking, Xue Yunheng was very emotional at that time.

He thought of his younger sisters who were in their teens, and all the little ladies he had seen in his life, who were as noisy as sparrows, as rambunctious as bulls, and as scared as a bee. The appearance of trembling and crying so much that the pear blossoms are raining at every turn is really a headache.

It was precisely because he had no ill feeling toward Qin Liuniang that he not only asked someone to investigate Zuo Sikuang, but also accepted the gift from the Qin family and expressed his gratitude.

This is the greatest courtesy he can give to the Qin family as a child of the Xue family.

"Minister, there is something hidden in this matter." He Ying's deep voice suddenly came, and Xue Yunheng immediately turned his attention back.

"How do you say that?" He casually looked at his fingers, his eyes calm.

He Ying said: "Just before I came down, I received a message from Kuaima in Zizhong County, saying that the danger that Captain He encountered was caused by man."

"Oh?" Xue Yunheng raised a long eyebrow, and there was a little playfulness in his eyes, "Little Captain Jiangyang, someone is planning to set up a trap?"

"Exactly." He Ying said, "The message that came said that Captain He was originally scheduled to return to Han'an along the mountain road at the northern foot of Lianyun Mountain, but Zuo Sikuang quickly caught up with him with a few people. He said that the climate in that area was humid, and the mountain road might have rockslides, so he led He Duwei to another road. As a result, the rock rolled down, and happened to roll on the return road that He Duwei had originally set. , Zuo Sikuang also saved his life. Because our people had been staring at Zuo’s house, we went to investigate immediately after the incident, and found that there were marks of binding ropes on the rolling stone, so we went to investigate again. Backtracking along the road of falling rocks, I found more than ten broken vines in the middle of the mountain, all of which were cut off by sharp knives. At least four or five adult men left behind. But the rope that left the trace has not been found."

Xue Yunheng listened, closed his eyes slightly in thought, waited for He Ying to speak, then nodded lightly and said: "So that's the case. It must be that the rock was entangled with vines, and it would not fall down. Someone cut the vines and tied them with string Bind him and push him off the cliff at the right time, just to murder He Jingyan."

When He Ying heard this, a strange look quickly flashed across his face, and he said in a low voice: "Master, that Broken Stone may not have the purpose of murdering Captain He."

Xue Yunheng opened his eyes all of a sudden, and Wei Dai looked at He Ying in surprise: "It's not murder? Why is that?"

He Ying said in a deep voice: "I want to report to the Minister, our people found out that there was something wrong with the broken stone, and because they were afraid of being discovered, they withdrew back intact, leaving only Zhou Kun and Sun Yan to watch in place. He The two reported that after less than half an hour, a group of people quietly covered up the cliff, wiped away all the traces of the fallen rocks, and even moved weeds to fill the pit. The group of people was invisible, There was no sign of clothing, and because they had been complaining in whispers about "the Zuo family was in the way" and said, "The Lord's credit has been robbed by him", Zhou Kun and the others became suspicious, so they split into two groups, Sun Yan. Reported to our people, Zhou Kun followed them from a distance. Later, Zhou Kun reported that the group went straight to the county seat after going down the mountain and entered a house. He asked someone to ask, and the house belonged to the Cheng family. , the head of the Cheng family is Cheng Tingzhen, the new doctor in Jiangyang County."

"There's still the Cheng family?" Xue Yunheng whispered to himself, his eyes became more playful, "It's interesting."

At this time, He Ying continued: "Because we found the Cheng family, we dug down by the way, but found a few things. First, about two months ago, the Qin family fled from Lianyun Farm Two servants, one of them, the female slave, had secretly gone to the Cheng family's bookstore in Lianyun Town with something in her hand after she ran away. Second, not long after the incident of the Qin family's escaped slave, Cheng Tingzhen went through with Captain He Duwei. It is said that Zuo Sikuang's wife, Qi Shi, gave some important gifts, so he spoke in front of He Duwei. Third, Zuo Sikuang's wife, Qin Shi, once went back to her mother's house to ask for something during the funeral of the Qin family. Things, but returned empty-handed. In the end, both Cheng and Zuo seemed to want to climb up to the Marquis of Han'an, and He Duwei first liked Zuo Sikuang. Choose one of these two to recommend."

"There is such a thing?" Xue Yunheng murmured, his eyes were slightly cold, but the corners of his lips curled up slightly, showing a sneering arc: "So that's how it is."

The battles and calculations among these small gentry clans are comparable to those of the big gentry clans, and because the clans are small, they act more recklessly, and they use a variety of tricks.

Cheng Tingzhen first intercepted something from the Qin family and presented it to He Jingyan's wife, presumably to please her.Afterwards, Cheng Tingzhen set up the situation of falling rocks again, just to get credit for "saving his life", hoping to make another contribution in front of He Jingyan, so as to get closer to Han'an Township Marquis more quickly.

But Zuo Sikuang lost the belongings of the Qin family, but through some means, he knew about the situation of the falling rocks, so he killed the generals halfway, and led He Jingyan to another road, abolishing this painstaking plan of the Cheng family for nothing. He also took the credit for saving his life.Now that the two of them showed their faces in front of He Jingyan, they were evenly matched.

The more Xue Yunheng thought about it, the more ridiculous and sad it became. The corners of his raised lips slowly flattened, and his eyes became colder and colder: "The song doesn't think straight, and the straight doesn't seek the right. This is the status quo of our Chen Guo gentry. They are the so-called scholarly gentry, Qingliu Gaoshi. Ridiculous! Despicable!"

His voice was full of sorrow, and his expression seemed sad, half smiling, and extremely indignant.He Ying didn't dare to answer, and just stood quietly by the side.

(End of this chapter)