Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 263
Mengyin County Government, Inner Court.

Cao Yong was lying on the bed, and the doctor was checking the wound on his leg, and finally came to a conclusion—that is, the injury would take a hundred days, and it would take three months to heal it.Otherwise, new wounds bring old troubles, and I'm afraid there will be inappropriateness.

Although Cao Yong is not an active person, but thinking about lying on the bed in the next three months, he also felt very boring. Just about to sigh, seeing the worried faces of Chu Yu and Mr. Zhuang, he smiled again , Said: "It's okay, just take this opportunity to rest!"

Where can Chuyu feel relieved?Then I carefully asked the doctor a few words about dietary taboos, and wrote them down one by one.

Mr. Zhuang frowned, waiting for Chuyu to go out, Fang snorted coldly, and glared at Cao Yong.

Cao Yong felt a little guilty, knowing that Mr. Zhuang was annoyed.It turned out that Mr. Zhuang had already persuaded him to bring more escorts when traveling.It was okay to say that in the capital earlier, after all, it is at the foot of the emperor, the first good place, and Wei Hei and Wei Bai are enough for four people around.Now that Wei Bai is gone, Wu Mao is in charge of guarding Daotai Mansion, Wu Sheng is working in Jiangning Mansion, and Wei Hei is the only one left who is capable.

Afterwards, Zhang Yi, Zhao Tong and others selected from the capital mansion, or Shen Wu and Shen Liu brothers brought from the Jiangning mansion, it's okay to be a long-term follower, how can there be any real kung fu in them?

Only the two brothers Ren Shuyong and Ren Jiyong, who were accepted in Yizhou, had better fists and kicks, but this time when they went to the capital, because of the Cao family affairs, Cao Yong was unwilling to bring people from Shandong. Yi, Zhao Tong and the others are all sons of the family in the capital.

Cao Yong was thinking about finding something to say to distract Mr. Zhuang's attention, so as to save the old man from lecturing again, endlessly.Before he could find an excuse, he heard Mr. Zhuang say: "That is to say, Fu Ruo is awake, and there is something that I need you to make up your mind."

Mr. Zhuang seemed exhausted, he didn't even have the strength to train him, and his face was heavy like never before.

Under the influence of Mr. Zhuang, Cao Yong also put a smile on his face, and said seriously: "Sir, please tell me?"

Mr. Zhuang said: "Although Fu Ruo's life is safe, the Du family has done evil before, and the evil slaves have been imprisoned. Du Xiong is the current patriarch of the Du family, and the Du family is a big family. Timing. Just now, 300 soldiers from the Anton Guard Station have arrived, and even if the Du family wants to act recklessly, they will be able to deal with it."

Cao Yong was a little surprised when he heard this, and asked, "What do you mean, Mr. Du's family? Do you want to arrest all of the Du family?" , is the serious crime of "rebellion".If the truth is true, let alone Du Xiong, the males in his family may not escape death.

Although he has been in a coma for three days, he still remembers clearly what happened that day. What "housework" is not "housework" is more like a misunderstanding, otherwise the other party would not have surrounded him with bare hands. There is no charter for bluffing.

He expressed his doubts to Mr. Zhuang, and Mr. Zhuang shook his head and said, "I have asked someone to investigate carefully in the past two days, and the matter is not so simple! Not to mention anything else, just say that your mount is a gift from King Pingjun There is a horse raised in the palace, before it was cultivated, it was beaten every day with a gong beside the stable, how could it be so easy to be frightened?"

Cao Yong was taken aback when he heard the words. On this journey, except for the food and drinks in restaurants in Mengyin County, the rest of the time was spent at post stations.It's just that it's all right now, who would think of plotting against himself?

Mr. Zhuang continued: "I've asked Wei Hei, the restaurant in your top spot belongs to Du Xiong's family, and a stable boy got lost in the past two days!"

Cao Yong frowned slightly, and asked Mr. Zhuang: "If there is a plot against me, who would it be? If it is because of Shaoguo Zhuangzi, the seven or eight households in Yizhou will make money later?"

Mr. Zhuang thought for a while and said: "Whether it is to plot Furuo or Du Xiong, I still can't see through it now! Just in case, this is the foot of Yimeng Mountain, so be careful!"

Cao Yong nodded, looked at his legs, and said to Mr. Zhuang: "Find a neat board and fix the bones of these two legs. It will not be a hindrance to the car. Since the husband is worried, let's go back to Yizhou as soon as possible. That's good too!"

Mr. Zhuang nodded and said: "That's the truth. But no matter what, the Du family should be imprisoned first, and those who are wronged or not should be put to rest. Otherwise, if it spreads, it will really hurt the court's face! "

Cao Yong thought of the deer-headed mice who were in charge that day, and seeing their arrogance, he thought that the master was not a kind person, nor could he feel sympathy.He was just lucky, if he was really unlucky and was thrown to death by a startled horse, what reason could he find?

The two were talking, when Xiyun came in, bent down, and said, "My son-in-law, sir, Master Wei is here!"

The house here is very small, and it can't be compared with the Daotai Mansion in Yizhou at all, and the space inside is not clear.

After Chu Yu arrived, although everyone was thinking about Cao Yong, they couldn't go directly to the room.

Wei Hei strode in, with a look of resentment on his face.After entering the room, he took a closer look at Cao Yong's face and saw that there was no serious problem, so he was relieved, then asked a few questions about his leg injury, and then said with a little anger: "Young master, sir, it is really I'm so angry! I didn't expect there to be such a shameless person in the world. When I see him next time, I will definitely give him a full punch!"

Cao Yong leaned on the pillow, pointed to the chair on the ground, and said with a smile, "What's the matter that deserves to be so angry with Brother Wei? Sit down first and take a breath before talking!" Then he called Xiyun to bring tea.

When the tea came up, Wei Hei drank a cup of tea in one breath, Fang said: "My lord, sir, someone from the Du family died again!"

When Cao Yong and Mr. Zhuang heard this, they only thought that they knew about the suicide of the Du'an, the servant of the Du family in the county government prison.Mr. Zhuang asked, "But the steward surnamed Chen?"

Wei Hei shook his head and said: "It's not the ones in the prison, it's Du Xiong's eldest daughter, the one who married in Yizhou! It seems that she was divorced, and the Zhao family kicked her out, and she wiped her neck before reaching Mengyin! "

Where and where is this, Cao Yong was confused, Mr. Zhuang asked: "When did it happen, how do you know this?"

Wei Hei said: "Just now, Lao Hei and the people from the county government went to resettle the hundreds of soldiers brought by Mr. Yang Qian. It happened that the boss of the Ren family and Du Xiong's brother Du Hui were also there to make fun of it. Someone from the Du family came to help Du Hui reported the letter, and Lao Hei just listened to it! Grandma, Zhao Wenhe, who is usually a dog, how could he act so dishonestly!"

"Divorced?" Although Cao Yong had never met Du Shi, he heard from Chu Yu that she looked like a very virtuous young woman, but she was divorced at this time. Could it be that she was dragged down by herself?
After Wei He finished speaking in one breath, Fang remembered that his son's temperament was not fond of killing.Looking at Cao Yong, as expected, seeing that his brows were frowning, and his face was already gloomy, he comforted him and said: "My lord, this is the boy surnamed Zhao who avoids evil and seeks good luck, so I can't blame you on your head!"

Seeing his concern, Cao Yong said with a wry smile: "Brother Wei, who do you think I am? I just sympathize with this miserable woman. Is it possible that I am a saint, and I have to take this crime on myself? Alright, If you stumble, you have to lie down for three or four months to get better, and you still have to be a sinner in this way, which is really unreasonable!"

Wei Hei nodded reassuringly, and said: "Young Master, it's good if you can think about it, otherwise, it's like good people have to hide their mistakes, and those bad things live with peace of mind!"

*
West of the city, Dujiazhuang.

Seeing the eldest daughter's body, and listening to Zhao Wenhe's words relayed by Chang Sui, Du Xiong's heart felt like falling into an ice cave. Until now, he didn't know how big a disaster he had committed.

His eyes were straight and he was speechless. Standing in the yard, looking at his wife and children, he beat his chest vigorously.Several old housekeepers, seeing that the master had lost his sense of proportion, called other people to the county government office to ask him to work, and then asked someone to help the weeping Chen family back to the inner house.

Du Xiong looked at the mansion in front of him, and then at the Yimeng Mountain looming in the distance, finally heaved a sigh.

Another person came to report that hundreds of soldiers had entered the city, and they looked dressed, and they were from the Anton Guard.

Du Xiong went back to the study, sat on the chair, and finally realized that the yamen didn't care about his son-in-law's affection, nor his reputation as a supervisor, but because he was afraid of holding a pot.Thinking of this, he asked someone to call his confidant to follow Duan into the room.

Du An was in his twenties, and he was the one who sent letters to Yizhou a few days ago. He was originally the son of the Du family's tenants. After his parents died when he was young, he entered the Du family as a slave.Because Du Xiong watched him grow up and was honest and responsible, Du Xiong relied on him the most on weekdays. Although he did not consider him an adopted son, he never regarded him as an ordinary servant.

Before Du An came in, Du Xiong took the key, opened a box under the desk, found a thing from inside, took a pen and paper, wrote a letter with a pen, and then put the thing and the letter in an envelope. Seal it.

Du An came in, knelt down and choked with sobs, and said, "Master, you are all young, if you can be more vigilant, the eldest lady will not be..." At this point, he couldn't continue.

But half an hour later, Du Xiong seemed to be several years old. With a hoarse voice, he waved his hands and said, "What are you talking about? What does a gentleman look like, crying and crying! Get up, sir, I still have something to entrust to you you!"

Hearing this, Du An wiped away his tears and got up, and asked, "Master, please tell me! The little one was raised by the Du family's kindness since he was a child, and he is willing to go up the knife mountain or go to the frying pan!"

Du Xiong nodded, handed the envelope on the table to him, and said: "I'll ask someone to set up a coffin to hold a funeral for Zhen'er in a while, so you take Jie'er out to avoid the eyeliner of the yamen outside the village. Go to the mountains!"

The Jie'er that Du Xiong mentioned is his direct son Du Jie, who is seven years old this year and has just been enlightened not long ago.

Duan was shocked when he heard the words, and hurriedly asked: "Master, if it has reached this point, it should be the master who tried to escape first!"

Du Xiong shook his head and said: "Where is such a cheap thing? If I go to the mountain, do you think they dare not enter the mountain?" Speaking of this, he paused and said: "You enter the mountain, pass the horn plate, go to the mountain Walking across the North and South Mountains, passing the Qingshuijian, someone will ask questions, you just say that the Du family uncle sent to pay his respects to Boss Bajia! Wait until you see the person, and then hand in this letter."

Du An knew it was a big deal, so he took it to heart carefully, but he still didn't give up, and advised Du Xiong to leave.

Du Xiong waved his hand and told him to go down and get ready first, and went to find Mrs. Chen by himself.

Mrs. Chen was lying on the kang, although she woke up, her eyes were numb, and she just kept crying.Du Xiong's second daughter, Du Xian'er, was taking care of her mother by the bedside, and two maidservants were throwing handkerchiefs over Chen's face to wipe her face.

Seeing Du Xiong coming in, Du Xian'er and the two maids got up and greeted him.When Du Xiong saw Du Xian'er, he was stunned for a moment, and when he thought of the eldest daughter who was eight times like her in appearance, his heart ached.Resisting it, he waved his hand and sent his daughter down with the maid, and asked her to bring her son over later.

There were only two husband and wife left in the room. Du Xiong walked to the dressing table, opened several jewelry boxes, and asked his wife, "Where are your valuable personal belongings? Are they all here?"

Although Mrs. Chen didn't know her husband's intentions, she still struggled to get up from the kang, took the key from the drawer under the kang cabinet, opened the box at the end of the kang, took out a pear-blossom box that was a foot long, and handed it to her husband. .

Du Xiong took it, opened the box, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, dumped some valuable jewelry on it, and tied it into a small bag the size of a fist.

Chen Shi was originally a husband who wanted to bury his daughter with him or go to the yamen to take care of him. Seeing him like this, he was very surprised and asked in confusion: "Master, this is it?"

Du Xiong weighed the bag of jewelry, it was very light and weighed nothing, he felt a little at ease.Hearing his wife's words, he replied: "Jie'er can't stay anymore, I sent Duan to take him out to escape! You must... always leave a bloodline for the Du family..."

After hearing this, Mrs. Chen's body softened, and she helped the edge of the kang, and she felt better. She tightly covered her mouth with a handkerchief, but her eyes widened in shock.

Even though it is a woman's family, but just now in front of the eldest daughter's dead body, I heard those words, and I still had some complaints in my heart. If the husband hadn't been greedy to seize the uncle's inheritance, he wouldn't have caused trouble and caused his daughter to die.

Only now did she realize that not only the eldest daughter, but also the whole family would be killed along with her.

At this time, I heard Du Xian'er's voice from the corridor: "Father, mother, my daughter brought my brother here!"

Chen's body trembled when she heard the words, and she didn't know where the strength came from. She threw herself in front of Du Xiong and knelt down, lowered her voice, and cried, "Master, please, let Xian'er go out with Jie'er too. Jie'er is still young, no matter how good Duan is, he is not a blood relative of the Du family, so how can we rest assured! We can't be here, let Xian'er go out with my younger brother!"

Du Xiong knew his wife's intentions, he didn't worry about his son being left alone, he just wanted to leave a way out for his daughter.His heart softened, and he was about to say yes, but then he thought that even if Boss Qin was loyal enough, it was a bandit's den after all, so what good would there be if he sent a good daughter there?At that time, it may be said that the son will ruin his life.

Thinking of this, he scolded in a low voice with a stern face: "Stupid! Are you kidding? Now there are people from the yamen outside watching. If it is so easy to go out, naturally the whole family will go out. What is the use? If you hurt your daughter, you don't want your son's life?"

Listening to Chen's words, there is no room for turning around, the sadness comes from it, how can she bear it?Collapsing on the ground, weeping loudly.

Du Xian'er held his younger brother's hand and was still waiting in the porch. He didn't see his parents calling in for a while, and was still wondering when he heard his mother crying loudly. Called into the rules, hastily rushed in.

Seeing her mother lying on the ground, Du Xian'er just looked at Du Xiong suspiciously; Du Jie was young, already grinned, and started crying along with her mother.

*
Although Cao Yong spoke harshly, he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, and his resentment towards Du Xiong himself was a little lighter. In the end, he discussed with Mr. Zhuang and sent someone to jail Du Xiong for review tomorrow.Anyway, the outside of Du's Village was well guarded, and Antonwei's soldiers were also arranged, so I'm not afraid they would run away.

It's still the same sentence, death is the most important thing, so it's better to set aside a day to hold a funeral for the Du family.

Besides, according to the analysis of Mr. Zhuang and Cao Yong, this Du Xiong is just a money-grubbing squire, and he is probably one of the victims.

However, even if he is not the mastermind, Du Xiong is not an innocent person.Looking at the arrogance of his family's servants, he is also used to arrogance. If it was not Cao Yong and the others who met on the road that day, but ordinary people, it would be inevitable that there would be casualties.

After getting the news, Chuyu came to Mengyin in a hurry, so Chuyu only brought Xiyun and Xicai to wait on her.

Cao Yong has always been picky about food, so Chu Yu left Xi Yun in the room to wait on him, and took Xi Cai to the kitchen.She thought about it, her husband just woke up, it would be good to eat some porridge.However, what the kitchen here has been supplying for the past two days is just ordinary japonica rice, which my husband doesn't eat on weekdays.

Because Liang Shunzheng, the county magistrate, has low official status and low income, there is little money in the yamen here.Although some local gentry gave some offerings, they all sent them to the sons who were in need in the capital, but this place is not rich.

In the kitchen, there was only one cook, and the few people in the yamen used to be able to handle it.Since Cao Yong moved in, how can he be busy?The one in the side student has a high status, and at this time, he dare not call outside to invite someone casually.There was really no other way, so only the magistrate's wife and a girl were busy here.

In the past two days, Chu Yu has also become acquainted with the county magistrate's wife, and he is very sorry to see her personally taking care of everyone's meals here.Just as she was about to say a few words of thanks, she saw a young girl coming out from behind the county magistrate's wife and knelt down in front of her with a "plop".

(End of this chapter)