At the beginning, Emperor Yang of Sui was kidnapped

Chapter 77 Why Do You Raise Pigs?

He Ruozhuang's gate.

Before the time came, Dali Temple Qing Huangfu Wuyi rushed here with the people from Dali Temple, wanting to make a surprise attack.

As a result... as soon as he arrived, he saw a young man standing at the gate, waiting eagerly, with a calm and indifferent expression, not at all like a scholar who had committed a crime and was about to be investigated.

As the highest official of Dali Temple, before he came, he asked people to prepare all the information about He Ruozhuang's relevant personnel.

Xu Mu, the distant cousin of Fan Zhu, the owner of Xianweiju, somehow has a very good relationship with Lu Chu, the Jijiu of the Imperial College.

Came to Luoyang City a month ago and bought the old Zhuangzi of He Ruobi's descendants outside the city.

He lives in Luoyang in the name of studying, but he has nothing to do every day, either eating and drinking in Fan Zhu's Xianweiju, or living in He Ruozhuang outside the city.

There is no movement to study at all.

Oh, by the way, at Princess Yongchang's banquet two days ago, he met the great Confucian Wang Tong, and he seems to be learning from him these few days.

But... this time, even the great Confucian Wang Tong was missing, and the members of the Wang family were completely blown away and kept putting pressure on him.

In addition to the pressure from King Yue, he also had to face the pressure from the Wang family and Wang Tong's disciples.

You know, last year Wang Tong gave lectures on the bank of Luoshui, and all the capable and talented scholars in the world worshiped him and performed the ceremony of disciple.

So... Huangfu Wuyi took a heavy responsibility on this trip, he must solve the case as soon as possible, and retrieve the Guozijian Jijiu, the great Confucian Wang Tong, and more than [-] supervisors.

"I've seen Dali Temple Minister." Seeing Huangfu Wuyi approaching with a serious face, Xu Mu smiled and bowed to him.

However, Huangfu Wuyi, who was under pressure, did not accept this, and sneered, "Xu Mu, are you guilty?"

Xu Mu showed a look of astonishment, and couldn't help asking: "Dare to ask Dali Temple Secretary, what is my crime?"

Those eyes were pure and innocent, full of innocence.

Huangfu Wuyi wanted to dismount first, and shouted in a deep voice: "When you are about to die, you still want to steal and play tricks. Guozijian Jijiu, Confucian Wang Tong, and hundreds of supervisors are all missing in your He Ruozhuang. How dare you say it's not What did you do?"

After saying this, Huangfu Wuyi waved his hand to signal his subordinates, and shouted viciously: "Where are the left and right? Take him down for me and take him back to Dali Temple for interrogation!"

Originally, he wanted to question Fan Zhu, but Fan Zhu went to the Yue Palace to report the case in person last night, and was already detained in the Palace by His Royal Highness.

So he could only blame Xu Mu. After all, Xu Mu was Fan Zhu's distant cousin and the current owner of He Ruozhuang.

In his mind, Xu Mu, a scholar, was frightened by his attitude of asking for guilt, and the subsequent case would be easier to handle.

He has confirmed that this case must be committed by He Ruozhuang's people.

Otherwise, why would hundreds of people just disappear in broad daylight?

However... when the jailer of Dali Temple came forward with chains, the expressions of the guards beside Xu Mu changed, and they quickly guarded in front of him.

As for Xu Mu, his expression was as usual, he shook his head again and again and said: "What is the meaning of Dali Siqing? It is true that people disappeared in my He Ruozhuang, but who can prove that I, He Ruozhuang, did it?"

"This is a major case, His Royal Highness Yue personally supervised the handling. I don't know if His Royal Highness wanted to take me, He Ruozhuang, into custody? For no reason, he framed me as a scholar. Could it be that His Royal Highness Yue is kind and tolerant?"

"The minister of Dali Temple wants to learn from Zhang Tang, a cruel official. He doesn't ask for evidence during interrogation. He doesn't care about the reasons. He beats him into tricks and closes the case hastily?"

Xu Mu's righteous words left Huangfu Wuyi speechless.

Indeed, he didn't get Yang Tong's order, although he asked for instructions on whether to take everyone in He Ruozhuang into custody.

But His Royal Highness King Yue was generous and benevolent, he only punished the chief culprit, and he didn't want to get involved, so he just put Fan Zhu under house arrest.

Xu Mu shouted and asked, Huangfu Wuyi immediately asked the jailer to retreat.

"Naturally, this is not an order from His Royal Highness the King of Yue. Forget it, I don't want to make that soup, so I will let you die plainly!" Huangfu Wuyi put his hands behind his back, snorted coldly, and directly led the people from Dali Temple into the congratulatory room. Ruozhuang.

Xu Mu shrugged helplessly.

Last night, Fan Zhu went to report the crime, and it was exactly as he expected.

Yang Tong, who was taught by Lu Chu, did not want to be implicated by violence at all, so Huangfu Wuyi came to investigate thoroughly.

But for such a big case, Yang Tong must be calmed down, and Fan Zhu is the best candidate to take the blame.

The key is that he is familiar with Yang Tong.

Thinking of this, Xu Mu felt more and more that it was the wisest decision for him to hide behind the scenes.

Otherwise, he would be the one under house arrest now.

……

Yue Wangfu.

Fan Zhu was placed under house arrest in a wing room, with soldiers guarding the door, and he was not allowed to go out for half a step.

Only now did he understand the meaning of the last sentence the lord said when he asked him to report the crime.

At that time, the lord patted him on the shoulder, and his expression seemed to be... maybe with a hint of guilt.

"Old Fan, this time, you have a great responsibility. After you come back, your Xianweiju dividend will increase to 15.00%!"

Thinking of this, the corners of Fan Zhu's mouth twitched and he sighed.

If possible, he would rather not have this 5.00% dividend.

Last night, Yang Tong was furious. If he hadn't flattered him well in the past, he might not be under house arrest now, but directly sent to prison.

However, out of blind trust in Xu Mu, he was not very worried about his own safety.

The lord said that if you let him endure for a few days, he will be released.

……

He Ruozhuang.

Huangfu Wuyi led the people from Dali Temple and began to wander around He Ruozhuang... Ahem, searching everywhere.

At this time, Huangfu Wuyi was pointing at the dozens of black pigs raised in the pigsty, and asked coldly, "What is this?"

Xu Mu was overwhelmed by the stench in the pigsty, and quickly covered his mouth and nose and said, "Pig."

"Of course I know these are pigs. I'm asking you, why do you raise pigs in He Ruozhuang?" Facing a group of black pigs and the stench all over the sky, Huangfu Wuyi seemed unaware.

All the people in Dali Temple covered their mouths and noses, and looked at Huangfu Wuyi with admiration.

The boss is the boss, facing such a stench, he didn't change his face and breathed as usual.

Xu Mu also took a deep look at Huangfu Wuyi, and found that he was really breathing...

Immediately cast a look of admiration.

The unimproved black pigs of this era are full of foul smell, extremely unpleasant, and the degree of irritation is several times that of the big white pigs of later generations.

Every time Xu Mu and Tiefutu's personal guards approached here, they dared not breathe.

Only the two swineherds were able to look normal and enjoy it.

From this point of view, Xu Mu even wanted to bring Huangfu Wuyi back to Wanmin City to raise pigs.

Talent.

Moreover, in history, this person was quite courageous and flexible.

He was one of the seven nobles in Luoyang. After Wang Shichong conspired to rebel, he joined forces with Duan Da to massacre Lu Chu and other nobles.

He was the only one who escaped, and while running away on horseback, he also cursed loudly, making Wang Shi so angry that his teeth itched.

"I'm asking you something! Why do you raise pigs in He Ruozhuang?" Huangfu continued to ask with a blank expression on his face.

Xu Mu's expression froze, and he said seriously: "It's a long story, and I have to start with two big white pigs..."

Seeing Xu Mu's posture of making a tirade, Huangfu Wuyi snorted and interrupted: "It's a long story, so let's make it short! You are a good scholar, why do you want to raise pigs in He Ruozhuang?"

He pressed on every step of the way. In his opinion, if something goes wrong, there must be a demon.

Normal people would never raise pigs in Zhuangzi.

This is totally against common sense.

He stared at Xu Mu with sharp eyes, and asked again: "Say! You are a scholar, why do you want to raise pigs outside the city?"

Xu Mu showed an innocent expression again, "This...does it mean that raising pigs outside the city violated the imperial law?"

The Kaihuang law is the Sui law compiled and usurped during Yang Jian's period, and it is very complete.

"Stop making sophistication! Raising pigs outside the city does not violate the law, but... as a scholar, you don't study well, but you want to raise pigs. I suspect that you have ulterior motives and schemes!"

Xu Mu looked at Huangfu Wuyi speechlessly, wondering if this Dali Siqing was under too much work pressure, why did he have to get entangled with his pig?

I'm just raising a pig, and it can be related to conspiracy...

I can't let my pigs eat all those hundreds of supervisors, right?

Seeing that Xu Mu didn't speak, Huangfu Wuyi thought that he had been told what was on his mind, and quickly said sternly: "Quickly recruit! Why do you want to raise pigs?"

Xu Mu could only put on a bitter face, and sighed helplessly: "Your Excellency, this pig...is not raised by me, but by my cousin Fan Zhu..."

Facing the menacing Huangfu Wuyi, Xu Mu felt that he had better not touch his brow.

Otherwise, he really punished himself for the crime of "a scholar who doesn't study well but wants to raise pigs", what can he do?

Xu Mu sighed in his heart, so he could only let Fan Zhu take the blame. Anyway, he was already under house arrest, as the saying goes, the debt is too heavy...

And in the eyes of everyone, he is just a scholar who eats and drinks, relying on Fan Zhu's protection, doing nothing...

Huangfu Wuyi had originally prepared countless arguments, and he planned to directly refute Xu Mu after he opened his mouth.

From the way of Confucius and Mencius to being loyal to the emperor and loving the country, we are going to make charges against him, so let's take Xu Mu back to Dali Temple first.

In the end...Xu Mu lightly said, he wasn't raised by him...

Huangfu Wuyi was so depressed that he couldn't express it, he was extremely uncomfortable, and his face was flushed.

On the side, two pigherds exuding a peculiar smell heard what Xu Mu said, and immediately understood, nodded in support and said, "Yes, my lord, Dong Fan asked us to do all of this."

Xu Mu saw that these two swineherds were so knowledgeable, his eyes lit up, and he added chicken legs to them tonight.

Huangfu Wuyi heard the words, held his breath even more, had nowhere to vent, and glared at the swineherd viciously.

The people from Dali Temple covered their noses and mouths and searched around the third and outer floors of the pigsty, but found nothing unusual.

"Go, go elsewhere!"

The search was fruitless, Huangfu Wuyi suppressed his anger and left the pigsty.

Not long after, Huangfu Wuyi searched the outer village, and came outside the towering earthen wall of the inner village.

With just one glance, he could see the unusual layout of this inner village.

Where is this Neizhuang? This is simply a small city.

Ten steps and one guard courtyard echo each other; the courtyard wall is towering, which is convenient for defense; there is a sentry tower inside, which can observe the enemy's situation...

Seeing this, his expression turned cold, and he stared at Xu Mu again.

To be on the safe side, he asked first: "Who built this courtyard wall? Could it be Fan Zhu again?"

(End of this chapter)