The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 225 Step by step closer to the truth
"It's all here."

On "Happy Spring", Fang Shaobai spread out a lot of documents on the desktop, and motioned Han Rui to take a closer look—these are Fang Zhengkai's life records in the south of the Yangtze River for ten years.

Starting from the second grandfather who went to the south of the Yangtze River to become an official, the picture scroll of the lives of dozens of people in the Fang family's Jiangnan lineage slowly unfolded in front of Han Rui.

Being able to do this in a very short period of time shows that Fang Shaobai's men are very capable.It's not in vain that he spent a lot of money to cultivate them in the past few years, from the shopkeeper on the bright side, to the thugs who do dirty work in private, and even some gray characters who wander between black and white, such as He tried his best to explain the tributaries of the knight-errants in the rivers and lakes, and would try his best to form friendship first if he didn't need it for a while.

Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a period of time is the moment when the seeds he sows can be harvested.

"Hmm. There's a problem."

"Yes, you can see it too?" Fang Shaobai sipped the fragrant tea offered by Bo Chun, and raised his eyebrows.

"The old grievances left by your ancestors..." Han Rui sighed: "It has been dragged on all those years ago, but it seems to be resolved in the end. In fact, it really planted the root of disaster!"

Fang Shaobai also sighed, but he was much heavier than Han Rui, after all, he was the direct descendant of the Fang family! "Isn't it? It's even more difficult for me now."

Judging from the data, the life of the second grandfather Fang Zhijun's generation in Jiangnan was very ordinary, as if there was nothing special, not much different from ordinary officials and officials.

But from some unconfirmed private channels, there are rumors that the second master of the Fang family colluded with Japanese pirates and pirates to plunder folk wealth...

Half of the south of the Yangtze River is near the sea, and many local officials have the task of suppressing bandits.Some of these unscrupulous officials raised their own self-esteem and formed a "cooperative relationship" with the pirates.Privately provide pirates with information about ships going out to sea, so that pirates can rob maritime merchants and seek benefits from it.Waiting for the imperial court to order to suppress the bandits, they can let the bandits be quiet for a while, and even hand over some scapegoats to brush up their political achievements.

It has not been a day since the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River has been corrupted. Even if the imperial court put in a lot of effort to rectify it, it still cannot get rid of the various bad habits that are deeply rooted in the local area.

The second master of the Fang family is very cautious, not only keeps a low profile, but also makes "not much", which is an inconspicuous kind among corrupt officials in the south of the Yangtze River.So in a certain year when the imperial court investigated and dealt with the major corruption case in the south of the Yangtze River, he escaped without any danger, and unexpectedly managed to die well.

"Mr. Wen Chuan has been upright all his life. If he knows that the second grandfather has done such a thing after he went to Jiangnan, his old man will be under the nine springs..."

When Fang Shaobai was collecting information, his mood was very, very complicated.

It turns out that Fang Xuezhen's old marriage is nothing compared to the serious crime of colluding with pirates that can be used to ransack the family and exterminate the entire family!
Many years ago, Fang Xuezhen, the great-grandfather of the Fang family, was afraid that his youngest son, Fang Zhijun, was too stubborn and would interfere with his official career if he left him in the capital to cause trouble, so he did everything possible to get him to the south of the Yangtze River to become a county magistrate.

How could he have thought that Fang Zhijun was not very good at reading, but he was extremely talented in doing this kind of evil heretics?
When he was young, he was a running dog in the capital city, but after becoming an official, he actually learned to collude with pirates!If Fang Xuezhen knew it, he probably regretted that he didn't tie his youngest son tightly to him at the beginning, even if he got into trouble, he wouldn't be able to break the sky!

Han Rui frowned: "I don't know if I should be glad that the second master was not found out back then..."

He was a protector, thinking that if Fang Zhijun was found guilty of serious crimes, De Ling's Fang family would definitely be implicated.

Wait, could it be that the elders of Fang's parents have already noticed that they have to stuff a daughter into the palace as a concubine, and use their status as royal relatives to protect Fang's family in Deling?
"I've already thought of it."

Looking at Han Rui's expression, Fang Shaobai knew what he was thinking.

"They should really not know. If they knew, when Uncle Zhengcaitang returned to Deling, the elders in the family would never let him stay so easily..."

"……Too."

Han Rui agreed with Fang Shaobai's opinion.

But this also proves that the elders of the Fang family are really too dull!

Fang Shaobai sighed again: "Grandfather and father can't be blamed either... They feel guilty for the second grandfather in Jiangnan. After all, it was Mrs. Jin who was able to rectify their name back then, so it can be regarded as wronging Mrs. Wen."

"Even so, you can't be so blind with your eyes open!"

Han Rui couldn't help but slapped the table angrily.

What are you ashamed of?Is Mrs. Moon's tragic status caused by Kim?It's all good fortune, who owes whom?These elders are bound by the so-called sense of guilt, and they probably also have the evasive mentality of "if you don't see or listen, you don't exist". They have deliberately forgotten the Jiangnan branch for many years... the result?

When something happens to Jiangnan Fang's family, will De Ling's Fang family be able to avoid disaster?Oh, maybe because the Fang family has a daughter who is a concubine, she can be spared the death penalty, but the Fang family's family business can't be kept!
"If that's the case, then I at least know the background of those men in black."

Well-trained and mysterious in action, this kind of person will not be an ordinary gangster.Based on Han Rui's rivers and lakes experience, these people should belong to some kind of rivers and lakes organization.

"Some Jianghu organizations specially train this kind of highly skilled but disciplined subordinates for people to hire... or kill people, or robbery, in short, they still do dirty work, but more neatly and efficiently. Of course, there are also people who hire them It’s better to hire a bodyguard from a serious bodyguard bureau than to hire a bodyguard from the nursing home.”

"It's impossible for Tang Bo to hire this group of people to guard the yard... What's so good about his yard... Wait!"

Fang Shaobai suddenly opened his eyes wide.

"Why didn't I think of it!"

"Ok?"

"A Rui, this group of people really came to the nursing home!"

nursing home?

Han Rui was going to be dazed by Fang Shaobai's sudden divine thoughts, what's there to protect in that little courtyard?

"Pirate booty."

Slowly, Fang Shaobai spit out these words.Han Rui's face suddenly changed!
"On that day, Uncle Tang's family returned home by boat with more than a dozen cars of luggage, saying that they wanted to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors."

Fang Shaobai tried his best to recall the situation at that time, and sneered while thinking.

"They're really scheming! They said the name of the Fang family outside the city gate. Who would dare to rummaging through their luggage? Waiting for our family to pick them up and give them a house to help them settle, who would take the risk? At the risk of ruining the reputation of the family, go to see the family wealth brought back by the branch?"

"They didn't recognize their ancestors at all, but they couldn't hide the stolen goods in the south of the Yangtze River, so they brought them to their hometown to collect them!"

Indeed, there's no better place to stash loot than Derling!In Deling County, Fang Xuezhen, Fang Wenchuan, the great-grandfather of the Fang family, is the glory of the whole city, and the Fang family is a local tyrant.Coupled with the dispute between the main family back then, the family felt guilty about the returning Jiangnan lineage, let alone caring about their behavior.

so safe...

Until they couldn't help attacking Fang Shaobai, they showed their feet!

(End of this chapter)