Daily Life of Jiang Liuniang

   Chapter 986

   After following his father into the prefecture, Jiang Ling asked, "Father, who are these grain merchants?"

   Jiang Erye scolded while washing his hands, "They are all hoarding profiteers who think that if Fu Kaiwen and Zhong Dangtian pay money, they can lie down and make unscrupulous money. Is Dang Laozi blind!"

  Jiang Ling laughed.

   Jiang Erye raised his peach blossom eyes and glared at him, "What are you laughing at?"

   "My father came to Suzhou for a year, and he was somewhat infected with the pride of the Northwest soldiers."

   "Master was originally a heroic hero!" Jiang Erye looked at his skinny son and said distressedly, "Can you have breakfast?"

   Seeing Jiang Ling shaking her head, she didn't need Jiang Erye's instructions to follow Nanny Zhao, who came to Suzhou to take care of Jiang Erye's daily meals, and immediately turned around to prepare.

   After washing his hands, Jiang Ling sat at the table and asked, "Father, where is the second brother?"

   "He and General Lu went out of the city to inspect the frontier defense and will come back tomorrow." Jiang Erye whispered, "Why did you come back now?"

  Jiang Ling said with a smile, "Father Rong Er eats a few bites of food before telling you."

   Jiang Erye snorted, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help curling up. This stinky boy was tense all day in Kang'an, he didn't want to say a word, he didn't want to go back to Suzhou to beat him for a year, but his temperament became lively.

After Jiang Ling finished eating, he invited everyone in the house, including the dark guard who protected Jiang Erye, to go out, and then he lowered his voice and said, "I have something important to report to you, this matter is very important, you can listen to it. Beat the child out of anger, but don't make a loud noise to alarm people outside the house."

   Jiang Erye raised his eyebrows and said excitedly, "What trouble have you caused, let's hear it, and promise my father not to beat you."

   "My son is indeed in trouble." Jiang Ling sat honestly beside his father and said in a low voice, "This matter has to start from six years ago, when my father helped my son to ask Wansui to come to the Meng family's house..."

   Jiang Erye frowned, "You're busy for your father, can't you keep it short?"

   "It's too short to tell."

   Jiang Erye…

   "At the end of October in the sixth year of Jinglong, when the new house was tidying up the corner door, when the steward dug a pit beside the courtyard wall to place the feldspar found by the third uncle, Er and Liuer accidentally discovered a box from the pit..."

   hiss—

   Jiang Erye sucked in a breath of cold air and opened his peach blossom eyes angrily, "How dare you hide such a big thing from Lao Tzu?"

   "Father, please forgive me." Jiang Ling honestly bowed his head and waited to be beaten.

   Jiang Erye first gave his son a slap on the back of the head, pressing his fire, "Continue talking."

   "Yes." Jiang Ling explained exactly what was in the box, how he and his sister thought about it, and the investigation of Zhongmu and Siguniang Mountain.

   Hearing that before his father was murdered, he wrote a memorial to the late emperor to clarify the secret of the Suzhou ink corruption case, Jiang Erye's eyes were red, "What happened later?"

   "After we left Kang'an, my sister continued to investigate the matter and found the words '1384' on the account book. After repeated verification, she found that these four words represent..."

   "Northwest area of ​​Tongjifang." Jiang Erye immediately replied, "What happened there?"

   "Liu'er felt that these four words were deliberately left by Meng Huizhou to lure you into the urn, so he secretly continued to investigate..."

   Jiang Erye corrected seriously, "Master didn't enter the urn, she entered the urn."

   "Father, Liu'er didn't even enter the urn, but dug out a great event from the urn."

   Jiang Ling explained the matter in detail, and Erye Jiang heard his hair stand up several times. After reading the letter his son handed to him, he didn't care about hitting his son and worrying about his daughter, and immediately said, "Go and bring Zheng Jiu in."

Jiang Ling reminded in a low voice, "Father, no matter what Zheng Jiu says, you must write a secret letter word for word and report it to Long Live. In the letter, it must be stated that the letter is from Lord Yin, so that you can verify whether Zheng Jiu is Wei Cong. "

   Jiang Erye said worriedly, "Liuer didn't say that in his letter, but he wrote it for his father. If it's different from what Master Zhang said in front of Long Live, wouldn't that expose Liuer?"

   "Father, don't worry, Liu'er has made it clear to Master Zhang, and there will be no two words in front of Long Live."

   "What if Liuer didn't say anything?"

   "Liu'er must have said it. She didn't write it out because she knew that she could understand without saying it."

  Er Ye Jiang, who didn't understand, looked at Jiang Ling, who understood very well, for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand and gave his son a chestnut, "Don't hurry up and call Zheng Jiu in."

   Zheng Jiu didn't have time to kneel down and salute when he entered the room, Jiang Erye raised his hand to avoid his salute, "Sit down."

   "...Thank you, sir." After sitting down, Zheng Jiu replied a few words, and then began to tell the old events ten years ago impatiently.

   Zheng Jiu is indeed a native of Yushangou Village.

He has been dependent on his father since childhood. Twenty years ago, when Zheng Jiu was eleven years old, his father went hunting in the mountains and fell off a cliff and was seriously injured. Block the door of the hospital. When Zheng Jiu knelt down and begged Langzhong bitterly, Wei Bin, who was out of the palace to work on errands, passed by and saw his filial piety, so he gave him twenty taels of silver to save his father.

   But Zheng Jiu's father died directly in the medical hall due to his injuries. Hei Xin Langzhong saw that Zheng Jiu was young, so he became greedy, swallowed twenty taels of silver, and threw Zheng Jiu's father's body outside the medical hall. While holding his father's body and crying bitterly, Zheng Jiu was met by Wei Bin, who had returned from work.

   Although Wei Bin did not reveal his identity, the people in the medical clinic knew that he was not offended by his clothes, so he had to spit out the money. After Zheng Jiu used twenty taels of silver to buy a coffin to bury his father, he still made a living by hunting. When he was fifteen years old, he went to the city to sell the birds he caught, and met his benefactor Wei Bin again.

  The old Wei Bin bought a house in Tongjifang and was going to leave the palace for retirement. Because it was inconvenient for him to leave the palace, he gave Zheng Jiu some silver coins and the keys to the house, and asked him to buy furniture for him. Zheng Jiutu was convenient, so he used the name "Wei Cong" when working for Wei Bin, calling him Wei Bin's son.

   After the death of the late emperor, Wei Bin left the palace, when Zheng Jiu visited him at the Wei house. Finding Wei Bin sick in bed, he stayed to take care of him for more than ten days. Later, Wei Bin handed a burden to him, and asked him to take the burden out of the city and hide it secretly, so as not to step into the Tongji Square.

  When Wei Congzai entered the city as Zheng Chunjiu, a bird seller, he heard that Wei Bin had been killed.

When Wei Cong said this, he couldn't help but wipe his tears, "Uncle Bin made the villain swear a poisonous oath that he must hand over this burden to a loyal and good minister. At that time, the villain asked Uncle Bin: Which adult is this? A loyal minister? Uncle Bin asked the villain to wait for five years before handing this burden to the most respected and popular young adult in Long Live."

"Who knew that in the twelfth lunar month of Jinglong's fourth year, Sir, you found a white tiger in the north of Yushan Mountain. Long live Yushan, and the cave that the white tiger chose to live in is the one where the villain hides the burden. The villain is afraid that the burden will be discovered. He only sneaked into Yushan twice, and wanted to take out the burden and hide it, but was caught by Yu Linwei and sent to Yingzhou to do hard labor for five years."

   Jiang Erye…

  Jiang Ling…

   This is really…

Jiang Erye raised his hand and let out a low cough, and then heard Zheng Jiu continue, "Five years after the villain was assigned to Yingzhou, and returned to Beijing with the little general Jiang Xijing, I feel that you are the most valuable long-lived person in Uncle Bin's mouth. , the most popular young adults."

"The villain wanted to go to Yushan to take out the burden and hand it over to you, but the villain went into the mountain to explore the road and came back to find out that you have requested an order to go to Suzhou to save the people. The villain thought of waiting for you to finish. When I'm back in Beijing, I'll take out the burden and give it to you."

   Jiang Erye…

  Jiang Ling…

   It's too late to catch the worms, please bear with me and catch them again at noon.

   (end of this chapter)