A knife in love

Chapter 1459

While Li Qiufeng was thinking, Zhuang Ma was still talking with everyone.It turned out that not only Li Zhisheng, Pan Shiye, and Master Xue were imprisoned in these stone houses, but also five or six other people were imprisoned, all of whom were well-known wealthy businessmen, wealthy owners, and big landlords in Dongliao County.Among them, Yu Yuanwai fell asleep with his concubine in his arms one night thirty or forty days ago, but woke up to find himself lying here.The rest of the people also found themselves lying in the stone house after waking up after inexplicably fainting for dozens of days.Li Zhisheng and Master Pan were drinking in Houya two days ago for fun, and invited a few fans to add to the fun.Unexpectedly, after getting drunk, he woke up and came here.

Li Qiufeng heard everyone's clamor and thought that these people had been targeted by Japanese pirates long ago.It's just that they didn't know whether it was the Japanese pirates from the southeast or the Yagyu clan who stayed in the lair in Liaodong who entrapped these wealthy gentry.Ma Zhuangzhu and others are all wealthy people. If the Japanese pirates capture them, they can remove all their wealth and use it to recruit soldiers and horses to plot the great Ming Dynasty.It's ridiculous that I thought the Japanese pirates had been holding back, but I didn't expect that they had already attacked secretly.

Thinking of this, Li Qiufeng suddenly had a flash of inspiration, thinking that he and Hou Laowai had seen that fake Hou Laowai in front of the Majiazhuang gate.In addition, there is also the fake Aunt Huang who conspired to poison herself, Master Jiang, Wang Zhuang and others to death in Wangjiazhuang.These people who were locked in each stone room in the stone room were all prominent figures in Dongliao County. If they disappeared suddenly, it would definitely cause an uproar in Dongliao County.Ru Yuanwai was arrested here dozens of days ago, and two other gentry were also imprisoned here more than half a month ago.But although they disappeared, their family members and servants did not report to the Yamen.Perhaps the Fusang people had already sent people to lurk in the homes of these big families, secretly imitating their words and deeds.When the time is right, they will make a sudden move, arrest these big families into the dungeon, and then make people pretend to be these big families, and control these big families in the hands of the Fusang people without anyone noticing.This method is exactly the specialty of the Yagyu clan under the command of Yagyu Zongyan.Could it be that after the battle of Xiuwu County, Liu Shengzongyan still refused to give up and wanted to create a storm in Dongliao County?

While Li Qiufeng was thinking about it, the owner of Ma Zhuang was still talking with everyone.Li Qiufeng watched with cold eyes, but he also heard the matter clearly.These people are different from him and Ma Zhuangzhu. They are all taken into the dungeon after being knocked out. They don't know what happened, let alone who did it.But Li Zhisheng lived in the government office for eight years, and he didn't even know that there was a dungeon hidden in the back garden.When he heard the owner of the horse said that the dungeon was in the bamboo forest in the back garden, he scolded the owner of the horse for talking nonsense and deceiving the public.Master Pan said weakly that the yamen was rebuilt three years ago, and it took more than half a year.At that time Li Zhisheng moved to Ding Ju's family near the Yamen to live temporarily, and he did not move back until the Yamen was built.Perhaps someone dug such a dungeon in the back garden while renovating the yamen house.

Li Zhisheng immediately flew into a rage after hearing Master Pan's words, and said in his mouth: "Old Pan, you are a fucking fool! When I returned to the county government that day, I saw that the back garden had turned into a bamboo forest, which was a bit eerie. I feel very uncomfortable in my heart. It is you bastard who said that bamboo is a gentleman in the tree, and it is very elegant to keep it. Damn it, if I cut all these ghost bamboos according to Lao Tzu's idea that day, I will naturally find them in the garden. We will not be imprisoned here if we have been tampered with!"

Li Qiufeng thought to himself, Li Zhisheng scolded Master Pan for being stupid, but he didn't know that he himself was the stupid one.This person is ignorant and vulgar, but he has been a county magistrate in Dongliao County for many years, and I don't know how he has coped with the imperial court's investigation.

It's just that he just thought of this, and suddenly thought of Huang Chong, the magistrate of Xiuwu County.Huang Chongsu is talented and learned, so he should have made a lot of achievements in his official career.However, in order to keep the secrets of Fengmen Village and Xiuwu County, the head of Fengmen Village, Mrs. Nie, forcefully brought Huang Chong back from the capital to Xiuwu County to become the county magistrate.Over the next ten years, the Nie family went up and down again, so that Huang Chong could only be a seventh-rank county magistrate in Xiuwu County, and could not be promoted to an official position.Idiots like Li Zhisheng have scraped the land in Dongliao County for many years, and they have already scraped the land for thousands of miles, and the people are full of resentment.But this person is still standing still, as stable as Mount Tai, isn't it strange?Most likely the Japanese pirates deliberately kept this foolish man here as an official to make things easier for them.

At this time, Ma Zhuangzhu and Xue Zhuangzhu quarreled again.The two refused to give in to each other, exposing each other's privacy.It turned out that the owner of Xuezhuang went bankrupt from gambling, which almost brought Xuejiazhuang to a dead end.In desperation, he had no choice but to ask the owner of Ma Zhuang for help.At that time, the owner of Ma Zhuang secretly colluded with several green forest cottages in Liaodong. He sold the stolen goods for these green forest thieves, while the green forest thieves protected the wooden rafts placed in the green river by the owner of Ma Zhuang and went southward.It's just that the risk of selling stolen goods is extremely high. If Majiazhuang does it alone, it will inevitably make the government suspicious after a long time.When Zhuangzhu Ma was thinking hard about a countermeasure, Zhuangzhu Xue came to the door himself, which made Zhuangzhu Ma come up with a plan.He handed over most of the jewels robbed by thieves in the green forest to the owner of Xue Zhuang, and Xue Zhuang people led people to sell the stolen goods in Liaoyang and even in the pass. In this way, the risk of Majiazhuang was much reduced.Ma and Xue colluded with each other and made a lot of money in the past few years.It's just that Zhuangzhu Ma has always been worried about Zhuangzhu Xue, and exploited Xue's family very severely, which made Zhuangzhu Xue's boss dissatisfied.Zhuangzhu Xue worked for Zhuangzhuang Ma. After earning money, he repaid usury and still had a lot of surplus. He had long been unwilling to be exploited and oppressed by Zhuang Ma.Today, the two fell into the dungeon, turned their faces after a quarrel, exposed each other's faults, and said harsh words to each other, threatening that once they escaped from the dungeon, the two Zhuangzi would be unequal enemies, and they must be divided into high and low win or lose.

Seeing that these people are still fighting among themselves at such a critical moment, Li Qiufeng despises them all the more.Later, everyone was tired from the quarrel, and finally closed their mouths and stopped talking, and sat in the stone room with their eyes closed to rest their minds.After about half an hour, the owner of Ma Zhuang yelled: "Yu Yuanwai, you have been trapped here for dozens of days, do you often go hungry?"

Member Yu sighed, and said, "It's not that I'm always hungry. According to my calculations, food can be delivered once every 24 hours, with a bowl of water. The food is just a small bowl of brown rice and a small plate of pickles. , I can only say that we will not starve to death. As for eating well, don’t even think about it.”

After Ma Zhuangzhu heard it, he regretted it in his heart.He thought to himself that if he knew this earlier, he should eat all the food brought by the police in the wing room, and he could survive for several days.Although he is not very hungry right now, if he drags on, if those people forget to deliver food to everyone, he will starve to death.

(End of this chapter)