Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 127 A Helping Hand

At night, Fanning made an excuse to go out for a walk, lit a stick of incense behind his dormitory, and waited patiently.

At first, Fan Ning thought that Wang Anshi was protected by bodyguards secretly, but Wang Anshi was just as surprised when he saw the arrow, which overturned Fan Ning's initial guess that it was not Wang Anshi's bodyguards.

Who would that be?

Fan Ning thought about it for a day, and finally he thought of someone. Although Fan Ning felt that this possibility was unlikely, it did exist.

Just as Fan Ning was meditating, a figure of medium build appeared from afar.

"It's really you!"

When someone approached, Fan Ning laughed, "I thought you went back to Wujiang last year, but I didn't expect you to be still in Wu County?"

The person who came was Xu Qing. Although he was not tall or strong, Fan Ning knew that he had real kung fu.

Real kung fu does not mean that he can break Yang Du's legs, but that he can carry two hundred catties of gold and fly over walls, which is definitely not something that ordinary martial arts practitioners can do.

Xu Qing's face was frosty, and he said coldly: "I only obey the master's arrangement!"

Fan Ning found that these martial arts practitioners all had the same face. Dabao Jian Caimeizi treated him indifferently, and had never seen her smiling face. The same was true for this Xu Qing, as if he owed him hundreds of pennies and hadn't paid him back.

But this is just a joke. Xu Qing has been silently protecting himself for two years. On Xu Qing's body.

Fan Ning bowed and saluted, "Thank you brother Xu for always secretly protecting younger brother!"

Xu Qing's face softened a little, without the coldness just now, but still expressionless.

"If you have any orders, my little official, please tell me!"

Fan Ning took out a short crossbow arrow made of pig iron from the leather bag he carried with him, handed it to Xu Qing, and asked with a smile, "I will return it to the original owner, right?"

Xu Qing took the short arrow, lifted the short skirt, and put the short arrow in a leather pouch. Fan Ning saw at a glance that there were two other identical short iron arrows.

Fan Ning was amazed by this, it was really a hidden weapon thrown out by hand, it could actually shoot through the bull's head, the strength is amazing.

Fan Ning said again: "I invite you here because I want you to help me track down the murderer of the shocking cow case. This person is called Qiu Yong, and he also has a follower. I don't know what he looks like, but I only know his name."

Xu Qing was silent for a moment and said: "There are three murderers who herded cattle and injured people. After the accident, they ran away separately. I followed two of them all the time. Later, they discovered that I was following them, so they ambush me in the woods to plot against me. , As a result, one person was killed by me, and the other person is still tied up in the woods, I don’t know if he was eaten by wild animals.”

Fan Ning was overjoyed immediately, and hurriedly said, "I'll go and inform the county magistrate, you will take us to the woods outside the city!"

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The one who was really overjoyed was Wang Anshi. He was still waiting for news from Yang Dutou in the county government. I am really passive.

Unexpectedly, at this critical moment, Fan Ning brought news that the murderer was caught by his guards, and one died and the other was injured.

At that moment, Wang Anshi wanted to cry up to the sky, and he didn't care about asking Fan Ning's guards' origins, so he personally led a dozen archers to the woods outside the city.

Fan Ning naturally followed, but Xu Qing didn't. He just gave Fan Ning a map.

With this map, Wang Anshi easily found the place where the murderer was bound.

"it's him!"

Wang Anshi recognized the person tied to the tree at a glance. It was Qiu Yong, the murderer of the cow scare case.

Qiu Yong was hungry and thirsty, his whole body ached, and he was almost dying of torture.

But when the county magistrate Wang Anshi appeared in front of him with a group of archers, Qiu Yong's eyes suddenly showed despair, and he would rather continue to be tied to the big tree.

"Gag him and take him away!"

Wang Anshi gave an order, and the archers tied Qiu Yong again, gagged him, and pushed him into an ox cart. The bodies of Qiu Yong's entourage were also found, and they were thrown into the ox cart together.

Wang Anshi apologized and said to Fan Ning: "I have to interrogate Qiu Yong overnight tonight, so I can't spend more time with my virtuous brother. Brother Yu will remember the righteousness of virtuous brother's action!"

Fan Ning quickly smiled and said, "I'm too happy to be able to help my brother, but I want to remind my brother that although Qiu Yong is a murderer, he may not be the mastermind. Brother must take good care of this person and don't let him be silenced. "

One sentence reminded Wang Anshi, Wang Anshi's eyes showed a trace of coldness, he nodded, "Thank you for the reminder, I will send you back to the county school, and I will not accompany you."

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There is an official house about a hundred steps away from the south of the county government office, covering an area of ​​about ten acres.

This is the home of Zhang Qilin, the county magistrate. Zhang Qilin's native place is from Kuaiji County, but in fact, his father's generation moved to Yin County to do business 40 years ago, so he can be regarded as an out-and-out native.

Zhang Qilin is about 40 years old. He has fair skin and a slightly fat body. He wears a white gown and gauze cap. He is very bookish.

Although he squinted his eyes slightly, there was a cold glint in his eyes, making him look extremely shrewd and cunning.

At this time, Zhang Qilin was sitting in the living room drinking tea with half-closed eyes, and an old man with white beard and hair was sitting next to him.

The old man was leaning on crutches, and looked old, but he begged Zhang Qilin in a low voice.

"I beg the county magistrate to help my son and save his life. This old man is willing to be a cow and a horse to repay the county magistrate."

The old man is Qiu Li, the father of the three Qiu brothers. He just got the news that his youngest son has been captured by Wang Anshi.

Seven lives!
Qiu Li knew very well in his heart that his son was just being used by others, and it was true that his son was the murderer, but what about the mastermind?snort!Can this guy in front of me get away with it?
Zhang Qilin sighed, and said in a pitiful tone: "Mr. Qiu, I sympathize with you and am willing to help you, but this matter, hey! Seven people died, the matter is too big, I am just a little Little county magistrate, don’t say it’s me, I’m afraid even if it’s Wang Anshi, he won’t be able to keep your son, I’m sorry, but I really can’t do anything about it.”

Qiu Li was furious in his heart, he stamped on the ground heavily with his crutches, and said viciously: "Cheng Zhang, don't think I'm an old fool who doesn't understand what's going on here, my Sanlang left a letter saying that it was planned by Long Da, the shopkeeper of Jinfu Bank. Arrange him to do this, who is the owner of Jinfu Bank, don't you and I still not know?"

Zhang Qilin's expression changed, he threw the teacup on the table, and said coldly, "Serve the soup!"

He turned around and walked away, Qiu Li froze. After a while, his eyes showed a fierce look, and he said to himself: "Treat my son like a dog, and finally kill the dog to take the blame. Zhang Qilin, you are so amazing!" , It’s amazing, let’s wait and see!”

He stood up and walked away tremblingly.

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Zhang Qilin returned to the study, immediately wrote a note and handed it to a confidant, "Go and give this note to the third master immediately!"

"Follow the order!" The confidant took the note and hurried away.

Zhang Qilin snorted coldly with his hands behind his back, and he also said to himself: "Wang Anshi, I want to see how you end up this time?"

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Jinfu Money Shop is the largest of the seven money shops in Mingzhou. Everyone knows Long Jun, the shopkeeper of the money shop. Long Jun is very famous in Yin County. He is almost the face of Jinfu Money Shop. When you mention Jinfu Money Shop, you will think of it. Master Long.

But no matter how famous it is, it is only the shopkeeper. The real owner of the money shop is the proprietor behind it, but few people know who the proprietor of the Jinfu Qian shop is.

This low-key and forgotten proprietor was none other than Zhang Sheng, Zhang Qilin's third brother.

Of course, Zhang Qilin's father bought the Jinfu Qianpu not after Zhang Qilin became the county magistrate, but before Zhang Qilin became the magistrate.

It's just that at that time, Jinfu Money Shop only ranked sixth among the seven big money shops. After Zhang Qilin became the county magistrate, Jinfu Money Shop expanded rapidly. In just one year, it became the leader of the seven big money shops. leading.

Everyone said that Jinfu Qianpu was lucky and recruited an extremely capable shopkeeper, Long Da, as if this was the secret of Jinfu Qianpu's rapid expansion.

But who would have thought that the proprietor Zhang of Jinfu Qianpu is actually the younger brother of Zhang Xiancheng.

Zhang Sheng doesn't look like his elder brother Zhang Qilin at all. He looks like his mother with a long handsome face, while Zhang Qilin looks more like his father with a typical Chinese character face.

So these two people stood together. If they didn't know the inside story, no one would dare to believe that they were actually brothers.

A person from the county government handed Zhang Sheng the note from the county magistrate Zhang Qilin. Zhang Sheng opened it and looked at it, his face was a bit perplexed. He thought about it and asked, "What else did the county magistrate say?"

Zhang Qilin's confidant replied calmly: "The county magistrate said that it must be carried out, and it must be carried out to the letter."

Helpless, Zhang Sheng had no choice but to nod: "Go back and tell the county magistrate, and I will execute it immediately!"

Zhang Qilin's confidant turned around and left, Zhang Sheng walked a few steps behind his hands, turned his head and ordered: "Let Erlang and Sanlang come to see me!"

Not long after, two young men aged [-] or [-] walked quickly. Their names were very simple. One was Zhang Erlang and the other was Zhang Sanlang, who were the foster sons of Zhang Sheng.

They are adopted sons in name, but in fact they are Zhang Sheng's confidant thugs. The two have high martial arts skills and specialize in doing some shady things for Zhang Sheng.

"My child sees my father!" The two knelt down and saluted.

"A thing for you?"

Zhang Sheng said gloomyly: "Long Jun is now hiding in the Xiaoyue State Inn outside Dongcheng, kill him and make him commit suicide in fear of crime, understand?"

"The child understands!"

Zhang Erlang and Zhang Sanlang saluted, got up and walked away, watching the two go away, Zhang Sheng sighed, although he couldn't bear Long Jun as a talent, but he also knew that his elder brother was right, in order to protect the Zhang family, he could only take Long Jun Jun, the pawn, was thrown out.

(End of this chapter)