Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 144
"Lang Jun, something happened!"

Jiang Cheng panicked and ran across the backyard from the shop, and went straight to the back hall.

"Outside, there is a fight outside, Goro and Jingzhao Mansion Bapincang Cao are fighting..."

The two people in the hall were sitting together discussing the matter of publishing books. Xue Bai asked, "Since there is a fight, will Wulang suffer?"

"This……"

Jiang Cheng didn't know how to answer. Fighting with officials was a serious crime, not a question of whether he suffered or not.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Xue Bai got up and said, "I'll go over and have a look."

Only then did he walk to the back door of the shop, and when he turned around the screen wall, he could see Du Wulang standing on the counter, jumping and screaming.

"I've seen it all, Yuan Kang did it first, and he will testify to me when he arrives at Jingzhao Mansion... Fight back, beat him up!"

"Don't worry about beating him up, I'll take care of it if something goes wrong, I've been in Jingzhao Mansion Prison twice..."

Daxi Yingying came to Japan today to talk about things, and as soon as he arrived outside the gate, he directly ordered his followers to help Du Wulang.

That being the case, Xue Bai didn't plan to show up, so as not to cause trouble, and the teacher would be unhappy again.

"It's okay, let's keep working, Mr. Jiang should put some medicine on his face?"

"It doesn't matter, little old man, but this... Yuan Kang is the son-in-law of Youxiangfu."

"know."

Du Yu heard it funny, and glanced at Xue Bai, thinking that the Right Prime Minister's Mansion once wanted him to be his son-in-law, but he didn't want to.

She is still busy, since she left by the back door, she will go elsewhere to buy a workshop.

Although Jiang Cheng knew that Xue Bai was not an ordinary person, he didn't have a specific understanding of the background of the master's family. At this time, he couldn't help but feel uneasy, and asked, "Mr.

"Not urgent."

After a while, the guards' attendants had knocked Yuan Kang and the others to the ground, and further away, people from the Dongshi Administration were coming.

Xue Bai suddenly thought of another matter, changed his mind, and strode forward.

Jiang Cheng hurriedly followed, thinking that Mr. Lang could be counted on to calm down the situation.

Yuan Kang was not injured when he fell to the ground, those servants had sense of proportion, they just tripped and held him down, and when he raised his head again, he was taken aback.

"Xue Bai?"

Yuan Kang knew Xue Bai, and met him as his brother-in-law in the Youxiang Mansion on the Shangyuan Festival.

Then, the little fat man just now is Du Wulang, who is a little famous in Chang'an.

"Ha, Xue Bai, if I had said earlier that this place is your property, I wouldn't touch it." Yuan Mo shouted: "This matter is over, that's all."

Seeing that the master's family was indeed of extraordinary status, Jiang Cheng finally let go of his uneasy heart.

The next moment, his eyes widened.

I saw Xue Bai walking up to Yuan Kang and kicking him.

"Ah You……"

Xue Bai kicked hard, several kicks passed by, Yuan Ji screamed in pain.

"Stop! What are you doing? Dare to beat up the court officials? Take them all and take them away!"

Officials from the Dongshi Administration came and stopped quickly.

Jiang Cheng's heart that had just been let go was suspended again, and he was taken to the East Municipal Office in a panic.

He was the first to be interrogated.

……

"Sold yourself as a servant? Old Jiangtou, you have been in Dongshi longer than my grandfather. Tell me honestly, which god did you sell yourself to, and you dare to beat the son-in-law of the right minister's mansion?"

Jiang Cheng put his hands in his sleeves again, buried his head very low, and said, "Cheng Shu, when I passed the deed, the name of the master's family was not Mr. Xue Lang. Actually, I don't know who it is."

"I don't know? Are you confused? Don't you think you've lived too long?!"

Jiang Cheng didn't dare to answer, he looked up and saw a small official walking around Dong Shicheng.

"Cheng Shu, I found out that the old Jiangtou was sold to Mrs. Guo's mansion, and the bookstore is now also owned by Mrs. Guo."

"Ah this!"

Seeing Dong Shicheng standing up suddenly, Jiang Cheng shrank back in fright, but the next moment his hands were pulled towards him enthusiastically.

"Old Jiang, my family has been with you for more than thirty years, how can you throw such a difficult problem to me? Why don't you have a drink together? Tell me how I should deal with this matter..."

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Du Wulang looked at the classroom he was in, it was only a place to take care of them temporarily.

He poked his head and looked back, surprised: "Is there a prison inside?"

"Dongshi Prison is under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Mansion."

Du Wulang had a lot to talk about in this regard, saying: "I didn't know this place before, I thought there were only four prisons in Chang'an."

"Who said that? There are 26 official prisons, large and small, in Chang'an City."

"26? There are so many?"

It was the first time for Daxi Yingying to come to the classroom, and she looked around curiously. When the yamen servant finished chatting with Du Wulang and walked out, she couldn't help asking Xue Bai: "I don't know why the gentleman insisted on kicking the son-in-law of the right minister's mansion?"

She asked a question that Xue Bai didn't want to answer, so he closed his eyes and rested his mind, ignoring it.

Daxi Yingying had no choice but to look at Du Wulang.

Du Wulang knew it, but he couldn't say it. He blushed a little and was at a loss.

He thought to himself, what other reason could Xue Bai have?It's just that he has to commit more small things, so that he doesn't look like a person who committed big things.

Those who sat in the class of Dongshi Department and those who were imprisoned in Beiya Prison did not look like the same kind of people.

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Beiya Prison.

A young man in a blue official robe handed over his paperwork and said, "Jingzhao Mansion Law Cao Lu Qi was ordered to investigate the murder case in the suburban posthouse in Chang'an, and would like to ask the imprisoned Jifang boy a few words."

"Retire! This is the Beiya Prison, an unusual government office."

Lu Qi smiled, quietly handed over a small silver collar, and said, "Please look, general, I have documents from Taiwan Province, and it is indeed an urgent business."

"The witnesses here are involved in the Daozhengfang murder case. What does it have to do with the suburban posthouse murder case?"

"I found out that the two cases are related, and I want to confirm it." Lu Qi said: "By the way, my family ancestor was the prime minister in the early Kaiyuan period and the uncle of Yuyang County. .”

"Okay, Lu Facao please."

Lu Qi crossed his hands and saluted again, then walked into the Beiya Prison until he reached the cell where Jifang Xiaoer was imprisoned.

Four of the six chicken farm children died that night, and only two were imprisoned here, and they looked half dead.

Lu Qi beckoned them to the fence and said, "I am in charge of this case and can save your lives, as long as you tell me the truth. Are you being bribed?"

"buy?"

Seeing their confused faces, Lu Qi said: "Your companion who stabbed the barbarians to death in the Western Regions is called Liu Yun, right? I have found out that he got a lot of money that night and hid it in the chicken house. You still don't say what he has?" abnormal?"

"Correct!"

"Yes, it's Liu Yun. I remembered it. At that time, we had put the fighting cocks back in the chicken workshop, and Liu Yun had to go to Qingmen to drink..."

Lu Qi asked: "Can you think of who bought Liu Yun? You can only live if you think of it."

"Mid-Autumn night, he was with us all the time before the cockfight, and was called away only once before nightfall. He seems to be in debt to gambling, right? Was it the chicken prodigy who called him away? Yes, it was the chicken prodigy."

"Are you sure it's Jia Chang? Did you see it?"

"At that time, what I shouted was 'Liu Yun, the chicken boy let you go'."

A light flashed in Lu Qi's eyes, and he asked, "Shangzhu Country Zhang's eldest daughter, Aunt Zhang, do you know each other?"

"Mrs. Zhang, she often gambles with the chicken prodigy."

"Did you see her at the Chicken House that night?"

"This……"

The cockfighting boys hesitated, nodded tentatively, and then said firmly, "Yes, I saw her!"

Only then was Lu Qi satisfied. It was not difficult for him to speculate on this matter, and today's visit can be regarded as "confirming" this conjecture.

After leaving Beiya Prison, he drove his horse back to Jingzhao Mansion, and the servants in the Yamen Office saluted him when they saw him.

"Lu Facao."

"Where is Yuanhu Cao?"

"Hucao left in the morning, and seems to have brought someone to Dongshi to collect taxes."

Lu Qi actually wanted to ask Yuan Kang about something related to the case. Both of them worked in Jingzhao Liucao at a young age, and they usually had a very good friendship.

Walking through the long corridor, I met Cao Peixuan, the son of Pei Kuan, in Jingzhao Mansion Cang.

"Ziliang." Pei Qiao nodded.

"Brother Shi Ming." Lu Qi stopped and asked suddenly, "Brother Shi Ming and Zhang Liangdi's elder sister know each other?"

Pei Qiao was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head.

Lu Qi was surprised, and laughed at himself: "I misunderstood. By the way, everyone in Chang'an is now singing "Shui Tiao Ge Tou". Brother Shi Ming always knows Xue Ci, right?"

"There is indeed a relationship. Xue Lang is talented, and I also admire him."

With a smile on his face, Lu Qi took Pei Qiao to the public room for a detailed talk, all of which were about Xue Bai's famous deeds in Chang'an, and gradually, he talked about the giant stone cannon.

"There is such an all-rounder in the world who can make weapons. I don't know if General Wang has captured Shibao City now?"

"Yes, I hope that Tang Dynasty can win another battle." Pei Qiao's expression did not change at all.

Lu Qi said a few more words, and seeing that nothing came out of the test, he bid farewell to Pei Qiao and went to find Jingzhaoyin and Xiao Jiong.

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"If Xue Bai expelled Wang Zhongsi's veterans to kill Pei Mian and the Huihe people, and Zhang Liangdi ordered people to plant Anlu Mountain, then all the pros and cons would make sense."

"But it's just that the pros and cons have been clarified, there is no evidence."

Xiao Jiong thought to himself that Cao Jiwen, the former lawmaker, did the same thing, sketching out the context of the matter in his mind and directly interrogating people, but this case is different.

"Zi Liang, you are talented and intelligent, but you can't learn from Ji Wen in handling cases." Xiao Jiong said: "Without evidence, no one would believe that a young man can do such a great thing, let alone he is the righteous brother of a noble concubine."

"Yes." Lu Qi said: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would hardly believe that someone is so cunning at such a young age. But it is because he is too cunning that he cannot escape. We can guess it is him based on his pros and cons. If you can guess, as long as you can convince the sage, you will be considered as fulfilling the right minister's order."

"How to prove it?"

"I have a solution." Lu Qi said, "But we still need to understand Xue Bai better."

"You Prime Minister's Mansion has ordered people to investigate what Xue Bai has been up to lately..."

Speaking of this, there was movement in the courtyard.

"Jing Yin, something happened!"

"What's the panic?"

"Yuanhu Cao fought with people in Dongshi, and the order did not dare to deal with it..."

The next moment, someone rushed over and said, "Jing Yin, Xue Bai beat Yuanhu Cao at Dongshi Chengxin Bookstore, and now both parties are in Dongshi Office."

"What?" Xiao Jiong was surprised.

"what?"

Lu Qi couldn't help laughing.

He had recently investigated a major murder case, and he had already sketched an image of Xue Bai in his mind, but he didn't realize that this image suddenly became blurred at this moment.

"Ziliang, can you go with the old man to the East Municipal Office and meet Xue Bai?"

"No." Lu Qi crossed his hands and saluted, and said, "This beast is treacherous and cunning, it is not appropriate for him to find out that I have tracked him down."

"But you want to know him?"

"Your Majesty will find a way."

Although Lu Qi didn't go to see Xue Bai at Dongshi Office, he changed into plain clothes and went to Dongshi Chengxin Bookstore.

He pretended to be a student preparing to take the Chunwei exam and wanted to buy scriptures.In fact, he entered the officialdom when he was less than 20 years old, and he took the position of Ji Wen within five years.

"By the way, I heard that there is a famous Xue Lang in Chang'an. Are there any collections of his poems here?"

"Xue Lang's collection of poems?"

"Yes, I would like to buy a copy."

"Then... the guest officer can leave an address, and if the store publishes it in the future, it will be sent to the guest official's mansion."

"Okay, is your bookstore going to publish books?"

Asking these casually, Lu Qi observed the bookstore, found nothing special for the time being, turned and left.

The next day, he went to the clan's home.

Lu Qi was born in the fourth family of the northern ancestor of the Lu family in Fanyang. His grandfather was Lu Huaishen, a famous minister in the early Kaiyuan period.And the one he visited was the great house of the northern ancestor of the Lu family, after Lu Chengqing, the prime minister of the Gaozong Dynasty...actually he didn't know him very well, but he heard that the Lu family wanted to recruit Xue Bai as his son-in-law.

It's a pity that I didn't find out too many useful things this trip.

However, Lu Qi felt very strange, why did Xue Bai firmly reject the Lu family and the Cui family?If you don't marry women with five surnames, who else do you want to marry?
Thinking about this, Lu Qi went to the Imperial College again, and finally got something.

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Prince's other courtyard.

Zhang Ting is playing with dominoes alone in the house, learning his skills, in order to prepare for the saint's tiles to meet his opponent at the next imperial banquet.

But when she looked at the case on the table, what she was thinking about was still the situation in the Eastern Palace.

Recently, Li Mi irritated her a little bit again, and even suggested to the prince again, thinking that it was inappropriate to frame Anlu Mountain, and urging the prince to appease the miscellaneous Hu on the grounds that the situation in Hebei was the most important.

"An Lushan blatantly ignored His Highness at the imperial banquet. If His Highness can take the initiative to let go of him, give in and admit his mistakes to resolve the dispute, the saint will not worry, he will only think that His Highness is sensible and not suspicious..."

Probably because of these words, or the principle of "goodness is like water" and "no movement is worse than stillness", Li Heng and Zhang Ting complained, saying that Li Bi was extremely talented, but he was never the only prince in consideration.

Donggong should not take the initiative to bear the burden of the husband and wife's intentions at the moment, and should take advantage of Wang Ji and Yang Zhao's help, and go all out to confirm the crime of An Lushan, so that the saint can see the face of Zahu clearly.

Faintly, Zhang Ting still had another idea—in case the Jiedu envoys of Fan Yang and Pinglu were replaced, the military power in the hands of Wang Zhongsi, the prince's righteous brother, might be enough to protect the crown prince.

She knew that this thought was dangerous, and she felt guilty and uneasy.

But she didn't dare to tell Li Heng about this, because she was worried that Li Heng would suspect her in turn.She is too young and lacks a capable confidant to refer to.

It's hateful that she was imprisoned in this prince's other house, which made her under the control of others from the beginning.

"Second mother."

Suddenly, he heard a soft call from outside the door, and Zhang Ting knew that he was a confidant servant just by the address.

"Come in and say, what's the matter?"

"Auntie sent a gift to Erniang..."

It was a small porcelain bottle, maybe it was used to hold elixir, but it seemed to be empty inside, and it made no sound when shaken, the bottle mouth was very thin, and nothing could be seen inside.

Zhang Ting asked his confidant maid to close the door, wrapped the porcelain bottle in fine cloth, and smashed it.

Sure enough, there was a secret letter inside, and upon opening it, it was Xue Bai's handwriting.

Xue Bai is Yan Zhenqing's disciple, and he has learned a beautiful eight-point regular script.Earlier, when Du Hongjian investigated the fraud case of Guozijian, he specifically mentioned this matter to the East Palace.

When Zhang Ting went to the palace to play cards, he had seen Xue Bai's story scroll many times, and he knew it immediately.

"In the corner of tomorrow, welcome the auspicious view."

There are only these seven words, but Zhang Ting feels chills down his spine.

She suddenly realized that the Mid-Autumn Festival was not because of Xue Bai's words.

He just said that on purpose, to lead her to deal with Zahu.Afterwards, Wang Hao and Yang Zhao attacked Zahu one after another, and it was also his handwriting... That young man was far more terrifying than expected.

When we meet tomorrow, is it because he wants to get rid of the miscellaneous beard in one fell swoop?
Zhang Ting couldn't help hesitating, thinking whether he should tell Li Heng about this...

　I'm sorry, it's too late today, and there is not enough time every day~~ However, I still wrote more than 8500 words, which is still an extraordinary performance~~ I worked too hard, ask for a monthly pass, ask for a monthly pass~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)