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Chapter 159 Eight pictures in one (1)
Gu Zhen suddenly yelled and jumped up.The time has come, the "Incompetence Victory Fragrance" expired, Gu Zhen strode towards Gu Shentong, took off his robe and wrapped the corpse.Shang Qingying wanted to step forward, but Gu Zhen shouted "Get out", shrugged her shoulders and pushed her away, walking towards the outside of the village alone.

Shang Qingying looked at his back, feeling as if her heart was about to bleed, and it was more painful than Shen Xiu's leaving.The cry came to his lips, and it turned into a series of murmurs: "Zhener, Zhener..." After saying this twice, the world spun for a while, and suddenly passed out.

Lu Jian hugged his mother and looked at Lu Dahai again, feeling very bewildered.Lu Jianhai has experienced the world for a long time, and said: "Jian'er, take your mother back to the house to rest first, and I will take care of Mr. Shen's funeral." Lu Jian smiled bitterly and agreed, and when he saw five robbers coming forward, he ordered five People assisted Lu Dahai in the funeral, and asked Yan Weigui to summon servants from the village to take care of Shang Qingying.

In the middle of the night, Shang Qingying just woke up. She didn't eat, drink, or speak. She just stared at Lu Jian and held onto his hand tightly.Lu Jian had no choice but to stay by the bed.The mother and son faced each other in silence, and Shang Qingying did not fall into a deep sleep until the jade candle was burned out.

Lu Jian retreated from the bedroom and came to the front of the manor, only to see that the wedding hall was all gone, and a mourning hall was erected with white flowers.Looking at the coffin, Lu Jian had mixed feelings.The father and the son have no kindness at all, and Lu Jian's actions are less favorable and more disgusted by Shen Zhouxu's actions. Even so, when he thinks of his biological father in the coffin, he still feels sad in his heart.He stared at it for a while, his eyes gradually blurred.

The slaves came forward to salute, Lu Jian asked: "Where is my grandfather?" Mo Yi said: "The old man is very tired, I let him rest." Lu Jian nodded.Mo Yi said again: "There is one more matter, I still ask the master to decide."

Lu Jian said: "Don't mention the word master. From now on, you will call me Lu Jian." Jie Nu faced each other, and after a while, Yan Weigui said in a dull voice, "Master's name, even if you kill me, you can't call me Lu Jian." Come out." Qin Zhiwei also said: "The master...the master is the master, the slave...the slave is a slave, the small...the slave is humble, and dare not insult the master's name. If you want...or, I...I and the dog leg, the eagle hook The nose is called the master, and the book... the nerd and the pig's ears are called the name." Xue Er said angrily: "The cook is too treacherous, you all call the master, how can we not?"

Qin Zhiwei said: "You...you are you, I...I am me." Suddenly he knelt down to Lu Jian, begging, "Master is merciful, but... let the slave call you master." Yan Wei Gui and Su Wenxiang were always reticent, but at this moment they both knelt down and kowtowed.

Xue Er yelled loudly, knelt down on his knees, and kowtowed three times.Mo Yi wanted to do the same, but was supported by Lu Jian, and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Mo, you have a lot of experience, so quickly think of a way to balance both ends."

During Shen Zhouxu's lifetime, the city was extremely deep, and his emotions and sorrows seldom came from his heart, most of them depended on the situation, and he often spoke ironically, making it difficult for people to guess his thoughts.But Jie Nu was a little contemptuous, and the punishment came immediately.At this time, the old master passed away and a new master was replaced. Lu Jian spoke modestly, which was very different from Shen Zhouxu.However, due to the power of "God's Fortune", when the robber slaves heard the strange words of the new master, they were afraid that what Lu Jian said was ironic. The more sincere Lu Jian said, the more they couldn't believe it.Only Mo Yi, Xue Er, and Lu Jian had some friendship and knew his temperament, but seeing everyone like this, they didn't dare to be different.

Seeing that Mo Yi was hesitating, Lu Jian said seriously, "You know, Mo Yi, I was also a robber slave before, and I suffered a lot from the 'Heitian robbery'." Mo Yi was relieved, and said: "The old master will be the boss before he dies. It has been passed on to you, we don’t call you Master, how about we call you Department Master?”

Lu Jian shook his head and said, "I took Yuzan, but I didn't promise him to be the head of the Heavenly Ministry." Mo Yi said, "You don't want to be the head of the Ministry, so we have to call you the master." Lu Jian looked at the four people on the ground, feeling worried If they don't follow Mo Yi's words, they will not give up, so they can only say: "Forget it, the boss is the boss."

Mo Yi was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Haven't you met the chief yet?" The other four faced each other and shouted a few times.Lu Jian asked again: "Mo Yi, what do you have for me to decide?"

Mo Yi said: "The old master is the governor's staff, and his departure will definitely alarm the government. If Mr. Hu doesn't come up with an explanation, I'm afraid it won't make sense when Mr. Hu asks." Lu Jian felt a headache and asked, "What's your idea? ?” Mo Yi said: “I thought about it, first reported the sudden death at night, and said that because of Shen Xiu’s wedding, she was greatly angered, caused a chronic illness, and died of a stroke. However, the reason must be explained by the mistress.”

Lu Jian thought for a while and said, "That's the way it is." Mo Yi said again: "There is one more thing, please come with me." After that, hold the candle and go first.

Lu Jian followed him to a study room. The shelf was full of ancient books, tens of thousands.Mo Yi went to the east bookcase, pulled out a few books, revealing a little gossip, Mo Yi twisted for a few weeks, the bookshelf retreated, and a secret room appeared.

Lu Jian was greatly surprised, and suddenly saw Mo Yi beckoning, and followed immediately, only to see another gossip on the south wall of the secret room, Mo Yi twisted it again, and the gossip retreated, revealing a three-foot-square dark niche with stacked Books full.Mo Yi took out the books and handed them to Lu Jian one by one.

Lu Jian asked strangely: "What is this?" Mo Yi said: "This is a confidential document of the Ministry of Heaven. This is the list of disciples of the Ministry of Heaven. If the head of the Ministry has this list, he can summon the disciples of the Ministry. This is the The account book of the Ministry of Heaven. As for this notebook, it records the deeds and dispositions of the important people in the ruling and opposition parties today, without any privacy. With this notebook, when the critical moment comes, these people will not be allowed to bow their heads and obediently obey orders."

Curious, Lu Jian read a few pages by the candlelight. The book was divided into six volumes: scholars, farmers, industry, merchants, royal family, and martial arts. Each volume recorded many names that Lu Jianduo didn't know. People's good deeds and evil deeds, many of them are vicious and vicious.

Lu Jian read several pages, disgusted, and turned to the martial arts volume. It recorded martial arts figures from a certain school, a certain province, and a county, and their lives, good and evil.Lu Jian didn't know most of them, so he went all the way to the western part of the city, and saw Wan Guizang first. Below the entries were all praiseworthy words, and the following entries were about the important characters in the eight parts. Presumably to avoid taboos, they only wrote about their good and bad temperaments. Not straight to the point.Lu Jian hurriedly glanced at it, and then looked at the Dongdao volume. Under the article of Gu Shentong, his life story was written, which was probably consistent with Lu Jian's knowledge. Not difficult."

After reading this comment, Lu Jian's heart was filled with displeasure. Looking further, it was Gu Zhen, who briefly described him as the owner of the ring of the God of Wealth.He also wrote that he killed his mother and prostitute, and was trapped in a prison. There was also a comment: it was suspected of injustice.

Lu Jian's heart skipped a beat, and he looked down. He saw Di Xi, and was stunned for a moment. After seeing the name, he wrote: "Adept at dragon escape and blunderbuss, known as the Dragon King of Nine Changes, gloomy, lecherous and cunning, suspicious and The second wife of Gu Shentong, the Bai family, had an affair, and was connected with the Japanese pirates, and spread charcoal to the southeast. The picture is unknown, and it seems that it is not money."

After the comments, he wrote about the fact that Dicky murdered and robbed goods, and raped his wife and daughters. There are as many as eight articles.The last article mentioned Gu Zhen's grievances, and Zhubi commented: This person is suspected.

Lu Jian was sweating profusely from seeing it, and hurriedly tore off the page, put it in his arms and said, "Mo Yi, this notebook exposes people's secrets. If it accidentally falls into the wrong hands, it will be very bad."

Mo Yi said: "I have memorized this notebook for a long time. If the department head feels inappropriate, you can burn it. If you have any questions in the future, just ask Xiao Nu." Lu Jian couldn't help but asked: "Mo Yi, Shen...Mr. Shen knows so much about Di Xi's evil deeds, why didn't he expose him?"

Mo Yi said: "I selfishly speculate that the more Di Xi's evil deeds, the less the old master will tell, and maybe he will hide it from him." Lu Jian frowned and said, "Why?" Mo Yi said: "The worse Di Xi is, the worse he is. , the harm will be even greater if you stay on the East Island. The old master vows to destroy the East Island. Since there are disasters in the East Island, the old master can't wait for it. How can there be any reason to expose it?"

Lu Jian said sadly, "This is too poisonous." He made up his mind even more, found a candle, and burned those notes to ashes.

Looking at the account again, it was full of discrepancies of tens of thousands of taels of silver. Lu Jian was very surprised and asked Mo Yi why.Mo Yi said: "Most of this money is earned in shopping malls and spent in officialdom. Now that the court is fighting fiercely, there is no need for golden guns and silver horses. It is impossible to fight a bloody way. Governor Hu sits in the south of the Yangtze River and spends more than 4 taels a year. Silver is the only way to manage the top one by one. The emperor, eunuchs, concubines, Yan Gelao, Jinyiwei, Dongxichang, and various ministers and censors, more or less, all have to express something. If there is any incompetence, there will be an impeachment memorial , causing wind and rain, one is not good, the official position is not guaranteed, and the life is on the line. Every time in the middle of the year, the end of the year, and the emperor’s birthday, the old master is worried about money. There seems to be a lot of money in this account book, but it is all Less in and more out, last month I spent [-] taels of silver to hunt for white beasts, white birds, and ambergris, so there is not much left now."

Lu Jian sighed: "Chao Gang is so corrupt, it's really frustrating." Mo Yi said: "The old master said the same, but he also said that although Daming was corrupt, it was not corrupt to the bone. You are lucky, you only hold power, eunuchs and powerful officials can only run rampant for a while, and there will be no big waves. After the emperor dies, if there is a Ming emperor and a good minister to take over, the Ming Dynasty still has a chance to rejuvenate."

Lu Jian nodded silently, looked at the secret niche, and asked, "Is there no portrait of Tianbu here?" Mo Yi said, "I've never heard from the old master about the portrait." Lu Jian thought to himself, "The portrait of Tianbu Maybe it’s lost!” At that moment, he handed the roster and account book of the Ministry of Heaven to Mo Yi: “I don’t know much about these things, and you are in charge.” Mo Yi smiled and said, “I was born to do these things, this roster, I have memorized the account books by heart, it is better for the head of the ministry to keep them in the alcove, and just ask the slave when you need to use them."

Lu Jian sighed: "Mo Yi, in the future we will get along with each other, don't call yourself a slave, I'm not happy to hear you screaming awkwardly." Mo Yi's eyes turned red, and he turned around and wiped his eyes with his sleeves.Lu Jianqi asked, "What's wrong with you?" Mo Yi said, "No...it's nothing, there's sand in your eyes."

The two left the study and stayed in the mourning hall until dawn.When Lu Jian returned to the backyard, Shang Qingying had already woken up, and he explained Mo Yi's proposal.Shang Qingying said: "Thanks to his thoughtful thinking, this statement is reasonable and less right and wrong. When the time comes, I will go to the mourning hall to deal with everything, so you don't have to come forward." Lu Jian couldn't wait for it, and quickly agreed.

Shang Qingying took his hand, stared at him for a long time, and sighed: "Jian'er, you have a soft heart, which is very different from Zhouxu, thanks to your old grandfather Dahai, who is old-fashioned and warm-hearted, he can teach you such kindness. child."

Lu Jian scratched his head and said, "He is good in everything, but he likes to gamble, which makes us often hungry." Shang Qingying said: "No one is perfect. It doesn't matter if it is bad in the light, but it is afraid that it is bad in the dark. There is no such thing as yesterday Wedding, I don’t know who Xiu’er is! Alas, it’s a pity that I still think of him as a good boy with a heart of a Bodhisattva...” Shen Xiu was raised by her alone. People, knowing Shen Xiu's true face, the pain in her heart couldn't be increased, and she couldn't help shedding tears as she spoke.

Lu Jian said angrily: "Shen Xiu became like this, it's all due to Shen Zhouxu's connivance. It's my father's fault to raise him or not. He knew that Shen Xiu did evil, but he didn't discipline him. Instead, he colluded to hide you."

Shang Qingying smiled wryly: "That's because he never regarded Xiu'er as his son. After all, Xiu'er is just a pawn in his hand. If Xiu'er is a good person, why would she help him do bad things?" Said At this point, she squeezed Lu Jian's hand tightly, "I know you look down on Xiu'er, but it's your father's fault that he became like this. If he opposes you in the future, you should be magnanimous and don't take his life."

Seeing Shang Qingying's earnest eyes, Lu Jian felt his heart soften for a while, and sighed, "Don't worry, I won't kill him." For details, ask immediately, and when Lu Jian mentioned Yao Qing, Shang Qingying suddenly fell silent, and said: "Jian'er, that Miss Yao is too unusual. I didn't agree with Xiu'er's proposal to marry her at first, but I couldn't bear it later." He had no choice but to agree to his begging. I didn't expect that you and her have a deeper relationship, and you are willing to come and marry her." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, stroked Lu Jian's cheek, and said softly, "I beat you that day , does it still hurt now?"

Lu Jian was lonely and lonely since he was a child, and had never been loved by his parents. Seeing other children being doted on by their mothers, he was very envious.Now a mother fell from the sky, gentle and beautiful, rare in the world, with those gentle palms caressing his cheeks, his heart was both warm and shy. Somewhat sad."

Shang Qingying felt great grief in her chest, and she hugged Lu Jian with her arms wide open, tears falling like rain.Lu Jian couldn't figure out what his mother was thinking, so he let her hug her, and when he thought of his life experience, he also cried along with him.

Suddenly there was a hearty laugh, but it was Lu Haihai who came.The mother and son had just separated, when Lu Haihai came into the room and saw it, he understood a little, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Shen, you are also a person who has gone through a lot of wind and waves. The more you come to this time, the more you have to make up your mind."

Shang Qingying said with a smile: "My mother and son are reunited, thanks to your father, please accept my concubine's worship first." As he said that, he got off the bed and knelt down, Lu Dahai hurriedly supported him, and said repeatedly: "Don't dare, don't dare He also said, "Now that Jian'er recognizes his ancestors and returns to his clan, my old man is considered to have completed his merits and virtues. From now on, he should change his surname to Shen."

Shang Qingying hurriedly said: "No, Jian'er will still follow your old surname Lu. In the future, if you marry and have children, if you have two sons, one surnamed Shen, who will continue the incense of the Shen family, and the other surnamed Lu, who will continue the incense of the Lu family. Not only that, concubine I also want to recognize you as my father, call you daddy, and serve you forever." After saying that, he bowed his knees and bowed, and Lu Jian also knelt down.Lu Dahai panicked and refused again and again, but Shang Qingying's mother and son insisted on not changing.Lu Dahai couldn't handle the two of them, so he had to let go, and Ren Shang Qingying bowed three times.He refused, but he was very happy in his heart, thinking that he was a lonely old man, who should have died alone, but now he can have such a result, it is really God's blessing.Thinking with great joy in his heart, he smiled from ear to ear.

When the news of Shen Zhouxu's death came out, everyone below Hu Zongxian was shocked and came to pay his respects.Shang Qingying has been through many catastrophes, she is gentle on the outside, but very firm on the inside. At this time, she comes out in filial piety, dignified and elegant, without losing courtesy.When the guests asked about Shen Xiu, they made excuses and were punished by Shen Zhouxu, and ran away from home. Yesterday's marriage was witnessed by all, and Shang Qingying's statement did not arouse suspicion.

Before Shen Zhouxu was alive, there were many enemies, Lu Jian led the robbers to guard against him secretly, but fortunately, there was no abnormality from noon to night, only a lot of disciples from the Heaven Department came one after another, all of them were introduced by Yan Weigui to meet Lu Jian.All the disciples knew "whether there are four laws". Seeing that Lu Jian subdued the five slaves, he must be Shen Zhouxu's own son. They also knew that he was the successor of Vajra, and he was the head of the department. Everyone had no objection.

From the bottom of his heart, Lu Jian didn't want to be the head of the Heavenly Department, but after listening to Mo Yi's persuasion, Shen Zhouxu was newly dead, and the Heavenly Department had a large population, and a snake without a head couldn't do it.Lu Jian had no choice but to bite the bullet and accept everyone's visit, thinking that he would wait until the turmoil subsides before gathering his followers and setting up a new master.

Mo Yi also planned on behalf of Lu Jian, leaving second-rank disciples of gold and silver to guard a villa, and the rest of second-rank Ziqing went to the rivers and lakes to spread the news of Shen Zhouxu's death.

At dusk, a disciple suddenly came to report that the study had been stolen.When Lu Jian arrived, the secret room was broken, the dark alcove was uncovered, and the register and ledger were lost.Mo Yi checked carefully, and found that the visitor had not taken away the books, nor had a single page of the roster and ledger been touched, so he said, "It's very dangerous, thanks to the fact that the boss burned the old master's notes yesterday." The silver-pin disciple said: "I was patrolling the south of Zhuangzi just now, and heard a noise above my head. When I looked up, a figure flew past the wall. I chased it for a while, but I missed it. The image on the back is a woman."

"Woman?" Mo Yi frowned.However, Lu Jian guessed a little bit. Following the disciple's description, a slim figure came to mind, and unconsciously sighed: "Since there is no theft, there is no need to pursue this matter. As for the register and account book, I will keep it for the time being." Asked Mo Yi again , "Mr. Shen is also the head of Xicheng. He passed away. Why don't all the ministries of Xicheng come to pay homage to him?"

(End of this chapter)