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However, in just ten days, Su Jian's life underwent a series of earth-shaking changes.

His father was imprisoned for corruption and will soon be executed. The Su family was also raided. Now the whole family can only live in their mother's natal home. Her mother is seriously ill, and her grandparents have died one after another due to this blow. The Su family is in turmoil and is in danger.

Su Jian went from a high-ranking young master overnight to the son of a criminal who everyone wanted to beat.

For the first time, Su Jian experienced the feeling of having no way to ask for help.

He firmly believes that his father is innocent, and his father will never do such a thing in his pure life! He went to visit his father's old friends and wanted to ask them to help clear his father's innocence, but he received countless rejections:

"Sorry, my master is not here."

"Master Su, please come back."

"Our master is out."

Su Jian spent three days knocking on every door he could think of, but received only cold rejections.

For the first time, he understood what is the warmth and coldness of human relationships, and the coldness of tea when people leave.

Just when he was filled with despair, his brain, which had been turned into a mess by these repeated blows, suddenly had an idea and thought of the boy who told his fortune in the antique street before.

When the boy said that his engagement would be broken off in ten days, he still scoffed. Now that he thinks about it, it doesn't seem impossible?

He grabbed the last straw like a drowning man and ran towards the antique street quickly.

Fate failed him once again.

The boy disappeared from the antique street. He asked many people, and they all said that the boy left the antique street two days ago and disappeared without a trace.

Su Jian was walking home in despair, hearing the whispers of passers-by on the street: "Isn't this Mr. Su? Why are you in such a mess?"

"Hey, you don't know, right? He is no longer a young master. Su Zhixian is a corrupt official and will be beheaded by the emperor soon. The Su family is over!"

"Hahaha, let him look down on others just because he is the eldest young master. Now the retribution has come, right? Let's see how arrogant he will be in the future!"

"I heard that Su Zhi County embezzled millions of taels of silver!"

"Oh, there are so many. This big corrupt official should be quartered and executed in Lingchi!"

Su Jian's face became paler and paler. He wanted to tell these people that his father was a good official. There must be some misunderstanding! He wanted to explain, but he didn't know where to start, or what the point of saying it now was.

He returned home depressed,

He walked home in a daze, and then received another piece of bad news.

The fiancee's family sent someone to break off the engagement.

At first, he laughed off the boy's words. In his opinion, they were just the gibberish of a child and could not be taken seriously. But I didn't expect that the words would come true.

Su Jian is quite self-aware. He knew that without the Su family, he was just a young master who had achieved nothing. It was expected that his fiancée's family would break off the engagement at this time.

What made him angry was the decades-old friendship between Shibo and his father. At this time, something happened to his father, and he didn't even see him. He just asked his servants to give him a letter of terminating the engagement and five hundred taels of silver.

Looking at the gloating look on the servant's face, at that moment, he really had the urge to laugh out loud.

"Shibo has underestimated me. I don't care about a mere five hundred taels of silver!" He threw the letter and the banknote back and laughed, "You go back and tell Shibo, please don't worry. I, Su Jian, No matter how depressed he is, he still has some toughness. From now on, if he takes his Yangguan Road and I cross my single-plank bridge, our families will be cut off!"

The servant was heartbroken and said, "Your family is in ruins. Why are you still showing off your young master's temper here? Who do you think you are? Why don't you show off your virtue by taking a piss?"

Su Jian burst into laughter and burst into tears: "Yeah, what am I..."

After living for sixteen years, I realized that the past was all false. In the end, without his father, he is nothing.

Su Jian laughed so hard that she couldn't breathe, and her tears were almost shed.

Suddenly, there was a heartbreaking coughing sound in the back room. Su Jian was startled. She quickly wiped away her tears and opened the door. She saw his mother's face was red and she was coughing desperately, as if her internal organs were being drained. Coughed it out.

Su Jian's heart tightened, and she quickly ran over to help Su's mother, and patted her back carefully: "Mom, are you okay?" When his hand touched her back, it was hot. Su Jian was startled and quickly stretched out her hand. Touching Su Mu's forehead, it was also surprisingly hot.

"Mom, you have a fever! I'm going to see the doctor!"

Mother Su barely stopped coughing and said hoarsely: "No, no, I'll just lie down for a while. Don't spend money..."

Su Jian's breath froze and her footsteps stopped.

All the family's property was confiscated. If their uncle's family hadn't lent them a house, they would have had no choice but to live on the streets. In the past few days, their grandparents had passed away one after another. They had to raise the money for the coffin by selling their mother's jewelry. Now the family is There really is no money left.

Just now... because of his so-called self-esteem, he directly threw back the five hundred taels of silver notes...

He gritted his teeth, turned around and gave Su's mother a reassuring smile, "Mom, don't worry, our family still has money, five hundred taels left, I'll call a doctor for you right now!"

Su Jian didn't get the money after all.

Although he caught up with the servant who sent the money, the servant said that he had just given the money to Su Jian, and Su Jian was trying to extort money again. Later, he got tired of being pestered by Su Jian, and his servants beat him severely.

Su Jian had been pampered since he was a child. He was no match for a strong and rough man. He was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. He lay on the ground unable to get up.

The servant spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on him, "Bah, what a dog, you are looking for trouble with me, who do you think you are?"

Su Jian lay on the ground, feeling ridicule from all directions, he was dizzy, and for a moment he even felt that he had lost the courage to get up.

He had never been so embarrassed in his life.

Someone squatted beside him and asked softly: "Are you okay?"

Su Jian blinked slowly, his eyeballs slowly turned, and after a few seconds he finally regained focus and saw the person clearly.

The thin cheeks and the pair of shining eyes were particularly eye-catching. He closed his eyes and said tiredly: "It's you." It's really strange. He obviously wanted to find him before, but now that the boy appeared in front of him, he didn't want to see him anymore.

He covered his face and curled up slightly.

"It's me." The boy asked, "Can you still get up?"

Su Jian was silent for a moment, put down his hand covering his face, endured the pain all over his body, and slowly got up from the ground. He replied softly, "I have to get up, my mother is sick."

He staggered forward.

The boy's clear and calm voice sounded from behind him: "Do you know why your father was imprisoned?"

Su Jian's steps paused, he turned around suddenly, looked at Le Jing with red eyes that almost dripped blood, he threw himself in front of the boy, grabbed the boy's arms, and roared, "Why? What do you know? Tell me!"

The boy winked at him, "Are you sure you want to say it here?"

Su Jian's reason slowly returned, and then he realized that this was a busy street, and there were many people around them watching the excitement.

He wiped his face and said hoarsely, "Let's talk at my house."

...

Su Jian couldn't wait to ask, "What do you know? Tell me!"

Le Jing looked at the pale and embarrassed boy in front of him. His eyes were burning with a desperate fire. This was a lone wolf with nowhere to go.

Le Jing's eyes once again swept across the jade pendant on the boy's waist.

He didn't deny that he had a deep interest in Su Jian.

So after Su's father was imprisoned, he used some tricks to convince the jailer and went to the prison to take a look at him from a distance.

With just that one look, he determined some very important things and also had some inspiration for his future goals.

"Your father was indeed imprisoned for corruption, and the evidence is conclusive."

"What?" Su Jian was shocked and angry, and retorted fiercely: "My father would not embezzle! He is a good man and a good official! Although my family has some money, it is all the dowry my mother brought as a dowry! Although my family is rich, we are not wealthy! How can there be millions of taels of silver! This time, all our family's belongings added together are only 400,000 or 500,000 taels of silver!"

The boy's mouth curled up, and his smile was inexplicably mysterious: "Yes, so who's pocket did your father take away the millions of taels of silver?"

Su Jian seemed to have something flashed in his mind, but he didn't catch it. He frowned: "I said my father didn't embezzle... Even if he did, he didn't embezzle that much!"

The boy shook his head, and his eyes showed an obscure and difficult expression. Understanding the emotion, he nodded at him, "Fool, your father didn't take the money for himself, but to honor others!"

Su Jian was not a fool, and he immediately reacted, "You mean my father gave the money to Shangguan? Shangguan forced my father to embezzle?"

Le Jing smiled, "A poet once wrote a poem like this: Raise chickens and let them eat, and cook them when they are fat. The owner's plan is good, but the chickens should not know."

The boy raised his eyes, and his eyes were sharp and threatening in an instant, and the smile on his mouth was unreasonably more sarcastic, "Who do you think is the owner of this fat chicken that killed your father?"

Su Jian was at a loss at first, then slowly opened his eyes, his pupils shrank into a dot, his face was as white as paper, and he silently made a mouth shape, as if he was afraid of disturbing someone, "... Your Majesty?"

Le Jing nodded approvingly, not too stupid.

"No! This is impossible! The emperor... He is a wise and powerful person, he can't do such a thing!"

The boy's eyes were clear and his voice was particularly rational and sober: "Why can't he do this? In this way, he can get money without bearing the infamy. When the time is right, he can chop off the heads of a group of corrupt officials. Not only can he use their wealth to fill the private treasury and the national treasury, but he can also calm the people's grievances and gain the loyalty of the people. Why not do such a good idea that kills many birds with one stone?"

Su Jian's mind was blank. For a moment, he seemed to think of many things, but also thought of nothing. He was stiff and cold all over, as if he was soaked in ice water.

The fall of a dynasty must be caused by the interaction of internal and external factors. Foreign invasion is the direct cause, but not the root cause.

Le Jing has now touched a trace of the root cause.

Realizing that Su Jian might not be able to digest this for a while, Le Jing said directly: "Think about it carefully, I'm leaving first."

The boy turned around and squinted at him, "If you want to learn the art of slaying dragons, you can come to Tongfu Inn to find me. I'll wait for you for two days at most."

The author has something to say:

(Qing Dynasty) Yuan Mei's "Chicken": Raise chickens and let them eat, and cook them when they are fat. The owner's plan is good, but the chickens should not know.

The Cao family where Cao Xueqin lived is the chicken.

And Tongfu Inn is a joke by me, hahahaha, when it comes to inns, it should be Tongfu Inn 23333