Lord of the House

To the east of Jiu Weng Bridge, follow the Donghuamen Official Road and drive the horse to Bajiuli Road, which is the first private garden of Quyang Town in the west of the town, Sanliu Garden. A small lake with rippling blue waves surrounds the garden. At the beginning, there were three hundred-year-old willows on the north bank of the lake, hence the name Sanliu Garden. This is what the Qu family said to the outside world. The old people around here all know the old foundation of the Qu family. The original village on the west side of the town was called Sankeliu Village. The farm of the Qu family, the Sanliu Garden built in the farm is where the Qu family raised the farmer.

In addition to the right to collect rents and taxes from Quyang Town to the west of Quyang Town and the banks of the Jinhe River at East Huamen Gate in Jiangning City, as well as the nearly 200,000 mu of fertile fields around Moling Lake, Qujia is also the largest grain and oil merchant in Quyang Town. business. During the peak season when new grains are on the market, the daily volume of rice grains passed by the Qujia is as high as 1,000 or 2,000 stone. Hundreds of heads.

The ancestors of the Qu family were tax collectors in Moling County. After Quyang Town established the Inspection Division, thirteen of the seventeen Quyang inspectors came from the Qu family;

After tracking the raiders, they circled more than half of the outside of Moling Lake to the west end of Quyang Town. The sun had already exposed half of its face on the top of the mulberry tree at the west end of the town. Approaching the Qujia Grange, Wu Qi discovered that several tenants working in the fields were actually the secret posts sent by the Qujia to guard the periphery of Sanliu Garden. They did not dare to approach Sanliu Garden any more. Rest on the side of the road.

After resting for a while, Wu Qi peeped at the Sanliu Garden in the distance, and secretly thought in his heart: The Qu family is closely guarded, but it is different from the ordinary township lords. Seeing that they can't find the opportunity to approach Sanliu Garden, they turn back from Quyang Town. Go to the mouth of Jinchuan River.

In the Sanliu Garden, on the gazebo on the north bank of the lake, Qu Wuyang, with his thick beard and slightly frosted eyes, stared at two middle-aged men kneeling on the stone steps, and said in a deep voice, "The living People, I lost it to you! You thought Bin'er was tired of waiting and came back first, that's how you explained it to me!"

"When we attacked the camp, we were afraid that something would happen to the young master, so the subordinates left two people to accompany the young master to wait by the Yangshuulin; when we were withdrawing, we returned to the Yangshulin, and there was no other abnormality except that the young master and the two entourages disappeared. Urgent, the fire has already started, the horse infantry of Jiangning's army and horse division and the chariots of the police officer will go out of the city to round up at any time. The subordinates dare not bring so many people to stay outside, so they will come back first... The subordinates will lead people to find them. Master!"

"How do I find it? In such a big case, the inspector general and Jiangning soldiers and horses may have sent people to set up spies around the mouth of the Jinchuan River. If you lead people over there, in case you miss, you will not lead the fire to the Qu family. You go and find the second master, and in the name of the inspection department, pay attention to the progress of the case and see if there are any clues about Bin'er!" Qu Wuyang suppressed his worries about his only son and asked his subordinates to find his cousin. , Inspector Qu Wuming of the Inspection Department of Quyang Town, "You have called back all the competent people to Sanliuyuan, and it is not only our family who secretly covet Jinchuan Prison Island, maybe Bin'er is just for these people to take advantage of the chaos. If there is no response in the past two days, someone will knock a bamboo stick on our Qu family head. I am just such a son, no matter how much it costs, I will save his life..."

After the Jiyun Society was attacked in the Hekou recruiting refugee camp, there was a lot of casualties and there was no way to fight back. Qu Wuyang never thought that his only son would fall into the hands of the Jiyun Society, which he thought was vulnerable. In Lin Fu's hands, he didn't even think that even if he was willing to pay too much to save his only son's life, Lin Fu had no intention of making a deal with him.

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Jiangning City, a half-mu lotus courtyard, this is the new house that She Feihu moved into after he came to Jiangning to serve as the envoy of Hou Jin of Jin'an.

When the dawn was clear, Song Jia was combing her hair like a crow in front of the bronze mirror in her show room, with a maid on the left and right behind her holding the bronze mirror. There was the sound of horse hooves in the passage between the partitions. Song Jia was holding a flower tin in her hand, listening to the sound of horse hooves, and thinking to herself: What's the emergency in this early morning?

Song Jia dropped the flower tin in her hand and ran out of the house, only to see the spy clothed outside the city dressed in black walking into the yard under the guidance of the house steward. When they saw Song Jia approaching, they all saluted, "I have seen the young lady..."

"what happened?"

"The Jiyun Society recruited refugees from the north bank. They gathered at the mouth of the Jinchuan River yesterday. They were attacked at night. Thirty-six of the recruited refugees were killed and nearly a hundred injured..." the spy reported.

"Okay..." She Feihu walked out of another room and couldn't help shouting loudly when he heard this, and said, "Tell him to be tough, someone should have taught them a lesson."

"Isn't Mr. Du's manpower?" Song Jia looked at She Feihu suspiciously.

"What do you do to kill those useless refugees, kill chickens to scare monkeys?" She Feihu shook his head, denying that he let Du Rong do this.

"Since you didn't do it with Mr. Du, what's the good?" Song Jia said angrily, "Wouldn't it be wrong if Gu Wuchen and Lin Fu were made to suspect the She family?"

She Feihu was stunned for a moment, but Lin Fu knew that they also had the intention of building a stacking pier in that section of the river embankment. Besides, the land on the section of the river embankment had actually been secretly acquired by Qingfengxing, and Lin Fu wanted to use the police officer. The forces of the Secretary went to investigate, I'm afraid it's not difficult to find out. It's easy to suspect that something like this happened last night.

Although She Feihu really wanted to teach Lin Fu and the others a lesson, and he didn't mind that Tan Shui became more turbid, but he never wanted to have a deadlock relationship with Gu Wuchen before Jiang Ning had a firm footing, and he never wanted to be like this. It was dragged into the muddy water; most of the people behind this incident were targeting Gu Wuchen. Gu Wuchen encountered an assassin on his way to Jiangning, but this matter was not made public.

"What are we going to do?" She Feihu asked his wife. In these matters, he knew that his wife was more resourceful and thoughtful than himself.

"Mr. Du is going to do something over there, let's take it temporarily. There are so many injured people at the mouth of Jinchuan River, there should be a shortage of wound medicine, the camp is on fire, and maybe there is also a shortage of clothes and quilts. , and express your attitude when condolences." Song Jia said.

"Okay, I'll let someone arrange it." She Feihu said.

"Forget it, I'll go out of the city. I'll ask Mingyue if she wants to come with me," Song Jia said. "I've been living in the city these days and I'm holding my breath, and I just want to go out of the city to relax."

She Feihu hesitated for a while, and didn't say anything else, only said: "Go and ask Mingyue." Jiangning pays attention to being a lady and not showing her face, but Jin'an Mansion in Dongmin is on the coast, men go to sea to fish, women Just grasping the big and small matters of the family, there is not much taboo to make public appearances.

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The son of Qu Wuyang and the two squires were killed and tied to the bottom of the river. Lin Bian did not have time to change into clean clothes, so he and Zhou Pu, Cao Zian, Ge Cunxin, and Ge Cunxiong took the boat back to the mouth of the river. Wu Qi took his men with him. also came back.

Two-phase verification confirms that the murderer last night was the swordsman raised by the Qu family. In the shack that was not burnt down, Lin Bian sat on the ground, and with anger, he inserted his waist knife and sheath into the soft mud in the corner of the shack. Zhou Pu, Cao Zi'ang, Lin Jingzhong, and Wu Qi sat around him.

Brothers Ge Cunxin and Ge Cunxiong, who were nominated by Cao Ziang to recruit workers and refugees, led people to prevent others from approaching the shack.

After last night's tragedy, Lin Jingzhong was very remorseful and depressed. He squatted aside and reported the losses that had just been counted to Lin Bingting.

In addition to the 36 dead, nearly 100 were injured, and nearly 40 were seriously injured. They should be immediately transferred to the city and asked by a famous doctor in the hospital for further treatment. In addition to minor injuries, other injured people must also be moved to the city to recuperate, otherwise staying in the wilderness will not only be detrimental to recovery, but will also require more manpower to take care of them. According to Lin Fu's instructions, Lin Jingzhong first distributed 10 taels of pension money to each family of the deceased. The Jiyun Society was responsible for the funeral and cemetery. uukanshu.com's future life, old age, illness and death will be borne by Jiyun Society; most of the 40 or 50 shacks that were rushed to build last night were set on fire. Nearly a hundred stones of rice grain in the temporary granary were not distributed in time, and most of them were burned into coke. , only to find more than ten stones of rice grain in his heart, which is enough for these people to feed them for a day or two;

To say the least, it is a loss of millions of dollars and thousands of taels of silver. Fortunately, these refugees have experienced all kinds of hardships and old and sick on their journey to Jiangning, and their hearts have become numb and strong. After the initial panic, they did not flee after dawn. They also consciously obeyed the command to help each other and rescued supplies from the ashes.

Hearing the neck bell and the sound of the horse's nose, Wu Qi at the door stood up and lifted the straw felt curtain to block the wind. He saw a carriage approaching. Qian Xiaowu followed beside the carriage, saying to the people in the carriage as he walked, "Lin Lin. The son is in the shack over there to discuss matters with Manager Lin and Lord Zhou..."

Lin Bie stood up, just looked outside, and saw Liu Yue'er sticking out her worried and soft face from behind the curtain of the carriage. Cao Zi'ang, Wu Qi and others got up and left the shack. Liu Yue'er was wearing a rucksack, and regardless of whether the ground was wet and muddy because of the fire, they saw Lin Bie stick his head out of the shack, get off the carriage, and take a deep kick. Qian walked over and opened the shack curtain, only to see Lin Fu covered in blood, tears streaming down her beautiful eyes, and she burst into tears: "Qian Xiaowu, the one who suffered thousands of knives, lied to me and said you Lin The son is fine..." Without wiping the tears from his cheeks, he anxiously grabbed Lin Bie's arms to see where he was injured.

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