Reverse Junhou

After the New Year's Eve, the land of Saibei has melted away.In the early spring of the third year of Chenglu, the north-south mutual market that had been abolished for many years opened again.

Caravans from the Central Plains carried cartloads of ceramic and jade wares, received the trading token issued by the Duhufu, and marched to Yandang Pass under the escort of the garrison at the pass of Zhenbei Prefecture.

Thousands of Yanqu hunters wore old felts and tied their fur prey to cattle and carriages. After the guards checked them correctly, they went to the Central Plains to trade.

The trading orders promulgated by Emperor Dafu were very strict. Traders were not allowed to stay in the Central Plains for more than three days, and the goods had to be reported to the Honglu envoys of each county government one by one.

Xu Shijing was warned in advance by the tribal officials that the Orions of the Yanqu tribe who entered the Central Plains for business were safe and sound. Since they opened the mutual market, except for the occasional disputes in the transaction, there have been no killings.

Traveling from south to north, with or without Maoqian, the sixteen prefectures in the north and the Yanqu tribe have survived this severe winter.

Just after the New Year's Eve, red cages are still hung in the streets and alleys of Guangyang City.Debris from firecrackers covered the small courtyard of Nanfang, setting off the paper-cut grilles on the window lattices, and the whole hall was filled with joy.

Zhao Fenghui went out of the palace with the fifth elder brother, and came to have dinner with the fairy.

Both Ah Shen and Wen Lan said that the fairy was once a noble person who never touched the spring water, so he didn't really believe it.No matter how noble a fairy is, can she be more expensive than the fifth brother who is the ninth five?

Seeing the fifth elder brother who was busy in the courtyard and serving the towel festival, Zhao Fenghui almost bit his tongue, and had no choice but to swallow his full stomach full of doubts.

The fifth brother found a skirt from somewhere, and circled around the fairy in broad daylight.The fairy went to the well to draw water, but the fifth brother snatched the wooden bucket in his hand, so that the fairy would not get cold from the cold water.Fairy sat by the fire to roast a sweet potato, but Wu Ge chased her away, saying that the smoke would make her dizzy if the smoke was too strong.

All the work in hand was robbed by the fifth brother, and the fairy suddenly had nothing to do, so she had to move a bench and sit with herself in the corner of the small courtyard.

Zhao Fenghui stared at the busy Fifth Brother in the courtyard, wondering and curious: "Why is Fifth Brother always treating you so well?"

Fifth Brother is always serious in court, and everyone says that the emperor is ruthless.Looking at it now, it is not necessarily so.Every time Fifth Brother sees a fairy, he loses his usual sense of self-control. He still looks like a king of a country.

The fairy picked up a tree stick and pulled it on the ground twice: "I did it with your brother yesterday, he was afraid that I would be tired."

Zhao Fenghui: "???"

Wen Xue glanced at the stunned young man, and said frankly, "The whole night."

Zhao Fenghui was heartbroken when he turned around and crashed into the courtyard wall to death.After the New Year's Eve, he was almost fifteen years old, and he had reached the age where he could talk about marriage.He is the emperor's younger brother of the Holy Majesty today, and will be Dafu's heir apparent in the future.Many ministers in the DPRK eyed him covetously, and wanted to betroth the daughter of the family to him.Fortunately, Fifth Brother stood in front of him and rejected many marriage proposals.

Just because he doesn't feel like marrying a concubine doesn't mean he doesn't understand love.Just now when the fairy mentioned this, he instantly understood what the fairy said.

Zhao Fenghui's handsome face flushed red, and he turned his head away from Wen Xuechao: "You and fifth brother, two big men—"

Wen Xuechao looked at the red-faced Tenth Highness next to him, and raised the corners of his eyes slightly: "Your Majesty knows what the Tenth Highness is worrying about these days."

"If you haven't met your lover yet, you shouldn't rush this matter." Wen Xuechao smiled warmly, "Your Majesty said, it doesn't matter about family background or background, as long as it's someone you like."

Zhao Fenghui lowered his eyes and snorted softly, with a look of disdain on his face, but warmth in his heart.

Dare to feel that Fairy and Fifth Brother saw that he was not enlightened, so they teamed up to tease him.

The three of them sat in the secluded courtyard and had a dinner of an ordinary family.

From time to time, Zhao Fenghui's eyes circled over the two people on the opposite side.The crispy roasted chicken sizzled in the bonfire, and the bonfire burst into little flames, which made the fairy's side face red.Fifth Brother's eyes kept falling on the fairy, his eyes filled with warmth, and the shadow of the fairy was in the depths.

Fairy tore off a chicken leg and handed it to Fifth Brother. Their hands interlaced in mid-air, Fairy curled her fingertips slightly, and a smile appeared in her eyes.

After ten years and five years, the Sri Lankan people remain the same.

It is the fireworks and the world that do not exist in the palace.

*****

The north-south mutual market has already opened in March, and the Zhenbei Prefecture reports to the Privy Council for monthly records as usual.

Zhao Fengci received a reply from the Privy Council and re-approved several reputations. He was about to close the booklet, but his eyes stopped at a line of inconspicuous small characters.

After a while, he called Shi Bao'er: "Call Wen Xuechao into the palace."

Sir Wen could not show his face in front of the courtiers at will, every time Shi Baoer went to Nanfang to invite him into the palace, he would take the token bestowed by the emperor, and drive him directly to the palace in his chariot.

Wen Xuechao took off her burqa, and as soon as she walked into the imperial study, she saw Zhao Fengci with a solemn expression.

"What's wrong?" Wen Xuechao asked, "Did something happen in the northern border?"

Zhao Fengci handed him a memorial, and motioned him to look at the line of small characters circled.

Zhenbei Mansion mentioned a small town named Xiancheng in Qingxi County in the notes.Xiancheng is not far from Lingfu City, and it is also a border town bordering on the northern border of Xijiang.

The incident happened in Zhuo's Village in Xiancheng.A hunter from the Yanqu tribe happened to stay in Zhuoshi Village for a few days, and fell in love with the daughter of the village owner Li Xiucai while doing business in the village.The old scholar's daughter and the barbarian man were in love with each other, and they ran away with Orion in the middle of the night.The old man chased out of the village the next day, trying to find the hunter for an explanation, but he disappeared without a trace.

Three days later, the villagers found the body of the old scholar in the gutter at the head of the village. The body was so decomposed that it seemed that he had been dead for many days.

The matter was not over yet, and a few days later, the villagers of the next-door village found the bodies of the barbarian Orion and the scholar's daughter in the mountains outside the village.The corpses of the two were similar to that old scholar, they had already rotted beyond human form.

The county magistrate had already concluded the case as an unsolved case, but Zhenbei Mansion kept an eye on it, added a few strokes to the memorandum, and reported it to the imperial court.

"If you say it's big, it's big, but if you say it's small, it's small." Zhao Feng said, "Xue Chao, what do you think?"

Wen Xuechao held the memorial, read between the lines for a while, and frowned: "It's a little strange."

"It is stated in the memorandum that the local patriarchs could not identify the old scholar's body at all. He was identified only by the birthmark on the scholar's ankle. From this point of view, the old scholar's body has decomposed very badly."

"If it's an ordinary corpse, how many days would it take for it to rot to the point where no one can recognize it?" Wen Xuechao asked Zhao Fengci.

"It will take at least dozens of days." Zhao Fengci also frowned.

"The corpses of the Huren and the scholar's daughter also rotted beyond human form within five days. There must be a mystery." Wen Xuechao said, "Send people from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment to investigate. We must find out the cause of death of the three."

Liu Yanzhong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, took over the order of the Holy Majesty and immediately dispatched a group of experienced assistants and masters to Qingxi County to investigate the case.As soon as the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice arrived in Qingxi County, they heard a strange news.

Zhuoshi Village and Jinlin Village, where the corpses of the Hu people were found, suddenly suffered from landslides a few days ago. Sand and rocks poured down, blocking the roads at the entrance of the villages.The governor of Qingxi County once sent the county guards to rescue, but found that the mountain road leading to the village had completely collapsed, and the villagers could not go out, and outsiders could not enter.

The two mountain villages are thus isolated from the outside world.

The body of the old scholar had already been moved into the government office for sealing up, but the bodies of the Hu man and the woman were left in the village.The clerk sent by the Ministry of Punishment could not enter the village to investigate carefully, so he could only stay in the government office and inspect the old scholar's body carefully.

The post-mortem report was rushed to Beijing along with the Zhenbei Mansion's report on the damage to the two villages in Xiancheng.

"There is poison in the body, but the source of the poison is unknown." Zhao Fengci said slowly, "The other two died in the same way as this old father, and they must have died of poison."

Wen Xuechao shook her head: "No."

"My father's death may have been just an accident. The barbarian wanted to elope with his daughter, but was discovered by the scholar. Maybe he used some means on the way to take the woman away forcibly, but he didn't expect that the scholar would die." Wen Xuechao closed her eyes Looking around, the figures of the three arguing appeared in their minds, "Once my father dies, Hu people know that killing people in the Central Plains is a capital offense, so they naturally want to destroy the corpse."

"The old man was pushed down the gutter by the barbarian, and it should be safe. Why did the barbarian and the woman be murdered afterwards?" Wen Xuechao rubbed the space between his brows.

Zhao Fengci heard that Xue Chao was lost in thought, and didn't want to interrupt him, but just quietly waited for him to think.

"Someone wants the barbarians and women to shut up too." Wen Xuechao murmured, "What are they trying to cover up?"

"Poison." Zhao Fengci said.

Wen Xuechao stared at Zhao Fengci's opened and closed lips, his gaze suddenly tightened.

"Father, both Huren and his daughter were poisoned, but the poison was not the cause of death." Wen Xuechao said, "It's just that they were poisoned, so they all had to die."

"The mountain disaster in Qingxi County..."

"The government has taken my father away. If the bodies of the other two fall into the hands of the government, they will show their feet sooner or later." Wen Xuechao walked to the case and unfolded the map of the mountains and seas in the north. At the junction of the northern border and the western border, the terrain is vast and open, and landslides rarely occur. This mountain disaster must have been deliberately caused by someone, and its purpose may be to let the clues be broken in Zhuo's village."

Zhao Fengci's face was solemn: "There is definitely more than one person in Zhuo's Village and Jinlin Village who was poisoned."

This is also what Wen Xuechao worries about. Ordinary people poisoning is nothing more than murder for money, revenge and other things.What kind of person wants to poison a remote mountain village, and after being discovered by the government, he doesn't stop doing nothing, but simply puts all his eggs in one basket and wants to bury thousands of people in the entire mountain village with him?

Xiancheng is adjacent to Xijiang, and Xijiang is the birthplace of many strange poisonous and evil things. Poisons are not difficult to find for those who are interested.But attacking innocent mountain villagers doesn't seem to be deliberately murdering someone, but more like...

"Someone is looking for someone to test the poison." Wen Xuechao said, "These villagers are the test products for the poison test. If the poison works, it can be used for other purposes. It would make too many people suspicious.”

Zhao Fengci's face was faintly sullen: "Who set up such a vicious situation to harm my doctor and the common people?"

"Your Majesty, what kind of poison is there that can kill one thousand enemies but harm eight hundred?" Wen Xuechao asked instead of answering.

When Zhao Fengci heard Wen Xuechao's sudden opening, he was stunned for a moment, and his eyes suddenly sank like an abyss.

The eyes of the two intersected in mid-air, and Wen Xuechao knew that Zhao Fengci and himself wanted to go together.

作者有话要说：感谢在2020-07-2320:53:28~2020-07-2420:42:13期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: the only princess in the Southwest;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!