Qingzhou trip

After Lu Xiangchun brought the letter, Xie Penglai ordered people to expel the Uighurs and other foreigners in Huaxiang out of the city, including Yasu who had played "Xiliang Opera" and was still suspected of arson.When Sui Ci was about to be handed over in Shahai, it was only natural to eliminate the dangers in the city, so this matter was reported to Queen Jin and she agreed.On behalf of Yun Bailu, he asked her for a long vacation, but King Jin didn't ask any further questions, and still agreed.

According to Zhao Yifang's aggressive temperament towards Xie Penglai, she would definitely ask "Master Xie to also serve as a monthly attendant for the apprentice", but after that conversation that seemed to be broken, King Jin did not invite Xie Penglai to teach at the mansion.

Xie Penglai, who was caught in the wind and cold, lay at home for a few days, unable to read and do things smoothly.Now there is another news: another nameless and headless corpse was found on the other side of the Yeqiang River outside Shahai City, and the good man moved the corpse outside Shahai City.Xie Penglai barely got up from the kang when he received the news, poured cold water, combed his hair, put on the seventh-grade green robe, and took a few deep breaths while holding the door frame before going out to regain some energy.

Someone arrived before her, and Liu Qinsang from Huaxiang was already beating the drums in front of the county government office, claiming that the headless corpse belonged to her lover Yasu.It is not surprising that pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep get lost and come to the county government, but it is a first time to go to the county government without a head.

Liu Qinsang's singing voice is famous for its gentleness, and even the voice of pleading grievances has a rhyme.Yasu and her have only known each other for more than a month, but they are already inseparable.She identified the corpse by the birthmark on the wrist.

The front gate of the county government office was crowded with onlookers. Xie Penglai told others to calm down and then asked weakly, "Liu Qinsang, he was found outside the city, and Yasu is a Uighur from Ganzhou. This case is not under the control of the court. But..." Seeing Liu Qinsang's eyes red and swollen from crying, Xie Penglai couldn't bear it, "I will let the people of the county government bury him alive."

"Yasu and I have already married in private. The guests in Huaxiang can testify to this matter. We just haven't submitted the marriage certificate to the county government. Therefore, Liu Qinsang wants to sue Shahai County Magistrate Xie Penglai as his widow. "Liu Qinsang's eyes were no longer as soft as usual, hatred shot through Xie Penglai like an arrow wrapped in venom, she stared at Shahai County Magistrate, "If you hadn't sent someone to drive him out of the city, how could he have suffered such a disaster? And Xie County magistrate is in such a hurry to drive my husband out of the city, I'm afraid it has something to do with the gangsters outside the city." She was talking nonsense out of grief and hatred, but unexpectedly hit Xie Penglai:

When Lu Xiangchun came to the city that day, he said that Yasu had brought some Uyghurs to join a gang of horse thieves who specialized in robbing Hua Dynasty people, and they had robbed and killed five or six times in more than two months.She had inquired carefully, and before and after the Rewarding Gods Festival, the gang of horse thieves had their idea of ​​Sha Hai, saying that a prince had come to the city, so there should be a lot of money.And Yasu is the insider who broke into Shahaihua Lane.

After hearing the news of Yasu's death, Xie Penglai's heart was slightly relieved, but thinking about it terrified her: the one who could make his mind on King Jin must not be someone as simple as a horse thief.But she was able to find out in detail that she was placed next to Liu Qinsang, who had recently become acquainted with King Jin, and this calculation made her sweat even more.

Xie Penglai, who was accused by Liu Qinsang in public, had hardly eaten for two days, and was so weak that he could not stagger while supporting the table. "You have to have evidence to sue me." The reason people go out of the city is because the year is coming, and foreigners are not allowed to stay in the inner city." Suddenly, darkness flashed in front of her eyes, and she waved her hand to make people leave, "The yamen should send some envoy money to bury him."

Liu Qinsang refused to let go, and the sound of crying spread out, and the listeners were in an uproar.Xie Penglai no longer had the energy to pay attention to her, and was supported by the master secretary back to the courtyard to lie down.When I was confused, I touched the bowls and pots and didn't see half a drop of water.She frowned and curled up in the quilt, but she complained in her heart why Lu Xiangchun didn't pick a farther place to clean the house.

After reading Jingli's reply in the mansion, Zhao Yifang heard a vague commotion outside, and someone reported that it was Liu Qinsang who came to sue Xie Penglai in front of the Sanzhou appeasement envoy.

"If you want me to say, Xie County Magistrate's action is really weird. Although he has a decent reputation for driving people out, but he was killed as soon as he left the city, no wonder Liu Qinsang is not reconciled." Li Mo knew that King Jin was annoyed after reading the letter , and now someone came to the door again, "I'll go and persuade her to go back. If this trouble continues, people will follow suit in the future. If there is something in Shahai City, just knock on the door of King Jin's Mansion?"

Earlier when Zou Shiyan wrote a letter of complaint to the capital, it was obvious that Xie Penglai was scolded for his reckless disregard of human life, his arrogance, and he even beat Jin Wang, who was in white clothes.Secretly, it is said that King Jin has no way to rule, and he will not tell even if he is beaten with a stick. Is there some inhumane inside story that has not been reported.Of course Ying Wang Zhao Yixiang wrote to ask his sister if this happened.

Zhao Yifang was pacing around the room with her brother's letter. The earth dragon was scorching hot from the charcoal fire, and she was still sweating from the steam in only a thin shirt.

"No matter how weird this name is, I asked this king." Zhao Yifang became more and more irritable as she walked, grabbed a cup of herbal tea and poured it up, "It's Liu Qinsang... it's my king's carelessness." When we first met, I only thought she was the same A heroic daughter, although she is trapped in the flower alley to entertain people with skills, she is arrogant and stubborn inside.

"But I have forgotten that some women are strong and upright when they meet their lovers, but they are chaotic when they meet." Zhao Yifang's exquisite body is looming under the white clothes, and her heroic almond eyes are full of pretentious sophistication, as if she can do it herself. Stay out of it.

"Check, check Liu Qinsang's background, and how that Yasu got into Flower Lane. She told Master Xie about this, which means she sued this king." There were still two words, still angry King Jin unknowingly leaned towards Xie Penglai again.

Li Mo already knew it well, "I have already asked Ren Liu to investigate. I heard that... County Magistrate Xie almost fainted in the yamen today, and his complexion was terrible."

"If you are sick, treat it." Zhao Yifang picked up the book that had been neglected for a long time on the table, "She kept it from me, and she would give five points to everything, and let me guess with five points—" Eyes fixed on the words On the ground, the air-conditioning escaped from the nose, "If you hide too much, the qi and blood will stagnate, and people will get sick?"

Hearing that she was still angry at her words, Li Mo didn't say much, and changed her to a pot of hot tea.

Zhao Yifang read half a page of the book, and suddenly looked sideways at Li Mei, "She deliberately missed that Uighur man in Huaxiang, and he was released immediately after he was released by the king's order. Tell me, why can't you be here?" Interrogation in the city is open and aboveboard, but you want to move outside for lynching?"

"If it wasn't for the involvement of foreigners, I'm afraid that things will become too big to deal with." Li Mo's brows and eyes were stained with a sly light at the moment, "or this matter cannot be separated from the chief officer, and I am afraid that she will be drawn out." Sure enough, seeing Jin Wang frowned unhappily, and she cleared her throat, "I'm afraid magistrate Xie is not that simple."

King Jin poured her a cup of tea himself, "Take a sip and speak slowly."

Li Mei smiled, "I can't tell the reason if I speak slowly. After all, I'm just guessing. When it comes to understanding Master Xie, I can't compare with Your Highness. I just observe Penglai's pen and ink articles and experience, and think that if she... I mean if she , she is involved with foreign thieves, and she will definitely not leak any clues, let alone bring this matter to His Highness before it is settled hastily."

"This is where I get extremely angry." Zhao Yifang's cheeks were provoked into two balls of anger, "She must have planned something, and she refused to tell the king in detail." That's all.

"Previously, His Highness stayed in the sand sea. I thought it was just to avoid the eyeliner and forces of the three prefectures of Yan, Qin and Wei, and try to be clean. From this point of view, the water in the sand sea is no shallower than other places." When she reached the door, she turned back again. She raised her head and fixed her eyes, with a childish look on her face, "Then King Ying, someone should reply to this letter, right?"

"Your Highness can just write down the whole story. Presumably Ying Wang is sensible and will not blame him. However, the crimes committed by Xie County Magistrate can be big or small. Everything depends on His Highness's pen and ink." Li Mo snickered and was seen by Zhao Yifang. Why don't I take the letter to the magistrate Xie's mansion and ask her to write it?"

"Strange, she should be the one who came to report Liu Qinsang's disturbance in the house today. She wants my king's people to go to her small courtyard? Why, is the civet cat in her courtyard more lovely, or does she hate her kitchen? A little soot?" The stove is cold and the tea is cold, and the shabby room is empty, and it is almost impossible to stay.Zhao Yifang sat down and was quiet for a while, "Have you been teaching for a few days?"

"Add three days to today." Li Mo knew that His Royal Highness was having trouble, "I'll go and invite Xie County Magistrate to come."

Seeing that King Jin was silent, she was afraid that she was happy and refused to let go, so she smiled and took the letter from the table, "How about I let Liu Qinsang be guarded? Don't make a fuss in the sandy sea all day long."

Only then did King Jin nod his head, "It's in the flower alley." Thinking of the appearance of the piano friend she just met, she sighed, "Why are all the foolish girls' homes?"

Li Wufu slandered King Jin for being stupid and obsessed with Liu Qinsang, and when he walked to the gate of Xie Penglai's small courtyard, he heard a violent coughing sound.Opening the door to enter the hospital, firewood smoke is rising from the kitchen, it seems that the seventh-rank officer has to cook for himself.

"I've heard that Xie County Magistrate is clean, it's true." Li Mo saw that Xie Penglai was choked up in front of the stove, his face was messed up, and he hadn't seen him for a few days, so thin that his eye sockets were sunken.

"I'm just not used to being served, and that would cost me money." The county magistrate Xie, who could hardly afford to eat, had just received her salary, and after going to bed, he sent the yamen servant to buy her twenty catties of rice noodles.After recovering, I started cooking.

Li Mo stood in the kitchen with his hands behind his back, Xie Penglai thought for a while, "Did His Highness send the girl to ask questions?"

"I'm asking County Magistrate Xie to help me reply the letter." She took out Yingwang's letter from her sleeve and handed it to Xie Penglai. manage."

Xie Penglai was about to read the letter but was stopped by Li Mo, "It's not urgent, I still have two things I want to tell Magistrate Xie."

Seeing her forbearance, Xie Penglai also guessed that she still had something to do, "Please tell me."

"Before the emperor took King Ying into the palace to be raised, he had to know that His Royal Highness was recommended by the King of Shang. This push can be regarded as making His Highness live on the tip of a needle since then. After all, His Highness is a woman, and being able to inherit the king's title is already a favor. There is a plus. Do you know that you are as smart as the king of Shang, why do you want to put such a stumbling block on your granddaughter?" Although Li Mei's facial features are not brilliant, there is a bit of a scholar's brilliance on his body.

"Xie doesn't understand." Xie Penglai understood that Li Mo's words had a deeper meaning.

"Because the King of Shang said that His Highness was adopted to her, it is doomed that Feng Tianlangping can't be expected to be a Taiping King and then marry someone in this life. The temple is dirty and dangerous, so it's better to let His Highness be a child and get into the bloody storm and fight with others A fight. Without this fighting spirit, His Highness would have been accused of marrying some of the sons of the Xiangfu. His Highness chose Sha Hai, and he chose you, not to spend time here." She walked to the stove and opened the door. Helping Xie Penglai to stir the rice grains slowly behind the pot, "Don't worry about the heat, or it will become mushy. But don't be too polite, I'm afraid His Highness won't be able to bear it."

Seeing that Xie Penglai was deep in thought, she put the lid back on the pot and lightly touched the steam covering her face, "Do you have anything to say to Your Highness?"

"Xie feels highly valued by His Highness, but he has been in charge of Shahai for many years, and the stalemate between all parties cannot be explained by a few words. Xie can only make a promise: he has never betrayed the country for glory, and has never harmed the world. One day, Xie will Explain the whole story to His Highness." Having said this, Li Mo nodded.

Xie Penglai got up to see her off, and the two walked behind the courtyard gate.Li Mei smiled and said, "Stay here." Turning around, he bowed to Xie Penglai, "If you want to say that Xie County Magistrate and I also had a fate in the list, you were ranked fifth in the high school Xie Yuan. He was dissatisfied, and went to Beijing to take the exam three years later, and finally ranked among the top three, but he couldn't compete with Xie County Magistrate, and he deeply regretted it."

People who came from Jinshi were willing to serve tea and water around King Jin, and even left the important task of writing letters and embellishing ink to themselves.Xie Penglai looked at Li Mei puzzled, but she smiled happily, "I'm still ashamed of myself after seeing magistrate Xie's calligraphy."

"Miss Li Mo is overwhelmed. I just don't understand Xie, that is, she was the top three Jinshi in high school, why...?" Xie Penglai looked at Li Mo with admiration. The word "Zeng" is enough to describe the vicissitudes of life. I have a sister who married an unlucky man, but happened to be doing business in the state where I served as the judge. He killed my sister, so I beat him to death in court." The murderous look in Qing Dan's eyes was suppressed, Li Mo smiled and said, "After that, I was exiled from fame and fame, fortunately His Highness Meng did not give up.

"Magistrate Xie, I don't want to interrupt your Highness and your affairs. Just one thing, Your Highness is an idiot, and he is even a smart person."