When my sister-in-law Lai Ci married into the Liu family, she was only sixteen years old. She was in the flowering season. She not only had a handsome appearance and picturesque features, but she was also able to read scriptures and history since she was a child, and she had a very high level of cultural accomplishment.
In addition, she can also ride horses, row boats, play the piano, flute, dance, play chess, and work as a female worker...
In the eyes of ten-year-old Liu Jing, his sister-in-law can do almost anything.
Even after Liu Qun was born, Lai Ci's temperament became somewhat restrained, but his body still exuded such dazzling brilliance that Liu Jing did not dare to look directly at him.
However, since the death of her brother Liu Yuan, Lai Ci's heart seems to have died with him. Liu Qun may be her only motivation to convince herself to live.
Liu Jing really hopes that she can get out of this state as soon as possible. She is only twenty-three years old...
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Liu Qun, carrying a small bamboo hat, ran to the railing of the corridor and asked Lai Ci with his little face raised.
Liu He and Liu Rao also came over and looked at their sister-in-law with worried faces.
Lai Ci's face was as white as snow and dripping with sweat. He forced a smile and said, "Mom is fine. It's just that she hasn't seen the sun for a long time and is feeling a little unwell."
Liu Qun looked confused and tilted his head slightly. How could he feel unwell while basking in the sun?
"Sister-in-law stays in the room all day, and she is getting moldy. She really should go out more often." Liu Jing pointed at Liu He with a smile, and took the opportunity to say: "Sister-in-law, doesn't she know how to ride a horse? You can teach her when you have nothing to do.
like."
"Sister-in-law, can you teach me?" Liu He looked at Lai Ci with extremely earnest eyes. He always felt that Song Jin's bull riding method was a bit unreliable. It would be great if his sister-in-law could teach him.
Lai Ci couldn't bear to reject Liu He and nodded: "If you want to learn, my sister-in-law will teach you."
"Great!" Liu He cheered and kept winking at Liu Jing. The two brothers had discussed this matter last night.
When Liu Rao saw Liu He's proud look, he immediately quit. He took Lai Ci's arm and said sweetly: "Sister-in-law, I want to learn too."
Lai Ci said: "A Li, learning to ride a horse is very hard. Can you persevere?"
"Ah?" When Liu Rao heard that it was hard, he immediately backed down.
Liu He stood next to him and laughed at him for a while.
Liu Jing smiled and shook his head, sat with Lai Ci for a while, and then led the three children to get busy again. Unknowingly, the slips were spread all over the courtyard, as if they were in a sea of bamboo slips, with almost no place to stay.
place.
In the evening, Liu Jing and his three children put away the bamboo slips that had been exposed to the sun all day and were hot to the touch, and put them back one by one in their original places in the library.
After having a rather sumptuous dinner at home, Liu Jing rode on Chi Ji and returned to the official residence. Unexpectedly, he arrived at the main gate of the county mansion and saw Xie Liang, Zhen Zhen, Ma Zhou and Liu Zhu waiting outside the gate of the county mansion.
, obviously welcoming him.
Liu Jing frowned slightly. He knew something must have happened, and it was a big deal, otherwise they wouldn't have come here to wait for him.
"Liu Jun..." Xie Liang, Serious, Ma Zhou, and Liu Zhu all clasped their fists, with different expressions on their faces, either flustered, calm, angry, or indifferent.
Liu Jing sat on his horse and nodded. He saw the pavilion chief and doormen around him looking at this side and said, "If you have anything to do, go to my house and talk to me."
"promise."
Returning to the house, Ma Zhou was impatient. He couldn't wait to sit down and said impatiently: "Mr. Liu, something big happened in the city today. Someone was killing people with swords in the street."
"Has the murderer been caught?" Liu Jing frowned when he heard this. He had been in the market for nearly three months and had never encountered a murder incident.
"I didn't catch him, he ran away." Ma Zhou looked ashamed and blamed himself: "Yesterday when Liu Junlin left, he repeatedly asked me to take care of the market, but I failed Liu Jun's trust."
Liu Zhu knew that this was definitely not what Liu Jing wanted to hear now, so he said: "Someone in the city has recognized the murderer. His name is Wu Xian, and he is a descendant of the Wu family, a wealthy family in Changsha."
Liu Jing couldn't help but feel a headache. The Wu family is a prominent family that has been rooted in Changsha since the Han Dynasty, longer than the Liu family who came from Changsha Dingwang. He asked: "Do you know the whereabouts of the murderer? Is he still in Linxiang?"
If this person escaped from Linxiang, it would be basically impossible to catch him.
Liu Zhu nodded and said: "Still in the city, the murderer rushed out of the market after the murder. According to the current situation, he finally hid in the mansion of Wu Ju. The left thief Cao Jujie has been notified and led people there.
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"Wu Ju..." Liu Jing muttered the name in a low voice. Wu Ju was a hero in Changsha. When he was a knight-errant, Liu Zong and Ou Xiong were not well-known. What was even more rare was that he was both civil and military. He later seized the opportunity to assist Zhang Xian in pacifying the war.
Changsha became the chief secretary of his confidants, and his power was not inferior to Cao Cao Huan's rank, but his five senses were inferior to Liu Pan's.
The name Wu Ju was not only known to Liu Jing in this life, but also in his previous life. In the future, he would serve as a prefect somewhere in Jiaozhou, and he would be considered a minor prince in the late Han Dynasty.
When Cao Cao led his troops from all over the country to march south to Jingzhou, Liu Bei wanted to defect to him, but was dissuaded by Lu Su. This led to the alliance between Sun and Liu, and then the Battle of Chibi, which shattered Cao Cao's ambition to dominate the world in one fell swoop.
Wu Ju is not like Ou Xiong. Even Ou Xiong doesn't dare to offend him easily. Dare he offend him? I guess it's just a formality. I'm afraid I can't count on him in this matter.
Liu Jing's guess was very accurate, and it didn't take long for the results to come back empty-handed.
Liu Jing said nothing, glanced at him indifferently, and said with embarrassment: "Master Wu, Secretary Xiu Mu, is at home today. I offered to go into the mansion to arrest him, but he refused. He said that he would never protect his own brother, Wu."
Xian is not at his residence. If he sees Wu Xian, he will definitely ask him to surrender at the official temple."
Ma Zhou immediately jumped up and cursed: "This shameless dead dog who was born to eat dog excrement! Someone witnessed Wu Xian entering his mansion, how dare he still quibble?"
His face became even more embarrassed, and he pretended not to listen.
Liu Jing raised his hand to stop him and said, "Zi Jin, the murderer is not Mr. Wu. You can't speak without restraint, curse and sit down."
Ma Zhou sat down angrily, and couldn't help but mutter: "He protected Wu Xian first, and even scolding him is considered a frivolous thing."
Xie Liang said worriedly: "Liu Jun, what should we do about this matter?" Wu Ju refused to cooperate and was suspected of covering up, so the matter inevitably reached a deadlock.
He made a serious suggestion: "Why don't we report it to the county government and let the governor decide."
Liu Jing secretly shook his head after hearing this. Even if Zhang Xian agreed to let them go into Wu Mansion to search, they might not be able to catch Mr. Wu. In such a big mansion, it would be too easy to hide someone.
But this is also a method, and it doesn’t hurt to try it.
Liu Jinghe said: "Cheng Teng, you will be responsible for informing the prince tomorrow."
"No." The result came as expected.
After the students left, Liu Jing's eyes swept over the four subordinates one by one, and finally stopped at Ma Zhou. He smiled and said, "Zijin, you must be very unwilling to do this, right?"