Linzi, Shandong Province, has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of Chinese culture. It is said that both Fuxi and Zhuanxu lived here in ancient times. Linzi at that time was called Yingqiu. After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty sent Jiang Shang, the first minister of the Zhou Dynasty, to Fengjiang established Qi State here.
When Duke Xiang of Qi came to power, it was renamed Linzi, and it was the capital of the Qi State in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Linzi was home to a large number of literati. Guan Zhong, a famous prime minister, wrote "Guanzi" in Linzi City, attracting scholars all over the world. Come and pay your respects. Confucius heard Shao music here, Mencius was treated as a guest by King Qi, and Zhuangzi once served as King Min of Qi as prime minister...
Chen Mengsheng and four other people walked along the street in Linzi City to inquire about the house where the Pan Duojin brothers lived. However, with the passage of time and frequent wars, no one knew about the Pan brothers. Fortunately, Linzi City is not big, with only a thirty-mile city outline. There are many buildings inside. There are two inner and outer cities with thirteen gates, arranged in a well-shaped shape in the middle of the city. The roads are wide and there are several merchant ships from the Daqi Puppet Kingdom parked at the wharf.
Xiang Xiaotian felt resentful from the moment he left the inn. After walking three or four streets, he cursed: "The Hunjun of the Song Dynasty ruined such a country. Look at the lackeys of the Jin people everywhere in Linzi City. I really wish I could punch him." Beat them to death."
Qi Ying sighed: "Now Shandong has become the pseudo-Qi Kingdom, and Linzi City is under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou Prefecture. What can we ordinary people do?"
Shangguan Yanran glanced at Qi Ying, whose belly was slightly swollen, and said: "Sister Xianglan, now that the autumn wind is blowing, I think it's better to let my eldest brother accompany you to have a good rest in the inn. My senior brother and I can just ask about the whereabouts of the Pan family in Linzi City. I wonder where the Pan family is in the city?"
Chen Mengsheng breathed a sigh of relief and said: "When I first left Lin'an and arrived in Huzhou a few years ago, I met Ye Shuang'er and Zheng Weimin's long-term marriage. However, due to an unexpected combination of circumstances, Ye Shuang'er's husband Lu Yunxiao was mistakenly married. Thinking that they were having an affair, she wrote a letter of divorce in a fit of rage. Ye Shuang'er, a loyal woman, was so angry at Lu Yunxiao's nerdy divorce letter that she went to Zheng Weimin, and later hanged herself in front of his house. Unexpectedly, Lu Yunxiao used wine to drown his sorrows, allowing the second brother of the Pan family to take advantage of him. He killed Lu Yunxiao and pretended to be his eldest brother. He burned Lu Yunxiao's body and sent the ashes jar back to his hometown of Linzi. I also looked it up in the book of life and death. Their brothers are from Linzi, Shandong Province, so it is unknown where they live in Linzi."
Qi Ying said angrily: "It's another miserable girl who was killed by a divorce letter. Alas! I must see how Brother Chen scolds that nerd, otherwise I really won't be able to swallow this breath."
Chen Mengsheng briefly told Qi Ying about Ye Shuang'er. When Qi Ying first heard that it was the divorce letter that killed the girl, she couldn't help but think of herself. Her angry thoughts made her want to scold the confused Lu Yunxiao. Women have so many problems in this life. Doesn't a divorce letter drive someone to death?"
Xiang Xiaotian understands the reason why Qi Ying is angry. In Huizhou Prefecture, a fool who wanted to become an immortal also wrote Zhang Xiu Shu. No matter how strong a woman is outside, she can't compete with that thin piece of paper. Xiang Xiaotian lightly He stroked Qi Ying's hair and said: "Daughter-in-law, to be honest, I have always wanted to thank that ignorant Gu Ming'en. If he hadn't been bent on cultivating himself and becoming an immortal, maybe you wouldn't have taken a fancy to me, a big man like me. You're a rough guy." There was no exaggeration in Xiang Xiaotian's words.
Qi Ying looked at his serious look and couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled: "Okay, okay. You said I'm embarrassed, so I'm not afraid of Brother Chen and the others laughing at me."
Shangguan Yanran suppressed her laughter and said awkwardly: "Hey, the baby is about to be born, and you are still sitting on the street talking sour words."
Xiang Xiaotian chuckled and changed the subject: "Brother, it's not a big deal for us to walk all over the streets in Linzi City and ask questions. I think it's better to ask the county magistrate. At least the county magistrate here can take care of it.
Just a square of water and soil." Chen Mengsheng smiled bitterly, thinking that his group had killed so many Jin lackeys in Chuzhou Prefecture. Fortunately, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva secretly cast spells and sent them all the way to Linzi. Otherwise, we would have been here in a few days.
The streets and alleys will be covered with patrol and arrest notices. Going to the county government now is undoubtedly a sheep falling into the tiger's mouth.
"Haha, Linzi is already a puppet territory controlled by the Jin people. When the county government sees us strangers, they will only interrogate us strictly. How can they help us find people? The entrances of the inns here are deserted. I think we can still
If you ask more families, we might be able to find out the whereabouts of the Pan family." Chen Mengsheng didn't know how many people he asked along the way, but who could care about other people's families after the war?
Either the whole family moved away, or they died violently...
The four of us were hungry and thirsty while exploring the city of Linzi. We found a herbal tea shack, ordered a large pot of herbal tea, and ate it with scallion pancakes. The old man who opened the herbal tea shack was about sixty years old, and he was struggling to make ends meet in the city.
We set up this herbal tea shed. The old man could not make a lot of money by working from morning to sunset. Just as he was about to close the stall, he saw Chen Mengsheng and four others entering the tea shed. They made herbal tea and cut three kilograms of noodles, and greeted them warmly.
Chen Mengsheng and the others.
The old man lowered his hands and said, "These guest officials are very friendly. Are they coming to Zi to purchase goods? Or are they here to visit relatives and friends?"
Chen Mengsheng took a sip of herbal tea and said: "My father-in-law, the Jin people are now controlling Linzi City, is there anyone here to buy goods?"
"Haha, I see what you said. The general of the Jin people spends all day in Qingzhou, but the people of Linzi still have to live a good life. The people in the south can bribe Daqi as long as they are willing to spend some money.
Merchant ships are smuggling cotton fabrics, and it’s not easy for anyone now. Everyone with a few thousand dollars in their family has fled to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to make a living. Alas! I, the old sheep, have no ability. After giving birth to three boys, the family is too poor to open the door.
I asked the two boys to join the army. Unexpectedly, they were chopped alive by the Jin general Bo Lieji, which made my old woman cry to death without even catching a breath. Now General Bo Lieji of Qingzhou Prefecture is going to rape her again.
They imposed exorbitant taxes and built a palace for him in Linzi. My fifteen-year-old son was also taken away by them..." After speaking, the old man Yang wiped his tears sadly.
Xiang Xiaotian jumped up anxiously and shouted: "What a bird general, I'm going to kill him right now."
Chen Mengsheng grabbed Xiang Xiaotian and said: "Brother, if you kill Bo Lieji, you will only cause more innocent people to lose their lives. The Jin Kingdom can just send another general. We can only rely on
The Song Dynasty sent troops to recapture Linzi City and drove the Jin people out of the Central Plains."
The old man Yang said with tears in his eyes: "Since Liu Yu became emperor, the Great Qi Kingdom has continued to fight with the Song Dynasty. How can the Song Dynasty still have people to lead the army? There are also some old, weak, women and children left in the Great Qi Kingdom. A few years ago, my two
My nephew fled to Huzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang Province and opened a big restaurant. Every year he sent some money back home. I thought that all of us would join them together, but I didn't expect that my eldest nephew died of illness the year before last.
Not long after my nephew died, my sister's family suffered a lot. I don't know who was jealous of the money in my sister's family and tipped off Boleiji that it was Cuyin's conspiracy. The whole family was killed by Boleiji.
Clean and tidy.”
Chen Mengsheng exclaimed in shock: "My father-in-law, are your two nephews called Pan Duojin and Pan Duoyu?"
"Huh? Sir, do you know my nephew? Not long after that, I wrote a funeral letter to Pan Duoyu, but there was no reply. Why didn't he come back this time? My sister's whole family and his eldest brother were all buried.
On the Yingzui Mountain outside Linzi City. Two years have passed since that little bastard, why haven't you seen him come back?" The old man blocked Chen Mengsheng's path and kept asking about Pan Duoyu.
Xiang Xiaotian frowned and said: "Old man, the little bastard you mentioned will never come back. When we were in Huizhou Prefecture, we heard you people who fled Linzi talking about the Pan family brothers in Huzhou Prefecture. Pan Duoyu, he
I lost all my money gambling in the restaurant, and others also jumped off the building and committed suicide."
The old man Yang was dumbfounded and murmured: "He's doing evil, he's doing evil. He just can't change his gambling. Is there any hope for gambling? Sooner or later, he will be killed by gambling. He just won't listen..." Xiang Xiaotian
While the old man Yang was chattering away, he dragged Chen Mengsheng away. Qi Ying didn't know that Chen Mengsheng and Pan Duoyu had a life-and-death bet, so Shangguan Yanran took out ten taels of silver from her pocket and put it on the table in the tea shed.
, hurriedly followed Chen Mengsheng and the others and left.
With the news about Pan Duojin, it would be much easier to find it. I walked to the street and asked about the location of Yingzui Mountain. But the passers-by shivered and avoided answering. Shangguan Yanran took out another couple of pieces of silver.
I asked an old woman. Chen Mengsheng was not a person who liked to manage money. Over the years, all the seven or eight thousand silver notes he had around him were handed over to Shangguan Yanran. Money can make the world go round. Shangguan Yanran's
After giving the old woman a tael of silver, the old woman hesitated for a long time before saying: "To the north outside Linzi City, there is a mountain that looks very much like an eagle's beak. The locals call this place the Eagle's Beak Mountain. But.
You must never go to Yingzui Mountain, where many people have seen a female ghost crying."
Chen Mengsheng shouted to the old woman: "Female ghost? Still crying? You didn't want to defraud us of our money and deliberately said there was a female ghost to scare us, right?"
The old woman stared and said: "Who cares about your money? I am doing it for your own good, and you are not afraid of death. Then I tell you, after Linzi City surrendered to the Jin people, there were cries of female ghosts on Yingzui Mountain.
Say it, it's your business whether you want to go or not, I don't care about you." The old woman threw away the broken silver in Shangguan Yanran's hand and left angrily, leaving Chen Mengsheng and the four of them in embarrassment.
What can I say...
Chen Mengsheng was not afraid of seeing ghosts, but now Qi Ying was pregnant. Ghosts are the evil spirits that like to have children in their bellies. Chen Mengsheng was afraid that the female ghost would hurt Qi Ying, so he turned to Xiang Xiaotian and said: "Yingzui Mountain in the north of the city
If there is really a female ghost, then brother, please take Sister Xianglan back to the inn and wait for us. Yanran and I will go to Yingzui Mountain first to see what kind of female ghost it is..."