Heading east from Jiuweng Bridge and riding along the Donghuamen Official Road for eighty-nine miles, you will find Sanliu Garden, a private garden built by the Qu family in the west of Quyang Town. A small lake with rippling blue waves surrounds the garden and builds a garden.
In the beginning, there were three hundred-year-old willows on the north bank of Hubei, so it was named Sanliu Garden. This was the Qu family’s explanation to the outside world. The old people nearby knew the Qu family’s old roots. Originally, the village on the west side of the town was called Sankeliu Village.
Several generations of the Qu family used clever plunder to annex all the land at the west end of the town into the Qu family's farm. The Sanliu Garden built within the farm was where the Qu family raised their villagers.
In addition to the fact that the Quji Rent Collection Store has the right to collect rent and tax on nearly 200,000 acres of fertile land from the west of Quyang Town to Donghuamen Gate in Jiangning City and around Moling Lake, the Qu family is also the largest grain merchant in Quyang Town.
During the peak season when new grains are on the market, the amount of rice passing through the Qu family's hands is as high as one or two thousand kilograms per day. The Qu family's oil pressing mill occupies half of Nanhe Street in Quyang Town.
Nearly three hundred.
The ancestors of the Qu family were tax collectors in Moling County. After the Inspection Department was established in Quyang Town, 13 of the 17 Quyang inspection inspectors came from the Qu family; the Qu family is the leading powerful village tycoon in Moling County.
The attackers tracked the campers from the outside of Moling Lake to the west end of Quyang Town. The sun had already revealed half of its face on the top of the mulberry trees at the west end of the town. As he approached the Qu family farm, Wu Qi found several tenants working in the fields.
In fact, the Qu family sent secret sentries to guard the outskirts of Sanliu Garden. They did not dare to go near Sanliu Garden anymore, and they pretended to be two strangers passing by and squatted on the roadside to rest.
After resting for a moment, Wu Qi peered at Sanliu Garden in the distance, and thought to himself: The Qu family's guards were very tight, unlike ordinary wealthy and powerful families in the countryside. Seeing that he couldn't find a chance to get close to Sanliu Garden, he turned back from Quyang Town.
Go to the mouth of Jinchuan River.
In the Sanliu Garden, on the pavilion on the north bank of Hubei, Qu Wuyang, who had a thick beard slightly stained with frost, glared at two middle-aged people kneeling on the stone steps with a pair of round tiger eyes. He frowned and said in a deep voice: "Living
Man, I lost it for you! You actually thought that Bin'er got 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 might happen to the young master, so we left two people to accompany the young master and wait by the poplar forest. When we withdrew, we returned to the poplar forest. Except that the young master and his two followers were missing, there were no other abnormalities. The situation at that time was
It's urgent. The fire has started. The horse infantry and infantry of Jiangning's Military and Horse Division and the cavalry of the Inspector's Division will leave the city at any time to round up people. I don't dare to take so many people to stay outside, so I will go back first... I will lead the people there now.
Looking for the young master!"
"How to find it? For such a big case, the Inspectorate and the Jiangning Military and Horse Division may have sent people to set up spies around the mouth of the Jinchuan River. If you lead people there, if you make a mistake, you won't bring the fire on the Qu family.
?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 worry about his only son and asked his men to find his cousin.
, Inspector Qu Wuming of the Inspection Department of Quyang Town said, "Recall all your capable people back to Sanliu Garden. We are not the only ones who secretly covet Jinchuan Prison Island. Maybe Bin'er will be taken away by these people. If the Inspector General
If there is no response in the past two days, someone will take advantage of our Qu family. I am just a son, and I will save his life no matter what the cost..."
After the Jiyun Society recruited workers and displaced persons and was attacked at a camp at the mouth of the river, it was in chaos, with heavy casualties and no ability to fight back. Qu Wuyang never expected that his only son would fall into the hands of the Jiyun Society, which he thought was vulnerable.
When he fell into Lin Fu's hands, he never thought that even if he was willing to pay a high price to save his only son's life, Lin Fu had no intention of trading with him.
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Jiangning City, half an acre of lotus courtyard, this is the house She Feihu recently moved into after he came to Jiangning to serve as the envoy of the Marquis of Jin'an.
When the morning light cleared, Song Jia was combing her crow-like hair in front of a bronze mirror in her show room. Behind her, there were two maids on the left and right holding bronze mirrors. There was the sound of horse hooves in the corridor between the partition walls, and Song Jia held a hand in her hand.
Zhi Huadian listened carefully to the sound of horse hooves and thought to himself: What's the emergency this early in the morning?
Song Jia dropped the flower in her hand and ran out of the house. She saw the spies stationed outside the city, dressed in black, walked into the yard under the guidance of the house steward. When they saw Song Jia coming, they all saluted: "See you there."
Mrs. Guo…”
"what happened?"
"Jiyun Society recruited refugees from the north bank and gathered at the mouth of Jinchuan River yesterday. They were attacked at night. Thirty-six of the refugee workers they recruited died during the night and nearly a hundred were injured..." the spy reported.
"Okay..." She Feihu walked out of another room and couldn't help but cheer loudly when he heard this and said, "If you tell him to be tough, someone should have taught them a lesson."
"Not the man sent by Mr. Du?" Song Jia looked at She Feihu doubtfully.
"Why kill those useless refugees? Kill chickens to scare monkeys?" She Feihu shook his head and denied that he asked Du Rong to do this.
"Since it wasn't you and Mr. Du who did it, what's the point?" Song Jia said angrily, "If Gu Wuchen and Lin Fu were to blame the She family, wouldn't they be unjustly accused?"
She Feihu was slightly startled, but Lin Fu knew that they also wanted to build a warehouse and dock on that section of the river embankment. Besides, the land up to that section of the river embankment had actually been secretly acquired by Qingfengxing. Lin Fu wanted to use the inspector to
Si's forces are going to investigate, I'm afraid it won't be difficult to find out. Something like this happened last night, and it's easy for them to be suspected.
Although She Feihu wanted to teach Lin Fu and the others some lessons, and he didn't mind if the Tan water became more turbid, he never wanted to have a stalemate with Gu Wuchen before Jiang Ning had established a foothold, and he never wanted to be like this himself.
Drag him down into the muddy water; behind this incident, someone is probably targeting Gu Wuchen. Gu Wuchen encountered an assassin on his way to Jiangning to take up his post, 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 thorough than him.
"Mr. Du, what are you going to do over there? Hold back for now. There are so many injured at the mouth of Jinchuan River. There should be a shortage of medicine. There is a fire in the camp. There may be a shortage of clothes, quilts and other items. We should quickly buy some and have them sent there.
, I also expressed my attitude when expressing condolences." Song Jia said.
"Okay, I'll let someone arrange it right now," She Feihu said.
"Forget it, let me go out of the city. I'll ask Mingyue if she wants to go with us," Song Jia said, "I'm feeling suffocated living in the city these days, and I want to go out of the city to relax."
She Feihu hesitated for a moment, and didn't say much else. He just said, "Go and ask Mingyue." Jiangning here pays attention to being a lady and not showing up, but Jin'an Prefecture in Eastern Fujian is located on the coast. Men go to the sea to fish, and women go to the sea to fish.
He takes care of all the big and small things in the family, and there are not many taboos about showing up in public.
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Qu Wuyang's son and two followers were killed, tied with rocks, and sank to the bottom of the river. Lin Fu had no time to change into clean clothes, so he and brothers Zhou Pu, Cao Zi'ang, Ge Cunxin, and Ge Cunxiong took a boat back to the mouth of the river. Wu Qi took his men
Also came back.
The two factors confirmed that the murderer last night was the swordsman raised by the Qu family. In the shack that was not burned down, Lin Fu sat on the ground, angrily inserting the sheath of his sword into the soft mud in the corner of the shack. Zhou Pu and Cao Ziang
, Lin Jingzhong, Wu Qi sat around him.
The brothers Ge Cunxin and Ge Cunxiong, who were nominally elected by Cao Ziang as representatives of the displaced workers, led others to prevent others from approaching the shack.
After last night's tragedy, Lin Jingzhong blamed himself very much and was in a very low mood. He squatted aside and reported the losses he had just calculated to Lin Fu.
In addition to the thirty-six dead, there are nearly a hundred injured, and nearly forty seriously injured. They must be immediately transferred to the city for further treatment by famous doctors in the medical center. Except for minor injuries, other injured must also be moved in.
To recuperate in the city, otherwise staying in the wilderness would not only be inconvenient to recuperate, but also cost more manpower to take care of them. Lin Jingzhong followed Lin Fu's instructions and first paid ten taels of pension money to each family of the deceased, and buried them in the cemetery.
Jiyun Society will be responsible for all of them, and the injured will be treated with all their strength. It is also promised that for those who are disabled due to injuries, Jiyun Society will take full responsibility for their future life, old age, illness and death; the forty or fifty shacks built in a hurry last night were burned out.
Most of the nearly one hundred stones of rice grains in the temporary granary had not had time to be distributed, and most of them were burnt to coke, so I dug out more than ten stones of rice grains from my heart, which was enough for these people to eat for a day or two; wooden squares and straw felts
Thousands of clothes and quilts were burned...
At least it is a million dollars, a loss of thousands of taels of silver. Fortunately, these refugees have experienced all kinds of hardships and illness and old age on the thousands of miles of journey to Jiangning, and their hearts have become numb and strong. After the initial panic, at dawn
They did not run away after that. Even though they were sad and panicked, they quite consciously followed the instructions to help each other and rescued supplies from the ashes.
Listening to the sound of neck bells and horses snoring, Wu Qi stood up at the door and lifted up the windproof straw curtain. He saw a carriage approaching. Qian Xiaowu followed the carriage and said to the people in the carriage as he walked: "Lin.
The young master is discussing matters with Manager Lin and Master Zhou in the shack over there..."
Lin Fu stood up and took a second look outside when he saw Liu Yue'er's worried and soft face peeking out from behind the curtain of the carriage. Cao Ziang, Wu Qi and others got up and left the shack. Liu Yue'er was wearing a skirt and also
Regardless of whether the ground was wet due to fire fighting and was muddy due to people stepping on it, I saw Lin Fu sticking his head out of the shack, getting off the carriage, walking over with one foot deep and one shallow, and opening the curtain of the shack. Only then did he see Lin Fu covered in blood.
, Xiu eyes opened and shed tears, and started crying: "Qian Xiaowu, the one who suffered a thousand knives, lied to me that Mr. Lin was fine..." He didn't wipe the tears on his cheeks, and grabbed Lin anxiously.
He tied his arms and wanted to see where he was injured.
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