The Tan family finally became powerful in Zhangzhou... A few days later, Old Mullet was found in a dark kiln on the outskirts of the city and brought directly to the Jarvis military camp. When he was brought into the tent, he was so frightened that he could not help shaking like chaff.
.This person doesn’t have much strength in his mouth, so he just scares him with a few words.
A few days ago, he lost money and found a deserted place to sit around and curse God. Suddenly a woman as beautiful as a fairy came to him and told him with tears that she had been bullied and wanted to die. Such a woman, he
He felt weak all over after just one look. How could he be willing to let her die? He immediately swore and patted his chest, willing to avenge the fairy. The fairy told him with hatred that his enemy was Dong Ming, and later gave him a set of clothes, shoes and socks, twenty
He gave me two taels of silver and a short knife, and said: "No matter whether the matter is accomplished or not, as soon as it is done, I will fly far away. I will never come back after leaving Fujian!"
Jarvis looked at him for a long time and asked, "Why didn't you run further?"
He lowered his head and said: "I only got twenty taels of silver, so I couldn't help but spend it. I thought that after a while, I went back to my old business and I would be able to see the fairy again."
Jarvis frowned and said: "Twenty taels of silver is enough to feed a farmer for a year." Old Mullet remained silent, but his face was full of disdain, as if he didn't care about the word "farmer". He then asked him what the fairy looked like.
, but could not form a portrait. This person could not describe his eyebrows, nose, and lips. He only knew the words "good-looking" and "extremely good-looking".
Dong Ming had gotten better these days, so Jarvis told him about it. Dong Ming said: "The Fairy will never recognize a scoundrel like Old Mullet. Someone must have helped the Fairy pick him."
Jarvis said: "The fewer people know about the murder, the better. Whoever helps her choose her assassin must recognize the old mullet."
Then he took the clothes and shoes that the fairy had given to Old Mullet. Dong Minglue took a look at them and said, "The material of these clothes cannot be removed from those big cloth shops on Dongmen Street."
Jarvis hurriedly sent someone to take the clothes and sent them to Dongmen Street to look for someone. Soon the shopkeeper recognized that this kind of cloth belonged to their family. But because it was high-quality and cheap, many people bought it. Some ordinary people,
There were also wealthy families who bought the cloth to make clothes for their servants. The soldiers who went to investigate then copied down all the wealthy families who bought the cloth.
Dong Ming said: "Ordinary people are not willing to give away twenty taels of silver." He asked the old mullet if he had any friends who were related to these people. The old mullet thought for a long time and counted more than twenty with his fingers.
They were rough servants. Jarvis ordered people to separately check these twenty people. Anyway, he had many people under his command. After half a day, more than twenty soldiers came back. At this moment, Lin Daiyu also came from the camp.
, all the soldiers replied to the three of them in turn. One of them mentioned that a man named Hu San was guarding the North Point Gate of the magistrate's house. His cousin was actually a personage - Miss Tan Wu's personal maid.
Dong Ming said "Oops": "Does Miss Tan Wu hate me for tricking her?" He looked a little embarrassed and said a few words about how he had detoured to the nunnery that day to watch the excitement.
Jarvis was dumbfounded: "I can't avoid her, but you keep chasing her to see her."
Dong Ming said sarcastically: "I am just a small official. I have never seen the young lady from the prefect's family, so I am a little curious."
Lin Daiyu said: "I'm afraid it's really this fifth girl. I met many girls and grandmothers at Tan's house that day, but she was the only one who was so angry that she beat the seventh girl into a state of disgrace in a short time. And that incident was leaked.
If it is given to outsiders, if word spreads, she will have no choice but to become a nun."
Dong Ming said with a grimace: "If I had known it was so complicated, I wouldn't have asked."
Jarvis smiled and said: "I have heard people say that curiosity killed the cat, and now I have seen a real example..." The soldiers and brothers on the side couldn't help laughing, and laughed. Daiyu also covered her mouth and laughed. Dong Ming
I also wanted to laugh a little bit, but I didn't dare to hold it in for fear of breaking my wound.
So he sent people to Qingyuan Nunnery to ask the sisters-in-law there if Miss Tan Wu asked them about Dong Ming that day. Although Dong Ming did not tell Miss Tan Wu who he was, he had just donated some money in the nunnery.
Jarvis came out with a small portrait of Miss Zhang Tan Wu, mixed it with the other portraits of women, and showed it to Old Mullet, but he said there was none. After a while, the soldiers who went to Qingyuan Nunnery came back.
It is said that Miss Tan Wu really found out about Dong Ming's identity.
Lin Daiyu thought for a moment and asked the soldier who sent them to the nunnery to describe the appearance of the personal maid. Jarvis was painting beside him. After everyone took a look at the painting, they found that the maid was also very beautiful. Then she gave it to Old Mullet, and he
Xian Jian was shocked, then shook his head and said loudly: "No! There are no fairies! They are not as beautiful as fairies!"
Jarvis nodded slightly: "It's okay. It's just that you hurt the official, and you will inevitably get a lawsuit."
The old mullet raised his head and said: "A lawsuit means a lawsuit! I have a scar as big as a bowl on my head, but twenty years later I will be a good man again!"
Jarvis said: "That's all, I hope you have a good life in prison. Think about it. Is it worth it? If someone can use you as a weapon after just crying for a while, you are not a good man."
Old Wuyu said: "Then Dong Ming, an old man, can he be considered a hero if he bullies a little girl?"
Jarvis said: "Dong Ming is just like you who has never met a young lady from a wealthy family. He was curious and tricked her. Even though he was not guilty of this matter, he does not deserve to die. What's more, he met a young lady. You
I saw a maid." He ignored him and turned around to leave. The old mullet stared behind him.
Now that the matter was clear, Jarvis asked Dong Ming how to deal with it. Dong Ming said: "I didn't think carefully, so I just regarded it as a disaster." Jarvis nodded. Now his injury is stable, but twenty people are left behind.
Soldiers, two nurses and a military doctor are preparing to launch an army in Quanzhou.
A soldier who had been familiar with Dong Ming in the past few days complained: "Mr. Dong was stabbed in vain, wasn't it?"
Jarvis said: "Master Dong is a man after all. Firstly, Miss Tan Wu is beautiful, and secondly, he himself has faults, so he can't bear to pursue it. That woman will not have a good life." When the soldier asked the reason, he could only
Not to mention, Lin Daiyu made a lot of nonsense at Tan's house that day, saying that General Jia was afraid of the military rule of "accepting wives before the battle", but in fact he wanted to marry Miss Tan Wu. Now that the cause of Miss Six's death is known, there is no such thing as "unlucky ghost"
Miss Tan Wu must be hoping that a serious matchmaker from Chengtian Mansion will come to propose marriage. Not only her, but several men of the Tan family must also have this thought. How can it be easy to endure such a day of hopeless hope?
Just after returning to the camp, military counselor Lin Daiyu ordered the troops to pack up the baggage and set up the camp. Suddenly, soldiers came from outside to report that someone from the Tan family had sent a generous gift to thank her. They also said that the family was busy at the moment. After Mrs. Tan settled down, all the gentlemen came to Lin in person.
Military advisor, General Jia kowtows.
Daiyu asked curiously: "What do you want to thank us for?"
The soldier said: "It is said that the military advisor and the general saved the lives of the men in their house."
The two of them looked at each other for a while, and then Jarvis asked: "Did the military advisor save the men of the Tan family?"
Daiyu shook her head: "No."
I heard someone outside say "haha" twice: "I saved the man in their house." After saying that, he walked in.
Everyone was shocked. "Fifth Master!" "Fifth Uncle!" The person who came was none other than Jia Xu, whom they hadn't seen for many days.
Jia Xu glanced at Lin Daiyu: "Who said that the fifth uncle didn't take care of SHIELD well?"
Daiyu blushed and murmured in a low voice: "Originally, King Jin didn't even know he wanted to do something as big as firearms."
Since they all came to greet them at the door, Boss Jia Xu walked straight to the chair at the top where Daiyu had just been sitting and sat down: "Every prince wants to make firearms. What's the point of just trying to make a firearm?"
Daiyu said: "They found many maritime merchants who have made Western firearms, and spent a lot of effort to find their iron mines. Isn't it in vain that they don't have blueprints?"
Jia Xu waved his hand and said: "You young people, you only found a scratch and then you thought you had guessed everything. The King of Jin sent one of his most capable juniors here just to secretly explore other people's iron mines?"
Daiyu and Jarvis looked at each other and asked, "Why is the fifth uncle looking at you?"
Jia Xu coughed twice: "I'm thirsty." Daiyu glanced at Jarvis, who quickly poured him tea. Jia Xu took two sips of tea and said, "They also want iron ore. If only for Why send Li Qizhi to iron ore? It can be done by sending someone else. There is an old craftsman named He Laodun in the Yuheng Department of the Ministry of Industry. He is timid and fled the capital during the chaos a few years ago. Now, All the princes are looking for him. On the one hand, they are looking for him, and on the other hand, they are preventing others from finding him."
Daiyu asked: "Is he good at making firearms?"
Jia Xu said: "He has the drawings of various firearms from the Ministry of Industry in his mind." Lin Daiyu and Jarvis both took a breath. "The King of Jin found out somewhere that he was in Longyan right now." He took another sip of tea. , "His hometown is in Jiangxi, but he ran away from home when he was young. His sister married a passing Longyan merchant. There was no one else in the merchant's family, so he took all the Yue family over to support him. He Laodun was so shameless that he found My brother-in-law only said that he had been hanging out for more than thirty years and did not mention that he was an old craftsman from the Ministry of Industry. It is obvious that he has no interest in fame and fortune. Even if the King of Jin sent someone to invite him, most of the time he could not be invited."
Jarvis said: "That's why Li Qizhi wanted to go to Longyan to please him and get him to go out and work for the King of Jin."
"That's right." Jia Xu nodded and said, "The Tan family is the largest family in Longyan. If Li Qizhi comes to Longyan as the son-in-law of the Tan family, he only needs to do some good deeds and punish some bullies in the mines, and he can win the title of He Lao Dun's favor. He went to Quanzhou to meet those maritime merchants not to pave the way for selling firearms in the future, but to buy some firearms from Western countries at high prices so that He Laodun could study them in the future."
"I see." Daiyu asked again, "Did you always go to Russia to kill their empress?"
Jia Xu smiled and said: "The empress is dead, I will come back naturally." Everyone applauded and laughed. Jia Xu glanced at a few of them and said, "I was passing by Fujian and heard that you were lingering here. Come and take a look. You have been lingering a lot. During the day, I didn’t even find out what people wanted, I just made wild guesses.”
The young people were all a bit embarrassed. Daiyu pouted and quickly changed the subject: "Then why did the fifth uncle save the men of the Tan family again?"
Jia Xu smiled slightly: "Suppose they are lucky, your uncle also wants to abduct He Laodun quietly."
It turned out that when the two men of the Tan family returned to the mansion from Jia Jun's barracks, they first called the sixth girl's maid to ask about it, and then kept talking to the seventh girl for half a day. Then they realized that what Military Advisor Lin said was true, and they were filled with hatred.
Itchy. Uncle Tan had a more upright temperament, so he told her that Li Qizhi had caused the death of the sixth girl, and wanted to frame the blame on her. Then the seventh girl Tan had already been obsessed with love, how could she believe it? She couldn't do it on her own.
He secretly wrote a letter to Li Qizhi.
Who was Li Qizhi? Although Miss Tan Qizhi's letter was unclear, he knew that he had been exposed after reading it. So he went to tell Uncle Tan in person that he wanted to marry Miss Qi. The men of the Tan family were surprised.
, and fearing that he had made a mistake, he refused to act rashly. Li Qizhi sent a matchmaker to Tan Mansion to formally propose marriage, and the seventh girl was so happy that she seemed to be in a dream. He also said that he would like to invite all the brothers-in-law and brothers-in-law to have a drink.
The Tan family has dominated Zhangzhou for many years without restraint. They never thought that anyone would dare to attack them, so they left carelessly. After three rounds of drinking, I felt pain in my stomach. I called the waiter but no one answered. There was an uncle who was close to the door and struggled.
He wanted to call someone in person, but the door was locked. Uncle Tan and Mr. Tan both looked at Li Qizhi.
Li Qizhi smiled and said: "Like everyone else, I also drank poisonous wine, and I will be poisoned and fall to the ground later." Everyone was in an uproar.
Mr. Tan gritted his teeth and said, "You will never die with us."
Li Qi said: "It's just that none of you were able to save me. I don't drink alcohol and eat little, so I was able to save him."
"You..." A room full of Tan family men wanted to pounce on him and strangle him to death, but all of them were so painful that they were weak.
Li Qizhi sighed: "It's pitiful for such a big Tan family. All the men were killed by evil spirits. Only the uncle who had just made an appointment and was not yet married was spared."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "bang" sound, as if the lock outside the door had fallen. Someone pushed the door in and was startled: "What's going on?"
Uncle Tan shouted: "Please call the doctor! We are poisoned!" The man ran out quickly. Li Qizhi's face turned pale.
Later, the doctor came, and the gentlemen worked for a long time on inducing vomiting and detoxification. Finally, they remembered the person who had just saved them, and asked him who he was. The person said: "The soldier is the soldier beside General Jarvis. General Jia poached Zhangzhou."
Mr. Dong of the government always felt that he owed Zhangzhou a favor and tried to repay it. Military advisor Lin then said that she thought this man named Li had evil intentions, and several Tan masters seemed to despise him. I am afraid that you will lose Jingzhou because of your carelessness. Therefore, I ordered
The soldier secretly stared at this person. If he had done something evil, it would be better to notice it earlier. Just now, the soldier saw a few people appear out of nowhere, and he quickly knocked out all the servants who were guarding outside.
He even locked the door, so he knew something was wrong inside. Those people locked the door and left as if in the wind, so the soldier cut off the lock and came to see what was going on inside."
All the men and uncles of the Tan family chanted Buddha's name in unison, but few of them thanked this little soldier. This person was naturally Jia Xu. Seeing that someone from the Tan family had come to pick them up, they clasped their fists and said goodbye, saying that they were going back to recover, and jumped on the horse.
Came to the camp.
Jarvis couldn't help but regret: "Li Qizhi was a good Confucian scholar in his early years. Who would have thought that he would become so vicious."
Daiyu hummed: "It's easy to get rid of the troubles of the Tan family. I won't shed tears until I see the coffin."
Jia Xu said with a smile: "Those in the Tan family don't care about me or my sister, they all care about themselves. Li Qizhi is afraid that he will not survive. If he dies, the King of Jin will let the Tan family go, and so will the Li family."
Refuse to."
Daiyu thought about it, and then said: "It's just He Laodun. Since this plan doesn't work, will King Jin simply have someone kidnap him? How are uncle going to abduct him?"
"I don't know." Jia Xu said proudly, "This matter belongs to your aunt. She lost the bet." (..)