That afternoon, someone sent a post to the fourth son of the King of Shu's family. It said: Go to Wuhou Temple alone for a while to discuss important matters in secret. The signature was Qiu Liang. His Highness the Fourth Highness happily attended the appointment. Naturally, he did not dare to go there alone.
, led two capable guards. When they arrived at Wuhou Temple, they were strolling around. From a distance, they saw a person who looked like Qiu Liang in front of them. They waved to him and ducked into a side hall. His Royal Highnesses adjusted their clothes and ordered
The guards were waiting outside and stopped others, and he went in alone. After entering, he did not come out until almost dusk. The guards became suspicious, and when they looked inside, their master had disappeared. The guards were anxious and hurried back to the Shu Palace.
Report the news. The King of Shu ordered people to look for Qiu Liang. Qiu Liang has been working in the Yamen since the morning and has not left yet. He also had lunch with his colleagues. He talked about Wuhou Temple all day long, even at the Yamen gate.
Never left.
Even if he doesn't like the fourth prince, he is still his biological son after all. The King of Shu hurriedly called Qiu Liang to check it out himself. Where could he go to check it for a moment? The words on the post pretending to be meeting the Fourth Highness were not true at first glance.
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Early the next morning, the guard at the Tiexiang Temple sent someone back to the city to report that nothing happened last night, so he had to wait all night in vain. The king of Shu asked curiously: "Why have you waited in vain all night?" The messenger went out and asked.
The soldier said, "Yesterday, His Highness the Fourth Prince came personally to convey the order, so that we can prepare well. In the evening, the remnants of the Fang family will kidnap people." The King of Shu hurriedly called him in and asked him to explain the incident in detail.
The soldiers said that yesterday afternoon, His Royal Highnesses led the troops to the Iron Image Temple, holding the handwriting of the King of Shu to tell them that the prince was planning to lure the enemy, and someone would attack at night tonight, so they should set up an ambush.
The King of Shu was shocked: "Did you read that correctly? He is really the fourth child?"
The soldier said: "Our General Huang recognizes His Royal Highnesses, and saw Master Qiu Liang and Mr. Ding Wangji both wearing clothes and armor among the ordinary soldiers."
"Is he blind?" King Shu slapped the table, "How has Qiu Liang ever left the Yamen?"
The soldier was immediately stunned! It took him half a day to say: "The Fourth Highness finally...took away the Fang family's women and children...as ordered by the prince's handwriting."
The King of Shu was furious and kicked the soldier to the ground: "Trash!"
Just at this time, someone came to report, and His Highness the Fourth Prince found him. Someone sent a large cart of gifts to Qiu Liang's family early in the morning. Unexpectedly, in the cart was a dead, plucked little hen, and a
The fourth prince was stripped of his clothes and had his hair and eyebrows shaved. There were two words written on the top of his head: eggs. At this moment, he had woken up, but was too frightened to speak. Qiu Liangzheng sent a carriage to deliver him first.
After returning home, the King of Shu suddenly felt embarrassed and grabbed the cup, inkstone, and vase on the desk and smashed it on the floor.
Jia Cong was still sleeping in, so Qiu Liang took a young man to his residence to pick him up. Jia Cong stared at him for a long time and said, "I'm hungry..." Qiu Liang had no choice but to ask him to wash up and eat first.
As he ate the snack, Jia Cong listened to him repeat it from the beginning. Hearing that someone was pretending to be Qiu Liang to seduce the fourth child, he swallowed the dragon hand in his mouth and muttered, "How could I hook you up? Didn't that old lady talk about you?
A lonely minister?"
Qiu Liang couldn't help but glance at the young man he brought and asked, "What lonely minister?"
Jia Cong said: "That Mrs. Ding, the prince's mistress, the old lady who helped the fourth child. Last time she said that Qiu Liang was a lonely minister, so don't provoke him." He lowered his head and took a sip of soup, "This fourth child
But someone kidnapped me? What do you want the prince to give in exchange or a ransom?"
Qiu Liang sighed: "Didn't you listen to everything I just said?"
"I haven't woken up just now," Jia Cong said, "I watched the stars and talked about the legend of Azeroth last night, and I didn't go to bed very late."
Qiu Liang said: "The Fang family's women and children were rescued."
"Huh?" Jia Cong paused with the spoon in his hand, "Speak more clearly! I'm awake."
Qiu Liang then elaborated again, looked at him with a smile and said: "It was your idea to keep the Fang family members, anyway, you have to help in this matter."
Jia Cong pushed the snack plate and glanced sideways at Qiu Liang: "Since when did Mr. Qiu learn to play rogue?"
Qiu Liang stroked his beard: "I've always done it. I just didn't know him well before and I was embarrassed to do it."
Jia Cong rolled his eyes, clasped the back of the chair with his backhand and said, "The fourth son of the prince's family doesn't seem to be a reliable person. What's going on with the handwriting?"
Qiu Liang smiled bitterly and said: "The handwriting really looks like the prince's handwriting. General Huang has been following the prince for many years, but he didn't recognize it as a fake."
Jia Cong frowned and said, "Handwriting is difficult to imitate."
Qiu Liang said: "When the prince read it himself, he felt that it was written by himself."
Jia Cong thought again: "No. Handwriting is like fingerprints. Even if it is imitated, it is just to coax ordinary people. How can acquaintances coax them? Has the prince ever lost any pen and ink? When I was a child, I heard about a case from my husband. Someone
I hired a very capable framer to cut out a rich man's words and frame them in one place, and then I used the IOU to blackmail his son's money after the rich man died."
Qiu Liang's eyes lit up: "That paper is really thick!" He immediately called someone to go to the Yamen to get the fake oracle.
Jia Cong said again: "Your Highness, don't be so anxious, the Fang family can't make any trouble. Now is the age of firearms." He winked, "The Fang family has no money, so they can't afford fire or guns. Even if the other parties help,
It doesn’t matter which child is the master? Zhenyuan’s martial arts must be very strong, why don’t we let our fifth uncle shoot him.”
Qiu Liang smiled bitterly and said, "Here's the trouble. I checked the Fang family's property a few days ago and found something wrong."
"Hmm? Have you reconciled the account?"
"There is no need to check the accounts, just take a quick look and you will know something is wrong." Qiu Liang said, "How many wealthy families did Fang Xiong raid in the capital back then? Today, less than 10% of the items found in the Fang family's warehouse are far less than 10%."
Jia Cong blinked: "You mean, what Fang Xiong got out of the capital was not handed over to the prince, but kept privately?"
Qiu Liang nodded and said, "Most of them have been stolen."
Jia Cong's heart skipped a beat: No wonder Fang Xiong wanted to rebel against the King of Shu. Fang Xiong was brought to the capital by the King of Shu, and the properties of so many big families in the capital were confiscated, and he confiscated them all for himself. According to Fang Xiong
He can use the king of Shu's name to allocate his financial resources to the territory. He only needs to hide his troops and horses in the mountains until the world is settled and all the kings have gone to take care of themselves. Then he sends troops to kill the king of Shu, and then he can conquer the country in Shu.
The country covers the sky with one hand.
For fear of the proliferation of guns and chaos, Red Bones' firearms are not sold casually to others. Fang Xiong himself cannot buy firearms, and all the firearms in Shu are bought by the King of Shu. Since he has hidden so much money, the King of Shu
How could he be given firearms? Naturally, the money he got back from robbing overseas with firearms would not be distributed to him. Fang Xiong was afraid that he felt that he was being betrayed. He had a lot of money, and money was his confidence, so he was unwilling to give it up.
The King of Shu was left hanging like this. Without firearms, it was obvious that he could not defeat the King of Shu. Fang Xiong really had no choice but to secretly kill the King of Shu.
Jia Cong thought for a long time: "So, the Fang family still has a huge amount of money hidden somewhere. So, it is not necessarily a member of the Fang family who took away the women and children of the Fang family, nor is it guaranteed that they are insiders who know about this matter."
"What do you mean, Mr. Jia?"
"Since ancient times, money and silk have moved people's hearts the most." Jia Cong said, "A small amount of profit can make people forget their roots, let alone such a huge sum of money? Mr. Qiu, Wansheng thought that he could send more people to wander around Qingcheng Mountain.
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Qiu Liang and the young man looked at each other and asked, "How can you be so suspicious?"
Jia Cong nodded and said: "Zhenyuan is a strange man. He was a bandit in the green forest in his early years, and he still has a replica of the late emperor's gold medal in his hand, which is very lifelike. Later he became a Taoist for some unknown reason and lived in Qingcheng Mountain for decades. He has not been there much.
Elsewhere! As a thief, he should be very sensitive to things like treasure. Besides, he has nothing to do with Fang Xiong, so why is he meddling in the Fang family's affairs? As the saying goes, if you show courtesy for nothing, you are either committing adultery or stealing. He
It’s true that he wants to rescue the Fang family’s women and children, but he doesn’t have any good intentions. I originally thought he was coming for me. But now it seems that I am just the barrel of a gun he uses to get the Fang family’s trust.”
"Hiss..." Qiu Liang took a breath, "Isn't he from the late emperor?"
"Is that gold medal real?"
"no."
"But here you go again!" Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "You have done such things as imitating gold medals, how can you still be a member of the late emperor?"
Qiu Liang said: "Why did he order Ding Wangji to test whether you are willing to stand on your own feet?"
"Otherwise, why would the Fang family believe him? A Taoist priest helps them for no reason. Do you believe that you are the Fang family? Even if you believe it for a while, will you be willing to give him money?" Jia Cong said with a smile, "I thought you were from the Fang family.
What kind of outsider is he? He has been cultivating for decades and has not changed his traitorous nature. Why do you still need money at such an old age?"
Qiu Liang turned his head and looked at the young man. The young man was thinking. Jia Cong also looked at him when he saw this, but Qiu Liang did not introduce him. The young man raised his head and asked, "According to Mr. Jia's opinion, what happened to the kidnapping party?"
Are the housewives and children really far away from each other?"
"Probably not." Jia Cong thought, "Don't those people have soldiers and horses? Zhenyuan is a thief, where do they get the soldiers and horses?"
The young man said: "Taoist Qingxiao said that Zhenyuan received a letter at the end of last year and burned it after reading it. This person must have an accomplice."
Jia Cong said: "I still think that those who can join forces with thieves can only be thieves, and they will not have soldiers and horses in their hands. They are known as the three thieves of Xinglin, and those who wrote to him must be the other two thieves. Unless those soldiers and horses themselves are Fang Fang.
Under Xiong’s men, the thieves joined forces with the Fang family.”
Qiu Liang's yamen is not far away. Someone has brought the fake King of Shu's handwriting over at this moment. After a closer look, it turns out that it is framed. Qiu Liang clicked his tongue and said, "There is such a way!"
Jia Cong disagreed: "The methods they have used are not new ones." He thought again, "How many people know about the fake gold medal?"
Qiu Liang asked: "There are only a handful of people. Is Mr. Jia suspected of having a traitor?"
Jia Cong said: "Honestly, their trick is pretty good. Why didn't you think of it before? Could it be that they were reminded of the fact that they got a fake gold medal to trick the Taoist Priest of Qingyang Palace, and they followed suit?"
Qiu Liang thought: "It's indeed possible. I'll go back and check it out carefully."
Jia Cong yawned: "I'm so sleepy, I didn't get enough sleep. Anyway, the person has run away, and I have an idea. I'm not a policeman. I'll go back and sleep for a while."
The young man said with a smile: "Mr. Jia is not very worried."
Jia Cong said: "No matter how capable they are, after all, they don't have firearms in their hands. What kind of trouble can they make?" He yawned again.
The young man nodded: "That makes sense. Does Mr. Jia know who I am?"
"I don't want to know." Jia Cong waved his hand, "It's better that we don't know each other." The young man smiled and said goodbye to Qiu Liang.
After the two of them left, Jia Cong went back to the house and asked Jia Xu: "Who is the eldest son of the King of Shu? The heir apparent?"
Jia Xu nodded: "Yes. Since the Fang family still has money, we don't have to worry about this. Anyway, no matter what they want to do, they have to find a way to buy firearms."
"That's right."
Jia Cong was really sleepy. He told Chen Ruijin last night that World of Warcraft was almost dawn, so he really wanted to go back to sleep. But Liu Feng came in from outside and said, "Miss Chen, haven't you gotten up yet?" "
"Yeah, we talked for too long last night."
Liu Feng said: "Just now I was cutting flowers and tree branches outside, and the young man who came with Mr. Qiu came to me specifically to inquire about Miss Chen."
Jia Cong scratched his head: "The prince of King Shu is so gossipy! What did he say?"
"He said, I heard that Miss Chen is as beautiful as the heavens and the lower world, but is it true? I said, it is really rare, very rare. He also asked Miss Chen which one is more beautiful, or the girl next door, I said it is obvious that the girl next door is more beautiful. Stronger."
Jia Cong and Jia Xu looked at each other: "What does he mean?"
Jia Xu thought about it for a long time and said: "I'm afraid someone is spreading word about Chen Yatou's appearance outside. It's not good. If it is too outrageous, it may cause trouble. But I don't know how much truth Ding Wangji told the King of Shu. .”
Jia Cong waved his hand and said: "Never mind it, I'll go back and take a nap first."
I had just taken two steps and had not yet bypassed the big screen when someone came in and said, "There is a scholar outside the door asking to see you." He then handed over a message.
Jia Cong said angrily: "Don't let me sleep anymore!" He took a quick glance at the post and was so surprised that he woke up on the spot! What was written above was: Liu Yifei. This name is obviously a homophony of "Liu Yifei". Jia Cong has such a I was momentarily suspicious that I had met a fellow villager from my previous life. Then I thought, if it was a fellow villager, why would I have written Miss Liu's name wrong? I was afraid that it was another rumor, so I ordered her to come in.
As soon as the scholar came in, Jia Cong recognized him. He was the young lady from the Fang family. He twitched his lips and said, "Mr. Liu is so brave!"
Miss Fang smiled and said: "Nowadays, everyone thinks that our family has gone to hide in the mountains and forests. Besides, no one knows me."
Jia Cong couldn't help but yawned again: "I'm sorry, I really slept late last night. I have reached a deal with your general, and it's over. Why is Mr. Liu here looking for me again?"
Miss Fang said: "Let's make a deal with Mr. Jia again and ask Mr. Jia to come up with an idea to help our family get rid of that fake 'General Fang'."
"Huh?" Jia Cong was stunned, "Didn't he receive favor from Master Fang Xiong? I think he is quite sober. You only have women and children in your family, so you still have to rely on him."
Miss Fang looked at Jia Cong for a long time and asked, "Does Mr. Jia know there is a treasure in our house?"
"I just heard Master Qiu say that it was confiscated from a house in the capital."
"If Mr. Jia can help us get rid of that person, our two families will share the treasure equally." She suddenly said with affectionate eyes, "My little girl is also willing to pledge herself to me."
Jia Cong was so frightened that he jumped back and stayed away from her: "Don't act like this! You don't sell your body when you are a late artist!" Miss Fang was stunned. Jia Cong said hurriedly, "It's easy to discuss business if you have money. When it comes to business, there is no need to talk about other things. Miss Fang is a willing person. If you want to find someone to rely on, why not find yourself? Isn’t it more reliable than making a random promise to a stranger? "(..)