Jia Xu led Liu Er and Fenxiang to Malishan, Xiaoci County for inspection. When they met a sneaky person, he opened his mouth and asked Fenxiang for Tiangang order. Jia Xu raised his eyebrows and stood aside with his arms folded. Fenxiang looked at the person. Ichiban asked: "Who are you?"
The man said arrogantly: "I am your uncle!"
Fenxiang said: "I don't have an uncle."
The man pointed to his nose and said: "I am your grandfather's son, so naturally I am your uncle!"
Fenxiang was surprised: "My grandfather had three sons, but they are no longer alive."
The man hurriedly said: "I have your grandfather's autographed letter at home. You will know after reading it. Tell me the order of Tiangang quickly!"
Fenxiang wondered: "What sort of Tiangang order?"
The man was stunned: "Don't you know?"
Fenxiang said: "I don't know!"
The man was anxious: "Why don't you know? My mother told you, you must know! Tell me quickly! When my uncle becomes a high official, you will not be without a good dowry!"
Fenxiang was also anxious: "I really don't know what the Tiangang order is!"
Jia Xu interjected: "This brother, how can this girl understand him so cluelessly? What is going on? Please explain it carefully."
The man touched the back of his head, looked at Jia Xu and said, "Didn't you come to our house to inquire about Mr. Zhen Deren? Do you still remember who my mother is?"
Jia Xu said: "I have never met you, and I don't know who your mother is."
The man jumped up, pointed at him and said, "Just now you said that the portrait you showed my mother was her grandfather!"
Jia Xu said: "Recently, the only portrait I showed to the people in the mountains near Zuo is Mr. Zhen. No matter who your mother is."
The man choked and said, "My mother is Li Cuihua."
"Oh." Jia Xu nodded and said to Fenxiang, "Mr. Zhen hooked up with two widows here back then, one of them was Li Cuihua. Does that mean he has an illegitimate child?" He asked the man, "What's your name?"
The man raised his head and said, "My pseudonym is Li Zangzhu, my real name is Zhen Zangzhu!"
Jia Xu said: "Brother Zhen, if it is really Mr. Zhen, just now you asked Miss Zhen what the order of Tiangang is?"
Zhen Zangzhu was stunned for a moment: "Tiangang sorting... means that those who tell the emperor can become high officials."
Jia Xuqi asked: "Why?"
Zhen Zangzhu glanced at him: "Don't you know? What are you doing here?"
Jia Xu said: "I just came to find out what Zhen Deren did here. It seems you know?"
Zhen Zangzhu looked at him for a while, shaking her head like a rattle: "I don't know! I don't know anything."
Jia Xu smiled and pointed at the shallow pit: "So you didn't dig this?"
Zhen Zangzhu said loudly: "No! How do I know who dug it? The mountain is so big."
Jia Xu nodded: "Forget it, if you don't want to say it, don't say it. I'll tell you later if I'm punished."
Zhen Zangzhu jumped up in fright: "I didn't break the law!"
Jia Xu said calmly: "I don't care whether you have broken the law or not. I want to know. If you don't tell me, I will punish you severely." Then he looked at Liu Er.
Liu Er stepped forward in two steps and before he could take action, he heard Zhen Zangzhu shouting: "Why! I didn't break the law! Why!"
Jia Xu said: "I am an official."
Zhen Zangzhu shouted: "I can also be an official!"
"Are you an official now?"
Zhen Zangzhu choked: "...not yet."
"I am an official now." Jia Xu said with his hands behind his hands, "It's still unclear whether you can become an official. How dare you show off as an official." He shook his head at Liu Er again.
Liu Er stepped forward and picked up Zhen Zangzhu and squeezed it casually a few times. Zhen Zangzhu howled like a killing pig. Fenxiang frowned and whispered: "Is he really my uncle?"
"I don't know." Jia Xu said, "You have to learn how to interrogate."
Zhen Zangzhu screamed so loudly that Fenxiang couldn't bear it and said, "Why don't you ask him why he needs to be tortured?"
Jia Xu said: "I found out that Li Cuihua was Zhen Deren's mistress, so I went to see her in person. She was a very ordinary mountain widow, smart and capable. This Zhen Zangzhu didn't know the importance, and it was obvious that his mother had spoiled him. Just don't care. Digging a hole in the ground, completely unaware that such an object can never be dug out by digging a hole, and it shows that he has no knowledge. If someone asks him, he may not be willing to tell the truth, so it is better to fix it and use him as a hostage to ask Li Cuihua. He knows There are definitely not as many as Li Cuihua."
After hearing this, Fenxiang was silent for a while and asked: "Sir, I must know what is hidden here?"
Jia Xu said: "I don't know. I just know that it is extremely important, related to the survival of the country." He raised his eyes and looked at Zhen Zangzhu, "It is indeed something that can do great things - it is hard to say whether it can become a high official, and it is not guaranteed. It's about killing him." Fenxiang lowered his head slightly. At this moment, Zhen Zangzhu was crying loudly. Jia Xu said, "That's it." Liu Er stopped.
Zhen Zangzhu was so frightened that she did not dare to move. She collapsed on the ground and trembled: "Sir, please spare my life..."
Jia Xu sneered: "You still want to be an official with your appearance?"
Zhen Zangzhu cried: "The villain doesn't dare anymore."
Jia Xu snorted: "Go ahead."
Zhen Zangzhu took action. He didn't even know he had a great father until a few days ago when Jia Xu came to his door with a portrait of Zhen Deren, and Li Cuihua told him about his life and death.
Zhen Deren met Li Cuihua, a new widow in Malishan for only half a year, and they hooked up together. Later, Li Cuihua had a dark pregnancy. Li Cuihua hadn't noticed it yet, but Zhen Deren noticed it first. After all, it was not a good thing for a widow to be pregnant. Zhen Deren gave Li Cuihua some money. Let her pretend to be jealous and fall out with her. Another of Zhen Deren's mistresses came to her door to show off her power. Li Cuihua couldn't scold her again and again, but the mistress refused to let her go, so she had to go elsewhere to visit relatives to avoid the limelight. She left her son at a relative's house After he was born, he was fostered in a relative's home. He followed Zhen Deren's words and returned to Malishan.
Zhen Deren then pretended to be reconciled with her, coaxed the concubine, and they ran away to enjoy the blessings of the two of them. He also told Li Cuihua that the concubine was a cover, and she did not want to get along with her at all. Li Cuihua believed it. Zhen Deren named her son. Hiding the pearl, Li Cuihua could have a good life and be a high official in the future. Li Cuihua became more and more convinced.
Another two years later, one night, Zhen Deren took advantage of the moon to lead Li Cuihua to this mountain col. He stood on top and pointed out: "The most important things of the emperor's family are buried here. One day, our son will grow up." , the emperor also replaced it with a new one. The new emperor will definitely send people here to look for things. I have a granddaughter who knows the order of Tiangang and will follow the emperor's people. Let her tell me the order, and our son will definitely Can become a high official." Li Cuihua remembered it firmly. After Zhen Deren finished his work and left, Li Cuihua brought Zhen Zangzhu back and said that she had adopted him from a relative. She knew that her son could become a high official sooner or later, so she pampered him very much. She never said anything about Mali Mountain until Jia Xu came to her door with the portrait.
When Zhen Zangzhu heard this, he knew that he was about to become an official. Because Zhen Deren only pointed out this mountain col to Li Cuihua. The mountain col was huge and he didn't know where the things the emperor wanted were, so he simply built a shed near the mountain col to keep watch day and night. Waiting until one day someone led Jia Xu over. The people in the mountains were bright-eyed. Zhen Zangzhu saw Jia Xu circling the lake below him several times from a distance, so he guessed that Dongxi was at the lake. He I didn't know where to start, and I was afraid that Jia Xu would find something first and take credit for his efforts. I was so anxious that I couldn't sleep when I went back.
Li Cuihua knew about it and pulled out a painting from under the box, saying it was left by Zhen Deren. Zhen Zangzhu took a look and saw that the painting was of the lake in the mountain col. There were two rabbits sitting and lying on the lakeside and they were not evenly separated. Yuan. Zhen Zangzhu thought about it and figured out that the rabbit must have hinted at where the thing was buried, so he took a shovel and came here to dig it up.
After hearing this, Jia Xu and others looked at each other, and Jia Xu said, "Has your mother ever told you what it is?"
Zhen Zangzhu shook his head: "I only know that I can become a high official."
Jia Xu said: "I don't know if your mother has hidden anything from you."
Zhen Zangzhu said hurriedly: "If I don't believe it, why don't you ask her again."
Jia Xu sneered and said, "You sell me quickly." Then he signaled Liu Er to escort him home.
The two of them walked in front, with Jia Xufenxiang behind. Jia Xunai asked, "Do you believe it?"
Fenxiang smiled bitterly and said: "I don't know either. Looking at his appearance, these words are not something he can arrange. Thinking about it carefully, it seems to make no sense. I really don't know the order of Tiangang. Could it be that he asked me I will answer?"
Jia Xu smiled and said: "You must know the Tiangang order, but I'm afraid you don't know that it is called the Tiangang order; or your grandfather used some method to hide it secretly where only you can find it. As for asking you to tell this person the order? Zhen Zangzhu—I guess that Li Cuihua is overthinking. Zhen Deren probably only meant that you should know, and he didn’t ask you to tell their son."
Fenxiang didn't quite understand: "If I didn't tell him, how could he be an official?"
"Of course you will tell. Not tell Zhen Zangzhu, but tell the emperor's people." Jia Xu said, "Even if you don't want to tell, if they can find you, they will naturally find a way to make you tell."
Fenxiang frowned: "What does it have to do with this Zhen Zangzhu?"
Jia Xu smiled coldly: "Don't forget that you are a girl. More than thirty years ago, no one could have imagined that the late emperor had such a long life." Fenxiang suddenly breathed faster. Jia Xu glanced at her and said , "The late emperor lived a long life, and he was the emperor for more than ten years. If he had died seven or eight years earlier, you would have only been thirteen or fourteen years old when the new emperor took over the government; if he had died ten years earlier, you would have been even younger. If the late emperor had died, you would have been Morning, Xinjun's people found you. You are still young, but Zhen Zangzhu is already an adult man. You have the Tiangang Order in your hand but you don't know that it is the Tiangang Order. He has Zhen Deren's painting in his hand. You two Even if there are secrets in front of the emperor, they cannot be hidden, and it is impossible to make meritorious deeds on both sides. But this benefit will eventually be counted on Zhen Zangzhu."
After a while, Fenxiang sneered and said: "That's right. He is a male and an elder."
Jia Xu nodded: "As for you, it's enough to be promised a good family and the government will give you some dowry."
Fenxiang said: "Grandpa, why didn't you tell me everything about this uncle?"
Jia Xu said: "If he knows too much, he may be silenced again. The government has the final say on who a smart granddaughter will marry. If you really don't worry, you can just find a trustworthy official's son to marry; a mountain A son raised by a commoner woman knows nothing. There is really no need for the new king to kill you."
Fenxiang was silent for a long time: "I wasn't born yet at that time."
Jia Xu nodded and praised: "Mr. Zhen thinks very far."
Fenxiang asked again: "What is the Tiangang order?"
Jia Xu thought for a while and said: "Taoism has a theory of thirty-six heavenly gangs and seventy-two evil spirits, which are the stars of the Big Dipper. Think about it, did Mr. Zhen ever give you any star map back then? Or show it to you. What painting? When you went to Zhen Yingjia's house, were the stars embroidered on your clothes? Are they arranged in order... The star maps are different in the four seasons, so the order of those star maps must also hide secrets."
Fenxiang smiled bitterly and said: "My childhood clothes have been lost long ago, and I don't remember what star map my grandfather showed me."
Jia Xu said: "No matter how hard you think about it, Mr. Zhen must have shown you the choice since he chose you."
Fenxiang thought carefully for a long time, then shook her head and said: "Really not. My mother doesn't know how to embroider any star charts. The handkerchiefs and clothes she embroidered for me are just ordinary flowers and plants."
"Don't be anxious." Jia Xu said, "Slowly find the clues about what happened many years ago. It won't be too difficult. Your grandfather is also afraid that you will forget it. This matter has brought justice to the whole family of Zhen, and also Zhen Zang. Zhu’s son can be successful.”
Fenxiang asked doubtfully: "His son?"
Jia Xu said: "Zhen Deren risked the destruction of his family and made great contributions to the Tian family but was still a fourth-grade idle official. However, Zhen Yingjia was able to become the president of Jinling Provincial Tiren Academy. Why is this?"
Fenxiang chuckled and said, "The old lady in the Zhen Mansion at the gate is the emperor's mother-in-law."
Jia Xu said: "This is one reason, and the other is more important. Zhen Yingjia can be considered a scholar. He has studied. Your grandfather was just a carpenter." He shook his head and said, "Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, 'work' is too insignificant." ." After a pause, "If Zhen Zangzhu can get an official position, then he can let his children and grandchildren study for the imperial examination, and all future generations will become superiors."
Fenxiang suddenly remembered what Jia Cong had said that day, such as "Science changes the world" and so on. He highly praised carpenters and said that they were all "experts in structural mechanics". Fenxiang didn't understand what "structural mechanics" was, but he also heard that he was serious about it. I admire the carpenter's profession. After hearing what Jia Xu said, my heart was filled with panic.
Everyone walked straight for more than an hour before arriving at Zhen Zangzhu's house. It was a small village hidden in the mountains. There were only thirteen households. Zhen Zangzhu's house was in a secluded place at the west end of the village. The door was ajar. Zhen Zangzhu called "Mother" and led them in. An old woman came out. She was over fifty years old and had a red wild flower in her hair. She smiled and said: "Son, you Are you back?" When Pi Tou saw Liu Er, he was startled, "Son, you still have guests?"
Zhen Zangzhu said hurriedly: "These are the gentlemen sent by the emperor, and this woman is my niece."
Liu Erben walked in front, Jia Xu stepped out from behind him and cupped his hands: "Aunt Li, do you still remember Xiaguan?"
Li Cuihua was stunned for a moment and then laughed: "So you are a master!"
Jia Xu nodded and said, "Last time Aunt Li asked me how Mr. Zhen Deren was doing these days, I couldn't bear to tell you. To be honest, his whole family had been killed by gangsters a long time ago."
Li Cuihua staggered and fell to the ground. Zhen Zangzhu seemed not to notice; on the contrary, Fenxiang stepped forward to help her. Jia Xu frowned and looked at Zhen Zangzhu and said, "Your mother fell and you didn't help her?"
Zhen Zangzhu pulled up a stool and sat down, and said casually: "She is in good health and will be able to get up on her own in no time."