Since he was killed violently, even the mourning hall was not ready, and the body was quietly placed in a side room.
Cao Peng stepped forward to salute seriously, and at the same time looked at her carefully for a few times. Then he walked out of the side room, said goodbye to Mrs. Li and left.
"Afu, what's wrong with you?"
On the way back, Huang Yueying couldn't help but asked softly.
"Li Yifeng did not die of a heart attack, but was poisoned."
"ah?"
"This Mrs. Li is also weird. Just after her husband died, she was in a hurry to sell off her property and wanted to leave Wu County... There must be something fishy in this."
"What is Mao Ni?"
"Well, it's just weird..."
"Is it also the dialect of Zhongyang Mountain?"
"Well, that's right."
Cao Peng discovered that whether it is ancient times or the future, women are equally powerful in their ability to talk nonsense. They were originally discussing the death of Li Jing, but why did it turn into a discussion of dialects in the blink of an eye? He looked at Huang Yueying curiously.
In this way, Cao Peng also felt helpless.
However, it can also be seen from this that Huang Yueying is not very fond of such conspiracies and other things.
Cao Peng did not discuss this issue further.
But there is a doubt in my heart that cannot be erased.
First, Huang Yueying was sent back to Ge Mansion. Before leaving, Cao Peng said: "Yueying, I may not be able to accompany you tomorrow... I want to go to Huating with Mr. Xiuruo to attend a wedding banquet."
"How long will that take?"
"It will probably take two or three days."
"Well... you come back early. My father seems to be leaving on purpose in the past two days. I'm worried..."
Cao Peng's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously held Huang Yueying's hand tightly, as if he was afraid that she would leave and the two would never see each other again.
"Then I told my husband that I won't go!"
"No... A man should put his career first. Since Mr. Xiuruo asked you to accompany him, there must be important matters. You have been accompanying me these two days and you haven't done anything well. If you refuse again tomorrow, Xiuruo will definitely let you go.
If you feel unhappy, it will be of no benefit to you."
Cao Peng said: "What should we do?"
"Idiot Ah Fu, I only said that my father intended to leave, but if he really wanted to leave, how could he leave so quickly?
Just leave early and come back early... Also, you always have to explain our affairs clearly to my father, is it possible that we never see each other?"
When saying these words, Huang Yueying lowered her head.
The sunset illuminated her profile, and she could vaguely see the blush.
Cao Peng was immediately overjoyed... Didn't Huang Yueying's words remind him to propose marriage to the Huang family?
He didn't even remember how he parted ways with Huang Yueying, and it was like stepping on cotton all the way back to the inn. That night, Kan Ze was on duty again. When Cao Peng saw Kan Ze, he finally sobered up and asked someone to put the books in the car away.
Unload it and put it in Kan Ze's room.
"This is……"
"Brother Kan, I know you are good at reading.
Today we accidentally learned that there was a family who sold their books, so we bought all those books. I have troubled you to take care of them these days, and I don’t have any gifts. I will give you these books as a token of my brotherhood. Can you please
You must never refuse."
Kan Ze was immediately overjoyed. He took Cao Peng's hand and thanked him repeatedly.
After putting all the books in Kan Ze's room, Cao Peng returned to his residence.
Xun Yan hadn't come back yet, and the courtyard was quiet. The two housekeepers greeted Cao Peng and went back to their rooms.
These days, Cao Peng is busy being affectionate and affectionate, so he can't help but feel a little slack.
However, as time went by, Cao Peng gradually understood Xun Yan's thoughts. Xun Yan was apparently visiting relatives and friends, but in fact he was causing trouble for Sun Ce. Xun Yan and Cao Peng had said that Sun Ce was frivolous and bold.
He has the spirit of a man. With the reputation left by Sun Jian and the prestige created by his own martial arts, he can easily gain a foothold in Jiangdong and become a prince.
However, there was still a huge omission in Sun Ce's rule in Jiangdong.
He comes from a wealthy family and can be considered a celebrity in Kuaiji. However, compared with those scholar families who have lived for hundreds of years, the Sun family's foundation is much weaker. In addition, at the beginning of the expedition to Jiangdong, Sun Ce adopted extremely iron-blooded methods to attack and annex the scholar families.
, also caused the relationship between Sun Ce and the Shi family to be not particularly harmonious. After annexing Wu County and Kuaiji, Sun Ce did not immediately repair the relationship with the Shi family and stabilize his position. On the contrary, he continued to conquer and took the opportunity to continue
Annex the tribes of the Shi family and attack the power of the Shi family.
As a result, the relationship between Sun Ce and the Shi family became increasingly alienated.
Even though Sun Ce had many children of the scholar family under his command, in fact he was not recognized by the scholar family.
Sun Ce himself was an extremely arrogant person. If he were an ordinary citizen, he might bow his head. But to the scholars, Sun Ce was never willing to give in.
Later generations often said that Cao Cao employed a large number of Han scholars.
But what about the reality? Sun Ce also used many disciples from poor families. But because he died early, it was not obvious.
Sun Ce's unwillingness to accept weakness does not mean that he is not afraid of the Jiangdong scholar family.
Xun Yan kept visiting the families of Jiangdong scholars, which made Sun Ce jealous no matter how generous he was.
But he couldn't stop Xun Yan's actions, so he could only watch helplessly. As time went by, Sun Ce's suspicion would become stronger... In the end, there would inevitably be a fierce conflict with the Jiangdong scholar family.
This was a conspiracy. Even if Sun Ce knew it in his heart, there was nothing he could do about it. He couldn't kill Xun Yan? That would not only offend Cao Cao, but might even cause the world's nobles to hate the Sun family. You know, Yingchuan
Xun is not a Ni Heng, even comparable to Bian Zang.
The influence of the Xun family in Shilin is so great that ordinary people cannot even imagine it.
Cao Peng admired the person who designed this plan!
This person has a very accurate grasp of the psychology of a normal person. Rather than saying this is a estrangement, it is better to say this is a psychological war.
Moreover, it is a kind of psychological warfare that you know the cleverness of it but are helpless.
However, what Cao Peng is thinking about now is not who designed this strategy. There were indeed many masters of psychological warfare during the Three Kingdoms period.
Regardless of whether it is Jia Xu and Sima Yi of Cao Wei; or Lu Meng and Lu Xun of Soochow; and Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han Dynasty who does not know whether he really used the empty city strategy (if the empty city strategy is true, then Zhuge Liang is undoubtedly a master of psychological warfare),
They are all good at using psychological warfare.
But for now, there are only two people under Cao Cao who can devise such a scheme.
Either Xun Yu or Guo Jia.
So Cao Peng doesn't need to spend too much thought on this.
What he is thinking about at the moment is what Huang Yueying just said. If he doesn't propose marriage while Huang Chengyan is still in Wu County, then it will be troublesome to propose marriage when Huang Chengyan returns to Jiangxia. Proposing marriage is a science. For a famous family like Huang Chengyan
In aristocratic families, people who propose marriage must be of equal status, no matter how bad they are, they cannot be too different. Therefore, Cao Peng thought about it and thought of Xun Yan.
The reputation of the Xun family in Yingchuan is a hundred times stronger than that of the Huang family in Jiangxia.
And Xun Yan's reputation seems to be higher than that of Huang Chengyan... If Xun Yan can be asked to come forward, Huang Chengyan must also seriously consider it.
The question is, can Xun Yan agree?
Cao Peng was also a little unsure, so he sat in the room in a daze.
After a while, he took out a pile of light green Zuo Bo paper from the box at hand, carefully observed it under the candlelight, and began to figure it out.
He always felt that there seemed to be a secret hidden in Zuo Bo's paper.
After a while, Cao Peng suddenly stood up, collected the papers and put them away.
He hurried to the concierge and saw Kan Ze sitting on the floor, facing a huge wooden box, letting out a silly laugh or two from time to time.
He suddenly took out a volume of book and read it gently.
Suddenly he put the book under his nose, closed his eyes and smelled it, with a satisfied expression on his face.
This guy is really a bookworm.
"Brother Kan!"
"Ah..." Kan Ze was startled, quickly put the book into the wooden box, and turned around to look at it warily.
"Afu, if you don't go and rest, what's the matter?"
"I would like to ask if you know a person named Li Jing?"
Kan Ze was stunned, "Are you talking about Li Jing and Li Yifeng who were elected as filial and honest in Kuaiji County last year?"
"Exactly."
"I know this person, but I have never been in contact with him. Although he and I are from the same hometown, we are not very familiar with each other... But I know that Li Jing's behavior was not very good when he first lived in Kuaiji. He was a bit greedy for money.
, and he is also a bit lustful. This person can write well and is good at imitating. No matter whose handwriting it is, if he imitates it for a while, he will be able to imitate it perfectly.
For this reason, the guy was once appreciated by Wang Lang and served as the chief registrar of Kuaiji County for a while. Later, Wang Lang was defeated, and Li Jing was afraid of being implicated, so he moved from Kuaiji to Wu County. His talent and learning were good, but his moral character was too poor...
By the way, why did you suddenly ask about this person?"
Cao Peng hesitated for a moment and said softly: "Li Jing is dead!"
"ah?"
Kan Ze was on duty at the inn today and didn't go out, so he didn't know much about what was happening outside.
In fact, even if a little person like Li Jing was killed, he might not know it even if he went out. If Cao Peng hadn't overheard it in the wine shop today and was interested in buying a book, he probably wouldn't have noticed. Kan Ze read it
He looked at Cao Peng and then at the scroll in front of him.
"Afu, these books..."
"Well, I bought it from the Li family."
Kan Ze was excited and quickly put the scroll back into the box.
"You guy, why don't you tell me clearly?"
"What's wrong?"
"This thing is bad luck."
Kan Ze said, taking out a box from under the bed with some cattail leaves on the side.
"I usually keep this thing just to get rid of bad luck. I didn't expect that I would actually use it today."
With that said, Kan Ze first took out two cattail leaves, dipped them in water, washed his hands, then sealed the book box, cleaned it with cattail leaves a few times, and placed the cattail leaves on the book box respectfully.
Afterwards, Kan Ze breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thankfully you said it early, otherwise I would have been unlucky.
Let's deal with it like this first, and tomorrow I will go get some talismans and stick them on the bookcase. It will take three days and three nights to completely remove the bad luck on it."
Chu people are fond of ghosts and gods, and Chu Ci is filled with a lot of witchcraft culture.
Therefore, Cao Peng didn't care much about Kan Ze's actions. His eyes fell on a branch next to Kan Ze's bed.
There are several red beans hanging on the branches, and the color is particularly bright.
"Afu, how did Li Jing die? Yesterday I saw him strutting around in well-dressed clothes. This guy doesn't look like a short-lived person."
"Uh, I..." Cao Peng came to his senses and organized his words: "I occasionally heard people say today that Li Jing died and his wife was selling off her property. I know that Brother Kan, you are a good book.
So I had the idea to go over and buy Li Jing's book collection.
but……"
"But what?"
"I don't think Li Jing died suddenly."
Kan Ze was startled and couldn't help but laugh: "Ah Fu, how old are you, how do you know he is not a violent soldier?"
"I have seen his body... On the surface, there seems to be nothing wrong with it. But I noticed that his lips were slightly dark and his expression was very peaceful. Generally speaking, if it is a violent death, there must be something
I struggled a lot, but from the body, I couldn’t see any signs of pain before Li Jing died. I think he probably died of poisoning, but I don’t know what kind of poison it was.”
"Then the government..."
"The government said he was a violent soldier, which makes me feel even more weird.
Even I could see such an obvious loophole, but the government officials turned a blind eye. Moreover, Mrs. Li didn't seem to have any objections. The body here was not buried yet, but there was a rush to sell off the property and prepare to return to her hometown...
I think Mrs. Li received some kind of warning, so she behaved like this. In short, I found this matter very strange, so I came to ask."
Kan Ze was silent.
After a moment, he raised his head and whispered: "Afu, do you believe me?"
Cao Peng was startled, then nodded and replied: "Brother Kan, where did you start with these words? If I didn't believe you, I wouldn't have said so many words to you."
"Don't worry about it anymore."
"ah?"
"The government can blatantly ignore loopholes and judge Li Jing to have died violently; Li Jing's body is still cold, and Mrs. Li hurriedly wants to leave. There must be something weird here, but it is definitely not something you or I can interfere with. I also know that you have the ability, but sometimes You and I must learn to pretend to be deaf and dumb. Even the Wu County government can suppress it. If there is someone behind the scenes, it is definitely not you and I who can fight... You told me that doing more is worse than doing less. This makes sense. Don't worry about this anymore, otherwise you and I might get into trouble."
Cao Peng was silent...
Kan Ze's words were serious and thoughtful.
He could feel Kan Ze's kindness. In his previous life, someone had tried to persuade him like this, but what happened? He didn't listen, and his family was ruined in the end.
Thinking of this, Cao Peng suddenly felt aggrieved.
"Brother Kan, I'm tired."
"Then have a good rest. Aren't you going to Huating with Mr. Xun tomorrow? Go to bed early. If anything happens, I will tell you."
Cao Peng nodded, and before leaving, he took away the red bean stick planted next to the bed.
Looking at Cao Peng's back, Kan Ze stood on the porch with a thoughtful expression... After a long time, he sighed and returned to the house.
