Early the next morning, Ah Liu came to the palace again and found the house where the Jiang family and his son were temporarily staying. He saw two guards in front of the door with a pair of panda eyes. When he saw him coming
, one had a resentful look in his eyes, and the other had an angry look on his face, but when they heard that he was going to take Young Master Jiang away, they were stunned when they were about to curse.
"Take...take away? Didn't he commit a crime, so he is locked up with his father who stopped Commander Du and Envoy Ma Tou to seek death? Are he going to be taken back to the county government for interrogation by General Zhu or Dr. Zhang?"
Young Master Jiang inside was also tossing about all night long, but he had just closed his eyes and woke up when he heard Ah Liu's voice. At this time, he rolled over to the door and pricked up his ears to listen to what was going on outside.
"He didn't commit any crime."
Ah Liu summarized the real situation in four concise and concise words. Seeing that both guards looked unbelieving, he had to explain patiently, "He wanted to plead guilty and accept punishment for his father. The young master praised his filial piety and let him come and fight with him."
My father was reunited all night. Now that the time has come, of course I have to take him back. The Jiang family is not the same family as the family that went to the banquet with him last night."
The two guards of Ruiqi Battalion all knew that Ah Liu didn't like to talk very much. Now that he had explained a lot of things with such patience, they were all relieved, thinking that they could finally explain to Commander Du. But even so, which one of them was more
The mature guard still said with a smile on his face: "Then let me go see Commander Du first, and then come to us to pick up someone."
But as soon as he said these words, he saw Ah Liu, who had been so kind just now, darken his face, and his eyes clearly showed a bit of sharpness when he looked at them. Just when he was feeling terrible and was about to explain a few words quickly, but
I saw a cold light flash in Ah Liu's hand, and the next moment, the lock on the door that separated them from the Jiang family and his son actually fell with a sound.
He watched helplessly as Ah Liu opened the door and picked up Young Master Jiang like an eagle catching a chicken. However, without looking at Mr. Jiang who was struggling to get up, he turned around and walked out. Although
Yan Ming knew it was best for him to step forward and stop him, but his eyes only collided with Ah Liu's, and all his courage disappeared in an instant.
He looked at his other companion again, and saw that he was standing there in the same silence. Not to mention blocking him, he couldn't even say a word. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but cursed in a low voice in shame and anger: "Hurry up and chase."
, otherwise how can we explain it?"
"It's weird to catch up..." After muttering in a low voice, the guard said angrily, "Despite his young age, I heard that he has been praised in front of the emperor. Instead of chasing that evil star, we
We might as well hurry up and report to Commander Du! The locks have fallen off, so we just say we don’t dare to stop him for fear of causing conflicts, so we endure the humiliation and bear the burden, isn’t that okay?”
Seeing that Big Brother was still hesitant, he said in a more serious tone: "If we try our best to stop him and end up letting him go, wouldn't it be the same as letting him go?"
This really makes sense...
Since there was nothing they could do, the two guards finally chose to protect themselves and reported to Du Heng the fact that Ah Liu had taken away Master Jiang. Du Heng was initially unwilling to accept Mr. Jiang as a hot potato, but last night he went to the Zhang Shou faction.
When Ah Liu sent Young Master Jiang here, he still held his nose and acquiesced, but who knew that in the morning he would talk to himself and take him away again.
He didn't want his subordinates to see his angry side, so he could only push them away coldly. After they left, he slapped the armrest angrily: "Come when you want, leave when you want, they are doing this."
Who do you think I, Du Heng, am!"
But he was angry, and Du Heng also knew that he was sent out this time just because the emperor felt that the Cangzhou civil uprising and the Ruiqi battalion were unable to cope with it, so he asked him, the chief officer, to come over to suppress the morale of the army. As for the Cangzhou civil uprising and other matters
In each case, the emperor did not give him any authority in this regard, and he was unable to intervene even if he wanted to.
But the boy next to Zhang Shou is really too domineering!
On the other side, when Zhang Shou saw Ah Liu carrying Young Master Jiang in front of him and listened to him tell the whole story, he couldn't help but feel helpless: "Ah Liu, if you ask me to tell you what you are good at, you can't go to Du Heng
Do you want to go talk to me in front of me and then bring him back?"
"I can't speak." Ah Liu's answer was simple and straightforward, but then he said nonchalantly, "Moreover, I just asked them to guard the place. The one who makes the decision is you, the young master, not Commander Du. The guard in front of the door has changed again.
, I don’t want to be verbose with them.”
Zhang Shou knew that Ah Liu was definitely not just afraid of trouble and didn't want to talk anymore, so he directly carried Young Master Jiang back as if no one else was around. He probably really wanted to fight for him, plus Du Heng had seized the dagger before.
And the attitude of testing him made the young man feel unhappy. He found that the guard in front of the door was actually replaced by a guard who might be from the south, so he did it simply and rudely.
Thinking about it, there was really no need for him to make friends with Du Heng, who had shown some hostility from the beginning - and as a foreign minister, if he wanted to make friends with someone at the level of the chief officer of Ruiqi Camp, did he want to rebel? At that moment, he decided not to care.
This time, he glanced at the black circles under his eyes. It was obvious that Young Master Jiang had not slept well.
Young Master Jiang happened to be peeping at Zhang Shou's expression. At this moment, their eyes met. Young Master Jiang hurriedly lowered his head, but couldn't help but clicked his tongue in his heart. When Ah Liu sent him to the palace yesterday, he didn't go either.
He paid a visit to Commander Du and sent him directly to "reunite" with his father. He didn't feel there was any problem, but as soon as Zhang Shou said it, he got a taste of it.
He didn't know who the so-called Commander Du was yesterday, but after talking to Qi Yuanwai last night, he realized that he was the only one who was really locked up at home and ignorant. People like Qi Yuanwai were all passed by outsiders.
The message was conveyed inside by throwing stones and passing notes, so everyone knew that in addition to Mingwei General Zhu Tingfang, who had arrived early, there were two more imperial envoys behind him.
He had already met Zhang Shou last night. As for the other one, it was Du Heng, the commander in charge of the left camp of the Ruiqi Camp. Such a person who is often respectfully addressed by the people as the commander of the Forbidden Army, but the young man beside Zhang Shou who looks like a bodyguard, does not
Do you take him seriously? Although he learned from Qi Yuanwai that Zhang Shou will soon be the son-in-law of the Duke of Zhao, but this attitude is really too domineering, right?
When his brother-in-law, the third son of the Hua family, came to Cangzhou to welcome his bride, although he looked gentle and elegant, there was a sense of arrogance in his heart. But that was because the Hua family was indeed stronger than the Jiang family. Although Zhang Shou was a doctor of Guozi at a young age,
But I heard that both parents died, and now there is only one adoptive mother. With such a family background, it is completely different from that of Zhao Guogong's mansion. How can you have the confidence to face Du Heng?
Zhang Shou noticed that Mr. Jiang seemed to be distracted, so he deliberately kept silent for a while, and then suddenly said: "Looking at Mr. Jiang's face, I'm afraid he spent the whole night talking to your father, so he didn't sleep well?"
Young Master Jiang suddenly came to his senses. How could he have the time to care about Zhang Shou? Why was he so confident?
Thinking of what his father had revealed to him, although he had planned to go out as soon as possible during the commotion last night and try to find a way to see Zhang Shou or Zhu Tingfang to save his father who was being coerced and in danger of his life at any time, but when things came to a close, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.
flinched.
What if someone doesn't want to trace the activities behind the scenes at all, but just wants to kill a group of Cangzhou locals like them to set an example and suppress the storm? Will he be self-defeating and make the matter even bigger? etc.
Wait, when he made a fuss last night, the two guards at the door even warned him, saying that Mr. Xu had sued them...
He hurriedly raised his head and asked anxiously: "Dr. Zhang, I heard from the guard that someone sued us yesterday?"
At this moment, he was still holding on to a ten thousandth chance that it might not be the famous Xu Weng, but someone with the same surname.
However, Young Master Jiang was soon disappointed, because Zhang Shou said calmly: "Xu Weng, who opened the famous Wen Dao School in Cangzhou, was asked to be a witness, and he saw it with his own eyes.
Several corpses were fished out from the smelly pond behind a certain charity house funded by the Qi family. They have been examined and found to be underage children, and one of them must have died just a few days ago."
Young Master Jiang immediately turned pale and instinctively shouted: "I didn't do it!"
Hearing this explanation, Zhang Shou couldn't help but feel that there was no silver in this place.
If it weren't for the information obtained by Zhu Ying's inquiry, coupled with Xiao Huahua's words, which proved that although the Jiang family was also rich and unkind, their food and appearance were at least better than those of other families, he would have thought that the person behind that charity was not Qi Yuan.
But Mr. Jiang is gone.
If it were another person, he might have concluded that Mr. Jiang personally threw the body into the smelly pond...
This young master... is not a little stupid, he is so stupid that he cried!
After Young Master Jiang finished yelling, he realized that he had made a mistake and hurriedly said: "I just heard that that charity house is famous in Cangzhou. It seems that whenever someone picks up an abandoned baby and cannot raise it at home, he will send it there.
. However, there are also people who would rather drown their children if they cannot feed them than send them to that charity house. I heard it before and found it very strange."
He smiled unnaturally as he spoke, and his voice became softer: "It's better to die than to live. Even if the children in the charity hall live a little harder, it's still better than drowning, right? I'd rather kill the child after giving birth."
It’s too cruel to not send her to the shrine…”
Okay, let me correct it, this stupid young master who is crying is really ignorant of the world!
Zhang Shou couldn't help but sigh helplessly. Seeing that Young Master Jiang seemed to be a little suspicious when he saw his expression, he said lightly: "Of course, that's because most smart people know that if a child is born but can't raise it and drowns directly, then at least
It will be less painful than being sent to a shrine and dying day and night."
He briefly and concisely explained what Xiao Huahua had said and what Zhu Ying had found out. Young Master Jiang was in disbelief at first, then filled with indignation, and finally his whole body was trembling with anger.
"This is the reason why Mr. Xu is willing to stand up and call for eliminating harm for the people. Otherwise, why do you think a highly respected old master would come to the county government office with a group of common people at night to express his love?"
Without even thinking about it, Zhang Shou ignored the secret behind Zhu Ying's threat to Mr. Xu, and then flirted with Young Master Jiang's emotions: "The charity of the Qi family is just the tip of the iceberg, and the charity of other families is also the tip of the iceberg."
Most of them are selling sheep's heads as dog meat. Now the county government has put up notices to call them for their illegal activities. Of course, the same goes for your Jiang family. If someone accuses you of illegal activities..."
"We, the Jiang family, don't care about human life like they do!"
Young Master Jiang was so angry that his face turned blue, and all the initial panic and fear flew out of the sky. He shouted loudly: "Before, dad worked with those dead old men to discuss things with the eldest prince, but that was because the eldest prince was...
The prince is also an imperial envoy, and I am afraid that if I offend him, the whole family will suffer... My so-called appointment as president was just because I lost the lot, so I had to be forced to go to Liangshan!"
As he spoke, he said angrily: "As for those subsequent methods, yes, they are indeed disgraceful and excessive, but they are commonly used in shopping malls. My father has never sent people to intimidate or coerce, nor has he burned down other people's houses.
It’s really not our Jiang family who did it, it was the old man named Qi who was personally instructed by the eldest prince to send someone to do it, and my father even persuaded me! Many people know about this!"
After saying this in one breath, Young Master Jiang felt that he was a little too bold, but the matter involved his father's life and death, honor and disgrace. After a pause, he still said bravely: "I said before, plead guilty and accept punishment.
If someone really reveals that my family has done something outrageous, I... I will bear the responsibility on behalf of my father!"
"Okay, just remember what you said."
Zhang Shou chuckled and saw Ah Liu tilting his head slightly, as if listening to what was going on outside. He thought that maybe the young man noticed someone eavesdropping outside the door, but who knew that Ah Liu suddenly turned to the door and opened it suddenly?
.However, what caught his eye was not just the Zhu Ying he had guessed, but also an unexpected person.
Under Zhang Shou's surprised gaze, the visitor chuckled, then bowed deeply outside the door and said, "Mr."
Zhang Shou suddenly laughed: "I just sent someone to Xingtai yesterday to deliver a message to you, and you arrived today. Is it because the messenger knows how to pass messages by swan geese, or because you have Scuds, or you got a new BMW that can travel thousands of miles at night?
"
"Hey, I heard that Cangzhou was hoarding cotton and shutting down operations. I felt that something might happen. After discussing with them, I decided to come over and have a look. Who knew that on the way, I heard that the palace was occupied by people?
The prince was also held hostage!"
"In such a chaotic situation, how could I dare to enter Cangzhou, so I found a nearby suburb to hide and watch the scenery. But within two days, Boss Zhu came, and little sir, you came with Du Heng! I originally wanted to sneak back quietly.
, but think about it, you will definitely send someone to find me as the 'culprit'. Even if I shirk, maybe Ah Liu will come to escort me in person, so I have no choice but to send him to your door myself!"
Seeing the confidence and humor in Zhang Chen's words, and thinking that when he was in the capital, he was the king of the dandy circle, but now he has changed drastically, Zhang Shou couldn't help laughing and said: "If you really don't come, of course I will have to let Ah Liu go! You
You came just in time, the guys who followed the eldest prince are all squatting in the prison now, you take this kid from the Jiang family to visit each house and see how to resume work!"