Chapter 102: Hero, who are you?

Chapter 102: Hero, who are you?

   Chapter 102 Hero, who are you?

  The empress dowager's big funeral, going to Chinese martial arts or going to temples and Taoist temples to supervise rituals, or going to the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple to help, or persuading long live mourning in the palace, is very busy. When it was getting dark, Zhang Wenjiang, who had been busy all day, went out of the palace and climbed into the sedan chair, and rushed back to Jingzhao Mansion.

   The young governor Liao Gang and his master, who had been waiting for a long time, helped their adults sit down and served tea. Zhang Wenjiang moistened his fiery throat and asked about the affairs of the Yazhong.

   Liao Gang quickly said, "My lord, I am in the Xicheng Military and Ma Siyamen today, and I have done everything that can be done with Yu Changjin."

   They ate tea, played chess, and had a meal. Finally, they wandered around the yamen, and they didn't do anything that couldn't be done or couldn't be done.

   Zhang Wenjiang didn't understand what he meant and glanced at him displeasedly, this manor was so busy in the palace that you couldn't touch the ground, but you were happy!

   He also did something. Liao Gang hurriedly said, "Beijing sent someone to stare at Kong Quanwu. Today, he first went to Jiang's house and his daughter's in-law's house to borrow money, then went to Changtianguan to find the prince of Yijiang, and met Meng Xunli at the Lotte Restaurant. Then I went to see Kong Neng in the prison, and when it was getting dark, he went to the Qin Prime Minister's mansion and came out with a thousand taels of silver notes."

   "Qin Xiangfu?" The first few were expected, but this last one really surprised Zhang Wenjiang.

   "Yes." Liao Gang was also shocked when he heard it.

  Qin Tianye is Long Live's uncle, the prime minister who has power over the government and the opposition. Although I don't know how the Kong family got on with the Qin family, the Qin family was willing to give Kong Neng a thousand taels of silver, which showed their attitude. Zhang Wenjiang, relying on his keen intuition as an official for many years, had a hunch that it would not benefit him at all if he continued to investigate this case.

   There is no need to investigate this case. Zhang Wenjiang instructed Liao Gang, "The Spring Festival is just around the corner, and fire prevention is the first priority. The configuration of the fire submersible troops and water-drawing equipment in the east and west cities should not be sloppy. Check them out tomorrow. If there is a fire in the east and west cities on the Shangyuan Festival. , this is the only thing you are asking."

   "Yes." Liao Gang bent down, his face like a bitter gourd. Fire prevention is the most tedious thing, and he has to be vigilant day and night. On the Spring Festival, he invited a friend to travel to Qingping River with him, which would be completely lost.

   Zhang Wenjiang turned to look at Zhao Demin who was silent, "How about the Widow Qu case?"

Zhao Demin bowed and saluted, "After the autopsy, it was determined that the bruise on Widow Qu's forehead was fatal. When the incident happened, Mrs. Pan and Widow Qu were torn apart, and the daughter of the Liu family stepped forward to persuade them, but neither of them admitted that they pushed it by themselves. Widow Qu bumped into the corner of the table. Since the onlookers were all from the Pan family, their confessions were not credible. Shortly after the opening of the hall, Lu Xueming suddenly came to the hall to defend the Liu family daughter and asked for a retrial on another day, and the lower officials had to retire."

  Jingzhao House is responsible for the trial of major cases between the capital city Kang'an and the twelve counties of Gyeonggi. The officials have dealt with lawyer Lu Xueming several times. In any case that Lu Xueming took over, even if there was any inconsistency with the law in the trial, he would still be caught by him, causing a headache when the officials of Jingzhao Mansion mentioned him.

  Liao Gang wondered, "Isn't the Liu family so poor that they are selling their daughters, where did they get Lu Xueming for the money?"

   Zhao Demin shook his head, indicating that he did not know.

The master remembered, "Lu Xueming should have been invited by Jiang Feng. Jiang Feng visited the prison on the evening of New Year's Eve, and the prisoner named Liu in the prison next to Jiang Song once asked him to take care of his daughter at home. According to the statement of the low-ranking watch, that person lived there. In the three lanes of Dunhua Square."

   "Is there anything else?" Zhang Wenjiang asked.

Master    explained, "Yes. Therefore, the matter has little to do with the facts of the case, and the humble job was not written into the document."

   Zhao Demin said, "Given the current circumstances of the Jiang family, they shouldn't pay Lu Xueming a hundred taels of silver for the Liu family who are not relatives and not related, right?"

  Liao Gang analyzed, "Jiang Feng has to suffer for his face, but he will try most of the things he should do. Jiang Feng and Lu Xueming have some friendship. If he comes forward, it will not apply."

   "Oh, what kind of friendship do these two have?" Zhang Wenjiang looked at Liao Gang with interest. I hope he can say a few more things about Jiang Feng, in case Long Live is in a bad mood one day, he will use it to make Long Live smile.

  In the Jiang family courtyard, the three Jiang family brothers sat around the lights with serious faces.

  Jiang Song was also puzzled by the officials of Jingzhao Mansion, "How can the Kong family catch up with the Qin family?"

   Jiang Huai said, "Yeah. Logically, the Kong family can't reach the Qin family at all."

   Jiang Erye said, "It's within reach. Qin Kezhi, the eldest third of the Qin family, traveled with Kong Neng on the Qingping River in August last year, and had a spring breeze with Qiongzhi, the oiran of Qiongyu Pavilion."

  Jiang Huai was startled, "There's such a thing... and so on! Isn't Qiongyu Pavilion all chaperons?"

"It's all fake on the surface. Many of the nobles of Qiongyu Pavilion have sold themselves to the powerful. If not, how could the small Qiongyu Pavilion stand on the Qingping River for many years..." Jiang Erye talked eloquently, Jiang Huai Nodding again and again, tsk tsk amazement.

   Jiang Song suddenly asked, "Which day will Qin Kezhi and Kong Neng go to Qiongyu Pavilion?"

   "The ninth day of the eighth lunar month!" Jiang Erye replied to the elder brother along the way, and then pulled the third younger brother to talk about the tricks of Qiongyu Pavilion.

   "How do you know so clearly?" Jiang Song asked again.

   "Of course..." Jiang Erye looked back to see the big brother's face, and said, "It was Chai Si who said it."

   "Tell the truth!" Jiang Song's face was terrifyingly black.

   "I'm just going to have tea and listen to music. Brother, you know, I never touch any woman outside." Jiang Erye vowed to be authentic.

   Jiang Song still believed this. Jiang Song glared at him, "Before the middle lift, you are not allowed to go to Qingping River!"

   After Jiang Er Ye replied repeatedly, Jiang Song continued to analyze, "Even with this kind of friendship, Qin Kezhi would not be able to give Kong Neng a thousand taels of silver."

   "Brother is right!" Second Master Qin quickly agreed.

   "Could it be that Qin Kezhi was held by Kong Neng for some reason?" Jiang Huai guessed.

   "Impossible!" Jiang Erye shook his head, "Qin Kezhi is ruthless, if Kong Quanwu came to threaten him, he would never come out alive."

   With the power of the Qin family, killing Kong Quanwu and Kong Neng is like crushing an ant, so why pay a thousand taels of silver. This matter is really strange. The Jiang brothers discussed it in the middle of the night and couldn't get a clue.

  In Meng's house, which was separated from them by a wall, Meng Huizhou was uncharacteristically and slept extremely peacefully.

  In the Confucius Family Courtyard in Daye Square, Kong Neng's daughter-in-law, Zhu Shi, cried, "My parents really don't have any cash, and my daughter-in-law has been begging for a long time, and only got one hundred taels."

  Kong Quanwu took the silver note and muttered, "It's still five hundred and fifty taels away."

   "Father, what will happen if you don't hand over the money to the yamen?" Zhu Shi asked worriedly.

   "If you don't pay money, let alone six years, you won't be able to get out in eight or ten years." Kong Quanwu frowned tightly, wanting to scold the eighth ancestors of the Jiang family.

that's it? Won't loot the house? Zhu Shi stopped crying, "Why don't we stop sending fines... Let's let the child's father stay inside for a few more years?"

  Kong Quanwu stared, "Nonsense! Is a prison a place for people to stay? Few can survive three years!"

   Although Zhu Shi was afraid of her father-in-law, she still spoke with courage, "The child's father has gone in, and the family has cut off income. Your two grandsons are just trying to be energetic, and Tao'er will marry a daughter-in-law in a few years..."

   "It's not up to you, go and put Faner to sleep!"

   After driving away his daughter-in-law, Kong Quanwu thought about it in the middle of the night, picked up a pen and wrote a few words, and went to Wang's house early the next morning to call his son-in-law by name.

   Wang Fangyu was reluctant, but Kong Quanwu blocked the door and waited, so he could only go to see him.

Kong Quanwu knows his son-in-law's temperament best, so he didn't give him a chance to nag after meeting. He took out the paper he wrote last night, slapped it on the table, and ordered, "Yesterday, my father looked around coldly and borrowed money, but I really couldn't get it together. Enough. Because I was in a hurry to save your brother with money, my father accepted the request of the three families, and you will arrange for the three people on this list to study in the Imperial College this year. "

  Wang Fangyu was so angry that he almost fell to his knees, "Students must go through several rounds of screening to enter the Imperial College Prison. The sacrifice wine and the adults in the prison are selected together, and the son-in-law alone cannot make the decision!"

"You can't be the master?" Kong Quanwu hehe, and began to list the things that his son-in-law received and did for others, "Let's not talk about it, let's just say that last year was the third year of Jinghe, and you received an authentic work of Yan Zhenqing from the Wang family in Yongpingfang. , I took a pair of official kiln porcelain vases from the Liu family in Tongguifang, and let the boys of the two families enter the Guozijian. The calligraphy and painting and the porcelain vases are still there..."

   "Cough, cough!" Wang Fangyu coughed twice, hurriedly closed the door, came back and said solemnly, "You misunderstood. The two of them sent their son-in-law calligraphy and painting, which has nothing to do with his son's admission to the Imperial College."

   "Hurry up! If you didn't help those two boys, would they be able to enter the Imperial College?" Kong Quanwu most despised his son-in-law's arrogant face when he charged money to do things. The scholars are all virtuous, and they want to save face!

Wang Fangyu raised his face and threatened, "Father-in-law has no evidence or proof, so how could he falsely accuse his son-in-law? Have you ever thought about how others would talk about the Wang family if this matter spread? What's the benefit?"

"Why is there no evidence and no evidence? This is what Mrs. Yazheng, who taught the piano at your home, said it herself!" Kong Quanwu also widened his eyes, and he took this opportunity to do the things Liu Cheng entrusted to him. I don't know unless you don't do it yourself, you can do it if you do it, and there are no outsiders, so what are you pretending to be with your father!"

  How did Mrs. Yazheng know? Wang Fangyu frowned.

   "Father has already collected money from others, you can handle these three people as quickly as you can, and if you can't, you have to find a way to handle them!" Kong Quanwu stood up and was about to go out.

  Wang Fangyu was in a hurry, "Father-in-law, my son-in-law really can't do it, please return the money to the family quickly, so as not to cause misunderstandings and cause trouble."

   "This is your brother's life-saving money. Even if you kill your father, your father will not retreat!"

  Kong Quanwu pushed open the door and just stepped forward when Wang Fangyu dragged him back and closed the door again. Wang Fangyu asked helplessly, "How much money did you receive from them?"

   "Seven hundred taels."

  Wang Fangyu screamed in shock, "Why so many? Didn't Fuxiang already give you six hundred taels yesterday!"

   "Yeah! My daughter gave me 600 taels, and the family made up 700 taels for selling iron. Qin Xiang gave me 1,000 taels yesterday. Isn't that still 700 taels?" Kong Quanwu calculated.

  Wang Fangyu couldn't believe his ears, "Wait a minute, you said Qin Xiang gave you a thousand taels?"

   "Yes." Kong Quanwu deliberately showed off.

   "Why did Prime Minister Qin give you a thousand taels?"

"Because your brother has a good relationship with the Qin family sons!" When he went to Qin Xiang's house yesterday, Kong Quanwu thought he couldn't even enter the gate. Who knew that Qin San Gongzi didn't see him, but he asked the steward to give him a thousand taels of silver. , what a great man. Thinking of the Qin family as a backer, Kong Quanwu's waist stiffened, "Your brother is in trouble, an outsider can give you a thousand taels, how about you!"

  Kong Quanwu finished speaking, shook off his son-in-law's arm and walked out. Wang Fangyu tugged at his father-in-law's sleeve tightly, and said in a low voice, "Seven hundred taels is not a small amount, my son-in-law really can't take it."

  Kong Quanwu sullenly said, "Stop coaxing your father and me. Which of those paintings and calligraphy in your study is not worth a thousand eight hundred taels?"

   Seeing the pain in his son-in-law's face, Kong Quanwu threw his sleeves vigorously, "Success, succeed! Dad can see through it, calligraphy and painting are more valuable than your brother's life, let's go!"

   "Father-in-law!" Seeing that Kong Quanwu refused to give back the money, Wang Fangyu had to say, "Even if you want to sell calligraphy and paintings for money, you have to accommodate your son-in-law for two days!"

   "Today's father has to go to the yamen to pay the fine money. You can sell the calligraphy and painting first, and then go to pay the money back to the three families after you sell it. He said that this can't be done." Kong Quanwu dragged his son-in-law out.

   How can this matter be delayed! Wang Fangyu immediately said, "My son-in-law will change now, and my father-in-law will stay for an hour."

   done. Kong Quanwu turned around and sat back on the chair, staring, "Don't hurry up!"

  Wang Fangyu went out and told the steward not to let Kong Quanwu go out of the house, then turned around and went back to his room. Seeing that her husband was back, Mrs Kong hurriedly asked, "What is Dad doing to you, is he here for money again?"

   Wang Fangyu said angrily, "Go and tell Yazheng immediately that the girl in our house won't bother her in the future!"

   Kong was stunned, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

   "If you want to go, you can go, it's nonsense!" After Wang Fangyu scolded Kong, he took off a pair of landscape pictures on the wall and rolled them up and put them on the scroll, and was about to go out.

   Mr. Kong was anxious, "Master, didn't you give this painting to your concubine?"

   Wang Fangyu said with a gloomy face, "Your father has collected 700 taels of silver from others, and asked your husband to send his children to Guozijian! You have to sell paintings before your father can give them back the money!"

  Confessed Kong refused, "Then the master just stuffed people into it. What do you do to sell paintings of concubines!"

   "These people are stuffed in, so I don't have to go to the Imperial College to work for my husband!"

   "It's not like you haven't done this before..."

"Stupid woman! Who can give and who can't, how can you tell the difference? If you dare to talk nonsense with Yazheng again, don't blame me for not talking about the relationship between husband and wife!" Wang Fangyu thought it was Kong and his wife. Mrs. Yazheng said gossip and became so angry that she shook off her and went out with a painting scroll.

  It is impossible to sell the paintings, Wang Fangyu hid the paintings in a different courtyard and took a silver note to return to his home. When he entered the front yard, he heard the Kong family's father and daughter were arguing fiercely in the house, and he was very disgusted. He took a few deep breaths before pushing the door and going in to deal with the mess.

   Knowing that Kong Quanwu had collected 3,000 taels of silver in two days, Jiang Erye said with emotion, "Pity the hearts of parents in the world. If you don't raise children, you won't know your parents' kindness."

   "Master is right." Jiang Hou'er gloated, "Look, Master, Kong Quanwu will inevitably send money to the yamen in the future."

  The dark and dark prison is not a place for people to stay. Prisoners are locked in and rarely live beyond three years. Kong Neng was sentenced to six years in prison, and if he was to survive, the Kong family would have to spend a steady stream of money.

   "Go, don't disturb the master's practice." Jiang Erye pushed aside the hippie and smiling Jiang Hou'er, drew an arrow and a bow, and shot out "whoosh" without aiming.

  This casual arrow completely deviates from the conventional route and flew towards Uncle Qiu who had just entered the courtyard gate. Jiang Erye shouted in shock, "Uncle Qiu, get down!"

  The arrow from the string flew towards Uncle Qiu's face as fast as lightning. At this critical moment, someone pushed Uncle Qiu away and held the arrow shaft firmly with one hand.

  This seemingly random but steady action made Jiang Erye's eyes glow, he dropped his bow and took a few steps forward and asked, "Uncle Qiu, who is this hero?"

   Thanks Da Yuer, can you see what I am looking at? Two book friends for the reward. Kong Quanwu is actually full of heart, right?

   There are two points that need to be explained to you: First, the name of the “square” used for the division of the inner city area and the name of the Taoist Buddhist temple in the city are taken from the ancient map of Chang’an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. The names of the streets are randomly chosen by me.

   The second is the "firefighters" of Kang'an City mentioned in this chapter, the submerged fire soldiers, from "Tokyo Menghualu" by Meng Yuanlao of the Song Dynasty.

  

  

   (end of this chapter)