Chapter 129

Before I knew it, it was dawn.

Qin mubai looked at the door, rubbed his prickly eyes, and said, "now it's time for the soldiers to gather for morning exercises. It's inconvenient for us to go back to the army. Why don't you just take a break here and go back later to see the king of Wu and tell us the whole story. "

"Good..." Chen Yan nodded and squatted down silently, leaning against the post and holding her knees, staring at the empty space in a daze.

Qin mubai went outside to exercise his muscles and bones. He felt hungry. Those Baiqi subordinates have been dispersed. He had to pick some wild fruits in the woods by himself. Fortunately, he caught a hare. So he went back to the cabin, raised a fire, slaughtered the hare and roasted it.

Chen Yan has been watching in silence, until Qin mubai roasted the hare half cooked, then she said: "you are a respectable son of an official family. How could you do that? "

"Is there a rule that only those of you who are wandering in the world will be allowed to do it?" Qin Mu Bai laughed, threw her two wild fruits, and said, "eat the belly first. The hare was soon baked. As a matter of fact, the superficial scenery of our Baiqi is the result of a hundred times of torture. When we were training, it was a simple, inhuman scene. It's a trick to survive in the wild like this. "

"You are a special officer." Chen Yan said, "no official will torture himself, suffer for himself?"

"What's wrong with wishing you success?" Qin mubai said with a smile, "we are suffering from skin and flesh, and his heartache is even worse than ours."

Chen Yan's mouth slightly twitched, chin on his knee, leisurely said: "I have something to ask you."

"Ask." Qin mubai said casually as he roasted the hare.

"Do you have a woman you love?" Chen Yan asked.

Qin mubai was slightly stunned and thought for a long time It's really bad for a woman who has been with her or has something to do with her in the past and this life. But how can we talk about the word "deep love"? More of the time, more like playing in the world.

"No

"I can see that." Chen Yan chuckled, and her face became softer than ever before. She said, "you are a cynical man, and there must be a lot of women around you. The more men you are, the more women like you. "

"You seem to understand." Qin mubai laughed a little.

"In fact, people are very cheap. When a person really loves you deeply, you may not feel it or cherish it. When it's lost, it's precious. " Chen Yan said.

"Maybe..." Qin mubai didn't want to continue to talk deeply. Women are emotional animals, and they talk about emotional topics, can not sleep for three days and three nights. It is obvious that Qin mubai does not have such energy now.

"In fact, I lied to you." Chen Yan said suddenly.

"Is it?" Qin mubai was a little surprised.

"Yes." Chen Yan nodded, "in fact, Zhu Chengwen and I have never been husband and wife, and we have never made a lifelong or marriage contract. We grew up together, he has always been like a big brother in my mind. He was 22 when he got married, and I was 16. At that time, I suddenly feel lost forever, I know that I also love him. Love Dou's early age was really crazy. I even wanted to marry him as my concubine at that time. But Zhu Chengwen is a real gentleman, he refused. And even after his wife died. He didn't give me any hope and opportunity, let alone promise. He loved his first wife and vowed never to marry her. He and I have always been confidants. After the age of 16, we don't talk about emotion. But I knew that he would die for me, just as I would die for him. We talk about everything more than brothers and sisters, husband and wife and best friends. So I know everything about him, and he always has absolute trust in me. "

Qin mubai's heart slightly moved: "did he really give you an account book before he died?"

"Yes." Chen Yan said, "it's not to send it, but to give it face to face. I wrote to him in my hometown and saw that he was in bad condition, so I went all the way to Jishan county to see him. Unexpectedly, he was furious and wanted to drive me away immediately, saying that I shouldn't have come at all. I've traveled thousands of miles to spend less than a handful of time with him. I was so sad that I swore I would never talk to him again. Before leaving, he gave me a burden and asked me to hand it over to the children in his hometown. I left without looking at it. It wasn't until I got halfway that I got rid of my breath, opened the package and found the book in it. Only then did I know He has made up his mind to ask death! I regret that I was so stupid that I didn't see through his intention! Maybe I calmed down a little bit. It won't end like this! "

"Ah, the difference between yin and Yang is often just a little bit, but it's a thousand miles away." Qin mubai shook his head and sighed. "Where is that book now?" he asked

"It's on a big willow tree in the woods near the tomb of Zhu Chengwen. Don't worry, no one can find what I'm hiding. " Chen Yan said.

"Good! After a little rest, let's go and get the book back. Go back to see King Wu again

"All right."Half an hour later, Qin mubai went out of the woods and called the hundred riders to get two horses. Ride with Chen Yan to the tomb of Zhu Chengwen.

The autumn wind and the fallen leaves gallop, and Chen Yan's mount is naturally not as good as Qin mubai's huoyun foal. She always looked at the man who was not far ahead and thought: this man is really unique. He always gives people a sense of mystery. He can easily see through other people's mind, guess other people's behavior, but people can't think through what he is thinking. Moreover, he is not the same as other officials. He has no official accent. There's no airs. Although sometimes some evil and overbearing, but still maintain a sense of justice, let people feel that he has a healthy.

"Do I believe him completely?" Chen Yan keeps asking herself, but she has no answer.

It's at the edge of Zhu's grave. They first held a memorial ceremony. Then, like a civet cat, Chen Yan jumps up a big willow tree, uncovers a big tree skin, takes out a bamboo tube from the hollow tree pole, and jumps down the tree.

"That's it." Chen Yan said.

Qin mubai quickly opened the bamboo tube. There was an account book wrapped in oil paper. After a few rough glances, it turned out that there were all records of large amounts of money and grain in and out, which were quite detailed. At the bottom of each record, Zhu Chengwen also made comments. Explain how the money was recorded in the public accounts of the Yamen and where it was actually used.

Among them, there are three pages specially recording the trend of six sums of money. It's all the civil engineering equipment and labor employed by Yamen in the name of building the lake embankment. In fact, these civil engineering equipment and labor are nothing at all. These six sums of money were sent to Li daozong, king of Jiangxia, by various ingenious means!

Obviously, this is the work of Zhang Tianci. He didn't bribe Li daozong directly with money, but at some birthday gifts and festival visits. A large gift to Li daozong in the name of Yamen.

These things are rare in the Tang Dynasty, where the overall atmosphere is very clean. The Emperor Li Shimin once "advocated" that officials should not encourage such extravagance_ However, there is no law forbidding officials to accept gifts.

So Zhang Tianci and others played an edge ball, drilled the loophole of the law, so as to achieve the purpose of giving in to his favor and bribing Li daozong.

If Li daozong knew where the money came from. That's not going to happen. However, as the "supreme officer" of the Jin Dynasty, this kind of "filial piety" of his yamen was not very unusual. Although some of them were not pleasant to hear, they did not violate the law, so he accepted them generously. There is a saying that people are short of hands and short of mouths. It is not known whether Li daozong provided any convenience to Zhang Tianci later.

"It's a clever way to bribe." Qin mubai said, "the law can't be studied deeply, but Li daozong did receive money that shouldn't be collected."

"Not bad." Chen Yan said. "Because of this, Zhu Chengwen is in great pain. Some of the money was not enough when it was used to build the embankment, and some of it was taken away at three or five o'clock to pay homage to the king of Jiangxia The perfect king of Jiangxia in his mind suddenly collapsed. But at the same time, he also suspected that Zhang Tianci, Cheng Songnian and others were deceiving the superior and the inferior, and he was not willing to believe that King Jiang Xia was such a person. It's a pity that he has been unable to see Wang Jiangxia personally to clarify this matter. Instead, he has to compromise under the threat of Cheng Songnian and others. "

"Imagine that." Qin mubai said, "in officialdom, especially local officials, if they offend their immediate superiors, the days will be miserable. In front of such a huge group as Zhang Tianci and Cheng Songnian, Zhu Chengwen is too weak to fight against it. I guess Zhu Chengwen also adopted the strategy of delaying the war at that time. On the surface, he made a compromise with Zhu Chengwen, but secretly he was still planning how to solve the problem. If not, he would not have been killed. "

"I don't know." Chen Yan shook her head sadly. "At that time, he was so violent that he wanted to drive me away, so he didn't want me to be dangerous. But I didn't wake up at that time... "

"That should be it." Qin mubai sighed, "it's a pity that Zhu Chengwen's efforts are all on the verge of success. A sudden flood disrupted his deployment. It's ruined his life. "

"It's all Providence..." Chen Yan's eyes are red, her eyebrows are lightly locked, and she caresses Zhu Chengwen's tombstone in a daze.

"Let's go back to the army to see King Wu! The three of us discuss with each other, and we must solve the problem perfectly! " Qin mubai said, "it should also be a consolation to wish the spirit of writing in heaven!"

"OK, let's go!"

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