life in ancient gods

Chapter 134 Spices
"General, I found a jade pendant." A black-armored cavalry found a blood-stained cyan jade pendant from the Khitan assassin, and handed it to Su Ping'an.

"Hmm." Su Pingan reached out to take the cyan jade pendant and wiped off the blood on it. The jade pendant was engraved with two relatively neat Chinese characters "Zhong Li".

"Zhongli?!" When Su Ping'an saw the word Zhongli, he was slightly startled and thought to himself: "Zhongli, is it the Zhongli family?! But I don't seem to have any grudges against the Zhongli family...?"

The Zhongli family is a famous aristocratic family in Zhending County. It has deep roots in Zhending County.

When Su Pingan came to work in Zhending County, he had dealt with the Zhongli family. The patriarch of the Zhongli family was Zhendinghou Zhongli Zhentai. Su Pingan tactfully refused the big gift, but he didn't expect that this guy would turn his face against him, and he was really a cunning old fox.

Su Ping'an only knew a little about Zhongli's family, and he had no deep friendship with his family, nor did he have any enemies. He didn't know why Zhongli's family wanted to join forces with Khitan assassins to murder him.

"General, did you find any clues?" Li Tianba pulled out the arrow on his shoulder, sprinkled some golden sore medicine on the wound, and wrapped it with a white cloth. A hint of thoughtfulness appeared, and he stepped forward to ask with some doubts.

"It's nothing, let's go back to the city." Su Ping'an stuffed the cyan jade pendant engraved with the word "Zhongli" into his arms, heaved a sigh of relief, waved his hand, said something indifferently, then turned over and rode on the bloody BMW, heading towards Zhending City run away.

Only this cyan jade pendant engraved with the word Zhongli can't represent anything, and it is impossible for Su Pingan to take this jade pendant to the head of the Zhongli family to question something. After all, although Zhongli Zhentai has no military power, Zhongli Zhentai is a real Dinghou, it's not something that Su Ping'an can bring down just by saying it.

Moreover, this jade pendant does not mean that Zhongli's family is going to be unfavorable to him. It is also possible that the Khitan people used countermeasures to make Su Ping'an and Zhongli's family fight each other. It is safest for people to investigate this matter secretly and collect evidence.

With this in mind, Su Ping'an led Li Tianba and more than ten guardsmen of the Hei family cavalry and rode to the north gate of Zhending County.

After the North City Gate was opened, business travelers came and went like clouds and flowing water. Merchants from the Western Regions led camels, merchants from the Liao Kingdom rode mules and horses, and drove cattle, sheep and horses, and merchants from the Central Plains. Those who went to Liao to sell goods enjoyed a prosperous business scene.

The soldiers guarding the city inside and outside the city gate saluted quickly when they saw Su Ping'an.

"General!"

Su Ping'an rode on a sweaty horse and ordered one of the city guards, who was wearing an iron helmet and armor: "Colonel Zhang, you must step up patrols and inspections during this period. If there are any suspicious goods, they will be seized."

"Here!" The school captain hurriedly promised Su Ping'an.

With the caravans from the Liao Kingdom entering the city, it was difficult to prevent the spies from the Liao Kingdom from entering the city, but Su Ping'an also had to strengthen his precautions, at least to ensure the safety of his family.

The original prefect of Zhending County was assassinated not long ago, so the court let Su Pingan temporarily serve as prefect.

However, Su Ping'an still didn't believe that someone dared to assassinate him in broad daylight in the city.

As Su Pingan's martial arts improved day by day, Su Pingan no longer needed Mengdie's protection, so he asked Mengdie to mainly protect his family members.

As for Liu Xiaohui's aptitude, there is still a lot of room for improvement. Su Pingan plans to continue to let Liu Xiaohui be his shadow guard.

Su Pingan said to Li Tianba beside him: "Tianba, you are injured, go back to the barracks to recuperate first, and you won't have to work for these two days."

Li Tianba clasped his hands on the horse and said: "Here, General, the subordinates will go back to the barracks to recuperate."

"You guys go back to the barracks first." Su Ping'an ordered the more than ten guards and black armored cavalry behind him.

"Here!" More than a dozen black-armored cavalry agreed.

The street market is bustling with people, and the shops on both sides of the street display a wide range of rare treasures, silk and satin.

Vendors yelled from stalls along the street, and there were women in ragged clothes with wormwood in their heads.

"Sir, please take pity on me... I only sell them for five taels of silver..."

At the corner of the market, there was a young and down-and-out girl with tear-stained eyes, dusty face, patched clothes and wormwood in her hair. Kneeling on the ground, she saw Su in a brocade robe. Ping An passed by on a tall horse, and hurriedly knelt and stepped forward, crying.

Pedestrians on the road, seeing such a scene, just glanced at it indifferently, as if seeing a kitten or puppy.

"What's your name?" Su Ping'an, riding on the sweaty horse, turned his head and looked at the poor girl kneeling on the ground.

"My lord, I don't have a name..." The down-and-out girl rubbed her tears and shook her head.

Su Pingan thought that Li Yinger still lacked a servant girl, so he took out an ingot of silver from his arms, "This is 10 taels of silver. You will make walnuts in the future. Get up and come back home with me."

"Thank you, thank you son..." Walnut stood up, thanked him repeatedly, and followed Su Pingan back to the vermilion gate of the prefect's mansion.

Su Pingan got off the horse, looked back, and saw some staggering walnuts running behind.

Walnut also knew some words. When he saw Su Ping'an stopped in front of the gate of the prefect's mansion, he turned to look at her, ran over and asked with some surprise: "Master... you... you are the prefect?!"

"That's right." Su Ping'an nodded and knocked on the door twice.

After a while, Han Ling'er opened the door of the mansion, saw Su Ping'an first smiled, and gave a respectful salute, but when she saw the girl Walnut behind Su Ping'an, she was slightly taken aback.

"Master, who is this...?" Han Ling'er asked Su Pingan with some hesitation on her face.

Su Ping'an said: "This is a walnut. I just bought it on the street. Please take her to wash it first and change her clothes."

Then, he led the horse and walked into the mansion.

"Okay, Master." Han Linger responded to Su Pingan, then looked at the slightly shy girl Walnut, and said with a smile: "Hello, Walnut, my name is Han Linger."

Walnut also smiled, "...Oh, sister Ling'er, hello..."

"Let's go, I'll take you to wash first." Han Ling'er said, and walked towards the mansion holding Walnut's hand.

Walnut hurriedly said: "Don't, sister Ling'er, don't pull me, my hands are dirty..."

"It's okay, when my sister and I followed the young master into the mansion, we were like you...giggle..." Han Ling'er smiled, not caring at all about the dirty hands of Walnut, so she took Walnut's hand and walked into the mansion door, and then closed the door of the mansion casually.

Su Pingan took the sweaty horse to the stable in the backyard, and filled some bean cakes in the manger.

The sweaty BMW let out a long hiss, then lowered its head and ate bean cakes in the manger.

Su Pingan watched the sweaty BMW happily eating bean cakes, smiled slightly, and reached out to stroke the long maroon mane of the sweaty BMW.

He raised his head and squinted his eyes slightly, and glanced at the dazzling sun in the blue sky, it was almost noon.

"Sister, you are back. The meal is ready. Wash your hands and prepare to eat." Li Yinger finished the meal in the kitchen and walked out of the kitchen. Seeing Su Ping'an came back, she smiled and walked towards Su Ping'an come over.

Su Ping'an turned around and smiled slightly, looked at Li Yinger and said, "Lady, I bought you a maid on the street called Walnut. You don't have to go to the kitchen to cook the meals yourself, just let the maids do it."

Li Yinger is wearing a white jasmine double-breasted one-piece pleated skirt and a pair of soft cigarettes today, her figure is still graceful.

She washed her hands in the kitchen, and the hands were still dripping with water. She took out a silk handkerchief and wiped her hands. When Su Pingan said that she had bought a servant girl for her, she waved her hands and said, "My lord, I don't need a servant girl to serve you." ..."

Su Ping'an smiled and said proudly: "How can my wife, Su Ping'an, cook in person? If others see it, they will say that my husband doesn't understand and feels sorry for my wife."

Li Yinger glanced at Su Ping'an, and felt that Su Pingan's treatment of her seemed to be different today, but she was full of joy in her heart, and said coquettishly: "Mr. I am already used to cooking, and the cloth line is sold now, if I stop now, I will have nothing to do, and I will feel very uncomfortable."

Su Pingan knew that Li Yinger couldn't be idle, so she smiled, "It's okay, lady, you are also the general's wife after all, and it's good to have a maid by your side to fetch water for you to wash your face and bathe sooner or later."

Li Yinger tilted her head, looked at the ground, and wiped the corners of her eyes with a silk handkerchief, "...my husband said so, sometimes when my concubine is not feeling well, it's really not good if I don't have a servant girl by my side, so I can do whatever my husband says." ..."

After lunch, Su Ping'an introduced Walnut, the maid, to his family, and then Walnut served beside Li Ying'er as Li Ying'er's personal maid.

In Li Shishi's wing
Li Shishi has been pregnant for almost two months. From the outside, nothing can be seen, but Li Shishi has been a little lethargic recently.

Beside the couch, there was a guzheng on the jade qin table. Li Shishi stroking the strings with both hands, played a piece of blue and white porcelain qin.

The melodious and beautiful piano music echoed in the wing room.

Su Ping'an lay on the recliner with his eyes slightly closed, listening with enjoyment.

After playing the song, Master Li stretched out his hand and lightly touched Su Pingan's forehead, and said softly: "Husband, do you want to play this blue and white porcelain song?"

Su Ping'an seemed to be unsatisfied, slowly opened his eyes, looked at Li Shishi's beautiful eyes, and praised: "Lady, the blue and white porcelain music you played is really nice."

Li Shishi took out a sky blue sachet from his arms, sniffed it lightly, and said to Su Ping'an: "Husband, I bought some spices with Jin'er in the market this morning. I heard that these spices are all from the Western Regions." It's here, smell it..."

As he said, he reached out to hold the sky blue sachet and put it in front of Su Ping'an's breath.

Su Ping sniffed it, "Well, it smells good, but my lady has been a little uneasy recently, it's better not to go out, if there is anything to buy, just tell Jin'er to buy it."

Master Li snuggled close to Su Pingan, with a thoughtful look in his beautiful eyes, and nodded, "Okay, husband, I will do whatever you want with me."

……

In the afternoon, Su Pingan came to the Zhending government office on a sweaty BMW. The official affairs of the government office were usually handed over to Xiao Rang, his aide and master scholar.

Xiao Rang's calligraphy is good, and his official documents are also beautiful. Handling the official affairs of the government office for Su Pingan made Su Pingan a lot easier.

When Xiao Rang saw Su Pingan walk into the mansion, he hurriedly came down from the court, bowed his hands to Su Pingan and said: "General, my subordinates have ordered someone to renovate the General's Mansion. General, you can move to live in the General's Mansion at any time now." .”

Su Pingan nodded, and took out a piece of blue jade pendant from his bosom, "Well, this general knows, you can take a look at this jade pendant, is it from Zhongli's family?"

Xiao Rang respectfully took the jade pendant into his hand, checked it repeatedly, and when he saw the word Zhongli engraved on one side, a strange color appeared in his eyes, "General, this jade pendant is of high quality, although it is engraved with Zhongli, but my subordinates are not sure that it belongs to Zhongli's family, so I don't know why the general asked my subordinates about it."

Su Pingan hesitated for a moment, "This general was assassinated by a Khitan assassin while hunting in the suburbs this morning. This jade pendant was found from the Khitan assassin. This general suspects that Zhongli's family colluded with the Khitan people. It is not good for this general, so I want you to send someone to investigate Zhongli's family, but don't startle the snake, do you understand what this general means?"

"General, this subordinate understands, and this subordinate will do it immediately." Xiao Rang nodded in agreement.

……

After this assassination, in order to ensure the safety of his family, Su Pingan moved to the General's Mansion. There were four guards in front of the General's Mansion, guarded by black cavalry, and there was a group of patrolling soldiers on the streets around the General's Mansion. Patrol and strictly investigate suspicious personnel.

The General's Mansion is much larger than the Taishou's Mansion, covering an area of ​​more than 2000 square meters. There are main rooms and a meeting hall in the front yard, and more than ten wing rooms in the front of the back yard.

……

Zhongli Mansion is a wealthy family in Zhending County, and the head of the family, Zhongli Zhentai, is the Marquis of Zhending. Guests in the mansion are constantly coming and going, and he has close contacts with dignitaries.

In a dimly lit secret room in Zhongli Mansion, I saw a young man with a scar on his face, his eyes gleaming, and a gorgeous brocade robe, sitting on a wicker chair with a folding fan in his hand, He was asking something to a black-clothed swordsman kneeling on his knees.

The young man in the brocade robe suddenly stood up, his face livid, pointed to the black-clothed swordsman kneeling on the ground, and angrily said: "Trash! I spent a lot of money to get all the Khitan assassins you recruited wiped out? Could it be that they were all the same?" Helping the mob?!"

"...Third son, if you like beauties, the villain can go and plunder some for you, so why bother to fall in love with the general's wife, if you let Lord Hou know..." A trace of fear appeared in the eyes of the black-clothed swordsman His face was pale, and sweat was dripping from his forehead.

The young man in brocade flicked his long sleeves, and said bitterly: "You bastard! I've just taken a fancy to Su Ping'an's lady. If those rouge and vulgar fans can be compared with Li Shishi, why should I spend so much money?"

(End of this chapter)