Changsheng: I have been in Jiaofang Division for thousands of years

Beside Mrs. Zhang, Liang Min was sitting there blankly, as if she was stupid, talking indistinctly.

"Old Shen, who is this person?"

Zhao Mu touched it, and a colleague watching the excitement asked.

Old Shen replied in a low voice: "I heard that this person is Qiao Yan, and he is a relative of the family that Mrs. Zhang and Liang Min beat to death in the Great Buddha Temple."

"This Qiao Yan has been living in Yongzhou. I heard that he has earned a lot of money over the years, and even spent half of his fortune to donate a sixth-rank official."

"This time Qiao Yan came to Beijing to report on his work, and deliberately ordered Zhang's mother and daughter to serve him, obviously to avenge his relatives."

Suddenly the crowd was separated, and the judge Liang Xingnan led a young man into the house.

He looked at the corpse on the ground.

Liang Xingnan frowned slightly: "Master Qiao, Mrs. Zhang is my Jiaofang Secretary after all, you beat her to death as soon as you came, don't you take my Jiaofang Secretary seriously?"

"Lord Liang, don't talk nonsense. Mrs. Zhang deliberately poured boiling water on me. She was the first to commit the murder. Could it be that I can't fight back?"

Qiao Yan's expression was indifferent: "By the way, I want to redeem Liang Min's body, Mr. Liang can make a price, and she will return to me in the future."

"You want to take Liang Min away?"

Liang Xingnan looked unhappy.

It wasn't that he wanted to protect Liang Min, but Qiao Yan was about to take Liang Min away before he explained the matter of Qiao Yan beating Mrs. Zhang to death.

Such a domineering behavior made him very unhappy.

Liang Xingnan snorted, "I'm sorry, Master Qiao, I'm afraid you won't be able to take Liang Min with you today."

"Who said you can't take it with you?"

Suddenly a voice came, and the crowd parted, and Zheng Jingren, who was dressed in the official uniform of Xuanjing, walked in slowly.

"Master Zheng?"

Liang Xingnan's complexion changed, and he hurriedly saluted respectfully: "I pay my respects to Mr. Zheng. I didn't know that Mr. Zheng came, but the subordinate officials were not able to greet him from afar. Please forgive me."

"Hehe, what's wrong with Mr. Liang?"

Zheng Jingren smiled, and walked up to Qiao Yan: "But this subordinate of mine just wants to redeem a woman from the Jiaofang Division, so Master Liang is also going to make things difficult for him?"

"No, no, my lord has misunderstood. How dare you embarrass your subordinates? I will ask someone to bring Liang Min's body deed. Wait a moment."

Liang Xingnan was sweating profusely.

Today's Zheng Jingren is not the one who dares to offend.

Soon, Liang Min's body deed was brought.

Qiao Yan waved his hand, and immediately his subordinates came in and carried away Liang Min and Zhang's corpses.

He looked at Zheng Jingren: "My lord, my subordinates will take them to pay homage to my five-year-old nephew who died tragically, and I will be able to catch up with you later."

"Well, you go, the officer is waiting for you at the station outside the city."

Zheng Jingren nodded, and the two left together.

Before leaving, Zheng Jingren pretended to be unintentional and glanced at Zhao Mu in the crowd, as if reminding him of something.

Zhao Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, and found Liang Xingnan while the crowd dispersed.

"Brother Zhao, are you here?"

"Well, after all, it's about Mrs. Zhang and Liang Min, so I have to come and see."

"Hey, self-inflicted crimes can't live. Back then, their mother and daughter beat the scholar's family to death, even the five-year-old child. Today is also retribution."

Liang Xingnan shook his head and sighed, and pulled the young man beside him: "Come on, let me introduce you. This is my son Liang Jian. I recommended him to join the Jiaofang Division two days ago."

According to the rules of the Jiaofang Division, every registered official has the right to recommend his juniors to become an official in the Jiaofang Division.

Liang Jian cupped his hands and saluted: "I greet Zhao Duzhi, my father told my nephew that you are a noble and elegant person at home, and now I am really impressed when I see you."

"My nephew is just joking. I'm just a guy with a lot of clouds and wild cranes, but my nephew is very heroic and looks like a father."

Zhao Mu said with a smile.

"Okay, Brother Zhao, stop boasting. The young man is so arrogant. If he keeps boasting, he won't even know who he is."

Liang Xingnan patted Liang Jian and signaled him to do something: "Brother Zhao, do you have something to do today, how about we go have a drink?"

"Okay, by the way, Brother Liang, I'm going back to my hometown to visit my parents' grave these two days, so I want to take a leave of absence and leave the capital for a while."

"Brother Zhao is really filial, when are you going to leave?"

"The day after tomorrow."

"So fast?"

"Well, go early and come back early."

"Then let's not get drunk today."

"nature!"

"Hahaha, let's go."

……

Although I don't know, what exactly is the big event that Zheng Jingren is talking about?

But the two had known each other for many years, Zhao Mu knew very well that Zheng Jingren would not be aimless.

So two days later, he left the capital with Hua Xinzi and Jiang Hongyun.

The three of them did not go to other cities, but found a secluded mountain village and rented a small yard to live temporarily.

Half a month has passed in such a hurry.

On this day, Zhao Mu was sitting in the yard, while Hua Xinzi and Jiang Hongyun were busy cooking in front of the stove.

Although the two women are dressed as village women, the amorous feelings between their brows are still touching.

"Brother Mu, hurry up and eat."

"okay!"

When the food was served, Zhao Mu had just picked up the chopsticks when suddenly he frowned and looked out of the village coldly.

"What's the matter, Brother Mu?"

Hua Xinzi asked.

"There are a lot of people, you two stay in the yard, I'll go out and have a look."

Zhao Mu put down his chopsticks, leaped out of the courtyard, and rushed out of the village.

Chapter 19

The village that Zhao Mu and the others were looking for was called Liujia Village, which was located on the mountainside of Feilai Peak outside the capital.

Zhao Mu stood on a big tree and looked into the distance.

At the foot of Feilai Peak, an army of tens of thousands of people was marching mightily towards the capital.

The army was well-disciplined. Apart from footsteps, there was no other noise during the march. It was obviously not an ordinary army.

"Nowadays there is no war in the Great Jin Dynasty, and the capital is guarded by forbidden troops. It stands to reason that armies from other places should not be allowed to approach the capital, but this army..."

Zhao Mu pursed his lips.

The abnormal movement of the army showed that something happened in the capital, and it was a big event that could break the sky.

Fortunately, Zheng Jingren reminded me that I could get out of the vortex of conflict first.

Let's stay in Liujia Village from now on. Few people come to this remote place, so it shouldn't be affected too much.

It's just that I don't know when the matter in the capital will end?

……

Time passed day by day.

In the following period of time, the troops coming and going at the foot of the mountain became more and more frequent.

Even two days ago, two armies met and fought fiercely at the foot of the mountain, resulting in countless casualties.

According to villagers who occasionally go out, it is already chaos outside.

The capital city has been completely blocked by the army, and outside the capital city, there are armies from all sides constantly fighting and fighting.

And as the world became more and more chaotic, there were also many bandits who looted everywhere.

Among those bandits, some are real robbers who take advantage of the chaos;

Some are deserters who have lost battles;

But there are also real troops pretending to be bandits.

I heard that many mountain villages outside the capital city have been plundered by bandits. The men were all killed directly, and the women were played to death by force, with a miserable end.

For a while, the villagers in Liujia Village did not dare to go out again, and everyone was terrified.

As for the root cause of the chaos in the capital, it turned out to be the sudden death a few months ago today.

A lifelong pursuit of longevity is still in vain.

Originally, after the death of the emperor, it is enough to deal with the funeral according to the rules. After the funeral is over, the prince can ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

Unexpectedly, rumors and rumors suddenly spread between the ruling and opposition parties, saying that when the Great Vajra Pill was lost, it was actually stolen by someone sent by the prince.

Because at that time, if the emperor really extended his life by 20 years, then the prince would have to be the crown prince for another 20 years.

The prince was not reconciled to this, so he stole the Great Vajra Pill, hoping that the emperor would die sooner.

But I never thought that even without the Great Vajra Pill, the emperor was still sick and still lingering for many years.

Even though the country has been imprisoned, even though it is already in power.

But being a crown prince is not as comfortable as being an emperor, so the prince made another plan and secretly killed the current emperor.

This incident was just a rumor at the beginning, but later, someone suddenly came up with real evidence, which could prove that it was indeed the emperor who was murdered by the prince.

The person who presented the evidence was an official of the Xuanjing Department, named Zheng Jingren.

Now the whole capital city is completely fried.

How could a person who killed the king and his father be enthroned as the emperor?

Regardless of whether the evidence presented by Zheng Jingren is credible or not, the other princes believed it anyway.

Soon, all the princes launched a coup in the name of the prince's rebellion.

Of course, the crown prince couldn't sit still and fight back with all his strength, so a bloody battle for the throne began in the capital.

It is said that the battle was very tragic, and the affected people in the capital suffered countless casualties.

But the battle between the prince and the princes did not end quickly, but lasted for a long time, so that both inside and outside the capital, and even the entire Jin Dynasty fell into chaos.

After receiving these news, Zhao Mu couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

No wonder Zheng Jingren asked him to leave the capital. The other party obviously knew that the emperor would die suddenly, and he got the evidence that the prince murdered the emperor.

It's literally walking on the tip of a knife.

No wonder Zheng Jingren said that if he could survive this time, he would be able to sit on the position of Chief Secretary and control the entire Xuanjing Division.

After all, he was the hero who overthrew the prince. No matter which prince stood behind Zheng Jingren, as long as the other prince became emperor, Zheng Jingren must be rewarded heavily.

I just don't know which prince Zheng Jingren belongs to?

The outside affairs have nothing to do with Zhao Mu.

He has been staying in Liujia Village, and is going to go out after the situation completely subsides.

To keep safe, since he came to Liujia Village, Zhao Mu released all the sound-hearing Gu and kept vigilant about the movement around him.

Today's sound-hearing Gu has reached the middle-grade level after more than ten years of nurturing, and the monitoring range can reach more than three miles.

The Liu Family Village is not too big, so no matter what happened in the surrounding area, Zhao Mu would be able to detect it immediately.

That night, Zhao Mu, Hua Xinzi and Jiang Hongyun were sleeping.

The cultivation base of the two women has been abolished, and now they have no ability to protect themselves, so they have been very nervous recently, for fear that bandits will suddenly rush into the village to rob.