Brocade tears

Meng Zixiu was being targeted by someone. Although he was not sure that the people who were targeting him were Lu Wang's people, he was sure that they definitely had bad intentions.In the middle of the night, at the risk of being arrested during the curfew, Qin Zhao, the shopkeeper of the Nanjing branch of Zhao's Grain Line, personally found the courtyard on Chengxian Street and informed Meng Zixiu that something had happened.Although the guy who helped Mencius repair the carriage before got rid of the follower, he was followed by someone on the way back to the food store from Chengxian Street. With the bottom up, they didn't find the person they were looking for, so they left unwillingly.There are still watchers outside the grain bank, and the grain bank can't go back now.The guys were all terrified, so Qin Zhao dismissed all the guys and told them to go home and rest temporarily, and wait for news after returning to work.

And Tan Zhao knew that Meng Zixiu and Bai Yuyin were in danger, so he was determined to help them escape from the hunt.In the middle of the night, he escaped the surveillance outside the food store, and walked carefully all the way to the small courtyard on Chengxian Street. He was still carrying a bundle, which contained the luggage for Mencius Xiu.

Mencius Xiu didn't fall asleep that night, and sat in the east chamber thinking about countermeasures.Hearing someone knocking on the door, he went to open the door first, without disturbing the old servant who was watching the door.Seeing Tan Zhao, he knew that things were heading for the worst.

"You and that white girl must leave immediately," Tan Zhao said.

"No, I'll go alone, and she will stay in this yard." Mencius took the bag from Qin Zhao and said.

"This... are you trying to distract the pursuers? You're crazy!" Tan Zhao said in shock.

"Don't worry, I won't let them catch me." Meng Zixiu turned back to the house and quickly wrote a letter. The content of the letter was very simple, only two sentences: I don't know when I will go here, you must not Leave the house easily, and make plans after the limelight passes.I have left money in the treasure box in the east chamber, and you can use it as you like.Cherish it, don't read it. ——Zi Xiuzi.

After leaving the note, he immediately left the house, turned around and closed the door, covered his whole body with a black cloak, and walked fast.Qin Zhao hurriedly followed behind him, saying:

"Where are you going now? Young Master Biao, to be honest, I'm in too much of a hurry. I can't send you to other places at all. Apart from the two capitals, Zhao's Grain Company has no other suitable place to stay."

"Uncle Qin, Zhao's grain company is being targeted right now. I can't hurt you any more. I have my own place to go. You don't have to worry. Just help me keep an eye on the small courtyard on Chengxian Street. If you are in danger, please help Bai Yu Yin ran away. But if there is no danger, you should not show yourself in front of her. This small courtyard is temporarily handed over to you. If I still don't return after three months, I have to trouble you to pay the wages of the servants. Even if I owe it, when I go out of town, I will find a way to send the money back."

Qin Zhao shook his hands and said, "What do you say, just tell me what you want to do?"

"I'm going to find Hai Rui Hai Qingtian first, and after discussing with him, I will decide where to go. You should go back first, and I will write to contact you."

"Master Biao!" Tan Zhao pulled him back anxiously, he didn't understand why he went to find Hai Rui, he just wanted him to suspend his actions and hide first, and leave after he had arranged his travel and accommodation in other places. go for the top.He is going to be a bait, which is too risky, how can people feel at ease?

"Uncle Tan! I have made up my mind. This is a part of my revenge plan that must be executed. Please forgive me!" Meng Zixiu said firmly, looking at Tan Zhao's pale face in the night, he eased his tone, pleaded:

"Uncle Tan, I've been bothering you to take care of me during this time, and I really can't repay you. If I still have the chance, I will definitely come back to repay your kindness. Finally, I ask you one more thing, the matter of my being hunted down, and my Don't tell my family in Beijing about anything about Bai Yuyin, I don't want them to worry about me."

Looking at the resolute expression of the young man in front of him, Tan Zhao couldn't help crying.He is just a small businessman, he has not read any books, and he can't explain the truth.But in his mind, Young Master Biao is the most pure, selfless, and sincere person. He can sacrifice to this extent for a woman he has just known for less than a month. Humans can do this.

"Master Biao! You must take care!" he cried.

Mencius nodded heavily, then tightened the burden on his shoulders, turned and left without looking back.Qin Zhao watched him disappear from sight, then wiped away his tears and turned back.

That night, Mencius escaped the patrolling night soldiers and found the Hai Rui Mansion by the Wuding Bridge in Nanjing.It was a modest little yard, almost shabby.He cautiously waited in the dark alley for a while, carefully observing the movement around him.He noticed a small two-story building next to the small courtyard. There was a faint light on the small building, and there was a figure printed inside, as if he had been monitoring Hai Rui's small courtyard.He judged the blind spot of the second-floor building, and prepared to sneak into Hai Rui's private house.This is the only way to resort to extreme times. Although he is very bad at doing this kind of thing, he couldn't help but think that if the third sister was around, she would be able to do so silently, but he could only do his best.

Fortunately, Hai Rui is poor, and he can't even build the courtyard wall high. It's just a waist-high fence, and it doesn't take much effort for Mencius to repair it.After turning inside, he kept walking close to the wall to ensure that he was out of sight of the surveillance.All the way along the courtyard wall to the southeast corner of the small courtyard, he encountered a walled room blocking his way. He glanced at the window of the room, and there was a wooden sign hanging beside the window frame, on which was written A small line of words: Those who come to narrate at night, please enter through the window and ring the bell to wait.

Mencius was amazed when he was repaired. It seemed that he was not the only one who had done this kind of thing of climbing over the wall in the middle of the night.

He did as he said, sneaked into the house through the window, and carefully closed the window. With the dim light from outside the window, he could see a pull rope beside the window sill, extending to other rooms. After three times, he tidied up his messy clothes, patted off the dust on his body, and found a pier to sit in the dark room.

After waiting for a while, there was no movement. Just as Mencius was about to pull the rope again, he heard the sound of shoes being pulled.Not long after, a slightly bowed white-haired old man walked in slowly, leaning on a cane in his hand, and closed the door behind him.He didn't speak, he groped in the dark to find another pier and sat down, took a breath, and then asked:

"You are not my old friend, who is here, why did you visit in the middle of the night?"

"Mr. Don't be alarmed. The younger generation, Mencius Xiu, is from the middle of the capital. His family is a military member. His father and brother are Jinyiwei. At the end of Wanli ten years, my family was unfortunately involved in a dispute in the court. My father and brother were killed, and my mother died of illness immediately. It is directly related to the death of my father and brother. It was Li Xuming, who was in charge of a thousand households in Jinyiwei Prison at that time. Li Xuming had hanged himself, and had close correspondence with Bai Xianshi, the servant of the Nanjing household department, who commissioned him to investigate King Lu. I went south to Nanjing to investigate this matter. The case involves King Lu, and it may also be related to the blood feud in my family. I found Bai Yuyin, the daughter of Bai Xianshi, and she told me that Bai Xianshi made friends all over the world and contacted everywhere in the past. I was rescued and hid, but I was hunted down by dark enemies, so I had to prepare to escape from Nanjing at night. Before I left the city, I had to disturb you in the middle of the night, which is really rude. But please help Hai Qingtian and tell me what you know. "Meng Zixiu's words were orderly, and he quickly explained the situation.

Hai Rui was silent for a moment, and said, "How do I know whether what you said is true or not?"

Mencius took a deep breath and replied: "I can't prove the truth of what I said, but Hai Qingtian has been a parent officer and has resolved countless cases. I believe that with your insight, you will be able to see through whether I am lying in front of you."

"Hehehehe, I am an old man who is about to fall into the earth. I am not so cautious because I am afraid of my own life. I am afraid of hurting others. Listen to your voice, you are really young. Come closer and let me see you."

As he spoke, he walked towards the window, and Mencius also got up and came to him. Hai Rui saw Mencius's face clearly through the moonlight, and Mencius also saw clearly this old man with white beard and hair.Hai Qingtian was over [-] years old, and he was very old, but he still thought clearly and spoke brightly, which was not easy.But it can be seen that he is already sick, his complexion is sallow, and his body is stooped.In the past, Hai Gangfeng, who dared to go to "Zhi An Shu" and angrily denounced Emperor Jiajing, was really old. Mencius could not help but feel the desolation of the vicissitudes of life.

"Okay...okay, young man, you are fine...I believe in you." Hai Rui's eyes were still bright, fixed on Meng Zixiu's face under the cold moonlight, as if he could see through the young man's face The face saw the young self.

He was silent for a while, as if he was sorting out his thoughts, and finally said: "Go to Huguang and hide for a while, there are two people you can go to find. One is Li Zhuowu in Macheng, he and Bai Xianshi are also good friends. I also had correspondence with him. And I was under the surveillance of Jin Yiwei at that time, and I have never been free. I could only watch helplessly when something happened to Shi Shi, and I was powerless, and I can’t help you now.

The second is Zhang Jianxiu in Jiangling, all this started because of Zhang Taiyue, the easiest to find now is his fourth son, he should know a lot about it.The only thing I can tell you is that this matter is too deeply involved, and it has completely touched the most painful place of King Lu. If you make a careless move, you will lose everything, and the situation under many years of management will collapse.

You just wait a while, I will write you two letters of introduction, and you will bring them to meet them, the obstacles will be much smaller, and I will give you their addresses. "

Mencius was overjoyed, and hurriedly cupped his hands in thanks: "Thank you Hai Qingtian!"

"You don't have to thank me. I just hope that you can find out the truth. The so-called revenge is not just the enmity in your family. I hope you can trace the source, find out the root cause of all this, and cut it off. It's just so heartbreaking to see this tragedy happening every moment of the day."

"What the master taught, the younger generation should remember." Mencius stood up and bowed in salute.

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Saying goodbye to Hai Rui, Mencius ran away from Nanjing overnight.From the Dinghuai gate in the west, he planned to follow the waterway all the way to the Yangtze River in the northwest direction, and then go up the river and enter Huguang.In order to deceive the enemies who were chasing him, he deliberately waited under the city gate for a while, and found a young woman who was going out of the city with a basket and a burden on her back. He gave the woman some money and asked her to pretend to be his companion. Together out of town.The woman was very wary at first, but seeing that Meng Zixiu had a good conversation and a good face, he didn't seem to be a bad person, so she finally agreed.

When leaving the city, he deliberately pretended to accidentally knock over the cage, and packed up the scattered items on the ground in front of the gate guards.Seeing that he was acting suspiciously, the guard at the gate came forward and asked him for a public inspection.Meng Zixiu stole out of Beijing, followed by the merchants of Zhao's grain company, where is there any public inspection.In the end, it was the woman who helped him out, saying that he was his brother-in-law who was in poor health and had been raised at home since childhood.After finally entering Nanjing City to study with a teacher, he lived outside the city, and there was no public inspection.Seeing that someone was speaking for him, the guard half-believed and let him go.

Mencius went out with the woman, and the woman looked at him several times, and finally couldn't help asking if Mencius had offended anyone.Mencius said that he came to Nanjing to visit friends from the middle of Beijing, and that his uncle, who had been close to him since he was a child, passed away in Huguang at this time, so he rushed to the funeral.The woman felt sympathy for him, and said bluntly that she lived near the ferry of the Dinghuai Gate, and her husband was the leader of the boats on the river, who happened to go back and forth between Sichuan, Chongqing and Jiangzuo all year round.Her husband will leave soon, and she can take him to Jiangling.Mencius was overjoyed, and even said that he had met such a good man from heaven, and he was very grateful to the woman.

Mencius set off from outside Dinghuai Gate two days later. At that time, there were already pursuers searching the area around Dinghuai Gate.He knew that his plan to lure away the pursuers had succeeded, and the next thing he needed to consider was to get rid of the pursuers.Departing from Yanziji, and taking a boat all the way north along the river, Meng Zixiu could detect through clues that someone was following behind him.During this period of time, he didn't even dare to send letters home, for fear of revealing his whereabouts.It wasn't until he arrived in Jiangling that he breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the process of finding Zhang Jianxiu in Jiangling was not smooth, not because Zhang Jianxiu's address was difficult to find, but because Zhang Jianxiu had a lot of surveillance around him, and he didn't even have the opportunity to visit. Once he appeared near his home, it would definitely attract surveillance nearby attention.Mencius stayed for a long time, but failed to find a way to contact Zhang Jianxiu. In desperation, he could only give up and go to Macheng first.

In Macheng, finding Li Zhuowu was almost instantaneous. Here, the name of Macheng Zhifo Temple is so resounding that many people are still his followers.However, this gentleman is really eccentric and violent, and he is really difficult to approach.Mencius was not in a hurry, first he attended lectures and studied in Zhifo Academy as a student, and after about a month, he got acquainted.As he continued to listen to Li Zhuowu's lectures, Meng Zixiu actually began to be influenced by Li's philosophy of mind.Later, he spoke and asked questions in class many times, and after class, he asked Li Zhi to discuss the problem, which finally attracted Li Zhi's attention.About another month later, Meng Zixiu finally found an opportunity to mention his intention to come to Li Zhi, and asked a question about Bai Xianshi.

Li Zhi told him bluntly that the reason why Bai Xianshi entrusted Li Xuming to investigate King Lu was due to the arrangement of the Yueshi Society, and they were all members of the Yueshi Society.The Yueshi Society is a loose organization formed by like-minded people of insight from all over the world. So far, there has only been a secret meeting in Beijing. It was the ninth year of Wanli and Zhang Juzheng was still alive.Yue Shi, Yue is Taiyue's Yue, and Shi is Xianshi's stone. This organization was first established by Zhang Juzheng and Bai Xianshi. The name Yueshi is not the official name of the organization. The organization has no name. In fact, many members oppose this Nomenclature, thought to reveal the identity of members.Although members of the organization are spread all over the country, they seldom meet each other and only communicate by letter.In order to maintain the secrecy of this organization, Zhang Taiyue used a part of the money to set up a Lifeng Escort Bureau. In addition to escorting the necessary materials within the organization, it was also responsible for passing letters between members of the organization.

Mencius was very surprised. The business of escorting has sprouted from nowhere in the past two years. Is it because of this reason?

Li Xuming is a rare Jinyiwei in the Yueshi Society. He made a contribution in investigating King Lu and was completely trusted and accepted by the organization.But unfortunately, something happened to Bai Xianshi. Lu Wang and Tang Fu'an colluded with Zhang Jing, the middle official of the East Factory, to attack him. The organization had no way to save him, and the members felt extremely powerless and sad.Lu Wang's criminal evidence was burned, and the organization could only plan to find another opportunity to fight back.

Many years later, Li Xuming recommended other Jinyiwei to join, but something happened before the list was sent to the organization.At that time, Zhang Juzheng's home was taken away, and a little maid named Li Sui'er, who had mastered the key information left by Zhang Juzheng, went to imperial prison.In order to rescue her, Li Xuming trapped himself in it.At that time, the news was blocked and Li Xuming could not contact other members of the organization. He could only rely on his old friend Qi Jiguang's son Qi Zuuoguo to send Li Sui'er to Dengzhou Wei.At that time, Qi Zuuoguo would respond there when he attacked the commander of the Dengzhou Guard.In order to accomplish this, he feigned death and entrusted two other Jinyi guards—Meng Yi and his eldest son Meng Xu to escort Li Sui'er.However, Zhang Jing and Wang Daoming were the first to learn about this incident. They released false news, misleading Tang Fu'an to mistake Li Sui'er for Bai Yuyin, and sent soldiers to chase after him.In the end, Zhang Jing and Wang Daoming took advantage of the fisherman's profit and used this incident to force Tang Fu'an to lose power. Nanzhen Fusi changed his blood and took Li Sui'er away.The organization finally found out Li Sui'er's whereabouts through a Jinyi guard named Fang Ming in Nanya, and sent her to the palace for refuge.

The truth was found out, and things went back and forth and turned around again, and some beautiful visions and expectations deep in Mencius's heart were already fragmented and completely collapsed.If his father and brother died because of this reason, it would be too unfair to die.There was nothing in his heart, and he was completely lost in confusion for a while.

He stayed in Macheng for a year and a half, practicing mind learning with Li Zhi, and then, under Li Zhi's introduction, he left Macheng and went to Sichuan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang to visit several members of the organization. The world's leading celebrities, sit and discuss with them, and question their own hearts.

As Lu Wang relaxed his pursuit, he was finally able to get in touch with his family in Jingzhong, but he still adopted a taboo attitude in the letter, not mentioning the truth about the blood feud between his father and brother.He is waiting for the opportunity, and if the opportunity comes, he will return to Beijing to reunite with his sisters.And during this time, he has been paying attention to Bai Yuyin's movements. When Qin Zhao got in touch with him, it was three months after he left Nanjing. At that time, Bai Yuyin had quietly left the courtyard on Chengxian Street to look for him. Qin Zhao There is no way to find her in a short time.At that time, Mencius was in a state of anxiety, restless, and almost fell into a state of collapse.Later, I contacted Qin Zhao several times, and finally at the end of the 13th year of Wanli, Qin Zhao sent news from inside the capital, saying that he had found Bai Yuyin's whereabouts, and she actually appeared in the brothel Tianxiang hall in the capital.This Fragrance Hall is the property of Lu Wang, and she may have reached some kind of agreement with Lu Wang.

Mencius thought about it and struggled for a long time, but in the end he never showed up to see Bai Yuyin.He knew in his heart that he was sorry for Bai Yuyin in this matter, but the time for him to return to Beijing has not yet come.If he returns to Beijing at this time, not only will he fall into the trap, but maybe even his two younger sisters will be implicated.He had to find a more appropriate time, a time when King Lu couldn't control Bai Yuyin, to take Bai Yuyin away.And he believes that Bai Yuyin has the ability to protect herself well, and if she can reach an agreement with King Lu, she will definitely be able to restrain King Lu as her umbrella.

Time flies, time flies, and during the long wait, he has grown from a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy to an adult, with Mr. Liang's pocket letter "Evergreen", and he has finally become an outstanding young man.In the 18th year of Wanli, he returned to the long-lost Nanjing City. He became the liaison officer of the Yueshi Society in Nanjing City. become the new party.Later, in order to develop new member An Xifan, he stayed in Nanjing for a relatively long time.In the 19th year of Wanli, he received news from the organization that Li Sui'er in the palace was about to flee the capital, Fang Ming's rebellion was out of control, and a big event was about to happen in Beijing.

Meng Zixiu vaguely smelled the coming rain, and hurriedly wrote to his family in Beijing, saying that he would go north soon, but he did not tell them that he was planning to enter Beijing.

After nine years of dormancy, the day of shining the sword finally comes.In order to wait for this day, he planned and planned again and again, he did not know how many deductions he made, and how many situations he envisioned, no matter what, he would have to pay blood this time.

It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge!