Give you a spring

Before Pingwei and Hezhou came to the capital, about four years ago, they received a request from a woman who offered them 200 taels of silver to kill their husband because they had been abused by her for a long time.

The price was not high, even very low for people like them, but Ping Wei immediately agreed after hearing her reason, and went to Pingzhou with He Zhou.

The woman's name was Fu Lewen, and she asked them to meet in front of a coffin shop in Pingzhou. She was dressed plainly, her hair was disheveled, and her face was painted with thick rouge and gouache. Unbelievable, the woman deliberately lifted up her clothes to show them her injuries.

...It is indeed shocking.

He even had a wound on his head, with a long scar stitched on it.

Ping Wei has seen many people get injured, no matter it was caused by He Zhou or someone else, but he has never seen a woman...with such a serious injury.

He asked Fu Lewen why Yang Qing beat her, and the other party said that Yang Qing was a gambler and often took revenge on her for losing money, or wanted to coerce her to give him money to gamble.

Ping Wei did a brief investigation before coming here to make sure that Fu Lewen was not lying, and then asked Yang Qing's mother if she knew about it.

When asked about this sentence, Fu Lewen's eyes became very cold, she said softly, "Yang Jun is the heart of that old lady, even if she knew, she would just pamper him and let him do evil."

In fact, when Fu Lewen first married into the Yang family and was beaten by Yang Jun for the first time, she went to seek help from Yang's mother, who was also a woman, but the other party's attitude was very cold, and she turned around and went to the kitchen to cook her a bowl of soup.

Fu Lewen drank the bowl of medicine tremblingly, and then Yang's mother boiled it for her for several days. Fu Lewen didn't know what it was, but thought it might be used to heal her wounds, so she drank it all.

The matter passed like this, and she saw that Yang's mother didn't care about her experience of being beaten. Although she was surprised by the inexplicable soup and medicine that came in those few days, she didn't feel too relieved.

Unexpectedly, a long time later, when she went to a pharmacy to buy medicine, she happened to smell a bowl of medicine just brought out by the store, which was very similar to the one she had taken earlier.

"what is this?"

"It's a decoction that can make people pregnant. As long as you drink more of this, Mrs. An Bao can get pregnant quickly."

"..."

Fu Lewen didn't know how she got home that night.

She was floating on the side of the street like a lonely ghost, thinking all over her head: I was injured so badly, why did the old woman give me that kind of thing?What is she thinking?Could it be that I am just a reproductive tool for their Yang family?

The irony is that Fu Lewen came home late that night, and before Yang Jun got home to prepare dinner, she was beaten again.

Afterwards, she went to the yamen to ask for help. Yang Qing, the younger brother of the Yang family, helped his elder brother Yang Jun settle the matter. When her husband was acquitted, Fu Lewen went to the black market for help.

"Can you help me?" asked the helpless woman in front of the coffin shop.

"Yes," Ping Wei promised in a warm voice, "I will bury that man alive in the soil."

In the other courtyard of Fengdu, Guan Yue looked at Pingwei worriedly, "Your Highness?"

"He changed his name, no wonder I didn't think about it..." Ping Wei didn't meet his gaze, turned his head and said something softly, then raised his eyes and asked, "Why was You Buqing transferred here from such an ordinary family?" Feng Du is the prefect, have you checked?"

"I checked, he was a small clerk in Pingzhou back then, and then he suddenly rose to the top, promoted all the way to Fengdu, I tried to check the colleagues who worked with him back then, and none of them lost contact. "Guan Yue said, "Your Highness, do you think that he has taken refuge in Donghu people, and the spies helped him transfer to Fengdu?"

"It's possible," Ping Wei said, "Fu Lewen was beaten by her husband back then. I checked the official who acquitted Yang Jun. On the night Yang Jun was arrested and imprisoned, Yang Qing went to his house to find him with a gift. Well, I thought at the time that this official was bribed, but he didn't have any real power. The common people didn't meddle in other people's business. Fu Lewen didn't ask us to get rid of the other two of the Yang family. Now it seems..."

It is also a curse.

Ping Wei looked at He Zhou, who asked, "Do you need me to kill You Buqing now?"

"Let's ask together later," Ping Wei said.

Guan Yue looked at the two of them, hesitant to speak.

"What do you want to say?" Ping Wei looked at him.

"Your Highness, it is very likely that You Buqing came to avenge you when his brother disappeared and his mother died. Have you... regretted it?" Guan Yue asked softly.

Ping Wei raised his eyebrows, "What do you regret? Did you kill Yang Jun, or did you accidentally kill Yao Qin and let You Buqing's family be ruined?" His face was very cold, and he scolded, "Yang Jun will not be punished for doing such a thing. Punishment is inherently unfair. I didn't help Fu Lewen kill someone for free. I received a reward, so I have nothing to regret. As for Yao Qin, who is also a woman, she not only does not help Fu Lewen, but also helps the tyrant to abuse her. She only wants her to have children for Yang Jun Girl, it's really disgusting."

Ping Wei seldom uttered such obvious words of hatred, but he hated others bullying the weak most in his life.In Daqi, he has seen many women being treated unfairly, Fu Lewen, Li Huanyi, Zhao Wanwan...everyone is a victim of this twisted atmosphere.Ping Wei takes this kind of thing seriously, but also understands that it is not something that he can change overnight.However, what he despises the most is the oppression of the same sex by some women.

For example, Yao Qin, as Yang Jun's mother, did not stop her son from doing evil to his daughter-in-law. Instead, she was only thinking about... wanting to carry on the family?

Ping Wei personally did the killing of Yang Jun, now that You Buqing is coming to take revenge, he has nothing to say, but he also finds it very ridiculous.

"Hmm..." Guan Yue nodded—it was true that You Buqing died a miserable death, but the two people who died... always felt like they deserved it.

He asked again, "Do we need to move out of this house?"

"Let's move," Ping Wei said calmly, "Pack up your things and find an inn to stay. Then we can talk to You Buqing." He looked at He Zhou, "Do you know where he lives?"

He Zhou smiled, and a strange light flashed in his eyes, "Just ask and you'll know."

The three quickly packed their luggage and stayed in an inn, which happened to be on the same street as... You Buqing's other courtyard.

Afterwards, they went to Tongfu Tea House for dinner, and while eating, they analyzed how much You Buqing participated in the theft of gunpowder.

"How did the carriage get back to Fengdu?" Ping Wei felt annoyed when he thought of this, and even stopped his chopsticks.

He Zhou picked up some dishes with chopsticks for him, and said calmly, "Liang Jingzhao will come back in two days, let's see what he says."

Speaking of Young Master Liang, he had been gone for almost a day, Guan Yue said, "I don't know what's going on with him."

"There should be some progress," He Zhou said, "As long as he finds the carriage containing the huo medicine in Ningyao, the efficiency will increase a lot."

"What?" Guan Yue noticed his last words and looked over in surprise.

He Zhou glanced at him indiscriminately, then turned his head to stare at Ping Wei, and said after seeing him eat a few mouthfuls of meat, "We asked at the city gate and the black market this morning to make sure that no horse-drawn carriages have entered the city recently. I searched the suburbs of Fengdu again, but found no obvious indentation of the carriage, I asked people who lived nearby, and no one said that they had seen a large carriage passing by, so that proves..."

He said word by word, "Those carriages that went to Ningyao never came back."

"You mean they were parked in Ningyao?!" Guan Yue stood up abruptly, stared fixedly at He Zhou, then sat down as if nothing had happened, and whispered, "But we didn't Guess, have those carriages come back? And the officials at Ning Yao also said they didn’t see them.”

"It may be hidden at the junction of the two places, not in Ningyao," He Zhou said, "Besides, we thought that the target of the spies was Linjing City."

The more Guan Yue listened to it, the more frightened he became, and he asked, "Now... isn't it even the city of Linjing now?"

What is this? He Zhou twitched the corners of his mouth, thinking that the other party might have been too stimulated tonight, and he was incoherent. He reminded, "We speculated before that the one who snatched the fire medicine was Jie Xiong near the border area, but now it is confirmed that it is Nanling. The spies on the side took the gunpowder, which means that it is Donghu who is really behind the scenes."

"In this way, everything we have before will be overthrown," he leaned back, leaning on the back of the chair.

Guan Yue couldn't keep up, he said, "Then you said earlier that the carriage to the frontier was hidden at the border between Ningyao and Fengdu, so what's going on?"

"You investigated You Buqing this afternoon, what kind of person do you think he is?" He Zhou answered the wrong question and threw another question to Guan Yue.

Guan Yue hesitated for a while, then replied, "A person who is stupid, filial, inflexible, and very vindictive."

"Aside from that? Did he do anything wrong during his tenure as governor of Fengdu, for example, did he miss a case?"

"... I don't think I've heard anyone mention it."

"That's it," He Zhou said, "Think about it, rob the gunpowder that was originally transported to the frontier, and then contact the Donghu spies hiding in Nanling, and let them withhold the gunpowder that originally belonged to Daqi. He is from Daqi, although Pingwei and I have enmity with him, but it is not enough to make him treason."

"So?" Guan Yue was still puzzled, every word He Zhou said made sense and was related to what they were talking about, but it seemed...he hadn't gotten to the point.

"What he meant was that You Buqing deliberately got close to the Donghu people in order to get revenge, and asked them to help him open up his official career and become a governor. He also wanted to repay Donghu and help them secretly store [-] shi of gunpowder for bombing Nanling." It was Ping Wei who answered, he already understood.

"Explode Nanling?!" Guan Yue raised his voice again. He didn't stand up this time, but his hands on the table were tightly clenched into fists.

People around looked sideways at their table.

Ping Wei looked at him, "You guessed right before, Fengdu is likely to transport zha medicine to Nanling, and then from Nanling to Linjing, but I thought about it later, Linjing City is heavily guarded, and they There is no one there who can be used like You Buqing, and it may be difficult to transport zha medicine in. So...they chose to stay in Nanling."

He Zhou nodded, "There is only one river between Donghu and Nanling. The river is about [-] miles long and [-] to [-] feet wide. It is a moat around Nanling to resist Donghu's invasion. But if Donghu It is very possible for people to sneak into Nanling first and detonate five carts of explosives there, which will cause quite a disturbance, and then take this opportunity to lead troops across the river."

Guan Yue nodded while listening, and secretly rejoiced, "Fortunately, I have sent a letter to Nanling to let them pay attention."

"It's far from enough," Ping Wei shook his head and said, "We have to report this matter to Linjing City, let Emperor Chong know, and then let him send troops to defend Nanling. After all, Linjing City is above Nanling, if there is something wrong with Nanling... ..”

The consequences could be disastrous.

He said seriously.

Guan Yue nodded, then looked at He Zhou again, "What about You Buqing? You haven't finished talking about him just now."

"You Buqing knows the plan of the Donghu people, but he can't do anything on the surface, so he can only..." He Zhou looked at Pingwei.Ping Wei continued, "I guess he might have hired someone to rob the carriage bound for the frontier without authorization, and use this to tell the higher-ups, so that the imperial court can send people down to investigate, because Emperor Chong told the ministers on the day of the Shangyuan Festival I am the fifth prince, so he may not have known beforehand that the person sent down by the top...is actually his enemy." Speaking of this, Ping Wei smiled lightly.

"However, he should be very fortunate, because the person sent to deal with the theft is actually me, so I can use this matter to deal with it."

"..." Guan Yue and He Zhou listened to him, and when they heard the back, they both showed annoyance on their faces, "It's impossible for him to hurt you." With a wave of He Zhou's arm, he will Ping Wei hugged her tightly.

"Yes," Guan Yue said seriously.

Ping smiled and continued, "As long as the higher-ups send someone over to investigate the drug theft case, You Buqing will have a chance to hint at the Donghu people's plan."

"We weren't reminded, not because..."

"Yes, because of me," Ping Wei smiled slightly.

"...It really doesn't matter what is serious," Guan Yue commented coldly.