Li Zhang

The banquet had already started in the front yard, and there was a lot of excitement.In the backyard, Tan Ye's main wife was weeping in the house, and the dowry girl was full of resentment, and quietly ran to the new house, intending to humiliate the newcomer, but there was no one in the yard, and the red candles were shining brightly in the house, and there was no one there either. , The red hijab fell to the ground.She was full of surprises, but felt that this was very good, so she carefully closed the house and courtyard doors, and quietly retreated.

Li Zhang watched Zhiqing finish eating a plate of dim sum, then gave her a set of maid clothes, let her change herself, combed her hair again, put a thin mask on her face, and changed herself a bit, and Zhiqing left the rockery one after another.

There was an endless flow of maids and servants serving food and wine in the front yard, and Zhiqing and Li Zhang were among them, without being conspicuous at all.Soon they touched the corner door that had been tampered with, and the two left the Tanfu quietly.At this time, Tan Ye, who had had a few more drinks, thought of Zhiqing itchingly again, and slipped to the new house under the pretense of convenience, intending to take a peek at Zhiqing, and then see if anyone was taking good care of her, but finally pushed open the courtyard door It was empty, and suddenly screamed and ran out in a hurry.

Tan Ye got drunk, and he was more reckless than usual. He asked people to search all the yards, startled the old lady who had already fallen asleep.

The old lady Tan was feeling a little uncomfortable. Knowing that Zhiqing had entered the mansion, she felt ashamed to see her. She thought that in a few days, when the raw rice was cooked, and then beat Tan Ye and treated her well, she would naturally be able to turn around. Xinxin, when the time comes, I won't have to worry about no one to see a doctor for me.So she just took some pills prepared according to Zhiqing's prescription, pretending not to know and let Tan Ye toss about.Unexpectedly, after only one day of hard work, he tossed about this again, and suddenly felt that his chest was so stuffy that he couldn't catch his breath.

Tan Ye saw that the old lady was more panicked, and repeatedly stroked her back, and urged the girl to fan her.

"Grandma, don't worry! I will definitely get her back to see your doctor!"

Looking at the messy scene, Tan Jinbo frowned and asked, "What about the people in the courtyard?"

Someone replied: "They are all lying at the base of the courtyard wall, as if they have been acupunctured by someone, and they are all unable to move."

Tan Jinbo was taken aback: "She still knows people from Jianghu?"

"I heard that she was originally the maidservant of Mr. Zhao Qinan's family, the former governor. Before Mr. Zhao's accident, she was kidnapped when she accompanied Mrs. Zhao to offer incense. I'm afraid she really has a dark background."

Tan Jinbo glanced at the speaker, seeing that he was an unfamiliar colleague, his brows furrowed a little more.

The man was still full of ideas, and he continued to say: "Even her adoptive father has a lot of background! I heard that he once diagnosed King Ning, and the emperor treated Miao Yi very kindly when he was King Ning. It is said that this is the reason. !"

Tan Jinbo was even more surprised: "He still knows the emperor?" Meng Lang, who was a little annoyed at Tan Ye, gave him a hard look.

This Tan Jinbo has always only seen people who are useful to him. He has never really seen anyone else, even the colleague who spoke, he looks familiar, but in fact he can't even remember his name, let alone a mountain villager. Song Zhiqing is gone.If she hadn't taken good care of the old lady's illness, and his son insisted on marrying her so recklessly, he would not have agreed to it at all.I thought that even if it was robbed by force, as long as I pay more money to her family in the future, everything will be fine, but now I heard someone say it, and I was surprised that my son caused a big trouble for me and came back. The Miao-Han dispute after the land system made him instinctively want to suppress it with strong means.As long as Zhiqing is still in their hands, even if Jin Yi has great friendship with the emperor, he will definitely endure it for the sake of the girl's family's reputation, and then he will turn danger into luck!

So he immediately found Pingdu's lieutenant general and asked him to help him search for Zhiqing in the city.

That lieutenant had always been Pingdu's lieutenant, and he was very familiar with Tan Jinbo, so he agreed without hesitation, and suggested sending someone to Muyi Mountain to keep an eye on Jin Yi.Tan Jinbo was naturally very grateful, and only hoped that he would stop Zhiqing and make everything mature as soon as possible.

Li Zhang took Zhiqing to the dark place on the street and changed into the appearance of brothers and sisters who had never met, and stayed overnight in a small temple in the south of the city.Based on the previous experience of fleeing, Li Zhang carefully went out to check the situation again, and saw officers and soldiers searching from house to house.He hid in the dark and eavesdropped, and he was a little surprised to find that it was aimed at himself and Zhiqing.Worried that Sima Yi would find out the truth about his fake death, he purposely went to find a secret guard's news point, and seeing that the secret code agency had not changed, he checked the news inside and found that except for the fact that it had become more and more noisy in recent months, Except for the more ferocious land grabbing incident, there was not a single word about himself, so he felt relieved, went back to the residence and took Zhiqing to change a few places, avoiding the searching officers and soldiers, and then took a short rest. Dressed as a middle-aged couple and left Yunnan.

They went out of the city and hired a car, staggered all the way to the big slope, abandoned the car, left the official road, and walked back along the trail in the mountain.

In the city, Tan Jinbo, who searched all night and searched for a day without any results, became more and more worried. He always felt that saving Zhiqing was not easy, and when he thought about the relationship between Jin Yi and the emperor, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.Although snatching relatives is not a big deal, Mr. Mo who did it is the person in charge of the land grab dispute in Dongping Village.Remembering that Song Zhiqing was taken away before Zhao Qinan's accident, Tan Jinbo felt that the matter before him was not that simple.

He was fidgeting for two days after thinking about it, and finally decided to go to Pingdu to confess. He didn't dare to hide the benefits he received in the land grabbing incident, but he tried to push the responsibility to other people as much as possible.

Ningzhou was the first place to implement the land equalization system, because all the land owners involved were on the wrong side in the battle between the two kings, which led to the opportunity for a large number of fertile land to be redistributed, and also stretched people like Tan Jinbo Fist chance.On the other hand, Ningzhou is mountainous, and most of the fertile land is concentrated in the border area near Yizhou. Due to the war situation at that time, it could not be allocated immediately, but Tan Jinbo and others had already finished dividing it in private.

After the war subsided, Emperor Su allowed the Yi people and the Han people to participate in the land equalization system. A large part of the land on the Ningyi border was taken away by the Han people before and after the Miao-Yi Rebellion in Anping years. The reason was divided back again.Although no property rights were acquired in such a distribution, the property rights belonging to the imperial court also violated Tan Jinbo's vested interests. Therefore, relying on the high mountains and the emperor's distance, and relying on the backing of Pingdu, Tan Jinbo and the others gradually started fighting since childhood. It has become a clear-cut robbery.The victimized Miao people sued the officials, and the officials were the ones behind the land grabbing. If they procrastinated and then made other charges, it was often the sufferer who suffered the most.After a few times, Miao Min no longer believed in officials, and began to violently resist the robbery by nature. Tan Jinbo did not dare to borrow Pingdu's army, so he instigated Ningzhou Captain into the water with others, using the excuse of being in the mountains There was another banditry, and troops were sent to suppress it, and finally the matter became bigger and bigger.

Pingdu was in charge of the Dingnan Army and had no contact with the local area, but because of the talk about Jinbo, he paid more attention to the affairs of Ningzhou.Knowing that Tan Jinbo is using his own name to pretend to be powerful, but because of his sister, he just pretends not to know.At first, I thought it was just a small fight, but now it sounds like it has completely subverted the foundation of the land equalization system. This surprise is no small matter.

He asked Tan Jinbo with a sullen face: "It's such a big trouble? What are you going to do? This is a crime of deceiving the emperor!"

Tan Jinbo wiped his forehead and knelt down, looked at Pingdu cautiously and said: "Liu Duwei went to Dongping Village to perform official duties, and the unscrupulous people there colluded with bandits and violently resisted the officials... all were suppressed by Liu Duwei. "

Pingdu's eyebrows twitched, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "All?"

Tan Jinbo shivered with fright, his legs were a little weak, and he responded in a low voice like a mosquito: "The barbarians are fierce, men and women are not afraid of death, so..."

"Crack!" The teacup that Pingdu put down heavily broke into three pieces, and the tea flowed down from the edge, and soon wet the ground.

Tan Jinbo finally couldn't stand up any longer, fell to his knees with a bang, and begged Pingdu: "Brother-in-law knows that this time I have overdone it, but it has come to this point and it is irreparable. As long as this matter can be resolved If you are suppressed, you won’t be able to go to Dashengting, we must stop here and never do it again!”

Seeing that he spoke sincerely and mentioned his sister again, Pingdu held back his arrogance a little.He had seen the aggressiveness of the Miao people when he attacked Yizhou, and knew that they still had a sense of distrust towards the Han people, so he was not surprised that things had developed to such a degree.His family has been in the military for generations, and he didn't know about Yu Tiangeng, and his parents died early, so he was always raised by his elder sister.Although Tan Jinbo is greedy for profits, he treated his original wife fairly well. At first, he didn't restrict her from taking care of his weak brother, but later he always respected her status as the main wife. Therefore, Pingdu always respected this brother-in-law.

So he got up and helped Tan Jinbo, and said in a slow tone: "Since that matter has been done, let's get it done thoroughly. The key point is to find out whether there are people who know the truth, and the way to go to Beijing to sue officials must also be taken care of. As for The father and daughter of the Jin family... wait until I send someone to investigate clearly. Keep an eye on them first and don't act rashly!"

Besides, Zhiqing was really relaxed after being taken up the mountain road by Li Zhang. From time to time, she turned her head to look at Li Zhang. The more she looked at it, the more interesting she found it, and she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Li Zhang knew what she was laughing at, and glanced at Zhiqing's face, also smiling.Zhiqing blushed suddenly, and chased Li Zhang to beat him, but Li Zhang avoided him with a smile.

It was noon, and there were few people on the mountain road. They tossed until midnight last night, and got up early today to rush on the road. They were already a little tired, so they rested and sharpened by a mountain stream.Zhiqing drank a few sips of water and was about to wash her face, remembering the disguise on her face, she hesitated to put her hands down.

Seeing this, Li Zhang smiled and said: "This one is not afraid of water, but it's okay to wash it. However, it's not that comfortable after all. I'll take it off for you first."

As he spoke, he untied his burden and found a bottle of potion, and pulled Zhiqing to remove the disguise for her.Zhiqing looked at the vicissitudes of Li Zhang in front of her eyes, couldn't help raising her hand and touched it a few times with her fingertips, and said curiously: "This thing is so amazing!"

Li Zhang just smiled when he heard this, and after she had freshened up, he dressed up for her again.

It wasn't the first time Zhiqing was modified by Li Zhang, but it was the first time she watched him do this in such a relaxed manner. She became more and more curious, and couldn't help but look through the belongings in the bag one by one.

Li Zhang straightened her up, patched up the last wrinkle, and said with a smile: "This is a treasure given by Mr. Zheng before he left. I only learned a little bit. You haven't seen a better one. It's totally fine." Disguise the real."

"Really?" Zhiqing became even more curious.

Li Zhang nodded, thinking of Bailu's appearance at the beginning, he was a little distracted for a while, wondering if she had recovered her spirit that was hurt by Yao Taiqing.

Zhiqing lowered her head to the stream and touched the new skin on her face little by little. The tentacles were soft, and the seams were almost seamless. She couldn't help but marvel secretly, and suddenly remembered something, and turned her head to Li Zhang and said, "Brother, I have a good one." My sister is married in Dongpingzhai, and always asks me to see her, but I have never been free. A few days ago, I heard from Axia that she had a baby, why don't we take a detour and go to see her first, okay?"

"Okay. Let's ask for directions later."

Li Zhang said that he had packed himself and his luggage, pulled Zhiqing up, and continued to walk forward.

Zhiqing's expression became excited because she thought of her little sister, talking all the way about the old things in the past, making a rare noise, and shed her old-fashioned appearance in an instant, becoming the romantic and innocent that she should be at her age.

Li Zhang listened with a smile, without disturbing him, he liked Zhiqing's happy and carefree appearance very much, and even hoped that she could continue like this forever.

Zhiqing suddenly stopped talking while talking, looked at Li Zhang, then touched her face, shaking her body with laughter: "Alan will definitely be scared by me, so ugly!"

Li Zhang stretched out his hand to support her, shook his head and said with a smile, "What's so ugly? I think it looks pretty."

"elder brother!"

"It's beautiful! My sister will be a good-looking old woman when she becomes an old woman."

"My brother has also learned how to talk sweetly!" Zhiqing pouted, but her eyebrows and eyes were curved. Although she looked like her daughter's coquettish family, there was no conflict with her current appearance. In Li Zhang's eyes, she seemed to be looking at her. Zhiqing, after time had passed, was stunned for a moment, her heart and eyes filled with tenderness.

Zhiqing felt something in her heart for a moment, lowered her eyebrows and stopped talking and laughing, and slowly fiddled with the gravel on the road with her toes, her heart beating like it was about to jump out of her heart.

"Actually, elder brother is the prettiest. No matter when, always!"

Zhiqing's voice was small at the beginning, but gradually became louder, and when she finished speaking, the shyness in the eyes looking up at Li Zhang had faded away, and the wrinkles on her face stretched out like flowers with a smile.

Li Zhang came back to his senses immediately, and amusedly hit Zhiqing with a slap, and said, "My sister talks like honey all day long!"

Zhiqing rubbed her forehead dissatisfied, followed behind Li Zhang and protested in a low voice: "Brother made fun of Zhiqing first!"

Li Zhang smiled even more when he heard the words, but didn't continue.He was originally clumsy at these things, and only blurted out unconsciously because of the joy in his heart.

Zhiqing became quiet, silently stepped on Li Zhang's footsteps, looked at his back that was not generous but full of tenacity and strength, and thought about the figures in the past, all kinds of emotions passed by.

Li Zhang, who was walking forward, suddenly stopped and turned slightly sideways to wait for Zhiqing.Zhiqing took a few steps to stand side by side with him, and her two hands were naturally held together.Zhiqing raised her head, looked at Li Zhang's gentle and smiling side face, and felt that this moment was forever.