I'm afraid you'll be widowed

The back room of Linghua Pavilion is exquisitely designed and the environment is elegant.

It's just that ordinary people don't know that this place is not only a prosperous scene on the ground, but also a different world underground.

Even indoors here, there are garden-like plants and flowers, which are evergreen all year round, and there are always flowers blooming and fragrant.

Compared with the palace here, it is only better than worse.

Qian Xingtong stood on the high platform near the pavilion, casually throwing fish food into the spring brocade pool under his feet.

Schools of colorful fish in the water immediately swarmed up, churning and grabbing fish food.

The calm Qian Xingtong, like the Buddhas and gods of the heavens, condescended to look at the noisy scene before him, and then hooked the corners of his lips, as if showing mercy, and sprinkled a handful of fish food on the ground. to the water.

After a while, finally someone slowly climbed up the steps of the water pavilion, took off his hood, and bowed respectfully to Qian Xingtong: "Qian Shoufu."

Qian Xingtong didn't look back.

There are too many people who call him "Shoufu". Some of them have indeed been promoted by him, and some of them just met by chance.

Even if the person who came was Zhao Junai, who is already in high position, to Qian Xingtong, this is just another "Zeng Zhe".

He couldn't tell the difference, and he didn't even want to tell the difference.

The two chief culprits who single-handedly caused the Japanese riots in Jianzhou gathered in this place swaggeringly. Both of them are now successful and famous.

They stood face to face in this Linghua Pavilion, full of calm expressions, as if they wanted to "sing praises" for the tragedy that massacred the city more than ten years ago.

Seeing that Qian Xingtong didn't respond, Zhao Junai thought for a while, and then made up his mind to continue to respectfully say: "The first assistant is really good at predicting things."

"It's just like this now. Isn't it too risky to let a person who has been dead for more than ten years stand up again? What should we do next?"

"Adventure?" Qian Xingtong suddenly loosened his hand holding the fish food, and scattered all the fish food back into the sweet white glazed porcelain dish.

He smiled meaningfully: "That's right, what Jun Ai said is not bad at all. It doesn't matter if it's a risky move, but I just wait for the Thirteenth Division and Jin Yiwei to investigate and dig out clues bit by bit."

"At that time, the soldiers will come to block, and the water will come to cover us. Let's find a way bit by bit. It's okay to wait to take that risk."

"When you abandoned the coastal defense of Jianzhou Prefecture, didn't you think it was a risk? A person who does big things, how can he not take a little risk?"

Zhao Junai was dumbfounded, then shut up and fell silent.

Now they are still taking the initiative to attack. If they are really investigated and counted by the Thirteenth Division, it may be the time when they are at their wits end.

Right now, as long as there is still a little ability to distinguish right from wrong, it is likely that they will no longer be arrogant.

It's a risk now, but it's better to be the object of suspicion and then make up for it.

He sighed slowly, then looked at Qian Xingtong as if there was no money here: "I'm not afraid."

"It's just that you said before that Fang Cenxi is a member of the Thirteenth Division, and even Zeng Zhe is in his hands."

"Those who can enter the Thirteenth Division of the Internal Guard and make a name for themselves are definitely not incompetent people. If he is aware of it, it will definitely not be so easy to deal with."

Qian Xingtong sneered.

He picked up a plate full of fish food and poured it into the Chunjin Pond without any explanation.

Seeing the school of fish getting more and more restless, the smile on his face became even bigger.

"Whether people live or do things, they must have a purpose. Now that he has even seen Fang Lian, what else can he plan?"

A person who was given the reputation of being a rebel, left his hometown and endured the humiliation, lived alone, did not lose his life due to hunger or disease, and grew up strong and stubborn.

He tried his best to get into the imperial examination, tried his best to get into the Thirteenth Division, and was so bold that he dared to go into the internal guard's case library to privately carry the Jianzhou Army case many years ago——

But it was to re-investigate the truth about the Japanese riots in Jianzhou.

Qian Xingtong showed limited mercy, and sighed quietly: "What a poor child."

"A person has lived in suffering for more than ten years, and the only thought in this world is to reverse Fang Lian's case?"

Zhao Junai was stunned.

Hearing Qian Xingtong's understatement, he couldn't help frowning slightly.

It's been almost 20 years since then.

His eyes were out of focus, and he slowly sank into memories.

At that time, he and Qian Xingtong were far less prominent than they are now, and they were just officials in the court who followed the crowd.

At that time, the Great Ming Dynasty had been peaceful and stable for more than a few decades, and the national treasury was full.And the frontier army is far away from Jingtian High Road, and they are even more slack in training, sitting on empty pay, and have no defense at all.

Those vain money, even if they are not greedy, they are just being greedy by others.Even if others are not greedy, they are all fed to the fat frontier soldiers.

Zhao Junai dared to move the military salary of Jianzhou Guard.

Once to a season, and then to a year, no one noticed at all.

So he became more and more daring, and his military salary became more and more expensive.Like the general of the frontier army next to Qian Xing, he managed to put the military salary into his pocket.

But even if everyone did it, God just didn't like him.

No one expected that a large number of Japanese pirates would gather in the coastal areas in just a few months.

These Japanese pirates burned, killed, looted and disturbed people's livelihood.

However, the military pay of Jianzhou Coastal Defense has been delayed for many months. If they send troops directly, not only will there be defeat, but I am afraid that all the military pay that has been eaten will be found out by the court.

And what forced Zhao Junai to make up his mind was Fang Lian, the prefect of Jianzhou who was worried about the Japanese all day long—he accidentally noticed the abnormality in the military pay account.

That was the most painful time in Zhao Junai's life.

He clearly just followed the trend, and he clearly did not hurt anyone. Even if he was not greedy, Jianzhou coastal defense would certainly be difficult to defend against the enemy.

But why was he the only one who was unlucky in the end.

And Qian Xingtong, who was in Shuntian at that time, offered him a good strategy to kill two birds with one stone.

As long as you communicate with the Japanese pirates in private, the Jianzhou government will be handed over to the Japanese pirates to plunder, so that the Japanese pirates will no longer invade Haiphong within a year.

And then use a letter to blame Fang Lian for the crime of adultery with Japanese pirates, then they can continue to enjoy the benefits and live in peace and prosperity.

Zhao Junai hesitated, and finally dispatched Jianzhou Wei, leaving the original station——

That was the sea area where Japanese pirates attacked Jianzhou City the next day.

A tragic Japanese Rebellion erupted just like that.

The capital city of Jianzhou was defenseless, and the common people were even more helpless to defend against the enemy.In such a huge city, blood was shed in a day, and corpses piled up into mountains, it was too horrible to look at.

And the culprit of this tragedy is Fang Lian, who has disappeared.

Zhao Junai worried about it for a month at first, and then for a year, just like when he was receiving his military salary.

But apart from his rising official fortune, nothing has changed compared to the original.

Fortunately, the things he was anxious about did not happen.

Zhao Junai returned to Beijing, was promoted, and the days of drunkenness and luxury gradually became the norm around him.

The worries of the past have completely disappeared with the passage of time.

But why is there another Fang Cenxi now?Why is this person here?Why should it arouse the last trace of uneasiness in his heart that has been buried for a long time?

The corner of Zhao Junai's eyes twitched, and his words suddenly became more intense: "Reverse the case, reverse the case."

"Who is he going to find? You and I know it well, but you are calm and relaxed. What kind of good life will we have for you and me then?"

Seeing Zhao Junai's anxious look, Qian Xingtong couldn't help laughing: "You must."

"Look at you, how can you look like a third-rank official?"

Qian Xingtong put down the plate with the fish food in his hands, and wiped his hands with a silk handkerchief.

"What should be said, yesterday's 'Fang Lian' has already told him. Even if he noticed something unusual, so what?"

"I gave him a father who survived by accident, so that he can complain about his grievances and sufferings. I can also give him the innocence and glory he dreams of, and let him ascend to the high platform admired by thousands of people, and he will be despised and insulted in the past people kneel down and praise."

"His father didn't let him burn, kill and loot, but he just went to find the evidence of the Japanese invasion in Jianzhou. Everything was just to reverse the case, and it was taken for granted."

"And in the end, the Japanese riots in Jianzhou must have nothing to do with you and me. Those who slaughtered the city were Japanese pirates, and those who sold the city were others. Everything was settled. He lost his father and innocence, and we lost peace and tranquility. Everyone is happy."

"Even if he can realize that the truth may not be the truth, will he accept the truth rashly in his heart? Does he really want to lose Fang Lian again, really want to be trampled in the mud again and be a job errand in Dali Temple for the rest of his life?"

"It's easy to go from thrift to extravagance, but it's hard to go from extravagance to frugality." People who have endured hardships will know that sweetness is not easy to come by, and refugees will prefer to be peace dogs when they suffer from wars. "You give him the lamp, how can he still think Back into the dark night?"

Qian Xingtong smiled indifferently: "Zhao Shangshu, you have been an official for so many years, why don't you understand that human nature is beyond the sky, after all, it's just such an idea?"

"The previous Zeng Zhe, Fan Tianhe, which one didn't scream for fairness and justice angrily, wishing to bite you and me to pieces, but what was the result in the end?"

"As I said, people should live with a purpose."

"As long as they can match what they like, they will be grateful and regard you as the gospel of the gods. How can they go against you again?"

"So what if he suspects you and me? He can't find evidence, and he won't want to find evidence."

Qian Xingtong rolled his eyes: "Are the internal guards of the Thirteenth Division terrible?"

"The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are full of people from you and me. Aren't they just another 'Thirteen Divisions'?"

Zhao Junai looked at Qian Xingtong who was full of leisurely eyes in front of him, and suddenly felt that the mountains, rivers and rivers between the sky and the earth seemed to have turned into a chessboard dotted with stars in an instant.

No one in this world is equal to Qian Xingtong.

Because people and chess pieces cannot be compared.

Qian Xingtong, with his inborn disdain, can place his chess pieces anywhere.

He is aloof, as if he can manipulate people's hearts, as long as he has the same thoughts, there is a way for people to be driven by him.

I don't know how long he was in a daze before Zhao Junai was brought back to his senses by Qian Xingtong's hand patting him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, my Lord Zhao."

"In this world, no one is willing to easily give up everything that is at their fingertips."