Pei Gonggui

It turns out that although Li Cunzhi's evidence arrived last night, it arrived at Xiao Lin's residence first.Jiang Yue said that the physical evidence brought back was a large number of account books and letters, which could not be transcribed in a short while, so as soon as Xiao Lin passed on the word, he and Xiao Lin went to Yushitai first, and supervised several attendants overnight. For verification, the most urgent task is to put the physical evidence into the case as soon as possible.This time, it was because he read a part of the account books early in the morning that he was able to tell Pei Jun that the evidence of Li's case was solid, and the Tang family would never get out this time.

When Pei Jun saw this, the boulder in his heart finally lightened a little, and when he turned to the next page, he saw Jiang Yue's strong handwriting: "However, what I got last night is not only the evidence of Li's case, but also the clues to the assassination years ago. All are as you expected, and finally one person was found."

Then, Jiang Yue paused and wrote his name:

Cai Yan.

Cai Yan is Cai Yan's eldest son. He passed the martial arts exam when he was ten years old and was released to be an official. The aristocratic families are very close to each other, and they are related by marriage.By the end of last year, he had been an official in Fengzhou Prefecture, and he had also served as a captain for nearly ten years. With his civil and military skills in his hands, he could be regarded as the No. 20 under his old father Cai Yan in the Cai family. The fortress is also connected with the local elites and military forces, which is another guarantee for the Cai family to be confident in Beijing in addition to their family business and minions.

Pei Jun pulled out his chair and sat down, opened the folded newspapers in the wooden box, and saw that they were all from Jiang Yue's cronies stationed in various places, and they all reported the inside information of various places.After reading it, I found out that when Jiang Yue was assassinated, it happened to be the time when the magistrate of Tuzhou in the north passed away, and Tuzhou is just adjacent to Fengzhou where Cai Wei is located, and it is also a place with abundant soldiers and food. He wanted to take advantage of this golden opportunity to occupy Tuzhou as a follow-up force for his Cai family lineage.

However, when the Hezhen clan rebelled the year before last, Tuzhou, as an important town in the north, was once under the protection of Jiang Yue's soldiers. From the state herdsmen and captains to the small officials, they were all close to the Jin Dynasty.As soon as Zhou Mu died, the news quickly spread to Jiang Yue in Beijing, intending to select the next candidate.However, the communication is far away, and no matter how fast it is, it will take several days. During these few days, Cai Yan took advantage of the advantages of being close to the water, and used the connections of various factions to clean up the government of Tuzhou.When Jiang Yue received the news of the death of the magistrate of Tuzhou, he approved the report and sent it back to Tuzhou. It was almost a month later, and Cai Wei was about to secure Tuzhou.At this time, Cai Yan planned this sudden assassination in order to divert the attention of Jingzhong, especially to divert Jiang Yue's attention, and in order to get himself out, he even found someone who could set the blame on him. Get rid of this guilt.This person is Pei Jun.

Pei Jun continued to read the newspaper, the more he read, the more angry he felt.

It turned out that after Pei's father died in the battle, a few scouts from the Xiaoqi battalion escaped to Fengzhou by chance. He originally asked the new state shepherd, Cai Yan, to tell the truth to the court and send troops to reinforce it, so as to avoid future troubles.However, the Cai family could not escape the responsibility for Pei's father's death in battle. In addition, at that time, the Cai family knew that the late emperor was going to use Pei to attack Cai, so Cai Yan naturally harbored resentment towards Pei's subordinates.Therefore, Cai Yan sent troops to reinforce the Northland himself. From the outside, it seemed that he dispatched troops with great speed and eyes like a torch, but in fact, he had no regard for loyalty and made military exploits alone.Afterwards, he used poisonous Gu to force these scouts into his own use, and threatened his family members, asking them to use all their abilities to work for Cai, otherwise, his family members would be tortured to death.And if the relatives want to flee, the scout who has been infected by the poisonous gu will never get the antidote, and will eventually die from the poison.Cai Yan used these two methods of coercion to trap these families for ten years.

The reason why Jiang Yue's people were able to find out this was because they spared no effort to track down the assassin's relatives.According to reports, these coerced relatives were all recruited from various places by Cai Yan, and they were all confined in a village. They carried water and farmed the land every day as ordinary people, but there were no men in the family, only women and children.The spies noticed the strangeness after watching it from a distance for a few days, and they squatted until two unrecognizable scouts came to visit, and then they sorted out the relationship.

According to Cai Yan's plan, if the former father of Pei, who was supposed to die, was still alive, he would be sent to assassinate Jiang Yue. This would not only make Jin's family resent Pei's party, but also make the royal family worry about whether Pei's feigned death to accumulate power He changed, thus shaking Emperor Jiang Zhan's trust in Pei Jun.Fortunately, in this life, Pei Jun and Jiang Yue had a connection earlier, and after the incident, the assassin's body was replaced to cover up the news. behind the scenes.

New and old grudges are all directed at Chua. His father died, his sister was imprisoned, and he was killed in his previous life. All of them are thanks to Chua until now. , There was already a murderous intent in his eyes.

At this time, Qian Haiqing and the maidservant who had gone out early in the morning came back, and they only said that everything seemed to be going well in Cao's mansion.The servant girl went into the mansion to look at Xuanxuan, and said that Miss Cao seemed to be really ill, she was sleeping on the bed, her complexion was not very good, and she didn't answer, she looked very weak.

Pei Jun lowered his eyelashes for a moment, then raised his eyes to look at Qian Haiqing as usual and asked, "How about the servants in the mansion?"

Qian Haiqing replied: "It's common for servants to do things, but they just don't see the big maids that Master mentioned. When asked, they said that they are old and have returned to their hometown to get married."

Originally very common words turned into a lingering mist after Pei Jun became suspicious, which made Pei Jun feel more and more strange-why he was not worthy to marry for seven or eight years, and when he was old enough, he suddenly rushed away up?I am afraid that only Cao Luan himself and Dong Shu can answer this question.And since the former didn't mention this matter in the two meetings, except that he didn't want to talk about it, it was only because he couldn't talk about it.

But why can't you say it?

Pei Jun pondered heavily in his heart, but in the end, he thought that when Mei Linyu mentioned Jiang Yue in front of Cao Luan the night before, he himself had diverted the conversation and kept the matter with Jiang Yue from Cao Luan for the time being. Feeling desolate again.

When he was a child, he must have never thought that one day, among close friends, there will be times when things should be said that cannot be said.

The next morning was the first morning morning in early March.Pei Jun specially got up early, and asked the bearers not to go to Sichongmen, but to go to Yuanchenmen. When he arrived, he got out of the sedan chair and stood tall, wearing a ochre-colored golden pheasant Wen Erpin mending coat, and waited for others by the palace gate. .

He waited until the palace bell was about to strike for the last time, and then a sedan chair with a gilt top and tassels swayed gently from the southeast alley, and slowly walked into his eyes.When it was approaching, the servant of the sedan chair said something inside, and the sedan chair stopped immediately, and picked up the silk brocade curtain from inside.

Jiang Yue leaned out from behind the curtain and saw Pei Jun really standing in front of the palace gate under the sun. here?"

"The minister is waiting for Prince Jin."

Together with him, Pei Jun took out his waist card and passed the inspection, and when he was a little farther away from the guards at the palace gate, he took a closer look at Jiang Yue, and sighed with a smile: "I wanted to wait for you when I came here, so I was looking for you to match up with. I'm afraid I've misunderstood what I said in the court; but when I got here, after waiting for a long time, I felt that if I could stand there every day in the future and just wait for you to come, it would be fine if nothing happened. Hurry up. And as long as you can come, I just wait a little longer and stand a little longer, it's not a big deal."