Scholar and old attack

Outside the house, He Yuzhu had a dejected expression on his face, messy hair, dull eyes, red and swollen eye circles, his clothes were a bit messy, and he held a dagger in his hand, looking fierce and determined.

"mother."

Xu Shuizhou stepped forward and grabbed He Yuzhu eagerly, trying to pull out the dagger in her hand, but found that his mother was holding it very tightly.

"Mother, let go." Xu Shuizhou was so anxious that tears were about to fall, and when his hand touched the blade of the dagger, blood gushed out.

He didn't worry about anything else, but he was worried that his mother would accidentally hurt himself.

"Ah Zhou, let go quickly." Jiang Jingyuan saw the blood dripping from Xu Shuizhou's palm, his heart tightened, and he hurriedly shouted.

How could Xu Shuizhou listen to Jiang Jingyuan's words at this time, he was his mother wholeheartedly.

He Yuzhu is like a person who has fallen into extreme madness. He can't hear any sound from the outside world. He is red-eyed and wants to kill the Xu family.

"Sister Yuzhu, I want to be more open, but it's just a tomb of clothes." Chen Xiuxiu held a child in one hand, afraid that the dagger in He Yuzhu's hand would hurt the two children and did not dare to approach, so she could only stand at a distance and persuade, "It's really not possible, I Take someone to dig the real grave tomorrow."

Chen Xiuxiu's saliva was dry, He Yuzhu still looked like that, and Xu Shuizhou couldn't listen to Jiang Jingyuan's words at this time.

Jiang Jingyuan thought for a while, found a rolling pin from the kitchen, apologized softly to He Yuzhu, and aimed a blow at the back of He Yuzhu's neck.

"mother?"

Seeing He Yuzhu fall sideways, Xu Shuizhou quickly let go of the dagger and caught her.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, I just fainted, just rest for a while."

Jiang Jingyuan kept comforting Xu Shuizhou's ups and downs chest, soothing the extreme imbalance in his heart with gentleness.

Looking at the bloody hand, afraid of scaring the two children, Jiang Jingyuan frowned, and said to Chen Xiuxiu with a deep expression, "Mother, please send the two children into the house."

"Hey, good."

Chen Xiuxiu looked at the children who were not crying yet, agreed with some hesitation, and carried the two children into the house.

Jiang Jingyuan helped He Yuzhu up, dragged her, put her on the bed and settled her down, and looked back at Xu Shuizhou who was following him step by step, still dragging the dripping blood, feeling very distressed.

"Ah Zhou, good boy, let's bandage the wound first, and I need your care when I wake up later."

Jiang Jingyuan's tone was as gentle as the breeze in the mountains, the depth in the black and white eyes had long since disappeared, leaving only deep worry.

Xu Shuizhou turned pale, shook his head, and said in a low and hoarse voice, "No, A Yuan, I can just bandage it casually, and I will stay here guarding my mother."

Xu Shuizhou was really worried about He Yuzhu. They had been dependent on each other since they were young. If something happened to He Yuzhu, he didn't know what to do.

"A Zhou..."

Jiang Jingyuan wanted to persuade him a few more words.

Chen Xiuxiu came in neatly with a bundle, "Zhou Zhou is right to be worried about his mother, I brought some healing medicine and gauze to treat trauma."

As Chen Xiuxiu spoke, she quickly walked up to Xu Shuizhou, lifted his blood-dripping hand to look at it, and said with a relaxed expression, "It's okay, it's all skin trauma, it will be fine after a few days of treatment. "

Jiang Jingyuan also squatted beside Xu Shuizhou, helping to clean and bandage the wound.

"Don't be so reckless next time, or you will not only hurt yourself, but also fail to solve the problem."

After finally stopping the bleeding from the wound, looking at Xu Shuizhou who was still pale, he comforted him softly.

"I blame me for this matter. I insisted on taking Miss Yuzhu out for a stroll today, that's why I heard those dubious things outside."

Chen Xiuxiu sighed and blamed herself, and blamed her. She thought that such a small matter would not cause any splashes in the capital, and they didn't go shopping on the street of Xu's house, so they were careless.

Jiang Jingyuan's face frowned even deeper, yes, it's just that Xu's family went to Wutong County to dig a grave, and logically speaking, such trivial matters are only heard as jokes in the capital, and they are forgotten after hearing it.

But it has been several months since they went to the grassland, and they haven't heard any gossip outside. How could it be such a coincidence that it just fell into He Yuzhu's ears.

It is clear that someone deliberately knew it!

Needless to say, I know that it must be a good thing done by the Xu family.

Why is the Xu family still brooding over a little thing from the past?

Logically speaking, I am now a senior official of the imperial court, holding the economic lifeline of the imperial court in my hands, and I am an existence that no one can curry favor with.

And the Xu family is just a merchant, even if they have some reputation in the capital, there is still a gap in status compared with the officials of the imperial court.

Even if you don't want to have anything to do with Xu Shuizhou, there's no need to offend him.

What kind of hatred can make the Xu family not hesitate to offend him, a member of the imperial court, but also to kill Xu Shuizhou and He Yuzhu?

wrong……

Their target was not A Zhou and his mother from the beginning to the end, but at him!

Jiang Jingyuan thought of the letter when he left the capital, the timing was so accurate, wasn't its purpose aimed at him?

He has only been in the capital for half a year, but he offended all the officials in the capital. Some of them must have gone to Wutong County to investigate the background of their family.

But now he is a second-rank official in the imperial court, and those who want to rectify him will not be lower than his position, and behind him is the first-rank Gu Renhuai Gu Taifu.

Jiang Jingyuan thought a lot for a while, but he didn't rule out that there were villains with ulterior motives who wanted to use the Xu family to deal with him, but if it wasn't a big official, how could a small Beijing official impress the Xu family.

The more he peeled the cocoons, the more Jiang Jingyuan felt that the water inside was very deep, and he was afraid that the fish that would be dug out in the end would definitely be a big fish, and it would still be a fish with roots.

"Mom, I don't blame you. My mother will know about this sooner or later, but I didn't expect her reaction to be so great."

Xu Shuizhou didn't expect this. He thought his mother was going to seek revenge from the Xu family at most, but he didn't expect to shock his mother so much.

"A Yuan, you have a solution to this matter."

Xu Shuizhou didn't mean to blame Chen Xiuxiu in his words, and Chen Xiuxiu was even more embarrassed. She was not from the capital, and she didn't have too many twists and turns. She couldn't think of the twists and turns inside, so she could only stare at her son.

Jiang Jingyuan frowned deeply, and said with a troubled face, "If it's just the matter of the Xu family digging up father's grave, it's not easy to discuss. After all, father is still a member of the Xu family. My Ming Dynasty has always been proud of the clan. If the clan approves it, it’s fine, but if the clan doesn’t approve of it, we can’t justify it.”

Even if this kind of matter is reported to the government, the government will not accept it, or the government will directly push it to the Xu family clan, anyway, they will not take it for granted in the end.

On the contrary, the trouble was ugly, and they were the ones who suffered.

"Hmph, I don't think the Xu family is a good one. It was right for Zhou Zhou to leave the Xu family."

Chen Xiuxiu's face turned cold. Of course, she knew the power of the clan. She had learned it once when she was in Wutong County. If there was no such thing as the clan, it would be the same if she took Jing Yuan back to her mother's house.

"Then what should we do now? It would be great if you were the Minister of the Ministry of War. Just lead the soldiers to arrest the Xu family, and give Yuzhu sister a beating to relieve her anger."

Chen Xiuxiu became a little unreasonable, but made Xu Shuizhou and Jiang Jingyuan amused.

Even if Jiang Jingyuan is the Minister of the Ministry of War, it is impossible to use the power of the Ministry of War at will, otherwise, is this capital the emperor's capital or his Jiang Jingyuan's capital.

"What I'm afraid of is that the purpose of the Xu family is not just to anger my mother. I'm afraid that the person behind them is really trying to deal with me."

Jiang Jingyuan rubbed his chin and muttered inscrutably.

Xu Shuizhou's eyes rolled around and around, and he also vaguely felt that they had erected the grave for more than ten years, why not dig it up sooner, and wait until A Yuan became the minister of the household department. .

It’s tricky!

"For the current plan, they are keeping in the dark and we are keeping in the light. As long as the nails hidden in the dark are pulled out one by one, the truth will always come to light."

Jiang Jingyuan flicked his pale fingertips, his eyes were extremely indifferent.

"How to remove it."

Xu Shuizhou didn't know how to find them. The poisonous snakes were hiding in the crowd, watching them silently. When they moved, the poisonous snakes moved too. And they were good at concealment, so it was even more difficult to find.

"Ah Zhou, do you want to go to the brothel?"

Jiang Jingyuan adjusted his clothes, stood up from the ground and looked at Xu Shuizhou with a half-smile.

"What?"

Xu Shuizhou never expected that Jiang Jingyuan would actually ask him if he wanted to visit brothels.

Chen Xiuxiu also frowned, and persuaded Jiang Jingyuan with good intentions, "Jing Yuan, you can't go to places like brothels, you can't learn from those officials, and you can't do things that are sorry for Zhou Zhou."

Xu Shuizhou also looked at Jiang Jingyuan with a strange expression on his face. Could it be that he didn't take good care of him, so A Yuan wanted to go to the brothel to have fun...

Or this time because of his own family affairs, A Yuan was involved, which made A Yuan feel unhappy?

Jiang Jingyuan saw Xu Shuizhou's expression drop quickly, and tapped Xu Shuizhou's forehead with his fingertips, "What are you thinking, you think your husband and I will go to brothels for fun?"

"if not."

What else can a man do besides go to brothels for fun.

"Of course I'm going to get down to business. In your head, don't think about something all day long. It's easy to make you stupid."

Jiang Jingyuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In this era, he didn't seem to have mentioned brothels much, but its existence cannot be ignored in any era.

He has a very indifferent attitude towards the brothel, neither repelling nor disgusting, just looking at it like a passerby.

But sometimes people have to admit that they have to go through this special channel after all to do some things, or if they want to inquire about things, going to such a mixed place is the best place to get effective information.

Xu Shuizhou curled his lips. He still remembers the moment when the woman from Qingshui Pavilion pushed him into the water. In his memory, although the women in the happy scene are pitiful, poor people must have something to hate. The impression of the brothel Still in a state of disgust.

So as soon as A Yuan said it, the alarm bells rang in his heart.

"Who knows whether you are going to do business or 'do business', I think the meaning is similar."

Xu Shuizhou spread his hands and looked at Jiang Jingyuan questioningly.

"That's why I want to take you with me. Wouldn't it be better to watch me do things?"

Jiang Jingyuan was dumbfounded by Xu Shuizhou, and couldn't help molesting him again.

----

Xu Shuizhou never imagined that Jiang Jingyuan was for real this time!

The two of them didn't eat dinner, and he was directly brought by Jiang Jingyuan to the prosperous building in the capital.

Seeing the people pointing and pointing at them all the way, Xu Shuizhou wished he could bury his head in the soil.

Because of Jiang Jingyuan's previous achievements in the grassland, most of the people in the capital who threw rotten leaves and mud at Mrs. Gu's family felt guilty towards Jiang Jingyuan.

Quite a few people stopped and apologized Jiang Jingyuan on his way up and down Mao, so Jiang Jingyuan could be regarded as acquainted with the people in the capital.

And this time when Jiang Jingyuan went out, he didn't dress up in disguise, he was still wearing his very conspicuous scarlet official robes, and the two of them walking on the street were no less than the Son of Heaven patrolling the streets.

Fortunately, the people in the capital still know how to measure, and no one rushed forward to make a fuss.

In the first half of the journey, they could still hear the praises from the common people, but in the second half of the way, they saw that the directions of the two of them were getting more and more wrong, and the faces of the common people changed.

I've seen people who go shopping in brothels, but I've never seen someone who drags Fulang to go to brothels together!

This Mr. Jiang seems to be a person who likes to be exciting!

Xu Shuizhou stood in front of the Fanhua Building, listening to the whispers of the people around him, and the strange eyes, his whole face was so hot that he could cook eggs.

Now he believes that A Yuan is really here to deal with business, can he go back first?

Jiang Jingyuan noticed Xu Shuizhou's desire to escape, and couldn't help laughing. He squeezed Xu Shuizhou's soft little hand, and said with a charming smile, "Why are you so scared? If my husband doesn't accompany me, I'm really afraid I did something to offend Fulang."

Xu Shuizhou listened to Jiang Jingyuan's words, then looked at the brothel girl who was dancing and flirting at the door, gritted his teeth fiercely, and stared at Jiang Jingyuan fiercely, "How dare you! Believe it or not, I'll whip you with a rolling pin when I go home!"

"So I have to ask Fulang to supervise Ma, so that Fulang can believe that I am innocent. If Fulang is not present, if that unclear woman deliberately falls on me, I can't control it. Wouldn't it be better to go home? I will also be beaten by Fu Lang."

Xu Shuizhou knew that what Jiang Jingyuan said was not true, but he couldn't help but want to think about the scene Jiang Jingyuan described, and the more he thought about it, the more he panicked.

In the end, he straightened his chest, shook off Jiang Jingyuan's hand, and strode into Fanhualou with arrogance.

Jiang Jingyuan followed Xu Shuizhou's pace amusedly, and the couple walked around the brothel hand in hand.

"This official stopped, we don't have a man who specializes in serving my brother."

Seeing Xu Shuizhou, the old bustard of Fanhualou rushed out to stop him. This brothel has always been a place for men, so why would a brother come to join in the fun.

Jiang Jingyuan quickly stepped forward to stop the old bustard, "This is my husband, he came with me, this... do you have any opinions?"

Jiang Jingyuan really didn't know how to address this old bustard, so he paused for a moment, then continued.

Seeing that Jiang Jingyuan was wearing a second-rank official uniform, and seeing that he was too young, the old bustard knew that this was Jiang Jingyuan, the God of Wealth in the capital, Mr. Jiang, and the brother standing next to him was obviously a second-rank doctor Zizheng.

Neither of them was something he could afford to offend.

He hurriedly apologized, "It turned out to be Lord Jiang Shangshu. Forgive me for being so blind to Mount Tai, I didn't recognize Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang. It is the luck of our three lives in Fanhualou that Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang can come to our Fanhualou. Previously, I wanted to stop the distinguished guests from entering the door, I should fight, I should fight."

As the old bustard spoke, he slapped himself on the face a few times, but not hard enough.

"Well, I'm just taking Fulang for a stroll, you can do whatever you want, just don't bother me."

Jiang Jingyuan's eyes wandered casually in the Fanhualou, seeing that he didn't see that horrible scene, he felt much relieved.

He was also afraid of disgusting himself, and even more afraid of disgusting A Zhou.

"Okay, okay, Mr. Jiang, please go ahead, if you look at the girl upstairs..."

Before the old bustard finished speaking, he saw Xu Shuizhou's fierce eyes shooting towards him like a sharp sword, and immediately put away the rest of the words.

"Master Jiang, Mrs. Jiang, please do as you please."

The old bustard was like burning her ass, she didn't dare to stay in front of the two of them for long, and left in a hurry, as if this was not her home.

"Where are the eyes looking?"

Xu Shuizhou saw that the bustard was gone, and then he let go of his breath. Just now the smell from the bustard was really pungent, and when he came back to his senses, he saw Jiang Jingyuan's eyes looking around, and he suddenly became angry.

Jiang Jingyuan finished looking at the first floor, and when he saw that he didn't see the person he wanted to see, Xu Shuizhou beat him up again, shrank his neck, and said in a weak tone, "Ah Zhou, let's go to the second floor to have a look."

Over there, a group of Yingying and Yanyan women saw that Jiang Jingyuan was wearing a second-rank official uniform, and he was too young, so they all pushed and shoved towards Jiang Jingyuan.

Xu Shuizhou stared at them fiercely, and said fiercely, "This is my husband. If you dare to touch the corner of my husband's clothes today, I will chop off that hand."

Xu Shuizhou's words immediately frightened these smeared girls. They are just lowly brothel girls. Can't afford to offend.

One by one they left angrily.

Jiang Jingyuan watched Xu Shuizhou frighten those Yingying Yanyan away, touched his nose in embarrassment, and walked towards the second floor.

The second floor is indeed much quieter than the first floor, but there will always be some groaning and moaning sounds from the rooms on the second floor from time to time.

Hearing this, the two blushed.

"Really here to do business?"

The doubts in Xu Shuizhou's heart were not dispelled, but even more confused.

"Ah."

Jiang Jingyuan nodded emphatically, and began to search on the second floor.

"Swallow, emerald, willow, red."

After passing through four rooms all the way, Jiang Jingyuan finally stopped at the last bamboo room.

Xu Shuizhou listened closely, there was no sound in this room, and the bamboo characters were very sentimental, could it be A Yuan's confidante?

Jiang Jingyuan knocked on the door repeatedly, and soon someone came and opened the door.

"Brother, stay safe."

The door opened but no one was seen, Jiang Jingyuan stood at the door and snored happily to the young man in white who was sitting on the bed drinking.

"Master, master...brother?"

Xu Shuizhou looked at the boy in white who was sitting on the bed and drinking wine by the window, his tongue was curled up into a big tongue.

I saw a white-clothed young man in his twenties, leaning against the edge of the bed with a jug in his arms. He was obviously bohemian, but not sloppy. He had a bit of elegance and a natural sense of intimacy.

The boy in white glanced at Xu Shuizhou displeased.

"This is my husband, it's the first time we meet, brother, please don't take offense."

Jiang Jingyuan led Xu Shuizhou into the house, and closed the door behind him.

The boy in white on the bed looked better when he heard Jiang Jingyuan say that Xu Shuizhou was his husband. He never welcomes irrelevant people here.

"Now trust me to do business."

Jiang Jingyuan sat on the middle stool calmly, and turned to look at Xu Shuizhou with a smile on his face.

"If you made it clear earlier, I wouldn't have misunderstood you."

Xu Shuizhou gave Jiang Jingyuan a teasing look, and blamed Jiang Jingyuan for not making it clear, which caused him to misunderstand. If he had made it clear earlier, it would mean that this matter would not have happened.

"Hey, I said enough is enough for you two, don't show your affection in front of me who has not married a wife, believe it or not, I will throw you out."

The boy in white looked at Jiang Jingyuan and Xu Shuizhou in front of him, flirting with each other, extremely uncomfortable, and stared at the attic outside the window.

"Senior brother, deep love does not last long, and Huiji will be hurt. I hope senior brother will look away as soon as possible."

Jiang Jingyuan raised his eyes to look at the attic opposite, nodded, and drank a cup of tea with some emotion.

"What do you know? You are pregnant with pearls and jade, so naturally you don't understand the state of mind of us lonely people." The young man in white raised his eyebrows and looked at Xu Shuizhou, then drank a glass of wine inexplicably, "Forget it, tell me, you Find what I want."

"I want all the recent actions of the Xu family, as well as the roots of the Xu family buried in the court, or who is standing behind the Xu family."

Jiang Jingyuan didn't show off, and just said it directly.

"I guessed it a long time ago. A will give the note to this little... junior brother."

The young man in white was not surprised, he gave an understatement order, and after a short while, a masked man in black came down from the beam in the house, put a note on the table, and went up the beam silently.

Xu Shuizhou's eyes widened when he saw it, and he just wanted to praise, the young man's skill is so good!

Jiang Jingyuan looked calmer, took a look at the note on the table, and burned it clean with the candle on the table.

"Thank you, brother, then my wife and I won't bother senior brother Yaxing."

Jiang Jingyuan stood up, smiled and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute, my information has always been valuable, even the senior brother has to pay the price, but the junior brother will definitely not leave anything behind."

Jiang Jingyuan wanted to leave the boy in white, but he didn't want to let him go.

Jiang Jingyuan smiled, walked to the desk, wrote down several pages of words with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then stopped writing.

The white-clothed boy hooked his hands, and a hidden guard came out from behind the door and handed him the paper on the table. At first, the white-clothed boy didn't care much, but the more he looked behind, the more restless his breathing became.

Seeing that he was obsessed, Jiang Jingyuan pulled Xu Shuizhou and left through the door without saying hello.

Xu Shuizhou was in a very dazed process the whole time, and he didn't know what happened at all.

"A Yuan, what were you guys talking about before? What kind of love is so deep and lifeless."

Xu Shuizhou frowned, and asked a little aggrieved, and suffered from being uneducated, he couldn't even understand the conversation between A Yuan and the others, so he had to recite the Four Books and Five Classics when he went back.

"If you want to know, just kiss me and I'll tell you."

Jiang Jingyuan pointed to his cheek, and said with all his heart.

Xu Shuizhou looked at the crowded crowd, rolled up his sleeves and was angry, "Do you want to ask for a fight again? It sounds so simple, why is it set up in a place like a brothel? Tell me! Do you want to come here?" Sleeping girl."

"Forgive me, husband, how dare you be a husband."

Jiang Jingyuan couldn't laugh or cry, he didn't have any sexual interest in girls, how could he sleep?

"Then you invite it as it is."

Xu Shuizhou said in a blunt and unreasonable way.

"Okay, okay, let me tell you."

Jiang Jingyuan was amused by Xu Shuizhou's cute appearance, and pointed to the attic opposite the Fanhua Building, "There is a girl from Xiaoxinyue who lives there, but it's a pity that the girl already has a sweetheart, and she has been waiting for her to come back all these years, senior brother I can only live in the prosperous building opposite the attic, feeling sad every day."

"I didn't expect him to be quite infatuated."

Jiang Jingyuan said it lightly, but Xu Shuizhou experienced a lot of sadness, obviously her sweetheart was right in front of her eyes, but she was pretending to be someone else in her heart.

"Okay, other people's affairs are other people's affairs after all, let's go home and sleep, and see if your husband and I want to sleep with the girl from Fanhualou or you."