"Probably not. The person who came here is not of high cultivation. He should have followed the ruts to approach the wooden house, but he still accidentally stepped on the fallen leaves. I think if you came here, you don't need to be so careful. You just fell on the beam first. Then
The man seemed to know that you were not here, so he secretly waited for a cup of tea outside the door. He still couldn't help but push the door open and take a look around. He didn't light up the lamp, so I guess he didn't notice us. In addition, there should be someone looking out for the wind.
The people in the house hurriedly retreated after hearing a cat meowing. They might still be at the edge of the hut." Ji Sheng said with a pale face and said calmly.
"How are your injuries?"
"Han Song injured his internal organs. There is no external injury. It should not be fatal. My external injury is not serious. I have used your gold wound medicine and it is very useful. I don't dare to use medicine randomly for internal injuries."
"Brother Ji is seriously injured, I'm fine." Han Song said weakly from the beam.
"I'll go outside to boil some water, and you can come down after turning off the lights." He Qizhou blew out the oil lamp, covered the firewood flap, went to boil water under the newly built firewood shed opposite, lit firewood in the earthen stove, and pulled up a wooden stool with his legs crossed.
Practice your internal strength, then prop up your ears and try your best to listen to the sounds around you.
The water in the kettle is ice water from the water tank. Because it is used every day, there is only a thin layer of ice on the surface of the tank, while the small pond next to the wooden house has already been covered with thick ice. It is approaching dawn.
, it was the coldest time of the day, and Qi Zhou, who was sitting cross-legged by the stove, was not afraid of the cold, but the two military inspectors who were hiding in the dark had long complained in their hearts that they were sent to Tianxingyuan.
The cultivation level in this place will not be too high. After struggling for more than half an hour, he could not help but tremble. It would be okay if He Qizhou was in the house and could stretch his hands and feet from time to time. Now it is okay, huddled in four or five.
There was no air in the forest ten feet away, and it was going to be dawn soon. If the little guy in the firelight didn't go in, they would have nowhere to hide.
After finally waiting for He Qizhou to boil a pot of water, he went into the house and poured it into the bathtub, and then came out to boil the water again. He was still doing the same cross-legged exercise. Both of them were about to cry. Finally, after the second pot of water was boiled, they took advantage of the opportunity.
Qi Zhou entered the house, and the two of them retreated to the depths of the forest together. They didn't care that their stiff legs made obvious noises in the forest. As long as they were not discovered on the spot, it would be a great blessing.
He Qizhou lit the oil lamp again and said softly: "You're all gone. Have you taken all the medicine? Just wipe it off first. I still have a few sets of clean clothes here to change into. Take off all the bloody clothes. I'll burn them later."
The water was boiling."
When He Qizhou boiled water and entered the house for the first time, he checked the pulse of the two of them. They were both injured a bit seriously and would not recover for ten days and a half. Fortunately, there was a lot of medicine for the wounds. He handed the medicine to the two of them and went out to boil water again.
, Zheng Yuan is slightly stronger than him, and Ji Sheng is slightly taller than him. The clothes Liu Yingzhi gave him come in handy, and he can wear them as they are.
Ji Sheng asked: "How to deal with the blood after washing?"
He Qizhou said: "I will boil a pot of water later and use the blood water to burn out the firewood. There will be no traces left. What happened in Jiangling Mansion? I heard that Magistrate Zhang was sent to prison!"
"It's a long story. By the way, is there anything to eat?" Ji Sheng asked.
He Qizhou wanted to thank Liu Yingzhi in his heart again. He still kept a lot of cakes sent by her family in the hut. After taking them out and giving them to the two of them, he said, "Just eat them with hot water. I'll go and get rid of Brother Ji's bloody clothes first."
He Qizhou went out and stuffed the blood-stained clothes into the earthen stove, and a puff of black smoke rose up. Fortunately, the two spies had left, and the blood-stained clothes burned out after a while. He poured water to extinguish the fire. After everything was done, it was only about half an hour before dawn.
When He Qizhou returned to the wooden house, Ji Sheng briefly described what happened after Qi Zhou left: After Ji Sheng left Hidden Valley, he followed Zhang Luyao's instructions to find Huang Quan in Jiangjun Village and treated him for nearly a month.
When he returned to Jiangling Mansion, a huge change had already taken place. His portraits were posted everywhere in the city gates, and he had become the most wanted criminal before the White Turban Thief. Ji Sheng entered the city in disguise and met Zhang Luyao's maid
In the family's private house, I met Zheng Yuan who lived there. At this time, Zheng Yuan had already transformed into Han Song. With the help of Zhang Luyao, he completed the household certificate for the family.
On the one hand, Zheng Yuan was also avoiding the government's pursuit, and on the other hand, he was waiting for Ji Sheng's arrival. Originally, he was going to accompany his family back to Qimen Mountain, but because Magistrate Zhang was troubled with everything, he, as a young laborer, stayed behind.
I came down to work, but I didn't want to become a bandit suspect in a few days just because my household registration was in Qimen Mountain.
Ten days after the grain transport navy left, the 100,000 tons of grain allocated by the imperial court from Heluocang were also transported to Jiangling Mansion, and 500,000 taels of silver were allocated from the national treasury, half of which was used to rebuild the homes of the victims who had destroyed their homes and fields.
Half of the money was used to rebuild the river embankment. Xu Qinghan, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, personally took charge of Qinan County and issued a military order in the court to build and repair 30,000 houses before the cold winter came, so that the victims of the disaster could return to their homes.
At the same time, during the dry season in winter, he repaired the breaches in the river embankments and strengthened the river defenses. To this end, he recruited 30,000 civilians from the surrounding areas and more than 10,000 young people from the victims.
Xu Qinghan was hands-on in everything, and Zhang Luyao worked hard to cooperate. The house reconstruction progressed very quickly. In less than half a month, half of the victims around Fucheng had dispersed. Just when everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, an imperial edict from the capital sent Zhang Luyao to
Suddenly he was plunged into the abyss. The governor of Nanzhili wrote a letter of impeachment, accusing Zhang Luyao of colluding with Governor Jin Yan, committing corruption and perverting the law, misappropriating official rations, and exploiting the people during the disaster, causing public resentment. What's even more terrible is that the military participated in the impeachment.
The new grain transported by the navy was old and spoiled. After investigation, it was found that the package was transferred from Jiangling Mansion. The blame fell on Magistrate Zhang. The emperor was furious and Zhang Luyao was dismissed on the spot and escorted to the capital to await trial.
As more and more testimonies came against Zhang Luyao, tens of thousands of taels of silver were also seized in the Zhang Mansion. Within a few days, dozens of people were arrested, and more than ten people from the prefecture were all escorted to Beijing. It is said that the governor
Jin Yan and the elders of the Jinling sect were also imprisoned in imperial prison after entering the capital under the imperial edict. Even Master Xincheng of Yuantong Temple, who worked hard to provide disaster relief, was ordered to be detained in the temple pending trial. Although fellow acquaintance Chen Yan was fined and suspended, due to
The prefect was arrested. Before the new official took office, he was still in charge of the affairs of the prefecture. Most of the disciples of the Jinling and Quanzhen sects who had participated in transporting grain were detained by Chen Yan.
Officers and soldiers once again raided the Qimen Mountains, capturing more than a dozen "bandits" and killing dozens of "recalcitrants." Zheng Yuan still doesn't know if his family is okay. Because someone has seen Ji Sheng going in and out of the Qimen Mountains, Zhang Luyao colluded with Bai
The crime of the scarf thief was also brought up, and Ji Sheng became the number one suspect in killing Wang Ling and rescuing the white scarf thief. Three neighboring provinces have hung his head, with a reward of up to 6,000 taels, and Ji Sheng's
Unable to bear the intimidation and humiliation, her lover Hu Yuerong committed suicide by hitting a pillar on the day of his arrest.
Zhang Luyao had long known the dangers ahead. While distributing relief food, he encouraged several disaster-stricken counties and townships to write four gratitude notes on huge pieces of cloth, and asked the victims at each disaster relief site to sign and sign the gratitude letters.
, a total of four copies were prepared, and more than 80,000 disaster-stricken people signed or fingerprinted them to thank the emperor for his great kindness. On the one hand, this was to prove his innocence. He was not greedy for money and food.
The emperor is so happy about his success. If anything happens, as long as the emperor is happy, the board will naturally be raised high and gently lowered.
At the critical moment, Zhang Luyao asked people to bring four letters of gratitude to all the people here. He asked Zheng Yuan to wait for Ji Sheng and asked Ji Sheng to find a way to bring these four letters of gratitude to the capital and hand them over to His Highness the Crown Prince. Ji Sheng endured his grief and anger.
I don't want to seek revenge against Chen Yan for the time being, I want to rescue Zhang Luyao first and then fight Chen Yan.
At that time, many experts from Jinling and Yangzhou had gathered inside and outside Jiangling Prefecture. Since Ji Sheng had not arrived at the case, Chen Yan arranged for people to go door to door to investigate in the city. Ji Sheng seized the opportunity and waited for someone to find out where he lived.
At that time, he decisively wounded two officers of the Provincial Military Inspection Division and kidnapped one person. After asking for the password to leave the city, he snatched the other party's identity token and escaped from the city that day with Zheng Yuan, disguised as an officer of the Armed Inspection Division.
outside.
The two were hunted all the way, and there were dangers everywhere. Fortunately, Ji Sheng had been doing good deeds in Jiangling Mansion over the years. He had many friends and no shortage of hiding places. In addition, Ji Sheng was an excellent criminal in his own right, so he could often predict the enemy's plans first.
, turned danger into safety. After hearing the truth told by Ji Sheng, some patriots volunteered to help Ji Sheng go to Beijing to deliver Wanmin's letter in order to save Magistrate Zhang.
Ji Sheng knew that his goal was too big, so he divided the four copies of the Book of Ten Thousand People into four, and sewed one copy into Zheng Yuan's shirt. The other three copies were given to a few skilled friends to carry with them. Four more suspicious soldiers were set up.
A total of eight teams of sixteen people marched northward by land and water and mixed in with the businessmen entering Beijing.
Of course Chen Yan knew about the Book of Ten Thousand People, but he searched the Zhang Mansion and couldn't find it. He was always uneasy and tried his best to search for Ji Sheng. Another purpose was to find these four Books of All People. The Chen family was very cunning and grabbed one by one.
Finally, all travelers and goods going north were strictly inspected in Jiangling Prefecture, and checkpoints were set up intensively on the outskirts of Beijing, hoping to prevent Wanminshu from leaving the capital.
Three of the eight teams were discovered in Jiangling Mansion, and a copy of the Manmin Book was found and destroyed immediately. Two of them pretended to be smugglers and deliberately diverted the search team, allowing the two who really carried the Manmin Book to pass.
After painstakingly arriving at the outskirts of the capital, I found that there were people checking the official roads almost every ten miles. After asking around, I learned that there had been robbers recently, so the Wuchang Division focused on checking the business travelers going to the capital.
Ji Sheng and Zheng Yuan pretended to be porters pulling carts and mingled with a small caravan of about ten people. After passing two passes, they just walked uphill to a dense forest and found more than a dozen bodies lying on the ground.
Several masked gangsters were picking up the objects on the corpse one by one, and then seven or eight more gangsters with swords surrounded the caravan behind the car.
Ji Sheng recognized that among the corpses lying on the ground, two of them were martyrs who volunteered to help him. The gangsters deliberately searched the shirts of each corpse, and soon found a copy of the Book of All Nations sewn inside.
Because a copy was found in Jiangling Mansion, the Chen family should know where this item might be hidden. Ji Sheng believes that these robbers are definitely related to the Chen family.
At this time, the two bodyguards in the business trip were worried about being killed, and they did not care about the goods or the group of people traveling with them. They fled to the east and west together, attracting half of the gangsters to chase. Ji Sheng seized the opportunity and killed the man who found the Wanmin book in one fell swoop.
The robbers took Zheng Yuan and fled westward into the dense forest.