"People said that Fei Wuji was admonishing the king of Chu, saying that the prince would rebel if he returned to Ying. The king asked all his officials about his words, but they couldn't answer them. So he believed them, so he ordered Wu She, the father of the city, Sima Fenyang to recruit the prince to return.
Then the prince went to the Song Dynasty. Wang summoned Fenyang and asked who could accuse the prince. Fenyang confessed his fault, and the king ordered someone to blame him. Fenyang said: I paid you back at the beginning, but you can't bear to do it later, so I sent him away. Now that you regret it, it's nothing more than what you have done.
.The king asked Fenyang, why did you dare to enter Ying? Fenyang replied: "If you fail to send someone, if you fail to call, it is another traitor. There is nowhere to escape. The king said: Go back..."
Wu Sheng was in Yanluo Mountain, reading a letter from Xue Zhong who was traveling in Yingdu, and learned about the world-shaking event that happened in Yingdu during this period - the prince went abroad.
According to Wu Sheng's guess, the reason why Xue Zhong wrote specifically to Wu Sheng was because he was worried.
Xue Xingxing believed that the direct cause of this consequence was the death of Fei Hong. As Yingdu Xingxing, he was repeatedly told before going down the mountain not to interfere in the affairs of Chu State. Once such an incident occurred, he would be recalled to Linzi immediately, and at the same time, he would be recalled to Linzi.
Severe punishment must be given.
Therefore, Wu Sheng also wrote a letter to comfort him: As a scholar, it is your and my duty to investigate and solve cases. As for the consequences, they are often unpredictable, so just watch with cold eyes. Enclosed is the letter of last year's harvest.
Converted to 40 yi, it is expected to increase this year.
After reading Wu Sheng's letter, Xue Zhong felt a little more at ease. He opened the sealed wooden box and looked at the neatly stacked forty pieces of gold. He felt extremely comfortable.
One-fifth of the investment was recovered in the first year. In five years, all the 200 gold invested will be recovered. If you take it after that, it will be a proper profit. And Wu Sheng said that there will be more this year.
Increase!
Looking at Xin Xitang who delivered the letter, Xue Zhong was very satisfied. Forty yi gold was a huge sum of money. Xin Xitang did not touch any of it, let alone abscond with the money. He did not betray his trust in him, which once again proved that he had changed his mind.
In the past, loyalty was available, which made Xue Zhong feel "greatly comforted".
On the spot, he pointed out four yi and handed them to him: "You also participated in 10%. This is your... um, return on investment, keep it, haha."
Xin Xitang happily took it and invested twenty gold, earning four gold a year, which was comfortable.
"Everything has been fine in Ying for the past two years. Everything is stable. If you want to buy a farm outside the city, you can go and have a look. If you don't have enough money, I will lend it to you."
"Thank you Xingxing. Yingdu is stable. It's all thanks to Xingxing's ability to deal with it, eliminate the backlog of cases, and deter lawbreakers. I still miss my former residence. I have saved enough love money in the future and want to go back and reorganize."
“Tianshan Gorge is pretty good, but it’s a little far away from Yingdu, so it’s inconvenient to get there.”
"Speaking of which, I have something to report. The last time I sneaked into Gong Zhengyanxi's house, one night, I saw him trying to make a magic weapon. The magic weapon was like a big eagle. It could lift up to ten feet off the ground in a moment of flapping its wings. I don't know what it was called.
This is where the idea of reorganizing Tianshan Gorge came from. If we could obtain this magical weapon, it would probably take less than half an hour to go from Yingdu to Tianshan Gorge and back."
"Flapping its wings like an eagle? How many feet above the ground?"
"Yes, Yan Xi rode on his back and flew in the garden, but he seemed to have lost control and fell to the ground. The wings of the magical weapon were also broken."
"When it comes to flying high into the sky, there is also something like this in the academy. It is called the Heavenly Bamboo Kite. It can rise two to thirty feet, but it cannot flap its wings and fly... Could it be that Master Pan has refined a new object? Let's go back and look for Gongzheng again.
Please inquire at home, there is a lot of disturbance in the city now, and people's hearts are unstable..."
"When I came back, I saw chariots and horses colliding with each other, swordsmen running in all directions, and everyone in the country closing their doors. I don't know what happened?"
"Isn't it about the prince? In the past two days, many officials from the prince's line have been arrested. Even Taifu Wu She has not been spared and has been sent to prison. Now everyone in the city is in danger. It is already late at night, and the streets There was a huge commotion at the top, and I don’t know which family suffered the disaster. We in the academy should be thankful that no matter which family is in power, it has nothing to do with us. The request of the academy is reasonable, and schools from all over the country are reluctant to take part in it. Entering into political struggles and national struggles, this is the way to establish oneself..."
While they were talking, an old servant of the school came to report that it was Bo Pei who wanted to see him.
When he invited Bo Pi to the school, he saw that his bun was disheveled and he looked panicked, shouting: "Brother Xue, save me!"
Xue Zhong was very surprised: "You are the legitimate son of Zuo Yin. Looking at Yingdu, who dares to harm you?"
Bo Pu cried bitterly: "God damn Fei, I, Que, have no enmity with him, yet he destroyed my whole family. This is because he thinks my father has blocked his way forward! He made excuses, saying that I was the one who caused the harm. His son is absolutely crazy!"
It turned out that after the prince fled to the Song Dynasty, the King of Chu imprisoned the Tai Fu Wu She and recruited Wu Shang, who returned to Ying and confessed his crime.
Wu Yuan did not come back, so Wu Shang returned to save his father. After returning, he was imprisoned in the Ting Temple.
Fei Wuji entered the palace today, and the King of Chu ordered Wu She and Wu Shang to be killed.
Zuo Yin Quewan was shocked. He tried to remonstrate with the King of Chu to no avail, and even scolded Fei Wuji in court. However, he still failed to save Wu She and Wu Shang. Instead, he attacked the court officials at night and demanded handover. Bo Pi came out of "Yingdu is a disaster".
Ting Si also testified against Bo Pu, saying that Bo Pu was suspected of assassinating Fei Hong and should be arrested.
In order to protect his son, Que Wan wanted to enter the palace to meet the King of Chu, but he could not get out. He was surrounded by high-ranking families in Yingdu. It was not known who made the move first. All the officials led their disciples to rush into Que's mansion.
Quewan led his disciples to resist desperately and protected Bo Pi from escaping. The rest were killed.
This was the chaos Xin Xitang encountered when he returned.
Bo Pu was hated by the high-ranking officials of Yingdu, and everyone punished him. He had nowhere to go. He remembered his "good friend" Xue Zhong, who he had been with before, so he rushed there in a panic and asked Xue Zhong for asylum.
If anyone in Yingdu could save Bo Pi, the only one left was Xue Zhong.
"Brother Xue, I think I met you two not long ago, but we hit it off immediately and became sworn friends. We are called brothers. Now that I am in trouble and have no place to stay, I can only come to see Brother Xue. I hope Brother Xue will not give up."
Xue Zhong was also speechless. The original sworn vows were just a show. No grass was inserted, no incense was burned, and no vows were made to the mountain god He Bo. What on earth was going on? Everyone knew it, so why did they become brothers?
Nowadays, the city is in chaos, and the school cannot interfere with the court disputes. The school is not a place for refuge and protection. If you make this move, everyone will come to your door in the future. Isn’t it that you will be hated by those in power? How can my school stand?
Xin Xitang slowly approached behind Bo Pu, and his hand had already touched the sword on his waist. Xue Zhong was also thinking about whether to kill the person and throw him out - when he was interrogating the doctors that day, it was Bo Pu who came to blackmail him, and now he The family fortune that we relied on to protect ourselves has been wiped out. If we get out alive, I'm afraid he will talk nonsense!
Bo Pei was still crying: "... Pei also knew that Brother Xue was in trouble. In order not to implicate the school, he asked Brother Xue to send me out of the city. When we parted that day, Sun Xingxing once said that if I was in trouble, I could go to Yanluo Mountain and seek refuge with him. He, he has something urgent that needs to be done, and I don’t know what it is. Anyway, please ask Brother Xue to send Pei out of the city to keep you and me as brothers."
Xue Zhong was stunned for a moment, then motioned Xin Xitang to retreat with his eyes, and after a moment of silence he said, "Okay, I'll send you to Yanluo Mountain."
Thanks to Sui Feng withwind, Xin Xitang, lamenting the helplessness in the world for the reward, and many thanks to fellow Taoists for their monthly tickets and recommended tickets.