Outside Dongcheng, the Ding family's motorcade stretched for several miles. Several junior stewards ran to the front to ask what the problem was, but the senior steward Li Shouyin didn't know the details. When I asked the person who reported the news, he only said that the prefect personally ordered it.
, the Lingliang team was waiting outside the city and was not allowed to enter the city. If you asked one more question, he would stare blankly. It was such a hot day that Li Shouyin was so anxious that he was covered in stinky sweat, dripping down his neck.
In fact, his ability to do things was limited, and because he knew he was smart and rarely competed with others, he never expected to be able to join the hot boss. As a result, Ding Hao, the boss who had dominated the limelight, was finished, and the clever and cunning Liu Shiyi Liu
The chief steward was also finished. In the end, he didn't want to fight but he was promoted to the position and became the chief steward of the outer courtyard. But after all, he was not capable. When encountering special circumstances, his eyesight was completely black and he was left blind.
Now the second young master of the Ding family is in charge, Yang Ye is the steward of the inner court, Li Shouyin is the steward of the outer court, and Chen Feng has been transferred to the city to take charge of the five shops. The Ding family now has a general manager position, with Master Yan Jiu taking charge of the overall situation.
. This food transportation was of great importance. Master Yan Jiu originally came with him. Seeing that he had arrived in Guangyuan City, he estimated that there would be no more accidents. Master Yan Jiu left in a hurry, saying that he had a private matter to take care of.
, come back to Guangyuan to look for him and return to Bazhou together. Unexpectedly, Master Jiu is not here, but he has been involved in such a thing.
Li Shouyin was afraid. Last time because of the delay in delivering food, Guangyuan defense envoy Cheng Shixiong sent them to the abandoned military camp in Xicheng for ten days. This time they were not even allowed to enter the city. What did the Ding family do to provoke Xu?
Is the elder unhappy?
Several stewards were thinking about it when they saw a group of people crowding out of the city gate. Nowadays, the city is extremely guarded. Many people lined up at the city gate waiting for Songcha. As soon as the group came out, these people
He was pushed aside. Seeing that the group of people were all riding tall horses, and some of them were clearly police officers wearing official hats and red official robes, Li Shouyin led a group of stewards to greet them.
Seeing a horse galloping ahead, Li Shouyin quickly bowed to the ground: "Master, Li Shouyin, the steward of the Ding family in Bazhou, has arrived to escort the grain and grass. I don't know when we can enter the city to hand over the grain. Uh..." He hesitated and asked carefully.
He said: "Sir, we... didn't delay in delivering food this time, right?"
Immediately the man laughed and said: "That's not true. I am not the master, this is our prefect."
That person was Yang Jincheng. He raised his horse and stepped aside. When Li Shouxie heard that it was the magistrate, he had never seen such a big official before. His legs went weak and he knelt down: "Li Shouyin, a common man,
I’ve met the prefect.”
Li Shouyin was dizzy and just thought: "Last time I came back, the biggest official I met was Ambassador Cang. He was a ninth-grade official. Ambassador Cang was in charge of a granary. This prefect was in charge of Guangyuan City and nearby counties and towns.
I don’t know what rank of high-ranking official he is, but why did he... come out in person to welcome him?"
"Well..." Magistrate Xu, who was immediately twirling his beard, asked in an official tone: "Has the food... arrived?"
"Back to the eldest master, the shipment has arrived, it has arrived. There is a lot of food this time. In order to reserve the official warehouse, the Ding family purchased it for a full half a year, and it is all shipped this time."
Li Shouyin was so angry that he didn't dare to take a breath. He talked to this big shot like a drum, and he already felt a little suffocated.
"Well, very good, what a timely rain, hahaha..., Imperial Envoy, now your affairs and mine have been solved. Look at how many carts of food you have to take, and declare the order to them?"
When Li Shouyin heard that there was an imperial envoy behind the magistrate, he was almost frightened. He had only heard of such an official as an imperial envoy in a play before, so why did the emperor's imperial envoy come here?
Yang Hao has been looking at these people in the Ding family team, many of whom he knew. Looking at them, Yang Hao couldn't tell what he felt in his heart. It wasn't until Xu Fengqing turned around to ask him that he kicked the horse in the belly and stepped forward.
, replied calmly.
When they saw the imperial envoy's horse hooves approaching, Li Shouyin and others did not dare to raise their heads. They just felt that the imperial envoy's accent was somewhat familiar. At this time, they heard the imperial envoy say: "Li Shouyin, I have been ordered by the emperor to move to the north."
The Han people have come to our territory in the Song Dynasty and are in urgent need of food and grass. You have arrived at the right time. I hold a Jie Yue and have the power to recruit civilians and goods. Now that you have sent me the grain from Guangyuan Prefecture, I will take some of it with me.
, and recruit your chariots and charioteers."
When Li Shouyin heard Yang Hao call his name, he raised his head in shock. He had heard Yang Hao's voice familiar before. Now he looked at the beggar imperial envoy. After all, he had known him for many years, and he recognized him at a glance.
identity, he could not help but exclaim: "Ding Hao!"
Yang Jincheng shouted: "Bold! This is the imperial envoy. Do you dare to call the imperial envoy by his name? Are you tired of living?"
"Yes, yes, the villain is offensive, the villain is offensive." Li Shouyin quickly lowered his head, thinking in his heart: "It's amazing, how come he became an imperial envoy in less than a month. How can the imperial envoy... be better than a beggar?
Still miserable?"
Yang Hao had no time to talk to him at this time. He chatted with Xu Zhifu for a few words, calculated the approximate amount of grain, then rode forward, selecting mules and horses from the grain team who were tall and strong, and whose vehicles were strong and designated by him.
He rushed out of the convoy and stopped on the other side of the road.
Yang Hao picked out some large cars and ordered them to stop outside the city so that they could follow him back north. Then he ignored the whispers of the people in Dingjiazhuang, showing fear and respect, and just hurried back to the city with Magistrate Xu. When they arrived at Guancang
, Fuyaozi had already rushed back with several carts of herbs, and after a while, the cars from Ye's car dealership also arrived one after another. It was not until an hour later that Mr. Ye came with the last dozen or so carts with a sad face, and said: "
Your Majesty the Imperial Envoy, the Ye Family Car Dealership has already dispatched all the cars it can mobilize."
Yang Hao said: "That's enough. Let's set off now. Mr. Xu, Yang Hao is in a hurry to return, so I won't say more to you. If we have a chance to meet you someday, Yang Hao will offer you a drink to thank you."
Xu Fengqing said hurriedly: "It's all for official business. Master Yang, please don't be so polite."
Yang Hao smiled and bowed to the officials and gentry again. Just after he said a few words, he heard the sound of quarreling behind him. Yang Hao turned around and saw everyone forming a circle behind him. Fan Laosi and Liu Shixuan were standing there.
There, Yang Hao rushed over to take a look, and saw an old Taoist being grabbed by Bisu, his face flushed with anger: "It's you, it's you, it's you. If you hadn't stolen grandpa's wallet, how could grandpa have gotten away with it?"
It's so miserable, you old man, you fell into my hands today, I won't let you rest."
Fuyaozi smiled dryly and said, "Young benefactor, what you said is wrong. If I hadn't borrowed your money from you, would you have had the chance to join the Imperial Envoy today? One drink and one peck, it must have been a predetermined decision. Little benefactor, I'm just a poor Taoist."
Monks, it’s not appropriate for you to push back and forth like this,”
Bi Su said angrily: "Who is your donor? You are an old Taoist and I am a monk. I am a bald donkey and I have sworn to be incompatible with you. Where is my money?"
Fuyaozi spread his hands: "All the money is spent."
Bisu screamed: "Ah! As a monk, you need so much money to do something. That's a hundred dollars."
Fuyaozi rolled his eyes and said disapprovingly: "One hundred ounces is a lot. When the old Taoist was in Taihua Mountain, his disciples and grandsons paid 10 ounces for the top-quality purple bamboo shoot tea."
Bi Su laughed angrily: "As cruel as you are, I won't care about that many things with you. Since you are so rich, just pay me back."
Fuyaozi smiled and shook his head: "The little benefactor is wrong again. Look at Pindao's appearance now. He can probably make a penny out of his body. Hahaha, the little benefactor's spirit is hidden inside and beautiful outside. From now on, Following the imperial envoy, why do you have to worry about not having money to spend? When you hear the news, look back, what does a mere hundred coins count? I see that you have a lot of wisdom, so I have the intention to enlighten others. Tao is too lazy to reach out."
Bisu was furious, so he immediately picked up his cassock and went to unbutton his trousers: "Come on, let me show you what my wisdom can do..."
Next to them, Fan Laosi, Liu Shixuan and all the patrol officers all hid their mouths and snickered. Yang Hao saw this and hurriedly shouted: "You can't be rude when you stay on the wall. How can you behave in front of all of you? Since you have followed me, from now on Those gangsters must be reined in."
Fan Laosi laughed loudly and stepped forward to hug Bi Su's shoulders and said: "Okay, okay, it's just a hundred coins. After finishing this errand, I will become an official in glory. I don't think I can make a profit on this hundred coins." Won’t come back.”
Then a few people came forward and said something to each other, and then they closed the Bisu talk. Fuyaozi shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
A convoy arrived outside the city to meet up with the Ding family's convoy. With fifty carts full of grain and rice, they hurriedly set off northbound. Yang Hao commandeered the Ding family's fifty carts and more than a hundred men. How could Li Shouyin rest assured? So I had no choice but to follow him and told the other stewards to wait in the city for Master Yan Jiu to come back before returning together.
Yang Hao then took a big car with him, and the car went around Beicheng and onto the main road. Only then did Yang Hao ask about the situation of the Ding family in Bazhou: "Manager Li, what's going on in the Ding family village now?"
Li Shouyin knew that he would question her, and was already prepared in his heart. Although he knew that he was an imperial envoy, he was an acquaintance after all. He was not as nervous as when he met Magistrate Xu, so he said with a smile: "Guan Ding... Mr. Yang, you Want to know something?"
Yang Hao smiled faintly: "Whatever you know, feel free to chat about it. There is still a long way to go, and I want to hear it."
"Yes, yes," Li Shouyin thought for a while and said, "Since Mr. Yang left, many things have happened in our Dingjiazhuang."
"Oh? Tell me."
"That... Liu Shiyi, Manager Liu... is dead?"
After Li Shouyin finished speaking, he stared at Yang Hao's face closely, but there was no expression on Yang Hao's face at all. He was a little disappointed, so he continued: "He was a widow Dong who died on the same couch. He was stabbed by someone. It was a heart-wrenching stab, so tragic. It’s a pity... The murderer has not been identified so far. The policeman sent by Mr. Zhao Jie, the deputy judge of Bazhou Prefecture, to investigate the case, spent all day in the Li family and the Liu family. They ate and drank there, and the two families couldn't stand it anymore, so they finally had to send the policeman back to the city. This murder case of two corpses is now unsolved."
"Oh?" Yang Hao was slightly moved when he heard this, and he felt a sense of warmth and gratitude in his heart: "Zhao County Lieutenant, brother, I will record this love for you."
Li Shouyin added: "And... the master... also passed away..."
"What?" Yang Hao turned his head and looked at him with wide eyes: "What did you say?"
Li Shouyin was a little scared. According to word of mouth among the common people, the imperial envoy had the right to kill people at will. He believed that Yang Hao was the one who killed Liu Shiyi and Dong Li. Although he had never offended him, but... But The Ding family felt sorry for him. He was the manager of the Ding family, so he didn't want to kill him in anger. He was even more cautious at the moment and said: "Yes, sir... In fact, the illness has been delayed for a long time. Then I was probably too tired for a few days, so on... the third night after Mr. Yang broke out of the house, the master... passed away."
Yang Hao was silent for a long time without saying a word. He had already killed the culprit who caused Dong'er's death. Now only the murderers who forced his mother to die were left: Ding Tingxun and Ding Chengye. Unexpectedly, Ding Tingxun also died. This blood father, After hearing the news of his death, the enemy in life, Yang Hao felt no sadness, and the hatred dissipated, leaving only emptiness and confusion.
Seeing him staring ahead blankly without speaking, Li Shouyin didn't know whether to continue speaking, so he could only wait aside timidly. After a while, Yang Hao said in a low voice: "If there is anything else, continue talking."
"Yes..." Li Shouyin knew that the matter he asked about Dingjiazhuang must be related to the Ding family. If Liu Ming's family gave birth to a baby boy, the boy in the second grade of high school would peek at the Huo family girl going to the latrine to be fucked. Her father had broken two ribs and all these nonsense things. I was afraid that the imperial envoy would be really angry, so he picked up the major events related to the Ding family and continued: "The master is dead, the eldest young master is unconscious, and now the Ding family ...is headed by the second young master. The second young master set up the position of general manager, and Jiuye...Yanjiu took it. He also promoted Yang Ye to be the steward of the inner courtyard, and I... became the steward of the outer courtyard. Chen Feng was in charge of Bazhou. Several pawn shops in the city..."
Yang Hao sneered and suddenly asked: "How is the eldest lady doing now?"
Li Shouyin knew that apart from Young Master Ding, only Miss Ding was close to Yang Hao in the Ding family, so he never dared to tell her news for fear of offending Yang Hao. When he asked about it, he had no choice but to say He said: "The eldest lady..., before my death, the master wanted to betroth the eldest miss to the son of the Xu family as his wife. The son of the Xu family is called Xu Molin, and he is a son of an official family. It sounds like a good match. After the master passed away, the second young master discussed the marriage. It was decided by the master before his death, so we can stop the funeral first and arrange the wedding for the eldest lady first, and then organize the funeral for the master. This way it will not be considered a marriage during the father's death, and it will not be against the etiquette..."
Yang Hao raised his eyebrows slightly, and Li Shouyin added: "But the eldest lady refused, and the two siblings finally used force in front of the funeral. Finally, after Yan Jiu's persuasion, the second young master took a step back and said that women should observe filial piety for one full year. Yes, but after a year, she arranged for her sister to get married. The eldest lady announced that she would never marry for the rest of her life, and she did not need him to advocate for her marriage. The two siblings... were very unhappy..."
"Anything else?"
"Next to me... it's gone. The old man was buried in our Ding family's village at the foot of Jiguan Mountain. The eldest lady moved there and said she wanted to keep a vigil for the old man nearby. She also said that the scenery there was beautiful and she wanted to take the eldest young man there to rest and recuperate from his illness. He was not in the house. I was angry with the second young master, but the eldest young lady was unwilling to move there. When I came to Guangyuan, my sister-in-law and I were still arguing about this matter."
Yang Hao couldn't explain how he felt in his heart. Speaking of which, when he returned to Bazhou, he would sooner or later settle the score with Ding Chengye, but how would this score be settled? My mother's death and Ding Chengye's framing of him were definitely the triggers.
But it was not the direct cause of death. Even if he became an official now, could he destroy his family and pay his debts with his life? He did not have such power, and the Song court could not tolerate such cruel officials.
But he was really unwilling to deal with that beast Ding Chengye. With the ruthlessness of Fan Laosi and others, coupled with their background as horse thieves, and the friendship between them that shared life and death, he asked them to help kill Ding Chengye.
It must not be difficult, and they will definitely agree to it. Although these guys are soldiers and have military discipline in their eyes, they have no royal laws.
However, what should Ding Yuluo do? Even if Ding Chengye is wrong, he is still a member of the Ding family and the only descendant to inherit the incense of the Ding family. With Ding Yuluo's nature as a person, she even
She hates Ding Chengye so much. Once Ding Chengye is in trouble, she would rather die than protect him. Do she really want to turn against the eldest lady?
He raised his head and took a long breath, and saw an eagle circling in the sky. Yang Hao suddenly felt envious of that eagle: It would be great if he could be reincarnated into an eagle, soaring in the sky.
, fluttering its wings in the night sky, overlooking the world, no matter where it is, it is always solitary, with other living beings, there is only life and death, there are no so many love, hate, entanglements, eagles, eagles, in the human world.
You are much happier than me, Yang Hao.
In the motorcade, Ye Zhixuan, Young Master Ye, was also looking up at the eagle: "Grandma's is much more powerful than the flat-haired beast that I spent sixty yuan to buy. Look at those wings.
, Roots are as strong as iron, tsk tsk tsk, I have played with so many birds, but none of them are so grand. If I go back to the city, wouldn't I envy those comrades to death? Well..., I'm going to the Northland grassland now.
, there must be a lot of eagles, I have to find a way to catch one, otherwise wouldn't it be like entering the treasure mountain and returning empty-handed?"
Thinking of this, Ye Zhixuan immediately enthusiastically started to arrange things for catching eagles with his assistants. In Young Master Ye's mind, this food delivery was probably similar to a spring outing...
