After coming out of Gao Ying's place, Yan Mu felt a little depressed and walked forward without saying a word. Liu Yunxiang walked beside him, knowing what he was thinking and not disturbing him at this moment.
When we walked to the street, it was already evening, and unexpectedly there were still many people. They crowded together to form a wall of people, all looking up in one direction, as if waiting for something.
They blocked the road, and Liu Yunxiang and his two men had no choice but to stop.
"What have you prepared?"
There were two women talking next to them. Each of them was carrying a basket, with excited expressions on their faces.
"What have you prepared?"
The two women asked each other, they smiled, and each took away the cloth covering the basket. One basket contained rotten cabbage leaves and the other contained cow dung. Seeing each other's, the two smiled more happily.
What are they?
While Liu Yunxiang was puzzled, a woman came over with a bucket of swill. The fermented swill smelled so bad that it made people sick. Liu Yunxiang took out a handkerchief and covered his lips and nose, then took two steps back.
"Ouch, how many days have you had this swill?"
"Just scooped out of the smelly ditch in front of our street." The woman replied.
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Upon hearing this, the two women took a step back.
"There's shit, piss, everything in here."
"You're really good!"
The woman gritted her teeth and said, "Back then, he forced my family to pay the 30% more tax, but my husband refused to pay, so he was beaten to death by the officials he brought. Then they ran into my house like robbers and took away the little that was left. Food rations really didn’t leave us a way to survive. I had no choice but to sell my second daughter in exchange for some food. In order to leave more for the children, my mother-in-law starved herself to death."
Speaking of that time, the woman felt resentful and sad, "It's just a bucket of swill, so I spared him lightly."
Hearing this, the other two women sighed again and again.
Liu Yunxiang probably guessed it, and sure enough, not long after, two carriages came over, one in front, hanging with a white silk ribbon, and the other in the back, pulling a coffin. It's just that the coffin was piled with rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, and even the official officials who saw him off were not spared.
Liu Yunxiang asked Yan Mu next to him in a low voice, "Are you going to transport Li Huai's body back to his hometown?"
Yan Mu shook his head, "His hometown is from the southern state. It takes at least a month to get there from Yanzhou. But now that it's summer, it's getting hotter the further south you go, so the body can't be left there for a few days."
"Why not bury him in Yanzhou first?"
They were buried in Yanzhou first, and the bones were dug out after a few years and brought back to their hometown for burial. This is usually the case.
Yan Mu sneered, "The Li family wanted to do that too, but the people of Yanzhou hate him so much. If he were buried here, he would probably have to dig up the grave, destroy the coffin, drag the body out and cut it into pieces."
Liu Yunxiang thought for a moment and couldn't help but shudder.
"How about that?"
"Take him somewhere else and bury the secret. But it depends on whether Li Huai's family is willing. If they are willing, they will dig him out and bring him back to his hometown in a few years. If not, he will only be a lonely ghost over there."
Liu Yunxiang exhaled, "Evil will be punished!"
He has caused so many families to be destroyed, and now this end is his retribution!
As soon as the carriage pulling the coffin came over, the people became angry and threw rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and cow dung at the coffin in violation of tradition.
The officials on both sides learned the lesson and quickly ran away. Even the coachman threw down the carriage and ran away.
"Li Huai! The Lord of Hell has accepted you, just wait until you go to the eighteenth level of hell!"
"How much life debt do you owe, can you calculate it yourself? Even if you go to the sword mountain or the oil pan, you can't atone for your sin!"
"You want to leave Yanzhou safely? No way! You owe us Yanzhou, do you still have to pay it off!"
Someone was so angry that he slashed at the coffin with a kitchen knife. The coffin is a fine nanmu coffin. After cutting it several times, it really can't be cut. The man gritted his teeth and chopped the wheels of the carriage into pieces.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the woman carrying the swill went up and poured a large bucket of disgusting filth on top.
The smell was so bad that the people standing on both sides nauseated.
In the carriage in front, it should be Mrs. Li. She was so frightened that she dropped the coffin behind and ran away.
When Liu Yunxiang and Yan Mu left, the people were still venting their anger.
Seeing that Yan Mu's expression was not good, Liu Yunxiang asked him if he was affected by the stench.
Yan Mu shook his head: "Li Huai has harmed so many people and aroused such public outrage. But in the final analysis, it is the imperial court that condones him and the mediocre monarch who sits in the highest position."
"Yes, and Li Huai is just a microcosm. I don't know how many Li Huais there are in Da Rong. Civil strife continues in various places, which is the result of allowing officials like Li Huai to harm the people. But there is Yang He in Yanzhou, but there is no more Li Huai in Da Rong. Many Yang He."
After saying that, the two looked at each other and understood what each other was thinking with just one glance.
Yan Mu took Liu Yunxiang's hand and pulled her forward together.
Facing the setting sun, the sky is getting darker and darker as it goes by, but without passing through the night, how can we look forward to the dawn.
It only took five days for Gao Ying to finish all ten account books. The one million taels were hidden in these accounts, but according to Yan Mu, it was not hidden too tightly.
"We will set off back to Beijing tomorrow. Yang He's case cannot be delayed any longer." Yan Mu said in the evening.
Liu Yunxiang mentioned something to him before, but he disagreed, so she could only mention it again: "Although our brocade workshop is on the right track, the brocade industry in Jiangnan is still in a slump. I promised the emperor's business tax, but I'm afraid it will be empty talk." . I have to go to Yangzhou to personally visit the bosses of the brocade workshops and the cloth merchants, and ask them to settle down and take root in Yangzhou again."
"But you are inconvenienced now."
"It's only been more than three months. It's not the time to be clumsy yet. If it's a few months later, it won't be possible, so I have to take this opportunity to go there."
"Although the rebellion in Nanzhou has subsided, there is still danger."
"You forgot, our Zhenbei Army is in Nanzhou."
Yan Mu looked at Liu Yunxiang and knew that she valued her career and that she had her own considerations. In the past, he would have stopped her forcefully, but now he recognized her ability and even admired her. He didn't think he had much Awesome, but Liu Yunxiang is awesome in his heart.
When he was tired and helpless, he even began to rely on her.
"Ask Zijin and Feng Zheng to go with you."
"good."
"I will place more secret guards around you."
"Um."
"Once you cross the Yangtze River, contact the Zhenbei Army immediately and ask them to protect you."
"I know."
Liu Yunxiang held Yan Mu's hand and said, "I will return to Beijing as soon as possible in two months at most."
Early the next morning, Liu Yunxiang sent Yan Mu off to Yanzhou first, but she would stay for two more days.
"Girl, are we still going to find Boss Gao?" Zijin asked with a sigh.
Liu Yunxiang smiled, "Although Boss Gao is stubborn, she is also a businessman. If it is profitable, she has no reason to refuse this business."
