"Master Liu, I have one more thing I would like to ask Master Liu." Xi Jin said politely.
"If you want to ask for advice, just ask."
"Master Liu, you have been escorting prisoners for many years. Do you still remember that there was a prisoner named Shangguan Bao two years ago?" Xi Jin did not talk nonsense with him and got straight to the point.
Mr. Liu thought for a moment: "The Shangguan Ba you are talking about is the son of Prince Ning?"
"Exactly, I wonder if he had any grudges with anyone when he came to Yazhou?" As for Shangguan Bao's assassination, Xi Jin thought about it. Maybe he was assassinated because of his grudges with the prisoners.
Mr. Liu glanced at Xi Jin in confusion. How could Xie Luo's wife ask about Shangguan Ba? Shangguan Ba was a traitor, and his crime was much more serious than Xie Luo's.
"To be honest with Mr. Liu, Shangguan Ba's mother is a handkerchief to my aunt, and I have some friendship with him. He was assassinated in Yazhou a few months ago, so I really want to know who killed him?"
Xi Jin thought that she had no acquaintances in the entire Yazhou government office. Only Mr. Liu was familiar with the personnel in Yazhou. He was going back to Beijing soon. It would be the safest and most reliable way to inquire about something with him.
"I've also heard about this, but Shangguan Ba didn't offend anyone on the way here."
Mr. Liu thought for a while and continued: "He was very silent on the way to Yazhou and didn't say a word. Even if someone beat him black and blue, he didn't say anything or fight back. We were still surprised at that time. , before he was exiled, he was obviously a famous young general, and his skills should be very good, and he would not be able to defeat a few prisoners."
When Xi Jin heard this, she felt very sad. Maybe others didn't know it, but she knew that Shangguan Ba wanted to return to Beijing more than anyone else. If he didn't fight back, he must not want to cause trouble.
"Thank you, Mr. Liu, for telling me this." Xi Jin's clear eyes were filled with tears. She held it back again and again, but she still couldn't stop the tears from falling. "Does Mr. Liu know that if this Yazhou prisoner dies, he will be buried there?" where?"
Now that she came to Yazhou, she wanted to see him and talk to him. They hadn't seen each other for almost three years, and she could hardly remember his face. Only when I dream back at midnight can I see his blurry face.
Upon hearing this, Mr. Liu sighed: "It's just a fugitive, no one would bury them. Zuo just threw them in a mass grave."
"Mass grave..." Xi Jin took a breath. Shangguan Ba was such a clean person. Although he was not taken seriously by King Ning when he was in Beijing, every time Xi Jin saw him, he was always clean and tidy. How could a person with such a dignified appearance and outstanding appearance bear to be thrown into a mass grave after his death.
"Yes, it's at the foot of the mountain behind the school grounds."
"Yes." Xi Jin tried hard to calm down his emotions. After a while, he managed to smile and said, "Mr. Liu, the civilian woman also wants to ask you something."
"Say." Mr. Liu looked at Xi Jin with red eyes in front of him, and couldn't help but sympathize with him. His old friend had passed away, and it would still be such a tragic ending for anyone else.
"I want to know what kind of person the governor of Yazhou is?" Xi Jin asked vaguely.
"Ding Jishi has been serving in Yazhou for many years and is very loved by the people of Yazhou. Half of the people in Yazhou are prisoners, so management is extremely difficult. It has always been a place where officials from the central government are unwilling to come, but since Ding Jishi came After the war, the chaos in Yazhou was rectified, and the prisoners and the local people have been getting along well over the years, which is all the result of Governor Ding."
"Then does this governor Ding have a daughter?" Xi Jin vaguely remembered that when he first came to Yazhou, he heard the people outside the city discuss it.
"Yes, Governor Ding has a son and a daughter, both by his head wife. Governor Ding is also not a womanizer, so he only has two children these years, his daughter Ding Xiyu and his son Ding Zhangtai. I heard that his daughter has been promised to General Gu. We’re going to get married soon.”
Lord Liu looked at Xi Jin: "Mrs. Xie, why did you want to ask about Governor Ding's daughter?"
Xi Jin smiled: "Isn't this because I heard some rumors outside the city and became curious."
Xi Jin thought that if he wanted to find out the truth about Shangguan Bao's assassination, he must contact the people in Yazhou. However, Xi Jin had no connections here. Last time he heard outside the city that Governor Ding's daughter was obese. There is no daughter who does not love beauty, let alone the bride-to-be who is about to get married.
Xi Jin does know some ways to lose weight, and maybe he can use this to make friends with the daughter of Ding Jishi.
"The rumors are true. Ding Jishi's daughter is very fat. I heard that she can eat five bowls of rice, two roast chickens, and four pig's trotters in one meal. So even though she is the head of the county who was personally granted the title by the imperial court, she has been I can’t get married, but it’s really rare to get a husband like General Gu now.”
"General Gu." Xi Jin has only been in Yazhou for a few days and has already heard General Gu's name many times. Everyone praised him.
But how could such an outstanding General Gu fall in love with Ding Xiyu? Could it be that he was trying to cling to Governor Ding?
Of course, everyone has their own ambitions, and Xi Jin has no control over these.
Xijin ignored General Gu and asked, "Is the son of Governor Ding getting married?"
"This..." After hearing Xi Jin's words, Master Liu showed a look of shock and horror on his face, and waved his hands repeatedly, "Mrs. Xie, I don't dare to think like this. Brother Xie is a rare good son. You can't do anything wrong to him. matter."
Xi Jin suddenly smiled: "Mr. Liu, you are overthinking. I naturally know how good my husband is, and I will never do anything to disgrace him. But now that I am in Yazhou, I am like a caged animal with no freedom. I don’t know what the future will bring, and I am deeply afraid of offending the noble people of Yazhou City, so I asked you for some information."
"Oh, that's it." Mr. Liu smiled reassuringly, "Let me tell you, Brother Xie is such a good husband, even a girl would not miss him."
"This governor Ding's son is not married yet." Lord Liu replied.
"Are you still young?"
"That's not true. He is already sixteen. If it were someone else, even if they were not married, he would still have a partner. It's just..." Mr. Liu pointed to his head as he said, "This Governor Ding's son is not very easy to use here. Some You are stupid, so you are not married yet."
"I see." Xi Jin poured tea for Master Liu and asked Master Liu about a lot of things.
Until it was getting late, and knowing that Mr. Liu was going back to Beijing this afternoon, he no longer tried to persuade him to stay.
After sending Mr. Liu away, Xi Jin simply cleaned up the house. After packing everything, he looked at the empty room and burst into tears.
From being forced to marry Xie Luo and embarking on the road of exile to now learning that Shangguan Bao may be thrown into a mass grave without anyone to collect his remains, everything has made Xi Jin feel painful and aggrieved.
The tears couldn't stop flowing down anymore, but after crying, life had to go on.
At least she should be lucky that Xie Luo is a good husband. He not only takes care of her in everything, but also gives her infinite respect and love. Just now, she can still have a breath of breathing in this simple house in Yazhou. Chance.
Xi Jin took out the paper Xie Luo bought, cut it into palm-sized pieces, sewed them together with needle and thread, and made several notebooks. He took out one of them and wrote down the news he had just learned from Mr. Liu bit by bit. Record it bit by bit.
Xi Jin thought that next time when Xie Luo has a day off, he must go to the town to buy a camphor wood box and lock these important items. Now there is no other way but to hide it under the pillow...
