The news of Wei Cheng's assassination quickly spread throughout Anyi.
After receiving the news, Tian Feng and others rushed to the guard station in the north of the city, including Wei Cheng's two personal guards.
As soon as he entered the meeting hall, Tian Feng saw Xu Chu and Dian Wei kneeling on their knees, shirtless, carrying a bundle of rattan with spikes on their backs.
The person sitting at the top is not Wei Cheng, but Wei Min.
"What are you making a fuss about?" Tian Feng walked in and said with a frown.
Dian Wei and Xu Chu did not respond, they just looked at the floor intently, their expressions full of remorse and shame.
Wei Min, who was at the head, said in a deep voice: "Yuan Hao, what happened next?"
Tian Feng took a step forward, held up his hands and said: "We have investigated clearly. Only the thirteen assassins in the satellite city have problems with their identities. The other people in the village have jointly vouched for them."
In ancient times, the system of sitting together was implemented. If one person had a problem, his family and neighbors would be held accountable. Especially some village leaders and clan elders. If the person they sponsored had a problem, they would also be in trouble.
This point was still implemented in many places in later generations until the 1970s and 1980s. In the TV series "The Courtyard", why the three uncles have the right to handle neighborhood disputes is because of this. They have the right and obligation to supervise the code of conduct of the neighbors. .
Wei Min nodded slightly, and then said in a deep voice: "Except for Satellite City No. 13, other places cannot be spared. This incident must not be easily dismissed as an accident. If Cheng'er had not been able to protect herself, the consequences would be disastrous. "
Tian Feng handed over his hand.
Wei Min looked at Dian Wei and Xu Chu who were kneeling down, exhaled, and said, "You two are also responsible, but Cheng'er already said before he went back that he deliberately didn't call you..."
"No, it was someone who was negligent at that time. Please punish me, second master." Dian Wei cupped his fists and said.
Xu Chu also raised his head and said with bloodshot eyes: "Let the young master be in danger without realizing it. The two of us have neglected our duties first. The second master does not need to worry about the young master. He only needs to deal with the two of me in accordance with military regulations. "
"Yes, please punish me, Second Master." Dian Wei agreed.
Wei Min nodded with satisfaction. Although there was a reason for the incident, as Wei Cheng's personal guards, the two of them were responsible for their responsibilities. It was a fact that the guards were not effective. If they were not punished, they would not be able to convince the public.
Think again and again.
Wei Min said in a deep voice: "In this case, I will punish you with fifty military sticks and one year's salary. If there is a next time, come and see me!"
"yes."
"Here."
Seeing this, Tian Feng stepped forward and said, "Okay, don't kneel here anymore. Go down and be punished. In the past two days, the master will arrange for Hao Zhao to follow you."
Dian Wei hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Sir, don't worry, Dian has received only fifty military sticks, and he still has to go to the young master to apologize. The responsibility of guarding should be left to Dian."
Xu Chu also raised his head and said: "That's right, from now on, Brother Dian and I will follow you closely. We will not let what happened today happen again. I ask the second master and sir to make it happen."
Tian Feng looked at Wei Min who was looking up. The two looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.
"That's all, go and be punished first. As for Cheng'er, go and plead guilty yourself later."
Wei Min also knew that he could not blame them. Moreover, these two people were very trusted by Wei Cheng. If they were dismissed from their posts now, it would not be easy for Wei Cheng to answer questions later.
Dian Wei and Xu Chu stood up, cupped their fists, bowed and retreated.
Wait until the two of them leave.
Wei Min looked at Tian Feng with a gloomy face and asked, "Have you checked clearly? Is there anyone behind this matter?"
Tian Feng shook his head and replied: "Then Wang Ying was stubborn. He only said that he planned it. As early as three months ago, a group of them disguised themselves as refugees and sneaked into Hedong. There was no one else behind it."
Wei Min narrowed his long and narrow eyes and twisted his beard and said, "It's best not to let me find out anything. Otherwise, even if Qing'er stops me, I will make them pay the price."
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Wei Mansion, Dongyuan.
The powerful recoil of Shaying dislocated Wei Cheng's right hand and strained his muscles.
After Zhang Zhongjing confirmed the injury, he simply treated it. This kind of minor injury was indeed not difficult for him.
Wei Cheng, who is also a half-traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he made sure that the joints were restored and the bones were not injured.
This tone is not worried about himself, but worried about Cai Yan and his daughters.
Ever since they learned that they had been assassinated and injured, the girls had burst into tears. If this left any sequelae, I'm afraid the girls wouldn't know how sad they would be.
"Madam, you can rest assured. I have already applied ointment on the young master. In a few days, the injury will be healed." Zhang Zhongjing said with cupped hands.
Cai Yan quickly thanked him and looked at Wei Cheng on the soft couch, tears still flowing uncontrollably.
Wei Cheng had no choice but to say: "Yan'er, please send the teacher off for me."
Zhang Zhongjing turned around and saw Wei Cheng winking at him. He immediately understood and nodded and said, "Then I will leave first. We happened to encounter a few difficult patients at the hospital. You just need to be careful not to get wet." ."
Cai Yan then put away his tears and choked with sobs: "I'll see you off, sir."
Zhang Zhongjing bowed his hands and looked at Wei Cheng angrily.
Wei Cheng smiled and thanked him.
yard.
Seeing Zhang Zhongjing and Cai Yan coming out, the women hurriedly stepped forward to ask about their injuries.
When they learned that it was just a dislocated shoulder, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and Hao Niang began to ask what she should pay attention to.
Zhang Zhongjing also knew everything, except that he could avoid touching water and drinking alcohol, but he didn't remember anything else.
Even so, Hao Niang still remembered everything in her heart, for fear that Wei Cheng's recovery from injury would be delayed due to a mistake.
"Sister, is my husband okay?"
Outside the courtyard gate, Xie Yuhuo ran in anxiously, followed by the housekeeper Wei Mu who wanted to stop him but couldn't.
When Cai Yan saw Xie Yu arriving, he frowned and said, "Yu'er, why are you here?"
Xie Yuying's eyes were red with anger. She had obviously cried a lot, and she responded as she should: "How could I not come when he encounters such a thing?"
Cai Yan looked toward the bedroom, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said with relief: "My husband is only slightly injured. You should go back first. You will be admitted next month. You must not break the rules."
Xie Yu pursed her lips and said unwillingly: "Can't you let me see him?"
Cai Yan was silent for a while and shook his head resolutely, "Rules are rules. You go back first. I will take good care of you, husband."
Xie Yu looked at the bedroom, bit her lip, nodded and said, "Okay then."
Just then.
Dian Wei and Xu Chu arrived just in time, and their clothes were stained on their backs, with horrific blood stains seeping out of their plain clothes.
Seeing the two of them, Xie Yu suddenly became furious. He picked up the clothes-drying stick on the side and swung it over.
When Dian Wei and Xu Chu saw this, they made no move to dodge.
Bang!
The long stick made of bamboo, only as thick as a copper coin, hit Dian Wei's arm firmly and broke with a sound.
Xie Yu was still angry, so he took the remaining half and gave Xu Chu a few more sticks.
"I asked you to protect the master, how did you protect me?"
"As a guard, you neglect your duties. Is this what you call loyalty?"
Dian Wei and Xu Chu looked gloomy. The physical pain could not offset the self-blame in their hearts. Xie Yu's words were like bayonets, stabbing them with shame.
Cai Yan and the other girls did not step forward to stop them. They also blamed Dian Wei and Xu Chu, but they would not act as brazenly as Xie Yu.
"Okay, don't make trouble unreasonably!"
Wei Cheng didn't know when he had walked out of the bedroom and stood at the door and shouted.
Xie Yu looked back and saw Wei Cheng's hand wrapped in a bandage, still hanging around his neck, and the tears that had stopped burst out again.
Dian Wei and Xu Chu knelt down heavily and said at the same time: "Please punish me, Master."
Wei Cheng stepped forward to help the two of them up, turned to look at Xie Yu, and said in a deep voice: "You shouldn't put all the responsibility on them."
Xie Yu was stunned, with tears in his eyes, looking at Wei Cheng in disbelief.
"Are you mean to me?"
Wei Cheng frowned slightly, "I'm not trying to hurt you, I'm just saying that what you did was wrong."
Xie Yu gritted her teeth and said angrily: "You surnamed Wei, I came to see you with good intentions, but you, you actually said that I was wrong?"
"It's just wrong. You don't know the situation at that time. I went out without them, and they didn't know about it." Wei Cheng explained.
However, no woman would listen to any explanation. At this moment, Xie Yu's mind was slowly filled with the image of Wei Qing being so mean to him just now. It was still the same sentence from the beginning: "Don't make trouble unreasonably."
So, I risked violating etiquette and law to see you, or is it my fault?
Wei Cheng also felt that he had spoken too harshly, but when he saw the injuries on the backs of Dian Wei and Xu Chu, he could not care less about Xie Yu's feelings.
"Hao Niang, hurry up and bring the medicine box from the house."
The military regulations formulated by Wei Cheng are clear rewards and punishments. Regardless of the good welfare benefits, the intensity of punishment is not something that ordinary people can bear.
After being beaten with fifty military sticks, a person of average physique would have to lie at home for at least ten days and a half. Those with a weaker physique would probably be close to death.
Needless to say, Dian Wei and Xu Chu were in good physical condition. Even after receiving fifty military sticks, they could still walk to the Wei Mansion to plead guilty.
However, the injuries of the two were not as minor as they seemed. Not to mention the wounds on their bodies, their clothes were already stained red with blood.
Just now, everyone was in front and couldn't see clearly.
At this time, Wei Cheng mentioned it, and the women turned around to take a look, and their faces turned pale.
Even Xie Yu also put away some of his temper. He looked at the wounds that were deep enough to show the bones under the rags that were stuck to the skin and flesh. Thinking of the merciless beating he had just given, Xie Yu pursed his lips and stopped talking. .
Although Wei Cheng has limited mobility with his right hand, he can still apply medicine with his left hand.
Unable to tolerate Dian Wei and Xu Chu's refusal, Wei Cheng directly asked the housekeeper Wei Mu to press down on them, patiently cut open the rags and clothes, and used alcohol to cleanse the wounds.
Anyone who has been injured knows that the pain of cleaning wounds with alcohol is not something ordinary people can endure. However, during this process, Dian Wei and Xu Chu did not even hum. Their eyes were red, and they were entangled between self-blame and emotion. together.
Don't say that Wei Cheng bought people's hearts. At this moment, Wei Cheng was really treating them with a benevolent heart as a doctor.
As for Dian Wei and Xu Chu's self-movation, it was purely an unexpected gain.
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In the south of the city, this is a cloth shop that has been doing business in Anyi for a long time.
The shopkeeper of Buzhuang looks like an amiable old man. He likes to eat a bowl of steaming buns at the snack bar across the street.
The same is true today.
After eating the buns, the shopkeeper kept the accounts as usual. When he returned, he would naturally go to the store to settle the accounts. The accounts were usually settled once every two months, and he happened to buy a piece of fairly good dark linen.
"Shopkeeper Wang, walk slowly."
"Haha, I won't give it away, I won't give it away."
Shopkeeper Wang waved his hands to the store owner, returned to the cloth shop, looked around, and walked to the stone corridor in front of the store with a normal expression.
The stone corridor is supported by four wooden pillars. Perhaps due to years of disrepair, the wooden pillars have some signs of cracking.
Shopkeeper Wang walked behind the last wooden pillar, paused for a while, and returned to the store as if nothing had happened.
"Ergou, I'm a little tired. Let's go back and rest first. Remember to send the account books over later and go to the warehouse to replenish the goods."
The boy named Ergou respectfully agreed and personally sent the shopkeeper to the backyard.
After watching the shopkeeper leave, the boy returned to the store to work.
After bypassing several small alleys and crossing Suzaku Avenue in the city, the shopkeeper came to a short old house surrounded by rammed earth.
Boom, boom, boom! ~
With a creak, the courtyard door opened, revealing the face of an old woman. Seeing the shopkeeper, the old woman looked around and saw that no pedestrians were paying attention on the street, so she opened the courtyard door.
Enter the small courtyard.
What comes into view is a slightly dilapidated and deserted courtyard.
The old woman took the shopkeeper to the east side room and said solemnly: "Son, it's your fourth uncle."
There was a sparse sound in the room, and then a deep male voice said feebly: "Why is Fourth Uncle here again? I have told you so many times that I really can't help you. You'd better hire someone else."
Hearing this, the shopkeeper snorted coldly and said: "Wang Yue, you must never forget your roots. If the Lord hadn't secretly helped you, you wouldn't have been able to escape from Luoyang, let alone...save the lives of your mother and son."
The old woman next to her looked lifeless, but when she heard these words, she glanced at Shopkeeper Wang's neck without any trace.
People who know the art must know that there are major arteries there, and just a slight cut can make people bleed.
There was another noise in the side room. Standing closer, you could hear clearly that it was the sound of someone turning over on the bed.
At the same time, shopkeeper Wang also smelled a strong smell of alcohol coming from the crack in the door, mixed with the smell of sweat, which made people feel sick.
Squeak, the door opened, and a man with a beard, not very strong, but fair-skinned walked out.
Shopkeeper Wang couldn't stand the smoke anymore. He held his nose and took a few steps back. He frowned and said, "Wang Yue, why do you have to give up on yourself so much? With your skills, can't you even live a decent life?"
Wang Yue yawned, looked at the old woman on one side, and said playfully: "Old woman, how old are you? Don't be murderous. He is my fourth uncle after all, dear."
Shopkeeper Wang was startled when he heard this, looked at the old woman, and then his expression changed drastically.
I don't know when, but the old woman who was about to die actually had a long and narrow soft sword with a strange shape in her hand.
The old woman put away her soft sword, kicked Wang Yue, and said angrily: "You brat, it's not like you don't know. I hate to see you being threatened."
Shopkeeper Wang swallowed and suddenly felt a chill on his neck.
Touched.
Fortunately, it's still there.
(End of chapter)
