Yelv Chongguang only inquired for one day before returning to Liang Chuan with a radiant face. Probably because Song Shou and Zhao Gai were quite famous, it did not take much effort to inquire about their family affairs.
This kid ran to Liang Chuan's house with a large pile of paper materials. Liang Chuan has not returned to Xia Mansion in the past few days. Everyone in Xia Mansion is currently distracted. Qiu Fu is busy with Luo Xiaxue's lifelong affairs, Xia Xue She also sent the maids and servants in the palace to inquire about her life events. If she couldn't do it, she could only spend some money to let those people in the world secretly kill the people named Song and Zhao.
Of course, she didn't dare to do it even if she had the courage to do so. Killing someone would lead to legal action. If her father knew about it, there would be a third and fourth family until she was married off.
"Looks like I found what I wanted."
Yelu Chongguang put the pile of materials in front of Liang Chuan. Liang Chuan saw that Yelu Chongguang's handwriting was quite weak. The handwriting was not much prettier than the little Tianshi's ghost drawings. After looking at it for a while, he couldn't see what he was writing.
"Oh, I forgot. This is Khitan script. We are afraid that others will recognize it, so we usually write the characters for our hometown."
Liang Chuan looked at Yelv Zhongguang with some surprise and said, "Are you still learning Khitan script? You can't tell! No wonder I feel that these words look different."
"I know a little bit about it, but there are not many Khitans left in the Liao Kingdom!"
"Then tell me all the information you found."
Not only are the affairs of these two families not difficult to investigate, they are actually easy to investigate. They have almost become the subject of after-dinner gossip in restaurants and teahouses in Bianjing City.
Zhao Gai was also a well-established official. He was building river embankments when he knew about Hongzhou, and he killed corrupt officials without blinking an eye, without fear of offending anyone. Later, when he entered the court to study daily life, Ouyang Xiu came later than him. The court wanted to directly appoint Ouyang Xiu, who had better literary talent than him. He knew that it would be difficult for the court to do so, so he applied to be transferred from the central government to serve in a local area.
The conditions in ancient times were not as good as modern times. In the past, the whole family had no choice but to follow him on the way to work. The younger son Zhao Yuan contracted a serious disease on the road. After he was saved, he still has blood poisoning. Now the whole family is I stayed in Bianjing City. There are famous doctors and famous medicines here, which are much better than those in the poor and remote countryside.
It is said that Zhao Yuan has been ill for more than ten years. He contracted the disease on the way to Hongzhou when he was a child. It turned out to be wind cold, but he couldn't find a good doctor, so he ended up suffering from hemorrhage. Now the disease is getting worse day by day, and there is no trace of blood on the person's face. If the wind blows, he is even more afraid that the person will fall to the ground motionless.
"Hemorrhoids? What disease? Is it serious?" Liang Chuan hissed, why did he find a sick person? Is Qiu Fu crazy?
Yelu Zhongguang waved his hand and pulled out a prescription from an unknown pharmacy. Liang Chuan took a look at it. Although the words on it were Chinese characters, they were really ghostly symbols. They were written in wild cursive writing. I really couldn’t understand what was written. What a stupid word. Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions in ancient times are all treasures of the doctor, and he will not take them easily until he can find a successor. It is common to write ugly words or deliberately hide the words, just for fear that the prescriptions will be leaked out and be used by others. Others have learned from it.
"What did you write about?"
"What kind of blood poisoning does this young master suffer from? It's tuberculosis!"
What! Liang Chuan stood up suddenly. Anyone who has watched movies and TV shows knows that some of the most serious diseases in ancient times were hematoma, which is cirrhosis of the liver, tuberculosis, which is tuberculosis, and others, such as hemorrhage when a woman gives birth to a child, and she is certain to die. Even gods don’t have prescriptions to cure them!
"Have you checked with a doctor?"
Yelu Zhongguang said disdainfully: "That doctor is also a scumbag. I don't know how much he has benefited from the Zhao family. The Zhao family asked him to keep the secret, but after all, this matter is related to the life-long affairs of other people's daughter's family. Many roguish matchmakers in Bianjing City have touched it." Go to him and ask the money to ask for information. After receiving the money, this bird man's mouth is as loose as his belt, and he tells everything!"
Liang Chuan asked anxiously: "According to this prescription, can Zhao Yuan's disease still be cured?"
"What the hell, his family has bought a cemetery for him outside the city! He doesn't have a good life for a few years at all. This old Mr. Zhao has also seen through these years. He only wants to be a guest outside, and when the time comes, he will come back to cook for his son. It's a big deal, if someone's daughter is unlucky and greedy and gets cheated...!"
"what about others?"
Yelu Chongguang talked eloquently again. Song Shou was also an old scholar, and his calligraphy was praised by others. Later, the four great masters, Mi Fu and Huang Tingjian, all admired his calligraphy. Maybe the old scholar has read too many books and his eyesight has been damaged. Now he is no different from being blind. He can no longer take care of himself!
The consequence of this is that the powerful people in the family will fall by the wayside!
The person in charge of the Song family now is his wife Bi. Bi and he walked all the way from their hometown of Changshan and endured eight hundred kilograms of hardship. Maybe the wandering life in the early years was too hard, or maybe it was the hardship. A daughter-in-law has the mentality of a mother-in-law. After she 'came to power', this Bi became the evil mother-in-law who made the entire Bianjing City daughter-in-law circle fearful!
The Song family has two sons. The eldest, Song Minqiu, is the minister of etiquette who presided over the ceremony when A Guo led the delegation to visit. His wife's life was worse than death, and she had no status at all in the family. She even washed her clothes in the morning and served her tea in the evening. She even served the mother-in-law personally in the name of pretense, but in fact she was using different methods to torture her daughter-in-law. . This daughter-in-law complained about the dire straits in the Song family when she met everyone, which made the entire Bianjing city become frightened and avoid the Song family. Later, these rumors spread to Bi's ears. The more this happened, the less restrained Bi was. Otherwise, wouldn't she be sitting on the throne? To confirm his reputation as an evil mother-in-law who abused his daughter-in-law?
The one Song Shou was not yet worthy of was her youngest son Song Changyan, and the Bi family loved this youngest son the most.
"How about this Song Changyan?"
"The problem of the Song family has never been with these younger generations. Both sons are top-notch talents, but this Bi family is really vicious. As long as the maids in the family get closer to this Song Changyan, or... If you act a little bit ambiguous, you will be beaten to death by Bi Shi immediately!"
Liang Chuan was stunned. He had long heard that women in ancient times had three obediences and four virtues. When they married into his family, they followed their husbands and their mothers at home. Her mother-in-law would listen to her words more than her biological mother. It was normal for a woman to be divorced for disobeying her mother-in-law, and she would also be criticized by thousands of people. .
I also heard that wealthy families treated their servants less than animals, often beating and scolding them, and seriously killing them on the spot. I thought this was part of the plot, because killing was a felony in any dynasty, even for their own servants. Yu Xuanji, a talented woman from Li Tang Dynasty, beat her maid to death and then was killed by the government. The Song family was a member of the imperial court and had a long history of scholarship. It was impossible for them not to know this.
"Killing...doesn't the family of those maids care?"
Yelu Zhongguang sneered: "Those who were sold to the Song Mansion all signed death contracts. Their families took other people's money and sold their daughters to them. Life and death are their rights. If you sue the Kaifeng Mansion, it just means you have a bad reputation. You can find it wherever you want." The reason is that he died of a sudden illness, and then spend some money to deal with the post-mortem work. Who is willing to pay for the money without offending the powerful Song family? "
Liang Chuan said: "How many lives have been lost in the Song Mansion?"
"Last night we went to the Song Mansion to stay overnight. We happened to see the Song Mansion dragging a sack out of the back door. We thought that the chickens and dogs in the mansion were dead. We followed them all the way. The Song Mansion people went all the way to the north of the city and found a man. The barren hills buried people!”
"Have you found the body?"
"found it!"
Yelu Chongguang took Liang Chuan to the mass graves in the north of the city overnight. Yelu Chongguang pointed to a pile of freshly built earthbags and said, "This is the body of a female servant who was recently dragged out of the Song Dynasty. Do you want me to dig it up and take a look?"
Liang Chuan said: "That can't be touched. If we leave traces of us, it will be unreasonable. How about you ask Yeluhan to check this girl's life experience? It is best to persuade her parents to report to the government. Use a little money when necessary."
The two returned to Liangjiazhuang. Yelu Zhongguang said: "You have such a high status and you have made a lot of money, but what's the use? The son you gave birth to is infected with a serious disease, and you want a wife as good as a yaksha. On the surface, you look glamorous." A wealthy family in China does shady things behind the scenes."
Liang Chuan raised his head and looked at the bright moon in the sky, filled with emotion. Xia Xue was a woman who dared to love and hate. She had an old father in the family who had the status of a princess, but she married into such a family. .
"How did you find out about the Zhao and Song families?"
Yelu Chongguang originally wanted to show off his hard work, but when he thought about how smart Liang Chuan was, he gave up the idea of fooling him and said: "This matter is actually easy to investigate. It turns out that we went to two families to ask, and the matter of Zhao's son was all over the city. I know that the old witch in Song Mansion treats her servants badly, so I bought her servants with some money and came out as soon as I asked!"
Yelu Zhongguang smiled bitterly and said: "Actually, those matchmakers who talked about these things have already been eliminated!"
"What's going on?" Liang Chuan asked anxiously.
"Zhao Yuan of the Zhao family is a tuberculosis ghost, and the mother-in-law of the Song family is a hag. This has long been known to everyone in their circle of matchmakers. These matchmakers are also people with means, and they hang out with the servants of these high-ranking families. Spending money to do some hard work is to collect the secrets of each family. With this information, they can watch who is going to eat, and when recruiting matchmakers, they can choose similar targets, so that they can get the best of both worlds!"
Liang Chuan was shocked and said, "Aren't they afraid of offending people like Xia Song? Xia Song is not a light-hearted person. Look at how I was tortured by him in the northwest!"
"Haha, the more prominent the people, they have no scruples. The most important thing for these high-ranking officials is their face. If the matchmaker knows about their family scandals, they will not dare to retaliate, because they are afraid that these people will expose their family scandals! Many of them dare to retaliate. People were deceived by these jackals, and only after they passed by did they find out that this person, the high-ranking boy whom the matchmaker had praised so much, turned out to be so miserable that he could only swallow it after his teeth were broken."
"Everyone in the city knows that the Zhao and Song families are like this. Why do these matchmakers dare to openly propose marriage?"
Yelu Chongguang took Liang Chuan to a private house outside Shengmen in the west of the city. It had low earthen walls and was surrounded by dense woods. No one who didn't know the way could find it. It was the first time Liang Chuan came here. As soon as he approached the house, he heard a low roar like a beast. When he entered the house, he saw that the small earthen house was filthy. A middle-aged woman with disheveled hair was locked at the root of the wall. Liang Chuan took a closer look and saw that she was not the matchmaker who went to Xia Mansion to propose marriage!
As soon as the matchmaker saw someone entering the house, she went crazy and crawled on the ground. She looked like she had met Ye Xiaochai for the first time in Da Fei Mountain, only she was a bit more sad and resentful, as if she wanted to die with Liang Chuan. He pulled the chain around his neck and was just one step away from meeting Liang Chuan. Two members of the intelligence team were watching on the side, whipped over, and shouted angrily: "You thief, you still dare to commit murder, let's see if I can't kill you!"
What happened at this point was beyond Liang Chuan's imagination. He thought he was introducing some kind of lover to Xia Xue, but unexpectedly it turned out to be two people who couldn't be found even under a lantern. How dare this thief to introduce such a person to Xia Song? Sooner or later, he will have to settle accounts with this bitch. It seems that Yelv Chongguang has already taken care of this matter for him.
Relying on the resources and convenience at their disposal, these matchmakers have formed a gray industrial chain that even the officials in the city will not touch. If we want to deal with these matchmakers using legal means, even a family will not dare to come forward. The only means to deal with them is The only way to do it is to play dirty tricks!
Two whips dipped in salt water were thrown on the matchmaker's flesh, and exploded in an instant, making her cry like a ghost and howl like a wolf, and she no longer dared to cry anymore!
"My mother-in-law is short-sighted. She offended Mr. Xia and asked Mr. Xia to show your favor. I have several adults who have asked me to be a matchmaker. I will definitely help you find someone else!"
"It seems that your memory is not bad and you still remember me. Then I will give you a longer memory and then hit you again!"
There was another burst of wailing.
Seeing that the matchmaker was too soft, she could only say forcefully: "What kind of daughter did he raise from Xia Song? She looks like a tomboy, and she doesn't even look in the mirror to show any womanly virtues! She made the young masters of the three kings of Zhao and Song Dynasties popular. She is already a bitch. If you don't go to any restaurant on the imperial street and ask around, where can you find a trace of femininity? Who dares to marry such a woman? Mr. Zhao's son is about to die, my wife, this is Do good deeds. If you dare to resort to lynching, please let me go. I won’t hold you accountable. Otherwise, wait until I get out.”
Liang Chuan didn't wait for the thief to finish speaking. He went up and kicked the matchmaker in the face. The force was so strong that the matchmaker's face was crooked by the kick. The blood flowed down like it was free. She vomited in her mouth and lost one of her teeth. The rows of people were like mud. Looking at Liang Chuan, he was filled with fear. He just thought that this person was just trying to torture him through lynching, but he never thought that he was going to kill her!
"People say that they would rather destroy ten temples than ruin one marriage. It's better for you. I wish all these women would jump into the fire pit and have to help you count the money! Mr. Xia has long seen that you are nothing, so he specially asked me to examine you carefully. You, our eldest lady almost got killed by you! You two, please continue to accompany her and make her happy, and remember not to kill her!"
The matchmaker was still able to jump after being kicked by Liang Chuan. She stood up and cried and shouted to Liang Chuan: "Sir, please spare my life. My lord, please spare your life. I know my mistake!"
Liang Chuan felt nauseated when he went out. He didn't know whether it was because of the matchmaker's face or because of the family style of Bianjing City. Seeing their children in dire straits, these so-called wealthy families were able to pretend to be deaf and dumb for the sake of their family's reputation. Looking at the arrogant attitude of the matchmaker, if they hadn't been tortured like this, they would have been so arrogant outside.
There is an old saying when going on a blind date, you can tell what kind of person you are in the eyes of the matchmaker by looking at the person the matchmaker introduces to you. I am afraid that Xia Xue also let the servants of the Xia Mansion sell her out, one by one. Her appearance as a savage lady is exaggerated and told to outsiders.
These matchmakers are probably trying to deceive Xia Song into coming to Bianjing. The anecdotes of many families here are unclear. Otherwise, people who have stayed in Bianjing for a long time would have heard about the situation of the Song and Zhao families. How could there be such a relationship? As a relative, Xia Song loved her daughter as deeply as the sea and would not agree to anything she said.
Liang Chuan admires the courage of these matchmakers. Suppose Xia Xue marries Zhao Yuan and Zhao Yuan is killed violently. These matchmakers will probably go around saying that Xia Xue is mad at her husband, or that she doesn't have the three obediences and four virtues. Think about these disgusting things. People can ignore anything for the sake of profit, it is really damned!
Liang Chuan laughed again, and a stone fell to the ground in his heart. His behavior was also breaking up the marriage. At first, he was worried about how he would do it if Xia Xue fell in love with a good person and a talented person. Although Sun Houpu was his good brother, he was a good match. Don't let Xia Xue's life-long event be ruined because of your brotherhood. Now that a stone finally fell to the ground, these two people could not be allowed to harm Xia Xue no matter what, and Liang Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The next step was to find a way to let Xia Song 'accidentally' know about the situation of these two families.
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