"Why are both group leaders dead?"
In the Luxiang Garden, Miao Ruiyun was carefully appreciating the embroidery samples. When he heard Wang Yuesheng come in and tell the bad news about the firearms factory, he couldn't help but raise his face and asked Wang Yuesheng in surprise.
Yuesheng put down his qin and said respectfully: "Team Leader Liu has always been diligent and smart, and always comes up with little ideas. According to the rules set by Miss Zheng, I often give him silver rewards. He has a lot of money, and he is in the village at the foot of Sheshan Mountain. He appointed a little girl to be his concubine. His wife often had quarrels with him because of this, and he refused to go home. Unexpectedly, the old bachelor Chen, the deputy deputy, took advantage of the situation and secretly had an affair with Liu's wife. , and made a mandarin duck. I don’t know who told Team Leader Liu, and Team Leader Liu tricked Team Deputy Chen into going out to swim in the river and poisoned his tea."
Miao Ruiyun looked confused: "Then why is Team Leader Liu dead?"
Yuesheng said: "According to what the boatman told the Yamen, when he saw that Team Leader Chen looked wrong, he was so frightened that he asked Team Leader Liu if he had tampered with the tea soup. Who would have thought that Lao Chen actually had a chisel in his body, and he was so angry that he died. After knocking down Team Leader Liu and gouging his face and temples, how could Old Chen survive?"
"Oh, that's it," Miao Ruiyun stared at the shadows of trees on the ground that were mottled like copper coins, and asked, "did you go and listen to the county government's trial? What's the background of the boatman?"
Yuesheng understood that Miao Ruiyun suspected that the case was not that simple, and said eloquently: "Returning to Atai, Yuesheng and Mr. Sun both went to hear the trial. The boatman came from Jiangbei to work hard. After the accident, he immediately went to the shore to shout. If it was for making money, If you want to kill someone, it shouldn't be like this. As for grudges, the county magistrate asked Mrs. Chen, Sheshan's concubine, and the neighbors of the Chen and Liu families. They all said that they didn't know the boatman, and they didn't have any grudges even if they wanted to."
Miao Ruiyun nodded and did not ask further. Instead, he rubbed his temples and said softly, "Let's play "Xiaoxiang Shuiyun" today."
But Yuesheng hadn't finished talking about the business yet: "Atai, the Shang Governor of Fujian is determined to clear out the gangsters in the Fujian and Zhejiang seas who colluded with the Frankie people. He has recruited Ding Zhuang and asked our firearms factory for 300 combined guns. Guns. At the moment when the fire was burning, something happened in Group B, and Ge Hong's fellow villagers had not yet come south. Master Gu recommended an old blacksmith to come over, saying that he had helped him make the iron tools sent to Chongming, and he knew how to make them. Making steel is the key to the blunderbuss."
"Oh?" Mu Ruiyun's eyes flashed, "Yesterday A Qian came to say hello, but I didn't hear him mention it. Why is this kid so tight-lipped? He didn't say anything about something going on at the firearms factory. He wanted to bring people in, so he didn't say anything. explain."
Wang Yuesheng smiled: "Master Sun and Master Gu, they are men who have done great things. They cherish their words like gold and are calm and measured."
Mu Ruiyun pursed his lips and smiled.
This girl, Yuesheng, can occasionally show her true colors from when she was a female envoy on the Qinhuai River. She also puts on a cold look on her face. In her heart, she is still flattering towards men who are either rich, noble or talented. Like Zheng Yatou, her heart is always the same as that of a man.
Miao Ruiyun then nodded and said: "This might as well be a blessing in disguise. I brought up A Qian. He has no blood relatives but adopted relatives. It is a good thing that he can slowly join the firearms factory. You might as well do it more in the future. We will gradually add fuel to the fire and bring some old blacksmiths from Fujian to the factory. I think Sun Yuanhua will go to the Ministry of Industry in the capital sooner or later to seek an official position. How can literati like them really be willing to spend their entire lives in a workshop?"
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In May in Sheshan, the plum season has not yet arrived, and the weather is comfortable.
From time to time, there are cranes chirping in the pavilion and deer playing in the forest. Therefore, just like when the forest is dyed in late autumn, it is crowded with tourists.
There is also a lot of incense in front of Wusheng Temple.
"Master, the one supported by the maid in green is Miao Ruiyun."
In the forest, next to a stall selling Sha Guo "Thirsty Water" (a kind of fruit and vegetable drink), Han Xiying, who was wearing a round sun hat fashionable for women in Southern Zhili, looked fierce, and spoke in a low voice to Tong Xiyu, who was also dressed in the same style. whispered.
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Tong Xiyu took a sip of the refreshing thirsty fruit drink, glanced sideways at her little slave, and then turned back to ask her number one servant, Ding Jia's mistress Li Desheng: "Have you looked carefully at that old face?"
Li Desheng said earnestly: "Look carefully at what I said to the master. When does the master want to take action?"
Tong Xiyu Yangzuo asked Han Xiying considerately: "Girl, I am your enemy. It is up to you to set a date for my death."
Han Xiying had already put aside her hatred and said with a sweet tone: "Master came forward to make the decision for the slave and wanted this old thing to die at the third watch. Her life will not be saved until the fifth watch. However, it is only the first watch now, Brother Du I just entered the firearms factory and took the novices to forge gun barrels. I didn't even get a chance to see the blast furnace and how the clay molds of the cannons were made. Furthermore, he said that my brother-in-law was drawing a new book on various firearms for Sun Yuanhua, and he wanted to wait for us. When we retreated to the north, we took away the people and the books together. I thought that I should not kill Miao Ruiyun first, otherwise, if something happens to the old lady, the Gu family will be in panic, and my brother-in-law's books will be interrupted."
Tong Xiyu bared her buck teeth and said with satisfaction: "Ah Ying, if our team really gets the recipe for making cannons this time, when we return to Hetuala, our old Tong family may be able to raise the flag and enter Under the banner of Sibeile. At that time, I will ask Fujin to come forward and find you a Niulu Ezhen, and ask him to accept you as his adopted daughter. Your life will be much easier in the future. I will hold your brother-in-law as your little master in Jianzhou. Don’t worry. Down."
If it weren't for the coming and going of people, Han Xiying would have knelt down to thank Tong Xiyu for her arrangement.
She believed from the bottom of her heart that God would pity Han Xiying after all. People who could not be found in Songjiang back then were able to be kidnapped and made into mandarin ducks by foreign tribes. It was considered a long-lasting and satisfying ending.
The little bitch named Zheng will definitely kidnap Hetuala, and he will watch her become the lowest wrapper. As for the eldest sister Han Ximeng, it was hard for Han Xiying to decide how to deal with it. After all, the two sisters had gotten along well together in their childhood and girlhood. Han Xiying was a little reluctant to kill his biological sister who was good to her in the same way as she killed Miao Ruiyun.
A few days later, this group of people with ulterior motives hurried to Taicang Beach and met Tong Yangzheng, Tong Fengnian and his son. The plan conveyed by the Tong family solved Han Xiying's problem.
"Chongming Island's artillery can't be taken away anyway. What Sibeile means is to let Master Yue Tuo and our people bombard the Zhengjiazhuang to the ground. Firstly, it will bring out Fushun's bad breath, and secondly, it will give Jianzhou The Han people’s dog slaves will establish their authority again, let’s see who among them dares to flee south!”
As soon as Tong Xiyu heard Huang Taiji's order, she found it interesting, and asked her second brother Tong Yangzheng: "Do you mean to wait until you buy the gun from that Yao Qianhu before you take action?"
"Well," Tong Yangzheng nodded, "coincidentally, I heard that a man named Zheng is going to host a wedding banquet for his nephew in the Zhuangzi. It will be a great achievement if he can kill a few prominent people at the same time. "
When Han Xiying heard this, she thought that judging from the investigation, Han Ximeng was still in Chongming and would be within the artillery range by then. God would decide whether he lived or died.
