Letting the tears on his face flow freely for a while, Jia Huan took the handkerchief handed to him by Daiyu and wiped away his tears. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info took a light breath, and the cool air rushed into his chest, which was very comfortable.

Now, it's not yet time to let off steam.

Jia Huan stood up and helped Daiyu to stand up again, "Sister, give my aunt a period of time, and then we will go back to Suzhou together and bury my aunt next to Uncle Lin." ”

Even a concubine with a marriage contract cannot be buried with her husband. However, he can bury Aunt Pei next to Lin Ruhai.

Daiyu agreed, "Hmm. ”

In the past few days, Daiyu has become more and more haggard. Wearing a white filial piety dress, Chu Chu is pitiful. Jia Huan sighed lightly and advised, "Sister, don't grieve too much, take care of your body." The deceased is long gone, and the living are like Sifu. ”

Daiyu said softly: "Third brother, you too." In the past few days, he has been resting at home, but he is constantly seeing and meeting customers, and he is very tired.

Jia Huan nodded, feeling that Daiyu had grown up in his heart.

asked Qingwen to send Daiyu back to the backyard to rest, and Jia Huan went to his study. The study is not big, and there are books everywhere. Jia Huan sat down at the desk and took out a beautiful long box from a drawer. When the long box was opened, inside was a well-made handcuff.

It is made of jet-black fine iron with intricate patterns on it. The spring plate made of Suzhou steel can be flint fire, and the breech loading mode is adopted, the gunpowder is poured into the fire door, and the plate machine is pulled to fire.

This is a sharp weapon that he entrusted the Wang family to help purchase. Worth 500 taels. Armor can be pierced within fifty steps. Similar to a weakened version of the pistol. There are also five vials in the box, which are five parts of gunpowder and lead bullet according to the portions.

The Zheng family hired elite firecrackers in the battalion to assassinate Daiyu, and he was reminded of this. He's going to leave himself the last line of defense. As a scribe, firearms were obviously the first thing to protect oneself. Although today's firearms still have shortcomings of one kind or another. However, enough is enough.

The family now has a ten-man squad of soldiers from the Governor's Battalion to protect his safety. And after this incident, he had to prepare to form a convoy. Money is a trivial matter, and the people around you must not be allowed to be hurt again.

Jia Huan played with the handcuff for a long time, and put it on the desk, his eyes faint.

The Zheng family does not pay attention to the rules and plays tricks. He doesn't follow the rules either. Power and money, both can kill. Zheng Guogong Deng Hong refused to help, but in the lax garrison of Nanjing, it was not difficult to spend money to check the movements of the battalion. It is not difficult to get the lives of these two ruffians.

The murderer who shot Aunt Pei directly is dead. So, what about the mastermind behind the scenes?

Aunt Pei was hit by lead bullet in front of him and died in agony. She should have lived! She is only 21 years old, an age like a flower. If he doesn't get rid of the main messenger behind the scenes, he will not be able to feel at ease in this life.

Because, the reason why the enemy kills people, the reason is on him.

Jia Huan's mind swept over Zheng Yuanjian's disgusting face, as well as the Chen family. What role does the Chen family play in this matter? Zheng Yuanjian, a businessman, dares to take revenge on him without the backing of officials?

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In Aunt Pei's first seven, Jia Huan had two murderers shot and killed, and the blood sacrifice to Aunt Pei's spirit in the sky slightly soothed the grief and grief in her heart. But this is not the end of "revenge"! And that's just the first step!

On the evening of 16 August, two musketeers from the Nanjing Military Garrison were killed in a private dormitory outside the camp. After receiving the report, Jiangning County immediately sent people to investigate. But in the end, nothing was found. Gradually, the news spread.

The next morning, the situation was reported to the Nanjing garrison Zheng Guogong Deng Hong's desk. Deng Hong scolded in the hall: "How dare the kid be so rude? ”

This matter must be inseparable from Jia Huan, who was at home for Aunt Pei's funeral. Many things, you don't need evidence, you just need opinions. Jia Huan has the most motive to kill. However, Jia Huan killed his soldiers, which is too indifferent to him, right?

"Someone!" Deng Hong shouted angrily.

Two soldiers came in from outside the hall, bent down and saluted, "Grandpa! ”

Deng Hong retracted when he reached his mouth, and waved his hand, "You go out first." "He can embarrass Jia Huan, and he can not help Jia Huan find out who the murderer is. It's just a trifle, a personal opinion.

But if you send troops to arrest Jia Huan, it will be tantamount to tearing your face. The stakes are too high. The Jia family has an imperial concubine in the palace. Prince Teng, the commander of the Nine Provinces, worked as an errand in the Military Aircraft Department, and was quite trusted by the Son of Heaven and the Chief Minister of Military Aircraft, Scholar Xie Xue.

"Made!" Deng Hong returned to the study, wrote a warrant, and asked his commander to take people to Jiangning County to exert pressure. Demand that the murderer be caught.

The matter has to be resolved by going back to the official process. His family has a big business, but he is not a businessman like Zheng Yanshang who has no vision and level.

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The two gunshots fired on the night of 16 August gave the city a rather noisy atmosphere. Many powerful people go out with a large number of guards. For the boy who broke the rules, he didn't like it.

It's a dangerous seat. Who knows if he will do something to them in the midst of his grief? After all, when they investigated the case, they didn't play a good role in preventing him from seeking justice.

This "they" include the Chen family, the interest circle that sells grain at high prices, Jia Yucun, the prefect of Jinling, several newspapers that compete with the Jinling Briefing, and the Zhen family. The Zhen family has made a lot of effort in promoting the rumors that Jia Huan is about to go crazy.

This kind of dislike made the invisible net of interests in Jinling City entangle and force Jia Huan more tightly: first of all, the sales of perfume have been greatly discounted, and many merchants who have placed orders have begun to return them. Many powerful people no longer use the perfumes sold in Jia Mansion in their homes. Then it was rumored that the perfume makers of the Jia family were poached. Soon there were rumors in the city that the Chen family's Chen Kee was about to launch a new perfume supply market.

The Jia family's various businesses and clansmen in Jinling City have more or less encountered some problems and bad things.

Second, the price of grain in Jinling soared again after 18 August, reaching the price of 2 taels of silver and one stone.

Jia Huan's incident looks tragic, tense, and cruel, but it has a limited impact on the lives of the people and citizens. And it wasn't until the price of rice rose that the people habitually turned their eyes to the Jinling briefing that spoke for them last time, and suddenly many people found that the Jinling briefing had been seized. However, during this time, they have stopped reading the Jinling Bulletin and have read other newspapers.

Wang Heting, a salt merchant in Yangzhou, organized Hui merchants to support the disaster relief work of Sha Sheng, the governor of Huaiyang, in Huainan, and organized a grain ship to transport a batch of grain from Nanjing, and then returned again, but the price of grain was high at this time.

Shosho Wei Hong, who was in charge of the disaster relief affairs, was worried and tried his best to maintain the situation. However, the situation is already very bad.

At this time, Jia Huan, who was in the center of the whirlpool, arranged for monks and Taoist priests to come to the house to do things for Aunt Pei, and according to custom, they did 30 days of rituals, and then Jia Huan would take Daiyu to help her coffin go to Suzhou for burial.

In the past few days, Jia Huan has been thinking and deliberating on his plans at home. In Lu Yuanwai's opinion, he is simply terrible with a deep heart, and every step is good. But behind this, there is a lot of preparation and planning work.

For example, he published an article in the Jinling Briefing attacking Jia Yucun's inaction and encouraging Shilin to spurn Jia Yucun. Of course, he wanted to publish the article, and he wrote it for one night, and every word was like blood and a knife. But at the same time, it also made the intention of failure.

If Jia Yucun becomes angry and seals the Jinling briefing, how will he respond? This is what he pushed down the river after the Jinling briefing was seized, hiding at home, pretending to be angry and frightened. In fact, he had already passed on his "order" through Xiao Youan.

During the period of thinking and deliberation, Jia Huan went out. I received an invitation from the mountain chief and went to the mountain chief's house for dinner. At the same time, it conveys his willingness not to use simple, crude methods of murder. One thing can be one, no more. He will still be mixed in the civil service circle in the future.

Mountain Chief Zhang Anbo also needed a result to help Jia Huan explain to his friends. Civilian circles will reject those who use assassinations. This is where he needs to remind Jia Huan, but Jia Huan has a reason for this incident. will be understood.

Time has passed in peace for three or four days. Autumn clouds are a bit light. The wind is getting colder.

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On the morning of August 20, Chen Zize, the fourth son of Chen, came home from the Qinhuai River, and just entered the Weeping Flower Gate, he happened to meet the eldest brother Chen Zizhen in the corridor of the courtyard with four little servants preparing to go out.

"Good morning, big brother."

Chen Zizhen was dressed in a brocade robe, in his forties, looking at his younger brother who was yawning and his eyes were blue, he knew that he was overindulged last night, and said with a smile: "Zize, you take it easy." ”

Chen Zize smiled proudly.

Chen Zizhen remembered one thing and reminded: "Oh, you have been going out with more people recently. The kid surnamed Jia is now overwhelmed by hatred. Beware of him jumping off the wall and hurting you. ”

Chen Zize sneered: "Isn't he satisfied that he killed those two big-headed soldiers? Still want to go crazy? The last madness before death! Zheng Guogong is a nobleman and cares about Imperial Concubine Jia. Won't our family be afraid of concubines? ”

Chen Zizhen smiled slightly, nodded his younger brother, and took someone out.

Indeed it is!

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Zheng Yuanjian left Jinling with his entourage on 17 August.

In the grain price war in Jinling City, many heavyweights participated in the competition. He couldn't afford to be a businessman. Since the Zheng family didn't need his name and sold him, he still went back to Yangzhou to avoid the limelight first.

Zheng Yuanjian didn't think that Jia Huan would continue to send people to assassinate him, but he still brought some guards, and when the boat crossed the Zhenjiang River, he stayed for a day to relieve his mood and meet friends, and only arrived at the banknote gate in the south of Yangzhou on the afternoon of the 21st.

Just after the cold dew, autumn colors can be seen everywhere on the shore, docks and other places. The autumn wind is blowing suddenly, and the boats on the river are still thriving.

Zheng Yuanjian was dressed in a beautiful green shirt and robe, a rich and noble man, with two entourages and six escorts disembarked into the city, and met an acquaintance at the city gate, Yang Qianzong of Yangzhou Military Garrison.

Zheng Yuanjian sat in the sedan chair, the maid inside opened the curtains, and Zheng Yuanjian appeared to speak, "Mr. Yang Qian hasn't seen him for a long time, why did he make a fortune at the gate of the city today?" ”

The city gate has always been a good place to get someone.

Yang Qian, who was about 1.8 meters tall, had a bronzed face, rough hands and feet, and was wearing a red mandarin duck jacket in the army, and walked over with a smile, "Actually, I am here to wait for Zheng Yuanwai." ”

Zheng Yuanjian was a little curious, "Oh? ”

The next moment, a big hand poked in through the car window and pinched Zheng Yuanjian's throat. Mr. Yang Qian dragged Zheng Yuanjian's head out of the car window, and shouted, "On the order of the Sha Army, arrest the criminal Zheng Yuanjian, and those who resist will be killed!" (To be continued.) )