Nine urn bridge to the east along the Donghua Gate official road to ride a horse to travel eight or nine miles of road, that is, Quyang Town Qujia in the west of the town of the first private garden three willow garden, a small lake rippling blue waves to enclose in the garden, the beginning of the garden on the north shore of the lake has three hundred years old willows, so the name of the three willow garden. This is the Qu family's statement to the outside, the old people in this vicinity know the old foundation of the Qu family, the original village on the west side of the town is called Sankeliu Village, the Qu family has been ingenious for several generations, and the land in the west of the town has been incorporated into the Qu family's grange, and the Sanliu Garden built in the grange is the place where the Qu family raises customers.

In addition to the Quji Rent Collection Inn, which has the right to collect rent and tax on nearly 200,000 acres of fertile land from the west of Quyang Town to the east of Jiangning City, on both sides of the Jinhe River and around Moling Lake, the Qu family is also the largest grain merchant and oil merchant in Quyang Town. In the peak season of the new grain market, the rice grain through the hands of the Qu family is as high as one or two thousand stones every day, and the oil mill of the Qu family occupies half of the street of Nanhe Street in Quyang Town, and the cattle of the Quji mill are nearly 300 heads.

The ancestor of the Qu family was a tax collector in Moling County, and after the inspection department was set up in Quyang Town, thirteen of the seventeen Quyang inspectors came from the Qu family; The Qu family is the leading township tyrant in Moling County.

The campers had circled more than half of the outside of Moling Lake to the west of Quyang Town, and the sun had already shown half of its face on the top of the mulberry tree in the west of the town. Approaching the Qu Family Grange, Wu Qi found that several tenants who were working in the fields were actually secret sentinels sent by the Qu family to guard the periphery of Sanliuyuan, and they did not dare to approach Sanliuyuan anymore, and they pretended to be two passers-by who did not know each other, squatting on the side of the road to rest.

After resting for a while, Wu Qi peeked at Sanliuyuan in the distance, and said secretly in his heart: The Qu family's guards are so tight, but unlike ordinary township tyrants, seeing that they really can't find a chance to get close to Sanliuyuan, they turn back to the Jinchuan estuary from Quyang Town.

In Sanliu Garden, on the pavilion on the north shore of the lake, Qu Wuyang, who had thick hair and slightly frosted hair, stared at the two middle-aged people kneeling on the stone steps with a pair of tiger eyes, and said in a deep voice with frowning eyebrows: "Living people, I lost it for you!" You even thought that Bin'er was tired of waiting and came back first, and that's how you explained it to me! ”

"When attacking the camp, I was afraid that the young master would have some accidents, so my subordinates left two people to accompany the young master to wait by the poplar forest; When we withdrew, we returned to the poplar forest, and there was no other abnormality except for the young master and the two attendants. At that time, the situation was urgent, the fire had started, and the horse infantry of the Jiangning Soldiers and Horses Division and the cavalry of the Inspectorate Department would go out of the city at any time to round up...... The subordinates will lead people to find the young master! ”

"How do you find it? In the event of such a big case, according to the Inspectorate and the Jiangning Soldiers and Horses, they may have sent people to send secret agents in the area of the Jinchuan River estuary. If you lead someone over, if you miss, won't you lead the fire to the head of the Qu family? You go and find the second master, in the name of the inspection department, to care about the progress of the case, and see if there are any clues about Bin'er! Qu Wuyang forcibly held back his worries about his only son, and asked his subordinates to find his cousin, Qu Wuming, the inspection department of Quyang Town, "You have summoned all the capable people back to Sanliuyuan, and it is not only our family that secretly covets Jinchuan Prison Island, maybe Bin'er is just for these people to take advantage of the chaos." If there is no response from the Inspectorate in the past two days, someone will knock a bamboo pole on the head of our Qu family. I'm just such a son, and no matter what the cost, I'm going to save his life......"

Qu Wuyang never thought that his only son would fall into the hands of Jiyun Society, which he thought was vulnerable, and fell into the hands of Lin Lian, and he didn't expect that even if he was willing to spend too much money to save his only son's life, Lin Lian didn't have the heart to trade with him.

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Jiangning City, half an acre of lotus courtyard, this is the newly moved house of the luxury Feihu to Jiangning as the envoy of the Marquis of Jin'an.

When the morning light was gone, Song Jia was combing her hair like a crow in front of the bronze mirror in her showroom, and there was a maid on the left and right behind her holding the bronze mirror. There was the sound of horses' hooves coming from the passage of the partition wall, Song Jia was holding a flower in her hand, listening carefully to the sound of horses' hooves, and thought to herself: What is the urgency in this early morning?

Song Jia dropped the flower in his hand and ran outside the house, and saw the secret agent outside the city, dressed in black, walking into the courtyard under the guidance of the housekeeper. When they saw Song Jia coming over, they all saluted and said, "I've seen the young lady......"

"What's going on?"

"The Jiyun Society recruited displaced people from the north bank, gathered at the mouth of the Jinchuan River yesterday, and was attacked at night, and the displaced workers recruited died 36 people during the night, and nearly 100 were injured......," the secret agent reported.

"Okay......" Yu Feihu came out of the other room, and couldn't help but applaud loudly when he heard this, and said, "Let him be hard bones, someone should have taught them a lesson." ”

"Not the manpower sent by Mr. Du?" Song Jia looked at the luxury Feihu suspiciously.

"What are you doing to kill those useless homeless people, kill chickens and scare monkeys?" Fei Feihu shook his head, denying that he had let Du Rong do this.

"Since it wasn't you who did it with Mr. Du, what's the good?" Song Jia said angrily, "If Gu Wuchen and Lin Jian are suspected of the luxury family, aren't they very wronged?" ”

Extravagant Feihu was slightly stunned, Lin Tie knew that they also had the intention of building a stack wharf on that section of the river embankment, and besides, the land on that section of the river embankment had actually been secretly acquired by Qingfeng Xing, and Lin Tie wanted to use the power of the Inspector to investigate, but I was afraid that it would not be difficult to find out, and it was easy to suspect them if something like this happened last night.

Although he wanted to teach Lin Fei some lessons in his heart, and he didn't mind that this Tan water would become more turbid, he never wanted to have a stiff relationship with Gu Wuchen before Jiang Ning gained a firm foothold, and he never wanted to be dragged into the troubled water like this; Behind this incident, most of the people are targeting Gu Wuchen, Gu Wuchen encountered assassins on the way to Jiangning, but this matter was not publicized.

"What are we going to do?" He asked his wife that he knew she was more resourceful and thoughtful than he was in these matters.

"What is going on over there, Mr. Du, take your hands for the time being. There are so many injured people in the Jinchuan estuary, there should be a shortage of wound medicine, the camp is on fire, maybe there is a shortage of clothes and quilts, etc., here hurry up to buy some people to send over, and also show their attitude when they express their condolences. Song Jia said.

"Okay, I'll let someone arrange it." Fei Fei Hu said.

"Forget it, let's go out of the city, I'll ask Mingyue if she wants to go with me," Song Jia said, "I've been holding my breath in the city these days, and I'm trying to go out of the city for a walk." ”

Yu Feihu hesitated for a moment, and didn't say anything else, only said: "You go and ask Mingyue." "Jiangning here pays attention to the beauty of the ladies and does not show their heads, but the Jin'an Mansion in Eastern Fujian is located on the coast, men go to the sea to fish, and women are in charge of the big and small things, and there are not many taboos to show up.

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The son of Qu Wuyang and the two Hu Cong killed the binding stone and sank it to the bottom of the river, and Lin Jian didn't have time to change into clean clothes, so he and Zhou Pu, Cao Ziang, Ge Cunxin, and Ge Cunxiong returned to the estuary by boat, and Wu Qi also came back with his subordinates.

The two corroborates and confirms that last night's murderer was the swordsman raised by the Qu family. In the shack that was not burned, Lin Jian sat on the ground, and angrily inserted the waist knife sheath into the soft mud in the corner of the shack, and Zhou Pu, Cao Ziang, Lin Jingzhong, and Wu Qi sat around him.

Cao Ziang's nominally elected representatives of the migrant workers, Ge Cunxin and Ge Cunxiong, led people to prevent others from approaching this shack.

When last night's tragedy happened, Lin Jingzhong blamed himself very much, his mood was very low, and he squatted aside to report the losses he had just counted to Lin Lian.

In addition to the 36 dead, nearly 100 were injured and nearly 40 were seriously injured. In addition to minor injuries, other injured people must also be moved to the city to recuperate, otherwise staying in the wilderness is not only not conducive to recuperation, but also requires more manpower to take care of them. Lin Jingzhong followed Lin Bin's instructions, first gave the family of the deceased ten taels of silver to each family, and the funeral cemetery was in charge of the Jiyun Society, and the injured would also do their best to treat them, and also promised that those who were disabled due to injuries would be borne by the Jiyun Society in the future; Most of the forty or fifty shacks that were rushed to be built before last night were burned in strings, and nearly 100 stone of rice grain in the temporary granary did not have time to be distributed, and most of them were burned to coke, so more than 10 stone of rice grain were dug out in their hearts, which was enough for these people to be rations for a day or two; Thousands of wood, straw felt, and clothing quilts were burned......

To say the least, it is also a loss of millions of dollars and thousands of taels of silver. Fortunately, these displaced people have experienced all kinds of hardships and old age on the thousands of miles to Jiangning, and the hearts of the people have become numb and strong, after the initial panic, they did not flee after dawn, even if there is sorrow and panic in their hearts, they are quite consciously obeyed the command to help each other and rescue materials from the ashes.

Listening to the sound of the neck bell and the horse's nose, Wu Qi at the door stood up and lifted the straw felt curtain to block the wind, and saw a carriage coming, Qian Xiaowu followed the carriage, and said to the people in the carriage as he walked: "Lin Gongzi is discussing things with Steward Lin and Master Zhou in the shack over there......"

Lin Jian stood up, just glanced outside, and saw Liu Yue'er poking out her worried soft face from behind the curtain of the carriage. Cao Ziang, Wu Qi and others got up and left the shack, Liu Yue'er was wearing a skirt, and she didn't care that the ground was wet and muddy because of the fire extinguishing and watering, and saw Lin Tie poking his head out of the shack, got out of the carriage, walked over with one foot deep and one foot shallow, lifted the curtain of the shack, and saw Lin Tie covered in blood, and shed tears when his eyes were open, and cried loudly: "Qian Xiaowu, who was cut by a thousand knives, lied to me and said that your Lin Gongzi is fine......" did not wipe the tears on his cheeks, and anxiously grabbed Lin Tie's arms, to see where he was injured.

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PS: Ask for a red ticket, and the brothers who don't have a collection register to collect it.