Return to the Qing Dynasty 8o

It is said that ten fingers are connected to the heart, but the eleven fingers are also connected to the heart. The pain is overwhelming. Xie Qian couldn't stop his mouth and his body arched like a shrimp. What did the woman say, can she be an official?

I didn't know how long I fainted, but after I woke up, I thought of this woman's words.

He raised his hand uncertainly and looked at it. He was wrapped in thick gauze. A little blood color was faintly revealed from the gauze. A faint blood energy mixed with the smell of medicine and spread to the tip of his nose.

Suddenly, his tears flowed down his wrinkled cheeks, and the ravines were filled with tears, which made people feel sad when they looked.

The broken finger that had been with him for most of his life was gone, and it was removed simply and neatly.

"It's so easy?" He murmured softly like a nightmare, as if he was so incredible.

"How difficult can that be?" Lin Yutong walked out of the shadows and asked someone to turn on the lights and sit down where Xie Qian could see.

"You..." Xie Qian looked up and down at Lin Yutong in women's clothing, "Who are you?"

"The person who can cure your illness." Lin Yutong replied lightly.

Treat my illness?

Xie Qian looked at his hands and then touched his chest. In addition to his broken fingers, the biggest disease he had on his body was cough. He was always with him and his chest was unbearable.

Now I have been waking up for so long, without a cough, and without any feeling of stuffiness in my chest.

Take a deep breath, and the air that is particularly humid with cool air flows into the lungs through the nose. It turns out that a comfortable breathing is such a comfortable thing.

Close your eyes and enjoy it. A ticking sound from your ears came in. The corner of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, "It's raining..." I never knew that the rain at night sounded so moving.

"The Xie family is also a wealthy family in Gusu. The ancestors were quite prominent in the previous dynasty. They once produced twelve Jinshi, twenty-three Juren, and forty-five scholars. Later, the Ming Dynasty fell and the Qing Dynasty came in. The situation of the Xie family was not as good as before." Xie Qian lay down and said quietly. Lin Yutong did not urge him, but just listened quietly.

Sanniang's words were revealed in and out of the way. Xie Qian is a person who loves to talk about the past. Whoever listens patiently can easily gain his favor. It is the same as Sanniang, who is obviously more capable than Magu, but he only values ​​and trusts Magu.

Therefore, she didn't speak, just treated herself as an audience and listened to him patiently.

He was more satisfied with Lin Yutong who did not interrupt him casually. Even when he said that he did not show any uncomfortable expressions when he said that he did not show any uncomfortable expressions.

When he spoke, his voice became clear, "My father is the legitimate branch of the Xie family. When it was passed to him, there were only a hundred acres of paddy fields left in the family. It was more than enough to be a small landlord, and it was enough to support his wife, children, and the old and young. But my father grew up listening to the Xie family's past that his grandfather told me. He was strictly educated by his grandfather and studied hard, but he was not allowed to take the imperial examinations and served the current Qing Tartars."

"My father is also well-read, and the rules of the family are following the rules of the Xie family in the previous dynasty, which are particularly strict. However, strictness also requires strict costs. At that time, the big family had many servants at home, but later on, how could the life of the Xie family be compared with the past? If they strictly follow such rules, they would not be able to live. For example, when they eat, they had to be cooked with food, while the owner could only have the things in the plate in front of him... The rules are good, but they had to have servants first. In that case, even if the family life was still not rich, my father still bought servants for his family. Everything would follow the Xie family in the previous dynasty."

"In a few years, the situation at home has been getting worse every year. Half of the 100-acre paddy fields were sold, and when they were about to sell them again, my mother stopped them. Thinking about the family's livelihood, my mother secretly changed the remaining 50 acres of land for fifty acres of land, and gave the remaining money to my father. This was not a big deal, but my father was so angry that his mother was so angry that she swept the face of the head of his family. She was angry and wanted to divorce her mother."

"My mother gave birth to three daughters at that time, but I was not born yet. Xiu's mother's name was ready-made, after all, she did not pass on the family line for the Xie family. How could this work? My mother cried and begged, but my father just refused. The water splashed out of the words she said was not reasonable. My mother knelt down and begged, and knelt for three days and three nights until she fainted. My father was not soft-hearted. Coincidentally, after my mother fainted, my sister used the decoration on her head to ask the servant to go outside to hire a doctor. My mother was diagnosed with joy." Speaking of this, he smiled bitterly, "Yes, I was the one who was pregnant at this time. And these things I didn't have before my birth were told by my elder sister. She was nine years old at that time and had already remembered it."

"I fainted, and I can't get a break for the time being. But my mother's suffering did not end. My father stubbornly locked my mother in a temple. At the same time, he married a second wife seriously and was a concubine of a juren family."

"This concubine is young and has a good background. She is as stubborn as her father, and she also likes this concubine. After one month entering the door, the concubine was also diagnosed with joy."

"At that time, my mother was three months pregnant, which means I should be two months older than the concubine in the belly of the concubine. She was pregnant for ten months, and once she gave birth, her mother was about to give birth. Unfortunately, the concubine also called her stomach ache and was about to give birth. Her belly was extremely big and she was twins. It was reasonable to give birth in eight months. That's it. She was in front of her mother and suffered a lot, but she gave birth to twins. An hour later, I was born at full term, but I was disabled and had a deformed finger."

"When my father found out, he was furious and hugged me and put it in a basin to drown me. My cough accompanied me for the rest of my life, and that's how it happened. The child in the winter months was soaked in cold water when he was born. My mother grabbed me back like crazy. Then I had a high fever. My mother kept taking care of me for three months without sleep. I survived. My mother, who had just given birth to a child, fell ill, but the disease never got up again. No one asked for a doctor. During these three months, my father married my elder sister, and my ten-year-old sister, married the concubine.

The nephew of Shiniang's family, who was only five years old, was a child bride. When the mother knew about it, she was shocked and angry, and became even worse. She knew that her illness would not be cured. My mother compromised with the concubine for the sake of our siblings. The Xie family is a rule, and the concubine is a concubine, so it is basically impossible to be able to help the concubine. My mother talked to the concubine, and no one knew what to do. It was the two who reached a tacit understanding. The mother was responsible for persuading the tribe to form the concubine to help the concubine, and the concubine must ensure that the four of us, the sister and the sisters, live safely."

"From what happened later, my mother should have the handle of that person and handed it over to a reliable person, so that she could shock the concubine, my stepmother later."

In fact, in the ten-day Yangzhou, when the city massacre was born, there are not many juniors who know about it now. In addition to those who are like the White Lotus Sect who are still taught to their descendants from generation to generation, as time goes by, it has become increasingly weakened.

The survivor Wang Xiuchu's ten diary of Yangzhou was recorded in the middle of the Ming Dynasty by historian Ji Liuqi's late Ming Dynasty. The massacre lasted for ten days, hence the name "Yangzhou Ten Days".

Yangzhou was trapped after fierce resistance, and the Qing soldiers slaughtered and robbed them, and they did not seal their swords for ten days. "The prosperous Yangzhou city was at that time" and "there were piles of corpses, their hands and feet were pillowing each other, and blood was green and ochre, turning into five colors, and the pond was flat, "before, behind, left and right, burning everywhere", "the corpses accumulated in the city were like mess". Except for a few residents of Yangzhou who escaped before breaking the city and survived the deepest concealment after the Qing army entered the city, almost all of them were slaughtered and were only tragically killed by monks.

There were only 80,000 bodies buried, but after the Manchus entered the Central Plains, all records of Yangzhou's massacre were deliberately covered up. Therefore, many people are actually not aware of the massacre. So why do people know it in the future? That is because on the eve of the Xinhai Revolution, someone brought the Ten Diary of Yangzhou back to China from overseas, with the purpose of "hoping to resurrect the forgotten old hatred and help the revolution succeed". Yangzhou became widely known to the world in ten days.

Lin Yutong frowned. Things in the past cannot be changed, but history cannot be ignored.

She buried this section in her heart and listened to Xie Qian continue to talk.

Xie Qian seemed to be in a meeting of some kind, "The ancestral property of Yangzhou is said to be ancestral property, but it is actually a mountain field on a small hill. It is very barren, and two houses were arranged to watch it and no longer cares about it. The place was very remote, and there was only one road outside. It is said that it was bought for the Xie family to avoid the war in the heyday of the Xie family. So the tribe stipulated that the place would not be sold. The two houses built two adobe houses on the mountain, and gave me some rice and grain every month, so they no longer cares about it. Looking down from the mountain, not far from the foot of the mountain

There is a lake in the place, which is very elegant. I would sit behind the wooden house almost every day and look at the lake view from afar. Until one day, a man in a blue shirt came and wandered around the lake. I thought he couldn't think of it, so I went down to save the person. When I got closer, the man saw me running and was panting and coughing, so he smiled at me gently, saying that he just liked the scenery here. Looking at the shape of the lake, it looked a bit like West Lake... So he told me about the things outside..."

"He likes to say, and I like to listen too. The outside world has tempted me so much. I listened with relish and he was very excited about his speech. He came every day and went every day. Later he became my teacher..."

"I won't say what my teacher's name is. Anyway, he has been alive for many years. Otherwise, I wouldn't have stayed in Yangzhou and been excluded from Hangzhou."

Lin Yutong nodded, and the dead person asked what it meant. A thirteen-year-old boy met a middle-aged teacher. According to his age, even if he was not dead, he should be quite young now, so there is no need to ask.

The teacher he doesn't talk about proves that there is still a bottom line for being a human being.

"You keep saying it." Lin Yutong said this very plainly, and Xie Qian's impression of her was much better. "Mr. I told me a lot of things and instilled in me a lot of ideas. I knew his purpose at that time, but I still said I believed it. I was willing to join the White Lotus Sect, not because I believed their teachings, but because I was afraid of... I was afraid of losing my husband... I was too lonely. I cared about it, and even if there was a person's abuse, it was much better than a person."

"In order to find a better place for the White Lotus Sect, I designed the clan and asked them to sell the mountain to the gentleman at an extremely low price. From then on, there was the territory of the White Lotus Sect."

"I stayed on that mountain until the year before yesterday, that is, the year when my husband passed away. Therefore, I am very familiar with the people in the inner and outer sects of the White Lotus Sect. In addition, the husband left me the land deeds of the mountain and the land near the mountain. But the idiots in the teachings never thought that there was a land deed. I didn't say anything."

"But there are always those smart people, such as Magu. She knows the meaning of this land deed, so she has always flattered me. There is no good for no reason. Of course I know what she is planning. Hu Sanniang is an ambitious person. If I were a few years younger, I would value her more. At least I still had ambitions at that time. But now, I am old and the gentleman has left, and I have no relatives. Life is just like this. Every day I live. Magu is just thinking about the stability in front of me, which is just right for me."

Lin Yutong waved his hand and interrupted him, "I know what you want, and you know what I can give you. I know your value. Then give me one thing, I believe you must have this thing. What you have in your hands is not only those contract books, but also a list!"

"You are all familiar with the White Lotus Sect. You are the closest person to your master. I don't believe that you don't leave any trump cards. The most valuable thing about the White Lotus Sect is not the land deed, but the list inside and outside. Magu is not stupid. She has no ambitions to look outward, but what about the inside? If she wants to be a saint, the only thing she can count on is that list."

"So, you are more careful. This place is not far from Yangzhou. If you don't hurry up, everyone will run away. Who am I going to? Your confession has no meaning at all. What did I get except listening to the tragic story of your life?"

Xie Qian closed his eyes and then laughed: "Eighty-most men in this world look down on women, and they have short knowledge. But from my mother, to my stepmother, and then to all kinds of women in the White Lotus Sect, none of them are simple characters. Now the world is unfair to women, otherwise they can do something."

As he said that, he paused for a moment and said as if he had accepted his fate: "It's right on the Buddha's niche in my room, in the cushion in front of the Buddha's niche..."

Lin Yutong waved his hand, and Zheng Jia immediately turned around and went out. In a short while, he took out twelve booklets. The records were densely recorded, and even everyone's appearance, characteristics, and characters' personalities were clearly written. Of course, everyone's position and mission.

After a brief look, Lin Yutong felt that even if this was not all, it was 80%.

Give the book to Zheng Jia, "Fight and capture the big one."

When Lin Yutong went out from Xie Qian, she had to meet Sanniang and Magu. Even if she thought it was in her heart, what she should confirm was still to confirm.

Sanniang and Magu were detained separately.

Lin Yutong went to see Sanniang first, "You should have had the opportunity to live a free life, but it's a pity."

"What a pity?" Sanniang looked indifferent, "Skills are not as good as people, success and defeat of the king, that's all."

"It's easy to say." Lin Yutong stood far away, "You have always claimed to be a smart person, but you don't know that it's just someone else's hand.

The knife in the middle is you who works, but the one who really benefits others. Xie Qian is a terminal illness and his life is coming soon. He not only has the land deeds of your headquarters, but also a list of the White Lotus Sect. Guess who will he give this list?"

Xie Qian is going to die?

Sanniang believed this. When she joined the White Lotus Sect, Xie Qian was about to die. After so many years, he finally died?

It's OK to die!

But why should I give such important things to Magu? How convenient would it be if I had such a list in my hand?

I was secretly hated and annoyed, "I only know what's in my nest."

After saying that, he shut up and looked at Lin Yutong with caution, "I have suffered a lot in your hands, and I have to consider your words."

That's just that I don't want to cooperate.

Lin Yutong turned around and was about to leave, but Sanniang suddenly spoke, "Who are you? Have the court also started using women? If I had known this, I would have beaten people long ago. I don't know how many people could have sneaked in..."

Has the court started using women?

Lin Yutong felt that it was time to discuss with the Fourth Master after he went back. He had to open a hole to let people see hope, right?

Without answering Hu Sanniang's question, she walked out with her feet.

The one next door is Magu.

She is much more tactful than Hu Sanniang, "I don't want to die, I am willing to cooperate. I think you always use me when you are by Xie Qian's side. As you listen to more, you will know more. I heard a lot of secrets from Xie Qian. Xie Qian... He won't live long..."

That’s right! Xie Qian is terminally ill.

Lin Yutong's acupuncture seems to have eliminated his illness, but that is all superficial. His current situation is incurable.

He said he was given an official position after his hands were ready, haha! He couldn't hold on for even two months.

Magu's words make some sense. Now she needs people who know the current affairs like this, even if they don't like it.

Lin Yutong told the Wang family that she would give Magu some preferential treatment and would no longer care.

Just leave the follow-up matters to the sticker, and you don’t need to do them yourself.

After returning to the inn, Lao Jiu was there, "Sister-in-law, all the things you arranged are done."

Lao Jiu didn't expect that the fourth sister-in-law was also a bureau-level bureau. She eliminated the White Lotus Sect's forces in Hangzhou and asked people to pretend to be the remnants of the White Lotus Sect, wanting these people to sneak into the Cao Gang as the White Lotus Sect.

The old saying says that Zhuang Gong dances with the intention of Pei Gong. But the Queen dances with the intention of her sword, and her intention is not all about Pei Gong. The situation in Jiangnan is like a game of chess, all in her belly.

Who would have thought that she planned to attack the Cao Gang in this way?

But after thinking about it carefully, this move really works. When the queen thought of such an important thing, she asked herself to do it herself. She couldn't help but be happy, even if she was so tired that she was just happy.

Lin Yutong smiled and said, "I was thinking about what to do, but I didn't expect you to come. Your fourth brother let you go out of Beijing, probably for this. This matter is done well. When I go back, I will go and ask you for rewards in person."

As he said that, he looked at Jiufujin who came in with a bowl of soup on one side, "My brother and sister are here too, tell me, what do you want?"

Now he is the prince, and the iron hat will be sooner or later, but it will not be now.

According to the rules, you either ask for a ban for your son or ask for a ban for your daughter.

Doenyin's son still gave his daughter a higher title. Ninth Master almost didn't think much about it, "Then I will ask Hongxin for a title..." The prince's legitimate daughter was originally a princess, but she could be a princess. Now the princess's life is a good time, which is very different from the past. "But my princess only lives at home and does not go to the palace..."
To be continued...