After Dou Lianzhong said that, not only Gu Qinghan but Yang Ning also changed the expression slightly.
“Young Master Dou, are you kidding?” Gu Qinghan kept calm. “Lord Dou is the minister of the Ministry of Revenue. As far as I know, your family is wealthy and won’t pawn anything. And it is clear on the pawn tickets that the owner is named Zhao Xin. What does it have to do with you?”
Dou Lianzhong laughed. “To be frank, Zhao Xin is here.” He looked back and called, “Zhao, please come over.”
Somebody immediately stepped out of the people who followed Dou Lianzhong and came up. He was dressed in ordinary clothes and looked ordinary. It was hard to find him in the crowd.
“Manager Xu, do you remember me?” Zhao Xin stepped forward and saluted Manager Xu. “Last time you helped me, and I always keep it in mind.” He spoke with an accent outside the capital city and seemed to come from another city.
Manager Xu was an old hand i
The family of the Marquis of Honor was in trouble continuously. Gu Qinghan managed the big mansion and was mentally and physically exhausted though she still kept calm in front of others. She was extremely tired tonight. After they went back to the mansion, Yang Ning comforted her and she finally went to have a rest.Yang Ning was clear that if Qi Jing were alive, these successive things must not have happened, but after Qi Jing passed away, many people with evil intentions tried to add insult to injury.Although Dou Lianzhong showed up and Yang Ning found that he must have something to do with them, he didn’t think that the Dou Family was the manipulator behind the scenes.The minister of the Ministry of Revenue was a high official of the empire, but only the Dou Family didn’t have the strength to cope with the family of the Marquis of Honor.The family of the Marquis of Honor seemed to be declining, but the marquises of two gener
Since Yang Ning said the colored glaze horse was a family heirloom, Dou Lianzhong held it with both hands cautiously even though he was doubtful. At the beginning, Dou Lianzhong was serious but soon showed disdain. He glimpsed at Yang Ning. “Is this a family heirloom of the Marquis of Honor?”“Of course.” Yang Ning even showed a proud expression on his face. “Dou, have you found something magic?”“I can’t see anything magic. I think you are crazy.” Dou Lianzhong didn’t show mercy. “Except that the posture is not bad, the colored glaze is roughly made. I said that it is worth at most fifty taels of silver, but I change my mind. Even if you sell it at the price of five taels of silver, nobody would buy it.”Yang Ning sighed. “Can you buy such a treasure at the price of five taels of silver? It seems that you still think it’s a colored glaze horse.” He paused for a while and then continued, “This horse is special because it can shine at midnight,
Yang Ning just stared at Dou Lianzhong coldly, making the latter uncomfortable. Dou Lianzhong had to say, “Since I damaged it, I can pay you some money, but…” He tried hard to find proper words and asked cautiously, “But do you know how much silver this colored glaze horse is worth, Your Excellency?”“Silver?” Yang Ning sneered. “Master Dou, do you think our family needs your silver?”Dou Lianzhong’s face fell, and he responded impassively, “Your Excellency, since you said that, I have nothing to say. Just tell me what you want. Stop being so indecisive.” He sneered. “To be frank, you just brag and try to make a colored glaze horse your family heirloom. Who knows if it’s true?”“Master Dou, do you want to repudiate a debt?” Yang Ning also sneered. “It’s a pity that your trick doesn’t work in my mansion.”Dou Lianzhong replied, “In fact, we don’t need to argue. I am a reasonable man. Since you said that the colored glaze horse is ma
Yang Ning wasn’t anxious to speak, while Dou Lianzhong laughed. “My Lord, you really have sharp eyes. You can distinguish right from wrong at a glance.” Then he stared at Yang Ning with a sneer. “What else would you say?”Yang Ning asked calmly, “What do you want me to say? Did Lord Mo make the final judgment?”“Didn’t you hear? Lord Mo said it’s made of low-quality glaze.” Dou Lianzhong swelled out his chest. “That’s it. I don’t know what judgment you want.”“Lord Mo just said it is not valuable judging from the material.” Yang Ning was neither conceited nor rash. “But he didn’t say that this colored glaze horse is not a treasure. Since you know a lot about antiques and ancient paintings, you should know that some paper and ink are ordinary, but the paintings are invaluable. The real treasure is not up to its material.”Dou Lianzhong still wanted to argue, but Governor Mo had a smile in his eyes, saying, “Qi Ning is right. Only ju
Dou Lianzhong said embarrassedly, “My Lord, since you asked me to sign a loan agreement, I have no objection.”“Wait!” Governor Mo raised his hand. “It’s not that I asked you to sign a loan agreement. If you owe money to others, you have to pay. Since you have damaged the family heirloom of the Marquis of Honor, you should pay him theoretically. It’s not up to me but yourself whether you sign a loan agreement or not. If you sign an agreement, the case will be closed, and then you just need to discuss the compensation with the family of the Marquis of Honor. If you don’t want to sign an agreement, it doesn’t matter, and I can give today’s file to the Ministry of Penalty and ask them to handle this case.”“No. I am going to write a loan agreement,” Dou Lianzhong responded in a hurry.He knew that the six ministries of the country were independent. The Ministry of Penalty and Ministry of Revenue minded their own business. They might cooperate with
Jiangling was in the north of Jingnan, to the east of Chuanshu and to the south of Xianghan. There were a great river and a lake in the area, which were connected to Wuyue. It was an important transport hub between the central area and Lingnan and a place of strategic importance in the southeast. Its local government was in Jingzhou City which was famous throughout the world.At noon, there were sounds of a carriage on the official road in the east of Jingzhou City. A carriage stuttered along the road, and five or six fast horses followed around it.At the moment, the passengers could see Jingzhou City in the distance. Under the blue sky, the city was lying on the vast ground, like a huge ancient beast.After travelling for several days and nights without a stop, Yang Ning and the others finally reached Jiangling.Gu Qinghan was determined to personally come to Jiangling and check the tax revenue, so Yang Ning was naturally worried
Gu Qinghan thought Yang Ning spoke like a child, but thinking that he didn’t know about Jiangling, so it was not surprising that he had such doubts.Only the people in this area knew about the Qi family’s influence in Jiangling. The family had a deep foundation here and a member became a hereditary marquis of the country, so its influence in this area became incomparable. Speaking of Jiangling, everybody would think of the Marquis of Honor first.Although the Marquis of Honor didn’t side with others at the imperial court, everybody knew that Jiangling was the Qi family’s hometown. Any official in Jiangling couldn’t stay for long without the support from the Qi family.Although the old house of the Qi family was not in Jingzhou City, the chief steward’s position in Jiangling was inferior to nobody. Even the governor of Jiangling didn’t dare to disrespect him for the sake of the Marquis of Honor. The chief steward was the deputy of the Marquis of
The village Gu Qinghan mentioned was not big. There were low mountains near the village, with dense camphor trees and oaks, which were essential materials of charcoal. In fact, in the place within a hundred miles, the camphor tree was the most common tree. And the charcoal made of camphor wood produced here was famous all the time. In winter every year, some camphor charcoal would be sent to the capital from Jiangling.At the foot of the mountain, there were dozens of scattered houses. In the distance, it was a large area of farmland. At dusk, Yang Ning still saw some peasants ploughing on the farmland. The crops on the land had been collected, and there was nothing on it. Under the sunset, it looked boundless.“Aunt, it’s late autumn now, and the crops have been collected. Why are they still ploughing?” Yang Ning rode the horse next to Gu Qinghan and asked.Gu Qinghan smiled. “You have never been to the farmland, so you naturally don’t know. A
Qi Ning and the others waited outside the cave for a few moments before they saw White Toothpower come out, saying, "The Great Witch has given permission to go in, so all of you follow me."The crowd followed behind White Toothpower and entered within the stone cave.From the outside, the grotto is just an ordinary grotto, but Qi Ning in-depth, only to be appalled at the grotto of the project is huge, just the grotto of the vast scale, most of which is still attributed to the nature of the ghostly craftsmanship, and then later years, and by the Miao people keep building, only to have today's scale.Although the size of the grotto is not small, but is full of lonely and desolate, the people walk in the grotto, kicking and stepping, in the grotto spread out a long way, more show the quiet of the grotto.Qi Ning was even thinking at this time, if the Great Witch was alone here, alone and lonely, it was really a bit pitiful.After walking through a long tun
Several chiefs looked at each other, and one said loudly, "Dandu Bone, you have already killed the Great Miao King, do you want to make another mistake? If you hurt a single hair of Rangchadulu's head, we will definitely break your body into pieces."Dandu Bone said sternly,"Just based on Langchadulu's words, you put the blame on my Dandu Bone's head? You are all the chiefs of the villages, do you believe Langchadulu's words so easily?"Langchadulu exclaimed, "The evidence is overwhelming, could it be that I am falsely accusing you? Dandu Bone, you are so guilty that you should commit suicide in public to give everyone an explanation." Feeling the knife on the neck slightly tightened, the body could not help but tense up, and there was a trace of fear in his heart."I am Yifu of Black Rock Cave, the murder of the Great Miao King was all a trap set by Langchadulu." Seeing the blackness of the surrounding people and the flashes of swords, Yifu shouted, "It was Langch
The night was dark and moonless, and the Xishan Mountain Range was shrouded in night.The big Miao King was killed, the remains were placed within the large village of the Miao village, the village in addition to assigning some manpower to guard the various key roads on the mountain, young and old are already gathered to the outside of the large village, under the night, a group of people in the black, at least there are also thousands of people.The crying seemed to go on unabated from morning to night.During the years when the Great Miao King was alive, the Cangxi Miao Village, under his command, was almost peaceful, with people being self-sufficient and young and old in peace.Big Miao King is like a big tree, has been in the Miao village shelter, people have also been accustomed to have such a big tree protection and blessing.But overnight, the great tree of the Great Hmong King collapsed, and for many people, the murder of the Great Hmong King wa
The three of them were naturally unable to sleep this night, and by the next day, no one could be seen coming over for the entire day.The Prisoner Wolf Wall is quite a distance from the fortress, but despite this, the three of them heard the sound of weeping coming from the fortress, and in their hearts, they all knew that the news of the murder of the Great Miao King had spread throughout the fortress.The weeping continued for a whole day, and Dandu Bone could hardly help himself, and cried twice when he thought of the murdered King of the Great Hmong.This day not only no one to come over to the arraignment, and even the food delivery is not seen to come over, until after dark, only to see Chegu with another guard carrying a food basket to come over.Chegu first sent the meal between the gaps in the iron bars within Dandu Bone's stone prison, then Yifu, and finally Qi Ning's stone prison.Seeing that the meal was also still quite hearty, Qi Ning lau
At Qi Ning's words, Yi Fu suddenly came to a realization, her heart was appalled, and she said, "Langchadulu wanted to send out troops, but the Great Miao King and Dandu Bone didn't agree and insisted on negotiating, so Langchadulu set up a trap, killed the Great Miao King, and framed us and Dandu Bone for the crime.""That's my guess." Qi Ning sighed, "If my guess is correct, then we shouldn't survive a day. Now that Dandu Bone is imprisoned here and the Great Miao King has been killed, Langchadulu has become the number one person in Upper Water Cave, and it's only right that he can call the shots." With a hefty smile, he said, "The three of us are the ones he is most uneasy about right now, as long as we are dead, and the Great Hmong King is killed there will be someone to take the blame for him, and he will have nothing to worry about anymore."Dandu Bone clenched his fist and snapped, "If the Great Miao King was really killed by him, I ... I will definitely break thi
The three of them were each put within a stone cave, with Yifu in the center and Qi Ning and Dandu Bone to the left and right.As soon as Qi Ning entered inside, he knew that it was extremely difficult to get out, the cave was rocky on three sides, and only one side of the iron bars could be accessed.Prisoner wolf wall is obviously the upper water hole carefully designed place, the iron bars are made of fine iron, and on the iron lock, if the cold blade in hand, Qi Ning still think some opportunity to break out of the door, and now want to unarmed out of the cage, that is whimsical.In addition, there are also left three strong Miao people here to guard, that wooden house is the guard room, the front door is opposite to the stone wall prison, people in the inside, can notice every move within the stone prison.Yi Fu sat within the stone prison, anxious, she did not care about her own safety, but when she thought that the Great Miao King had met an untimely e
Dandu Bone's face turned cold and he said in a deep voice, "What did you say?""Dandu Bone, I heard that you have known these two for a long time?" Rangchadulu gripped the cold blade in his hand, "When you were at the bottom of the mountain, I heard that you were prepared to bring them up the mountain without the Great Miao King's orders?"Dandu Bone's face changed at first, and he snapped, "Rangchadulu, what do you mean by that?"Langchadulu seemed to still have some scruples about Dandu Bone, took two steps back and said loudly, "What do I mean, don't you understand? What exactly is the origin of these two people, you have to give us an explanation."At this time there was a crowd of more than ten people in the room, and all of them looked at Dandu Bone when they heard Rangchadulu say this.Dandu Bone clenched his fist and said, "That's right, I met them on my way back and .... they have saved my life.""It's good that you admit it." Rangchadulu
Langchadulu's voice was mournful, Eve's expression changed dramatically, and Qi Ning's face sank.The Miao people who followed Rangchadulu over were all shocked, and two of them had already snatched into the house, while Yifu had already followed into the house as well.Qi Ning followed behind Yi Fu and went in, only to see that there was a rattan chair at the corner of the house, the Great Miao King was sitting on top of the rattan chair, his back leaning against the rattan chair, but his head was drooping down on his chest, the house was filled with a smell of blood, the light of the oil lamps flickered, and Rangchadulu knelt down at the feet of the Great Miao King, holding the Great Miao King's hand, his complexion was bleak.Qi Ning's expression was cold, by the light of the lamp, but he had also seen clearly that in the chest of the Great Miao King, a blood stain, and the blood was flowing downward, obviously just killed soon.What shocked Qi Ning was no
Dandu Bone said in a deep voice, "Rangchadulu, for so many years, we Miao people have been living in harmony with the Han people, do you know what the consequences would be if we were to call in the troops from all the caves?"Langchadulu asked rhetorically, "And do you know what will happen if we are indifferent and turn a blind eye to the situation in the Black Rock Cave?" He took a step forward and said, "Our mission at Upper Water Cave is to stand up for the Miao people when they are in danger. Now that we all know that the Black Rock Cave is suffering from injustice, yet we sit back and do nothing, won't the Miao Family's 72 caves be chilled?""Not bad, Great Miao King, Black Rock Cave Eve has already told us the truth of the matter, this is obviously a trap set by the government for Black Rock Cave, they are so insidious, do we have to wait until Black Rock Cave has been killed before we react?" A Miao man said with righteous indignation, "Let's immediately send pe