Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 146: Lengthy "Last Words"

Madam Wan and Di Jiuzhou looked at the corpse on the chopping board and shook their heads in unison.

"I have never seen it before."

Although Di Jiuzhou is the vice-president of Qiyun Jinbiao Society, he is also an officer of the imperial guards.

It's just that he is specifically responsible for managing the business outside for the Palace Front Department. He does hold a military position, so there is no problem with calling himself a subordinate.

They had indeed seen the tall man in the straw raincoat that Eunuch Li brought to Qiyun Society, but even if they recognized him as a Jin man at that time, how could they dare to admit that they knew the Jin man?

Zhang Quwei secretly breathed a sigh of relief and pointed at another corpse: "This person was found on the same boat with the Jin man. His face had been smashed by the Jin man's iron bone, so it was difficult for us to identify him. Look, it's the assassin who appeared in your Qiyun Society."

Madam Wan and Di Jiuzhou moved closer.

They looked at the face of the corpse. The eyebrows, eyes and facial features were smashed by Tieguduo. Although it was not completely unrecognizable, it was already a thousand miles away from being recognizable.

Besides, this man was very agile and swift as a leopard last night, and he appeared in the dust, so it was impossible to see his appearance clearly.

Even if this person's face is intact, it is not enough to make a judgment at this time.

Madam Wan's eyes fell on the man's ribs. She walked forward, used her body as a shield, stretched out two fingers, and quickly lifted the white cloth covering the corpse.

In order to facilitate the coroner's examination, all the clothes on the corpse had been removed, leaving the body naked under the white sheet.

Madam Wan took a quick glance and saw the wound under the ribs of the corpse.

Madam Wan was delighted and quickly put down the sheet.

Di Jiuzhou took a careful look at the corpse's clothes hanging on the wall in front of him, and they were indeed those of the assassin.

Di Jiuzhou and Madam Wan looked at each other and shook their heads together.

Di Jiuzhou said: "Zhang Dayong, this person is not the assassin who appeared in our Qiyun Society."

Zhang Quwei was relieved when he heard this. He was really afraid that Eunuch Li would have something to do with the Jin people, which would implicate him.

Zhang Quwei said happily: "It seems that this is another case that happened last night. Since it involves the Jin people, it should be taken over by the National Information Office or the Imperial City Office. This matter will be handed over to the National Information Office, and you Lin'an Prefecture does not need to care about it."

Cao Yong felt relieved and agreed with a smile.

……

The Song Family Flavor Building is located in front of the courtyard which is being renovated, on a small stone bridge connecting the two banks.

Old Man Song, Old Man Ji and Uncle Gou were standing on the bridge.

Uncle Gou pouted and said, "Old Song, you still think we are too slow. Can you do it? You lost us again."

Old Man Song glared and said, "If I was only responsible for keeping an eye on him, I certainly wouldn't have lost him. But last night, I had to spy on the enemy, remove the spies, and kill the enemy. I was too busy to do both. How could I not lose sight of one thing while taking care of the other?"

Uncle Ji rolled his eyes at Uncle Gou and said unhappily, "After what happened last night, it was already difficult for us to escape unscathed. Old Song is lame in one leg after all, so it's not surprising that he didn't find any trace of that kid."

At this time, Qu Jianlei came hurriedly.

"Everyone, I just heard that a small boat was found on the river near Zhonghefang. There were two bodies on the boat, one was a young man in blue clothes, and the other was a Jin countryman."

When Old Man Song and the other two heard this, their faces suddenly changed.

Uncle Ji and Uncle Gou stopped arguing and looked at Old Man Song worriedly.

Father Song said in a deep voice: "Found it near Zhonghefang?"

Qu Jianlei said: "Yes!"

Uncle Gou said, "If we flee from Qiyun Society to the city, through Qianhu Gate, Qingbo Gate..., and take a boat..., it is possible..."

Father Song said grimly, "I'll go take a look."

Qu Jianlei glanced at Uncle Gou and said, "You should go too, so we can take care of each other."

Uncle Gou nodded and immediately followed Old Man Song.

……

Renmeifang, in the residence of Li Shishi.

She placed her hand gently on Yang Yuan's forehead, feeling a little worried.

Yang Yuan is now sometimes lucid and sometimes confused. His biggest problem is that he has internal injuries.

Although the penetrating wound under the ribs did not damage the vital internal organs, it did damage the internal organs.

The outside can be bandaged with medicine, but the inflammation that occurs during the healing process of the internal wound requires the help of oral medication and relying on his own resistance to get through this most dangerous time.

Yang Yuan also knew that with the medical methods of this era, he would have to rely largely on himself to get through this kind of internal injury.

In fact, even in the future, this kind of internal wound will not need to be sutured everywhere. However, the use of modern antibiotics will greatly reduce the risk of the healing process. In this era, we can basically only rely on hard resistance.

Li Shishi didn’t know whether he could make it, but she felt that his physical condition was not good at the moment.

It seemed that before he was injured last night, he had been constantly consuming and overdrawing himself, which made him look particularly weak at this moment.

"I...can't hold on any longer?"

Yang Yuan asked Li Shishi in a daze.

Li Shishi retracted her hand and said with a straight face, "If you really think so, you probably won't be able to hold on. If you want to hold on, of course you have to hold on with all your strength. Although I can't say that my medical skills are superb, they are still passable. I think you haven't shown signs of death yet, so don't talk about death lightly."

Yang Yuan laughed and couldn't help coughing.

In order not to disturb the wound, he tried his best to suppress it. After the coughing subsided, he gasped and said, "I have two things I want to ask of you, Madam..."

Li Shishi said coldly: "Wait until you are almost dead."

Yang Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid that when I'm really going to die, I won't have time to tell you. Just in case, just in case..."

Li Shishi was silent for a moment, then said, "Then just tell me."

Yang Yuan thought for a moment: "The exam is just a few days away, right? The results will be posted one month after the exam. I... promised to invite a few friends to have a feast at Shuiyunjian. Madam, please tell Dan Niang and ask her... to go and invite them on my behalf."

Li Shishi raised her beautiful eyebrows and said, "That's it?"
She thought there was something very important that needed to be told to her, and she was really angry.

"You are about to die, and you still care whether others eat the 'burnt tail banquet' or not, you..."

Li Shishi suddenly understood: "You want to make Shuiyunjian famous, right?"

Li Shishi said with a half-smile: "I never thought that you would still care about Dan Niang's business even though you are about to die. You are really an infatuated person."

"Madam, you misunderstood. Dan Niang and I have nothing to do with each other. I just thought that people leave their names behind, and wild geese leave their voices behind. I have come to this world, so I must leave some traces behind, right?"

Li Shishi didn't understand. You want to leave some traces in the world. What does that have to do with entertaining a few scholars?
Li Shishi said: "This is one, what about the other one?"

Yang Yuan said slowly: "There is one more thing. Yang... must first confess a crime to the Madam."

"How to say?"

"I... am not an investigator from the Imperial City Department."

"Huh?" A hint of surprise flashed across Li Shishi's eyes.

Yang Yuan said: "My eldest brother is the soldier of the imperial city. The reason why I found Dan Niang and asked her to help deal with Wanyan Quxing was actually because, in order to escape from the predicament, I took the initiative to help the noble lady of the Jin Kingdom to cancel the engagement..."

Yang Yuan explained the whole process, and Li Shishi's face turned noticeably colder.

Yang Yuan naturally knew that she was very unhappy, and smiled bitterly: "I asked Dan Niang to help me, but I also helped Dan Niang solve the problem. We have nothing to owe each other. It was just an accident that you, Madam, were involved. Yang is not without guilt, so... I killed Deputy Envoy Han!"

Li Shishi was surprised and asked, "Did you kill that bald golden man?"

"Not bad!"

Yang Yuan briefly explained what happened, and Li Shishi's expression eased: "Although you lied to me, you still have a conscience. It's worth it for me to save you today. Let's just forget about this matter."

"Thank you ma'am!"

Yang Yuan was really tired after saying so much at once.

He panted for a few times, but didn't see Li Shishi offering him water. He knew that she still had some grudges in her heart, so he licked his lips and continued, "The second thing is to trouble Madam to write a letter and send it to the camp of the Three Yamen Imperial Guards. You can write on the letter that it is from the Palace Commander Yang Cunzhong personally..."

Yang Yuan told him about his elder brother's death and what he found strange about it. Originally, the people of the two countries each served their own masters. Whether it was open fighting on the battlefield or hidden fighting under the battlefield, it was all based on their own abilities. Life and death were determined by fate, and no one else could be blamed.

However, when one's own people colluded with the enemy and stabbed him in the back, we have to talk about it.

Yang Yuan discovered that there was something fishy going on and found out that it was Guo Xin who was collaborating with the enemy and selling out the country, so he was willing to sacrifice his own life to take revenge on them.

He thought that these words would scare Madam Li to death, but unexpectedly, Madam Li was so delighted by what she said.

When Yang Yuan talked about the great success of "Zhiweitang", Li Shishi was so happy that she wanted to clap her hands and cheer.

Just based on the fact that she was only sixteen years old and yet she dared to offer a reward for the assassination of Liang Shicheng, the Grand Marshal and the most powerful person in charge of the military power in the Song Dynasty, you can probably imagine her character.

This was a man who enjoyed settling scores and was not afraid of big troubles. Yang Yuan burned to death nearly two hundred traitors who were traitors and collaborators with the enemy, which made Li Shishi feel very happy.

She brought the bowl over and carefully fed Yang Yuan some ginseng chicken soup to moisten his throat. She said gently, "Tell me slowly. You won't die for a while."

This consolation... was a little too blunt, but Yang Yuan could understand it.

It’s not that Mrs. Li doesn’t know how to say nice things, but she is too lazy to pretend to be nice to people she feels close to.

Then, Yang Yuan talked about how he kept a person alive when the fire broke out in "Zhiweitang", and found out the existence of the "Three-night Killer". He then sneaked into "Qiyun Society" and overheard a big secret in Chengchen.

After hearing this, Li Shishi thought for a moment and said slowly, "In this case, I suggest that you do not go directly to the Imperial Guards, but go to the Imperial City Department."

Yang Yuan was startled: "Why is this?"

Li Shishi said: "The Imperial City Division lost so many people. Although they have no evidence and cannot take revenge like you, they must hate the National Trust Division in their hearts. This is the inexplicable hatred!
"You said that when you escaped from Qiyun Society, their assassins were fighting with the people from the Imperial City Bureau. Although it is still uncertain whether the Imperial City Bureau is seeking revenge for their murdered comrades, after this incident, the two sides are bound to be even more hostile to each other, and there will be no possibility of reconciliation."

"good……"

"Therefore, the Imperial City Department is now very willing to get a weapon that can deal with the National Trust Institute."

"But this matter involves the Imperial Guards. The Imperial Guards' identities are no less sensitive than the Imperial City Bureau. It is impossible for the Imperial City Bureau to investigate the Imperial Guards without any evidence."

Li Shishi said: "Through the Imperial City Department, we will inform the generals of the Imperial Guards. If one more government office knows about this, it can also prevent the three government offices from covering up this matter out of various taboos or because of some kind of profit transaction."

Yang Yuan said: "Yes, yes, my mind is a little unclear now, Madam is right."

Master Li took the wet towel off his head, wrung it dry, and put it back on his forehead.

When she put the towel on him, she tested his cheek with the back of her palm and frowned slightly.

His face burned even more. It was rare that Yang Yuan could hold on until now without talking nonsense.

"Gone?"

"Gone."

"Then drink the ginseng soup first, and then have a good rest. Maybe you can get through it."

Li Shishi picked up the soup bowl, scooped a spoonful and handed it to Yang Yuan's lips.

However, her brows were still slightly furrowed, and she was no longer optimistic about Yang Yuan's injury.

After explaining so many things at once, Yang Yuanlei's consciousness became a little distracted.

He didn't notice the spoon that was passed to his lips, and murmured, "A good beginning and a good end. There is a give and take. I... don't owe anyone anything. No... that's not right, only her..."

Li Shishi retracted the spoon and looked at Yang Yuan in confusion.

Yang Yuan closed his eyes and murmured, "Nine out of ten things in life are not satisfactory. There is no perfect solution. When faced with two evils, I have to choose the lesser of two evils. I can only... I can only..."

He suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes showed his spirit again: "Madam, I have another thing to trouble you..."

Li Shishi looked at Yang Yuan helplessly, what was this?
When a person is about to die, he still keeps talking? This is not the end yet...

Yang Yuan perked up and said, "I... have a friend who will be invited to the 'Shuiyunjian' for a banquet after he passes the high school entrance exam. His name is Lu You."

Li Shishi asked, "What happened to him?"

Yang Yuan said: "He once asked me to go to Shaoxing with him after the exam to attend the 'Shen Garden Meeting'."

"so what?"

"Madam, please... think of a way not to ask him to go."

Li Shishi asked curiously, "Why is that?"

Yang Yuan's mind was sometimes clear and sometimes confused. He said, "Because, because of the red and tender hands, the yellow wine, the spring scenery all over the city... the willows on the palace wall..."

Li Shishi asked curiously, "Are you reciting poetry?"

Yang Yuan said in a daze: "Stop him, don't let him go. Go and see, go to Shen Garden in Shaoxing and see, if...if he has already written that poem, then...eradicate it! Eradicate it! That thing that kills people..."

Li Shishi looked at Yang Yuan in surprise. She had never seen such a person before. It was not right for him to talk nonsense and have such divergent thoughts, right?
What on earth is he talking about?

She didn't know that Yang Yuan thought of Luxi first and then thought of Lu You.

After Luxi and he entered into a marriage, it was the most intimate relationship recognized by society.

Even if Luxi did not participate in his revenge and was unaware of it, Yang Yuan would be implicated once his actions were exposed.

Now, he was going to die here in obscurity. What he had done was never known to the imperial court, so there was no question of him being implicated.

But, if the engagement is still there, based on his understanding of Luxi, this young girl in her prime will have to stay with him for the rest of her life.

That was not the result he wanted to see. He would rather Luxi forget about him because she hated him, and then go find her own happiness in the future.

She is only sixteen years old!

So, he suddenly thought of Lu Fangweng.

This man just couldn't stand the pressure from his mother, so he divorced his cousin Tang Wan, who loved him deeply, and sent her back to her parents' home. Then, he married another woman.

Tang Wan also came from a family of officials. She was both talented and beautiful, and had no shortage of suitors.

Zhao Shicheng, the Prince of Yongjia, a descendant of Prince Pu and the only hereditary prince in the Song Dynasty, was deeply in love with Tang Wan. He immediately married her and doted on her.

From then on, Lu You married another woman and Tang Wan remarried, and they should have lived their own lives, but Lu You refused.

At a gathering in Shenyuan, the cousins ​​and their ex-husband and ex-wife reunited.

It was just a reunion, Zhao Shicheng respected his wife very much. Tang Wan stepped forward and toasted Lu You with a glass of wine, but he didn't care.

As a result, after Zhao Shicheng left with his wife, the great poet Lu was inspired to write a poem titled "The Golden Hairpin and Red and Soft Hands" on the wall of Shen Garden.

Since you can't stay with her forever, then don't act like you love her so deeply. Aren't you just a scumbag who only cares about flirting without caring about the consequences?

Tang Wan had always been obsessed with her first love. When she visited Shen Garden again in the spring of the following year, she saw the poem Lu You wrote to her on the wall. She was deeply saddened and became depressed all of a sudden. She died of depression in the autumn of that year.

This incident is probably the only thing in the life of the great poet Lu that was deeply criticized by later generations.

Or you can bear the reputation of being unfilial and refuse to break up with your wife.

Since it's over, let's do it quickly.

You can't give others happiness, but you still want to express your deep affection to them in a nagging way, so that they will continue to miss you. Aren't you cheating people?

Although Yang Yuan was not as straightforward as Enping County Prince Zhao Yu, who could not stand the imperfections in the world and would get furious when seeing tragedy, he also disagreed with Lu You's approach in this matter.

After getting to know Lu You, he thought of this tragedy and always thought about having the opportunity to help him avoid this big mistake.

Just now he was thinking of Luxi and Tang Wan who was killed by Lu You, so he kept asking Li Shishi to help him fulfill his wish.

However, he was now sometimes lucid and sometimes confused, and he could not tell which were spoken out loud and which were just thoughts in his mind.

So, he thought he had explained everything clearly, but Li Shishi was completely confused and didn't know what he was talking about.

As Yang Yuan was talking, he fell into a deep sleep again.

Li Shishi couldn't help but mutter to herself, "I've never seen a dying person talk so much."

However, looking at Yang Yuan's red face, Li Shishi's face showed a trace of worry again: "But, he seems to be really dying."

"Should I... pass on the 'Zhelong Gong' to him? Didn't that idiot say that this Gong method can cure internal diseases? Maybe... it will work?"

(End of this chapter)