Aunt Chen is back from the world of cultivation

Without further ado, Zhang Liu immediately hid in the crowd and shouted:

"Hey, did you hear what the servant said just now? The wife of Marquis Jingnan gave him the order alone. There was no one else in the room."

"Murder and arson are serious crimes, so why is this servant so obedient and bold? How can he be sure that if something happens, the wife of Marquis Jingnan will definitely protect him?"

Everyone thought about it and realized that this was indeed a suspicious point.

Zhang Liu guided again:

"I'm afraid this servant thinks he is a very important person to Lady Jingnan, so he dares to act like this."

"I heard that Marquis Jingnan has been in the military camp for a long time and is not at home..."

The rest is left to the imagination of the curious people.

Besides those who were filled with righteous indignation, many of those who came to watch the fun were busybodies who just loved to watch the fun and spread gossip.

Hearing this, I was immediately excited:

"Don't say it, don't say it! If you look closely at that boy, he is tall, big, and fair-skinned. Maybe he has some hidden relationship with the wife of Marquis Jingnan!"

"Yes, if not, how could he be in the same room with the lady of the inner house alone?"

"In my opinion, even if this was not privately ordered by the wife of Marquis Jingnan, it is closely related to her indulgence of her lover!"

"Haven't you read the story of Yunxiang? It's about a young lady who was seduced by her husband and became a whore from then on..."

"So, they may have had an unclear relationship for a long time?"

"That's right. If that guy wasn't the lover of Marquis Jingnan's wife, how could he be so bold as to order the servants of Marquis Jingnan's mansion around!"

So, before Zhang returned home, the rumor had already spread among the scattered people.

As the wife of a marquis, it was unknown for her to have a lover like He Wang who worked as a servant.

Although she escaped punishment for ordering arson and murder, she was branded as having committed adultery with a family slave.

*

Huiyun and Huiming, escorted by Zhang Liu and others, traveled for a while at night before returning to Cihang Temple.

As soon as he returned, he reported the final result of the case to Chen Qingzhu.

"Yan Tongzhi asked his subordinates to tell him that he had tried his best but failed to deal with the culprit. He hopes that the temple master will not blame him. If there is anything in our temple in the future, just tell him."

Chen Qingzhu's slender jade-like fingers carelessly stroked the flowing beads made of top-grade jade in her hand, and her red lips on her snow-white face raised slightly:

"It's good that he has this intention."

There was no surprise or disappointment in my heart.

Although she asked her men to be a little cunning in the arson case, she knew from the beginning that it would be difficult to convict Zhang by simply catching a few servants.

At most, she and the Marquis of Jingnan's Mansion would be branded as allowing slaves to hurt people, which would be embarrassing.

The incident has become so serious that the Zhang family's direct descendants should be arriving soon and will definitely hear about it then.

But Zhang was traumatized both physically and mentally. Not only did she have to rack her brains to cover up her presence in the matter, she also had to deal with the aftermath of allowing her slaves to hurt people. One can imagine how torturous her life was.

By the way, you can kill two birds with one stone and hit that old hag Liu Ma.

After following Zhang loyally for twenty years, his only son was going to die because he took the blame for Zhang.

I wonder what this loyal servant will do when he finds out?

She was in no rush.

There is still a long time to go, and she has plenty of time to send the Jingnan Marquis and his wife to hell bit by bit.

The torture she experienced seven days and seven nights before her death in her previous life made her realize that cutting flesh with a slow knife is the most painful thing.

Huiyun looked at her expression and felt relieved.

It is very difficult for wives and concubines to live in true harmony.

Either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind.

The abbess was in such a miserable state when she was sent to Cihang Temple. She didn't believe that there was no deep hatred between her and the mistress.

Even if it didn't happen before, it happened again when the mistress of the marquis's mansion sent people to kill the temple master.

She didn't mind charging into battle for the master of the temple against the Marquis of Jingnan's Mansion.

I’m afraid that the temple master will lose his mind in order to seek revenge and drag everyone in Cihang Temple to death.

Fortunately, the abbot is still the wise abbot.

Huiyun continued:

"Although the wife of Marquis Jingnan was not severely punished by law, Zhang Liu used a trick to punish her. I'm sure it won't be easy for her."

She recounted what Zhang Liu had done.

Only then did Chen Qingzhu reveal a look of surprise.

She really didn't expect that Zhang Liu could come up with such a brilliant idea.

Everyone in the world values ​​a woman's reputation.

Such a scandal is enough to make Zhang suffer a lot.

Although Chen Qingzhu hated the various shackles and criticisms that the world imposed on women, she had no sympathy at all when it came to Zhang, and she only wanted to applaud.

She is not a saint. How can she use martial ethics to deal with an enemy who wants to kill her?

He sneered and said:

"Back then, Zhang executed Jingnan Marquis' favorite concubine, Aunt Yao, for adultery. Many years later, she was accused of adultery again. It shows that the law of nature always pays back."

At the beginning, there was a very important reason why Zhang chose Chen Qingzhu and forced her to be her concubine, which was to share the favor of Aunt Yao, the favorite concubine at that time.

Pei Xiao liked Chen Qingzhu more than she expected.

Even though she was unwilling, her rare beauty and her vague resistance to Marquis Jingnan made him very interested in her. He doted on her for half a year until she was diagnosed with pregnancy, when he began to restrain himself a little.

At that time, except for Zhang, the legal wife, who could spend four or five days with Pei Xiao in a month, Pei Xiao only came to her room at other times.

Aunt Yao, the former favorite concubine, was completely neglected for several months.

Zhang took the opportunity to frame Aunt Yao for having an affair with a guard, causing the furious Pei Xiao to order Aunt Yao to be executed.

I wonder how she will deal with such slander now.

"This Zhang Liu is a wonderful person."

"Huiyun, go get fifty taels of silver from Huijing and give it to him as a reward for their hard work yesterday."

Chen Qingzhu had never thought that Captain Li would have such a talent under his command.

Dogs like these that are good at biting are sometimes quite useful, so of course they should be kept.

In the future, she will definitely get rid of Captain Li to avenge Huiyun and others.

If she wanted Zhang Liu to continue to work for her at that time, she had to make him understand in advance that the benefits of following her were far greater than those of following Captain Li.

Huiyun took the silver as instructed and gave it to Zhang Liu.

Zhang Liuyi weighed the heavy weight in his hand and immediately showed an expression of overjoyed joy.

"Then I and my brothers would like to thank the temple master!"

This package weighs fifty taels. Even if he is generous and gives one tael to each of his brothers, he will still have thirty taels left for himself.

That's more than his annual military salary.

Even though Captain Li was generous to him, it was far from this kind of generosity.

What's more, he values ​​more than just money.

I saw with my own eyes today that even Yan Tongzhi, a high-ranking official in the Nandu government who came from a prominent family, was obviously trying to please the master of the temple.

There will be more and more people like this in the future.

The abbot is afraid that Li Qianhu will soon no longer be needed.

And if he can gain the attention of the abbot, his future will be incomparable to that of Captain Li.

Since they are all dogs, why doesn't he choose a more powerful master for himself?

Looking at the reward now, the temple master is still very satisfied with his actions today.

From now on, he will have to work harder and strive to become the temple master's right-hand man as soon as possible!

Thinking of this, he was not stingy at all when distributing the reward money and gave one or two taels of silver to each of the others.

Today, these military households are very poor. Under the heavy oppression of their superiors, they are not much better off than the farmers in the village.

I was so happy when I suddenly received a reward of one or two taels of silver.

They all felt that this trip was worth it. Many people ran up to Zhang Liu and said flatteringly:

"Brother Liuzi, next time there's something going on at Cihang Temple, please call me!"

Zhang Liu said:

"As long as you work hard for the temple master, I will not forget you if there are benefits!"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

In a flash, Zhang Liu used twenty taels of silver to win the loyalty of these twenty military households for Chen Qingzhu.

*

The incident of the fire at Cihang Temple at the Jingnan Marquis' Mansion caused such a big stir in the Nandu government office that everyone who had a little bit of wealth got the news on the same day.

But the ones who paid the most attention to this matter were the Qin family, the Zeng family, and the Ministry of War, which had frequent dealings with Pei Xiao.