Three thousand miles in exile

It was dawn, and the Ruichang City Yamen sent several teams of soldiers to the streets to search and investigate. It was said that the Pei Mansion had been robbed, and the county guard ordered officers and soldiers to search from house to house.

"Have you ever seen a man aged 24 or [-]?" The soldiers asked everyone they met, and when they saw men of similar stature and age, they checked carefully.

Soon the team came to the inn where Liu Zhan and the others stayed.

"Hey, all soldiers, this is..." The shopkeeper was terrified.

"I was ordered to search for important criminals, and all of them get out of the way." The leading yamen servant pushed the shopkeeper away. "Give me a careful search!"

The soldiers immediately filed in.

The shopkeeper was sweating profusely. "This military master, there is an official master living upstairs, if there is a collision..."

"What kind of official? How many officials can you come here?" The team leader was very disdainful, no matter how big an official came to Ruichang, he would have to bow his head to Pei.

The shopkeeper kept rubbing his hands. "Yes Yes……"

At this moment, the soldiers who went upstairs suddenly let out screams, and then they were kicked down the stairs like sandbags.

"My lord hasn't gotten up yet, so you can check if you want, and you can't step into the second floor!" Guo Donghu clasped his hands like a strong yak on the stairs, and the soldiers were either advancing or retreating.

The team leader cursed angrily. "Where did the troublemaker come from! Take him down regardless of whether he is killed or injured!"

Got it so that the soldiers immediately drew their weapons and no longer flinched. Would a white knife go in and a red knife go out, still be afraid of a man with bare hands?But they all underestimate the people in front of them too much.

Guo Donghu picked up the long bench, swung the bench over and instantly knocked one person flying, then swung the backhand back and fell another one, both of them died on the spot with bloody head, and everyone present was stunned as soon as they fought .

The leader's expression changed dramatically. "This murderer must be brought to justice on the spot!"

Guo Donghu laughed out loud. "As the head of a thousand households of the ninth rank under the command of a great general, why did I become a murderer when I arrived in Ruichang?"

The leader's face changed drastically.

At this time Wei Chenggui also came downstairs, and he threw out a seal for the leader to check.

"I am the deputy lieutenant under the general's command. My lord lives upstairs. Mr. Liu, the Zhonglang general who was ordered to come here to conscript, you can investigate the thieves, but you can't go upstairs to disturb my lord's slumber."

Wei Chenggui sneered. "You can go upstairs if you want, but you are not qualified to search my lord's room if you want your master to come here in person."

At this time, Zhang Xiaoman, who loves gossip, also came downstairs to join in the fun. "It's just right, our adults also have something to ask your Patriarch, you go back and tell your Patriarch, Master Liu is here."

Zhang Xiaoman pinched his nose very disdainfully. "Master Liu has been in Ruichang for more than half a month. The source of soldiers promised by your Patriarch has not yet arrived. We, Master Liu, are in a hurry. What is your Patriarch busy with?"

At this moment, the team leader has lost all arrogance.

All the people who stood up were officials with official status. He is not qualified to yell here as a running dog, and it is easy for the other party to take his life.

The team leader had no choice but to hold his breath and lead the people out of the inn.

"My lord, everyone has left." Zhang Xiaoman entered the room and replied.

Liu Zhan was sitting at the table eating breakfast, when he heard that he knocked on the table, come out.

First, the little boy cautiously poked his head out from under the bed, and Liu Zhan was amused by the appearance of other people's kid. "Come over and get something to eat."

Xiaotong sat at the table obediently, Zhang Xiaoman served him a bowl of millet porridge, and he ate obediently.

Pei Gongli had already tidied up and changed into a coarse cloth. He looked weak, but he was much more energetic than before.

"Come and eat too," Liu Zhan said.

"Thank you, Mr. Liu." Pei Gongli was really hungry, and he drank a bowl of millet porridge in one go without caring about his appearance.

For a moment, there was only the sound of chewing in the room, and Liu Zhan gave the boy a bun. "May I have your name?"

"My name is Fourteen." The little boy said obediently, and he took the buns and ate them in small bites.

Liu Zhan smiled. "What kind of name is that?"

"This is a brothel that is sold by a brothel, and it has no name." Pei Gongli took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, and resumed his dignified posture of a son of an aristocratic family.

Fourteen's face darkened immediately, and the half-eaten bun in his hand was no longer tasty.

Liu Zhan rubbed Shishi's head and didn't say anything. He signaled Zhang Xiaoman with his eyes to take Shishi to the next room.

Zhang Xiaoman left with Shisi, and there were only two people left in the room.

Pei Gongli said to himself: "The price of this kind of forbidden children's brothel is clearly marked. If they look good, they can be sold for thousands of taels. Some people like to play with children. How can such a small person bear it? Most of them die after playing for a few times. .”

Pei Gongli looked at Liu Zhan with a mocking expression. "I didn't expect Mr. Liu to have such kindness. I don't know how Mr. Liu felt when he killed someone."

Liu Zhan's expression remained the same, but there was a murderous intent in his eyes. He drank the cold tea in his hand in one gulp, and looked at Pei Gongli with cold eyes.

Liu Zhan is not a cold-blooded and ruthless person by nature, but once many things start, there is no turning back.

The power struggle is so cruel. Liu Zhan's heart has long been divided into black and white. The dark side hides all these shameful things, and he doesn't want to say or mention them.

Pei Gongli unscrupulously exposes Liu Zhan's cruel side, which is tantamount to pulling a tooth out of a tiger's mouth.

"Master Liu, we are the same kind of people." Pei Gongli said.

"I am the concubine son of the Patriarch of the Pei family. Because my mother was born in a lowly family background and could not show her birth to me, I was taken away by my aunt to keep the son. I grew up in the lower courtyard for a year and did not see the Patriarch twice."

"Three years ago, my house won the examination. The head of the family thought I could use it, so he let me enter Jinyang to investigate the treasures of the Yan family. Afterwards, the general entered Jinyang, and the head of the family used the recommendation of friends in Beijing to place me next to the general."

Pei Gongli looked unhappy. "Although I was born in the Pei family and raised in the Pei family, in fact, I only hate the Pei family. There is a clear distinction between the son and the concubine in the family. The concubine is just a slave with the blood of the master."

"As you can see, the Patriarch detested me because I was incapable of doing things, and because I knew too much inside information, the Patriarch wanted to execute me once and for all."

Pei Gongli's eyes were full of hatred. "I hate why I was born in the Pei family the most in my life. No matter how outstanding my talent is, even if I have gained the trust of the general, I am still just a dog of the Pei family."

"We are the same kind of people." Pei Gongli said again. "We all want to break free from our shackles, and we all have a clear purpose, for our own future."

The subtext of Pei Gongli is that we are all selfish people, we can do whatever we can for our ends, and we also have a common goal.

"We can cooperate." Pei Gongli finally said.

Compared with Pei Gongli's generous statement, Liu Zhan was still calm, and he laughed when he heard Pei Gongli say that he would cooperate.

"What conditions do you want to cooperate with me?" Liu Zhan changed his sitting position relaxedly.

"You are an abandoned son of the family, even if you return to the general and continue to be a counselor, what can you do without the background of the Pei family? With all due respect, didn't Zhou Chan value the Pei family behind you so he kept you by his side? "

Liu Zhan clicked on the desktop. "You escaped from the Pei family this time, if the Pei family wrote a letter to explain the facts to Zhou Chan, saying that you betrayed the family and were expelled from the Pei family, and asked for another child to be used by Zhou Chan's current people, what do you think Zhou Chan will do with you? "

Pei Gongli turned pale and was very embarrassed.

Liu Zhan had a playful expression on everyone's face like a thousand-year-old fox playing Liaozhai.

"I saved you because you are still useful to me, not because you have much weight in the Northern Xinjiang bureau."

"What you have to consider at this moment is to either submit to me wholeheartedly, or." Liu Zhan made a gesture of invitation.

These words were like the last straw that broke the camel's back, and Pei Gongli's last bit of self-esteem was destroyed.

Pei Gongli's eyes were scarlet, he clenched his fists and did not speak for a long time.

When Liu Zhan saw that he was almost there, he said, "I don't mean to force you. If you want to leave, I can send you to leave Ruichang. In fact, if I keep you, there will be a lot of trouble."

A bastard who was abandoned by the family, even if he has the fame of juren, he can't get through without connections.

Unless he is willing to surrender his status to the county magistrate of some small places to be a teacher or something, but this is too humiliating.

"What do you want me to do?" In the end, Pei Gongli still bowed his head to reality.

Liu Zhan smiled confidently. "You'll know when the time comes."

Just then Zhang Xiaoman knocked on the door and said. "My lord, Pei's butler is here."

The butler of the Pei family only brought dozens of thugs to the inn, and when he saw Liu Zhan, he immediately greeted him. "I met Master Liu."

Liu Zhan put on airs. "Steward Pei came just in time. I plan to go out of the city and return to the general. Your Patriarch Pei is so arrogant that I can't afford to wait."

Housekeeper Pei was ordered to check Liu Zhan's room this time, but he never thought that Liu Zhan would resign on his own initiative.

After Liu Zhan finished speaking, Wei Chenggui drove up the carriage and waited outside the inn, while Zhang Xiaoman simply carried a burden and came down from upstairs.

"My lord, everything is packed and we can go on the road." Zhang Xiaoman shouted loudly when he was far away.

"This..." The butler was a little confused for a moment. He was going to search the room, but Liu Zhan was leaving. Although he wanted to avoid a conflict, he felt that something was wrong no matter how he thought about it.

Liu Zhan snorted coldly and got into the carriage with a flick of his sleeves.

When Zhang Xiaoman passed by Steward Pei, he took a sip, and steward Pei was so angry that black smoke rose from his head, and he cursed like revenge. "Search, let me go in and search!"

Guo Donghu and Zhang Xiaoman rode horses and escorted the carriage to the city gate, but the soldiers guarding the gate did not dare to ask more questions because of Liu Zhan's authority when he saw Liu Zhan poking his head out.

After leaving Ruichang City, Liu Zhan and others immediately joined the thousand cavalry stationed outside the city.

At the foot of the hillside, the soldiers simply set up tents and barracks to form a circle. Outside the camp, there were soldiers guarding the camp, and all the horses were tied in the middle of the camp. Although there were only 1000 people, the management was very strict.

Liu Zhan got out of the carriage, picked up Xiao Shisi, and under the suspicious eyes of the soldiers, another person came out of the carriage.

The thousand cavalry led by Liu Zhan were exactly the thousand guards from Wuyuan County. Everyone knew that there was Mr. Song who was in charge of Liu Zhan.

Suddenly there was another young man with a handsome appearance, and everyone's messy guesses were about to overflow their heads.

"Xiao Man, arrange a tent for Mr. Pei." Liu Zhan said and led Xiao Shisi into the middle account.

Liu Zhan's middle tent is very simple, only a blanket is spread in the corner as a floor, and a simple bonfire pit is dug in the middle of the middle tent.

After entering, Liu Zhan lit a fire and made tea by himself.

Little Fourteen has been raised in the backyard of the brothel since he was born, and he sees four walls every day. He has never seen a fire to make tea, and he followed Liu Zhan to learn how to make tea in a very novel and obedient manner.

Liu Zhan lay leisurely on his side on the blanket and directed Fourteen. "You don't need to add so much firewood, yes, it's fine like this, and you can add a little more after a while when you see that the fire is getting smaller."

A four-year-old villain is very rigid in doing things.

"Boss, what should we do next?" Zhang Xiaoman opened the curtain and came in, saw Shisi watching the fire and hugged him away.

"Sit far away, or you will be roasted."

Zhang Xiaoman took out the tea cake, broke off a piece and threw it into the kettle to make tea.

At this time, Liu Zhan said: "According to the plan, the Pei family does not want me to have a good time, and I will not let him have a good time."

Generations Hanlin, right?Liu Zhan sneered.

Three days later at night, unknown men in black appeared in Ruichang City. These men in black neither stole nor snatched stickers everywhere, and all kinds of anecdotes about the Patriarch of the Pei family were written on the paper.

There are not only words but also pictures, and the images of everyone in it are drawn. The next morning, the common people got up early and the whole city was blown up.

The owner of the Pei family bought young children to play with, which brothel he bought, how much he bought, how many young children would be killed in a month, and even the Pei family mainly ate small red pills for fun.

The picture lists everything in detail. All the names of the people involved in the incident are real people, and a complete underground chain of buying and selling children has been made public.

It is said that Patriarch Pei was so angry that he was bedridden that day, Ruichang City was turned upside down again, and in the end only a few ruffians were caught and tortured to expose the matter.

Unexpectedly, three days later, the letter fell from the sky again. This time, it was not pasted on the wall, but a copy was thrown in every courtyard.

The wife of Patriarch Pei Xuxian committed adultery with his third son! !Miss Pei Twelve is not Patriarch Pei's seed! !Oh!The people of Ruichang City exploded again.

The biography lists in detail the process of how the Pei family's stepmother had adultery with his son, and even explained in which small courtyard where there is no one, and the specific location is complete.

More importantly, the evidence in the biography shows that Miss Pei Shier was born at the wrong time!

Calculating from Miss Pei Twelfth's birthday, Patriarch Pei lived in Biezhuang for a month during the days when Mrs. Pei was pregnant with her. May I ask how Miss Pei Twelfth conceived?

The common people dare not discuss it blatantly, but they have repeatedly calculated and demonstrated for Patriarch Pei in private.

It is not a secret that Patriarch Pei left Ruichang to go to a local village. Patriarch Pei never travels without shouting and hugging.

The common people calculate the time by themselves, and they can basically make a decision. It really is the kind that came from here!

Isn't it so, Patriarch Pei is already in his seventies, how can it be so easy to get a girl when he is old?

Patriarch Pei was so angry that he couldn't move half of his body and his mouth was crooked, and he couldn't even speak like gibberish.

"Hahahahaha!" Liu Zhan in the tent leaned forward and backward laughing.

"Xiao Man, remember to leave a copy for Mr. Song to read. Mr. Song also had a good time with this shocking fun. I really laughed to death."

"Okay, I'll arrange it now." Zhang Xiaoman said, tidying up the manuscript papers all over the floor.

"Boss, do you want to send another letter tomorrow?"

Liu Zhan is in a good mood. "Yes, of course, there are still many stories to be published, let Patriarch Pei learn what the power of public opinion is."

At this moment, Pei Gongli, who had been kept in the dark, rushed in angrily. "Liu Zhan! You! You! Why do you pass these things as a letter!"

Pei Gongli stomped his feet in anger. "You lied to me!! If I knew that you dared to be so mad, I would never tell you!"

Now Pei's reputation is coming to an end!It's all ruined in my own hands!Pei Gongli almost collapsed.

Compared with the happy atmosphere just now, Liu Zhan suppressed his smile and revealed cruelty in his eyes. "I have already sent someone to send home the secrets of the Pei family that you wrote in your own handwriting."

Pei Gongli felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He didn't understand what he was doing. He had fallen into a den of thieves. Pei Gongli couldn't even remember how he was coaxed by Liu Zhan to write a secret about the Pei family a few days ago.

He never thought that Liu Zhan could use this to threaten him. Pei Gongli still insisted that Liu Zhan had no weakness in his hands, but he actually gave it to Liu Zhan himself.

This manuscript, no matter whether Liu Zhan gave it to Zhou Chan or to the Pei family, he would be ruined. With this manuscript, Liu Zhan can frame him in any way.

Pei Gongli was sluggish, as if suffering from the disease of leaving the soul.

Liu Zhan clapped his hands, and the soldiers guarding outside the tent came in immediately.

"Tell Chenggui, send a letter to the Pei family tonight, I will see [-] new recruits within half a month, otherwise I will spread their Pei family's stigma all over Chu."

Treacherous and cunning, scheming, no bottom line, not playing cards according to routine, this is Liu Zhan, he is not good at conspiracy, but no one can beat him in terms of conspiracy.

Pei Gongli was trembling with anger, but he didn't dare to get angry in front of Liu Zhan.

He finally understood what Liu Zhan meant when he said that day that he was only useful to Liu Zhan. Liu Zhan's purpose of using him to deal with the Pei family had been achieved.

The head of the Pei family is now bedridden, will Pei Gongming, acting as the head of the family, compromise?The answer is yes, because what the biography says are all facts.

Pei Gongming couldn't afford to gamble and didn't dare to gamble. If some more irreparable secrets were revealed, Pei's reputation would be completely ruined!

At the same time, Pei Gongming's heart was full of hatred. He hated his father for holding on to the power of the yamen even though he was old. He hated his father for being old and disrespectful.

He also hated his younger brother for being ignorant. If the shocking scandal with his stepmother was confirmed, the descendants of the Pei family would no longer be able to hold their heads up.