Chapter 23 The massacre of a village twenty years ago

Scar Laoliu brought a pot of vegetables to Jianggao Prison.

This is special treatment.

"Here, eat! If you can go out in the future, don't say I mistreat you!"

Scar Laoliu tried his best to smile kindly and waved to Jiang Gaoyi.

Jiang Gaoyi huddled in the corner and hurriedly crawled towards the fragrant meal.

Mr. Jiang looked up and saw Scar Lao Liu with a ferocious smile, and his heart trembled. Looking down again, he saw that there was fish and meat, soup and cakes in the bowl of rice. It was a rich meal, a bit richer than the previous few days.

The next second, Mr. Jiang couldn't help but burst into tears, and his heart was filled with sadness: "Could this be my decapitation meal? I was wronged! I was wronged! I want justice! I want justice!"

"Break it with a hammer!" Scar Laoliu laughed and scolded: "Don't worry, Master Gao, the superiors have forgotten you here a long time ago. Your head is still stable."

"Then...thank you Mr. Liu." Jiang Gaoyi looked complicated and started eating.

"You should thank Master Zheng."

Scar Laoliu pointed at Mr. Zheng in the cell next door, walked closer, and asked Mr. Zheng with a smile if he needed room service.

The second mother left not long ago.

Mr. Zheng is hanging up.

Hearing that Scar Lao Liu attributed this meager contribution to himself, Mr. Zheng just smiled and did not take advantage of it.

While eating, Jiang Gaoyi paused and stared blankly at the remains of the soup on the plate, thinking that it would take years and months before he could leave this ghost place.

Scar Lao Liu's voice, "You should thank Mr. Zheng," lingered in my ears like a curse, buzzing and reverberating.

"Master Marquis, are you inquiring about 'Bai Li Village'?"

Jiang Gaoyi suddenly raised his head, ignored the food, walked to the edge of the cell, and asked Master Zheng in a low voice across the corridor.

When Zheng Xiu heard this, he was slightly startled.

A few seconds later, Zheng Xiu slapped his forehead, secretly cursing himself for being under the dark lamp, and immediately walked away from Melancholy. He turned back in three steps, but Scar Laoliu, who had not gone far, waved at Scar Laoliu: "Brother Liu, please prepare some wine!"

"Prepare wine?"

"Have you drank the two pots from last time?"

"Nope!"

"Can you bear it?"

"I couldn't help it! But I didn't dare to drink it!" Scar Lao Liu said confidently.

"What a coincidence, let's serve the wine! Zheng wants to have a drink with Mr. Jiang!"

Scar Laoliu now handles things quickly and forcefully, without asking any questions.

After a while, there was a low table with cushions.

Jiang Gaoyi watched helplessly as Scar Laoliu opened the two cell doors and respectfully invited Mr. Zheng to come to his cell. He was confused and asked: "Why is the world like this?"

Two jugs of good wine and a table of side dishes.

After three rounds of drinking, Mr. Zheng frequently raised his glass to persuade him to drink. Jiang Gaoyi's face turned red, and he was quite pleased with Mr. Zheng, a profiteer.

General Zheng died fighting for Daqian, and the children he gave birth to will never be any different.

"Master Jiang, doesn't Baili Village happen to be on the border of your Yanzhou territory?"

Mr. Zheng is deeply familiar with the wine table culture, so he took the opportunity to ask.

"Master Hou, how could you think of asking about that old murder case?"

Jiang Gaoyi didn't want to follow the example of Lao Liu and others in calling Zheng Xiu "Master Zheng". He always felt that it was a philistine and fell out of style. But calling him "Master Hou" was different. Zheng Xiu was a serious person who held the title of "Marquis Zhonglie".

, it is not shameful to have a close relationship with Zheng Xiu.

"Chen Nian, murder case?" Zheng Xiu was stunned.

"This matter..." Jiang Gaoyi's expression flickered, hesitating a little, but he still gritted his teeth and made Zheng Xiu promise never to mention it to a third person, and then slowly told what he knew.

The "Bai Li Village" he knew was at the junction of Yanzhou and Jingzhou, but it was under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou.

Twenty years ago, at the border of the two states, there was a small village called Baili Village.

There were a total of twenty-six families there. The Northern Barbarian Rebellion lasted for five full years. The country was in depression, people's livelihood was bleak, bandits were everywhere, and gangs committed crimes.

And one night, Baili Village was massacred with blood. There were 26 households in Baili Village, a total of 49 villagers, and no one survived.

Today, all that remains of Baili Village is a lonely grave in the wilderness, ruins and no one cares.

If Jiang Gaoyi hadn't been an official in Yanzhou for decades and had taken over this tragedy of annihilating a village, he might not have remembered it.

"Twenty years ago? Twenty years ago? Twenty years ago?"

Zheng Xiu slapped his thigh.

He was carefully confirming whether Baili Village was located in a small forest, with steep mountains and straight official roads on its side.

After receiving Jiang Gaoyi's affirmative reply, Zheng Xiu remained calm on the surface and persuaded him to drink again.

"But why can't this matter be mentioned to a third party?"

Master Zheng asked again.

Once it was revealed, Jiang Gaoyi did not hide it. He said that this tragedy of wiping out a village was not unusual in the world of bandits at that time. What was strange was that the local government was supposed to be responsible for recording this matter, but not long after, the emperor

The Minister of Punishment of the City personally rode a thousand-mile horse and traveled all night to reach Yanzhou, took away the files, and quickly closed the case. He even issued a silence order.

Mr. Zheng had a strange look on his face: "Did it turn out later that he was the previous Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Lord Qu Bugui, who died of illness?"

"It's just that Qu Bu will return, Lord Qu."

If the song does not return, it will never return.

Jiang Gaoyi wondered why Zheng Xiu would ask about this old incident. Zheng Xiu casually made nonsense, saying that someone wanted to do business with him, claiming to be from Baili Village. Zheng Xiu felt that the other person was not a good person, so he sent someone to investigate. Jiang Gaoyi suddenly realized,

This reason is reasonable and reasonable. It must be a misunderstanding that Baili Village no longer exists.

After five rounds of drinking.

Since Jiang Gaoyi was imprisoned, today is the happiest day in the past three months. He is so happy that he took advantage of the bad things that happened when bandits took over. Jiang Gaoyi also said that if General Zheng hadn't fought all the way to northern Xinjiang, penetrated deep into the enemy's country, and defeated the enemy,

After defeating Guer, this five-year stalemate in the Northern Barbarians may not have been settled twenty years ago. After that, the external chaos was calmed down, and the world is now at peace.

Jiang Gaoyi revealed his admiration for General Zheng in his words.

When Zheng Xiu was young, he heard countless people boast about his father's achievements.

But there is some exaggeration in it.

Because it is said that General Zheng led an army of 10,000 soldiers into the enemy formation and fought all the way to the capital of the Northern Barbarians. In the end, 10,000 soldiers died in the battle with General Zheng, and only the military advisors who did not go to the battlefield survived.

Later, when the military advisor returned to the court, he said that General Zheng had a sudden power, and the flesh and bones of ten thousand soldiers were draped on him like a piece of armor. Blood clouds were rolling in the sky, and the blood energy all over the sky gathered into a river, pouring down from the sky, pressing on the opponent's city... Did you hear that?

Very ridiculous?

Yes, ridiculous.

The whole world feels ridiculous.

The surviving military advisor may have been stimulated. After returning to the court, he went crazy, talked nonsense, and was depressed. He went on a hunger strike and died soon after.

But after the death of General Zheng, the Northern Barbarians surrendered, and everything came to an end. This was a real achievement. However, most people thought that what the military advisor said was an exaggeration or crazy nonsense.

After Zheng's father's death, he was posthumously granted the title of Marquis of Zhonglie, and the emperor awarded him a plaque, which was hung in the Zheng family hall.

Xiao Zhengxiu believed it at first.

After he awakened the memory of his past life, he thought that time would turn around and the plug-in was credited, so he dug up the ground of Zheng's house to find some secrets of the exercises.

Of course I couldn't find it in the end.

Little Zheng Xiucai gave up on the idea of ​​cheating into his account.

…

The wines brewed by Zheng's Winery are all made from real ingredients, double steamed using the ancient method, and are of high purity without adding water. After two pots of wine, Jiang Gaoyi has rarely had a sweet dream since he was imprisoned, lying in the corner muttering.

"Give him a clean and warm quilt, and get the money tomorrow, one hundred taels."

Zheng Xiu ordered the jailer, who quickly completed the matter. The master returned to his cell, lay down on the imperial chair, closed his eyes and meditated.

I don't know when it started, but this simple prison actually gave Zheng the richest man a sense of security and made him unwilling to leave.

The origin of Baili Village is basically revealed.

Twenty years ago, there was a massacre in Baili Village.

It was a small village that existed at the junction of Yanzhou and Jingzhou twenty years ago.

No wonder I can't find it.

Putting aside the fact that the tragedy seemed fishy, ​​what Zheng Xiu was thinking about at the moment was why this [Prisoner] method allowed him to travel back to the fantasy world of the past twenty years ago.

Just survive until dawn?
To be continued...