Song Yan wasn't surprised that spies found out about what happened today. During this period of time, spies were everywhere in Yihe City. Along with the fact that he and Wang Xihua were eye-catching, it was expected. Song Yan said helplessly, "Wang Xihua was one of the more flexible civil servants in Beiliang. If this is the case, one can see that the governance of Beiliang is still a long way off."
Hsu Fengnian smiled towards the girl, "Please bring two jugs of wine over."
The girl left silently and brought two jugs of Green Ant Wine back. Hsu Fengnian and Song Yan each had a jug. Hsu Fengnian said emotionally, "In the past, I knew that it wasn't easy to be the head of the family. However, only after sitting in this position can one understand how difficult it is to be the head of the family. You have to fight with people, evil people like the Yihe River Huang Family and good people like Huang Shang and Wang Xihua. You have to fight with the heavens. In the past, listening to the rain and appreciating the snow was a joyous thing. Now, you have to consider the harvest of your territory. I have a stack of secret letters to deal with. Some say that the butler Song Tanglu colluded with officials to alter his nephew's works. The children of the Lu Family took farmland and were exposed. There was also a senior of the Lu Family who spent a lot of money to buy a painting, but it turned out to be fake. He couldn't return it and wanted to cause trouble. A Master drank wine in Liangzhou and got jealous of the general Sun Zhengfeng. The latter called for people to gang up on him and the former tried to kill him. Both of them weren't good people. Logically speaking, it would be better to kill both of them. There was even a rumor that the youngest son of the Deputy Commander of the infantry, Wei Tieshan, brought along his belongings and moved to the neighboring Hezhou. Just the illegal gold and silver alone filled sixteen large chests, which were detained by the soldiers patrolling the border. Very soon, there was a rumor that the border guards had insulted the daughter-in-law of Deputy Commander Wei first. There was also a young captain that Great Ancestor Gu thought highly of. For some reason, he was beaten half to death outside the pass. "
Song Yan said calmly, "As long as one has a family, there will be conflicts. There are even gaps between father and son and wife, much less such a big Beiliang."
Hsu Fengnian smiled and said, "From now on, all the major and minor government affairs in You Province will be handed over to you, Kui Hu, and Huangfu Qiong. Administrator has been fighting for you, saying that you have the power of magic but have no place to use it. He hopes that you can be of some use after moving to Youzhou. "
Song Yan nodded and said, "It's only right that I do my best."
Hsu Fengnian didn't pick up the wine jug that still had more than half of it left. He stood up and walked out of the study with Song Yan. After Song Yan left, Hsu Fengnian found Wang Xihua, who was temporarily staying in a side courtyard of the general's official residence. He told him that he was going to meet someone. Wang Xihua was confused and followed him out of the residence. He sat in the carriage and left Yihe City to the outskirts. There was an irrigation ditch here that nurtured a lush reed field. The land in Beiliang was poor, so the reeds that were quite useful had all become priceless grass. Near the reed field, there were several small villages near the river. The breeze was cool and the spring sunshine was warm. Walking on the narrow mud road, the air was filled with the fragrance of green reeds. There were groups of three to five village children picking tender buds. Hsu Fengnian and Wang Xihua slowly came to a small ferry by the river. The clumps of reeds nestled together gracefully. It was a rare tender and charming scenery in Beiliang. Hsu Fengnian had an empty stem of green reeds in his hand, which looked like a rough reed flute. Hsu Fengnian sat on the cobblestone ferry and blew the reed pipe, whimpering faintly. Wang Xihua didn't sit down; instead, he stood on the riverside and thought that the young lord might be dissatisfied with why he made that bet with Song Yan and questioned his action in Youzhou Province. However, considering that Wang Xihua was half his trusted subordinate, he didn't punish Wang Xihua in the usual officialdom.
Hsu Fengnian stopped playing the reed flute, raised his head, and pointed to the northeast. "There's a poor scholar from Beiliang who has been in the capital for seven years and finally made a name for himself. The year before last, he had already become the Daily Assistant of the Emperor's Close Minister. Last year, he became the Physician of the Meritorious Service Department. He assisted the Minister of Personnel Ministry Zhao Youling and the Crown Minister Yin Maochun to preside over the Capital Assessment. This year, he will participate in the assessment of the local fourth-grade officials in Liyang. In the early spring, he and Crown Prince Zhao Zhuan made a private visit to the south. After returning to the capital, they got married. On the wedding night, there were big red candles and a red veil. The woman surnamed Zhao was a noble. This scholar was destined to have a meteoric rise in the future. Even becoming a minister was just around the corner. In the past seven years, there were only two secret letters sent to Beiliang. One was about the Crown Prince, and the other was about the Zhao Emperor's health. This scholar, who had made great contributions to Beiliang, only wrote two words at the end of the two letters and asked Beiliang to pass the message to one person. "
Hsu Fengnian paused for a moment and said flatly, "Don't miss."
"Don't wait."
Wang Xihua sighed.
Xu Fengnian continued slowly, "Before this scholar achieved meteoric success, there was a spy here, Zhao Gou, who had been keeping an eye on him for many years. Therefore, even if it was just two simple words, the person who missed and waited for still did not know. "
Wang Xihua asked softly, "That infatuated woman is still waiting?"
Hsu Fengnian nodded and patted the stone at the ferry. "Back then, she sent the scholar to the capital to take the imperial examinations here. She did not marry, but if she missed him, she would come here to wait. That was because he had promised her that he would return home to marry her, regardless of whether he could pass the imperial examinations or not."
Wang Xihua sighed from the bottom of his heart. "Such a scholar, such a woman, should have been married. It would not be excessive even if the King of Beiliang personally presided over their marriage."
Hsu Fengnian turned a deaf ear and said, "After the end of last year, the woman stopped waiting at the ferry."
Wang Xihua was stunned.
Hsu Fengnian threw the hollow reed into the water. Without turning his head, he stretched out his finger and pointed to a place far away from Wang Xihua. "She died in the reed marsh and was buried there."
Hsu Fengnian put his hands into his sleeves. "I came to Youzhou, to the Yi River, to kill people. You, Wang Xihua, said in your heart that I killed the innocent. I thought that no matter how innocent those nobles were, they were not as innocent as this woman. Moreover, such a woman, such a tragedy, could not be counted in Youzhou. You scholars keep saying that you wholeheartedly want the world to be peaceful. I, Hsu Fengnian, feel that world peace is too far away. Since peace is so close, I have to do it well first. "
Wang Xihua's face was pale.
Hsu Fengnian stood up, shook his sleeves, and bowed to a small grave in the reed marsh.
He turned and left, leaving Wang Xihua sitting on the ground dejectedly. Hsu Fengnian said in a deep voice, "You were lucky to be born as a human, but you did not treat others as human. Since you are not a human, This King will kill anyone he sees in Beiliang."
More than a hundred Youzhou men of sacrifice appeared in the reed marsh. They thought that they had seized the opportunity to kill this lone King of Vassals on the spot.
Hsu Fengnian put his hands behind his back and, in one breath, dismembered the hundred men.
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