Liu Cong was of course willing to concentrate on his studies, but he felt a little embarrassed, "Madam, I'll just do it as usual.
I study in the morning and work in the afternoon. Half a day is enough for reading."
Zhang Hulan stood up, patted the boy on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Okay, I have enough food for you.
As long as you study hard and have the ability in the future, you can try your best to help those in need. "
Zhang Hulan asked Liu Cong to go back and said he would not have to work on the farm from tomorrow onwards.
After Liu Cong left, Zhang Hulan went to find Song Yuzhang and told him that Liu Cong would study with him and would still live and eat at the farm.
Song Yuzhang was happy. He asked Zhang Hulan, "Can Liu Cong tell Madam about his affairs?"
Zhang Hulan shook her head. "No, if he doesn't want to talk, don't force him. But I've convinced him. He will study hard with Mr. Song in the future."
The next day, Zhang Hulan went to the county town.
Ye Hongyun was very happy every time Zhang Hulan came over.
"Why do you have time to come here today?"
Zhang Hulan smiled and said, "I never visit a temple for no reason. I'm worried that I won't be able to get in when I visit you next time."
Ye Hongyun said: "How about I have someone remove the door panel later?"
After some laughter, Ye Hongyun asked, "Tell me, what's the matter?"
Zhang Hulan said, "I came here this time to ask Madam about the customs of marriage in the capital and how they are different from ours.
It is said that when in Rome, do as the Romans do. So when we go to the capital, we should pay attention and make preparations.
The main thing is that when the bride is sent off, we have to go with those people, so as not to be impolite."
Ye Hongyun said: "There is no big difference, it's all about following the process.
Dahua's brothers and sisters will go, and then Dahua's uncle and you will go too."
"Then should we give red envelopes to the wedding party?"
"You don't need to give it, but..." Ye Hongyun smiled and covered her mouth, "But you have to give a red envelope to the matchmaker. You have to give me a big red envelope, otherwise I won't agree."
"Okay, okay, I will definitely give Madam a big red envelope then."
The two laughed for a while, and Zhang Hulan asked casually, "Madam, do you know about the case of the governor of Maozhou who murdered his entire family two years ago?"
Ye Hongyun asked in surprise: "How did you know about this? Maozhou is about 700 to 800 miles away from Ding'an. How could this news reach Ding'an?"
"Madam knows about this?"
Ye Hongyun nodded, "I know. But this matter was only spread in Maozhou and was quickly suppressed. How did you know?"
"Oh, I heard about it too." Zhang Hulan looked very surprised. "Who is so bold as to wipe out the entire family of a prefect? Madam, do you know what happened?"
Ye Hongyun asked suspiciously, "Why do you care about this?"
"I'm just curious and want to know who is so bold. I think the prefect must be a bad official and was killed by the outlaws, right?"
Ye Hongyun rolled his eyes at Zhang Hulan and said, "You've heard too many stories about chivalry, haven't you?"
"Isn't it?" Zhang Hulan looked curious.
Ye Hongyun said: "I don't know the details, but this matter caused a big stir at the time, and the court sent the Ministry of Justice to investigate.
The investigation results showed that the whole family was wiped out by a group of bandits.
The prefect was a good official. He often organized the prefectural soldiers to suppress bandits, so that the bandits in Maozhou could not survive.
Then a group of bandits were forced into a corner, so they sneaked into Maozhou City and attacked the Maozhou government office at night.
We also caught some of the bandits, and they confessed to the incident, and that was the end of the matter. But..."
"But what?"
Ye Hongyun continued, "I heard my father-in-law and master mention this matter. They said that the investigation was too smooth and there were many strange things in it."
Zhang Hulan immediately asked, "What's so strange?"
Ye Hongyun shook his head, "How should I know? That's all I know. My father-in-law and master usually don't talk about too much official business at home."
"wrong……"
Ye Hongyun suddenly stared at Zhang Hulan, "Something's wrong with you. I've known you for a while, and you're not the kind of person who gets curious about irrelevant things. Tell me the truth, what's going on?"
Zhang Hulan came here just to find out the outcome of the matter.
It is not right to ask Wu Deyong for help without telling him the truth.
Zhang Hulan looked very resentful, "Why do I feel like I have no secrets from you at all?"
Ye Hongyun laughed loudly, "Hahahaha... I'm telling you, if you want to play tricks on me, there's no way. Tell me quickly, what's going on?"
Zhang Hulan also smiled and asked, "Is Lord Wu in the county government? If so, please ask Lord Wu to listen together."
"Yes. I'll send someone to fetch him."
When Ye Hongyun heard that Wu Deyong had to be informed, she knew that Zhang Hulan had something important to do, so she immediately sent someone to call Wu Deyong over.
When Wu Deyong came over, Zhang Hulan said without waiting for Wu Deyong to ask, "Sir Wu, there is a child on my farm, he is the son of the prefect of Maozhou..."
Zhang Hulan told Wu Deyong everything Liu Cong had said to her, and then asked, "Sir Wu, Madam said earlier that you felt this matter was suspicious. Can you tell us what you know?"
Wu Deyong and Ye Hongyun were both shocked. They found that something always happened around Zhang Hulan.
They already knew that someone in the imperial court had withheld pensions for disabled veterans, and that this incident started with a few veterans at Zhang Hulan's farm.
Now there is another person from the prefect's family who was wiped out. Could it be that something big is going to happen again?
Wu Deyong pondered for a moment and said slowly: "There are indeed many strange things about the case of the Maozhou prefect's extermination of his entire family.
In order to wipe out an entire government office, there must be a lot of people there.
It is really suspicious that the group of bandits could sneak into the city so easily and attack the government office so accurately at night.
How could a prefect who governed well and often organized suppression of bandits be completely defenseless?
Then, after the bandits attacked the government office, they actually opened the city gate and escaped.
The investigation at that time said that the group of bandits killed the soldiers guarding the city gate at night and fled the city. How could the city gate be lost so easily?
Also, since the gang of bandits had all escaped from the city, and had done something so serious, they must have either fled far away or hid in the mountains, so how did they manage to be caught so easily?
Furthermore, the bandits confessed too quickly after being arrested. Once they were interrogated by the Ministry of Justice, they confessed everything.
When all these things come together, it's not normal.
But there were no other clues at the time, so the Ministry of Justice had no choice but to close the case like this."
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