Chapter 218: Strategist's Style
Xinbao's speaking speed is now increasing by leaps and bounds, and he told him very clearly that Brother Tang was going to join the army.
The second elder brother didn't say anything, just nodded, and smiled after a while: "I passed the imperial examination and became an official, my eldest brother joined the army, my third brother is in the martial arts world, and my fourth brother is in business... It's really quite complete, isn't it?"
Xinbao didn't understand what he wanted to say: "Yeah?"
"Nothing." The second brother touched Xinbao's head, and then spoke to Yan Shenjue: "Brother, come here and bring up something. I'll tell you in detail. You go back and tell my father."
It was Chen Benshan from the Provincial Administration Commissioner's Office who had a mentally retarded son who was buried by Yan Shenjue. Because "earthquakes" have always been considered as punishment from heaven, after Yan Shenjue reported the matter through Magistrate Liu, the higher-ups also sent an imperial envoy to secretly investigate the matter.
As a result, the news leaked out and Chen Benshan got the news.
Originally, this matter involved an earthquake, which was a dead end. But Chen Benshan was also a ruthless man. What did he do?
He poisoned himself and his second wife, Zhu.
It was real poisoning, and then he vomited blood at a banquet, which exposed his identity. The doctor took his pulse on the spot and said that he had been poisoned for a long time. Then they conducted a large-scale investigation and finally found that the culprit was the second son.
At the first trial, it turned out that it was the Second Young Master Chen who poisoned them. Then, step by step, it was revealed that the Second Young Master Chen had killed many women, and then it was revealed that he was not good enough. Then he blamed everyone and wanted to drag everyone to death, so he poisoned his parents, and so on.
You know, at that time, the news that the second young master Chen was buried alive by the earthquake had not yet reached the provincial capital, so everyone was just shocked and treated it as a strange story.
When the matter was almost fully investigated, the matter of the second young master Chen was also reported.
Then, without Chen Benshan saying anything, everyone automatically completed the story...Mr. Chen killed his father and mother, and Mrs. Liu was also killed by her own son, so not only Hu Gua and Tang Sanshui were killed, but Mr. Chen also was killed.
The logic is perfect and there is nothing wrong with it.
The imperial envoy was slower than Liang Ruoxu. When Liang Ruoxu left, he had not arrived yet.
But now that the matter has come to this, an old fox like Chen Benshan must have dealt with the evidence long ago. If nothing unexpected happens, the imperial envoy will not be able to find out anything and will have to close the case.
Then Chen Benshan escaped the disaster.
Of course, they were all guesses about what was going on behind the scenes, but they were probably not that far off.
The second elder brother said, "It is said that Chen Benshan, when he saw Senior Brother, cried bitterly and said that he would send someone to invite Tang Qingshan back to the capital to pay for his son's sins. However, Senior Brother stopped him."
You know, although Liang Ruoxu is only a small county magistrate now and Chen Benshan is his immediate superior, he was a second-rank official in the past. He was demoted to this place and lived with the old man. It is hard to say when he will be reinstated. Chen Benshan dared not really regard him as a "subordinate" and his attitude was very respectful.
The second elder brother said, "In fact, with the relationship with Master, we don't have to worry. They don't dare to do anything to us. They just let us get away with it. But I..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Yan Shenjue suddenly asked, "Should I kill him?"
The second brother was scolded.
He said: "No one will notice it's me."
The second brother took a long breath.
He said gently, "Xiao Jue, never use killing as a means to solve problems, never! This is not for others, not for the people you killed, but for yourself. I know you treat us as your own people, so you say such words, but I also treat you as my own people, and I hope you will never do this."
"We are all made of flesh and blood, we are all the same people, and life cannot be restored, so we should always be respectful of life. If you think killing people is not a big deal, then you will think 'there is no point in dying', and life will be joyless. Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about Xin Bao. You are still young, you should live well, you still have a long time to live, and there will be many things that make people happy."
He patted Yan Shenjue's head gently.
Xinbao stood up from his arms and threw himself into Yan Shenjue's arms. He pushed away his second brother's hand, patted his head, then patted his back, then sat on his armrest and kissed his chin.
After completing each step very carefully, she held his hand and confessed earnestly: "If Brother Xiaoxian is unhappy, Xinbao will also be sad, which will be sadder than death. So, you have to be happy."
Yan Shenjue gently embraced her, lowered his eyes and said nothing.
The second brother took a deep breath and returned to the original topic: "But I was thinking, since things have come to this, I have nothing to do anyway, so I might as well do something."
Xinbao shifted his attention back and listened carefully.
The second brother continued, "My father said that he would hire someone to teach the fifth and sixth graders after the New Year. I thought that we might as well let all the children in the clan follow him to study. Do you understand what I mean? That is to say, the Tang Sanshui incident has become a big deal, and Chen Benshan has added fuel to the fire, making it bigger and bigger... and my father and we are just pitiful victims in this matter, and at most we can only make people sigh. But in fact, it is precisely because Tang Sanshui is so bad that if we do something, we will become a sharp contrast and appear particularly bright."
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"That is, during this period of time, I will lay the groundwork first. In the future, if I succeed in the imperial examination, I will build on this and add to the stakes. At that time, it will be similar to the current situation. By stepping on Tang Sanshui and adding fuel to the fire, I can easily achieve a good reputation. Reputation is a very useful thing..."
He explained it to him in detail.
Xinbao listened with wide eyes.
She felt that her second brother was very much like a strategist. No matter whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, in his eyes, everything could be used. The little kid was so cunning, no, smart.
Yan Shenjue just listened in silence, nodding from time to time.
After the New Year, the elder may move to the village to live for a few days, but whether he goes or not, the elder will never be impatient to teach the children. After the second brother finished speaking, he saw that the time was almost up, so he said: "Let's go, go to the front to eat."
After they finished their meal, my second brother went straight back to his study.
The elder master basically lets his disciples do whatever they want when teaching them, but the second elder brother still sets a very tight schedule for himself.
No matter how talented he was, he had never touched a book in three years. Even if he practiced calligraphy with willow twigs every day, the feel of the brush was still far from that of a real brush.
So he was very busy, and if he could talk to his sister for most of an hour, it would be considered a day off.
As soon as he left, Yan Shenjue also wanted to take Xinbao downstairs to take a nap, but Liang Ruoxu stopped him and said, "Xiao Jue, have you ever thought about taking the imperial examination?"
(End of this chapter)