Chapter 907 Deputy Envoy
Because after this meeting, they would be separated by life and death, and Zhou Da, who was waiting outside, had no intention of urging the visit, so the time for the visit was postponed again and again.
In the end, Zhang Cheng looked at the time and saw that it was getting late, so he tactfully reminded them. Only then did the girls reluctantly say goodbye to Qiu Wen.
When they reached the gate, Zhang Cheng turned around and bowed, saying, "Prison Master Zhou, please stay. I will definitely pass on your words."
"Thank you very much, thank you very much. If Master Zhang is free, I will host you another day..."
Zhou Da wanted to reconnect with Zhang Cheng when he heard loud shouting in front of him. He looked up subconsciously and took a breath.
But the jailer who was taking money to buy wine and meat was leading the way, and seven or eight yamen runners were carrying something furry and rushing towards the cell without stopping behind him.
Damn it!
Are you trying to bankrupt me?!
Zhou Da cursed inwardly, but when he got closer, he realized that the animal with its four hooves tied to the horizontal bar was not actually game, but a bearded man covered in fur.
Although the bearded man was tied up like a dumpling and his mouth was stuffed with a rag, he was still struggling, shaking his head and tail. The four yamen runners who were responsible for lifting the wooden bar were shaking all over, which showed that this guy was full of brute force.
Upon seeing this, Zhou Da quickly apologized to Zhang Cheng and rushed forward to find out what was going on.
"This guy got into a fight with someone in Yingchun Tower..."
"He also injured several of our brothers..."
"Later, they used bows and crossbows to force them..."
The yamen runners talked one after another and gave a general account of the cause and effect.
It turned out that the bearded man went to Yingchun Tower to drink wine this afternoon. He fell in love with a girl in the tower and wanted to keep her for the night.
Unexpectedly, someone came out to argue with him, and the two of them had a misunderstanding and started fighting in Yingchun Tower.
As a result, the seven or eight people on the opposite side were knocked down one by one with one punch. One of them even had a broken head and the bleeding could not be stopped.
After a fight like this, any other person would have run away long ago, but this bearded man acted as if nothing had happened. He dropped some silver and forcibly dragged the girl upstairs to have some fun.
Later, the yamen runners of Shuntian Prefecture rushed to the scene after hearing the news, and he injured several of them casually. In the end, they had to use bows and crossbows to force him to be captured.
After hearing this, Zhou Da took off the fur hat of the bearded man. He saw that most of his hair had been shaved off, leaving only a braid as thick as his little finger, which was tied up with thin hemp ropes. It was dry and yellow and smelled of sheep. He suddenly realized, "So it's the Tartar from Liaodong. How did this guy get to our capital?"
"Who knows this?!"
" Hey, I heard that there are quite a few people coming from South City."
"Really? Didn't I hear that the Tartar caravans were not allowed to enter Shanhaiguan?"
After discussing with the yamen runners for a while, Zhou Da suddenly remembered that there were several distinguished guests nearby. He turned around to look for Zhang Cheng and others, but he could not find any trace of them.
…
Because he had a fierce battle with You Erjie and Qingwen in the afternoon, Sun Shaozong originally planned to have a good sleep at night.
Who would have thought that after Caixia came back from visiting the prison in Shuntian Prefecture, she became so active as if she had taken drugs, and even forced Qingwen to help her, doing all kinds of things until the second half of the night.
After working so many rounds in a row, even Sun Shaozong, with his strong body, felt a little exhausted, so he slept until noon the next morning and got up from the bed in a daze.
Because the room was filled with foul, damp and fishy odors, Sun Shaozong opened the window. When he was blown by the cold wind, he suddenly remembered that he had an appointment with Sun Chengye, so he washed up in a hurry and rushed to the yamen without even having breakfast.
As expected.
When they arrived at the Zuosi government office, Sun Chengye had been waiting for a long time.
Seeing Sun Shaozong coming in from outside, he hurriedly stood up to greet him and greeted him as uncle.
Sun Shaozong waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to be polite, and sat down in the main seat while making up a story: "I met a few old subordinates yesterday, and I drank a few more cups on a whim, so I made you wait here for a long time."
"Uncle Thirteen, what are you talking about? My nephew has just arrived here."
The uncle and nephew were not strangers, so they just had to say a few polite words . As soon as Zhao Nan served the tea, Sun Shaozong asked directly: "I won't waste any more time on small talk. What on earth did you want to talk to me about yesterday? Did you encounter any difficulties?"
"It can't be difficult for my nephew to study hard behind closed doors."
Sun Chengye said, and stood up and took out a letter from his sleeve, and presented it to Sun Shaozong with both hands: "Actually, my family is worried that my seventh brother will insist on doing something reckless and delay his bright future, so we want to ask my thirteenth uncle to help lay some groundwork and let him stay in the capital for a few years to gain experience first."
The so-called seventh brother refers to Sun Chengtao, the eldest son of the fourth branch of the Jinling family.
At that time, Sun Chengye, the second son of the eldest son of Jinling, and his son-in-law Yu Qian, went to Beijing with Sun Chengtao to take the exam.
As a result, Yu Qian and Sun Chengtao both passed the imperial examination and became Jinshi, but the older brother Sun Chengye failed due to stage fright.
Later, Yu Qian stayed in Beijing and entered the Hanlin Academy, while Sun Chengtao was sent to Jiangxi to serve as a county magistrate - a vacancy filled by Sun Shaozong.
However, Sun Shaozong took the letter handed to him by Sun Chengye, opened the cover, shook out the letter paper, and read it quickly. It turned out to be a family letter from Jinling, asked Sun Chengye to pass it on.
According to what was said in the letter, after Sun Chengtao went to Jiangxi, he was no longer bound by his uncles and brothers, so he thought that the sky was high and the sea was vast, and he couldn't wait to show his virtue in front of others and seize the throne.
It was natural that he had rifts with the local gentry due to his eagerness for quick success and instant benefits. It was said that the turmoil was quite serious and someone even hired someone to kill him.
Sun Chengtao himself did not back down and kept shouting that he wanted to die together with them.
But this is the only child in his family's fertile land. How could he bear to let it die in a foreign land?
He immediately made arrangements with people in Jiangxi and awarded him an award for outstanding political achievements, allowing him to return to Beijing six months in advance to report on his work.
The reason for writing to Sun Shaozong now is that he hopes he can find a way to persuade Sun Chengtao to stay in the capital - even if it is an idle position, at least he can marry a few wives and concubines first, and then let him do what he wants after he has children.
After reading it, Sun Shaozong put the letter aside and asked, "When will he arrive in Beijing?"
"It will take about a few days."
Sun Chengye smiled bitterly and said, "The first letter was sent at the beginning of last month, but who would have thought that we would run into pirates on the way and the messenger was robbed of all his money. He had to beg all the way back to Jinling, and then Fourth Uncle sent someone else to deliver it."
No wonder Sun Chengye was in a hurry to find me.
It's not easy to arrange a suitable job for Sun Chengtao in just a few days.
Sun Shaozong smacked his lips, thinking that this matter still needed to be discussed by all parties, so he ordered: "In the evening... no, let's go to call Tingyi at noon today, and we uncle and nephew will discuss and see if there is any suitable job vacancy recently."
Sun Chengye hurriedly bowed and responded. As it was not far from noon, he wanted to set off immediately to the Ministry of Revenue to find Yu Qian.
Unexpectedly, just as Sun Shaozong sent him out the door, he saw the temple deputy Chen Jingde rushing in anxiously.
Seeing Sun Shaozong standing at the door, Chen Jingde didn't care that Sun Chengye was still beside him, and blurted out: "Sir, Shuntian Prefecture just sent over a hot potato, I'm afraid you have to go and take it over in person!"
Hot potato?
Sun Shaozong initially thought that it was just another difficult case, so the desperate Shuntian Prefecture Governor Ge Changcun simply handed the case over to the Dali Temple for handling.
But upon closer inquiry, it turned out to be somewhat different from what I had imagined.
It is true that Ge Changcun is trying to shift the blame again, but there is nothing difficult about the case itself, and it can even be said to be clear at a glance.
The problem lies in the identity of the prisoner - the person who accidentally beat and killed someone was the deputy envoy sent by the Jin Kingdom to pay tribute and pledge allegiance.
