Chapter 605 There is a mystery

At the beginning of March, the project in the South Second District and the South Third District of Baizhifang was fully started. As Song Nan expected, most of the merchants from outside Beijing were unwilling to return empty-handed. They agreed to the way Songfu to make a contract by paying half of the house in advance. Sun Bowen, the president of the Jin Business Gang, who ignored Zhu Fengtong's proposal before, was more active than anyone else this time. The Jin Business Gang led by him paid nearly 500,000 taels of silver, which made the funds on hand of Song Fu suddenly become more abundant.

However, the rumors in the capital have also begun to become very popular, especially around the move of the tombs of the Song family, and various versions have emerged. Generally, the spearheads are all focused on accusing the Song family of forcibly moving the graves of arousing the people's anger, and some extremists spread rumors that the Song family is not as good as digging ancestral graves and animals.

These things soon reached the ears of court officials. Originally, Song Nan did not care about these malicious remarks. Although in the grave relocation in mid-February, Song Nan deliberately used some means to invite the people of the wind waterway to talk nonsense, and secretly ordered people to give a lot of benefits after the previous grave owners moved the grave, resulting The illusion of tomb relocation, but those are just offensive means in the hearts of some people, which has nothing to do with violent tomb relocation.

But one day in the early morning, Yang Tinghe actually pulled Song Nan aside to talk about the matter, and Song Nan realized that the problem was a little serious. These days, digging ancestral graves is a matter that can be scolded by tens of thousands of people as if * wives and daughters want to kill people. If Yang Tinghe really thinks that he has done these things, the spitting stars of the foreign court will drown themselves, and morally corrupt people and the loss of these big hats will also be all on their heads. If this kind of thing makes trouble, Zhengde I won't protect myself either.

Of course, Song Nan can't be indifferent, but he doesn't need to explain anything to Yang Tinghe. He only tells Yang Tinghe that this is absolutely impossible. Yang Ting and naturally don't believe that Song Nan will act like this. Although Song Nan is not a good person, he will never do anything that causes public anger. However, Yang Tinghe refused to let go of the opportunity to scare Song Nan and scold Song Nan face to face.

Looking back, Song Nan immediately summoned Tong Ahu and Wan Dabao to ask. Song Nan was also worried about whether there was any accident with the grave owners who were determined not to move the graves during this period, or whether Tong Ahu and Wan Dabao were anxious and really did something. However, the two vowed that there would be no conflict. Since February, there has been no conflict with the dozens of grave owners. Instead, those grave owners sometimes abuse and provoke, but the people in Song Prefecture here have not provoked them at all.

Song Nan is relieved. As long as the rumors outside are indeed rumors, she will not be afraid of anything, and she is not afraid of others to investigate it. However, Song Mansion handled this matter carefully and in a low-key manner. Where did the rumors come from? The people who voluntarily moved the grave got two taels of silver and properly buried the bones of their ancestors. They would not spread these messages for no reason. The only possible explanation is that someone took the opportunity to make an article and wanted to stink themselves.

In the early March * Ming Festival, the pattering spring rain lingered for a day, and the air was filled with a faint sad atmosphere. In the empty space in front of dozens of barren tombs in the north of the central area of the White Paper Square, dozens of people guarding the grave huddled in tents to hide from the rain. Some of them lay on simple bamboo ** and slept soundly, and some Gather together to brag and chat, and some gather together to drink and gamble money. The noise and laughter are incompatible with this cemetery and today's atmosphere.

On the muddy path south of the cemetery, a man and a woman walked slowly with oil-paper umbrellas. They bypassed the noisy tent, stepped on the green and yellow grass to the chaotic grave, and slowly stopped in front of each grave, as if they were looking at something.

"Soong Nan, what did you bring me here to see?" The beautiful woman wore a blue hood, a plain cloak over her shoulders, and the hem was full of grass stem mud.

"Miss Fengtong, have you found anything strange?" Song Nan smiled.

"Strange things? There is nothing strange about it. It's just ordinary graves... No, it seems that there is something wrong. Today is Tomb-sweeping Day. Why doesn't anyone come to burn paper to worship these graves? This is strange."

Song Nan smiled and said, "Smart, haven't you always wondered that these people who claim to be grave owners are unwilling to accept any conditions for moving graves and have been trying to provoke the life of Songfu? Now these things have been explained.

Zhu Fengtong's bright eyes were slightly favored and frowned, "Isn't these graves their ancestral graves at all? Are they just deliberately making trouble here?

Song Nan looked at Zhu Fengtong with approval and said, "Miss Fengtong is smart. When I broke into your boudoir and was still covered, I was deduced by you. In this situation, it is not difficult for Miss Fengtong to infer the identity of these people."

Zhu Fengtong nodded slightly and said, "These people are all descendants of these remaining graves in the later period of the tomb, but today's Tomb-sweeping Day, they don't even have paper money offerings. Obviously, they are fake identities. I'm afraid these are all ownerless graves."

Song Nan nodded and said no.

However, these people are not willing to accept the conditions and try to cause chaos. Obviously, some people are unwilling to let us develop the white paper workshop smoothly. However, it is a little difficult for me to infer who is behind the scenes, because I don't know who you have conflicts with. Can you tell me who you have conflicts with in the court?

Song Nan smiled and said, "That's too much. I can't finish it for three days and nights, but I don't have to sort it out one by one. I don't want to develop smoothly in the White Paper Square. I'm bold enough to oppose me and have the courage to spread rumors of my Song House outside. At present, it seems that there are only a group of people; you forgot that someone has been coming all the time. Did you talk to me about cooperation? They are greedy and hope to get a piece of the pie. It is not surprising that they react and act like this after being rejected; especially these people who look down on me from beginning to end. I am not surprised at what they do.

Zhu Fengtong squeezed her lips and smiled and said, "I know who it is when you mention it like this. Hey, don't you look down on Marquis Song. Aren't you looking for death? But what are you going to do?"

Song Nan laughed and said, "What should I do? Can I still let them stab me in the back? Naturally, it's time to teach them some lessons.

"Those people are not easy to mess with."

"Yes, but is Song Nan easy to provoke?"

Zhu Fengtong whispered, "They are also blind. You choose to coexist peacefully, but they come to provoke you. I can almost predict their future. Hey, I really can't bear to think about it."

Song Nan laughed and said, "Are you praising me or hurting me?"

Song Nan slowly left with Zhu Fengtong's hand. Soon after, the horse's hoof stepped on the mud and made a dull sound. The people guarding the grave were so shocked that they came out to see. In the dusk, a team of brocade guard cavalry galloped. When they approached, they entered the eagle to catch dozens of chickens. The people captured them and dragged them away with ropes.

The group shouted loudly and refused to walk on the ground. The leading Jinyiwei officer shouted an order. A flag school raised the horse and whipped. The horse flew out, dragging a cheating people out dozens of steps. They stopped the horse and then looked at the people behind the horse. Their bodies were wrapped in mud and grass stems, and their bodies were dragged bloody. Adult form.

"If there is any more cheating, this is an example." The officer of Jinyiwei shouted loudly.

Everyone was frightened, and a strong man shouted, "Why did you arrest us? Does Songfu bully people? This is the capital, but if we don't die, we will jointly sue.

"Shut your mouth, you know what you have done. What do you want to do here pretending to be the owner of the grave? Go to Xuannanfang Jinyiweiyan Gate and make it clear. The officer in brocade scolded.

The people were shocked, and the strong man argued forcefully: "Nonsense, it's just that the Song government wants to forcibly relocate our ancestral graves to build a house for him. We will jointly sue."

"Hey, you are very hard-mouthed. Today's Tomb-sweeping Day, these graves don't even have a trace of paper money offerings. Fortunately, you still claim to be the descendants of the lonely grave. It's okay to cheat ghosts. Ghosts can't open their mouths to refute. If you want to deceive me, it's a dream. If you take them away and refuse to leave, let the horses help them go. No matter."

As soon as the officer of Jinyiwei said these words, everyone's faces were like ashes and knew that they had been exposed. Unexpectedly, they forgot that today is Tomb-sweeping Day. Even if it is good to burn some paper money by pretending, they are good. They are busy sleeping, drinking and gambling, but they have revealed their feet. By now, it is useless to deny it.

In the Jinyiwei government in Xuannanfang, at the beginning, they still insisted that they were unwilling to explain. Once Jinyiwei's 18 kinds of torture tools were on their bodies, even the iron people could not stand it, not to mention these gangsters. It didn't take long for these people to explain everything.

Without Song Nan's accident, this group of people were instructed to come to Baizhifang to obstruct the relocation of the grave; the person who instructed him was a thousand-family officer named Xiongwan in Yangwei Camp in Beijing. This group of people were originally just a group of gangsters in Xuanbeifang. They committed a crime and fell into the hands of thousands of households in Beijing camp named Xiong Wan. The Xiong Qianhu gave them 20 taels of silver each and asked them to come to Baizhifang to pretend to be the grave owner. The only requirement was not to allow the people of the Song family to move the grave. The longer you persist, the richer the reward will be. If you can force the people of Song Mansion to beat people or forcibly move graves, the reward will be doubled.

These people were originally active in the jurisdiction of the Yangwei Camp in Xuanbeifang. They are usually grateful for their business and cheating. There are many tricks in the hands of the Beijing camp. Now they can not only get rid of the charges, but also earn money. Naturally, they are happy to follow their lives, so the people who came to Baizhifang and Songfu have been struggling with each other for more than ten days. Unexpectedly, he was identified.

In the back house of Song's house, Song Nan, who learned everything, was chewing the food in his mouth with a blank face. He knew that it might be time to fight head-on with these marquises.