Chapter 19 Widow? Widower?
Author: Feng Si Niang
Du Heng raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean by that? Don't we already know each other?"
But Xue Feibai, who was opposite him, closed his eyes, looking like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.
No matter how hard Du Heng tightened his neck, he still made a show of not opening his mouth.
Why, could she still commit murder in the East Palace?
When Du Heng saw him like this, he let go of his hand and smiled nonchalantly.
"Do you think that if you don't speak, I won't be able to guess and I can't do anything to you? Now let's talk about it from the beginning."
Xue Feibai turned his head and closed his eyes to rest.
"Xue Xiaolang, we have an engagement, but you just now clearly wanted to harm me - you overheard the royal family's secrets, and even my father couldn't protect me;
But you just showed an expression of recognizing me and wanting to eat my flesh, as if you have discovered that I am your enemy again. Then I must have done something to feel sorry for you, but you didn't know it at that time.
I did it……"
When Du Heng said this, she suddenly thought of something. She thought of Xue Feibai's stiff body movements just now and his fear of breaking away greatly.
Thinking of doing it, Du Heng immediately slapped Xue Feibai hard on the back.
Immediately, Xue Feibai became no longer calm, and immediately let out a hissing sound of pain, retreated ten feet away from Du Heng, and yelled: "What are you doing!"
Du Heng understood clearly: "It turns out it's you, the one who stole Sheng Yusheng's secret letter."
Xue Feibai almost burst out of anger when he heard this. He wanted to poke Du Heng's nose with his fingertips: "You still have the nerve to say it! Do you want to hurt me again now?"
Du Heng smiled indifferently, crossed his arms over his chest,
"Since you dare to be a thief, you must be prepared to be beaten to death; besides, it is the residence of a high official in the imperial court, and what you stole is not an ordinary thing.
Don’t blame me. I won’t investigate why you, a son of an aristocratic family, stole from other people’s houses. We don’t owe anything to each other..."
Xue Feibai has lived for so many years. This is the first time she has seen such a shameless person. Why doesn't she hold him accountable?
She has always been unlucky, what did she lose? Besides, she also had a secret letter stolen from her that day.
She escaped with all her beard and tail, but it was all built on her own blood and tears!
Xue Feibai intuitively felt a surge of anger directed at Tianling Gai: "What if I just want to blame? Does Miss Du intend to kill the enemy?"
Du Heng looked at him with great interest, as if he was watching some prey struggling to its death, and said something that made Xue Feibai's hair stand on end and confused:
"Xue Feibai, since you want to be honest, let's open the skylight and speak frankly.
It must not be the first time that you are so familiar with the situation and have plotted against me; as for the last time in your Xue family, on your territory, wouldn't it be easy for you to do something?
It should be the person you hinted at killing Du Zhilan - my second sister Du Ruolan, who came to frame me!
Moreover, I injured my head earlier and almost died, so I guess it was you who did it!"
Thinking of this, Du Heng sighed secretly: It's not almost, it's already. The real Du Heng is already dead.
"If you don't like me and want to break off the engagement, you can just say so, and I might not agree to it; but the method you choose is to treat others like nothing and endanger their lives.
In this case, let me tell you, Xue Xiaolang, you and I will fight to the death about this engagement! As for who will win, it will be up to each of us to decide who will be the widow or the widower first.
You owe me three times, I can catch your tricks, I hope you won't let me down. We will meet in the mountains and rivers, we will see!"
After saying that, Du Heng never looked at Xue Feibai again and left with a cold face.
Xue Feibai was secretly frightened. This madman was both smart and dangerous. It seemed that he should have killed her earlier; but now that he had been alerted, it was not that easy to do so...
As for Du Heng's threat to him, he really didn't pay much attention to it, but in the future he would know that it was such a big flaw.
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Wu Youdong is about to take office, and as expected, the place Du Shengping has arranged for him is by no means a good place.
At first, he was recommended to go to the Guangdong and Guangxi areas to serve as a sentencing envoy and prosecutor. Du Heng thought about it and suggested that he go to the Yunnan-Guizhou area.
Du Shengping didn't care. Whether it was the Bashu region, the Yunnan-Guizhou region, or Guangdong and Guangxi, the people's customs were not developed and the people's wisdom was not developed, so they were all barbarian lands.
When he went to be responsible for the punishment, he felt very tired.
Du Heng attended "Ba County Files" and saw the phenomenon of abduction and trafficking of women and children everywhere.
Even she herself was almost abducted back then. If she hadn't been able to defend herself with martial arts and had secret guards at home to look after her, she might have been "given birth to a child" by now.
The road to Shu is as difficult as climbing to the sky!
The situation in Yunnan and Guizhou is even worse. Because the terrain of Yunnan and Guizhou is complex, it is difficult to cultivate farmland for livestock development in some areas. It is normal for local people to sell their children and daughters;
Even if they are not sold by their parents, if they are photographed, under the cover of this terrain, once a child or woman is photographed, it will be difficult to find the person and even more difficult to arrest them;
As a result, local human trafficking cannot be stopped, but has become increasingly rampant.
Human traffickers buy at a low price and sell at a high price, making the Yunnan-Guizhou region almost an ideal place for the cost-free business of human trafficking:
"Abduction of children, abuse and cruelty, the most cruel thing"
"There are those who kill their husbands and tie their wives, and those who kill their parents and tie their children"...
There are too many to list, and they are all true and recorded in historical materials.
Wu Youdong is a pure minister and has the country at heart. Letting him go to Yunnan and Guizhou will be of great benefit to the local people without any harm.
Going to Yunnan and Guizhou not only makes it easier for him to show off his talents, but also eliminates the need to stay in the capital all day long to scheming.
When the official transfer order came out, there was a small episode. Wu Youdong also served as the prefect of Chuncheng.
In other words, if Wu Youdong wants to use Chuncheng as a base to make drastic changes in prisons in Yunnan, there is probably nothing that can stop him, which is very good.
When the entire Lin family was executed, it was also the time when the official department was discussing matters, and there were many new faces in the capital.
There are even many wealthy businessmen working as small officials here, with gold and silver in their arms, waiting for the opportunity to find the right person to buy an official position.
It's true: the jade is in the coffin for a good price, and the hairpin is in the dowry waiting for the time to fly.
This is Du Heng’s opportunity!
Du Heng came out of the East Palace that day and returned home in a carriage.
Along the way, she opened the car curtain and stared thoughtfully at the people passing by on the street.
After returning home, I drew the portrait over and over again on the paper until I revised it several times before drying it and putting it away with satisfaction. Looking at its posture and expression, it was like treating a treasure.
Jingse glanced quietly and saw that it was the young lady's fiancé, Xue Xiaolang.
Jingse didn't know how to speak too beautifully, but when she looked at Xue Xiaolang in this painting, he appeared on the paper as if he was holding a handful of flowers and drinking wine, smiling with joy, anger, insanity and anger.
She never knew that Xue Xiaolang was good-looking, but he could be shown so beautifully in the painting;
She didn't know that the people in the paintings could actually look better than real people.
Oh! She thought, it must have been the young lady who had seen Xue Xiaolang in such an emotional state before he could draw such a vivid and lifelike painting!
It is naturally a good thing that the young lady is so interested in her fiancé.
The young lady doesn't like to talk, and it's common for her to read poems and books by herself, circling back and forth between the drawing table and the chessboard.
Although today's young lady also lives alone, Jingse obviously feels different.
The difference seems to be that the previous lady was trying to reduce her presence as cautiously as possible;
But today's young lady, no matter how taciturn she is, looks at her from a distance, as if she should shine brightly and stand among thousands of people one day.
Chapter completed!