Embroidered color and fragrance

Chapter 217 Gratitude
The people in the two mansions stayed up all night, and at dawn they sent someone to report to the Wu family, and invited Shen Zhan and Su Wanru to come to Zhang's mansion as guests.

Grandpa Zhang went to the room where Marquis Deqing was locked up, and the two lieutenants were locked up next door, and everyone was still there, but Marquis Deqing was gone.

How did you save him? Marquis Deqing had one leg, so he couldn't even run.

Mr. Zhang couldn't figure it out, and suddenly heard someone from outside reporting, "Shen Houye and the princess are here."

"Understood." Master Zhang thought deeply, squinted his eyes, and took out a medicine bag from the study. Empty your body slowly.

Extending the head is a knife, and retracting the head is also a knife.

In this battle, either Shen Zhan and Su's died, or they died. Once they died, the dragons in Nanyang would have no leader, and they would incite the people to turn against them. In this way, the three of them would have a chance to escape in the chaos.

Grandpa Zhang greeted the door, and saw Shen Zhan and Su Wanru coming in, talking and laughing. The young couple's brows and eyes were full of affection, especially Shen Zhan, who was obviously a rough man, but when talking to Su Shi, he spoke softly, As if afraid to frighten her.

Su Shi can still be frightened, this woman doesn't know how ruthless she is.

"Master Shen, Princess!" Elder Zhang stepped forward to salute, "Ms. Zhang drank too much wine yesterday and said something inappropriate in nonsense. It was really rude. Today I specially hosted a banquet to apologize to the two of you."

Shen Zhan looked at him and asked, "Master Zhang is in good health, isn't he?"

"No...it's nothing." Grandpa Zhang touched his chest subconsciously. He forgot about it in a panic, and when he mentioned it, his chest began to hurt again. Yes."

As he spoke, he made a gesture of invitation, "You two, please come inside!"

Shen Zhan looked at Su Wanru, she smiled and said, "I'm thinking about Marquis Deqing, I want to go and see." Then she looked at Elder Zhang, "Master Zhang, is it convenient?"

If it's convenient or inconvenient, she said it, Mr. Zhang couldn't refuse.

"Drink tea first." Elder Zhang said with a smile, "In case the princess loses interest in going to see you, you can even go and have a look."

Su Wanru raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "What you said makes sense, so let's stop bothering you first."

The three of them entered the main hall one after another. The mother-in-law served tea, and Su Wanru looked around, "Why didn't you see Mrs. Zhang?"

"She's not feeling well." Grandpa Zhang didn't dare to let Mrs. Zhang come out. She couldn't hide things, and she might be exposed. "I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on without saying a few words. It's bad luck."

Su Wanru and Shen Zhan looked at each other, they didn't speak, Elder Zhang said: "Two, please drink tea, this is newly harvested this year, if it is good, I will pack two catties for you to take back later."

Su Wanru nodded, brought the tea to her lips, Elder Zhang also drank tea, watching from the corner of her eye, her heart was pounding.

"It smells very good." Su Wanru smelled it and looked at Mr. Zhang, "Is your cup of tea this year's new?"

Grandpa Zhang nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, they are brewed together, of course they are the same tea."

Shen Zhan leaned on the chair, crossed his legs and did not speak, nor did he hold the teacup.

"Then let's change to another cup." Su Wanru suddenly got up with tea, and said to Elder Zhang, "I haven't touched this cup, and I don't dislike the one you drank. You are as old as my father, and you are an elder."

Grandpa Zhang's complexion changed, he quickly waved his hands, "I can't do it, I can't do it." He went to look at Shen Zhan as if asking for help, thinking that you don't care about your daughter-in-law.

Shen Zhan sat boldly, looked at Su Wanru and said with a smile that he wanted to change the tea.

"Change it." Su Wanru said, "I don't dislike elders."

How could Old Master Zhang dare to change it, there was something in the tea, he shook his head, his face turned pale, and his hands were shaking, "Princess, since you are talking about my elders, it is really out of character for you to play tricks on them like this."

"Do you want to drink?!" Su Wanru squinted at Elder Zhang, "Do you want my husband to pinch your mouth and drink it down?"

Mr. Zhang shook his head, huddled on the chair and looked at Su Wanru, and felt that this woman was really scary. No wonder Mrs. Zhang was so scared that she couldn't eat when she mentioned going to the opposite side.

"At first, I didn't think anything, so I came over to have a meal and see Marquis Deqing by the way." Su Wanru put the tea cup on the table, "You are dragging us to drink tea with a guilty conscience, and your eyes are looking around. Mr. Zhang, you haven’t killed anyone, have you, and your guilty conscience is on your face.”

Grandpa Zhang touched his face, and immediately realized that he had lost his composure. He regained his composure and said, "Princess Zhang can't understand what you said."

"You don't need to understand. Drink this cup of tea." Su Wanru knocked on the table and said, "After drinking it, my doubts have been dispelled, and this matter is over."

Grandpa Zhang looked at the teacup, then at Su Wanru, thinking of the lives of his family, he bravely went to take the teacup with shaking hands, the tea overflowed tremblingly, his face was covered in cold sweat, and stammered: " You...you are too bullying."

"I'm just bullying people." Su Wanru raised her eyebrows and said, "What's wrong with you?"

Grandpa Zhang felt that he had nothing to say to Su Wanru, so he brought a teacup to his mouth, when suddenly Mrs. Zhang rushed in from outside, "I'll drink it." She looked deathly at home.

Mrs. Zhang didn't hold the teacup, because Grandpa Zhang let go of it beforehand.

The tea cup fell to the ground, the husband and wife were ashamed, but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

"It's okay." Shen Zhan said, "I still have a glass here, which one of you will drink it."

Mrs. Zhang's legs went limp and she sat on the ground, crying.

Grandpa Zhang had a sullen face, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Don't dare to drink it, it means the tea is poisonous." Su Wanru knelt down and looked at Mrs. Zhang, "You specially invited us here to poison us to death?"

Madam Zhang didn't dare to look at Su Wanru, sobbing and crying, "You guys forced us, forced us."

"That's right, I forced you." Su Wanru did not deny it, "Then tell me now, how to solve this matter."

Mrs. Zhang didn't expect Su Wanru to be so calm, she suddenly looked up at her, "Solution...solution?"

"Of course," Su Wanru said, "If you want to poison our husband and wife to death, tell me, I won't be angry."

Mrs. Zhang nodded and was about to speak, but Mr. Zhang said: "Why do you do this? You suddenly came to Nanyang and disrupted everyone's life. We can't live anymore. Of course we have to resist."

"Where are you going, Ru Ning?" Su Wanru looked at him, "The Wu family is having a hard time right now, and Zhou Chao will definitely not let them go before they leave. If you rely on the Wu family, think about it, even if there is no We Hou Song, you can't go on anymore, right?"

Master Zhang's complexion changed slightly, and then he insisted: "Impossible, we didn't do anything wrong, it's you, it's Zhou Chao."

"You are wrong. Zhou Chao asked the Wu family for help at first, not his idea, but Zhao Zhiang's." Su Wanru reminded: "The Wu family rejected him, and even used the court's contacts to harm Zhou Chao. Do you think Zhao Zhiang What would you think?"

Grandpa Zhang's face changed drastically.

"There's no way to go." Su Wanru said, "Okay, I'm going to see Marquis Deqing, you guys should think about what to do."

As she said she was about to leave, Mrs. Zhang suddenly hugged Su Wanru's leg, "Princess, De... Deqinghou is gone."

"Marquis Deqing is missing, what do you say?" Su Wanru knelt down and looked at her, Mrs. Zhang said, "Marquis Deqing disappeared for no reason yesterday afternoon. We searched all the places but couldn't find him. Also, Miss Li's House It’s gone too, they must have rescued him.”

"You guys..." Su Wanru patted Mrs. Zhang on the shoulder, helped her up, and the four of them sat facing each other, "Tell me, what to do."

Mrs. Zhang looked at Mr. Zhang, but Mr. Zhang didn't know, wondering why they were so calm, shouldn't they be furious and shouting to kill.

"What... what should I do?" Old Master Zhang said.

Su Wanru asked, "What do I say?"

"As long as you don't kill us, you can do whatever you want," Elder Zhang said.

Su Wanru nodded, "Send someone to invite Mr. Lu. Then bring the heads of the three big households in Nanyang City."

"It has nothing to do with them." Before Grandpa Zhang finished speaking, Su Wanru sneered, and said, "You said that, guess whether I believe it or not."

Elder Master Zhang was speechless for a moment, Mrs. Zhang pulled his sleeve and said in a low voice, "Master, go and invite someone to come."

"Okay." Elder Zhang sent his servants to invite him. After a while, the elder master of the Zhu family, the second master of the Liu family, and Lord Zhizhou Lu all came.

The three families sat on the side, and they all knew the matter, all of them looked unhappy.

"I entrusted you to take care of Marquis Deqing, but you lost Marquis Deqing." Su Wanru said, "Did you tell me about the loss and invite us to silence you? This is how you always deal with things?"

Everyone looked ugly, Master Lu pointed at the three families and said, "How could this be, you are courting death."

"The problem must be resolved, and you all have to give me a satisfactory explanation. Otherwise, people in the world will look down on the Later Song Dynasty and say that we are being controlled by the three clans." Su Wanru said.

Grandpa Zhang went to see Shen Zhan, but Shen Zhan still didn't speak, leaning on the chair with a casual expression.

"You don't need to look at my husband, he is doing big things, I'll just show up for such small things." Su Wanru walked around twice with her arms folded, stopped and looked at the crowd, "Tell me, let me come up with a way, let me Satisfied."

"Give me your family wealth?" Mrs. Zhang blurted out, "I... I will give you all the family wealth of my Zhang family."

Everyone knows that the Zhang family is rich.

Su Wanru looked at her without saying a word, and went to look at others.

for free?Master Zhu said: "Kill...kill us to calm down, if you can calm down, then...then you can kill us."

Sacrifice three people to save three families, this deal is also a good deal.

Su Wanru didn't speak, obviously dissatisfied.

Those who are in charge, you look at me, I look at you, their faces are getting uglier.

"Princess, the princess must be forgiving and forgiving." Master Lu acted as a peacemaker, "You see, it is not easy for everyone in this world. The three of them have been in Nanyang for more than a hundred years, and their roots are deep. It's not good for the reputation of the Later Song Dynasty if you say it and move the whole body."

"But I'm small-minded, I feel uncomfortable if I can't vent my anger." Su Wanru said, "Besides, Marquis Deqing is lost, what should I do?"

Master Lu coughed, winked at the three families, and pulled the three of them over to talk with his voice down, "The Later Song Dynasty is not short of money, and there is no need to kill the three of you to establish your prestige. You don't understand this truth?!"

Master Liu Er said: "Then... what do they want? No money, no life, we don't have any."

"What do you want, think about it with your brain." Master Lu said in a low voice: "They want political achievements and the hearts of the people. Only in this way can they capture the hearts of the people in the world."

The three people were dumbfounded, and then Master Zhang had a flash of inspiration and said, "Tian?" A few days ago, there was a commotion in the city of Runing to divide the land, and many people in Nanyang went there, but they returned without success, but the limelight is still there .

"It's about this." Master Lu said: "She doesn't know, but I know, you know. The entire Nanyang land is in your hands, and you also know how your ancestors got the land back then. Now the people around If she can't survive, she will naturally want to do something as a person in power. If the land is returned, she will definitely be satisfied."

Of course, the three of them knew that when their own family encloses the land, they did a lot of tricks secretly. Otherwise, the originally divided land, which was originally owned by more than a dozen families, would have become their own.

It is not an extinct household, and no one can sell the land.

"This is the foundation of our ancestors." Master Liu Er said, "What shall we do if we divide it?"

Master Lu said: "I didn't let you all share it. I remember that the Liu family has [-] mu of land. You will withdraw what you took away from outside."

"That...that's more than 500." Master Liu Er waved his hands, reluctant, "No."

Master Lu sneered, and said with a flick of his sleeve: "Then you should think about it for yourself, whether it is the person or the place that is important." As he spoke, he pretended not to care.

Su Wanru sat opposite, talking to Shen Zhan in a low voice, as if she was planning to give them time to discuss.

The heads of the three families look at me and I look at you. Mr. Zhang has made a calculation in his heart. His family has [-] acres. If he takes out half of it, it is still okay. What's more, they don't live on this little land. , relying heavily on shops and business.

"Give...give it." Grandpa Zhu paused for a moment, and said, "I don't even have a life, so what about the ancestral foundation. Besides, if she is really willing to expose this problem, we still have a good deal."

The three of them knew each other.

Su Wanru looked at them, she wasn't afraid of them, if there were only these three families, she would just arrest and kill them, but there are thousands of clans in the world, she couldn't kill or arrest them all.

She wants a good start.

Solve what she wants to solve without breaking the bones.

"Here!" Elder Zhang said: "Master Hou, princess, the people around Nanyang are living a lonely life, we...we are willing to share [-] mu of land as a family, to solve...to solve the urgent need, you see it is feasible. "

Su Wanru raised her eyebrows and looked at him, but didn't speak.

"Five hundred acres?" Grandpa Zhang asked.

Su Wanru still didn't say anything, and Grandpa Zhang got scared, maybe they won't let them take it all.

"Give it all." Master Liu Er said: "My family has [-] acres, and I will give it all to you, okay?"

Su Wanru frowned a little.

What a big heart, I really want everything, the faces of the three heads are extremely ugly.

"That's right, let's live a happy life together, so that the world can be peaceful. You are doing good deeds, and you will be famous forever." Su Wanru said.

It's fine to leave their names, they just want to save their lives.

"However." Su Wanru said: "It can't be better, but the people have suffered for you. Your family gave away half of the field and kept the rest. It's not easy to raise such a big family, right?"

As long as it's only half, Elder Zhang heaved a sigh of relief, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Lord Hou and Princess."

"That's right, everyone is happy, and the matter is settled." Master Lu said: "Then I will post a notice when I go back, telling the people of Nanyang that anyone who has no land at home must register with the head of the village."

There are not many households in Nanyang, so many fields are enough.

"In the name of Zhang, Zhu, and Liu." Su Wanru looked at the three families and said, "Let's just say that they sympathized with the sufferings of the people and donated half of their wealth to the stability of the Later Song Dynasty. Kangtai."

Master Lu hurriedly nodded.

"This...it can't be done." Mr. Zhang didn't expect that he failed to poison, and got such an unexpected result. Just now he thought that his Zhang family was going to be wiped out.

Turning around, he began to feel a faint pain in his chest again.

"So!" Su Wanru said, "You three families deserve this honor."

The three of them stood up and saluted hurriedly, but they felt uneasy in their hearts. Mrs. Zhang asked: "Then... what should we do about the matter of Marquis Deqing?"

"Let's look for it." Su Wanru said, "I entrusted you to take care of him. Now that he's gone, we can't blame you."

Mrs. Zhang let out a long breath of relief, but before she could breathe, she heard Su Wanru say: "However, you didn't conspire with Li Jun to let Marquis Deqing go?"

"No, no." Mrs. Zhang said: "It is impossible for us to do such a thing anyway."

Su Wanru smiled and said: "Then it's all right." She turned her head and asked Shen Zhan, "Husband, what do you think?"

"As long as they are honest, don't hinder me from going out to lead troops, I don't care about other things." Shen Zhan looked like he didn't care about trivial matters, "Live a good life."

The three families nodded their heads in gratitude.

"Then leave the rest to Mr. Lu." Su Wanru reminded: "If you do something good, you must do it well. Be sure to write down every land deed clearly, and let each family take care of it."

Master Lu nodded, "Don't worry, the next official will definitely handle it properly."

"Master Hou still has something to do, we will stay here soon." Su Wanru remembered something, and said: "Yes, I will write to my second brother and ask him to stamp his seal and allow each of you to have one heir. Don't try to be filial."

The three families were taken aback for a moment, this promise seemed a little painless, after all, the Later Song Dynasty had not established a dynasty yet.

"Keep it, one day you will think it's a good thing." Su Wanru smiled, and followed Shen Zhan out the door.

Master Zhang kept Mr. Lu, "This...is that enough?"

"Your Majesty never changes the order when talking to the princess, so don't worry." Master Lu said, "I haven't congratulated the three prefectures yet, but now I am the benefactor of all the people in Nanyang City."

The three heads of the family smiled and said yes, but they felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't figure out what was wrong.

"It's not a loss." Lord Lu said in a low voice: "You guys just wait."

Master Lu left with a smile on his face.

"Okay." Master Liu Er said: "The matter has come to this, we can spend money to avoid disaster, not to mention, we have gained the name of a good person."

Grandpa Zhang thought for a while, and suddenly understood something, and said: "Mr. Su is using us to make an example of others."

Although this name belongs to them, it was done after the Later Song Dynasty arrived in Nanyang. If the clan is willing to divide the land without fighting or killing, people in the world will certainly remember the love of the Later Song Dynasty.

This person's heart was just won away.

The means are really amazing.

"How is it?" Su Wanru said with a smile: "Husband, please praise me."

Shen Zhan nodded and said in a low voice, "Not only do you want to praise, but you also want to reward!"

Su Wanru stared and shook her head, "No, no, no, I just need to praise, I don't want to reward."

"That can't be done." Shen Zhan pinched her face, "It will be a loss to my wife."

Su Wanru rolled his eyes at him, said in a low voice: "Not serious." Then said: "Come with me to see Li Jun."

(End of this chapter)