Duanmu Qingchen looked around and lowered his voice, "It's the kind that can... can kill people..."
Lian Youyou raised the corner of her lips: "That is another matter~~ Remember what I said about some people having deep hatred and strong karma? Even the Yin Messenger can't catch them? Those are what you said. Hearing is false, seeing is believing, Fu Mingrui..."
Lian Youyou called Fu Mingrui, and Fu Mingrui raised his beautiful eyes slightly, with a lingering fear in them.
Lian Youyou turned around and smiled: "You came to me to see Yu Pingting. Now, I will take you to see her."
Fu Mingrui slowly came back to his senses and looked at Lian Youyou. Her smile, tinged with the warmth of the sun, instantly melted away all the coldness and lingering fear in his heart, as if he had drunk a bowl of scorching ginger soup, warming his whole body. The heart in his chest regained its vitality again, beating thumping in his chest. But his eyes could no longer move away from Lian Youyou's back.
"Where are we going now?" Duanmu Qingchen rubbed his still numb arms and asked Lian Youyou.
Lian looked ahead leisurely, curled her lips and smiled: "Yu Pingting's husband's family, Baijia Village."
The carriage sped forward towards Baijia Village.
Baijia Village is Bai Zhankui’s hometown. Most people in the village have the surname Bai, so it is called Baijia Village.
Bai Zhankui was originally from a poor family, with the same conditions as most villagers in Baijia Village. They also farmed at the beginning of the year and harvested the crops at the end of the year. After handing them over to the landlord, they had nothing left at home and could only barely make ends meet.
Bai Zhankui loved reading since he was young. Bai Youcai wanted his son to learn farming, but his son didn't want to and went to the village private school to eavesdrop. For this, Bai Youcai and Chen Jinhua scolded Bai Zhankui countless times.
What's the point of studying? The children in the village can't study, and they can't make money even if they study. For example, the old scholar in the next village can only make a little money by writing Spring Festival couplets for everyone during the Spring Festival. He can't even farm and can't get married in his life. It's better to farm and raise chickens, save more money, and get a wife in the village in the future, like Ah Hua next door.
But Bai Zhankui didn't listen. Although he was young, he felt that only by studying could he succeed. All those officials were educated. So, he wanted to understand one thing: studying could lead to becoming an official.
Although he was born in a poor family, he was very proud and looked down on the ignorant women in the village. He looked down on the illiterate Ah Hua from the next door. The wife he wanted to marry was a well-educated and well-mannered young lady like those in the books. But with his status, it was really a fantasy to want to marry a young lady, and he was even laughed at by his parents.
Therefore, he knew that the only way to become an official and marry a young lady was to study.
Bai Zhankui was the only son in the family. Although Bai Youcai and Chen Jinhua scolded him and opposed him, they still spoiled him and let him be.
The teacher in this private school loves those children who are eager to learn. He doesn't like the sons of local rich people who really pay money but don't like to learn.
Therefore, the teacher in Baijia Village turned a blind eye to Bai Zhankui's study. If Bai Zhankui didn't understand something, the teacher would give him some special lessons. Bai Zhankui's later achievements were all due to the good example given by the teacher in the village.
When Bai Zhankui was twelve years old, his teacher told the county magistrate of Baijia Village that Baijia Village had never produced a scholar, but he felt that Bai Zhankui was a good candidate and that if he could be trained, Baijia Village could also produce a scholar.
Baijia Village is on the edge of the capital, so it belongs to the capital. Emperor Cheng attached great importance to literature, so if Baijia Village did not produce a scholar, the county magistrate would lose face. The neighboring village produced several scholars, and the county magistrate was promoted. This is a political achievement!
The county magistrate thought the teacher was right, so he gave Bai Zhankui a test and found that he was a good candidate. He then allocated funds for Bai Zhankui to study!
Bai Youcai and Chen Jinhua saw that the county magistrate sponsored Bai Zhankui's studies and actually made money from him, which they thought was a huge bargain. From then on, they never opposed Bai Zhankui's studies again.
From then on, other people in the village, in addition to being envious of Bai Youcai's family, were more likely to say in secret that their Bai Zhankui would definitely not pass the exam to become a scholar. How could it be so easy to pass the exam? The county magistrate would definitely vent his anger on them and make them return the money they had given him!
As a result, Bai Zhankui actually passed the exam and went to study in the town!
The villagers were envious again and began to say that there were many talented people in the town. Bai Zhankui came from the village and was stupid. He was different from the smart kids in the town and he would definitely not be able to study for long and would come back.
In the end, Bai Zhankui did come back, but he brought the town's eldest daughter with him! He was truly returning home in glory!
Although on the surface, everyone said that Bai Zhankui was amazing, the pride of their Baijia Village, the only scholar in the village, and married a girl from the town, with a bright future, they asked other children in the village to learn from Bai Zhankui.
But secretly, pairs of eyes with sneering smiles were staring at the Bai family, just waiting to see something bad happen to the Bai family, become ruined, and then turn back into an ordinary family like them.
When Lian Youyou's carriage arrived at Baijia Village, it was already the transition between the late afternoon and the late afternoon, which was around four o'clock in the afternoon, almost dusk.
Lian Youyou looked at the sun and raised her eyebrows. It was just right to come at this time.
Her carriage drove into Baijia Village and passed by a number of memorial archways, all of which were chastity archways.
Chastity arches were originally meant to honor women with lofty and noble ideas. But as time went by, they gradually changed their meaning. It became that women who remained widows until death or were buried alive with their loved ones were considered to be women with lofty and noble ideas.
If that's the case, then Ma Guanqun's wife can also have a chastity arch erected here. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether she was good or bad in her lifetime, as long as she was buried with her husband, she was a good woman.
There are few horse-drawn carriages in the small village.
When the villagers who came down from the farmland saw such a luxurious carriage, they stopped or ran around to tell each other, wanting to see who the carriage belonged to or whose family had such a wealthy relative.
On this side, Lian Youyou's carriage passed under the archway, and on the other side, Zhao Cheng and Wang Quan's horses just came out of Baijia Village.
They were ordered by Fu Mingrui to investigate Yu Pingting's suicide in Baijia Village early in the morning and had been questioning in Baijia Village for a whole day.
Fu Mingrui was looking out the window, just like Duanmu Qingchen, trying to absorb some popularity before watching the Netherworld. He saw Zhao Cheng and Wang Quan and immediately stopped them: "Zhao Cheng, Wang Quan!"
When King Cheng of Zhao heard Fu Mingrui's call, he immediately stopped his horse and saw Fu Mingrui sticking his head out of the carriage window in front.
"Sir!" They were also a little surprised. Fu Mingrui asked them to come and investigate, so why did he come here? (To be continued)