Gou Tongzhi trusted Li Qingzhi very much.
If it weren't for Li Qingzhi, how would he have had the chance to jump several levels from being a county magistrate to becoming a Tongzhi
If he wanted to be promoted to prefect safely, it would be better for him to listen to Li Qingzhi.
The woman had been pestering him before, but he ignored her.
The wife also wronged him and quarreled with him...
At that time, Gou Tongzhi was actually a little rebellious, and even thought about bringing that woman home - didn't his wife wrongly accuse him of having an affair with that woman? He might as well make it clear!
If his wife hadn't been pregnant, he might have done it!
Fortunately, Li Qingzhi reminded him in time and he did not fall into the beauty trap.
He was very wary of that woman. That woman was able to injure his arm with a knife. If he brought that woman home as a concubine and she stabbed him in the chest... would he still be able to survive
Gou Tongzhi was frightened whenever he thought about this matter, and he became more grateful to Li Qingzhi.
Therefore, when he received Li Qingzhi's letter and saw Fang Zijian's hiding place in the letter, he immediately took people to arrest all the people in the northern goods shop and began interrogating them right away.
During this trial... the people who assassinated him were indeed arranged by these people!
Li Qingzhi is really not a simple person. He had been searching for the mastermind behind the scenes for such a long time but couldn't find him in just a few days!
It's just... these people are the subordinates of King Jin. The leader Xu Yuandong is King Jin's confidant. Xu Yuandong's sister is also King Jin's woman... How should he deal with it
Gou Tongzhi continued on his journey and made another trip to Chongcheng County.
"I didn't touch Xu Yuandong. I interrogated Fang Zijian and others thoroughly. It was indeed them who tried to assassinate me..." Gou Tongzhi described in detail what Hong Hui and Fang Zijian had done in the past year.
After Hong Hui couldn't make it in Chongcheng County, he went to help an official who had resigned and returned to his hometown to do shameful things. Later, Fang Zijian joined him.
When Fang Zijian left Chongcheng County, he actually took Fang's mother with him, but later they ran out of money and couldn't even afford to eat. Fang's mother wanted to return to Chongcheng County to live a stable life, so the two of them were always quarreling.
Fang Zijian felt that it was not good to let Fang's mother live with him without a fixed place to live, so he found a good home for Fang's mother and married her off.
Of course, this is what he said, but in reality...
He "sold" his mother.
Gou Tongzhi was amazed at Fang Zijian's approach.
Although his mother was not kind to her two daughters, she was very good to him, her son. But...he actually treated his mother like this
Fang's mother is already old and it is impossible for her to have any more children. The person who married her probably wanted her to work, so she must have a hard time in her later years.
"I didn't expect that Fang Zijian could do such a thing!" Gou Tongzhi sighed.
Li Qingzhi said: "If he can sell his sisters, he can naturally sell his own mother as well." Fang's mother had made Fang Zijian live a life superior to other people in the family since he was a child. She did not treat her two daughters as human beings in front of Fang Zijian. Naturally, Fang Zijian would not take the people around him seriously, including his mother.
"That's right." Gou Tongzhi continued.
After selling his mother, Fang Zijian began to follow Hong Hui and help Hong Hui. He then followed Xu Yuandong with Hong Hui and planned to target Gou Tongzhi.