msmithbooks Chapter 444 Deception
Chapter 444 Deception
"Bring someone, I'll pick them up with you!"
When the steward prepared the land deeds, Sima Zhishang took all the disciples with high martial arts skills in the family, and went to redeem him with Sima Weibo.
Obviously they had made up their minds, if the Yun family was dissatisfied with the two hundred Qing land, then they would have to snatch Sima Jincheng back even if they used force.
The Sima family has many disciples with high martial arts skills. Although this group of people will not be the opponent of Yun Tingfeng alone, but the victory lies in the large number of people. As long as Yun Tingfeng is held back, they will have a chance to save others !
"Father, why bother to let you go there yourself!"
Hearing that Sima Zhishang was going too, Sima Weibo couldn't help hesitating.
He didn't want Sima Zhishang to be humiliated in the past.
Leaning on crutches, Sima Zhishang glanced at Sima Weibo, and asked, "If you don't go today, can you bring him back?!"
"This..." Sima Weibo couldn't guarantee it.
Sima Zhishang ignored him and led the person away on crutches. Sima Jincheng sighed and followed quickly.
"People are coming!"
Yunmengxi moved her ears when she heard the footsteps coming from a distance, and said in surprise: "They also brought along a lot of martial arts practitioners, probably a dozen of them."
Chu Zhuang raised his eyebrows, this Sima family is really big, there are so many people with high martial arts skills in the family.
No wonder Yao Pingzhi told him not to act recklessly in Dongfeng Mansion.
"Are they planning to rob people?" Yun Zhanfei asked wrinkled.
"It's not like robbing people as soon as they come up, it should be a second-hand preparation." Yun Hong shook his head slightly and said.
"coming!"
A few people squeezed into the window to secretly check the situation outside. Seeing the leader, Sima Zhishang, Chu Zhuang asked in surprise, "Is that Sima Zhishang?"
"Well, it's him. He basically doesn't come out very much now. The last time he made a move was also because of Sima Jincheng's affairs." Yun Hong nodded and said.
Yun Zhanfei curled his lips, and said sarcastically, "As far as Sima Jincheng's virtue is concerned, I'm afraid he will come out sometime in the future!"
"General Yun!"
Sima Zhishang looked at Yun Tingfeng, with an apologetic expression on his face, and said: "The old man is not strict in running the family, making the younger generation playful, disturbing the Yun family, the old man is ashamed, and I am here to apologize to General Yun!"
Speaking of which, Sima Zhishang gave Yun Tingfeng a deep bow, seeing his sincerity, which made people feel moved.
Chu Zhuang looked at Sima Zhishang and raised his eyebrows. He knew very well that compared to Sima Jincheng and Sima Weibo, this Sima Zhishang was the most difficult person in the Sima family to deal with.
He immediately apologized, and because he was an elder, if Yun Tingfeng did not accept the apology, it would be disrespectful and narrow-minded.
This simple action and one sentence changed him from the position of the perpetrator to the position of the victim, which is not unreasonable!
Yun Tingfeng avoided Sima Zhishang's salute, looked at him coldly and said indifferently: "Your Sima family insulted the Yun family, and as the head of the Yun family, I accept your apology!"
Yun Tingfeng is not an idiot either, how could he not understand Sima Zhishang's sinister intentions, so he put his identity in the position of the head of the family, and at the same time put this dispute in the position of the two families, not them personally.
"Right now, you have two choices. First, you don't need to pay compensation. I will return the injuries to Sima Jincheng intact. If he survives, I will let you take him away. !"
"Second, take the land and redeem people!"
Yun Tingfeng knew that Sima Zhishang was difficult to deal with, so he didn't give him a chance to speak, and continued: "Of course, I don't mind you continuing to discuss with me here, but I don't know if Sima Jincheng can persist. It's been so long!"
"you!"
Sima Zhishang had already arrived in person, but Yun Tingfeng was still so shameless that Sima Weibo's gums were about to be crushed by him, glaring at Yun Tingfeng.
If he hadn't seen Sima Zhishang still here, he might really be unable to control himself and would lead someone to fight him directly.
Sima Zhishang didn't show any anger. He nodded calmly and said, "General Yun, please speak quickly. This time it was Jin Cheng's fault. As an elder, I am willing to pay compensation for his fault!"
"Give the title deed to General Yun!"
After finishing speaking, Sima Zhishang waved his hand and asked his subordinates to present all the land deeds that had been sorted out quickly.
The steward behind Yun Tingfeng immediately stepped forward to pick it up. He carefully looked at the locations on the land deed, and found that most of them were in the areas that Yun Hong ordered, so he came to Yun Tingfeng and reported: "Master, two hundred yuan is not worth it. Poor, ten hectares of farmland villas, and the rest are in the forests and sandy land below the nearby villages and towns."
Yun Tingfeng nodded slightly. He already had guesses about the result, so he wasn't surprised.
"After the land deed is over, you can take the person away!" Yun Tingfeng looked at Sima Zhishang and said.
Seeing that Yun Tingfeng did not pursue the location of the land they gave, Sima Weibo was slightly relieved, but when he heard that Yun Tingfeng said that he would release him only after transferring ownership, he immediately became angry.
"The land deed has been handed over to you, is it possible that our Sima family will take away this land?!" Sima Weibo glared at Yun Tingfeng and said angrily.
Yun Tingfeng stood on the spot with an indifferent expression on his face. If I don't want to talk to you, if you want to waste time, you will waste time driving.
After all, there was Sima Zhishang, an old fox, and Yun Tingfeng was accidentally led into a ditch by him.
So simply respond to all changes with inaction.
I don't care what you say!
Anyway, they are the ones who are worried about Sima Jincheng, not him Yun Tingfeng!
"Rogue!"
Seeing Yun Tingfeng's appearance, Sima Weibo shouted in his heart.
"Have someone take him to transfer ownership!"
Sima Zhishang ordered them to go to the government to transfer the title deed, and it was only a stick of incense time. Instead of wasting time here, it is better to get things done early!
"Yes, Father!"
Sima Weibo pursed his lips, and complied aggrievedly, ordering someone to take the servants of the Yun family to go through the formalities in the yamen as soon as possible.
"We were worried that we didn't have enough space, so Sima Jincheng sent it to us eagerly. He can be regarded as our lucky star." Yun Zhanfei said with a smile.
After two months of fermentation, the wine market has been fully opened, and they are ready to further expand the scale.
Yunhong has been planning where to buy land recently, but the land is expensive, even if it is wasteland and forests, as long as it is on the boundary of Dongfeng Mansion, it is an expensive word!
In particular, they haven't been able to sell large places, because big places are controlled by aristocratic families, and they don't want your money, so they can only buy from retail investors bit by bit.
Yunhong has been having enough headaches recently because of this matter, and he plans to give up expanding the scale in Dongfeng Mansion, but go to nearby Anbei Mansion and other places to buy land.
Who knew, when they were dozing off, the other party brought them pillows.
Two hundred dumps of land, without spending a penny, just gave it to them directly!
The formalities were handled very quickly, because the people who went to the Sima family, all the officials in the yamen did not dare to make things difficult, and approved all the formalities as quickly as possible.
"Master, the property has been transferred to our family's name." The servant returned to Yun Tingfeng and said.
"Well, lift the person out!"
Yun Tingfeng nodded slightly and ordered.
Soon someone carried Sima Jincheng and the others out.
The four of them were already in a coma at this time, lying unconscious on the board.
"Jin Cheng!"
Seeing Sima Jincheng's bruised nose and swollen face, Sima Weibo couldn't bear it anymore and walked up immediately.
Yun Tingfeng asked them to carry Sima Jincheng away, and at the same time gave him a Chu Zhangyang as a gift.
"I wonder if Master Sima wants to redeem these two people?"
Yun Tingfeng stopped Sima Zhishang who was about to leave, pointed to Zhong Shi and Zhong Jin and asked.
It's useless for him to keep these two people, it's better to return them to the Sima family.
Sima Zhishang and Sima Weibo had no time to care about Zhong Shi and Zhong Jin, so he wanted to take Sima Jincheng back to treat his injuries quickly.
But if this person is not rescued, the hearts of everyone in the sect may be chilled. Immediately, Sima Zhishang took off the finger wrench from his hand, handed it to the servant and said, "Naturally, this finger wrench is enough for General Yun to see?"
Yun Tingfeng nodded, and asked people to carry both Zhong Shi and Zhong Jin over.
Sima Zhishang and his party came and went in a hurry, and soon disappeared in the courtyard.
Seeing the people leaving, Chu Zhuang and the others came out of the room. Yunhong and Chu Zhuang were checking the land deeds and planning how to use these places.
"In order to avoid ruining these places, let's take over the land now!" Chu Zhuang said after thinking about it.
Right now, the Sima family's thoughts are all on Sima Jincheng, so they definitely don't have the energy to focus on these places.
When they come to their senses and let the people below destroy all the land, then they can't argue with each other anymore!
"En! What Chu Zhuang said is reasonable, let's split up and lead people there immediately!"
Yunhong and the others looked at each other, and nodded in response.
Only when this land is in their hands can it truly belong to them!
The few people didn't waste any time, and immediately led them out of the city while the city gate was still open.
……
"Jincheng! My son, they beat you so badly, it's really abhorrent!"
Sima Weibo looked at the wound on Sima Jincheng's body, and hatred burst out of his eyes.
"Don't, don't hit me, I was wrong, I was wrong..."
Sima Jincheng closed his eyes tightly. In his dream, he dreamed that Yun Zhanfei was still punching and kicking him, howling in terror.
"Father is here, no one can hurt you anymore!" Sima Weibo quickly shook Sima Jincheng's hand in relief.
After returning to Sima Mansion, Sima Jincheng was settled in a hurry. As for Chu Zhangyang and Zhong Shi Zhongjin, they were simply placed in the guest room. Sima Weibo left a sentence for someone to take care of, and he never paid attention to them again. .
"Old master, master, young master, his foot was broken, and there are many bruises on his body, but fortunately, there are no internal organs and no injuries..."
The doctor looked at the livid faces of Sima Zhishang and Sima Weibo, and continued tremblingly: "Young Master's injuries should be cured after a few months of care."
Having been injured for a hundred days, Sima Jincheng will have to lie on the bed for at least three months this time.
After listening to the doctor's words, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the Yun family hadn't done anything wrong after all, so Sima Jincheng's life wasn't hurt.
"Father, the Yun family is really hateful. They tore a large piece of flesh from us. We absolutely can't just let it go!" Sima Weibo said angrily, slapping the table heavily with his palm.
Although those lands are all remote places, they are within the scope of Dongfeng Mansion after all!
Especially the land in their hands, even the wasteland and mountains and forests are the best. Large areas of land are connected together, and it took them several generations of hard work to accumulate so much.
A full two hundred dumps were lost in just one day, and his heart is still bleeding!
I think Sima Weibo has never been angry like this before, and now he can't help but get angry whenever he thinks of the Yun family!
"The land has been given away, how do you treat it?"
Sima Zhishang glanced at Sima Weibo and asked.
"Hmph!" Sima Weibo said ruthlessly, "Don't they want land? If this land is burned, you can give it to them!"
Sima Zhishang remained silent, apparently acquiescing to his actions.
Although he did not show any anger today, it does not mean that he is not angry.
Yun Tingfeng didn't give him any face at all, and even caused the Yun family to stumble. Although it was Sima Jincheng's fault first, but even so, his Yun family could not ride on their Sima family's head!
Seeing that Sima Zhishang agreed, Sima Weibo immediately called the steward and ordered him to go down.
"Master, it's getting late now and the city gates are closed. We need your token to leave the city..." the steward looked at the sky and said.
It is not impossible to go out of the city at this time, but Sima Weibo's token is needed.
"Since the city gate is closed, don't go out!" Sima Zhishang frowned and thought for a while, "Go again tomorrow morning! Several members of the Yun family were also injured, and Yun Tingfeng should be busy treating them , not so fast to reclaim the land!"
Right now, the commotion caused by forcing the gate open with a token is too great, and the imperial guards guarding the city are all from Yu Wenchang. Once the city gate is opened, if they make a fuss in front of Yu Wenchang, they will lose more than they gain.
"Yes, Father!"
Sima Weibo complied, looked at the steward and ordered: "You will take people out tomorrow morning, destroy all the land given away today, and take back all the things on the Zhuangzi!"
"Yes! Master!" The steward immediately responded.
"Hmph! I want your Yun family to know that our Sima family's advantage is not easy to take advantage of!" Sima Weibo said with a cold snort.
There were [-] Zhuangzi, large and small, in the land of [-] square meters. Chu Zhuang and the others were divided into three groups, brought people and land deeds, knocked on the gates of each Zhuangzi at night, occupied all the Zhuangzi, and arranged People are on guard outside.
Of course there was resistance during the period, but the land deed clearly stated that no one would dare to lie to the Sima family about the land, especially if the people who came were from the Yun family.
The people in Zhuangzi had no choice but to pack their bags and leave cursing.
"Manpower was transferred from Qingshan Village overnight to arrange in each Zhuangzi, but we have too few people, and these Zhuangzi can't be fully utilized right now."
Yunhong and the others dragged their tired bodies and gathered in a manor to discuss.
They have a lot of land now, but there are too many lands that can't be used up.
But let them sell it, and they are reluctant. It is easy to sell these lands, but it will be difficult to buy them back when the time comes, and they do not lack the money.
"Recruit some fruit farmers to plant grapes, and some fields can also be leased to farmers for them to plant." Chu Zhuang made a suggestion.
Grapes have always been in short supply here, and now there are so many lands, especially mountain forests, that must be used to grow grapes.
And a small part of the farmland must be used to grow food, and they can also rent it to surrounding farmers at a low price for them to grow.
"Well, what Chu Zhuang said is good, we can arrange it like this." Yun Tingfeng nodded, agreeing with Chu Zhuang's proposal.
The rest of the people also nodded.
Yunhong has recorded all the plans in detail. These things need to be arranged as soon as possible. When the spring of next year begins, everything must start to act.
……
Inside the imperial study room.
"Ha ha!"
Yu Wenchang looked at a secret letter in his hand and showed a smile. He handed the letter paper to Hong Da and said, "You also have a look."
Hong Da took it respectfully, and after reading the content above, he showed a surprised look, and said in disbelief for a while, "Your Majesty, why did Mr. Sima make such an oolong?"
The secret letter described in detail how Sima Jincheng led people into the other courtyard that Yun's family had just bought today, and how Sima Weibo and Sima Zhishang came to redeem people afterwards.
"Hmph! It's not that he's used to being arrogant and domineering!"
The corners of Yu Wenchang's lips rose, and a sarcasm flashed across his cloudy eyes.
Looking at Yu Wenming's expression, Hong Da knew that he was angry, so he quickly lowered his head.
If Sima Jincheng took people to make trouble just because of a misunderstanding, it would be impossible for Yu Wenchang to take such a trivial matter to heart.
What made Yu Wenchang angry was that after Yunhong arrived, Sima Jincheng dared to let someone do something to him!
It was the first time he hit the prince Yu Wenjing, and now he hit Yunhong, the prince who has not yet recognized him.
From Sima Jincheng's attitude, it can be seen that he doesn't have the slightest reverence for the royal family, and it can even be said that he doesn't take the royal family seriously!
Could this represent what Sima Weibo and Sima Zhishang meant?
Or is it the meaning of the entire Sima family? !
"Let Wu Da inspect the surroundings of Dongfeng Mansion tomorrow, and if he finds the arsonist, he will be severely punished!" Yu Wenchang looked at Hong Da and ordered.
"Yes!"
Hong Da's heart trembled, and he immediately nodded in response.
Sima Zhishang and Sima Weibo wanted to set fire to the land. Once a fire broke out in such a large place, it would cause great harm. How could Yu Wenchang allow it.
In particular, Yu Wenchang was extremely dissatisfied with the Sima family about this incident.
If you hit the prince, it's fine for you to accompany him two hundred times, but you actually dare to set fire to it maliciously!
This simply touched Yu Wenchang's scales.
It would be fine if the Sima family stopped at this point, but if Wu Da really caught someone tomorrow, I'm afraid the Sima family will suffer a big somersault this time!
……
Before dawn on the second day, Sima Ping, the steward of the Sima family, led a group of people to guard the city gate. When the gate opened, he immediately rode a fast horse towards the nearest manor.
It's just that Sima Pingren didn't know that not long after they left, a group of people also rode out from the city gate, but the group behind was not in a hurry, walking slowly, keeping a distance from Sima Pingren all the time.
The people's congress of Sima Zhuanghu was kicked out at night, and each of them didn't know what to do. They walked towards the city gate in groups, planning to go to Sima's house to ask what was going on.
Who knew that before they entered the city, they saw Sima Ping leading someone out on horseback.
"The big steward!"
Sima Ping is the chief steward of the Sima Mansion. Although these people are not in his charge, they all know him. When they saw him, they immediately stopped them.
"Boss, what's going on?!"
"The people from the Yun family kicked us out of the village with the title deed! Those tenant farmers even compensated us, but not only didn't the people from the Sima family get any compensation, they even kicked us out!"
……
Sima Ping reined in his horse, and as soon as he got off the horse, he was immediately surrounded by the crowd, and he began to complain with one glance at me.
As members of the Sima family, when did they receive such anger!
"What? The Yun family has already taken Zhuangzi away?"
Listening to these people's words, Sima Ping showed a look of surprise. He never expected that in just one night, the other party had already taken all these Zhuangzi away.
The big steward asked people to arrange these people, and only then did they start thinking about what to do.
"Boss, the master told us to set fire to the Zhuangzi, but they have taken away these Zhuangzi now, so we..." The people who came out with Sima Ping looked at him, waiting for him to make a decision.
"I'll go back and report to the master first, and then make a decision."
Sima Ping thought about it for a while, but still didn't dare to make a decision on his own, and decided to go back and ask Sima Zhishang and the others for their opinions.
"What? You said they took all Zhuangzi away overnight?!"
Sima Weibo was shocked when he heard the news that Sima Ping brought back.
Rao Sima Zhishang also showed a surprised expression, which was completely beyond their expectations.
"And it was Yun Zhanfei and the others who personally took people to collect it? How could it be possible, they were so badly injured that they couldn't even stand still, how could it be..."
Sima Weibo shook his head, he saw the sickness of Yun Zhanfei and the others, if it wasn't for them, especially Yun Hong, who were injured so badly, how could they be willing to take the two hundred pieces of land.
"Call Zhong Shi and the others over here!"
Sima Zhishang frowned deeply. Obviously, he realized that something was wrong, and immediately ordered.
The two were knocked out yesterday, and they didn't pay much attention to it. Now that something was wrong, they remembered to ask them about what happened that day.
Zhong, Shi, Zhong, and Jin were disabled. Although they have been treated by a doctor, they can no longer hold heavy objects in their hands, let alone practice martial arts. At this time, the two of them were called over, and their expressions were very decadent.
"You two fought against members of the Yun family, how are their injuries?" Sima Zhishang asked.
"Injury?"
Zhong Shi and Zhong Jin looked at each other, and couldn't help showing a wry smile.
"How dare we hurt the young masters of the Yun family? Except for the eldest son of the Yun family who was punched by me for saving a servant, the two of us brothers didn't dare to attack them at all!"
Zhong Shi and Zhong Jin are not without measure, and if they hurt the young masters of the Yun family, nothing will happen to Sima Jincheng, but the two of them will definitely not have any good fruit to eat.
That's why they dared to hurt them at all. Their killers were all servants of the Yun family.
"How could it be? I saw their injuries with my own eyes. Their faces were pale, and the corners of their lips were still bloodshot. They were extremely weak..." Sima Weibo's voice became weaker and his complexion gradually became distorted.
They were cheated!
"Young Er of the Yun family, you're bullying too much!" Sima Weibo slapped the table heavily, because he was so angry, he coughed violently after he finished speaking.
"Master, master!" Sima Ping immediately led someone forward to pat Sima Weibo on the back.
"Simple camouflage is playing tricks on our Sima family. The Yun family is really good at it!" Sima Zhishang's eyes flashed with murderous intent.
"Master, shall we go or not..." Sima Ping looked at Sima Zhishang's expression, and understood that he was just intent on killing.
"The Yun family doesn't have many hands, so there won't be many people in the village. Be careful and don't get caught." Sima Zhishang gave Sima Ping a cold look and ordered.