Daming: From the end of Hongwu

331 Chapter 329 - Jin Yiwei and Loli surnamed Sun

At night, the inn was silent, only the footsteps of Zhen Wu and others echoed along the way. Not long after, everyone came to a room.

As soon as he arrived here, Zhen Wu smelled a bloody smell coming from the room. He frowned slightly, wondering what kind of injury the person inside had suffered to leave so much blood.

While thinking, he opened the door and walked in.

There were several sergeants in the room looking after the injured Jin Yiwei. The sergeants saw that there was no injury, only the Jin Yiwei was lying on the bed and was dying of pain.

His chest and legs were covered with traces of soldiers bandaging him to stop the bleeding. The blood had stopped at this moment and showed signs of coagulation, but it was obvious that he had lost a lot of blood before. The mattress had long been soaked in blood.

As for his youngest daughter, she sat aside in an unusually obedient manner, watching him quietly.

Several sergeants inside saw Zhen Wu coming, and immediately wanted to see him. Zhen Wu waved his hand in distaste to dismiss their salute, and then set their eyes on the Jin Yiwei.

Zhen Wu stepped forward and briefly checked the man's injuries.

The next moment, he sighed a little.

Based on his understanding of sword injuries, it can be concluded that this injury is basically hopeless, and now it is nothing more than waiting to die.

Zhen Wu has always admired heroes, this man suffered such an injury, and still survived to this day, which is a testament to his perseverance, so Zhen Wu didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Is there anything you can't let go of or need to explain?"

Jin Yiwei glanced at Zhen Wu, then turned his head with difficulty to look at Cheng Liang who was behind Zhen Wu, his eyes were clearly inquiring, wanting to know Zhen Wu's identity.

There was no need for Zhen Wu to hide anything, so he said directly, "Say it, I am Zhen Wu, and I won't just sit idly by if I can help you."

A gleam of surprise burst into Jin Yiwei's eyes instantly.

He forcefully raised his heart, and said intermittently: "I ask the Duke to help take care of my daughter for a while. I still have a younger brother, Sun Zhong, the head of Yongcheng County. You can entrust my daughter to him."

Zhen Wu glanced at his daughter, nodded and asked, "What about the others?" He was a little interested in why Jin Yiwei was hunted down.

Now he is not afraid of trouble.

Seeing Zhen Wu nodding, Jin Yiwei was about to continue, but perhaps the most worried daughter had found out, which made the anger he had just forcibly raised dissipate, and even his pupils began to gradually dissipate.

Zhen Wu frowned slightly, and just when he thought he couldn't get the inside story, he saw Jin Yiwei forcefully raised his arm and pointed at his daughter.

"My... my daughter... I have a letter on my body, the Duke... you can... open it..."

As soon as the words fell, Jin Yiwei's raised arm dropped powerlessly. Zhen Wu stepped forward to check his situation. The next moment, Zhen Wu sighed and retreated.

died.

When Cheng Liang and the others saw a person dying in front of them, they all sighed in dismay. Destiny is impermanent, and life and death are involuntary. It's just a pity that his daughter may be in trouble in this life.

After all, anyone who watched his father die in front of his eyes would have some shadows in his heart, let alone a four or five year old girl.

For a moment, Zhen Wu and the others all looked at the little girl.

Contrary to their expectations, the little girl didn't cry or make a fuss, as if she was used to seeing life and death with Zhen Wu and others, but her eyes were full of sadness, but her face was not moved.

The little girl first handed Zhen Wu a letter hidden on her body, and then, as usual, she gently climbed onto the bed and hugged her father, ignoring the sticky blood, and pillowed her little head on her father at the chest.

Seeing this, Zhen Wu sighed and asked people to watch carefully, then went to the outside room, found a place to sit down, and observed the letter in his hand.

But he had just glanced at the envelope.

Zhen Wu was taken aback immediately.

The letter turned out to be for Xue Lu.

He frowned and took out the letter paper from it, and then looked at it carefully, but as Zhen Wu learned more and more of its contents, his expression also changed several times.

This is a distress letter.

This Jinyiwei was originally a dark disk of the Daming Mansion, named Sun Cheng, who had received the favor of Zeng Gu, the magistrate of the Daming Mansion. Originally, the Daming Mansion had always been calm, but since the Jinyiwei of the capital came to the Daming Mansion, there was a wave of cleaning. It's fine that some people really deserve what they deserve, but many innocent people were also implicated and imprisoned in the big prison. This made Zeng Gu unable to sit still anymore, and couldn't help but speak up for the innocent people a few times.

But this also offended Jin Yiwei. Jin Yiwei planned to fabricate charges and frame Zeng Gu to take in the remnants of Jianwen. However, Sun Cheng found out about their planting and reported to Zeng Gu in advance. Zeng Gu knew that he was no match for Jin Yiwei, so he disclosed the matter. He wrote the ins and outs of the letter in detail, trying to ask for help, but was afraid of any accidents on the way, so he asked the servants of the family and Sun Cheng to go to the capital to ask Xue Lu for help.

What happened afterward was not mentioned in the letter, but Zhen Wu could roughly guess a thing or two.

Presumably Jin Yiwei must have discovered some clues about Sun Cheng and tried to silence him, otherwise Sun Cheng would not have been hunted down with his daughter.

This... is a bit interesting.

It turned out that the one who chased and killed Jin Yiwei was also Jin Yiwei.

Ah.

It is indeed the most popular yamen today.

But why did Zeng Gu ask Xue Lu for help?Zhen Wu was a little puzzled, he hadn't heard Xue Lu mention this person, but after thinking for a while, Zhen Wu suddenly realized.

After capturing Jinan City last year, Xue Lu once led troops to attack the imperial troops at the Daming Mansion and Zhending Mansion. I think it was at that time that Xue Lu had some contacts with this Zeng Gu.

Since it is Xue Lu's person, if this matter is found on his own head, it can be regarded as finding the right owner.

Zhen Wu knocked on the table.

It's about Xue Lu, he has to take care of it.

After thinking about it for a while, he planned to send someone to visit the Daming Mansion first. On the one hand, he was afraid that if he listened to others, he would be in the dark. After all, he doesn't know what the relationship between Xue Lu and this Zeng Gu is.

But just when Zhen Wu was about to send someone to go there first, another question suddenly appeared in his mind.

Since this Sun Cheng wanted to go to the capital to seek help from Xue Lu, why did he go north?

One south and one north, even if he wanted to avoid Jin Yiwei's pursuit and take a detour to Nanjing, he shouldn't go in the opposite direction.

No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure it out, so he decided to ask the little girl himself.

Zhen Wu came to the inner room, and said softly to the little girl, "Little girl, uncle wants to ask you something, is that okay?"

The little girl who had been crawling on top of her father without moving, finally moved when she heard Zhen Wu's voice. She stood up, got out of bed and came to Zhen Wu's side obediently, waiting for Zhen Wu's inquiry.

Zhen Wu looked at the little girl, and found that there were two lines of faint tears on her cheeks, but he didn't hear the little girl's cry, Zhen Wu couldn't help but sighed again in his heart, the little girl was so annoying. People are distressed.

"What's your name?" Zhen Wu said softly.

The little girl looked up at Zhen Wu, then immediately lowered her head and said, "My name is Sun Youshu."

"You Shu, we have to be strong, although your father...although..." Zhen Wu faced the little girl, and he couldn't bear to say the following words.

But Sun Youshu said crisply: "I know that my father is dead, just like my mother and my brother. My father told me that if he dies, he will never come back."

Zhen Wu's heart seemed to have been hit by a heavy hammer. He sighed and didn't know what to say for a while.

At this time, Sun Youshu took the initiative to ask: "Uncle, what do you want to ask me?"

Zhen Wu took a breath, calmed down, nodded and asked, "Youshu, how did you follow your father all the way here, can you tell me?"

Sun Youshu thought about it, but she was still young after all, so she had no concept of the route at all. She just said that her house was set on fire, and then her father took her to run and run, behind her. People kept chasing and chasing.

While she was speaking, she secretly raised her head to glance at Zhen Wu, timidly, as if she was afraid that the narration would dissatisfy Zhen Wu, so she told Zhen Wu everything she could think of.

But basically it was what her father told her on the road.

Her father told her that her mother and brother were dead and would never come back.

Her father also told her not to make any noise to see her mother and elder brother, or her father would leave her behind and never care about her again.

She started to be obedient, but she was really tired from running.

Whenever she couldn't hold on anymore, her father told her that her father found out that Zhao Guogong was visiting relatives in Wuji, as long as they found Zhao Guogong, they would not have to run away anymore, and then they could not only sleep well, but also eat A lot of delicious food.

This sentence gave Zhen Wu the information he needed.

Zhen Wu couldn't help sighing that Sun Cheng was smart, knowing that he couldn't escape to Nanjing, he decided to come to Wuji to seek help from him, but it was a pity that Sun Cheng fell down the moment he saw him.

Sun Youshu was still talking at this time, Zhen Wu patted her head and said: "Okay, okay, uncle knows, you don't have to run away from now on."

Sun Youshu looked at Zhen Wu suspiciously, and asked uncertainly, "Is uncle Zhao Guogong?"

Zhen Wu nodded.

As if seeing a relative, Sun Youshu hugged Zhen Wu's thigh tightly to Zhen Wu's surprise, and then cried out for the first time.

Zhen Wu was slightly taken aback.

The next moment, he figured it out. Along the way, in this little girl's heart, seeing him had long been regarded as a spiritual pillar, especially after her father's death, seeing Zhao Guogong became her only strong belief .

Zhen Wu sighed, and comforted Sun Youshu in a soft voice, but the consolation effect was not obvious. He thought of what Sun Youshu said just now, and planned to order someone to fetch some delicious food to coax Sun Youshu, but he didn't expect that Zhen Wu hadn't After giving the order, Sun Youshu's body became limp and passed out because of emotional agitation.

Zhen Wu quickly picked up Sun Youshu, and carefully put her on the chair.

He checked Sun Youshu's condition, and seeing that there was nothing serious, he was relieved.

Zhen Wu beckoned to Cheng Liang, and asked Cheng Liang to find a room to rest with the little girl in his arms, and then he walked out of the room that still smelled of blood.

There were soldiers waiting quietly in the corridor with lighted lamps. Zhen Wu asked for a lamp and went straight out of the post station to find a place outside where he could breathe and calm down at the same time.

He admitted that what happened tonight made him feel a little emotional.

The world is vast, with all kinds of beings, all kinds of things are happening every day, every moment, and he has unknowingly become a life-saving straw for some people.

He may not know these people.

But it will definitely be inextricably linked with him.

Just like Sun Cheng and Zeng Gu, they knew Xue Lu, and when they couldn't see Xue Lu, they would naturally ask him for help.

He is not alone.

There are countless soldiers under his right army, and each soldier has relatives and friends with various relationships. I am afraid that these people will regard him as a banner in their hearts.

And this seems to be his responsibility, the responsibility of a leader, not to make each of them flourish, but at least not to allow them to suffer injustice or injustice.

Zhen Wu took a deep breath and looked up at the twinkling stars in the sky. After a while, Cheng Liang came down and came to Zhen Wu's side.

Zhen Wu opened his mouth and ordered: "Arrange a few people to go to the Daming Mansion, check for me Sun Cheng and Zeng Gu, and also find out all the actions of the Jinyiwei people in the capital city after they arrived at the Daming Mansion."

"Yes, I'll let people pass." Cheng Liang responded and turned to make arrangements.

Zhen Wu stretched his waist, tightened his clothes and returned to the inn. When he returned to his room, Zhu Yuying was worried about Zhen Wu, so he waited and did not sleep. Zhen Wu told Zhu Yuying about the matter. said.

In the end, it made Zhu Yuying sigh.

On the second day, Zhang Yuqing, Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi were all a little curious about the sudden addition of a girl, but when Zhu Yuying secretly told them about Sun Youshu's situation, they couldn't help but feel a little bit about this poor little girl. Feeling distressed, I couldn't help taking care of Sun Youshu deliberately.

Little Sanyue was very excited about the sudden appearance of Sun Youshu, because Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi didn't like to play with him after they were tired from the journey. Now there is a child of the same age to play with him, and he is generous to prepare his mother for him. Yes, some delicious and fun things were shared with Sun Youshu.

After Zhen Wu asked Sun Cheng to find a place to bury Sun Cheng's body, the crowd hurriedly started on their way again to catch up with the large army.

Three days later, Zhen Wu and others caught up with Xu Miaoyun and others in Dezhou.

When the two sides met each other, there was a lot of excitement. Seeing that Zhu Yuying was holding Sanyue with her left hand and a strange little girl with her right hand, Xu Miaoyun and Zhang Shi were a little puzzled.

The two of them sized up the little girl for a while, seeing that the little girl was cute and well-behaved, and her pink and jade carvings were so cute, they couldn't help but asked Zhu Yuying whose family the little girl was from.

They couldn't help being a little suspicious in their hearts. Such a good-looking child was a bit like a child born to the Zhen Wu family, but didn't the Zhen Wu family have a bad relationship with their relatives?
Why did you bring back a little girl.

Could it be the child left by Zhen Wu outside?
But when Zhu Yuying briefly told them about Sun Youshu's background, both of them breathed a sigh of relief, and then let Sun Youshu approach them one by one motherly, let them all take a closer look and get closer, and appreciated her. Sun Youshu got something.

Mrs. Zhang said with a smile at this time: "It's really a coincidence. The eldest sister also knows that I am from Yongcheng. Don't we have to go to Xuzhou this time, and we have to rest in Xuzhou for two or three days. I am thinking about the distance between Yongcheng and Xuzhou. It's very close, so I thought about getting someone to write to my mother quickly, and let my mother go to Xuzhou in advance, so that our mother and daughter can get together for a few days. The little girl's uncle happens to be the master of Yongcheng, so I will be there Tell me about this matter in the letter, and let my mother call the master of Yongcheng to go to Xuzhou together, and it will save my brother-in-law to send someone to see him off again."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuying smiled and said, "This is the best relationship."

……

The days that followed were much more uneventful, and the journey went smoothly.

Soon everyone came to Xuzhou City, and in these days, Sanyue and Sun Youshu also blended into the group of little ones who were all children of the rich and powerful.

At this time, the people Zhen Wu sent to Daming Mansion to investigate finally came back.

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(End of this chapter)