Shu Blossoms

Chapter 143 Nanshan Interrogation
Just as Liao Wennan was about to say something, Zheng Wei took her by the hand and said: "Sister, you deal with old man Luo at home! I won't hide anything from you until now, but I've already lost Uncle Amu, I'm afraid that there will be no more lost you"

Liao Wennan saw that she was still blaming herself when she mentioned Amu, and thought that if something happened to her, she would only be hindered, so she might as well stay at home and take care of her home, so she nodded and agreed.

Zheng Wei smiled when he heard this, hugged Liao Wennan and said, "Sister, it's great to meet you!"

Liao Wennan thought for a while that this was really a fate from his previous life, patted her on the back and smiled and said, "Go while it's still early, it's getting dark too early here in the north."

Zheng Wei nodded, and left behind Zhao Mingzhi.

Luo Yan stood in the room and looked at Zheng Wei's leaving back, not knowing what he was thinking, Tong'er was puzzled and said: "Master, Master Zhao went out the day before yesterday, and just came back today, why do you want to go out again?"

Luo Yan patted him on the head and said: "Don't inquire about what you shouldn't know, there are two days left to send money there, let's make preparations so that the children don't go hungry."

Tong'er nodded, "This year's winter is very cold, I don't know if Agan and Amei can dress warmly!"

"This year, there is fifty gold for concubine He Lai's medical consultation, which is enough for them to spend a warm winter. If you are lucky, you won't be hungry next year, don't worry!"

This fifty gold is enough to feed those children for more than a year, and it can be regarded as one of his worries.

Luo Yan smiled and said, this is also the reason why he had to come, knowing that he would get into trouble if he entered Pingcheng. He needed money, a lot of money, to support those who should have died but survived.

"If Mr. Muwei can really help us earn a hundred gold, will it be enough for them to eat for a long time! Master don't have to be so embarrassing!"

Tong'er looked at Luo Yan with a smile.

"Silly boy, Master is not tired!"

Luo Yan touched Tong'er's small face in relief. This child is more and more like his elder brother. He is both happy and faintly frightened in his heart.

Since he entered Pingcheng, he often kept Tong'er at home with Sanping, and tried not to take him out as much as possible.

Liao Wennan stayed at the door for half a day and didn't see Miracle Doctor Luo and Tong'er going out, so he felt relieved and took Sanping to make some food for them, Miracle Doctor Luo didn't even mention Zheng Wei's going out.

The next day, Doctor Luo took Tong'er out.

Liao Wennan thought that Zheng Wei, Zhao Mingzhi and the others had already walked all night and arrived at Nanshan long ago, so he didn't stop them, he just asked them if they wanted to keep their meals today.

Dr. Luo said that there was a patient outside the city who had to go for a few days, and he would not return home these few days, so let him stay at home alone and pay attention.

And Zheng Wei and Zhao Mingzhi, who left the city yesterday afternoon, drove the mule cart and finally arrived at Nanshan when it was getting dark. They tied the mule cart to a tree at the foot of the mountain, and found a shelter for the mule, and spread some hay on the ground.

The mule was the only animal in the family now, and if it froze to death they would have to walk back to town.

She wore the thickest cotton padded coat at home and was still shivering from the cold. She trotted all the way and followed behind Zhao Mingzhi and sighed, "It's so cold in winter in the north!"

"That's right, that's why Sun Xicheng felt that there was no hope of victory and chose to withdraw his troops. The soldiers were too cold to fight the Wei army at all."

Zhao Mingzhi suddenly mentioned the failure of the Northern Expedition.

This failure was not the fault of Emperor Zhou. Firstly, Sun Xicheng, the general who guarded the Yellow River, underestimated the enemy. Secondly, he fled without fighting, which directly led to the fall of Yanzhou and the trapping of Qingzhou.If he had been able to hold on for a while at that time, so that both Yanzhou and Qingzhou were prepared, Dazhou's loss would not be so great.

But in the final analysis, the soldiers of the Great Zhou could not adapt to the weather in the north, which was ignored by the emperor and generals of the Great Zhou, and Emperor Wei took hold of the weakness of the Zhou army and let them be defeated in one blow.

Speaking of which, Emperor Wei was slightly better than Emperor Zhou, and Emperor Zhou might be depressed because of this matter.

Zhao Mingzhi still doesn't want to talk about Emperor Zhou with Zheng Wei, Zheng Wei can see that he has a knot in his heart.

In order to break the awkward atmosphere, Zheng Wei took the initiative to say: "Master, it is said that the farther north you go, the colder it gets. Wherever we go, we might freeze into lumps of ice."

Zhao Mingzhi was surprised when he heard the words: "Isn't there no living things?"

"Some beasts and beasts can resist the cold there, and have lived there for generations. The people there, if they come to Jiankang, they may not be able to adapt to the damp and cold where we are."

Zhao Mingzhi nodded, and soon they came to a cave.

Zheng Wei helped Zhao Mingzhi move away the dry grass and branches blocking the entrance of the cave, revealing a place where only one person could pass through, then got in, lit the oil lamp with a flint, and walked in slowly.

With the light of the oil lamp, Zheng Wei saw a man lying on the ground who was tied up, his cheeks were flushed and his lips were purple from the cold.

When Zhao Mingzhi saw it, he quickly brought a bundle of dry firewood from outside and lit it. The fire started, and gradually there was a little warmth in the cave, and the expressions of the bound people gradually returned to normal.

Zheng Wei walked over with a burning tree branch, the flames danced in front of the man, and the man's face could feel the slightest bit of heat.

Zheng Wei said coldly: "If you don't wake up, the flames are probably going to fall on your face!"

The man felt the pain on his cheeks being roasted by the flames, so he couldn't help but opened his eyes.

Under the beating of the firelight, he saw the appearance of the person in front of him at a glance, and couldn't help being shocked: "It's you!"

"you know me?"

Zheng Wei raised her eyebrows, the faint smile on the corner of her mouth was still very cold.

"No, you are not her, you are the princess!"

When the man took a closer look, he found out that this person was not the fake princess he sent to Pingcheng, but the real princess of Da Zhou.

But why is she here?
Didn't she disappear with Xun Ji?
"Since you recognized me, you must know what I want to ask, right?"

Zheng Wei waved the burning branch in front of the man's eyes, if a spark fell into his eyes, then he would
The man closed his eyes subconsciously, then turned around and said, "I don't know."

"Oh, then there is no point for you to stay?"

Zheng Wei shook his head regretfully, "I thought I could ask something that Xun Ji didn't know, but it seems that you are not like that Xun Ji who still has an old mother who needs to be filial, you must not have a wife, children and parents, otherwise why are you so Not afraid of life and death?"

"Xun Ji betrayed? Impossible!"

The man shook his head in disbelief, Zheng Wei said indifferently: "You are not very useful, I wanted to keep you to know more, and I didn't want to commit murder, but since you are ignorant of current affairs, there is nothing I can do about it , after all, this is Da Wei, I don’t have any extra hands to watch you, so I can only set a fire in this cave, without anyone noticing.”

Zheng Wei's pretty face in this dark cave, in the flickering of the flames, looks more like a beautiful female ghost.

She still put the burning branch on the man's body, and the man's skirt was slowly ignited, the flames made a crackling sound, and the beating became more and more powerful.

(End of this chapter)