Brother Wanfu

Chapter 21 The Orphan
Changshan County.

There is a dense forest twenty miles away from the border of Qingzhou.

A group of officers and soldiers scattered in the forest and looked around.

A tall man with a dark complexion commanded the officers and soldiers not far away to go to the low cave above, "Search the cave, maybe he is hiding in it", and at the same time there was another man who looked about the same as him Talk to a man who is very similar but pale face to face.

"Second brother, do you really think that the Qin family will make a move? Those people are the henchmen of the former crown prince. If they are caught, they will be escorted to the capital for execution. The Qin family made a move at this time, and our lord caught us in the braids, so we cannot escape. "

The tall white-faced man was his brother, and he laughed when he heard this. "Of course the Qin family knows, but they won't stop. That's why our lord said, let us pay attention, maybe this time, we can catch the evidence of the Qin family's private soldiers! By then, the Qin family will definitely die!"

The adult they were talking about was none other than Xing Landong, the deputy envoy of the Shandong Procuratorate.

The two brothers work for the Xing family, if they can catch the Qin family's handle this time, they will be rewarded heavily when they return to the Xing family.

In high and low caves.

The whole family huddled and hid here, their clothes were soaked, stained with muddy water, and torn into threads by thorns.

They were in a state of embarrassment, but everyone was trembling and held their breath. Even the adults held the children in their arms and covered their mouths because they were afraid that the children would make a sound.

Outside the cave, there was a tick-tock of mountain rain, and the tick-tock sound echoed in the small cave, which was very clear.

No one dared to make any movement, but they heard scattered footsteps, coming closer and closer from bottom to top.

The hearts of the whole family were in their throats.

In the next breath, the black figure covered the skylight at the entrance of the cave, and one foot was about to step into their hiding place!
In the low and dark cave, rainwater dripped from the cracks in the stones, making the cave feel like dead silence.

The black shadow at the entrance of the cave stopped, and one foot was just on the edge of the cave.

The people holding their breath in the cave couldn't help trembling, they heard faint voices from outside.

"There is a hole here, let the people below come up with a lamp and shine a light in it, so you have to see clearly if someone is hiding in it!"

When the voice fell to the ground, the child in the cave almost cried out in shock.

One of them, an elderly man with a gray beard, tightly covered the child's mouth and nose.

But even so, the faces of his wife, daughter and grandchildren beside him gradually revealed a look of ashes and death.

How could they hide when the people below handed the lamp up?

They were chased by these people for nearly a thousand miles, and they were still dead after all.

Even the gray middle-aged man couldn't help closing his eyes.

However, after waiting for a while, no one passed the lamp up, but instead several urgent calls came up from below.

"Withdraw! Go to the two mountains to the north!"

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Below the cave.

The man in Heigao confirmed with his brother again and again.

"The news is accurate? Then Qin Shen took people to the two mountains to the north? Where did the news come from?"

Mr. Bai Gao said it was true, "It's the person I buried for a long time, the big maid who went straight to Qin Guanzhong's study, the news is unmistakable! Go! If Qin Shen and the private soldiers of the Qin family are caught, our brothers will be prosperous!"

Hei Gao man heard this, no longer hesitated.

"Withdraw! Go to the two mountains to the north!"

When the voice fell to the ground, the black shadows in front of the cave shook together, and after a few breaths, the sound of footsteps gradually faded away.

The people in the cave were so astonished that they couldn't believe it, until the footsteps outside the cave disappeared, and several female relatives couldn't help crying.

The middle-aged man with a gray beard wanted to stop them, but the wife behind him looked sad and raised her hand to hit him on the back.

"You really did harm to our family!"

As the old wife spoke, she began to cry in a low voice, hitting the middle-aged man one after another.

".It was all good. There was no flood or famine. The family lived in peace and stability. You, you insist on writing nonsense, which is great. That surname Xing's methods are cruel, and he is holding a sword of Shangfang. , you are just a scholar, we are just ordinary people, how can you fight against the emperor in the Forbidden City?! Isn’t that digging your own grave?! You have hurt us!”

The children below did not dare to complain, and the old woman said all these things that no one dared to say in one breath.

The expression of the middle-aged man changed a few times during the accusation.

He looked towards the entrance of the cave, where the dim light of the sky cast dimly, and after a while, he opened his mouth.

"The country has no Mingjun, and peace is just a short-lived illusion. If everyone has their heads flattened to survive, in the end, no one will be able to survive."

As he spoke, he glanced at his children, and finally at his old wife.

"Someone has to stand up, and someone has to die for it. Why can't it be you and me?"

In the dim light of the sky, he paused every word.

"Humble position, dare not forget to worry about the country."

The cave fell silent again.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, there were footsteps outside again.

The whole family hiding in the cave turned pale the moment they heard footsteps.

Only the middle-aged man seemed relieved suddenly, with a look of determination on his face.

"I'll go out and lure them away, you guys continue to escape to Qingzhou!"

After he finished speaking, he leaned forward and went straight out of the cave. The old woman's eyes were shattered when she heard the words, and she grabbed it, but it was in vain.

In an instant, the middle-aged man came out of the cave, standing upright in the skylight among the mountains.

Unexpectedly, just when he thought about it and stretched his neck, a question came from behind him.

"But Mr. Sun in Maocheng?"

The middle-aged man turned his head in amazement and saw on the path behind him, a man wearing a dark silver-patterned robe, with a white jade ring hanging from his tight waist, his eyebrows and eyes could not be clearly seen in the dim light of the mountains and forests , but there is a force spreading from the whole body, which makes people dare not be presumptuous or convinced physically and mentally.

"Yes, it's old." Sun Wenjing saluted.

The young man also returned the gift.

"Qingzhou, Qin Shen."

Sun Wenjing opened his eyes wide, as if a drowning man had grabbed a tree root on the shore.

His fingertips trembled. Looking at the young man who was walking forward slowly, he heard the steady voice falling in his ears.

"The chasing soldiers have gone to the two mountains to the east. You are all safe and there is no need to hide anymore."

When the seven members of Sun Wenjing's family were taken neatly to a secret village, they discovered that five or six families who fled with them had also been rescued here.

It's just that compared to the neat population of Sun Wenjing's family, some of those families have lost more than half of them on the way to escape.

But it is a blessing to be able to escape safely.

Another old man with white beard and hair barely made it through the escape, and now he is still lying down, aged more than ten years.

When Sun Wenjing's old wife He Shi saw him, tears fell, and she hurried forward to salute.

"uncle!"

Only then did the old man open his cloudy eyes and recognized his niece.

The old man went to help Mrs. He with trembling hands, and Mrs. He also looked behind him. Besides his old aunt, besides him was his ten-year-old grandson.

"Where are my cousins, younger siblings?!" He's voice trembled.

On the contrary, the old gentleman paused, and spoke in his usual voice.

"It's all gone."

With only three words, He almost lost his breath, and immediately burst into tears.

She looked at the few remaining relatives and found it difficult to accept this reality.

Just as she didn't understand her husband, she couldn't understand her uncle's original decision.

"The former prince has passed away, why does my uncle still run around for the former prince? Our family is also a family of farming and education, no matter how bad it is, the family will not be destroyed? But now"

Before he finished speaking, he was hit by the old man with a cane.

"How can you ask such a question?! Did you not see the suffering in the world, or did you forget how your elder brother died?"

He Shi was taken aback by the question.

The elder brother had been dead for so long that she almost forgot about him.

She didn't go there on purpose, she just didn't dare to remember.

At that time, the elder brother failed three times in a row, and in the Jinshi year, he went to Beijing to take the exam as usual, but after that time, he never came back.

That year, there were dozens of court ladies in Beijing who couldn't stand the escape of the current emperor. His eldest brother was arrested and beaten to death in prison just because he met the escaped court lady and gave them a meal.

The beating was bloody and inhuman.

And it was more than one person who died innocently during the palace maid's escape?
Whether it was a palace lady who was captured, or a passer-by who helped even a meal on the road, anyone who was found would be executed.

Those who follow me prosper, those who oppose me perish, and the new king kills his prestige, so far.

Thinking of the past, He Shi trembled, covering his face and crying.

Qin Shen stood in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, no one made a sound in the courtyard, they only listened to the hoarse speech of the old man in the room.

The old man stopped beating his niece, and his voice gradually gained strength.

"The wrong origin of the throne is the root of all evils. A benevolent monarch like the former crown prince was killed as a sinner. How can it not be embarrassing?"

As the old gentleman spoke, a little strength gathered in his cloudy eyes.

"We are just speaking a few words of justice for the former prince. What is this? Do you know that the prince personally defended Ye Zhichen, even if he escaped from birth, he would still run for the former prince. We only hope to arouse people with lofty ideals to rise up. It's a pity In the end, he was captured and returned to the capital. The tyrant was stabbed at the sore spot by Ye Zhichen's trip, so he hung him at the Meridian Gate, cut him three times a day, and let the blood dripping at the gate of the city not dry. When a person dies, he refuses to let him go until the bones are exposed and there is no more flesh and blood.”

The sun was shrouded in thick clouds, and a bleak wind blew up in the courtyard.

Qin Shen looked up at the covered sunlight, his hands clenched silently, his face sinking like water.

But at this moment, the old man laughed twice as if crying.

"I have lost my son and my grandson. What does Ye Zhichen have? He didn't even leave a drop of blood in the world."

After finishing speaking, the old gentleman began to cry in a low voice.

Qin Shen stood with his hands behind his back, startled for a moment, and couldn't help but see a frail figure in front of his eyes.

Standing in the crowd, she seemed to be excluded from the crowd.

That day she just stood at the end of the crowd blankly, carrying a big cloth cushion that didn't match her figure.

No one accepted her, she pursed her lips and quietly looked for her own place, but she never found it.

Until he discovered his appearance, but when he saw him, he was frightened, as if he was afraid of offending him, he quickly disappeared from his eyes without saying a word, turned around and hid in the crowd
Both Ye Zhichen and Lu Wanying have been martyred. She is an orphan who lost her father and mother. There is no one else in this world who is connected by blood.

She is the only one left in the world.

She didn't know her true identity at all, but she seemed to know that she was an existence with nowhere to go, quietly never asking for anything.

Her only bit of longing, when they met seriously for the first time, Zeng held it to Qin Shen's hand, but he didn't even look at it.

After that, she didn't force it anymore, only avoided it.
Qin Shen closed his eyes.

Uncontrollable cries arose everywhere inside and outside the hospital, and people kept gathering, supporting each other, hugging and crying.

Qin Shen turned around, walked slowly, and left the courtyard full of people.

Fu Wen came to report, saying that guards were placed hundreds of miles before and after the village, and these people could stay here safely for the time being, but the people in Xing Landong were sent away from the mountain by using the message passed by Huang Ling's cousin Wu Liang, and they were completely trapped in the crowd. Among the mountains, it will not come out again.

After Fu Wen finished speaking, he saw that his young master was exhausted.

"Everything is safe, young master, do you want to go back to the house?"

The young master didn't respond immediately, he looked at the weeping crowd gathered in the old gentleman's courtyard, took a few breaths, and then opened his mouth.

His voice was soft, and Fu Wen seemed to feel in a trance that it was the first time he heard such words from the young master.

"Go to the academy."

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