A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 673 Uncle and Nephew Meet
Yuan Wuyou pushed the black-shirted boy away, pulled out a piece of white jade that looked like a bracelet from his wrist guard, and handed it to Tieban:

"Take it. Don't let me lose it. I will send someone to collect the ransom immediately."

Tieban happily accepted it, "Your Highness is so righteous!"

She narrowed her eyes slightly, and suddenly showed her tiger teeth in a fierce smile, "If the Feng surname jade is stolen from you, or is replaced, I will take back Rang County today, don't make me angry."

Cold sweat broke out on Tieban's forehead, and he hurriedly smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, what are you talking about? How dare we say that?"

With the Feng jade as collateral, Yuan Wuyou pushed the young man in black and let Wan Yuwuyou in.

Tieban, however, said that whoever paid could go in, and that Wan Yuwuyou could not be allowed to live off him, so he was not allowed to go in, and instead Yuan Wuyou should be invited in.

Upon hearing this, Yuan Wuyou angrily drew his sword and pointed it at the iron plate!

"How can that work? I don't know his uncle. Besides, if I visit a brothel in a big way, wouldn't it ruin my reputation if it gets out?"

Although she was jokingly called a "tyrant", that was also in reference to her lingering with the Gao brothers and her old lover in Zhou State. After all, the beautiful men who had bewitched her in the past were all capable of using tricks, which was definitely not comparable to those of prostitutes.

After the queen's persuasion and the use of martial virtues to convince others, Tieban finally gave in and let Wan Yuwuyu in.

As she said this, she grasped her Feng Bi and was about to drag the boy upstairs.

Wan Yuwuyou, who was finally able to go in, was still wearing a straw raincoat. His deep blue phoenix eyes stared at Yuan Wuyou with reluctance. Before going in, he asked Yuan Wuyou not to leave and said he had something to say to her.

Yuan Wuyou nodded and said, "I'm worried about you going into the brothel alone! Don't worry, we're guarding downstairs. If you have any problems, just shout and we'll rush up."

The young man lowered his eyes slightly and said awkwardly:

"That's not necessary. I've already caused you too much trouble."

As he spoke, he glared at Gao Yanzong and warned her with a bad look and tone, "You should worry about your own safety the most. Don't be bewitched by the male fox of Northern Qi. You will die without knowing how."

After saying that, he turned and left.

Gao Yanzong looked at the back of the young man in the straw raincoat and immediately became annoyed!

"Hey! Are you born in the year of the dog? Why are you biting people randomly?"

——Wan Yuwuyu went upstairs dragging his wet straw raincoat, led by the man in tight clothes, through the front hall filled with the scent of powder and men wearing cool clothes and smiling, around to the corridor, and went to the backyard.

On the second-floor attic in the backyard, which was used to hide prostitutes, there was a wooden door with a steel lock and a guard standing at the door, where the official prostitutes sent to Chishui by the imperial court were imprisoned.

This was a deal between the imperial court and Chishui. Although Chishui was the breeding ground for rebels and every county official sent would be killed, the territory belonged to the Zhou State after all. The people of Chishui still paid taxes and tributes to the Zhou State, and even the brothels were no exception.

Moreover, because the rebel base was across the water from Yunzhou, and the brothels in Chishui were well run, the imperial court would still send those serious criminals whose crimes were not punishable by death but were truly hateful to Yunzhou with tattoos on their faces, and have the Duke of Yun arrange them to work in the official brothel in Chishui, and enroll them as official prostitutes regardless of gender.

The main point of the deal between the imperial court and Chishui was: as long as no one died and taxes were paid annually, you, the Chishui rebels, could do whatever you wanted. In the eyes of the entire Great Zhou people, the Chishui rebels were hell on earth.

Naturally, the official prostitute who was sent to Chishui by the imperial court had no hope for the man to have a good life.

The windowsill on the second floor was nailed tightly with iron railings. However, there was a thin man in a flesh-red gauze dress, sitting in front of the window with his skeletal shoulders hunched, staring out at the other attics and the divided rainy day.

He was only wearing half of his red gauze dress, revealing the other half of his pale shoulder.

Hearing the creaking sound of someone pushing open the door, he said in a hoarse and soft voice without even turning his head, "Your arrival is unfortunate. I was injured last night, so I'm afraid I can't satisfy you. If you don't mind, please go to bed first, and I'll serve you orally."

Such shameful words came out of his mouth very often.

"Uncle..." The young man at the door choked up as he spoke.

Three years after his parents passed away, Wan Yuwuyu finally saw his uncle again, his last blood relative in the world.

Although he was mentally prepared, he still felt like the sky had fallen when he saw with his own eyes his uncle fallen into such a state.

Hearing his shout, the man in the window was shocked and turned his head in a daze.

Wan Yuwuyu immediately saw that he was holding a jewel-studded fruit knife in his skinny hand.

The young man was so frightened that he ran over quickly, shaking off his wet raincoat, and snatched the knife from the man's hand.

"Uncle! Please... don't commit suicide! The little dragonfly is still alive..."

"Really?" The man's eyes, which had been as still as death, lit up when he heard the words, but then returned to their dullness.

"If he still denies you as before, I would rather he died."

Wan Yuwuyu couldn't hold it back any longer, and tears suddenly welled up in his red and wet eyes. "Uncle, please don't be like this! You fell into this state because of my mother, how can you even give up your own son for me..."

The uncle and nephew then hugged each other and cried together.

The young man threw himself into the man's arms, his back shaking with tears, choking with sobs, "I will find my brother and take you back to Dangxiang! Uncle, wait for me, I will definitely take you back to the south of Kunlun and the banks of Tongtian River, and never come to the Central Plains again."

In fact, Wan Yuwu had known since childhood that the family he came from and the female Khan he was loyal to were not good people.

After the Six Garrisons Uprising, the Yuan family abandoned the volunteers who had served the king, colluded with the Rouran, who had once resisted the Six Garrisons, to suppress the uprising, and won over the Rouran through marriage.

Wan Yuwu's grandmother was the leader of the tribe borrowed from Rouran to suppress the rebels. Because Rouran Khan and the regent princess of Northern Wei acted as matchmakers, his grandmother married the leader of the Dangxiang Qiang Tuoba tribe, a relative of the Yuan clan, and gave birth to Wan Yuwu's mother.

The rules of Rouran and Dangxiang are to take the mother's surname, so Wan Yuwu's mother and brother were raised in the Dangxiang Tuoba tribe with the surname "Wan Yu". Even after their grandmother died, the siblings still used their mother's surname to stay in Dangxiang. This is the blood uncle that Wan Yuwu's mind is thinking about.

Wan Yuwu's mother followed the Western Wei empress Yuan Mingjing since she was young. Later, she had an affair with Yuwen Tai's cousin Yuwen Shen without a matchmaker. She was willing to give birth to a child out of love and to help the female Khan stabilize the government.

Unexpectedly, later, when his mother brought her son to the Yuwen family to recognize their ancestors, the Yuwen family refused to recognize them. Even though he had rebelled against Huaxu and defected to the Northern Zhou three years ago, his father did not recognize them. Instead, he framed his mother and imprisoned her, demoting her to a courtesan! If his uncle had not risked his life to put his mother in jail, his mother would have died without a complete body.

But in the end his mother died, and his uncle was also wrongly accused and reduced to prostitution, and has not been able to clear his name to this day.

To put it bluntly, the Northern Zhou Dynasty used his uncle as a hostage to force Wan Yuwu to pledge his loyalty. But it did work, as he really couldn't give up his uncle, his only relative in the world.