The Rise of the Marquis

Chapter 14

"The kid in my family is only five years old. I'm going to buy something for him when I come to Maling this time." In the camp east of the post house, Wang Jian and the soldiers sat around the bonfire, which gave him a sense of security. thing.

The accompanying hundreds of soldiers camped here, among which the soldiers from Boulevard Castle were arranged on the inside, and the soldiers from Lishi City and the ten Howling Wolf cavalry were arranged on the outside.

"I just hope that I can rest for a few days when I go back this time."

"Didn't you want to beat the aliens? Why don't you rest?" Everyone said and looked at him.

Wang Jian spread his hands: "I don't know either. I don't care about this matter. Ask my father, otherwise I will let you rest every day."

Everyone laughed, and someone interrupted: "Young master, forget it, we still want to eat military rations!"

A veteran named Bu Zhi also laughed: "In the future, when the young master inherits the territory, we can sleep and eat military rations."

"What are you dreaming of?" Wang Jian kicked him: "But I can give you an extra hour of post every day."

Everyone laughed again, and continued to talk about the Boulevard Castle. Many of these soldiers had whispered bad things about him, and Wang Jian didn't bother to care about it, so he paid for it himself and asked someone to go to the posthouse to buy a few catties of good wine and come back with everyone. Drink together.

In fact, the so-called good wine does not seem to him much, but in the eyes of many soldiers who have never drunk alcohol, it seems to be good wine.

Everyone was very happy. The young master's generosity made them sing and dance around the fire. The cheerful atmosphere was blowing in the wind. However, a large number of people remained rational and calm under the leadership of Uncle Gong and Wu Yi, and even Remind him: "Young master, this is Ma Ling, it's not safe."

It was not until midnight that Wang Jian returned to the post house from the army station, climbed up an old willow tree in the courtyard to look around, squatted quietly on the branch of the tree, unfolded his consciousness, and began to record the positions of the soldiers.

Slowly he found that there were fewer people in the posthouse, Wu Yuanheng and his daughter were not there, where did they go and when did they leave?

He remembered that Wu Yuanheng came back with his father at night, and her daughter met and said hello in the afternoon, so she should be there.

He immediately became focused and tried his best to develop his consciousness, overhearing the whispered conversation of the howling wolf soldiers outside Wu Yuanheng's room in the distance.

"Young Master, I don't know when I'll be back."

"I don't know, Miss's side is fine, don't let outsiders find out here, the young master told me, especially the Wang family."

"Where does the master take the young lady in the middle of the night?"

"I don't know, it's the carriage on the Ma Ling mansion, don't ask if you shouldn't, just wait."

"Can't sleep most of the night."

"It's better to complain than to fight with Lou in Howling Wolf City."

"That's true"

Wang Jian eavesdropped for a while at a distance of more than 100 steps, his mind was running so fast that he could hardly stop.

Soon there was a buzzing in his mind like an explosion, and he seemed to have figured out something in an instant. Everything was connected in series, and he almost fell from the tree.

At this moment, he suddenly noticed that someone was approaching, and when he lowered his head, it turned out to be Liu Yu.

She stood in the courtyard and looked towards him. Wang Jian asked curiously, "How did you see me?" Now the moonlight is dim and the courtyard is pitch black. She shouldn't have seen it.

"Hmph, didn't you know that warlocks have eagle eyes?" She said contemptuously, as if mocking his common sense.

Wang Jian jumped off the tree and said, "You don't sleep most of the night, what are you doing sneaking around?"

"I haven't asked you what you are doing sneakily." Liu Yu countered, his words were full of suspicion.

"Can't sleep, go out for a walk." Wang Jian rambling casually.

"I'll take a walk too." Liu Yu babbled along.

"Okay." Wang Jian looked at the woman with eyes as bright as water in front of him, and knew that it was not easy to deceive: "I found out that there is a tunnel in the house, and I am afraid that someone will come out to harm me."

Liu Yu was a little surprised: "Who did it?"

"It goes without saying, whoever arranged for me to live there did it." Wang Jian said directly.

"Ma Linggong?"

"For them, if they catch me, they will be the biggest bargaining chip to threaten my father, but I don't know if they will use this trick. With the hole in the ground, they can enter my room silently. I don't know if you say so Do you understand?" Wang Jian said as he sat at the stone table in the courtyard, under the moonlight, on the shadow cloth stone.

Liu Yu also followed and snorted softly: "You treat me as a three-year-old child, of course I understand."

"So I dare not sleep, it's up to you."

"what?"

"Don't try to pretend to be confused, why don't you sleep, I said, it's your turn." Wang Jian pointedly exposed her plan to delay the attack.

Liu Yu sat down and reluctantly said, "That's my family business."

"Family affairs." Wang Jian nodded: "I understand a little bit."

"Understand what?"

"Father said that you belong to the clan of the Han Dynasty. The clan of the Han Dynasty who marry out are generally descendants of sinners in the clan. Your parents have committed crimes. Are you the descendant of a sinner?"

"You..." Liu Yu snorted angrily, "I didn't expect that a fall from a horse didn't break your head, but also made you smarter."

"I'm already smart." Wang Jian was not angry: "You're okay, it's better than me, a dude who everyone shouts and beats. Besides, the sinners of the clan need to sacrifice their lives for the country to wash away their guilt. This system itself It is also a kind of fairness and justice, which is much better than the clans in many countries that have no property, no corvee, no need to bear any responsibility, and need to be supported by the people of the country.”

After his words, Liu Yu's tone was much softer, and he said, "That's right, my father used to be the prince of a big man."

"Prince!" Wang Jian was a little surprised.

"Well, later someone sued him for rebellion. The imperial censor and the imperial guards found a lot of things from the East Palace. I was still young at that time, so I can't remember many things clearly, but my father must have been wronged."

Wang Jian looked at her in surprise. He thought Liu Yu was the daughter of the clan of the Han Dynasty, so she was given the title of princess and married out. The Han Dynasty also did this in history, such as the clan sinner in the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion. After that, many princesses were sealed and married to the Western Regions to help the Han Dynasty control the countries in the Western Regions, but he did not expect Liu Yu to be the queen of the sin prince.

"I didn't expect you to be such a big shot, you can't see Mount Tai with your eyes." Wang Jian half-jokingly said.

"Hmph, it's good that you know, but I'm not a big shot, just a sinner." Liu Yu was a little lost in his words: "I want to rehabilitate my father."

"I understand."

"What do you understand?" Liu Yu kicked him.

"Understanding rehabilitating is not easy, and your grandfather will object in all likelihood."

"." Liu Yu looked at him, and couldn't hide the surprise in his eyes anymore: "Did you fall and change directly, from head to toe."

"What's so difficult about it, no matter whether your father was wronged or not, no emperor is willing to admit that he was wrong, and if he finds out afterwards that your father was really wronged, the emperor will bear the notoriety of killing his son, and it will last forever. History is like iron, and no emperor is willing to bear it.

You want to clean up your father’s grievances, but in fact you are fighting against your grandfather, it’s really a family ethics drama,” Wang Jian said eloquently.

"You want to persuade me to give up?" Liu Yu asked unhappily.

"No persuasion, I mean if you can help me, I can also help you investigate your father's affairs." As he spoke, he stared at Liu Yu's beautiful eyes seriously, thinking of a double break, and said: "Trust me, I'm smarter than you think."

Liu Yu looked at him, quickly averted his eyes, and asked after consideration: "What do you want me to help you with? If I can, maybe we can discuss it again."

Wang Jian said directly: "Heroine, help me!"

(End of this chapter)