After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 23 Unexpected Disaster (Revised)
Hai Changan's words immediately aroused the vigilance of Hai Xiya and Xie Wenzai.

Although they are still busy checking the accounts, there is still no problem in sending someone to deliver a letter to General Gu.

They didn't think that Sun Yonglu's people had any conspiracy against a former border military civilian who had resigned for many years, but they were investigating the accounts of Sun Yonglu and his confidants in the Suzhou Guards. There was no guarantee that the news would not be leaked, and those with guilty consciences would People want to destroy the evidence of their own crimes.

During the Battle of Suzhou, Sun Yonglu almost spent the entire battle drunk.When he came to his senses, the third prince had fallen into the hands of the Suzhou Guards, and he had no credit from the beginning to the end.He also protected the Hu people's spies and refused to be captured by the Suzhou Guards. He kept claiming that the spies were his brothers, and allowed the spies to use his power to cause trouble in Suzhou City, and almost succeeded in poisoning the wells. Destroy the whole army.Because of a private matter like celebrating his birthday, he also caused most of the soldiers in Jiayuguan City to be poisoned by spies, so that they delayed the war... Each and every one of these incidents is ready-made evidence. It is not possible for Sun Yonglu to know nothing about it. Fooled through.

Although the Dachu border troops suffered no losses and won the battle, Sun Yonglu's responsibility must be held accountable.On Wednesday, the general directly tied him up with his confidants and soldiers and sent him to prison, preparing to be escorted back to the Shaanxi Xingdu Commandery Office in Ganzhou City for trial.During this period, no one paid any attention to any of his shouts, threats and begging for mercy.

At this time, Sun Yonglu and his accomplices probably don’t want to see more evidence of guilt emerge, adding to their guilt, right?

Only a few people under Sun Yonglu have escaped temporarily.They were previously left in Suzhou City by Sun Yonglu. They were tasked with keeping an eye on Hu spies and monitoring other generals. However, they avoided the fate of being poisoned and also made modest contributions by participating in the defense of the city. For now, he can still keep his official position and move freely in the city.The person who had previously chased him to the Hai family's door was one of them.Now Hai Changan will see this person again in front of his home, and his motives are very suspicious.

General Gu didn't send anything else to Haixiya, and Liu Keren didn't come to his door for two days.This man couldn't have followed someone to the Hai family, so what was his purpose for appearing in front of the Hai family?Why does he look so malicious?Shouldn't he be rushing to exonerate Sun Yonglu, or send a letter to Mr. Sun Ge and the Sun family in the capital?Even if he finds the Hai family, what help can he have to Sun Yonglu?
The letters sent by Hai Xiya and Xie Wenzai received responses the next day.Liu Keren sent a letter to the Hai family and told them the results of his investigation.

Hai Xiya just completed the accounting work last night and is now preparing to send a letter to General Gu.He took the results of his work back to his house and gave his cousin's room back.When Liu Keren's letter arrived, he was ordering Uncle Cui to lead people to clean up Xie Wenzai's house.After seeing the letter, he quickly called Xie Wenzai, and they went back to the main room to read the letter together.

Too anxious to know the contents of the letter, they entered the house without checking to see if anyone else was there.Anyway, Mrs. Ma went to see her grandson. Under normal circumstances, they would be the only ones in the house.

The news about Liu Keren came from the military attache under Sun Yonglu who was not satisfied with his behavior.This military attache had already told General Zhou a secret once before, and now it was just a small thing to help General Gu and Liu Keren.He was not Sun Yonglu's confidant brought from the capital, but was from the frontier army.Now that Sun Yonglu could not protect himself, he also had plans to change jobs.The Zhou family of the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion is the best candidate to defect to, so how could he refuse the officials who have been befriended by the Major General of the Zhou family?

According to him, the Hai family had lived in Suzhou City for many years, before Sun Yonglu was transferred. Xie Wenzai, Cao Gengyun and Lu Bainian never hid anyone when they went out, and most of the soldiers and civilians in the city knew them.Although many years have passed, Sun Yonglu's men can still find out if they are interested.After learning that there were three thorns in Mr. Sun Ge's side 30 years ago living in the Hai family house, this subordinate obviously had his own ideas.

They, the staff who accompanied Sun Yonglu, had been unable to help Sun Yonglu win military power for many years, and they could not even get decent military honors. Sun Ge had long disliked him.Now that Sun Yonglu is in trouble, even if he has a noble concubine or a pavilion elder as a guarantor, he will not be able to escape easily, let alone seize the power of the frontier army. He may not be able to continue in the northwest frontier army.Mr. Sun Ge will not embarrass his nephew, but he will definitely hold his staff accountable for their dereliction of duty!In order to protect themselves, their staff are now trying to find ways to reduce their responsibilities, in addition to desperately sending letters to the capital for help.After discovering that there were three former students of the Wu clan in Suzhou city and that they had close contacts with the Suzhou guards, they immediately came up with the idea of ​​shifting the responsibility to each other.

It must have been an old man from the Wu clan who colluded with the children of the Zhou family in Zhenguo Palace and deliberately framed Mr. Sun Ge's nephew in an attempt to avenge what happened 30 years ago.It is understandable that these later aides did not know the old things or recognize the old people, so they did not discover the other party's conspiracy in time and rescued Sun Yonglu.This is definitely a non-war crime, and the fault does not lie with them!Liu Keren finally said in the letter that two of Sun Yonglu's subordinates came up with the idea, but others did not agree with his idea - probably because their ideas were too whimsical and he was afraid that Sun Ge would think they were shirking their responsibilities and become even more angry. .Sun Yonglu will be convicted this time because he committed suicide by himself. How could he be framed?If someone really harmed him, it would be a matter of Hu spies. What does it have to do with the Suzhou Guard?What does it have to do with the Wu clan’s past life that I have never had contact with?
Liu Keren felt that this time it was an unforeseen disaster. He just had to be careful of his staff to spread the news back to the capital, lest Sun Ge Lao and others know the whereabouts of Xie Wenzai and the others.However, in the past 30 years, Mr. Sun Ge has never made trouble, so it should be okay. However, if the Hai family wants to return to Zhili, they'd better be careful. After all, Yongping Mansion is too close to the capital.

After reading the letter, Xie Wenzai fell silent, while Hai Xiya breathed a sigh of relief: "This is all a trivial matter. The worst we can do is not go back to Yongping Mansion for the time being. We will go to Chang'an to recuperate for two years, and when things pass, we will return to Yongping Mansion." It’s not too late.”

Xie Wenzai whispered: "I'm sorry, cousin, I acted carelessly and leaked the news..."

Hai Xiya smiled: "What does this have to do with you? It's just a villain who is difficult to deal with. It's okay, haven't they sent the letter back yet?"

"What if the news is passed back?" Xie Wenzai said seriously, "What if Mr. Sun Ge believed the blame-shifting words of these staff and wanted to take revenge on us? Cousin, I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid that you will be implicated. You have already sacrificed your whole life's future for me, including your son and wife. If you are going to suffer from me again, how can I have the honor to see you again?!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Hai Xiya's face sank, "Are you trying to break up with me by saying these things?! You are just a few timid and fearful lackeys, what will happen to them..."

"Why don't you arrest them?" A girl's voice suddenly interrupted the conversation between the cousins.Hai Xiya and Xie Wenzai were startled. They both turned their heads to look at the source of the sound, only to find that it was Haitang standing at the door leading to the inner room. They didn't know how long they had been listening.

Haitang walked out of the inner room and came to them openly. He tilted his head and asked, "Why don't you arrest these people? Then they won't be able to send messages out."

Hai Xiya glared at her granddaughter. Before she could finish being surprised, Xie Wenzai came to his senses first and said with a wry smile: "Silly boy, why should we arrest people? They have never committed any crime."

"Didn't grandpa just check their accounts?" Haitang blinked, "They really didn't commit any crime?"

(End of this chapter)