I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 540 Chen Liu's Determination

In the silence of the night, the third lady stood on the attic, looking at the slight fire in the distance.

As if appreciating a charming picture scroll, I was fascinated by it.

Even Chen Liu, who stood behind her and reported to him that he had heard all the news tonight, could not wake her up from her trance.

"Ma'am, according to your orders,... Third Young Master, he left without pain!"

Although Chen Liu's words were plain, he couldn't stop his trembling body, and still betrayed his inner panic.

After a while, the third lady still didn't turn her head, and didn't even make any unnecessary movements.

Chen Liu waited for a long time, but he didn't see any movement from the third lady, and he didn't know what was going on in his mind, so he got up slowly, saluted the third lady respectfully, and then turned around to leave.

When he just walked to the door of the attic, the third lady finally spoke.

"It is estimated that many people will come to make trouble tomorrow, so go prepare!"

Chen Liu probably expected that the Chai family would not let the third lady go easily, nodded and said,
"Madam, don't worry, although the villain is not very capable, he can deal with a few servants of the Chai family without any problem."

It is not without reason that he can have this confidence.

Before Chen Liu joined the Chai family, he was a member of the frontier army. When he was young, he also went to the battlefield and killed the Mongols.

At the peak, he almost became the general manager.

Of course, he is not the deputy of Qianhu, but the deputy of Baihu, who is a foreign military attache, and there are at most five or sixty people under his command.

Not too big but not too small either, more or less a grassroots cadre.

In fact, in the army, as long as you become an official with more than a thousand households, you are a real official. Even on the battlefield, as long as it is not a critical moment of life and death, most of them don't need to go to the battlefield in person.

But basic officers like Baihu and Bazong are different.

They are always at the forefront.

The most middle-level officers, they not only need extremely strong combat capabilities, but also have a certain commanding ability.

Otherwise, there is no way to control those brave people who lick blood all day long.

Chen Liu was not originally called Chen Liu, but had a nice name called Chen Yi.

There is also a reason why he abandoned his original name and chose to be an unknown person.

The guard system began to become rotten after Zhu Di's third Northern Expedition.

Chen Yi, who was still a hot-blooded young man at the time, was also a relatively outstanding figure in the guard.

At that time, he couldn't understand that those hundreds of households treated themselves and others like livestock.

In his eyes, a soldier should be a respected person who defends his family and the country, and is definitely not a generation who is slaughtered and bullied by others.

At the beginning, because there were still his father and two brothers at home, he had to swallow his anger in order to protect them.

Later, one time, the bullying of Baihu in the guard was really bullying too hard. Not long after he came back from the battlefield, his blood surged, and he started fighting with that bullying Baihu.

Unexpectedly, that Baihu was simply an idiot who relied on his relationship with his superiors, and he was beaten to death after being resisted by three or two punches.

He killed someone, and it was an officer of the guard. It is conceivable that if he stayed, there would be absolutely no way out.

So he escaped from the guard overnight, and from then on, he concealed his identity and changed his name to Chen Liu, and began his life in exile.

About seven or eight years ago, when the old man of the Chai family was still alive, he was attacked by horse bandits when he was out on a business trip, and he happened to be in exile.

Out of kindness, he rescued the old man and others.

So the old man of the Chai family took him in and became a house guard of the Chai family to drive the chariot and lead the horses for the master's family.

Since he was involved in a murder case, no matter what he did these years, he was very low-key and never took the initiative to cause trouble.

But what he didn't expect was that even though he tried his best to keep a low profile, he still couldn't avoid the vortex of grievances from the wealthy family.

During these years of keeping his name incognito, he has almost completely abandoned his previous life of strife and fire. Not only did he form a happy family, but he also lived a much more stable life than before.

But all of this has been completely broken since the old lady passed away and he was arranged by the old lady to work beside the third lady.

When he was alone in the past, maybe killing one or two people was not a big deal to him at all.

But for him who has a family and a business at this time, it is too big a deal.

His current family is all relying on him. Once something happens to him, it will be beyond redemption for this family.

That's why he resisted killing so much, and that's why he was so terrified of sending the third young master away happily.

However, since the third lady opened her heart to him and gave him more than 1000 taels of silver to bribe him, he finally understood it.

He has been deeply trapped in this vortex and cannot extricate himself.

Even if he didn't take refuge with the third lady at that time, if the Chai family really did something to the third lady that day, he, who has been with the third lady for several years and knows a lot of the Chai family's ugliness, will have no reason for the Chai family after losing his use value leave his.

It was precisely because he had seen through this point that he made up his mind and wholeheartedly took refuge in the third lady.

No matter how unwilling he was, he did what he had to do. If he continued to hesitate, perhaps a crueler future awaited him.

After saying that to the third lady, he left without stopping.

But he didn't go home, but went to a temple where the incense was not very strong.

Taking advantage of no one around, he turned over and jumped into the wall, and soon found a dusty cloth bag in a hidden place at the back of the Buddhist hall.

The things in the cloth bag are not rare.

It was the armor and waist knife that he discarded when he planned to completely forget the past.

Holding the family-heirloom sword that had accompanied him for many years in his hand again, he seemed to feel the high spirits that had been on the battlefield back then welling up in his chest again.

If not, at this time the night is already quiet, and it is in the pure place of Buddhism, maybe he can't help but shout out.

He wasn't sure how the Chai family would deal with the third lady.

But he knew that if the third wife really broke with the Chai family, with the temperament of the Chai family, they would definitely not let the third wife go, let alone himself, who knew many secrets of the Chai family.

At this moment, he has no choice but to protect the third wife, even if it is not for the sake of the third wife, or for himself and his family.

Only if she is alive can she and her family live well.

(End of this chapter)