The Beautiful Land

Yu Kedi didn't think much and agreed to Xi Fuwei's request: "It's only a half-older child. The brothers will recruit everything if they are scared, and they don't know it. The main reason for holding him is Zou Zhihan. You have to go. Look, just talk to President Lu."

Xi Fuwei went back to the wing to discuss with General Lu, and when he had finished handling the paperwork, he went to see Zou Yiang in prison.

President Lu nodded his promise, and even instructed Yu Kedi to send a message to the prison, and then cooperate with Xi Fuwei with a red face and a white face, and give Xi Fuwei a good impression in front of Zou Yiang. What use might it be?

So in the evening of that day, Xi Fuwei went to the guard station not far away because of his defeat.

The guard was in a mess, and the face looked like it would collapse at any time.

She couldn't help feeling: "It's no wonder that the adults have been working in the small courtyard. Where can people live in this place? It's just that although the country has implemented a system of official flow and seldom repairs government offices, this place really can't treat people anymore. It's not a way to stay uncleaned?

Yu Kedi said with a smile: "It's not that I don't really cultivate yas anywhere. It's really useless. How can I make decisions for the people if I don't cultivate? But look at when this is all? Your Majesty is having a headache for the expenses of Kaihe. At this time, the guards along the river were thinking about picking up the yamen and asking people to report it. Even if they can explain it clearly, it’s not a storm? It’s better to just click."

He said, "The prison is underground, which is pretty good."

It's pretty good, but in fact, the building is basically complete. It is impossible to say how good the real environment is.

The two sides of the narrow corridor are separated by fences between cells. After being tortured, the groans and grievances cry one after another. Although there are ventilation holes in a distance, it is different from the ground. The stench of body odor is pervasive, and I can't stop it with the veil. In this case, listening to the noise and yelling is really indescribable.

I noticed that someone was coming, and I saw that they weren’t chained, most of them were not prisoners, so many people rushed to the fence, stretched out their hands and pulled at the clothes of the enemy and Xi Fuwei, trying to make them stop and listen to their complaints and pleadings. .

Yu Kedi frowned, took off the embroidered knife at his waist, smashed the arms with the scabbard aiming at those arms, smashed it while swearing, and threatened to entangle them again and let the jailer give them "extra meal", which calmed the scene.

In the meantime, his immature face was full of coldness, no pity or hesitation in his eyes, only pure boredom and irritability after being provoked, it was not at all like laughing and cursing in a small courtyard.

Xi Fuwei remembered that although he usually had some love to take advantage of his pets, he still did not lose the warmth of his colleagues. The corners of his mouth twitched. No wonder Jin Yiwei gave priority to the children of the family.

At least she thought she was cruel. Looking at the bustling cell at the moment, she thought that there must be many innocent people involved in it, and she was somewhat compassionate.

However, Yu Kedi was used to such a scene, and didn't even feel that there was anything wrong.

"It's this one." The corridor turned once, and there were fewer and fewer people in the cells on both sides. Although many people didn't see the appearance of Yu Ke's enemy hitting a person with a scabbard, they were still indifferent. On the bed of straw, he is indifferent to those passing by.

Yu Kedi looked at it from room to room, then suddenly stopped, pointed to one of the rooms, and said, "Hey, are you still sleeping?"

Xi Fuwei looked inside, because the cell was underground and there were no lights in the cell. Except for a small area close to the corridor, the inside was dim. Looking through the oil lamp on the corridor, between the shadows, I saw a small figure on a pile of straw, curled up into a ball.

Like an over-frightened little animal, even if you can't see clearly, you can feel the fear and anxiety at the moment.

"Princess Zou?" Xi Fuwei sighed inwardly and called softly, "Princess Zou? Are you okay?"

The figure on the straw did not move at first. After a while, Xi Fuwei was discussing with Yu Kedi whether to go to the jailer to get the key and open the door. Then he propped up his arm in disbelief and turned his head: "Mr. Shen? "

"It's me." Xi Fuwei nodded after hearing this, "how are you?"

Yu Kedi whispered beside him: "It was terrible at most... and he didn't get tortured. Zou Zhihan is just such a son, and he hopes to use him to force him to speak, and he will definitely not hurt him."

While talking, Zou Yiang stumbled to the fence, and after seeing Xi Fuwei's face through the oil lamp, he didn't like and was shocked: "Mr. Shen, are you also arrested?"

"No, I'm here to see you." Xi Fuwei looked at him carefully. The young boy did not have any scars on his body, that is, it was stained with dust, and some straws and other debris were stuck on his hair and clothes. Embarrassed, her eyes gleaming, she knelt down, reached in and picked up the straw for him one by one, and said, "Are you hungry?"

Zou Yiang didn't answer, but Yu Kedi said behind him again: "The jailer had just delivered food to them. This kid is alone. No one will rob him. It's not that he can't eat. How can he be hungry?"

"..." Xi Fuwei looked back at him speechlessly.

Yu Kedi touched his nose and mumbled "Don't be so easy to be softened", and then took a few steps reluctantly.

"Mr. Shen, how did you come in?" Although Zou Yiang didn't know anything about Zou Zhihan, he didn't even get started with the Zou family's industry. It is so big at the end. At this moment, those who are ignorant also perceive something wrong, whispered. Asked Xi Fuwei, "Jin Yiwei suddenly broke into the Zou Mansion and searched the house this morning. They said that my parents and I were detained separately. My grandmother, my sisters, and Mr. Fu and Mr. Yao were all under house arrest temporarily... You are obviously no longer in the house, why are you here too?"

Without waiting for Xi Fuwei to speak, she asked, "Did my mother ask you to come?"

When "Mr. Shen" was still working in the Zou Mansion, he was ordered by Mrs. Shang to pass messages between them several times in private. Although he did not know the specific internal situation, he also knew that his mother and Mr. Shen The relationship is not so simple.

"Your mother just found me, and I knew that your house was copied." Xi Fuwei has no guilt about the undercover Zou Mansion and the Zou Mansion being checked. After all, this family has long been exposed, and there is no one else without her. It will be a matter of time before the end of today.

But at this moment, looking at Zou Yiang's panic and hopeful look, he was a little uncomfortable. After a while, he said, "I asked, and said that your family's ancestor was involved with the remnants of the previous Dynasty. Your father... if he is willing If you make a confession and make great contributions, you will not be hopeless to restore to the past."

Zou Yiang's eyes widened: "Impossible! My ancestor has never been an official in the five generations!"

"How did I lie to you for such a big thing?" Xi Fuwei sighed, reached out and touched his head, and said, "Jianwen has gone, and your family will give him loyalty again, but it's just self-defeating... and Zou The mansion belongs to the Jining family, and now the canal has begun construction. If it weren't for the big event with ironclad evidence, why did you say that the government moved you? It would be too late to win over your family for help!"

Zou Yi'ang sullenly turned his head away from her hand, and said sarcastically, "Who knows if a dog official has taken a fancy to my family property?!"

"According to this statement, Dongchang Wen's family in the neighboring government should not end well." Xi Fuwei said calmly, "but Wen's family is the same."

"Didn't Wen Xianyun, Zongzi of the Wen family, have long since flattered and embraced the thighs of Dingguo Gongfu and Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry?" Zou Yiang said coldly, "My Zoufu Zongzi is young and greedy and has not yet been able to help the family. Share your worries..."

Xi Fuwei smiled and said: "Zou son, you are young, but your father is a mature man. Before Song Shangshu went north to investigate hydrology, everyone knew to please, such as Wenjia. But why is Zou's house still indifferent? Was the father always the kind of person who pretended not to interact with officials?"

This is of course impossible.

The status of the Zou family in the Yanzhou Prefecture is not under the Dongchang Wen family.

There are so many children in the Wen family, and he can tolerate a few dudes who do not work properly, such as those who offended Song Li and his daughter.

But the main and subordinate children, such as Wen Xianyun and his son, all talked happily with the magistrates, and they wished to be brothers and sisters.

The two generations of the Zou family are single biography. Zou Yi'ang is a young man who can't hold on to the scene so far. Zou Zhihan can only worry more about himself... The Zou family's position has always been as stable as a mountain, and it is inseparable from Zou Zhihan's network management in the eunuch.

As the son of the Zou family, even if Zou Yiang belongs to the more stubborn kind of child, these principles can be understood by ears and eyes.

What's more, Mrs. Shang has been suspicious of Zou Zhihan's abnormality in this matter for a long time, and Zou Yiang usually does not notice it, except that he has been carefree and careless.

Now that I was trapped in a prison, I was broken by Xi Fuwei again, his face was pale, and after a while he woke up and said: "You and Jin Yiwei are all together! You didn't come to see me at all, you just wanted to persuade me to help you persuade my father Confess! Isn’t it!?"

"Should your father not confess?" Xi Fuwei asked back, "your grandmother, your mother, you, your sisters, and the sisters who have gone out of the pavilion, the nieces and nieces that your sisters have gone with... and Zou The servants of the mansion, Mr. Fu and Mr. Yao who still live in Fenzhi Building, many of these people don’t know anything. Your father doesn’t confess, no matter how innocent they are, they can’t be left unaffected. They will end up just watching the death of Jing Nan. Those who are loyal to Jianwen!"

"I say something that is not very good. The scholars of the interpreter have all kneeled and knocked on His Majesty three times. That is the person who said, "Emperor Taizu is a monarch and minister in morals, and is like a father and son in kindness." Wei Jianwen, can I think that the academicians continue to persevere after the difficulty? It shows that your Majesty is what everyone expects!"

"Jie Jinshen hasn't followed in the footsteps of Mr. Zhengxue. Why did your father harm the family for the illusory "loyalty" word?"

"Oh, it's been nine years since Yongle. People in the world may not think that such behavior is ‘loyalty’. Most people will think it’s stubborn!"

"..." Zou Yiang's eyes were full of tears, looking at her, he choked up for a while, "Anyway, you didn't come to see me!"

Xi Fuwei was silent, and said this kid in her heart...Why did she focus on whether she came to see him or to persuade him?

The problem is that the prison visits, especially the prison of Tan Jin Yiwei, are there to ask questions, and not to say a word?

This is the pit, this silly boy!

She helplessly coaxed: "Who can't tell you this kind of truth? Get a school lieutenant to come and beat you, or grab a little sister at random and threaten you. Isn't it more effective than me telling you? I'm not here. It's up to you, what did that come for? Isn't it that I am afraid that you will be wronged next, so I am pointing you out?

Zou Yiang choked and said, "Who knows if it's for credit or something?"

He is now shrewd now.

Xi Fuwei thought of what Yu Kedi said, that the incident in the Zou Mansion had happened so suddenly that he was too embarrassed to refute the situation, and she stood up and said, "Then I will go? lest you be unhappy to see me."

"..." Zou Yiang choked and said nothing, but reached out like lightning, grabbing her skirt and holding it down!

Xi Fuwei: "..."

About to squat down to continue talking to him, suddenly heard a rush of footsteps in the corridor!

One person walked around the corner, because the light inside was dim and he couldn't see his appearance. Judging from his costume, he was the captain at the door.

Yu Kedi immediately greeted him and asked: "What's the matter?"

Before he finished his words, his pupils suddenly contracted, and while pressing the handle of the knife, he briefly reminded Xi Fuwei, "Beware!"

I saw a sharp blade of light rising from the tunnel!