Chapter 148: Visitors at night
Four or five people were placed around Yifu Inn, staring at the movement at the entrance. If someone came, they would definitely be targeted, but in the end, a carrier pigeon fell into the yard.
Huairou's son-in-law Cheng Yi spread the note in his hand, and only wrote one sentence on it: Go east all the way.
Cheng Yi held the note tightly.
"Mr. Prince," Mr. Lu whispered, "This matter is not right until now. We have been led by the nose. Not to mention the face of the lady, we don't even know who tied it."
Cheng Yi pursed his lips and didn't say anything. He knew that this was not simple, especially now that he felt like he was covered in a layer of fog from beginning to end, without any eyebrows. He now felt that it was not just this time that his mother was arrested, but he had been plotted against since he found his mother a month ago.
Mr. Lu ordered others to step down: "So then stare at the surroundings, and there will be any movements coming to report."
The guard responded and stepped back quickly.
Mr. Lu poured a cup of tea with his own hands and placed it in front of Cheng Yi: "Don't be anxious first. No matter what the intentions of those people are, they should not attack the wife now. But if we do not clarify the causes and consequences, we may not only not be able to save the wife, but your safety is also worrying."
Cheng Yi tried hard to restrain his emotions, and after a while, he looked up at Mr. Lu: "Do you think I'm useless?"
When my grandfather was said to be a rebel, a big hat for the mutiny in Shanxi was taken off, and his mother was excluded by the Cheng family. He heard his grandfather persuade his mother to divorce his father with his own ears. His mother couldn't bear to let him go, and his grandfather asked his mother to go back to her home to mourn her grandfather. Her mother knew that it might be difficult to return to Beijing again, but she was afraid that he would be sad. She held his hand on the day she left, with a smile on her face, and asked him to wait for her to come back.
He started looking forward to it the day his mother left, but the Cheng family seemed to have no mother in their hearts. Half a month later, he finally waited for his mother's news, but something happened to the boat he was riding on, and all the people fell into the river, and no one survived.
At that time, he guessed that this was all the means of the Cheng family. He did not find his mother's body. The Cheng family had set up a tomb in a hurry. Everyone was tacit about what the Cheng family did. However, the Zhao family was guilty and no one would ask about this matter. What could a child do? Mr. Lu was his wife at the time. He saw what he was thinking and persuaded him to endure it first and do what he wanted to do if he had the ability in the future.
Finally, he was able to leave the mansion alone, and he immediately went to the place where his mother fell into the water to find out the news. He checked the case of the local government and asked the people who were lying on the river. In addition to asking how many bodies he had fished out from the river after his mother passed away, he asked if anyone had been rescued. When he heard a boatman say that he seemed to remember someone swimming in a water rescue, he began to search for his mother's traces everywhere.
I have been looking for it for several years. Shanxi is almost all his hands. When he was about to give up, news finally came that he had seen a woman look like her mother in the portrait. Now he is in Xin County, Taiyuan Prefecture. He has had many clues over the years. Every time he goes to see her, he will return disappointed, so he is not too happy...
What he didn't expect was that he really saw his mother.
The mother's appearance has changed a lot from what she remembers, but he knows that it is the mother, and there is no mistake in the feeling of being in love between mother and son.
At this time, my mother was no longer Mrs. Cheng, but a woman from a private household. She had white hair on her head and did heavy farm work in the fields. She got married with a centurion, and her husband and wife were harmonious and her life was dull.
He walked to his mother. She was shocked first, then returned to normal, and asked him with a distant look on his face: "What's wrong with the master? There is water and fodder at home. If you need a woman, you can get it."
My mother refused to recognize him, and he showed his identity. My mother also said that he had recognized the wrong person. Later, the centurion returned home and said that they had bad intentions and drove them out.
Maybe my mother has a new home and doesn’t want to go back to Cheng’s home. There is nothing to be left to nostalgic about in the Cheng family.
He wanted to make his mother good. Since his mother made this choice, he should follow his mother's thoughts. He tried to leave some money but was rejected by his mother. He could only order someone to take care of him, but unexpectedly, his mother moved.
My mother's life is already very difficult. How could he add to his burden to his mother? He could also guess his mother's worries. The Cheng family knew that his mother would definitely not give up after she married again and did not know how to punish her mother. Thinking of this, he withdrew his confidant back.
It was God's greatest gift for his mother to be alive. He thought that he would be able to open his heart from now on and make himself more relaxed. Unexpectedly, news came immediately that his mother was kidnapped by bandits.
"Don't say that," said Mr. Lu, "You have done well enough. If someone else had given up long ago. In order to find a wife, you have clashed with the old master several times. The Cheng family is always guarding against you. He could have made military achievements in the office, but he made you Princess Shang's every move under the eyes of others."
Cheng Yi smiled when he heard this: "The Cheng family let me know what interests are and what unwillingness are. Under the imperial power, everyone must bow their heads and want me to bend down, just like them. But they don't know that if I don't want to fight to death."
So he promised to marry, just because he liked the kind and weak little princess.
He thought that after getting married, he could plan slowly and break free from the constraints on his body. One day he would not be monitored by the imperial concubine and used by the Cheng family, but he thought it too simply. The rules of the Great Zhou, the rights of the imperial concubine, and the defense of the Cheng family were like Zhang Dawang that trapped him firmly.
What happened in the princess's house will soon be heard in the ears of the imperial concubine. His relationship with Huairou seemed to be blocked by something, perhaps it was suspicion, perhaps it was a barrier of status and rules.
When Huairou asked him why he came to Shanxi, he did not say that, first, he did not want Huairou to be involved, and was also afraid that the imperial concubine would know the inside story through Huairou. Second, he knew that only those around him had found his mother. He now did not believe anyone except Mr. Lu and a few of his close relatives.
Cheng Yi first broke free from these thoughts: "What sir is worried about is that the prince and Huairou are also walking east?"
Mr. Lu nodded: "The person who kidnapped the wife and led the prince to this place, we don't know what the plan is, especially now that we are going to be with the prince's carriage and horse... I am always uneasy in my heart.
The prince and Lord Wei came to Taiyuan Prefecture to investigate the war horse case. It is logical that it has nothing to do with your affairs, but why did the two things happen to collide with each other?”
Mr. Lu sighed long and said, "It may not be a good thing for the prince-consort to keep me by my side. I am just a maid and not so keen in politics. The prince-consort needs a real staff member or someone who can lead the prince-consort forward so that he can see the way under his feet clearly."
As soon as Mr. Lu finished speaking, he heard the voice of guards coming from outside: "Someone."
Chapter completed!