Chapter 4 No one is allowed to die
"Person Zhao, why don't you run away but follow Ben Qianhu?" Gao Wencai turned his head and shouted at Zhao Peng who was following him.
"Sir Qianhu, Beizhi knows that you are determined to sacrifice your country, but Beizhi feels that you cannot die, and I cannot die! Only by living can we turn the tide?" Zhao Peng replied loudly.
"Turn the tide? Go dreaming! At least hundreds of thousands of thieves inside and outside the capital, how do you tell me how to turn the tide?" Gao Wencai snorted coldly.
"Sir, we must live first. As long as we live, there will be hope! If we die, there will be nothing! So, sir, we cannot die!" Zhao Peng advised him hard.
"Living? To be honest!" Gao Wencai smiled bitterly, "Secretary Zhao, I am not as full as you, my family is not hungry! You can surrender to the thief army, or you can surrender first and wait for an opportunity to escape! However, my family is more than a dozen people, including many female relatives. The thief is cruel and fierce. If I surrender to the thief, I am afraid that the female relatives in the family will be humiliated by the thief, I am afraid that the female relatives in the family will be humiliated by the thief! I have to be a traitor! Instead of being slandered for thousands of years and being scolded by others, it is better to sacrifice for the country! Okay, Master Zhao, you don't have to persuade me, you should run away quickly! If you can't escape, you won't blame you for surrendering to the thief! But if you insist on following me, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
After saying that, Gao Wencai threw Zhao Peng alone on the side of the road and walked home without looking back.
Looking at Gao Wencai's back, which seemed to have become more than teenagers, Zhao Peng gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, stretched his heart, followed from afar, and followed the Gao family.
Gao Wencai turned around and turned a few alleys and returned to his Gao family. He just walked into the door and closed the door.
Zhao Peng followed, but was blocked by the closed door. He stood helplessly at the gate. After a while, he heard the crying sounds in the courtyard, mixed with the heartbreaking cry of a woman and a child, and the rolling smoke rose from the yard.
"I have to save people quickly! But the commander doesn't allow them." Zhao Peng didn't have time to think too much, so he decided to climb over the wall and enter the Gao family to save people. He took a few steps back and then quickly ran forward. When he was about to hit the courtyard wall, he jumped up and took the wall with both hands, kicked hard against the wall with both feet, and flew over and flew up the wall.
If Zhao Peng had a God's perspective, the one he should be saving now should be Emperor Chongzhen, not Gao Wencai's family. Unfortunately, he certainly did not have a God's perspective, and he was a novice in history. In fact, Chongzhen was not dead at this time, and if he went to save, it would be time to persuade Chongzhen not to commit suicide. Even if he fell into Li Zicheng's hands, I believe Li Zicheng would not kill the monarch. However, Zhao Peng really went to Chongzhen's stink and hard temper. I don't know if he could persuade Chongzhen.
Zhao Peng climbed up the wall and looked into the courtyard. He saw that this was a two-entry courtyard. Such a house was not very big in the capital back then, but it could only be considered a very ordinary house. Gao Wencai was a Jinyiwei Qianhu. If it was in the local area, Jinyiwei Qianhu would be an amazing existence. However, in the capital where there are so many high-ranking officials, the small Jinyiwei Qianhu was nothing. It would be great to have a two-entry courtyard in the capital where every inch of land was valuable.
The yard was full of messes, and all kinds of clothes were thrown on the ground like garbage. They had been lit and burned like garbage in the garbage dump of later generations.
A dozen men, women, young and old, the Gao family knelt on the ground in the middle of the courtyard. They had already put on flying fish clothes. Gao Wencai, wearing a wingless black hat, stood in front of his family, carrying an embroidered spring knife in his hand, and pointed a bright steel knife at his family: "Since the reign of Chengzu, I have received the favor of the emperor for generations, and have inherited the thousand households of the Jinyiwei, and have passed on from generation to generation. It has been more than 242 years since then! I was ordered by the emperor to station Xuanwumen, but I failed the emperor and ordered Xuanwumen to fall into the thief's hands. The capital fell. The emperor's life and death were uncertain. I was guilty of my great sins, but I could only repay the emperor's kindness with one death!"
The people kneeling on the ground cried loudly, Gao Wencai was unmoved and said coldly: "Everyone, go and commit suicide to avoid falling into the hands of the thieves, being humiliated, and not seeking survival or death!"
"Grandpa, I don't want to die!" A young girl cried into Zhao Peng's ears.
Gao Wencai burst into tears, looking at his beloved little granddaughter, he put his heart on, waved the embroidered spring knife and slashed the little loli's head.
Seeing a little loli with pink and jade carvings about to die under the knife, she heard a "dang" sound of Mars splashing, and the Xiuchun Knife in Gao Wencai's hand was blocked by an Xiuchun Knife that stretched out from somewhere.
Gao Wencai turned his head and saw that it was Zhao Peng who blocked his sword. He was furious: "Why is it you again! Captain Zhao, what do you mean?"
"Sir, stop! As long as I still have my life today, no one here is allowed to die!" Zhao Peng shouted anxiously.
"Do you want to be happy to see my family's wife fall into the hands of a thief and suffer all the humiliation?" Gao Wencai angrily scolded.
Zhao Peng threw away the Xiuchun Knife, knelt on one knee and bowed, "I hope the chief thinks three times. We cannot die today. The Crown Prince is still in the city. We should leave our lives to escort the Crown Prince to Nanjing to ascend the throne!"
"We must worry about the safety of Your Highness the Crown Prince! The emperor has made arrangements for you. Your Highness the Crown Prince is in a very safe place. When the situation in the city is slightly more stable, so naturally someone escorts Your Highness to Nanjing!" Gao Wencai said.
Zhao Peng stomped his feet in a hurry, and said unstoppablely: "Sir, it may be too late at that time! I am afraid that the Crown Prince had already fallen into the hands of the bandits at that time, and the bandits would soon be defeated by Jiannu. Once Jiannu invades, the Crown Prince would never leave if he wants to leave the capital! He may be poisoned by Jiannu! The thief will not harm the Crown Prince, but Jiannu will never let the Crown Prince go!"
Gao Wencai's face changed drastically and he shouted sternly: "Person Zhao, how do you know that the bandits will be defeated by Jiannu? Jiannu will invade the capital again? How do you dare to conclude that the bandits will not harm His Highness the Crown Prince?"
Zhao Peng replied slowly: "Sir, Jiannu has been coveting the country of our Ming Dynasty for a long time. Now the capital is in trouble. Will Jiannu let this great opportunity to invade the Central Plains? If Jiannu invades the Central Plains, the wicked and heartless Tartars will definitely regard the Prince's Prince as a major concern and will be eliminated soon! The bandits have no intention of replacing my Ming Dynasty, so they will definitely not harm Your Highness! If you harm Your Highness, what are the benefits for the bandits? If the prince encounters an unexpected accident, the thief will become the target of public criticism! If the thief holds the prince, he can hold the emperor to command the princes. Therefore, there is no danger in falling into the hands of the bandits, but it is difficult to escape. But it is really overwhelming to fall into the hands of Jiannu! Our top priority is to rescue Your Highness from the crown prince and go south to Nanjing to ascend the throne!"
Gao Wencai said "Oh": "Then tell me, how do you rescue His Highness the Crown Prince?"
"Super surrender! When the bandits relax their vigilance, we will rescue His Royal Highness the Crown Prince by chance."
"It's not appropriate to surrender. If you surrender to the bandits, outsiders don't know that we are surrendering, and we may be infamous and infamous for thousands of years!" Gao Wencai shook his head.
"Sir, a little bit of tolerance will cause chaos! For the sake of our Ming Dynasty, we can only endure humiliation and bear the infamy! When Guan Yunchang was not pretending to surrender to the Cao thief, he was in Cao's camp, but he was in the Han camp, and then rode alone, leaving a good story? Now? Who can remember that Guan Yunchang once surrendered to Cao thief, and everyone knew only the righteousness of Yuntian!"
Gao Wencai's face relaxed a little: "We can endure humiliation and bear the reputation of the Ming Dynasty. It's a pity that the female family in my family will inevitably be humiliated by thieves. Life is worse than death!"
"Sir, please believe in the humble position. If we pretend to surrender, the thief will definitely not make things difficult for the superiors' family." Zhao Peng said with a smile.
Chapter completed!