In August, there have been days of haze, continuous autumn rain, and an unsettling smell in the air.
This is destined to be a troubled time...
First, after a joint trial at the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Punishment, Prime Minister Hu's son, brother-in-law, Liuhe County Magistrate and other related persons involved in the case were sentenced to be executed by Qiu Houwen on more than a dozen charges including murder, cover-up, and bribery.
However, for the people in the capital who are accustomed to the world, killing such a small number of people can only be considered trivial. Only killing heads and blood flowing like rivers, especially killing high-ranking officials... can make them excited.
Therefore, they are more concerned about when Hu Xiang will fall than a few insignificant death row prisoners.
What impressed the men in the capital was that Prime Minister Hu had truly become a tumbler in Ming Dynasty officialdom. Even the case in which his son was sentenced to death did not dislodge him from his position, which is really hard to accept.
However, compared with the big events that happened later, the matter of the Hu family and his son became an insignificant matter.
The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th is a day for family reunion.
But on this day, the prince's mansion in the capital, the home of the nobles, all started to catch the traitor...
~~
Ji'an Marquis Mansion.
"Come in, everyone, I have something important to tell you."
Lu Zhongheng called his sons into the study with a stern expression, and then closed the door mysteriously.
A servant patrolled along the corridor seemingly casually, but when no one was paying attention, he quietly touched under the back window of the study and took out a copper receiver from his arms. He gently pressed the big head against the window and used the other hand to
Then put the little head against your ear.
The sounds in the study came to his ears clearly, and Lu Zhongheng only heard Lu Zhongheng say in a deep voice:
"...a traitor has emerged. He keeps eavesdropping on our family's secrets and reports them to King Yan."
"Ah, who is so hateful?" The brothers changed their faces after hearing this, and some people couldn't help but worry that the scandal of his adultery with his sister-in-law and hooking up with his little mother would also be discovered and spread.
"He should be here at the moment..." Lu Zhongheng walked quietly to the window, and suddenly pushed open the window sash that had been unbolted in advance.
With a creak, the scene outside was revealed, and the guard with a frightened face was also exposed.
As soon as he regained consciousness, he turned around and ran away.
"Where are you running?!" But he bumped into Lu Xun, the leader of the guards at the Marquis of Ji'an's residence.
The man panicked and tried to push Lu Xun away and flee, but Lu Xun, who was well prepared, grabbed him with his hands and legs one after another, and captured him neatly.
~~
"Land Rover? How could it be you?!"
When the guard was tied up and escorted into the study, the princes of Ji'an Hou screamed in surprise.
They never expected that the spy turned out to be 'Uncle Lu' who had followed his father to Haozhou from Fengyang. For more than ten years, he had followed his father into battle, blocked a knife and was injured in order to save his father!
"Alas..." Lu Rover is also a hard-core veteran who is not afraid of death. Now that he has been caught, he will no longer quibble, let alone beg for mercy. He lowered his head and sighed: "It's me."
"How could you do this?" Several young masters were very angry. "After you were seriously injured, you couldn't move your energy and became half a useless person. Our family feeds you well and doesn't require you to do any work, and we pay you back every month.
How can Qianhua betray us?"
"Hehehe, yes, the Marquis supports me, but do you young masters want me to be grateful?" Lu Hu said with a sad smile:
"Have you ever thought about who did I end up in this situation?"
"..." The young masters stopped talking.
"It's because of me." Lu Zhongheng, who had been clasping his hands and looking out the window, said coldly: "That year I was ordered to attack Quzhou, but I encountered a difficult situation. Not only did I fail to capture it, I also encountered an ambush on the way to withdraw, and I was injured by a stray arrow.
The fall of the horse triggered a rout.
"I was about to be captured by the enemy, but Land Rover rescued me from the ground. He just carried me out of the siege and ran for twenty miles in one breath. Only then did I save my life." Lu Zhongheng said with tears in his eyes.
road:
"After we were safe, he fell to the ground and passed out. Only then did I realize that he was also seriously injured and had to carry me out."
"But people's lives are different." Lu Hu said with a sad smile: "After recovering from his injury, he continued to live vigorously, fought for the emperor in the north and south, made countless meritorious service, and became a hero of the founding of the country, a hereditary and irreplaceable prince. But we became
I became a cripple and had no choice but to retire from the army and become a servant to look after the home. Although I had no worries about food and drink, I couldn't even afford a wife for the two thousand cents a month..."
"Should I be grateful to Lord Marquis for taking me in?" After saying that, he asked the brothers: "Who owes whom?"
"You're really greedy. Two coins are a lot of money, okay? Normally, servants only get one coin per month." The eldest son, Lu Xian, was in charge of the household, and he decided the servants' monthly money. Hearing this, he said plausibly:
"Go and ask outside. Those able-bodied people who work hard, get up early and work hard every day, rain or shine, can't make more than two dollars a month!"
"That's right, if you weren't so fond of making money, why wouldn't you be able to marry a wife?" Second Young Master Lu He also agreed.
"Haha, compared with those poor people who are suffering..." Lu Hu smiled even more chillingly and said: "But I came out of Lujia Village with your father! If it weren't for me, Lu Lu, your father would be alive today.
, how many of your brothers can you have? Can you enjoy the glory and wealth?
"In the end, instead of repaying my kindness, you acted like my master! You brothers spend a lot of time playing with women every day. How can you not spend thousands of guan every month? Why can I only get two guan, which is not enough to visit the brothel twice?
!”
"Listen, are these human words?" Lu He scolded with a blushing face: "You are really a white-eyed wolf who promotes kindness and fights against kindness, and is not familiar with raising people!"
"That's right, it doesn't matter what we don't care about you, how come after more than ten years of raising children, you have developed resentment?!" Lu Xian also cursed angrily.
"Bah, you raise a pug, feed it with refined meat every month, and hug a dog girl. Even if you can't beat it five times a month, I'm worse than a dog!" Lu Hu also yelled: "Master Hou still doesn't know what you beasts are doing.
Isn’t that a good thing? Every day we cheat on each other, hook up and commit adultery..."
The brothers were afraid that he would say this, so they would stop him when they heard what he said, lest he continue talking and get angry.
"You guys shut his mouth..." Who knows, Lu Zhongheng is also afraid that Lu Rover will expose the scandal of his climbing ashes. The two men actually want to go together.
Lu Rover's mouth was gagged with a rag, and he could no longer speak. Only then did the Lu family and his son breathe a sigh of relief.
"Lu Rover, stop talking about things that are and are not. You have been kind to me, and I have raised you for these years. I can't tell who owes whom for what happened in the past." Lu Zhongheng said slowly:
"But you are also from the army. You know how to deal with Xizuo in the army, right?"
Then he said in a low voice: "Put your fingerprints on his confession, then gouge out his eyes and tongue, beat him to death with sticks, and send him to Prince Yan's Mansion!"
ps. Yesterday I didn’t go out to play, but our Writers Association went to a meeting. As a representative of Daocheng’s online writers, I couldn’t recommend it. But I came back too tired and just finished writing a chapter...
