After picking up Zhu Zhanji, the army returned to the camp.
Naturally, there will not be as much fuss on the way back as when we arrived. In fact, in order to get here in the shortest time, the Three Thousand Battalion took the risk and rushed late at night, losing more than a hundred soldiers along the way. Now His Highness Taisun is safe and sound.
If he didn't take it easy, the arrogant and powerful general who was already holding back his anger would have to explode.
His Highness Taisun continued to interrogate Li Qian, but Li Qian refused to speak, which completely aroused the violence factor in Zhu Zhanji's bones and cut off his arm again.
Wang Yan couldn't stand it anymore and asked his grandson to allow him to talk to Li Qian alone. Zhu Zhanji couldn't believe anyone now, but after hesitating for a long time, he agreed...
Zhu Zhanji rode aside. On the carriage, only Wang Yan and Li Qian, who had lost his arms and looked pale, were left. In order to prevent him from dying immediately, Zhu Zhanji had already asked the military doctor to stop the bleeding and bandage him. At this moment, the upper body of the dead eunuch was covered
The gauze was tightly wrapped, and there were shocking blood stains on the gauze...
Seeing the miserable condition of his childhood friend, Wang Yan's nose felt sore and he had to endure it for a long time before he shed tears.
"Ouchayiya..." When Li Qian opened his mouth, he didn't speak in Chinese, but in a southwestern dialect.
That was their hometown dialect, which meant taking it seriously. Wang Yan's tears rolled down his eyes. He squeezed his eyes with his fingers, coughed and said, "Is it really you?" He was talking about the same thing.
The same dialect as Li Qian.
"..." Li Qian was silent. Silence was acquiescence.
"Why are you doing this?" Wang Yan looked at him in shock.
"You have forgotten your roots." Li Qian looked at the flowing clouds in the sky and said quietly, "otherwise you wouldn't have to ask at all."
"..." This time it was Wang Yan's turn to be silent. After a long time, he whispered: "It's been so many years, haven't you given up yet?"
"The hatred of genocide, the hatred of annihilation, sworn hatred." Li Qian gritted his teeth and spat out a mouthful of blood and said, "Is it true that you should be a slave? You have even forgotten the blood feud."
"Of course I haven't forgotten..." Wang Yan said with a sad expression. In the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty generals Fu Youde and Lan Yu, under the orders of Zhu Yuanzhang, went on an expedition to Yunnan to eliminate the remaining forces of the Yuan Dynasty entrenched there and complete the Ming Dynasty's mission to unify the world.
War. The Liang King of the Yuan Dynasty who ruled Yunnan at that time was cruel and unkind, and the people were filled with resentment. However, the Ming Dynasty was already the center of the world, and its army was unstoppable. Therefore, the war went smoothly. It only took half a year to pacify the entire territory of Yunnan.
This is naturally a great joy for the victorious Ming Dynasty. But war never brings only victory and glory, killing and defeat will never be absent. In this battle, the forces under the Liang Wang camp of the Yuan Dynasty were uprooted one after another
The word "uproot" is not a metaphor here, but an objective description. All the adult men of these tribes and forces were killed, the women were turned into military prostitutes, and the children were castrated and became slaves.
Wang Yan, Li Qian and Zheng He are all members of these unfortunate children. You can imagine how dark, terrifying, and helpless that winter thirty-three years ago was for these ten-year-old children.
...The father and brother who protected them died tragically, their mother and sister who loved them disappeared, and they were seriously injured. Half of the children could not survive that winter and died of infection. Only half of the children could survive.
For the children who survived, that winter was not the end of their suffering, but the starting point... From then on, they began to follow the Ming army to fight in all directions. The wind and snow in Shuofang and the yellow sand of the desert left their traces everywhere.
At their age, they should have been playing at home and enjoying the love of their relatives, but they suddenly became the lowest slaves in the war... On the battlefield where rivers of blood flowed and corpses were everywhere, they had to charge forward and retreat behind.
They had to eat the poorest food, do the heaviest work, and endure bullying from officers and soldiers all the time. There is no doubt that most of the children died, and the very small number who survived had no idea how much they suffered and how many injuries they suffered.
, how full of holes is the soul?
After five years of purgatory, the few surviving children finally met their savior - Zhu Di, who was still King of Yan at the time. Zhu Di took a fancy to these teenagers and selected them to be his personal bodyguards. From then on, they became
He became the crony of King Yan, followed him to fight in the fortress, and followed him to raise an army for Jingnan. Although it was a life-and-death experience, he would never die in such a lowly manner again.
They were extremely grateful to King Yan for his rebirth, so they risked their lives every time they fought. The three of them all made great achievements in the Battle of Jingnan. Zhu Di once said that if they were not disabled, everyone could be
Eunuchs could not be granted the title of marquis, so the emperor could only grant them the three most important positions in the inner court and trust them immensely, until today...
Recalling the past, Wang Yan found that he had forgotten the pain of the past, but his gratitude to the emperor was unforgettable. Perhaps as Li Qian said, he had forgotten his roots...
Seeing that he was silent for a long time, Li Qian thought that he finally repented, so he snorted and stopped blaming him.
"Even if you want to take revenge, there is always a wrongdoer and a debtor. Your Highness has no grudge against us," Wang Yan said in a low voice after coming back to his senses.
"He has no grudge against us, but his grandfather has grudge against us," Li Qian snorted coldly.
"You are so paranoid," Wang Yan sighed, "Why don't you say that his grandfather was kind to us?"
"That's what you think." Li Qian's face was tangled, but he still said bitterly: "It's true that the emperor saved us, but we also won the world for him. No matter how much kindness we had, we have already repaid him." Seeing Wang Yan staring straight at
He told the truth: "Besides, I am not targeting my grandson..."
After hearing what he said, Wang Yan was a little confused. If he wasn't targeting his grandson, who was he targeting? After thinking for a long time, he suddenly got a jolt... He remembered that he had thanked God several times this year for allowing him thirty years ago.
Those murderers have suffered retribution. Especially since this expedition, even big figures like Tan Qing and Manduli have been unlucky one after another... The former committed suicide out of fear because the grain depot was burned, and the latter died of serious injuries in the fierce battle yesterday. At that time
He just felt happy and didn't think much about it. Now seeing Li Qian like this, he suddenly felt horrified and realized that the deaths of those guys were not accidental.
Is someone arranging their death? Of course Li Qian doesn't have the ability... Although the emperor trusts the eunuchs, eunuchs are not allowed to participate in politics. The ancestral system is there, and their hands can't reach the outer court at all, let alone the army.
Fang's distinguished officials
Then someone is killing people for Li Qian, and the condition is - he leads the grandson to Jiulongkou. As for who wants the grandson to die, he doesn't even have to think about it, and of course he doesn't dare to think about it.
"Did you make an exchange with them?" Wang Yan asked him in a seductive voice.
"You don't have to ask, I won't tell." Li Qian shook his head and said with a look of relief in his eyes: "I'm telling you this just because I need someone to know that I avenged my clansmen.
"Revenge has been avenged." He grinned, and pulled the wound with his smile. The pain made him gasp, but he still kept laughing, making the sound as ugly as possible, and the appearance as ugly as possible.
It attracted Zhu Zhanji to look over frequently.
"He really wants to know what we are talking about, but it's a pity that he can't understand." Li Qian glanced at his grandson and giggled: "I'm telling you, his old Zhu family are all perverted lunatics. Don't look at this kid pretending all day long.
Very kind and honest... Let’s talk about it with the prince. When these two men get violent, they are no different from his grandfather."
"..." Wang Yan was silent. He didn't want to hear Li Qian say such words, because these words were too rebellious and showed that he didn't want to live anymore.
"Okay, let's go." Li Qian glanced at Wang Yan and said calmly: "Don't worry, I won't die now. Wouldn't that cause trouble for you?" As he spoke, a trace of tenderness flashed in his eyes and he said: "You
He Sanbao is the closest person to me in the world. He has given us a big reputation. I will never implicate you."
"Brother Bao..." Wang Yan said sadly: "You... want me to do something?"
"You don't need it now, you can go. As for the future... burn some paper for me during the holidays. If you have the opportunity to go back to Yunnan, say in front of my parents' graves that I avenged them." Li Qian laughed.
He said: "Actually, there's no need. I'll go down to see them soon. I think it's very honorable."
"Brother Bao..." Wang Yan became more and more depressed. He no longer knew how to deal with himself.
"Go ahead, be careful and don't get yourself involved." Li Qian looked at him gently and said, "Brother, when you see Sanbao, tell him that I didn't embarrass him, don't let him look down on me."
"Yeah" Wang Yan nodded heavily, his eye circles turning red again.
After adjusting his mood, Wang Yan got out of the car and walked to Zhu Zhanji's side.
"What's wrong?" Zhu Zhanji asked, "Uncle Wang cried?"
"Your Highness, don't be offended. I have been an old brother for many years, but I am stubborn and won't say anything. It makes me heartbroken..." Wang Yan said softly.
"How could it be? I feel very sorry for Uncle Bao when he has reached this stage. If he hadn't killed thousands of loyal guards, I wouldn't have treated him like this." Zhu Zhanji defended himself for two seconds.
After a sentence, he changed the subject and said: "So, he is also unwilling to tell the truth to Uncle Wang?"
Wang Yan shook his head.
"Hmph," Zhu Zhanji grunted and said, "Then let my grandpa Huang interrogate him."
But he obviously worshiped blindly. When Li Qian was brought to Zhu Di, the emperor personally interrogated him and ordered the imperial guards to torture him until he was inhuman shape. However, he refused to change his story and insisted that it was just a coincidence and no one else
Instigated. Seeing that he was too seriously injured and was about to die, the emperor had no choice but to behead him in public.
But now, Zhu Zhanji couldn't care less about Li Qian's life and death. He was completely stunned by the emperor's anger.
When he finally saw Grandpa Huang, Zhu Di gave him a cold look and said four words through his teeth, "Just come back." However, after Bing stepped back, he kicked him to the ground, and then
Beat him to pieces with a riding crop
Zhu Zhanji was stubborn and stayed close to him without saying a word. When the emperor had beaten him enough and was tired, he cursed again: "You fool, I am so disappointed. I really saw you wrong. I thought you were wrong."
She looks most like me." He spat fiercely and said: "Bah, even if I turned into a pig, I wouldn't be able to do something stupid like you."