Han Qian sat there in shock, beads of sweat gurgling down his forehead. The thin clothes he wore were soaked with sweat almost instantly!
Before the night before, Han Qian was full of resentment against his father Han Daoxun's control over him.
Not only did they drive him to the Qiuhu Mountain Villa, they also ordered Fan Xicheng's old miscellaneous dog to keep an eye on his every move. His daily life was taken care of by the ugly maid Qingyun, who had fetal spots on her face and was very thin. She was kept in the house all day.
There was no freedom at all in the study, which made him yearn for the days when he was free and bullying others in Xuanzhou.
He was imprisoned in the other courtyard for more than a month. He was in a very irritable mood. He always wanted to leave and escape back to Xuanzhou. But at this moment, he thought that Jing Niang was the slave sent to him by his second uncle Han Daochang, and that Zhao Zhi was the second uncle.
Bohan Daochang assigned him a domestic slave from his side. Even three years ago, when he broke into the affair between Jing Niang and her cousin Han Jun, it was the dog slave Zhao Zhi who seemingly unintentionally broke the news.
Han Qian's hands and feet were completely cold, and he couldn't suppress the shock in his heart despite taking several breaths of cold air.
The man in the dream, Zhai Xinping, not only experienced too many intrigues in his short life, but the history books he usually likes to read are also full of all kinds of incredible conspiracies.
Maybe the dream was too real, so real that it was like Han Qian was living a different life in the dream, so real that it was like the life memories of Zhai Xinping, the person in the dream, had been integrated into his bones, making him subconsciously use the things he had never used before.
Think about the problem from a perspective.
This made him seriously reflect on the past six years in Xuanzhou for the first time, and he was so frightened that his hands and feet were cold.
The second uncle, Han Daochang, treated him with far less gentleness and harmlessness than he imagined.
At only twelve years old, he has naturally never seen the dangers of human nature. Before that, how could he have thought that his six years of neglect and stubbornness at this time were actually the intentional actions of his second uncle Han Daochang?
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Han Qian sat in shock for a long time, and when the sky was bright, he vaguely heard shouts from a distance. He knew that these were the soldiers who lived in the villa and came out to practice boxing, kicking, and horseback shooting in the early morning.
Emperor Tianyou relied on his generals and wealthy families to achieve success and laid the foundation of the Chu State. The Chu State was newly created and the powerful enemies around it were not destroyed. Emperor Tianyou did not dare to change the military system of his army, and even used military accounts from time to time as rewards for his meritorious generals.
Therefore, it was normal for aristocratic families to have family soldiers.
The Han family is certainly no exception.
Except for a few of Han's family soldiers who stayed in Xuanzhou and followed the orders of his second uncle Han Daochang, more of them followed his eldest uncle Han Daoming, who was the governor of Chizhou at this time.
However, his father, Han Daoxun, had been serving as an official in the past few years, and he also received twenty military rewards for his merits.
These people are all veterans who have followed Han Daoxun in recent years.
His father, Han Daoxun, went to work in Beijing. The house he built in Jinling City was small and could not accommodate many people, so he bought a villa outside the city and settled most of the soldiers, family members, and children here...
Family soldiers!
"I was going to my ancestral homeland of Xuanzhou to raise troops. On the way, I was escorting the troops to the ancestral home, but the carriage broke apart in the city..."
Thinking of these words in his dream, the veins on Han Qian's forehead couldn't help but jump. He thought that when he usually scolded Fan Xicheng and these old bastards, he was indeed not wrong at all.
These family soldiers were eating and using his family's food at this time. In the end, the Han family experienced drastic changes. Not only did they escort him to Xuanzhou with loyalty, but they actually carried him to the government for execution on the way. It was not because he was not well-raised.
What is a miscellaneous dog that bites its owner randomly?
At this moment, Han Qian wished he could run out with the black cloud bow in his hand and shoot the soldiers in the villa one by one.
Han Qian was so angry that he wanted to smash everything in the study to relieve his hatred.
After a long time, Han Qian gradually calmed down.
At this time, there has not been a drastic change in his family, and the soldiers have not betrayed him. Let alone shooting these soldiers who were ultimately useless, even if he wanted to drive these soldiers out of the Han family, his father Han Daoxun
It is absolutely impossible to agree.
What could he say at this time, that one day in the next four years, his father would be killed by Emperor Wenying's staff in front of the Wenying Palace, and that he would be betrayed by these family soldiers on his way to Xuanzhou?
He doesn't even know whether all the soldiers will betray him in the future!
Thinking of this, Han Qian couldn't help but think about the many details that happened that night when Yao Xishui came to poison him.
That night, the ugly maid Qingyun was kicked out by him first because of his temper. After nightfall, Yao Xishui suddenly came to the door, prepared wine and drank with him in the study. After that, he was poisoned and fell unconscious on the desk, falling into that weird dream.
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When he woke up, his consciousness was still a little blurry, but he heard a few key words.
Did Yao Xishui and the man spend all their efforts not simply to poison him, but to create the illusion that he died of a sudden illness?
Yao Xishui and the man were frightened away by Fan Xicheng and others who came over after hearing the noise. Judging from Fan Xicheng's reaction afterwards, it seemed that they were completely unaware of Yao Xishui's visit?
In the villa, Han Qian lived alone in the east courtyard, and because his father was afraid that he would be obsessed with men and women, even the ugly maid Qingyun was not allowed to enter the east courtyard at night. Therefore, as long as they did not make too much noise, Fan Xicheng and the others might not know that Yao Xishui was visiting at night.
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However, how could Yao Xishui know this, so that she dared to walk into the study to drink with him calmly, without fear of disturbing other people in the villa?
Did any of the soldiers or slaves in the villa inform Yao Xishui?
His father was still a minister of the court and had not yet been killed in front of the palace by Emperor Tianyou. Han Qian did not believe that all the family soldiers had betrayed his family, but who was so bold as to secretly collude with Yao Xishui and tip off the news?
Han Qian took a breath and secretly felt that it was useless to worry about the future now. The current crisis must be resolved first!
His mind unknowingly became calmer and more delicate, no longer as impetuous and reckless as before...
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After autumn, the morning was a little cool. Han Qian put on a thin coat and pushed out the door. He took the black cloud bow and followed the sound of the soldiers practicing through the west courtyard.
On the west side of the yard, an open space of three or four acres was cleared and rolled over with a stone roller.
This is the training ground where the villa's soldiers usually train. The weapons racks beside the field include guns, clubs, halberds, longbows and other weapons, as well as several stone locks for strength training.
There are also two courtyards built on the north and south sides of the martial arts training ground, which together with the east courtyard where Han Qian lives, form the Qiuhu Mountain Villa.
The east courtyard is the most exquisite, with twenty or thirty rooms where the master and his personal servants live, but at night, only Han Qian lives there.
The North Courtyard is the largest, with fifty or sixty houses, which are where soldiers and family members live, as well as kitchens, stables and other ancillary buildings. However, they are all quite simple, with huts and earthen walls.
According to the laws of Chu, these soldiers were attached to his father Han Daoxun, and the family members of the soldiers were also incorporated into the Han family and served as slaves.
There are only five inverted rooms in the south courtyard. It is also the entrance to the villa and blocks the valley entrance to the villa. It is usually guarded by family soldiers.
Although Qiuhushan Villa is only thirty or forty miles away from the capital city of Jinling, bandits are rampant these days, and the area near Jinling City is not peaceful either. The farmhouses near the villa are often looted by bandits, so it is not possible to be careful not to guard against them.
At this time, Fan Xicheng was arranging for people to build a protective wall to surround the entire villa. However, the project was quite large and there were few manpower available. Currently, a loess wall was built in the south courtyard along the southern edge of the martial arts training ground for defense.
A large group of bandits broke in from outside the valley.
Although this place is said to be a villa, it is actually located in a valley at the southern foot of Baohua Mountain.
To the west of the martial arts training ground, there is a stream flowing down from the mountain, surrounded by bamboo trees and piles of rocks, dividing the valley into two parts. To the east is the villa's courtyard, and to the west the terrain is more open, with three to four hundred acres of farmland reclaimed.
Those fields and the hills behind the villa also belong to the villa, and there are some scattered thatched houses and shacks built for the tenants who are attached to the villa.
The stream passes through the earthen wall of the south courtyard, and the terrain drops rapidly. Two or three miles away, there is a vast lake with misty waves. From a distance, it stretches for thirteen or four miles in length and breadth.
This large lake is Chishan Lake in the southeast of Jinling City. It gathers the streams and rivers that come out from the southern foot of Baohua Mountain. There are also rivers leading to the northwest. It joins the Qiupu River from the southwest corner of Jinling City, enters Jinling City through Shuiguan, and finally exits from Beicheng.
Shuiguan flows into the Yangtze River...
Han Qian stood at the edge of the martial arts training ground, looking past the low wall made of rammed loess. He could see many boats parked in Chishan Lake, and there were also several painted boats that were very eye-catching. He thought that Yao Xishui was too late.
Could it be that the oiran from the Red Mansion just hid in those boats and never left, waiting for another opportunity to attack him?
