Upon hearing this, Li Jinyuan, Yun Songquan, and Wu Liping exchanged a glance and knelt down together: "Your subordinates obey orders."
Su Yun'an sneered: "Now, please answer me, where is my father right now?"
Li Jinyuan and the other two looked at each other, none of them daring to answer.
Su Yun'an instantly flew into a rage, slamming the military tally onto the table and shouting, "You still say you only obey the military tally? I think it's all just your excuses. You have never served my father as your master, nor have you ever thought about the life or death of my family!"
Su Yun'an's angry words made Yun Songquan extremely anxious, but he dared not speak.
Li Jinyuan sighed helplessly and could only say, "The General is currently in the capital of Northern Wei."
"Old Li!" Yun Songquan became even more anxious when he heard Li Jinyuan speak.
Has he gone mad?!
Li Jinyuan said expressionlessly, enunciating each word clearly: "The Emperor has ordered that we must obey the military command, and no one may disobey the order!"
Upon hearing this, Yun Songquan and Wu Liping could only close their eyes and compromise.
Seeing that he had finally gotten them talking, Su Yun'an pressed his advantage: "How is my father doing now? Why hasn't he come to see us for so long? Has something happened to him?"
Li Jinyuan was truly helpless in solving this problem: "I'm sorry, but since we smuggled the General back to Northern Wei, none of us have heard from him again. We really don't know how he is doing now."
Fearing that Su Yun'an might not believe them, Yun Songquan and Wu Liping nodded repeatedly, like chickens pecking at rice.
Since they had decided to tell the whole story, they stopped hiding anything. Wu Liping even helped analyze the situation, saying, "The General used to care most about his family. We originally thought that after the General returned to Northern Wei, there would be orders sent back, but there have been none so far. Therefore, we have also wondered if something happened to the General in Northern Wei."
Perhaps his freedom was restricted, or perhaps some accident occurred that prevented him from sending a message back, let alone returning to find his wife and the others.
Su Yun'an's heart sank; their guess was the same as his and his sister's.
"Stop kneeling, get up first," Su Yun'an said, frowning as she looked at the three of them.
But the three of them didn't dare to get up at all.
Su Yun'an said impatiently, "So my military token is useless now!"
Upon hearing the mention of the military tally, the three had no choice but to compromise and get up together.
"Now that things have come to this, let's all sit down and talk."
The three looked at each other, hesitant to sit down, yet also unwilling to refuse, and carefully took their seats.
Having said that, Su Yun'an didn't stand on ceremony and asked directly, "Was it the emperor of Northern Wei who ordered you to bring my father back to Northern Wei?"
The three of them nodded in unison.
"You received information that Su Huiyan and Su Renyi wanted to harm my father, so you turned the tables on them, used their plan to kill my father, created a fake corpse, made my father fake his death to escape, and then transported my father to Northern Wei?"
The three were somewhat surprised, not expecting that Su Yun'an would even know these things.
Li Jinyuan looked at Su Yun'an and sighed softly: "The young general is indeed intelligent; your guess is pretty accurate. When we received the Emperor's order to bring the Grand General back to Northern Wei without alerting the Emperor of Eastern Chu, we were worried about what to do when our soldiers reported that Su Renyi had bribed them to assassinate the Grand General in the Northern Rong Grand Canyon. When we heard Su Renyi's plan, we felt our opportunity had arrived. So we turned the tables on them, using their plan to make the Grand General fake his death and escape, thus avoiding alerting the Emperor of Eastern Chu and successfully transporting him back to Northern Wei."
Su Yun'an frowned: "Does my father know about your plans?"
Li Jinyuan immediately shook his head and said bitterly, "The general values his family the most. If we tell him the truth, he will not be willing to leave with us, much less leave you. So we can only keep it from him."
Su Yun'an's eyes flickered, and his fists clenched unconsciously.
Father……
It turns out my father knew nothing at all!
He knew his father wouldn't want to leave his mother and them; his father hadn't come back to find them yet, so something must have happened to him.
"How did you send Father away back then? Did the people from Northern Wei come to pick him up, or did you send him there yourselves?"
Li Jinyuan and Yun Songquan looked at Wu Liping.
Wu Liping knew what Su Yun'an was worried about, so he quickly said, "I personally sent the General to Northern Wei, and I personally handed the General over to the Emperor. Although the General was unconscious the whole time, there was nothing wrong with his health. So at least during the time I sent the General to Northern Wei, the General was not in any danger."
Moreover, he personally handed the General over to the Emperor; if anything were to happen to the General, it would surely be…
Wu Liping, Li Jinyuan, and Yun Songquan exchanged a glance, none of them daring to think further.
Su Yun'an clenched his fists again. Could it be that the emperor of Northern Wei had harmed his father?
But why? Isn't he my father's grandfather? Why would he harm my father?
Moreover, since he wanted someone to send his father back to Northern Wei, it shouldn't be to harm him.
If they really wanted to harm him, why send his father back to Northern Wei? They could have easily killed him in Eastern Chu with those three. These three were his father's confidants; if they wanted to harm him, they could kill him without hesitation. Sending his father to Northern Wei without anyone knowing is the best example of this.
It's really unreasonable that they would choose to bring their father back to Northern Wei and then harm him instead of using such a simple method!
Seeing what Su Yun'an was thinking, Li Jinyuan comforted him, "Young General, don't think too badly of things. The Grand General is the Emperor's own grandson. Logically speaking, the Emperor would never harm the Grand General. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent the Su family army to Dongchu to protect the Grand General. Perhaps the Grand General was just held up by something, which is why he didn't come to find you in time."
...Su Yun'an narrowed his eyes. His father had been away from Dongchu for four years, and he didn't believe anything could hold his father back for four years.
My mother had said before that something must have happened to my father, otherwise he would have crawled back to see her even if he had to crawl!
Although the emperor of Northern Wei would not harm his father, something must have happened to his father.
"So, can you tell me why the emperor of Northern Wei insisted that my father return to Northern Wei? Also, what exactly happened in Northern Wei back then that caused my father, a member of the Northern Wei royal family, to end up in Su Family Village?" Su Yun'an felt that only by clarifying what happened back then could he perhaps know what his father had experienced in Northern Wei.
Moreover, they definitely need to go to Northern Wei. They need to find out about Northern Wei first so that they won't be completely clueless when they arrive!
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