342, exiles
342, exiles
Guard Ma went out and brought someone in.
The people who came in didn't dare to look up at him and kept their heads down.
Seeing the boy tied up with ropes, Lu Mingfei raised his chin to his guards and said, "Untie him."
Hearing this, Guard Ma had no choice but to step forward and untie the rope he had tied with his own hands.
He also did not forget to warn the boy who was following them: "Behave yourself! If you dare to harm me, I will skin you alive!"
Caifeng glanced at the person who warned him, pursed his lips and said nothing.
"Please sit down." Lu Mingfei was sitting on the ground eating breakfast. It was too tiring to look up and talk to someone who was standing, so he asked the person who was standing to sit down.
"Please sit down. I'm tired of talking with my head tilted up."
Caifeng hesitated for a moment, then sat down. He looked up at the adult in front of him, then lowered his head again.
"Drink some water first." Lu Mingfei asked someone to bring a bowl and poured half a bowl of water for the young man.
Caifeng looked at the hand that appeared in his sight, and the bowl in this hand. He was stunned for a moment, but still reached out to take it.
When he raised his eyes, he met a pair of gentle eyes.
"Come, have a sesame cake." Lu Mingfei handed the boy another sesame cake. Seeing that the boy didn't take it, he stuffed it directly into his hand.
He saw that the half-grown boy just stared at him with his big eyes, and did not eat the food he gave him, nor did he speak.
When they met again half a month later, Lu Mingfei found that the child had lost a lot of weight and his eyes looked particularly big.
He didn't know what happened to the child after he left him, and why he came back to him.
"If you don't eat, I'll start interrogating you." Lu Mingfei reminded.
This time he started to move. He first took a sip of water, and then started to bite the pancake in his hand.
"Eat some meat." They brought a lot of dried meat, and Lu Mingfei directly took a piece of dried meat from the cloth bag and gave it to the boy.
After a while, when the two had finished eating, Lu Mingfei began to interrogate them, "Tell me, why are you following me?"
Seeing that the young man didn't say anything, he continued to ask, "Did your master ask you to follow him? Or did you run away on your own?"
Caifeng lowered his head and still didn't speak.
"Our master is asking you a question! Are you dumb?" The guard Ma at the side was so angry that he was about to kick the boy when he saw that the boy had no manners towards their master.
However, before his feet could touch the other person, he was stopped by a look from their adult.
He pulled his foot back awkwardly, not daring to hit anyone in front of their adults...
Lu Mingfei withdrew his gaze from his guards and turned to look at the young man, asking, "Do you want to follow me? If yes, nod. If no, shake your head."
This time, Caifeng nodded without any hesitation.
Lu Mingfei stared at the boy for a moment. He couldn't quite understand why this kid, whom he had only met a few times, was following him. Was it because he was being nice to him? Or was it because his master had given him some sort of mission?
"You can follow me if you want. However, I have three conditions. If you agree to all of them, I can keep you." This road was not opened by their family. Therefore, unless they killed the boy, it would be difficult for them to prevent him from following them.
Since they are going to follow anyway, they might as well be frank and lay out the rules first.
Caifeng only heard the four words "you can stay" and looked at the adult in front of him with his big eyes without saying a word.
Lu Mingfei almost laughed out loud when he saw the pair of expressive eyes. However, he didn't laugh, and said to the boy with a serious face, "The first rule is that you follow us and obey our arrangements and instructions."
"The second rule is that you are not allowed to do anything that is detrimental to us."
"Rule three... You are not allowed to tell your master, or anyone else, about what you see or hear here."
"If you can do it, just nod your head."
This time Caifeng nodded without hesitation.
"Okay, then you can stay. From now on, you will follow Guard Ma and obey his arrangements and dispatches. We provide three meals a day here, and their monthly salary is ten taels, but your monthly salary is only one tael, and it will be adjusted appropriately in the future." Lu Mingfei thought, just like hiring a new employee to do odd jobs.
The child was young and looked quite pitiful. Let's just assume that he was just being kind and suddenly wanted to be a good person.
As for whether the other party would betray them... Regarding this question, Lu Mingfei looked at the boy in front of him and had a feeling in his heart that it wouldn't happen. This was a puppy he had kidnapped with meat bones, not a spy sent to him by others. Doesn't it seem to be of different nature?
But when this honest child heard that there was a monthly allowance, he refused it outright.
“No monthly fee.”
"Do you think one ounce of silver is too little?"
"No, no."
"Then it's settled."
This time, Lu Mingfei didn't continue talking to the other party. He raised his hand and asked Guard Ma to take the person away.
After everyone had breakfast and packed up their things, he got in the carriage and the group continued on their journey.
***
They were afraid that new killers would catch up with them, so they walked very fast along the way. They were rushing almost the entire time and rarely stopped.
They were fast and caught up with the exile group that was being escorted to Beijun.
Also here are Fu Lianxin's family, as well as many exiled officials and their families.
Now that he had encountered them, Lu Mingfei couldn't just ignore them. He was the one who orchestrated these people's exile to the north.
Although he saved these people's lives by doing this, the road to exile in Beijun was not easy to travel. If he got sick on the way, he might not be able to reach Beijun.
When they caught up with the team, many people in the team were already sick.
The leader of the prisoners escorting this time was a captain in the Imperial Guard, named Guo, a man in his thirties.
Lu Mingfei didn’t know the other party, but as long as the other party knew Yin Zi, it would be fine.
He found Captain Guo, gave him two gold bars, and made a request. "Captain Guo, please be kind enough to stay here for another day. I'll send someone to the city to get a doctor to see the elders in the team. They're sick, and I'm afraid they can't walk such a long distance."
"It's just a small favor, there's no need to be polite, Lord Lu. In that case, let's stay here for another day." Captain Guo put the gold in his arms and agreed.
Since he had received the benefit, he didn't mind giving convenience to Lord Lu who was going to Beijun to take up his post.
Although he didn't know why this Lu Zhuangyuan was driven out of the capital, before leaving the capital, he heard that this Lu was a close minister to the emperor and was deeply loved and trusted by the emperor.
Such a person might have the possibility of returning to Beijing to serve as an official in the future. He was giving this Lord Lu a favor now, making Lord Lu owe him a favor, which might be useful in the future.
"Thank you, Captain Guo." Lu Mingfei thanked Captain Guo.
At night, the two groups of people stopped at an inn together.
This place was not far from the county town, so he sent people to the county town to invite a doctor to come and treat the sick prisoners in the team.
That night, he also invited Captain Guo and the yamen runners who were with him to have a meal.
He also asked someone to take care of these yamen runners and gave each of them some silver.
The saying "money makes the world go round" is true in every era. If something can be done with a little money, it's not a big deal.
They ate inside, and he also sent people to bring water and food to the prisoners.
After the doctor he invited examined the patient and prescribed some medicine, he asked the people in the post station to help him boil the medicine for the sick person to drink.
After finishing his meal, he said hello to Captain Guo and asked someone to bring Mr. Fu Erye from the prisoner group to see him.
This Mr. Fu Er is Fu Lianxin's father, the former Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and a third-rank official.
After the death of Old Tutor Fu, all the immediate relatives of the Fu family in officialdom resigned from their posts and returned home to mourn, including the former Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.
Later, after the new emperor ascended the throne, because Fu Lianxin was the deposed emperor's man, the entire Fu family was implicated and all of them were sent to prison.
As for whether there were other reasons behind the Fu family's actions, Lu Mingfei didn't delve into it. However, he felt that there might be some, otherwise the new emperor wouldn't have punished the entire Fu family just because of Fu Lianxin.
Lu Mingfei had met Mr. Fu Er when he was in Kyoto Prefecture. Two years ago, his good friend Zhang Lingxuan was transferred to another position, and he had asked the Fu family for help. It must have been through the connections on Fu Lianxin's father's side.
As soon as Master Fu saw Lu Mingfei, he knew that it was Lu Mingfei who helped them. He not only gave them water and food, but also invited a doctor to treat them. So as soon as he came in, he thanked this junior: "Thank you, Master Lu."
"You're welcome. It's just a small favor. Lian Xin and I are friends, and he's helped me a lot in the past." Lu Mingfei didn't dare ask the elder to bow to him, and hurriedly pulled the man aside, "Second Master, please take a seat."
When Master Fu heard someone mention his deceased son, he looked a little dazed. That was the son he was most proud of, yet he died in prison.
"Second Master, Second Master? Please sit down, don't stand." Seeing that the person was not sitting down, Lu Mingfei came over and helped the person sit down, and put a cup of hot tea next to the other person's hand.
After waving his hand and letting everyone else in the room leave, he whispered in the ear of the dazed elder, "There's something I've never had the chance to tell you."
"Lian Xin, he's actually not dead. I used some tricks to get him out of prison. He's waiting for us in Tong County now. When we pass by Tong County, I'll arrange for him to meet you."
"You, what did you say? Lord Lu, you..." Upon hearing this, Mr. Fu grabbed Lu Mingfei's hand with an incredulous look on his face and asked.
"Everything I said is true."
Lu Mingfei felt the hand that was gripping him was very strong, so he shook it back very firmly, looked at the other person with a serious look, and reminded him: "Don't get excited, and don't tell anyone about this."
"Okay, okay." The father said "Okay" three times in a row, and tears fell without warning, "My Xin'er is not dead, he is not dead..."
His most proud legitimate son is not dead, not dead... Author's idle words:
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