Chapter 195 I Don’t Want to Be a Loyal Servant!
Lin Zhong looked a little confused, but he was an obedient and filial child. He did whatever his father told him to do without asking why and just followed Si Yuan.
After Si Yuan packed up the original owner's only property, he ran away with his son Lin Zhong.
Although the original owner was nominally a slave of the Wen family, the indenture was not in the hands of the Wen family, but in the hands of the steward Chen on the farm.
As for the steward Chen at the manor, he was related to the favorite concubine of a master from a branch of the Wen family in a roundabout way. He got into the Wen family by giving gifts and got the status of the manor's steward. With the support of the Wen family, he lived a pretty good life.
But to be honest, this housekeeper Chen has no direct relationship with the Wen family, nor is he a servant of the Wen family, so he is not implicated. However, this farm, as the property of the Wen family, will be taken away.
However, although Steward Chen will not be implicated by the Wen family, he may be harmed by the officers and soldiers who come to search for the escaped Wen Jiarong. After all, bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like rakes.
In the original plot, the original owner handed over his son as Wen Jiarong. The soldiers also took away everything of value in his house and beat him half to death.
Perhaps it was because Wen Jiarong's protagonist saved two lives that the officers and soldiers did not kill them.
The original plot did not describe the ending of Butler Chen, but the original owner took Wen Jiarong to escape from the capital to Jiangnan with great difficulty, and he did not ask Butler Chen for help even when it was so difficult. It is very likely that something happened to Butler Chen.
In addition, the original owner is a slave, and his indenture is still in the hands of Butler Chen. If Butler Chen is alive, the original owner would be a runaway slave.
But the original owner took Wen Jiarong and fled to Jiangnan, raised him to adulthood, and died of overwork. No one came to catch this fugitive slave. It is very likely that something happened to the housekeeper Chen, and no one cared about him.
Before Si Yuan took Lin Zhong away, he went to find Butler Chen and reminded him: "The Wen family is about to be finished, you should prepare early."
Butler Chen was quite kind to the original owner. Although he made the original owner sell herself into slavery, the original owner was able to survive thanks to Butler Chen's help.
Si Yuan traveled through time and space, and it was impossible for him to repay the original owner's kindness to Butler Chen. In his opinion, this was not a favor. The original owner was almost starving to death, and Butler Chen gave him a meal. That was because the original owner sold herself to Butler Chen, and this meal was the money she should have paid for selling herself.
The original owner was a slave under Steward Chen and had never been abused, but is it something that should be taken for granted that the exploited slave should be grateful to him? The original owner wasn't a sneaky person, so wasn't it his right that he shouldn't be abused?
It was very kind of Si Yuan to come and remind Butler Chen.
After giving the reminder, he left with Lin Zhong without caring whether Butler Chen believed him or not.
Butler Chen stared blankly at Si Yuan's departing back, his heart tightening. There had indeed been some strange rumors recently, and he would rather believe it than not, so he went to make arrangements for his family first.
Butler Chen had just arranged for his family and returned to the farm.
It's not that he didn't want to escape, but as the steward of the Wen family's manor, if he ran away and later found out that the Wen family was fine, he would be doomed if the Wen family pursued the matter.
He did not sell himself to the Wen family as a slave and was still an honest citizen. However, for a behemoth like the Wen family, it didn't matter whether he was a slave or not when they wanted to deal with him, his fate would be the same.
As soon as Butler Chen returned to the farm, he encountered soldiers who came to search. The entire farm was turned upside down. He and other servants on the farm were arrested and interrogated about the whereabouts of Wen Jiarong, the young master of the Wen family.
But who knows where Wen Jiarong is? They have never even met the young master of the Wen family.
When the officers and soldiers found that they could not get any information through interrogation, they used torture. When they saw that no one revealed Wen Jiarong's whereabouts after torture, they knew that the men really did not know, so they dumped him on the ransacked farm and left.
No one cared for these people who were seriously injured after being tortured. Their injuries were so severe that they died before long.
As the leader of these people, Steward Chen was also the one who suffered the most severe torture. He even died after all the officers and soldiers left.
However, before he died, a smile of relief appeared on his face. Fortunately, he took Lin Siyuan's reminder to heart and arranged for his family to leave, otherwise his whole family would have died here today.
Si Yuan, who left early, took Lin Zhong and mixed in with the people of the capital. They were not members of the Wen family, so the officers and soldiers naturally would not conduct a large-scale search for the servants of an ordinary housekeeper on a Wen family farm.
The officers and soldiers didn't even search for Steward Chen's family, not to mention that they and his son were just Steward Chen's servants.
The officers and soldiers focused their search on Wen Jiarong, the one who had escaped the net.
Si Yuan had been paying attention to the movements of the officers and soldiers. After learning that Butler Chen died during the interrogation of the officers and soldiers, he did not care too much. He had informed Butler Chen in advance, and since the other party did not want to escape and insisted on staying to die, he could only respect his choice.
Before long, the officers and soldiers found the Yu family, the relatives of the Wen family.
Although the Yu family was not implicated too much by the Wen family, only the male members of the Yu family were exiled by the new emperor, and the Yu family was not confiscated, but harboring members of the Wen family was equivalent to harboring a wanted criminal of the imperial court.
The head and heir of the Yu family are Wen Jiarong's maternal grandfather and uncle respectively. Of course, they don't have the heart to push Wen Jiarong out to die, but the Yu family has a large population, and not everyone is willing to sacrifice the lives of the entire family for Wen Jiarong.
As a result, disputes arose in the Yu family, and soon the Yu family took the initiative to hand over Wen Jiarong.
Compared with the entire Yu family, the importance of Wen Jiarong, the grandson, is not important enough.
No matter how reluctant the head of the Yu family was, he had no choice but to hand over his grandson.
The head of the Wen family probably took this into consideration, which is why he would rather entrust Wen Jiarong to a servant than to his in-laws.
After the new emperor ascended the throne, he purged his political enemies. His main political enemies were his brothers who had competed with him for the throne in the past. Those people were his main targets.
Forces like the Wen family, which failed to take sides, were just small characters that the new emperor killed at will in order to eliminate his political enemies and their followers. The new emperor did not take them seriously at all, nor did he think that the Wen family was a big danger.
Therefore, only adult males in the Wen family were beheaded, teenagers were exiled, children were sent to the palace to serve as eunuchs, and female family members were sent to the Jiaosifang.
But how could the pampered masters of the Wen family endure such suffering? Although only the adult males of the Wen family were actually sentenced to death, the exiled teenagers, castrated children, and women who were sent to the Jiaosifang were either tortured to death because of their delicate bodies and could not endure the suffering, or they were too arrogant to endure the humiliation and chose to commit suicide.
In the end, only Wen Jiarong, the child with the aura of the male protagonist, was still alive.
But the male protagonist's halo can only protect him from death, but cannot protect him from castration.
Wen Jiarong returned to the path he was supposed to take, and suffered the pain that he should have suffered but was suffered by Lin Zhong instead.
Wen Jiarong became a eunuch, a criminal slave, and Xiao Rongzi in the palace at a young age.
Already six years old, he knew what kind of ending he had encountered, and deep resentment took root in his heart.
Si Yuan took Lin Zhong and left the capital when the soldiers captured Wen Jiarong and the city was no longer on alert.
There are too many high-ranking officials in the capital. Although it is under the feet of the emperor, it is not uncommon for them to abuse their power to bully others and cause the destruction of families. However, the dead are all civilians, and these unjust cases will not be reported to the emperor, so the capital can maintain superficial peace.
With Si Yuan's current status and a nine-year-old son, it is not impossible for him to live a better life living in the capital, but it is sure to attract attention and offend high-ranking officials. It would be better for him to go to other places, where the emperor is far away. Even if he encounters some officials and bandits, he is not afraid of causing too much trouble by killing them secretly.
As for the various bandits who block the road and rob people on the way from the capital to settle in other places, what should we do? Is this still difficult for Si Yuan? These bandits who can be dealt with by force are not a problem at all.
Si Yuan decided to go to Jiangnan. In the original plot, the original owner decided to take Wen Jiarong to Jiangnan because there were constant turmoil in various places, natural disasters and man-made disasters, and it was difficult to prevent uprisings in various places. Only the prosperous land of Jiangnan still maintained a certain degree of peace and was most suitable for settlement.
Moreover, the original plot described in great detail the living environment of the original owner and Wen Jiarong after they settled in Licheng, Jiangnan, especially the introduction of the various forces in Licheng. This made Si Yuan decide to take Lin Zhong to settle in Licheng to save trouble.
The original owner, a person with no strength, was able to take Wen Jiarong, a six-year-old child, from the capital to Licheng. Although it was because of Wen Jiarong's aura as the male protagonist that they did not encounter any danger, it was enough to prove that Licheng was not too far from the capital.
Now it is easier for Si Yuan to take Lin Zhong to Licheng than for the original owner and Wen Jiarong in the original plot.
However, without the protection of the male protagonist's halo, Si Yuan encountered many bandits who blocked his way and robbed him along the way.
These bandits were refugees who could not survive and turned into bandits. They were also the vital force of the uprising armies in various places.
Whenever Si Yuan encountered highway robbers who only wanted to rob people of their money, he would rob them of their money. However, if they wanted to kill people as well as rob them of their money, Si Yuan would take their lives without mercy.
He didn't care about what difficulties or tragic past these people had before they committed murder for money. He only knew that these people wanted to harm him and Lin Zhong's lives, so he had to send them away first.
The powerful force displayed by Si Yuan shocked the nine-year-old Lin Zhong and he admired him very much: "Daddy is so awesome!"
Nine-year-old Lin Zhong was not particularly smart or knowledgeable. After all, what knowledge could a child who had been raised on a farm since childhood have? Even because he didn't spend much time with the original owner every day, Si Yuan didn't need to find any perfect reasons to deceive him. He believed it just because he said it casually and wanted to learn martial arts from Si Yuan.
The spiritual energy in this small world is very scarce, and there is no hope for martial artists to gain extraordinary powers. The most they can do is practice Qi and blood martial arts to make themselves stronger, and practice some killing skills to improve their combat effectiveness.
However, learning Qi and blood martial arts requires a lot of nutrition, which is what is meant by "poor in literature but rich in martial arts".
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