Chapter 2: Your father collaborated with the enemy and committed treason! He harmed the entire Xu family!
This night was the first night that Sang Zhixia came back to life, and it was also the first major disaster that the Jiaxing Marquis Mansion had suffered in its hundred years of existence.
The candlelight burned brightly, and people were in a state of panic.
This was the first time that Sang Zhixia had experienced such a situation, and she subconsciously followed Xu Yu closely, not daring to move.
Xu Yu seemed to be petrified on the spot, completely silent amid the countless cries, and not even a breath could be heard.
Following the eunuch's order, countless guards armed with knives rushed into the depths of the marquis's mansion with carved beams and painted rafters, and carried away one heavy box after another in desperate panic.
The family wealth disappeared like flowing water. The masters of the third branch of the Xu family were forced to change out of their fine clothes and stand together, looking at the guards who kept coming in and out in panic and fear, covering their mouths tightly and swallowing their wailing.
A huge tree fell, and the family was destroyed and everyone died overnight.
The next afternoon, the house-raiding team, which had been busy all day and night, finally got a break.
Eunuch Hu looked at the several large boxes of land deeds and account books carried by his followers and sighed, "As expected of a century-old marquisate, this family is indeed wealthy."
"It's just that after such a long time, I'm sure you're all tired. The Emperor, remembering our old favor, has allowed you to set off again tomorrow for the far northwest. You should rest well in the prison tonight so that you can prepare for your journey tomorrow."
"Prince Xu, please come in."
Before the Jiaxing Marquisate was raided, Xu Yu held an idle position in a large temple.
No one knew the road to prison better than he did.
Sang Zhixia was terrified and followed Xu Yu closely, not daring to fall behind. She accidentally entered the prison where the man was. Coincidentally, the jailer turned a blind eye and did nothing about it.
She decided to go with the flow, hunched her neck, found a corner to sit on the ground, and began to ponder the dilemma before her.
The old lady and old man of Jiaxing Marquis Mansion are counted as one branch, and the remaining three sons are divided into three branches.
Xu Yu was the eldest son of the eldest son's family and inherited the title of Crown Prince.
He has a three-year-old brother and a sister who is less than two years old. The person who committed the crime this time is his biological father.
On their left was the old man who had fainted from fright, and on their right were Uncle Xu Er and Uncle Xu San.
The children of the same generation as Xu Yu were all imprisoned at the very edge, so she couldn't see clearly from here.
However, when she looked up, she could see that all the people locked up inside were women from the previous generation of the Xu family.
You don’t know until you see it, it’s really lively.
Second Aunt Xu came from a merchant family. Perhaps because she was timid, as soon as the house-raiding police rushed in, she tore off a three-foot-long white silk and hanged herself from the beam. She fainted and was carried here. She hasn't woken up yet.
Aunt Xu San was the eldest daughter of a family of scholars. She looked much calmer on the surface, but tears were welling up in her eyes and she was shaking like a sieve.
As for her cheap mother-in-law Xu Wenxiu...
She's probably made of water.
I have been crying for a whole day and night, and my tears have not stopped flowing.
"It's over... It's completely over now..."
The cheap mother-in-law covered her face and cried bitterly: "How could the Marquis be so foolish? How are we going to live now..."
Xu Yu clenched his jaw tightly and spoke word by word, "Mother, Father won't do it."
"Are you still making excuses for him?"
Second Uncle Xu said fiercely, "If your father hadn't been possessed by a demon, how could the Xu family have suffered such a disaster?!"
"Your father collaborated with the enemy and betrayed his country! He single-handedly killed the entire Xu family!"
Countless veins popped up on Xu Yu's forehead and he gritted his teeth without saying a word.
Second Uncle Xu was still cursing angrily, "I told you that Big Brother's reckless behavior would bring disaster upon the Xu family sooner or later, but no one believed me! Now look what happens! It's all..."
"Ahem... Second Brother..."
Uncle Xu suppressed a cough and smiled bitterly, "Now that things have come to this, what's the point of saying all this? We still have to think of a solution."
"That's right... let's find a way..."
The old lady, who had fainted several times out of fear, grabbed her second daughter-in-law's hand and sat up, saying anxiously: "Hurry up and find someone to send a message to Yunyan, asking Yunyan to find a way to persuade Prince Lu to help our family!"
Xu Yunyan was the old lady's youngest daughter and married into the Prince of Lu's mansion as a princess.
If she could persuade Prince Lu to come forward, there might be a chance for things to turn around.
She was so excited at the thought that she grabbed a passing jailer and said, "Xu Yu, quickly find someone to report to Prince Lu's mansion! Tell them that the Xu family is in trouble! Ask Princess Lu to help think of a solution!"
Xu Yu's ears were filled with her screams. He said dejectedly to the jailer outside the cell: "Xie San, please do me a favor and help me go this time."
The jailer left with a sigh.
Seeing this, the old lady forced herself to calm down and muttered like crazy: "Yunyan will definitely find a way... definitely..."
Sang Zhixia looked at him coldly and curled her lips silently.
She felt that the old lady's expectations would definitely not be fulfilled.
The news of the Jiaxing Marquis's Mansion being ransacked alarmed the entire capital. Even peddlers and hawkers could talk about it casually. How could Princess Lu not know about it?
I know the situation, but I am keeping silent. My stance is already so clear, why waste my expression?
But she didn't feel sad.
Because her family isn't much better...
Sang Zhixia groaned, grabbed some hay from the ground, and said vaguely, "Did you get wind of this before the raiders arrived?"
Xu Yu was as silent as a mute whose tongue had been cut off.
Sang Zhixia understood silently. She drew a circle on the ground with some hay and sighed, "So, do you think my family knew about this a long time ago?"
In the original owner's impression, although Xu Yu had a reputation as a playboy, her noble and talented eldest sister was deeply in love with Xu Yu.
Because she got to marry Xu Yu as she wished, that person lived a glorious life for a while.
If she hadn't heard the rumors, why would she suddenly stop loving him?
Not only does he no longer love her, but this shameless person is even looking for a replacement...
Sang Zhixia, who was forced to marry in a substitute marriage, sighed with mixed feelings and said quietly, "I told you, how could such a good thing possibly happen to me..."
I was an orphan in my previous life, but I am worse than an orphan in this life.
She has really had enough of this rough fate.
After hearing this, Xu Yu's jaw tightened even more, and Sang Zhixia lost interest in talking.
She threw the woven grasshopper to the ground, held the back of her head and leaned against the wall.
There is no hope of running away. Without a travel permit and identity documents, and still on the court's exile list, if caught, you will be killed on the spot.
However, it is said that the northwest is extremely cold and harsh, making it difficult for living things to survive.
Apart from the few things she hid during the chaos, she had nothing of her own. The only thing she had was the farming skills she had learned from years of study.
By the way, can food be grown in the land of the northwest?
Would she starve to death in the northwest because her farmland was unproductive?
As for the vicious feudal class around her who caused her exile, there is even less hope for them.
Sang Zhixia was filled with self-doubt and sadness in silence, while from the cells opposite and in the corner, there were constant cries of fear.
Amidst the continuous crying, day finally dawned.
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