Chapter 378: Filial Piety Moves Heaven and Earth, Blessings to Descendants
"A-choo!"
Under the cover of deep night, Xu Yu sneezed without any warning.
Zhao Zhongquan was dusty and exhausted after days of running around. He squatted on the ground, picking at the weeds at his feet. He turned his head and said, "You've done so many bad things, you're getting scolded again, right?"
Xu Yu held the tree trunk with one hand, smiling for dear life: "One thought, two thoughts, three or four thoughts, my heart is itching."
"Someone is thinking of me."
Zhao Zhongquan's face was filled with confusion. "Who told you such nonsense?"
Xu Yu's eyes flashed with pride: "I'm not talented, my wife taught me."
Speaking of Sang Zhixia, the disdain on Zhao Zhongquan's face became even more obvious, and he kept curling his lips: "That's all you can do."
"Those who know you have married a wife, while those who don't think you have invited a god to the shrine."
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have believed that the Kyoto playboy of the past could be in such a terrible state today?
Zhao Zhongquan's teeth clenched and he sneered, "Although your wife is young, she is also a person who knows the general situation and is polite."
"What would she say if she knew that you monopolized the raincoat and left me wet all night?"
Zhao Zhongquan was so angry that his eyebrows and eyes turned blue as he held his wet clothes.
Xu Yu flicked his fingertips but smiled uncontrollably: "Before I left, my wife told me to just take care of myself and not worry about your life or death."
"Everything I said and did was in accordance with my wife's instructions. I dare not disobey in the slightest. I'm afraid your lawsuit will be unsuccessful."
Zhao Zhongquan's face darkened and he wanted to refute.
Song Liu couldn't bear to watch any longer, so he walked closer and whispered, "Sir, please stop talking."
It suddenly rained heavily when they were halfway through the journey. The two straw raincoats they found on the way were originally meant to be shared equally by Chen Anzhu and Zhao Zhongquan.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhongquan, this old man with rotten bones, couldn't say anything nice. He started to complain about Sang Zhixia's humble background and that she was just a concubine's daughter, and it was a pity that she had such talents.
Xu Yu himself didn't care about this, and Sang Zhixia never took her illegitimate status seriously.
But Xu Yu couldn't stand anyone saying anything bad about Sang Zhixia.
Zhao Zhongquan lost his raincoat because of his slip of the tongue and watched Xu Yu galloping away on his horse, with mud splashing all over him.
But Xu Yu's words were as sharp as a knife, and he didn't show any mercy.
As soon as Zhao Zhongquan said the first sentence, the other side immediately prepared three sentences waiting for him. Zhao Zhongquan was really angry all the way.
Zhao Zhongquan pushed Song Liu away unconvincedly: "Why should I say less? He..."
Rumble!
A muffled thud from the ground shook the weeds, and then Xu Yu's subtle voice echoed, "You're pretty much the same kind of person as those down there."
Zhao Zhongquan glared fiercely: "You kid..."
"Why else would they want to hide things in graves?"
Xu Yu added the rest of his words in a gloomy tone, squinting at the tunnel entrance where Shen Anzhu had bent over, with a strange look on his face: "Are you all born in the Year of the Rat? Why do you like digging holes so much?"
Zhao Zhongquan instinctively wanted to refute, but when the words came to his lips, he looked at the large number of lonely graves standing around him, and his tongue instantly became tied and he was speechless.
Starting from Ancheng, Chen Anzhu pointed the way forward with almost no rest along the way. It took him eight days to get here.
Their destination was a gruesome cemetery.
Chen Anzhu accurately found the entrance to his ancestral tomb among the countless weeds, took out the gunpowder he brought with him, and personally blew the entrance to the tomb into the sky, then crawled into the narrow hole like a rat.
The others didn't want to go in and disturb the peace of the Sun family's ancestors in the netherworld, so they waited outside for the time being.
But from the noise, it seemed that the tunnel left in the grave mound had been blocked due to disrepair, and Shen Anzhu was very likely to have taken out another gunpowder.
It is unknown how many years ago the shaded tunnel in the Sun family's ancestral tomb was built, nor is it clear how many generations it has been passed down.
Just looking at this situation, the ancestors of the Sun family for several generations are destined to have a sleepless night.
Zhao Zhongquan sniffed and coughed a few times at the smell of gunpowder. He looked at the Sun family's ancestral tomb, which had been blown to pieces, and said in a complicated tone, "He's filial. Very filial."
Xu Yu raised his eyebrows and sighed, "Filial piety moves heaven and earth, and brings great blessings to descendants."
"Hey, actually..."
"Cough cough cough."
Song Liu suppressed his embarrassment and coughed twice. Zhao Zhongquan and Xu Yu looked up at the same time and saw Chen Anzhu, who was covered in mud and black ash.
Now it looks more like a big rat.
Chen Anzhu obviously heard the conversation outside. He crawled out with an expressionless face. Without waiting to brush off the mud on his body, he lay on the ground and dragged out an iron chain from the tunnel entrance.
The iron chain rattled as it was dragged, and two square wooden boxes were dragged out.
Chen Anzhu sat directly on the ground, took out the key hanging around his neck and inserted it into the keyhole. With a light click, the three locks on the box were opened one after another.
After seeing clearly what was in the box, Xu Yu subconsciously breathed lighter.
"Is everything here?"
Shen Anzhu didn't even raise his head: "Everything the Sun family knows is here."
"One box contains correspondence between the Yu family's grandfather and the Sun family and officials from Shu. The other box contains the Yu family's accounts, both open and hidden, for the past ten years since they took control of the salt administration."
Zhao Zhongquan resisted the urge to rush over to take a closer look and remained silent.
Shen Anzhu lowered his eyes and said calmly: “Back then, the Yu family controlled the salt administration in Shu. My father had a close relationship with the eldest young master of the Yu family at that time. The Sun family was like a knife held in their hands.”
Simply put, the Yu family relied on their status as the prince's in-laws to abuse their power in the salt administration of Shu.
The Sun family, who are willing to be lackeys, are not innocent at all. They are all birds of the same feather who have no conscience for money.
Xu Yu was not surprised by this.
Zhao Zhongquan couldn't help but ask, "Then why did your father hide these things?"
Shouldn't evil people on the same road protect each other?
Why did they end up facing each other with swords?
Chen Anzhu laughed at himself and said sarcastically, "Sir, the friendship between villains is nothing more than gathering together for profit and dispersing when profit is broken. Don't you understand this truth?"
The Sun family was indeed a fairly useful knife at one point, but that was only temporary.
When things are at peace, everything is naturally good. But once their interests conflict, hidden attacks are bound to be waiting for them.
Chen Anzhu calmly pinched his palms to force himself to remain calm, and spoke word by word: "The chaos in the salt administration was exposed, and the court began to investigate. The Sun family should have been the first to be pushed out as scapegoats."
"If my father hadn't hidden these things in time, the Sun family wouldn't have been wiped out by their enemies, but would have been held accountable by the imperial court and their entire clan would have been exterminated."
The so-called extermination of the whole family by the enemies is not credible at all. The ones who struggled to protect themselves from the butcher's knife in the desperate situation were the other members of the Sun family who had nothing to do with the matter.
Xu Yu remained silent.
Zhao Zhong's suspicion was evident. "You're only twenty-three now. You were less than ten when the crime happened. Is there anyone else in the Sun family who knows about this who's still alive?"
"Where is the person who told you these things?"
"Dead."
Chen Anzhu snorted in an ambiguous tone and raised his chin towards the grave mound not far behind Xu Yu: "You'll be able to see him when you turn around."
"The Sun family paid the price for their greed back then. All of the over a hundred members of the family are here."
"Not one less."
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