Chapter 479 Ask for Marriage for Me
Ten-year-old Zong Jincheng, who was uneducated and unskilled, was a famous dandy in the capital, but he lived a happy life every day. He didn't need to learn anything, read books or practice martial arts, and he didn't have to endure all the hardships that ordinary people could think of. The Marquis's Mansion could protect him and make him happy all his life.
But now, the Marquis's Mansion is about to collapse.
The crime of treason would involve the entire nine generations of the family, and the mansion’s wealth, which was rich enough to rival a country, was confiscated. Even the ten-year-old child was to be buried with the family.
Zong Zhao shook his hand, touched his head, and whispered, "This is not your fault. It was Dad who did a bad job. I have implicated you."
Until this moment, he was glad that he did not appear in front of Xu Wan. Otherwise, if she really married him, it would only be the death of another innocent life.
He lost...miserably.
Zong Jincheng burst into tears, grabbed his clothes and blamed himself: "If I study hard, practice martial arts well, and grow up to be a very strong child, I will definitely be able to protect my father and my family..."
Zong Zhao closed his eyes.
What Jincheng said might make sense, because his identity is very special and he can protect all of them.
But……
There is no chance anymore.
Zong Jincheng was taken away, and the prison fell into deathly silence.
Late at night, Eunuch Huang came over with a tray, and with a distressed look in his eyes, he whispered, "General Zong..."
Zong Zhao sat on the ground and opened his eyes. He saw a small bottle on the tray. He knew what it was and asked sarcastically, "Is the emperor so impatient?"
It's only a few months before his execution, and even though he's already in prison, the emperor is still worried. Just like when he killed Luo Jingfeng, he has to make sure everything goes well.
Eunuch Huang shed tears. He put down the tray and sat on the ground: "Your Majesty, the emperor is too suspicious. He wants the general to leave first. As for your family, you can wait until autumn..."
Zong Zhao paused for a long time, and suddenly said, "Let Zong Jincheng go. He is Shu Fei's secret child, a dragon seed, not a member of our Zong family."
If the entire Zong family was destined to be wiped out, he hoped that the innocent child could survive because he had promised His Highness.
Eunuch Huang was so shocked that his eyes widened: "That child is still alive? How could it be? Didn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince kill him?"
Zong Zhao suddenly raised his head and asked, "Do you know about this?"
Eunuch Huang said with a trembling voice, "Yes, it was the Emperor who asked Huaishui to inform His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. He wanted to see if His Royal Highness would be ruthless enough to kill the child... General, forget it. The Emperor was so cruel that he killed even a good child like His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who he had taught since childhood. He would not let Concubine Shu's child live."
Zong Jincheng must die no matter what.
Zong Zhao was stunned in the spot, and turned his head in disbelief: "Prince...he was the one who harmed him?"
Eunuch Huang wiped his tears, picked up the tray of poison and handed it to him: "This is the poison developed by Feng Qinglai, a poison doctor of the time. The emperor ordered the Huai River to poison the prince for nearly ten years. Now it is used to poison you..."
Zong Zhao took the bottle of poison and burst into tears. He cried and laughed at the same time, and he seemed a little crazy: "So, it wasn't Luo Jingfeng, it was the emperor... it was your highness's biological father... Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, how vicious and shameless is the emperor!"
He and His Highness had been fighting with Luo Jingfeng since they were young, but after he had seized back the Luo family's enormous power for the Emperor, he was stabbed in the back by the Emperor.
They just want to be loyal to the country and share the emperor's worries.
But what did this passion bring?
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In return, His Highness died young.
In return, his entire family was exterminated.
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Zong Zhao laughed to the point of tears at this absurd truth. The royal family was so ruthless, it turned out they could be so cruel.
He took the poison from the tray and drank it all.
"Bang——" the bottle broke into pieces.
Eunuch Huang knelt on the ground and kowtowed to him while crying: "Old slave, I respectfully send off General Zong..."
Zong Zhao is dead.
He died at the age of 26. In the three years since he returned to Beijing, he was busy working with the Crown Prince to eliminate the Luo family for the Emperor and had not yet taken the time to avenge Zong Yan.
You can open your eyes again.
Back to the age of 23, he woke up after being in a coma for seven years.
In the shabby thatched hut, there was only an old man laughing: "You're awake! That's great, my medical skills have really improved again. I was able to save you even though you were so injured. You are worthy of being called a modern miracle doctor!"
Exactly the same words.
He listened to it again.
Zong Zhao looked down at his body, feeling real pain and hearing the old man's voice in his ears.
He clearly realized that he was born again.
He was reborn three years ago, when he had not yet returned to the capital.
"Feng Qinglai?" The person who saved him was a poison doctor, but he was in a hurry to return to the capital, so he just thanked him and hurried back to the capital. Little did he know that the poison that could not be detected in the prince was also developed by him.
Feng Qinglai exclaimed, and asked doubtfully, "Do you know me?"
Zong Zhao asked him, "Have you ever developed a poison that, if less toxic, can make a person weak, cough and spit blood, unable to practice martial arts, and turn pale after walking a few more steps; or a poison that is more toxic can kill a person immediately?"
Feng Qinglai exclaimed, "Yes, but how do you know? I gave this thing to a person. That person is of such noble status that ordinary people cannot have access to it..."
Zong Zhao gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "He gave this poison to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
Feng Qinglai: "!!! Damn it!!"
The poison doctor was also a cynical man. He never expected that the poison he had carefully researched and developed would be used by the emperor to harm the prince. That was the prince, the highly respected Prince Consort among the people.
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Feng Qinglai taught Zong Zhao the acupuncture method to detoxify, and asked him to collect various hard-to-find medicines to prepare the antidote.
Zong Zhao wrote a letter to his family, asking them to go to the slums to help Zong Yan find Yan Suxue. Fei Pigeon was faster than he could rush back. When they found the slums in their previous life, Yan Suxue had already died of illness there.
If I know the place in advance in this life, I should still be able to make it in time.
When he finished writing the letter, he thought of Xu Wan.
At that time, she had not yet married Chen Yunyu, and he still had time to save her from the fire pit, but... he remembered the ending of the previous life. If he failed again in this life, Xu Wan would die with him.
Zong Zhao hesitated for a moment and did not write this sentence.
After sending the letter, he decided not to return to Beijing for the time being. He wanted to stay here and find an antidote for His Highness.
Half a year has passed in a flash, and winter is coming soon.
The Duke of Jin's Mansion will soon hold a plum blossom viewing banquet, Chen Yunyu will fall in love with Xu Wan at first sight, and the Chen family will offer a betrothal gift to marry her.
She will once again experience marrying the wrong person, being divorced by her husband's family, being cut off from her family by her own family, and living on the streets.
Zong Zhao had never been so anxious before. Having failed once, he was not sure if he could win.
So, he began to plan what to do to protect the prince, the clan, and everyone else.
At this moment, Zong Jincheng's crying voice suddenly appeared in his ears: "Dad, I want to help you, I want us to live well."
The solution that Zong Zhao couldn't figure out in his mind suddenly became clear. Since the emperor was the ultimate culprit, he would join forces with Luo Jingfeng to support Zong Jincheng to take the throne and save everyone.
Only in this way can they win.
And Xu Wan...
Would she be willing to marry a man who had been missing for many years?
With the unknown outcome in mind, Zong Zhao wrote a second letter: "Father, I have important matters to attend to and cannot return to Beijing for the time being. However, I am attracted to a girl, Xu Wan, the eldest daughter of the Minister of Justice. I earnestly ask my parents to seek marriage for me. If the marriage is successful, please treat her well and give Jin Cheng to her to raise and teach her to be good."