Chapter 501: National Bounty Search

"Crying?" Zong Zhao frowned.

It should be Xiaokui.

Could it be that crying could also induce pain in Zong Yan?

Zong Zhao pushed open the door and saw Zong Yan trembling. He was hiding in the corner of the bed with his legs curled up, holding his head with his hands. He was a little unconscious and kept mumbling.

"Zong Yan?" Zong Zhao lowered his voice and moved closer to listen to what he said. He only heard a few intermittent words such as "I didn't mean it", "It's not me", and "Don't die".

"Zong Yan, what's wrong with you?"

Zong Yan covered his ears, raised his red eyes, and said in despair: "Let me go, let me go..."

Zong Zhao observed him carefully. It didn't seem like he was in physical pain, but more like he was stimulated by something. "Are you afraid of the baby's crying?"

Zong Yan shrank back to the corner of the wall again and covered his ears tightly with his hands, but the sound he heard only weakened, not disappeared.

He didn't answer, and Zong Zhao was basically sure: "I'll move you to another yard."

Zong Zhao is always very active.

While asking the old marquis to arrange a courtyard that was farthest away and the quietest, he untied the other end of the chain and took Zong Yan there.

The new room is very quiet.

Zong Zhao could clearly feel that Zong Yan had calmed down.

He is just afraid of the sound of a baby crying.

Considering what he said, Zong Zhao had a bad feeling, and felt that something bad must have happened.

That night, Zong Zhao stayed again.

He stayed with Zong Yan until midnight, when Zong Yan suddenly said in a hoarse voice: "I am a bad person."

Zong Zhao was startled and opened his eyes. He remembered that Zong Yan once worked for the Crown Prince Jin An, but...

"You are not a bad person, Zong Yan, don't think like that, and don't sentence yourself to death so easily." He comforted, "Even if you helped Prince Jin'an kill some princes and helped him seize the throne, they are still princes of You Kingdom and our enemies. You are helping them kill each other, you are not wrong."

Zong Yan did not reply and fell silent again.

Zong Zhao had a lot of doubts, but Zong Yan refused to tell him, and he didn't dare to force Zong Yan for fear of irritating him.

A few days later, the spies in You Kingdom returned.

He brought back all the news about Zong Yan.

It turned out that the sixteen-year-old Zong Yan had met the Prince of Jin'an. Back then, their team was tricked by Zong Qiyun to die, and it was the Prince of Jin'an who led people to encircle and suppress them.

On the edge of the cliff, Zong Yan handed the Iron Claw Hook to Zong Zhao and turned around to fight desperately with You Guo. All of this fell into the eyes of Prince Jin An.

He is good at making hidden weapons, values ​​friendship and loyalty, and has great martial arts skills... It would be a shame if he died if I could be used by him.

So, Prince Jin'an brought Zong Yan back to You State. At first, he was just tamed as a captive, but he was still disobedient after being imprisoned for three years. Later, no one knew what happened, and Zong Yan suddenly became Prince Jin'an's adviser.

Facts have proved that Prince Jinan has vision.

Zong Yan made an iron wire hidden weapon, which was as thin as a thread, as short as a needle, and as sharp as a hilt. It could kill people without shedding blood. That night, he killed a powerful general and put an end to the prince's dream of seizing the throne.

Prince Jin'an was a cruel and ruthless man. He took advantage of his victory to massacre the entire general's mansion, from the elderly in their seventies to babies in swaddling clothes, no one was spared.

The fire burned in the capital for two days and two nights.

Historical records state that the general's entire family died in a fire, but who in the government and the public didn't know that he died as a result of party struggles?

Prince Jin'an even pinned the blame on another prince and watched the fight secretly. It was not until he inherited the throne that the truth behind the bloody incident was discovered.

After this incident, Zong Yan disappeared for four years.

After hearing this, Zong Zhao understood: Although the brutal act of slaughtering an entire family was committed by Prince Jin'an, Zong Yan must have believed that he was the instigator, so he was unwilling to work for Prince Jin'an again.

Zong Zhao didn't dare to think too deeply: "He was so afraid of the crying of babies, was he present at the massacre?"

The spy replied, "I don't know the details, but the Second Young Master never showed up again until five years later, when another prince and important official were assassinated, but no more tragedies involving the extermination of an entire family occurred. I guess that it was probably because the Crown Prince Jin'an couldn't get over the Second Young Master and compromised."

Zong Zhao shook his head: "After what happened, Zong Yan can no longer work for Prince Jin An. The injuries on his body... Have you found out whether Zong Yan was poisoned? Or, is there any poison in You Country that cannot be diagnosed by pulse diagnosis?"

The spy thought for a moment and said, "Poison is not like that, but...guts are."

"Gu?" Zong Zhao had only seen such records in unofficial books, but most of them were fictional and he had never seen them in reality.

The spy replied, "Yes, it is a dragon. It is said in Youguo that there is a kind of magical dragon, which is given by the gods to wise rulers and is particularly effective in protecting the country. However, there is only one such magical dragon, and it is kept by successive emperors of Youguo and cannot be used. Prince Jin'an is only a newly-promoted crown prince, so it is impossible for him to have obtained the magical dragon many years ago."

Therefore, the idea of ​​the insect is also an illusion in You State.

Zong Zhao replied: "I understand, you can leave now."

"yes."

Zong Zhao sent a message to Feng Qing a month ago, but he has not received a reply yet. The old man likes to wander around, and if he waits for him to show up, he doesn't know how long he will have to wait.

Zong Zhao thought about this, sat down and drew a picture for Feng Qinglai, and said to the outside: "Come here, put up a reward in the name of the Zong family, and post it all over the country: Whoever finds this person will be rewarded with 1,000 taels."

Servants: “!”

Suddenly want to quit my job and find someone!!

The huge bounty was put up, and the whole Chu State was in an uproar.

Normally the bounty is no more than a hundred coins or a few taels, and no more than several dozen taels. Who has ever seen such a large amount of silver as a thousand taels?

This is something that will ensure you never have to worry about food and drink for the rest of your life!

So, many funny daily things happened next, and the way people greeted each other changed from "Have you eaten?" to "Have you seen the old man?"

People who usually don't like to go out now go out for a walk every day to see if there is a big "one thousand taels" on the street.

People who usually don’t look at the people around them when walking now look at this and that, and some even draw a portrait by hand, waiting to see someone who looks similar so as to start comparing.

The power of silver is terrible.

Less than half a month later, among the crowd of people who came to claim that “I found the real Feng Qinglai”, an old man with a white beard carried by eight strong men howled loudly: “Damn it! You got the wrong person!!!”