Chapter 97 I am willing to stay with you
Sanfu was brought here by the guards. The other two did not know how to ride horses, so the guards rode on horses, each bringing one of them along on the way here and on the way back.
The guard put Sanfu down, Chen Yu jumped off the carriage, and quickly pulled out a knife from the waist of a guard.
Sanfu was so scared that he ran away, but was grabbed by the collar and thrown to the ground by the guards.
Sanfu fell to the ground and trembled, muttering, "Master, spare my life, Master, spare my life."
Si Xi immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, "Master, what did my brother do wrong?"
Shen Yu stood with the knife in her hand, the tip of the knife stuck into the ground.
She stared at Sanfu and said, "I said I don't listen to lies. If you are dishonest, I will cut off your tongue."
Sanfu knocked his forehead against the ground again and again, "I swear to heaven and earth, what I said is true."
"You said they were vicious and rude, and they were ordering you guys around."
Sanfu fell silent immediately. Who would have thought that she could remember a few words he said casually so clearly.
Sanfu kowtowed quickly, "Please spare my life, sir, I was just saying it casually."
Shen Yu narrowed her eyes slightly, "I'll give you one chance to say it again."
It is not difficult to guess Sanfu's intention. He deliberately speaks badly of others, preferably making them commit extremely heinous crimes. This way, no one will feel sorry for them, nor will they hold him accountable for stealing other people's swords.
Sanfu crawled on the ground and didn't dare to get up. "Although they look ferocious, they are actually quite kind and didn't order our guys around."
"Anything else missing?"
Sanfu racked his brains to think about it, and at this moment he wished he could dig his head open.
"I remember now." Sanfu suddenly got up, "Those people called that old man 'dirty uncle', I don't know which dirty one it was, the others are really gone, our store has a lot of customers, I can't just keep an eye on them."
Chen Yu looked at Sanfu and suddenly raised her knife and chopped him.
The sharp wind from the knife blew across his cheek, and Sanfu was so frightened that he forgot to breathe, and watched a few strands of hair fall down.
Chen Yu said coldly: "Watch your mouth when you go back. If you can't, I will do it for you. Learn from your brother."
Chen Yu put the knife back into the guard's scabbard, returned to the carriage, and continued the previous topic with Xie Tingzhou.
"Sanfu said they came to Beijing to file a complaint with the emperor. They looked fierce but were kind. Maybe they were righteous bandits."
Xie Tingzhou frowned, "You mean, you suspect that the Three Absolute Legs Ghost Family has become a bandit and may have gone to Qichang, and now the Ghost Family has appeared in the capital to file a complaint with the emperor."
Chen Yu's thoughts were in a mess. There were many seemingly unrelated events in her mind that were connected together by her, tangled up into a mess. They were clearly about to form a line, but she still couldn't make sense of it.
Xie Tingzhou looked at the flickering light on the table and said quietly, "Let's assume that your guess is correct. When have you ever heard of a mountain bandit robbing food and grass and daring to go to the capital to file a complaint? Why did the Gui family dare to risk their lives to go to the capital as mountain bandits?"
Xie Tingzhou's voice suddenly stopped. He looked at Chen Yu abruptly and said in a deep voice, "Because they have heard that the imperial court will send troops to suppress the bandits after the New Year, but what if they have never robbed food and grass?"
A thunderbolt struck Shen Yu's mind, and all the hairs on her body stood up.
In this case, everything seems reasonable.
The bandits in Qichang Prefecture did not rob the imperial court's food and fodder. After hearing that the imperial court had sent troops to suppress the bandits, they ventured to the capital to file a complaint with the emperor. However, they were silenced after they got in touch with a certain adult.
The person who silenced them was acquainted with them, which meant that the adult was involved in the grain bill and that was why he wanted to kill them to silence them.
Once the bandit suppression is successful, the bandits in Qichang Prefecture will have to bear the blame until their death, and those who are truly involved in the safety of food and fodder can then rest easy.
The Qichang bandits did not rob the food and fodder, so where did the food and fodder go?
Seeing her look of shock, Xie Tingzhou poured her a cup of tea and handed it to her. "It's useless to overthink. Let's send someone to investigate first."
Chen Yu took the tea and drank it naturally, "But after the first month of the year, the suppression of bandits will be put on the agenda. No matter who goes, the bandits in Qichang Prefecture will have no chance to survive. By then, the evidence will disappear and the truth will be buried."
He could hear her disappointment, and his eyes darkened.
"If the truth comes out and revenge is achieved, is there anything else you want to do?"
The cup was just brought to her lips, and Shen Yu was stunned holding the tea.
She had never thought about this problem. Since her rebirth, all her paths have been led by fate. First, she wanted to save her father and brother, and then she wanted to avenge them.
If she really took revenge, it would seem that the pillar that had supported her to this point would be gone, so where would she go?
"Maybe." She exhaled, "Maybe I will go to Hezhou to accompany my grandmother, and then maybe wander around the world."
She shook her head. "I don't know now."
Xie Tingzhou looked deeply at her face and saw that she suddenly looked at him.
"What about you?" Chen Yu asked, "What do you want to do in the future?"
Xie Tingzhou was silent for a moment, staring at the lights with his eyes lowered, and suddenly smiled, "What can I do? I'll continue to be a proton in Beijing."
The night was quiet and desolate, with only the rustling sound of horse hooves stepping on the hay.
Chen Yu suddenly saw great sadness in his smile.
"Don't look at me like that." Xie Tingzhou didn't raise his eyes, but he could still feel her gaze on him.
He supported his chin with one hand and turned the teacup in the other, and the evil look in his eyes seemed to surge up again.
"What's wrong with being a hostage? I have the Beilin army behind me. They are afraid of me but dare not touch me. They even respectfully call me the prince."
Shen Yu clearly remembered that the last time she saw such a look in his eyes was when they were in danger on their way to the capital. Before he fainted on her shoulder, his eyes were shining with the same crazy light.
"But you're trapped."
Xie Tingzhou paused in turning the teacup, put the cup back on the table, and suddenly leaned forward.
He stared into her eyes and asked, "You don't know what you want to do? Then do you want to be stuck here with me?"
It was the first time they were so close, their faces less than a span away from each other.
Chen Yu's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, as if struggling to jump out of her throat.
She calmed her breathing and surrendered to his sharp gaze. "No one should be trapped here. You should soar in the sky like Bai Yu."
Xie Tingzhou leaned back with a nonchalant smile on his face, as if everything that had just happened was just a joke.
"Who said Bai Yu wasn't trapped?" he said.
Chen Yu said: "You are the one who trapped it, and it is willing to stay with you."
At this moment, she would never have thought that one day this sentence would come true to her.
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