Chapter 11: The Old Sends Off the Young
Rather break than surrender, which Helu thought was a very foolish behavior.
Being able to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, and endure what ordinary people cannot endure, can be considered the highest virtue!
But Helu is not Ji Zha after all.
Ji Zha could do what Helu could not do, such as giving up his own family for the sake of the whole society!
Helü knew that if he threatened Ji Zha with the lives of his children and grandchildren, he would definitely fall out with Ji Zha.
But Helu had no choice!
Sending other people to Chu did not produce good results. Only when Ji Zha went there personally could Helu achieve twice the result with half the effort and obtain reinforcements from Chu!
For this reason, Helu did not mind being cruel and ruthless again and being branded as the murderer of his uncle and nephew.
Once Ji Zha returned to Chu, Helu should have thought about how to make Ji Zha die unexpectedly without anyone noticing...
ruthless!
Thick-skinned!
These are the qualities that Helu should have as a king!
Immediately, Helu sent Fu Gai to lead a team of soldiers to the residence of Yanlingzi (Ji Zha) again to capture Ji Zha and his family.
Ji Zha was already over sixty years old, his wife had died early, his daughter had married off, leaving behind only three sons and two grandchildren, who were still living in the mansion!
When the Fuzhi soldiers broke into the mansion, they immediately captured all of Ji Zha's family members, including all the servants, and gathered them in the courtyard and put them under strict guard.
"Ji Zha, are you really unwilling to serve Chu?"
Fu Gai viciously put a sword on the neck of one of Ji Zha's sons and questioned Ji Zha loudly.
At this moment, Ji Zha's face still showed a calm expression, his eyes were dull, like a living dead.
Ji Zha’s eyes made Fu Gai feel a little uneasy!
After all, no matter what, Ji Zha was Fu Gai's uncle, an elder, and a famous man.
How dare Fu Gai offend Ji Zha like this?
But, the king’s order cannot be disobeyed!
"Fu Gai, if you have anything to say, come to me. Don't make things difficult for others, they are all your brothers and nephews!"
Brothers, nephews?
Fu Gai doesn't care at all!
He only regarded his elder brother Helu as his brother, and the rest of the people were just outsiders!
"Uncle, don't blame me for being ruthless. This is the king's order, and the king's order cannot be disobeyed!"
Fu Gai pretended to be embarrassed and said, "If only you, uncle, could agree to go to Chu, wouldn't we all be safe and sound?"
"Haha, everything is going well?"
Ji Zha could not help but sneer and said, "Fu Gai, I don't understand you, don't I understand Ji Guang? The day I return to Chu, I am afraid I will be on the run."
"I, Ji Zha, am not afraid of death. But how can I hand over the foundation left by my ancestors to others? When Ji Guang led the Chu army into Wu, didn't he ever think about the difficulty of losing his country?"
"What Ji Guang is doing now is despicable to everyone, and even more so to me. It chills the people of Wu!"
Upon hearing this, Fu Gai was so angry that he gnashed his teeth and said in hatred, "Ji Zha, you are so stubborn! You are such a stubborn old man!"
"Don't tell me , do you think the sword in my hand is not effective?"
As he spoke, Fu Gai placed the bronze sword in his hand an inch close to the throat of Ji Zha's son and cut out some flesh and blood!
If his arm trembled again, Ji Zha's son might die.
"you!"
Ji Zha clenched his teeth, finding it difficult to remain calm.
"Father!"
At this moment, Ji Zha's son, who was held hostage by Fu Gai, suddenly cried out with tears in his eyes: "Father, please forgive me for being unfilial and for not being able to serve you anymore."
"Father, I am leaving!"
"etc!"
Fu Gai screamed in surprise, but only felt his arm go numb. It turned out that the son of Ji Zha, who was under duress, suddenly grabbed the bronze sword and stabbed it into his own heart!
“Puff!”
Suddenly blood splattered everywhere!
The blade of the bronze sword was dyed red, and blood was flowing on the floor.
Ji Zha's son had a look of relief on his face, as if he had been liberated!
His body lay straight in a pool of blood.
"Li'er!"
When Ji Zha saw this, he screamed and rushed forward with great grief in his heart.
Fu Gai was so frightened by the scene before his eyes that he stepped back and said in a hurry: "I didn't do this! He was looking for death! He committed suicide!"
The old person sends the young person away!
This was undoubtedly something that made Ji Zha deeply sad.
He held his son Ji Li's body in his arms, tears streaming down his face and his body twitching!
When the relatives nearby saw Ji Li's tragic death, they couldn't help but burst into tears and cried very sadly.
Suddenly, another son of Ji Zha, who was not far away, wiped the tears from his eyes and choked up, "Father, God is above!"
"I am incompetent and cannot help my father solve his problems!"
"But I will never bear to see my father helping Ji Guang to commit atrocities and selling out his country just to survive!"
"Father, I am leaving!"
After saying this, Ji Zha's son suddenly exerted force, grabbed the spear of a soldier beside him, turned his back, and stabbed his young son to death with the spear. The spear head pierced his chest and blood flowed out!
"Stop him now!"
Fu Gai shouted hurriedly.
But it's too late!
After killing his son, he roared again, shook off the two soldiers who rushed forward, and then stabbed a spear into his chest.
A trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and blood was splattered all over his heart!
He was not dead yet, still gasping for breath, looking at his father Ji Zha and his long-dead son with reluctant eyes!
His son is only ten years old!
He was killed by his own father before he had much experience in the world!
How sad!
As the saying goes, even a tiger won't eat its own cubs.
But the son of Ji Zha was able to kill his own son with his own hands. How great was the hatred?
No, not hatred!
It is an indescribable integrity!
A gentleman's integrity!
"Woooooooooo! "
As her husband and children died one after another, a woman in the crowd couldn't help but break down and cry, throwing herself on the bodies of the two men and tossing them around.
When Ji Zha saw this scene, he could not help but get angry. He was so angry that his head tilted and he fainted with black eyes!
The members of Ji Zha's family present all looked as if they were trying to commit suicide, so Fu Gai quickly sent people to stop them.
The death of Ji Zha's son was already Fu Gai's fault, not to mention that Ji Zha had already lost two sons and one grandson?
Wouldn't Fu Gai himself be recorded in history and be infamous for eternity?
In desperation, Fu Gai had to go back and report again.
However, before that, he had ordered his soldiers to detain Ji Zha and his family members in solitary confinement, and to prevent them from committing suicide, he also ordered people to monitor their every move!
The Palace of King Wu.
Upon hearing that Ji Zha was unconscious and his two sons and one grandson had died tragically one after another, Helu couldn't help but become furious.
You know, although Ji Zha's two sons and one grandson committed suicide, it was not unrelated to Helü. They were all forced to death by Helü!
Doesn't the historian have to record this incident?
"I didn't expect that Ji Zha's family are all so strong-willed!"
"How's the situation over at Ji Zha?"
Seeing Fu Gai coming to report, Helu asked again.
"Reporting to the king, after Ji Zha regained consciousness, he was ready to hit his head against a pillar and die, but fortunately the soldiers rescued him. Now Ji Zha has agreed to go to Chu!"
"That's good. That's good."
Helu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief!
As long as Ji Zha is alive, Helu cannot be said to have committed a heinous crime!
Helu ordered again: "Pack up the treasures and utensils immediately, take the letter from the empire, and order Ji Zha to go as an envoy."
"promise!"
Things had come to this point, and Helu had no choice but to ask Ji Zha to go on the mission as soon as possible.
He knew that Ji Zha hated him, but he could do nothing about it!
What Wu Zixu said was right. Although Ji Zha was a sage who inherited the traditions of ancient times, he was still worldly and could not avoid the emotional entanglements that ordinary people have.
Helu believed that as long as he threatened Ji Zha with his remaining son and grandson, Ji Zha would certainly submit and would not dare to cause any trouble again!
