Chapter 560: Everyone deserves the tears
Originally, given Baoyu's status, he was merely taking a concubine, so naturally, he wouldn't have attracted so many people. However, with the old lady helping to arrange things, the descendants of the branch families couldn't help but show some respect, so they all came. Furthermore, the descendants of the Wang and Shi families, as well as Xue Pan and Xue Ke, were all present.
When Baoyu arrived at the front hall, Jia Zheng rarely scolded him.
"Come and sit down, I'll toast to you and your uncles and brothers." Jia Zheng said when he saw Baoyu coming.
After all, he is his own legitimate son. He usually beats and scolds him just because he is angry at him for not fighting back. Today is his son's wedding day, so Jia Zheng did not embarrass Baoyu.
"We would like to offer a toast to Master Bao, congratulations!" Xue Ke stood up and said.
Baoyu did not respond, but picked up the wine cup and drank it all.
Then, he murmured to himself, "It turns out that I can't get everyone's tears. From now on, maybe I can only get the tears that everyone deserves."
As soon as the words fell, Baoyu burst into tears...
Until this moment, perhaps he finally understood that the Daiyu who no longer shed tears did not belong to him, the Baojie who no longer wore the golden lock, did not belong to him, and even the Xiangyun who no longer called him "Dear Brother" no longer belonged to him...
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When Jia Cong returned to the city, it was already dark.
Feeling hungry, he couldn't help but frown and shouted, "Come here, bring some food over."
Not long after, someone brought the food over. Jia Cong took two bites casually, but always felt that the taste was a little bit off. He felt a little depressed for some reason and pushed the food aside.
"The Marshal is not used to this food." Lu Feng walked in and saw Jia Cong's expression. He couldn't help but grin and spoke.
"Get lost!" Jia Cong cursed with a smile, "I just have no appetite."
Lu Feng chuckled and didn't care. "Hehe, if I eat meals prepared by my beautiful wife all day long, I will definitely not be able to get used to the coarse food in the army."
Jia Cong's expression froze, "What do you know!"
Having said that, it still seems a bit angry and embarrassed...
Lu Feng stepped forward and said to Jia Cong, "General, in my opinion, that young lady may not have anything to do with what happened today. Besides, even if she does, what's the big deal? As long as you can capture her, you don't have to worry about not getting the truth out of her."
"Do I need advice from a bachelor like you?" Jia Cong glared at Lu Feng. The reason why he rejected Miaoyu was certainly not because of this incident. He also realized that today's incident might have nothing to do with Miaoyu. It's just that Miaoyu's identity is too complicated, and she is deeply involved with that person.
He admitted that he was not a loyal man, but he had never thought of using his woman as a raft.
If he let Miaoyu become his woman, then there would be some things that would restrict his actions in the future. Moreover, Miaoyu was a very secretive person, and the things she said to him were probably both true and false. If he jumped into it now, it would be strange.
"The patriarchs of the Wang and Fan families are currently imprisoned in the main camp. You are to personally interrogate them for me. Tomorrow morning, I want to know everything about them. Otherwise, I will skin you alive."
Since the patriarchs of the Wang and Fan families were captured, Jia Cong only had the guards conduct a brief interrogation of them. But now it seems that these two people may have some big secrets.
The person who attacked him today was indeed the mastermind, but the person who attacked him was clearly not one of his men. Therefore, only the Zhao family could gather such a powerful force in Chengdu Prefecture. So, why didn't the Zhao family rush to act before, but now they seem to be desperate?
These days, apart from dealing with the Wang and Fan families, he has not done anything else .
It's very likely that these two individuals hold some evidence against the Zhao family. With the two family heads imprisoned in the main camp, the Zhao family obviously can't kill them to silence them, leaving them with only desperation. Otherwise, if the Zhao family had the guts to attack me, would they dare so easily? Even if I died, would the Zhao family be safe?
"Marshal, this is obviously the work of the Zhao family!" Lu Feng said, "I will lead my men to wipe out the Zhao family. It's just a prince's mansion. At worst, we can blame the trouble on the rebels. Why would anyone bother you over a bunch of dead people?"
"You idiot." Jia Cong said helplessly. As for Lu Feng and his group, their loyalty is undeniable, but their brains are really not very smart.
Such tactics would be no problem against the Wang and Fan families. While these two families were powerful, they were, after all, powerful clans from the previous dynasty, and had declined considerably by now. Furthermore, they had few connections with the nobles currently in the court. To put it bluntly, these two families were merely wealthy local tycoons. Now that he was in charge of Sichuan, no matter what tactics he used, no one would bother him with such a small matter.
But the Zhao family is different.
The Zhao family is one of the four kings of the opposite sex. They have been in charge of Sichuan and Shu for many years and have countless students and former officials.
If the Zhao family is directly destroyed, Sichuan will first of all be faced with many overt and covert troubles, which will be detrimental to the subsequent conquest of the southern border tribes and the stability of Sichuan.
The second is the thoughts of the court, or the royal family.
When he was in the capital, he could act arrogantly and domineeringly, thereby adding some stains to himself and dispelling some of the royal family's fear of him. Therefore, he dared to surround the palace with troops and directly fight with the princes, because these things would not only not arouse the Longxing Emperor's fear, but would make the Longxing Emperor more at ease.
But now, he is in Sichuan, commanding tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and even the heads of all the people in Sichuan are in his control.
If he were to act arrogantly now, or even destroy the Zhao family, what would Emperor Longxing think? Would he think he was planning to become the next King of Shu?
This kind of thinking is almost inevitable. Therefore, when not in the capital, Jia Cong needs to abide by the rules in some aspects.
Besides, destroying the Wang and Fan families would only offend the gentry class, but destroying the Zhao family would make all the nobles wary and even ostracized. After all, if they could destroy the Zhao family today, they might be able to destroy another family tomorrow.
Therefore, it would be easy to destroy the Zhao family, but Jia Cong couldn't do it. In fact, he had to protect the Zhao family during this period, so that they wouldn't die out. Of course, after the war was over and Jia Cong left Sichuan, he could do whatever he wanted to the Zhao family, and the royal family wouldn't care. Now, he could suppress the Zhao family, he could humiliate the Zhao family, but he couldn't destroy the Zhao family directly. Otherwise, based on the incident with Tanchun, the Zhao family would have been wiped out on the first day he entered Chengdu.
"Just do whatever I tell you to do, and stop talking nonsense."
Lu Feng grinned and hurried away.
