The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 52 The Boy
The Sun family met with a great disaster. It was said that some bandits came in at night to rob property and somehow managed to get into Mr. Sun's study. As a result, Mr. Sun and his only son, Sun Rugong, were both killed.
When the Sun family released the news, it only caused a stir among a small number of people. However, compared with the big move of Jizhou Prefecture, the affairs of the Sun family were like a ripple and soon died down.
Jizhou Prefecture dispatched a large number of soldiers to arrest people overnight, so what happened on the Sun family's side did not seem shocking at all.
A carriage left the Sun family's house, and no one noticed it, and no one paid attention to it.
The coachmen were unwilling to make eye contact with pedestrians on the road and kept their heads down. It seemed that the Sun family could no longer raise their heads overnight.
In the carriage, a woman who looked to be in her thirties was holding a child of about eleven or twelve in her arms. The child had a big bump on his head, his eyes were bloodshot, and his breathing was very weak.
"Hold on, kid. I'll take you away from Jizhou."
The woman kept talking in a low voice with a very grim look on her face. She was really afraid that her child would be like running water and she couldn't catch it at all, and would slip through her fingers. She didn't want to care about anything, and she couldn't care about anything. She only cared about her child.
Every mother is the same, they don't think their children can be bad.
Sun Rugong did not die because he was indeed not an ordinary child. When Jinzu said those words to him, he judged that Jinzu would definitely kill him, instead of letting him go as Jinzu said.
So he was always on guard, even wetting his pants was intentional.
Many people will underestimate a child, but people like Sun Rugong are outliers. His mental state is at least seven or eight years higher than that of ordinary children.
When other children were six or seven years old, they were still playing in the mud, but when he was six or seven years old, he was already thinking about how high an official he would become in the future. When other children only knew how to act like a spoiled child in their mother's arms, he was already eager to learn from his father how to control others instead of being controlled by others.
When Zhang Xiaolin fought with Li Diudiu in the grove of Siye Academy, he knew that he was no match for Li Diudiu, so when they faced each other later, he chose to show weakness.
He may not be able to beat Li Diudiu, but he is definitely not much worse. People like him have remembered a saying his father taught him since he was eight or nine years old: don't let people see through your strength before you are absolutely sure.
So he is still alive now.
A few moments before the pawn made its move, Sun Rugong was still calculating how the other party would kill him.
At that time, Jinzu killed his father with Lao Xiao's dagger. The dagger was stuck in his father's neck and could not be pulled out, so he immediately judged that Jinzu would use his fists to kill him.
The reason for this was simply because he was a child. The man called Jinzu looked down on him and did not take him seriously at all. Killing a child with one punch was no big deal for such a master.
When killing someone with your fists, the most direct way to hit is the temple.
After thinking about this, Sun Rugong pretended to be so scared that he didn't dare to look up at Jinzu's eyes. In fact, he was staring at Jinzu's right fist. He had also seen before that Jinzu used his right hand to kill his father.
So at the moment when Jinzuo threw the punch, he lowered his head a little, but he only had time to lower it a little, but it seemed to be enough.
The punch did not hit his temple, and he was knocked out again. The soldier thought he was dead for sure and did not even check on him.
When the carriage arrived at the gate of Jizhou City, the guard in charge of checking the passing passengers opened the door and looked in. He saw a woman holding a child who seemed to be dying, so he did not ask any more questions.
After all, although something big happened to the Sun family, the family emblem on the Sun family’s carriage was still useful.
After the carriage left Jizhou, the driver was a little confused. His wife just asked him to drive without telling him where to go.
"Ma'am, where are we going?"
"Go to Daizhou."
Mrs. Sun said in the carriage: "Go back to my mother's home."
Daizhou is about 400 miles northwest of Jizhou and was originally under the jurisdiction of Jizhou. However, after Youzhou was promoted to a prefecture a few years ago, Daizhou was incorporated into Youzhou.
Further north of Daizhou is Yanshan Mountain, and beyond Yanshan Mountain is the grassland, so Daizhou has always been a military stronghold with tens of thousands of border troops stationed here.
Madam Sun's family was quite powerful in Daizhou. Her father was a fourth-rank general in the Daizhou border army and the chief of Daizhou's military affairs. He was nominally under the command of Youzhou General Luo Geng.
"Madam, it will take a long time to get back to Daizhou, and the young master..."
The driver asked with some concern.
"If he survives, I will make him a truly powerful man in Daizhou, and he will return to Jizhou to seek revenge in the future. If he doesn't make it to Daizhou... I will bury his body in Daizhou instead of Jizhou. Neither he nor I will be buried in the Sun family's cemetery after death."
Madam Sun bit her lips, and blood was visible on them.
It was on this day that something happened in Daizhou, and a group of officials in Daizhou were also being taught a lesson. However, compared with the madness in Jizhou that night, the incident in Daizhou was so small that they could completely suppress it and not report it.
Several people disappeared from the prison in Daizhou, including an adult and a child. As for how they disappeared, everyone knows the reason. The place is heavily guarded like a fortress. If they want to get out, they can only be let in by someone.
A few days ago, some businessmen in Daizhou got together to discuss. Each of them took out some silver, and together they collected a total of three thousand taels of silver, and handed the silver to the prosecutor of the Daizhou prison.
So the adult and the child were secretly released at night, and three thousand taels of silver were used to buy a life.
In a pavilion fifteen miles outside Daizhou City, a group of merchants waiting there saw the carriage coming and all stood up and waited.
The carriage stopped outside the pavilion, and an old man and a young man got out of the carriage. The older one looked to be about thirty-five or thirty-six years old, and looked haggard. He had been tortured in prison and almost lost his human form.
The younger one looked about twelve or thirteen years old, and was in good spirits. He was taller than his father, and looked like a wolf at a young age.
"Mr. Tang!"
When the businessmen saw them get off the car, they hurried over and bowed to greet them. The man called Mr. Tang quickly returned the greeting and looked a little excited.
One of the merchants asked his men to bring a box and handed it over. After hesitating for a moment, he advised: "Mr. Tang, please accept these travel expenses and don't go back to Daizhou for the time being."
Another businessman said: "Mr. Tang has been taking care of our business all these years. This is all we can do."
The businessman said: "Mr. Tang opened a martial arts school and taught the children of the villagers to practice martial arts and keep fit, but he never charged any fees. For those of us doing business, Mr. Tang would lend a hand when any of us encountered difficulties. We are always grateful for Mr. Tang's kindness."
Another person said, "Yes, two years ago, my family's convoy was intercepted by bandits. It was Mr. Tang who came with the people from the Wushu Hall. Not only did they take back all my goods, they also negotiated with those people from the Green Forest Road to stop robbing our merchants in Daizhou."
The man called Mr. Tang said quickly: "I only have this little strength, and I can only help the elders and fellow villagers. Fortunately, I have met many people in the martial arts world over the years, so I can still be of some use..."
"Mr. Tang, after you leave this time, don't worry about the right and wrong of the martial arts world."
One of them said, "The Green Forest Road people were arrested, and you have nothing to do with it. The government officials saw that you are popular and wanted to extort money from you, so they arrested your whole family as well."
Mr. Tang sighed and didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Mr. Tang, do you have any plans?"
"I... could have gone to Jizhou, but I was implicated when my son was studying at the Four Pages Academy in Jizhou. Now I can't even go to Jizhou. However, I have a disciple in Tang County, which is less than a hundred miles away from Jizhou. I'll go stay with him for a while."
"That's fine. When the news in Daizhou dies down, we will send someone to inform Mr. Tang that we will come back in the future."
"Okay, okay, thank you very much."
Mr. Tang looked at his only son and said, "I am the best. I kowtow to you, my benefactors!"
"yes!"
The half-grown child was already full of heroic spirit. Without saying a word, he knelt down and kowtowed. He kowtowed so hard that the skin on his forehead was broken.
The men quickly helped him up and said, "Take good care of your father and don't let him suffer any more."
The young man clasped his fists and said, "I will never forget the kindness you have shown me in saving my life. I will definitely repay you with my life in the future!"
Four or five days later, on the official road.
A carriage going from north to south met a carriage going from south to north. Tang Pidi, who was sitting outside the carriage, looked at the carriage. The window was open, and there was a child with a strange-looking head sitting there, looking out the window. One side of his head seemed to be bulging.
The two men looked at each other, and the child seemed to scold him, probably blaming him for his curious look. Tang Pidi didn't think much about it, nor did he look at it further, and his eyes left the carriage.
"Father."
Tang Pidi turned around and said to the carriage, "We will reach Tang County in a few days. I don't know if my brother has moved. If we fail this time, where else can we go?"
In the carriage, Mr. Tang was silent for a moment and then said, "Your brothers are all reliable. You have to believe this. He sent someone to say that he could go at any time , and he must be waiting in Tang County. Besides, we are only staying here for a while, and we will have to go back to Daizhou sooner or later. They have occupied our family property. This breath, your father, cannot swallow it."
Tang Pidi hummed and didn't say much.
His father was quite prestigious in Daizhou. Although he was not an official, he was deeply loved by the people.
His father was quite famous in the world, so most of the merchants in the city were protected by his father. Whenever they encountered problems while doing business, they would ask his father for help. His father was a righteous person, and over time, the people began to call his father Tang Bodhisattva.
However, what he didn't expect was that the people in the government had long been dissatisfied with his father. At that time, people in the provincial capital asked his father to donate some silver to repair the government office, and his father only said two words... no money.
From then on, people from Daizhou Prefecture came to cause trouble from time to time, and this time they were even more vicious. They captured some people from the Green Forest Road and tortured them to extract confessions, trying to force those heroes of the Green Forest Road to implicate his father, but those men would rather die than surrender, and no one of them gave in.
The people in Daizhou Prefecture had no choice but to knock the men unconscious and then force their hands to leave fingerprints on the confession.
People from Daizhou Prefecture arrested his father and put him in prison, charging him with conspiracy to rebel, a capital crime punishable by the death of nine generations of his family.
Therefore, Tang Pidi, who was studying at the Siye Academy, was arrested.
Fortunately, the prosecutor of the state prison was greedy for money and saved the lives of the father and son with three thousand taels of silver.
"I will be back."
Tang Pidi looked forward with a hint of murderous intent.
At his age, he shouldn't be so murderous.
