Who knows, it is precisely because of this team of guards sent by Emperor Wei that these more than 20 people were exposed to their whereabouts, and they were forced all the way into the territory of Huai State, arrested in Xindu, and later robbed here. This incident not only set off a bloody storm in Yangzhou, but also caused violent turmoil in the territory of Huaiguo, the fiefdom of King Huai.

Three years ago, in the summer, the prefecture was hit by a rare drought that was even worse than this year's alternation of floods and droughts, and refugees affected by the drought in the north fled to Xuzhou, Yangzhou and even the western part of Jingzhou.

Chang Mengjun's escape made the land of Dawei, which was plagued by droughts throughout the country, unstable. In order to capture the remnants of Chang Meng's army, Ning Zheng tried all means and acted with an iron fist, which was shocking. At that time, there was a saying from top to bottom of the armies of Yangzhou and Huaiguo: "In case of a rebel, it is better to kill than to let go." ”

These more than 20 people fled everywhere, and it was precisely because of their hiding that some refugees who fled to Yangzhou were regarded as their comrades and died under the sword of the military master.

These more than 20 old members of the Changmeng Army took the initiative to show up because they couldn't bear the suffering of the displaced people, and were arrested by the sergeants. Ning Zheng was going to execute them immediately, and when he pressed them to the execution ground, a group of bandits appeared out of nowhere, rushed into the execution ground, fought with the government soldiers, rescued them from Xindu, and fled all the way to Jianye.

Ning Zheng chased after him, but when he chased Jianye, these people suddenly disappeared.

The Huai Wangfu naturally repeated the old tricks, trying to force them out with the lives of the refugees. Who knew that the refugees who fled to Jianye from the arid areas of the north were all taken in by one of the largest opera and dance lofts in the local area, the Water Pavilion Getai. But she never thought that because of her kindness, she would harm herself.

The more than 20 people and the bandits who rescued them all disappeared overnight, and Ning Zheng set his sights on the Water Pavilion Song Platform.

On the orders of his father, King Ning Nankun blocked the Water Pavilion and placed Chen Wuniang in a prisoner car, and beat him in a street demonstration, and forced the old and weak women and children among the refugees to follow the prisoner car and parade around the city of Jianye Street.

In the county, people are panicked, and no one is afraid that these terrible and bad things will involve them, so they can't avoid the homeless people and Chen Wuniang, and they don't dare to talk nonsense about the remnants of the traitors.

Ning Nankun personally escorted people to parade through the streets for a few days, but he did not get any reliable information, nor did he find out the slightest information about the more than 20 people and the robbers, so he offered a heavy reward, clearly saying that if anyone knew where the rebels were absconding or hiding, they would be rewarded with 10,000 taels.

A few bold and greedy farmers discussed for a night, and they actually made up a proper story, went to the yamen, and told Ning Nankun.

This nonsense is said to be that Chen Wuniang, who was escorted to the streets, took in the remnants of the rebels and robbers, and concealed their traces for them. The rebels and robbers are hiding in the water pavilion.

As soon as others hear this lame lie, they are afraid that they will be able to distinguish between truth and falsehood at a glance. However, Ning Nankun didn't care whether he was true or not, and with the idea that he would rather kill by mistake than let go, he led his troops to carefully search the Water Pavilion Getai, and warned all the refugees and dancing girls and singers in the Getai that if they didn't hand over the traitors and robbers, they would be considered their accomplices, and they would all be killed if they were guilty of rebellion against orthodoxy, and none of them would be left.

These homeless people were in a state of extreme panic and fear, and they even pointed to each other's clues. even brought the disaster to Chen Wuniang and all the dancers and singers in the Water Pavilion Getai, wanting to clear up his relationship with the traitor.

Ning Nankun went to prison for training, tortured and interrogated, and only heard a bunch of nonsense and testimony. So Chen Wuniang and all the singers and dancers were taken into custody and interrogated and tortured one by one. Chen Wuniang is a hard bone, she has never done anything, even if she wants her life, she will not admit half a word.

All the singers and dancers in the Water Pavilion are the same hard bones. I was also disheartened by the refugee's backbite.

In the process of extorting confessions, there were three or four young dancers and singers who were beaten to death.

Ning Nankun decided that there must be something strange about Chen Wuniang who kept her mouth shut and didn't say a word, so while torturing her, let her witness the tragic death of the singers and dancers she usually relied on, loved, and loved as her daughter.

Chen Wuniang is always hard by nature, and she can't stand such cruel torture.

In order to save the water pavilion and save the lives of the remaining people, she relented and lied that she knew the whereabouts of the traitors and robbers.

That night, someone sneaked into the prison and met her in the guise of a food delivery officer, telling her that they had a way to save everyone in the Water Pavilion Getai, but only if Chen Wuniang could cooperate with them.

The dancer also asked who they were.

The little food delivery official only replied with three words: "Yegong Pavilion." ”

This Chen dancer immediately agreed.

On the morning of the second day, Ning Nan ordered Chen Wuniang to take people to find the traces of the rebels, she sat on the prisoner cart, led a group of soldiers to the big river across the capital, fulfilled the words of the food delivery officials, and bought enough time for the people who came to rescue. But Ning Nankun finally found out that something was wrong, and immediately ordered someone to open the prisoner car, threatened her life, and forced Chen Wuniang to confess the truth. Chen Wuniang couldn't wait for the person she was waiting for to save her, but she was extremely confident that that person would save the Water Pavilion Getai she loved and stayed for a lifetime.

She knew that she would definitely die no matter what, but if the Water Pavilion could be saved, she would have nothing to worry about in this life, even if she died.

She was in front of this city she loved, this place that was once called Moling, and carried her lifelong love, hatred, joy, anger and sorrow, crashed into Ning Nankun's blade and killed herself. Let's read a book

Ning Nankun was shocked, but he never stopped her from resolutely walking on a desperate path, he never knew that the kabuki girl in the Goolan Washe also had such a backbone and determination to die.

Just a step too late. It's a moment of interdependence.

Someone in the city came to report that the bodies of the twenty people had been found under a cliff ten miles away. I don't know who did it, but they all wiped out these more than 20 people in one go, and the death was extremely tragic. The two dozen or so people fell to the bottom of the cliff, although the cliff was not high, but it was just a fault of a hill, and the mudslide caused by heavy rain and landslides destroyed the gentle area to form a cliff, but the cliff was covered with sharp stones. The two dozen or so people fell face to the ground, and their whole faces were destroyed so miserably that although they could not see the whole picture, they could still be vaguely distinguished.

Ning Nankun carefully identified the corpses with portraits, and only then did he confirm that it was indeed the corpses of the twenty or so people. When they reached the cliff again, they found that five carriages and eight fast horses had been discarded, and long knives and spears were scattered all over the ground, and there were traces of fierce fighting.

As a result, some people speculated that the robbers had a dispute with these 20 or so remnants, and because they were more or less injured during the pursuit, they died tragically at the bottom of the cliff.

Ning Nankun took their bodies and returned to Huaiguo. At this point, the case was closed.

These events are recorded in detail in the file of the Thousand Machines.

When Jiang Chengjia first read this incident, he could only describe it with horror.

After three years, she didn't want to investigate whether the old Chang Mengjun really died in Jianye, nor did she care whether it was the person who saved the Water Pavilion in the end.

What she cares about is the identity of Chen Wuniang.

Chen Wuniang, this woman whose origin is a mystery, she has met once.

Still twenty-three years ago. Jiang Chengjia remembered that it was the tenth year of the early Yuan Dynasty, exactly twenty days after the frost in September.

In the early ten years of the Yuan Dynasty, frost fell in September, and Ningnan was born in the world.

This Chen dancer happened to be born in Ningnanwei on the twentieth day, and found the water pavilion with a child in her arms.

She said that she took all kinds of convoys from Poyang all the way, and rushed frantically for dozens of days, just to see Jiang Mengluo before leaving.

When Xue Qing presented the prayer post at that time, she pleaded sincerely for Chen Wuniang, and Jiang Mengluo also looked at her from a distance through the screen and bead curtain. At that time, Chen Wuniang was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was born very well, kneeling in front of her with the baby in her arms, her face pale.

Jiang Chengjia recalled the scene carefully.

I only remember that the first thing Chen Wuniang said to her was, "Does the pavilion master have an immortal medicine that can heal the living dead and white bones?" ”

Countless people in this world have asked the Water Pavilion for immortal elixir, just because it is rumored that Jiang Mengluo, the master of the Water Pavilion, has an immortal body.

At that time, Jiang Chengjia was not surprised, and replied to her: "The Water Pavilion does not sell immortal medicine, and there is no immortal medicine. ”

Chen Wuniang cried bitterly, and asked again: "If the pavilion master does not have the immortal elixir, can you ask the holy doctor in the pavilion to visit this child for the little girl, I heard that there is an old man in your cabinet... Extremely good at healing... Specializing in the treatment of incurable diseases... Can you ask the Pavilion Master to have mercy on him? ”

Jiang Chengjia didn't see the child's appearance through the screen, but he was pitiful that he was just a baby who had just been born for a short time, so he asked Xue Qing to ask a doctor to treat the child.

After that, Jiang Chengjia left Huiji and went to Poyang, in order to take a look at Ning Nanwei, who had just been born and descended to the world.

However, she later learned that the baby that Chen Wuniang carried to the Water Pavilion was Ning Nanwei, who had been dying since birth.

She didn't know what the situation was when Cao Xiu gave birth at that time, and why was her only son taken out of the palace by a dusty woman? Even if it is for medicine, it should not be entrusted to a woman who was born in a green building and grew up in a green building.

It wasn't until three years ago that she suddenly understood the incident of Jianye Water Pavilion Getai.

The women of Goolan Washer are also loyal and sincere, Cao Xiu once ransomed Chen Wuniang, who was only eleven or twelve years old at the time, from the Water Pavilion Getai when she passed through Jianye, and she remembered her kindness for a lifetime and was extremely loyal to Cao Xiu. And the Cao family also trusted her very much, so she was relieved that she took Ning Nan to the Water Pavilion to find a healing holy hand for treatment.