The night sky is sparsely starlit. Mandu Daru rode through the streets of Yunzhong Province in the early hours of the morning. Halfway through, he met with the soldiers patrolling the city, and two companions in the rear fetched a token for him to check.

After running for a long time, he arrived at the long street where his cousin and sister-in-law were located in the west of the city, and he banged on the door, and then his cousin rushed out of the room and opened the door.

"I'm late, I don't even know if he has eyes—"

His mind rang with the sound of the captive's crazy laughter, thinking that the child had been kidnapped by the Black Flag, but it wasn't. The cousin dragged him to the infirmary on the other side of the street, and as he ran, he talked sadly about what had happened in the afternoon.

Yesterday afternoon, a horse-drawn carriage from nowhere rushed across the long street at high speed, the family's 11-year-old child's legs were broken on the spot, the driver did not stop like crazy, an iron hook hanging from the back of the carriage hung on the child's right hand, dragged the child across the long street, and then cut the rope on the iron hook and fled.

The child was dragged into a bloody man by a carriage and rushed to the infirmary, still alive at this time, but he didn't know if he could survive it.

Indeed, this boy is from Mandu Daru.

In the early years, when I returned to the cloud as a fast catcher, there was no backstage around me, and there were not many ways to be promoted, so I had to work hard. The people of the north are brave, and there are many bandits who have been active in the road, and there are even the remnants of the army after the fall of the Liao State, and he wants to make a career, so he simply gave the child to his cousin and sister-in-law to raise. Since then, I have not come to visit much.

In recent years, the status has gradually increased, and the possibility of harming the family is no longer great. But who would have thought that there would be such crazy outlaws in the midst of the Black Flag?

All the way to the medical hall, the cousin-in-law who was guarding here had already cried and her eyes were red and swollen, they had raised the child for many years, and they had already had real feelings, seeing the arrival of Mandu Daru, the cousin-in-law dragged him to tell him about the abomination of the murderer, and asked him to catch the other party and cut it with a thousand knives. Mandu Daru was speechless, and as the doctor walked to the medical hall, when he arrived near the wooden gate, he even hesitated slightly, and was in a trance for a moment before stepping in.

The doctor whispered in his ear.

Mandu Daru looked at the child on the bed who was covered with the smell of medicine, and felt that the doctor was a little noisy for a while, he reached out and pushed it to the side, but it didn't reach anyone. Several people next to him looked at him suspiciously. He then drew his knife.

The eleven-year-old child in the bed, who had lost two legs and one hand, and whose face had been dragged across half a long street on the ground, had long since become a blur of flesh and blood. The doctor doesn't guarantee that he will survive tonight, but even if he does, he will only have one hand and half a face in his long life, and anyone who thinks about this kind of survival will feel suffocated when they think about it.

Mandu Daru's blade pointed towards the child, but he involuntarily took a step back. The cousin-in-law on the side screamed and pounced, snatching the knife from his hand. The sound of wailing echoed through the night sky.

The expression on his face was sometimes fierce and sometimes trance-like, and in the end, he couldn't get the knife, and his cousin-in-law cried loudly: "You go and kill the murderer!" Aren't you always head-hunting, you're going to catch the murderer of that day—that brute—"

Mandu Daru staggered out of the room, and the people around him were still gritting their teeth to persuade him to catch the murderer. Mandu Daru's mind flashed with that crazy face, and that crazy face had a calm look in it.

"You killed Lu Mingfang, right?"

“…… The matter of Lu Mingfang, we have cleared up. ”

When the member of the Huaxia Army named Lu Mingfang was arrested last year, the other party did not surrender until death, and he didn't figure out his identity for a while. Later, I learned that person was the person in charge of the Huaxia Army in the North.

Now the corpse, chopped into several pieces, faintly overlapped with the appearance of the child who was still alive in the room.

"Ahh

He opened his mouth and roared in the night, then slashed with his knife, put it away, and staggered out.

He mounted his horse and galloped all the way to the small prison near the north gate, where he drew his knife and tried to rush in, causing the beast inside to suffer the greatest pain and die. However, the catcher who was guarding outside stopped him, Mandu Daru's eyes were red, and he looked terrible, one or two people couldn't stop him, and the catchers inside came out one by one, and then the high servant tiger also came, and when he saw him like this, he probably guessed what was happening.

A crowd pounced on Mandu Daru and restrained him......

During the long dark night, there was no more peace outside the small prison, and Mandu Dalu's subordinates in the yamen came one after another, sometimes fighting and quarrelling, and more people were summoned from the side of the high servant tiger to guard the safety of this prison.

At this time, the terrible storm had swept through the upper echelons of the power of Yunzhong Mansion, and the people below were still unclear, Gao Fuhu knew that the god of Grains was probably going down, and Mandu Daru was the same. In the past, he had a hard encounter with Mandu Daru, that was when he couldn't give in to officialdom, but now that his goal has been achieved, seeing Mandu Daru's crazy appearance, he has no intention of turning this matter into an endless personal vendetta, just letting people secretly find out what happened to the other party's son.

At the end of the morning of April 16, the morning sun was pouring out in the east, followed by a pleasant sunny day, and the streets and alleys seemed to be calm and peaceful, and passers-by were still living as usual. At this point, some strange atmospheres and rumors began to seep into the middle level.

On 17 April, news about the "Han Lady" betraying the intelligence of the Western Route Army also began to appear faintly. In the Yamen of Yunzhong Mansion, almost everyone heard of the wrestling between Mandu Daru and Gao Fuhu and seemed to be deflated, and many people even knew that Mandu Dalu's own son was made worse than dead, and with the rumors about "Mrs. Han", some things became unusual among these heads with a keen sense of smell.

In the afternoon of that day, Gao Fuhu and several of his subordinates and a few Yamen Arresters who came to him to inquire about information were having dinner at the street market opposite the small prison at the North Gate, and he revealed some things in private.

“…… Damn, that person is a madman, I only found out the night before...... Damn, I was tricked, this madman, before he came to die, he set up a bureau, and Mandu Daru's own son, and now that child is eleven years old, and only one hand can be used, this me and I have to be crazy......"

He recalled the time when he first caught the other party, everything seemed normal, the other party opened his mouth with tears after two rounds of punishment, shook out a lot of evidence, and then faced the six princes of the Jurchen, and they also showed a normal and responsible "prisoner" appearance. It wasn't until Mandu Daru broke in that Gao Fuhu found out that the prisoner named Tang Minjie was completely abnormal.

"Damn...... Lunatic...... Most of them are figures with heads and faces in the Huaxia Army...... It was for the one who handed the knife to the east...... It's not going to kill you at all......"

He said through gritted teeth as he drank.

There was a catcher next to him and said: "If this is the case, this person must know a lot of secrets, and he can dig it again." ”

"You think I didn't dig it?" Gao Fuhu glared at him, "I took him out that night and tossed him for another hour, his eyes ...... It's crazy, a goddamn madman, he can't pry out anything superfluous, his previous torture is a trick, and his mother is pretending. ”

"It's only an hour, isn't it enough ......?"

The news he shook out got the god of grains, and then Dongfu took over, and Lao Tzu was going to be promoted. Mandu Daru's son is like that, and you want your son to be like that. This person has to go through the hall next, or you go in and fight again, so that the big guy can see the craft? Gao Fuhu said this, and took a sip of wine: "Wait...... Something big is going to happen. ”

Something big is happening.

That night, a nervous sound of chirping sounded from the direction of the city wall in the clouds, followed by the sound of the city's martial law gong. The troops stationed in the east of Yunzhong Province are moving in this direction.

On Zong Han's mansion, a tense confrontation was going on, Wan Yanchang and several Jurchen princes with real power were present, Zong Biyang raised the confession and evidence in his hand, and shouted loudly.

“…… Come on, Stickyhan! It's in the clouds! Yes, there is! You close the door! Done it all of us one by one! You'll be able to keep Hee-Yin! Otherwise, his incident would have happened! The evidence is conclusive - you can't tell where you go - "

"Sanctimonious! Fish for fame and reputation! You are in Shangjing, and you keep saying that it is for the Jurchen! I'll let you go! Come to the clouds according to your rules, and I will play with you according to the rules! Now it's your own butts that aren't clean! Come! Sticky Han, you are domineering, you are the boss of the Western Imperial Court! I came to your clouds, I didn't bring troops into the city, I went into your house, I didn't even wear thick clothes today, you have a kind of protection for Xi Yin, you kill me now-"

Zong Bi shouted in front of Zong Han for a while, Zong Han's forehead was full of green tendons, and he suddenly rushed over, grabbed the clothes on his chest with both hands, and lifted him up, and the surrounding Wan Yanchang and others also rushed over, and there was chaos in the hall for a while.

However, until the end, Zong Han failed to really beat Zong Bi.

Behind closed doors, he can kill anyone in Yunzhong Mansion. But from then on, the country of Jin is finished......

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“…… A big river with wide waves, the wind blows the fragrance of rice and flowers on both banks......"

In the gloomy cell, starlight peeks in through the small window, and the song with a strange tone occasionally rings in the night.

After the interrogation of the six Jurchen princes together, the situation in Yunzhong Mansion brewed and fermented for several days, during which the four prisoners went through two more passages, one of which even met with Mu Han.

The city experienced martial law once, but it was lifted the next day. The innermost madman would sometimes ask "Xiao Gao" about the outside world, and Gao Fuhu would adapt to this offense and talk about it casually. Of course, the level he can contact is not high, and sometimes the appearance he sees is already the leftovers of high-level battles.

Although the news of the failure of the Southern Expedition caused by the leakage of intelligence by "Mrs. Han" has spread among the lower levels, for Wanyan Xiyin and Chen Wenjun, the formal arrest or imprisonment has not appeared in the past few days, and Gao Fuhu is sometimes worried, but the madman comforts him: "Don't worry, Xiao Gao, you will definitely be promoted, you have to thank me." ”

Gao Fuhu would also say, "Then thank you." ”

He hummed the song at night, his eyes always looking at the starlight in the window, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Although the other three people in the cell were involved by him, they usually didn't dare to mess with him, and no one would casually provoke an unbounded neurotic.

When humming the song, he gave people a feeling of relief, his thin body leaned against the wall, and he obviously had all kinds of injuries on his body, but in that pain, he gave people the feeling of being unloaded from the heavy shackles of a mountain, waiting for something to come. Of course, since he is a madman, perhaps this feeling is just an illusion.

The four prisoners were not transferred because the most crucial cutscenes had already been completed. Several female real power princes have already identified something, and even if the next witness is dead, Xi Yin will not be able to escape this accusation in fact. Of course, the one among the prisoners, nicknamed the Mountain Dog, was always worried about this, fearing that one night the prison would be set on fire and several of them burned to death.

As a result, he couldn't sleep every night.

In the middle of the night, he woke up as soon as the figures entered the cell, and several of them forced the jailers back. The leader, a woman with half-white hair, took the key, opened the innermost cell door, and entered. The madman in the cell, who had been humming, stopped, looked up at the people who had entered, and then stood up with difficulty against the wall.

For so many days in the cell, the mountain dog was very annoying and lazy when he saw the madman, and whoever came, he lay or sat on the straw pile, and if he hadn't been arrested, he didn't care who he was looking at, but only this time, he took the initiative to stand up.

Of course, it wasn't long before the mountain dog knew the identity of the visitor.

I saw that the two looked at each other in the cell for a moment, and it was the madman who moved his lips a few times, and then took the initiative to open his mouth, and said a sentence: "It's not easy......

The woman with half a hundred hair was dressed luxuriously, and when he finished saying this, she slapped him in the face. The voice resounded through the cell, but no one around spoke. The madman's head was tilted, then turned, and the woman was followed by another hard slap.

The head was still shaking, and the madman named Tang Minjie hung his head slightly, first bent one leg, then bent the other, and knelt down slowly and solemnly in front of the woman.

Then came the woman's third slap, followed by the fourth slap, then the fifth slap...... Tang Minjie knelt straight and let her slap her down. After a while, the woman opened her mouth a little hoarsely: "Have I ever ...... What have you done to hurt you? ”

“…… No," Tang Minjie said, "...... You are kind to me. ”

"Have I done anything to hurt the Han people in the world?"

“…… You are in the Han people of the world...... There is great kindness. ”

"Have I done anything to be sorry for your Huaxia Army!?"

“…… No, you are a hero, a hero of the Han people, and a hero of the Huaxia Army. It's mine...... Mr. Ning once specifically advised that in all actions, the first priority must be to protect you. ”

Chen Wenjun slapped down again, heavy, and Tang Minjie's mouth was full of blood foam.

"Then why do it!"

"Only by getting rid of Xi Yin can we avoid the formation of a joint force between the east and the west......"

Another slap fell.

"So I deserve it?"

“…… In order to avoid Jin Guozhen, as they say, regard the fight against the Huaxia army as the first priority......"

Another slap in the face.

"How many people have I saved over the years? Am I not worthy of a good death? ”

“…… In this way, it is possible to avoid the Huaxia army going north in the future, and the Jurchens really form a strong resistance......"

Another heavy slap in the face.

"Your Huaxia Army is doing this, how will you explain it to the people of the world in the future! You bastard—"

“…… We can end this battle a few years ahead of schedule, and we can lose tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, I have no other way......"

"I don't seek a good death, but my family, my children, they are my children after all......"

“…… What I did was a heinous thing......"

A slap, another slap, Chen Wenjun was talking in his mouth, and Tang Minjie's mouth was also muttering words. At the moment when it came to the child, Chen Wenjun suddenly stretched out his hand back, pulled out the hairpin on his head, and swung the sharp edge towards the other party's body, Tang Minjie's eyes flashed with relief, and he greeted him.

At the moment when he was determined to do this, all the shackles on him had fallen, and now, it was a final, unpayable debt.

"Ahh

Chen Wenjun had a sad roar in his mouth, but the hairpin still stopped in the air.

Tang Minjie waited for a moment, and then he stretched out ten hands with bloody fingers upwards and gently held the other party's hand.

"The scene has already passed, and it is impossible for Xi Yin to get away with it. You can kill me. ”

He whispered, pulling the hairpin down his throat.

“…… I knew I had committed a heinous crime, and I would never be able to pay for it again in my life. We are in the Northland, if there is anyone I want to die at the hands of the most, it is only you, Mrs. Chen, you are a real hero, you have saved countless lives, if there is any other way, even if I die a thousand times, I am not willing to do anything to hurt you......"

In the cell, Chen Wenjun had anger, desolation, and tears on her face, she had sheltered countless lives in the wind and snow in the north in her life, but at this moment, this cruel wind and snow was finally going to take her life. On the other side, Tang Minjie was scarred, his ten fingers were bloody and blurred, and in the messy hair, both of his cheeks were swollen by beating, his mouth was full of blood foam, and several front teeth had long been missing during the torture.

In the past dealings, Chen Wenjun has seen all kinds of exaggerated expressions of him, but she has never seen him look like at this moment, she has never seen him really cry, but in this moment of calm and ashamed words, Chen Wenjun can see that there are tears in his eyes that have been flowing. He didn't cry, but he kept crying.

He turned his neck towards the hairpin.

Chen Wenjun waved his hand to break away from him, and then kicked him to the ground.

There was silence in the cell for a moment before Tang Minjie slowly got up again.

"You killed me. I know it doesn't atone...... Please kill me. ”

This was followed by a kneeling, heavy kowtow. Chen Wenjun looked at all this in a daze, and after a while, her footsteps retreated towards the rear, Tang Minjie raised his head, his eyes were full of tears, and when he saw her retreat, he seemed to be a little scared and disappointed, and then he kowtowed.

Bang –

The forehead hit the ground. There seemed to be a choked sound coming out of his throat.

Chen Wenjun withdrew from the cell, she had seen countless turmoil and countless people in her life, but she had never seen anything like this. There was another thud in the cell, and she threw away the key and began to stride out of the cell.

Bang –

Bang –

Bang –

It was the sound of the forehead hitting the ground, again and again. But Chen Wenjun and the others finally left the cell, the jailer picked up the key, and someone went out to call the doctor. When the doctor came, Tang Minjie was curled up on the ground, and his forehead was already covered with blood......

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Hemostasis, bandaging...... There was no humming song in the prison for the time being, and Tang Minjie was groggy, and sometimes he could see the scene to the south. He could see his sister, who was long dead, when she was very young, humming softly a childish nursery rhyme, what the nursery rhyme was humming, which he later forgot.

Later, he followed Mr. Ning to study in Xiaocanghe, and Mr. Ning taught them to sing that song, and the melody always reminded him of the children's rhyme that his sister hummed.

“…… This is the great motherland, where life feeds me, in that warm land......"

In that warm land, there is his sister, there is his family, but he can never go back.

Or maybe they're about to meet......