747, Rebirth (I)
Geng Nanzhong returned to the Daimyo's Mansion, and after thinking about it, he ordered someone to find some people who had participated in the Battle of Killing Fengkou, and learned in detail about the details of the Battle of Killing Fengkou from their mouths, and determined that Zheng Linfeng did have a motive to kill Li Gang.
In this way, under the temptation of the four states and counties, especially when he himself also wanted to kill Li Gang, Geng Nanzhong finally made up his mind and decided to kill Li Gang by the hand of Zheng Linfeng, and never suffer in the future!
On the second day, Geng Nanzhong announced that although Li Gang had committed a serious crime, his status was special, and although he was a chaplain, he had no authority to try him, and he would have to stay in the Daimyo's Mansion for a long time, and it would be inappropriate for him to continue to stay in the Daimyo's Mansion and be imprisoned, so he decided to immediately send someone to escort Li Gang back to Beijing and hand him over to the Holy Lord for ruling.
This is said reasonably, even Yao Gu is secretly happy when he hears it, everyone has seen that Geng Nanzhong and Li Gang are very wrong, if Li Gang continues to stay in the Daimyo's Mansion, he will definitely be tortured by Geng Nanzhong, if he waits until Geng Nanzhong personally takes him back to Beijing in the future, it will be another torture along the way, not to mention, it is difficult to guarantee that Geng Nanzhong will face the emperor and then enter any slander, which affects the emperor's judgment, so instead of letting Li Gang continue to stay in the Daimyo's Mansion in secret, it is really better to let him leave the Daimyo's Mansion as soon as possible, Breaking away from Geng Nanzhong's control as soon as possible will also make it easier for people of insight in the court to find ways to rescue him and clear his name.
Yao Gu immediately went to the prison to report the good news to Li Gang, and said that he had sent someone to Tokyo to report the news, and was ready to contact many ministers in the court to rescue him, but he didn't expect Li Gang to be silent for a moment after hearing this, and then just smiled at Yao Gu reluctantly and thanked Yao Gu for taking care of him.
Yao Gu laughed and said, "Why is Lord Li so polite, Yu Zhi, my life was saved by you, and I should do my best to repay your kindness, Yu Gong, even if no one in the world knows, I, Yao Gu, also know what kind of person you Li Gang is, and I will try my best to save a loyal minister for the Great Song Dynasty!" ”
Li Gang's eyes were a little red when he heard this, he stretched out his hands from the bar, Yao Gu hurriedly stepped forward and held his hands, only to find that his hands were trembling slightly,
"Brother Yao, you are twenty years older than me, please allow me to call you Brother Yao!" Li Gang said emotionally,
"Brother Li, I've wanted to call you Brother Li for a long time!" Yao Gu said excitedly, and he was also emotional,
"Brother Yao, the younger brother can ...... It's a great pleasure to make friends with you! Hate only ......! If......! Tears swirled in Li Gang's eyes, and he was calm and capable on weekdays, but he also showed a rare look of excitement, and even his words were a little incoherent.
Yao Gu heard the pessimism in Li Gang's words, and hurriedly persuaded, "Brother Li, where is this, don't worry, with me and all the lords in the court, you are absolutely fine!" If it doesn't work, I'll still admonish me to death, and I will ...... whatever I say. ”
"No!" Li Gang shook his head, squeezed Yao Gu's hand harder and said, "Please Brother Yao promise me one thing." ”
"Brother Li, please speak."
"Please Brother Yao always remember my words that night, no matter what happens in the future, you must remember your promise to me, even if it is ......, if you don't promise me, I will die in front of you now!" Li Gang suddenly let go of Yao Gu's hand, took a step back away from the bar, and then made a gesture against the wall that he wanted to hit his head and said in a deep voice,
Yao Gu was shocked and hurriedly said, "Okay, Brother Li, I can't promise you?!" ”
At this moment, one of Yao Gu's personal guards ran in briskly from outside and said to Yao Gu, "General, be in charge of escorting ...... The person who brought Master Li back to Beijing was almost here. ”
Yao Gu was shocked, "So fast? ”
When Li Gang heard this, he smiled at Yao Gu, smiling so freely, as if he had let go of all the burdens, "Brother Yao, you and I will say goodbye here, if there is a coming day, our brothers will have another drink together!" ”
Yao Gu sighed, glanced at Li Gang deeply, hugged his fist hard at Li Gang, and then turned around and walked out, but before he reached the door of the prison, he heard Li Gang's voice sound, "Brother Yao, my family, please take care of one or two on your behalf." ”
Yao Gu sighed helplessly in his heart, he really didn't know what was wrong with this Li Gang, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, why was he so pessimistic, but he could only turn his head and say comfortingly, "Brother Li, don't worry, even if you don't say it, I will treat them like my own family, and when you are cleared of charges and released from prison, I will return your white and fat family!" ”
Li Gang laughed, and said thank you, don't say it, after this sentence, the heavy atmosphere that was still filling the cell just now was instantly relieved,
Yao Gu also smiled, and finally walked out, but did not leave, but stood at the door of the prison as if waiting for something, and after a while, he saw a group of about forty or fifty sergeants driving a prisoner cart pulled by two horses to this side, Yao Gu saw this and immediately walked towards them,
These sergeants were shocked when they saw Yao Gu, and immediately marched towards Yao Gu collectively under the leadership of one person.
"Whose subordinates are you?" Yao Gu asked, "What are you doing in the cell?" ”
A man wearing an officer's uniform immediately replied respectfully, "The last general is a subordinate of Lord Wang Lin, the eighth general of the Beijing Division, and this is on the order of Lord Geng, the Lord of the Qin Mission, to escort Li Gang into Beijing. ”
Yao Gu nodded, it turned out to be a person from the Jingshi Forbidden Army, and asked again, "Do you know who I am?" ”
The man hurriedly nodded respectfully and said, "The last general knows." ”.
"Do you know who's locked up inside?"
"This ...... The last will know it. ”
"Very good, I won't say much else, but there is one thing you have to remember, whether Lord Li is guilty or not, I don't count, Lord Liu doesn't count, Lord Geng doesn't count, only the emperor says it, before the emperor's decree, Lord Li is still Lord Li, and he is still the supervisor of the front-line army, if the emperor thinks that Lord Li is innocent, Lord Li will still come back, and even I will listen to him at that time, there is no need for me to say more."
All the sergeants were shocked in their hearts, even a fool could hear the meaning of Yao's ancient words, and the officer hurriedly said, "Please rest assured, the last general knows in his heart, this way the last general will only escort Master Li to Tokyo safely, and he will not care about anything else, let alone let Master Li suffer a little." ”
Yao Gu smiled, nodded, circled around the prison car twice, and said a few words such as, "It's getting colder and colder this day, and the prison car will definitely be cold if it gets out of the wind, maybe it would be nice if you could hang a cloth to block the wind." ", and such as "Why is the bottom plate of the prison car so hard, it should be much more comfortable to pounce on a quilt." And so on, and then he walked away.
All the sergeants looked at each other, what else could the officer do, the top boss hinted at this, yes, the officer continued to bring Li Gang out of prison, and on the other hand, he sent people to hurry to the city to prepare things, and when he was far away from the Daimyo's mansion, he quickly put the prison car for Li Gang again, and offended this big man who was likely to make a comeback.
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Soon after Li Gang took the prisoner car out of the Daimyo's mansion, the prisoner car was changed by the sergeants involuntarily, although it was still not very comfortable, but it was much better than the cold and breathable it used to be, not to mention anything else, just this circle of cloth hanging around the prison cage is extremely rare, this circle of cloth hanging, not only to block the wind, but also equivalent to a fig leaf, to a certain extent, greatly maintained Li Gang's dignity,
Li Gang knew that this must be Yao Gu's arrangement, and he was even more grateful to Yao Gu in his heart, and seeing that the sergeants had great respect for him from beginning to end, it didn't seem to be hiding any ulterior intentions at all, but Li Gang couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, and secretly said that he had guessed wrong? Could it be that Geng Nanzhong really just wanted to send himself to Tokyo for trial?
It turned out that with Li Gang's intelligence, he noticed something abnormal as soon as he heard Geng Nanzhong's arrangement, with Geng Nanzhong's rampant and proud performance when he faced himself alone in the cell that day, Li Gang didn't believe that Geng Nanzhong would be so "kind" to send him to Tokyo before him, he guessed that there must be an ulterior secret here, and even Geng Nanzhong wanted to take the opportunity to harm himself, but even so, Li Gang still had to embark on this trip, because he couldn't help himself, if Geng Nanzhong really wanted to harm him, he couldn't guard against it at all, on the contrary, If he resisted vigorously, he was worried that his family and Yao Gu would be implicated, especially Yao Gu, if Yao Gu learned the truth and became angry or completely chilled Da Song, it would be disastrous for Da Song!
Therefore, Li Gang knew that this trip would be a dead end, but he also had to step on it bravely without hesitation, ready to face the disaster that was about to befall him in the proudest way!
But the situation in front of him made him a little confused, Li Gang thought about it, and decided to continue to wait and see.
Let's say that they have been walking for another two days, and they are already far away from the Daimyo's Mansion, and everything is still very normal, and there is nothing unusual, Li Gang is even more puzzled, but at this time, a sudden incident completely changed Li Gang's fate!
On a sparsely populated mountain road, the sun was shining and warm, it was a rare good weather before the cold winter came, Li Gang was half-sitting in the prisoner car, leaning on the quilt, and was reading a copy of "Zuo Biography",
Suddenly, accompanied by a few swishing sounds made by something breaking through the air, several dull muffled snorts sounded from the side of the prisoner car almost at the same time, Li Gang's heart was suddenly startled, this time of experience on the battlefield made him hear the sound of archery just now, almost instantly, panicked screams, the sound of swords colliding and screams one after another sounded outside the prisoner car, and several blood and water even splashed on the cloth,
Li Gang sighed lightly, smiled bitterly, and secretly said that the surname Geng was arranged like this, letting people pretend to be robbers on the road to rob and kill themselves, it was really a good arrangement, and it was a hundred, even if someone suspected him afterwards, there would be no evidence.
Li Gang didn't lift the cloth to look at the situation outside, he just closed the book gently, and even habitually put a leaf on the page he just saw, and then put the book aside, silently said goodbye to his family, friends and his comrades-in-arms in his heart, and then straightened his clothes, calmly faced the prison entrance, and waited for the final fate to come.
After a while, the sound of fighting and screaming outside calmed down, and then the door of the prisoner's car was struck, and a big hand still stained with blood reached in, grabbed the cloth and sent it to the side, revealing a handsome young face,
Li Gang secretly said in his heart, this person is so heroic, but he followed Geng Nanzhong's traitor, it's a pity,
"Here," Li Gang said lightly, as if he was greeting an old friend who had been waiting for a long time.
"Master Lee." The young man couldn't help but be stunned, then nodded and exclaimed with a smile,
Li Gang also nodded, closed his eyes slightly, and said lightly, "Come on!" ”