Shen Leng carried the county magistrate of Yishui County Gao Ling on the horse, pressed him forward, and rode to the outside of the county yamen, and the people on duty outside the county yamen saw that someone was riding over and scolded him, and when he saw clearly, the county magistrate was all stupid after being carried down like a little chicken.

Shen Leng carried people with one hand and fought with the other, from the front of the county government to the back in one breath, and took the time to give Gao Ling a few slaps and asked him how to go to the prison cell of the county office, Gao Ling was extremely angry and scared when he was beaten, but there was no way.

Hit the cell from the gate in one breath, and the people lying on the ground inside and outside the county office groaned in and out.

Shen Leng carried Gao Ling into the door of the cell: "Where does our Lord Guogong live?" ”

Shen Leng asked.

Gao Ling subconsciously trembled, and his face, which had been fanned by Shen Leng, turned pale.

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Gao Ling shouted in a hoarse voice: "You beat the officials of the imperial court, trespassed on the county government, and beat so many officials, you can't escape this matter." ”

Shen Leng glanced at him: "You think I need to escape?" ”

He carried Gao Ling forward like this: "You said it yourself, I can still count you as a confession, you don't say it yourself, I will turn it out, you don't even have a little reduction in guilt." ”

"Who the hell are you?"

"You'll know."

Shen Leng kicked the cell door open, the chains on the cell door seemed to have no meaning under his feet, and the people in the prison were startled, and one of them became excited and ran to the door: "Hero, are you here to save me?" ”

Shen Leng kicked the person back, and the person fell to the ground and couldn't get up in pain.

"Whoever goes out dies."

After Shen Leng said a word, he continued to walk forward, passing by a cell and kicking open one, everyone inside thought that Shen Leng was here to rob the prison, but one was overturned by Shen Leng, and in this narrow corridor, there were too many people to count.

"You don't have to ask him, An Guogong, right?"

The voice coming from the innermost cell was very calm, this cell was a place for felons, and the outer cells were all wooden walls and wooden doors, and this cell was airtight, and the iron door was locked.

"Open."

Shen Leng glanced at Gao Ling, whose face was pale, and Gao Ling hurriedly said, "I don't have the key, the key is in the hands of the cell boss." ”

Shen Leng threw Gao Ling aside, and then kicked on the iron door...... With a bang, the iron door flew directly in, and the walls on both sides of the door were brought down a lot, and the masonry fell to the ground, and the iron door flew into the cell and hit the opposite wall.

The smoke and dust in the room burst out, Shen Leng raised his hand and waved it to both sides with his sleeves, and when the smoke and dust dissipated a little, Shen Leng stepped in, Yu Manlou's father sat on the chair by the window, looking at Shen Leng with a calm face.

"Sure enough, it's An Guogong."

Yu Manlou's father pointed to the chair opposite him: "An Guogong, please sit down first, I want to talk to An Guogong about a few words, ask first....... Did the dog come with An Guogong? ”

Shen Leng nodded: "He shouldn't come in, thinking that he probably doesn't know how to face you." ”

"Between father and son, there is nothing that cannot be faced."

Yu Manlou's father smiled: "I know that if someone finds me one day, it will probably be a dog, and my teachings to him over the years are still useful." ”

Shen Leng frowned, and he sat down opposite Yu Guogong: "You guessed that Yu Manlou would bring someone to arrest you?" ”

"Guessed."

Yu Xiu nodded: "My own son, how could I not guess,

It's like he can guess that I'm hiding here, I'm hiding here, in fact...... It's because he can guess I'm hiding here. ”

Shen Leng was a little confused, but he reacted in an instant: "You are deliberately waiting here to be captured by the people brought by your son, so that your son can have meritorious performance." ”

Yu Xiu nodded: "Yes." ”

Shen Leng: "In that case, why don't you go to the Tingwei Mansion by yourself?" ”

"I can't go."

Yu Xiu said: "If I don't go, my son will bring someone to find me, it will be a good thing for him, at least he can save his life, if I go, many people will die in the Yu family, Your Majesty is benevolent, but some people will not be so kind, and the Yu family has such a big property, I also need time to explain what the family should do." ”

He glanced out: "He doesn't want to see me anymore?" ”

Shen Leng shook his head: "I should have come along, but it took me some time to come in all the way from outside the county yamen to here, and he didn't come in, so I ......"

"Understood."

Yu Xiu was silent for a moment and then said, "I have something I want to ask An Guogong. ”

"You say."

"I know that my sin is unforgivable, but I don't think I'm wrong, the world of Daning was fought by the ancestors of our people with Emperor Taizu, but now Daning's world has nothing to do with us, it's not fair."

"I plead guilty and don't admit my mistakes, but I understand myself, how can a person like me survive Han Zhaozhi's torture, so he wants to know everything from my mouth, and I can't be a person I look down on, so Gao Ling came to ask me before, saying what should my son do when he arrives in Yishui County, so I prepared poison for myself."

There was a jade bottle on the table in front of him, and his eyes left the jade bottle: "Please An Guogong do me a favor, the people of my Yu family should be caught, and they can do what they want, but under the Yu family, the trading house, the land transportation business, the dart bureau, these people have to live, they have to make a living, if the Yu family falls, these businesses will also fall, and thousands of people will suffer, I have arranged it before, the business of the dart bureau is given to the people below, and they feed themselves." ”

"I divided the land transportation business into two, I found all the big shopkeepers and told them that the land transportation business will be theirs in the future, but only half of the income will go to them, and the other half will belong to my son Yu Manlou."

Yu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "As for the property of the Yu family, all of them should be confiscated from the imperial court, and the business will be left to them, and the Yu family's deposit silver is also two or three million taels. ”

He pushed the account book on the table forward: "The accounts are all here, I have checked every item, there will be no mistakes, the people of the Yu family want to fight for power but they are not against Daning, nor against the royal family, these money are the last part of the Yu family's efforts for Daning." ”

Shen Leng got up: "You talk to Yu Manlou yourself." ”

He strode out, and after a while, Yu Manlou was grabbed by Shen Leng with his clothes and pushed into the cell, and then Shen Leng turned around and went out.

He walked to the door of the cell and stood for a while, feeling a little suffocated between his chest and abdomen.

The Yu family wants to fight for power, but it is not anti-Daning, not anti-royalty.

This sentence went back and forth in Shen Leng's mind, and came out over and over again, so clear.

in a prison cell.

Yu Xiu looked at Yu Manlou, his eyes were full of apologies: "Actually, I just deceived An Guogong, and I haven't eaten the poison yet." ”

Yu Manlou looked at the jade bottle and grabbed it.

"Just ate it."

Yu Xiu said: "I ate when he went out." ”

Yu Manlou's eyes instantly turned blood-red.

"You don't

Speak, listen to me. ”

Yu Xiu looked at Yu Manlou with loving eyes and said: "I know that you resent me and think that I am too strict with you, so you have been rebellious since you were a child, but have you ever thought about it, if I am really strict, where will you be allowed to rebel?" ”

"Lou'er, I treat you strictly, and I don't let you ask about what your father is doing, because I want to protect you and let you practice swords, so that you can protect yourself if you have something, and I didn't let you participate in the affairs of the Tongcun Association before, thinking that if something happened to the Yu family, Your Majesty remembered the old love and thought that you really didn't know that he would open up to you, and then let you participate, it was at that time that the father felt that the big thing could be done, you participated, and in the future, the big thing will be done, and you will be able to gain a foothold in the court."

"What the father has to do is wrong for Daning, but it is right for the Yu family, if the Yu family doesn't fight anymore, after a few decades, it will be all living beings...... When the ancestor was the founding father, that is the scenery, that is the glory, those of us who are descendants, carrying the glory of this scenery for hundreds of years but doing nothing. ”

"The Yu family also wants to do something for Daning, is the royal family Bo Liang? No, to put it mildly, if I do the same, gradually weaken the power of the meritorious family and exclude it from the imperial court, this is right, not Bo Liang. ”

After Yu Xiu said this, he coughed, some blood stains overflowed from the corners of his mouth, he raised his hand and wiped it: "You don't have to be sad, your father is an old treacherous and cunning, I have calculated, I will not die, Your Majesty will let Han Zhaozhi strictly investigate, and more people in the Yu family will be implicated, if I die, Your Majesty will let the Yu family go once......"

He let out a long breath: "Lou'er, until now I know that it is actually a joke that the families want to fight for power, and only when they go to a dead end will they understand this." ”

He took out a piece of jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Yu Manlou: "From today on, you are the head of the Yu family, you beg An Guogong to take you to Dongjiang, starting from a soldier, you go to fight back the glory of the Yu family one by one, worthy of the prestige of your ancestors." ”

Burst!

Yu Xiu spurted out a mouthful of blood, and there were blood stains on the table.

"Lou'er ......"

Yu Xiu stretched out his hand and touched Yu Manlou's face: "Don't hate your father for too long, don't hate it if you hate it for a while, if you have hatred in your heart for too long, you will become another person." ”

He coughed again, and Yu Manlou wanted to take him out, but Yu Xiu refused.

"I can't save it, I've been preparing this medicine for myself for a long time, I originally thought that I shouldn't have the courage to take it, but after taking it, I realized that life and death ...... But that's it. ”

Yu Xiu raised his hand tremblingly: "Pour me a glass of water." ”

Yu Manlou immediately got up to pour water, and when he came back with a teacup, Yu Xiu was already lying on the table, Yu Manlou's eyes were blood-red, and he knelt down with a thud.

"I still have a breath."

Yu Xiu propped up the table and sat up: "Six and a half years old." ”

Yu Manlou didn't understand.

"You are the first time you served me tea at the age of six and a half, I remember it clearly for my father, I am afraid that you will burn your hands, your mother asked you to send herbal tea, your cautious appearance, I have recalled so many years in my father's heart, and it is still very clear."

Yu Xiu's eyes gradually blurred, and he took a sip of the glass of water in both hands.

"Five."

With a snap, the glass fell on the table.

Yu Xiu was lying there, his mouth full of blood.

"I hit you for the first time when I was five years old, because you always don't like to eat, you don't listen to what your mother says, and you lose your temper and drop the dishes and chopsticks."

"Lou'er ......"

Yu Xiu turned his head to look at Yu Manlou with difficulty: "Eat well." ”

Close your eyes.

Long resignation.