A large group of people, including the guards and soldiers, the honor guard, and the local officials, had walked dozens of miles of waterways from Yugan County before they came to this Dayuanba village. After some tossing, it was almost late. So everyone had to rest on the spot for the night.

The officials requisitioned a lot of people's houses, and the guards were fortunate to have military tents, and the people were barely able to settle down in this small village, where there was nothing.

Qianrui and Du's mother lived in their own home. The yellow dog arranged for many eunuchs and sergeants to take turns guarding outside, the mother and daughter lived in a dilapidated house, and several young palace maids waited for their lives.

When night fell, the bedroom was littered with black-brown dirt under the oil lamps, smoky, dirt turned into dirt in the humid air. Even on the roof hangs a black stain called "yang dust", which is what remains of the cobwebs smoked with plant ash. Qianrui had already accidentally heard the palace maid's whispered complaints.

Du Mu said some useless things, saying that Qianrui's clothes were silk and very expensive and would be damaged, so she changed the old linen clothes in the cabinet and slept again.

Qianrui took the initiative to ask her mother (mother) how she had spent all these years. Sure enough, my mother said that after my father became a murderer, not only did she lack food and clothing to make a living, but she was often bullied; When I went out, I was poked in the back and chewed my tongue, and I didn't even dare to go out for a while.

No wonder Mom is acting so numb now! Mom is not confused, how can people live in such an environment without being numb?

Everything was like a dream.

Qianrui remembered what Zhu Gaoxu said: If a person wants to live a little better, he usually relies on his own ability; If you want to be a master, you must have luck.

A tumper-earth dream of the Du family, isn't that the case? The family became like this, purely because Qianrui's father did not do his job properly; But Qianrui's return to her hometown, and being able to have today's pomp and circumstance is not determined by how much ability she has.

In her sleep, Qianrui really had a dream.

She dreamed that she was washing clothes by the pond, as if she was not very old, because she had not been sold until she was sold. Then she accidentally fell overboard! She was panicked and scared, desperately trying to run to the water, but somehow she had a big rock tied to her body!

Qianrui felt that her body was sinking, and the pond was so deep for some reason, and it couldn't fall to the end. She felt cold and dark underwater, and she was suffocated, panicked and terrified, and desperately pulled the rope with the stones on her body.

At this moment, what Qianrui hates the most is the heavy stone on her body, if she is not dragged down by the stone, she can save herself!

Finally untied the rope, Chirui kicked off the stone without hesitation, and swam up to it. Although she was still in the water, she suddenly relaxed at this time, and a comfortable feeling came to her mind early......

The next morning, after Qianrui got up, she remembered the dream she had last night. There were some details that she couldn't quite remember, and the things in her dreams quickly blurred, but the feelings were clear.

The palace maids waited for the mother and daughter to groom their sparse makeup. Qianrui sat there in a daze, thinking of that dream, she felt a little in her heart.

She suddenly felt that her heart was very ruthless!

A lot of times she behaves softly and kindly, but she can do something. When Zhu Gaoxu came to pick her up, she left her messy home and poor mother directly, and left immediately without hesitation; And I haven't asked my family for so many years.

This time, she found out that her father had been unjustly sentenced to death; She also knew very well in her heart that it was indeed a wrong. But she didn't hate the county official at all, and she didn't feel sad...... sold her father twice, and Qianrui couldn't be sad in her heart.

Of course, the way she behaves on the outside is heartbroken, after all, so many people have to see her filial piety. But none of her tears were shed for her father, it was entirely because of poor mother.

Last night, the eunuch Yellow Dog sent someone to prepare filial piety clothes, and in the morning Qianrui wore linen and filial piety, and took a large group of people to the mountains to worship his father.

She knelt down in front of a simple mound overgrown with wild grass, and she couldn't get up, so she had to try to think about her mother's difficult life, and her mother's trembling hands with a bowl of white rice last night, and she suddenly felt sad. He knelt down at the grave and wept like a tearful man.

"Wow......" suddenly burst into tears. Qianrui glanced sideways, and it turned out to be the magistrate in a green robe. Zhixian cried more fiercely than her, hanging his head on one side and crying Ordovician on the other!

The rest of the officials also sighed sadly nearby, and some even pretended to gently rub their dry eyes with the sleeves of their robes.

Of course, the saddest person is still the magistrate, he is like a dead father. But Qianrui felt that his sadness was real, after all, his career seemed to be coming to an end!

Qianrui knew that she was wrong to think like this, but she couldn't fool herself: not only did she not hate this county official, but she sympathized with him at this time.

Because of a moment of sympathy, Qianrui suddenly thought: If she opened her mouth to help the county magistrate exonerate, and asked the officials of the Prosecutor's Department to investigate and deal with the jailer who was tortured to extract confessions, could she help the county magistrate?

In this way, Du Qianrui will definitely get a good reputation in Shilin, Jiangxi; The officials were tolerant, of course they would say good things for Du Qianrui! But Du Qianrui thought about it, and still shook her head slightly, feeling that she had better be cautious in her words and deeds, so as not to be caught interfering in politics.

After sacrificing her father, she stood up, choked with tears on her face, and said, "Officials, don't severely punish the people involved in the case because of me. This matter should be handled fairly in accordance with the "Da Ming Law" and in accordance with the law of the imperial court. But the father was indeed wronged, and I am his daughter, and I know who he is, and I will not kill anyone. ”

An official hurriedly said: "Mrs. Du is sensible and knowledgeable, and the officials are so admirable." The officials hurriedly agreed.

Du Qianrui said again: "There is a holy decree coming down from the saint, asking us to return to Beijing as soon as possible to meet us; I don't dare to delay, so I'll leave today. This trip was due to my selfishness and delayed the official affairs of the yamen, and after I returned to Beijing, I asked the Holy Lord for sin. ”

According to the inspector, the official hurriedly said: "Madame, just rest assured, the lower officials and others will have to strictly investigate this matter, give Mrs. an explanation, and return the Du family to a clean slate." Mrs. was thrifty and loved the people on this trip, and the officials set a chapter to praise Mrs. for her reasonableness and filial piety in the township. ”

After listening to this, Du Qianrui also said softly and sensibly: "You have also worked hard, and I will speak well in front of the saint." ”

She then said to her mother, who was standing next to her, "Mother will come to Beijing with me, and let my brother do his filial piety." Daddy's grave, ask my brother to take care of it, this time we can't delay time. ”

She actually said it to the people around her, and it was also for filial piety. Because Qianrui knows her mother, she is also resentful of her father, and she doesn't necessarily care about whether she repairs the grave or not.

When everyone returned to the village from the mountains, the eunuch Huang Gou reported: "Some people claim to be relatives of Madame and want to see Madame." ”

Du Qianrui's brows furrowed slightly, remembering what her mother said last night, "everyone poked her backbone", so she said quietly: "We are rushing into Beijing, and the warship is already waiting in the Poyang Lake case; There can be no delay at this time. You go and send them. ”

The yellow dog clenched his fists and said, "The slave obeys." ”

……

Recently, brigades in several places have been rushing to Beijing. In addition to the Shen family and the Xu family in Yunnan, the Sichuan political envoy also had a large number of people traveling eastward.

Mu Sheng and Wei Da received the holy decree that the fast horse was sent to Sichuan, and immediately set off to return to Beijing; The military affairs of Sichuan were handed over to Li Rang, the commander of the capital. But now there is no too urgent military affairs in Sichuan; The puppet official armies in the north and east have been edicted one after another, and it is impossible to attack Sichuan again.

The Mufu family, accompanied by Wei Da and others, took the escort army, and transferred many official ships in the Sichuan Political Envoy Division; Then take the waterway into the river, down the river and out of Sichuan in the east.

At this time, their fleet had just arrived at the boundary of Jingzhou Prefecture.

During the "Battle of Crime", Jingzhou had tens of thousands of troops, both land and water. However, after Zhang Fu led the main force of the naval division to surrender, the naval warships of Jingzhou were also subsequently wiped out; Some of the warships fled, and some surrendered to the sinners.

But Lu Shi, who was stationed in Jingzhou's capital city, was ignored at first; It was not until Zhu Gaoxu's enthronement edict was delivered to Jingzhou Mansion that they received the new emperor's edict.

The convoy of people and horses from Sichuan passed through Jingzhou, and Wei Da took a team of people to go ashore and said that he was going to Jingzhou City to do something. Mu Sheng persuaded him a few words, but Wei Da didn't listen and still went into the city.

The emperor has changed, and the prefect yamen and garrison of Jingzhou City do not have any hostile posture; After they got the official document, a group of people came to greet Veda. Everyone knows that Wei Da is one of the three guards of the Han Palace, and he doesn't dare to slack off!

The prefect said that a reception banquet had been prepared to fulfill the friendship of the landlord.

But Wei Da was not interested in this, and asked where a military general named Li Jiaming was, so he led people to the camp office and met this person who was originally a military general of the Han Dynasty's army.

Li Jiaming was the military general of the Han Dynasty who opened the city gate for a reward of 200 yuan when the puppet official army attacked Kuizhou! The other brothers of the Li family were all on the side of the puppet dynasty official army, and Li Jiaming made meritorious contributions and received money and came to the Jingzhou army.

Wei Da didn't know this person before, and he didn't have much to say when he met, Wei Da just said coldly: "It's really cheap to buy a key city and a national prince for 200 yuan." ”

Li Jiaming already understood what was going on, and was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Wei Da sneered again: "But you can't please it, you can't do anything and be a good thing to be an official, but you don't want it, you have to rush to die!" Then I can't blame you! ”

Wei Da pulled out his waist knife and stabbed Li Jiaming in public|Death in front of everyone's eyes!

"The people who surrendered to the puppet official army are all right. But this traitor to the Sin Destroyer must die! He also arrested his brother and escorted him back to Beijing, so that the Governor's Mansion of the Crime Suppressor Army would be punished by military law! Veda confessed to the prefect.

The prefect had no choice but to agree.