Chapter 13: The Strange Thief
Shen You's two relatives both confessed to attempting to stone Zhang Song to death, and then plotted to harm Zhou Mingshu. Now that all three are dead, that's the end of the matter. Soon after instructing his subordinates to clean up the grounds, everyone in the hall dispersed.
Although Yu Minzhi and Yu Xinzhi quarreled endlessly with Zhou Fang and Li Mo at the end of the scene, the two parties mainly quarreled over whether Shen Yu acted on the orders of Yu Minzhi or Yu Xinzhi. One side denied it, the other party resolutely pointed out, and the two sides quarreled. However, Shen Yu asked Yu Minzhi for help before he died, and Yu Minzhi's momentum was much weaker.
The quarrel did not have a result in the end, Yu Minzhi was the nominal head of Qingsong Valley after all, except for Shen You's words of asking Yu Minzhi and others for help before he died, there was no other conclusive evidence pointing to Yu Minzhi and others, and Zhou Fang and Li Mo were helpless.
However, this quarrel has made the contradictions that Qingsonggu had hidden in the dark public, and Qingsonggu has clearly split into two factions, and the contradictions have become more intense.
Yu Minzhi, Yu Xinzhi and Chen Jia were obviously extremely dissatisfied with Zhang Song, Yu Minzhi no longer had the gentleness and elegance he had before, but his eyebrows were cold, and his face was frosty. Chen Jia and Yu Xinzhi were even more even, completely regarded Zhang Song as an enemy, and wanted to kill Zhang Songge on the spot.
Zhang Song didn't take the anger of Yu Minzhi and the others to heart, they could only be pretentious, and they didn't dare to do anything to Zhang Song, otherwise it would be tantamount to admitting that they had an intention to harm Zhou Mingshu.
As a result, Yu Minzhi's previous order to detain Zhang Song was nullified, and Zhang Song was still freeβin Qingsong Valley.
Although he was still in the thief's den, Zhang Song's mood was much better. Whoever you are, except for those who are trying to harm you secretly, will be in a much better mood.
Zhang Song did not participate in the quarrel between the two factions in Qingsong Valley, but returned to the house where he lived alone.
Lying in the thatched pile, the stiff thatch was so stiff that Zhang Song couldn't sleep, he held his head in his hands, looked at the roof, and carefully thought about what had happened in the past few days.
Thinking about it, Zhang Song still regretted it a little in his heart, he thought it was the flying dragon thief attacking, this flying dragon thief's nest is easy to find, if Zhang Liang arrives in Liangzhou, he will be able to rescue himself quickly when he learns the news.
However, this is a fake flying dragon thief, even if Zhang Rail pacifies the flying dragon thief, Zhang Song will not be rescued, and what's worse is that no one knows that Zhang Song is now in Qingsong Valley, so it is almost impossible to wait for Zhang Rail to come to the rescue.
"There has never been a savior, and there is no immortal emperor, everything can only be relied on by yourself." Zhang Song sighed in his heart.
"Knock, knock, knock!"
There were several knocks on the door, and Zhang Song looked out of the door, only to see darkness.
Zhang Song got up and walked to the door and asked softly, "Who?" β
"Zhang Jun, it's me!"
Zhang Song opened the door, and the two flashed into the room in the dark.
"Zhong Jun, if you come to me at this time, aren't you afraid that Yu Minzhi will blame you?" Zhang Song closed the door and said to the visitor with a smile.
"That's why we came here in the dark." Zhong Lei replied with a smile.
"I wonder who the other one is?" Zhang Song asked as he lit the torch.
"Take the liberty to disturb me, Zhang Jun forgive me." Fang Tao's voice rang out.
Seeing that it was Fang Tao, Zhang Song was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said, "It turned out to be Fang Jun, this is really a rare guest." β
Place the torches and sit down as guests of honor.
The tall Zhong Lei was in stark contrast to the short Fang Tao, both of them were wearing dark colored Ge cloth clothes, and both of them looked at Zhang Song with solemn faces.
"Why are you so serious?" Zhang Song asked with a smile.
"Zhang Jun, you can offend Mrs. and Yu Xinzhi miserably this time. You should be more careful in the future in the green pine. Zhong Lei said.
"That's no way, otherwise I can still wait for them to kill me, besides, isn't there still Zhou Mingshu and their faction?" Zhang Song replied.
"You can't get close to Zhou Mingshu and their faction, they pay the most attention to the family, with your current background, they can't look down on them!" Fang Tao replied.
"Oh?" Zhang Song smiled indifferently, "That's okay, Zhou Fang and Li Mo promised me at the beginning, and after curing Zhou Mingshu's illness, they would let me leave Qingsong Valley." β
"Judging from Zhou Mingshu's actions in the past, although he doesn't look down on your background, his words still count." Zhong Lei said.
Yesterday, when collecting medicine together, Zhong Lei was bitten by a poisonous snake, and it was Zhang Song who risked his life to suck out the snake venom, treat the wound, and save his life. And when Zhang Song's life was in danger, it was Zhong Lei who saved him, and the two can be regarded as friends of life and death.
Just now in the hall, Zhong Lei tried his best to maintain Zhang Song, Zhang Song trusted Zhong Lei from the bottom of his heart, and Fang Tao was also brought by Zhong Lei, and Fang Tao also maintained Zhang Song a lot just now. In this way, some words can be said.
"Zhong Jun, Fang Jun, with your two personalities and talents, why do you want to go out with me? Why stay here and bury yourself? β
"Impossible, since the death of Zhou Zhijun, we will not be in this world......" Fang Tao said quickly.
"Fang Tao!" Zhong Lei shouted at Fang Tao and pointed at Fang Tao with his finger, "You, when you are excited, you forget everything!" β
"What's wrong?" Zhang Song asked, he was a little inexplicable, I don't know why Zhong Lei yelled at Fang Tao, and he didn't understand why Fang Tao didn't say anything halfway through his words, and his face was embarrassed after being yelled at by Zhong Lei.
Fang Tao and Zhong Lei glanced at each other and said, "I believe in Zhang Jun's character, he will definitely not betray us, besides, it has already been said, it is better to simply explain it to Zhang Jun." β
Zhang Song looked at the two of them in surprise and didn't make a sound.
"Alright! I believe in Zhang Jun's character, but if it is known that Zhang Jun knows where we came from, I am afraid that he will be in trouble. Zhong Lei explained.
"It's just the three of us here now, and as long as the three of us don't say it, who will know." Fang Tao said.
"That's too." Zhong Lei's expression became gloomy, and his face became much uglier, "Zhang Jun still remembers when you asked me this afternoon, where did we come from?" I didn't answer you at that time, because I was afraid that after you knew where we came from, you would never be able to leave the Green Pine Valley again. Now there are only three of us, so I can tell you that we are Zhou Ziyin's subordinates......"
Zhou Ziyin, these three words are not familiar to most people, but if you change Zhou Zhi, then many people know that Ziyin is the word of Zhou. Zhang Song remembered that in his previous life, he had learned a text when he was a child, and the title was "Zhou Zhi", which told the story of eliminating the three evils in Zhou Zhi.
It's just that according to historical records, the fate of Zhou is not good. It turned out that after the Zhou Department was changed, he was in the close service and often spoke bluntly. After being promoted to the rank of Imperial Historian, he had to picket and impeach anyone who committed wrongdoing, regardless of whether that person was a favored minister, a powerful person, or a relative. Once King Sima Wei of Liang violated the law, Zhou also dealt with it in strict accordance with the provisions of the law, and did not talk about any affection, which offended Sima Wei, King of Liang.
Many ministers of the imperial court hated Zhou's uprightness, and when Qi Wannian rebelled, they all strongly recommended Zhou's expedition, so the imperial court let Zhou's troops go out, but they restrained him and made him subordinate to Xiahou Jun. Someone asked him to excuse his mother's old age and need to be filial, but Zhou did not agree, he said: "Loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, since you are an official in the imperial court, you should be loyal first." β
Soon Sima Wei, the king of Liang, was the general of the expedition to the west, and he supervised the military affairs in Guanzhong. At that time, Qi Wannian was stationed in Liangshan, with 70,000 people, and Xiahou Jun and Sima Wei repeatedly forced Zhou to bring 5,000 troops to attack. Zhou and Zhenwu general Lu Bo, Yongzhou Assassin Shi Xie Department together to attack Qi Wannian, when the soldiers in the Zhou Department did not eat, fighting alone, from morning to dusk, killing more than 10,000 enemies, bows and arrows were exhausted, Lu Bo, Xie Department did not rescue, but watched him fight hard. His men advised him to retreat, but he did not retreat, and finally fought until the whole army was destroyed.
However, the history books are not accurate, although, as the history books say, the surrounding area was caught in a bitter battle and isolated. But at the request of Zhou, some soldiers were led by Zhou Mingshu, Yu Xinzhi and others to protect his concubine Yu Minzhi to break through.
Soon after the breakthrough was successful, they received the news that Zhou was killed in battle and the whole army was annihilated, so they did not dare to go back, so they had to find the current valley to shelter.
After a moment of consternation, Zhang Song grasped the crux of the problem after a little thought, and asked, "You mean to say that Zhou was deliberately killed by the imperial court?" β
"Yes." Zhong Lei and Fang Tao glanced at each other again and nodded very affirmatively.
Zhang Song was silent, thinking about it, if the court could tolerate Zhou Zhi, he would not be subject to Sima Wei and Xia Houjun's control, combined with the records of the historical books, Zhang Song felt that the court was deliberate at that time, at least by default, to kill Zhou, otherwise many people pleaded to let Zhou not be controlled by Sima Wei and Xia Houjun, and the court would not listen.
If you can't tolerate Zhou, it is even more impossible to tolerate the people who fought with Zhoudi to go back alive. In this sense, Fang Tao is correct when he says that they are not allowed to live in this world.
"Don't be sad!" Zhang Song patted Zhong Lei and Fang Tao's shoulders with his hand and said, "There is no endless road, after I go out, I will come to you in a year or two, and I will definitely give you a good way out." β
The reason why Zhang Song dared to boast about Haikou was because he was sure that he could get Zhang Liang's appreciation, and there would be no problem at all in arranging two people, although Zhang Liang had contacts with the imperial court, but he was far away in Liangzhou, and the imperial court probably had no time to take care of the two little people.
"Really?" Fang Tao asked in surprise.
Zhong Lei's eyes also contained eagerness.
"Of course! How could I lie to both of you? Zhang Song said with an oath.
"That's great! The two of us thanked Zhang Jun first. Zhong Lei and Fang Tao got up and saluted Zhang Song together.
"No courtesy, no courtesy, everyone will be brothers in the future, and it is our duty to help each other." Zhang Song hurriedly stopped the two from saluting.
The three of them then chatted about other things, and it wasn't until dawn that Zhong Lei and Fang Tao left.