Chapter 564: Who Cheats Whom (Asking for a Double Monthly Pass)
Although it was regarded as a barbarian by the Central Plains court, the Jurchens had a strict hierarchy of dignity and inferiority, which was different from the Central Plains' rule of law with etiquette. Therefore, although he is also the grandson of Jue Chang'an and the eldest son of Takshi, Nurhachi has been beaten more than once because of his stepmother's trickery, and he has also been locked up in a dark room and denied food for a day or two. But now that there was still a light in the empty house, he only felt that it was more frightening than the dark rooms in his hometown. What made him even more tormented was the news that Shulhazy passed on to him as if he didn't want to die!
Whether the news is true or false is not discussed, but the most important thing is how to pass this hurdle next? Could it be that his younger brother heard what the Li family said in private, so he rushed to inform him? Even if he said it truthfully, Li Rusong might rectify the family around him because of this, but his perception of their brothers would immediately decrease a lot! And let his brother go to Guangshun Pass to trap Atai, no matter whether it is true or not, how can he shout it in public?
Just when he was very anxious, the door was suddenly kicked open, and the two family members who came in immediately after him grabbed his arm and pushed him out. Knowing that it was useless to resist, he simply gritted his teeth, quickly thought about the words he had calculated in his heart before, and hoped that he could impress Li Rusong, even if it was just a little. However, when he was carried into the central room, he saw Shulhazy who had been gagged and covered in blood, as if he had passed out!
At that moment, he only felt his heart twitch violently. But before he could speak, he only listened to Li Rusong on the throne and commanded in a deep voice: "Take this kid next door, splash it with water to wake him up, and then continue to torture!" ”
"Eldest son, my younger brother is only ten years old, it's all my fault, please let him go!"
The trembling voice clearly showed Nurhachi's agitated mood. However. Whether he is begging for mercy or begging for mercy, all the efforts to redeem it seem that they can't redeem Li Rusong's cold and hard determination. And at this moment, there was a clear sound of scooping and splashing water in the next room, followed by a sound of **. Although he couldn't make a sound because he was gagged, Nurhachi only felt a heart shrink suddenly. Because then, there was the sound of whipping meat, snorting, and sneering, and it was an auditory feast.
"If the eldest prince is willing to let go of my brother, I am willing to do anything, and I implore the eldest prince to let him go!"
In the face of this pleading again, Li Rusong just asked a clear sentence: "In the end, Su'er Hachi came back in a hurry and passed on a word to you?" ”
To say or not to say? Not to mention, Shulhazy is afraid that he will be tortured. And if Shulhazy overhears such a secret, their brother may be killed immediately! However, Shulhazy is only ten years old, and it is impossible to say how long he can survive, what if he gritted his teeth now and didn't say anything, and finally Shulhazy finally said it? And just find a reason to fool around, and the brothers have not matched the caliber in advance. How can this deceive Li Rusong? Nurhachi suddenly fell into a dilemma, finally. He resolutely decided to go out and throw out what Shulhaqi had revealed for verification, and fight to the death!
But almost instantly, he heard a scream from inside, followed by what seemed to be a commotion in the room for a long time. A family member came out of the room, and there was a lot of blood splattered on his body. The family came to Li Rusong's side and whispered with a frightened face: "Eldest son, that kid said that he wanted to confess, but after the little one took out the gag cloth. He suddenly bit off his tongue! Because the person had been tortured repeatedly before, he was extremely weak, and this time he was bleeding profusely, and he hit his head in the struggle, so he ...... So ......"
Li Rusong was furious, and patted the armrest Huo Ran stood up: "Waste! Kill people without asking anything! ”
At this moment, Nurhachi only felt despair and sadness in his heart. My grandfather valued profits, and my father was even more cold. After marrying the stepmother who stood behind him on the platform of Hadabu Belle, even when his maternal grandfather Wang Gao was still there, his father regarded their brothers as dispensable, and his maternal grandfather Wang Gao is now dead, who cares about them? He only had Shulhaqi as his younger brother, who was a fellow mother, and after the destruction of Gulzhai village, the brothers tried their best to use all their courage and wisdom to find a difficult way to survive. Now that he has arrived in Liaoyang, Fushun is not far away, but Shuerhaqi is dead, dead!
At that moment, on his hanging head, a pair of eyes had turned blood-red, if it weren't for being tied up by five flowers, there was someone behind him pressing his shoulder, if he didn't know that the struggle at this moment was just in vain, he wanted to bounce up and fight with that hateful person! However, he could only clench his fists, grit his teeth, and use the stinging pain of his fingernails in his palms to remind himself that if he wants to keep his useful body, he must pass the current hurdle first, and when a person dies, there will be nothing! Therefore, in an instant, he made a decision, and the whole person swooped forward, and fell directly to the ground, as if he was shocked by this bad news and fainted.
"Eldest Prince, this ......"
"What are you doing in a daze, wake him up!"
With a chaotic sound of footsteps, Nurhachi only felt a scoop of cold water poured down, and he immediately pretended to have just woken up, and after opening his eyes in a daze, he looked around with difficulty, as if he was aware of the current situation, and immediately roared in a hoarse voice: "Eldest prince, since I was lucky enough to enter the General Military Mansion, I never dared to ask more, take half a step more, you can't trust me like this?" I didn't want to say it just now, because among the eldest prince's family, someone has received the benefits of Wang Gao's son Atai, I dare not say!
Atai is our brother's uncle, and because he was short of money, he accepted a favor and planned to help us escape from Fushun Pass in exchange for ten horses. My younger brother was so moved that he couldn't bear it at a young age, so he wanted to take advantage of the fact that the eldest prince and Wang Gongzi were not there to discuss with me alone to see how to escape, but he didn't expect someone around me to watch. At that time, I said to my younger brother, if the eldest prince's family can betray the eldest prince for money, how do you know that it will not harm us? What's more, if we were able to get out of the prisoner of war camp, and the eldest prince asked the commander to reduce the labor of children under the age of ten, wouldn't we become unfaithless people when we left? ”
That's it in one breath. He was already in tears of blood, and the whole person was completely lying on the ground, crying silently, and said intermittently: "I didn't say it before, just to protect my brother who wants to escape...... And I don't know if Xiao Qi was deceived because he was too young, so that he recognized the wrong person. How dare you casually accuse the family members around the eldest prince that they have different intentions without evidence! ”
"Good, good." Li Rusong gritted his teeth and burst out a few words, and then asked the head of the family next to him, "What do you say?" ”
"It's impossible." The head of the family said that he was a slave of the Li family, but he had a general official position, and after replying to these four words without thinking about it at the moment, he seemed to cherish the words like gold, and said no more.
Nurhachi knew that his true feelings were enough, if he really insisted on it. Desperately tracking down the betrayal of someone in Li Rusong's family will only make it difficult for him to move an inch in the future, so he just sobbed, but he didn't dare to add to it. The indescribable stalemate in the room lasted for a while, and he suddenly heard Li Rusong on the throne sneer.
Li Rusong suddenly didn't want to draw the gourd like the same and try another time, so he immediately said: "Shiqing, you bring people out." ”
Nurhachi couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this somewhat familiar title. When he barely stood up with his hands upright, he found Wang Fulin coming out of the back room with the curtain open. And behind him, two strong men from the Li family were erecting a person he was very familiar with. I saw that his body was stained with blood and his face was sad, but the problem is that people are still alive and well! Faced with the scene of Shulhazy's "resurrection from the dead", he only felt that his mind was blank. Just as he was about to squirm his lips and wanted to say something, Wang Fulin suddenly smiled at him, and then turned around and ordered.
"Strip all the clothes on Xiao Qi's body, and then bring a basin of water."
With Wang Fulin's order, Nurhachi saw that Shulhaqi's clothes were stripped clean at once. Then a scoop of cold water was poured from the head. In an instant, he found that his younger brother, who was still bloodstained just now, seemed to be covered in scaly wounds, and at this moment, except for some mottled old wounds, some bruises, and a few whip marks, there was no trace of excessive torture. When it comes to this, if he still doesn't understand what happened before, then it's really a pig brain! He only felt a heart suddenly and completely tightened, and when he saw Shulhazy's pale face, biting his lip and not saying a word, there was a glimmer of hope in his heart.
Even if he heard the nonsense he just said, Shulhazy shouldn't have said nonsense! What kind of character this younger brother is, no one knows better than him. As long as you find an opportunity to explain everything to him afterwards, you should be able to make up for the negligence of putting everything on Shulhaqi and the so-called leaked Li family after hearing the pain of death at first hearing.
Li Rusong squinted at Shuerhaqi, who gritted his teeth and did not show a trembling appearance, and asked lightly: "Is this really what your eldest brother said?" ”
Shulhazi was silent for a long time, and just when Nurhachi only felt that his vest was about to be soaked with sweat, he heard a very light word: "Yes." ”
"Who's that guy?"
"I didn't see it clearly." Shulhazy reluctantly replied to these five words, and as the people around him relaxed their restraints, he sat down like this, his head drooping deeply.
Li Rusong sneered, and then said lightly: "Before I left, I repeatedly reiterated my father's strict orders, since Su'er Hachi has to violate it, then it's no wonder that I'm not going to do it!" Come on, drag it down and behead it to show the public! ”
Seeing that Shulhaqi, who was sitting on the ground with two family members, was about to go out, Nurhachi subconsciously opened his mouth, but when the words came to his mouth, he seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't say a word. It wasn't until Shulhazy, who had not said a word, had been dragged to the door that he suddenly heard a voice.
"Brother Li, after all, he is a ten-year-old child, besides, he was there with me before, because of his stubbornness, he almost hurt me, and he cursed again, I was angry for a while, but let people rectify him, those rough men with a big temper estimate that they don't give him less hardship on weekdays, after all, it is not as good as Brother Li's treatment of people, it is not surprising that he has the idea of escaping. I know that Li Dashuai's military law is like a mountain, and he may not be able to tolerate this time and spare his life? And then we have to hurry, just a little punishment. ”
Nurhachi never dreamed that Wang Fulin would save Shulhaqi! He has always been strictly isolated from people by Li Rusong's orders, but after so many days of careful observation and listening, he vaguely knows that this Wang Gongzi is the son of a high-ranking official in the imperial court, and he is such a noble son who was almost killed or injured under Shuerhaqi's horse, and as far as he knows, he has been tossing his younger brother before, how can he be so kind now?
Li Rusong didn't believe in the nonsense that someone in the family had fornicated with Wang Gao's son Atai, but he felt that it was more than enough to deceive the two brothers in the scene just now, so he didn't doubt that the Nurhachi brothers still told a lie, but he only felt that someone used this to make him doubt the loyalty of the family and clearly had bad intentions. Besides, since he didn't run, it was not too much to open the net, so he took advantage of the situation to give Wang Fulin a face.
"That being the case, pull it down, whip twenty, and the other thirty will be recorded in the account, and we will talk about it after we return to Guangning!" (To be continued.) )