Chapter 124: Deliverance (2)
It's time to rest when you come back, and you will have to take turns later, but Zhao Si lay down on the bed, but he couldn't fall asleep over and over again, and sat up again.
Zhao Si listened to Tunchang Wang Qi still leading people there at this time, but his expression was in a trance, and after a while, he finally couldn't help it, and went out again to pull Wang Qi: "Uncle Seven, come here, I have something to tell you." β
"What's all the fuss?" Wang Qi said a little unhappily, but Zhao Si, this kid, was honest and obedient, and still gave face, and didn't forget to shout: "You guys are watching here." β
When he arrived at the left place, Wang Qicai asked, "What's wrong?" But what is there to say? Or do you want to switch to a lighter ministry? β
"Uncle, I saw Lord Zuo Ping just now......"
Wang Qi was stunned when he heard this, then looked left and right, and scolded:
"You're confused, why are you telling me about this? It's been Lord Zuo Ping on duty these days, and you see him saluting, understand? Wang Qi scolded at this time and turned around to go back.
"Uncle, I saw them go out with someone - it's the man in the courtyard!"
At this time, a lightning bolt fell outside, listening to Zhao Si's words, I saw Wang Qi trembling all over, his eyes looking straight at Zhao Si, and after a while, he said in a trembling voice: "Is this true?" Don't be dreaming! β
"No, uncle, I saw it with my own eyes."
Zhao Si naturally knew what he was talking about, but he didn't know what was involved.
A gust of wind blew, carrying cold rain, and I don't know if it was cold or frightened, Wang Qi trembled, turned around and shouted to the jailer not far away: "Quick, quick, come with me to see, something is wrong." β
Wang Qi is an old fritter, and he knows very well that Tao Ji in this courtyard is a prisoner, and he will definitely die, and there is no reason for such characters to be taken away in the middle of the night.
Then, this matter is a big deal, if Tao Ji runs away, the two nearby more than 100 jailers may have to lose their heads.
However, at this time, you can't rashly issue an alarm, otherwise, it is also a disaster, and you must check it, if you are wrong, it is also a major crime, and if you are investigated, there may be no capital crime, but it is difficult to escape the living crime.
At that moment, the group was in a hurry and ran towards the courtyard.
Directly knocked open the door, the latch broke as soon as it hit, and there were people guarding inside, looking at it at this time, Wang Qi breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and scolded with a smile: "You kid is, aren't you here?" β
said hello to the two guards and said this, but when he left, it was the ghost who sent a lamp to shine it, and the whole person suddenly froze there.
"Uncle, uncle, Tun Chang?" Zhao Si pulled at this time.
At this time, Wang Qi turned around, looked at the people around him in a daze, and gritted his teeth and spit out a sentence from between his teeth: "Everyone, we are about to be beheaded!" β
Another bolt of lightning fell, shining brightly on the ground, and the next moment, the drums and gongs in the prison rang out.
At this time, in an alley hundreds of meters away from the prison, the group heard the drums and gongs of the prison behind them, and only heard Tingwei Zuoping Huangmeng shouting at this time: "Don't look back, continue to walk quickly!" β
The group was silent, following the planned route, walking in a muffled voice.
Tao Ji was in the middle, he was also walking, breathing in the fresh air, tears also dripping with rain crackling down, still barely believing that he had come out.
"Tao Envoy, the place has arrived, come with me." Walking very fast, at this time it was more than two miles away from the courtyard, and it was barely safe, and then turned into a narrow road.
At this time, the rain continued to fall, although something happened in the city, but it did not react for a while, and in the heavy rain, it was not easy to transmit signals, and the surrounding people had no interest in going out.
And the door opened, and when they got inside, there were several men inside, who answered and whispered, "Go to the wings!" β
When he arrived at a side room, he didn't light a candle, only a lamp, and inside was a study, a small study with a bookshelf, and at this time, Tao Ji realized that he had really been rescued.
It was greeted by a Taoist priest, who went to a bookshelf without saying a word, twisted, only listened to the thin voice, and went out of a hole, and then said: "Tao Yuanjun go in quickly, it is raining heavily outside, and there is no trace of anything, but it must not be delayed." β
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to let Tao Ji go in first, and said: "It's raining now, there is no trace, go first, and change clothes after it is safe." β
Tao Ji no longer hesitated, and went down, this cellar looked gloomy, but when he really went down, he realized that there was still ventilation inside, and as the people kept walking, they walked about two miles or so, and they came out.
Tao Ji naturally knew that this was outside the city, and he couldn't help but sigh, this was a Taoist temple, and there were people waiting, at this time Tao Ji followed the carriage, and then transferred, before dawn, to a country manor.
There are also people who answered, entered a garden in the manor, Tao Ji arrived in front of a rockery, and saw the person who led the way, after some operation, a door appeared in the rockery, Tao Ji entered, and saw that it was a world inside.
Under this rockery, there is a different world, there are blankets on the ground, and there are clothes, tables, and candles.
The man who led the way said, "Please bear with Mr. Tao here for a while, there is water and food, and there is a toilet, but please don't come out." β
"The old man knows, thank you for the rescue." Arching his hand to the other party, Tao Ji said very gratefully: "I don't know what you call it?" β
But the man shook his hand again and again, and said, "Don't dare to say this, there are others who save you, and you will see them after a while." I'll be patient here for a while, I have other things to do, and I'll come back later. β
As he spoke, he closed the entrance, and the figure vanished.
At this time, Tao Ji thanked Zuoping Huang Meng, the court lieutenant beside him, and Huang Meng didn't dare at this time, and said: "In the future, you will have to take care of the old envoy, so that you will be wet, and you will change quickly, we still have to stay here for some time, if the rheumatism enters the body, it is not good." β
Tao Ji nodded, and hurriedly changed his wet clothes and put on dry clothes, at this time, the two of them could not sleep, sat and talked about something, and after about an hour, the sky outside was already bright, and he felt a burst of vibration.
Although there was only the sound of the ventilation hole, but carefully distinguished, they could still hear the sound of horses' hooves and noise, and the two of them stopped talking at this time, looked at each other and smiled, and knew that at this time, I was afraid that the entire Jianye City and the surrounding area might be boiling. 16
As long as no one betrays them, then the two of them are here, even if they turn the sky outside, I am afraid they will not be able to catch up, and along the way, everyone everywhere has set off in advance, abandoning the nest, and for an hour, they are all strong men, and there is no burden, even if they can't chase it.
The oil lamps here are quiet, and there are all kinds of food on the table, including dry food, dried meat, dried fish, etc., and wine.
At this time, Huang Meng smiled first and said, "King Wu reacted quickly, but he couldn't find us. β
Then he sighed: "After all this incident, I don't know when I will be able to return home." β
So saying, he took up the flask and poured wine for Tao Ji.
"Please wait!" Tao Ji hurriedly waved his hand to stop and asked, "After saying so much, you haven't said it yet, who let you save the old man." β
Huang Meng paused for a moment, but said with a wry smile: "I don't know the specifics, but I deduce that it should be Liu Ling, the attendant of the Yanhan Rite Department who visited Wu before, and Liu Lingjun, who took the lead, and later it should be that Ling Lang also contacted many people." β
Hearing him say this, and hearing the news of his son, Tao Ji smiled with a little relief and said, "Hey, it's a pity that it's ......."
After saying this, he didn't say it, but Tao Ji knew that he was out, but he still had a wife and those concubines, as well as his third son Tao Kang and several concubines, after this time, I am afraid that no one can save him, but he also knows that it is good to be able to save himself.
Huang Meng also sighed: "It's a pity that some of my usual colleagues and friends, King Wu is fierce, I'm afraid that a lot of people will be implicated!" β
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves, on the official road not far away, sounded like thunder.
At this time, in the courtyard where Tao Ji was guarded, even in the cold rain, it was surrounded by groups, and a battalion of men and horses blocked this place.
There are also dozens of corpses, which are being carried out, everywhere, sprayed with blood.
These were not prisoners, all of them were jailers, and they were beheaded one by one by an order from the angry King Wu.
The wind blew, and I saw a piece of skull, the young head of the prison Ding Zhao Si, swaying, he was dead, and the one on the right, a little older, was the head of the prison Ding Tun Chang Wang Qi.
At this time, the killing was still continuing, and in the firelight, I saw a tall man, walking around with a blue face at this time.
This man was obviously in a high position, and at this time, he was carrying a whip and whipping it indiscriminately at a group of officers and officials who were kneeling: "You bastards, tell you to guard, now that the people have run away, what do I want you to do?" β
The whip hit these people hard, these people were ordered to guard the military Hou, Sima, etc., this battalion of people and horses, those who had no background below the military Hou were killed, and the military Hou and above could live, but at this time, these people did not dare to move one by one, and endured the whipping.
Because they were only being whipped, and on the field, the slaughter of the hundreds of jailers and the people in the vicinity continued.
"General, spare me, don't do my business!" At this time, it was the turn of the court superintendent of the ministry, who had no background, and at this time wailed and was dragged up, but the executioner walked a little slowly, waiting for instructions.
"Pull it down, cut it! Put someoneβs head on a spike! The whip-wielding general roared.
Hearing this, the executioner did not hesitate any longer, pressed his head hard, raised his knife and beheaded, only to hear a "poof", and the head of the court lieutenant and prison also rolled down, and on the ground in the rain, there were several wails.
Blood mixed with rain flowed all over the ground.
An hour ago
Falling down the hazy rain, the owner of this Jianye City, at this time is looking at the gloomy sky, it can be seen that his figure is burly, the skeleton is very large, and he is still very young.
After walking around from the rain, the inner supervisor beside him helped him get rid of his wet clothes, changed into a spacious regular clothes, and waited for him to wash his face before carefully retreating.
Sun Hao stretched his waist and sat down on the armchair specially offered by King Liang before, but his brows wrinkled unconsciously, although this chair was made of hardwood, but it was wrapped in fur, and it was extremely comfortable to sit on.
He, the king of Wu, was not won by his own strength enough, but the situation in Yan and Han was not good at that time, Sun Xiu died at this time, and the country was afraid of Wei, so he came to the top of the tank.
No one expected that Yan Han would support it, and also launched a counteroffensive, in just two years, Yan Han went on a northern expedition one by one, and the momentum was not small, which shocked the world!
And in the past two years, he has also fought all the way, from the initial position of a puppet emperor to the position of being in charge of the military and government, which is quite dangerous, there are many Wu clans, even Sun Xiu also has several sons, all of whom are more qualified than him to inherit the throne of King Wu.
Originally, he only looked at Sun Xiu's two older children to death, and even ordered someone to secretly do it, but he didn't expect Sun Xiu to be born, united with some old ministers, and didn't know where to learn strange skills, and made a lot of money.
Now he has been pushed to the position of Zuo Du Governor by those old ministers, with tens of thousands of soldiers, responding to every call, and holding the power of millions of lives and deaths, which has become his confidant.
This made Sun Hao uncomfortable, he couldn't control Sun Hao financially, so he could only let him do things in Jiangling Town, but Jiangling Town was facing Yanhan's Bazhou and Wei's Xiangzhou, and it was difficult to have any big development.
At this time, in Sun Hao's heart, Sun Yi is the first priority, and the second is the new emperor of Yanhan.
Sun Wu seems to be in alliance with Yan and Han, and the two countries communicate with each other and have prosperous commerce, but in the past two years, Yan Han has purchased only two materials from Sun Wu, that is, grain and iron, and the salt that was originally there was not bought from Sun Wu more than a year ago, and more than half a year ago, he even began to sell salt to Sun Wu's Jingzhou and Jiaozhou.
The rest of the paper, books, pens, ink, etc., as well as porcelain and glass, are respected in all parts of Sun Wu, which makes Sun Hao have a layer of hidden worries, and it is because of this that he ordered the Tao family to kill the Tao who actively traded with Yan Han.
The Tao family is said to be wealthy, which has expanded in the past two years, but all kinds of items were transported from Yanhan, and the grain and iron exchanged for it were transported to Yanhan, and it is said that they made hundreds of millions of profits, and this money also made Sun Hao's eyes hot.
So a month ago, he killed the Tao family, but the harvest was not as much as imagined, and he only got tens of millions of money, and sent people to chase and kill Cangwu County, the ancestral land of the Tao family, but the Tao family of Cangwu ran away first, which made Sun Hao angry with many people.
Facing the Tao family here in Jianye, they have been killed, and only some potentially important people have not been killed, but they are to be used to squeeze them dry, and the Tao family must still have a lot of secrets, but they have to be tortured, and there are dead people hidden in secret.
"Your Majesty, someone from Tingwei said that there was something urgent to report to you, and it seems that something happened to the Tao family......"
When Sun Hao heard this time, he couldn't care about anything else anymore and stood up.