Chapter 15 Inquiry
After the Mid-Autumn Festival family feast, the emperor ordered the victims to be placed in Anping Village, ten miles outside the city, and asked the household department to "assist" Su Man's Fumanhui to complete the charity disaster relief. Su Man's performance at this banquet was a shame, and he took off the name of the straw bale daughter and won the Holy Commendation to the Huang Ban, and even Master Shen was honored.
Of course, the Yin of the capital government was naturally dismissed, and the guards of the capital let people hijack the officials and relatives on Suzaku Street is also to blame, and the guards of the day were each fined 30 days for three months, and the matter came to an end.
The next day, Su Man went to Anping Village with Su Cheng, Zeng Yunyi was seriously injured before and they rushed to the banquet and did not have a chance to talk to her, she still had questions that the other party needed to answer.
In the carriage along the way, Su Cheng glanced at Su Man in men's clothes, her eyebrows and eyes were seventy percent similar to Princess Jinxiu, but the bridge of her nose was as tall as him.
Su Man sat on the side of the carriage and opened the curtains to enjoy the view of the roadside, where his meaty face munched on the pastries made in the kitchen. is still humming a little tune, completely unaffected by yesterday's hijacking, and seems to be in a good mood. Like a gentleman who is traveling, he is very different from the embarrassed Su Man he saw in the woods yesterday.
Su Cheng originally thought that the pampered pearl in his palm would cry when he saw him, but to his surprise, this girl was frightened, but there was no trace of fear in her eyes, but she was very calm. After that, he could calmly deal with Princess Changping's difficulties and the queen's design in the palace banquet, Su Cheng looked at Su Man, and his eyes were full of guilt.
He did not fulfill the responsibilities of a father, although the housekeeper would send him a letter every half a month, but after all, he missed the child's growth stage. The child was not accompanied by a father, and Jinxiu was very distant from her. After all, yesterday's incident is a matter of life and death, and ordinary children must be extremely panicked when they encounter such a thing for the first time, but Su Man can face it maturely and calmly.
Su Cheng remembered that Su Man was beaten and seriously injured in the back alley some time ago, so he made up for Su Man's miserable life in the capital in his mind. Su Cheng felt ashamed of being a father, and General Su, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, felt that his nose was sour, and his eyes were a little hot.
Su Man in the carriage felt the unnatural look of the general looking at her out of the corner of her eyes, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Daddy, do I have anything dirty on my face?" ”
"Uh... You kid still leaks his mouth the same as when he was a child" Say it, Su Cheng handed Su Man a piece of brocade and asked her to wipe it herself. Then he rubbed his nose, and didn't look at Su Man, feeling that Su Man was looking at him, he just closed his eyes and recuperated.
Soon the carriage stopped again, and the coachman Su Dong was heard shouting, "General, Anping Village has arrived"
"Good"
Su Cheng took Su Man into the village, and when the villagers learned that it was General Su Cheng himself, they came out to express their gratitude. There were even children who came to hug Su Cheng's thigh and said that they wanted to join the army, which caused Su Cheng to laugh for a while, and he asked the child to exercise well and go to the recruiting office to report his name to Su Cheng when he was in the year of hair binding.
Su Man looked at the harmonious interaction between Su Cheng and those disaster victims, and smiled slightly, at least for now, it seems that one of the catastrophes in Su City has been resolved.
After that, they came to Zeng Yunyi's residence, he was doing bamboo weaving alone, and he was a little at a loss when he saw someone coming. If you want to make a tea, there is no tea at home, the water was boiled last night, and the fire is not turned on today, which is embarrassing.
"No need," Su Cheng sat down directly, looked straight at Zeng Yunyi with his eyes, and said sharply. "I'm here to ask you a few questions."
"I don't know what General Su asked?"
"Don't waste time," Su Cheng's hand tapped twice on the table, and his voice seemed to be the awakening wood of the old man's mansion, "Say who instructed you to kidnap my wife and daughter?"
"General Su ......" Zeng Yunyi's voice was a little dry, he understood that this general had come to settle accounts after the autumn, after all, it was his negligence that put the general's wife and daughter in danger yesterday. He himself is alone, and it doesn't matter whether he lives or dies, but the brothers who act with him are all dragging their families, and he doesn't want to involve them. Zeng Yunyi dragged his injured body and knelt down in front of Su Cheng and said, "The kidnapping of Mrs. and Miss is my intention, and it has nothing to do with others, and I ask the general not to implicate others." I will pay with my life."
Hearing this, Su Cheng sneered and said, "You mean it alone, are I a fool when I am Su Cheng." Or do I raise all the wine bags and rice bags in the general's mansion? The road out of town is full of hurdles, and you can all get through it unimpeded, don't tell me you're just lucky. ”
Zeng Yunyi kept silent, unwilling to betray anyone.
Instead, Su Man opened his mouth to play the role of a white face and said, "Brother Zeng, I admire you for being so righteous. She squatted down and looked at Zeng Yunyi and said, "But have you thought about it, if it wasn't for yesterday, the masked knight appeared in time to save us." Then at this moment, my aunt and I are corpses without temperature."
Zeng Yunyi's eyes turned from firmness to guilt, "I'm sorry, Miss Su"
Su Man just looked at the other party's eyes calmly and continued: "You know, my father has been guarding the frontier, and he will only return to Beijing for a few days a year. My mother and I are his only relatives, the Mid-Autumn Festival, a long-lost family reunion, you chose to let me and my mother risk yesterday, I don't know where my father offended you? ”
"No, I have no grudge against the general." Zeng Yunyi wanted to explain immediately, but he was not good at words, and he was short of words for a while, "I... I just fainted."
"Momentarily faint?" Su Cheng looked at Zeng Yunyi and said coldly: "Do you know that your momentary fainting almost ruined my family."
Zeng Yunyi, who was kneeling on the ground, felt guilty, so he had to keep kowtowing and apologizing. Su Man looked dizzy, pursed his mouth and said, "Okay, okay, yesterday's assassin is no coincidence, Brother Zeng, we will not spare the bend, and the person who instigated you to kidnap me and my mother is absolutely inseparable from this matter." My dad isn't an indiscriminate person either, so don't hide it."
"I'm really sorry" Zeng Yunyi kowtowed a few more times and apologized sincerely, but the righteousness of the rivers and lakes overcame that trace of guilt. also said with a generous and righteous look: "Zeng's cheap life was originally saved by Miss Su, and I will return it to Miss Su today, please dissipate your anger." ”
Saying that, he was about to swing his palm at his heavenly spirit cover, saying that it was too late, and then quickly, Su Cheng quickly grabbed the other party's wrist, and forced.
"Click"
"Hiss~" Su Man on the side closed his eyes, and it hurt to listen to it.
"Stupid" Su Cheng looked at Zeng Yunyi's stupid appearance and really wanted to slap him directly, but somewhere in his heart he admired such a person who did not betray his friends.
"Brother Zeng, let me tell you the truth, this incident was planned by the Gongpot Ri people in the frontier. The Kampot Japanese people have always been eyeing our Daliang, and my father is a big obstacle to their capture of Daliang. ”
“……”
"They want to kill me and my aunt with your hands, and my father's spirit will be hit hard. Then create a conflict between my father and you disaster victims, induce my father to fight with you, and tarnish his reputation. Let his great exploits be stigmatized as mutilating the victims. ”
"This..."
"Otherwise, do you think that just a few of you victims can bring such a big storm in the capital? You can also see the assassins of the day, and the secret weapon they used was the dragon horn mandarin duck and duck commonly used by the Kampot Japanese people. And this abduction seems simple, but if there is no cooperation in the city, can we get out of the city so easily? ”
Listening to Su Man's analysis, cold sweat oozed from both Zeng Yunyi and Su Cheng's foreheads.
"Miss Su, Zeng definitely did not collude with the Kampot Japanese tribe."
"Of course we believe you, but this matter is related to the country, and the Kampot Japanese people want to use this incident to destroy my father from the spiritual level. Their real purpose is to take advantage of my father's frustration to capture the frontier and attack my Daliang, Brother Zeng, are you trying to help the abuse? ”
"Ahem, cough, cough" Su Cheng got goosebumps when he heard this, looking at his daughter who was talking nonsense with such righteous words, he almost believed her as an evil person.
"No, no, no" How could Zeng Yunyi have thought that this matter is related to the country's social affairs, and any righteousness is vulnerable in the face of the great principles of a great country. "General, please believe that we will never collaborate with the enemy and betray the country, I can swear to God"
"But what if you're being taken advantage of?"