Chapter 23: Secrets

Mrs. Xu San remembered many things from the past.

That year, because she was pregnant with twins, she didn't give birth to the child for a day and a night, Zhao Shan was so anxious that she was sweating profusely, holding her hand and shedding tears.

She was reluctant to Zhao Shan, so she fought her last strength to let the two children fall to the ground.

He said that he would never let her suffer this in the future, and the family of four lived a good life, and she was reluctant to let him work too hard, and it didn't matter if she ate chaff and vegetables, just be safe.

He is hard-working, and she also helps the embroidery village to do some small work, and the life of the two of them is getting better and better.

However, the imperial court arrested the traitors everywhere, in case they were found...... She didn't dare to think about the consequences, he thought about it all night, and finally made up his mind, and the family went to the northwest to beg for a living, although it was barren and the road was bumpy, but the court would recruit displaced people for farming, and they would also have the opportunity to get household registration, so they didn't have to run around like this.

Just as they passed by Fengxiang, she looked at the two children and remembered her mother, and wanted to go back to visit.

But she didn't say it, for fear that the extravagance would bring about a change, but he saw it in his eyes, and quietly asked people to send a letter to the eldest brother and brought the eldest brother back.

Under the light, the brother and sister saw each other's tears blurred, and he leaned against the door with a smile on his face.

The eldest brother quietly brought her and the children into Cao's house, and her mother waited anxiously in the house, and she knelt at her mother's feet when she entered the door, and he also knelt down with her, taking all the fault of elopement on his body.

Everything is not as terrible as she thought, her mother reprimanded her a few words, only said that she had helped her withdraw from her relatives, and now at this step of the field, she took the child and left with Zhao Shan, the mother prepared a coil for her, and the three sisters-in-law prepared a lot of children's clothes overnight, and told her to settle down in the northwest, and wanted to send a letter home, they cried together for a long time, there were joys and sorrows, happy that the family was willing to accept Zhao Shan, and sad that they were going to separate.

The eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law praised Zhao Shan to her, if it weren't for Zhao Shan, they might all have to reunite on Huangquan Road, and some of the women who were caught in the city died very miserably.

Zhao Shan sat on the threshold silently, even if he had saved people, he still felt that he couldn't wash away the sins on his body, if everything could be done again, he would never join the rebels in Zhaojia Village back then.

At that time, Zhao Shan thought that the rebels were just asking for the people's lives, as long as the court promised to open a warehouse for relief, they would stop, but they didn't think that everything was not so simple, and the rebel leader Zhao Chong was ambitious and wanted to overthrow the court and become a grassroots emperor.

After the rebels entered Fengxiang City, they burned and looted everywhere, he saw that the rebels were so brutal, and completely turned his back, and he was going to sneak away from the rebels quietly, but he didn't expect to meet the injured Cao Si Master, he rescued Cao Si and prepared to find another opportunity to leave.

It was also at that time that the rebels searched the Cao family, and the fourth master Cao was afraid that the secret passage where the female dependents were hiding would be discovered, so he stepped forward to attract the attention of the rebels, but was besieged by the rebels, Zhao Shan wanted to rescue but it was too late, and the fourth master Cao entrusted Zhao Shan to help him protect the Cao family on his deathbed, and Zhao Shan was also a promise, in order to save the daughter of the Cao family in distress several times, and finally kept the safety of all the Cao family.

She saw all these in her eyes, in her heart Zhao Shan is the most outstanding and trustworthy man, but Zhao Shan feels that if he does not have this rescue, he may not be able to forgive himself for being a rebel for the rest of his life, and he will kill himself to apologize, he did not regard himself as the benefactor of the Cao family, but was grateful to the Cao family for taking him out of the sea of suffering.

Things have been completed up to this point, and they are all sentient and righteous, living people.

If she and Zhao Shan left the Cao family and went to the northwest, probably no one would go to hell and become evil ghosts.

But life is like this, and she will not be given another chance to choose.

On that day, Master Cao brought back news that the imperial court had pardoned some of the rebels for their capital crimes and sent them to the frontier as military households, which showed that the imperial court would not involve too many people in this matter.

Master Cao has already entered the office, and he wants to come forward to testify for Zhao Shan, who not only escaped from the rebels, but also took risks to save people.

Zhao Shanben is not a famous general in the rebel army, even if the court still sentences it, it will not be too heavy, although he has to suffer some pain, but he finally does not have to flee in disguise.

Zhao Shan didn't want her to follow him and leave his hometown, if he didn't get the household registration, the two children would not look up in their lives, so he decided to stay in the Cao family and let Master Cao continue to inquire about the news to see if it was possible to get rid of the crime.

At this time, when Master Cao asked people to clean up the secret passage, they found that someone had moved the soil in the secret passage, and someone had buried something, and Master Cao and Second Master Cao dug things out together, which were very heavy boxes, and the boxes were filled with branded tax silver.

After the rebels revolted, a batch of tax silver was robbed, and the court has been tracking down the whereabouts of the silver, and the court suspected that the rebels had transported the silver away when they fled from Fengxiang, but they caught Zhao Chong but did not see any trace of the silver, and in the subsequent interrogation, they have not been able to find a reliable clue.

Finally, not long ago, Zhao Chong confessed that someone had hidden the silver with him, and that the rebels would rise up again in the future, and that the silver would be used to recruit troops and buy horses, and one day cut off the head of the dog emperor.

Whoever this silver appears in is the one who colluded with Zhao Chong.

Everyone felt that disaster was slowly descending on the Cao family.

Zhao Shan's rescue and the Cao family's concealment of Zhao Shan's whereabouts made it difficult to explain the relationship between the Cao family and the rebels...... The silver appeared in the Cao family, who would believe that the Cao family did not know at all.

After all, the Cao family gained a lot in the battle of Fengxiang, and several lords and daughters of the Cao family also survived, and this secret passage was originally their hiding place.

Moreover, Master Cao found that the appearance of Zhao Shan and Yinzi coincided with Zhao Chong's statement.

Could this silver be buried by Zhao Shan, Zhao Shan may not want to leave the rebels, but see that the general trend has gone, and find ways to hide it secretly.

When everyone began to doubt Zhao Shan, her words to defend Zhao Shan became pale and weak.

Zhao Shantan did not avoid this matter, let alone have the intention of escaping, he repeatedly told the story of saving the Cao family again and again, he believed that the Cao family would finally understand that what he said was the truth, until the last moment......

Everything came so suddenly, like a storm, it fell on their family of four.

All the Cao family members appeared in the dark night and tied her and Zhao Shan together, she looked at Zhao Shan in a panic, but Zhao Shan cast her a comforting look, at that time Zhao Shan still believed that the Cao family knew right from wrong.

However, it was only then that she learned that her relatives around her were evil spirits.

They smashed Zhao Shan's fingers.

It was that hand that pulled the Cao family out of the secret passage one by one, and it was also that hand that held the weapon and escorted them out of danger.

They hit Zhao Shan on the back with wooden sticks.

On that broad back, there are still scars left to protect the Cao family, and every time she sees it, she will feel distressed.

She had also run away with him on his back.

But now they are mercilessly devastated.

"Everybody wants to live, I understand you...... You are afraid of being implicated, afraid of being convicted by the imperial court," Zhao Shan said very painfully, maybe he wanted to forgive the Cao family, or he wanted to motivate himself, and he couldn't give up until the last moment, because he still had a wife and a pair of children, and he had to survive, "But you believe me once...... It has nothing to do with me, and I don't know why someone hid the silver here...... Zhao Chong may just be talking nonsense...... If he really knew the whereabouts of this silver, he would have asked someone to take it a long time ago, where would he have waited until now.

Even if the court catches me one day, I would rather die than confess to you, I will only say...... Erniang, I snatched it. ”

His eyes were full of sadness, and he had seen it from the face of a person, who he had desperately protected, and now he wanted a way to live from them.

"Let me live...... I still have children to take care of. ”

But the Cao family didn't believe it, and finally added up her hands with bamboo chips, and when they heard her screams, Zhao Shancai began to struggle, roaring and shouting: "She is your sister, you can't do this, please, you kill me, kill me and everything will be over, no one will know, you haven't seen Zhao Shan, and Zhao Shan has never saved you, so let Zhao Shan disappear completely." ”

Zhao Shan was right, the Cao family didn't want him to live anymore.

In times of crisis, Zhao Shan's life was too light and inconspicuous compared to the lives of everyone in the Cao family.

"It's worth exchanging his life for our whole family."

Is it worth it?

Thinking of this, Mrs. Xu San smiled slightly, how could a group of beasts change such a life.

At this point, they had already decided to kill him, but they still refused to let him go happily, and they had to torture Zhao Shan if anyone else knew the secret.

Master Cao used a knife to disemboweling Zhao Shan.

She watched as her husband, whom she loved with all her heart, spit out blood, while his eyes always looked at her, and there was no pain, no hatred, only unbearable, only concern.

How he did it.

He knew that if he showed a little discomfort, she would be hit harder.

Your heart is like my heart, and my heart is like my heart.

He knew that after witnessing all this, she would definitely go crazy and hateful, and these would make the Cao family kill her, and only his calmness could appease her a little.

At the last moment, he was still thinking about her.

He watched her closely, his eyes glued together, not letting her see his miserable condition.

His blood was gone, his organs fell to the ground, and he looked at his wife reluctantly, and then closed his eyes.

Mrs. Xu San stretched out her hand to wipe away the tears from her face.

From the moment he died, she had only one thought, and that was to avenge him, so she struggled to pull on the corner of her mother's skirt, just to survive.

She even admitted that Zhao Shan deserved to die, and a Zhao Shan was not as good as her family.

She has survived until now, just to let the Cao family taste Zhao Shan's pain one day.

So, is her revenge wrong?

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