Chapter 696: A Place of Refuge
Zhu Changzhe felt that he seemed to understand why Li Chun was willing to give up power for Cheng Ziyu.
These days, he has been especially peaceful.
Of course, there is no choice but to do so.
He was seriously injured and hid with the masters of the Cheng family.
Those who eat the Cheng family, drink the Cheng family, face the Cheng family, and accept their care.
His injuries were so bad that he had to passively blend in with the family.
It's hard to do, but it's not unbearable.
The old lady of the He family sits like a needle in the sea every day, even if she doesn't do anything, she gives people a sense of stability.
Ho was in charge of their food, and there were no fresh ingredients, but he still changed his way to make delicious food every day. No, He had just brought a bowl of hot medicinal porridge to him, and forced him, stared at him, and drank it all in one sip before leaving.
Cheng Ziming and Cheng Zinuo are still painting with a stuffy head, and the other is holding a book, not living up to their call of painting madmen and nerds.
Even that Cheng Ming is really home. After knowing that his wife and children were calculated to death, he woke up from his drunken dreams and death, and on the day he was besieged, he couldn't wait to fight to the death with Zhu Changjue's people. And in the past few days, he has pestered his dead soldiers to learn the tricks that can be used to die together when facing the enemy......
But as long as it was time to eat, the family still sat down neatly, even if they didn't speak, the warmth could still infect Zhu Changzhe.
Especially that day, when the mother-in-law finally found a bag of dried scallops from the dry pile of ingredients.
"Scallops are nutritious, let's cook a scallop porridge for the slave."
But He insisted on throwing the scallops back: "King Zhe can't eat the fish if he is injured, even if he doesn't give it to him, but he can only watch how uncomfortable it should be for us to eat when he smells this umami." I just don't eat it! ”
Authentic? Warm? Can we rely on each other and entrust each other?
Zhu Changzhe thought, this is probably what Li Chun wants. These are exactly what these people lack the most. And home, for the royal family, is even more distant.
Therefore, Zhu Changzhe at this moment also cherishes all kinds of things at present.
He can't become their family, but if he can, he is still willing to repay the stability of this time......
Who would have thought that at the moment, there are hundreds of them, but Cheng Ziyu's girl called into the painting is giving orders.
They were all hiding in the same space, waiting to be rescued.
Zhu Changzhe also had to nurse here because of this wound that almost killed him......
And at this moment, Cheng Ziming, the eldest son of the He family, is making a fool again.
Zhu Changzhe didn't know how many times he had seen him secretly painting.
"You like her?" Zhu Changzhe is rarely nosy.
Cheng Ziming was stunned......
On that day, he suddenly returned to Jingxi.
Subsequently, she used the names of the old man and Cheng Ziyu, with the support of the He family, to control all the rights in her hands. They didn't know what she was doing, but they knew that she was busy, and even the people she brought back from the capital were busy.
A few days later, the landscape suddenly changed.
There was an accident in Shantang, an accident happened to King Zhe, an accident happened to Yamen, and Zhishu also disappeared.
When the Cheng family was looking around for fear that something would happen to Zhishu, Cheng Rui also disappeared......
In the middle of the night that night, Cheng Rui kicked open the door of He's room and scolded angrily, as if he wanted to vent all the anger he had suffered for more than a year in one go.
He thought he was drunk, but soon found out that he was sober!
He just tore off his disguise and reverted to the same selfish and crazy brute he was more than a year ago.
"Hah, look down on me, huh? Tell you, the Cheng family can only be mine! Soon you will know that you will keep your eyes open! You, your family, and all of you, all wait for me, watch! Soon, you will know who can control the Cheng family! ……”
Cheng Rui also made a move on He's family, and after two slaps, he knocked her to the wall.
When He screamed, Cheng Rui had already left.
When he heard the news and sent someone to chase after him, Cheng Rui was nowhere to be found.
The guards came to report that the aura around Jingxi and the Cheng family was no longer right, and there should be many eyes staring at the Cheng family in the dark.
I know that it's time to come, it's coming.
That night, the entire Cheng Mansion entered a state of alert.
Thanks to the preparation before entering the painting, he made a lot of traps, and caught several black-clothed people who sneaked into the mansion in one go.
At that time, she ordered the people of Cheng's house to beat gongs and drums to make trouble.
The Cheng family's mansion is next to the workshop, and more than 1,000 people live up and down, so that the whole street is brightly lit. And all the people who were in the vicinity came out.
Sure enough, the arrested ones couldn't stand the interrogation of Li Chun's personal guards, and confessed that their original plan was to set fire to kidnap people.
But the outside of the Cheng Mansion has been squeezed out.
The dark has become the bright, and Zhu Changjue's people are not crazy to the point of coming to the door with open swords and guns, so they can only give up temporarily and retreat.
Outsiders and most of the Cheng family members didn't know the danger, and they only entered the painting and breathed a sigh of relief with a group of guards.
At that time, the news of the East China Sea had come out, and Zhu Changjue had already appeared.
Sure enough, as soon as he was exposed, he had already set his sights on the Cheng family......
When he entered the painting, he asked everyone to pack up their things and prepare to leave the house.
But after dawn, she found that Cheng Ziming was missing.
She led someone to find him in the studio.
Cheng Ziming is a stubborn temper, he doesn't know the crisis yet, so he naturally refuses to leave his favorite place, but when he entered the painting, he directly picked up the tool and smashed his desk with his own hands, and tore up a painting he sketched this morning.
Cheng Ziming was so angry that he smoked, if he wasn't the maid that his sister valued the most, he would have strangled her to death at that time.
I didn't know that when I entered the painting, I cried and howled:
"Painting can be repainted, tearing can be restarted, but there is no chance in life, and the Cheng family will not have another chance. The eldest young master, you are the eldest grandson of the eldest house, you can not provoke the Cheng family, you can evade responsibility, and you can even be drunk and dream like the third master, without asking anything! But you can't live up to the family, bully the fourth lady, and drag the Cheng family back! ”
A few guards were directly summoned into the painting, Cheng Ziming was wrapped in zongzi, and dragged out of the studio directly.
Cheng Ziming looked at the painting crying uncontrollably, and his anger inexplicably turned into self-questioning.
Later, Cheng Ziyu, the representative of the painting, announced that the Cheng family's workshop would be suspended for a period of time, and all the workers and apprentices were dispersed, leaving only an empty house.
They used the fastest speed, in front of the people of Jingxi, and everyone retreated to the Zhuangzi on Chengjia Mountain, that is, the old man's small workshop.
It was decided that Zhu Changjue would not do it in broad daylight, and sure enough, they evacuated easily.
"It's the best way to keep the house, the workshop and all the people safe. Cheng's house is empty, no matter how reasonable and rampant Zhu Changjue is, it is impossible to go to the Cheng family's empty house to make trouble. That's what Ziyu told the painting.
"On the other hand, they will only think that we are leaving to preserve the secret of the Zhuangzi on the mountain. Zhu Changan knew that the old man's hard work for half of his life was hidden in the workshop. Therefore, the Zhuangzi on the mountain is always what they are determined to get.
Therefore, as long as there are no accidents, they will not stop us from retreating to the mountains. The mountain is an independent existence, and the fact is more convenient for them to do it than the mansion, so they will definitely wait for us to escape up the mountain and not do it halfway.
In his previous life, the ones that Zhu Changan wanted were burned by the fire on the mountain. In this life, I want him to continue the pain of his previous life! ”
Everything was under control, and sure enough, in the middle of the night, I saw a series of black shadows appearing, quickly surrounding the entire mountain and Zhuangzi.
In front of the dragon kiln, Cheng Ziming, who was tied into a zongzi, was pushed to the front of the painting.
"See? What do you think? Is every step of your plan for your favorite sister easy? It's all you selfish and timid Cheng family men who can't support it, so the Cheng family has to abandon even the house! You are the eldest grandson, you should stand at the front and see clearly, see how rampant the enemy is, and see how the Cheng family is gone! ”
He has always been angry with this unscrupulous young master, and insisted on pushing him to the forefront.
Although He felt sorry for his son, he also felt that what he said in the painting was reasonable, so he didn't overdo it......
Zhu Changjue's people got the order, and they had to catch it alive, and they had to rush before the officers and soldiers came. The more masters related to Cheng Ziyu are captured alive, the greater the credit. At present, the hard work pays off, and the masters of the Cheng family and the He family are all gathered on this mountain, but they are happy.
It's a catch-all rhythm!
Caught this group of people, Li Chun and Cheng Ziyu over there still dare to be disobedient? Then they will take the Cheng family's bloodletting with a knife and keep each other sour......
Since the Cheng family on the top of the mountain was directing the guards to release arrows, which was not conducive to the advance of the man in black, they changed their strategy.
"Give you a chance, go down the mountain quickly, and spare your lives! Otherwise, I'll burn the mountain! At that time, not only will none of you be able to run, but even Cheng Yi's hard work will be burned. Zhu Changjue's people waved torches and threatened them......
But who would have thought that at the top of the mountain, someone would have the same idea.
At the top of the mountain, an order was given, only to see arrows lit on the arrows flying in, Zhu Changjue's people planned to dodge, but they saw that those arrows only flew to the mountainside, and there was no point in sight.
They were about to laugh, but they didn't want a fire to suddenly rise on the mountainside......
"If you want to capture the Cheng family alive, if you want to get the Cheng family, if you want to get the Cheng family, don't dream! Even if we are burned alive, we will not succumb to the hands of your thieves! God has eyes, and he will never encourage you evil forces! Standing at the highest point of the painting, her face flushed with the light of the fire.
The area around the mountainside is the residence of the workshop workers, and there are many flammable materials, and it is easy to use your hands and feet. After Bai Cheng's family went up the mountain, preparations were made on the mountainside. The whole circle was doused with oil.
So at the moment the fire is ignited.
The raging fire began to spread, and Zhu Changjue's people at the foot of the mountain jumped straight to their feet.
The fire burned more and more, and the flames that devoured up and down the mountain were extremely fast, separating the Cheng family and the pursuers into two.
"Our county lord told you to take care of it. Everything in the Cheng family would rather be handed over to the fire than left to you! Wake up from your dreams! Your master's purpose is also destined to fail! The entire Jingxi will know that the Cheng family has all been burned alive, and you don't want to take the county lord and general! This is providence! Your master is doomed! ”
The fire lit up a radius of several miles. Those who were originally determined to win, but at this moment, they were drawing water with bamboo baskets, and the nearly 1,000 people in black who failed the mission also showed their hideous faces.
In the painting, in front of them, the hilltop farm was also set on fire......
The fire of Zhuangzi and the fire on the mountainside quickly merged, blocking the sight of the desperate but helpless pursuers at the foot of the mountain.
Shortly after he retreated into the secret passage, a loud explosion was heard.
They had already lined up the gunpowder.
Gunpowder is used, and the effect is good when there is an explosion.
Only by shocking the entire Jingxi territory can we deter or scare away these people as quickly as possible, can we attract officers and soldiers as quickly as possible, can we make officers and soldiers have to intervene, can we make this matter impossible to cover up, and can we make this matter so big that Zhu Changjue will not be able to come to Jingxi to make trouble again for a while and a half, so that their evasion can be safer, and only then can the news reach Cheng Ziyu's ears earlier.
Of course, the most important thing is that a fire is not enough for them to flee without being able to hide their eyes.
Even if you are burned to death, you have to leave a corpse, right?
Simply, there will be a dead corpse, and the flesh will be blown up?
Fortunately, the Cheng family developed and manufactured a lot of pottery for the imperial court, and the gunpowder reserves were sufficient.
They calculated the amount and buried it early, and when the fire burned to the place where the medicine was buried, it would automatically detonate.
By that time, all of them had already left the secret passage.
In addition, they also made a lot of preparations in order to make the scene.
For example, gold and silver scattered on the ground, all kinds of weapons, all kinds of utensils, and even a large number of human bones and animal bones were prepared in advance.
After the explosion, these blackened and shattered bone fragments are enough to shock and convince people, right?
In addition, they introduced some explosives at the entrance to the tunnel.
After the entrance collapsed, even if the ruins were cleared, it would never be possible to find the dark passage that had collapsed into mud and rock.
This secret passage goes to the back mountain.
The exit is in an abandoned mine.
Jingxi is mostly suitable for mud mining, so most of the mountains are dug into a hole in the east and a hole in the west. The one they chose was a mine that had been dug up and abandoned by the old man for 30 years.
After many years of abandonment, the surface plants grow back and have long been integrated with the natural environment.
Cheng Hongyu and the He brothers loved to play when they were children, and they always loved to drill mines. Once, Hongyu and He Sijing played hide and seek and hid in this mine, the eldest cousin of the He family couldn't find anyone, seeing that it was dark, after he admitted defeat, the younger brother and sister still didn't come out.
The Cheng family and the He family were all shocked, and they searched for several hours in the back mountain but did not find anyone. In the end, the two children were found and sent back in the suburbs two miles away.
It turned out that the mine was two miles long, and the two children walked forward at first to avoid being discovered, and then they moved forward out of curiosity, and ended up walking two miles away in the mine.
At that time, this was the longest vein on the rocky mountain of Houshan. Due to its age, even the old man forgot about this hole.
The two were frightened in the dark cave and went back to a serious illness. Hongyu was grounded for half a year for this, tossing at home every day, and Ziyu couldn't forget the days when Hongyu was going out.
From then on, the old man ordered that the entrances and exits of the ground of this mine cave should be sealed with large stones.
Since a year and a half ago, when Zhu Changan pretended to be assassinated and led people to Zhuangzi on the mountain, Cheng Ziyu felt that it was not enough to recruit people to protect the Cheng family, and he had to find a way back.
Then she thought of the two-mile-long cave. She had seen it, and because it was stony, the cave was still solid. Anyway, it was in the back mountain, and at that time, she thought that if someone killed her again, she would simply hide in this mine, which would be a good place to hide.
Later, after Cheng Ziyu found out that the memories of Zhu Chang'an's previous life had also returned, and after the Cheng family faced Zhu Changjue and others, she felt that it was not enough to hide temporarily, what if she had to face the overwhelming destruction of her previous life in this life? So even if there is this hiding tunnel, how many days can you hide?
She wants a shelter that she can either hide for a year and a half, or escape with her whole body......