In August, days of haze and autumn rain filled the air with an unsettling atmosphere.

It was destined to be an eventful time......

First of all, after the trial of the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department, Prime Minister Hu Cheng's son-in-law, brother-in-law, Liuhe Zhixian and other relevant personnel involved in the case were sentenced to be beheaded after the autumn on more than a dozen charges such as murder, harboring, and bribery.

However, for the people of the capital who are accustomed to seeing the world, killing this little person can only be regarded as trivial. Only the heads of people are rolling and the blood is flowing, especially the dignitaries and nobles...... to get them excited.

So they are more concerned about when Hu Xiang will fall than a few insignificant death row prisoners.

What makes the gentlemen in the capital admire is that Prime Minister Hu Cheng has really become a tumbler of Ming officialdom. Even the case of his son being sentenced to death did not remove him from the phase, which is really unconvincing.

However, compared with the big events that happened later, the matter of the Hu family's father and son has become an insignificant matter.

The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 is a day of family reunion.

But on this day, the princes' mansions and dignitaries' homes in the capital invariably began to catch traitors......

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Ji'an Hou Mansion.

"Come in, I have something important to tell you."

Lu Zhongheng called his sons into the study with a cold expression, and then closed the door mysteriously.

A housekeeper seemed to patrol along the corridor casually, but taking advantage of no one's attention, quietly touched under the back window of the study, and took out a copper earpiece from his arms. Gently place your big head against the window and your other hand on your ear.

The voice in the study clearly reached his ears, and he only heard Lu Zhongheng say in a deep voice:

“…… There is a traitor in the middle, who keeps eavesdropping on our family's secrets and reporting them to King Yan. ”

"Ah, who is so hateful?" When the brothers heard this, their faces changed color, and some people couldn't help but start worrying about whether the scandal of adultery with his sister-in-law and hooking up with his little mother would also be discovered?

"He should be here at this moment......" Lu Zhongheng walked lightly to the window, and suddenly pushed open the window sash that had been pulled out in advance.

With a creak, the scene outside was unobstructed, and the frightened guard was exposed.

As soon as he came back to his senses, he turned to run.

"Where to run?!" But he collided with Lu Xun, the head of the guards in the Hou Mansion of Ji'an.

The man wanted to push away Lu Xun in a panic and take the road away, but he was taken down cleanly by the well-prepared Lu Xun with a grappling hand and a sweeping leg after another.

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"Land Rover? How could it be you?! ”

When the guard was tied up by Wuhua and escorted into the study, the sons of Ji'an Hou exclaimed.

They never expected that the spy actually followed his father from Fengyang to Haozhou, and for more than ten years, he followed his father to charge into battle, blocking the knife and being injured in order to save his father!

"Alas......" Land Rover is also a veteran who is not afraid of death and is hard-headed, and since he has been caught, he will no longer quibble, let alone beg for mercy. He bowed his head and sighed, "It's me." ”

"How can you do that?" Several sons were indignant. "After being seriously injured, you couldn't get lucky, and you became half a waste. Our family eats and drinks well to support you, and we don't need you to do any work, and we give you money to spend every month, how can you betray us? ”

"Hehehe, that's right, Master Hou is raising me, but do you want me to be grateful?" Land Rover smiled sadly and said:

"Have you ever thought about who got me to such a field?"

"......" The sons stopped talking.

"It's because of me." Lu Zhongheng, who had been holding his hands behind his back and looking out of the window, said coldly: "I was ordered to attack Quzhou that year, but I encountered hard stubble. Not only did I not take the attack, but I also encountered an ambush on the way to withdraw, and I was wounded by a stray arrow and fell from my horse, causing a rout.

"Seeing that I was about to be captured by the enemy, it was the Land Rover who rescued me from the ground, rushed out of the encirclement on my back, and ran out of twenty miles in one go, so I picked up a life." Lu Zhongheng said with tears in his eyes:

When he was safe, he fell to the ground and fainted. Only then did I realize that he was also seriously injured, and it was he who carried me out by force. ”

"But people's lives are different." Land Rover smiled sadly and said: "After the injury is healed, he continues to live and live, fights for the emperor in the south and the north, makes countless meritorious contributions, and becomes the founder of the country, the hereditary repudiation of the marquis." We have become a waste, we can only retire from the army and send people under the fence, and become the subordinates of the caretaker, although we don't have to worry about eating and drinking, but with the monthly money of two banknotes per month, I can't even afford to marry my daughter-in-law......"

"Should I be grateful to Master Hou for taking me in?" After speaking, he asked the brothers: "Who owes whom?" ”

"It's really not greedy, it's a lot of money, okay? Generally, it is consistent every month. "The eldest prince Lu Xian is in charge of the family, and the monthly money of the subordinates is set by him. Hearing this, he said:

"You go outside to inquire, those able-bodied people who work hard get up early every day, rain or shine, and they can't earn more than two times a month!"

"That is, if you weren't good at making money, why wouldn't you be able to marry a daughter-in-law?" The second son, Lu He, also agreed.

"Haha, it's a lot more than those poor people who are bitter...... "Land Rover laughed more and more coldly: "But I came out of Lujia Village with your father!" It's not me Land Rover, your father can live until now, how many of your brothers can there be? Can you enjoy the glory and riches?

"As a result, instead of repaying the favor, you have become masters with me! How many of you guys spend every day drinking and playing with women, which month doesn't spend thousands of times? Why can I only get two runs, which is not enough to visit the kiln twice! ”

"Listen, is this human talk?" Lu He scolded with a red face: "It's really a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised!" ”

"That's it, we don't care what happens to you, how did you give birth and raise for more than ten years, but instead raise resentment?!" Lu Xian was also angry and scolded.

"Phew, you raise a pug, feed lean meat every month, with a dog girl, you can't beat it five times a month, I'm not as good as a dog!" Land Rover also scolded: "Master Hou still doesn't know the good things you brutes have done, right?" Stealing dogs and playing chickens every day, hooking up into adulterous ......"

The brothers were afraid that he would say this, so they gagged him when they heard the words, lest they let him continue to talk and get burned.

"You guys shut his mouth......" Who knows, Lu Zhongheng is also afraid that Land Rover's scandal of climbing his own ashes will break out. I want to go together.

Land Rover was gagged with a rag, and he couldn't speak, and the Lu family father and son breathed a sigh of relief.

"Land Rover, don't talk about what you have. You have been kind to me, and I have raised you all these years, and I can't tell who owes whom in the past. Lu Zhongheng said slowly:

"But you also came out of the army, do you know how to deal with the fine work in the army?"

Then he said in a low voice: "Press his handprint on the confession, then gouge out his eyes and cut his tongue, beat him to death with a stick, and send him to Yanwang's Mansion!" ”

ps. Yesterday I didn't go out to play, but we went to a meeting of the Writers' Association, and as a representative of the online writers in the island city, I can't push it. As a result, I was too tired to come back, and I only finished writing a chapter......

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