"Damn, do you want to take this kid with you?" Jin Tongwu sat under the tree and asked Wu Guoan next to him.

Wu Guoan scratched his head and hesitated and said, "There is no problem with identity, we have both seen Zhaozong's appearance before." Belch...... Let's take it back and see what the king does? ”

"But the king has already sent someone to pick up Zhu Jingchun, and when the time comes, bring this back, wouldn't it be another roff, wouldn't it make the king uncomfortable?"

"So what do you say? Then don't bring it at all."

"No, no, this may be Zhao's last vein, we can't leave him here."

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, you can do it yourself, I don't care." Wu Guoan was also speechless to Jin Tongwu.

Why Jin Tongwu and Wu Guoan fell into a dilemma has to start from two days ago.

After separating from Li An, after four days of rapid marching, more than 10,000 cavalry soon arrived at Wuzhou Mansion. When he arrived at a village in Wuzhou Prefecture, Jin Tongwu saw that it was getting dark, so he ordered the army to camp outside the village.

By the way, I bought some rice, meat and other food with the villagers, and I have been eating dry food and light cakes for the past few days, and the soldiers are about to fade out of their mouths. Now that he came across a village, Jin Tongwu decided to improve the food for the soldiers.

He too

I was not afraid of the army being exposed, because the more exposed it was, the more successful the plan would be, and the purpose of the trip was to attract the attention of the Qing court.

The Ming army camped with great fanfare, attracting the attention of a woman in the village.

I saw the woman lying on the window, staring at the Ming army with her eyes wide open, and watched for a long time, until the Ming character flag was erected. She suddenly rummaged around the room like crazy, and finally found a dark wooden box under the bed.

Then the woman sat down on a chair with a black wooden box in her hand, and waited quietly for her son to return.

"Mother, I'm back, what do you think I caught?" A young man with a face covered in black ash walked into the house carrying a rabbit.

"Son! Put the rabbit down, come here, and my mother will wash it for you. Later, my mother has something important to tell you. ”

"Mother, wait until I hang up the rabbit."

After the boy hung up the rabbit, the woman washed the boy's face carefully, and changed the boy into the only green cloth clothes in the house.

After cleaning up for the young man, he said with a serious expression: "Ping'er, do you know your life experience?" ”

"My background? Am I not my mother's son, what else do I have? The boy scratched his head.

"Ping'er, you are not your mother's biological son, you are the heir of Emperor Zhaozong of the Ming Dynasty. Mother will take you to the Ming army later. ”

The young man's eyes were red when he heard this, and he cried: "I am not the son of an emperor, I am the son of my mother."

The woman wiped her tears, hugged the young man and said, "Listen to my mother's words, if you go to the Ming army, you will definitely be able to eat enough every day, and you don't have to follow your mother to starve and freeze every day." Let's go now. ”

After saying that, the young man was not allowed to resist, so he pulled the young man with his left hand, held the black wooden box with his right hand, and walked towards the Ming army camp.

The two walked to the gate of the Ming army's camp, and the soldiers guarding the gate shouted: "What person? ”

The woman hurriedly stepped forward and said to the soldiers: "The concubine has seen the little general, but you are the master of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Exactly, what's the matter with you?"

"The concubine has something important to report to your general."

When the soldier saw that the woman looked calm and did not seem to be a liar, he reported the news to his superiors.

After uploading layer by layer, Wu Guoan soon received the news that a woman outside the camp gate asked to see him. If you feel a little confused, if a woman asks to see her, it may be that there is some grievance to appeal.

Before leaving, the king of Jin repeatedly instructed the army to be close to the people when crossing the border and to mingle with the common people. So Wu Guoan asked people to bring the women into the camp.

The woman pulled the young man and soon came to Wu Guoan.

"The concubine has seen the general."

"Please."

"Ping'er, come here." After the woman got up, she pulled the young man next to her and said to Wu Guoan: "General, this son is the eldest son of Emperor Yongli of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cijiao." ”

"What?" Wu Guoan was taken aback when he heard this.

"Don't talk nonsense, this woman."

"What the concubine said is true."

When Wu Yu'an heard the woman's categorical words, he looked at the young man carefully.

I saw that the young man was beautiful, with fair skin, beautiful appearance, his hands were like spring onions, and his eyebrows and eyes were exactly the same as those of Zhaozong. After taking a closer look, Wu Guoan already believed in the identity of this young man.

"This woman, do you have any credentials?"

"Yes, there is a jade plaque and a gold medal in this box." As she spoke, the woman opened the black wooden box she was holding in her arms and handed it to Wu Guoan.

Wu Guoan picked up the jade plate and the gold medal and examined it carefully, and confirmed that it was correct. Immediately ordered his own soldiers to report to Jin Tongwu.

Wu Guoan put down the jade plate and the gold seal and said to the woman: "After the chief soldier of my family comes, you can explain the cause and effect in detail." ”

"The concubine understands."

A moment later, Jin Tongwu lifted the curtain and walked in.

"Where is the heir of Zhaozong?" As soon as Jin Tongwu came in, he asked loudly.

"Tongwu, here." Wu Guoan pulled the young man and replied to Jin Tongwu.

Jin Tongwu walked over and took a closer look at Zhu Cijiao's appearance, nodded, and picked up the jade medal and gold medal to take a closer look.

"The last general will see the eldest son of the emperor." Jin Tongwu, as Li Dingguo's absolute confidant, only recognized Li Dingguo's orders. His salute to Zhu Ci was also out of courtesy.

Zhu Cijiao was separated from Emperor Yongli when he was four years old, and he lived in the village since he was a child. Suddenly stunned, at a loss.

Jin Tongwu didn't think that a teenager who grew up in the countryside could respond to him. After the salute, he said, "This woman, you can tell the governor in detail. ”

After the woman bowed to Jin Tongwufu, she told the ins and outs.

The woman's name is Zhang Yunlian, and she is the daughter of a scholarly family in Ji'an Mansion, Jiangxi. After the Qing soldiers marched into Jiangxi, her family was slaughtered, and she and a maid fled to Guiyang Mansion.

After fleeing to Guiyang Mansion, she and her maid could not lift their hands or shoulders. In desperation, he married a butcher as his wife, and his maid married a peasant family. In the third year of Yongli, she and her husband were eating at home when they suddenly heard a knock on the door.

When the husband opened the door, he found a man covered in blood, holding a three- or four-year-old child in his arms. immediately stepped forward to support the crumbling man, and Zhang Yunlian also walked out when he heard the sound.

When the man saw the person, he immediately handed the child to Zhang Yunlian next to him. After that, trembling, he took out a small package from his bosom and put it in the butcher's hand. He said with difficulty: "This eldest brother, the child is the heir of Emperor Yongli of the Ming Dynasty, and he was separated from His Majesty some time ago. I can't live anymore, and I hope that my eldest brother will take this child in. ”

With that, the man struggled to kneel down for the butcher, but he was too badly injured and lost his breath as soon as he struggled.

Although the butcher is a pig slaughterer and a dog, he still has great righteousness in his heart. The butcher decided to keep the child and raise him.

After the husband and wife buried the man, they discussed it and felt that they could not stay here. So he packed his luggage overnight and took Zhu Cijiao to live in seclusion in Shangcha Village, Wuzhou Prefecture.

When Zhu Cijiao was 9 years old, her husband unfortunately fell ill and died. When her husband was dying, he told her a thousand times that she must protect Zhu Ciyi.

She is a woman's family, in order to raise Zhu Cijiao, she washes clothes for others during the day and sews purses at night. Eight years of washing and sewing have broken Zhang Yunlian's eyes.

After Wu Guoan and Jin Tongwu heard this, they couldn't help but admire the husband and wife.

After a brief discussion, the two ordered the soldiers to set up a camp tent next to the big tent of the Chinese army, and placed Zhu Cijiao and Zhang Yunlian down.