Borkin asked urgently: "Who expected that?" ”

Feng Ruonan wept and said: "Who would have thought that when Hengyang found me a few days later, it was actually one of my father's close guards - he was seriously injured and could hardly make the trip!"

Uncle Guard's desperate news came that my relatives were keeping a New Year in their hometown in the countryside, and it happened that a strong man from a nearby mountain came down.

They not only robbed the money in the ancestral house in the countryside, but also wiped out the Feng clan people who kept the New Year in the Feng family's old mansion!

Only the guard uncle escaped by luck and came to Hengyang's grandfather's house to look for me according to my father's will, intending to send me to the house of Uncle Han Yongshi of the Northern Dynasty for refuge.

That guard was really loyal and brave, and he protected me all the way. However, on the way to Handyong, we encountered the mountain bandits of the Northern Dynasty, and in order to save me, he was finally killed by a strong man."

Borgin could scarcely believe what he heard.

He looked at the girl in front of him in a daze, his lips trembling, his eyes showing shock and pain.

"Brother Feng's family is unexpectedly. How is this possible? ”

Feng Ruonan came from the heart.

"Uncle Shi, I was trafficked by the mountain bandits and strongmen on the border of Handyong, and it took me many months.

It wasn't until a month ago that he was sold to the most well-connected slave owner in the Arro steppe.

If not. If it weren't for the help of my niece who met these three young heroes from the east of the city, I am afraid that she would have really been sold as a slave girl. ”

Xie Zhao frowned slightly.

The mountains and forests near Qianzhou are dense, and I have indeed heard that there have been mountain bandits and strongmen.

However, Shangwen of the Southern Dynasty also revered masters, and the real masters were both civil and military, and extremely uplifting.

There is no possibility of falling grass and bullying the weak.

In the early years, most of the bandits in the ordinary mountains of Tianchen were displaced people who had suffered natural disasters nearby.

Because of natural and man-made disasters, life is really unbearable, so they will go into the mountains to hunt and occasionally hijack pedestrians on the way.

But most of them are just for money, and they will never kill you.

Because once a person is killed, the nature is different.

If the government soldiers of the surrounding state capitals or the nearby state soldiers receive a report of a life lawsuit, they will inevitably raise troops to suppress the bandits, so is it not self-defeating?

Tianchen's mountain bandits only survive for money, which is different from the mountain bandits in the Northern Dynasty and Handyong.

The Tianchen court has a strict law, unlike Handyong, this kind of thing that may lose their heads, the bandits of the Southern Dynasty will not do it.

What's more, in recent years, the "Support Division" has been established in many places in the Southern Dynasties, and this kind of homeless people who have no choice but to cause trouble has almost been eliminated.

How could such a vicious bandit suddenly come into being, and actually go down the mountain to slaughter the people?

And the one who died, is he still an official?

Although he is not a high-ranking official in Tianchen, he is also a five-grade and upright Jinshi from the imperial examination.

Just dead?

Can't even hear the sound of a drop of rain falling on the ground?

If we talk about common sense, if there is such a vicious massacre of officials, it will inevitably cause a storm in the city and cause the court to make a big move, how can it be so peaceful?

Xie Zhao's left hand unconsciously gently pinched the wrist of his right hand.

There, when she was not a child and the realm of martial arts was not high, there was a secret wound that was injured by the fire system.

Therefore, even after the martial arts realm was completed, he often felt a faint pain.

Previously, the internal force was deep and the realm was far-reaching, and this idea was not very obvious.

Now that she has fallen into Pingyang, her internal strength is empty, and her body is highly poisonous, and even such a slight old injury dares to come to the door.

Xie Zhao stared and thought secretly.

Could it be that someone deliberately suppressed the news of Feng's extermination?

Feng Nuo, the envoy of Qianzhou, was inconspicuous in the officialdom of the Southern Dynasties.

Even she had almost never heard of such a person in the past, and I think he probably didn't participate in any partisan disputes, let alone big names.

Why, then, was his death so extraordinary? What's so special about it?

On the side, Borgin's color had already changed, and he shouted angrily:

"It just doesn't make sense! Everyone in the world says that the Southern Dynasty is a state of etiquette! Hey? What a country of etiquette!

No matter what Brother Feng says, he is also the court official of Tianchen, he died in death, is there no one to uphold justice? ”

Feng Ruonan shook his head with tears in his eyes and said: "Ruonan didn't give up before, and felt that this matter was not simply because of banditry, so he didn't want to follow the guards to leave his homeland like this, so he secretly asked the guards to take me back to Qianzhou."

Who knows, but I found that the government really closed the case hastily, and hastily concluded that my Feng family's mansion was rampant with mountain bandits!

I don't know where to catch a few sinners who are not dressed and thin, and they are punished as the mountain bandits in this case. ”

Ling He and Han Changsheng both frowned when they heard this.

Han Changsheng suddenly interjected thoughtfully: "Could it be that Lord Feng has some enemies?" When we walked the rivers and lakes in the Southern Dynasties, we also saw bandits in the mountains.

Most of the hidden bandits in Tianchen Mountain are as thin as chickens.

Let them kill chickens and wild boars, kill people? And kill so many people in one go, don't you want to die? ”

Ling Or also frowned.

He said: "Outsiders such as us should not have been silent, but at first glance, this matter is really unreasonable. ”

Borgin sneered and said hatefully:

"Of course it doesn't make sense! You don't know that my righteous brother Feng Nuo is not an ordinary weak scholar.

When he was a teenager, he once worshiped a well-known Jianghu sect in the Southern Dynasty, the Yuyu Sect, to learn swordsmanship, and in the realm of martial arts, he was already in the realm of Guanyu Heaven!

Not only that, but even the close guards around him were all fellow disciples who studied art in the Yuyu School with him in the past.

It is by no means an ordinary small door, those ordinary nursing homes with rough strength.

- Heh! If it is said that the enemy deliberately planned to blow with all his strength and slaughter the Feng family in one go, I, Borkin, may believe one or two.

But if it is said that the Feng family worships their ancestors in their ancestral house in the countryside, and they are accidentally besieged and killed by bandits, I am the first to disbelieve it! ”

In the midst of a loud noise, Xie Zhao suddenly spoke.

"Ruonan, there is something I still have some incomprehension. Since such a tragic thing happened to the Feng family, why didn't Lord Feng let you settle down in his own grandfather's house, but asked the guards to take you north to Handyong, a foreign country? In the meantime, do you know the difference? ”

Feng Ruonan was stunned for a moment, and then his face was full of sorrow.

She thought of her grandfather, and immediately cried bitterly:

"I didn't know why this was at the time, and I begged the guard uncle to take me back to Qianzhou first.

Uncle Guard couldn't resist me, and he also wanted to know if Feng's extermination would be avenged, so he could only follow me first and go back to Qianzhou with me.

But who would have expected that a few days later, we heard in Qianzhou that my grandfather's family had been executed by His Majesty's order.

I was so sad in my heart that I wanted to go back to Hengyang to bid farewell to my grandfather, but after knowing that my grandfather's family had been executed, Uncle Guard refused to let me stay in Tianchen anymore, and insisted on taking me to leave immediately. ”

What?

Feng Ruonan's maternal grandfather's family was actually executed by the Son of Heaven?

A dean of Hengyang Academy, a white coat who doesn't even count as an official?

Xie Zhao frowned and pondered.

If Feng Nuo commits a crime, the court will order an execution, which is very convenient and convenient, and will never act in the name of bandits.

It makes no sense that Feng Nuo's family died in the disaster of mountain bandits, but his father-in-law's family was convicted and executed by the imperial court.

unless

Unless the Feng family is not the cause of the incident, but is also innocently implicated!

Xie Zhao shook his head slightly.

It seems that the death of this child's maternal grandfather should not be simple.

Otherwise, Feng Nuo's personal guard would not have been so determined to take Feng Ruonan's maternal grandfather away immediately after learning of her death.

It's just a pity that Feng Ruonan is too young.

The guard did not inform her of what he knew, and he himself had died on the way to take refuge in the northern dynasty of Handyong.

It seems that the only person who knows the truth about the Feng family's murder tragedy is the one who really planned all this secretly.

Xie Zhao tilted his head and thought about it, and then asked bluntly:

"Ruonan, take the liberty of asking, on the eve of your family's death, what other strange things happened in your family's mansion?"

Feng Ruonan was reminded by her, and suddenly thought of something.

She hung her head and twisted the hem of her skirt, and said with some embarrassment:

"Sister Xie, you guessed right, something happened to my uncle's family."

Several people looked at each other.

Listening to the meaning of Xie Zhao and Feng Ruonan's words, could it be the tragedy of the Feng family, and it is also related to Feng Ruonan's uncle?

Borgin frowned.

"Your uncle? Isn't it Brother Feng's brother-in-law? However, the two of us have corresponded for many years, but we have never heard Brother Feng mention his brother-in-law.

- Ruonan, who is your uncle? Are you two close? Could it be that his enemy is implicating your family? ”

Feng Ruonan was silent for a moment before he whispered:

"I, I also hid with the guard uncle to the border of Handyong, and the uncle asked the old man from the border to find some news.

It turned out that my uncle had committed a serious crime in the capital before, and in the first month of the year, His Majesty ordered the three clans to be razed.

And my maternal grandfather, the Yang family, was also involved because he was in the three clans of my uncle.

Because my mother is a married daughter, she has been married into the Feng family for many years, so she is not one of the three uncles. ”

When several people heard this, they were stunned.

Only Xie Zhao paused slightly, and then all his thoughts were over.

The "three tribes" in the three tribes refer to the sinner's father's family, mother's family, and wife's family.

It seems that it is a daughter of the old dean Yang of Chongyang Academy in Hengyang, that is, Xiao Yang, an aunt of Feng Ruonan, who married a certain official eunuch family back then.

And the Lang lord married by the Yang family was convicted, and the three clans were destroyed by the decree of the Son of Heaven, so the Yang family was implicated in the wife's family.

It's just that the Son of Heaven acts and does what he says.

If it is said that it is the three tribes, then it is the three tribes. One less family is not enough, and one more family is not necessary.

The brother-in-law's family is not among the three clans.

Not only Xie Zhao thought so, but Feng Ruonan himself couldn't figure it out.

She said eagerly: "Although Ruonan doesn't know what happened to anger Sheng Yan, he actually made such a huge mistake and implicated the three clans.

However, our Feng family is far away in Qianzhou, and we have not been in contact with my uncle and aunt's family for many years. Even if you want to count, it is outside the three tribes and within the nine tribes.

Even if my uncle had been an enemy in the court, he would never have made such a big deal against our distant relatives.

What's more, my father is not a white body, but an official body with meritorious fame, who acts so boldly that he has no scruples at all? ”

Feng Ruonan was both sad and angry, and she was confused, and she muttered softly:

"Ruonan...... Ruonan really can't figure it out."