Volume 3 The Valley of Wu Wei Chapter 82 Success and Failure
Liu Jizu was a little skeptical of Hou Huaigu's optimism, judging from his experience of escaping from the academy, if Wuwei Valley's strength was on par with the academy, they would never be as easy as Hou Huaigu said. But he was still very satisfied with Hou Huaigu's arrangement, and he found that Hou Huaigu and Elder Long were very similar, both of them were resourceful. But this is the territory of Wuwei Valley, and Hou Huaigu is more familiar with the situation, so he chooses to follow Hou Huaigu's opinion.
In addition, in order to make them mentally prepared, he also answered the question asked by Divine Doctor Feng before, "Senior Hou's arrangement is very thoughtful, and everything will be arranged by Senior Hou! As for Divine Doctor Feng's question just now, I will also briefly tell you." Our destination this time is Jiangdong Road, which is to find my ancestor Yang Shengwu. He showed up in Yangzhou, Jiangdong Province, killed a family of traffickers, and left his name, where we were going to find his old man's house. ”
Hou Huaigu and Divine Doctor Feng were surprised when they heard this, and Divine Doctor Feng asked, "Are you talking about Yang Shengwu, who is called 'Yang Invincible' by the people of the rivers and lakes?"
Liu Jizu nodded.
Hou Huaigu and Divine Doctor Feng were both surprised, and Hou Huaigu said: "I didn't expect Gongzi to be Yang Wuving's apprentice grandson, so it would be easier for us to escape!"
At this time, Mr. Su, who was sitting in the back car, asked abruptly: "Childe, is the ancestor of Yang Shengwu you said from Jiangnan Province?"
Liu Jizu was stunned when he heard this, "I don't know the ancestral home of Shizu, do you know any news?"
Mr. Su nodded, and sighed first, "Regardless of whether that Yang Shengwu is your ancestor or not, I will tell you, the Yang family I am talking about is really miserable! Their family used to live in Star City in Jiangnan Province, and they were a prominent family in Jiangnan Province, and they were even great generals in the previous dynasty.
It is precisely for this reason that their family has been suppressed in this dynasty and has been unable to be an official. But their family has money and industry, they have always kept to themselves, and they have a good relationship with local officials, and the court can't catch them anything, so the Yang family can also live a good life by guarding the huge property left by their ancestors, but the bad thing is bad for the king of Chu.
More than ten years ago, the king of Chu was sealed to the land of Chu. Not long after he arrived, he fell in love with the land where the Yang family was located and wanted to build a palace there. According to the market price, such a large piece of land costs a lot of silver, and the mother of the king of Chu was from a humble background, except for the money given by the emperor, she had no other income when she came, but the money to build the king's mansion was allocated by the emperor, and there was still it.
However, the king of Chu is extremely stingy, and he wants to spend less or even no money to get this piece of land. When he knew his thoughts, there were always local officials who came to flatter and come up with bad ideas, so a few shameless people came to his side to help him give advice, and they planned the first unjust case after the king of Chu arrived in Jiangnan Province.
They found a lot of weapons, armor, bows and arrows, and sent people to secretly bury them in a house where no one lived in the Yang family. Then arranged a ruffian to denounce it, saying that the Yang family secretly transported prohibited items into it at night. The government sent troops to investigate, and as a result, they dug up the weapons, armor, and bows and arrows. Weapons are also forgotten, armor and bows and arrows are prohibited items, armor is strictly forbidden for the people to wear it, and bows and arrows are strictly forbidden for the people to bring into the city.
The king of Chu and his gang used these false accusations, physical evidence, and the relationship between the Yang family and the previous dynasty to make a big fuss, and then bribed several partial branches and slaves who were dissatisfied with the Yang family's master to give false testimony, and judged this case as a case of rebellion.
It is said that many members of the Yang family are skilled in martial arts, but none of them came out to resist at that time, and all the people in the Yang family's family were arrested. The mansion and property were seized, and the rest of the huge Yang family fled except for the few partial branches and slaves who were bought.
After the Yang family's case was judged as a case of rebellion, the Yang family began to regret it, but everyone was already locked in death row, and it was too late to regret it. The Yang family's mansion and property in Star City were all transferred to the name of the king of Chu, and the king of Chu built his palace on the basis of the Yang family's mansion.
The Yang family didn't do nothing during the period of waiting for the autumn queen to ask for beheading, after all, they have lived in Star City for generations, and they still have some relationship, they entrusted people to bribe officials at all levels, and took the initiative to give the hidden 100,000 taels of silver to the king of Chu.
This toss is a month or two, and there are twists and turns in between, but when the king of Chu saw the money, it further aroused his greed, and he wanted to squeeze out all the money of the Yang family.
At that time, the Yang family had already begun to die because they had been tortured repeatedly to extract confessions, and then they were locked up in a cell for a long time and abused, without treatment and care. There was no way, they had to continue to take out the silver from the cellar, until they could no longer take out the silver, and the king of Chu locked them up for a long time, and when he saw that he really couldn't get the money, he turned the case over and released the people.
But I don't know if it was intentional by the King of Chu, at that time, Yang Shengwu's parents, wife, eldest son and couple and several grandchildren couldn't stand the torture and had already died in prison one after another, and in the end, only his second son and his wife and a granddaughter were still alive.
After his second son's family was released from prison, they left Star City directly and lived in a farm outside Star City, which was also the only remaining property of their family. But blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not one-way. Not long after they lived on the farm, their three-year-old daughter was stolen by a kidnapper. The couple had already been tortured and humiliated in prison, and their physical condition was extremely poor, and now that their daughter was lost, they could not withstand this double blow and passed away one after another.
Strange to say, before his son died, Yang Shengwu got the news from nowhere and rushed back. This Yang Shengwu is the only son of the head of the Yang family, but for some reason, he left home after giving birth to two sons after becoming a family. He could not be found in the government, and his son died after seeing his father and telling him about the family's grievances. Yang Shengwu was very sad and indignant, and heard that his hair turned white overnight.
He silently buried his son, infiltrated Star City, quickly investigated the entire case, and then began a crazy revenge. It took him a few days to kill the shameless people who came up with the idea, the ruffians who falsely accused the Yang family, and the few partial branches and house slaves who gave perjury, and before he died, he asked them to write their own accusations and paste them in a conspicuous place in the city.
The cause and effect of this incident began to spread everywhere in Star City, and I heard about it at that time. The king of Chu didn't take it seriously at all at first, and just sent people to arrest Yang Shengwu, but the people didn't catch it, and those people related to the incident were killed one after another. The king of Chu began to be scared and didn't dare to go out, so he could only hide in his newly built palace, guarded by a large number of soldiers all day long, and at the same time he also sent additional men to continue to arrest Yang Shengwu.
But at that time, the guards were only part of the defenders of Star City, and they couldn't be compared with the guards of Star City now, and those fast catchers couldn't catch people at all.
This Yang Shengwu is really remarkable, even in such a situation, he still went to assassinate the king of Chu, but he fell short and almost succeeded. Everyone didn't expect that Yang Shengwu didn't hide at all, nor did he sneak to assassinate at night, but killed him through the back door alone in broad daylight.
There were also hundreds of officers and soldiers at the back door, but none of these guards could stop him. I heard from the people of Xingcheng that Yang Shengwu made one move and killed him in the back, and those guards didn't dare to step forward to die, and they were about to kill the King of Chu.
I heard that the king of Chu was frightened when he saw the white-haired Yang Shengwu and almost died, and since then he has been as timid as a mouse.
Who knows, just when Yang Shengwu was about to kill in front of the King of Chu, two teams of masked people suddenly came out from the hidden place next to the King of Chu, both of them were dressed in gray clothes, holding long swords, and protected in front of the King of Chu. When Yang Shengwu, who was so powerful, saw these people, to everyone's expectations, he didn't fight at all, and he didn't hesitate at all, turned around and fled.
The two teams of gray-clothed men were also surprised, thinking that there would be a bloody battle, but they didn't expect Yang Shengwu to flee directly. When they went to chase, Yang Shengwu had already run away on horseback.
The king of Chu was furious about this, and in order to arrest him, he was so stingy, and placed a reward of 100,000 taels of silver, but he still did not catch him until today. The King of Chu was also stimulated by this and became more abnormal, he was worried day and night, and began to continuously strengthen the defense of Star City and the guard of the palace.
In addition to greatly increasing the number of defenders, he also hired a large number of Jianghu masters to protect him, and also raised almost the entire ruffians in Star City as his eyeliner. The current Star City is simply inaccessible to the needle, and the rain can't be poured in!
But how much does it cost to raise so many people! He is so stingy that he can only come to exploit the people of Jiangnan Province. How many people have been ruined because of this, buying and selling their children, and that's why we have these people.
But the oppressed people in Jiangnan Province did not hate Yang Shengwu, and they were inspired by Yang Shengwu and would still try their best to assassinate him. Unfortunately, it was unsuccessful, and after each assassination, the king of Chu intensified his oppression and persecution of the people of Chu.
He wanted to use this high-pressure method to bring the people of Chu to their knees. Phew! Do the damn Spring and Autumn dream, we Chu people are 'disobedient to Zhou'.
We decided to follow Childe, firstly, because Wuwei Valley knew where our family lived, and there was no way back to the family. The second is that going back to Jiangnan Road is also a dead end, and under the rule of King Chu, it is impossible to have a good life.
In addition, and more importantly, we want that one day, someone like Gongzi can lead us to kill the king of Chu, the eight lambs of the king, just like the four evils! Then the people of Chu can have a good life. I just don't know if this Yang Shengwu senior I'm talking about is your ancestor?"
When Liu Jizu and everyone heard this, they were all embarrassed.
Elder Long nodded, "Judging from the way things are done and the situation at home, he is like Senior Brother Yang's person!"
Liu Jizu also felt the same in his heart, but he wanted to take this opportunity to continue to understand Su Mengqi in depth, so he then asked: "This Yang Shengwu you said is very similar to my ancestor, maybe it is him, thank you for telling us." In addition, Mr. Su has a question that I think is a bit abrupt, but I still want to ask, how can a smart person like you buy and sell his daughter?"