Chapter 146 Choice
The gray sky was drizzling, continuous. The light between heaven and earth gradually dimmed, and the day was quietly ending. But the tragedy of this strong city that was broken has not ended.
Zhu Gaoxu stood at the door of a mansion, looking deep in the long street. Occasionally, a woman screamed from a distance, which was particularly shrill in the drizzle.
At this time, an old felt car drove to the door, Wang Bin walked up, clasped his fists and said, "Prince, the carriage is ready."
"Let's go." Zhu Gaoxu said.
After he finished speaking, he got on the felt truck with Wang Bin, reached out to pat the wooden board, and Chen Dahui in front whipped to drive the truck.
The carriage slowly shuttled between the streets and alleys. Zhu Gaoxu picked up a corner of the curtain with his hand, and looked at the scene outside with the hazy light in the rain. After a while, he heard a "bang". Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly lifted the curtain and looked at it, and saw two soldiers wearing armor rushing into a door in the alley next to him.
"Bang!" Zhu Gaoxu slapped the wooden board, and a "whip" sound came from the front. The carriage and horse continued to walk forward for a few steps before stopping.
The two people in the carriage walked out of the carriage, and Zhu Gaoxu said to Chen Dahui: "Wait."
Chen Dahui clasped his fists and said, "I'm sure you want it!"
Zhu Gaoxu and Wang Bin walked quickly into the alley. They walked to the door that was knocked open and followed them into the room. A woman's voice came from inside: "June Jun, please spare me, June Jun stop..."
Zhu Gaoxu followed the sound and walked into a door. He first found a male corpse lying in a pool of blood under the eaves. Wang Bin turned to look at Zhu Gaoxu, then kicked it over, and kicked the door open with a "bang".
There was also a headless child inside, and his head was gone. A woman was dressed in a mess and was torn to pieces. She was holding her hands in front of her chest. She was pressed on a wooden bed by a soldier, and the other soldier was busy unarming.
The two soldiers had turned around and looked at Zhu Gaoxu and Wang Bin.
Zhu Gaoxu was wearing armor, and the scabbard at his waist was shining with a golden luster in the dim light. Seeing this, the two soldiers let go of the woman and stood there.
"Have you ordered you to burn, kill, and loot the people?" Zhu Gaoxu asked coldly.
A soldier said, "Many brothers are working on it, but our households don't care."
Wang Bin said angrily: "Are you impatient to live?"
The two of them immediately shut up and stood there in a hurry. Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward and took their helmets and threw them away. They were at a loss. A soldier hurriedly begged for mercy and said, "For the sake of our hard work for the Lord, please spare us for a while. We know our mistake."
Zhu Gaoxu felt a little soft-hearted when he heard this, and immediately took a breath and said, "The Emperor of Ming Dynasty paid you a salary, are you asking you to kill the people? Let's go!"
The two soldiers walked out of the room dejectedly. Zhu Gaoxu took out a handful of Daming treasure money from his arms and glanced at the woman, "If you kill someone, they will be severely punished."
The woman curled up there tremblingly, watching Zhu Gaoxu unable to speak.
Two soldiers walked in front, and Zhu Gaoxu followed them out of the house, pointed to the entrance of the alley and said, "Then!"
The two walked to the street at a loss and were driven to the carriage to stand still. Zhu Gaoxu walked to them, suddenly waved his fists, and hit a soldier's chin with a "bang". He punched very quickly. Before the other soldier could react, he also punched him, and the two of them fainted immediately.
Zhu Gaoxu and Wang Bin carried two soldiers into the carriage one after another.
At this moment, a "thump" sound came from behind him. When Zhu Gaoxu turned his head, he saw the messy woman running out just now and knelt in the wetland and kowtowed constantly: "Please take it in by noble people! When my in-laws come back, they see that their sons and grandchildren are dead, and they can't spare me. Good man to do it to the end!"
Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment. He hadn't expected that the survivor was still guilty. Seeing the woman's forehead sounding "dong dong dong" and said, "Get up quickly... get in the car!"
"Thank you, great kindness..." The woman staggered over.
The woman climbed into the carriage, stared at the two people piled up inside, perhaps thinking that they were dead.
Zhu Gaoxu slapped the wooden board with a "slap", and a whip sound came from outside, and the carriage rushed faster than before.
Back at the residence where he was stationed, Chen Dachui asked the personal soldiers on duty to open the door and rushed into the mansion. When Zhu Gaoxu and others got off the carriage, they were in front of a woodshed, and there was no one around.
He reached out and pulled the trembling woman down and said, "You go outside and wait for me first."
The woman obediently lowered her head and left without even making a sound.
Zhu Gaoxu said to Chen Daxu: "Tie them and keep your mouth shut! I will send you out of Jinan City tomorrow morning. You can drive the car back to Peiping first. Find a place to hide for a few days. When I go to Peiping with the army, I will take you into the city, so as not to be checked by the soldiers guarding the city."
Chen Dahui clasped his fists and said, "The last one will be ordered!"
Zhu Gaoxu let out a breath and turned around and left the woodshed. He glanced at the puzzled Wang Bin, and without saying much, he waved straight, "Let's go Wang Qianhu."
Wang Bin held a military salute and said, "The last one will be resigned."
Zhu Gaoxu walked to the front of the room and suddenly saw the woman standing there. He ignored him and pushed open the door and went in. The woman hurriedly followed.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at her and her hair was as messy as a female ghost. Her clothes wrapped around her body, but were torn to pieces.
"I am very sorry for the actions of those rioters to destroy your family in one day." Zhu Gaoxu sighed, "But I keep my word, the rioters who committed the rioters are dead."
In his long and messy hair, he looked at Zhu Gaoxu with confusion and said in a trembling voice: "Our family was not killed by his benefactor. He saved my life. Why did he say that?"
"Forget it." Zhu Gaoxu said a little tiredly, "I'm just not feeling well anyway."
Zhu Gaoxu pointed outside and said, "There is a bedroom next to you. You can find a piece of clothing to change yourself. There is a well in the yard."
The woman nodded and retreated with her neck shrinking.
Zhu Gaoxu slapped his thigh and suddenly thought: There will be no rumors that I will burn, kill, rape, and rob and seize women?
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A few days later, the king's army continued to go north with Sheng and headed to Peiping. But Zhu Gaoxu understood that everyone would not stay in Peiping for too long. If his father picked up the people from the Yan Prince's Mansion, he would return to the capital soon.
With his father's decisive style, he could do things in Peking in just a few seconds, and there was not much time left for Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Gaoxu took the carriage that Chen Dachui drove back to the county prince's mansion first, and saw Du Qianrui coming out with a look of surprise. Wang Gui and others also came to greet him. Du Qianrui's beautiful eyes looked at him, but he didn't care and turned around and waved to Wang Gui.
Wang Gui hurriedly came over, and Zhu Gaoxu whispered: "Go and open the door of the Houyuanzi and let Chen Dachui drive the car into the garden."
"I obey the order!" Wang Gui said.
At this moment, a woman walked out of the carriage outside the gatehouse. Zhu Gaoxu took a look and found that the woman who was brought back from Jinan City "good people to the end". She had already changed into a dress and looked pretty, at least much better than the maids in the Prince's Mansion.
Zhu Gaoxu waved to the woman, then turned around and walked into an overcast room in the yard. When the woman came in, Zhu Gaoxu reminded him: "Don't mention your miserable past in the future, so as not to spread rumors. Do you understand? Just say, you bought it from the Shandong Provincial Administration Commissioner."
The woman nodded timidly.
Zhu Gaoxu left immediately and went straight to the study room in the inner hall. He didn't bother to change into his dusty clothes and sat down on the chair.
After a breath of relief, he reached out and rubbed his hands on his chin and started to do it.
Although Zhu Gaoxu has thought about the affairs of Qu Neng and his son many times, he is still very nervous when the matter comes to an end.
If the news leaks out, how can I explain it to my father if I save General Jianwen who is good at fighting?
But at the moment, Zhu Gaoxu had nothing in his hands and didn't dare to do anything. He just waited for the situation to develop step by step? Can Qu, a brave and resourceful general who could break through the city gate of Peking with one thousand troops, just watch him finish it?
In a daze, Zhu Gaoxu remembered the situation when he was doing logistics work in a restaurant in his previous life, and wanted to place a bet with the payment! Winning can solve countless problems, but losing? He didn't dare to think about it at that time.
Now Zhu Gaoxu is also reluctant to think about the consequences if exposed.
Generally, when facing such a decision moment, according to his previous life experience, his general choice is to do it!
At this moment, Wang Gui walked into the study and came up to worship, "Welcome the prince back to the house. Report to the prince, there were two people in the car, and I brought them to the storage room. I was still tied up, and I looked so hungry that I was only breathing."
Zhu Gaoxu nodded slightly, tapped his hand gently on the desk with a boring sound, and made some trivial movements. After a while, he raised his head and said, "Qu Neng's son Qu Liangcai, let me go back then. Now that the father is in the country, their family is in trouble, I can't sit still and watch..."
"Yes." Wang Gui stood there with a bent over and said nothing more, his expression a little solemn.
Zhu Gaoxu asked again, "Last year, I went home to give you some incense. I asked you to keep it, but I'm still there?"
Wang Gui hurriedly said, "I am concerned about what the prince told me personally."
"Go and prepare a carriage." Zhu Gaoxu said.
After Wang Gui answered, he went out.
Chapter completed!