son-in-law

Chapter 1074 Chapter [-] Clown ([-])

There are few stars in the night sky.Mandu Daru rode his horse through the streets of Yunzhong Mansion in the early morning.On the way, he also met with the soldiers patrolling the city, and the two companions in the rear took tokens for him for inspection.

After running for a long time, he arrived at the long street where his cousin and sister-in-law were located in the west of the city. He knocked on the door, and then his cousin rushed out from the room and opened the door.

"It's late and I don't know if he still has eyes—"

The prisoner's crazy laughter sounded in his mind, he thought that the child at home was kidnapped by the black flag, but it wasn't.His cousin dragged him to the hospital on the other side of the street, talking sadly about what happened in the afternoon while running.

Yesterday afternoon, a carriage from nowhere rushed across this long street at high speed. The legs of the 11-year-old child in the family were crushed on the spot. The driver did not stop like crazy. The iron hook caught the child by the right hand, dragged the child across half a long street, and then cut the rope on the iron hook to escape.

The child was dragged into a bloody man by the carriage and rushed to the hospital. He was still alive at this time, but he didn't know if he could survive it.

This child is indeed Mandu Daru's.

In the early years, when I returned to Yunzhong as a policeman, I didn't have a backer around me, and I didn't have many avenues for promotion, so I had to work hard.The people in the Northland are fierce and brave. The bandits who have been active on the road for a long time are many veterans from the army, and even the remnants after the fall of the Liao Kingdom. He wanted to make a career, so he quietly gave the child to his cousins. upbringing.Since then, the number of visits has not been much.

In the past few years, his status has been getting higher and higher, and the possibility of harming his family is not great.However, who would have expected that there would be such crazy desperadoes in the Black Flag?

All the way to the medical center, the cousin who was guarding here had already cried and her eyes were red and swollen. They had raised the child for many years, and they already had real feelings. Seeing the arrival of Mandu Dalu, the cousin dragged him to He told the culprit how horrible he was, and asked him to catch him and cut him into pieces.Mandu Dalu couldn't speak, followed the doctor towards the center of the medical hall, and when he got near the wooden door, he even hesitated slightly, dazed for a moment, and then stepped in.

The doctor told the situation in his ear.

Mandu Dalu looked at the child on the bed who smelled of medicine, and felt that the doctor was a little noisy for a while, so he stretched out his hand and pushed it aside, but no one was pushed.The people next to him looked at him suspiciously.Then he drew his knife.

The 11-year-old child on the bed lost two legs, one hand, and one face was dragged across half a long street on the ground, and it was already bloody.The doctor doesn't guarantee that he can survive tonight, but even if he survives, he will only have one hand and half a face in the long life to come. Anyone who thinks about such a life will feel suffocated.

Mandu Dalu's blade pointed towards the child, but he took a step back involuntarily.The cousin at the side screamed and rushed over, snatching the knife from his hand.The sound of howling resounded through the night sky.

The expression on his face was sometimes ferocious and sometimes in a daze. In the end, he couldn't get the knife down. The cousin cried loudly: "Go and kill the murderer! Aren't you always arresting the head? You go and catch the murderer who killed that day!" —that bastard—”

Mandu Daru was pushed out of the room unsteadily, and the people around him were still gnashing their teeth to persuade him that he must catch the murderer.That crazy face flashed in Mandu Dalu's mind, with calm eyes on that crazy face.

"You killed Lu Mingfang, right?"

"...The matter of Lu Mingfang, we both settled it."

When the member of the Huaxia Army named Lu Mingfang was arrested last year, the other party refused to surrender until he died. The side didn't find out his identity for a while. After the fight, he vented his anger and almost chopped him into many pieces.It was only later that I found out that the man was the person in charge of the Huaxia Army in the North.

Now the corpse that had been chopped into several pieces overlapped faintly with the appearance of the child who was still alive in the room.

"what--"

He opened his mouth to roar in the night, then raised his knife to slash again, put away the knife again, and staggered out.

He got on his horse and ran wildly all the way until he reached the door of the small prison near the north gate. He drew out his knife and tried to rush in, causing the animal inside to suffer the greatest pain and die.However, the guards outside stopped him, Mandu Dalu's eyes were red, he looked terrifying, one or two people couldn't stop him, the guards inside came out one by one, followed by Gao Puhu Seeing him like this, he probably guessed what happened.

A group of people rushed forward and restrained Mandu Daru...

In the long dark night, there was no peace outside the small prison. Mandu Dalu's subordinates in the yamen came over one after another. Sometimes there was a fight and a row, and Gao Puhu also called more people. With the safety of this prison.

At this time, a terrible storm has swept across the upper echelon of the Yunzhong Mansion, and the people below are still unclear. Gao Puhu knows that Gu Shen is probably going to go down, and Mandu Dalu is the same.In the past, he confronted Mandu Daru head-on, that was when he could not make concessions in the officialdom, but now his goal has been achieved, seeing Mandu Daru's crazy appearance, he has no intention of turning this matter into immortality The endless personal enmity is just for people to secretly find out what happened to the other party's son.

At the end of the early morning of April [-]th, the morning sun came out in the east, and then another sunny day with a breezy breeze. It seemed that the streets and lanes were peaceful and peaceful, and passers-by were still living as usual.At this time, some strange atmosphere and rumors began to infiltrate the middle level.

On April [-]th, the news about the "Mrs. Han" betraying the information of the West Route Army also began to appear faintly.In the Yamen of Yunzhong Mansion, almost everyone has heard that the fight between Mandu Dalu and Gao Puhu seemed to be exhausted, and many people even knew that Mandu Dalu's own son was killed. It's better to die, and with the rumors about "Mrs. Han", some things have become unusual among these headhunters with a keen sense of smell.

That afternoon, Gao Puhu had dinner at the street market opposite the North Gate Prison with a few of his subordinates and a few Yamen policemen who came to him to inquire about information, and he revealed something privately.

"...Damn, that man is a lunatic. I only found out the night before yesterday...Damn, I was tricked. This lunatic set up a trick before he came to die and killed Mandu Dalu's own son. Now That child is 11 years old, and only one hand can still be used, this motherfucker is me and I will go crazy..."

He recalled the time when he first caught the other party. Everything seemed normal. After two rounds of punishment, the other party cried bitterly and revealed a lot of evidence. Afterwards, he faced the six Jurchen princes. , They all showed the appearance of a normal and responsible "prisoner".It wasn't until Mandu Dalu broke in that Gao Puhu discovered that this prisoner named Tang Minjie was completely abnormal.

"Damn... lunatics... most likely they are prominent figures in the Huaxia Army... they are the ones who handed out knives to those in the east... they don't want to die at all..."

He said through gritted teeth while drinking.

The head catcher next to him said: "If this is the case, this person must know a lot of secrets, and he can dig more."

"Do you think I didn't dig it?" Gao Puhu glared at him, "I caught him out that night and tossed him for another hour, his eyes... are crazy, goddamn crazy, there is nothing superfluous Can't pry it out, his previous torture was a fucking fake."

"It's only an hour, isn't it enough..."

"The news he revealed has messed up Gu Shen. Next, Dongfu will take over, and I will be promoted. Mandu Dalu's son is like that, and you want to be like his son. This person will have to go to court next time, or you Go in and continue to fight, let everyone see the craft?" Gao Puhu said here, took a sip of wine: "Wait... something big is going to happen."

Big things are happening.

That night, there was a tense blare of dysprosium from the direction of the city wall in the clouds, followed by the gong of martial law in the city.The troops stationed in the east of Yunzhong Mansion are moving towards this side.

In Zonghan's mansion, a tense confrontation was going on. Wan Yanchang and several powerful Jurchen princes were present. Zong Bi raised the confession and evidence in his hand and yelled loudly.

"...Come on, Nianhan! It's in Yunzhong Mansion! Right here! You close the gate of the mansion! Do all of us one by one! You can keep Xi Yin! Otherwise, something happened to him !The evidence is overwhelming—you can’t justify yourself wherever you go—”

"Pretty good! You are trying to gain fame! You are in Shangjing, and you keep saying that you are for the Jurchen! I will let you go! When you arrive in the cloud, follow your rules, and I will play with you according to the rules! Now it is your own dirty ass! Come on! You are overbearing! I, you are the boss of the Western court! I came to you in Yunzhong, I did not bring troops into the city, I entered your mansion, I didn’t even wear thick clothes today, you have a kind of cover for Xi Yin, you kill him now I--"

Zong Bi yelled in front of Zong Han for a while, and Zong Han suddenly rushed over, grabbing the clothes on his chest with both hands, and lifted him up, and Wan Yanchang and others around him also rushed over. Come here, there was chaos in the hall for a while.

However, until the end, Zong Han couldn't really beat Zong Bi.

With the door closed, he could kill anyone in Yunzhong Mansion.But from now on, the Kingdom of Jin will be over...

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"...a big river with wide waves, the wind blows rice flowers on both banks..."

In the gloomy cell, starlight came in through the small window, and singing with a strange accent would occasionally sound at night.

After the interrogation by the six Jurchen princes together, the situation in the Yunzhong Mansion has been brewing and fermenting for several days. During this period, the four prisoners went through two interrogations, one of which even met Nianhan.

The city experienced martial law once, but it was lifted the next day.The lunatic in the innermost place would sometimes ask "Xiao Gao" about the outside world, and Gao Puhu got used to this kind of offense, and would casually talk about it.Of course, the level he can contact is not high, and sometimes the appearances he sees are leftovers from high-level struggles.

Although the news that the "Mrs. Han" leaked information and led to the failure of the Southern Expedition has spread among the lower levels, for Wanyan Xiyin and Chen Wenjun, there has never been a formal arrest or imprisonment in the past few days, and Gao Puhu is sometimes uneasy , but the lunatic comforted him: "Don't worry, Xiao Gao, you will definitely be promoted, you have to thank me."

Gao Puhu would also say: "Then thank you."

He hummed that song at night, always looking at the starlight in the window, not knowing what he was thinking.Although the other three people in the cell were implicated by him, they usually didn't dare to provoke him. No one would casually provoke a psychopath with no lower limit.

When he hummed that song, he gave people a feeling of relaxation, his thin body was leaning against the wall, obviously with various injuries on his body, but in such pain, he gave people a feeling like It's as if the mountain-like heavy shackles have been removed, and they are waiting for something to come.Of course, since he is a lunatic, perhaps this feeling is just an illusion.

The four prisoners were not transferred because the most critical cutscene was over.Several Jurchen lords have already confirmed the matter, and even if all the witnesses are dead, Xi Yin will not be able to escape this accusation in reality.Of course, among the prisoners, the one nicknamed Mountain Dog is always worried about this, fearing that this prison will be set on fire one night, and they will be burned to death here alive.

He couldn't sleep every night because of this.

In the middle of the night that day, he woke up the first time those figures entered the cell, and several people forced the jailer back.The leader was a woman with half-white hair. She picked up the key, opened the innermost cell door, and walked in.The lunatic in the cell was originally humming, but stopped at this moment, looked up at the person who came in, then stood up with difficulty while leaning on the wall.

After so many days in the cell, the coyote was disgusted and lazy when he saw the appearance of the lunatic. No matter who came, he would lie or sit on the straw pile. If he was not caught, he would He seemed indifferent to anyone, but only this time, he stood up on his own initiative.

Of course, not long after, the mountain dog knew the identity of the visitor.

The two looked at each other for a while in the cell, and it was the lunatic who moved his lips a few times, and then he opened his mouth on his own initiative, saying: "It's not easy..."

The half-haired woman was dressed in expensive clothes, and when he finished speaking, she slapped him across the face.The sound rang through the cell, but no one spoke.The lunatic tilted his head, then turned around, and the woman slapped him hard again.

Still shaking his head, the lunatic named Tang Minjie lowered his head slightly, first bent one leg, then the other, and knelt down in front of the woman slowly and solemnly.

Then came the woman's third slap, then the fourth slap, and the fifth slap... Tang Minjie knelt straight and let her slap each time.After going like this for a while, the woman said hoarsely, "Have I...did anything to hurt you?"

"...No." Tang Minjie said, "...you have kindness to me."

"Have I ever done anything to harm the Han people in the world?"

"...you have great kindness and great virtue to the Han people in the world."

"Have I ever done anything to be sorry to your Huaxia Army!?"

"...No, you are a hero, a hero of the Han people, and a hero of the Huaxia Army. My...Mr. Ning once specifically told me that in all actions, protecting you must be the top priority."

Chen Wenjun slapped down again, heavy, and Tang Minjie's mouth was covered with blood foam.

"Then why do you still do it!"

"Only by getting rid of Xi Yin can we prevent the East and the West from forming a joint force..."

Another slap fell.

"So I deserve it?"

"... Only in this way can Jin Guozhen, as they say, regard fighting the Huaxia Army as the top priority..."

Another slap.

"How many people have I saved over the years? Am I not worthy of a good death?"

"... Only in this way can we prevent the Jurchens from forming a strong resistance when the Huaxia Army goes north in the future..."

Another heavy slap.

"You Huaxia Army do things like this, how will you explain to the world in the future! You bastard——"

"...We can end this battle a few years ahead of schedule and save tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of deaths. I have no other choice..."

"I don't want a good death, but my family, my children, they are my children after all..."

"...What I did was a heinous thing..."

One slap, another slap, Chen Wenjun was speaking, and Tang Minjie was also muttering.At the moment when he was talking about the child, Chen Wenjun suddenly stretched out his hand, pulled out the hairpin on his head, and swung the sharp sharp edge towards the opponent. Tang Minjie's eyes flashed with relief, and he greeted him .

At the moment of determination to finish the job, all the shackles had been dropped from him, and now there was a final, unpayable debt.

"what--"

There was a mournful roar in Chen Wenjun's mouth, but the hairpin still stopped in the air.

Tang Minjie waited for a moment, then he stretched out his hands with ten fingers covered in blood, and gently held the opponent's hand.

"The scene has already passed, Xi Yin can't get rid of the crime. You can kill me."

He said softly, pulling the hairpin towards his throat.

"...I know that what I have committed is a heinous crime, and I will never be able to repay my crime in my life. We are in the Northland. If I say who I want to die at the hands of, it is only you. Madam Chen, you are a true hero, you have saved countless lives, if there is another way, even if I die a thousand times, I would not do anything to hurt you..."

In the prison cell, Chen Wenjun's face was full of anger, desolation, and tears. She had sheltered countless lives in the snowstorm of the North in her life, but at this moment, this cruel snowstorm was finally about to take her away. Go to her life.Tang Minjie on the other side was covered with scars. His ten fingers were bloody and his hair was in a mess. Both cheeks were swollen from the beating. His mouth was full of blood foam. Several front teeth had already been lost during the torture.

In the past encounters, Chen Wenjun has seen his various exaggerated expressions, but she has never seen him at this moment. She has never seen him really cry, but at this moment the calm and ashamed words For a while, Chen Wenjun could see tears streaming down his eyes.He didn't cry, but kept crying.

He turned his neck towards the hairpin.

With a cry of "Ah——", Chen Wenjun waved his hand to break away from him, and then kicked him to the ground.

After a moment of silence in the cell, Tang Minjie slowly got up again.

"You killed me. I know it's not atonement... please kill me."

Then he knelt down and kowtowed heavily.Chen Wenjun stared blankly at all this. After a while, her steps retreated backwards. Tang Minjie raised his head, his eyes filled with tears. Seeing her retreating, he seemed to be a little scared and disappointed, so he settled down, and then Kowtow again.

bang——

That forehead hit the ground.There seemed to be a choked sound coming out of his throat.

Chen Wenjun quit the cell. She has seen countless disturbances and people in her life, but she has never seen anything like this.There was another bang in the cell, she threw away the key, and began to stride out of the cell.

bang——

bang——

bang——

It was the sound of foreheads hitting the ground, one after another.But Chen Wenjun and others finally left the cell. The jailer picked up the key, and someone went out to call the doctor.When the doctor came over, Tang Minjie was curled up on the ground, his forehead was already covered with blood...

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Stopping the bleeding, bandaging... The humming song temporarily disappeared in the prison, Tang Minjie was in a daze, and sometimes he could see the scene to the south.He could see his long-dead sister when she was very young, she was humming childish nursery rhymes softly, and he forgot what the song was singing there.

Later, he followed Mr. Ning to study in Xiaocanghe, and Mr. Ning taught them to sing that song. The melody in it always reminded him of the children's song hummed by his sister.

"...This is the great motherland, the place where I lived and raised me, on that warm land..."

In that warm land, there was his sister and his family, but he could never go back.

Or maybe they will meet again...

(End of this chapter)