Chapter 314: The Crime of Exterminating Nine Clans
"No, Master Tong, you are not following martial ethics."
"I have nothing to do with your driver being trampled by a horse. I didn't drive the horse. What does it have to do with me? Why are you going to cut off my tongue?"
"I'm a good driver in the Lu family. I have a wife and children and a warm bed. I have nothing better to do than to get involved in your family's driver's affairs."
"Hey, Master Tong, I swear on my ancestors that I don't even know your driver, and I didn't see him get trampled by a horse."
Tong Huaqiong wiped the shiny knife and said, "I don't know if the two people in this room are the remnants that the village chief mentioned. If the soldiers find out who they are, we'll all be finished. Of course, you can go out and report it to the soldiers now. Maybe you can even get some compensation for your crime."
The Lu family's coachman said, "Master Tong, are you kidding me? Aren't those two people in the room your coachmen who were trampled by the horses? I am not the kind of person who doesn't know the seriousness of the matter. I would never tell anyone about Master Tong's confiscation of property and extermination of the family. If I tell anyone, not only my Lu family will be implicated. Do you think I have a hole in my brain? I am here to escort you home, not to die."
"Even if I really can atone for my crime, let's not talk about whether they will allow me to do so. Even if they do, when I return to the Lu family, what do you think the eldest young master and the master will do to me?"
Tong Huaqiong knew that the Lu family's driver was loyal and reliable, so she naturally wouldn't tell anyone.
She was just trying to scare him.
After hearing what the driver of the Lu family said, Tong Huaqiong put down the knife with a smile and said, "What are you afraid of? I use this knife to kill chickens."
The Lu family coachman patted his chest and killed the chicken.
If he dared to reveal any information, Widow Tong would bury him first.
No, he must go back today, it's too scary.
He would never tell anyone what happened yesterday.
In addition to the Lu family's coachman, there was also Qin Qingyou who knew the inside story.
Tong Huaqiong ordered Gu Dahan: "Dahan, go and call Qingyou over."
Gu Dahan opened the door of his house, and Qin Qingyou just raised his hand to knock on the door.
"Boss, this is incredible."
Qin Qingyou staggered into the room with fear on his face.
"The village chief said that the soldiers were catching the remnants of the prince's rebellion yesterday, on the mountain we passed by yesterday. They said that there was a child among them..."
The village chief Liu Tielian gathered the villagers in the threshing ground, told them what happened last night, and reminded everyone not to let strangers into the village in the next two days.
Qin Qingyou ran over to report the news to Tong Huaqiong without even listening to the whole story.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the two people they rescued last night might be the remnants of the prince's rebellion.
Oh my god, prince, treason, remnants, these words that can only appear in operas actually happened in reality.
Qin Qingyou was so frightened that his bones went limp.
If this is discovered, I will lose my head.
He doesn't even have a son, it's really hard for him to accept the fact that he is going to die.
No, it’s a good thing that I don’t have a son, otherwise my son would be implicated as well.
Tong Huaqiong said: "I heard from the village chief this morning, and I know everything."
Qin Qingyou said: "What should we do? How about we throw these two people into the mountains again?"
Tong Huaqiong said: "How can an adult and a child be the remnants of the imperial court? The young man woke up yesterday. They came from other places to visit their relatives and were beaten by bandits who robbed them. Since I spent a lot of money to treat the young man's leg injury, he will be my driver to pay off the debt. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, if it is discovered, just say that the young man is the driver I hired in the city, and the child has no father or mother and lives with his uncle. If people outside ask about his injury, just say that he was frightened and stepped on by the horse while driving my carriage..."
Tong Huaqiong told Qin Qingyou the identities of the two people without changing her expression.
Qin Qingyou’s mind raced.
He knew Tong Huaqiong was talking nonsense.
Tong Huaqiong said to Qin Qingyou with a serious face: "You know the crime of harboring the remnants of the imperial court is to kill nine clans. Nine clans, even if we tie up the entire Qinghe Bay together, it would not be enough to kill them all."
Qin Qingyou turned pale with fright.
Tong Huaqiong said sternly: "Remember that we passed by the main road yesterday and never encountered any remnants of the imperial court."
Qin Qingyou nodded hurriedly and said, "Boss, I remember that we passed by the main road yesterday and never encountered any remnants of the imperial court."
So what if he lied in front of the extermination of his entire clan?
Besides, the two people we rescued yesterday didn’t have the remnants of the imperial court carved on their foreheads.
Maybe they are not the remnants of the imperial court at all.
When Qin Qingyou figured this out, the pressure to rescue the remnants of the imperial court disappeared instantly.
There was a noise outside.
After the meeting in the wheat field, the villagers went home to have breakfast.
No one cared at all whether there were remnants of the imperial court or not. Instead, they complained that if the soldiers really came to search their homes, it would delay everyone's work.
"Village chief, will you organize us to search the mountain when the time comes?" someone asked Liu Tielian.
Liu Tielian said, "Who knows. If we really organize everyone to search the mountain, I will go ahead and say that everyone is rushing to harvest corn and beans and can't spare anyone to go up the mountain. If the higher-ups insist that we organize people to search the mountain, then each family can provide labor and just wander around the mountain. It doesn't matter whether they are remnants or not, as long as they don't harm us, it has nothing to do with us."
Liu Tielian wanted to say, what does the royal family’s affairs have to do with ordinary people.
No matter whether the remnants win or the current emperor wins, what will happen if the throne is passed on to the people of Qinghe Bay?
Everyone understood what the village chief meant and said with a smile that they knew what to do.
Tong Huaqiong couldn't help laughing when she heard Liu Tielan's words in the yard.
This village chief is very interesting.
Gu Taohua listened to the noise outside and asked, "Mom, why don't we lock the door?"
Gu Jingzhe disagreed and said, "No. We have to open the door so that the soldiers won't get suspicious when they come."
Tong Huaqiong agreed with Gu Jingzhe's point of view, so the door of Gu's house was opened.
The villagers passed by Tong Huaqiong's yard and looked inside.
Everyone in the village knew that Tong Huaqiong had gone to the provincial capital. When they saw Tong Huaqiong coming back, they all greeted her.
"Dashu Niang, you're back."
"Is everything going well with the shop?"
"Big Foot heard that you came home last night. Why didn't you get some more sleep? You deserve to be rich if you get up so early this morning."
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Tong Huaqiong responded to everyone's enthusiasm with a smile.
Liu Yue'e's mother, Zhao, was particularly happy to see her mother-in-law come back. She hadn't seen her daughter and grandson in the past few days and missed them very much.
Zhao said to Tong Huaqiong, "My dear, you didn't go to the wheat field just now. It is said that the prince of Shengjing rebelled and was killed by the emperor. His son was protected by his subordinates and ran to our Yanguan Town. The village chief said that strangers are not allowed to enter the village these days, and there are soldiers coming to search."
Tong Huaqiong nodded and said, "The village chief came to my house this morning to talk about this. Well, it's all royal affairs, and has nothing to do with us ordinary people. The prince's son is a remnant, and maybe one day the emperor will change his mind and take him away again."
This was the case in my previous life.
The old emperor was suspicious and forced the prince to rebel.
After the crown prince rebelled, the emperor suffered from PTSD caused by rebellion. He was suspicious all day long that this prince was going to kill him and that prince was going to rise up in rebellion. In the end, he forced all his adult sons to death.
The only remaining son, who was still in his infant clothes, discovered before his death that he was cuckolded by a young beauty.
The old emperor was so angry that he hanged the beauty, and then his nephew forced him to abdicate.
At this time, the ministers suggested that the ministers who had tried the deposed prince's son were afraid that the old emperor would regret it, so they secretly hid the emperor's grandson among the people.
Under the persuasion of his ministers, the old emperor welcomed his grandson into the palace to inherit the throne.
In this way, Xiaolong returned to the palace from the common people and ascended to the throne of the emperor.