Chapter 124: Letter

"I want to live."

Reinforcements at the foot of the mountain arrived, and Zhang Hu ordered the arrest of these assassins alive.

Except for those who were killed, all the assassins were taken down.

A small school walked up to Zhang Hu and said respectfully: "General, take all the assassins."

"I'm good at taking care of them and I'll go back and get rid of these people."

Zhang Hu endured the pain and looked at the assassin who was detained by the sergeant, his eyes were filled with fire, as if he was about to be cut into pieces.

In addition, he ordered the monks in the temple to be taken back for trial.

After doing all this, Zhang Hu came to Minglan and his group, and Ye Ningshuang took out a handkerchief and carefully stopped the bleeding for his son.

Seeing that they were safe and sound, Zhang Hu breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, when he saw a monk taking out a short blade from his sleeve and stabbing his grandmother, he suddenly felt that his grandmother's life had ended.

Fortunately, the abbot used his body to block the fatal blow. Taking advantage of this gap, he defeated the assassin who blocked his own.

He rushed to the side of his grandmother in three or two steps and killed the monk with one knife.

It’s just that the abbot lost too much blood and died in front of Ru Lan.

Rulan felt guilty and couldn't stop crying. No matter how Minglan persuaded her, it didn't work.

"Second grandmother, for your safety, let's leave here first."

Zhang Hu was afraid of meeting an assassin again, so he advised Minglan to leave here and return to Zitong City.

After such a thing happened, Minglan had no intention of staying here, so she agreed to Zhang Hu.

Then Ye Ningshuang and the other two helped their mother-in-law walk down the mountain, and Zhang Hu took the man to protect him.

After going down the mountain, he got on a carriage and walked towards Zitong City.

Back in the city, Zhang Hu found Zhang Shen and told him about the assassination.

Zhang Shen was shocked and asked if the two old ladies were injured.

Zhang Hu told his father that his two grandmothers were frightened and had nothing to do.

After hearing this, Zhang Shen breathed a sigh of relief and then asked his son to find out who these assassins were?

Then he went to Xiangfeiyuan, the two old ladies to visit.

...

"Have you all been asked?"

Zhang Shen put down the documents in his hand and asked Zhang Hu who had just come in.

Zhang Hu smiled and said, "Dad, they are all corrupt. When he saw the torture instrument, he wanted to say everything he knew."

"Who organizes it? Do you have any accomplices?" Zhang Shen reached out and picked up the documents on the table, and asked while looking.

Zhang Hu looked angry and said, "Dad, it was organized by the old guy Hou Wu. He paid the money and the people belonged to us. The accomplices asked his son to arrest him. Now they are in prison."

Zhang Shen put down the document in his hand again, stood up with a heavy expression, and walked around the study with his hands behind his back.

Zhang Hu couldn't help but say, "Dad, why not give my son an elite soldier and ask me to take down Bajun, and then cut this old thing into pieces."

Who is this Hou Wu?

He is from the Hou family, a local clan of Ba County, and is also the prefect of Ba County.

"No." Zhang Shen refused: "Now your grandfather's life and death are uncertain. The front line is fighting against the Song army, and the war can no longer start."

Zhang Hu was disappointed and said angrily: "Dad, this is the second time. Don't you want to take revenge?"

Of course, Zhang Shen wanted to retaliate, but he couldn't lose his calmness. If he sent troops to conquer Ba County, he would definitely fall into it. After all, Ba County is too big.

Once they fight on both sides, they will die.

"Don't worry, when you find your grandfather, you will definitely deal with this person." Zhang Shen comforted his son.

"By the way, did the monks from Fang Guang Temple who attacked you participate?"

Zhang Shen sat in the chair again and asked his sulking son.

Zhang Hu knew that he could not change his father's thoughts, so he had to suppress his anger and answer truthfully

"There are only four monks in Fang Guang Temple who participated, and it doesn't matter what else. One of the four people is very special. This person is the abbot's junior brother."

"The monks involved in the assassination were killed, and the others were released. After all, the abbot saved your eldest grandmother's life, so it's hard to hold you accountable."

Zhang Shen thought for a while and said, "Give it to gold, silver, grain and rice again to repay the kindness of saving your life."

Zhang Hu responded and left the study to do the work.

Afterwards, Rulan also went to Fangguang Temple many times to repay her kindness. Zhang Rui was also grateful to the abbot for saving Rulan's life and gave many rewards to this temple.

Of course, these are later things, so I won’t talk about them for the time being.

...

Three days after the assassination, the messenger sent by Luocheng came to Zitong Prefecture.

When the guard told Zhang Shen the news of the messenger, he immediately called the messenger to the study room.

"I've seen the uncle." The messenger greeted Zhang Shen and said.

Zhang Shen helped the messenger up and asked impatiently: "Is there any news from my father?"

The messenger was startled, but he came back to his senses and said, "Uncle, the third master found his lord two days ago, and now he is in Luocheng."

"The lord asked the younger one to hand over the letter to the old man." The messenger took out the sealed letter from his arms and handed it to Zhang Shen.

There were three letters in total, one for Minglan and Rulan and the other for Zhang Shen. The last letter was written by Zhang Ji to his wife.

After receiving three letters, Zhang Shen asked his servant to take the messenger to rest.

He opened the letter he wrote to himself, and the contents of the letter were probably to tell Zhang Shen that he was fine and asked him to send the collected soldiers and money to Luocheng immediately.

After watching it, Zhang Shen breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Zhang Rui was safe and sound, the battle could be fought.

Then he asked the servants outside the door to come in, handed him two letters, and went to the back house to hand the letters to the two eldest ladies and the third brother's daughter-in-law.

The servant came to Xiangfeiyuan and found that the two old ladies were not here. When he asked about it, he went to the back garden.

When we arrived at a pavilion in the back garden, two old ladies were having fun with the three masters’ ladies, and the servants did not dare to go there rashly.

After asking someone to inform me, Minglan immediately asked the maid to bring the servant to her.

The subordinate gave the gift and handed the letter to the maid, who handed it over to Minglan.

At the same time, he handed Zhang Ji's letter to his wife.

"This unscrupulous guy finally wrote a letter." Rulan said with red eyes.

Minglan also tore open the envelope even more, and the two of them put their little heads together to read the contents of the letter.

The content Zhang Rui wrote to their two young wives was five pages more than the flesh she wrote to her son.

In short, the more mellow the content is, the more mellow it is.

Ye Ningshuang and Zhu Ying'er looked at the red faces of the two mother-in-law, and guessed how stingy the flesh on the letter was.

No, there is another person, that is Du Wan'er, but she is more reserved and doesn't respond much.

When they learned that Zhang Rui was safe and sounded, the five of them let go of their hearts, and laughter rang out of the pavilion.

...

Three days later, Zhang Shenzheng recruited 20,000 new soldiers and 30,000 stones of food and grass, and asked Zhang Hu to take them to Luocheng for reinforcements.

Soon after, another tragic battle would take place. The difference is that this is a battle of life and death for Zhang Rui's side.

Zhang Rui must win this battle, otherwise, the whole family will be extinct.

In addition, Zhang Zhong, who was far away in Hanzhong, learned that Zhang Rui had suffered a crushing defeat, immediately asked Xu Gai to guard Hanzhong, and he brought 13,000 people to reinforce.

(End of this chapter)
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