Chapter 497: The Fugitive
Yunguan rode a horse for a while and turned around and saw that the convoy was still staying where she had just happened. She didn't know what was going on, so she had to turn back again.
"Are you back?" Ze Fenglin was worried that Yunguan would get lost when she walked alone in front of her.
"What happened?" Yunguan asked in a low voice.
"This old man begged his wife to take him in." Ze Fenglin pulled Yun Wan aside and wanted to discuss.
"Take in?" Yunguan saw that the old man was dressed in rags, and he had already guessed it.
"You tell the Empress to accept this old man. If you follow us back to the imperial capital, you can go to our mansion to stay temporarily. Mr. Lu happened to return to his hometown and had a room empty." Yunguan and Ze Fenglin whispered.
"How can this work?" Ze Fenglin knew that his master was the softest.
"The Empress is so compassionate, how can she bear to leave the old man alone? But she suffered from eye disease and could not even take care of herself, so she was so hesitant!" Yunguan really couldn't stand the frowning look of Concubine Zhuang.
"That can't..." Before Ze Fenglin could say anything, Yunguan covered her mouth.
"You can speak softly and do what I said." Yunguan suddenly became serious.
"Okay~" Ze Fenglin walked back to the car and cleared his throat and reported to Concubine Zhuang, "Ahem, madam, my subordinates said that his mansion could take in the old man, so let him follow us to walk along, okay?"
"Really?" Concubine Zhuang's tone was extremely happy.
"There is an available room in his house and he said he could take the old man back. My subordinate is also kind on weekdays." Ze Fenglin couldn't help but praise.
"After I go back, I will pay a lot of money to thank you, my subordinate. I will ask him to take good care of the old man in the future." Concubine Zhuang's face showed a gratified smile.
"Madam is thorough, I thank you for your generosity and selflessness for your subordinates." Ze Fenglin bowed and thanked him. If it were the case before, he would have knelt down and thanked him.
"Mrs. Xie, Xie Guan, Xie Xiao brother..." The old man kowtowed as he said.
"Get up quickly, don't do this." Ze Fenglin helped the old man up, looking at his strong body, but he was actually skinny and thin.
"Madam, I have a heartless request..." Ze Fenglin wanted to speak but stopped.
"Linzi, but it's okay." Concubine Zhuang didn't know what Ze Fenglin had to ask for.
"My subordinate is a little weak and has just been wet from the rain. I wonder if he can ride with you. His horse can be ridden by this elderly person..." Ze Fenglin remembered to ask the old man, "By the way, I forgot to ask you how to ride a horse, right?"
"I rode when I was young, so there should be no problem." The old man smiled.
"Yes, that's OK." Concubine Zhuang agreed.
Ze Fenglin happily pulled Yunguan over, "Hurry up, mom... what's going on?"
"I'm afraid of disturbing my wife's rest." Yun Wan said embarrassedly.
"Will you want to ride with me?" Ze Fenglin looked at Yunguan with a wicked smile.
"No, cut it~" Yunguan said and got into the car and whispered: "Hello, Empress~"
"Thanks to your understanding, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do." Concubine Zhuang also lowered her voice and responded.
"It's what my subordinates should do, I don't need to worry too much." Yunguan said politely.
"I continue to recite scriptures. If you disturb me, I hope you will understand." Concubine Zhuang felt a little impetuous and could only use scriptures to soothe inner uneasiness.
"Empress, you are polite, my subordinates are fine." Yunguan shook his hand in front of Concubine Zhuang, without any reaction, and she felt a sense of sadness in her heart.
The two people in the car stopped communicating, one was immersed in the peace of reciting scriptures and worshiping Buddha, and the other was quietly trapped in a dream.
But Ze Fenglin and the old man were having a lot of chatting outside the car, and the two of them rode their horses side by side leisurely.
"Official, is the wife in the car your mother?" The old man riding on the horse immediately became energetic and no longer had the same illness as before lying on the ground.
"Mrs. Is it my mother?" Ze Fenglin had never seen his mother before, and had never even seen a portrait.
"I didn't expect that I was so lucky. I met a noble man, hey~" the old man sighed.
"Why are you still sighing?" Ze Fenglin wanted to learn more about the origin of the old man. The team escorted him suddenly had a stranger whom he had never known each other, which made people feel a little uneasy. His first task was to ensure the safety of his master and Concubine Zhuang.
"I miss my little grandson, and I don't know if that child is still..." The old man shook his head helplessly, "I hope he can live well and meet noble people like me."
"Absolutely, there are so many kind-hearted people, especially when encountering children, anyone will help them. Don't worry, the elderly." Ze Fenglin felt that helping children would be more people than helping the elderly.
"I'll let you worry about it by borrowing the auspicious words from the official." The old man smiled with relief.
"I dare to ask how your grandparents and grandchildren got separated? I don't know if it's convenient to talk to me..." Although Ze Fenglin felt that it was inappropriate, he still asked provocatively. He wanted to know the whole story of the separation.
"To be honest, we were the people of Qiuchi. Since the Jinge Cavalry occupied our city, the disaster between Xiaowei and I began." The old man's words were full of helplessness.
"The Jinge people drove you all out?" Ze Fenglin could not imagine what kind of suffering the grandparents and grandchildren had experienced. It would definitely be uncomfortable to be forced to exile.
"Yes, they only allow wealthy people to stay in the city and bombard all the poor people out of the city. We both can't escape this fate." When this matter was mentioned, the old man was so angry that he was itchy.
"Have you ever been to the surrounding cities? Do you want to accept you? Why did you escape all the way to Qingzhou? So far?" Ze Fenglin said in confusion. There were several nearby cities around Qiuchi. He didn't know why the old man had to pick a long distance.
"No one is really willing to take in the poor refugees." The old man became more and more sad. "We were both grandparents and grandchildren who suffered many rolling eyes and cold words because of exile. To be honest, we have been to Bingzhou and Tianhehou, and have traveled several places before we came here. Who knew that we should have lived a stable life here, but we didn't expect to get separated."
"After marriage, Jin Ge will retreat to the grassland. Then you can go back to Qiuchi to live a stable life." Ze Fenglin didn't want the person he had never met to follow his master back to the imperial capital. Who knows what Qi'an's intention is?
"How can I go back? Our house was burned to ashes by their fire. Now Xiaowei is gone. What can I do when I go back? It's not enough to hurt the scene."
The old man secretly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hands. Although he knew that crying was useless, he lost his home and now his family is not by his side. He was desperate.
Chapter completed!