The sky cleared up, and the flowers and plants washed by the rain looked particularly vibrant. Su Yao sat on the bed, rubbed his temples, smiled and nodded.
Because Su Yao hadn't eaten for a day and a night, Mother Shen prepared some porridge and side dishes.
Although it was just porridge, there were many varieties. There were beef porridge, pickled cabbage porridge, and green vegetable and chicken porridge. They were all cooked to perfection, thick and delicious. Mother Shen served Su Yao a bowl of green vegetable and chicken porridge: "You liked to drink porridge with side dishes since you were a child. I thought about making some porridge for you yesterday. Try it. Does it taste like when you were a child?"
When she was a child, Mr. and Mrs. Shen always had to go out of town to collect debts, leaving Su Yao and her younger brother alone at home. Because Shen Jiayan clung to her so much and often refused to let her go to eat, she developed stomachaches. In addition, she broke a tooth once, so the doctor told her to eat liquid food for a while, so she drank porridge every day.
Fortunately, Mother Shen felt sorry for her, and even though she could only drink porridge, she would cook it for her in different ways every day.
She took a sip of chicken porridge and smiled at Mother Shen in surprise: “It really tastes like what I ate when I was a child! How did Mom make it? I seem to have made it in the capital before, but it didn’t taste like this.”
The happiness after a great disaster is always worth cherishing.
Seeing her happy, Mother Shen also smiled and explained: "It's not because of the porridge. Porridge is cooked the same way, nothing special. It's today's side dishes, some of the side dishes you always liked to eat before, cold shredded kelp, spicy shredded chicken, which are rare in Beijing. It's impossible for our family to afford it, but after all, it was sent from a long distance, and the taste is still different. The kelp here is fresh, plus there are peppers from the West, so after mixing it, the taste is almost the same as when I was a child."
The Shen family is a merchant family, and they used to have some new things from time to time.
The two of them talked for a while without noticing, and then it became completely dark.
Because she had slept all day, Su Yao couldn't fall asleep at night. She read a book for a while, thought about it, and told Mother Shen: "Go and call Liu Jie and San Sheng over. I have something to ask them."
Mother Shen felt a little distressed: “It’s already so late.”
“I can’t sleep anyway.” Su Yao smiled at Mother Shen: “I’ve slept enough during the day, don’t worry, I’m fine.”
Since Su Yao said so, Mother Shen had no choice but to nod.
Jinping hurriedly helped Su Yao change his clothes and went to the yard outside.
There were no signs of fighting in the yard, as if the deaths and injuries had never happened. Su Yao stood there for a while, and Sansheng and Liujie came over with lanterns. When they saw Su Yao, they hurriedly bowed and greeted him.
Su Yao paused, raised his eyebrows and said, "I've thought about it, and I think Zhou Zhengshan might still be worth a try."
All day today, Sansheng and Liujie were busy interrogating the pirates and traitors.
After hearing what Su Yao said, the two of them looked at each other, and Liu Jie spoke first: "Your Highness, we have interrogated General Zhou, and he has no intention of speaking. Later, we threatened him with his clansmen and family, but he was unwilling to reveal anything."
It was obvious that at the beginning, Zhou Zhengshan reacted very strongly to Su Yao's statement of exterminating the nine clans, but for some reason, his attitude changed drastically after a day.
Su Yao lowered his eyes: "If his wife and children don't work, then try something else."
Anything else
Liu Jie frowned in confusion: "If even his wife and children can't sway him, what else can he bow down to?"
Su Yao smiled softly: "Whether it is possible or not, we should give it a try."
She whispered a few words to Liu Jie.
Liujie and Sansheng were both a little confused. They didn't know why Su Yao made such arrangements, but since Su Yao said so, they agreed and the two quickly left.
Zhou Zhengshan was gritting his teeth to endure the pain. He was injured in the fight today. Although Su Yao sent a doctor to see him, he still refused to take any medicine and just endured it.
I survived two interrogations today.
He leaned against the wall tiredly, breathing heavily. Thinking of how Liujie and Sanxing had hinted during the interrogation that he would exterminate his clan, he could not help but close his eyes.
If it really comes to that...
Thinking of his wife, his daughter, his son, his parents and his family, he clenched his fists.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a few whispered conversations coming from the side.
It would be fine if they were talking, after all, this was a place where prisoners were held, and there would always be people talking, but this time it was special because the person speaking was speaking Japanese.
It's the Japanese pirates!
Zhou Zhengshan frowned and heard someone lower his voice and say, "We were fooled by these people from the Great Zhou Dynasty. They are too cunning!"
"I think so." Another person also answered in Japanese, and after a pause, he said, "We can't let them have an easy time. Fortunately, the boss was smart and asked some people who entered the city to hide in the city and not come in."
Zhou Zhengshan naturally knew the whole plan, and he couldn't help but frown. According to the plan, they had to deal with Su Yao from beginning to end, and their goal was to take the life of the Crown Princess, so he repeatedly warned the head of the Qin family not to harm ordinary people.
The head of the Qin family also agreed.
It turns out that the Qin boss has a backup plan, and those Japanese pirates are hiding in the city...
There was silence next door for a while, and then suddenly they started talking again: "When the time comes, we can go out and interrogate them. We can use the excuse that we have something to confess, send a signal out, and have those hiding in the city killed!"
Zhou Zhengshan was suddenly frightened.
These Japanese ronin are different from ordinary Japanese pirates. They are more difficult to deal with than ordinary soldiers of the Great Zhou. Generally speaking, they can basically fight ten of the Great Zhou soldiers with one.
If they were allowed to fight against civilians, one could not imagine what the consequences would be.
But when he went to listen again, there was no sound next door.
He didn't know who those two people were.
The important thing is, with his current identity, will anyone believe what he says
But if they don't say anything, then when the Japanese pirates wreak havoc in the city, these powerful people will not be harmed, but ordinary people will suffer.
Just think about it, they avoided the initial disaster, but now they have to suffer this unexpected calamity.
Zhou Zhengshan fell into a huge struggle for a moment.
Should I tell Su Yao and the others about the news I heard
But if I say it, wouldn't that be both right and wrong
He was thinking too far ahead, and when it was almost dawn, he slapped himself hard to wake himself up.