When Zhu Yunxuan woke up, it was already past Chen's hour. He drank too much last night, and he was so drunk that he didn't even remember how he got back. Min'er, who had woken up a long time ago, obediently didn't disturb him, just sat aside and played with the bamboo rabbit. Seeing Zhu Yunxuan opened her eyes, she threw herself on him, and called him crisply: "Daddy got up!"
Zhu Yunxuan came to his senses, hugged the child and kissed him and sat up, the child told him in a low voice: "Daddy was drunk, father brought him back, Min'er slept with father last night."
Zhu Yunxuan was taken aback for a moment, then touched his son's face with a smile: "Well, you are very good."
Last night he was really indulgent, he drank a lot of wine, what he said and did afterwards, there were only some vague memories in his mind, and he couldn't remember much after thinking about it, so he simply forgot, hugged his son and got up to wash up , By the way, ask someone to bring meals.
It was the woman surnamed Qin who brought the breakfast, and she took care of Zhu Yunxuan and his son's daily life these few days, and Yu'er was no longer as afraid of her as before. Seeing that there was something wrong with her expression, Zhu Yunxuan asked casually: "What happened? Where is your major general?"
The woman showed hesitation, Zhu Yunxuan said calmly: "If you have something to say, don't ask me to ask it a second time."
"... Forgive me, Your Majesty, the Major General is at the front. Several generals came over this morning, as if... they seemed to be here to trouble the Major General. things about."
Zhu Yunxuan frowned slightly, and didn't say anything more, and asked him softly after he was full: "My dear baby, let me play here for a while, let the mother accompany you, Daddy is going to do some things, and I will be back in a while, okay?" ?”
The child looked at him and then at the woman, nodded reluctantly, raised his hand and waved: "Daddy, come back quickly."
"So good." Zhu Yunxuan smiled and squeezed his son's hand, told the woman to look at him well, got up and went out.
As soon as he walked to the front yard, he heard the noise coming from the main hall, Zhu Yunxuan stopped, stood by the door for a while, saw clearly who was inside, and then stepped into the door.
Zhu Yunxuan's sudden appearance seemed to press some special switch. The noisy crowd shut up at the same time, and the hall suddenly fell silent. Everyone's eyes fell on Zhu Yunxuan, with scrutiny, suspicion, Fear, and other indescribably complex emotions.
Zhu Yunxuan walked to the upper seat calmly, sat down beside Liang Zhen, glanced at the people in the hall, and asked Liang Zhen: "What happened? Can I listen?"
Before Liang Zhen could speak, someone spoke out first: "It's just in time! Since you have come here in person, please let this 'major general's wife' tell me in person, are you the emperor of Dayan?!"
Pairs of covetous eyes stared at Zhu Yunxuan closely. Most of them had met Zhu Yunxuan on the pier the day Zhu Yunxuan came. The one who is Uncle Rong, Rong Cheng.
Liang Zhen frowned and said, "What do you uncles want to do, do you have to be so aggressive?"
"We just want a clear explanation from the major general! Tell me whether this person is the emperor of Dayan!"
"I am." The two words fell loudly, and the hall was silent for a moment, followed by more anger and doubts directed at them.
"Major General, what do you mean by bringing Emperor Dayan to the island?! For so many years, we have been cautious and treading on thin ice, and finally lived a peaceful life, but you brought the person who forced us to die in the first place! What are you trying to do?" Where will we be placed?!"
"It's almost thirty years! We have a home that we can't go back to, and we have relatives that we can't recognize. We can only hide on this isolated island overseas. What are we doing?! Who pushed us to this point?! Young Master General, how can you do this, how can you do this!"
"Major General! Don't mention the right and wrong of the year, just talk about yourself, have you forgotten how you came to Nanyang three years ago?! It was Emperor Dayan who forced you to a dead end, forcing you to Changed your name and changed your surname to flee overseas, don’t you care about it and go back and work for him?!”
A group of people vented their anger with each other, and some even outspokenly asked Liang Zhen to kill Zhu Yunxuan to comfort the tens of thousands of souls who died at sea that year. Liang Zhen directly dropped the teacup in his hand and stared at To the person who spoke, he reminded in a deep voice: "Misfortune comes from the mouth. Hasn't my father taught you all these years? My father took you away back then as a last resort, but my father never had the intention of treason. You encouraged me to do so Do you want to make the thousands of lives on the island die without a place to bury them?"
The man blushed, twisted his neck and groaned for a while, turned his head away fiercely, and some people beside him argued in disbelief: "Old Chen didn't mean that, it's just that you, Major General, will kill you without saying a word." The emperor of Dayan brought us to the island. You didn’t pay attention to us old fellows at all, did you? For more than 20 years, we have carefully avoided the Dayan people because we were afraid that we would be discovered by the Dayan court. I haven't lived a peaceful life since then, but what did you do? You brought the emperor here without telling us!"
Zhu Yunxuan, who had been drinking tea calmly and listening to their quarrel, suddenly sneered, put the teacup gently on the table, looked slowly over the people with different expressions in front of him again, and asked in a deep voice: "Since you all talk about family harmony The relatives are still in Dayan, I just want to ask you, do you still want to go back?"
After the words fell, most of the people were stunned, relatively speechless as if they had completely forgotten what they were arguing just now, until the old Chen who shouted to kill Zhu Yunxuan said again angrily: "Emperor Dayan always speaks without saying anything. Untrustworthy and treacherous, it was Emperor Dayan who pushed us out to die back then, and now he asks us if we want to go back, I am afraid that if we set foot on the land of Dayan, we will be jailed for treason!"
Zhu Yunxuan said calmly: "It was my father, not me, who ordered you to go to war back then, but I will not say anything about my father's fault, and I will not comment on whether the late emperor did right or wrong. Now that what happened back then is over It's over, if you really want to go back, I can make a decree to let go of the past and even reinstate your officials. If you make up your mind not to go back, you will have nothing to do with Dayan from now on. Life or death has nothing to do with Dayan, there is only one chance, you should think it through yourself."
After a short period of silence, voices rang out again, from the initial questioning and quarreling to murmured whispers of surprise and uncertainty, Rong Cheng, who had not made a sound since Zhu Yunxuan entered the door, said coldly: "Hello, Your Majesty the Emperor!" It's a big air, but we don't believe you, Lao Chen is right, how can His Majesty the Emperor guarantee that you won't turn your face and deny people after I step on Dayan."
Zhu Yunxuan said: "You are not joking, believe it or not is up to you."
The old Chen curled his lips with disdain on his face: "Jun Wu's jokes are just an excuse for the emperor to fool his subjects. I was fooled once more than 20 years ago, so how can I be fooled a second time."
"Enough," Liang Zhen interrupted him impatiently, narrowing his eyes slightly, looking at Rong Cheng with dark and cold eyes, after a moment of silence, he ordered in a deep voice, "Bring it up."
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, Liang Zhen's personal soldiers had escorted the three of them into the door, and they knelt down to the ground with force. Everyone was horrified, these three people were not all Rongcheng's cronies! Rong Cheng frowned slightly, and asked Liang Zhen calmly: "What do you mean, Major General?"
Liang Zhen explained to everyone in a cold voice: "Early in the morning, the three of them sneaked out to go out to sea by boat, but I asked someone to stop them. After interrogation, they all admitted that they were going to Java Island under Uncle Rong's order, to give those The Fanbang people sent a message, telling them that Emperor Dayan is in our hands."
Everyone was in an uproar, and before Rongcheng could argue, Liang Zhen said again: "I don't care what you think, but when my father was alive, he made repeated orders, except for doing business, you must not have too many in-depth contacts with those foreigners, especially you must not get involved with them. Dayan is fighting right and wrong, but what has someone done now? Yang Fengyin violated the relationship with the Fanbang people, and wanted to use the Emperor Dayan to sell them to the Fanbang people, do you still have me as a major general and my father in your eyes?"
The spearhead turned to Rong Cheng in an instant, and everyone looked at him with suspicion and suspicion. Rong Cheng asked Liang Zhen in a cold voice: "Is there any evidence for what the Major General said? How do you know that the Major General and the Emperor Dayan were colluding?" Get up, want to deal with us old guys?!"
Liang Zhen shook his head slightly: "Since I dare to say it, there is of course evidence. I have already had evidence of your secret dealings with the Fanbang people in Java Island in the past few years. I originally thought that you were my father's brother-in-law and my father's life and death. For the sake of it, I don't intend to pursue it with you, and I want to give you a chance to reform, but what you did this time is to put the life and death of the entire island at risk, and I can no longer just sit idly by."
The witnesses and material evidences were presented one by one. Although Rongcheng still had the name of a general, he was in charge of the business on the island. The merchants in Nian and Dayan also had close contacts, and all the cases were testified by his cronies. Some letters and objects between him and the Fanbang people also fell into the hands of Liang Zhen, and now they are shown in public, which is iron-clad evidence. .
Without waiting for Rong Cheng to say anything, and without giving others a chance to plead for mercy, Liang Zhen ordered his own soldiers: "Take Uncle Rong down first."
Rong Cheng's complexion finally changed, he gritted his teeth and said: "Is the major general so heartless?"
"Take it down!"
When Rong Cheng was escorted away, the old Chen was dumbfounded, and asked Liang Zhen sharply: "What is the major general trying to do! Brother Rong has a big mistake and is my brother who was born and died! The major general really wants Nostalgia will deal with it, and I, Old Chen, will be the first to refuse! If the Major General insists on doing this, why not deal with me as well!"
Liang Zhen said coldly: "If Uncle Chen really doesn't distinguish between right and wrong and insists on going his own way, he will get what you want."
"you!"
Liang Zhen ignored him, looked at the embarrassing people in front of him, and slowed down his voice: "Uncles, don't blame me, my nephew is forced to do this, if Uncle Rong really passed on the news that Emperor Dayan was on the island today , Attracted those foreign people, Your Majesty has something wrong, what will happen, I don’t need to tell you, everyone knows that I invited Emperor Dayan to the island, and it was for your sake, I just ask you, I really don’t want to go back to Da Yan, are you willing to spend your whole life incognito in this wild place overseas?"
Liang Zhen's words hit everyone's hearts hard, and no one knew better than themselves that no matter how many years they wandered on this isolated island in the South Seas, what they still miss in their hearts is their homeland and family.
Finally, someone stepped forward and looked at Zhu Yunxuan with a more respectful expression: "Are you really serious about what Your Majesty promised?"
Zhu Yunxuan lowered his voice: "I have said it before, you are not joking, you don't have to be in a hurry, I will stay on the island for a few more days, whether to go or stay, you should think it through before making a decision."
Everyone seems to have just remembered the identity of His Majesty the Emperor of Dayan who came to the island. Did he bring a child with him on the day he came, said to be the son of the Major General? Well…
Zhu Yunxuan drank his tea without changing his face, not caring about the strange and suspicious eyes these people cast on him.
The group of people with their own thoughts was finally sent out, and someone came to ask for an interview. It was Liang Zhen's confidant, who picked up Zhu Yunxuan's boatman at the Quanzhou pier that day. The visitor knelt down on the ground as soon as he entered the door, and pleaded guilty with Liang Zhen: "Forgive me, Major General, but it was my subordinate who committed a crime and leaked His Majesty's identity in front of my younger brother. It was also my brother's unintentional mistake that I sent His Majesty away." His identity has been spread out, please ask the Major General to punish one of his subordinates."
Zhu Yunxuan stood up, said "I'm going back to see you" and left, Liang Zhen had a smile in his eyes, he didn't come back until Zhu Yunxuan was far away, and looked at the person kneeling on the ground.