How did the wanted criminal Ji Gang end up being kept as a mistress in a luxurious house by Mu Chun, who lived thousands of miles away
This is really a case of a child without a mother. It’s a long story.
There are only two ways to leave the capital, water and land. The general in charge of the defense of Nanjing's water gates is Chen Xuan, a second-generation bandit leader who was recruited by Muchun from Zhuoying County.
Unlike wild bandits like Shi Qianhu, Chen Xuan is a comprehensive and compound bandit who can read and write, understand various southwestern dialects and officialdom rules. Mu Chun has always been careful to cultivate him well, and if there are good resources and good promotion opportunities, he will use his father Mu Ying's face to fight for them for him.
Nine years ago, when the position of Nanjing's water defense became vacant, Mu Chun strongly recommended Chen Xuan, saying that Chen Xuan was not only good at fighting, but also engaged in various water conservancy projects in Yunnan, repairing canals and dams. Emperor Hongwu finally chose Chen Xuan and handed over the capital's water defense to him.
Chen Xuan reorganized the Nanjing navy and occasionally led troops to the coast to fight against Japanese pirates, using combat to train troops, which was very successful. Emperor Hongwu was very satisfied with him. In addition, his backer was Muchun, Duke of Qian. Emperor Hongwu carried out several major purges in the court, but no one dared to touch Chen Xuan.
Therefore, after nine years of running the Nanjing Navy, Chen Xuan had already established a firm foothold and had his own confidants. Yunnan was a remote place, and Mu Chun was far away from the political center, but he was able to know the situation in the capital well, all thanks to Chen Xuan's water routes and carrier pigeons.
When Chen Xuan told Mu Chun about the fact that Princess Nankang's husband Hu Guan had taken the lead in revolting against Mao Xiang, Mu Chun was still on his honeymoon at that time. He and his newlywed wife were on the water, paddling the boat with a pole every day and having a lot of fun. As soon as he saw this information, he knew what was going on: the old man Emperor Hongwu was very bad, no wonder he would easily help them. It turned out that he had arranged a backup plan in order to get rid of Sister Shanwei.
However, Mu Chun also knew that even if Hu Shanwei stayed in the capital, he could not change the fixed outcome, and might even affect innocent people.
Mu Chun concealed the matter from Hu Shanwei and wrote back to Chen Xuan: Mao Xiang is doomed to die, do your best to protect Ji Gang and send him to Yunnan to hide.
This was not the first time that Mu Chun had rescued someone in the capital. Chen Xuan received the reply and was thinking of a way to get rid of Ji Gang when Mao Xiang, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, came to his door.
Speak of the devil; he will appear.
Mao Xiang said, "Master Chen, you don't have to play guessing games with me. I know what you and Mu Chun did behind my back. You secretly took away Chang Jizu, the missing grandson of Chang Yuchun, the Prince of Kaiping. We have been wanted for three years but there is no news of him. Is he hiding in Yunnan?"
Chen Xuan looked terrified and said, "Master Mao, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. How could I, the admiral of the navy of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, have private dealings with the ministers of the frontier?"
All the letters were written in code and burned after reading. Chen Xuan was confident that Mao Xiang had no evidence.
Mao Xiang raised his hand and gave a look that said "I understand". "Don't worry, I haven't reported all this to the emperor. I have to leave a way out for that useless subordinate. In exchange for this secret, I need you to do me a small favor and get Ji Gang out of the capital. Don't die with me."
Mao Xiang knocked Ji Gang over with a pot of tea, and put the tea into a box, which was carried into the supply ship by Chen Xuan's navy and sent to Yunnan by express delivery, where it was signed for by Mu Chun in person.
Along the way, Ji Gang started cursing, punching the windows, and kicking the door, but it was all useless. The people outside were like deaf-mute people and ignored him completely. They only delivered three meals a day and cleaned the toilet once in the morning and evening.
Later, they changed from water transport to land transport and arrived in Yunnan. Ji Gang vaguely guessed what was going on and started cursing Mu Chun for being a good-for-nothing.
The Stone City was given to a new immigrant. Mu Chun personally inspected the goods and confirmed with his eyes that it was the beautiful Ji. Mu Chun immediately hid the irritable and mad man in a golden house and waited for him to release his resentment.
He was locked up like this for a month. During the first ten days, Ji Gang was still very active. All the furniture was dismantled beyond recognition. Ji Gang was like a human meat grinder, smashing everything he saw, even himself when he was crazy.
He gradually became quiet during the middle ten days, and didn't say a word during the last ten days, as if he was dumb. Apart from eating, he just lay on the bed and stared at the ventilation window in the corner.
Mu Chun knew that Ji Gang had finally come to his senses, and as soon as the news of Mao Xiang's death and a special amnesty order arrived, he released him.
Ji Gang had not shaved during the month he was locked up in the room, and even his eyes looked haggard. The moment he spoke harsh words to Mu Chun, it was as if he had emerged as a butterfly from a cocoon, and the caterpillar was reborn in the painful autism.
Mu Chun knew who he was going to surrender to. The most powerful prince now was Prince of Yan Zhu Di, otherwise Emperor Hongwu would not have detained Prince of Yan's two sons and two daughters in the capital at once, and only detained the princes of the other princes.
Mu Chun did not stop him. He had been working hard in Yunnan for the past few years, secretly protecting various political exiles. This was also to keep a hand in mind, to hedge his bets and to protect himself in the future. Anyway, no matter how they fought, someone from the Zhu family would be the emperor.
Mu Chun threw a bundle to him, "Your new household registration, travel permit and customs documents. Don't shave your beard, your face is too attractive."
Ji Gang took the bag and said, "I owe you a life. I will return it to you if I have the chance in the future."
Mu Chun got jealous and said, "No need, you saved my wife, and I saved you, so we're even now."
This was the main reason why Mu Chun asked Chen Xuan to save Ji Gang's life. To be honest, Hu Shanwei had been a female official for fifteen years, and Ji Gang had accompanied her and protected her for the longest time.
Companionship is the longest confession of love. Mu Chun, the walking Wuzhong Yanqu, understands this very well, but he just sees through it but does not speak it out. What you owe to Ji Gang must be paid back eventually.
Ji Gang laughed loudly, "You also know that there are rumors about my affair with Hu Shanwei in the harem? It's all a sneaky trick of the Crown Princess to spread rumors behind her back. You don't have to take it to heart."
Mu Chun was jealous, but said nonchalantly, "I won't let my imagination run wild. I believe her."
As soon as he finished speaking, a voice rang out, "Since you trust me, why are you hiding it from me? If I hadn't followed you all the way here, I wouldn't have known that you were able to hide your lover in such a quiet way."
Upon hearing this familiar voice, the two grown men froze in place, not daring to move.
Mu Chun didn't dare to move because he was in the late stage of henpecked husband.
Ji Gang didn't dare to move because he was a hero at the end of his life and he didn't want his acquaintances to see him in such a miserable state, especially since the man was Hu Shanwei.
Ji Gang simply covered his face with a bundle, and relying on his agility and long legs, he jumped directly from the second floor and escaped.
"Stop!" Hu Shanwei didn't bother to settle the score with her husband and hurried downstairs. Where was Ji Gang
Hu Shanwei ran to a crossroads, where there were pedestrians everywhere, but none of them was Ji Gang. The back of the beautiful Ji was different.
Mu Chun said, "Don't look for him anymore. He works in the intelligence department of Jinyiwei and is the best at tracking. If he wants to leave, no one can stop him."
There were too many passers-by around, so Hu Shanwei endured it and did not explode. When the couple went to the place where Ji Gang was under house arrest, Hu Shanwei finally exploded.
She flashed the "Pardon for the Lan and Hu Party" in front of her husband and was very angry:
"Why didn't you tell me such a big thing happened? You knew it when you were on the boat, right? Otherwise, you let me go. It turns out that you thought I was in the way. You didn't have time to rescue Ji Gang. The emperor had killed enough people and wanted to go ashore. He used Mao Xiang as a footcloth and threw him away after use, leaving him to be torn to pieces by his enemies! I knew that the emperor would not kick me away so easily by granting me a marriage!"
Mu Chun was like White Snake who saw Fahai's golden bowl. She stepped back in fear. "I knew it a long time ago, but the die is cast. Neither you nor I can change the emperor's decision. I can only think of a way to rescue Ji Gang. The reason I didn't tell you is because Ji Gang has been too irritable these days. All the furniture in the room is broken. Even the bowls and plates are made of bamboo. I dare not let you in to see him."
"Do you think I would be so crazy as to run to the capital to seek death? I know the emperor's temper better than you do. I won't be so stupid as to confront him head-on."
Hu Shanwei was so angry that he tore the "Pardon the Lan Party and Hu Party" into two pieces, tearing them into snowflakes and threw them into the air. "Everyone is his chess piece. He can live or die as he pleases. He can put me wherever he wants. I will never see such a king again in my life. Fortunately, when I left the palace, I was grateful for his fulfillment of our relationship. Now I think that all my sincerity has gone to waste!"
When the lips and teeth are gone, the fox mourns.
Negative emotions like disappointment, anger, loss, fear, etc. filled her mind, driving away all the joy of the newlyweds. It turned out that marriage was not the end, but the beginning. She still needed to fight for the happiness she wanted. The goal had not yet been achieved, and Shanwei still needed to work hard.
Hu Shanwei was so angry that he walked around the room. "The exam before I entered the palace was about 'keeping chastity', and Shen Qionglian wrote the better essay. "How terrible! The Qin Dynasty is so unjust, why should I keep my chastity!" The emperor is so cruel and cold-blooded, why should I be loyal to him?"
Hu Shanwei said angrily, "Mao Xiang is the emperor's adopted son, and the emperor actually watched him suffer the death penalty. Even if he was sentenced to death by a cup of poisoned wine, at least he died quietly. My father-in-law is also his adopted son, and there is still a layer of distance between you and me, so the friendship is even weaker. If the emperor suspects you in the future, the agreed fake death may become a real death, and then he will kill me too, creating the illusion of dying for her husband. I know so many palace secrets, and if I stay in this world, I may be an eyesore to him one day! You kept such an important thing from me, and I have no preparation in the future. Am I going to be slaughtered like Mao Xiang? I am not that kind of foolishly loyal person! Qin is unjust, so why should we keep our integrity!"
Although Hu Shanwei was a woman, she did not take the feudal logic of the relationship between the ruler and the minister, the father and the son seriously. When she was 20 years old, she was able to resist her stepmother's abuse and her father's arrangement of a marriage for her. She took the test of a female official to protest against patriarchy.
Fifteen years later, her rebellious spirit was still there. When she got married, she did not regard her husband as the God, obeyed her husband in everything, and did not think that the husband's power existed. In this feudal era, she could be said to be "born to be rebellious", so she was able to break free from the ideological shackles of "loyalty to the emperor" better than Mao Xiang.
What's more, Shen Qionglian's amazing words, "When Qin is unjust, why should we uphold our integrity?" helped her find a new direction quickly.
Seeing his wife explode, Mu Chun was about to be burned by the fire, so he tried to persuade her: "The emperor is too old, and the crown prince is too young. The pardon letter was issued by the crown prince to make the people of the world support the crown prince. But people are not chess pieces without feelings and wisdom. If you let them do whatever they want, I also think that the emperor is too extreme. Things will turn against each other sooner or later. I have made some preparations in the past few years. I didn't want to keep it a secret from you. I was just looking for the right time to reveal it to you. I didn't expect you to come to me by yourself. Wife, you are amazing. How did you find Ji Gang's hiding place?"
"Don't talk nonsense to me." Hu Shanwei frowned and asked, "Besides Ji Gang, what else are you hiding from me?"
Seeing that things had come to this point, Mu Chun could no longer hide it, so he had to grab her hand and said, "I'll take you to see someone."
Mu Chun took her to a quiet tea garden, where a man was watering tea trees. Hu Shanwei looked through a telescope at the foot of the mountain and was immediately surprised, "Chang Jizu?"
Hu Shanwei never imagined that Princess Yiwen's family, the Chang family, was wiped out by Emperor Hongwu, and the only grandchild of the Chang family who escaped was hiding here in Muchun!
"Yes." Mu Chun nodded. "Chang Jizu is not on the pardon list. When the crown prince ascends the throne in the future, I'm afraid he will be killed. No matter who wants to compete with the crown prince for the throne, Chang Jizu is a good political asset. Chang Jizu himself also wants to avenge his family. No matter who rules the world in the future, you and I will not be liquidated by the new emperor."
Hu Shanwei asked: "Who brought him to Yunnan?"
Muchun: "Of course it's me."
Hu Shanwei stuffed the telescope into his hand, turned around and left, "You can sleep on the floor tonight."
"No, I confess. I confess everything." Mu Chun followed with a shameless face, "It was Chen Xuan. He now controls the Ming navy and manages the canal transportation. He was able to get people here without anyone noticing."
Hu Shanwei said, "I didn't expect you to have hidden concubines in Yunnan these few days, one after another."
Mu Chun quickly defended himself, "The big shots are only Chang Jizu and Ji Gang. Chang Jizu is not as good as you, and Ji Gang is not as good as you. You are the most precious person that I have hidden away."
Hu Shanwei was skeptical, "Really? Only two?"
Mu Chun laughed and said, "There were also many other people from the capital who fled to Yunnan to seek refuge. I pretended not to see it. When my men found fake household registrations, I ordered them to turn a blind eye and let them go. I also gave them land. There is plenty of land here anyway, so let them be self-reliant. Forgive others when you can, and leave a way out for them so that we can meet again in the future. If the old emperor changes his mind in the future, you and I will have helpers and a way out. I am also considering our future..."
Mu Chun poured out all kinds of secrets from his heart, and Hu Shanwei felt relieved. It was already dusk, and the couple returned home. This was a house in Kunming. It looked ordinary from the outside, but it was a different world inside. There were fields of small daisies like the ocean. It was early summer, and the white daisies were swaying like waves in the ocean.
The Gutless Young Master should be very charming, wearing a helmet and dancing with a spear and playing the Yumen flute. He fought for 8,000 miles outside the Great Wall, and took off his armor to visit the chrysanthemums when he saw the cooking.
The poem "On July 20th, I ate crabs and drank chrysanthemum wine with Jingchun in a Hangzhou restaurant" that Hu Shanwei gave to Mu Chun fifteen years ago almost predicted Mu Chun's life. When Mu Chun was renovating the wedding room, he specially planted an acre of chrysanthemums to echo Sister Shanwei's poem.
Woof woof!
A khaki-colored, plain-looking country dog rushed out from the chrysanthemum bushes, wagging its tail to greet its owner.
Hu Shanwei stroked the dog's head and stuffed a piece of dried meat into its mouth. "Aren't you curious about how I found the location of your hidden mistress? Actually, it wasn't me. It was Da Huang who found it. He has a good nose."
Mu Chun raised his hand again and swore, "I won't hide anything from you anymore, really."
After hearing this, Hu Shanwei agreed to let Mu Chun hold her hand and go back to the house together.
Meow!
A black and white cat caught a dead mouse and pushed it in front of its owner to seek credit. Hu Shanwei rewarded it with some dried fish.
The two are currently newly married and are already a couple with a house, a field, a cat and a dog.
The author has something to say: Mu Chun and Hu Shanwei have entered another stage of life together. The next chapter will be set three years later hahahahaha
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№11 Netizen: Xiao Qinglong Comment: "Hu Shanwei" Score: 2 Published: 2019-03-29 23:59:46 Reviewed chapter: 158
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