At the same time, in the Zhao family mansion, Zhao Xingkun was called out. He looked at the scene of the flames in the distance with a serious expression and asked, "Where is the place where the fire is?"
The boy next to him turned pale, and said tremblingly, "It's the direction of the magistrate's yamen."
"How could the magistrate's yamen catch fire?" Zhao Xingkun felt the severity of the matter more and more.
At this time, Xu Zhong, the manager of the Zhao Mansion, hurried over and said, "Old Master, now it is said that the Tiangui Sect has rebelled. Those people burned down the magistrate's yamen and surrounded the entire Hangzhou Mansion."
Even if Zhao Xingkun had a lot of experience, he still couldn't bear to stagger two steps back when he heard such a thing. Xu Zhong stepped forward to help him, his tone was urgent and quick, "Grandpa, are you okay?"
It took Zhao Xingkun a while to stabilize his spinning body, and when he opened his eyes again, he regained his composure. He said in an orderly manner, "The rebellion of the Tiangui Sect is for the Hangzhou government, and it will not be wiped out. As long as we stay safe, we will Nothing will happen, now you go and close the door tightly so that everyone stays where they are.” Then he glanced at the direction of the old lady’s house and said, “Find a reliable person with my letter Send the letter to the old lady at Kurong Temple, and send it if you can...", Zhao Xingkun said with difficulty, "If you can't send it, come back quickly, I have other arrangements."
Xu nodded his head and said, "I'll call Erzheng here." Xu Er is Xu Zhong's grandson. He has learned some boxing skills and is very clever. He is the best person to deliver the letter.
At this moment, someone cried, "Killed!"
There were some people who were panicked at first, but now someone shouted, which made everyone frightened immediately. Someone ran towards the door for a while, and many unknown people also ran out immediately.
Xu Zhong was dumbfounded, and glanced at Zhao Xingkun, "Old Master."
Zhao Xingkun remained calm and said, "Let them go, go out if they want, but it's not so easy to come back after going out."
Xu Zhong's heart sank, he nodded quickly, understood what Zhao Xingkun meant, and immediately led people to follow him.
Kurong Temple is a nunnery, all nuns, no men... Occasionally there are men who are outside pilgrims, such as the nursing home brought by the old lady this time, so it is also true that the temple is besieged suddenly. Feeling very terrified, the host was an old nun in his forties, who could not stand stably even if he was supported, and begged the old lady, "Old lady, you must save us, our nunnery has never They are all law-abiding, they have never done anything out of the ordinary, and I don’t know what happened to make those villains catch their eyes.”
The old lady was also in a trance at the moment, but after all, she was used to being the master of the house, so she quickly regained her composure, and said to the nursing home beside her, "Go and see who are outside first?" Then she turned back and asked the host , "What kind of secret passage do you have here?"
The host said, "How can there be such a thing in our small temple?"
The old lady suddenly said with a stern face, "Master Miaozhen! Now we are grasshoppers on a boat. If we have a good or bad relationship, you will not live."
Miaozhen was startled, shocked by the majesty of the old lady, and said stammeringly, "Really, no..."
The old lady sneered, and said to the maid beside her, "Call Ding Ying back, pack up our things and leave." Seeing Miaozhen's face pale, she continued, "No matter who is out there, listen The name of our Zhao family has to be given a little bit of fluff, as long as I am still here, it is just a matter of asking for money and people, but it is not certain if you are the only ones left."
Only then did Miaozhen realize that she regretted it, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "Lady, I said, I said, the secret passage is in my room, just because our temple has limited financial resources, the digging was very narrow at that time, and only one person could climb through it." Get out." Then he glanced at a large group of maidservants around him, and said, "I'm afraid one night is not enough to send all these people away."
The Zhao family is the most famous family in the Great Zhou. Although it is a little bit down now and not as grand as before, how can the old lady travel carelessly? There were more than 20 maids and women who came with them, 30 servants from the nursing home, and more than 20 maids and women from Zhao Jinyu and Zhao Ruizhi, plus more than 100 nuns in the temple. As Miaozhen said, it is almost impossible to escape through the narrow secret passage.
The old lady always sees is believing, let Miaozhen take her to see the secret passage and finally confirm her words are true, the entrance of the secret passage is under Miaozhen's bed, only one and a half feet away, you can only go down one person.
When Zhao Jinyu was brought over by Nanny Li, she happened to see Ding Ying, the leader of the nursing home, come back and tell the old lady about the situation outside with a serious face, "Old lady, there are people from the Tiangui sect outside, about two or three hundred people, we I can't handle it at all." On one side is the ordinary nursing home, and on the other side is the outlaw's Tiangui sect, they are not opponents at all, not to mention the huge disparity in the number of enemies and us.
"Heavenly Religion?"
Ding Ying said, "Exactly." He said in an almost inaudible voice, "They rebelled."
Zhao Jinyu suddenly thought of her elder brother Zhuang Qing and her adoptive mother... They are also from the Tiangui sect. Does this matter have anything to do with them
The old lady said with a serious face, "Then did you tell them that this is the female family member of our Zhao family?" The Tiangui sect rebelled, so why did they surround such a nunnery in the suburbs? This doesn't make sense... the worst result is that Guijiao did it intentionally these days.
Ding Ying carefully glanced at Zhao Jinyu, bowed her head and remained silent.
"You are talking!"
"They said they arrested people from the Zhao family." Ding Ying was still angry when she remembered this sentence, "They said..."
The old lady also looked at Zhao Jinyu, and asked in a deep voice, "What else?"
"Let us hand over the eldest lady. Last time the eldest lady ruined their sacrificial ceremony outside, she must use her blood to apologize, so that she can live forever." It's sweat beads, he wouldn't dare to say this normally, but now is also an extraordinary period, and he is quite helpless.
"Nonsense!" The old lady blushed angrily, and immediately hugged Zhao Jinyu into her arms. She seemed to have forgotten that she was still angry with her before, and said, "They just want money. Go and get the goldfish." .” The latter sentence was addressed to Nanny Li.
Nanny Li went to get the goldfish, the so-called goldfish is actually a gold bar, the old lady wanted to bribe with money.
The old lady shook Zhao Jinyu's hand, raised her head and gave her a loving look, and said, "You girl, you are causing trouble for me everywhere."
Zhao Jinyu didn't know what was going on, and suddenly felt her nose sour, and said, "Grandmother..."
"Don't be afraid." The old lady took a deep breath and said, "Grandmother is here to deal with these people, so you escape through the secret passage."
"Grandmother!" Although she had already predicted that the old lady would do this, she was still shocked to hear it herself, "I can't leave you here with other people." If innocent people are affected by her, she will definitely feel guilty For a lifetime, she couldn't do it.
The old lady lovingly touched Zhao Jinyu's flushed cheeks from excitement, and said, "Silly boy, what they want is yours. As long as you are not here, why would they make things difficult for us? After all, I am not an ordinary person, but I am Zhao Jinyu." My family, since they rebelled against the Tiangui Sect, they want the world, and since they want the world, they have to be famous, our Zhao family is not comparable to ordinary people in this Hangzhou territory."
Zhao Jinyu hesitated a bit, and at this moment Zhao Ruizhi, who had been trying to keep calm, suddenly couldn't help screaming, and said, "Grandma, why don't you let me go out with my sister."
The old lady looked at Zhao Ruizhi in surprise, and said, "It's not you they want to arrest."
Zhao Ruizhi shouted, "Those people are rebellious desperadoes, who knows what they will do!" Then she knelt down tremblingly and said, "Grandma, I have never asked you for anything in my life, I just beg you Once, let me go with my sister."
The old lady saw that there was a woman outside the room who was listening with her ears upright, and with a wink she directed Nanny Li to push her away, and then said firmly to Zhao Ruizhi, "Ruizhi, you stay with grandma."
Zhao Ruizhi's chest heaved violently, trying to suppress the surging fear, but she always felt a voice ringing in her ears, why did the old lady keep you? She is going to give you to those people as Zhao Jinyu, yes, it must be so, in her eyes only Zhao Jinyu, where is your granddaughter? You are just an adopted one. If you don't repay the old lady's kindness at this time, when will you repay it
These few words kept buzzing in her ears, making her unable to regain her composure.
At this moment, another nurse ran over sweating profusely and said, "Old lady, they said that if they don't hand over the young lady, they will burn our place to the ground and splatter the Kurong Temple with blood."
When Zhao Ruizhi heard this, she trembled even more frightened.
The old lady didn't care about Zhao Ruizhi, she held Zhao Jinyu's hand reluctantly and let go, and said, "Hurry up and go."
Zhao Jinyu shook her head, tears flowed unconsciously, and said, "I won't leave."
The old lady shook off Zhao Jinyu's hand cruelly and said, "Are you going to disobey grandma again?"
"Grandma, I can't..."
"Shut up!" The old lady shouted, and said to Nanny Li, "Take this careless girl out for me."
Zhao Jinyu was held down by Nanny Li, and then dragged forcibly to the entrance of the secret passage, "Miss, why don't you understand the old lady's intentions? If you do something wrong again, the old lady will probably survive, you have to be good , the old lady will be fine."
Zhao Jinyu refused, and wanted to break free from Nanny Li's hand, but a few maids called by Nanny Li held her hands and feet, and carried her directly to the entrance.
No one thought that such an accident would happen at this time.
Zhao Ruizhi, who had been dazed by the side, suddenly jumped out like a rabbit, and then jumped into the secret passageway opened by the maid, and locked the door from the inside, and then said darkly, "Grandma, I will do my best." Serving you, treating you like your own grandmother, but you only think about your own granddaughter, I'm not afraid that you are partial, but you want to use me as a shield!"
The old lady was shocked and shouted, "Ruizhi, what are you talking about? Come out!"
Zhao Ruizhi suddenly laughed, very desolate and arrogant, and said, "Grandmother, you and sister will die here."