Chapter 56: Reason
Chen An will not forget the identity of the little girl. She is the daughter of Tang Xuanfu of Jiangzhou and the family of the court officials. He does not believe that the Qingzhou government office dares to ignore her identity and allows the Green Forest organization like the Salt Gang to harm unscrupulously.
However, he seriously underestimated Chen Qing's energy and the darkness of the Qingzhou government.
He found the yamen and shouted to himself the little girl's house. In the end, he not only couldn't even get in the yamen, but he was even expelled by a large group of yamen runners. Unwilling to give in, he tried to find Pang Shaoyuan whom he had met before, but unfortunately the other party also chose to avoid it.
When I returned to the inn, the inn owner refused their stay and finally found several inns in a row.
Chen An understood that all this was done by Chen Qing. There was no inn and they were willing to stay overnight. Tomorrow, the shops and vendors in the city refused to even sell food to them, because his purpose was to force Chen An out of Qingzhou City.
His heart has been sinking.
The cruel reality was in front of him, and he only had a deep sense of powerlessness.
Before he knew it, the carriage that Chen An drove came to the street not far from the city gate, and a group of stalking riders could be seen behind him.
"Are you afraid?"
He looked at the city gate ahead and said expressionlessly.
"I'm afraid...but I believe my uncle can protect me."
In the carriage, the little girl said in a trembling voice.
Hearing this, Chen An raised his whip, and then the carriage slowly drove out of Qingzhou City.
Pang Shaoyuan stood on the city tower, looking at the figure of the carriage gradually leaving. He didn't know whether his choice was correct or not, but people were selfish. In the increasingly chaotic world, he just wanted to take care of the people he cherished around him and was unwilling to let his temperament cause trouble.
After a while, a team of horses rushed out of the city gate, and Chen Qing himself was the leader.
"Chen Qing, what do you want to do?"
Pang Shaoyuan murmured to himself, then shook his head and walked down the city tower.
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After leaving Qingzhou City, you can go north along the official road. After passing through the four prefectures of Xin, Qi, Lu and Yun, you can reach the boundary of Jiangzhou. However, this road is destined to be full of bumps and full of thorns. It is not scary to travel through mountains and rivers along the way, and it is not scary to jackals, tigers and leopards. The scary ones are always the sinister hearts of the people.
Passing by a small wooden bridge with a trickle of streams, Chen An suddenly stopped his carriage.
"Yaoyao."
"What's wrong with uncle?" the little girl in the car said nervously.
"Find a safe place to hide."
As he said that, he took out two steel knives from the carriage, walked slowly to the bridge, and looked at the smoke and dust rising from afar.
The little girl realized that the situation was not good and quickly followed Chen An off the carriage. She looked around anxiously, as if looking for a suitable place to hide. When she saw the shallow river in front of her, her eyes lit up immediately. She slid down the grass slope by the river in panic, and then hid under the wooden bridge immediately.
"Uncle, I'll hide."
"Remember, you are never allowed to speak out no matter what happens later."
"I...I get it."
In front of him, a team of riders riding horses and whipped them up with a thunderous momentum. At the other end of the wooden bridge, the opponent's horse speed began to slow down and gradually stopped.
Finally, there is only a bridge between each other.
“This road is not open.”
Chen An clearly saw Chen Qing, the leader opposite, and his response was only two swords and one sentence.
"We shouldn't be enemies."
Chen Qing rode down and looked down at Chen An on the other end of the bridge. Considering his ability to almost destroy Qingfeng Thieves, if possible, he really didn't want to have a bloody conflict with the other party.
"From the beginning, our position has determined that there is no room for each other to ease." Chen An said coldly.
"You can ask, why do you have to protect her?" Chen Qing shook his head and sighed.
"And I also want to ask you, why do you kill them all?" Chen An asked back with his knife tightly held the handle.
"That's why I said, you really don't understand anything." Chen Qing's face darkened. "I think you should be a young man who has been living in the temple for a while, right? I used to be as young as you. Whenever I first entered the world, I would be a chivalrous and righteous person whenever I encounter unfair things. You think you represent justice and are willing to put it into your life for justice. But have you ever thought that the justice you insist on is really right?"
"What do you want to say?" Chen Andu said.
"Didn't you ask me why I was killing Tang Xuanfu's family? I can tell you truthfully now, because Tang Xuanfu was about to take over the country and resign to the northern land after receiving his wife and daughter, and his wife and daughter secretly brought something important from the capital, which was related to his future advancement in the Beilu, and even the life and death of the entire Dali Dynasty!"
Chen Qing stared at Chen An and said word by word.
"If things were as you said, why didn't the court know about Tang Xuanfu? Instead, you green forest robbers all got the news and jumped out?"
Chen An was shocked after hearing this, but he quickly calmed down. After carefully analyzing the other party’s statement, he spoke with strong sarcasm.
"Of course some people in the court know, otherwise you think how we got the news?" Chen Qing looked at him deeply. "But everyone wants to take the preciousness of such things for themselves, so someone deliberately hides the matter of Tang Xuanfu."
There is no doubt that Chen Qing's words revealed so much information that Chen An couldn't help but fall into silence.
"Are you talking about this thing?"
He suddenly took out the strange silver token that looked like a sword and a knife from his arms and said.
"That's right! It's it! Give it to me!"
When Chen Qing saw the token, he immediately lost his former calmness and his breathing became rapid.
"Let us go, I'll give it to you."
Chen An looked indifferent, as if he didn't care what the token in his hand meant.
Chen Qing was slightly stunned, his face suddenly became unstable, and he seemed a little hesitant. After a long time, he took a deep breath and nodded.
"Can."
"Uncle can't!"
The little girl hiding under the bridge suddenly screamed and objected. She crawled out of the bridge regardless of everything, rolled and crawled to Chen An's side. Her big round eyes were filled with tears. She grabbed Chen An's hand and said in great anxiety and panic.
"Uncle! Mom once told Yaoyao that this token is related to the safety of the people of the world and the people of Dawn. Apart from his father, you must not hand it over to any bad person!"
The sudden change made everyone around him focus on the little girl, especially when Chen Qing heard what the little girl said, she burst into laughter.
"Haha! Tang Xuanfu's daughter, don't you know yet? Your father is a hypocritical and shameless villain who speaks of kindness and morality, opens his mouth to the people, keeps his mouth shut, but is actually a few sacred ancestors and sells his country for glory!"
"I don't allow you to say that to my father!"
The little girl immediately cried loudly at Chen Qing.
"Brother Chen, I can promise you solemnly that if you are willing to give me the token, I will definitely let you go. Swear by my Xuanzhou Chen Qing!"
However, Chen Qing ignored the little girl at all and looked at Chen An.
"uncle……"
On the side, the little girl held Chen An's hand and raised her head and begged hard.
Chen An patted the little girl's head, and said calmly: "Go and wait for me in the carriage."
"Uncle..." But the little girl still didn't let go.
"Go quickly!"
Chen An immediately sternly.
"uncle……"
The frightened little girl immediately let go of her hand, then turned around and cried and shouted back to the carriage.
"Can you tell me what it is?"
After the little girl left, Chen An shook at the other party with the token in his hand.
"It's okay to tell you, this is the most critical treasure that records the location of Zuo Gong's secret treasure in the rumor." Chen Qing said.
More than two hundred years ago, when Dali was founding, the biggest enemy in the world was Zuo Gong Zuo Xingshi, who had seized most of the northern territory. In the end, Dali Dynasty achieved a comprehensive victory in the battle where Fenglingdu decided the victory or defeat of the two countries. When Zuo Xingshi was defeated, he sent his confidant subordinates to bury the massive amount of gold, silver and treasures he had plundered for many years in a secret place, and handed over the three important things that revealed the location of the treasure to his only blood to secretly send them overseas to escape, in order to take out the treasure in the future when the world is in chaos in the future and seek to rise again in Shandong.
Clinker escorted Zuo Xingshi's bone blood to travel abroad. After learning the secret of the treasure, he found out that he had a financial situation and had an internal conflict. As a result, Zuo Xingshi's only bone blood died. The remaining subordinates who snatched three treasures fled in various ways. Unfortunately, this news was not hidden from the Dali Dynasty. After years of investigation, Dali Dynasty only collected two treasures to open the treasure. Over time, rumors about Zuo Gong's secret treasure spread, accompanied by two songs after the cracking of the other two treasures.
Therefore, when the last treasure in Zuo Gong's secret treasure quietly appeared, the entire Dali Dynasty became a turbulent tide, especially when he learned that the treasure was in the hands of Tang Xuanfu's wife and daughter, he could imagine how many eyes were staring at them.
For Chen An, he didn't care about the so-called secret treasure at all. He always cared about the safety of himself and the little girl.
Although the little girl tried her best to dissuade him from handing over the token, this token is simply a hot potato. No matter who holds it in her hand, it means that she has to face endless dangers. If it weren't for this token, would the little girl and her daughter be unfortunately attacked by robbers?
Every drink and peck, there are fixed numbers.
"I hope you can guarantee that what you said is true."
Chen An grabbed the token and threw it hard at Chen Qing on the other side of the bridge.
Chen Qing took the token and couldn't help but look happy, but after he broke the token, his smile froze instantly.
Because, he accidentally broke the token.
"Fake?!"
He suddenly looked up at Chen An, and said furiously as if he had been greatly humiliated.
"Kill this bastard for me!"
With a command, the rider behind Chen Qing immediately raised the sword in his hand and rushed towards Chen An.
Chapter completed!