bestfiction Chapter 728: My Guess
Chapter 728: My Guess
Sheng Junyao chuckled.
Then he explained to her, "It's not a good time to start a fight. If we really run into these bandits, he can only deal with them according to the law."
Lu Yangyang thought about it for a moment and quickly figured out the key points.
Their bandit suppression operation was quite large-scale. Even though this place was secluded, it was still Tongzhou's territory. If the eldest brother left the garrison without military orders and was impeached, and given the current tense situation in the court with various forces entangled, it would be very troublesome.
By handing over this credit to the general of Tongzhou, he had no choice but to accept it, whether he wanted to or not.
If they don't accept the order, and the matter escalates to the imperial court, Sheng Junyao will be wrong for overstepping his bounds. However, Tongzhou's decision to allow bandits to run rampant is too costly. Considering the actions of the caravan in Tongzhou over the past two years, every single one of them would be detrimental. Not only would the Tongzhou garrison commander be held accountable, but the entire Tongzhou government, from the prefect to the magistrate of Huangshadu, would also be held accountable. The consequences would be too great, and any disputes would only result in mutual harm, with no one gaining any advantage.
If he accepts this credit, it is tantamount to tacitly agreeing to the bandit suppression, and he must report to the imperial court according to the rules and deal with these bandits according to the law. Whether the Tongzhou garrison commander is willing or not, he has accepted this credit from Sheng Junyao, so he must acknowledge this favor and not cause any more trouble.
This is a conspiracy.
Even if the Tongzhou garrison commander didn't know about their bandit suppression efforts, Sheng Junyao would have to find a way to let him know so that the matter could be brought to light smoothly. This would both deal with the bandits and warn the Tongzhou garrison commander, achieving multiple goals at once.
Although it was a free credit to the Tongzhou garrison commander, it also successfully cut off the collusion between officials and bandits. At least for the time being, the Tongzhou garrison commander commander would not dare to have any crooked thoughts in this area.
But even though it was clearly the Tongzhou garrison commander who colluded with the caravan, he was still a little annoyed that the credit was being given to him.
Lu Yangyang muttered under her breath, "These parasites got off easy!"
Seeing that she understood, Sheng Junyao smiled and said, "It's good that the trouble has been resolved. In officialdom, some things are inevitable. I can't wait to go back and see the seeds you brought."
Lu Yangyang said smugly, "I'll definitely give my big brother a surprise when we get back!"
Ever since Wenren Jing brought the seeds to Changyang County, Lu Yangyang has been communicating with Sheng Junyao intermittently. This batch of new seeds transported to the Northwest is the product of their experiments over the past six months. However, the environmental differences between the two places are still quite significant. Not only is Sheng Junyao looking forward to it, but Lu Yangyang is also very anxious, hoping to arrive in the Northwest as soon as possible to catch up with the spring planting.
"We'll wait and see!" Sheng Junyao smiled.
“Then I’ll leave this to you, brother. I’ll go check on Changshan’s injuries and interrogate him while I’m at it. Tu Jiuying took me to the foot of the opposite mountain the night before last. I suspect that it’s passable there too. I’ll have my men take Changshan there. I guarantee we won’t be discovered,” Lu Yangyang said.
“Okay.” Sheng Junyao nodded. “After we’ve tidied up here, I’ll have Jing Chao come find you.”
Lu Yangyang turned around and went to find Huang Sumu.
Lin Wuji watched from a distance as she finished speaking with Sheng Junyao and then rushed off in a flurry, as if she had inexhaustible energy.
Changshan was hit in the shoulder by an arrow. To treat the wound, they had to remove the arrow, so they moved him to a nearby house.
When Lu Yangyang arrived, Huang Sumu had already pulled out the arrow and was cleaning the wound.
Changshan was pale with pain. When he saw Lu Yangyang coming over, his expression was complicated. In the end, he couldn't help but ask, "How do you, a young lady from a prestigious family, know medicine?"
If Lu Yangyang's medical skills hadn't been so exceptional—so exceptional that she could solve problems that ordinary doctors simply couldn't—leading Tu Jiuying to develop the fixed belief that she must be a miracle doctor, they wouldn't have been so easily deceived.
This girl pretended to be innocent and harmless, looking like she didn't know anything about the world. Who would have thought that she could use such despicable means!
No wonder Tu Jiuying got pecked in the eye by a goose. In his decades of experience, he thought he had seen all kinds of people, but he had never seen such a doctor. How could there be such a wicked doctor?
This is a trick that no ordinary person could come up with.
Lu Yangyang asked him, "Are you curious?"
Changshan endured the pain and exhaled, "You can't judge a book by its cover."
Lu Yangyang nodded: "You're right about that. You really can't judge a book by its cover. When I met Chief Tu, I was also very curious about how such a heroic and valiant girl could have become a bandit."
Changshan's eyes were complicated, especially when he thought about how this girl had been calling him "Sister Jiuying" before, but then she could take a life without hesitation. But when he thought about what he had experienced in his life, what did all this matter?
Knowing he had no chance of escaping this time, he completely lost his spirit and started telling Lu Yangyang a story: "Chief... Jiu Ying has been the daughter of the Ma Gang Chief since she was a child, and she had no choice in the matter."
Changshan was rescued by the old leader of the caravan and stayed with the caravan for sixteen or seventeen years. He knew a thing or two about Tu Jiuying's childhood. In particular, when he first arrived at the caravan, he heard that Tu Jiuying had just lost her mother, so he asked a few more questions and was able to piece together her childhood.
But after hearing his story, Lu Yangyang couldn't help but feel nauseous.
She finally understood why Tu Jiuying looked the way she did.
She hadn't quite understood how Tu Jiuying, a woman with ambition and courage, could be so utterly devoid of empathy for other women.
It turns out she never had it in the first place.
She grew up in a caravan. As the daughter of the caravan leader, she was naturally assimilated by the evils of the caravan. She couldn't see the suffering her mother endured, and only resented her mother's lack of affection. Just because of this lack of affection, she learned from the men who oppressed women and began to oppress women like her mother, in order to prove that she was different from those women.
She didn't want to repeat the fate of those women, so she chose to become the oppressor. No wonder she wanted to use Lin Wuji to further expand her power; she was simply using this method to become another father, believing she could be stronger than her own father, and then using his dirty tricks even more thoroughly.
Her so-called ambition was nothing but delusion; from beginning to end, she was merely imitating.
Imitate evil people, and become even more evil.
Despite her discomfort, Lu Yangyang asked Changshan, "Are the horses of the caravan kept behind the mountains to the north?"
Changshan's pupils contracted sharply, and he subconsciously pursed his lips.
“Looks like I guessed right.” Lu Yangyang observed his reaction and continued to probe.
“You…” Even though there was no point in hiding it now, Changshan still couldn’t understand how Tu Jiuying could have told Miss Lu such an important secret.
Lu Yangyang seemed to understand what he meant and spoke up, "I guessed."