Chapter 135: Walking on the broad road

This day, Lin Renhao went out with Lin Jiaojiao as usual, but as soon as they walked out of the Lin Fu, they saw people on the street hurrying along, seemingly rushing to watch the excitement somewhere.

"What is going on?" Lin Renhao was a youth after all, and he followed, craning his neck to look in the direction of the surging crowd.

They saw at the other end of the street, official runners were shouting, "Hurry and make way! If you miss the execution time, be careful that we'll catch you one by one and throw you into the Ministry of Justice!"

The onlookers quickly made way. They saw the official runners pulling several prisoner carts, and the enemy criminals that Lin Tiezhu had captured and escorted to the capital were locked in the carts!

As soon as the commoners saw those enemy criminals, they couldn't help but stop and spit, throwing vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at the carts, throwing them until their faces were covered in filth, cursing loudly!

But the more they cursed, the more the commoners chased after them and threw things!

Not a single official runner from the Ministry of Justice came out to stop them.

"Mother, why does that female criminal keep looking at you?" Lin Renhao stood on the steps of the Lin Fu gate and saw the only female criminal in the prisoner cart at a glance!

Lin Jiaojiao turned her face to look upon hearing this, and it happened that she and the female criminal looked at each other!

She said calmly, "Perhaps it's because I am the foster mother of Young General Lin. She hates your brother to the bone, so she hates me by association."

In fact, as early as when she was escorting the criminals from Yun Province to the capital, she had already learned about this female criminal!

The female criminal, Rou Yi, was once the white moonlight of the reigning Emperor, Qin Yuan. She saved him when Qin Yuan was still the Crown Prince, in order to disrupt the political situation of the Dakang Dynasty!

But Imperial Concubine Ning at that time was a scheming person. She noticed that Rou Yi liked to go to the Imperial Study and often read the history and military books of the Dakang Dynasty, so she reported this to the Ministry of Justice!

Thinking of this, Lin Jiaojiao was a bit scared, because when that old woman Pei Laofuren framed her back then, this plot was almost her own copy!

Fortunately, she cleared her name!

It's just that Rou Yi finally had methods. I don't know what method she used to escape from the Ministry of Justice, and at the same time, she planted gunpowder and blew up the entire Ministry of Justice!

After Rou Yi escaped, she thought about revenge and restoring her country, so she simply sold herself into the Zuihua Pavilion, hooked up with powerful people, and lurked to steal key information. After getting the Southern Frontier defense map, she left the capital directly!

Later, she wandered between the four small frontier countries, actually making these 4 small countries unite and launch a joint attack on the Southern Frontier!

In order to disrupt the military morale of the Dakang Dynasty, she even turned into a military prostitute, circling among various officers and soldiers!

This was how Lu Zhenting and Lin Tiezhu caught her!

To be honest, Lin Jiaojiao admired such a woman, who could put down all her status, even if she suffered humiliation, and always put the great cause of restoring the country first!

But after all, she was an enemy criminal of the Dakang Dynasty, and the matter of launching a war and causing suffering to the people was really hard to sympathize with!

At this time, Rou Yi, who was locked in the prisoner cart, also recognized Lin Jiaojiao!

These two looked similar. One was once Qin Yuan's white moonlight, and the other was his cinnabar mole, but in the end, they were both walking on their own life paths and had never had any substantial overlap!

The past events made the two women who looked at each other sigh in their hearts.

After the Ministry of Justice prisoner carts went far away, the road became clear, and the street suddenly became sparsely populated, because the commoners all scrambled to chase after them, wanting to see the execution scene!

Some rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs were scattered on the ground. Lin Jiaojiao sent someone to clean them up, then took Lin Renhao into the carriage. "Let's go, we won't go to the Benevolent Nursery today, let's go to the Wuming Shan on the outskirts of the capital to pay respects to your mother's good sister, Aunt Bai Zhi."

"Aunt Bai Zhi?" Lin Renhao scratched his head in confusion. "Is it the Aunt Bai Zhi enshrined in our ancestral hall?"

It was only at this time that he noticed that what his mother was holding in her hand was not a medicine box, but a wooden box containing candles, incense, tea, and wine.

"Yes," Lin Jiaojiao nodded slightly, hiding the sadness in her eyes. "If it weren't for Aunt Bai Zhi, Mother would have long since perished in the sea of fire."

"Oh?" Lin Renhao sat up straight immediately. "Mother, can you tell me about Aunt Bai Zhi's deeds?"

"That was seventeen years ago..." Lin Jiaojiao recalled the past and told the story of the past to Lin Renhao before her.

The coachman drove the horses, and the carriage wheels began to turn. When they passed by the Taizi Fu Wangfu, they heard noisy sounds coming from there. Lin Jiaojiao lifted the carriage curtain to look and saw Dali Temple official Liu Si leading people into the Wang Mansion to search.

"Why are you searching suddenly! Official, our Wang family has never committed a crime. Without the Emperor's decree, how dare you Dali Temple—?" The person entangled with Liu Si at the Wang Mansion gate was the Wang Mansion Madam—Su Wanqiu's younger sister, Su Chunyan.

"It is the Emperor's decree! Your Wang Mansion hides evidence of treason, and that enemy criminal has long since confessed! Your Wang family still wants to hide it from the Emperor, you really don't want to live!" Liu Si's methods were tough, and he immediately ordered people to hold Su Chunyan down!

When Lin Jiaojiao's carriage passed by, Liu Si nodded slightly toward Lin Jiaojiao.

Seeing this, Su Chunyan looked over and was so angry that she shouted loudly, "Fine, you vixen! It must be you who bewitched the Emperor, making the Emperor issue a search warrant for our Wang family, such pillars of the state—!"

But Lin Jiaojiao turned a deaf ear to her cursing and just put the carriage curtain down.

Lin Renhao was angry. "Why does Madam Wang curse Mother like this! Lord Liu should search their house properly!"

Lin Jiaojiao just smiled and shook her head gently. "They have walked their lives to a dead end, so they can only curse others before they die."

The carriage wheels continued to drive forward. They passed by the Su Zaixiang Fu, where it was also noisy. Lin Jiaojiao heard Song Shijie's voice issuing an arrest warrant.

Lin Renhao couldn't help but pull open the carriage curtain to look, but soon shrank back, forced by a vicious look. "That Prime Minister Su's look is really scary."

"What's scary about him..." Lin Jiaojiao held her forehead and fell into memories, then soon shook her head gently to deny what she had said before. "But if you say he is not scary, you are underestimating the talent of this Prime Minister of a country."

"He is truly a scary person!" Lin Renhao remembered his childhood, his expression somewhat painful: "I have never liked him since I was a child, especially after they argued and revealed my background, every time he came to the Pei Mansion, his eyes were full of hatred, wishing to tear me into ten thousand pieces!"

"And every time he left the Pei Mansion, grandmother would punish me even more severely!" Thinking of this, the youth couldn't help but shudder.

Although he was raised in such a big family as the Pei Mansion, they had plenty of ways to torture a child! These methods actually made Lin Renhao afraid to this day!

"You've suffered all these years, child." Seeing Lin Renhao's fearful appearance, Lin Jiaojiao felt heartache and patted the youth's shoulder. "From now on, you don't have to be afraid of them anymore."

Lin Renhao nodded silently and exhaled a turbid breath. "They were never good people to begin with, especially that old thief Su Hongtu, embezzling treasury silver, forming cliques for private interests, and lining his own pockets! It serves him right to be caught!"

Lin Jiaojiao was startled when she heard this. "You discovered long ago that Su Hongtu was harming the court?"

"Yes, the child wanted to report it many times when I was young, but unfortunately, it was suppressed by Father. After grandmother knew, the punishment for the child could only be more severe!" Mentioning the punishment, Lin Renhao couldn't help but shudder again.

Lin Jiaojiao's eyes were covered with a layer of tears. Thinking of the many grievances her child suffered in the Pei Mansion, how could she not have hatred in her heart!

At this time, the coachman drove the carriage to another street, and there was another commotion outside. Lin Jiaojiao and Lin Renhao pulled open the carriage curtain to look and saw an old woman lying on the ground pretending to be dead in front of the Pei Mansion gate!

That person was none other than Pei Laofuren, who had bullied Lin Jiaojiao before! She no longer had her former majestic appearance!

"How can you be so rebellious, disobeying your grandmother!" Kneeling beside the old woman pretending to be dead was Pei Aosong, who was cursing Lin Tiezhu for being unfilial.

"It's not that the child is unfilial, but grandmother added aphrodisiac to the child's tea yesterday, almost making the child commit a mistake!" Lin Tiezhu said righteously.

"Father, if the child really had something happen with the cousin from the Wang Mansion, then our entire Pei Mansion would be implicated!"

"Father, you don't know, now the maternal grandfather's family and the Wang Mansion aunt's family are being raided by the Dali Temple!"

"Grandmother actually told the child to go save them, but the child is really powerless! To make the child go out, grandmother dragged me here, and seeing I wouldn't go, she just fell to the ground and pretended to be sick!"

"That is your maternal grandfather and your cousin's family. You are now in your prime, you should step in to save them..." Su Wanqiu was crying, covering her face, wanting to pull Lin Tiezhu, but was pushed away by him and fell to the ground!

And none of the concubines on the side stepped forward to help, just watching from afar!

"Mother, you are truly stupid!"

Lin Tiezhu's acting was even deeper than his biological mother Su Wanqiu's!

He showed a look of hating that iron didn't become steel: "Maternal grandfather embezzled fifty million taels of silver, no one would have a good ending!"

"And the Wang Mansion cousin's family is even worse, this is treason!"

"If I go to beg the Emperor, I might be implicated! By then, let alone saving maternal grandfather, even the Pei family would be like a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, unable to protect themselves!"

"If it weren't for me, this Piaoji Young General, living in the Pei Mansion now, I'm afraid you would have been implicated and had your home raided long ago!"

Although Lin Renhao grew up in the Pei Mansion, seeing the chaotic scene of the Pei Mansion, he was actually watching with great interest!

"Your brother is taking revenge for me and you, torturing them." Lin Jiaojiao laughed lightly. She said, putting down the carriage curtain, signaling the coachman to continue on his way.

The carriage rolled forward, walking on the broad road, just like Lin Jiaojiao's future path, broad and unobstructed, smooth and worry-free!