Chapter 330: Bringing the Lord and Fleeing Slave

In the mountains and forests outside Yecheng, a group of soldiers were walking in a mess, holding bows and arrows in their hands, chasing prey in the woods.

The leader was a young man, with a brocade robe and gold belt, riding high on a horse, holding a carved bow in his hand, looking at the birds and beasts running ahead, looking excited. It was Yuan Xi, the second son of the Grand Sima, who led the Jizhou governor Yuan Shao.

This time, Yuan Shao led a large army to fight against Sili. He and Zhang He guarded Yecheng together. He stayed in the city so much that he took his personal soldiers out of the city to hunt and relieve his boredom.

In the oblique thorn, a wild boar rushed out of the forest and ran away with great strides. Yuan Xi raised the eagle bow, pointed the arrow directly at the wild boar, pulled the bow and arrow, shouted loudly, and shot away with a sharp arrow, and shot straight into the wild boar's neck with a whoosh.

The wild boar screamed and fled quickly with injuries. The personal soldiers shouted loudly and said, "Young master is so smart, and the villain admires you!"

Yuan Xi was full of excitement and slapped his horse to chase him. He shot several arrows at the wild boar on the horse, and shot one of them, and two other arrows penetrated the back of the boar. The wild boar ran wildly with the arrows, dripping blood all the way.

Yuan Xi was chasing him and was chasing him closely behind. He was about to catch up.

Suddenly, in the dense forest in front, a mess of footsteps came out, and the sound of panting sounded over there. Yuan Xi was slightly stunned and saw a man covered in blood coming out of the forest. The fabric in his clothes had been torn down one by one while running. His blood-stained face was full of panic. He lowered his head and ran wildly, unable to see the road clearly, and he actually bumped towards Yuan Xi's horse.

The war horse was frightened and flashed to the side, almost knocking Yuan Xi off the horse. Yuan Xi hurriedly stopped the horse and stood still. Seeing the man in blue clothes running wildly, he was furious and shouted: "Catch me!"

The personal soldiers who followed him followed him quickly stepped forward to stop the man, tied him up and dragged him to Yuan Xi, and waited for him to fall.

After such a fuss, the wild boar with arrows had escaped without a trace. Yuan Xi became even more angry, raised his whip, slapped the man hard, and shouted angrily: "Dog Cai, dares to hit my war horse! If I hurt me, even if I destroy your family, it will be difficult to redeem my sins!"

The man's face was covered in a mess of mud, sweat and blood. He was extremely panicked. He heard his cursing and cried out in fear. He lay on the ground and kowtowed and cried, "Damn it, villain, I wonder if he had hit the big master's carriage?"

A personal soldier kicked him hard and cursed: "Even the blind thing, even the second son of the Grand Sima!"

When the man heard this, he suddenly felt energetic and raised his head and shouted, "But the son of the Grand Sima family in Yecheng?"

The personal soldier stepped on his head in the soil and shouted, "Bold! How dare you look directly at the young master Zunyan? Don't you want to live?"

The man struggled and shouted in surprise: "The villain has something to do! The Zhen family's traffic thief outside the city, and went privately with the Luoyang thief Liu Sha!"

Yuan Xi was shocked when he heard the sound, raised his hand to stop the personal soldiers, and asked the man to get up and ask carefully.

The man kowtowed and hurriedly told the matter.

It turned out that the man was named Zhen Du. He was originally a slave of the Zhen family. Because he did something wrong, the eldest son of the family, Zhen Yu, got angry after drinking, whipped him up, locked him in the woodshed in the backyard. The man held a grudge, broke free from the chains, ran away at night, and ran to Yecheng overnight, and wanted to report the first news, the Zhen family's interaction with Liu Sha in Luoyang.

Since Zhen Jiang rescued Feng Sha last time, several servants in the family knew about this. Although Zhen Jiang strictly gave instructions and rewarded them for not mentioning this matter to others, this matter was still spreading slowly. Most of the servants in the family had heard of this matter. Zhen Du vaguely heard from people, and although he was not very clear about the details, he still remembered it in his heart. He took out this matter and explained it in detail to Yuan Xi as a step forward. He also wanted to use Yuan Xi's hands to exude his anger.

Yuan Xi was surprised when he heard the sound and shouted to his subordinates: "The Zhen family lives in Jizhou. He dares to secretly communicate with the traitor Liu Sha. The crime is extremely serious. You should destroy the whole family! You are ready quickly. Let us kill the Zhen family and catch all the traitors in one go! Zhen Du is loyal to the country and should be rewarded. You should follow me first and be a close friend, and report it to your father in the future and then give it a reward!"

Zhen Du was so grateful that he knelt on the ground, kowtowed desperately, and said with all his words that he was grateful to the second young master for his kindness.

An older, close-up followed him worriedly and came forward to report, "Young Master, we have only brought dozens of people out of the city this time. If the Zhen family is in charge of the village, I am afraid that it will be difficult to capture it in a hurry, and it will be damaged."

Yuan Xi frowned slightly, thought for a while, and ordered: "Send people to the nearby army and ask them to send people to help. I will take people to the Zhen family first and wait for you in front of the village."

The follower walked aside, picked out a few capable subordinates, and ordered them to borrow soldiers everywhere.

A personal soldier squeezed forward, smiled and bowed, begging him to let him borrow troops, secretly holding his hand and stuffing a string of copper coins into the palm of his hand.

The sneer sneered in his heart, full of contempt. The personal soldiers had not been here for a long time, and were stuffed into Yuan Xi's personal soldiers by relatives who gave him generous gifts. Now he is trying desperately to avoid it, obviously he is afraid of death. Such a person can only rely on the power of his master in the rear and act as a blessing. If he goes to the front line, he is afraid that he will be scared before the war begins.

But even though he was disgusted with his talent, he still sent him there.

The personal soldier was overjoyed, galloped to a farmer's house outside the dense forest, jumped off the horse and got in. After a while, the farmer at the house climbed up to the roof, took out a pigeon, tied a letter to the pigeon's feet, and held it up. The white dove spread its wings and flew high towards Luoyang.

In the mountains and forests, Yuan Xi led dozens of personal soldiers, led by Zhen Du and walked slowly towards the Zhen family.

Halfway through the way, I suddenly saw dozens of people in front of me holding sticks, swords and guns, clamoring, scattering in the forest, searching for them, constantly calling in the bushes in the forest, as if searching for someone.

The first person was about twenty years old, with a handsome appearance, riding high on the horse, looking around, with a look of panic on his face.

After Zhen Du followed Yuan Xima, he changed his face when he saw the man, pointing at him from afar and shouted: "Young master, that's Zhen Yu. He must be afraid that I will report it, so he ran out to take people to arrest me!"

As he said, when the slaves of the Zhen family found out that Zhen Du had escaped, they went to report to Zhen Yu. After Zhen Yu sobered up, he knew that Zhen Du had escaped, so he was scared and sweated.

Since Zhen Jiang's rescue of the seriously injured King Wuwei has been circulated among the slaves, how could the head of the family not know about it? Shortly after Feng Sha left, someone reported the matter to Zhen's mother.

Zhen’s mother was shocked when she heard this. She called Zhen Jiang and asked her to interrogate her carefully. After knowing the whole story, she was shocked and angry. She scolded her daughter for not following the family rules and dared to have a private relationship with a man outside, and treated her past teachings as a warning to her.

Zhen Jiang was ashamed, kneeled down on the ground, covering her face and cried. Zhen’s mother was furious and asked someone to bring a vine whip, and she slapped her daughter hard. The pain made Zhen Jiang cry unceasingly.

The brothers and sisters at home came to hear the sound and knelt on the ground begging their mother to show mercy. Zhen Jiang's eldest brother Zhen Yu and the second brother Zhen Yan knelt on the ground to hold their mother's hand and begged hard. Zhen Mi even burst into tears, hugging her mother, begging her not to beat her elder sister again.

Seeing this, Zhen's mother gradually became angry and sighed in the hall, sitting down, depressed and silent.

Zhen Yan was quite anxious and tried hard to comfort his mother, and suppressed the matter first and did not let outsiders and slaves know about it. In the future, if there was a chance, he would move his family to Luoyang to avoid disaster.

Zhen's mother had no choice but to press on this matter. Zhen Jiang was ashamed and hid in the house and cried, and had no face to see her brother and sister. Only Zhen Mi was with her every day, hugging each other and crying, hoping that King Wuwei would fight to Jizhou, take him to Luoyang, and reunite with him.

The Zhen family was discussing the relocation, but Yuan Shao raised an army to attack Sili. The troops were stationed outside the city of Henei to block the way west. Zhen Yu was afraid of the chaos on the road, so he advised his mother to temporarily stop the relocation west. Seeing that the road was difficult and there was no other way, he had to do so.

Since then, the family has been worried every day, fearing that Yuan Shao will know that his family had saved King Wuwei and cause a disaster to destroy the family. It is only because Yuan Shao led his troops away that he felt a little relieved.

In order to ensure safety, Zhen Yan ordered the tenants living nearby to practice martial arts. If they heard the sound of gold in the village, they would take weapons and rushed to the village to defend the villa. They also recruited hundreds of strong refugees to keep them in other villages, and hired guns and sticks to teach them to practice martial arts in case of emergency needs. The Zhen family had land and had accumulated a lot of food over the years. Those refugees were happy to be able to eat, so they followed the coach to practice daily and gradually looked like an army.

This time, Zhen Yu whipped the slave after drinking. After sobering up, he knew that the slave had escaped, and he knew that it was not good. While sending someone to inform his brothers, he took his confidant servants and chased him out of the villa, following the traces left by Zhen Du, and searching all the way.

After chasing for a long time, when Zhen Du's footprints entered the forest, Zhen Yu complained in his heart, and had to continue to lead the crowd to chase him, hoping to stop the slave who was born to the master to avoid another disaster.

Suddenly, a man appeared in front of him. The soldiers, all dressed in bright armor, stood upright with eyebrows and swords and guns in their hands, blocking Zhen Yu's way.

Zhen Yu was shocked and suspicious, and stepped forward and bowed: "I am the next surname Zhen and the name is Yu. I am chasing a fugitive slave. Everyone stops us, I wonder what it means?"

Yuan Xi immediately stepped forward and sneered: "I know you are Zhen Yu, and I also know why you wanted to capture that slave!"
Chapter completed!