12dz Chapter 1884 Blood Letter
Chapter 1884 Blood Letter
Huo Changhe and Yan Ruyu came to see Song Ping.
Song Ping was holding a letter tube in his hand, the color of which was obviously wrong - it was stained with blood.
"Your Highness, this was found in the yard early this morning. The carrier pigeon is seriously injured and may not be able to recover."
Song Ping and his friends all know that homing pigeons are precious, and they usually help train the pigeons and clean the pigeon lofts.
He also knows a lot about pigeons.
"Your Highness, this is the pigeon that the secret guard sent to Li Fangshan's hometown brought with him."
Huo Changhe frowned: "Where are the people?"
"I haven't seen the person yet. There is only the injured carrier pigeon and this letter."
As Huo Changhe opened it, he said, "Call Yinding over, and have him call the secret guards over. Ask them to go to the front hall and see if there's anything unusual over there."
"Yes."
The letter was unfolded, and there were only a few simple words on it: "Rongzhou, there is something different, hidden.
There is nothing more after that.
"What are you hiding?" Yan Ruyu was puzzled. "It seems that you haven't finished writing it."
Huo Changhe had a bad feeling: "Maybe the situation was critical at the time, and I only had time to write these few words, but it was still discovered. Someone intended to intercept the pigeon, so the pigeon was injured."
Yan Ruyu frowned, "Li Fangshan's hometown, he said before he died that the forced land acquisition incident led to the destruction of his family, which is why he became rebellious."
"Could it be that the situation over there is already very serious?"
Huo Changhe shook his head slightly: "I don't know yet. I originally asked the secret guard to send Li Yinfeng back because I wanted to investigate the situation over there and find out whether what Li Fangshan said was true or not."
"Now that the secret guards are in trouble, the true situation is hard to predict."
The two went to the front hall together, and soon, Yinding and the secret guard arrived.
When they saw the letter, they were both stunned.
"What news have the secret guards received recently? Have the secret guards who went to Rongzhou received any news?"
The secret guard shook his head: "Your Highness, no, there is no news from Rongzhou."
Silver Ingot's eyes flashed with coldness: "My Lord, is there something wrong? How about I go and take a look?"
Huo Changhe waved his hand: "Don't be impatient, I will think about it first."
If the situation is critical, it cannot be resolved by sending one or two people.
Now some of our people are trapped and their lives and deaths are unknown. We must be urgent, but we cannot lose order.
Huo Changhe thought quickly, and Yan Ruyu said, "My lord, do you have a map?"
Song Ping came quickly with a map in his hand: "Princess, the map is here."
Spreading out the map, Huo Changhe pointed and said, "Rongzhou is here."
Yan Ruyu took a look and realized that the road was not short. Even if one rode at full speed, it would take five or six days to get there.
"This place has mountains on one side and water on the other," Yan Ruyu said, moving her fingers gently, "so there is less arable land, and the land is particularly precious."
"Yes," Song Ping nodded and said, "This river is still a big river. Unlike the Jiangnan River, which can support a large area of people, it is fast-flowing and dangerous, and the water is also turbid."
"It is said that because of the long-term silt and sand, many people became trackers or river diggers. Those who have no land to farm rely on such hard work to earn some money to make a living."
Huo Changhe asked him: "How do you know?"
Song Ping paused and said, "Your Highness, you don't know that Mu Wu is from Rongzhou, and I heard it from him."
After Mu Wu died, his body was not returned to his homeland, but buried in Youcheng.
Song Ping and the others had discussed this before. They were homeless and had nothing in their hometowns. Before they came to the palace, they had agreed to bury everyone in one place, and wherever they were buried would be their hometown.
Later, I followed the prince, the palace became my home, and Youcheng became my hometown.
Naturally, he must be buried in Youcheng.
Huo Changhe was silent for a moment: "That's right."
Yan Ruyu asked, "Did he ever tell me why he left his hometown?"
Song Ping smiled bitterly, "He just can't survive. He has no land and can't grow crops. His father...his father was a sand digger. When he was fifteen, he was washed away by the water while digging sand. His body was not found."
"The officials there wanted him to replace his father, but his mother was heartbroken and refused. The official pushed her down, causing her head to break. She became ill and died soon after."
"He had hatred in his heart, so he agreed to go to replace his father. In fact, he went to find an airport and stabbed the person who beat his mother to death. Then he jumped into the water and narrowly escaped death. He met a master who taught him kung fu, and then he came back to life and changed his name to Mu Wu."
This was the first time Yan Ruyu heard of these things.
"Isn't Mu Wu's name originally this?"
Song Ping laughed to himself: "He doesn't have a big name. It's just a nickname he had when he was a child. No one in my family can read, so how could they give him a name?"
"Even the name villain was given to me later when I ventured into the martial arts world."
Yan Ruyu glanced at him and suddenly realized that she knew too little about these people.
"Did he say anything else about Rongzhou?"
"I didn't say anything else. After all, I killed someone and escaped. Even though that person was a bully, he was convicted of murder after all."
"I only remember him saying that the bully was the one he killed, and his last name was Liu."
Yan Ruyu nodded and looked at the map.
Rongzhou.
Huo Changhe pondered and said, "Go and arrange the personnel. There are six people in total, divided into three teams. If the secret guards are in danger, they will leave trace signals in Rongzhou."
"Whether dead or alive, we must find the person."
"Yes." The secret guard hurried down and arranged manpower.
Yinding said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, I will go with you. This is an unusual matter, or..."
Huo Changhe raised his hand: "I have to go there in person."
Yinding opened his little eyes.
Yan Ruyu nodded: "I agree, it is indeed necessary."
The secret guard is missing and his life or death is unknown. There is also the matter of Li Fangshan and Li Yinfeng, whose whereabouts are also unknown.
And there is the dead Mu Wu.
There are quite a few people involved.
"If the people of Rongzhou are truly suffering, I cannot stand idly by."
Rongzhou was not a place that Huo Changhe had to pass through on his way back to Beijing, so he had never been to Rongzhou normally. If he passed by there often, he would have taken action to deal with these unfair things long ago.
I haven't done this kind of thing for a long time, it's time to stretch my muscles.
Since Rongzhou came knocking on his door, let this be his first battle after being reinstated.
It just so happened that if he went to Rongzhou, he could avoid the official who delivered the imperial edict. If he didn't receive the imperial edict, he would just pretend that he didn't know about his reinstatement. He still had to think about this matter carefully.
Yan Ruyu said, "I will go with the prince."
"My Lord, this journey is dangerous and will take more than one day. Let me go with you."
Huo Changhe didn't even say a word of refusal. Yan Ruyu was firm and had no intention of negotiating.
"Okay," Huo Changhe thought again. He hadn't traveled far with Yan Ruyu since coming to Youcheng, so this was an opportunity.
"Just tell mother."
Yan Ruyu smiled lightly: "Mother won't object."
……
When the eldest lady heard what the two said, she slammed the table and said, "I don't agree."
Yan Ruyu: “…” The slap in the face came so quickly.
"Why?" Yan Ruyu asked patiently.
The lady sighed.