"Brother, let's leave with these two unconscious people. I'm afraid it will be too eye-catching, not to mention that my wife and I are both guilty, so..." Xiong Wen's expression was a little reluctant.
Xiong Wu looked into his younger brother's eyes and said in a deep voice: "I can think of a solution for the two of you. I have a relationship with the deputy general of the South City Gate. I think he won't make it difficult for us when we leave the city. Besides, what happened today You may have seen that the entire Jingzhou city is in chaos, and those officials probably don't have the energy to take care of us unknown people, but if we don't leave, I'm afraid the city will be under martial law, and it will be difficult to leave by then."
"As for those two people..." Xiong Wu pondered for a moment and did not continue, but the meaning in his words was obvious.
"Brother, they are unconscious now, so I just leave them here. I feel uneasy." Xiong Wen looked bitter.
Mrs. Liao couldn't bear it even more.
"Brother, this is not the time to be kind to women. When I think about it carefully, this matter is quite strange. The young man named Qi said in front of me that he knew you, but in front of you he also said that he was in love with me. Obviously things are not that simple. My silly brother, we are afraid that we are being taken advantage of by others. I guess he should have thought about saving the young man from prison long ago, but he cannot do it with his own ability. Breaking into the prison, that's why I took a fancy to your identity as a cell guard. Not to mention anything else, don't you remember what happened at that time?" Xiong Wu said slowly.
"What's more, although he kept saying that his brother was killed by an traitor, we still don't know the reason. Judging from the movements that happened in Jingzhou City today, what happened here is definitely not common people like us. The common people can be involved, and it might end up ruining the whole family. Now you have to take care of the safety of the two of them, so have you thought about what to do with my mother and your child? "
Xiong Wu spoke eloquently and followed the instructions. He knew the kindness of the couple, but he was determined not to put his nephew and old mother into danger.
"But no matter what, after all, he has been very helpful to us. It really makes me embarrassed to ignore him like this. I think my wife thinks so too."
Xiong Wen spoke and glanced at his wife beside him.
Mr. Liao nodded, he also supported his husband's idea.
"Brother, husband." Ms. Liao suddenly said, "How about you take your mother and leave first, and I will stay and take care of them. When they wake up, I will find a way to go out of the city to find you. How about this?" Ms. Liao said. There was some sadness in his eyes.
"Madam, you can't do this." Xiong Wen shook his head firmly, and then said: "If you don't leave, I can't leave either. Why don't I stay with you and let the eldest brother take the mother and child away first? In this way, both It can prevent us from being interrogated when we go out of the city, and it can also keep the mother and child safe."
"Husband, please don't fight with me. My eldest brother has to go out to make money, the child is still young, and the mother is old, so there must be someone around to take care of me. As soon as I am a female prostitute, even if there is any accident, I insist that I don't know about it. Come to think of it, Those people won’t make things too difficult for me,” Liao continued.
Xiong Wu didn't say a word, but seemed to be moved.
The old woman who had been listening silently by the side finally spoke, but she scolded her eldest son.
"Your father passed away early. If he were alive now, he would definitely beat you up, you ungrateful thing."
Xiong Wu hesitated to speak, and finally lowered his head.
"How did I educate you when you were young? Be kind to others and repay kindness with kindness. A drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring of water, not to mention someone's life-saving kindness, eh?"
"I don't care whether the child named Qi lied to us or not. In order not to implicate us, he left home without saying a word. Besides, what happened today, the person who should be saved was also saved, and he was definitely not involved anymore. The truth is, but how did he do it? And for what reason?"
The old woman sighed and continued: "The kid may have been trying to take advantage of Xiao Wen at the beginning, but from what I can see, he actually didn't have any bad intentions. Just like Xiao Wu said, we can't be involved in these things. Yes, then by concealing and deceiving us, does that count as protecting our family?"
"Compared with each other, I asked you two to learn the ways of Confucius and Mencius since you were young. How come you have forgotten all of them after wandering around for a few years?"
The old lady was still angry and turned to Xiong Wu again.
"Mother, mother, please stop scolding me when I was wrong." Xiong Wu quickly apologized, "But now we have to think of a countermeasure, right?"
"According to me, either all of them leave or none of them leave." The old woman's words were the "final conclusion" of the family's "round table meeting."
"Brother, how much kindness do you have to the deputy general guarding the city gate?" Xiong Wen asked softly.
"If it's just our family, it's easy to say, if we take them..." Xiong Wu shook his head, noncommittal.
The atmosphere fell into silence for a while.
"You can all stay in the city...you don't have to leave."
As a weak voice sounded, the door was slowly pushed open, revealing the slightly green face outside the door.
"Little brother, why did you come out!?" Liao said in shock.
Liang Sicheng was tied up like a rice dumpling at this time, and large beads of sweat slowly fell from his forehead. It was not known whether it was due to constipation, pain from the wound, or both.
He grinned, and some of the wounds on his body seemed to have opened again, and a little bit of bright red appeared from the bandages. It seemed that just a few steps from the room to here had consumed all his energy.
His eyes were a little confused, and if you looked closely, his body was still shaking a little. It seemed that he still had a fever, but he finally woke up.
Ms. Liao quickly stood up and supported Liang Sicheng's body, which was still falling. The contact between the two was painful, and Liang Sicheng grimaced for a while.
Several people worked together to help Liang Sicheng back to the bed in the room. Xiong Wu asked softly: "Little brother, how do you feel?"
Liang Sicheng looked pale, and after drinking a few sips of hot water, his face gradually gained a trace of color.
He looked at Qi Zhen, who was sleeping in the same room, then turned to Xiong Wu, and went straight to the point without any nonsense: "There is something you may not understand. He is an extremely cautious person. To be honest, even I can't To completely convince him that he can sleep here without any scruples can only prove two things. The first is his immense trust in you. Although I don’t know where this trust comes from, I am willing to trust him. The second thing about this trust is that he must be very sure of his own safety to become like this. You may not believe it, but if he has any doubts about the surrounding environment, he will definitely leave it for himself. I will never let myself fall into this situation if I take the back-up approach.”
"So, I can trust you, and I also ask you to believe that you are safe now and don't have to worry about danger here."
Liang Sicheng's voice was very weak, as if he might faint again at any time.
"Let me introduce myself, my name is Liang Sicheng." Liang Sicheng said.
"It's hard for me to believe what you, a young man, said." Xiong Wu said with a frown.
"I heard part of what you just said, are you not afraid of your mother spanking you?" Liang Sicheng grinned, and then he continued: "Anyway, you can't abandon us, we just need to It’s a reason, so I’ll give you one.”
Liang Sicheng took a breath and said, "Before I was imprisoned, I was Liu Biao's chief clerk. Now his chief clerk, Kuai Liang, was not worthy of carrying my shoes before. It's just because I hold secrets that even the emperor would be curious about." , and this information could make Liu Biao the emperor, so he couldn't help but want to know, but I refused to tell him. I just didn't know what happened later, so he took advantage of it and locked me in jail. Now that I think about it, it should be related to the war in Luoyang City, so I guess he can't escape it."
Having said this, Liang Sicheng tapped Qi Zhen's direction with his chin.
"But I guess he didn't expect that he could come so fast, so he didn't have time to kill me in advance. This proves that people can't be too greedy, otherwise he can still pretend, maybe he can still Get another wave of news from him."
Liang Sicheng spoke vaguely, but how could Xiong Wu who was standing by him not understand the words he was referring to?
However, this incident is even more unbelievable than what Liang Sicheng said at the beginning.
Not to mention Xiong Wu, Xiong Wen, the couple and the old lady looked at Liang Sicheng as if they were looking at a madman or an idiot.
"Look, you don't believe what I said. Anyway, you only need a reason, right? Trust me, at least until he wakes up, you will be safe." Liang Sicheng said.
Then he pondered for a moment and continued: "If, I mean if, he is not awake at this time tomorrow, you must leave early the next morning, but don't worry about us."
"This..." Xiong Wu was stunned, "Why?"
"There is one thing he doesn't know. Counting the days, Cai Hao will be back in three to five days." Liang Sicheng said with a frown.
"Brother Liang, why don't you take a rest." Liao advised from the side.
"Thank you for your kindness, sister. Then I'll take a nap first."
Liang Sicheng was stunned, and he simply passed out again.
The whole family was left looking at each other in shock.
"Mother?" Xiong Wen and Xiong Wu looked at the old woman with a questioning expression.
"This child is not simple." The old woman sighed.
"At least when you were his age, you were determined not to talk like this. Okay, go back to your room to rest, and do as the child said. If the little brother named Qi is not awake tomorrow night, then prepare leave."
The three juniors all obeyed.
