Chapter 2374: The Main Family Is Completely Ruined
Chapter 2374: Chapter 2374: The Main Family Is Completely Ruined
The people are safe, which makes Shu Yu and Meng Yunzheng believe the situation isn’t so bad.
Very soon, Qi Lie took Yuan Ye, Liu Jie, and Shu Feng away.
Speaking of Shu Feng, Qi Lie also mentioned the people of the main branch of the Shu family. Shu Feng himself escaped, but the rest of the Shu family was completely captured.
The ones who captured them were Shu Quan and the wife Shu Feng later married. Shu Quan observed the fight between the two sides, and upon seeing Shu Feng and his group escaping in a sorry state, he immediately went to capture them without a second word.
Unexpectedly, Ms. Wu had already blocked the first Madam and the eldest daughter of the Shu family inside the door.
Besides them, the main branch of the Shu family had Shu Feng’s two younger brothers and one concubine, Madam Li.
One of the brothers worked with Shu Feng and was present during the fight that day; he was captured by Qi Lie’s people.
The other brother was rather honest and young, being Madam Li’s child. Madam Li couldn’t bear the hardship two years ago, so she remarried to someone else, and neither Shu Feng nor the first Madam stopped her, even being pleased about it.
After all, Madam Li was frail and left with some health issues on the road of exile, getting sick from time to time. Her son was young and couldn’t do heavy work and even became their burden instead.
So when a widower in the village, more than ten years older than Madam Li, offered two taels and three qian of silver, Madam Li took her young son, changed his surname, and went to live with him.
Regarding what the main branch of the Shu family did, they were unaware and uninvolved.
Though they didn’t help like Shu Quan, at least they weren’t like the first Madam and the others, whose lives were now in jeopardy.
Shu Yu could only say Shu Feng really sealed his own fate, and now everyone has paid the price.
Qi Lie left, and not only did he take Yuan Ye and the others, but he also brought along the cooperative Meng Yunzheng.
With Lord Cheng and Shu Yu at the Cheng Mansion, there’s nothing to worry about.
However, that night, Hetai Prefecture still experienced unrest, with several conflicts and fires breaking out in the city.
Fortunately, Lord Cheng had recovered over the past few days. After purging a group of people, he quickly stabilized the situation in the city with Ma Lu and others.
Meng Yunzheng left for half a month, sending messages twice in between, merely saying everything was fine.
Lord Cheng continuously had people focus on their news. Although several key guards faced issues, a few sons of the Cheng family rapidly matured.
Shu Yu knew that aside from Hetai Prefecture, several places experienced chaos. The forces in the southwest were originally complicated and scattered, and the Second Prince and his people certainly recruited quite a few people. When these people made a move, problems easily arose.
Shu Yu and others then departed from Hetai Prefecture, heading to other prefectures and county towns to assist.
The only somewhat peaceful place was Heichang County, a county town Shu Yu was very familiar with, which only experienced one disturbance under the county magistrate’s management.
Qi Lie brought many people, especially after starting operations, those who were hiding all came out.
Several conflicts erupted between both sides, with casualties on each side.
But overall, Qi Lie and his group had the upper hand after capturing Yuan Ye and Liu Jie and finding the black market’s location, taking over the stored food and weapons there.
While heading to Linzhang Prefecture, Shu Yu returned to Righteous Dao Village with Ma Lu.
Ma Lu knew there had been a fight in Righteous Dao Village, and although Qi Lie returned, saying everything was fine, he was still a little uneasy.
Upon returning to Righteous Dao Village, he found the vast village to be extremely quiet.