The handwriting was clear and straight like bamboo. Yang Tao couldn't be more familiar with it. It was Shaoyang's handwriting!
"Shaoyang is still alive …"
The smile on Yang Tao's face froze halfway when he saw the words written on it.
Qian Su asked, "Master, does Shaoyang want to …"
Although Qian Su thought it was unlikely that Yan Lin would persuade Yang Tao to surrender, it seemed to be the only possibility.
"There's only one sentence in the letter. 'Don't bow down to An Cui for the sake of Madam' …"
Yang Tao was confused. He had been depressed for the past two days. He was struggling with himself and decided to surrender to An Cui for the sake of his wife and sister.
If he could, he would fight to the death too, but it was pointless.
He had more than 20,000 soldiers with him, but they were short of supplies and almost all of them were injured. How could they fight against the rebels?
If they fought to the death, not only would they lose their lives, but their wives, children, and nephews would also be sacrificed to the enemy.
Yang Tao didn't know what to do. Yan Lin wasn't around, so he had to make his own judgment.
Qian Su asked, "What does Shaoyang mean by this? Is he really going to give up on Madam and the others? "
Yang Tao shook his head. "Impossible. Shaoyang isn't that kind of person. He must have his reasons."
Qian Su asked, "But … it's possible that this letter was forged by someone working for Liu Xi."
Yang Tao shook his head again. "Shaoyang has a bad habit of writing. If it's a fake, there must be a flaw. Shaoyang's handwriting could be a fake, but it's a habit. People who don't know him well won't notice it. This letter must have been written by Shaoyang himself. "
Qian Su was speechless.
He was good friends with Shaoyang. Why didn't he know that Yan Shaoyang had a bad habit of writing?
Did this mean that they weren't close enough?
"Then … What does Master plan to do?"
Yang Tao said, "Trust Shaoyang, of course. He can't be wrong."
Qian Su was speechless.
If Yan Lin's filter for Yang Tao was one meter thick, then Yang Tao's filter for Yan Lin was probably twice as thick.
Perhaps because he was too eager to die, Yang Si would talk to Yan Lin whenever he was free and try to dig out the meaning of the letter from him.
Yan Lin was calm at first, but when Yang Si came to him for seven days in a row and disturbed his rest, he couldn't take it any longer.
"I'm a prisoner, but I shouldn't be treated like this."
You've just finished your lunch and you're already here. Don't you know that it's easy to feel sleepy in the hot afternoon?
Yang Si pretended to be deaf and mute. He had brought enough men with him anyway, so he was confident that he could use them to commit murder. He was not afraid of Yan Lin's "threat".
In the end, Yan Lin had no choice but to divulge some information.
Yan Shuxuan and Yang Roujia were best friends in their boudoirs due to their elder brothers. Their hobbies were similar as well.
"Yan" and Yan 'Family, Zhang "t Su said,"'t Fan Either.
Most of the landowning households had many industries, such as rice shops, wine shops, restaurants, and the more profitable cloth and rouge businesses.
Yang Roujia had a lively temperament, but Yang Jian was stricter with his daughter. In order to get out of the manor and have fun, she and Yan Shuxuan began to study the "Art of Disguise" in the storybook. "t" t. "t.'t" t "t" t, he Yan, Master.
He didn't expect them to know the essence of it. "
That pile of rouge and powder had been smeared on her face, and her entire face had changed.
Of course, the makeup couldn't be compared to the real face, but it was still very deceptive when one's vision was dim.
Yang Si couldn't believe it. "How big of a change is that?"
Yan Lin said quietly, "My wife once pretended to be you. It was dusk, and even I was almost fooled."
Yang Si accepted it for now and said, "You're stalling to give them time to save themselves?"
"The girls from the Yang and Yan families are not weak." Yan Lin said calmly, "The more the Lord values them, the more valuable they will be to the Nansheng rebels, and the easier it will be for them to be watched. Otherwise, they will have a higher chance of escaping. "
Yang Si said, "If you miscalculated …"
"You can still survive if you take a risk. If you don't do anything, you'll die." Yan Lin said quietly, "The Nansheng rebels will be so easily persuaded by An Cui. Do you think they will be kind to the Lord? Even if the Lord is willing to surrender, they won't let this matter go easily. They can kill them with any excuse. So what if outsiders know that they are the ones who did this? They can't do anything to them … "
Taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to intercept the captive's family and use them as a threat was despicable!
If they could do such a shameless thing, how could they expect them to have basic morals?
In troubled times, princes could fight however they wanted, but which shameless person would target innocent women, children, and children?
Yan Lin sighed. "Even Liu Xi, the Duke of Lanting, wouldn't do such a thing."
Yang Si was speechless.
Was there any ambiguity in his words? Wasn't it too much to mock his Lord right in front of him?
Did his Lord eat Yan Lin's rice?
"Hmph, my Lord is a gentleman. He wouldn't do something like an animal."
As it turned out, Yan Lin knew his sister and his wife very well. Neither of them was a weak girl from the inner house. When they were tricked by the rebels, they realized that something was wrong, but they didn't dare to expose it in case the thugs killed them.
Since they still had children to take care of, the rebels didn't separate them. They wouldn't be able to do anything anyway.
They tested the rebels and found out that they were quite tolerant of them. As long as they didn't leave, they would satisfy many of their requests.
Yan Shu and Yan Lin discussed and immediately came up with an idea.
Today they wanted rouge and powder, tomorrow they wanted silk and satin. If they didn't give them, they would make a scene like shrews and scold them.
"Two mere women, it's really disgusting. I really don't know if Yang Zhengze and Yan Shaoyang are blind to actually fall for such a vulgar and crude woman. " When the matter was brought up, the gentry in charge of them sneered at them in disgust. He waved his hand as if they were beggars and said, "We don't have many days to live anyway. We'll satisfy all their requests. Just make them keep their mouths shut."
Thus, the two of them lived a comfortable life in captivity.
The servants in charge of them also changed from sympathy to disdain. They didn't know if their husband was dead or alive, but these two heartless women didn't do anything about it. Sometimes, when their child cried for milk, they didn't care. They had seen heartless people, but they had never seen anyone this heartless.
"What a sin!"
The maidservants mumbled to themselves.
Not only did Yan Shu and Yan Shaoyang like to play with girls' toys, but they also liked to play with the servants. They often called them over.
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