HLnovel What is the name of Chapter 730?
What is the name of Chapter 730?
Changshan closed his eyes briefly, completely convinced.
He was a man who had weathered many storms and met all sorts of people. Even he hadn't been overly wary of Lu Yangyang. It wasn't because Lu Yangyang was particularly cunning, but because she was indeed intelligent and capable. The more things were a mix of truth and falsehood, the less she could see through them. No wonder Jiu Ying had stumbled.
“Go tell General Sheng that I am a man who should have died long ago, but I am afraid of death and have barely survived until today. I am all alone and have no ties. I will live one day at a time. If you want to ask me anything, then ask me.”
Changshan spent seventeen years with the caravan, so it would be a lie to say he had no feelings for them at all.
He has worked diligently for the caravan over the years, but he wouldn't say he would risk his life for it.
He can hardly be considered a loyal and righteous person.
Back then, he was able to become Duke Xiao's confidant and work for him. He also had the ambition and aspiration to die for a friend. But after the battle of Chenzhou, he knew all too well what his fate would be.
There is only one way for him to die.
But he was still young then, and he really couldn't bear to die like that, so he boldly faked his death and escaped. So many years have passed, and he thought everything had settled down and no one would remember him anymore, but he never expected that someone would still come knocking on his door.
Fortunately, he had lived so many more years, which was a bonus. Changshan didn't have anything he couldn't understand; he was just an ordinary person.
Because he gained his master's favor and served him, he ended up carrying out a grave matter that would lead to the extermination of his entire family.
I'm already doing well to have survived this long.
Lu Yangyang stared at Changshan for a while without saying anything more. Seeing that Huang Sumu had already treated Changshan's wounds while they were talking, she checked them and nodded. "You stay here and watch over him. Hongyu and the others will bring the doctors and girls over later. They'll send you away first."
Since becoming an apprentice, Huang Sumu has been experiencing increasingly shocking events, but the greatest one was that they actually won.
They actually won against those heinous bandits and actually survived.
His gratitude and trust in Lu Yangyang were already deeply ingrained, and he had no extra curiosity whatsoever, so he nodded readily.
Lu Yangyang got up and left. The caravan was still in chaos. The bandits had all been arrested, but there were still some people to deal with.
Many of the bandits had already started families. Among the caravan members were some women and children. Some of these people were left behind by the previous caravans, but others were people they had robbed from various places in the past two years. When chaos broke out, these people were also frightened. Some hid in panic, while others tried to escape.
The soldiers were busy running around, and Hongyu and the others were not idle either, going everywhere to rescue people.
Seeing this, Lu Yangyang went to find the captured doctors to help bandage the wounded soldiers. After working for almost an hour, she sent all the doctors to Hongyu before going to find Sheng Junyao.
Sheng Junyao's work was almost finished. All the bandits had been captured, and the women and children had been put in one place.
Jing Chao came to report, "Master, you guessed right, He Jingze has already led his troops into Huangshadu."
Sheng Junyao nodded. "Go and have someone search the area thoroughly a few more times. We must leave before they arrive."
If they run into them on the way, they can simply hand over the person. But if they wait for He Jingze to bring his men here, even if there's no conflict, it will still be very troublesome.
Lu Yangyang asked, "Is Big Brother worried that if we wait for them to arrive, there will be some trouble?"
Sheng Junyao explained, "The caravan is a group of bandits. How can we fight bandits without spoils? If we encounter them on the way, we can just hand them over and say that the salt gang and the caravan caused the trouble. We're just here to rescue them. If we wait for them to come, things will get complicated."
Lu Yangyang was speechless: "They are really greedy. They colluded with the caravan to harm the people, but in the end, they still wanted to take the spoils of war with them. Parasites!"
Sheng Junyao: "That's one issue. The most difficult thing now is not how to deal with the bandits, but the women and children who have been involved. If we take them back, it will be difficult to properly settle them."
With the credit for suppressing the bandits already secured, He Jingze had no choice but to accept it, so he would definitely handle those bandits impartially, and there was no need to worry that he would bend the law for personal gain.
However, even outside the law, there is human compassion. If those innocent women and children who were implicated were to return with them, they would inevitably be implicated and likely meet a bad end.
However, the problem cannot be solved simply by taking these people away or returning them. Most of the women who were abducted have families. Although not all families can accept them back, there are kind-hearted families. The Northwest has an open social atmosphere, and it is common for women to remarry. If the family is harmonious, they can find a good home.
If they are homeless, they should be compensated with some money and provided with accommodation.
These are not too difficult things; the difficulty lies in the fact that once the handover is completed, these matters will no longer be under their jurisdiction.
Lu Yangyang suggested, "How about taking them to the Northwest? Brother, aren't you looking for people to reclaim wasteland? You must be short-handed. Send them there first, and once things have calmed down, we can find a way to help them find their families. If any of them can go back, we can send them back; if not, at least they'll have a place to stay."
Sheng Junyao thought for a moment: "That is indeed a solution, but there are quite a few of them, nearly a hundred, and... those bandits are already dead. If we take them away directly, there might be chaos on the way."
Lu Yangyang realized that, apart from the girls she had rescued, some of the remaining women and children were family members who had followed the bandits for many years, while others were forced to give birth for survival. Now that the bandits had been captured, their minds were naturally wavering. If they were sent directly to the Northwest, many unexpected events would likely occur along the way.
Some people want to escape, some want revenge, some might want to abandon their children—anything can happen.
Even if they want to help these people, they need to come up with a proper way.
They were not quite the same as the girls and doctors that Lu Yangyang had rescued.
The doctors naturally wanted to go home, and the girls who had been saved by Lu Yangyang had no immediate attachments, so it wouldn't hurt for them to leave with them first.
However, the women and children who had lived with the bandits for many days must be properly taken care of, otherwise it would be a case of good intentions backfiring.
As the two were pondering this matter, Jing Chao suddenly looked at Lu Yangyang: "I heard that the deputy commander of Tongzhou is also coming this time. He's a young master from a prominent family in the capital, and he doesn't get along with He Jingze."
Lu Yangyang asked in surprise, "What's your name?"
"Su Fengqu, the young master of the Cheng'en Duke's Mansion."