Chapter 13: Early Spring (9)

Wu Xun stopped and stared at Pan Dazhong and asked, "Old Pan, I seem to remember that you were Yibotai who came with your brother? Where is your brother now? Have you left?" Pan Dazhong's expression suddenly changed. He slowly put down the chopsticks in his hand, lowered his head for a long time without saying a word. Wu Xun and Li Yuanfang looked at each other strangely. Wu Xun was about to ask again, but Pan Dazhong suddenly raised his head, but saw his eyes red, his teeth clattered, and his trembling lips muttered: "My brother, he has died here long ago!" Wu Xun was shocked: "What's going on?"

Pan Dazhong clenched his fists, his chest was undulating, and finally calmed down slightly. He looked up and smiled bitterly at the other two, "Person Li, the night before yesterday, I took the risk to ask you to rescue Captain Wu. At that time, you were very careful and distrustful. I once mentioned to you that I, Pan Dazhong and Lu Jia have an irreconcilable hatred. This hatred is the hatred of killing relatives! It was Lu Jia who killed my only relative in this world, my brother Pan Erxiao!"

It turned out that Pan Dazhong and his brother Pan Erxiao were originally slaves of Qian Guinan, the governor of Tingzhou. They both died of their parents and grew up in the Qian family. They worked as a living for serving others. Pan Dazhong was cautious and was highly appreciated by Qian Guinan. However, his younger brother Erxiao was not very successful. He was not good at doing his job all day long and often thieves, and was very unpredictable. However, Pan Dazhong loved this only brother very much, and Qian Guinan wanted to drive him away several times.

When Qian's family was forced to give up because Pan Dazhong begged. It was a pity that Pan Erxiao did not repent, but instead became more and more troubled. Later, he hooked up with Mrs. Qian Guinan's maid, and finally completely annoyed Qian Guinan. Just seven years ago, Qian Guinan was angry and sentenced Pan Erxiao to Yibotai. Pan Dazhong was really worried about this brother, so he took the initiative to beg Qian Guinan to accompany his brother to serve his sentence.

Pan Dazhong was already crying when he said this. He wiped his tears and gritted his teeth and said, "When we first came, Lu Jia was quite polite to my brothers due to the power of Governor Qian. Because I was innocent, he also gave me a position of fire chief. I was also cautious and tried my best to be loyal to Lu Jia, just to be better with my brothers. But who knew! Lu Jia was extremely vicious by nature. He actually took advantage of the time when I returned to Tingzhou to do business and tricked Erxiao out of prison, fought with two other prisoners, and finally put the seriously injured him in the wild, allowing the vulture to bite until death!" He raised his head and looked at Li Yuanfang with tears in his eyes: "Person Li, this is the scene you saw when you came the first day, the so-called 'wild burial'!"

Li Yuanfang nodded silently. Pan Dazhong continued: "I originally planned to fight for Lu Jia, and even if I die together, I will avenge my brothers! But Lu Jia is cruel and tricky. He knew that I must hold a grudge, so he sent me to an underground prison, intending to make me unable to endure the suffering and die. I think it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and must live in Yibotai. I endured me for five years underground for five years, and it was not until two years ago when Lu Jia needed to hire people. At that time, he was still very wary of me and was guarding everywhere, so I became even more greedy and afraid of death, timid and cowardly, and finally slowly relaxed his vigilance. I have been waiting for the last blow for the past two years, and finally I waited for you! Martial Arts and Li, thank you for finally avenging my brothers!"

"So that's it!" Wu Xun sighed with emotion, raised his hand and patted Pan Dazhong's shoulder comfortably. Pan Dazhong smiled reluctantly and turned his head to Li Yuanfang and said, "Prince Li, I really couldn't tell you all the time, so you couldn't trust me the night before, so you wouldn't have been in such a dangerous situation." Li Yuanfang nodded: "Yes. At that time, I really couldn't trust you easily, so I knocked you out and moved Meng Dan and the others to another barracks. To be honest, this is also a choice in desperation. I couldn't take both sides of the body, and I had to save Captain Wu, so I could only take a gamble." Pan Dazhong smiled understandingly and said, "If Captain Li believed me at that time, I could find a safer place for the princess and the others. But I know you can't take this risk. If I was sent by Lu Jia to lure the tiger out of the mountain, it would be miserable."

Pan Dazhong said again: "Person Li, I have something I have always wanted to ask you. I don't know if I can give you advice now?" "What?" "That's when we left the camp that night, you were looking at a flashing place above the camp. What is it..." "Oh!" Li Yuanfang smiled: "That's still the thing Bin'er saw yesterday. That thing can cast light far away. I asked Bin'er to think of shooting candlelight out of the window hole, so that I could see them clearly from a distance at night, so that I could know that they were safe."

Speaking of this, the three of them felt a bit frank and the estrangement and suspicion of each other gradually faded. Wu Xun sorted out his beard and remembered something: "Old Pan, there is something else!" "Person Wu just told me!" "Well, I'll ask you, why are the weapons, armor and horses of the outsourcing team so well? Where did Lu Jia get these?"

Old Pan was slightly stunned and his eyes turned: "This... I don't know anything anymore. It seems that Han Navy will send some supplies to Lu Jia every year." "Impossible! Han Navy's own equipment is not so good!" "Then, I don't know."

"I don't know, forget it." Wu Xun was a little disappointed and pointed at Li Yuanfang and said, "But, Old Pan, please take Li Zhengwei to pick up a weapon in the afternoon and take out all the best guys here!" Pan Dazhong hurriedly agreed, "That's natural." Li Yuanfang waved his hand: "Person Wu, thank you for your trouble. There is no need to be too troublesome. If it's convenient, just lend me Lu Jia's knife and bow." "This..." Wu Xun and Pan Dazhong looked at each other: "Don't you be taboo?" "It's fine." "Okay, let the soldiers deliver it to you after dinner."

In the afternoon, in a small thatched hut behind the Yingpan, Li Yuanfang took Han Bin to take a shower. As soon as he entered the small thatched hut, he found that it was exactly the same as the hut on the banks of the Asuguer River. There was also a deep well in the center of the house, with the edge of the well flat with the ground, and only an iron lid was covered at the wellhead, which was exactly the same as the iron lid in the hut on the banks of the Asuguer River.
Chapter completed!