The Second Sister of a Farmer's Family's Path to Imperial Destiny

"And this was just to give the boy a formal identity. He then became my fourth brother. When he was brought back to our home, he had a jade pendant and some valuables on him, which made our family wealthy for a while."

"Originally, I would never sell the jade pendant to anyone, but due to the need to make a living, I still sold it for silver."

When Zhao He heard this, he asked, "What about your fourth brother? Where is he now?"

Uncle Guo looked up at Zhao He and the others. Although they did not speak, they exuded a sense of oppression from those in a higher position.

He lowered his eyes, knowing that his fourth brother might be the person the nobles in front of him were looking for. However, because he refused to lend him food, his fourth brother was left with nowhere else to go and hanged himself. If these people in front of him knew that his fourth brother died because of him, wouldn't they have to pay for his blood debt with their own blood?

He made up a lie and said, "At that time, my family was so hungry that they couldn't afford to eat. My fourth brother went up the mountain to help support the family. He was gone for several days. When we went to the mountain to look for him later, we couldn't find him. We don't know whether he is dead or alive somewhere else."

Zhao He asked: "Are you sure what you said is true?"

"It's absolutely true. There's absolutely no possibility of it being fake."

Uncle Guo said in a categorical voice that Qiuhua had just told him privately that the people in the village got the news from somewhere and knew that a nobleman was looking for the fourth brother. They were worried that Guo Xin's family would abandon the entire village's workshop and go to the capital, so they all spoke with one voice.

If someone came to look for his fourth brother, he would either follow what the person said or say he didn't know. That's why he dared to lie casually now. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to do that even if he had ten times the courage.

Zhao He gave Wen Yan a look, and Wen Yan walked out immediately.

Uncle Guo naturally saw everything, but he was still very relieved. The villagers had helped to keep his fourth brother's identity a secret for many years, and they would definitely not let it slip now.

Zhao He did not leave either. He sat on a high stool, holding a book in one hand and eating cakes sent by the town official from outside with the other hand. From time to time, he drank some tea he brought with him.

After an unknown amount of time, Pei Yuan couldn't help but yawned loudly, and the sound of the yawn echoed throughout the cell.

Zhao He said: "How about you take a rest on the side for a while. This is the dungeon of Cixi Town. I think it is very safe and there are no hidden dangers."

Pei Yuan shook his head and said, "Sixth Master, it's okay. I'll hold on for a while."

The door of the dungeon was opened again, and a creaking sound was heard, and a pair of hurried footsteps were getting closer and closer.

Wen Yan whispered a few words into Zhao He's ear, and Zhao He's eyes instantly changed from lazy to very sharp. How dare the man in front of him play tricks? !

Zhao He stared at him and said, "It seems that you are still not honest."

Uncle Guo looked at this look, and felt as if his heart was put into an ice cellar, full of coldness. He couldn't figure out how his words were seen through? Did the villagers betray him?

Pei Yuan came over with a red-hot iron and said, "It seems like I still need to teach you a lesson! If you don't accept my toast, you'll have to drink the forfeit wine. Tsk, you're really something."

Uncle Guo looked at the red iron wire that was getting bigger and bigger in front of him and couldn't help but stutter, "No, no, no, I confess everything, I'll tell you everything, mother, mother, come and save me quickly."

The red iron was directly pressed against Uncle Guo's chest, and the thin prison uniform was curled up by the burn. The prison uniform around the iron was pitch black, and the flesh that was in direct contact with the iron made a crackling sound and had a smell of burnt meat.

Uncle Guo looked at his chest but felt no pain. He thought it was an illusion. After a while, he felt a piercing pain and let out a loud scream: "Ah!!! Ah, hiss!"

When Mrs. Guo saw this scene, she fainted.

"Are you going to say it or not?" Zhao He said coldly.

"I confess! I confess everything." Uncle Guo looked at the nobles in front of him and finally realized that they were not only people who abided by etiquette and morality and had morality in their hearts, but were also ruthless.

"That boy died when he paid the grain tax last year. His grave is on a hill in our village."

When Zhao He heard this, his brows jumped. He thought that the person was missing, but he didn't expect that he was dead. If the general knew about this, he would not know whether this favor was worth doing or not, and it is very likely that the general would be offended.

So he hoped that the fourth brother the man in front of him was talking about was not the general's child. After all, jade pendants, valuables, etc. could be put on another child to pretend to be the general's son.

Then he asked, "Besides the valuables on the boy's body, does he have any special marks?"

Uncle Guo was thinking hard, but the pain in his body made it impossible for him to concentrate and his expression was very grim.

Seeing this, Pei Yuan handed over a bowl of medicine and gave it directly to Uncle Guo. He was very familiar with this process. Before becoming the personal guard for the Sixth Master, he did these things in the army.

Therefore, when he suspected that the prisoner in front of him was lying, he ordered the people in the government office to heat the iron wire red and boil another pot of medicine according to his own prescription.

After Uncle Guo drank the medicine, he no longer felt the pain in his body after a while.

"Have you figured it out?" Pei Yuan asked in a rough voice.

Uncle Guo actually didn't have any recollection of it, but when he was suddenly frightened by Pei Yuan, he remembered the time when he and his fourth brother took a bath together when they were young. They were back to back, rubbing their own bodies.

At that time, he was in a playful mood and wanted to slap his fourth brother's butt hard. When his hand was about to hit him, he saw a faint red mark, which looked very much like a trace of grass.

At that time, he even laughed at his fourth brother for having a piece of grass on him, just like his status in the family, no one loved him.

Then he said, "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Zhao He looked into Uncle Guo's eyes and asked, "What is it?"

"There is a red birthmark on my fourth brother's butt. It's a grass! I saw it very clearly. I was definitely not mistaken."

Wen Yan looked at Uncle Guo in front of him in a very strange way. He could see the birthmark on his butt very clearly. How did this man see it? Did he have some quirk?

When Zhao He heard the news, he felt a chill in his heart, thinking that this was the general's lost second son. He was still thinking about how to send the message back to the capital as quickly as possible.

Suddenly, I realized that the birthmark on my butt was very clear?

What does it mean?

Thinking of this, Zhao He looked at Uncle Guo who was tied to the stool with a puzzled look on his face.

Mrs. Guo, who had fainted on the side, was still thinking about her own son Dagui, so she struggled to get up. She saw the three noblemen in front of her were staring at the big ghost, but they had no ill intentions, just made her feel a little uncomfortable, as if they wanted to explore some secret.