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Yunchu’s Vengeance - Chapter 201

Chapter 201 - Discussion Among the Yun Family


With General Yun Senior present as their anchor, the members of the Yun family gradually regained their composure.

"The Yun Family Army was trained and forged by generations of our family; it will naturally not fall into the hands of outsiders!" General Yun Senior spoke up. "The top priority right now is to arrange for someone to go and communicate with the Yun Family Army. Get those lads to settle down and stop making trouble just because they have nothing better to do."

Everyone knew that the Yun Family Army was brave and fierce in battle, but only the Yuns knew that those men were completely straightforward and fiercely loyal to a fault—Deputy General Yin being a prime example.

Now that Commander Yun was missing and Deputy General Yin had been dismissed from his post, it was only a matter of time before chaos broke out among those three thousand elite soldiers.

Therefore, someone from the Yun family needed to step forward to soothe them.

Yun Ze nodded. "Yes, Grandfather. I will go right away."

"You cannot go." General Yun Senior shook his head. "You are the eldest son of the primary branch of the Yun family. I have other, more important matters to entrust to you."

As the old man spoke, he turned his gaze toward the young men from the collateral branches of the family. "Which of you will go?"

Yun Run, a representative among the collateral branches, stepped forward. "Old General, it is not that we are faint-hearted, but the situation is different now. The Yun Family Army has been taken over by General Dingyuan. If members of the Yun family make contact with them again, it will inevitably arouse suspicion... Right now, every eye in the capital is fixed on the Yun family. It is inappropriate for us to show our faces at this moment. It would be better to send someone to secretly deliver a letter instead."

Hearing these words, General Yun Senior actually chuckled.

Chu'er was right. When a person was in power, everyone around them was a good person.

Once misfortune struck, people would inevitably show their true colors.

To think he used to consider Yun Run a good child; seeing him today, he was nothing more than this.

He looked at the others. "What about the rest of you?"

The other sons of the Yun family usually only tended to their own immediate affairs and were not as sharp regarding the political situation at court.

Now that disaster had suddenly struck the Yun family, none of them had time to react properly. Hearing Yun Run's explanation, they all felt it made sense, so they kept silent.

General Yun Senior's face was filled with disappointment.

So the sons of the Yun family were nothing more than a bunch of cowards.

No wonder in Chu'er's dream, more than a decade later, the entire Yun family would end up executed to the last child.

Just as he was about to bark out a stern scolding—

Yun Chu gently tugged at his sleeve.

Under her grandfather's formidable authority, these Yun family sons would naturally obey orders and head to the suburban camp.

However, doing so would obscure their true individual characters.

Holding General Yun Senior back, she looked at Yun Run and spoke word by word, "Why was Deputy General Yin punished? Why were the three thousand men of the Yun Family Army taken over by an outsider? It was all because my father went missing, and they wanted to do their part to seek justice for him! People with no blood relation to the Yun family have gone this far, yet so many of us within the Yun family are hiding out of fear of being questioned, planning to send merely a servant instead. This is not only a sign of contempt for the Yun Family Army, but a sign of contempt for ourselves!"

Her presence surged forth layer by layer. It was not the authoritative aura of someone in power, yet it remained impossibly difficult to resist.

Yun Run froze for a long moment before saying, "General Dingyuan has already taken over the Yun Family Army. It is simply inappropriate for us Yuns to make contact with them again."

Yun Chu looked at him. "If the Yun family truly makes this choice, then those three thousand soldiers of the Yun Family Army will never be loyal to our family again."

Yun Run lowered his eyes.

The head of the family, Yun Silin, had vanished in the Southern Border. Even if he hadn't committed treason, he was likely dead.

Yun Silin was the Yun family's sky. If he died, could the Yun family produce another general? No... Then after this, what would the Yun Family Army have to do with the Yun family anymore? Why risk offending General Dingyuan for nothing?

"Since my brothers refuse to take a stance, I will have to go myself." Yun Chu's gaze swept across the room, taking in everyone's expression.

At this moment, Third Aunt Yun could not help but speak up, "Although you've divorced, Chu'er, you aren't strictly considered a proper member of the Yun family anymore. You shouldn't get involved in this matter."

The Yun family held such a rule: women generally did not participate in major affairs.

Third Aunt Yun had long grown dissatisfied seeing Yun Chu speak repeatedly and even question her son, Yun Run. Now, she summoned the courage to utter these words.

"Even a woman is willing to step forward in the Yun family's hour of peril, yet you—" Yun Ze looked at his usual brothers. "You should be ashamed to call yourselves sons of the Yun family!"

"Yun Chu, I'll go with you!"

An eldest grandson from one of the collateral branches stepped forward.

Earlier, he had not clearly understood the stakes involved and had been led along by Yun Run's rhythm. Now, he had come to his senses.

As long as they firmly believed the Great General had not rebelled, nothing would happen to the Yun family, and the Yun Family Army would return to their hands sooner or later.

Therefore, they must not chill the hearts of those three thousand soldiers.

Someone from the Yun family truly had to go in person for this trip.

"I'm going too!"

"Count me in!"

"Me as well!"

One after another, the young men of the Yun family stepped forward.

General Yun Senior stroked his beard with satisfaction. These children were merely a bit stubborn in the head; they were not beyond redemption.

Except for Yun Run, all the young men of this generation had stepped forward.

With everyone else standing up, Yun Run naturally could not stay out of it any longer. He said in a slow voice, "Yun Chu, take the others to the military camp. I will go to the Ministry of War to inquire about the news."

"That is for the best," Madam Lin smiled and said. "At a critical moment like this, as long as the entire Yun family stands united, we will surely pull through this crisis."

Yun Chu did not take all the Yun family sons, choosing only four or five of her closer brothers to accompany her.

In the past, as a married woman, she would travel by carriage. Now, she was no longer anyone's wife and could be herself. She rode alongside her brothers toward the military camp in the outskirts.

Just as they reached the entrance of the camp, they heard a commotion.

Yun Yi, who served as a seventh-rank official in the Ministry of War, stepped forward to ask around. He returned with an ashen face and said, "General Dingyuan is punishing the Yun Family Army. Anyone making trouble is given ten lashes of the military whip. This isn't just striking the Yun Family Army; it's a slap in the face to our Yun family!"

Another Yun family youth said indignantly, "The Yun family hasn't even been convicted of anything! How dare General Dingyuan..."

Yun Chu spoke up, "Since the Emperor allowed General Dingyuan to take over the Yun Family Army, he has the authority to punish them. A new official always tries to assert his power when taking office; there is still plenty of ordeal to come."

General Dingyuan wanted to swallow up the prize that was the Yun Family Army, so he would not act too ruthlessly.

However, the Yun Family Army possessed unyielding pride; they would likely not submit to General Dingyuan's command easily and would inevitably suffer some physical pain.

In her past life, several soldiers of the Yun Family Army were lost, yet they still refused to bow down. Later, the three thousand soldiers were disbanded, and it was only after her father returned to court with great merit that he recruited them back one by one...

There was no need for these people, who were fiercely loyal to the Yun family, to suffer such hardship.

Yun Chu stepped forward and said to the guard stationed at the camp entrance, "Yun Chu, the eldest daughter of the Yun family, requests an audience with General Dingyuan. Please kindly inform him!"

The low-ranking soldier at the entrance could not afford to offend anyone and immediately ran inside to report.

General Dingyuan was currently sitting in his chair, watching his deputy general lash the leader of the Yun Family Army. Upon hearing the soldier report that someone from the Yun family had arrived, he instantly sat up straight.

However, he quickly resumed his composed posture and said coldly, "I will not see them."

If those three thousand brutes saw someone from the Yun family, their backbones would only grow stiffer, making them even harder to tame.

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