Early the next morning, Zhao Tong stood in front of the bed and squinted at Zhu Xiuniang. Zhu Xiuniang saw that it was him and hurriedly turned her face away.
Because Zhu Xiuniang fainted yesterday, her return to Shezhou was postponed for a day. The doctor at the medical clinic had already examined her and said that she was fine. It was just a mental injury. It would be good to rest more. He prescribed a decoction to soothe the nerves and replenish the heart.
Zhao Tong said: "Is it because Xiu Niang was going back to Shezhou that she thought about the past and became so sad that she fainted?"
Zhu Xiuniang was silent, and Zhao Tao said calmly: "Don't always think about the past, it will not be beneficial to you. Always remember that you are pregnant. This is the most important thing."
Zhu Xiuniang turned her head and glared at him angrily.
Zhao Tong said: "Remember to take your medicine. You can't delay the matter in Shezhou any longer. If you can't leave tomorrow, I don't think there's any need to go. Let's just go back to Tokyo."
"I, I can walk..." Zhu Xiuniang couldn't help but change her color when she heard this. She put her hands on the bed and was about to sit up: "Give me the medicine!"
Qing Xing hurriedly supported her, and He Xiang brought the medicine bowl. Zhao Tong watched her drink the medicine soup before walking out of the room with her hands behind her back.
Zhu Xiang was waiting anxiously outside. When he saw Zhao Tong coming out, he hurriedly asked: "Your Highness, Wu Niang..."
Zhao Tong shook his head and said, "I'm just worried about the past, and my spirit is a little confused. I'm feeling better now. I've forgotten what I said yesterday. I'll leave for Shezhou as usual tomorrow."
Zhu Xiang wiped the sweat from his head: "I just want to say that Wuniang is such a smart person. Why did she say such treacherous and stupid words yesterday? I hope Your Highness will understand her and not take those words as disobedience."
Zhao Tao smiled, Zhu Xiang had already told him exactly what Zhu Xiuniang said yesterday, and now he shook his head slightly and said: "How can I blame her? No one would be able to accept such a big event like annihilation of the family, let alone Xiuniang. She is still a weak female streamer, alas!"
Zhu Xiang said respectfully: "What His Highness said is absolutely true. Even the humble official fainted after hearing the news that day and didn't get up for three days. Now that I think about it, my body and mind are shaking and I can't help myself."
Zhao Tong said: "That's why you want to get up again and wish your family a prosperous future and restore its past glory... Go back and prepare well, and start moving the tomb tomorrow!"
Zhu Xiang said yes, saluted and left.
The next day, it took a whole morning for more than a thousand civilians to finish moving the coffin, and then headed straight to Shezhou.
After spending another ten days in Shezhou, paying homage, rituals, burial, checking accounts, transfer of ownership, etc., Zhao Tong took his people back to Suzhou.
After entering Suzhou City, he returned to Canglang Pavilion and before he could sit down, Wu Song immediately reported that there were people outside making trouble in the past two days.
Zhao Tong wondered, who was so bold as to come here to cause trouble? He was not arrested and sent to jail! After questioning, he found out that the person claiming to be his uncle was called Yun Jiuxiao.
Zhao Tong was silent when he heard this. This must be Xiao Yunfei's master. He heard about the incident in Suzhou and rushed over to ask for an explanation.
He did not kill Xiao Yunfei. Now this man lives in a single room in the prison and is a neighbor inmate with General Lu.
He said: "Just Yun Jiuxiao?"
Wu Song shook his head: "I brought two more, one male and one female. They seem to be disciples."
Zhao Tong thought for a moment and was about to speak, when suddenly Bai Ao rushed in and said, "Your Majesty, there is someone outside the garden who asked to see you, saying he was your uncle. The subordinates were confused and asked a few questions, but the man looked at him angrily and looked extremely domineering and arrogant. "
Zhao Tong touched his chin. This really meant Cao Cao. Cao Cao was about to arrive. It seemed that Yun Jiuxiao was a little confused about the situation. He hooked up with the Zhu family. He wanted to settle accounts with him but couldn't find him. Unexpectedly, he showed up at his door.
"Ask everyone to go out and take a look, and send another five thousand armored troops over." Zhao Tong raised his eyebrows.
At this moment, in the Canglang Pavilion garden, almost all the people he brought from Suiyulou in Tokyo were there, including Ding Daxie, Ding Erxie, the three brothers of the Bai family, Lu Han, Xu Jiang, Shi Qian and a few others, and Wu Song. Du Bo was also there, and Shen Fei was guarding the garden gate with a hundred bloody vanguard regiments.
Zhao Tong left, and Bai Ao went to deliver the order. When they arrived at the garden gate, everyone had gathered. When they opened the gate, they saw three people standing not far away from the steps in front.
The leader is an old man in blue robes, tall, with mixed black and white beard and hair, tiger eyes and an eagle nose, and a rosy face. At this moment, his eyes are slightly closed, as if half-opened, and he looks like a rainbow.
There was a man and a woman behind the old man. The man was in his thirties, dressed in ordinary clothes, slightly bearded, with a complexion like orange peel. He carried a large gun behind his back.
The woman is pretty, wearing a yellow shirt, holding a sword in her hand, and her face is as cold as frost.
Zhao Tie looked at it and felt unhappy. These three people could blatantly carry weapons around. They must have mentioned their names. Otherwise, they would have been questioned by the soldiers guarding the city. Even if they were highly skilled in martial arts, how could they withstand the siege of a large army?
At this time, Ding Daxie, who was next to him, noticed what was happening and shouted to the front: "Who is coming? Dare to make noise here? Could it be that he doesn't know that the king is stationed in the garden!"
The old man didn't move when he heard the words. He held the shelf and put his hands behind his back.
The woman next to her took a step forward and said, "You are nothing more than a servant. How can you speak here? Why don't you go back quickly? What we are looking for is the King of Qin. Which one of you is the King of Qin!"
Ding Daxie was immediately furious and looked at Zhao Tong. Zhao Tong frowned and thought to himself that it was no wonder that Master Zhou Tong didn't tell him about these master affairs. They were all arrogant and arrogant people who didn't know etiquette.
His face darkened, and Ding Daxie immediately said to the woman: "Where are you from a mountain village girl? How dare you be so rude? Are you allowed to call me Your Highness?"
The woman hummed, "My master is the uncle of the King of Qin, and I am his senior sister. I came here two and three times but was nowhere to be seen. Today I heard that I am returning to the city. Which of you is the King of Qin? Why don't you welcome your uncle in as soon as possible?"
Zhao Tong laughed angrily when he heard this, and Ding Daxie said: "Village girl, shut up, where are you from and what is your background? If you talk nonsense again, you will be held accountable!"
The woman said angrily: "You have no points as a slave. I don't need you to answer the question. After a while, my aunt will catch you and cut you into eighteen pieces, and throw you into the river to feed the bastard!"
Ding Daxie's lips trembled with anger, and everyone frowned. Most of the people in Broken Jade Tower had walked through the rivers and lakes, and they had seen some of the so-called rivers and lakes heroines, but the domineering and arrogant one in front of him was just one. I have never seen it before, but now I have seen it.
Seeing that everyone was silent, the woman couldn't help but become more and more arrogant: "It's okay to tell you that my master's name is the world's boxing champion, the divine fist rules the Kyushu, and he was the imperial teacher of the Imperial City Palace at that time. He went through Wang Daxianggong's reform, passed down Taishi Cai's martial arts, followed the army to fight in the Northern Liao Dynasty, and accumulated many military exploits. He was the boxing teacher of two generations of the late emperors, and is known as the Emperor's Boxing Teacher!"
As soon as she said this, Bai Zhan couldn't help but said: "I heard this village girl like you talking nonsense, who knows the truth?"
Zhao Tong narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "Really!"
"Your Highness..." The people around him suddenly exclaimed. Although some of them had heard of the name Jintai, they only knew that he was a legendary martial arts giant, but they didn't know much about other things.
Zhao Tong's expression was cold. The woman was right. Jintai was a figure spanning five dynasties from Renzong to the present. He had indeed served as an imperial teacher back then. He was nominally the boxer of Emperor Yingzong and Emperor Shenzong, but the two emperors had no such experience at all. I have learned boxing, but I just gave him this name.
As for Wang Anshi's reform, Emperor Shenzong sent Jintai to protect him personally, fearing that something might happen to him. Sima Guang even criticized this matter and wrote a letter against it.
There is indeed something about Cai Jing, because Cai Jing has always supported the new law and sided with the new party. He once asked Jintai for advice on how to strengthen his body. As for what Jintai taught him specifically, Zhao Tong did not know.
But Jintai is Jintai, and this woman is this woman. Not to mention just a disciple, even a disciple like Yun Jiuxiao, it’s not good to just use the tiger’s skin as a banner, right?
This shows his character. At least in those years, Zhou Tong never mentioned Jintai. Even Lu Junyi didn't know that Jintai was their master.
At this time, the woman's eyes fell on Zhao Tong. She had just heard Zhao Tong speak, and saw Zhao Tong standing in the middle of the crowd, looking very majestic, and asked, "Are you the King of Qin? When you saw your uncle coming, why didn't you go down the steps to greet him?"
Zhao Tong was not willing to talk to her, so he snorted coldly and turned away.
Yun Jiuxiao slowly opened his eyes and looked Zhao Tao up and down. The woman said angrily: "If you were the King of Qin, wouldn't you know the rules of the sect? The rules are more important than anything else. Don't show off your identity, just follow the rules of the sect. That’s right!”
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves sounded everywhere. Just now, Zhao Tong asked people to mobilize troops, and five thousand cavalry had arrived. In just a few breaths, the garden gate was surrounded by water!
The expressions of the woman and the man immediately changed. Yun Jiuxiao took a deep breath, but there was a hint of disdain on the corner of his mouth.
The woman said angrily to Zhao Tong: "What do you mean? Do you want to betray the sect? The sect has five rules. The first one is to respect the teacher regardless of status. If you violate the sect rules, you will be severely punished. of!"
Zhao Tong looked at her coldly: "My teacher is Zhou Tong. The teacher has never mentioned anything about his sect to me. I never knew that there is a sect behind my teacher!"
"You!" The woman was stunned: "This is impossible. There is no way that Master Zhou will not talk about the affairs of the sect!"
Zhao Tong sneered and said: "Don't say that I don't know, even my senior brother Lu Junyi doesn't know about this. He is in Yangzhou at the moment. Do we need to transfer him here for you to inquire?"
The woman's face instantly became extremely ugly, and she looked at Yun Jiuxiao: "Master..."
However, Yun Jiuxiao remained calm: "Senior Brother Zhou really didn't mention his sect to you?"
Zhao Tong glanced at him and said: "Not just the sect, the teacher has a total of five disciples. The senior brother and I only know who the younger junior brother is. As for the second senior brother and the fourth junior sister, we don't even know their names. The three of you came here." We are planning to get married, but I don’t know who you are!"
Yun Jiuxiao was silent for a few moments and said, "In that case, is Xiao Yunfei still alive?"
Zhao Tong said: "This person is an accomplice of Zhu Meng's traitor. He is currently in prison and needs to be taken to Tokyo for trial!"
Yun Jiuxiao said: "Let Xiao Yunfei go, I will turn around and leave. I will not tangle with you again!"
Zhao Tong couldn't help laughing when he heard this, pointed at Yun Jiuxiao and said: "Common man, you come to my gate to show off your posture, pretend to be my disciple, and condone your disciples to be disrespectful, noisy and troublesome, and want to Kill the prisoner and walk away?"
When the woman heard the words, she immediately said angrily: "You, the King of Qin, don't know what's good or bad. When my uncle came, you would not fall down to greet him and sweep the bed to wait for him. You actually said such treasonous words. When I get back, I will definitely report it to my master and give you the rules of the sect." Punishment!"
Yun Jiuxiao glanced at the soldiers around him and said slowly: "Do you think you can keep me and the others with these ordinary soldiers?"
Zhao Tong chuckled and raised his arm slightly, and saw that the hundreds of soldiers surrounding the front were all raising something, the size of two or three palms, with tight strings and cold iron arrows hanging on it. It turned out to be a hand crossbow.
The soldiers behind them were holding spears on one level and bows and arrows on the other. There were five thousand people in total, and not even a bird could fly out.
Yun Jiuxiao finally changed his mind when he saw the hundreds of hand crossbows pointing at the three of them. No matter how high his martial arts skills were, he could fly over walls and fly over walls, kill one person in ten steps, and leave no trace for thousands of miles, but against the tactics of a sea of people surrounded by crossbows, I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape, not to mention that there are two disciples who are not as good as him, so he may not escape, and these two disciples will be even less able to escape.
"You can try it!" Zhao Tong sneered slightly.
"Wait a minute!" Yun Jiuxiao's eyes shot out with cold light: "You bully your master and destroy your ancestors like this, aren't you afraid that one day Senior Brother Zhou will find out about this!"
When Zhao Tong heard this, he didn't even look at him, and his raised hand was about to fall down.
"Okay, let's go!" Yun Jiuxiao frowned: "I don't want you anymore, but don't forget, Xiao Yunfei is your senior brother. If you kill him, you will be guilty of treason!"
"You ordinary man, you dare to talk about your sins in front of me!" Zhao Tong snorted coldly: "You are full of lies, violate the etiquette and cause trouble, confront me in the face, walk across the street with a weapon, and collude with the judge Zhu Meng. What a big crime? You actually still have sex with the king? This king talks about his sins and still wants to leave easily?"
Yun Jiuxiao's body trembled when he heard this, and he frowned and looked at Zhao Tong: "What do you want?"
Zhao Tong said: "Put down your weapons and capture them without any effort, otherwise... a volley of arrows will be fired, regardless of life or death!"
"You!" Yun Jiuxiao stared at Zhao Tong: "Shuzi... how dare you!"
Zhao Tong's face was gloomy, and he suddenly had murderous intentions at this moment, and sneered: "What did the old man say? In the whole world, is it the land of the king? Is it the land of the king? Is it the minister of the king? It is still the world of the Song Dynasty. How can you be allowed to be rebellious and rampant? !”
He said that he was about to lower his hand, but when he saw Yun Jiuxiao move, he rushed straight towards the garden gate. Apparently he had the idea of capturing the king. If he didn't want to surrender, then catching Zhao Tong was the only way to break the situation.
Zhao Tong had expected that he would do this, but he had no intention of fighting him. He led everyone back, and the bloody vanguard behind him came forward. They also held crossbows and fired a hail of arrows. go out.
Yun Jiuxiao saw that the situation was not good, his idea failed, and he hurriedly retreated, but at this moment, arrows were also coming from behind. A sword appeared in his hand, and he shouted loudly while firing the arrows: "Stop, I will surrender if I want !”
Zhao Tong narrowed his eyes and signaled the crossbowman to stop, but as soon as this round of crossbow arrows was fired, the man in the field was already injured, with two arrows hitting his shoulder and ribs.
The woman's face was pale. If she hadn't just fallen down without caring about her face, she might have been shot into a hedgehog.
At this time Du Bo shouted: "Put down your weapons!"
Yun Jiuxiao gritted his teeth and looked at the male and female disciples: "Let them all go!"
Seeing the three of them throw away their weapons, Du Bo said again: "Tie them up for me!"
The three men were immediately tied up by the soldiers, with their shoulders and backs wiped. The old man closed his eyes and said nothing. The man's face turned pale, but the woman still wanted to speak, but looking at the crossbow-raising warriors around her, fear flashed in her eyes.
Zhao Tong glanced at the three of them: "Slap your mouth!"
Ding Da Xie, Wu Song and Du Bo stepped forward and slapped her in the face. Ding Da Xie hit the woman in yellow shirt and cursed at the same time: "Vicious village girl, do you still want to talk freely?"
The woman's mouth was so red and swollen that she couldn't speak at all. Then Ding Xie slapped her a few more times, knocking out all her teeth. Her cheeks shrank immediately, making her look like a toothless old woman in her fifties or sixties.
Zhao Tong watched for a moment, and then he told him to stop when all three of them were in the shape of pig heads. He was thinking about whether to kill or not to kill. He wanted to kill, but he was afraid that it would be difficult for Zhou Dong to explain to him in the future.
Zhou Tong didn't talk about his master's affairs, leaving these disciples room for maneuver. It would be unreasonable for him to directly kill them all.
But even if it is not easy to kill, it will never make it easier for a few people. After thinking about it, he asked someone to bring Xiao Yunfei over from prison. The four of them knelt on the ground together. Zhao Tong said: "What kind of collusion did you have with the traitor Zhu Meng?" , if you don’t recruit them from the ground, you’ll have your head chopped off!”
The three disciples all looked at Yun Jiuxiao with anxious expressions. They didn't know what the relationship between Yun Jiuxiao and the Zhu family was, so they actually sent Xiao Yunfei to protect Zhu Ruli.
At this time, Yun Jiuxiao's face was swollen and the corners of his mouth were bleeding. He reluctantly said: "I don't know Zhu Meng. I just know Zhu Ruli. That year, I traveled to the East China Sea. When I got excited, I was practicing martial arts on the coast. He happened to pass by and kept cheering. He wanted to become my disciple, but I saw that he was nearly 20 years old, and his bones and muscles had long been formed, and he could no longer practice martial arts, so he rejected him. Unexpectedly, not only was he not annoyed, he even... gave him a gift. I gave you ten gold leaves."
Zhao Tong frowned when he heard this, and the three disciples also looked surprised.
Yun Jiuxiao continued: "Then he asked for my residence and said he would visit when he was free, even if he wanted to learn a little bit. Seeing that he was generous, I told him that he sent someone to send five thousand taels of silver a while ago, saying that it was If you want to seek protection from a person with strong martial arts skills, I just... let Yun Fei pass."
Zhao Tong sneered when he heard this and said: "You don't know what kind of family the Zhu family is? Open your mouth to teach me, shut up my sect. For a mere five thousand taels of silver, you betrayed my sect's character and martial arts. You are the one who really insulted my sect." This guy is right!"
Xiao Yunfei looked at Yun Jiuxiao at this time with an expression of disbelief. Unexpectedly, Yun Jiuxiao asked him to protect Zhu Ruli because of money.
Zhao Tong looked at a few of them and felt really upset. They were not easy to kill and there was no use in locking them up. After thinking for a moment, he said coldly: "Hit each of them with fifty killing sticks and throw them out of the city."
Ordinary people can be beaten to death with ten kills with a powerful stick. As for the four of them who are now warriors, they should be beaten more. If they die, it will be considered unlucky.
After a beating with a stick, the four of them lay motionless on the ground, no different from dead dogs. Then the soldiers dragged them out of the city, while Zhao Tong turned around and returned to the garden.
Then we discussed returning to Tokyo the next day, and ordered our troops to set off on the third day.
Zhao Tong still took the water route and was going to Yangzhou to pick up Zhao Yuannu, Lu Junyi and others.
The army separated outside the city. Tong Guan led his men and horses and walked northward with smoke and dust billowing.
Zhao Tong went to Shuikou to take a boat, boarded the Changkong Haozhi Ningyuan Shenzhou, made waves all the way, led the warships behind, and left in a mighty manner.
(End of chapter)
