A land of plenty, a great place.
There were twenty bows/crossbows in the batch, and Xue Si identified three of them that were coated with huperzine wax. One of the crossbow strings was coated with both huperzin wax and yellow wax. It seems that the yellow wax was used up, so it was painted with huperzine wax. replace.
The cell was full of corpses. Wang An was hunched over, as if he had aged dozens of years in an instant. Zhou Xu stepped on the blood and walked into the cell, looking at the famous spice merchant in Youzhou.
Wang An gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Zhou Xu smiled and said, "Do you think that as long as you don't tell them, their death will be worth it."
"What a good dog that respects his master." Zhou Xu sighed as he thought about the information he saw.
After hearing the last sentence, Wang An slowly raised his head, his chest was like a broken bellows, making a painful sound. His eyes were bloodshot, as if he was crazy. In grief and despair, a mouthful of blood spurted out: " What did you say!?" Impossible, what he does is always secretive, how did Zhou Xu know!
Zhou Xu admired Wang An's ugly appearance. Didn't Wang An kill him without telling him? He felt that as long as he didn't say anything, the deaths of other Wang family members would be meaningful, so let those Wang family members die because of him first, and then tell him that everything he did was useless.
The smile on Zhou Xu's lips was cold.
Chapter 65 (Revision)
"Wang An, a native of Jixing, was born a merchant. He moved to Xia Shigong Town, Luncheng County, Youzhou 22 years ago and made a fortune in spices." Liu Ren read the information he had collected a few years ago. Months ago, when Tuoba Agu went back to the old king of Yicheng for negotiation and inspection, Lou Hai, the governor of Luncheng County, had already arrested all the Wang family members in Shigong Town and sent them to him, and sent someone to explain clearly. Understand the origin of the Wang family.
Ever since he was found transporting bows/crossbows to Hui Yi, Wang An has been controlled in this cell. He is a tough talker, but other members of the Wang family are not as tough as him. When the torture started, he almost even confessed to the eighteenth generation of his ancestors. .
However, Wang An was very cunning. Only one of his old housekeepers was involved in this matter. Not long after the old housekeeper was arrested, he hit the wall and committed suicide. The other Wang family members said that this housekeeper was an old accountant whom Wang An rescued when he went out to rescue him. They saw that he had no children. Wunu took her with him, and after working in their Wang family for more than ten years, she became Wang An's right-hand man.
After the death of the old housekeeper, it became harder and harder to pry open Wang An's mouth. For a while, Liu Ren had a strong murderous intention towards him. After staying in the palace for a long time, his scholarly heart became tainted with some arrogance.
Liu Ren continued: "I learned from other members of the Wang family that you moved to Shigong Town with your family members because your parents died and your brother separated. Your brother is still in Jixing County."
"But don't worry, your brother is on his way to be reunited with you." Liu Ren knelt down and looked at Wang An who had climbed to the fence. He really responded to what he had done and said that even a thousand cuts would not be enough. Vent his anger!
"Your eldest son confessed that there was actually another reason why you moved to Shigong. He was kicked out by a local scholar in Jixing, and he left Jixing only after being hit by the death of his parents."
Liu Ren patted his white robe, stood up and looked at Wang An in the blood: "And that great scholar is the deceased Jixing Liangqiu, known as a famous scholar in Qiushan."
Wang's eyes widened, and the prison uniform on his body was stained with blood and smelled slovenly. He grabbed the fence and shook it hard: "He thought I was a businessman and a cheap man, and he insulted me many times and kicked me out. Is such a great scholar worthy of being a celebrity? ?”
Zhou Xu looked at Wang An who was performing and patted his face with a black whip: "Why are you so anxious? Are you so anxious just now?"
Wang An looked at Zhou Xu who was like a ghost, and then looked at the corpses with rolling heads next to him, and suddenly burst into laughter: "Zhou Xu, you must not die well, you must not die well, you will be punished one day!"
Zhou Xu smiled, grabbed his hair and lifted him up: "Qiushan layman once had a beloved daughter. I heard that she once fell in love with a merchant, but she was forced to separate from him, right?"
"In this way, what I think is simpler." Zhou Xu said with a smile: "It should not only be about respecting teachers, huh? There may also be personal relationships between children."
An old woman wearing prison uniform was brought over from the women's prison by General Shi. Beside her, Zhou Xuan and Zhou Lingzhi held the Wang family's daughter and her two young children in their hands.
Wang's body was trembling as if shaking, his eyes were wide open, he was gasping for air, and he was speechless.
The old woman knelt down and covered her daughter's young children almost as soon as she entered the cell. Seeing the scene in the cell, the Wang family's daughter rolled her eyes and fell limply to the ground.
"Wang Lin has something to say. As long as you say it, I can spare your daughter for the sake of their ignorance." Zhou Xu sat on the chair and took a sip of tea.
The old woman glanced at Wang An in the prison, and there was a hint of coldness in the corners of her mouth. She pulled off the cloth to cover the eyes of her grandson and granddaughter, and then she said: "A commoner woman was originally the daughter of a poor scholar. Back then, When Wang An asked to marry me, my father thought that a pie from heaven had fallen on my head. Although Wang An was older and had some eldest sons in the family, at least he had plenty of money, so he would not have to worry about eating and drinking when he married, and he would become a rich wife. That’s it.”
"Bitch! Bitch!" Wang An rushed to the fence like crazy, wanting to strangle this bitch to death: "Shut up!"
The woman glanced at her husband with contempt: "A few years after marrying Wang An, he once had a drunken marriage with me and gave birth to my daughter. The other children are not mine. Wang An was in the early years. There are many women with the same appearance gathered in Ji Xinghou's house, and the children they gave birth to live better than my daughter."
"Later I found out that my husband was an infatuated man. When he was young, he studied in Qiushan Mingshi, and later fell in love with his beloved daughter. Unfortunately, the daughter of Qiushan Mingshi eventually married a high official in Chang'an. This matter has already been Twenty or thirty years later, only a handful of insiders from the older generation in Jixing County knew about it." The old woman looked at the furious Wang An, feeling a sense of pleasure after revenge: "Originally, I didn't care, even if you, Wang An, are here. Shi Gong eats and drinks well, but it doesn't matter if I live alone in Jixing."
When the woman saw her daughter who had fainted on the ground, tears welled up in her cloudy eyes. It was not until this moment that she realized how much she hated him: "But why do you treat my little girl like that? When you Rou Niang married Colonel Gu Chang, and I thought you finally remembered that Rou Niang is your daughter."
The woman suddenly stepped forward and slapped Wang An three or four times, wishing to eat his flesh and blood: "But it's good for you. After my daughter got married for only a few years and had nothing to do, she just gave him Hu Ji's concubine. Have you ever thought about Rou Niang?" How are you feeling? You madman, I think you are the one who deserves to die the most among the Wang family."
"I wonder why you please your son-in-law so much. You regard Rou Niang as your stepping stone to pave the way for you. Wang An, why don't you die? Die! Die!"
The woman beat Wang An crazily, causing Wang An's mouth and nose to bleed. Wang An's eyes darkened at the woman he looked down on: "I'll kill you!"
Tuoba Gu separated the two of them, asked the old woman to calm down, and slapped Wang An to calm down.
The old woman wiped away her tears and curtsied to Lord Jiedushi: "Mr. Jiedushi is joking. The woman Wang An liked back then was named Liang Li. She was a famous and talented woman who married the minister of the Ministry of Industry in Chang'an. "
Zhou Xu had peace of mind. He smiled calmly and said, "Your daughter will not be implicated."
"Thank you for your kindness, sir." The old woman bowed deeply, and she was almost in tears when she received the promise from Lord Jiedushi.
Zhou Xu walked out of the cell door without even looking at Wang An, who was collapsed in the blood.
"How could I marry such a stupid woman like you?" Wang An fell to the ground, his eyes bleeding, laughing and crying: "You actually thanked him for his kindness, do you know what you are doing! Wait! In the future, when more people die because of you, a stupid woman, you will realize how big a mistake you made today!" He clapped his hands and threw them to the ground, and the headless corpses in the room seemed to come to life in front of his eyes. Wandering around, it turned into a scene where they knelt down and begged him. Are they dead?
"Madman!" The old woman spat on him, sneered, and left with her daughter.
Wang An felt as if his brain was exploding in pain. His beloved woman begged him with tears. His dead mentor kept looking in the direction of Youzhou. Before he died, he asked him to pay attention to Zhou Xu, a traitor!
Rebel! Rebel!
Wang An spurted out a mouthful of blood, and the layout of more than ten years was destroyed in one fell swoop. The general trend of Youzhou was established. If it is not stopped, the Central Plains will fall in the future, but one person, one hundred and ten thousand people will die? No, that’s tens of thousands of people!
Only balancing constraints is the only way to get something out of the fire! Let the grassland aliens and the Youzhou cavalry get entangled together, making them both lose, and the court can take a breather. What does the mere sacrifice mean now!
Wang An looked at the corpses lying beside him, holding them in an extremely crazy manner, laughing hoarsely.
The cell was filled with his crazy laughter.
Liu Ren followed the others and walked behind Lord Jiedushi, carefully observing Lord Jiedushi's face. Outside the prison was a jailer holding a torch. Under the firelight, Lord Jiedushi's face was very calm.
Liu Ren wiped the blood that he accidentally got on his hands, feeling indescribably angry and sad. After hearing what the old woman said, it would be an exaggeration to say that he was furious. In the early years, Youzhou was not that powerful. At that time, almost relying on human lives to withstand the impact of foreign cavalry for the Central Plains, we have only lived a good life for a few years. Have those people forgotten what kind of life they lived before?
At first, the Turks plundered a large number of their livestock and people. Many of the refugees in Gu Chang were snatched back from the Turks by the Jiedushi Master. Many of them were descendants of the Central Plains and Turks. The Turkic aliens treated them with no mercy. human nature! Later massacres were even more commonplace! He and Master Jieduzhi thought that there must be Turks behind those bastards in Huiyi!
Liu Ren wiped away his tears with his sleeves in embarrassment and cursed: "Fuck his father!"
Zhou Xuan and Zhou Lingzhi both looked cold and murderous. General Shi also had a murderous look on his face. Tuoba Agu wiped the blood off his hands and held his knife.
"Xiaoguan Gao Fei pays homage to Lord Jiedushi." A middle-aged military attache strode forward and bowed with his fists clasped. Behind him were several cavalrymen wearing heavy armor, all clasping their hands and clasping their fists.
Gao Fei then bowed to Liu Ren: "Hello, Mr. Liu."
Liu Ren also bowed politely to the newly appointed Captain Gu Hao: "Hello, Mr. Gao."
Zhou Xu lifted the person up and said, "We are all acquaintances, let's go into the hall to discuss matters."
The central hall was brightly lit all night, and it was not until the beginning of the Mao period that everyone dispersed.
Cui Shizi coughed. He put a blanket on his knees and a big cloak. He took a sip of tea and felt the bitterness of the tea leaves. He coughed and said to the lord who stood with his hands behind his back: "The imperial court is sitting. It's really a good calculation to reap the benefits from the rear."
He didn't hear the lord's answer, so he looked up and found that the lord was looking at the sky with no expression. The wind blew through his temples, and there were only two or three frost-colored thorns in his eyes.
Cui Shizi paused while drinking tea. After his lord left, he looked at the map in front of him, coughed violently, and his eyes turned red.
The tea has gone cold, but the hatred is hard to eliminate.
Xiao Luolan was sleeping in a daze when she suddenly felt someone beside her. She woke up suddenly. There was no candlelight in the room. Xiao Luolan looked at the black shadow beside the bed and thought that Sect Leader Zhou was also so scary when she was in Langge. Her mind was at peace.
"You're back." She looked outside with a dark look.
The tall shadow did not speak. Xiao Luolan sat up from the bed and smelled the strong smell of blood. A big hand suddenly held her hand. Xiao Luolan felt the rough palm of Master Zhou. Before she spoke, she felt Sect Master Zhou came up.
Xiao Luolan thought she was going to do that thing again, so she shrank in fear, and then she was hugged by the man, so tight that she couldn't breathe, as if he wanted to melt her into his body.
In the darkness, only the sound of their breathing blended together.
Xiao Luolan hesitated for a while, then hugged him gently. Because she often did this to her daughter, she patted him habitually. Then she realized something was wrong and stopped with a blush on her face.
Zhou Xu noticed his wife's movements and suddenly laughed.
Seeing him laughing, Xiao Luolan paused for a while, and then patted him gently again, silently comforting her. She felt that Sect Leader Zhou was a little abnormal today, and his mood seemed not good, or very bad.
Zhou Xu felt the lady's gentle movements, buried his head in her neck, and smelled the fragrance of her body. The bloodthirsty violence suppressed in his heart made him breathe heavily, and then slowly calmed down.
He touched his wife's face and finally couldn't help but kiss her. This was his wife.
Chapter 66 Happy Children’s Day, babies~ (plot chapter)
Langge.
Xiao Qingxue got on her horse, her ponytail erected high and swinging in a perfect arc in the air. Her beautiful face was as white as porcelain in the sun, and her face was slightly flushed by the sun. She wiped it and wiped it. The long black whip was wrapped twice around the leather belt around his waist, and a pink sachet hung dangling on the handle of the whip.
The girl is wearing a red round-neck robe and a white jade crown. She looks heroic and bright. The effects of physical exercise in recent months have initially shown results. She looks full of vitality. Her slender calves are wrapped in black riding boots and her back is straight. straight.
"Jiang Da, let's go."
Xiao Qingxue said to a middle-aged man riding a horse.
"Young master, have you returned home so early today? Why don't you play outside for a while?" Jiang Da rode with his young master. There were fifty cavalry servants behind him, and dozens of people followed behind him, riding on the big horse. The horses carry arrows and hold swords, and their bodies are sturdy. They are all first-rate brave men in the army.
Xiao Qingxue looked at the sky in the distance. It was already over September. Why hasn't Snow Eagle arrived yet? Grandma’s letter said that they are still staying in Guchao City. Brother seems to have been busy in recent days, and he doesn’t know what happened in Guchao City.
"No more fun." Xiao Qingxue was worried about her mother's affairs, and while answering Jiang Da's words, she took people back to her house. Jiang Da was the little leader who was later sent to her by Sect Master Zhou to have 500 people. His name was Jiang Dashou. According to what he said, he had a loud voice when he was born, and his father got it for him. The name was very distinctive, and Xiao Qingxue remembered it immediately. Later, General Jiang's previous 100 people were also included in the next 500 people.
In other words, she now has 600 people in her hands.
It doesn't sound like much, but once the people arrived in Xiao Qingxue's hands, she looked at the dark group of people and felt that the psychological pressure was so great. She didn't know how to teach them training and didn't know how to arrange them. Later, it was Jiang Da who arranged those people. Of the six hundred people, about fifty were left for protection, and the rest were scattered in a large manor owned by Xiao Qingxue. Her Nanshan Racecourse happened to be close to Nanshan Manor.
Xiao Qingxue went to see it and said it was a manor, but in her opinion it was equivalent to a small town. Her subordinates lived in it. Because she didn't know how to train them, Jiang Da came to train them, and Xiao Qingxue also I learned a lot from following him.
Although Jiang Da is a rough man, he is very good at observing people's emotions. Seeing that the young master was in a bad mood, he tentatively suggested: "Would you like to go to Nanshan Manor?"
Xiao Qingxue reined in the reins.
Jiang laughed and said: "My dear master, you added a lot of oil and water to our meals last month. Everyone is very grateful to you. This month, the boys have practiced even more diligently. You can see the results."
Xiao Qingxue didn't understand their formation, but they were her personal club now. As the boss, she really should communicate with them more. She didn't say anything about her heart and soul, but she always wanted to make the six hundred people remember her. Yes.
"Then let's go to Nanshan Manor." Xiao Qingxue chose a spacious place to turn the horse's head to the Nanshan Racecourse, followed by dozens of people, walking through the bustling streets, and the Langge people gradually got used to their quiet atmosphere. The state has a little master.
The young mistress brought here by the new mistress likes to wander around Lange when he has nothing to do. He is willing to help others and is kind to others. Several ladies in the neighborhood saw that the little girl's cheeks were flushed with heat, and they boldly handed some fruits to them. give her.
Xiao Qingxue took it and thanked them with a smile.
Jiang Da looked at the fruits and put them in a cloth bag. Then he glanced at a dark-skinned military man in the team. The man smirked. When he was far away, he looked back. One of the people who had just handed the fruits was His newly married wife even smiled at him.
"You guys eat." Xiao Qingxue asked them to share.
"Thank you, young master."
Xiao Qingxue rubbed her ears. The loud sound made by dozens of strong men was like thunder on a sunny day.
