The third gangster felt a lot of pain in the back of his neck. He gradually woke up and remembered that before he fell into coma, a grandson gave him a sap!
He opened his eyes and found that he was tied up in an empty courtyard, and the followers he brought were lying around in a daze.
At this moment, two guards with stern expressions came out of the house in the courtyard. As soon as they saw them, the three gangsters immediately started shouting.
"You guys, how can you do a sneak attack? Let go of my hand and have a good fight! You are really tired of living. Don't you know my reputation? The Chengzhou County Sheriff is my uncle's third grandfather! If you mess with me, It’s time for you to survive.”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a tall figure walking out of the door with leisurely steps.
As soon as he saw the other party's face, the three bastards were stunned.
The man had sword-shaped eyebrows and thin eyes, and a stern face with a slightly raised chin, revealing the scorn and murderousness that only a superior person could show.
The way he looked at the three gangsters was like looking at an ant.
"Who the hell are you?" Why didn't he remember that he had offended this person?
Xiao Langyan narrowed his eyes and turned to ask Chen Heng: "Did he say that in the yard that he wanted to marry her?"
Chen Heng nodded. When the three gangsters were making trouble, he was listening behind the eaves. When he came back, he told Xiao Langyan exactly what he said.
Xiao Langyan looked at the three bastards again, with a murderous aura in his thin eyes that was particularly terrifying.
The three bastards reacted: "Who are you to that beautiful lady?"
Xiao Langyan waved expressionlessly, and Chen Heng and another guard immediately stepped forward and put the three gangsters into the sack again.
"What on earth do you want to do! Let me go immediately! Damn it, I can't kill you when I get out!" The three bastards were still shouting.
Until he was forced to raise his head from the sack and saw Xiao Langyan standing next to him, looking down at him as if condescendingly. That look actually made the three bastards feel creepy.
"She is my wife, what do you want me to do?" After saying that, Xiao Langyan threw the string of hanging whips into the sack.
Before the three bastards could react, Xiao Langyan had already turned cold and lit the fire line very quickly, and Chen Heng quickly sealed the sack.
In two seconds, the roaring and crackling sound of firecrackers came from the sack, and the smoke continued to float out along with the aroma of burnt meat.
The voice of the three bastards also gradually changed from yelling to screams that became more and more miserable.
He cried and begged for mercy, saying incoherently: "I was wrong! I didn't know she had a husband, oh! Please spare me!"
Xiao Langyan took the handkerchief from Chen Heng and wiped his slender knuckles.
He lowered his eyes and asked casually: "Is Xu Huaisong back?"
"No, the fire I set in his warehouse should be enough for him to be busy for a while." Chen Heng replied.
Xiao Langyan pursed his thin lips into a sarcastic sneer.
"Businessmen value profits, and Xu Huaisong is even better. I thought he would ignore the family fortune and stay by her side to be courteous." He refused to even say these three words Shen Dingzhu.
Xiao Langyan's face was calm and stern, and his sharp thin eyes were like the shadow of a knife in the dark night.
He looked at the clouds in the sky and suddenly changed his mind: "She delayed this bastard until the first day of the new year. She must want to report it to the official. If we don't wait here, let's go see the Chengzhou County Sheriff."
Chen Heng paused and understood immediately.
The emperor wanted to just sit back and wait, but he didn't know what the empress would think when she entered the palace and saw the emperor sitting in the high hall.
Chen Heng felt frustrated.
If he had known this, why would the emperor have reserved the small courtyard next to the Shi family and still stood under the wall, listening to the queen talking there.
Chen Heng didn't understand, he just felt that the emperor was brewing a storm.
When Xiao Langyan walked to the door, the firecrackers in the sack behind him had stopped. A thousand explosions made the three gangsters moan miserably.
He frowned, feeling noisy, and subconsciously glanced at the Shi family's yard next to him.
Xiao Langyan smoothly pulled out Chen Heng's sword without looking back, as if he threw it back casually.
The long sword whirled in the air, and then was inserted into the sack accurately.
The three bastards suddenly fell silent.
After a moment, a meandering stream of blood flowed out of the sack.
Xiao Langyan left with his hands behind his hands and gave a cold instruction: "Dispose of the body and wipe away the blood."
"Yes." Chen Heng blew a whistle, and several secret guards quietly fell into the yard.
next door.
Shen Dingzhu had just made hot tea for Mr. Shi when she heard the crackling of firecrackers in the courtyard next to her. The noise made her brain hurt, so she closed the window directly.
Mr. Shi was lying on the couch, his old face looking haggard and restless.
He was always smiling, but now he couldn't help but his eyes were red and his voice was crying.
"When I was young, I used my two daughters' marriages as bargaining chips for the sake of business turnover. It's all my fault, it's all my fault!"
Shen Dingzhu sat aside and listened quietly to him talking about the past.
It turned out that what Mr. Shi had been unwilling to mention was this past event.
When he was young, he really wanted to expand the antique calligraphy and painting business, but he was unlucky. He bought several ancient paintings, but they were all fakes, and the swindler had long since escaped.
In order to fill the cash hole in the store, he started thinking about getting his daughters married. It happened that both of his daughters were of marriageable age.
It is said that marriage is the order of the parents and the matchmaker. The two daughters are completely at the mercy of their father's arrangements. Therefore, Mr. Shi always chooses the richest husband's family for them.
As a result, his eldest daughter was married to Nanzhou, and his younger daughter lived in another county in Chengzhou. However, she married a bastard gambler.
Before the youngest daughter got married, she had begged him hard. Her husband was a famous gambler throughout Chengzhou. If she married him, you can imagine what kind of life it would be like.
But Mr. Shi had just encountered cash flow problems at that time. He was in urgent need of a large sum of money, otherwise he would have to sell off the family property that he had finally accumulated.
After all kinds of tangles, he still persuaded his youngest daughter to get married.
So for so many years, his two daughters stopped contacting him after they got married.
Shen Dingzhu was stunned when he heard this, and understood why they hated their father, because he had personally pushed them into the fire pit.
In this regard, Shen Dingzhu felt that Mr. Shi did something wrong. His old age was miserable, but it was also a punishment.
As a result, her charming face turned gloomy, and she could only sigh helplessly.
Mr. Shi waved his hands up and down: "Azhu, let's go. That bastard will definitely come back. Don't let him harm you."
Shen Dingzhu poured the hot tea for him: "I'm going to report to the official tomorrow. Uncle Ren, we can't just let this matter go. Again, no matter what, the best way is to let your daughter Get out of that fire pit.”
Mr. Shi doesn't know this truth, but the family of the three gangsters is quite powerful in Chengzhou. What can they, an old man and a weak and pregnant woman, do?
After Shen Dingzhu returned to her room, she sat at the table and pondered. Her cheeks were white and warm, and the brazier next to her made her whole body warm.
She knew that she had no power now, and even if she went to the government to report her case, it would probably be nothing in the end.
So she took out a piece of paper, picked up a pen and thought about it, wondering who in Beijing could help with this.
In fact, the first person she thought of was Xiao Langyan, but she gave up this idea in an instant. After she left, he didn't look for her again. He must have been heartbroken by her and extremely disappointed in her.
How could she have the nerve to ask him for help again.
So Shen Dingzhu picked up a pen and wrote a letter to her eldest brother in Beijing. This place is close to the capital. Her eldest brother Shen Lan is a respected soldier in the court. There should be connections to solve this matter.
However, halfway through the letter, she put down the pen again.
Wouldn't eldest brother blame her? When she left so resolutely, her elder brother had obviously advised her.
Shen Dingzhu pressed her eyebrows in distress, rolled up the paper into a ball and threw it away.
It would be better for her to go to the government and report to the government herself first.
On the other side, Xiao Langyan was also waiting at the government office under the arrangement of the county guard.
The usually idle yamen was secretly replaced by many of the emperor's personal guards, and ordinary trivial matters were found in the yamen. The common people felt that they were not coming to the yamen, but to the prison gate of Dali Temple in the capital.
The atmosphere in the official residence was majestic, completely different from usual.
Xiao Langyan sat behind the screen drinking tea and reading a book and waited for two days.
The chief clerk, who had been sitting outside for the past two days and was in charge of hearing the case, was restless every day. A big shot sat behind him, watching him hear the case, but said nothing.
The governor's heart was in his throat. He was thinking, is this how the emperor came to inspect his political achievements during a private visit incognito?
Until New Year's Eve.
The chief clerk stayed with me until noon, but no one came to beat the drum and complain.
The county guard couldn't help but stand up, and said to the gloomy Xiao Langyan: "Your Majesty, today is the New Year's Eve, and the common people of Li want to seek good fortune in the coming year, and generally they will not come to the government at this time. You see, you want to don't want……"
Just when the county governor was about to invite the emperor to his home to spend New Year's Eve, Xiao Langyan suddenly stood up.
"Go and have a look." He said coldly and left with long strides.
This sentence was said to Chen Heng. Chen Heng understood that the emperor couldn't sit still anymore and wanted to see why the queen didn't come.
