Back Off, Let Me Come

Qianzhou, Qushan County, Xinggong.

The officials in court uniforms stood tremblingly, with their heads lowered, not daring to raise their heads to look directly at Zheng Qiao. The palace was filled with suffocating terror and chill. Above, Zheng Qiao is holding a gold and jade-encrusted luxurious Ruyi in his right hand, tapping the palm of his left hand repeatedly, and pacing back and forth. His steps are light, but they fall on everyone's heart like a heavy hammer...

Dong dong dong——

After a long time, Zheng Qiao finally spoke.

He chuckled contemptuously: "I heard that another force responded to Huang Lie's call today and tried to overthrow this throne, right?"

"They are just a mob, nothing to be afraid of. When the king's master comes and kills them, they will collapse." The person who said this was a young official with outstanding appearance, but his temperament was a bit evil, and his words were also like The stock smells flattering.

This man was originally a petty official in Qushan County and had no skills, but he couldn't help but eat well. After marrying into his wife, he coaxed his wife, and through his wife, he coaxed his parents-in-law to buy him an "officer". After all, he was not in vain. However, he has no other skills, but he is only good at flattery and flattery. Once Zheng Qiao valued him, he was promoted to a court official, and he was promoted on the spot.

When a person becomes developed, his waist becomes straighter.

Even the maids of the first house dared to get involved with three or five of them.

Only when facing Zheng Qiao, he still looked flattering and respectful.

Zheng Qiao heard this and laughed.

"A rabble? Oh, if it is really a rabble, it's not bad. If you lure them with benefits, promise high officials and generous salaries, and make them rich and princes, they can be easily recruited back to the court. However, some of them have big plans, and their hands and eyes are astute. There are also heads and tails with the courtiers in the DPRK... This makes me a little troubled... Is there something I can't do to the courtiers?"

Everyone was still silent.

This is a proposition! Can they say that Zheng Qiao's regrets to them are unforgivable? Can? After saying that, everyone’s head fell to the ground!

Someone secretly broke into a cold sweat.

Because they are courtiers with "head and tail".

Except for Huang Lie who rose up, most of the forces who responded to the Dragon Slaying Bureau were powerful families. And the terrible thing is - after Zheng Qiao came to power, he was very strict on this matter. The children of each family who already had official status were directly retained as court officials and refused to be released easily; those who did not have official status were given a false title and placed under their noses. In other words, they are all hostages.

Some of them are even family heads or legitimate heirs, and members of the same clan are raising troops abroad...

The yellow mud falls off the crotch, it is either shit or shit.

Do these hostages still want to live well?

Of course it’s not going to be easy.

The prison room is extremely tight, single rooms have long been gone, and newcomers can only squeeze into rooms with three, four, five, or six people... The harsh living environment and the butcher's knife that doesn't know when it will fall, make people with poor mental endurance collapse on the spot... After a few days, they looked haggard and dark-faced. Those who had been in jail for the longest time were even more skinny and yellow-skinned, and their original appearance was hard to see.

Zheng Qiao asked this, which meant that another unlucky guy was going to jail. Everyone looked sympathetically at the middle-aged court official who was in his thirties or forties and had a pale face. The official uniform on the other party showed that he had a high official position, but this clothes did not give him the slightest sense of security.

Not surprisingly--

He was also thrown into jail.

The further inside the prison, the darker the vision becomes, and the air is filled with an unspeakable stench. All physiological needs of prisoners are met in small cells. It's okay if there is a device for drowning, but if not, you can only find a corner to relieve yourself in place. That smell, tsk.

Plus multi-person cells…

As time went by, there was no place to start.

The living environment is harsh. From time to time, prisoners are taken to the prison for torture, acupuncture, whipping, and even water prison, and each time they have to peel off a layer of their skin. If Zheng Qiao had not allowed the use of capital punishment, they would have perished long ago.

The middle-aged court official was pushed in.

Almost stumbled and fell.

In the darkness, a familiar voice sounded.

"Why did you come in too?"

The middle-aged court official found out he was a colleague after careful identification.

The latter has been detained for two or three months.

During this period, he kept making connections to try to fish the other party out, but to no avail. In the end, he even got himself deeply involved...

He smiled bitterly and replied: "Second brother is raising troops outside..."

The second brother he refers to is a biological brother from the same father and mother. Because he was adopted to the eldest family, the two of them are only cousins ​​in the genealogy. As the direct descendant of the eldest family, he occupied all the family resources and aroused the jealousy of the second brother. This led to a bad relationship between the two brothers. However, he did not expect that the other party would do anything. Knowing that he was in the hands of Zheng Qiao as a hostage, he still joined Huang Lie in a high-profile manner. team.

Colleagues sighed upon hearing this.

He comforted and said, "It's good that your family members are all well..."

They are the hostages used by Zheng Qiao to restrain each family, and their relatives are the hostages to restrain them. Zheng Qiao also knew that he should not push people too hard, and would not kill their family members under normal circumstances. Of course, there are also people who do not believe in evil.

As a result, the whole family received their heads.

Even the yellow dog kept at the door was not spared.

The court official hid his face in shame: "I am useless..."

Not surprisingly, his wife and children should have received the bad news that he was imprisoned by now, and have tried their best to get him out.

But, he was only half right.

My wife and children received it, but did not run away.

It's not that I don't want to, but a guest happened to come to visit.

Three people to be precise.

Old, young, green.

The leader of the old man has white beard and hair. He is dressed simply in Gebu linen. Even the gatekeeper, Si Yan, is richer than him.

But this man's eyes were bright and clear, and you could tell at a glance that he was anything but ordinary. The woman's tears were still wet. When she saw the old man, she almost blurted out the greeting, but was interrupted by the other party: "Mrs. Qiu, I won't say much else. I'm here today to ask for something."

Hearing this, the woman hurriedly let the three people in.

Si Yan closed the door with a wink.

"Please tell me."

The woman invited the old man to take a seat. The old man did not take the seat, but patted the young man who was already as tall as her shoulders. Calling him a young man was an exaggeration. His face looked childish, as if he was eight or nine years old, but he was brave in training and dressed up smartly. , and his stature is close to that of a teenager.

Asked the woman, "Do you remember him?"

The woman looked at it carefully and shook her head.

But then he said: "It looks familiar..."

The old man reminded her: "The parents of the previous generation of the Qiu family were married for more than ten years but had no heirs. There was a maid who had served him and lied that she had given birth to a son for him and raised him among the people. Coincidentally, the child looked similar to the parents of the Qiu family. They were somewhat similar, and the blood test was correct, so they were brought back to the Qiu family. However, after being brought back and raised for a few years, the child was found to be different from ordinary people. He had a brain disease and was always as short as a toddler... In the end, it was hidden Can’t stop…”

The maid was so frightened that she had to tell the truth.

The child was a street child she picked up on the street. His appearance was strange, and he was somewhat similar to the parents of the Qiu family. This discovery gave her a bold idea to change the situation!

However, paper can never cover the fire.

Eventually the child was left to fend for himself in the countryside.

Name, feast.

The parents of the Qiu family are getting older and older, but the problem of heirs has never been solved, and it has been postponed to the point where it has to be solved. He had no choice but to adopt his brother's eldest son, the unlucky one who was thrown into prison above.

Only then did the woman remember.

She met the young man when she got married.

When he was a child, he still had a slight resemblance to his late father-in-law, but now that his facial features are slightly longer, he looks nothing like him at all. Her cheeks are slightly baby-fat, her eyes are clear and clear, not worldly at all, and it can be seen that she is still a little ignorant.

He stood obediently next to the old man, like a silent porcelain doll, but he couldn't help but look curiously at the unfamiliar environment.

"C-could it be that he is that young man? But he is not a weirdo who cannot grow up..." The woman was so shocked that she almost uttered rude words in front of the old man. She swallowed back the rest of her words, her eyes It's filled with disbelief.

The old man avoided talking: "There is a reason. I can't say more now. I came here this time to ask if the things he wore back then are still in the house? Can they be found?"

(￣_,￣)

It's time to open a new map plot, take it out for a walk and then stuff it back into the mountains and forests.

PS: This is the tenth Double Eleven that Shiitake has spent in Yuewen, right? It’s the season of shopping again, and Yuewen Baba has paid the royalties in advance as usual. Apart from the orders for the mushroom backstage, apart from the future daughter’s, the only two remaining cat owners, Yingying and Miaomiao, have two 5.4kg packages of eager chicken and cat food. , it’s really too expensive... In order to store them, I bought a vacuum grain storage barrel...