Chapter 581 581: Sneaking up the tiger's butt (Part 1) [Please vote]
Qianzhou, Qushan County, Xinggong.
The officials in court uniforms stood tremblingly, with their heads lowered, not daring to raise their heads and look directly at Zheng Qiao. The palace was filled with suffocating terror. 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 were very light, but they fell like a heavy hammer on everyone's heart...
Dong dong dong——
After a long time, Zheng Qiao finally spoke.
He chuckled contemptuously: "I heard that today another force responded to Huang Lie's call and tried to overthrow this throne, right?"
"It's just a mob, nothing to be afraid of. The king will wait for the king's tent. When the enemy comes, they will collapse." The person who said this was a young official with outstanding appearance, but his temperament was a bit sinister, and his words also sounded flattering.
This man was originally a petty official in Qushan County, with little ability, 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 "official house". ", finally not in vain. However, he has no other skills, but he is only good at flattery and flattery. Once he was valued by Zheng Qiao and promoted to a court official, and he was promoted on the spot.
When a person becomes developed, his waist becomes straighter.
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 laughed when he heard this.
"A rabble? Oh, if it is really a rabble, it would be okay. If you lure them with benefits, promise high officials and generous salaries, and make them rich and princes, you can easily recruit them back to the court. However, some of them are The plot is very grand, and his hands and eyes are all over the sky, and he is closely related to the courtiers in the court... 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 it? 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 wealthy and 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 their clansmen are raising troops outside...
The yellow mud is dripping from the crotch, it is either shit or shit.
Do these hostages still want to live well?
Of course it’s hard.
The prison room is extremely tight, single rooms have long been gone, and newcomers can only squeeze into three, four, five, or six-person rooms... The harsh living environment and the butcher's knife that doesn't know when will fall, people with poor psychological endurance They just collapsed 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 sallow, and their original appearance could not be seen.
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.
No surprise——
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 you have a drowning device, but if you don't have one, you can only find a corner to relieve yourself. That smell, tsk.
Coupled with the multi-person cell...
As time goes by, there is no place to stay.
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 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 looked carefully and found out he was a colleague.
The latter has been detained for two or three months.
During this period, he kept making connections to try to get the other party out, but to no avail. In the end, he himself was deeply involved...
He replied with a wry smile: "My second brother is raising troops outside... "
The second brother in his mouth 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 took up 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 all the relatives are safe..."
They are the hostages used by Zheng Qiao to contain each family, and their relatives are the hostages to contain them. Zheng Qiao also knew not to 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, I received the heads of the whole family.
I didn’t even let go of the yellow dog kept at the door.
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 they have tried their best to get him out.
But, he only guessed half of it right.
My wife and children received it, but they did not run away.
It’s not that I don’t want to, but a guest happened to come to my door.
Three people to be precise.
Old, young, green.
The leader, the old man, has white beard and hair. He is dressed simply in Gebu linen clothes. Even Si Yan, the gatekeeper, is richer than him.
But this man’s eyes are bright and clear, and you can tell at a glance that he is anything but ordinary. The woman's tears were still wet when she saw the old man and 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 said Let three people come in.
Si Yan closed the door with a wink.
"Please tell me."
The woman asked the old man to take a seat. The old man did not sit down, 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 and childlike. He was eight or nine years old, but he had cultivated courage, dressed smartly, and was close to a teenager in stature.
Ask the woman: "Do you remember him?"
The woman looked at it carefully and shook her head.
But he said: "It seems 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. Somewhat similar, blood test shows no trace of relatives He made a mistake and was taken back to the Qiu family. However, after being brought back to raise him for a few years, he was found to be different from ordinary people. He had a brain disease and was always as short as a child... He couldn't hide it..."
The maidservant was so panicked 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.
In the end 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 delayed 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.
The woman then remembered.
She met the boy 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 features are slightly longer, they look 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 an insult in front of the old man. I swallowed the words, my eyes filled with disbelief.
The old man avoided talking: "There is a reason for that. 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?"< br>
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It’s time to start a new map plot, take it out for a walk and then stuff it back into the deep mountains and old 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. ,sincere Too expensive... In order to store them, I bought a vacuum grain storage barrel...
(End of this chapter)