Chapter 543: Saving Your Life
Shen Chuxia sneezed lightly, rubbed her delicate nose, and muttered: " I didn't expect you to give them such a show today, Wei Jing, a man with very scheming methods, when his father was not demoted by the emperor from the sunset, he was already making small moves with the people in the court behind his back, and even brought the old emperor's advice to his father, hoping to turn the Shen family business into a rich and noble imperial businessman who went straight to the sky, and from then on he was loyal to the royal family, and his father rejected his suggestion at that time, that is, this incident became the biggest reason why his father was demoted from the sunset by the old emperor, as I expected, Daddy's depreciation was indirectly caused by Wei Jing, and this hand got rid of Daddy's control over him, and narrowed the relationship with the royal family, maybe he has now become a member of the royal family instead of our Shen family. The firm has no father in charge, and even the eldest mother's voice is not as strong as his. If you humiliate him like this today, sooner or later you will have a head-on conflict with him, some people always say that Daddy is a cunning fox, but in my opinion, Wei Jing is the most dangerous poisonous snake, either you don't make a move, otherwise you will never leave any living mouth. β
"Sister, do you think Wei Jing is likely to make a move on us?" Chu Xianzhao frowned.
Shen Chuxia said softly: "He won't give up." β
The white-haired man in front of her made her curious at first, and then she was tempted, observed, and admired, but now she doesn't understand, even if he is wearing the golden silk toad robe that her father wore when he was young, but in her mind he is still a poor child who has no mother like herself.
Shen Chuxia stood on tiptoe and touched his head, and said softly: "Don't be afraid of them, with me and my eldest lady to figure out a way for you, we will deal with them all." β
Chu Xianzhao smiled happily, "Sixth sister, you say 'we' so heartwarming, but I will find a way to deal with Wei Jing's matter, if I can eradicate this big tumor for our family, it means that I am worthy of the trust of you and the eldest mother, there are not many people in Luoyang City who can hurt me, sixth sister, you have to believe me." β
Shen Chuxia nodded lightly and shook her head again, but after all, she still didn't say anything, feeling that his world seemed to be far away from her, and whenever she wanted to get close to him, she often had no way to start.
Chu Xianzhao said in a deep voice: "For the next thing, we have to clean up and subdivide it, and leave all the people who can stay...... Not only against Wei Jing, but also to see who the people standing behind Wei Jing are, if I want to use a knife against them, presumably they will also jump out against us, so we must be prepared for the changes in the situation, and I will eliminate these people who threaten us one by one!"
"Anyone threatens us...... People?"
Chu Xianzhao said firmly: "Anyone, when Shen Sanqian is away, I promised him that he would protect your family." β
"Anyone...... What if it's the emperor?" Shen Chuxia bit his lip and lowered his head.
"The emperor is not afraid of him. Chu Xianzhao said with great confidence.
Shen Chuxia suddenly couldn't walk, and squatted down tremblingly, burying his face in the crook of his arm.
Chu Xianzhao then squatted down, raised his hand and pressed it on her head, and said gently, "Are you scared?" or are you crying?"
Shen Chuxia stubbornly raised his head and looked at him with teary eyes, "Brother...... You seem to have changed. β
"I may have changed, but I won't die here, even if Lord Yama wants my life, I will take it from him...... Grab it back!" Chu Xuanzhao's voice was extremely soft, as if with rolling wind and thunder.
"You swear. She puffed out her mouth like a child and muttered.
"I swear. Chu Xianzhao raised two fingers and swore solemnly, his tone solemn.
"I don't believe it, unless you put this on. β
Shen Chuxia didn't care about Chu Xianzhao's stunned eyes, and solemnly untied a talisman from his neck, not allowing Chu Xianzhao to refuse to wear it on his neck.
This was the second time she had untied the amulet.
The first time was when my mother was about to die, so she let herself untie it from her neck and tied a slipknot with her own hands.
This time, she untied it with her own hands and put it on Chu Xianzhao's neck, and the red rope was tied in a dead knot.
The slipknot is blessed by life, and the dead knot is solved only by death.
Save your life with your life.
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Wei Jing was in a good mood when he came to Qingfeng, and before he could talk a few words with this illegitimate son who was going to be his master, he was given a dismount that was tantamount to a thunderstorm on a sunny day, and such a surprise attack was also learned from Shen Sanqian's hands?
This bastard doesn't look like his Lao Tzu at all, but the ruthless aura of cold and murderous is very similar to Shen Sanqian when he was young, and there is a trace of unpredictable Xiao Han Wang Qi, where did Shen Sanqian find such an illegitimate son, is it possible that he really wants to play the game of a son of heaven and a courtier for them, and slaughtered one of his subordinates today, maybe he will put a knife on his head tomorrow.
Wei Jing got into the carriage and left Qingfeng Ju with a stomach full of unhappiness, of course he was not a stupid person with high spirits, at first he gave this bastard a dismount, just to see how he would deal with his own behavior, even if he scolded him for being a wild dog too much, but he didn't expect it to attract such a majestic counterattack.
He didn't think that this bastard would stop there, spare himself, and let him tell him the whereabouts of the money and silver within three days, wouldn't this force him to cut off his own head with a knife?
Wei Jing originally wanted to beat him on behalf of the businessmen, and finally a peacemaker would come out and sing a red face, and finally pull him to his side, so as to complete the reform he wanted to carry out on the Shen family firm many years ago, and turn the Shen family firm into an imperial businessman-like existence, supporting the Zhao family royal family from generation to generation, and he can also benefit from the knighthood for generations, it is not an exaggeration to say that everyone is happy.
Even if this kid refuses to talk to himself, as long as Shen Sanqian does not return to Yang City, he will be able to slowly transition the Shen family's industry into his own hands sooner or later, how can a kid who doesn't understand the operation of a businessman be able to fight himself, as a result, he inexplicably caught his own people in Qingfengju and slaughtered them in front of all the businessmen, and reminded them of the matter of life and death.
Wei Jing was in a bad mood with his stomach, and even his thoughts of going to Hanhualou to listen to music tonight disappeared, and the carriage spun around sharply on the official road, and he was now going to the palace to meet someone.
When the eldest lady knew what Chu Xianzhao had done today, she sprayed the fragrant tea brewed from the fine "frost tablets" of one or two thousand gold onto the ground, and it was no longer possible to maintain a calm posture.
At this time, she looked at Chu Xianzhao, who was silent when Shen Chuxia came back, as if she had seen a ghost, and it was really difficult to understand this kind of calm posture of killing her subordinate businessmen in public and not caring about herself.
Today's events are really beyond her imagination, so that she is still calming down.
Chu Xianzhao didn't feel that he had poked any big basket, and after biting a round and full grape, he swallowed it with sweet juice, not even a single seed was spit out, like a snow wolf in the Northern Regions that eats people and does not spit out bones.
The eldest lady didn't hold her breath after all, she raised her hand and patted Chu Xianzhao's head lightly, and when she wanted to shoot it for the second time, she was gently dodged by Chu Xianzhao and grinned at her, and there was a bit of a naughty posture between the two of them getting along with the kind elders.
The eldest lady withdrew her palm, and said in a slightly annoyed tone: "You actually dare to kill people in public in Qingfeng Residence, it really opened my eyes, it seems that you are more suitable for solving problems with a sword rather than a brain."
Chu Xianzhao shook his head and smiled: "Although it is a little sudden, but in the future, they will do things a lot more restrained, don't blame my means, the aunt is all for the sake of the Shen family." β
The eldest lady pouted and said: "For the sake of the Shen family, you are thinking about yourself, this scoundrel has the same temper as the old man when he was young, but the old man will never be as stupid as you to kill people in public, have you ever thought about the consequences of doing this?"
Chu Xianzhao said bluntly: "As a master, I absolutely can't tolerate someone making small moves under my nose, because I can understand their stupidity and greed, but I can't accept their betrayal, the fool can be spared, and the rebel will be killed, this is my principle of doing things." β
The tone in which he spoke now was like a copy of Chu Xiaohua, and he didn't even notice it.
After taking a sip of tea, the frightened eldest lady calmed down and said, "Then you plan to kill a few more merchants, you might as well talk to me." β
Chu instantly threw another grape into his mouth, chewed it and said, "If they are obedient, I won't kill any of them, but I guess they won't stop there, so I'll kill some more people next." β
"If the master knows what you did, aren't you afraid that he will be angry?"
Chu Xianzhao shook his head and smiled, with a little more sincerity in his smile, and said: "If Shen Sanqian knows that after I come back to Luoyang to take his place, I will be bullied by those villains he dislikes and dare not fight back, I am afraid that the person who scolds will only be me, what if I kill Xiao Xuan, I must eradicate these money-moving ghosts for our family, our family doesn't see millions of silver every year, you won't know it, auntie, right?"
The eldest lady sighed secretly, it seemed that he underestimated him by saying that he didn't understand anything about Shangjia, and that he overestimated him by thinking that he would obediently go at his own pace, and from this child's eyes, she could rarely feel the emotions of pretending to hide it, and more of a terrible idea that was as bright as a mirror.
Chu Xianzhao played with the crystal grape and said, "Since you know, why don't you get rid of them?" What's the good thing about keeping Xiao Xuan and Wei Jing as villains, Auntie tell me?"
She rarely raised a smile in front of Chu Xianzhao and Shen Chuxia, and laughed at herself: "It's really not good to keep them, but it's a pity that I'm a woman who can't lift a knife or a sword, except for being able to tolerate everywhere in front of them, what else do you say I can do?"
Chu Xianzhao said solemnly: "You don't have to endure it in the future, the eldest lady can enjoy peace of mind, with me and Chu Xia here, this family can't be messed up." β
The eldest lady nodded lightly, whether it was embezzlement of public funds or arrears of wages and other trivial things, including the dark things that Wei Jing did in private, she also knew that Wei Jing had always been gloomy, Shen Sanqian was pressing him before, plus he had been fighting for many years in the Shen family firm, and he could be regarded as half of the pillar of the Shen family's firm, so she could endure a lot of bad things he had done, and she could endure him to which step Shen Sanqian could endure, and she didn't even mind giving him a chance to enter the house, hoping that he could assist this child well, just like he used to assist Shen Sanqian.
But this child's performance really surprised her, if she didn't scream, she was already a blockbuster, she dared to take Wei Jing's hard bone on the first day, but she didn't borrow a knife to get rid of Wei Jing, it seems that he still covets the secret in Wei Jing's hands, so what he worries about is not what Wei Jing will do next, but what this kid wants to do by borrowing the Shen family's ladder to heaven.
I'm afraid that the enemy he will face next is thousands of times stronger than Wei Jing, and I am afraid that his amazing performance will lure those deep-water diving dragons out and bring ruin to the family.
The eldest lady looked down at the plate of grapes that Chu Xianzhao had eaten, and couldn't help but worry about the child's future.
Shen Chuxia looked up from time to time at this white-haired young man who was becoming more mature and stable in front of them, the first two times he was looking elsewhere, when she raised her head for the third time, she looked at him with four eyes, the gentle smile in the other party's eyes that caught her off guard made her face flush, and a trace of shame slowly floated from her heart like a bubble spit out by a fish, this smile became more and more brilliant at the same time, with a hint of presumptuousness, which made her think of the green-shirted scholar who was not married to him in a trance, she secretly provided him with a study in the hope that he would one day be able to gain fame, and stood up upright
He went to her house to propose, but he cheated his money out and left Sunset City, not even a letter was left to wash her face with tears every day, but she still missed him, remembering the gentle smile when he wrote love poems to herself, and when such a smile appeared in her mind, she couldn't help but soften her heart and forgave him for what he had done.
She gave him enough money to live and work in peace for the rest of his life, and his sister said that he deceived him into taking advantage of her, but he gave her a young love that died without illness but was sweet and sour, and she felt that she took advantage of him in this matter, and if she didn't meet him once, she would regret it for the rest of her life.
Some love is only suitable for the heart to love slowly, just like a piece of emerald jade lying in the clear stream, with the slow flushing of the water flow of time, this love will only appear more and more precious, hold it in the hand and love it, put it in the heart and sweeten it into the heart.
Now she looks at this handsome white-haired man, and can't help but take out the piece of treasure jade and look through it, it's quite sad to say, the women in this manor have countless rouge gouache jade necklaces, but there is no man who can accompany them to each other, this may also be the reason why they are good to their illegitimate brother, only one man in a family can stand up at a critical time, no matter how difficult it is, many people seem to others to be an ordinary woman's difficult to get through the fatigue, it seems not so tiredγ
How to keep him alive?
The current situation makes Shen Chuxia also have a headache, after today's incident, it will make the internal strife of the Shen family business bank on the verge of breaking out, but this stupid brother knows that he is the enemy, and he has persecuted Wei Jing and those people again and again, which makes her feel very aggrieved, and it is not the situation she wants to see, and the eldest lady can obviously help them alleviate the current predicament, but her old man has no idea of doing so, as if he wants to test his brother's ability to deal with it, to see if he can solve this trouble?
She combed her hair in the mirror, the wooden comb rubbed back and forth between the green silk like a waterfall, like the wind blowing willow leaves, looking at the face in the bronze mirror that was not beautiful but also outstanding, and the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned.
At this moment, her eyes were slightly misty, and she boldly and recklessly smeared a layer of bright red rouge on her lips, like a charming snake demon who had just come out of the pool.
She was born in the rich merchants and aristocrats of Luoyang City, and many women who were younger than her and far inferior to her were married to women, whether it was firewood, rice, oil and salt, or rich and noble, but she didn't envy that kind of life, and felt that it didn't matter if she didn't marry in her life, as long as she could see her gentle brother and noisy sister every day, it would be good.
I don't know what kind of girl Tang Huang likes?
She blushed, wiped the rouge off her mouth as if she were a thief, and grimaced at herself in the mirror.
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This is Chu Xianzhao to see Jiang Tang who smokes once, in addition to this, he thought she was a girl who does not eat fireworks in the world, he found that this murderous woman has a pair of very beautiful hands, and the fingertips are so sharp that they can be used as daggers, this is a woman with an unruly temperament, with an extreme self-confidence that is difficult to see in ordinary women.
She lit her cigarette pouch and took a deep breath into the night, curling white smoke from her lipid-red lips.
The woman's eyes were bewitching, and she slowly spit out a smoke ring, and said: "You are under the fence as an illegitimate child, do you know that you also have an illegitimate daughter on the side of Yinguo?"
Chu Xianzhao didn't answer her words, and the white smoke of the two lingered, as if a curtain separated the two of them.
"Have you ever smoked with a smoking gun?" The tobacco in the Southern Continent is different from the one in the Northern Regions, with a faint sweet smell, and there is no spicy smoke in the throat, do you want to taste it?" Jiang Tang didn't feel bored talking to himself, and asked Chu Xianzhao one question after another.
"You really don't plan to be Chu Xiaohua's son, so you came to Nanlu here and casually recognized someone as a father?"
Jiang Tang doesn't talk much, but every question will make him feel aggrieved, I have to say that the smoking gun, which is only smoked by rural villagers in the eyes of many people, has pulled out a kind of vague beauty like an immortal from Jiang Tang's mouth.
Chu Xianzhao sighed, stretched out his hand to take the cigarette gun handed by Jiang Tang, there was still a trace of bright red rouge in the place where Jiang Tang had been contained, he hesitated whether to wipe it and stuff it into his mouth, and then Jiang Tang threw him a smile of unknown meaning, he simply bit the tail end and sucked it directly, and got rid of those rich business bosses who spent a lot of money, and then choked himself fiercely by the smoke, Jiang Tang simply couldn't see it and took his eyes off him.
After Chu Xianzhao exhaled a puff of smoke, he looked at this bewitching woman wrapped in black, he had heard Jiang Tang mention his extraordinary life experience, before the death of the country in the west, she was the child of the Jiang family in the four major families in the west, compared to the Guan family and Helian family, which are famous for their swordsmanship in the northern regions, the Jiang family has been reading Confucianism and Buddhism for generations, and her ancestor Jiang Taiyue is the bearer of Confucianism in the northern regions, with the names of "Confucian Grand Duke" and "Hundred Generations of Wenzong", and is the author of "Mr. Lotus Collection" and "Lotus Collection" suitable for children's enlightenment Dozens of volumes, etc., even when I was a child, I read these books.
The emperors of the past dynasties in the west were in awe of the Jiang family, they were really scholarly nobles, but unfortunately under the crazy invasion of the iron cavalry of the Yin country, the Confucian pagoda built by the Jiang family for more than ten generations collapsed, and the children of the Jiang family almost died under the hooves of the iron horse, together with the tens of thousands of Confucian classics written by them were also turned into ashes, and the only few authentic works of Jiang Taiyu that were brought back to the Yin country are said to have been placed in the library of the Hanlin Academy in Lin'an City.
So Chu Xianzhao felt that this woman's past was really pitiful, this pair of soft hands that were originally suitable for holding a pen, in order to survive, she had to hold a blood-stained dagger, if her father had not launched a war against Xilin, where would she need to experience the fate of the destruction of her family and country, maybe she would have married a wife and added fragrance to her red sleeves.
The debt owed by the Yin Kingdom to Xilin, except for Chu Xianzhao, no one felt that they should pay it back, because it was not worth it.