Ahem!

Zhang Xiusheng was afraid that he would not stand up again, and it was estimated that this Master Qiao would have to talk about the bride price.

"Master Qiao, slow down, this time I came to your mansion, not for the private affairs of my children, but for serious things."

Master Qiao didn't turn his head for a moment, and said, "Isn't General Zhendong's marriage a serious matter?" ”

After saying this, Master Qiao seemed to understand something, patted his head, and hurriedly apologized: "Qiao is stupid, he will be wrong about the intentions of your adults, it is really a mistake." ”

Lu Su smiled with a generous face: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Master Qiao turned to Zhang Xiu, and also arched his hands: "Thank you for reminding me, otherwise Qiao will definitely offend the taboo, thank you!" ”

Zhang Xiu smiled secretly in her heart, but her face was still tense, pretending to be cold.

"Forgive Qiao for being stupid, but I don't know what you adults are asking for?" Master Qiao's brain is really not enough at this time. Now there are only two daughters who look like fairies in their own family, and besides, Master Qiao really can't think of anything that Zhang Xiu asked for by name.

Lu Su did not hide it at all: "Lord Liu Taishou has always been good at painting, I guess Master Qiao has heard of this." We are waiting here to retrieve a drawing of the equipment that Liu Xiaogongzi left in your mansion. ”

A stone fell to the ground in Master Qiao's heart, and it turned out that he didn't want food, money, or head. That's much easier, I remember that Liu Ye's youngest son came to the house yesterday to play with my youngest son, and his own house is now only cleaned once every three or four days, presumably that drawing should still be there.

Under the guidance of Master Qiao, the group went directly to Qiao Xiaogongzi's residence. Xiao Qiao Gongzi is only five or six years old this year, but because he is the only seedling in the family, he has his own independent small yard.

It's just that what Master Qiao didn't expect was that as soon as he approached the courtyard, he smelled a strange smell wafting in the air.

This strange smell is obviously the smell that wafts after being burned, and if you smell it carefully, it is not the most common fire object such as firewood and paper, but the smell of a certain kind of fur after it is burned!

Master Qiao's face changed greatly, and he immediately ran to the courtyard gate with his legs, but the scene inside made Master Qiao have the idea of strangling his son in an instant.

But he saw his son holding a burning fire twist in his right hand, and a wooden stick in his left hand playing with a burning parchment on the ground!

"Son!" Master Qiao screamed angrily, rushed forward and slapped his son, and didn't care about wearing cloth shoes, so he directly stepped on the burning parchment with his foot.

Zhang Xiu, Lu Su and the others were standing outside the door at the moment, with a frightened expression on their faces.

Master Qiao grabbed less than half of the remaining parchment that was still smoking on the ground with his hand, and his old face was full of tears almost instantly, and his expression of grief was richer than that of his own son who was stunned by himself and sat on the ground covering his face and crying.

Zhang Xiu and the others stood in front of the door, and they could also see that the parchment scrap paper had become black and blurred, and they couldn't see any of their original appearance at all, and their hearts were suddenly half cold.

You must know that although Liu Ye is good at painting manufacturing, this large-scale ordnance improvement drawing was designed and sketched by Liu Ye when he studied with a Mo family heir in his early years. But because this drawing is very significant, Liu Ye has been hiding at home and never showing it. Now that the heir of the Mo family has long since died, if this drawing is damaged, it will be absolutely difficult for Liu Ye alone to completely reproduce it.

Compared with the regrets and regrets of Zhang Xiu and others, Master Qiao is now full of fear.

Because this drawing is what Zhang Xiu wants!

At the beginning of this year, Master Qiao witnessed many incidents in which many families with unlimited scenery in the past were uprooted by Zhang Xiujun. The elders of the various families who were originally high in the sky were not only unreasonable in front of those extremely lowly soldiers, but also broke their teeth with wooden sticks when they were slightly displeased.

The important thing is Zhang Xiujun's excuse to eradicate these big families! Some big families do not have any major evil deeds, but just a small matter reported by villagers such as forcibly buying and selling livestock and defaulting on grain payments, they were punished with confiscation of all family property and all clansmen moving to other places!

It's just a trivial matter such as forcibly buying and selling arrears, maybe it's just that this son has no choice but to embezzle the money in private and can't fill the loophole for the time being, and it's not just a penny for nothing, and it can't involve major events such as people's grievances and human lives, but Zhang Xiu actually directly knocked it to the dust, making it the same as the poor at the bottom for a while!

Master Qiao asked himself if the Qiao family had not done anything similar to other families, and during that special period, the Qiao family spent all day and night in fear. Even as long as one or two teams of patrol guards occasionally pass by outside the door, it will provoke the hearts of the Qiao clan to raise Lao Gao together. There was the slightest movement outside the door, and everyone's legs went limp. The knock on the door at night always made the Qiao clan dare not fall asleep. I was afraid that as soon as I closed my eyes and opened my eyes again, I would be naked and put a sign in my head and escorted out of Anhui City.

It's just that Master Qiao himself can't believe that after several months, the entire Huainan family has been cleaned up, but the Qiao family, who does not have any name of benevolence and thighs, still exists.

Master Qiao, who couldn't get any explanation, didn't know it, but he never asked more. His family had neither the means and ability to escape from Huainan, nor the courage and strength to resist Zhang Xiu in arms. Just living one day is a day, and being happy for a while is a while.

But now, it seems that this situation is about to be broken!

Although it is not clear what Liu Ye recorded on this piece of parchment, it is certainly not a simple thing for Zhang Xiu to send more than a dozen relatives to ask for it. Let's not talk about whether Zhang Xiu is furious, Liu Ye can't get by with Qiao's alone!

You think, this thing must be dedicated to Zhang Xiu by Liu Ye, and now it was burned beyond recognition by his own son, Liu Taishou was slapped in the face in front of Zhang Xiu and couldn't get by, how could it make Qiao's better. In today's Huainan, a lawsuit from a pariah can cause a family that has lasted for hundreds of years to collapse in an instant. What's more, it was a bad word said by the Taishou of a county, and the final outcome of the Qiao family would not just be to confiscate the family property and exile Jiangdong!

Wait, how could all this happen so coincidentally. Liu Ye didn't give it early or late, why did he dedicate it to Zhang Xiubaotu at this time? And why was such an important thing easily taken out by Liu Tao, the little child of the Liu family, and it was so coincidentally "landed" on his own house?

Could it be that Zhang Xiu and Liu Ye feel that Qiao's no longer has any need to exist?

Thinking of this, Master Qiao suddenly sat on the ground, spread out his hands and let the parchment slip off, looking like he was being slaughtered.

Zhang Xiu, Lu Su and the others, who were still at the door, were a little surprised and even surprised by Master Qiao's reaction, but soon everyone understood why Master Qiao had a mournful expression.

Indeed, according to Zhang Xiu's principle of heavy punishment for minor crimes in dealing with wealthy families, it is normal for Master Qiao to suffer such a big change and lose his soul so much.

For a while, everyone guessed in their minds how if Master Qiao knew the true identity of the cloth-clothed scribe in front of him, how he would hug Zhang Xiu's thighs and cry bitterly and beg for reparation.

It's not impossible for this to happen. During the Great Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the year, I don't know how many Qingliushi people saw that they could not resist the Xiliang soldiers, so they collectively knelt down outside Zhang Xiu's mansion and asked Zhang Xiu to raise his noble hand and let them go. Especially those leaders of the scholar clan who are extremely upright on weekdays, they cry more than their mother-in-law.

For a while, Zhang Xiu, Lu Su, Zhuge Jin, and Lu Xun didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of them, and they didn't persuade them to leave.

At this moment, a young lady walked in at the side door of the courtyard, and saw Lu Su, Zhuge Jin and others dressed as scribes at the main entrance, their faces were slightly surprised, and then they walked quickly to Master Qiao's side, half-squatted down and stretched out their hands to help.

"What's wrong with you, father, are you okay?"

Master Qiao didn't move, and he didn't mean to get up at all. In this way, the slender waist lady naturally couldn't support a middle-aged man weighing one hundred and eighty pounds, but fortunately, Lu Su made a look, and the two relatives behind him hurriedly stepped forward to help Master Qiao.

It's just that these two Lu Su's relatives haven't met Master Qiao yet, but Master Qiao suddenly burst into tears, which scared his own daughter next to him and was also startled.

Fortunately, the young lady was quite calm, and let go of the space so that the two young relatives could help their father up with one hand, and after observing left and right for a moment, they immediately guessed from the younger brother who was covering his face with red marks on the side and the unrecognizable parchment on the ground.

She was alarmed by her brother's sudden crying, and she usually lives next to her brother's yard and is also responsible for taking care of her younger brother. Coming out in a hurry, although she didn't know where those strange scribes came from, the woman's innate innate intuition told her that everyone who came today was very human.

At that moment, she first saluted Lu Su, Zhuge Jin, Zhang Xiu and others, and then turned around and supported her crying father, while softly scolding and asking her younger brother: "What trouble have you caused, and you still haven't made it clear to your sister?" ”

"Woo, sister, I... I... I put Daddy's... Target... Sheep... Paper... Go up in flames. ”

"Son, you didn't burn my parchment, you burned the treasure map of Mrs. Liu's family, and burned the drawings that General Zhendong wanted, burned, burned the life of my Qiao family!" Master Qiao listened to his son's sobbing answer, but he beat his chest with tears in his eyes and wailed.

Although it was only a short sentence that was not direct enough, this young lady still understood the whole thing at the first time. Secretly relieved, while comforting his father's hands, he hurriedly said: "Father, don't be sad, the parchment scroll that Liu Tao and Liu Xiaogongzi left in our house is still there, and the parchment burned by my brother is just a blank scroll taken from your study!" ”