Chapter 199: Disaster Descends from Heaven

Time is like an arrow, and fate is impermanent. Half a year later, Emperor Yang of Sui began to prepare for the conquest of Goguryeo in Liaodong, and conscripted troops everywhere in the country, and the people were miserable, and the imperial court also issued a hard target of 3,000 soldiers to Hejian County.

Cao Zheng is a good official who is honest and loves the people, so he played Emperor Yang of Sui, saying that there was a flood in Hejian County this year, coupled with the continuous war, the vitality of Hejian County has not been restored, the fields are barren, and the people are not happy, and now it is necessary to restore production and develop people's livelihood, and I hope that the emperor will be sympathetic to the people's feelings, suspend the conquest of Goguryeo, or reduce the conscription quota of Hejian County. He also said that the people of Hejian County are currently in hardship, and if they are forcibly conscripted, it is easy to cause turmoil.

After the song was sent to the imperial court, Emperor Yang of Sui, who was stubborn and self-serving, was furious, and the jealous and jealous Zhuozhou Tongshou Guo Xuan, Qinghe County Assassin Xu Gui, Zhangnan County Commander Zheng Shuang and other traitorous ministers fanned the flames and slandered and bewitched, in addition to framing Cao Zheng for having no emperor and not respecting the holy order, but also said that other counties were all bandits, and only the Hejian County under Cao Zheng's jurisdiction did not have bandits to make trouble, so it was concluded that Cao Zheng must have secretly colluded with the bandits, wanted to do wrong, and tried to rebel.

Emperor Yang of Sui, who was brutal and suspicious by nature, saw the impeachment of Cao Zheng by Guo Xuan, the governor of Zhuozhou, Xu Gui, the assassin of Qinghe County, and Zheng Shuang, the county commander of Zhangnan County.

This is really impermanent, disaster fell from the sky, Cao Zheng's family was arrested by Guo Xuan, the general guard of Zhuozhou, and prepared to detain the capital. Cao Zheng is a loyal minister, and his family is not allowed to resist, so the whole family, including his wife, several sons, and daughter Cao Xiuying, are all arrested, only the master Ma Fei was originally a person from the rivers and lakes, not so stupid and loyal, and fled while the chaos, because Ma Fei is not a relative of the Cao family, so the people and horses of the Guo Xuan faction in Zhuozhou did not care.

Although the master Ma Fei escaped, he was a very affectionate person, and Cao Zheng's family trusted him very much and treated him very well, so Ma Fei, who escaped, was not greedy for life and afraid of death, but wanted to find someone to help rescue the Cao family. He saw that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was mediocre, reckless, and expropriated, the court was corrupt, corrupt officials and corrupt officials were expropriating and extorting, the people were not able to make a living, and the people were in dire straits, and he already had a premonition that such a court would not last long. Therefore, after thinking about it, I decided to go to Dou Jiande, who I had saved in the past. Although Dou Jiande is a horse thief who specializes in opposing the imperial court, this person is very righteous, very committed and a person who can be trusted, Ma Fei feels that it should be more certain to go to Dou Jiande to help rescue the Cao family.

He hurried through the starry night, trekked through mountains and rivers, came to Qinghe County, and after doing everything possible to inquire and search, he finally found Dou Jiande, who was active in Zhangnan County, Qinghe County. When Dou Jiande heard that the Cao family was killed, he was worried about the red lady Cao Xiuying, so without saying a word, he immediately summoned dozens of brothers and Ma Fei to rush to Hejian County to rescue the Cao family. Of course, Ma Fei didn't know that Dou Jiande was so anxious to save people more for his sweetheart Cao Xiuying, and thought that he knew how to repay his kindness and chivalrous courage, and in order to repay his kindness for rescuing him in the past, he agreed to rescue his friend Cao Zheng quickly. I have always praised Dou Jiande in my heart for being a good friend, really righteous, and a true chivalrous man.

Unexpectedly, the world is unpredictable, Zhuozhou Tongshou Guo Xuan, Qinghe County Assassin Shi Xu Gui, Zhangnan County Commander Zheng Shuang and other traitors who framed Cao Zheng were worried that Cao Zheng's false accusations would be exposed after being escorted to the capital, plus Emperor Yang of Sui had a capricious personality, worried that if Emperor Yang of Sui heard that Cao Zheng had avenge his mind, he would send someone to Yanzhao to investigate, so that several of their crimes of perverting the law for bribes, embezzlement and bribery, expropriation and tyranny, and indiscriminate killing of innocents would be exposed. So after conspiring, several people decided to send someone to rob and kill Cao Zheng's family by pretending to be masked bandits on the way to escort Cao Zheng to the capital. The person who sent it was Lei Kui, nicknamed the Killer Demon King, who was the captain Lei Kui who killed Dou Jiande's entire family, and now he has switched to Guo Xuan's subordinates.

Guo Xuan's baby only son Guo Yang is a womanizer, he has always coveted the beauty of the red lady Cao Xiuying, and felt that it was really a tyrannical thing for such a beauty to be killed casually in the wilderness, so he begged his father Guo Xuan to let him and the murderer Lei Kui pretend to be masked bandits to rob and kill the Cao family. Guo Xuan didn't know Guo Yang's true intentions, thinking that he wanted to pursue excitement, firstly, he couldn't stand the pleas of his baby son, and secondly, he also felt that he should let himself, a playboy, kill a few people, see blood, and exercise his courage, so that he could be entrusted with important tasks in the future. Besides, there was no danger in robbing and killing a few prisoners who were wearing shackles and imprisoned in the prison car, and after thinking about it, he agreed, but told the commander Lei Kui to pay attention to protecting Guo Yang's safety, and the bloodthirsty demon king Lei Kui, who was eager to kill people as soon as he heard about it, agreed.

Guo Yang in order to prevent Cao Xiuying from seeing his parents, brother and other family members being brutally killed. Nervous breakdown, becoming crazy or committing suicide, so, in private with the officers and soldiers escorting the Cao family, he secretly colluded to give Cao Xiuying's food sweat medicine, so that Cao Xiuying fell into a coma. Then he and Lei Kui pretended to be masked bandits to kill the Cao family except Cao Xiuying, regardless of men, women and children, and the poor martyrs were framed and destroyed by traitors.

When Dou Jiande and Ma Fei rushed day and night, the killing had already ended, and the corpses of the Cao family were in the wilderness, extremely miserable. After Ma Fei saw Cao Zheng's dead corpse, his heart was like a knife, kneeling in front of the corpse of the Cao family, tears raining down, crying bitterly and shouting: "Lord Cao, my Ma Fei is late!" I'm sorry for you! ”

Dou Jiande was also stunned after seeing the tragic situation of the Cao family, and his heart was dripping blood, and he endured his grief and frantically searched for Cao Xiuying's body in the pile of corpses, but in the end he found nothing. He was sad and happy, happy that Cao Xiuying's body was not found, indicating that maybe Cao Xiuying was still alive, although there was little hope; The worry is that Cao Xiuying's body has not been found, perhaps because the body was bitten away by wild beasts or encountered other poisonous hands. When he was in a hurry, Liu Heimin, who was sent out to investigate, reported that the red lady Cao Xiuying was being tied up by a group of masked bandits and pressed in the direction of Zhuozhou, and Cao Xiuying seemed unconscious.

Dou Jiande was overjoyed when he heard the news, his eyes erupted with fire, and he immediately summoned people and horses to quickly chase after the group of masked bandits. After chasing for more than an hour, he finally caught up with the swaggering and unsuspecting masked bandits on the way, and after a fierce fight, he rescued the unconscious Red Lady, and accidentally captured Guo Yang alive who pretended to be a masked bandit. As soon as the murderous demon king Duwei Lei Kui saw that the baby only son of Lord Tongshou was captured, he knew that if he was not rescued, he would not want to live, so he organized the defeated men and horses to desperately rescue, and accidentally dropped the black cloth covering his face during the rescue, which was recognized by Dou Jiande, and saw that the enemy he had been looking for and killed his whole family was in front of him, Dou Jiande's eyes were full of rage, staring at blood-red eyes, and rushed towards Du Wei Lei Kui like a desperate person, was slashed off the horse by Dou Jiande, who was full of anger, Dou Jiande did not stop, and continued to slash and kill Lei Kui who fell off the horse, until he chopped it into meat puree. Where had the other officers and soldiers dressed as masked bandits seen such crazy people, and they were so frightened that they scattered and fled.

Dou Jiande, who finally took revenge, knelt on the ground and cried, kowtowed deeply three times to the place where his parents and relatives were buried, and then hugged the unconscious red lady Cao Xiuying, and pressed Guo Yang, who was frightened and wet his pants, to the place where Cao Zheng's family died.

After arriving at the place, Cao Xiuying, who slowly woke up, saw the tragic death of her parents, brother and other relatives, her eyes went black, and she vomited blood and fainted. Dou Jiande, Liu Heimin, and Ma Fei hurriedly gave first aid, and after a long time, Cao Xiuying woke up, her face was pale, her eyes were blank, and the whole person seemed to be dead.

After Dou Jiande interrogated Guo Yang, he learned that all this was done by traitorous ministers such as Guo Xuan, the commander of Zhuozhou, Xu Gui, the assassin of Qinghe County, and Zheng Shuang, the county commander of Zhangnan County. Liu Heimin saw the crazy red lady and wanted to go up to dissuade her, but was stopped by Dou Jiande, he shook his head at Liu Heimin, "Let her vent, I understand her feelings!" ”

Cao Xiuying, who was exhausted after venting, finally calmed down, although the fate was extremely cruel, but she had to accept the reality, with the help of Dou Jiande, Liu Heimin, Ma Fei and others, she buried the bodies of her parents, brother and other relatives nearby, and then discussed together how to continue to take revenge, how to kill Zhuozhou Tongshou Guo Xuan, Qinghe County Assassin Shi Xu Gui, Zhangnan County Commander Zheng Shuang and other traitorous ministers.

These people were protected by a large number of well-equipped officers and soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, and they were all in the city with high walls and thick walls, and it was not so easy for them to take revenge. It seems that only by gathering more people can take revenge, if you want to gather more people, you can only rise up and blatantly rebel against Qiyi, Dou Jiande is worried that the eldest lady Cao Xiuying, who was born in Houmen, has obstacles in her heart, but she didn't expect that when he said his thoughts, the red lady Cao Xiuying agreed without hesitation, after this catastrophe, the red lady has long hated the black and white court and the mediocre Emperor Yang of Sui, and there is only a raging revenge and anger in her heart.

Since then, there has been a prestigious Qi righteous army in the land of Yanzhao - Dou Jiajun.