Chapter 62: Quan Ruqiao's family
Lu Rong frowned slightly, the person in front of him from Liupinzhou was still showing off his might at the gate of the county government just now, but now he was like a fish out of water, and he was drained of all his strength.
Hu Deshao looked at Qiao Wei's eyes imperceptibly, knowing what he meant, his heart was very complicated and heavy, and asked, "Lord Zhang, please speak immediately." ”
Zhang Shiru knelt and kowtowed, did not raise his head for a long time, and said in a trembling voice: "Geng Long besieged and killed the people, he was the mastermind of the lower officials, and the lower officials deserved to die." ”
Lu Rong grew out of the turbidity in his chest, the smile on his face gradually solidified, and he unconsciously looked at Qiao Wei, only to see that she was still faint, her face was not sad or happy, and she was covering her nose with a handkerchief to cover up the thick smell of blood.
Hu Deshao made a full set of plays, and when he heard this, he was furious and drank: "This! Zhang Shiru! You are an official of the imperial court, how dare you do this? ”
Zhang Shiru kept kowtowing, saying that he deserved to die, and a man's backbone disappeared in just a few words from Miss Qiao's young lady. Zhang Shiru can sit in this position, naturally not a fool, just now Qiao's only words have been named to the point, although the power of King Yan is large, but not in Taiyuan, as the saying goes, a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, although his move led to the end of the road to becoming an official in the future, but as long as he is lucky not to die, with the style of the Qiao family, he will not be able to escape from a piece of wealth in the second half of his life with his wife and children.
As for Geng Long, the small role is not enough to worry about.
Lu Rong was very unhappy in his heart, he had a feeling that he had been tricked, and he no longer listened to all the guilt that Zhang Shiru had on his body, and leaned slightly closer to Qiao Wei's side, smelling the good smell of rouge gouache on the woman's body, and said lightly: "Miss Qiao has a good way, and she can find out the mastermind behind the scenes in one sentence." ”
Qiao Wei was unmoved, and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Prince has higher means, and he will eliminate harm for the people as soon as he comes to Fenzhou." ”
"Where is it, I'm a little curious, the Qiao family's business is all over the world, and I also ask how much a young lady with loyalty, benevolence, righteousness and morality sells for a catty?" Lu Rong tidied up his robe and pretended to sigh.
"If His Royal Highness wants this thing, why do you need to spend money to buy it, which of the 100,000 fierce soldiers of the Yan army is not a loyal bone." Qiao Wei still replied lightly, at this time she already had a plan in her mind.
"It's a pity that the 100,000 Yan soldiers are all Zheng Zheng men, and it doesn't matter if the blood-stained robes are made, but Miss Qiao cleans her daughter, the country is beautiful and fragrant, how can it be polluted in the dirty and dirty dregs of this house." Lu Rong turned his head sideways to look at Qiao Weijiao's good face.
His Royal Highness the Prince of the World pities the woman, and Qiao Wei deeply feels His Highness's heart. It's just that the little woman is a secular person, so she has to go with the flow, if His Royal Highness lifts up the Qiao family in Fenzhou, the Qiao family has more than 300 people, and it will be no less than 100,000 Yan Yi army loyalty. Qiao Wei turned his face, not afraid at all and looked at Lu Rong with eyes.
"How is Miss Qiao going to be lifted?"
"His Royal Highness, why do you have to say everything, if Your Highness has a need, the Qiao family dares not to do anything?"
Lu Rong smiled cheaply, got closer to Qiao Wei, and said softly: "The weather is cold, the cold is cold, Miss Qiao's fragrance is intoxicating, are you willing to help this son warm the bed?" ”
Qiao Wei was immediately angry when she heard this, but the decisiveness of the years of killing made her cover it up very well: "His Royal Highness the Prince of the World made fun of it, if His Highness is really so good, the Huangqi Pavilion opposite is also the property of the Qiao family." ”
Lu Rong smiled slightly, sat up straight, Fenzhou said the same thing, he knew that he could not investigate it deeply, even if he tortured Geng Long again, it would be useless, at most it was to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys. Fang Cai spoke quickly for a while, more or less to let out a breath of stuffiness in his chest, and when he stopped, he turned his head to look at Hu Deshao: "Master Hu, but you understand?" What is the matter with the assembly of the people? ”
Lord Hu took advantage of Zhang Shiru's kneeling to confess just now, and had already thought of the wording: "Back to His Royal Highness, in order to be the last year's pension, the pension has not been paid." The official has also been worried about this matter in the past few days, thinking that the road is slippery on a snowy day, and it is difficult to get lucky, and the lower official has raised two silver to reissue it to the people first, and it will probably be in place tomorrow. ”
Lu Rong nodded slightly, and said, "Then Lord Zhang and Geng Long will be handed over to you, and please ask Lord Hu to give justice to the people of Fenzhou." ”
Lord Hu bowed down and said, "Your Royal Highness, please rest assured, Your Highness will do your best, and I don't know where Your Highness is staying?" Is it available for dinner? ”
Lu Rong said with a smile: "I haven't eaten yet, I ran into this as soon as I came, just now Miss Qiao invited me to live in the Huangqi Pavilion opposite, can Master Hu have a good girl to recommend it?" ”
Master Hu laughed and said: "His Royal Highness the Prince of the World is joking, the Dazhong Dynasty strictly prohibits officials from sleeping with prostitutes, how can there be a good girl in the lower officials." After that, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates: "Quickly escort the prisoners Zhang Shiru and Geng Long back to the prison, and order the shopkeeper to prepare another table of banquets, I will take the wind for His Royal Highness the Prince and the generals of the Xuansoap Army." ”
Before the words fell, a voice came from the stairs: "Lord Hu is no longer working, our Master Qiao learned that His Royal Highness the Prince was coming, and specially asked me to invite His Royal Highness to Qiao's Mansion to have dinner and rest, Lord Hu should go and get busy with his own affairs." Lu Rong turned his head to see that a middle-aged man in his forties was walking upstairs.
Qiao Wei saw that this person's brows were slightly furrowed, and he was vaguely unhappy, the man walked up to Lu Rong and the others, bowed deeply and hugged his fists, and said, "His Royal Highness, Lord Hu." He turned to Qiao Wei and bowed down and said, "Young Miss, the old lady personally instructed to treat His Royal Highness the Prince well, and now he has prepared a banquet in the mansion, and specially ordered me to welcome His Royal Highness the Prince to move." ”
Qiao Wei was expressionless, and said lightly: "I know, hard work Mr. Jia." After saying that, he stood up and gently saluted Lu Rong: "What does His Royal Highness the Prince think?" ”
Lu Rong slowly stood up, the corners of his mouth smiled, he held Qiao Wei's arm, and said, "Miss Qiao is difficult to resist, then I will bother." ”
The feast of Qiao's Mansion is really better than Fengyi Tower.
The person who presided over the banquet was the nominal head of the Qiao family, Qiao Qisheng, the second grandson of Old Lady Qiao and Qiao Wei's uncle, this person looked less than forty years old, with a capable atmosphere, but there was a deep gloom between his eyebrows. Several Qiao family Qingke staff members accompanied the table, but Qiao Wei spoke very little, and seemed to be absent-minded, but fortunately, Qiao Qisheng was well-informed, and talked eloquently at the banquet, and his words of praise for Youzhou's military and government affairs were not conventional, and he really had the demeanor of everyone's children.
Chairman Shang Lu Rong only has Wu Bei, Yuan Gong and Chen Ti are present, Chen Ti is not interested in other things, only eating and drinking is never pretentious, most of the delicacies of the mountains and seas have not escaped this sloppy old man's chopsticks, Qiao Qisheng does not care about the toast, only feasts with Huzi.
When arranging the seating, the housekeeper of Qiao's Mansion looked at this dirty, smelly, sloppy old man and was also a little troubled, and before he could ask Qiao Qisheng, he saw the old man sitting on top of the chairman, and Lu Rongwu sat on both sides of the old man with his back, so he knew that this person's status was not low, and he was glad that he did not judge people by his appearance just now.
More than a dozen Xuan soap soldiers were arranged in the second seat of the side hall, only a housekeeper from Qiao's Mansion sat with them, and no one bothered, except for the two seriously injured soldiers who were arranged for treatment early, the rest of the fierce soldiers experienced a bloody battle and were also physically and mentally exhausted.
During the period, the old lady Qiao also sat down to accompany a glass of wine, the old man was over eighty years old, but he was in good spirits, and his laughter was loud, Lu Rong was polite to the old lady with the gift of the younger generation, and the guests and hosts were happy. When leaving the table, the old lady looked at Chen Ti a few times quietly, thoughtfully, walked out of the dining hall, sat on a chariot, and several maidservants slowly walked to the back room, the old man waved slightly, and a middle-aged man leaned over from the side, bowing slightly.
Old lady Qiao asked softly, and it turned out to be in the Beiban language: "Does the old man on the table have a background?" ”
The man in the prime of life also replied in brute language: "Master." ”
Old Lady Qiao asked, "How is it better than you?" ”
The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "You can be undefeated within twenty moves, and there is only one fight after fifty moves." ”
Old Lady Qiao frowned slightly: "'Ten Lives' is not as good as fighting?" ”
The man named Lian Bo hung his head and said nothing, slowly following the car, his eyes were sharp, the old lady waved his hand to let Lian Bo retreat, pondered for a moment, and muttered: "Lu Rong......"
As he spoke, he instructed the man pulling the cart: "Go to the North House." ”