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Seeing her nominal husband being killed here like this by someone else, Nian Zhen felt very uncomfortable for a while and felt that he was very pitiful. Even though he often beats and scolds her, he feels more pity and contempt for him in his heart. But none of this can support her to survive in such a difficult situation, a woman who has to face the accusations and gossip behind her back, and the accusations and doubts of her husband, and take care of her alcoholic and crippled husband.

She had hoped that one day she would be able to get out of this sea of suffering......

Although she didn't want to admit it, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in her heart after this happened.

But then the mood became complicated, after all, her husband was killed by a man who was rumored to have gossip with her, and she felt very guilty in her eyes.

Just when she had mixed feelings and was in a very complicated mood, Chen Xu's voice woke her up: "You go and call someone, let the neighbors in the neighborhood report to the official, and say that I killed your husband."

Chen Xu said such a sentence very calmly, and wiped the blood stains on the knife with the man's shirt on his hand.

Nian Zhen's face turned pale, stunned, and said in a trembling voice: "Report to the official?"

Chen Xu said: "Yes." He was the one who killed the man.

At this time, there was a big man in a nearby house: "Killed!" Someone has killed someone! "Before the man died just now, he screamed so badly and so loudly, as long as he was not deaf, everyone nearby could hear it.

Nian Zhen went to call the nearby neighbors according to Chen Xu's words.

For this result, Chen Xu had a plan before he started, now it is a troubled time, the martial arts are in charge, and the local officials can't control it, plus now that the expedition is imminent, the biggest consequence is to be demoted and whipped a few whips or something. One last favor for her before leaving.

The frightened brain was in a mess just now, Nian Zhen came back, and the words that Chen Xu said when he killed Niu San, "I am the head of the Beizhen Army", seemed to be explained to her, but it seemed to be said to the nearby neighbors. She lives in this troubled era, and naturally knows that the status of martial artists in this era is very high, Chen Xu is already the head of the capital at the age of eighteen, even if he kills someone, he does not have to pay for his life, but he will still be punished somewhat.

But no matter what, doing this is no benefit to Chen Xu at all.

He is not his person, why would he be so good to her, and he just gave her the title deed of the blacksmith shop...... Nian Zhen felt that Chen Xu was interested in her again, but this idea was soon dispelled. Chen Xu has already become the head of the capital at the age of eighteen, and he is also tall and big, if he really wants to find a daughter-in-law, there are many people who want to fight for the yellow flower girls in the street, if it is just like stealing, there are so many opportunities in the blacksmith shop, even if he wants to use the strong, no one will stop him, and in the eyes of others, he is a woman who does not abide by women's morals.

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Chen Xu sat on the ground with a golden knife, waiting for the official in charge of criminal affairs to arrive.

Very calm.

It didn't take long for the officer in charge to arrive.

The first to come were a few errand soldiers, they wanted to step forward to restrain Chen Xu, but they saw that Chen Xu was in strong health, with a pair of eyes shining brightly, and a fierce aura, they didn't dare to move forward for a while, and took a few steps back to wait for the commander behind.

The crowd outside the door has been surrounded by a crowd watching the excitement, and this incident has alarmed everyone.

At this time, the official messenger from the official office had already arrived in the alley, and the accompanying servants also went. Outside the shop, there was a group of soap-clad officials surrounding it, as well as nearby onlookers.

After the officials outside dispersed the crowd watching the excitement a little, the servant on the side began to speak: "My lord, the victim has died of breath, and the head is obviously injured, according to the blood stains at the scene, it should be caused by the head hitting the wall, and the fatal injury is a knife wound in the neck, cutting the throat, a fatal knife."

The official wearing a lacquered veil pointed at Chen Xu and asked, "You killed this deceased?"

"I killed this person, this person was rude to me, I wanted to teach him a lesson, but I didn't expect him to beat him so much, and he was killed by mistake." Chen Xu's tone was very flat, which made people feel very rude when they heard it. Chen Xu feels like a big villain at the moment, but since he has made a decision, let's take all this on himself.

"Received negative sentiment from Wang Zheng, +35."

"Received negative sentiment value from Li Kai, +40."

"Received negative sentiment value from Xue Wei, +37."

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Chen Xu's words were quite unsightly, and the officials present were uncomfortable when they heard it, don't you take our servants in your eyes, so Chen Xu's mind sounded a prompt of "Ding Ding Ding" The negative emotional value increased.

Hearing this, some people in the official mission were unhappy, and a person wearing a high hat like a headcatcher stood up and wanted to take down Chen Xu. But I saw that the official wearing the lacquer veil quietly grabbed the man who seemed to be a head catcher, and when he came, he already knew that the murderer was a sergeant, and this kind of thing was beyond the control of their government.

At this time, Chen Xu suddenly stood up, and the officials who were surrounding him were so shocked that he took a few steps back, after all, this guy had just killed someone. It looks like a murderous aura, and it's very difficult to mess with.

I saw Chen Xu take the murderous knife, throw it over, and say: "I am Chen Xu, the head of the capital under the jurisdiction of the Beiyang Town Army, and my superior is the commander Xu Degong, who is stationed in Xinzhengmen."

The official listened to Chen Xu's words, and whispered to the official who looked like a headcatcher: "You go to Xinzhengmen now, go to his generals, and inform him of this."

Someone next to him asked, "What about the criminal?"

This official also knew that this matter was more difficult, and said: "We have put away the murder weapon of the case here, and brought it back to the yamen with the body of the deceased. As for the sergeant, let him go into the house to avoid it first, and send a few people to guard here and watch the people......"

Nian Zhen, who was watching in the crowd, was in a complicated mood at the moment, but he didn't blame Chen Xu in his heart, he didn't do it for himself.

Seeing that Chen Xu had nothing to do for the time being, she first went home from the alley and waited.

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She felt that the more than 20 years she had lived was like a dream.

She left home at a very young age, and she couldn't even remember what her parents looked like, and after being sold by them to human traffickers, she traveled several times, and was later sold to Xue Wenli, the envoy of Yecheng Jiedu. became a maidservant in the Xue Mansion, and her name was changed from the eldest sister called by the family to Nian Zhen. In Xue Mansion, even an ordinary maidservant girl is better than starving in her hometown. At that time, I felt very fortunate that if I hadn't been sold to Xuefu, I might have grown up and married into a poor family and lived an ignorant and poor life. Or starved to death in a drought or famine or was eaten as food......

I have seen the luxury and dignity that do not belong to me, and the days of worry-free food and clothing, Nian Zhen yearns for it in my heart. But she doesn't want to be just a servant girl for the rest of her life, no one wants to be bullied all the time in a lowly status, but she doesn't yearn for a decent and respectable life. At that time, she was already very smart, and she stood out among a group of servants. At this time, she gradually understood that appearance was her greatest capital and opportunity.

In this era, women are vassals of men, and the life she wants can only be obtained from men of high status. Xue Wenli, the head of the Xue Mansion, is very shrewd, and he will definitely become a plaything when the time comes, and when the novelty passes, it will definitely be discarded, which is obviously not a good choice. So she turned her attention to Xue Dingnan, the young master of the Xue Mansion, who was born in a wealthy family and had not yet grown up, obviously did not have much experience.

As she expected, the young boy was soon fascinated by Nianzhen, and after a period of vows, the two of them stole the forbidden fruit, and she was very scared and painful for a while, but when she came to the end, she could only endure and not make a sound.

Before she married her lame husband, she had only experienced a man and a woman twice, and this was one of them.

But then she finally understood that she was born humbly, she could not become the young lady of Xue Mansion after all, and Xue Gongzi, who had tasted fresh, seemed to have left the vow of the mountain alliance and the sea behind him, and at this time Xue Mansion was about to marry another high gate. Nian Zhen only hopes that Xue Gongzi can fulfill his promise later, she doesn't expect him to be able to exchange all of it, as long as he can exchange a small part of the promise. Soon, another piece of good news came, she unexpectedly found out that she was pregnant, and she was more confident about it. But she didn't dare tell anyone. She decided to wait for the lady of the main house who was going to marry later to have a good relationship, in order to become a high-status concubine by Xue Zhengnan's side. It would be better if a son was born later.

However, the sky is unpredictable, the world is impermanent, no one expected that the Xue family, which was at its peak, would encounter a coup d'état of dynastic change, and the emperor of the Later Han Dynasty was afraid of Lu Yuan, the ancestor of Wei who was a courtier at that time, and actually killed Lu Yuan's family members who stayed in Tokyo, and wanted to relieve Lu Yuan of military power. forced Lu Yuan to be cornered and rebelled. Xue Wenli, who was guarding Yecheng, was involved in this war, was defeated by Lu Yuan, and Xue's mansion was destroyed.

In the war, Nian Zhen was very afraid, she was just an ordinary maid in the Xue Mansion, with no background, as soon as the Xue Mansion was destroyed, she was nothing, helpless, and could not get any courtesy, and finally she was snatched away by a military general who rushed into the mansion.

She was defiled by the general, and then taken home, but she couldn't resist, otherwise something more tragic would happen, she had heard that women were tortured by more people as camp prostitutes in the war. Because of this, Nianzhen had a miscarriage and was told by the doctor that she could no longer have children in this life. But before she could hate the general, the general died in a war, the tree fell and scattered, and the general's wife and concubine divided the family's property, and sold the weak Nianzhen as a commodity. Sold to the current lame grumpy husband, but suffering from the disease of the heavenly eunuch.

At first, I wanted to escape from this cold place, but where could I escape? I didn't know the place well, I fled this place, I was caught and sold, or I starved to death in a corner miserably......

Sometimes she was desperate, thinking that it would be better to die than to live like this. But she felt very unwilling and aggrieved, could she end this life with humiliation. I came from a humble background, but I am not the only one who comes from the bottom, and I still have a face that God has given me to look better than most people, what did I do wrong, I went wrong? It's that he shouldn't provoke Xue Zhengnan, but how good will it be.

Nian Zhen just wants to find a corner to stay in now. She feels that she has no face to see people, so she usually doesn't talk to people when she goes out, for fear of ridicule from others. It would be nice if there was a place where no one knew her, so that her misfortune would not be used as an after-dinner conversation.

No family, no friends, no broken home is gone. I also have to face the verbal humiliation of the coarse and ugly shrews in the market. She sometimes envies those high-ranking ladies, the power brought by the family, the noble status, those women in the market and villages, who dares to laugh and humiliate? She fantasized that one day she could be so honorable, when these vulgar women fell to their knees in awe, realizing their lowliness and vulgarity. With such imagination, she had a trace of ethereal happiness in her heart and found a trace of dignity...... But that's not possible.

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