Chapter 52: At the Feet of the Son of Heaven
Although the Han Dynasty is in a state of decline, the imperial city of Luoyang is still a prosperous place, with all industries prosperous and lively.
After all, this is the imperial city of Yanjing, with many wealthy families, businessmen have gathered in Luoyang, and in addition to the generous efforts of the children of the powerful, this place is also well-informed and accessible in all directions.
Taking the big and small Qiao to hang out in the east market of Luoyang City, Guo Jia was happy, Da Qiao's surname was calm, and he just followed Guo Jia with a smile, while Xiao Qiao was busy with a dazzling array of goods, and she had to stay for a while in front of each shop stall, and some of the gadgets she couldn't put down made it difficult for her to choose, neither wanted Guo Jia to break the bank, but couldn't bear to miss it.
Guo Jia was also generous, and the four tigers of the Xiao family who followed him would come up from time to time to pay for it.
"Childe, do you think this looks good?" Xiao Qiao picked up a green jade hairpin and asked Guo Jia.
Da Qiao saw that his sister didn't know how to restrain himself, for fear that Guo Jia would waste money again, so he secretly shook his head at his sister, with reproach in his eyes.
When Xiao Qiao saw her sister's expression, she suddenly realized it, and immediately put down the hairpin, waved her hand and said, "This is not good-looking, son, let's go." ”
Guo Jia, who couldn't cry or laugh, gestured to the Xiao family brothers behind him, and after they walked, Xiao Ren stepped forward to bargain with the store and bought the hairpin.
Although Guo Jia does not have a big business, but every year the Zhen family will send a huge amount of money, Guo Jia does not shirk, most of them are left to improve the lives of poor children, and the rest is brought with him in case of emergency.
Although this money is a gift from the Zhen family, Guo Jia is not soft at all, and he is not ashamed, you must know that the Zhen family's annual accumulation of money from wealthy families around the world with drunken immortal wine is already an astronomical amount, compared with the amount given to Guo Jia, it is a drop in the bucket.
While they were happily strolling in the market, a group of people blocked Guo Jia's way.
The leader was in a blue silk brocade robe, looking at Xiao Qiao in front of Guo Jia with a light smile, and stretched out his hand, wanting to tease Xiao Qiao's cheeks.
Xiao Qiao, who was looking at the novel clay figure in the stall next to him, didn't notice it, but was suddenly pulled behind by Guo Jia, and then looked up in confusion and found a group of uninvited guests.
Guo Jia, who was standing in front of Xiao Qiao, said lightly: "This brother, please respect yourself." ”
The person who came was Yuan Shu, he laughed indifferently, looked Guo Jia up and down, and said with a sly smile: "You are the Guo Jia who made Yuan Benchu a laughing stock in Cai's mansion yesterday?" What an arrogant boy, a cloth coat, dared to threaten the captain of the imperial court, not bad. ”
Guo Jia frowned slightly, not knowing where the other party came from, and asked tentatively, "Your Excellency?" ”
Yuan Shu saw Guo Jia's cautious and implicit retreat, laughed loudly, and said unashamedly: "Yuan Shu, the sister-in-law of the Yuan family, Guo Jia, you broke Yuan's original face, and also let my Yuan family be laughed at, I came here today to ask you for an explanation, but well, I see that the two women behind you have a bit of a posture, it is better for you to give these two women, I will give up, but recommend to the court for you, help you out, what do you think?" ”
When Xiao Qiao heard Yuan Shu ask Guo Jia for the two of them, his face turned pale with fright, the two people in Xuzhou City had taken the initiative to dedicate themselves to solving Guo Jia's danger, but at that time, the second daughter was more grateful to Guo Jia than her personal feelings, and now, she naturally did not want to leave Guo Jia for half a step.
Although Tao Qian in Xuzhou City is named Zhou Mu and is the respect of a state, at the foot of the Son of Heaven and in the Imperial City of Yanjing, the powerful figures are more powerful than Tao Qian, so no one dares to guarantee whether Guo Jia will succumb.
"Yuan Highway, hehe, are you the first to come out for Yuan? Did you hear that right? When did you and Yuan Benchu become of the same mind? Could it be that the world only knows that the Yuan family has a Yuan Benchu but does not know that there is a Yuan Highway, so you want to take this opportunity to become famous in the world? Tut, I feel honored that I Guo Jia can be the stepping stone of your Yuan Highway. ”
Before he figured out the other party's origins, Guo Jia was indeed very jealous, but when he heard that the other party was Yuan Shu, he was relaxed.
This sarcastic remark fell into Yuan Shu's ears, which naturally made him furious, and Yuan Shu, who narrowed his eyes slightly, sneered: "So, are you toasting and not eating and drinking?" ”
Guo Jia turned a blind eye to his threatening words, and smiled lightly: "Yanjing Imperial City, you dare to be presumptuous? ”
This time, Guo Jia really miscalculated.
He forgot who Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao were, he was used to doing mischief in Luoyang City when he was young, and he dared to rob the bride in public, how could he have any scruples?
However, it is indeed a little unreasonable for the teacher to be nameless, so Yuan Shu stretched out his hand and pointed at Xiao Qiao, and said sharply: "These two daughters are the maidservants of my house, Guo Jia, you dare to kidnap the two of you, and now you dare to refuse to return them, how can I Yuan Shu allow you to be presumptuous, come to someone, take down this madman for me!" ”
As Yuan Shuyi's righteous words fell, the soldiers who had long been hidden around swarmed up, and no less than 100 people surrounded Guo Jia and his party.
Guo Jia, whose pupils were shrinking, finally realized the seriousness of the matter.
Asking for big and small Qiao is just a pretext, it is difficult to draw conclusions about whether Yuan Shu is a heavy color, but he will never make such a big move for two women, and he came prepared.
It must be something else, just use the big and small Qiao to play the problem, and looking at this posture, the people brought by Yuan Shu have already shown their weapons, obviously to kill Guo Jia on the spot.
The four tigers of the Xiao family protected Guo Jia and Xiao Qiao from front to back, left and right, and the sword was out of the sheath and horizontal in front of him.
"Xiao Ren, Xiao Yi, take Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao to rush out first, notify the others, and leave Luoyang quickly." Guo Jia tilted his head and ordered in a low voice.
"Childe." Xiao Qiao's face was anxious, and he didn't want to leave him.
But Guo Jia turned around and held her face, and said softly: "Although I like your stupidity, I don't want you to be really stupid at this moment." ”
Xiao Qiao was confused when he heard it, but Da Qiao knew that the two daughters were here, and they would become a burden, so he grabbed his sister and was ready to follow Xiao Ren and Xiao Yi to fight out of the encirclement.
"Capture the thief and capture the king first."
After Guo Jia let out a low snort, Xiao Zhong and Xiao Yong all attacked and rushed straight to Yuan Shu.
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Unexpectedly, Yuan Shu had already taken precautions, drew his sword to block Xiao Zhong and Xiao Yong's attack, raised his eyes, and found that taking advantage of this gap, Xiao Ren and Xiao Yi had already covered this big and small Qiao to rush out from the rear.
But he didn't care, the person he wanted to kill was Guo Jia, the others ran away, and the family soldiers had also been instructed before that they could let anyone go, but Guo Jia's head must be left.
"Yingchuan ghost talent? Hehe, Guo Jia, do you think I, Yuan Shu, am Tao Qian's old horseman? Want to take me hostage? Hahaha, it's a dream. Yuan Shu's face was pale, and he slowly retreated, allowing his family soldiers to surround Guo Jia and Xiao Zhong and Xiao Yong.
After retreating to the periphery, Yuan Shucai's face changed, his eyes were fierce, and he said in a deep voice: "Kill!" The one who beheads Guo Jia will be rewarded with a hundred taels! ”
The paving on Chengdong Avenue has long since been removed, and the shops have closed their doors for fear of getting into trouble.
In a matter of moments, the bustling streets were depressed.
Guo Jia snatched the sword of one person, and Xiao Zhong and Xiao Yong leaned against each other, showing a full momentum, while killing and repelling the Yuan family soldiers who rushed up, and moving towards the east gate of the city.
Guo Jia, who was in a heavy siege and fought for his life, underestimated the extent of Yuan Shu's boldness, and Yuan Shu, who was a cold bystander and ruthless, also underestimated Guo Jia's bravery.
When he was young, the Eagle lackeys acted recklessly and recklessly Yuan family brothers, Yuan Benchu liked to make friends with celebrities and celebrities to gain fame, Yuan Highway was not willing to lag behind, like to accept rangers as doormen, they all said that there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, Yuan Shu is not a famous general, but there are many talents who are not weak in martial arts, these nearly 100 family soldiers are Yuan Shu carefully selected martial arts extraordinary people, I thought that under the thunder, Guo Jia must be splashed with blood five steps, but I didn't expect that the stubborn Guo Jia not only has the power of self-preservation, but also killed a lot of Yuan Shu's soldiers, and the corpse is lying in a pool of blood, Dongmen Street flowed out of a bloody road.
Xiao Zhong Xiao Yong's martial arts are strong, killing Yuan Shu's soldiers in fear, the two of them are at ease, and there is no damage, but although Guo Jia's side has not yet shown defeat, there are many minor injuries left on his body, and there are several tears on the white sleeve robe, oozing a lot of blood staining the placket red, but Guo Jia does not frown, his face is as usual, he wields his sword as before, and Xiao Zhong and Xiao Yong move towards the Chengdong Gate while killing the enemy.
"How hard is this guy?" Yuan Shu muttered secretly, seeing that there were a lot of casualties among the soldiers, I am afraid that it will be difficult to besiege Guo Jia in a while, and if Guo Jia is allowed to run away at that time, there will be endless troubles, not only will Yuan Shao not be able to fulfill the agreement, but he will also become the target of Guo Jia's revenge.
"Go and ask the eastern lieutenant of Luoyang to come and suppress the thief, and say that Guo Jiaxing assassinated General Ben." Yuan Shu sent a man to move the rescuers.
The eastern lieutenant of Luoyang was originally in charge of public security in the east of the city, so he invited Guo Jia to besiege and kill him.
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Xiao Ren Xiao Yi escorted Xiao Qiao back to Xun Yu's mansion, and after informing everyone of the news that Guo Jia was besieged in the east of the city, Xiao Ren Xiao Yi obeyed Guo Jia's order, and immediately prepared a carriage and horse to go out of the city from the north gate, and then detoured to the east of Luoyang to meet Guo Jia.
But Xiao Ren and Xiao Yi couldn't command Gan Ning Zhou Tai and these people, Gan Ning Zhou Tai, Xu Chu Dianwei heard that Guo Jia was besieged, and immediately rushed out of the mansion and rushed to the east of the city, and Zhang Liao Gaoshun was one step faster than them, after all, not only Guo Jia was besieged, but also their righteous brothers Xiao Zhong and Xiao Yong were also besieged.
Xiao Ren and Xiao Yi, who had no choice but to let them go to the rescue, could only start preparing to leave Luoyang, Xun Yu also assisted after learning about it, and prepared a carriage and a few fast horses outside the house, Xiao Ren invited the overwhelmed Diao Chan to get into the car, and Xiao Qiao also packed up and got into the carriage, although he was worried about Guo Jia, but at this time he could only silently pray to God to bless him with safety.
There was a rush inside and outside Xun Yu's mansion, no one noticed that in the remote place on the corner of the street outside the mansion, a figure was hidden in the dark, staring at the scene of Xun Yu's mansion and frowning secretly, the man hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one outside the mansion, and quietly climbed into an unmanned carriage outside the mansion.