When Li Jiao'er was full of thoughts, Zheng Xiaoxi, who was wearing a gray shirt, hurried over, looked around as he ran, and saw the embarrassed master and servant.

He rushed over quickly and said anxiously: "Big sister! What's going on? ”

"Sixth brother," Li Jiao'er saw her close acquaintance, her tense emotions relaxed, she almost cried, and smiled reluctantly, "Have you heard?" ”

Zheng Xiaoxi saw the blood splashed on her clothes, and her heart was even more panicked, she didn't care about the street, looked up and down and asked, "Injured?" Is it heavy or not? ”

Li Jiao'er shook her head: "It's okay, you can still go by yourself." Daddy knows, too? ”

"I went to consult with the master, the master hasn't come back yet, I'm back to grab the medicine, seeing that you haven't come back yet, and I heard from the neighbor that something happened here, but it scared me to death......" Zheng Xiaoxi saw that although the two of them were embarrassed, they didn't look like they were injured, so they were a little relieved, and chattered, "Go home quickly, I'll give you medicine and suppress the shock." ”

Li Jiao'er nodded.

Zheng Xiaoxi escorted the two of them away, and this party looked back at the brown-clothed man at the mouth of the alley.

Everyone in the capital knows that the brown-clothed men are the sergeants of the city gate battalion, and they do not wear armor when they enter the city, but only wear brown clothes, and serve as the guards of the capital.

A few days ago, he heard that after Xue Zhen returned to Beijing, he temporarily took over the responsibility of guarding the city gate.

Is that him? Saved the big sister? Zheng Xiaoxi suspected that there was something in it, and wanted to ask Li Jiaoer, but it could be seen that she didn't belong to her mind, so she hesitated to ask.

"Sixth brother." Li Jiaoer suddenly spoke.

"What?"

"Don't ask, don't ask me anything," she said softly, "what I said that day was true, true." ”

"Okay, don't ask, let's go home."

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In this compartment, Li Jiaoer returned to Renxin Hall and had no sleep all night.

Over there, Xue Zhen, who wanted to go back to the barracks to interrogate the ruffian, just walked to the city gate, but was chased by the Hou Mansion and asked him to go back.

"Shizi, the county lord is back, and he is in a hurry to call you back." The little guy ran out of breath and said breathlessly.

Mother is back?

Xue Zhen was unexpected, he also thought that his mother would avoid the queen's Qianqiu birthday with the eldest princess, so as not to get into trouble.

But it is not surprising to think of what the emperor asked him in the morning.

So, Xue Zhen arranged for the affairs of the army, strictly ordered him not to let anyone interrogate the ruffian, and went home himself.

However, as soon as he walked to the Chunhui Hall where the lord of Xiaohui lived, he had not yet entered the courtyard gate, and first saw the courtyard kneeling full of servants and housekeepers in the courtyard.

When they saw him returning, they buried their heads in the ground, not daring to look at him.

Xue Zhen glanced at the courtyard and walked into the main hall with the curtain.

Lord Xiaohui was walking around the hall, while Mrs. Chen and the two servant women who had been arranged for her were kneeling on the ground.

The two servant women pressed their foreheads to the ground and did not dare to say a word.

And Mrs. Chen was crying and wronged, and when she saw Xue Zhen coming back, she immediately rushed over and ran Xue Zhen's legs, crying:

"Shizi! The son of the world save me! ”

Xue Zhen, who had just stood firmly, was hugged by her, stumbling under his feet and almost falling.

As soon as he frowned, the lord of Xiaohui County opposite saw that Mrs. Chen dared to manipulate people like this in person, and he was even more furious, and shouted: "What a slut! ”

As he spoke, the man had already rushed over, raised his hand high, and struck him hard......

Xue Zhen had a mouthful.

The county lord of filial piety is not a cowardly person like Li Jiao'er, nor is he a maid like Yuntuan who only has some stupid strength. She is the royal county lord, the eldest princess's favorite daughter, with a spicy and pungent temper, she loves to ride a horse and pull a bow since she was a child, and she is with the prince, and she is taught by the guards in the inner court to ride and shoot kung fu, and she boasts that she does not let her eyebrows.

Therefore, her slap was so hard and hard that Xue Zhen tilted his head, and three finger marks immediately appeared on his face, and his mouth was bitten and bloodied.

If it weren't for Xue Zhen's many years of experience in the army, and his lower plate was extremely stable, he would have been scared, vomited and stuffed by his heart all day, and he would have been slapped on the ground by the lord of Xiaohui County.

"You've done a good job!" Lord Xiaohui was still angry, pointed to his nose and shouted angrily, and even two wrinkles appeared on his well-maintained face.

The maids of the lord of filial piety on both sides hurriedly came over to dissuade them.

Mrs. Chen, who was still holding Xue Zhen's legs, was startled, hurriedly let go of him, and shrank to the side.

What's going on with this county lord? Although Fang Cai scolded himself for scolding ugly, he didn't do anything to her.

Fight up the son.

The Xue family is up and down, how can they act differently from others?

Xue Zhen rolled his chin, and there was a salty taste of blood in his mouth.

He wanted to break the can, he was disgusting today, and he couldn't get better.

He endured the nausea, swallowed the blood with spittle, and arched his hand: "Mother has a safe journey." Why did my mother come back today? ”

Lord Xiaohui did listen to the words of the eldest princess's mother and went to pray for blessings and avoid disasters, but the letter from the palace made her realize that her son was afraid of disaster, and she was worried, so she came back early.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she went home, she didn't ask about the court, but she first heard that Xue Zhen led an outer room that gave birth to her eldest son home, and ran away angrily with the daughter-in-law she was marrying!

She suddenly forgot about any major affairs in the court, and angrily asked Chen Niangzi to be escorted for interrogation, and hurried to ask Xue Zhen to come back.

Although the maids around her advised her to calm down, after all, the wood was already in the boat, so what was the use of her being angry?

But as soon as she saw that Mrs. Chen dared to hold Xue Zhen's legs, she couldn't suppress her anger.

Her weak daughter-in-law, who has no interest, has never hugged her son!

Blame her for not raising her son well, so she made such an ugly thing!

So she didn't think much about it, so she slapped Xue Zhen first.

But after the fight, the county lord of Xiaohui looked at the scars on his face, and regretted that he had hit him hard, and he wanted to comfort him, but Xue Zhen was still that joyless, sad, and unfazed.

The anger that the lord of Xiaohui had just retreated from was brought up by him again.

He didn't know what was wrong!

It's just that she is the lord of the county in the end, and she is angry when she beats her son, and if she beats too much, she will become a shrew, so she only asks Xue Zhen:

"What's wrong with the daughter-in-law? Even if her mother is not your grandfather's savior, just say that she is gentle, demure, decent, and good-looking, what are your shortcomings? Whatever dirty and ugly, you pull back! Are you happy to force your daughter-in-law back to her parents' house? How are you such a child?! If you want your brother to still ......"

Xue Zhen only listened at first, but when his mother talked about his dead brother, the nightmarish stench and the residual smell of blood in his mouth instantly rushed to the top of his skull.

He almost threw up on the spot.

"Mother," he immediately interrupted her count, "Mother came back from afar, let's rest first, there are still things to be busy in the army." ”

The lord of Xiaohui remembered the eldest son of his husband who died in vain, and he said that he was going to cry, but he didn't want him to interrupt himself, and he was even more sad and angry in his heart, and pointed at him and said, "You ......"

Xue Zhen looked directly into his mother's gaze, not contradicting or admitting his mistakes.

The lord of Xiaohui County was not angry, and simply ordered: "Okay, good, now that the world is older, I can't control you." Come on, lock this slut in the woodroom for me! Bring that child to me, Xue Zhongjing, when will you bring your daughter-in-law back, and when will I release this slut! If you can't get your daughter-in-law back, I, I, I won't eat! ”

With that, he turned around and went back to the inner room.

Xue Zhen was left behind, and rubbed the corners of his forehead with a headache.