Chapter 360
After Situ Qiao left Ailao Mountain, he lived in Lingnan for more than a year, and learned a lot of techniques of organ information and detoxification with poison from the Yao, Li and other tribes scattered throughout Lingnan, so he went all the way north. He heard that the Huajia in Beijing is a famous lock-making artist in the world, and the skill of unlocking and lock-making is unparalleled in the world, so he went to the capital.
The Hua family has opened lock shops in various places, and the general number is located in the south of the capital. Situ Qiao first went to the general number of the Huajia lock shop to be a buddy, and after revealing a few hands to open the lock, the shopkeeper was surprised, so he sent him to the lock-making shop of the Hua family, and within half a month, he became a small team leader from a helper. Situ Qiao was originally a master, and within a few days, he alarmed the Hua family, saying that there was a lock-making master in the shop. The old lady of the Hua family personally came forward and set up five problems, but all of them were solved by Situ Qiao. The old lady was overjoyed, so she accepted Situ Qiao as a closed disciple.
Situ Qiao followed Mrs. Hua and learned a lot of ways to set up and crack the news of the organs. It's just that there are some secret techniques, but the Hua family is a son but not a daughter. Although Situ Qiao won the favor of the old lady Hua, he was unable to practice these secret techniques. It's just that Mrs. Hua felt that Situ Qiao's talent was rare, so she asked a few sons to discuss. Everyone thinks that Situ Qiao is ingenious and extremely talented in organ information, even if the Hua family does not pass on the ancestral secret techniques to this person, he will study them hard, and these secret techniques will inevitably be mastered by him in the future. At that time, this person may create a "Situ Gate" to confront the Hua family, and the Hua family will suffer a big loss. At that time, some people suggested that Situ Qiao should be killed to get rid of the trouble. It's just that Mrs. Hua and several other Hua family members don't agree, after all, the Hua family is a well-known family in the capital, and it is also related to officialdom. It's just that everyone is not willing to let Situ Qiao go, and in the end, a Hua family came up with an idea, saying that the eldest daughter of the third eldest of the Hua family has not yet been proposed, so she might as well marry Situ Qiao. However, after the two got married, Situ Qiao had to join the Hua family, and if he had children in the future, he would also have to take Hua as his surname. If Situ Qiao doesn't comply, he will think again.
After everyone discussed, the fourth child of the Hua family, who was the most articulate, went to Situ Qiao to propose marriage. The eldest sister of the Hua family was twenty-five years old at the time, and she was an out-and-out old girl. The reason why she can't get married is because she has been stubborn and abnormal since she was a child, and she was born with an ugly face, and the Hua family has some rather strange rules. Later, the eldest sister was old and knew that no one wanted to marry her, so she was depressed and had an even more eccentric temperament. not only beat chickens and scolding dogs, insulting the subordinates in the family, but even her parents and old lady Hua, as well as uncles and aunts, there is no one who is not ridiculed and abused by her. Later, no one in the Hua family was not afraid of her. Those maids and servants were insulted and beaten by the eldest sister of the Hua family, so they arranged her outside, and finally made half of the capital know that the eldest sister of the Hua family is a shrew, and no one dares to come to the door to propose marriage.
When Hua Laosi approached Situ Qiao to say goodbye, he had already prepared for the worst. Who knew that as soon as he opened his mouth, Situ Qiao actually agreed. Hua Laosi was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly ran back to tell Mrs. Hua and a few brothers. When everyone in the Hua family heard the news, of course, they celebrated with their foreheads. First, he was able to marry the old girl who had a headache in the house, and since then there has been one less heart disease. The second is to be able to tie Situ Bridge to the Hua family, so that no one in the world can better than the Hua family in the art of organ information, so that the status of the Hua family will not fall, which is a happy event.
According to the meaning of the old lady Hua, I originally wanted to choose a good day and an auspicious day to hold a happy event for Situ Qiao and the eldest sister of the Hua family. The second child of the Hua family hurriedly persuaded that he was most afraid of long nights and dreams in this matter, and once Situ Qiao changed his hexagram, this matter would not be easy to do. You have to strike while the iron is hot, and cook raw rice to mature rice, even if Situ Qiao regrets it, it is too late. Everyone nodded yes, and the old lady Hua also suddenly realized, so she set the next day to recruit Situ Bridge into the house.
The eldest sister of the Hua family recruited her son-in-law into the capital, and it spread throughout most of the capital that night, and many people asked who this guy who was not afraid of death was, and the first time the word Situ Qiao spread all over Beijing was that night. On the second day, the two got married, and the old lady Hua was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut, and after the wedding banquet, she specially called Situ Qiao over, and told him to be tolerant of the eldest sister of the Hua family, not to quarrel, let alone do anything, otherwise it would be difficult to clean up if there was an incident. At that time, Situ Qiao thought that the old lady Hua was worried that he had martial arts, and he didn't know the severity of his shot, and injured the eldest sister of the Hua family, so he agreed. It wasn't until three days later when he went to see Mrs. Hua with a face full of scars that he knew the deep meaning of Mrs. Hua's words.
It's just that although the eldest sister of the Hua family has a short temper, she is not an unreasonable person, although the husband and wife have been fighting and making trouble since they got married, their lives can be regarded as happy. It's just that after the old lady Hua passed all the information and secret techniques of the Hua family to Situ Qiao, no one in the Hua family could compete with Situ Qiao. Later, even the Criminal Department and Jinyiwei often came to ask Situ Qiao for help. The Forbidden City has been renovated several times, but the locks of the large and small halls have all been handed over to Situ Bridge to make. For a while, Situ Qiao's reputation rose and suppressed all the people in the Hua family.
When Mrs. Hua was alive, she was very fond of Situ Qiao, and with his fame and status, he was still able to suppress the people of the Hua family. It's just that after the death of the old lady Hua, the brothers of the Hua family were extremely jealous of Situ Qiao, a person with a foreign surname, and at this time, they had no scruples, so they even had a lot of tricks. First of all, Situ Qiao's position as the head of the lock-making shop was removed and replaced by the second child of the Hua family. Later, he relieved Situ Qiao of teaching the Hua family's children the secret art of information and information, so that he could no longer enter and leave the Hua family's library. In the end, Situ Qiao was completely reduced to the follower of the children of the Hua family, and he no longer had half of his power.
It stands to reason that with the temperament of the eldest sister of the Hua family, if people of the same clan bully Situ Qiao like this, she will definitely make a lot of trouble. It's just that Situ Qiao has never been keen on power, and he just devotes himself to studying the news of the agency, so he is not the head of the team, but it doesn't matter to him. It's just that he can't enter and leave the Hua family's library, which makes him regretful. It's just that although he doesn't pay much attention to the Hua family's exclusion of him, he is not completely unsophisticated, knowing that if these things are known by the eldest sister of the Hua family, he will definitely quarrel up and down the house. Fortunately, at this time, the two of them had moved out of the Hua family's mansion and set up their own doors, and he still went to the Hua family's lock shop every day, even if he sat for a day, he would never talk too much. The eldest sister of the Hua family did not go out of the door, and she didn't know anything about Situ Qiao's suppression in the Hua family.
This time, the Hua family heard that someone was fighting the idea of the imperial tomb, although they knew that this matter was extremely risky, but everyone in the Hua family was a master of organ news, and naturally knew that the mechanism set up by the imperial tomb was extremely powerful, and it could be said that only the world's first-class skilled craftsmen could participate. If you can see it with your own eyes, it will be good for the Hua family. It was the head of the Yihua family who thought about it again and again, and decided to send a master to sneak into the imperial tomb. The first master of the Hua family's machine technique is Situ Qiao, if everyone is in danger in the imperial mausoleum, there is no Situ Bridge to accompany him, but I am afraid that there will be a big risk. It was the patriarch of the Hua family who decided that Situ Qiao would also go with the masters of the Hua family, but he had to obey the orders of the children of the Hua family along the way, and he was not allowed to make claims.
Situ Qiao has mastered the skills of the Hua family, and he has long been tired of living in the capital, but he is very happy to get this opportunity. The eldest sister of the Hua family originally did not allow him to leave the house, but the head of the Hua family came to the door in person and asked Situ Qiao to go out with more than a dozen masters of the Hua family, and the eldest sister of the Hua family agreed to come down.
When everyone in the Hua family arrived at the imperial tomb, they found that the inside and outside of the imperial tomb were heavily guarded, and it was not as they heard when they came. Everyone discussed it for a while, and felt that it was really unwilling to return empty-handed like this, so they took advantage of the night to sneak into the imperial tomb. As soon as he arrived at the gatehouse, he was discovered by the guards who were patrolling the night, and he was surrounded by groups. The people of the Hua family originally didn't take these soldiers to heart, but they didn't know that after the accident in the imperial tomb, they sent a group of brocade guards from the capital, and when they saw someone sneaking into the imperial mausoleum, these brocade guards immediately took action. Although the Hua family is not weak in martial arts, they are not the opponents of these Jinyi Guards, and they escaped all the way out of the Imperial Tomb, and four Hua family members have died at the hands of Jinyi Guards on the way.
Fortunately, the children of the Hua family are all proficient in the news of the agency, and when they fled, they used even means to lay down the ecstasy array, and finally got rid of the Jinyi Wei master who was chasing hard. It's just that when they fled, in order to reduce the target, everyone decided to abscond separately, and made an appointment to get rid of Jinyiwei and return to the capital on their own.
Situ Qiao was traveling with two children of the Hua family, and pretended to be injured in the leg halfway. The two children of the Hua family didn't want to go with him, but when they saw that he was injured and couldn't escape, they were afraid that they would implicate themselves, so they didn't say a word and slipped away. Situ Qiao was overjoyed when he saw the two of them leaving on their own, and immediately went to a nearby farmhouse to steal a piece of clothes, and swaggered away from Babao Lotus Mountain.
Along the way, he really jumped with the sea and fish, the sky was free for birds to fly, he could eat if he wanted, and he could drink if he wanted, neither the fierce accusations of the eldest sister of the Hua family, nor the exclusion of everyone in the Hua family, he only felt that in his life, he had never been so at ease, and he never wanted to return to the Hua family in the capital and live that dark day.
On that day, he was working in a town when he happened to meet people from the Huashan faction passing by. Although Liu Yong has been separated for many years, Liu Yong's internal strength is profound, but his appearance has not changed, and Situ Qiao recognized Liu Yong at a glance. If it weren't for Liu Yong's gift of silver to let him go, after sending him to the government, robbing the tomb was a felony, even if he was not beheaded, he was afraid that he would die in prison. Situ Qiao thanked Liu Yong for his kindness, so he stepped forward to meet him. Under the talk, the two lamented that the world was unpredictable. At this time, Situ Qiao also had some fame in the rivers and lakes, and Liu Yong was also happy for him. When Situ Qiao heard that someone was challenging Sha Yiming, the lord of Shajiabao Fort, he immediately begged Liu Yong to take him with him to watch this rare master duel in the martial arts. Unexpectedly, when he walked down this way, in this cave, Situ Qiao's skills happened to be able to be used.
It was precisely because Situ Qiao had such a background that after he walked into this secret passage, he found that this place had been set up by a master of mechanical arts, and he was extremely excited, just like a martial arts master saw an opponent who could compete with him, and he hated to tell everyone everything he knew. Hearing Murong Danyan's inquiry, he happened to scratch his itch, and his face was radiant, and he said to Murong Danyan: "This river is the root of all the secrets in this cave!"
(End of chapter)