Chapter Eighty-Four: The Xiao Family in Yuzhou
The ghost shadow got three ghost-faced dove's eggs from Yunxiao's hands, and he was very happy, before Yunxiao gave him two powerful ghosts as helpers, and now he gave him the eggs of the ghost-faced dove, which invisibly increased his strength a lot. ≥≧
"Mother, let's leave Lijia Town with the child!"
Li Bilian thought about it and felt that Li Jiazhen really didn't mean anything to herself, so she agreed with her son's decision.
"Mother, I'll walk around with you, okay?"
"Xiao'er, mother listens to you!"
Yunxiao accompanied her mother, Jing'er marched all the way to Wuyang City in Yuzhou, and secretly explained to them about herself, Li Bilian and Jing'er knew that this matter was very important, and since then they have not mentioned today's matter.
The Xiao family in Yuzhou is one of the four major local families, and Xiao Yan of Yuzhou is the younger brother of Xiao Yi, the head of the family. At that time, Xiao Yan and his eldest brother Xiao Yi handed over the three-year-old Xiao Jing to the servants in order to snatch the position of the head of the family from their cousin, and threw them to a foreign land.
Since the two brothers learned that their niece Xiao Jing did not die and became the county lord of Zhennan Wangfu, they immediately panicked, so they secretly killed Jing'er's father, and then drove Jing'er's mother, who was crying blind, out of Xiao's family.
Yuzhou did not belong to the place under the rule of the king of Zhennan, and after becoming the pastor of Yuzhou, Xiao Yan gradually settled down and was no longer afraid of the powerful king of Zhennan.
Wuyang is the largest capital city of the Xiao family, and it is also the most prosperous capital city in Yuzhou. On this day, Yunxiao accompanied her mother, and Jing'er finally came to Wuyang.
Outside the west gate of Wuyang Mansion, there is a middle-aged man named Zhao Zheng who is a well-known local hunter, strong and strong in martial arts. He is nearly forty years old and has not yet started a family, and since he met the blind eunuch twelve years ago, he has been doing his best to take care of this poor woman.
"Zhao Zheng, although the eunuch is beautiful, she can't be your wife, why are you trying so hard to take care of her?"
Zhao Zheng's stall was lined with several wolf skins and fox skins, several herbs and some animal flesh and bones. Next to Zhao Zheng's stall is an old man, who specializes in selling some small items of needles and threads.
Zhao Zheng heard the old man's words, and smiled honestly: "There will always be bumps and bumps in people's lives, the eunuch has a hard life, she was originally the daughter-in-law of the Xiao family, but she was kicked out of the house by two uncles and brothers, I, Zhao Zheng, just can't get used to their Xiao family's domineering and untrustworthy approach!"
Eunniang is Jing'er's biological mother, fortunately Zhao Zheng saved her on a snowy day, otherwise she would have died a long time ago. Zhao Zheng offended the Xiao family because he took in the eunuch, and was calculated by the Xiao family to lose his home and shop in the city, and finally the stubborn Zhao Zheng took the eunuch to live outside the city, and finally relied on a tiger hunted by nine deaths, so he rebuilt the house outside the city and pressed the family.
In the past ten years, the eunuch has always been grateful to Zhao Zheng, who is righteous and bold, originally planned to marry Zhao Zheng, but thinking that she was blind, she rejected Zhao Zheng.
On this day, Zhao Zheng set up a stall, asked the old man next to him to take care of the eunuch, and then went up the mountain with the knife and fork of the hunt.
Yunxiao accompanied her mother to the foot of Feihu Mountain outside the west gate of Wuyang Mansion to rest, and when Jing'er accompanied Yunxiao's mother along the path on the side of the mountain to a nearby small pavilion to rest, she suddenly heard the roar of a beast from the mountainside, and at the same time the sound of someone shouting came.
"Xiao'er, there are beasts in this mountain, go and see if anyone has encountered a beast!"
"Yes, mother!"
Jing'er looked at the kind-hearted Li Bilian and admired the other party's helpfulness very much. Yunxiao ordered the ghost shadow to stay behind to protect his mother and Jing'er, and walked like a fly alone, and soon came to the halfway point of Feihu Mountain, only to see a big man dancing with a hunting knife in his hand and fighting three hungry wolves.
The hunting knife in the hand of the big man is very smart, the knife light is shining, and he flies out with a knife, cutting a hungry wolf in two, and when the other two hungry wolves are waiting for the opportunity to sneak attack the big man, the big man turns around, and the hunting knife in his hand is split out one after another, and finally the two hungry wolves are also killed in an instant.
Yunxiao was about to cheer, and suddenly, a gust of wind blew in the mountain, and a majestic and colorful tiger appeared in front of Zhao Zheng. Zhao Zheng gasped in the face of the tiger, didn't care about wiping the sweat from his forehead, and immediately danced his knife to prepare to face the tiger.
The tiger stared coldly at the hunter not far in front of him, a terrifying tiger roar came out of his bloody mouth, Zhao Zheng faced the tiger, and couldn't help but feel a little weak in his heart, since the last time he hunted the tiger, the ancestral treasure knife was broken, this time he only carried an ordinary steel knife, whether he could kill the tiger in front of him he had no confidence at all.
The colorful tiger finally couldn't hold it back, roared, and pounced on Zhao Zheng, Zhao Zheng hurriedly turned to one side, and the steel knife in his hand went straight to the tiger's abdomen, but he didn't expect the tiger's degree to be too fast, and the sharp tiger claws suddenly tore a hole in his shoulder.
Zhao Zheng felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, knowing that he was injured, he hurriedly stabilized his mind, did not rush to attack, the tiger turned around very quickly, and pounced on Zhao Zheng again. Zhao Zheng's body was short, and the one in his hand just reached and slashed against the tiger's belly, and suddenly the tiger's belly was cut open by a steel knife and killed immediately.
"Your Excellency!"
Zhao Zheng bandaged his wounds, heard someone talking, turned his head, and saw a noble son walking in front of him, and hurriedly stood up and saluted:
"Thanks to Gongzi's false praise, Zhao Zheng doesn't dare to be!"
"Your Excellency is so skilled, why don't you win a background on the battlefield? Hunting in the mountains and forests is really a waste of your Excellency's good skills!"
"Childe is a foreigner, I don't know, the rules of the army in this state are very different from those in other states, no one recommends him, plus there is no money to bribe his boss, even if he is in the army, he is just a firehead army, and he is also deducted from his salary, and the army really has no future for a hunter like me!"
"Oh, I see!"
Zhao Zheng looked at the pensive noble son and stopped talking, bent down to tie the three wolves killed in front of him together, then carried the tiger on his shoulders, put the three wolves on the dead tiger with his feet, and then strode down the mountain.
"Yuzhou Mu dared to blatantly ask for bribes from those who served in the army, and openly withheld bribes, this time I will definitely take this opportunity to vent a bad breath for Jing'er!"
Yunxiao thought about it, left Feihu Mountain, and continued to Wuyang Mansion with his mother and Jing'er, who had already rested. The three carriages, escorted by guards who had changed their identities, arrived at a tea shop outside the west gate of Wuyang Mansion at noon.
The tea shop is located at the intersection of people coming and going, the business is excellent, in addition to selling tea, but also selling wine and rice, Yunxiao accompanied his mother and Jing'er just walked into the tea shop and sat down, and listened to the dispute of several people outside the tea shop.
"Zhao Zheng, don't be embarrassed, you robbed my son-in-law's tiger, we are willing to pay money to buy it back, we have already given you enough face, don't toast and don't eat and drink!"
Zhao Zheng confronted five servants in front of his stall, holding a steel knife in his hand, and five guys dressed as servants, his stall had been overturned, and the tiger and wolf he had just caught were placed at his feet.
The servants of the Xiao family planned to buy and sell by force, and they had to buy the tiger worth thousands of gold for only five taels of silver, which made Zhao Zheng's breath really difficult to swallow, so he had a dispute with these Xiao family's dogs.
"This Xiao family is becoming more and more bullying, since the Xiao family became the pastor of Yuzhou, the life of our people is getting more and more difficult!"
After Yunxiao ordered the wine and food for his mother and Jing'er, he got up and left the tea shop, and came to the place where Zhao Zheng and the servants of the Xiao family confronted each other, and heard the lively people on the roadside talking.
"Hmph, the Xiao family is simply lawless in Yuzhou, whenever they look at things, they can't buy them and grab them, it's worse than bandits and robbers!"
"Buy, is that called buying? Shan Yue, I gave me a hundred taels of silver in the hundred acres of fertile land outside the city!"
"I am also the ancestral treasure of the family, Zhengtai auction gave me an estimate of two thousand taels of silver, and in the end only gave me fifty taels, I reasoned with them for a few words, and I couldn't get out of bed for more than half a year!"
The more Yunxiao listened, the more angry he became, he didn't expect that the Xiao family had become a cancer in Yuzhou. Although Yuzhou is not a place under the jurisdiction of the king of Zhennan, the king of Zhennan, who has the sword of the Son of Heaven, enjoys the privilege of patrolling the hunt on behalf of the sky.
Several servants of the Xiao family saw that Zhao Zheng had a tough attitude, one of them secretly gave a look, and the others hurriedly blocked this person behind him. Zhao Zheng was about to continue to reason with the Xiao family's servants, when suddenly three crossbow arrows flew out of the Xiao family's servants.
Zhao Zheng was caught off guard, and only had time to knock two of the crossbow arrows away with the just arrived in his hand, but he was shot in the chest by the last crossbow arrow, and the blood flowed immediately.
Yunxiao watched coldly from the sidelines, only to see that these evil servants robbed the wolf and the tiger and were about to leave, and the onlookers next to them showed unbearable expressions one by one, and some even cried with sadness.
"Stay and wait for the dog's head!"
Yunxiao couldn't help it, he roared, the sword light flashed, and the servants of the Xiao family suddenly fell to the ground and died on the spot. When the onlookers saw this scene, not only did they not flee in fright, but applauded one by one.
Yunxiao walked a few steps closely and came to Zhao Zheng, and now all the black blood flowing from Zhao Zheng's chest was there, and it was obvious that the crossbow arrows were poisonous. Yunxiao saw that Zhao Zheng's breath was about to run out, and hurriedly took out the poison spirit bead and sucked the poison in Zhao Zheng's body.
Zhao Zheng opened his eyes in a daze, and now he met the noble son standing in front of him on the mountainside of Feihu Mountain not long ago, knowing that the other party saved him, and wanted to get up to thank him, but was stopped by the eunuch.
"Zhao Zheng, you have a good rest, I will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation of the things here!"
Yunxiao was about to leave, when suddenly a rapid sound of horses' hooves came, followed by more than a dozen knights, surrounded by a fat-headed, big-eared, pot-bellied guy appeared in front of Yunxiao.
"Come on, take down this guy who stole the treasures in the mansion for Master Ben!"
Xiao Zhi is the eldest son of Xiao Yi, the head of the Xiao family, who is treacherous and cunning, insatiable, and any sneak attack that he fancy, either buys it by force or robs it by force.
The Xiao family's family was about to make a move, and suddenly some very athletic warriors broke into the crowd, and in an instant, Xiao Zhi and the family were tied up and thrown to the ground one by one, and all the horses they got up were given to the people who were bullied by the Xiao family.
Xiao Yi was preparing to entertain the distinguished guests from the palace with his younger brother Xiao Yan at home, when he suddenly received a report from the servant and hurriedly led someone to hurry outside the west gate.
"Say, how did you lead people to rob adults of their property, how did you bully men and women!"
Although Xiao Zhi was caught by a stranger he didn't know, how could he, who had always been strong, be afraid of the clouds.
"Where did you come out of nowhere, dare to take care of the uncle's affairs, don't let the uncle go quickly, be careful that you don't leave Yuzhou alive!"
Seeing Xiao Zhi's arrogance and strong attitude, the ghost shadow walked up to Yunxiao and bowed and said:
"Master, this guy handed over to his subordinates, and his subordinates promised to let him speak!"
"Okay, I'll leave it to you, be quick!"
The ghost's next means, seeing the surrounding onlookers, couldn't help but feel numb, only to see the ghost take out a sharp knife from his arms, pierce a few holes in Xiao Zhi's body, and then cut off a few pieces of Xiao Zhi's scalp, and at the same time took out a handful of salt and sprinkled it on Xiao Zhi's wound.
After that, he took out a hook similar to the one used to hang meat in the butcher shop, hung the meat on Xiao Zhi's body, tied it to two horses, and dragged it on the spot, and constantly sprinkled a lot of nails on the road.
As the horses dragged him, Xiao Zhi's body was soon covered with nails, and at the same time, the ghost shadow also had Xiao Zhi whipped with barbed leather whips in his hands. Because the method used by the ghost shadow is very ingenious, it can not only severely punish Xiao Zhi, but it will not let Xiao Zhi die.
"Uncle, I admit defeat!"
Xiao Zhi finally lowered his head, and when the ghost heard his words, he was still dissatisfied, and raised his hand to give Xiao Zhi a slap, which immediately knocked Xiao Zhi's molars flying, and his face was swollen like a steamed bun.
Seeing that Xiao Zhi only had the qi to go out and not to enter, Yunxiao performed a healing technique to temporarily save Xiao Zhi's life, and then the ghost shadow concocted the same method to the Xiao family's family members, and tortured these people to die and live.
Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi felt that when they were outside the West Gate, Xiao Zhi and the family had been tortured to the point that they were not looking good, and their appearance was extremely miserable. Xiao Yan was about to send troops to capture Yunxiao and Ghost, when Ghost suddenly appeared in front of Xiao Yan and the two brothers with the Sword of Heaven.
Xiao Yan was shocked when he saw the silver shining sword in the ghost's hand and engraved with exquisite ornaments, hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted, came to Yunxiao, knelt on the ground, and shouted in his mouth: Long live long live.
"Yuzhou Mu Xiao Yan visited Lord Qincha, I don't know when Lord Qincha came to Wuyang Mansion, Xiao Yan has lost his welcome, please Lord Qincha Haihan!"
"Come on, arrest Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi brothers!"
The ghost saw Yunxiao nodding at him, and immediately ordered the guards around him to pull out Xiao Yan's official uniform and press it in front of Shizi Yunxiao.
"Xiao Yan, in front of you is His Royal Highness the Prince of Zhennan, what you have done in Yuzhou, our Royal Highness the Prince already knows, what crime should you be guilty of?"
When Xiao Yan and his brothers heard the ghost's words, they were so frightened that they almost fainted, if it was other Qincha adults who came to Yuzhou, Xiao Yan still had a way to save the day, and now he heard that it was the prince of Zhennan who came to Yuzhou, and he immediately knew that things were not so simple...... (To be continued.) )8