The Zhao family in Tongzhou is also a famous family for a century. Although not everyone has been an official from generation to generation, but the family is there. Even if no one is an official, looking at their family's reputation, Tongzhou officials in all dynasties will give them some face. The head of the family is Zhao Shoucheng, and his name is straightforward. The elders' appeal to him is very simple, just keep it.
But Zhao Shoucheng didn't think so himself. He was the eldest son. He learned the six arts of a gentleman since he was a child, and read the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, and considered himself talented.
A gentleman, he can do it, a villain, he can do it too.
He ignored the objections of his family and gave Jiao Er to Lu Hui.
Lu Hui only thought that Jiaoer was his maid, but only the Zhao family knew that Jiaoer was his daughter.
Jiao'er was his youngest daughter who was only forty years old. She was beautiful and beautiful since she was a child. He piled her up with brocade clothes and jade food, and also showed her the difference between the rich and the poor and the poor. Jiao'er also knew that she would eventually have one. Hikari becomes the knife in his father's hand, slashing at an unknown enemy.
No one would have thought that Zhao Shoucheng would give his biological daughter to someone else as a concubine, even if this other person was Lu Hui, the governor of Tongzhou.
"Madam!" Jiao Er fell to her knees and walked to the feet of the mistress, with tears streaming down her face, "My lord... my lord!"
The mistress helped her up and sighed heavily.
At this point, the mistress will not give up a concubine now, her husband is dead, but the crisis in Tongzhou is still there.
The mistress said to Jiao Er, "Why don't you persuade the adults?"
Jiao Er's head was knocked on the ground, she sobbed: "I persuade, the adults will not listen."
Where can a woman outshine a man
The mistress sighed again.
Her husband died, she was not sad, just anxious.
She also hated why her husband left without even leaving a son.
Even if it was a concubine
Whether it is a maid or a concubine, it is good to have a son!
Whether he left or died on the woman's belly, but now Tongzhou looks like, should she be asked to preside over the overall situation
The mistress took a deep breath and said to Jiao Er, "I remember, you were originally from the Zhao family?"
The cold sweat on Jiao Er's forehead fell, and she said quickly, "The slave only knows that the food is given by the mistress, and the clothes are worn by the mistress. It has nothing to do with the Zhao family!"
Mistress: "Go and ask someone to invite the master of the Zhao family. Don't divulge your husband's affairs. Go quickly!"
She had to hide the news of her husband's death. Now that Tongzhou is in chaos, and Lu Hui is dead again, some people will force their family to die.
Zhao Shoucheng has been waiting since dawn.
When his confidant brought the news of Lu Hui's death, Zhao Shoucheng finally couldn't help standing up, clapping his hands and saying "good".
"As expected of my sweetheart." Zhao Shoucheng wiped the pretentious tears from the corners of his eyes with his fingertips, and said to his confidant, "Mrs. Lu hasn't sent a message yet?"
He started asking his wife to befriend Mrs. Lu a few years ago.
After a while, I naturally found out Mrs. Lu's temperament of Qian Shi.
Mrs. Lu is a lady of everyone, a lady of everyone who has been raised stupidly. She takes her husband as her god, what her husband says is what she says, she loves what her husband loves, and hates what her husband hates, so even if Lu Hui doesn't love her, she respects her. her status at home.
But after such a long time, she will naturally become a marionette. Once no one has an idea, she will become a headless fly.
The confidant whispered: "The messenger is on the way, and Madam Lu wants to suppress the news of Master Lu."
Zhao Shoucheng's eyes lit up: "It's the right time and place!"
The bet is right now, and in the future, his Zhao family will be one of the best in Tongzhou!
In this world, the east wind has never prevailed over the west wind, or the west wind has prevailed over the east wind. His Zhao family is cautious, why can't they take a gamble
If he wins, the family ascends to heaven, if he loses, only Jiao Er will die.
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"The Zhao family killed Lu Hui?" Lin Yuan's expression became a little more complicated when he received the report from the spies. He turned to look at Song Shizhao, "Is this person so stupid?"
In Tongzhou's current form, without Lu Hui, the group of dragons has no leader, not to mention that Lu Hui is a prefect appointed by the imperial court, relying on the imperial power, and has soldiers in his hands. Can someone else have the strength of Lu Hui's words? And now that Tongzhou has become an isolated island, it is impossible for the imperial court to appoint another prefecture. If the Zhao family killed Lu Hui, they felt that they could keep the news of Lu Hui's death withheld? Is this taking Tongzhou officials as fools
Song Shizhao smiled and said, "Zhao Shoucheng is the master of this generation of the Zhao family. This man is short-sighted and has studied the trails. It is not surprising that he did this. I think that Lu Hui's death will definitely be suppressed."
Lin Yuan: "It saves us our troubles."
Song Shizhao: "Exactly, he will naturally do things that offend people."
"How did the Zhao family gather Lu Hui's soldiers?" Lin Yuan asked, his brows furrowed, "I can't think of that."
Song Shizhao was also a little strange: "If the Zhao family killed Lu Hui because they were afraid of Lu Hui's strength, but without Lu Hui, the soldiers would have to eat, except for them to disband the soldiers?"
Lin Yuan shook his head: "The soldiers will rebel."
Is the Zhao family still willing to pay a sum of money to disband the soldiers? This is no small sum of money.
To be precise, it is food.
Zhao Shoucheng of Tongzhou is also having a headache.
"There are 100,000 soldiers!" Zhao Shoucheng originally thought that Lu Hui's soldiers were less than 10,000, but he never thought that there were 100,000 soldiers. Although many of these 100,000 people were old people and teenagers under 15 , but he did not dare to underestimate it.
One hundred thousand soldiers are soldiers in Lu Hui's hands, but they become hot potatoes in his hands.
Jiao Er came out of the room. Since Lu Hui died, Zhao Shoucheng took her back to Zhao's house.
She sat upright opposite Zhao Shoucheng, not at all as delicate as when facing Lu Hui before, her expression was solemn, and her eyes were serious: "Master."
Zhao Shoucheng has not allowed her to call her father since she was a child, and can only call her "Master".
"Jiao'er..." Zhao Shoucheng looked at his daughter, she grew up, and Jiao'er was pampered and self-willed when she was a child, so she was named Jiao'er, and he sighed: "Do you blame me? Give you to Lu Hui? "
Jiao'er shook her head: "No wonder, Jiao'er's surname is Zhao."
She is the Zhao family, the family's honor and disgrace is her honor and disgrace, and the family's future is her future.
Zhao Shoucheng took Jiaoer's hand: "Jiaoer, there is one more thing you need to do."
Jiao'er pursed her lips: "Master is in charge of your orders."
Zhao Shoucheng: "Gaoyou."
Jiao Er slowly bowed: "It's for the master to share his worries."
"Okay!" Zhao Shoucheng embraced Jiao'er, "As expected of my daughter! Jiao'er, you go to Gaoyou, and you will take care of it."
Jiao Er nodded: "But now Tongzhou is surrounded, how can I get out?"
Zhao Shoucheng was also stunned.
Tongzhou is now a prison.
Even if his daughter is a phoenix, how can he use it in the cage
Tongzhou was already chaotic enough. The soldiers had no food, the gates of the big households were closed, and the common people were in danger.
After being hungry for nearly a month, the soldiers finally rioted. They killed their Shangfeng, rushed out of the barracks, and rushed to the gate of the big house. When Lu Hui was still there, the soldiers just wanted food, but now there is no Lu Hui. Hui, the soldiers are starting to grab food.
The Zhao family was also robbed.
Zhao Shoucheng issued a decree under the guise of Lu Hui, but unfortunately in the current chaotic environment in Tongzhou, the new decree could not be implemented at all.
The big households were too busy to take care of themselves, and Zhao Shoucheng finally found something to do for himself.
He started using those soldiers to put pressure on other big households.
The big households are scattered and handed over their family business in order to survive.
The Zhao family annexed other big households.
The news of Lu Hui's death was not kept under wraps for too long.
After Tongzhou officials found out, they also knew that Zhao Shoucheng was behind. They were intrigued with Zhao Shoucheng, and Tongzhou was smoky. Lin Yuan got Tongzhou almost effortlessly.
- The people of Tongzhou opened the city gates themselves.
They can't stand such a day. If it was in peacetime, the people of Tongzhou would not have the courage at all.
But now there are backlashes everywhere.
The mentality of people is also well understood.
If no one did it, they would not dare, but if someone did it, and some succeeded, they would dare.
When Li Congrong entered Tongzhou, he found that Tongzhou was better than Wujiang before.
At least I haven't seen the tragic scramble for bodies on the road.
But it was too good to be too good. The people were skinny, and the soldiers didn't even have uniforms. All of them were like savages.
The worst is the Zhao family.
The Zhao family's house was full of corpses, and Zhao Shoucheng was corpse on the street. He was like raising a gu, and was eventually devoured.
There is no one alive in the Zhao family.
As for who moved the hand
No one in Tongzhou admitted.
So Li Congrong accepted the Zhao family's wealth as a matter of course.
This saves a lot of trouble. After all, the Zhao family has already searched all the big families in Tongzhou. Even if there is any surplus, it is not much.
Li Congrong will no longer have to fight verbal lawsuits with those big families.
However, Li Congrong also found the only survivor in the Zhao family.
She hid in the stables, under the horse grass, and was found covered in horse manure.
After she was cleaned up, she was recognized as Lu Hui's concubine before her death.
Only then did the arrested Tongzhou officials know that Lu Hui's death was controlled by the Zhao family.
Jiao Er told everything she knew.
But she didn't know who rushed in in the middle of the night and killed more than a hundred members of Zhao Jiahe's family.
"I heard someone say that the water was out of the water first." Jiao Er was a little dazed, "Everyone is in a mess. I saw someone outside, so I jumped out of the window and fled to the stable."
Li Congrong found that nothing else could be pryed out of her mouth, so he locked her in the room and asked people to watch her.
As a result, none of them could be seen, and Jiao Er bit her tongue and committed suicide in the middle of the night.
All the meaning of her existence is for the Zhao family.
Now the Zhao family has nothing but her to survive. She has lost the meaning of life and chose death.
"The Zhao family... a sin." Li Congrong couldn't help but sighed.
I gave my daughter to Lu Hui as an actress. At that time, Tongzhou was not as turbulent as in recent years.
To raise his daughter like this, Zhao Shoucheng can be described as a rare cruel person.
Since then, Tongzhou has been under the rule of Lin Yuan.
Because of Zhao Shoucheng, the remaining forces in Tongzhou were attacked without any counter-attack.
After much effort, he finally made a wedding dress for Lin Yuan.