If it were ten years ago, the young Zhao Jue would have been trembling with fear when faced with his father's unfounded accusations, but he would not even dare to cry.
As the concubine of Zhao Gulian, his status was no more than that of a dog in the south courtyard.
He and his mother were not the winners of the competition at all, they were just the victims of the couple's game.
Her father needs them to attract Bai Jing's attention, and Bai Jing also needs to abuse them to vent her anger at being ignored and betrayed by her husband.
The mother and son are like a pair of sandbags. They can only survive with difficulty in the competition between the couple.
But now, Bai Jing is no longer good, and he is still the punching bag in the eyes of his father.
There was a sneer hidden in his heart.
Although no one can see it, it is his truest attitude.
"Please master punish me."
He knelt down on the ground, just like he had done countless times before.
He never had the right to distinguish, nor the ability to resist.
Sticks, whips, even scalding tea and red-hot iron pliers were all used by the couple on him and his mother.
In their eyes, they are not living people, but just puppets that can be disposed of at will.
really!
Zhao Gulian raised the soft whip at his hand and whipped him hard several times.
He should have been dying of pain, but his expression became more and more calm, even so calm that it was almost breathtaking.
"You useless things, why can't you even look down on my wife? I know, you must be with that bitch!"
Zhao Gulian's mental state has been a little bad these days. He is going crazy. He catches whoever he says is Bai Jing's accomplice, and then tortures these people in different ways.
Hearing his father repeating those words confusingly, Zhao Jue raised his head for the first time.
He looked at his father.
The man who was once tall and ruthless has now become a useless person.
What a pity, he thought.
Because in this way, he will no longer be able to find excuses to hit himself.
After Zhao Gulian completely fell into madness, Zhao Jue slowly stood up and arranged the clothes stained with whip marks.
Zhao Gulian has rarely been awake these days.
Even the occasional burst of energy would make him excited to the point of becoming incoherent, and then he would fall into a new round of madness.
Leaving the man behind, Zhao Jue walked out of the yard calmly.
Because he was injured, no one would doubt his true purpose of going out.
Along the long street, he walked to the door of another house.
He stepped forward and knocked gently on the door. After a while, a gap opened inside. Zhao Jue looked around to make sure no one was following him, and then entered the courtyard under the cover of the other party.
At this time, the courtyard was completely silent.
"Greetings to Third Grandpa, Zhao Jue has met Third Grandpa."
In the main room, Mr. Zhao San was sitting on the main seat.
And that position belonged to Mr. Zhao Er before that.
But at this moment, he did not dare to be on an equal footing with his brother. Instead, he could only stand in front of the Third Master with fear and flattery.
"What's the matter with you coming?"
Mr. Zhao San remained motionless, but he was not as taciturn as before.
Hearing his voice, everyone in the room, including Mr. Zhao, trembled violently.
I think Zhao San must have used some tricks to scare his subordinates.
At this moment, each of them was as honest as a quail.
Instead, it was Zhao Jue.
He walked up to Third Master Zhao with his head held high and made a few hand seals in front of Third Master Zhao very familiarly.
Different from Buddhist mudra, the mudra made by Zhao Jue is more complicated and gorgeous. His fingers are flying, and the mudra has a graceful feeling of flowing clouds and flowing water.
Mr. Zhao watched it from beginning to end and laughed at the end.
"I didn't expect to meet someone from the Qinglian tribe here!"
He sighed, and then his fingers formed several handprints.
Except for the first two, which are exactly the same as what Zhao Jue did, the others are open and close, but they are still very complicated.
After Zhao Jue finished reading, his eyebrows arched again and again, and he made a weird salute to Mr. Zhao, but Mr. Zhao looked very happy when he saw it.
"I didn't expect Third Grandpa to be the Red Lotus Envoy of the Red Lotus Department. His subordinate Zhao Jue of the Green Lotus Department has met the Red Lotus Envoy!"
"Hahaha, get up! Since we are all from the same sect, we should help each other in the future. However, doesn't your Qinglian Department always only focus on finding people and not care about other things?"
Zhao Jue smiled and said, "Indeed, the main job of the Qinglian Department is to find people, but my mission is other things. But I didn't expect that a small family like the Zhao family would be worthy of the condescension of the Red Lotus Envoy."
expensive."
In Zhao Jue's conversation, it was obvious that he did not take the Zhao family seriously.
The fingerprints and titles used by the two to identify each other were completely confusing to others at the scene.
What's Qinglian or Honglian? As soon as you hear it, you know it's not the name of a serious organization!
But Mr. Zhao Er
Dare not say.
Mainly because I'm afraid of death.
Mr. Zhao twirled his beard.
I'm afraid this person is also a two-faced person like Zhao Jue.
At that moment, he just smiled and said, "We should all perform our duties. I'm here to supervise the Zhao family to prevent them from saying things they shouldn't say and causing trouble."
Zhao Jue nodded and then said hesitantly, "I have another unkind request."
"What do you think."
"I would like to ask you to be merciful and let Bai Jing go for now," he said.
I'm afraid even Lin Mengya couldn't guess that the first person to plead for Bai Jing was actually the bastard whom she had abused for more than ten years.
Of course, he certainly didn't mean well.
The Red Lotus Envoy, Mr. Zhao San Tai, stopped talking and his expression couldn't help but slightly change.
Obviously that was also his mission goal, and what he got was that if anyone dared to reveal the secret of that year, he would immediately eradicate it, even those who accidentally learned the secret must be eliminated.
The reason why Bai Jing has been able to bounce around for so many years is because his brother told her the secret.
But at that time, the secret was not considered a big secret, and the consequences were not that serious.
The advantage of keeping their promise is that they can get some help from the Red Lotus Division. As for the disadvantage, it is that they had better keep their mouths shut, otherwise, they will never have the chance to speak.
At the same time, all the participating aristocratic families back then, in order to prevent some people from taking advantage of others and retaliating wantonly afterwards, they freely sacrificed some things, so that the Red Lotus Department had to make a condition with them.
That is, only when there is conclusive evidence of leaking secrets can those people be executed, otherwise it will be a breach of contract.
The consequences of breach of contract are quite severe for both parties, so they have been strictly implementing this rule over the years.
Therefore, the reason why Bai Jing did not die was not because of the other party's mercy or fear, but because they had no conclusive evidence to prove that Bai Jing leaked the secret.
But as long as there is evidence, Bai Jing's outcome will undoubtedly be death.
That's why Honglian made the Third Master feel troublesome.
The rules in the sect are strict, and even he dare not disobey those rules.
However, Zhao Jue saw his reaction and knew that he had misunderstood his intentions.
"Lord Honglian, you can rest assured. I have other uses for her. After using her, I can naturally hand it over to Lord Red Lotus for disposal."
In this way, the third old man's eyebrows relaxed a lot and he nodded.
Zhao Jue was overjoyed, "Thank you so much, Lord Honglian!" Mr. Zhao San also waved his hand, quite grandly and generously, with a bit of elders' kindness.
Not long after the two were immersed in the joy of recognizing each other, Zhao Jue looked at Mr. Zhao who was trying hard to eliminate his presence.
The latter immediately laughed more ugly than crying.
What kind of thing is this? It’s already troublesome enough that they have a supervisory red lotus envoy in their family. How come even the junior has a hidden identity?
He looked towards the roof silently.
It seems that it is time to reveal his true identity that has been hidden for many years!
With a sad face, he suddenly hugged Mr. Zhao's legs.
"Brother, considering our long friendship as brothers, can you give me a happy one?"
That's right, he is still the elder brother of Mr. Zhao San, as if he is fake.
The second old man has really developed a body of copper skin and iron that can be contracted and stretched. When the situation is not right, he will give up when he needs to, and there will be no ambiguity.
Mr. Zhao San looked at his brother with an indifferent expression, "You should get up first."
Mr. Zhao could only change from "woo woo woo" to "yang yang yang".
Nothing is more important than life at this time!
"You happen to be here too." Mr. Zhao Santai looked at Zhao Jue. It seemed that this was an important matter for him to do.
Zhao Jue lowered his eyes and obeyed the Third Master's instructions obediently.
"Since the person is entrusted to you, you have to do me a favor. I want you to help me pry open her mouth and make her admit that she has leaked the secrets inside our door."
"What's the secret? Can you tell me, sir?" Zhao Jue was just a little curious.
Due to age restrictions, he only joined this organization five years ago.
The internal order of this organization is clear and orderly.
Each member is assigned tasks, and a mutual supervision mechanism is used to ensure that their tasks are completed on time.
But if Mr. Zhao San opens his mouth, he must obey.
It's just that Mr. Zhao Santai told him carefully that she must live until the matter was found out.
Zhao Jue nodded, indicating that he already knew.
But when he turned around, his eyes flickered for a while, and then were replaced by calmness.
Lin Mengya didn't know that Bai Jing's safety was temporarily safe.
At this moment, although she seemed to be concentrating with her eyes closed, in fact, she was thinking about the broken information that Aunt Fang had forcibly thought of after trying hard to recall it.
Aunt Fang said that those people seemed to want to move something away from Huo's house.
But when she came out, she didn't find anything missing from the Huo family.
