Zhao Qikun turned around helplessly, but soon he came back and looked at Ms. Liu, who raised her eyebrows: "What are you doing?"
Zhao Qikun blushed, stretched out his hand and said, "No money."
When Mrs. Liu first got married to him, she would always ask an old servant to follow him. The old servant had a bag of money in his hand and never let him worry about it. But now that the old servant didn't come to serve him, Mrs. Liu didn't give him any money.
Mrs. Liu looked at Zhao Qikun coldly: "I'll just say, in the end, it's not as good as those begging on the street."
Zhao Qikun didn't dare to argue with Ms. Liu, because he didn't understand why Ms. Liu had become so vulgar and unreasonable before.
He could only swallow this cowardice. All the money brought by the father and son was used by Xuewen for profit. If he could get it back now, he would only have to ask for the capital, which would be a huge loss.
How could Zhao Qikun be willing to give up?
A man can bend and stretch, but when he gets to the top, Mrs. Liu will be kicked away by him just like Mrs. Yang.
Zhao Qikun took the money and bought red bean cakes and came back. Only then did he realize that Mrs. Liu could not wait to return to the rented yard. Zhao Qikun had no choice but to chase after her. When he entered the door, he heard Mrs. Liu talking to someone.
Zhao Qikun hurriedly entered the door and saluted.
That man was twenty-seven or seventy-eight years old, but he was a senior member of the Liu clan. The prosperity of the Liu clan in the past two years was all because of him.
When Zhao Qikun entered the door, he immediately poured a cup of tea and handed it to Liu Jian, and respectfully called: "Uncle."
Liu Jian smiled and nodded.
Two years ago, Liu Jian was still a small city gate leader, but he only did an errand for the Feng family, and was promoted all the way to a position in the capital camp.
One person can achieve the goal of chicken and dog ascending to heaven. This is what the Liu family did. They followed Liu Jian and followed the path of the Feng family. The Liu family began to try every means to seek wealth, and the children also used various methods. For example, Liu married Zhao Qikun, who was older, but
A talented scholar, after Zhao Qikun passed the examination, there was an uncle in the Liu family who passed the imperial examination and became an official.
According to the words of the Liu clan leader, this is called borrowing a chicken to lay an egg. It is easiest to support an old scholar, not to mention that the old scholar also brought a young scholar.
Liu Jian frowned when he saw Zhao Qikun at first, and then sighed: "You write well, and you read a lot of books. The county magistrate and I often praise you."
Zhao Qikun was about to bow down to thank you for the compliment, but Liu Jian sighed: "But why are you so unlucky? Every time I want to help you, something always goes wrong, and this time it's again... Before, others went to Feng's house to send incense and candles.
It was taken in. I just went over and was stopped."
Mrs. Liu hurriedly asked: "Could something happen to the Feng family again?"
Liu Jian said: "What else can happen? It must be related to the death of the eldest son. This time the eldest son led troops to Taozhou and was secretly harmed. Uncle Guo was furious. The Feng family must avenge this."
Mrs. Liu then asked: "Who dares to harm the eldest son of the Feng family?"
Liu Jian said: "Either those people from Taozhou, or..."
Liu Jian did not continue talking, but both Liu and Zhao Qikun understood, or they were the grand master and the young emperor.
Zhao Qikun thought more about it. There was a war in Taozhou, and it was even less likely that Zhao Xuejing would come to the capital. He might have really seen it wrong just now.
If that was really Zhao Xuejing, dressed like that, going to teahouses like that, walking casually in the capital from Taozhou... Zhao Qikun suddenly didn't dare to think about it.
Mrs. Liu asked in a low voice: "Is it hopeless to go to Jingzhong Academy to study?"
Liu Jian said, "I'll try to mention it to the steward when I see him."
Mrs. Liu was a little disappointed, and Zhao Qikun's heart sank. If he could come to Beijing to study, Zhao Qikun would definitely pass the exam this time. After so many years of exams, he only missed a little bit.
Liu Jian really tried his best. He originally wanted to take advantage of this battle to get into the hands of the Feng family uncle, but who knew that Feng Chenghai had chosen to go back and forth a few times in the battle, but he just left him behind.
Before, Liu Jian felt that he had missed the opportunity, but now he is lucky. Even the uncle was involved in this battle, and it was the same for him after 80% of the time.
This can be considered a blessing among misfortunes.
"I will think of another way," Liu Jian looked at Zhao Qikun, "Eat more food on weekdays, and it will be a blessing to be fatter."
Mrs. Liu pursed her lips. No matter how she looked at Zhao Qikun's old face, she felt unlucky. His cheeks were sunken and fleshless, his beard was a lot whiter, and his eyes were blurry. Why did she fall in love with him at that time?
Mrs. Liu ordered Zhao Qikun angrily: "What are you doing here? Go and get some food and wine for your uncle to have dinner at home."
Mrs. Liu did not make things difficult for Zhao Qikun this time. She reached out and took out the money bag from her arms and handed it over.
The meal was quite enjoyable. Zhao Qikun also drank a lot of wine, and the two of them went to the house to rest in a daze.
In the middle of the night, Zhao Qikun heard a loud noise in the house, as if someone had entered the door. In a daze, he thought Mrs. Liu had invited her cousin again, and was about to open his eyes and curse, but he saw someone unknown in the house.
When a group of soldiers stood up, Liu Jianzheng was held on the ground by those people.
Zhao Qikun suddenly woke up from his drink, and the ringing in his ears became clearer and clearer.
Liu's shouts came from outside the door: "What are you going to do? My uncle is a court official, how dare you attack him?"
Liu's voice stopped abruptly. She must have been slapped.
Zhao Qikun was so frightened that he could hardly breathe. He heard the officer leading the army ask Liu Jian: "Did you kill the traitor Li Yi who was guarding the border before?"
Liu Jian nodded. When he was leading the city gate, he heard that there was a rebel general, so he followed the Feng family in pursuit. Li Yi was seriously injured. It was a coincidence that he succeeded in a sneak attack.
Not only did he kill Li Yi, he also chased down Li Yi's wife and children. Unfortunately, the woman fell off the cliff with her young son in her arms, otherwise his contribution would have been greater.
"Take it down," the general leading the army waved his hand, "go to his home to arrest people, and take away everyone in the yard as well."
The willow frame was immediately gagged and tied tightly.
Zhao Qikun subconsciously shrank into the quilt, but the soldiers on the side stepped forward and grabbed him from the kang.
Zhao Qikun struggled subconsciously, but was kicked in the crotch by a soldier.
Zhao Qikun immediately curled up in pain. Before he could recover, he was tied up again.
"I'm not... I just... um..." Zhao Qikun felt something salty being stuffed into his mouth, and he couldn't say another word.
He is not a member of the Liu family, he is just an uncle. If anything happens to the Liu family, he will not be affected.
And he is also a scholar.
This was what he wanted to say just now, but it was obvious that no matter what he said, it would not change the situation at hand.
In the chaos, Zhao Qikun glanced around again. In the crowd, the familiar figure appeared again, it was his son Zhao Xuejing.