In front of me, my mother was pinned down on the wooden table by Bai Tao and three others. They actually wanted to openly insult her.
Hou Yao grabbed Bai Tao's hair with his eyes cracked.
Punch him hard in the face,
Bai Tao was beaten so hard that he was hit in the bridge of the nose by another punch before he could recover.
"Ah..., stop... stop..."
Hou Yao turned a deaf ear and continued to punch Bai Tao hard on the face one after another.
At this time, the two neighbor elders finally recovered from the shock and were about to help.
However, Yu Xiuer twisted them up and punched and slapped the two of them out of the Hou family's door.
The two of them rolled out of Hou's house in embarrassment.
At this time, a heartbreaking scream came from the house:
"Ah..., ah...killed someone...killed someone..."
Two neighbor elders hurriedly climbed to the door of Hou's house.
Then they saw a scene that they would never forget.
I saw that Hou Yao had dug out one of Bai Tao's eyes alive, and then crushed it with force.
Even so, Hou Yao still had no intention of stopping.
He even wanted to go further,
Fortunately, Yu Xiuer saw Hou Yao's eyes were blood red and did such a cruel thing.
Knowing that Hou Yao was afraid that he would lose his mind due to his anger, he hurriedly knocked Hou Yao unconscious.
Then he picked up Bai Tao's collar, threw it out of Hou's house and closed the door.
…
Yazhou has been a place of exile for officials since ancient times.
The ancestors of the Hou family were among the criminal officials who were exiled during the Zhou Dynasty.
At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, because the ancestors of the Hou family could not participate in the imperial examination, they concentrated on doing business.
After several generations of hard work, they have become a famous wealthy family in Yazhou.
During the Great Xia Dynasty, the Hou family resumed their qualifications for the imperial examination and gradually formed two factions.
One group wants to continue farming and studying, hoping that one day they will regain their fame and honor their ancestors;
The other group believes that continuing to do business is the way to inherit the family;
At first, the business school was more afraid that the imperial examination school could produce a high official, so they were more polite.
But the imperial examination school failed to live up to expectations. After several generations of examinations, not even a single candidate came out.
The business school gradually lost its composure and began to dislike the farming and reading school people for not making money.
The Farmers and Readers gradually stopped persisting in the eyes of disgust.
In the end, only this lineage was left, adhering to the ideal of cultivating, studying, and inheriting the family's glorious family name.
Later, this lineage couldn't stand the cold words from the clan.
So he voluntarily moved out of Nanhai City, where his family was located, and settled in the remote Wansha Village with more than ten acres of ancestral land.
By the time of Grandpa Hou Yao's generation, there had been no contact between the two parties.
Hou Yao's grandfather was also a scholar. He mysteriously disappeared not long after Hou Yao was born.
It is said that they were kidnapped by pirates. It is not uncommon for pirates to kidnap scholars over the years.
After all, the pirate group also needs some educated people to help them handle some paperwork, such as managing accounts and so on.
Especially for large gangs, the stronger this demand,
And educated people are all focused on taking the imperial examinations. Unless they are desperate, who would join the pirates?
But after all, there are only a few desperate scholars, and they are simply unable to meet the needs of the large number of pirate groups.
Especially for some small and medium-sized pirate groups, which are not well-known, no one will take the initiative to vote.
The goal can only be achieved through robbery,
Jinshi and Juren are already candidate officials, and they are both the key protection objects of the imperial court.
The average pirate group would not dare to attack, but the scholar is different.
There are so many scholars in Daxia that the imperial court cannot take care of them. He may be considered a figure in the village.
In the city, there is not much difference from ordinary people.
As for the lower level Tong Sheng, because his reputation is not obvious, even if the pirates saw him, they would not know that he was a scholar.
It’s not like these days only scholars can wear Confucian shirts.
As long as there are two stinky bastards at home, they will wear Confucian shirts and pretend to be scholars.
Therefore, scholars who are well-known in the surrounding areas become the first choice targets of pirates.
It can satisfy the gang's needs without attracting the attention of the court.
After Hou Yao's grandfather disappeared, his grandmother even had no memory of Hou Fu.
The support of the Hou family falls on Hou Yao's parents.
However, my father, Hou Fu, was a nerd who could only read. He had been studying for decades and could not even pass the exam as a child student.
My mother, Zhou Yu, was originally the daughter of a county businessman. She was spoiled and did not know how to run a household.
The couple worked together for more than ten years, and finally turned a wealthy family into a ruin.
In fact, there were already signs of crisis in the Hou family several years ago.
Bai Tao, who was just the neighbor's elder at that time, teased Zhou Yu with frivolous words.
When Hou Fu asked for his theory, he was beaten.
When the matter reached the county government, the officials in the government office and the arresting officer were all familiar with Bai Tao, so they naturally wanted to favor him.
Seeing that things were about to get serious, Hou Yao happened to be admitted to Tongsheng and entered the county school.
After receiving the attention of the former magistrate, the matter was settled, but only some medical expenses were paid.
It was after this incident that Bai Tao became honest.
It’s just that several years have passed, and his scar has long since healed and he has forgotten the pain.
Both the Hou family's fields and Zhou Yu are things he has coveted for a long time.
Previously, I had not dared to act recklessly because I was afraid of Hou Yao's status as a scholar.
Hou Yao disappeared this time. It was a normal thing for a scholar to suddenly disappear for ten days and a half.
After all, the circle of scholars is almost out of reach of ordinary people, and there is only one scholar in Wansha Village, Hou Yao.
If he really wants to go out to visit relatives and friends, no one in the village will know the news.
But he was so lucky. On the night he disappeared, someone saw the whole process.
And that person immediately reported it to Li Chang Bai Tao.
Bai Tao hurriedly called some people to follow him to the beach, but he only saw the shadow of the small black-tailed boat sailing away.
So the news that Hou Yao was kidnapped by pirates spread throughout the country the next day.
Then I reported it to the county government. The county government had no ability to handle this kind of thing.
Even the state and government offices are unable to handle it.
The only one who can handle this kind of thing is the Nanhai Navy Yamen.
But how could a scholar alarm the naval yamen?
So this kind of thing must be done perfunctorily in the end.
Little did he know that the county government wanted to put an end to the matter, but some people refused to let it go.
After Hou Fu repeatedly urged the Yamen to send troops to rescue, but failed, he actually planned to go to the state Yamen to report the case.
This completely angered the county magistrate, county magistrate, chief registrar, dianshi and other yamen leaders.
Then they found an excuse to put Hou Fu in jail.
The Hou family's lineage has never been prosperous, and it has been a single lineage since my grandfather's generation.
Now Hou Fu is in jail, Hou Yao is missing, and only his mother-in-law is left at home.
Bai Tao, who had long coveted Zhou Yu's beauty, could no longer hold back.
When Hou Yao was rushing to take the exam for the last time, his family had no money left, so he borrowed a lot from his neighbors.
After passing the exam, no one was worried that he would not pass, but when he disappeared, especially when it was rumored that he had been kidnapped by pirates,
You must know that there is no way to survive if you are kidnapped by pirates.
There are three main reasons for this situation:
One is that you really can’t come back;
The second is that they feel shameless to come back;
Third, those who can come back will never admit that they were kidnapped by pirates, for fear of getting a bad reputation.
So under this background, Bai Tao provoked the crowd, and the neighbors came to the Hou family one after another to demand debts.
Zhou Yu was forced to suffer so much by his neighbors that in the end he could only sell the last ten acres of land in his family at a low price to pay off his debts.
Only then did Bai Tao come forward and take out the last high-value IOU to force Zhou Yu to submit.
…
Fortunately, Hou Yao and Yu Xiuer rushed back to the Hou family, otherwise the Hou family would have been ruined.
Yu Xiuer lifted Hou Yao who had fainted, carried him on her back, and asked Zhou Yu, who had a dull look on his face:
"That... eldest... aunt, where is your husband's bed?"
Zhou Yu, who was already scared to death, hurriedly woke up and said:
"Ah... Yao'er's bed, oh, I only have the bed in the back room at home for the time being."
With that said, she hurriedly opened the bedroom door and asked Yu Xiuer to put Hou Yao on the bed first.
After putting Hou Yao down, the two women suddenly fell into a silent embarrassment.
After all, Zhou Yu was older and the master, so he asked first:
"Girl, who are you? Why are you coming back with Yao'er?"
Yu Xiuer blushed, lowered her head and hesitated:
"I...my name is Yu Xiuer, I am...my husband's...friend..."
At this point, I don’t know what to say next.
Zhou Yu waited for a long time but didn't hear anything from Yu Xiuer, so he asked:
"Miss Xiu'er, right?"
Yu Xiuer nodded:
"Yes, ma'am."
Zhou Yu continued to ask:
"Where are you from and where do you live? What do your parents do? They said Yao'er was kidnapped by pirates, so why did you come back with him?
What on earth has he been doing since he's been away for more than ten days? Why hasn't he even said hello to his family?"
Faced with a series of problems, Yu Xiuer felt like she had grown bigger than before.
The key is that she doesn't know how to answer any of these questions.
What do you say? I am the pirate leader who captured your son, and now your son is my uncle.
From now on, your son will be mine, so just be my mother-in-law obediently.
Seeing that Yu Xiuer lowered her head and said nothing, Zhou Yu looked at her carefully and said with disgust:
"Girl, you look quite fair, but why are you so tanned?
This woman must be kind to herself, keep her skin white and tender, and keep her body plump.
Only in this way can men be attracted to you. Look at you, you are so tanned, how can you get it?
Are you still so thin? Is it because your family's conditions are not good? You can't afford rough food, right?
It doesn’t matter, our Yao’er is very promising, even though his damn dad knows how to study all day long…”
Zhou Yu talked endlessly, and Yu Xiuer could only respond with a few words from time to time, but couldn't get a word in at all.
The two of them talked like this for half an hour, when suddenly there was a sound of banging on the door:
"Hou Yao, you maliciously hurt others, get out of here right now."
Zhou Yu was suddenly too frightened to speak. Only then did he remember that he had just driven Bai Tao away, and now he had brought people back to take revenge.
Seeing that Zhou Yu was frightened, Yu Xiuer immediately felt that her opportunity to show off had come, and immediately stood up proudly and said:
"Auntie, just wait at home for a while, I'll go out and take a look."
Zhou Yu hurriedly took her hand and said:
"Don't... don't go out. They are all men. If you go out as a woman, you will suffer.
Let's wake Yao'er up. Yao'er is a scholar and has a great reputation, so they don't dare to do anything to Yao'er."
Yu Xiuer shook her head gently:
"Don't worry, aunt, Xiu'er has no other abilities but strength. They will not be my opponents.
You wait at home for a while, I'll be back soon."
After saying that, he walked out without hesitation...