The officials in court uniforms stood tremblingly, with their heads lowered, not daring to raise their heads to look directly at Zheng Qiao. The palace was filled with suffocating terror. Above, Zheng Qiao was holding a gold-encrusted and jade-inlaid golden Ruyi in his right hand. He kept tapping the palm of his left hand and pacing back and forth. His steps were very light, but they fell on everyone's heart like a heavy hammer...
Dong dong dong——
After a long time, Zheng Qiao finally spoke.
He chuckled contemptuously: "I heard that today another force responded to Huang Lie's call and tried to overthrow this throne, right?"
"They are just a bunch of people, nothing to be afraid of. When the king's master comes and kills them, they will collapse." The person who said this was a young official with outstanding appearance, but his temperament was a bit evil, and his words were also like this. The stock has a flattering smell.
This man was originally a petty official in Qushan County, with little ability, but he couldn't help but eat well. After marrying into his wife, he coaxed his wife, and through his wife, he coaxed his parents-in-law to buy him an "official" position. After all, he was not in vain. However, he didn't have any other skills. He only flattered and flattered others, but he was the best. Once he was valued by Zheng Qiao, and he was promoted to a court official, and he was promoted on the spot.
As a person develops, his waist becomes straighter.
Even the maids in the same house dared to get involved with three or five of them.
Only when facing Zheng Qiao, he still looked flattering and respectful.
Zheng Qiao heard this and laughed.
"A rabble? Oh, if it is really a rabble, it's not bad. If you lure them with benefits, promise high officials and generous salaries, and make them rich and princes, they can be easily recruited back to the court. However, some of them have great plans, and their hands and eyes are astute. There are also heads and tails with the courtiers in the DPRK... This makes me a little troubled... Is there something I can't do to the courtiers?"
Everyone was still silent.
This is a proposition! Can they say that Zheng Qiao can't remember anything he can't do to them? Can they? If they say that, their heads will fall to the ground!
Some people secretly broke into a cold sweat.
Because they are courtiers with "head and tail".
Except for Huang Lie who rose up, most of the forces that responded to the Dragon Slaying Bureau were powerful families. But the terrible thing is that after Zheng Qiao came to power, he took a very strict view of this area. The children of each family already had official status. They were directly retained as court officials and refused to be released easily; those who had no official status were given a false title and placed under their noses. In other words, they were all hostages.
Some of them are even family heads or legitimate heirs, and members of the same clan are raising troops abroad...
The yellow mud falling off the crotch is either shit or shit.
Do these hostages still want to live in peace?
Naturally, it’s difficult.
The prison room is extremely tight, single rooms have long been gone, and newcomers can only squeeze into three, four, five, or six-person rooms... The harsh living environment and the butcher's knife that didn't know when it fell will make people with poor mental endurance collapse on the spot... After a few days, they looked haggard and dark-faced. Those who had been in prison for the longest time were even more skinny and sallow, and their original appearance could not be seen.
Zheng Qiao asked this, which meant that another unlucky person was about to be imprisoned. Everyone looked sympathetically at the middle-aged court official who was in his thirties or forties with a pale face. The official uniform on the other party showed that he had a high official position, but this clothes could not be worn.
Give him the slightest sense of security.
Not surprisingly--
He was also thrown into prison.
The deeper you go into the prison, the darker your vision becomes, and there is an unspeakable stench in the air. All the prisoners' physiological needs are met in the small cell. If there is a device for drowning, that's fine, but if not, they can only find a corner to relieve themselves in place.
.That smell, tut.
Plus multi-person cells…
As time went by, there was no place to start.
The living environment was harsh, and prisoners were often tortured, acupunctured, whipped, and even water-dwelled, and each time they had to shed a layer of skin. If Zheng Qiao had not allowed the use of capital punishment, they would have long ago
His life is in ruins.
The middle-aged court official was pushed in.
Almost stumbled and fell.
In the darkness, a familiar voice sounded.
"Why did you come in too?"
The middle-aged court official found out he was a colleague after careful identification.
The latter has been detained for two or three months.
During this period, he kept making connections to try to get the other party out, but to no avail. In the end, he even got stuck in it...
He smiled bitterly and replied: "My second brother is raising troops outside..."
The second brother in his mouth is a biological brother from the same father and mother. Because he was adopted to the eldest family, the two of them are only cousins in the genealogy. As a direct descendant of the eldest family, he took up all the family resources, which aroused the jealousy of the second brother.
, this resulted in a bad relationship between the two brothers, but they did not expect that the other party would do anything. Knowing that he was in the hands of Zheng Qiao as a hostage, he still joined Huang Lie's team with a high profile.
Colleagues sighed softly upon hearing this.
He comforted and said, "It's good that your family members are all well..."
They are the hostages used by Zheng Qiao to contain each family, and their relatives are the hostages to contain them. Zheng Qiao also knows not to force people too hard, and usually will not kill their family members. Of course.
, there are also my dear friends who do not believe in evil.
As a result, I received the heads of the entire family.
Even the yellow dog kept at the door was not spared.
The court official hid his face in shame: "I am useless..."
Not surprisingly, his wife and children should have received the bad news that he was imprisoned by now, and have tried their best to get him out.
However, he only guessed half of it right.
My wife and children received it, but they did not run away.
It's not that I don't want to, but a guest happened to come to my door.
Three people, to be precise.
Old, young, green.
The leader, the old man, has white beard and hair, and is dressed simply in Gebu linen clothes. Even the gatekeeper, Si Yan, is richer and nobler than him.
But this man's eyes were bright and clear, and you could tell at a glance that he was anything but ordinary. The woman's tears were still wet, and when she saw the old man, she almost blurted out a greeting, but was interrupted by the other party: "Mrs. Qiu, I won't say much else, this old man is here today.
I have something to ask for."
Upon hearing this, the woman hurriedly let the three people in.
Si Yan closed the door with a wink.
"Please tell me."
The woman asked the old man to take a seat. The old man did not take the seat, but patted the young man who was already as tall as her shoulders. Calling him a young man was an exaggeration. His face looked childish, as if he was eight or nine years old, but he was brave and dressed up smartly.
, and his stature is close to that of a teenager.
Asked the woman: "Do you remember him?"
The woman looked at it carefully and shook her head.
But then he said: "It looks familiar..."
The old man reminded her: "The parents of the previous generation of the Qiu family had been married for more than ten years but had no heirs. There was a maid who had served him and lied that she had given birth to a son for him and raised him among the people. Coincidentally, the child had the same appearance as the parents of the Qiu family.
They were somewhat similar, and the blood test was correct, so they were brought back to the Qiu family. However, the child was brought back to be raised for a few years, but it was found that he was different from ordinary people, had a brain disease, and was always as short as a toddler... In the end, it was hidden
Can’t stop…”
The maid was so frightened that she had to tell the truth.
The child was a street child she picked up on the street. His appearance was strange, and he was somewhat similar to the parents of the Qiu family. This discovery gave her a bold idea to change the situation!
However, paper can never cover the fire.
In the end, the child was left to fend for himself in the countryside.
Name, feast.
The head of the Qiu family is getting older and older, but the problem of heirs has never been solved, and it has been pushed to the point where it has to be solved. He had to adopt the eldest son from his biological brother, which is the unlucky brother who was thrown into prison above.
.
Only then did the woman remember.
She met the young man when she got married.
When he was a child, he still had a slight resemblance to his late father-in-law, but now his facial features are slightly longer and wider, and they look nothing like him at all. He has a little baby fat on his cheeks, and his eyes are clear and clear, not worldly at all, and he can still see that he is a little ignorant.
.
He stood obediently next to the old man, like a silent porcelain doll, but he couldn't help but look curiously at the unfamiliar environment.
"Could it be that he, he is that young man? But, he is not a weirdo who cannot grow up..." The woman was so shocked that she almost uttered rude words in front of the old man. She swallowed back the rest of her words and opened her eyes.
It's filled with disbelief.
The old man avoided talking: "There is a reason for that. I can't say more now. I came here this time to ask if the things he wore back then are still in the house? Can they be found?"