Zhang He looked at a pile of clean clothes placed in the clean room, and then took off all the dirty clothes on his body with peace of mind.
His body was covered with scars, and the pain almost made him unable to straighten his back.
That Xu Qing'an has already been cruel and did not avoid his face. He will not be able to leave the house for at least half a month.
With the pain and waves of stench coming from his abdomen, Zhang He's eyes seemed to be bleeding.
This is the plan of the Xu family. If the Queen Mother wants the two families to marry, she must make him walk in front of others. Now that he has been caught by the Xu family and beaten in the wrong place, he can only stay at home temporarily claiming to be ill. Those who are good at it will definitely inquire about it.
The reason is that no matter how much he conceals it, rumors will still fall into the ears of others.
The Xu family counterattacked, saying that he was disrespectful to Miss Xu, and resolutely refused the Queen Mother's proposal. On the surface, the Queen Mother was helpless.
Xu Qinghuan's thoughts were so vicious.
Zhang He shuddered, he could not marry such a poisonous woman under any circumstances, otherwise the Zhang family would never live in peace.
It was quiet for a while outside, and I didn't know if the man had asked someone to take away the money.
Fifty thousand taels was originally just a small sum for him. He didn't care about this little money. He just treated it as raising an outhouse and spent it with a wave of his hand. What mattered was his face.
Zhang He suppressed his blush. It was clear that he was the victim, beaten and extorted of money, but in the end he still had to give an explanation to the Xu family and apologize to them.
Zhang He felt more and more like he was sitting on pins and needles and wanted to get up, but the dirt on his butt was not wiped clean yet.
He had a feeling that this dirt would never be dealt with.
Zhang He moved his shoulders with difficulty. He wanted to kill people. After this time, the relationship between the Zhang family and the Xu family was completely forged. He did not believe that the Zhang family would be unable to deal with the Anyi Hou Mansion. Since Xu Qinghuan was unwilling to marry
Give it to him, the Anyi Hou Mansion is shameless, and after he returns to the capital, he will want them to look good.
Who else is willing to marry the woman he despises? Once the Anyi House falls, all the female relatives will be sent to be official prostitutes...
A sinister smile appeared on Zhang He's face.
It took a long time before Zhang He got up with difficulty and reached out to take the clean robe. What he didn't expect was that what he held in his hand was not a robe but a woman's dress.
Zhang He felt a surge of anger rush to the top of his head, making his hair stand on end. They were humiliating him. He would never wear such clothes.
Zhang He shouted: "Xu Qing'an, come out here."
There was no movement in the house.
"Here comes someone."
Still no one answered.
Zhang He's whole body was shaking with anger. He lowered his head to look for the clothes he had just taken off, but found that someone had taken those clothes away when he wasn't paying attention. Now he was naked without a trace of cloth.
Zhang He stood up and walked out of the clean room. There was no one anywhere he could see. He immediately ran to the inner room to find a sheet to wrap himself in, but the bed was empty.
Even the curtains were taken away.
Zhang He's forehead was "bumping" and he was thinking of the scene when Xu Qing'an humiliated him. If he had known this, he should have chopped Xu Qing'an into mincemeat, and nothing like what happened today would have happened.
There was another pain in his stomach, and Zhang He couldn't help but bend down. He didn't believe that the Xu family could collect all the bedding in the inn. As long as he left the house, he could find clothes to cover himself.
There was a faint noisy voice outside the door: "I saw it, that person just ran here.
We will definitely catch him this time."
The noise is getting louder and louder.
Zhang He's heart trembled, and he suddenly felt that something bad was going on.
At the beginning of the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, many refugees were resettled here. The imperial court allocated land for these refugees to cultivate in order to reclaim wasteland and give the displaced people a place to stay.
Moreover, since the Zhou Dynasty established a new capital, the population around the capital would flourish, so immigrating to farmland and resettling the refugees locally was the fastest way.
Such a move by the imperial court was a good thing. As the Zhou Dynasty became more stable, some people began to use the national policy of farming for the survivors. Just because it was so close to the capital and there were thousands of acres of fertile land, dignitaries began to reclaim wasteland in the name of it.
Tou secretly took in the refugees to reclaim wasteland, but it was difficult to control the refugees, and there were many vicious people among them. These people often came out to cause trouble, causing unspeakable misery to the people around them.
The people have long hated these murderers. The court here did not dare to offend the dignitaries who took in the refugees privately. Every time they just caught the murderers and punished them, they never traced the source. The people dared to be angry and dare not speak out.
When someone commits a crime, they can spontaneously gather together to catch the culprits.
Now these people don't know where they got the news and went straight to this inn...
Zhang He stared at the door closely. If people outside were allowed to break into the house...he lowered his head and saw his naked appearance, then he would not be able to defend himself.
Zhang He couldn't care about anything else. He could only wrap the only woman's dress around his body and hide it in a corner, hoping that those people would not find him.
Someone found a few copper coins scattered at the door of the room.
"The thief must have accidentally left it here. The thief is hiding in the room."
Along with the sound of talking, Zhang He heard someone kicking the door open, and then the lit torch illuminated the entire room.
Zhang He swallowed and shrank inward, but someone suddenly grabbed his ankles, and then his whole body was dragged out.
"Let go," Zhang He said angrily, "I was harmed by someone, call the county magistrate to me, I..."
Under the light of torches.
Zhang He was wearing a short dress, with many parts of his body exposed.
Seeing such a person, the room was quiet for a moment, and then everyone showed angry expressions. Who would dress like this in the room, but no serious person would dress like this.
It's really disgusting.
"Send him to the Yamen."
"Tie him up."
When Zhang He wanted to speak, someone stepped forward and pushed him to the ground, stuffed a piece of rag into his mouth, and then tied him up tightly.
Xu Qing'an, who was hiding next to the inn and watching the excitement, saw Zhang He being dragged to the Yamen. He suddenly felt relieved. In the past few days, he had been angry with the black-faced man in Changzhou, so he also dispersed a lot.
After a long night of tossing, the sky was about to light up, and people would definitely see the Zhang family uncle in such a miserable state, Xu Qingan felt even happier thinking about it.
…
Zhang He lowered his head. The resentment in his heart was accumulating somewhere, making him breathless and almost fainting.
What a shame and humiliation.
He praised the Xu family in this way, but the Xu family humiliated him in this way.
"Where are you going?" Someone stopped the angry people.
"Go to the Yamen and report to the officer that a murderer has been caught."
"This man looks familiar. Could it be that you have arrested the wrong person."
Zhang He raised his head when he heard the voice and saw a man on horseback not far away. The man was wearing a moon-white robe and a small crown on his head. He looked very luxurious. That man was Qi Defang.
Qi Defang gently shook the fan in his hand, and then tapped Zhang He with the fan. He looked very surprised: "This seems to be Young Master Zhang... right? I have a relationship with Young Master Zhang.
But I can’t be sure.”
Zhang He almost fainted from anger again. Qi Defang had just seen him, but he was pretending to be here.
"This noble man," someone among the people said, "where are you from? How do you know such a person? Look at what he is wearing...it is really unsightly."
"Are high officials and dignitaries exempt from the law?"
Someone started shouting.
"Everyone misunderstood, misunderstood, I didn't want to save him," Qi Defang frowned, "I don't have any friendship with him. To put it bluntly, it can only be regarded as 'no acquaintance without fighting', but since we have met, we can't
No matter, I will go to the Yamen with you to find out why he is like this.
He is indeed at fault, and I will not stand idly by and will definitely persuade him and report the matter to the higher authorities... to give you justice."
