The First Great Ancestor of the Five Dynasties

Chapter 66 Who Bullies Who
Two days later, at the gate of Anding County, a group of people were watching the wanted notice posted on the wall.

A man wearing a bamboo hat stood outside the crowd. He paused for a few glances, carefully scanned the guards at the city gate, lowered his head and lowered his bamboo hat, and blended into the crowd to enter the city.

"Brother Six! Wait for me!"

Suddenly there was a shout around him, and the man immediately tensed up and subconsciously touched the dagger hidden in his arms.

Following the call, it turned out that the shouters were two villagers who were carrying dry firewood to sell in the city. They were talking and laughing as they walked past the man.

The man made a false alarm, breathed a sigh of relief and put down his hands, glanced left and right, lowered his bamboo hat and continued on his way in a hurry.

Under the bamboo hat, the face that was revealed inadvertently was that of the salt seller Lao Liu.

In the north of the county, in front of the Xue family mansion.

The sixth child looked at the No. [-] mansion in Jingzhou from a distance, swallowed, his eyes were full of envy and fear, and there was still a bit of longing.

After hesitating and struggling for a moment, Lao Liu gritted his teeth and walked towards the door of the Xue family mansion.

Before he could get close, several green-robed guards carrying swords quickly stepped forward to stop him.

"Blind dog eyes! What kind of place is this? How dare you trespass?" Xue's guards sternly snapped.

Lao Liu suppressed his panic and said: "I have something important to do and I want to see Mr. Xue. Please let me know, brothers!"

The guards looked at each other, shook their heads and sneered.

"Master, how can you just say you can see it? What the hell!"

"Do you think you are worthy of calling me brothers?"

"Look at your muddy legs, you don't know where it came from!"

"If you don't want to die, get out!"

Lao Liu had a humble and flattering smile on his face: "Brothers, I really have important news to report to Mr. Xue!"

Lao Liu shivered and took out a wanted notice from his arms, pointing to the portrait on it: "You know where the person on this notice is hiding!"

Several guards were surprised. The wanted notice had been posted for four or five days, but no news had been sent back, and no one had taken the initiative to report or provide clues.

Lao Liu was the first.

"Who are you?" The guards didn't believe it and surrounded him, looking wary.

Lao Liu swallowed his saliva, and said bravely: "The villain is also a salt seller, and he is in the same gang as this man!"

Lao Liu pointed at the portrait on the notice.

The guards looked at each other with shock on their faces, and their expressions became solemn.

"Follow us!" Two guards stood behind Lao Liu, holding the waist knife and half sliding it out of its sheath, watching his movements warily.

Lao Liu was sweating on his temples and did not dare to speak, so he followed them into the Xue family mansion.

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At noon the next day, Jiedu Mansion.

"Ah-"

Zhu Xiugang walked out of the bedroom door, took a breath of cool air, and sneezed loudly.

The two cleaning ladies in the courtyard grinned at him.

Zhu Xiu bowed with a smile, and the two aunts were relieved. Speaking in thick accents, they told him to keep warm against the cold, wait until the kang head was warm before lying down at night, and cover him with quilts to avoid catching cold.
Zhu Xiu smiled and responded one by one, and chatted with the aunt for a few words.

These rough servants and wives in Jiedu Mansion are almost all relatives of Yabing. Some of their men died early and relied on Jiedu Mansion's charity to feed their children. Some of their sons are working as servants in Yabing, and their own interests are inconsistent with Jiedu Mansion's. tied together.

Not long after Zhu Xiu arrived, he was fair and handsome, with a sweet mouth, and was loved by all the ladies in the house.

Later, it was reported that he had become the secretary of the Zhangyi Army, and the ladies were even more enthusiastic about him. Just to introduce their daughters and nieces, and to help him matchmaking, they had to call four or five times a day.

He was bumped into by Shi Kuangwei a few times, and Lao Shi scolded these wives with a black face, and then the house stopped, and Zhu Xiu also became quiet.

The two ladies cleaned the yard and wanted to chat with Mr. Zhu Xiaolang for a few more words, but Ma San asked him to leave unceremoniously.

Zhu Xiu brewed a pot of hot tea and prepared to take advantage of the rare clear sky today to exercise her body and bask in the winter sun to dispel the cold and dampness in her body.

After thinking about it, Zhu Xiu decided to start with a set of radio gymnastics.

While doing the movements slowly and moving his stiff body, Zhu Xiu suddenly felt a little boring. Without the music from the loudspeaker, this national fitness activity seemed to lack a soul.

A tall figure rushed into the small courtyard in a hurry.

"What are you doing?" Shi Lingyan looked at him curiously with his round eyes.

The girl wears a ponytail, a short woolen coat, long hakama, leather boots, a short knife hanging on her slender waist, and a long whip wrapped around her waist. She looks smart and neat.

"Can't you see that I'm practicing?" Zhu Xiu put her hips on her hips and gave her a sideways glance lazily, her movements were slower than the old men doing morning exercises in the park.

"Is this also called practice?" Shi Lingyan sneered with crooked eyes, whipped the long whip around his waist, and hit the ground with a crackling sound, the sound of the whip was loud and clear.

"Look, this is what I call practicing!"

Shi Lingyan raised her arms, swung out her long whip, hooked the tree branch, and pulled hard. She ran forward, stepping on the trunk of the tree, her body light and airy, and easily jumped onto the branch more than ten feet high.

"How about it, am I awesome? Are you convinced?" The girl stood on the branch, holding her head up with a smile.

Zhu Xiu was dumbfounded. He knew that Shi Lingyan practiced martial arts since he was a child, but this skill is too good, completely beyond his guess.

You can climb a tree with just one hook of the whip, and the light kung fu in martial arts movies is nothing more than that!

Zhu Xiu swallowed her saliva, feeling shocked and envious in her heart, but she pretended to be calm and calm, and said harshly: "Haha, Miss Lingyan is really good at skills. It's just that my teacher often taught us that scholars should govern the country and bring peace to the world. The country is our own responsibility, and practicing martial arts is a small thing after all, and it is not worth spending too much time and energy. What's more, fighting and killing are the actions of a despicable man, which is really an insult to elegance. As a woman, Miss Lingyan, it is better to be more gentle and reserved."

Zhu Xiu looked at her with a smile on her back and turned around to go back to the house.

Shi Lingyan was a little angry, his whip crackled in the air, he jumped down from the tree, with a flick of his wrist, the whip sprang out like a snake, wrapped around one of Zhu Xiu's feet, and pulled it gently, before Zhu Xiu could react, his whole face He landed and fell forward.

"Oops~"

There was a clang of the dagger being unsheathed. Zhu Xiu lay on the ground and was about to yell angrily when his eyes flashed. Shi Lingyan had already held the dagger horizontally and pressed it against his throat.

Zhu Xiu lay on his back, and Shi Lingyan pressed on him in a half-kneeling position.

A few strands of long hair hung down on Zhu Xiu's cheeks, tickling.

The girl looked down at him with a smile in her round eyes, pouting and humming: "Do you accept it?"

Zhu Xiu felt the coldness in her throat, her two muscles trembled, and she said tremblingly: "Don't act recklessly! Keep your hands steady!"

Shi Lingyan chuckled and raised the short knife in his hand: "You can't even feel the back of the knife, you idiot!"

Zhu Xiu touched her throat, let out a long sigh of relief, and looked at her with a bit of sadness: "Even the back of a knife cannot be used to make random jokes!"

"Coward!~"

Shi Lingyan grunted and sheathed the dagger with his backhand.

"Cough cough~~"

There was a coughing sound at the door of the small courtyard, and Shi Kuangwei walked in slowly with his hands behind his back, pretending to be surprised: "What are you doing?"

"I, she...this..." Zhu Xiuxian blushed, and the posture of the two of them at the moment was indeed a bit ambiguous.

As if unaware, Shi Lingyan grabbed Zhu Xiu's collar and pulled him to his feet.

"Dad! Zhu Xiu laughed at my practice, so I'll teach him a lesson! Let him know how good I am!" Shi Lingyan hummed triumphantly.

Zhu Xiu patted the mud and snow on his body in embarrassment and looked angrily at the girl.

Shi Kuangwei smiled fondly and said: "Yan'er is good, don't bully Zhu Xiu again in the future."

Shi Lingyan glared at Zhu Xiu, didn't say whether he would agree or not, turned around and ran out of the courtyard: "I'm going to see my elder brother."

As soon as Shi Lingyan left, Shi Kuangwei's black face suddenly fell, he clamped Zhu Xiu's arm and shouted viciously: "You bastard, how dare you bully my daughter?"

Zhu Xiu said sadly and angrily: "Fart! Who is bullying whom?"

Lao Shi chuckled strangely: "I don't care, you kid can't suffer the consequences anyway!"

A rough big hand patted Zhu Xiu's shoulder heavily, and Lao Shi said meaningfully: "No matter who bullies whom, in short, you have to be responsible! Otherwise, humph~"

Feeling the heavy palm force on her shoulder, Zhu Xiu was filled with anger and glared at this shameless rogue.

"Zhu Shaolang!"

There were shouts from outside the courtyard, and Guan Tieshi was seen running into the small courtyard with an anxious expression.

"The handsome man is here too." Guan Tieshi clasped his fists and looked at the two of them.

"problem occurs!"

(End of this chapter)