Beautiful step by step

Chapter 51

Zhou Qianhu looked like a ghost, in fact, he didn't need to go there himself, but when he saw the little maid named Shui Ling who came to the door with his sister's ring, he also felt a little bit charming, so he ordered someone to copy the guy and came over.

Just now, they didn't take any fork along the way, and entered the dark room to find someone. Hearing his sister's voice, he confirmed their identities without much thought.In fact, in his private heart, he even thought that it would be good to pull people out in such a mess.Unfilial piety can be a crime bigger than the sky, and if you expose Yan Heng in front of everyone in Jiuquan, he will never be able to stand up again in the future.

But who are these two people in front of them!
He also became suspicious when he heard what the onlookers said.Is this the two beggars on the mutual market who harmed others and indirectly helped his shop win a lot of business, or his sister?

But the voice was obviously still his sister, Zhou Qianhu raised the knife and said, "What's going on?"

Yan Heng looked innocent: "On the way back to Jiuquan yesterday, Yan happened to meet these two beggars discussing on the side of the road. It is said that after the autumn harvest, the merchants in the Jiuquan mutual market have become fatter. They usually ask for a penny each time, which is a bit small, and they should raise the price. , If you don’t give me two pennies, you won’t leave, and that person won’t be able to do business.”

The people in the street were in an uproar. Although they were used to being ridden on the head by officials, there was nothing they could do about it.Now that the two beggars from other races dare to be so arrogant, no matter whether their interests are damaged in the end, this is not right for them.

What is even more angry is that the Northwest Army brought by Zhou Qianhu belongs to the "Zhou Family Army". They are not as poor as ordinary soldiers, and almost everyone of them has a small business under their name.These two Oirat beggars belong to the category of those who move their dirty hands and don't feel disgusted. They usually give a copper coin to do a good deed on the same day.Now hearing that they are going to raise the price, the Northwest Army is so angry.

The soldier closest to him had a violent temper. After hearing this, he couldn't hold back and kicked up: "This son of a bitch."

Zhou didn't know what was going on, she only knew that she was enduring hunger and pain, waiting for the little maid to find her natal brother to rescue her.In the middle of the wait, she suddenly saw that stepson that she hadn't removed all these years, kept a little bit of it to torture slowly, and planned to let him die after more than ten years of grievances, into the dark room.

She thought it was her natal brother who had brought someone here, but her stepson couldn't bear it anymore and knelt down and begged for mercy.She even made up her mind, first pretending to make a condition to hang her stepson, and let him kneel down and beg for mercy to slap her a hundred or eighty times.Then after she got out, she smashed his joints and sent the slut he brought to work as a military prostitute in front of him.

But what was expected didn't happen. First, Thirteen Lang was knocked unconscious by a knife in his hand, but she was even worse.The stepson seemed to be caught in the memories of the past, imitating her before, slapping her left and right.With such great strength, he slapped her back molars out in just a few strokes.The dizzy pain came, and she passed out directly.

From time to time, there was a feeling of depression in the coma, and when she woke up again, she saw the familiar Zhou Jiajun.She didn't take care of her grooming, she even grabbed some dirt and sprinkled it on her hair, and rubbed it until she couldn't stand it, and then followed them all the way out.She wants everyone to see how cruel Yan Heng is and how disrespectful his parents are.

But what is going on now?Everyone treats her like a beggar, and even her own brothers don't recognize her?
A dark shadow flashed in front of her eyes, and a kick made her fall to the ground.No matter how stupid she was, she understood when she saw the equally shocked face next to her, which was completely unfamiliar to her and did not belong to Thirteen Lang.The stepson did something to make them two other people.

"Here! Brother, can't you hear my voice? I'm Si Niang. Thirteen Lang, please say something quickly, that evil son does not know what kind of magic tricks he used to make us completely unrecognizable."

Yan Baihu, who was a little dizzy, finally came to his senses under Zhou's shaking and roaring.Seeing Zhou's original alluring face become so ugly now, he touched his own face.The strand of his carefully groomed beard was completely gone, and the last trace of luck left in his heart was completely extinguished.

"Niezi, I'm your own father. Uncle, you can hear the voices of me and Siniang. This scoundrel smashed Siniang's patella, stabbed me, and imprisoned us in the warehouse. Now I don't even know what kind of magic has been used to make our faces look like this."

Of course Zhou Qianhu could hear the voices of the two of them, and he wasn't interested in how the two of them changed their faces. He was thinking about how to use this to bring down Yan Heng.

Facing this direction, he grasped one point keenly: "Evil method?"

"Yes, it's magic."

Zhou Qianhu was thoughtful: "I remember that the priests of the Oirats would use demon methods. Yan Xiaoqi always finds the Oirats before the army, but the Oirats you find are always a few insignificant little ones. .Does this mean that you are a spy of the Oirats hiding in Dayue, and you want to gain the trust of General Wu with some credit. Fortunately, Mr. Zhao is very aware of the details, and has never granted you the title of Jin these years."

Zhou Jiajun had long disliked Yan Heng, and with Zhou Qianhu taking the lead, he opened his mouth to slander him.

"I just said that he has such a good relationship with the Wala people in the exchange market."

"That's right, this time in the Northwest Great Victory, I saw him talking secretly with the Wala people from a distance."

"A lot of times our side is attacked by surprise when Yan Heng is on patrol. Why should there be no accidents when others are patrolling, but accidents will happen as soon as he patrols."

Regardless of whether this group of people is true or false, when their upper and lower lips touch, all kinds of plausible things are vividly said by them.The people around Jiuquan gradually turned from hesitation to certainty, and finally to hatred.

Not to mention the people of Jiuquan, even Wei Wei, who had been standing on the steps, almost believed it.Don't blame her, but this group of people speak with a nose and eyes.You don't have to believe it all, just listen a little bit, it's enough to suspect that Yan Heng is a traitor.

Abandoning distracting thoughts in his mind, Wei Wei took a step forward and said with a sneer: "People have two mouths, and others can't control what they want to say. But a man is responsible for what he says."

She straightened her spine and nailed it to the ground, her pair of wonderful eyes were full of coldness.That kind of coldness can pass through the space and go all the way to the bones of the person. Zhou Jiajun, who was watched by her, lowered his voice, and he was no longer embarrassed to shoot firecrackers with his mouth full.
"Ah Mou."

Yan Heng walked through the crowd and looked at the street entrance, but there was still no one there.He frowned and looked at Ah Mao worriedly, but met her equally worried eyes.There was even a hint of distress in that gaze, and his brows loosened as they looked at each other.

Walking up to her, this time without covering it with his wide sleeves, he took her hand in front of everyone, carefully helped her down the steps, and walked into the crowd, the two finally stopped in front of Yan Baihu and Zhou Shi.

His gaze swept across the two of them sternly, and he said in disgust: "Sounds like it? I don't sound like it. You two have been begging in Jiuquan these days, and your Chinese is pretty good. Even Zhou Qianhu can fool you. Yesterday I I kindly took you back to the mansion, thinking that if you sincerely correct your mistakes and do some chores in the mansion, I will never be able to live without the two of you. To save you from begging along the street is also to save a little trouble for Jiuquan who raised me. No Thinking of your lack of greed, you actually tried to pretend to be the high hall of my family."

Mrs. Zhou cursed: "You little bastard, it's fine if you don't recognize me as your mother. Thirteen Lang is your own father, and you even stabbed him with a knife."

"Oh, tell me why I stabbed the beggar with a knife?"

Zhou hesitated. Although she was arrogant, she also knew that she would not take it seriously when she told the truth.But copying it mechanically, I really can't think of a credible reason.From the corner of her eye, she saw the cold light reflected from the armor of Zhou Jiajun next to her, and she suddenly became courageous.With them around, what is she afraid of.

"It's not that you married a wife outside without the consent of your parents. After you brought someone back, you didn't know how to go home to visit Gaotang, but instead had a good time outside. The thirteenth man was not angry, so he wanted to teach him a lesson. Who knew you were so rebellious Unruly, it's against the sky and even stabbed him."

Yan Heng laughed lightly, and there was indescribable contempt in his laughter: "It's really ridiculous. As expected of a Wala people, I don't know my customs of Da Yue. Before you make up a story to take advantage of me, don't first understand what happened in Jiuquan City. Three years A while ago, the thirteenth son of the Yan family sent his wife, Webster, to a new funeral. Within seven days, he wanted to help his concubine, Zhou. The eldest son of Webster's family sued his father for taking his concubine as his wife, and was beaten forty times for being unfilial. Presumably many people still remember."

The onlookers nodded, it was the biggest excitement in Jiuquan in recent years, of course they still remembered it.

"Then, as my parents, you should also know that the consent of the original spouse's natal family is required to continue marrying a stepmother. The condition agreed by my maternal ancestor's family back then was that my brother and I would be independent in the future, and the Yan family would not be allowed to intervene."

After finishing speaking, he drew the knife from his waist, and put the tip of the knife on the forehead of the beggar-like Zhou family: "This matter is a thorn in the stepmother's heart. After all, the Zhou family loves to rob women, and there are a lot of girls in the backyard. A bunch of them went out to be concubines, but there are still a lot of unsalable ones. As the most successful girl sent out by the Zhou family to be concubines, the rest of the Yan family can’t make decisions for her, but let our brothers help solve the two Zhou girls. It's easy."

After saying this, he looked around and saw many luxuriously dressed people nodding, looking concerned.These people obviously belonged to the upper classes in Jiuquan, and they also belonged to the people the Zhou family wanted to marry.But when everyone was afraid of the Zhou family, they just dared to be angry and dare not speak out. It did not mean that they wanted to marry a girl from the Zhou family and come back to harm their own family, or send their pampered girl to the Zhou family to be tortured by others.

Seeing this, Yan Heng knew that the Zhou family had acted domineeringly all these years.Especially in the past three years after coming to the Zhao family, they often refused to give people a way to survive, and the accumulated public anger had reached a critical point.

The sword pierced her forehead lightly, and Zhou suffered a burst of pain, but outsiders saw that she hadn't shed any blood, and now she was covering her head and howling like this, it was purely putting on airs.

Yan Heng stabbed a little deeper, but his voice was still mocking: "You can forget even such an important thing, and you still try to pretend to be the elders in my family with a wrathful face. Do you think you can deceive everyone in Jiuquan with a word of magic?"

The onlookers woke up like a dream.The Wala people really have such demonic skills, why didn't they choose Mr. Zhao who is in charge of Jiuquan.Even going too far, they directly confuse Emperor Dai Viet.There are shortcuts to take, why bother to take action against a half-grown child who has lost the protection of his mother.

What is the virtue of the Zhou family, can they believe what they say?
For a moment, the wind direction in the crowd changed, and little voices of condemnation wove into a dense net, rushing from all directions.Like the Tathagata Buddha engraved in Sanskrit, Wuzhishan is full of golden light of Buddhism, shrouding the hearts of every Zhou family army, snatching and suppressing all evils in the world.

Even though the sun was shining brightly in the morning, everyone in the Zhou family's army shuddered.

The leader Zhou Qianhu was the first to wake up, what was he doing.The dignified Qianhu actually reasoned with Xiaoqi. He is Qianhu, and this is enough to crush Xiaoqi.

"Regardless of whether Yan Xiaoqi knows how to demonize or not, he is always a hidden danger to Jiuquan. Let me arrest him."

Zhou's army subconsciously obeyed his orders, the brand-new armor reflected cold light in the sun, and the tip of the spear was destructively stretched towards Yan Heng and Wei Wei in the middle.

"Ah, be careful."

When the crisis came, Yan Heng kicked Zhou Shi away, grabbed Yan Baihu, and the three of them formed a triangle, firmly enclosing Wei Wei's slender body in the middle.

"Could it be that Zhou Qianhu wanted to assassinate the court officials like these two beggars."

Zhou Qianhu circled his chest: "Just you, a small flag that doesn't enter the flow, and you are still an official of the court. It is obvious that you are the first to commit the crime, and you are disrespectful to Qianhu."

"I don't count as guilty."

A row of spears gradually approached, Yan Heng took Wei Wei's hand, his palms were warm, and comforted him silently.But he himself remained motionless, with his back straight and solemn.

Zhou Qianhu laughed contemptuously: "I went to the capital, and your brain is covered with shit. It doesn't count as a minor crime, it seems that you really don't take my Qianhu seriously."

Yan Heng said calmly, "A thousand households like you really don't deserve my attention."

Zhou Qianhu's face was a little ugly, and he frowned and ordered Zhou Jiajun sharply: "In front of so many people, you dare to commit crimes. What are you still doing, catch him, and he will not be killed or injured if he resists arrest."

"Oh?"

Yan Heng stretched out his voice, the tip of the spear was close at hand, Zhou Qianhu's number one loyal dog who was swinging the gun, was dazzled by the golden waist badge that suddenly appeared in front of him.

At first he was just dazzled, and subconsciously didn't move.When his eyes slowed down, he saw that the surroundings were motionless and almost became sculptures of military robes, and he reacted belatedly.

Generally, the waist tags of soldiers are made of wood, and the wood and shape are different.He had only seen the gold inlaid badge once, and that badge belonged to Mr. Zhao.Master Zhao is not only in Jiuquan County, but also in the entire Liangzhou Prefecture.

Just now he actually swung his gun at such a big man, thinking about the consequences after that, he broke out in a cold sweat.

Zhou Qianhu is more knowledgeable, and now he is shocked, no less than just now when he saw his sister who he wholeheartedly searched for and rescued, she turned her hair away and became a beggar on the market.

"Why do you have the badge of Master Zhenfu?"

"Ah Heng is the commander of Liangzhou Guards newly promoted by the sage, so Zhou Qianhu, he didn't commit any crimes. On the contrary, it was you, who obviously told these two beggars last night that he is the governor of Liangzhou. , Didn't they tell you? They don't tell you about this kind of thing, and you rush to make decisions for them. Or..."

Taking advantage of Yan Heng's relaxation, Wei Wei finally found a chance to poke his head out, proudly pretending to be a tiger.Facing the dejected Zhou Qianhu, she elongated her tone:

"Or you deliberately pretended not to hear, thinking of committing the following crimes."

Zhou Qianhu struggled violently in his heart, and Yan Heng became the fifth-rank governor.Now he is not in the mood to worry about the things he committed next time, all he knows is that Yan Heng will definitely not let him go based on what the Zhou family did in the past.

Then he just kept on doing nothing, and turned into a ruthless one. He personally copied the knife: "If Yan Xiaoqi really becomes Lord Zhenfu, can we let us search his house? I think his waist card is clearly fake. Yes, let me take him down today, let’s have a trial first.”

Zhou Qianhu took the lead, and Zhou's army rushed forward numbly.Although they have scruples at this moment, Yan Heng cannot deal with so many well-equipped Northwest Army alone.

Zhou Shi, who had been kicked aside by him to make a shield, now had a vicious smile on his face, and reached out to grab Wei Mao's hair.When she was in pain, her two dirty hands went straight to her face, trying to poke her eyes.

"Go away."

Yan Heng, who had been paying attention to Wei Wei, came over with a knife, and the sharp blade directly cut off Zhou's finger, causing her to roll on the ground in pain.

The crisis on Wei Wei's side was resolved, but Yan Heng lost the opportunity to confront Zhou Qianhu because he returned to protect her.Seeing Zhou Qianhu approaching with a saber, the arrow pierced through the air and pierced through the crowd into Zhou Qianhu's arm holding the saber.

At the intersection not far away, the pillars were on the outpost, and behind them was the Northwest Army.Although they are not well-equipped, but relying on the advantage of numbers, it is quite spectacular to come over.Zhuangzi held the bow and shot arrow after arrow.Relying on his height advantage, he can clearly see the position of Zhou Jiajun in the crowd.Every arrow that comes over can hit one person in the densely packed Zhou family army.

Zhu Zi walked in the front: "Are you planning to rebel? How dare you attack the governor of Liangzhou Wei! Today you killed the governor of Liangzhou Wei, and the news will spread to the capital tomorrow, and each of you will be beheaded."

The people of Jiuquan voluntarily gave way. Zhou's army was already a little afraid of his status as an appeasement, and this would cause the Northwest Army to completely confirm his identity.Deprived of fighting spirit, they surrendered despite being well-armed and fighting.

Yan Heng stood in front of the pillar: "First remove their armor and weapons, and put them in Jiuquan Prison."

Wei Wei was guarded by him, watching Zhuzi take off Zhou's army's armor and shoes.This group of Northwest Army is usually bullied by Zhou's army, and it will be even harder to retaliate.Some people even stuffed their socks in while peeling off their military boots.And the common people of Jiuquan, who are usually oppressed, are happy to see this.

In the lively scene, two discordant voices suddenly came from her ears.Zhou Shi and Yan Baihu lay on the ground, yelling at them, all kinds of obscenities were unbearable.

She beckoned to the pillar, and glanced at the ground to wink at him.

Zhuzi understood, picked up two colorless smelly socks, and stuffed them directly into their mouths.

Wei Wei didn't look any further, she walked up to Li Xia with a sharp look on her face.

Li Xia knelt on the ground, saw her coming over and begged: "Ma'am, I am also doing it for your lord's good. If you let your lord be charged with unfilial piety because of your wife, then how will he behave in the future."

Wei Wei drooped her eyelids, and Yan Heng followed her.It seemed that the kick was going well, he kicked Li Xia to the base of the wall, and said viciously: "Everything is my wish, what has nothing to do with Ah Mao. Besides, which eye of yours can see that I am not filial."

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Wei Wei, and put on a flattering expression: "Ah Mao, I really didn't mean to punish the servant you brought without your consent."

Wei Wei looked at him with a funny face, and took out a contract of sale from his bosom: "Since it's in charge, then you can take care of it to the end."

She hates Li Xia, but last night she was cruel enough to Yan Baihu and the Zhou family.She didn't want to leave the impression that Mrs. Yan was ruthless in front of so many people in Jiuquan.

Yan Heng obviously expected this too, he took the contract of sale calmly, and said in a business-like way that everyone could hear.

"Although Lixia sold herself into my family as a slave, she still eats inside and outside to get close to the Zhou family. I don't want to do too much in a master-servant relationship. Since she thinks the Zhou family is good, I will give her to the Zhou family today. Don't disappoint her."

(End of this chapter)