Qiao Zhiqing was carefully cared for by Yan Yuting for a day, and when he woke up, the cold was completely dispelled."
Brother Qiao, are you feeling better" Yan Yuting just asked someone to make a bowl of ginseng tea, and when she saw that Qiao Zhi was sober, she hurriedly put the tea bowl on the table, and stepped forward to help Qiao Zhiqing sit up."
What time is it, and it's getting dark outside."
Qiao Zhiqing shook his head, his brain was still dizzy, but it was not as painful as before.Yan Yuting covered her mouth and chuckled, sat down on the edge of the bed with ginseng soup, and waited for Qiao Zhiqing to drink while replying, "Brother Qiao is really sleepy, and it's time now."
Oh, by the way, with a foreigner's pocket watch, it's exactly eight o'clock. ”In order to unify the time of the battle, Qiao Zhiqing specially asked the Pan family to order 1,000 pocket watches from Switzerland last month, and uniformly allocated them to generals at the level of sentry commander and above.Just arrived two days ago, Yan Yuting also divided a special pocket watch, the case is inlaid with diamonds, shining in the sun, very good-looking.Yan Yuting couldn't put it down, and when she first got the pocket watch, she looked at it every other hour."
Why didn't you see Miss Zhou, where did she go, nothing happened" After Qiao Zhiqing finished using the ginseng tea, he stood up and reworked on the ground, opened the window of the bedroom, and sulked outside.The heavy rain continued for two days, and the air was filled with fresh smells.When Qiao Zhiqing's eyes moved to Zhou Xiuying's room, he found that it was dark in the room.Qiao Zhiqing knew that Zhou Xiuying had a strong temperament, and a bad premonition immediately rose in his heart."
I'm sick and down, and I still have the leisure to take care of others, your Miss Zhou has left a letter and left for two days."
Yan Yuting glanced at him sourly, and let the tea bowl be taken down by the Ling'er who served beside her.From the small bag on the table, he took out the letter paper and handed it to Qiao Zhiqing.Qiao Zhiqing opened the letter, only to see that there were only four big characters written crookedly on it, "There will be a period later." ”Zhou Xiuying is excellent in martial arts, but she doesn't read much books, and these four words are written one by one, I'm afraid it's hard for her.Yesterday, when Qiao Zhiqing hurried to Huzhong Village, Zhou Xiuying slept in a daze for a while, and her dream was full of brothers from the Little Knife Society kneeling beside her and wailing.Qiao Zhiqing sighed lightly, closed the letter, and secretly prayed for Zhou Xiuying in his heart.If it weren't for him and Huang Feihong killing in the concession, the foreigners probably wouldn't have done such a desperate thing, and let Huai Jun go to the concession to hunt and kill the brothers of the Little Knife Society, so Qiao Zhiqing always had a guilty mentality towards Zhou Xiuying.At this moment, a flash of lightning slipped outside the house, lighting up the entire dark night sky.Outside the door, a personal soldier suddenly came to report, "Wang Shumao, the commander of the left division, asked to see him outside the courtyard. ”"Let him in."
Qiao Zhiqing was clever, knowing that the tragedy in Huzhong Village must have an eyebrow, and hurriedly summoned Wang Shumao into the house."
The owner, Zhang Xitian caught it" Wang Shumao hugged his fists as soon as he entered the door, his face full of excitement."
If he is, take him to me immediately."
Qiao Zhiqing's eyes widened and he stood up from his seat excitedly.Zhang Xitian, also known as Xu Yao, is the key figure in this case, and this matter must have a great relationship with him.Wang Shumao hesitated a little embarrassed, hugged his fists and said, "The person is caught, but he is now in the village in the lake, and now he is very emotional, holding a knife to his neck, I have to ask you to go over to see him." ”"This thief's shelf is so big, what kind of thing is he.Brother Qiao's body is just right, so he can't go out casually. ”Yan Yuting raised her eyebrows behind her and snorted angrily."
Did he say anything" Qiao Zhiqing was also puzzled, not knowing what Xu Yao was going to do."
No, his subordinates wanted to arrest him, but as soon as he got close to the thief, he stabbed the knife into his neck, and the blood flowed all over the ground.The subordinates were worried that there would be some accidents, and the case would be completely cut off, so they came back to report to the owner. ”Wang Shumao explained in embarrassment, I don't know when it started, Wang Shumao also became polite to Qiao Zhiqing, which made Qiao Zhiqing feel awkward for a while.But this is not a bad thing, if a system is becoming more and more perfect, then in this system, everything begins to act according to the rules, and it can no longer act according to the brotherly righteousness of the past."
Well, we'll go over now, and I'll see what he has to say to me."
Qiao Zhiqing snorted coldly, ordered his soldiers to prepare a carriage, and ran towards Huzhong Village with Wang Shumao and Yan Yuting.Due to two days of heavy rain, the roads began to become muddy after leaving the city.The bumps in the carriage all the way were no different from those of a roller coaster, which made Yan Yuting bitter, and her little face was pale and she kept nauseating and retching."
Don't come, you just don't stop, look at what it looks like now."
Qiao Zhiqing looked at her delicate appearance, couldn't help but feel distressed, took out the silk silk in his pocket and handed it to her, and taught her a few words coldly."
Aren't people worried about your body, you impulsively get up and don't care about anything, I want to take care of you this time."
Yan Yuting took the silk silk and wiped her mouth, looking at Qiao Zhiqing's fierce appearance, she was happy in her heart, she always thought that this guy would forget the old one when he had a new person.Qiao Zhiqing smiled bitterly and didn't speak again, secretly thinking about when the roads in Suzhou would be tarred.Thinking of asphalt, I unconsciously remembered Xu Shou again, and I went back to Suzhou for several days, but there was no news of him.The most important thing is that even Liang Kuan, Lin Shirong, who escorted Xu Shou, and the first team of personal soldiers lost contact, and they didn't know what happened to the accident, which made Qiao Zhiqing have trouble sleeping when he thought about it.Half an hour's journey on a sunny day, the carriage had to walk on the road for an hour, and it arrived at Huzhong Village in the middle of the night.There was a dead silence in the village, and a gust of night wind and heavy rain blew through, which made people feel chills.Wang Shumao arranged a sentry soldier to guard the courtyard of Father Zhang, and in the tent neatly set up outside the courtyard, there was already a snoring sound of the soldiers who were on leave.In front of the shed, a strong man wearing linen and filial piety knelt on the ground in the heavy rain, holding a dagger tightly on his neck, and the blood dyed the filial piety clothes red along the rain.Water continued to drip from the corners of my eyes, and I didn't know if it was rain or tears."
Xu Yao, put the knife down, I'm here."
As soon as Qiao Zhiqing's carriage arrived at the head of the village, a team of personal soldiers came to meet him, Yan Yuting held an oil-paper umbrella behind him, and when the group stood behind Xu Yao, they looked inexplicably solemn in the dim light from the spirit shed.Xu Yao's eyes were dull, his chest was still straight, and he replied coldly from his mouth, "Master Qiao, it's me Xu Yao who is sorry for you, and now I'm afraid that if you kill me, you won't be able to exchange for the folks in this small village."
I, Xu Yao, deserve to die, so I came here to make amends to my father, my daughter-in-law, and my daughter, and I will also make amends to you.I don't have any regrets about you coming. ”Xu Yao said that the knife edge went deeper, with a determined expression."
Wait, if you're a man, put the knife down.The revenge of more than 100 unjust souls in Huzhong Village has not been avenged, and you do not have the right to die. ”Qiao Zhiqing looked at Xu Yao coldly and hissed."
Revenge" Xu Yao's body shuddered, and there was a slight brilliance in his eyes."
Who did this thing, if you still want to be a Chinese character, just take the knife in your hand and find the enemy desperately, instead of kneeling here like a girl looking for death and life, you bastard, do you understand" Qiao Zhiqing's face was cold-blooded and he shouted angrily."
Ah, revenge, yes, I want revenge, revenge for killing the son of a bitch."
The middle-aged man finally let out a long roar, let out an incomparably miserable and fierce wry smile, waved the dagger in his hand and stabbed it on the ground, struggling to stand up.After dawn in Suzhou, the sky finally cleared.The moment the sun rises, it makes people feel much more relaxed.After Xu Yao returned to the mansion with Qiao Zhiqing overnight, after his emotions calmed down, he told Qiao Zhiqing the reason for the incident.It turned out that after Huang Wenjin occupied Huzhou, he occasionally learned the news that Xu Yao was not dead from the mouths of his generals one day.Just when Li Xiucheng was planning to attack Shanghai, he urgently needed a prestigious Shanghai gang leader to respond.Huang Wenjin recommended Xu Yao to Li Xiucheng, Li Xiucheng naturally knew Xu Yao's name, and was very happy when he knew that he was still alive, so he sent Huang Wenjin to immediately summon Xu Yao for his own use.wanted him to return to Shanghai, and with his prestige, he united with the old troops to rebel in Shanghai again.The general under Huang Wenjin turned out to be the leader of the Shanghai Knife Society, surnamed Hou Mingcheng, and Xu Yao was very familiar with him, and later defected to Huang Wenjin as a brigade commander, and constantly persuaded Xu Yao to join Huang Wenjin's team when he was in Nanjing.But Xu Yao had long been content with the dullness and never agreed.But this time, after Li Xiucheng's handsome order was handed down, Hou Cheng was very excited to invite Xu Yao out of the mountain again, no matter what high-ranking officials promised him, but Xu Yao still resolutely refused to resign.This time, he refuted Li Xiucheng's face, he was extremely conceited, in his eyes, Xu Yao obviously looked down on him and the Taiping Army, so he moved to kill.After receiving the signal, Huang Wenjin did not stop doing anything, destroyed all the villages where Xu Yao was located, did not kill Xu Yao, and trapped him in the firewood room in the backyard and tortured him all day long.Hou Cheng always has a relationship with Xu Yao, seeing that his former good brother has fallen to such a point, he feels guilty and dies, which was originally a good thing, but now it has become the culprit.So he led people to take advantage of the heavy rain to desperately rescue Xu Yao from the backyard of the government and cover him to cross the Taihu Lake by boat.Because of this, Hou Cheng was divided by Huang Wenjin, and his head was hung on the city gate, and he has not taken it down yet.Xu Yao returned to the village and saw the miserable scene in the spirit shed, and he collapsed on the spot and lost the courage to live.After being surrounded by the Qing army, he insisted on the arrival of Qiao Zhiqing with willpower, and he also promised Qiao Zhiqing one thing, that is, to swear to protect the safety of Huzhong Village, this time he broke his promise
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