Chapter 477: Cutting the Wind (1)
Huo Zhanfeng arrived at Jiannan Road and encountered a wave of assassinations.
The mayor of Jiannandao City was a royal relative of the old dynasty. He had gathered some of his old subordinates and was planning to defect to Xiqiang from here. He dealt with them for half a month before he finally caught them all in one fell swoop.
I sent a letter to the capital, asking my brother the emperor to arrange for a new city lord to come.
Like Xichuan, Jiannan Road has an extremely important geographical location. It is an important barrier in the southwest and requires reliable talents.
That's something your Royal Brother should consider.
Now that we are here, it is only five hundred miles away from Xichuan.
At that time, he was urgently recalled to the capital and imprisoned. The army here was taken over by people sent by the court. His former good brothers must have been suppressed, and no one knows what is happening to them now.
And Cheng Ruoying, she should be married now.
Stop by to drop off some gifts.
She has helped the Huo family, and the emperor remembers her contribution.
But she had come to the capital in disguise, and when she was found by her family, she left quietly, probably because she didn't want her husband's family to know.
The Xichuan County Magistrate had no political achievements and it was difficult for him to be promoted, so Huo Zhanfeng planned to use his limited friendship with the Xichuan County Magistrate as an excuse to give Cheng Ruoying some dowry.
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Huo Zhanfeng left his troops to guard Jiannan Road and picked out some precious jewelry in the warehouse of the City Lord's Mansion. He also saw a black iron red tassel spear.
His eyes moved slightly.
I remember that the weapon Cheng Ruoying used was the red tassel spear.
Cheng Lishen, the prefect of Xichuan County, was a scholar, but somehow he raised a daughter who was good at using swords and guns.
Huo Zhanfeng didn't know what family Cheng Ruoying was engaged to, nor did he know whether she would be of any use to him in the future.
But he took it anyway.
I feel in my heart that if a woman who was once so heroic became a housekeeper in the harem, when she is unhappy, she will probably pick up the cherry spear again and dance with it to ease her troubled mood.
Huo Zhanfeng has been the garrison commander in Xichuan for two years, and many people here know him.
He found it troublesome, so he simply covered his face and entered Xichuan through the mountain path.
As soon as he arrived in the city, he felt that it was different from two years ago.
When he was here, Xichuan City was quite lively, but now it is very deserted.
"Auntie, where are Uncle Zhang, the carpenter, butcher Liu, and the hairpin seller?"
Huo Zhanfeng asked an old lady who was selling vegetables on the roadside.
"You're asking about that time. I don't know, I don't know. I haven't seen him since I started selling vegetables."
That's not possible.
Carpenter Zhang's craftsmanship and shop are passed down from generation to generation! He plans to pass it down to his son, so why would he close it?
There is also Liu the butcher, who wants to sell meat to fund his three sons’ marriages, but his sons are not yet adults, so why doesn’t he sell the meat?
Huo Zhanfeng felt that something was wrong and asked his men to investigate.
As a result, what his subordinates reported made him furious!
Since arriving in Xichuan, the defending general Liu Cheng has allowed his men to bully men and women and harm the people.
The daughter of carpenter Lao Zhang was noticed by his subordinate Ding Yong. When dragging her, Butcher Liu came to plead for mercy. However, because he was holding a butcher knife in his hand, Ding Yong judged that she was going to murder the general and stabbed her to death with one blow!
Lao Zhang's daughter committed suicide by hitting her head against the wall.
Lao Zhang begged for mercy and handed over all the silver and money, and the matter was finally settled.
Afterwards, Lao Zhang took his son, Liu the Butcher's wife and three sons and left overnight. No one knew where they went.
Nowadays, the girls and wives in Xichuan City dare not go out if they can. Even the men are trembling with fear, for fear of running into the patrolling military commander when they go out.
When Huo Zhanfeng was around, the people would compete to give the general the vegetables they grew themselves!
He was so angry!
A cold face, as sharp as a knife or an axe, exudes a chilling aura, and the fine hair on the temples flutters in the wind.
He punched the wall.
"Liu Cheng, you're looking for death!"
"General, there is one more thing." The subordinate also looked angry.
"The man Miss Cheng is marrying is the second son of the Weiwei family. The day before her wedding, the Weiwei Mansion sent two maids to help Miss Cheng dress up.
As a result, the next morning, the two maids ran back to the Weiwei Mansion, and then a group of people from the Weiwei Mansion ran to the County Magistrate's Mansion to make trouble, and spread the news everywhere that Miss Cheng... had been raped by bandits outside and her body was covered with disgusting scars.
The whole city knew about this incident."
Huo Zhanfeng simply couldn't believe that a mere guard dared to bully the eldest daughter of the county magistrate's mansion.
He still remembered the Weiwei, who always followed behind the county magistrate with his eyes downcast and an obedient look.
But I didn't expect that he had such courage to humiliate his boss's daughter in public.
Also, what is County Magistrate Cheng doing? Allowing his subordinates to bully him?
"Then what?"
The subordinates found Huo Zhanfeng's voice particularly terrifying, as if he was speaking with gritted teeth.
"Then Weiwei Fan unexpectedly requested that Miss Cheng, who was only fifteen years old, be replaced. Miss Cheng couldn't help but hit Weiwei Fan. Unexpectedly, Fan invited Liu Cheng to come. In the end, Miss Cheng was allowed to enter the Fan family as a concubine."
"She agreed?"
"right……"
"Impossible!" Huo Zhanfeng denied it without thinking.
Cheng Ruoying is not someone who allows herself to be manipulated.
Although they had not had much contact, in his impression, she should be a person who would rather die than live in disgrace.
“Your Highness, you really understand Miss Cheng. She said she agreed and went back to her room to change clothes, but then she disappeared, taking Miss Cheng with her.
Now the people from Weiwei Mansion and Liu Cheng are looking for them!"
Huo Zhanfeng breathed a sigh of relief.
He whispered, "Smart."
"What did you say, Your Majesty?"
"Nothing, go back and mobilize people, and make sure to find the Cheng sisters before them."
He first went to the county magistrate's office to see what was going on.
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Xichuan County Magistrate's Office.
There was a fierce quarrel in the study.
They were Weiwei Fan and the governor of Cheng County.
The two were so engrossed in biting each other that they had no idea there was a person lying on the roof.
Finally, the two were tired of arguing, and County Magistrate Cheng's face, which had aged a lot, showed an indifference as dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.
"Fan Wende, what can you do if you bring me down? Besides venting your anger, what will you gain?
You and I both know what kind of person Huo Zhanfeng is. Now, the Huo family is the master of the world. What good will happen to you if you mix with a scourge like Liu Cheng?
My daughter has already escaped, it doesn’t matter whether I live or die!
I'm in the underworld, waiting for your whole family!"
"Cheng Lishen! You only care about your two daughters, not your pregnant concubine?
The doctor said, it’s a son!
Is a daughter or a son more important? You choose!"
"I choose to die with you!"
"You!" Fan Wende was furious.
His eyes were as sinister as a poisonous snake.
"Okay, Cheng Lishen, you have guts. Let's see if your daughter can escape from Xichuan!
If my son catches me, I won't be able to be his concubine anymore. I'll be thrown into the military camp and become a prostitute!"
"Get out! I was blind to find such a marriage for my daughter! He is worse than pigs and dogs. Sooner or later, his intestines will be ruptured and he will be struck by lightning!" County Magistrate Cheng was not willing to be outdone.
Huo Zhanfeng had no idea that County Magistrate Cheng was also quite good at scolding people.
When he was here before, he was clearly a literary old man.
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