Paternity

Chapter 81

"Mastering!"

The remaining dozens of guards were more or less injured, but they still persevered, looking around warily.

The true identity of Tang Shengzong was the seventh son of the emperor. Over the years, the old emperor's health became increasingly worse. Maybe he felt his body rapidly aging. Emperor Shang Qing, who was originally a conservative king, became increasingly authoritarian.Don't listen to any comments against him, support traitors and sycophants, and politics is dark.

Tang Shengzong was mediocre amongst the princes. In the past, there was Tang Shengjue, the eldest son of the Southern King, Tang Shengxi, the eldest son born to the empress, and Tang Shengxi, the third eldest son who was crowned as a prince at birth , and Tang Chengsi, the ninth prince born from the most favored imperial concubine. .

The three were the most powerful challengers to the throne, but in the past two years, the prince's health had become increasingly worse, and not long ago, the only little granddaughter below the prince's knees had died from illness, and it was also a taboo for the prince to have no children During this period of time, many people who came from the Prince's faction were drawn by the First Prince's and Ninth Prince's powers.

In addition to these three princes, Emperor Shang Qing also had seven grown sons. The mother of the seventh prince Tang Shengzong was only Empress Shuyi, and her birth family was nowhere to be seen. There were some elders from the same clan who could be used, but those people might not be used by him.

Even so, the prince was a prince, if the seventh prince were to be killed outside, all of these guards would have to pay the seventh prince's life, and even his family would be dragged away.

Those who could become the prince's bodyguards were not ordinary people, looking at the wounds on his body now, then saw the fool who was carrying half a boar full of large blades and was completely unharmed, after which he was killed, he felt very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, each of them still considered themselves to be extremely tall, if not for this sudden stupid criticism, it was still a question of whether they could survive.

"It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, young master, let's quickly go!"

One of them covered the wound on his arm and said in the Seventh Prince's ear.

I don't know if those people will gather a new group of people, if there are too many enemies, this brave man who seems so strong may not be able to hold it back.

Tang Shengzong clearly understood this truth.

"Brother, I'm a distant relative of the judge's family in Fengyang. Thank you for saving us from the bandits just now. How, how. If you come to town with us, I'd be very grateful. "

He looked at Su Aobai who returned the boar to the wagon, it would be safer if he was with her all the way.

The county magistrate of Fengyang County was the same clan of the beloved concubine Tang Shengzong, and she was also a relative of the clan who had yet to pass the fifth dress.

"You don't have to thank me. Since you are a relative of the judge's family, I'll trouble you to tell the judge later that there are bandits here. Let the county magistrate send someone to suppress the bandits. Otherwise, there will be many people in our countryside. It's not safe, and I can't sleep well."

Su Aobai patted his chest and said with lingering fear.

Other: ...The people who feel insecure should be the killers who don't notice you.

"While I am, it happens to be on its way. I'm going to the county town to sell half this boar."

Su Aobai said boldly, "If you are seriously injured, sit on it as well. I'll push you with a cart. Don't be shy. I have great power."

Some of them were seriously injured. If they walked far back, they might lose their lives. Most of these people were from noble families, so they could be considered as personal connections.

The guard wanted Tang Shengzong to sit on the wagon, but Tang Shengzong refused.

"Let the badly injured guard sit on the wagon, I'm fine."

Tang Shengzong was able to develop his own strength when his mother and wife clans were not strong, so he was naturally unique in dealing with people, he handed over his wagon to the mortally wounded guards and on foot Enough to make the guards who had received this feudal ethic since childhood feel grateful and felt that they had chosen a generous lord and kind-hearted.

In the end, some seriously injured guards were sitting on the cart, half of the boar was pushed into a corner, he said, and the other guards with fewer injuries carried the bodies of the dead friends on their backs.

Of course, before leaving, they had checked all the corpses of those assassins.

No items or signs can verify their identity. These murderers are all dead people. Some of them did not actually die, but were poisoned to death after being dumped by their comrades.

But who would bother to send people to Fengyang County, thousands of miles away from the capital, to chase and kill him?

It was nothing more than his brothers.

On the way to the county seat, Tang Shengzong had convoluted, trying to find out about Su Aobai's background, but he was also very cooperative, answering whatever he asked for, he said, with a careless and silly attitude.

For a prince with deep thoughts like Tang Shengzong, it was naturally impossible for Su Aobai to believe anything Su Aobai said, either, and he would definitely send someone to investigate him in the future.

There was no one in the royal family who was unsuspecting, perhaps in his heart he still felt that his sudden appearance was a deliberate arrangement by another power.

Fortunately, the identity and origin of the real body were all very innocent, no matter who Tang Shengzong sent to investigate, they would not find the problem.

Most groups of people were injured and carried several bodies on their backs. Before entering the city, they were stopped by the gate guards. The guard Tang Shengzong who issued the token and handed it to the team leader who was guarding the city, the county magistrate rushed to the city gate with his subordinate officials, but before he could salute, he was stopped by Tang Shengzong.

There were many people at the city gate, and many people were staring at him at the moment, Tang Shengzong was unwilling to reveal his identity as a prince.

Tang Shengzong was not unemployed, he had to be busy contacting his other staff and tracking down the trail of the part of the assassin that had disappeared before, so after arriving at the county magistrate's office, he had to be busy, the group separated from Su Aobai.

The county magistrate seemed to have been instructed, so he called the housekeeper, bought Su Aobai's half-piece wild boar, and in addition, gave him five hundred taels of silver.

Compared to the life of the prince, this much money was definitely nothing, but to ordinary farmers, if this much money was saved, it would be enough for a lifetime, and if given more, it would be enough, it could be a disaster for him.

Moreover, he saved the prince, how could there be no other advantage.

The county magistrate asked the Seventh Prince's bodyguards a few words, and got word from them that he was qualified to know. It was said that this farmer helped them a lot, and the Seventh Prince would promote it.

Since the county magistrate was also courteous when facing him, who knew how the Seventh Prince would promote it, being seen by such a noble, even if he was now only a farmer, who knew if he would be his superior in the future? .

Su Aobai had no intention of inquiring about Tang Shengzong or being friends with the county magistrate, so he happily accepted five hundred taels of silver, pushed his bloodied wagon and left the government office.

After being told to stay, the guard who observed his words and deeds could not help but laugh and cry, he did not know whether to praise this man and accept him as soon as he was kind, he did not know whether to praise this man, or angry that he was not good.wanted to know about what big blow he saved, and he only took five hundred taels of silver.

But he knew that his master would be happy to hear it.

Knowing how to be satisfied is a quality that not many people have.

*****

With the money in his hands, Su Ao naturally became more wasteful while spending it in vain.

First, I went to the snack shop in the county seat to buy a lot of snacks and fruit sweets, she said, and then I went to the women's cheek powder store to buy some face and body creams for girls, as well as headbands, silk flowers, ready-made girls' clothes and materials...

But he bought a lot of stuff that my daughter could use at that age, of course, he didn't forget to buy all the haw sweets from the old man who sold the haw sweets, he said, includes inserted target haw candies. .

Silver was extremely valuable, there were so many items, and in the end it cost just over eight taels.

Moreover, he bought some jugs of wine, and he would hold a banquet at night.

When I returned to the village at night, the smell of cut vegetables smelled from a distant house. The wife of the village chief made a very careful arrangement, and borrowed tables, chairs, bowls, and chopsticks. There are several tables, and you can sit only after he returns.

Currently, most of the people in the village were concentrated in the small courtyard that Su Aobai had rented. Many people had actually never helped the two of them, but they were thick-skinned and they had only come together. They all came from the same village.The same village, it is not easy to catch up, the shame to appear is only relatives in the old house.

He returned with a full load of carts and carried such a conspicuous target of haw sweets, which of course attracted everyone's attention.

The children running around in the small courtyard were the happiest, and they did not care about the pork boiling in the big pot in the kitchen. They gathered around Su Aobai, looking at the target that was filled with haw sweets in his hands, drooling.

"Here, Er Niang, this was bought for you by Dad. You can decide how to share it, whether you want to share it or not."

With that said, Su Aobai crammed a huge target into his daughter's hands.

"Don't bully my second mother, one by one, she's the softest. Treat him better, say something good, and play with him in the future. He might be willing to share the haw sweets with you."

Su Aobai did not forget to tell the children, especially the most stubborn and disobedient.

He clearly smiled as he spoke, but the children he looked at could not help but shiver.They all remembered that this man was a fierce man who destroyed the brains of boars.

Not daring to take it, some greedy children anxiously scratched their heads, wondering what could be done, let Er Niang share the sweet sour sweets for them to eat.

"Dad, there's too much, why don't you come back."

Er Niang, the little housekeeper, was really angry, he had not expected his father to spend money lavishly before.

By the way, his father had no money before, and all the money was in the hands of his step-grandmother.

The little girl looked straight at the wallet tied around Su Aobai's waist, thinking that the old saying was indeed true, a man could not take money to run the house.

Although somewhat rebellious, Erniang still had an uncontrollable thought in his heart at this moment.

He had to take good care of this family, money and so on, so don't let his father touch him in the future.

In the past, Erniang would never even think of such an idea, but now, after this idea had emerged, Erniang felt confident that if he brought up this idea, his father would not hesitate. Leave all the money in the family to him.

He felt his father loved him very much.

"You don't have to go back, this is to make up for the haw sweets you haven't given you in the last few years."

Su Aobai waved her hand and asked her daughter and her friends who had spilled everywhere to share the candy, and she called out to some people to help bring down the wine jars on the cart. As for the other items scattered about, He collected them a little, then took them and put them back in the bedroom.

Others could not see exactly what he had bought, but the haw candies, rice wine jars, and fabrics that could be seen on the surface alone cost at least a few taels.

Could all the money from the boar sale be exhausted?

The pragmatic eyes are full of disapproval.

“Uncle Village Chief, don't worry, I didn't waste my money.”

Su Aobai came out after tidying up her things, and hurriedly explained a few words.

He briefly explained what happened on the way to the county seat. Of course, he just said that he met a bandit who robbed a distant relative of a county magistrate on the street, and he helped himself, and then the county magistrate gave him a gift.

As for the silver reward, he erased the zero and said it was fifty taels.This amount alone was enough to make the eyes of the people present wide-eyed, full of envy, look on, and upset why they didn't go to town today.

But come to think of it, if he did not have the strength of Su Laoer to beat the boar to death, wouldn't he be killed if he met the bandits?

So anyway, this is an opportunity for a second child.

It seemed that since the breakup, Su Laoer's most bullied luck suddenly improved.Firstly, the incurable leg injury improved unexpectedly, and then he killed the precious boar, and rescue relatives away from the county magistrate on the way.

If one could reward him fifty taels at once, it meant this distant relative had a good relationship with the family of the county magistrate.In this way, Su Laoer could be considered to have a relationship with the county magistrate, think of a path.

Thinking of this, who would dare to offend Su Laoer in the future, even if he thought he was honest, he would not dare to take advantage of him at will.

No, some people who dared to come to eat and drink were already a little restless now.

"Are there bandits here?"

The village chief was a little confused, he had never heard of village robberies or caravans passing through the village, on which mountain were those bandits located?

"It's okay, the county magistrate said that people will soon be sent to suppress the bandits, and we won't let them affect the nearby village."

Su Aobai quickly calmed the hearts of all those who were lifted up.

What kind of bandits are there, but since they want to characterize this incident as a robbery and murder of bandits, take it for granted.

"That's great."

The village head instantly felt relieved, he felt that the person who was going to escape in the end was not some kind of bandit.

Due to this small episode, Su Aobai's status in the village became even higher without being seen. Previously, everyone's kindness to him was more out of sympathy, but now the respect he received was entirely due to his own abilities.

Hot and delicious food was immediately served on the table, and with the jug of wine brought back by Su Aobai, everyone opened their bellies The rental little courtyard was as lively as New Year.

*****

Tang Shengzong's subordinates came out in large numbers, and the next day, news of Su Laoer appeared in his hands.

A son of a genuine couple who was bullied more than 20 years ago.

Honesty and kindness are the labels that most often appear to him The investigation records in detail what happened before and after the separation of the Su family, even the contents of the farewell agreement appears in this investigation verbatim.

Su Lao Er was not a spy planted by one of his brothers. After reaching this conclusion, Tang Shengzong expressed his satisfaction. This was a piece of jade that he had accidentally discovered.

Of course, Tang Shengzong was doubtful of Su Lao Er's ability to recall the memories in this survey, as he felt Su Lao Er did not seem to be smart.

But come to think of it again, photographic memory and intelligence are two different things, remembering does not mean you will use it flexibly, and good memory does not mean you have a deep mind.

In this way, it was another advantage of Suyouniu.

Originally, Tang Shengzong wanted to arrange someone beside him as a guard, but after reading this note, he had another idea.

Over the years, he had recruited many civil servants, but his military strength was slightly inferior.

Su Laoer's natural supernatural power was born to fight, as long as he set it right, coupled with his own abilities, Su Laoer's path to promotion should be smooth.

In addition, there is also information recorded in the investigation that the man had lost his fertility and only had one daughter below his knee.

Tang Shengzong thought inwardly that if he had such a general after he ascended the throne, he would definitely feel more comfortable.Of course, he would also generously support his daughter, too, so that the man will be more sincere to her.

Now he had to think about how he could make this honest country boy work for him.

*****

Su Aobai knew that he was being targeted, and this was also one of his goals, now he was Jiang Taigong, waiting for the big fish to eat his bait.

In the next few days, Tang Shengzong did not appear, nor did Su Aobai, he had enough patience.

On this day, some unexpected guests came to the house all of a sudden.

It was Madam Li, with a matchmaker and a very shrewd young lady.

Back then, Su Aobai was discussing buying a small rented yard in the village chief's house, when someone rushed to pass the news to him.

It was said that Madame Li arranged the wedding for her Today, the matchmaker and the woman came to meet each other, and they were just waiting for her to nod in agreement.

Su Laoer's current situation, Huanghua's eldest daughter should not look down on him, after all she still wanted to become a mother, after all, and most of the people who were willing to live with him were widows who had given birth to children.

Not to mention, ever since word got out that Su Lao Er had received fifty taels of silver from the county magistrate, there were some matchmakers who came to his house and wanted to marry him.

Most of the people they wanted to make peace with were male widows, as long as she agreed to raise the widow's children, they were willing to change the surname of the boy, so that she does not need to establish a female household for her daughter.

People with sharp eyes scorned this, these people came for Su Lao Er's money, as long as Su Lao Er was not stupid, she should not approve of such a marriage.

Of course, some people persuaded Su Aobai to agree In the eyes of these people, as long as it was male, as long as the other party was willing to change his last name, even if it was not his, as long as it was his, it was better than his own daughter.

According to the visitor, what Li Shi found for her was a widow with a dead man and four sons to be endowed.

The other party was two years older than him, and said that if Su Laoer could raise his four children and marry a wife to build a house, it would, he would be willing to change the name of the youngest son to Su Laoer and give him incense for a hundred. Years After that, he threw a basin and swept his grave to offer sacrifice.

The Li party had decided to agree to it, and even let the wind out, the family would immediately arrange a marriage for them.

The visitor hesitated to speak. This is not Li's kindness. The widow she chose had a good reputation, and it was uncertain whether her four sons had the same father. If such a daughter-in-law gets married, I fear she will be given a new green hat every day.

Su Aobai guessed a part of the truth from his eyes. He said why Mrs. Li has been very quiet lately. It turned out that he had planned this big move.

Since ancient times, according to the orders of his parents and the words of the matchmaker, even though his family was separated, Li Shi and Su Kuishan were still his parents, and it was not too much for them to match him.

Su Aobai was not afraid of Li Shi making trouble, but at this critical point, she was worried that Li Shi would not create trouble.

I saw him holding back his little thoughts, and when he raised his head again, his eyes were filled with misery and helplessness.

With a stepmother like that, what should she do?

The village chief and the few people who had come to send the letter all felt Su Lao Er's current sadness Seeing that life had finally improved, why was such a mad dog there, endless.

The crazed dog Li Zheng looked at the small courtyard rented by his stepdaughter, who was, and looked at the wife he had carefully chosen for this boy with complacent and contemptuous eyes.

If not her own child, why would she have to live a better life after being evicted than before leaving home!

Thinking of the fact that more and more villagers doubted the person the old Tao had prophesied recently, it was difficult for Li to hide his hatred for Su Laoer.

He felt that after the breakup, this stepson was out of his control, and he always felt confused, and he would never let such a thing happen.

Madam Li took a deep breath several times, and slowly calmed down after seeing the little lady who could not help but look at her reckless and charming appearance.

Today, he's here to fix things. When this woman gets married, she will wait for her second son's life to fall apart.

The old Taoist priest said that the one who made the Marquis and worshipped the Prime Minister could only be his son! It could only be his son!