Father-in-law Zhu Di, I am so happy to marry the disfigured princess

Chapter 272 The assassination failed, Yu Shi was loyal, the Twelve Generals of Tianmen, Li Xiao was a matchmaker!
This small courtyard of Yu Shi's family is located in a remote place in the east of the city.

There are only two rooms in a small courtyard, and the house looks very old.

It can be seen that the family background is very ordinary, and they are living a tight life. This is the life of a sixth-rank official in the imperial court.

This is still when Li Xiao abolished the Daming Treasure Banknotes and all officials distributed silver.

If treasure notes are still issued as before, the lives of officials will be even more difficult.

Of course, except for the officials of the capital.

The new salary system has already been implemented there.

At this moment, there was a violent storm outside, and the candles in the room were dimly lit, illuminating the room. There was a beautiful woman lying on the bed with a pale face. She had been ill for a long time.

This is Yu Shi's wife. She has been coughing for many years, and even visited famous doctors.

"Ma'am, the national teacher brought me medicine today, you should swallow it with water, and your illness should be cured soon."

Yu Shi handed the medicine to his wife and helped her up with tenderness in his eyes.

"Master, I have seen so many doctors for this disease, but it is not cured. If it is really not good, you can leave me alone. After my death, you will find another woman to take care of you."

Yu Shi's wife took the medicine, looked at Yu Shi and said, she didn't want to be a burden.

"What is this called?"

Yu Shi is also an infatuated man, he said sternly: "You are my married wife, and you have been with me since you were 14 years old. I am sorry for you and caused you to suffer so much all these years. Don't worry this time. Well, the national teacher is a master of medicine, there have long been rumors among the people that he will definitely be able to cure the disease with medicine."

"what"

Mrs. Yu Shi nodded: "Then why did the national teacher suddenly help our family? It's not because he wants you to do things for him. I bought vegetables in the vegetable market the day before yesterday, and now the whole city is talking about the national teacher, saying that he is a murderer without blinking an eye." devil."

Yu Shi sighed and said: "I don't know who this national teacher is, but I heard that the two holy masters are very dependent on the national teacher, and even gave him the sword of Shang Fang, and even an empty decree. Yes, ma'am, you can rest easy and recuperate, and don't worry about other things."

Mrs. Yu Shi said: "I have dragged my husband down. All these years of treating my illness have exhausted my money. Otherwise, you can walk around more than your superiors. You can take another step forward in the officialdom and realize your ambition."

Yu Shi said: "Even if you are free from illness and disaster, and your family has spare money, I don't bother to join forces with those people in the officialdom. By the way, the national teacher said that I should work for him in secret, which is true. He said he wanted to eliminate Official atmosphere."

Mrs. Yu Shi was shocked and said: "Master, you have to be more careful."

Yu Shi nodded, "I know."

boom -

There was a loud thunder outside, illuminating the entire window.

Against the backdrop of the thunder, Yu Shi's wife saw a figure outside the window with a sharp weapon in her hand, she couldn't help but turn pale, and said: "Too bad sir, I seem to see someone outside, maybe someone came to harm us life is coming."

Hearing this, Yu Shi was startled, and hastily turned his head to look out the window.

It was already dark outside at this time, and after a few breaths, lightning struck again, and the reflection appeared on the window, and he also saw a figure.

"No, there is really someone madam, you hide under the blanket and don't come out, I'll go out and have a look."

Yu Shi was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, and hurriedly asked his wife to hide.

"Sir, don't go, it's dangerous, let's run away."

"How can I escape in such heavy rain? Ma'am, please rest assured."

As he said that, Yu Shi picked up the wooden stick from home and slowly moved towards the door. He kept taking deep breaths and was adjusting his breathing rhythm.

If he escaped, he could indeed escape through the back window now.

But the wife is weak and unable to escape, it is impossible for him to leave his wife alone.

"Damn it, I offended Shang Shu during the day, could it be that he sent someone to kill me?"

Yu Shi's palms were sweating, he tightly held the wooden stick in his hand, and said in his heart: "Fortune is for misfortune, misfortune is for blessing, Madam's pill is really not that easy to get, but since I, Yu Shi, received the imperial teacher's Pill, don't regret it!"

He gritted his teeth, kicked the door open suddenly, and shouted: "Thief, die!"

boom -

The sound of thunder and lightning sounded again, illuminating the scene in the yard.

Yu Shi was stunned, the corpses of two men in black lay on the ground, covered with blood, which was washed by the rain and dyed into one piece.

At this time, there were two other people who were carrying the body of the man in black and walking towards the outside of the courtyard. Obviously, these two people were not part of the man in black. There was a fight here just now.

Those two were a little stunned when they heard this voice, and looked back at Yu Shi.

"who are you."

Yu Shi shouted tremblingly, "I'm not afraid of you."

One of them, dressed in black, said: "I was seen by you, but you don't have to be afraid. We are here to protect you. These two dead people are the ones who want to take your life."

"Protect mine."

Yu Shi looked at the corpse on the ground, then at the two people, and understood everything, "Are you from the National Teacher?"

The man smiled: "It's pretty smart, it's good to know, since the national teacher has won you over, he will protect you well, and you can do things with peace of mind, no one in Nanjing City can hurt you."

After finishing speaking, he didn't stay too long, and jumped out with the corpses of the two on his back, directly out of the courtyard.

That's right, these people are the ones Li Xiao sent to protect him.

Li Xiao knows that this officialdom is very dark, and now it has touched the interests of many people, and things that kill people will definitely happen.

This is ancient times, there is no monitoring, killing people to silence, as long as it is done cleanly, it is generally impossible to find out who did it, and there are often people who feed dead people, so we have to guard against it.

"Thank you Master!!!"

Yu Shi knelt on the ground and bowed in the direction the two left.

Then went back to the room.

After closing the door, Yu Shi felt a bit of fear.

If the national teacher hadn't sent someone to protect him, I'm afraid he and his wife would have escaped death.

But soon there was a burst of relief, the national teacher was so meticulous and sent someone to protect him, for a while, Yu Shi was extremely moved.

"Sir, what happened?"

Yu Shi's wife asked anxiously.

"My lady, someone did try to assassinate us just now."

Yu Shi told what happened just now.

After listening, Yu Shi's wife said gratefully: "My lord, I don't think this Master Guoshi is as demonized as rumored in the market, but I think he is quite nice."

Yu Shi nodded vigorously: "Yes, this national teacher does have some skills. I was a little worried at first. He wins me over in public during the day, which is actually very detrimental to me. It turns out that he has made careful arrangements for that."

He said with a firm expression: "The national teacher trusts me so much, I am more than willing to do my best for him!"

In the south of Nanjing City, in the military barracks meeting hall.

Sixteen corpses were placed on the ground. These were the sixteen killers sent by Zhao Jingkun, all of whom had been intercepted and killed by Li Xiao's men.

Liu Dakai reported: "Patriarch, I originally wanted to keep a few people alive, but they all had poison in their mouths, and when things were revealed, they all committed suicide."

Li Xiao nodded slightly.

Li Jinglong, who was sitting next to Li Xiao, slapped the table and said angrily: "It's too rampant. They win over during the day and assassinate at night. These people are so daring! We must find out who did it and execute it immediately."

Li Xiao smiled and said: "Jing Long, since these people dare to release the killer, they don't have to worry about finding themselves. By the way, Liu Dakai, how skilled are these people?"

Liu Dakaihui reported: "They are all a group of dead soldiers, and they don't seem to be raised by officials. They are highly skilled in martial arts, and they are sharp killing weapons honed since childhood."

People like Liu Dakai are his very important intelligence department. Over the years, he has compiled all the martial arts he taught systematically into a book, and let these people practice martial arts all day long. Now they are also very skilled in martial arts, otherwise it would be difficult to take on this great task.

In addition, in addition to Liu Dakai's intelligence organization, this time he also deployed his trump card "Tianmen" to be sure.

Li Xiao frowned slightly, and said in surprise, "Where did these people come from? It's really strange."

Liu Dakai took a knife, pried open the mouth of one of them, and said, "Patriarch, these people have all had their tongues cut off, and their behavior seems to be like the darknet organization that was active more than ten years ago. They just took young children from people's homes, Cut off the tongue and cultivate it from childhood."

"What? They all had their tongues cut off?"

Li Xiao was startled, and then he squatted down to investigate, and sure enough, he said: "It is undoubtedly the dark net! Unexpectedly, after all these years, the dark net has surfaced again! Back then, this group of people robbed the people who were sent to the court." There are several million taels of silver in tax money, and they have not been found so far. I didn’t expect to appear in Nanjing again. Why did they cooperate with the family? Could it be?”

After thinking about it, Li Xiao finally cleared his mind, "So that's how it is. Lei Yu talks about Mr. Liang. It's not someone else, but someone from the dark net. This Liang is a homonym for Liang, isn't it the first word for Liang Guogong, blue Yu's remnants! What are they going to do?"

Liu Dakai turned pale and said, "Cholera!"

With a bang, Li Xiao slapped the table and said, "That's right, they want cholera!"

Li Jinglong excitedly said: "Damn it, now that the world is at peace, Haiyan and Heqing are clear, this remnant of Sapphire actually wants to cause chaos in the world, he should be punished!"

Li Xiao sat down slowly, and said: "So, those artisans in the capital were also secretly taken away by these people. Maybe now the flintlock guns have been distributed to the hands of the heads of the families. They want us to fight and fish in troubled waters."

Li Jinglong said: "Then what shall we do next?"

Li Xiao smiled and said, "Wait and see what happens."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Liu Dakai and said: "Dakai, you continue to protect those people secretly, don't let them die, if one of them dies, I'm afraid no one will dare to do things for me Li Xiao in the future, and their tricks will succeed. Take these corpses and deal with them."

"Yes!" Liu Dakai nodded, and then called for someone to come over and remove the corpse.

Li Jinglong looked at the corpse on the ground, then looked at Li Xiao and said, "Master, the assassination incident is over for the time being? Just let them go so easily? I guess, it should be a group of officials from the imperial family who did it."

Li Xiao smiled and said, "Do you know who it is?"

Li Jinglong shook his head, "I'm not sure about this."

Li Xiao said: "There is no conclusive evidence, it is not appropriate to take action and wait and see what happens, but if they fail to assassinate, we know that our country's teacher is prepared, and there are many masters around, and we will be honest for a while. By the way, Jing Long , These days you took over the defense of Nanjing City, how is it going? This matter is very important."

Li Jinglong said: "The takeover of the defenders went very smoothly. It was a bit unexpected. It turned out that this Huazhong often bullied the sergeants and secretly withheld food and salaries. The soldiers had complained about him for a long time. Before they stole Huazhong's house and got 5 taels of silver. After I took office , to reward the sergeants with this money, to make up for the previous debts, and to buy people's hearts. I have also won over several other generals. master."

Li Xiao nodded and said with a smile: "That's good. In this way, the [-] defenders will belong to me, and we will have more bargaining chips in our hands. After the matter is completed, I will report to the Holy Majesty and report your achievements one by one. Definitely a reward."

Li Jinglong cupped his hands: "Thank you Guoshi!"

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and the two fell silent immediately.

Li Jinglong said: "Who?"

"Father, it's me."

It was Li Ruxin, Li Jinglong's daughter, who spoke.

"Come in."

After Li Ruxin opened the door and entered, Li Jinglong said: "Ru Xin, if you don't stay at home, why did you come here in the middle of the night?"

There were rough men in the barracks, so after arriving in Nanjing, Li Ruxin went back to live in Cao Guogong's mansion, and Li Jinglong also sent a hundred soldiers to protect her.

Li Ruxin bowed and said, "Father, Duke Cao's mansion is so big, and my daughter lives alone, so I'm extremely bored all day long. My daughter wants her daughter to come and live here."

Li Jinglong frowned, and said impatiently: "I told you not to come, you just want to come, how can you keep women's family members in this military camp, it's just nonsense, you simply take the train back to Peiping tomorrow, I will ask your mother to tell you about my family as soon as possible, Get married."

When she heard her father asked her to go back to Beiping, Li Ruxin's eyes turned red, "Father, don't drive your daughter away, and she doesn't want to marry. She just wants to serve her father."

"You girl, you are getting wilder."

Li Jinglong got up angrily, and was about to teach him a lesson, Li Xiao hurriedly pulled him back, and said with a smile: "Since my niece doesn't want to leave, why do you force her to stay in this barracks? There is no rule in this barracks that you can't stay." Ladies."

After finishing speaking, Li Xiao looked at Li Ru and said in his heart, "Niece, uncle helped you to do this, so you can stay here."

Li Ruxin looked at Li Xiao gratefully, "Thank you Uncle Li."

Li Xiao waved his hand and ordered: "Come here, send me Qiu Shui, Fu Rong, Xia He, and Hai Tang."

Not long after, four people walked into the room, dressed as a nobleman, with a beautiful and fair face, about fourteen or fifteen years old, women disguised as men.

The organization of the new generation cultivated by Li Xiao: Tianmen.

Only he and Zhu Ningyun knew about this organization, even Liu Dakai didn't know where these people came from, only knew that they were the family head's cronies.

The Twelve Generals of Tianmen: Eight male generals and four female generals.

The twelve generals have their own strengths, and they are proficient in at least two of the art of war, Confucianism, martial arts, commerce, arithmetic, medicine, and painting.

These people took in the orphans who almost died during the famine, and selected talented seedlings from them to start cultivating.

Qiushui, Furong, Xiahe, and Haitang are the four female generals of Tianmen.

This time the twelve generals came out in full force, and they were brought out to practice.

This time, the eight male generals of Tianmen also participated in the protection of those officials who were recruited by him.

The woman at the head, whose face is like peach blossoms and whose eyes are like water, is a master of Qiushui. She is excellent in arithmetic and extraordinary in martial arts. She cupped her hands and said: "Patriarch, please order."

Li Xiao instructed: "This Miss Li Ruxin is Cao Guogong's daughter, her status is extremely noble, and she will live in the barracks from now on. The four of you will accompany her and protect her well."

The four female generals cupped their hands and said, "Obey."

Qiu Shui looked at Li Ruxin kindly, and said with a smile, "Miss Li Ruxin, that's great, the four of us will have a new partner."

"This..." Li Jinglong couldn't sit still.

Li Xiao explained with a smile: "Duke Cao, don't panic, these four are all daughters, disguised as men, they are my attendants, so you can feel at ease living in the army like this?"

Hearing that it was a woman, Li Jinglong breathed a sigh of relief, cupped his hands and said, "Please trouble the national teacher."

After finishing speaking, he looked at his daughter and said, "Daughter, I haven't thanked you, Uncle Li."

Li Ru nodded with a message: "Thank you, Uncle Li."

Afterwards, she looked at the four of Qiushui and found that they were all smiling and very easy to get along with.

After introducing each other, they held hands and left with a smile and chatter.

'These four girls are extraordinary.'

Li Jinglong's eyes swept over the four women, not only were they outstanding in appearance, they were also restrained in energy, they seemed to have martial arts skills, they were by no means as simple as Li Xiao's attendants.

How many hole cards does Master Guoshi have?
"Cao Guogong, what are you thinking?"

"Ah, I didn't think about it, it's just that this daughter is too disobedient."

Li Jinglong withdrew his thoughts and smiled to hide his embarrassment.

"Why don't girls stay in college?"

Li Xiao laughed: "I think Cao Guogong's daughter is fourteen now, it's time to tell him a good marriage."

Li Jinglong said: "I think so too, but in order to find a suitable family for a while, this daughter looked down on several young masters."

Li Xiao stretched out three fingers and said, "Mr. Cao Guo knows that I, Li Xiao, have three hobbies."

Li Jinglong said: "I know a little bit about it. One is doting on a wife. This is known all over the world. The other is good poems, famous poems through the ages. I don't know the third one."

Li Xiao smiled and said: "The third thing is that I like to match people and make a good marriage. I hope that lovers in the world will eventually get married, but this is my biggest wish, Li Xiao."

Li Jinglong was shocked, and thought that Li Xiao was a model husband of the Ming Dynasty, the dream of thousands of girls in the Ming Dynasty, but he was weak, and he only loved Princess Yong'an.

According to this meaning, the national teacher wants to tell himself a matchmaker.

Can Li Xiao talk about matchmaking? How bad is that?
Thinking of this, Li Jinglong hurriedly said: "I also ask the Duke to tell my little daughter a son-in-law."

Li Xiao picked up the teacup and smiled slightly: "That's exactly what I mean."

Li Jinglong said: "The national teacher must have someone in mind, who is it?"

Li Xiao said: "It's far away in the sky and close in front of you. Yu Qian."

The reason why he said this is that Li Xiao knew that Yu Qian would definitely become a talent in the future, but he had no background and his foundation was too shallow. In the end, he saved the country but lost his life.If he can marry Cao Guogong's daughter, he will be in the court in the future, and there will be a family to help the village behind him.

"Yu Qian?"

This person appeared in Li Jinglong's mind, and he said in surprise: "Speaking of which, this person is not bad. He strives to be the first in everything, and he has a lot of ambition, but his background is a bit poor."

Li Xiao supported his forehead, teasingly said: "Duke Cao, you just got back your title, and you start to hate the poor and love the rich so soon?"

Li Jinglong hurriedly said: "National teacher, I am stupid. The national teacher was just a farmer back then, but now he is the Ming Dynasty teacher, but is Yu Qian really a son-in-law?"

Li Xiao smiled and said: "Of course, Yu Qian is just sixteen this year, and your girl is fourteen. This age is just right, she is talented and beautiful. He is only sixteen, and he can be ranked second in the national examination, which shows that he is very intelligent. You have also seen him during this time." This person strives to be the first in everything, does not lag behind the trend, has good ambitions, and has great ambitions. He is definitely not something in the pool. I want to cultivate him well, and when I am old in the future, there will be someone who will succeed me."

hiss.
Li Jinglong didn't expect Li Xiao to have such a high opinion of Qian.

To be honest, Li Jinglong didn't see that Yu Qian was very powerful, he didn't listen to the previous paragraph, but he did listen to the last sentence.

The national teacher wants to cultivate Yu Qian. And there are successors?

What do you mean?
The future is not a national teacher, but at least a chief assistant
"Hahaha, the national teacher knows people with his eyes, I am not as good as that."

Li Jinglong said excitedly: "This marriage, I, Li Jinglong, will decide."

Li Xiao nodded slightly, a child can be taught!

(End of this chapter)