After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 1280 Threatening to Abandon the City [3]

"What Master Zheng said is very true." Tong Dazhang understood and immediately stood up, cupping his fists to the heads of the families present: "I know that you gentlemen, young masters and heads of the family are all noble and refined people, and there are some things that you dare not do. My Tong family escort agency has many martial artists, so I will take the lead for you."

"However, your cooperation is needed."

"As for how to cooperate, it varies from company to company. After you sign and press your fingerprints on this booklet, you may leave."

"Once you arrive home, our bodyguards will deliver the tasks to each household to their doorstep."

"Once each family receives it, they can proceed accordingly."

This?
The family members present weren't stupid; none of them wanted to sign or put their fingerprints on the document.

A roster like that is a sure way to get information out of them. If the roster is leaked, how will they ever face anyone again?

"Zheng will go first!" Master Zheng stood up, picked up a pen, signed his name in a booklet, and pressed his fingerprint on the name with red ink.

"I, Bai Peijian, am willing to sign this petition to create an escape route for the people of Wei in the capital city!" Young Master Bai shouted, signing his name and pressing his fingerprint.

Why is he so passionate and unafraid of leaving any evidence against him?

The answer is that he is aware of the ultimate goal, so naturally he has to act as bait to lure these tools into the game.

"My whole family will sign and put their fingerprints on the register!" Liu Qingxiu was going all out. He even grabbed his paralyzed mother's hand and made her put her fingerprints on the register.

Yang Qingxiu and his son also signed and pressed their fingerprints.

"Hahaha, good, as expected of the scholar, you are truly righteous. I, Tong, will follow suit!" Tong the leader signed and pressed his fingerprint, his eyes smiling but shrewd, scanning those who were not as high-ranking as the Tong family, those who had something on them that the Tong family had, and those who had already allied with the Tong family.

When Xue Dongjia established the business alliance, the Tong family was unwilling to be the third (the second was Li Da Dongjia), so they secretly formed an alliance under the guise of freight transportation and having powerful backers.

Today, 70% of the leaders of these alliances are present.

The remaining 30% didn't come because they knew the Tong Family Escort Agency was no good and were already planning to break off relations.

"Uncle Su, Master Xie, Young Master Chen, Boss Wang, Boss Yan, Old Master Yun..." Master Zheng called out to many families like a grim reaper, finally his gaze landing on Second Master Kang: "Second Brother Kang, we are in our prime, are you really going to accept your fate?"

That's right, Kang Erye, the son of Old Master Kang Sixteen, was also there... This guy is always there whenever there's trouble, it's unbelievable.

Master Kang said, "I had no choice!"

If we don't compete and fight, are we just supposed to live our whole lives bearing a bad reputation and being subservient to others?!
The death of Kang Rong brought only ridicule and punishment to the Kang family of Northeast China, except for Kang Yan, who was granted a marquisate.

Because of Kang Rong's matter, the main branch of the Kang family in the capital was also punished, so the Kang family members from the Northeast became the scapegoats for the main branch in the capital.

It seems that the more the Kang family in the Northeast is punished, the more justified the Kang family in the capital becomes.

Ha, all he knows is bullying those of lower status. Well then, don't blame him for going all out!

Bang! Master Kang pressed his fingerprint onto the register and said, "The Kang family is a distinguished family, having been nurtured by the Wei people for generations. Now, in this situation, we should stand up and fight for the Wei people in the city to escape with their lives!"

The Wei people inside the city said: Bah! You yourselves are afraid of death and want to escape, you want to cause trouble and seek benefits, don't use us as a raft!
not.

The scions of aristocratic families learn to utilize all things in the world, including people, to achieve their own interests.

"Please." Those who have signed and pressed their fingerprints will be led away by Master Zheng's men.

Like ants emerging from their holes, people kept coming out of the two corner gates and the back gate of this small garden courtyard in the past two quarters of an hour.

They were all people of status, and it was daytime now, so even if they encountered patrolling Wei soldiers, the Wei soldiers would at most question them a few times.

After all, they are Wei people, not enemy troops. How could we possibly make things difficult for them?

The Tong Family Escort Agency has been operating in the capital city for generations, with several hundred escorts on the surface, and even more martial arts masters under contract behind the scenes, numbering in the thousands.

Therefore, not long after Liu Qing, Yang Ming and others returned home, they heard stones being thrown in through the back door of the kitchen.

Bang!

Stones hit the roof and rolled into the yard.

Liu Qingxiu's heart skipped a beat. He scolded the other people in the house and went to check the back door of the kitchen. Inside the threshold where the secret scroll had been found, he discovered a new scroll.

Upon opening it, everything went black.

But he's quick to adapt, and he decided to do it right away!

Holding the new invitation, he gathered his entire family, young and old, and finally knelt down before his parents and wife: "Father, mother, wife, please help me so that our children can live."

Liu Qing said to his wife, "Wife, I will not live alone. After we send our child and your family to the Tai Zhou Mansion, I will commit suicide and go down to join you!"

Liu Qing was pedantic, and his wife had long been tamed by him to the point of being brainless, blindly obeying his every command... After all, her husband was a scholar, while her family was just a merchant family with a family shop, a five-courtyard ancestral house, and thirty acres of fertile land in the suburbs.

No, Auntie, with a family fortune like this in the capital city, how can we not be arrogant? We should be able to slap Liu Qing twice a day!
However, Liu Qing's wife, who had been raised with traditional etiquette all her life, instinctively did not refuse her husband's request. She immediately agreed, only asking Liu Qing: "Husband, I know I am not capable, but please, for the sake of my hard work, you must take at least two of my nephews out of the city to escape for their lives. They cannot die here and have their family line end."

Liu Qing said he would help your whole family escape, but when you arrived here, you even offered a discount?

"Okay, wife, don't worry, I will definitely take two men from your family out of the city to carry on your family line!" Liu Qing was no human being, and even asked his wife, "Wife, take out your dowry that you've been saving and divide it up. Each of our sons will get a share, and your family will get a share. That way, your dowry won't be wasted."

When Liu Qing married her, her family was quite wealthy, so they gave her four gold coins as a dowry.

“Husband, after you were dismissed from the academy, you also developed a drinking addiction. You can’t go without drinking, but now that alcohol is banned, it’s very expensive to buy it secretly. And the gold coins we’ve been saving are… Waaah, husband, I’m so sorry.” Liu Qing’s wife cried and apologized.

Her sons, who had initially been reluctant to let her die, gave up on helping her when they saw how incapable she was of standing up for herself. They only urged, "Mother, what savings do you have left? Bring them all out! We need to escape the city now. How can we survive without a settlement allowance?!"

"Alright, alright!" Liu Qing's paralyzed mother spoke up, stopping the men in the family from making things difficult for their daughter-in-law.

But the old woman still loved her children and grandchildren the most and wanted them to live, so she agreed to her son's request. She, her daughter-in-law, and the old man went to the city gate and committed suicide by crashing into it.

He used his death to ignite the desire of the Wei people inside the city to escape.

Bang bang bang!
The back door was smashed by the bodyguards.

Liu Qing's family was startled. Liu Qing hurriedly went to the back door to check and came back with a new note, urging, "Hurry up and go to the city gate. We can take care of the family's private belongings... The nobles are urging us. If we displease them and they don't protect our family all the way to Tai Zhou Mansion, you will have died in vain."

With a series of thuds, Liu Qing pulled his sons down to kneel and kowtow to the three of them: "Father, Mother, and Daughter-in-law, we will never forget your kindness in this lifetime. After the war, we will spread the word about your righteous deeds and let the whole world know that you are great heroes who knocked on the city gates for the people of Wei to escape to their deaths!"