I, a minor character, fell into the Shura field of the heroine and the villain

She remembered that Zhao Kangping had indeed taken a photo of her with the photo stone.

This means he has something on me. If I don't want to be socially ruined, I can only submit to him temporarily.

"What else do you want? I've been very polite." Zhao Kangping said.

The woman didn't know whether she should be happy or angry.

Doesn't he have any interest in himself?

Obviously, her appearance can be considered first-class, although it cannot be compared with a peerless beauty like the Holy Lord.

"Okay, I know what to do." Dongfang Jingrou was trembling a little, and she didn't dare to look up at him.

"Okay, okay, let's go back." Zhao Kangping patted the dirt off his body.

Dongfang Jingrou felt as if she had been pardoned, and quickly stood up and prepared to go back.

But the man suddenly stopped her: "Wait, I have something else to ask you."

She stiffened when she heard that, thinking he was going to go back on his word.

I only heard him slowly say: "Why did you go to the bar to get drunk?"

"I, I..." She didn't expect him to ask this.

But there's nothing surprising about it. It would be strange if he didn't ask.

"I met my mother in River City." The woman's thoughts were brought back to the scene of meeting the woman on the street.

"I don't know. Do you know what's happening to me?"

Zhao Kangping: "I've heard some, but it's not complete."

He also doesn't like to ask about a person's past unless it is someone closely related to him.

"My parents are both from Wanghe Sect." Dongfang Jingrou fell into memories.

The Wanghe Sect is a subsidiary sect of the Ziyang Holy Land.

"I have an older brother who later joined the Wanghe Sect. One year, he was sent to the Xueluo Sect as an undercover agent."

"But later his undercover identity was discovered. Under torture, he revealed a lot of secret information about the Wanghe Sect, which led to the failure of an operation of the Wanghe Sect and the death of all those involved."

"This incident also led to my family being implicated. My parents were arrested. And because I was young, I was sold into menial labor."

"Fortunately, I worked hard to climb up and emerged from the bottom. I have been asking about my parents. However, there are all kinds of stories. Some say they were executed long ago, some say they were exiled, and some say they are imprisoned somewhere."

"But the vast majority of people say they're dead. I've been looking for them for a long time, but I haven't found them in years."

"At one point I thought they were really dead. I was depressed for a while because of this." As she spoke, tears fell like pearls from a broken string.

"Until the morning, I actually saw my mother. She was with another man and seemed to be living a happy life."

"That man is an elder of the Wanghe Sect. I've met him before. Not long ago, he represented the Wanghe Sect to attend our Holy Land Trial Ceremony."

"What I can't accept is that our Dongfang family fell apart, our family was destroyed, and my life was once a hell. But when I saw the happy smile on that woman's face, I felt betrayed."

"Do you know how hard it was for me to do menial work? I had to get up before dawn every day to work, and my nails were worn down. But even though I worked myself to death, I still couldn't eat enough."

"If an old servant hadn't secretly left some food for me, I would have starved to death."

"When I saw her, I really wanted to ask her why she could still smile. We had lost our family, but she was able to start a new life with another man, wearing fancy clothes, beautiful jewelry, and a bright smile on her face."

"Her smile is so dazzling. I wonder if she has forgotten the home we once had."

"I can't imagine what happened over the years to make her become such a stranger."

The woman burst into tears and squatted down while crying, hugging her knees, looking as aggrieved as a child.

Zhao Kangping didn't know how to comfort her, so he squatted down and patted her on the back.

But she cried even louder.

"Just cry if you want to." Zhao Kangping didn't know about her past experiences.

But seeing her so vulnerable, he was also a little moved.

"Woo woo woo!~" Dongfang Jingrou, who always had a stern face, showed her weak side.

She is a woman, she can't wear a cold and hard mask all the time.

She will also feel tired, sad and desperate.

As she cried, she leaned on the man's shoulder unconsciously.

Zhao Kangping took out a handkerchief and handed it to her. She took it and wiped her tears.

But when she thought of the woman who betrayed her family, she became sad again.

She didn't want to think the worst of people, but she had seen a lot of ugliness in the world.

She guessed that the woman she once called mother had abandoned her husband and children and thrown herself into the arms of another man for her own glory and wealth.

How could this not make her feel heartbroken?

At that moment, all her memories of her mother collapsed, leaving only deep hatred.

"You'll feel better if you cry out loud." Zhao Kangping gently stroked her back.

At this time, Dongfang Jingrou realized that something was wrong. Why did she cry and then crawl into his arms?

When she looked, she found that her tears had soaked a large area of ​​his clothes on his chest.

Dongfang Jingrou shuddered and quickly got away from him.

"Have you finished crying?" Zhao Kangping stood up.

"I, okay, who wants to cry. Humph!" She wiped her tears and finally stopped crying.

I was so embarrassed in front of him and made a fool of myself.

But after crying, I felt much better.

In fact, she has always been a very strong woman, otherwise she would not have reached her current position.

After calming down, she returned to her serious and rigid appearance.

"Your handkerchief." She wanted to return the handkerchief to the man.

But he waved his hand and said, "It's just a handkerchief. I'll give it to you."

She gritted her teeth and said nothing.

He offered her his shoulder to lean on, and she suddenly felt that this man actually had a gentle side.

She had never cried in front of the Holy Lord, but he saw her crying bitterly.

I probably won't be able to hold my head up in front of him anymore.

They quickly returned to the City Lord's Mansion as if nothing had happened, one in front and one behind, keeping a distance.

They were greeted by the somewhat uneasy maids and the white-haired girl who was waiting calmly.

Seeing Zhao Kangping coming back, Wan Baiyi threw herself into his arms.

She rubbed against him like a little pet.

However, the girl's eyebrows suddenly furrowed. She asked in disbelief, "Master, how come you smell like that woman?"

In order to verify something, Wan Baiyi came to Dongfang Jingrou at lightning speed and sniffed her.

"Hey, why do you smell like your master?"

Like a stone that stirs up a thousand waves, the eleven maids were in an uproar, whispering among themselves.

"You, you guys, it's not what you think." Dongfang Jingrou was so anxious that she jumped up and down. She knew that everyone must have misunderstood.

Someone in the crowd said, "Alright, Lord Suzaku, we understand. We know nothing."

"Yes, yes, we won't tell anyone about it."

"Please rest assured, sir, we are not the kind of people who like to gossip."

Although these women said this, they were all trying to hold back their laughter.

"You..." At this moment, Dongfang Jingrou wanted to kill everyone to silence them.

"Ahem!" Zhao Kangping cleared his throat, feeling the need to clarify. So he explained, "Miss Suzaku and I went out to do something, and there might have been some physical contact during the process. Uh, no, we didn't do anything."

He wanted to explain, but found that he was making things worse.

Then he was too lazy to explain.

In short, the innocent are innocent, and those who are upright are not afraid of their own shadows.

After the maids whispered to each other for a while, one of them came out.

The beautiful and handsome maid said, "Lord Suzaku, our sisters just reported that the children captured by Wang Xiao have basically found their families. Most of them are children of independent cultivators, and some are from small families in the city."

"However, these small families are not powerful enough and probably cannot pose a threat to the five major families."

Chapter 184: Information Brought by Ji Miaoyan

This is not good news.

If the combined strength of those small families is too weak, they may not respond to the call of the new city lord.

Everyone knows the importance of keeping oneself safe.

As long as they didn't stand in opposition to the Five Great Families, it would be good if they remained neutral. They might even be intimidated by their power and switch sides to the Five Great Families.

"We can't put all our eggs in one basket." Zhao Kangping didn't expect these small families to be able to help.

Zhao Kangping: "The He family and the five major families are indeed not easy to deal with. In addition to finding ways to attract more allies, we must also find ways to divide them and weaken them."

There are many small families in Chuanliu City, and many of them need to rely on the five major families to survive.

Of course, there are also a lot of families that have bad relations with the five major families, but these families do not dare to openly oppose the five families.

"City Lord, I think we should first determine the layout of the City Lord's Mansion." Dongfang Jingrou said.

"The current City Lord's Mansion has too much excess space. The previous City Lord's family of sixty people lived here, plus over three hundred servants, so there are a lot of rooms here."

"He even built lavish gardens, courtyards, and artificial lakes. I think many of these things are unnecessary for a monk."

Speaking of which, Zhao Kangping had never visited the City Lord's Mansion before, and after she mentioned it, he became interested.

So they went together to visit the City Lord's Mansion.

"Why is there such a big arena here?" Zhao Kangping said, pointing to a large arena that was twenty meters by twenty meters.

"The He family has many children, and occasionally there are conflicts, which can be resolved in the ring."

"Why is this pool so square?"

"It's said that this was the open-air bathing pool where the former city lord, He Weiyuan, and his many concubines played and frolicked. He also liked to have a bunch of women strip naked and play in the water with him."

"So exciting?!"

"Do you want to play like this too?"

"No, no, absolutely not. How can you slander someone's innocence out of thin air?"

I didn't expect that He Weiyuan is so good at having fun that he even held an uncensored meeting. He must be criticized.

"Why don't we fill this place up? I think it's a waste of land." Dongfang Jingrou felt that this place was very dirty, so she suggested.

"Fill it out? Just fill it out." Zhao Kangping hesitated for a moment and said through gritted teeth.

"Hey, there is a secret passage in He Weiyuan's study." Zhao Kangping was excited when he first discovered the secret passage.

Does this old thief have some hidden secret?

As a result, after going around in circles, he and Dongfang Jingrou finally came out of a woman's boudoir.

"Where is this?" Zhao Kangping was disappointed. He had thought this secret passage would lead underground. But after going around for a long time, he still ended up on the surface.

"This looks like the house of He Weiyuan's eldest daughter-in-law." Dongfang Jingrou said.

A strange smile suddenly appeared on Zhao Kangping's disappointed face.

He got it.