Chapter 122: Stealing People from the Imperial Court (Additional Update 8)

"Are you done yet?"

Zhang Yukun was a little tired of Liu Yizhen's endless chatter.

"It's okay, Lao Lao."

Liu Yizhen happily disagreed.

"Idle time is idle anyway. I'm just a playboy and can't bear to be lonely."

Liu Yizhen was a little confused after looking at so many children in the house: "There are so many children, where do you think you will kidnap them and send them?"

Zhang Yukun: "You talk so much."

"Just ask about the price. When I was in Guanzhong, the children there could be exchanged for a sheep."

Zhang Yukun didn't believe it.

"Can the North sell children?"

"Of course, no one can survive. Who cares about children? Have you ever heard of a two-legged sheep?"

"What's the meaning?"

"It means treating people as livestock and food."

Of course Zhang Yukun had never heard of it, because the name "two-legged sheep" was not recorded until the Song Dynasty Zhuang Chuo's "Chicken Ribs" volume:

"Old, thin men call them 'Rao Bahuo', women with young hair are called 'Buxian Sheep', children call them 'Hegulan', and they call them 'Two-legged sheep'."

It was only after the Song Dynasty that the status of the Han people dropped to that level.

Before the Song Dynasty, although human lives were not valuable in troubled times, they would not be scolded as "two-legged sheep" by the barbarians.

There is Liu Yuan in the front and Shi Le in the back.

When they proclaimed themselves kings and emperors, they tried their best to put a halo on their faces, claiming that they were descendants of Zhuxia, or simply inherited the will of Han Gaozu. Anyway, no one dared to discriminate against Han people in political ways. On the one hand,

Because the remaining power of the Han Dynasty is still there, on the one hand, the Han family is standing strong. These all allow the Han nation to save some face after the Yongjia Rebellion, unlike the Jingkang Rebellion, which did not even save face.

Zhang Yukun couldn't help but feel nauseated after hearing the explanation of "two-legged sheep".

"Is the North really so ridiculous?"

"That's right! So you think, I've even seen that kind of scene, you just abducted a few children, the crime will not lead to death, haha, just look at it."

Under Liu Yizhen's teasing, Zhang Yukun's tense nerves seemed to relax and he was willing to talk to Liu Yizhen.

Liu Yizhen took advantage of the situation and pursued him: "What's more, judging from your attitude, you are not the mastermind, but an accomplice at most. These children who were abducted by you are not dead. You can go back to work as a labor force for a few years and then come back and be happy!"

When Zhang Yukun explained how ordinary people understood the law, he was immediately moved.

"As far as my life is concerned, sparing you a few years of labor is just a small matter. I promise you that I won't pursue it, so I won't pursue it. Why are you worried?"

Anyway, Liu Yizhen is just talking nonsense, and now he is trying to make Zhang Yukun's crime as light as possible.

"And your fellow countryman named Xiong Wei, he confessed everything as soon as he saw me. He will probably be locked up for only ten days and a half before he goes to have sex with his wife and children."

With the comparison, Zhang Yukun began to feel a little unbalanced.

"But you'd better prove that you are not the mastermind, otherwise you will probably be sad!"

Zhang Yukun was a little anxious: "Didn't you say that I am not the mastermind?"

"I said it was of no use? You have also seen that I am just a young man. I have no use at all except for my noble status! What the government pays attention to in handling cases is evidence! And the evidence is very unfavorable to you now. At least three people are now saying that you

He’s the mastermind.”

"Three?"

"Xiong Wei, the guy we caught last night is also your little lover at Jiankang Ling's house."

"They fart!"

Zhang Yukun felt betrayed and actually let Liu Yizhen go.

"I don't know a damn thing! I'm just a person who gets paid for doing things! How can I be the mastermind?"

Instead, Liu Yizhen came over and asked curiously: "What are you getting money for?"

Zhang Yukun was a little entangled at this time, but when he thought that everyone might use him as a scapegoat, he also defended himself: "There was someone who claimed to be my family before, and that person came to me last night and asked me if I would like to marry him."

A fortune."

"He asked me to kidnap some children and give them to him, and I would be given a hundred coins for each child."

"At first I only dared to do it secretly by myself, but later I found that it was too slow and risky. So I asked a few people from my hometown to do it together, including Xiong Wei. But I couldn't be the mastermind, at most I was just a facilitator.

Yes, Danyang Yin, are you right?"

Liu Yizhen did not reply, but continued to ask:

"What about the woman in Jiankang Ling's mansion?"

"She is indeed a former mistress of mine."

"Is it your order to steal the property from Jian Kangling's mansion?"

"Fart! Her hands and feet are not clean. She used to say that all the rich in the world deserve to die, and stealing from the rich is just justice for God."

Zhang Yukun was cursing while talking, obviously thinking of something bad.

Liu Yizhen was a little strange: "I heard from Jiankang that his wife took the woman as a slave because she felt she was pitiful. Doesn't that woman have a grateful heart?"

"I don't know what kind of temper that little girl is? Are you grateful? When she and I were having sex, she said that the more she looked at the lady, the more angry she became. She hated that Mrs. Jian Kangling pretended to be noble and kind all day long, but one day she would do something wrong.

Damn that lady."

Liu Yizhen was silent, somewhat speechless.

"Then why did the property in Jiankang Ling's mansion go to Xiong Wei?"

"She didn't know anything about me yet and thought I was still poor. So she left her money to me to save up and planned to elope later. When I paid Xiong Wei and the others, I gave them those rags."

Liu Yizhen asked again: "Then do you know where the person looking for you took the child?"

"I know, it's at a villa owned by the Zhang family, just twenty miles to the west."

After hearing this, Liu Yizhen stopped asking and looked outside the room quietly.

"I've asked you everything I want to know, and you seem to be useless now."

"Um?"

Liu Yizhen turned his head and looked at Zhang Yukun, his eyes full of mockery.

"You're just a rogue, Liu Mang. Do you really think that you can turn into a murderous maniac with just a knife?"

Zhang Yukun's heart rang with alarm bells, and he raised his sharp blade with a crazy look on his face: "What are you talking about? What are you talking about?"

"And you should have known your ending from the moment I came in."

"These children may not be as good as a hair on my head."

"If I were not here and you went crazy and killed these children, maybe Cai Shaoyin and some officials would be implicated. And Cai Shaoyin is an indispensable shield for me to do things in the future. If something happens to him now, it will delay a lot of my things.

.In addition, the current Danyang Yin Government was established with great difficulty by me, so it would be a pity to be destroyed by you like this."

"But since I'm standing here now, even if you kill all these children, no one in the court will blame Cai Shaoyin..."

"From the beginning to the end, you were the only one who used these children as a bargaining chip to negotiate with me."

"Zhang Yukun, at different levels, you see different things."

"You take your own bargaining chip a little too seriously."

Liu Yizhen never took Zhang Yukun's threat to his children too seriously from beginning to end.

He was worried that Zhang Yukun's matter would affect Cai Kuo and others.

He had just provoked the aristocratic family. If the aristocratic family was given an excuse, they would definitely focus their firepower on him, Danyang Yin. By then, he would have a protective talisman like Liu Yu, but it would be difficult for Cai Kuo and others to say.

In Liu Yizhen's eyes, Cai Kuo was a good scapegoat, or a shield. Falling down so early would do Liu Yizhen no good at all.

Although Zhang Yukun didn't know what Liu Yizhen was talking about, he felt an inexplicable crisis at this moment, so he directly raised his knife and slashed at Liu Yizhen.

"Stab it!"

Liu Yizhen turned around slightly, and the sharp blade in Zhang Yukun's hand opened a small cut on Liu Yizhen's arm, but Liu Yizhen responded with a kick and kicked Zhang Yukun hard on the knee, tripping him up.

"boom!"

Hearing the movement in the house, Fan Daoji, wearing heavy armor and holding a broad shield, directly opened the door and rushed in. When he saw Zhang Yukun fell to the ground, without saying a word, he hit Zhang Yukun's back with a large shield weighing several dozen kilograms.

After hitting it several times, Liu Yizhen persuaded: "Okay! Don't smash it to death!"

Fan Daoji then stopped and ran to Liu Yizhen in a panic: "Mr. Chang'an, are you okay?"

Liu Yizhen smiled and shook his head.

Everyone around me has forgotten one thing.

As a teenager, Liu Yizhen was able to ride a horse with Liu Yu on the Northern Expedition, and even fight thousands of miles after reaching Hetao. Although Liu Yizhen's martial arts skills were not as good as those of most generals, his fighting skills were still good.

Zhang Yukun is just a local ruffian, Liu Mang, even with a knife Liu Yizhen can fight with him a few times.

It's not like he was holding a gun. Liu Yizhen didn't know what these people were worried about...

Ahem, the title of this chapter has been written as the next chapter. The VIP chapter cannot be changed, so everyone just pretends not to know...
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