I have a seal of two worlds

Chapter 258 Hu Mu Was Kidnapped
After parting with You Che and Du Huanzhen on the official road, they quickly returned to Tonglin County.

Lu Zheng resumed his salted fish routine.

Practice in the morning, go to see Lin Wan or Shen Ying at noon, play chess in Taohuaping to enjoy the cool in the afternoon, or help with medical consultation in Renxintang. Have a meal.

Evening gets busier...

What's more, sometimes it will be interrupted by other things, such as...

"Master, General Xin invites you to drink at the Town God's Temple tonight!"

"walk!"

……

After a meal of wine and a knife match, Lu Zheng and Hu Zhou came out of the Town God's Temple together.

"Are you still going to work on foot in the morning?" Lu Zheng asked.

Hu Zhou nodded, "Yes!"

Since Hu Zhou's apprenticeship, Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan said several times that Hu Zhou should either work in a sugar factory or help in Renxintang, but Hu Zhou was unwilling and wanted to earn money by his own ability.

Because Hu Zhou's cultivation base was still low at that time, being a porter was considered a kind of heavy-duty training, so Lu Zheng didn't stop him, but he and Liu Qingyan gave their mother and son some food and money from time to time.

So Hu Zhou's mother and son's life is not bad. They changed their residence, and they have enough food and clothing, but if they want to say how rich they are, they don't have any.

"With your current cultivation base, being a porter is no longer useful. Instead, you have to restrain yourself and hide your hands." Lu Zheng said, "And you can't always be a porter, can you?"

Hu Zhou is a helper at Renxintang, and Liu Qingyan will teach him to read and read whenever he is free. Now he can be considered to know hundreds of commonly used characters, which is enough for daily reading and the like.

Moreover, Lu Zheng often told some short stories about dealing with people and seeing people and things when he was in the Renxin Hall for consultation. Although Hu Zhou has a straight temper, he is no longer as brainless as before.

So in fact, Hu Zhou is capable of doing other things.

But Hu Zhou seemed unwilling.

"I think it's very good. It's very relaxing to work and talk with those porters, without so many twists and turns." Hu Zhou said.

"But you're a porter, it's inconvenient for your mother to marry you." Lu Zheng said helplessly.

This is what Liu Qingyan told him, saying that Hu's mother had begged Liu Qingyan to help change Hu Zhou's job.

Now that Hu Zhou is successful in martial arts and can read and write, Hu's mother doesn't want to find him a wife according to the standard of a porter.

"Say kiss!" Hu Zhou suddenly panicked, "My mother wants to say kiss to me?"

"No, no! I don't want to get married, I don't want those women with loud voices!" Hu Zhou waved his hands hastily.

"That's why your mother wants you to change jobs. When you change jobs, she can find you some white, tender, beautiful little ladies!" Lu Zheng tempted.

Hu Zhou blinked, "Like the girl from Mr. Liu's family at the alley?"

"Who is that?" Lu Zheng blinked.

Hu Zhou said, "The daughter of an old scholar's family, she is quite a nice person, and even brought me food when I came home!"

Lu Zheng turned back in shock, "Why did they send you food?"

"Before I helped her fight off a few rogues who provoked her." Hu Zhou said, "But I gave it away once, and I haven't given it away since then."

Lu Zheng tempted, "Then do you want to marry this kind of girl?"

"No!" Hu Zhou shook his head decisively.

"Huh?" Lu Zheng was confused again, "Why?"

"This kind of girl has more things to do, and she must not let me practice knives or drink alcohol. I have heard from my friends." Hu Zhou said, "And in some short stories you told me, Master, Aren't there also many women who hold back?"

Lu Zheng:

"Is the point of the stories I tell is that the mother-in-law is holding back?"

Hu Zhou shrank his neck and stopped talking, but obviously he had no intention of agreeing to get married.

Lu Zheng curled his lips, but he didn't try to persuade him.

Hu Zhou is not yet 16 years old, it is the time of adolescent rebellion, and he is not in a hurry to get married and start a family.

I simply let him go for a while, and I didn't let go of the teaching to him anyway, and it has been going on subtly.

……

In the next few days, Lu Zheng continued to fish on both sides, and Hu Zhou did the same as before. He went to the porter team to work around in the morning, came to Renxintang to help in the afternoon, and went to Chenghuang Temple to practice swords in the evening.

Only a few days have passed since the peaceful days...

"Master!"

Hu Zhou hurried to Lu Zheng's house, his face pale.

"what happened?"

"My... my mother... my mother was taken away!" Hu Zhou said with trembling lips.

"What?" Lu Zheng was taken aback, "What's going on? Your mother stayed at home well, why was she taken away?"

Hu Zhou took out a piece of paper from his arms, handed it to Lu Zheng tremblingly, and said with hatred in his tone, "It's those gangsters, they asked me to go to Yingzui Cliff in Shuanggou Mountain outside the city with ten pennies, otherwise I'm going to kill my mother."

"I, I want to go by myself this time, but I am worried that my strength is limited. If they are really aggressive, I may not be able to save my mother." Hu Zhou said.

"Which group of rogues?" Lu Zheng took the letter and glanced at it. The content inside was the same as what Hu Zhou said, and he asked a little puzzled, "Could it be the group of rogues you helped your neighbor drive away? They kidnapped your mother for this?"

It stands to reason that the rogues in the city should make big mistakes and not make small mistakes, eat a king's meal, collect a protection fee, petty theft is okay, and the deadly business is absolutely wrong.

Kidnap for ransom?

This crime is not a small one. If caught by the government, the crime of exile must be indispensable. How dare a rogue do it?
"A few days ago, they collected protection money from my porter team. They also said they knew some kind of condor or some kind of sword master."

Hu Zhou said, "Then I knocked them all down, and beat them up together with a few guys in the porter team."

Lu Zheng frowned, "So these hooligans know where you live, and know your details?"

"But... maybe?"

Lu Zheng shook his head, "Let's talk about these issues later, get your mother out first, let's go, I'll go with you."

Hu Zhou nodded repeatedly.

So Lu Zheng ordered Uncle Li, and the two went out of the city together.

It was noon at this time, Hu Zhou finished his work in the morning, and when he returned home at noon, he found that Hu's mother had been kidnapped. He came to Lu Zheng with the letter paper, so it was only two quarters in the afternoon.

The two hurried all the way, and soon arrived at Shuanggou Mountain, went up the mountain, and came to Yingzui Cliff.

Yingzui Cliff is a cliff, and there is another cliff at a distance of three feet on the opposite side, called Elephant Head Cliff. The two cliffs are hollow, and there are tens of feet of cliffs below.

The two came to Yingzui Cliff, only to find that a dozen or so people from each other were on the opposite Elephant Head Cliff, and then...

Lu Zheng's eyes sharpened, and Hu Zhou's eyes were even redder, burning with anger!

Because Mother Hu was lying on the ground with her hands tied behind her back, and there were still several bruises on her face.

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