Rebirth Strategy: Please let me go

Chapter 22 Picking up a beggar on the road

The news that An Jinran was named Hussar General soon spread to Yangzhou.

In the past, the emperor personally awarded him a plaque for his meritorious service in protecting An Du, and later, the eldest son of the An family, for his outstanding military achievements, personally awarded him a title.

Anyone who has a good reputation in Yangzhou City knows that the An family has won His Majesty's favor and is about to rise rapidly. This is the first time in history that the An family has such a great honor as having two generals.

With hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in hand and heavy responsibilities on their shoulders, how could the An family have one more general without the emperor's intentional support?

Those royal relatives and nobles who had speculated that the An family would be suppressed by the emperor were almost torn to pieces now. They thought that An Ruhe, who had been fighting outside for more than ten years, would be suspected by His Majesty and robbed of his power when he returned to the court. Who knew that His Majesty actually Jian Zou Zian Feng strongly supported him, and this move almost caught everyone off guard.

The wealthy families in Yangzhou City heard the news and when the news spread, the gate of the Protectorate's Mansion was blocked every day before dawn.

It was a good thing to be promoted to an official position, but now that the door is blocked, this good thing has become a bad thing.

As the daughter of a minister, Qu learned how to please the head of the family since she was a child.

I know that the more times like this, the more important it is to keep a low profile. The person in the family who can take charge of the overall situation is still thousands of miles away in Kyoto. Before seeing the imperial edict, this guest cannot be seen.

Therefore, no matter how diligent those aristocratic families were, no matter how hard they waited from early morning to dusk, and then from dusk to daylight every day, their perseverance was touching, the Qu family was still determined to close the door and thank guests.

To the outside world, he only said that it was inconvenient at home, and threatened to open the door in Dingguang when it was more convenient in the future, invite guests from all over, and prepare fine wine and delicacies to make up for being closed today.

Some aristocratic families are high-spirited and immediately leave in disgrace if they are rejected. Some aristocratic families are more patient and don't care about being rejected, so they wait a few more days.

What's more, he stayed at the gate of An's house for half a month, and did not leave reluctantly until three days before the new year.

After more than a month, all the people at the gate were finally gone. After hearing the news, Mrs. Qu breathed a long sigh of relief. She was glad that it was finally over. Otherwise, it would be Chinese New Year soon, and she would inevitably be criticized if she left people outside. .

An Jinshu, who had been holding back at An's house for a month, jumped eight feet high in excitement when she learned that she could finally go out.

Those people finally remembered to celebrate the New Year?

She didn't go to prepare New Year's goods all day long and just guarded her front door. Those who didn't know better thought her front door was inlaid with gold and wanted to steal it. She just begged her father and brother to come back early so that these people wouldn't have to block her front door next year.

The carriage swayed on the street, Lu Luo lifted the curtain and poked her head around, curious about the surroundings along the road.

The red carp knocked on her head and warned: "The cold wind is blowing in, so be careful and freeze the lady."

Luluo immediately shrank her neck and came in, looking at An Jinshu sitting opposite her with a guilty look, fearing that he would be unhappy.

An Jinshu looked at the words in her hand and said without raising her head: "It's still a while before the destination, just let her have a look. It's hard to go out after being cooped up at home for more than a month. It doesn't matter if I wear thick clothes."

"Thank you, miss." Luluo immediately smiled, lifted the curtain and continued to explore.

Seeing this, Hong Li shook his head helplessly. Instead of retorting, he just whispered to Lu Luo to pull the curtain in the opposite direction to prevent the cold wind from blowing the lady.

"Stop! You damn bastard! Stop!"

On the bustling street, an unkempt child rushed out from the crowd. He was running on the snow with ragged clothes and bare feet. Even though his exposed skin was full of scars, it still couldn't stop him from running forward.

Two tall men behind him were struggling to catch up, the scimitars in their hands emitting an icy cold light.

Compared with them, the running boy was visibly miserable, hungry, and already at the end of his strength due to the freezing cold weather. The fact that he was still able to run away was just because his survival instinct drove him so that he did not dare to stop.

Wherever he ran, people avoided him, hiding their noses in disgust.

The sharp stones on the ground pierced the soles of the young man's feet. The young man was unsteady in pain and fell onto the stall. The stall owner immediately pushed him aside with a fierce look and spat.

"Gangganggang, where did this beggar come from? Don't bring bad luck during the Chinese New Year, get out of here, get out of here!"

The young man didn't have much strength. His foot was injured and he was pushed so hard that he collapsed on the ground and couldn't get up.

Seeing that the people behind him were about to catch up, he didn't know where he got the strength to get up with a trembling body, and followed suit and fell in front of the carriage in the middle of the avenue.

The driver driving the carriage suddenly pulled the reins, and the horses were frightened and raised their hooves.

The people in the carriage were lying on their backs and screaming.

An Jinshu didn't recover from the huge shock until the carriage stopped. Hong Li and Lulu quickly climbed up to her and asked about her condition. She shook her head and said she was fine.

Hong Li was straightening her hair, and angrily took out the curtain and scolded the coachman: "How do you drive a coachman? If anything happens to the young lady, even if you chop your head into pieces, you won't be able to bear the blame. What's going on with the housekeeper?" I asked you to drive an inexperienced person, and you must punish him properly when you get back."

"Red carp."

An Jinshu called her.

Hong Li quickly opened the curtain and returned to her, looking at her with worry in his eyes: "Miss, what's wrong with you? We'll return home immediately."

"No." An Jinshu shook his head and listened to the shouting outside and ordered her: "Go and see what happened outside."

Hong Li nodded, took out the curtain and went out.

Luluo stepped forward to tidy up An Jinshu's clothes. An Jinshu listened to the sounds outside and seemed to hear the word "help" in a trance.

At the right time, Hong Li grabbed the curtain and reported: "Miss, an escaped slave fell on the path of our carriage, blocking our way."

An Jinshu glanced at the street through the gap and saw a black ball crawling on the ground not far from their carriage, and his face could not be seen clearly.

The two big men, full of evil spirits, stepped forward to hold each other up and started to leave.

She was not a good person, and she could not save thousands of suffering people in the world. She did not want to care, but she had a ridiculous feeling that this person had to be saved, so to confirm this feeling, she asked Hong Li to go with the money. Stop the two big men and tell them that the slave has been bought.

Hong Li was puzzled but did not hesitate. She just walked closer and took a look. It seemed that the beggar had been beaten all year round. It would be very dangerous if he was captured this time. The lady was willing to save him, and she was also happy.

Hongli took the money and hurried forward to stop the two people, saying that she wanted to buy someone.

The beggar is a slave and will be sold sooner or later. He is careless and has escaped countless times in the past year. The healthy young man in Renyazi market is the most valuable. This is why he has never had his legs broken. Once the reason for its rise loses its value, there is no need for it to exist.

But he couldn't stop him from making a fuss. Before the big man chased him out, their boss told him to take him back this time and break his legs to make a human shell and push it out to watch. Since the other party wanted to run away, he had no legs to run.

At this moment, they saw that Hong Li had bought someone with a silver note, and the price was three times the price on the market. The two looked at each other and did not refuse. They just threw the person in his hand to the ground, took the silver note and left.

Hong Li stopped them: "Sell yourself to me."

Although Hong Li was dressed in a completely different style, she didn't look like an ordinary maid from Menlin, but those two big men were in the business of killing people, so they were naturally not afraid of her. When they saw that she wanted to sell themselves, Qi Leng snorted with contempt.

"If you want someone, just this, do you want a contract to sell yourself? No!"

"You want to keep this money for yourself?"

The two big men laughed and approached the red carp step by step: "So what?"

"You, don't come here."

Seeing how rampant these two people were in broad daylight, the red carp was a little frightened and quickly backed away.

But at this moment, a cold voice sounded from behind her, causing the two big men's expressions to change and they froze on the spot.

"If your boss knew that you were embezzling money, would he spare you? Or do you think your boss would be an enemy of the Protectorate because of you?"

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