Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 471 Layout

The place where the third wife was imprisoned was in the house that Liu Manqiang had given to Zhao Yue as a dowry. After Zhao Yue got married, the house was taken care of by the Liu family's servants. Liu Manqiang and the people of the Liu family disappeared together, and the house became vacant. Zhao Sheng sent people out to look for her, and at the same time took over all of the Liu family's assets in Guazhou.

There were many people coming and going in the Zhao Mansion during the year, so Zhao Sheng locked them up in that house and assigned a dozen guards to guard it. Ordinary people could not get in at all.

The guards who stayed in Guazhou kept an eye on the Zhao family all day long and discovered that they would send a batch of food to the house every few days. Seeing so many people guarding this small house, they naturally became suspicious.

When Cui Bianxu and his men arrived, they told him about the incident. They rested for a day and then raided the house at night. "Those guards were all retired veterans, and they were very ruthless."

If not for this, so many of his men would not have been injured, which delayed them for a few more days in Guazhou.

"My great-uncle is truly cruel. Zhao Ji and Sun are starving to death."

Cui Bianxu really didn't expect that, after all, they were brothers connected by blood, but Zhao Sheng could be so cruel.

According to Zhao Ji, Zhao Sheng only had them eat one meal a day, and it was only cold Hubing. One of the couple couldn't defecate because of eating Hubing every day, and the other had diarrhea every day because the Hubing choked him and he drank too much cold water.

The couple probably want to exchange stomachs.

"Did Zhao Ji say why they ended up in such a situation?" Xiao Jiang asked tactfully.

"Zhao Sheng discovered that he had stolen the secret scroll from him."

Cui Bianxu took Jiang Shangxian's teacup and drank it all in one gulp. Still feeling it was not enough, he put the teacup back in front of Xiao Jiang, motioning her for another one.

Xiao Jiang readily picked up the teapot and said, "The secret scroll was originally stolen from the Liu family. It's really too cruel to take someone's life just for stealing a secret scroll."

Cui Bianxu waited contentedly for Xiao Jiang to fill his tea cup and drink half of it before he spoke: "You really underestimate my great-uncle and great-aunt."

Although these two brothers were not born of the same mother, they were equally capable in what they did. Only his biological grandfather was like a fool, and he was always thinking about having more offspring.

Zhao Sheng had previously sent Zhao Dieyi to Chang'an to seek refuge with the prince.

As the crown prince and the eldest son of Empress Zhangsun, Li Chengqian was considered by ordinary people to be the next ruler of the Tang Dynasty.

If Zhao Sheng hadn't had a lame leg, he wouldn't have dared to go and seek refuge.

After all, what is the Zhao family?

There is not much benefit in seeking refuge at home.

But who can blame the prince for having a lame leg?

Jiang Shangxian's face was full of questions. Not to mention the probability of a prince successfully succeeding to the throne in Chinese history, how could she not think of a prince in history who was disabled but could ascend to the throne?

The prince has a lame leg, and I am afraid that those who used to be his disciples and even the civil and military officials are secretly wondering whether Li Chengqian can still sit on the throne of the prince safely.

Once on board, it is difficult to get off the boat for a while, for fear that the prince will be angry and also that Your Majesty will be angry.

After all, he is my biological son. I didn't even depose him from the throne of the crown prince. Yet you guys can't wait to break up?

Those who haven't boarded the ship yet are probably just waiting and watching, right?

"What does he rely on?" Or does he have a strange way of thinking?

Xiao Jiang shook his head, puzzled.

"The prince has a chronic leg disease. Now the Zhao family comes to him and says they have a way to cure the prince's legs. Isn't this just the saying of helping someone in need?" Cui Bianxu sighed and curled his lips.

"what?!"

Jiang Shangxian was astonished: "Does the Zhao family still have a way to cure the prince's leg?"

Why did she remember that the prince seemed to have broken his leg when he fell off his horse, and he suffered from the leg injury because he did not receive timely medical treatment.

This problem should be curable with modern surgery, but at this time, isn't it too difficult to reattach the broken leg?

"The Zhao family doesn't have it, but the Zhao family thinks the Liu family does." A sneer flashed across Cui Bianxu's face.

Very good, this smile is three parts sarcasm, three parts contempt, and the remaining four parts are probably a bit dirty.

Jiang Shangxian's expression was stunned for a moment. The Zhao and Liu families became relatives only after Liu Manqiang married into the Zhao family. So, this conspiracy against the Liu family started decades ago?

It was still the early Sui Dynasty at that time!

"The Zhao family wants to marry my grandmother because they think the Liu family has something?" She didn't understand, she really didn't understand.

Decades ago, Li Chengqian was nowhere to be seen. How did the Zhao family know that Li Chengqian would become lame?

Could it be that this world has been traversed like a sieve? Does the Zhao family have a predecessor who traveled through time?

How many time travelers are there in this world? I'm afraid that others are not as useless and honest as her, and only want to live a simple life. In that case, can the Emperor Wu still ascend the throne smoothly?

Her mind was in a mess for a moment.

Cui Bianxu's voice rang out beside his ears: "It's not what they think, it's that my great-grandfather had a close relationship with the head of the Liu family..."

The two often drank together. Once, the head of the Liu family drank too much and accidentally revealed that the Liu family migrated from Nanyue and their ancestors were extremely long-lived.

The Zhao family's great-grandfather thought this was pure bullshit. As a man, who wouldn't brag when drunk? Who could be polite?

He immediately sneered at the head of the Liu family and said, "Your Liu family has been in Guazhou for so long, but no head of the family has ever lived past sixty. Can this be called longevity?"

The short life expectancy in ancient times was mainly due to the fact that the poor people did not have enough food or warm clothes, and they had no money to treat the sick. Women also died in childbirth, and children died at a young age.

Some noble families have their own doctors at home. Not to mention any serious illness, they take careful care of their children on a daily basis. Living to sixty years old is considered acceptable for ordinary people, but it is not considered good enough for families like theirs.

Except for those who died on the battlefield, the rest of the Zhao family lived to be over sixty years old. Isn't that longer than the Liu family's lifespan?

The head of the Liu family was drunk and slammed the table, saying that his ancestor lived to be 103 years old. If they had not moved to Guazhou City in a hurry, with the help of their ancestors' secret medicine, they could at least live to be 99, if not longer than their ancestor!

After these drunken words were spoken, both of them fell down drunk. The head of the Liu family drank too much and forgot everything when he woke up the next day. However, the great-grandfather of the Zhao family remembered the incident when he woke up from his drunken stupor.

Although the Zhao family was a military family, they were literate from generation to generation. In particular, Zhao Tuo was a figure of idol-level among the military generals.