The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 15 Past Events

Li Miao looked at Mei Qinghe and said calmly, "I got the person."

"But I won't kill him directly. Consider it a favor to you."

"You two, tell me about the feud between you. Let me hear it."

Mei Qinghe looked at Zhao Dehua begging for mercy at this moment, and all the thoughts in her mind were cut short.

The feud between Mei Qinghe and Zhao Dehua is actually a clichéd story.

When Mei Qinghe was young, her family was a merchant family. They were not rich, but they had enough food and clothing.

Fifteen years ago, when Mei Qinghe was five years old, her mother wanted to take her back to her hometown to visit relatives.

As mentioned earlier, traveling long distances in ancient times was not as convenient as it is today, not to mention that Mei Qinghe's mother was a weak woman with a child of five or six years old.

So Mei Qinghe's father found the local Huwei Escort Agency. Zhao Dehua, who was unknown in the Huwei Escort Agency at that time, took over the escort and escorted Mei Qinghe and his mother back to his hometown.

This was originally a simple mission. Mei Qinghe's mother didn't bring any valuables with her, and the place she was walking through wasn't dangerous. Logically, there shouldn't be any accidents.

But, fortune and misfortune are unpredictable.

At that time, there was a notorious thief who was being hunted down by the Imperial Guards in the capital. He fled to the border of Qi and Lu, where he happened to run into Zhao Dehua and his party.

He took a fancy to Mei Qinghe's mother and asked Zhao Dehua to hand her over.

At that time, Zhao Dehua was still a young man. Although his martial arts skills were not very good, he was full of passion.

Although he knew he was no match for the thief, he still drew his sword to protect Mei Qinghe and her mother, hoping to delay the thief for a while and let them leave first.

But he overestimated himself.

Almost in an instant, Zhao Dehua's sword was knocked down, his face was stepped on, and his mouth and nose were full of mud.

The thief teased him, cutting small holes in his body with a sword, disassembling and reassembling the joints of his limbs, and pressing his acupuncture points with acupressure techniques.

Pour the bugs into his ears and let him listen to the sound of the bugs crawling on his eardrums.

Young Zhao Dehua finally realized that the so-called Jianghu ethics could not make him powerful. In the eyes of the thieves, he was just a fool who knew a little bit of kung fu and didn't know how to appreciate it.

The chivalrous spirit he thought he possessed was destroyed by the thief in less than half a day.

He was afraid.

He began to beg for mercy.

He began to curse Mei Qinghe's mother for why she asked him to escort her, why she resisted, and why she couldn't obey the thief.

He even began to hate Mei Qinghe's mother. Why couldn't she sacrifice herself instead of making him suffer?

He hated it more and more.

The thief asked him to hold down Mei Qinghe's mother, and he did so.

The thief asked him to torture Mei Qinghe's mother together, and he did so.

He began to vent this inexplicable hatred on Mei Qinghe's mother.

Until Mei Qinghe's mother died.

When everything was over, the thief gave Zhao Dehua a secret book of claw skills with satisfaction and turned away.

Everything that happened at that time was seen by Mei Qinghe, who was only five years old.

Zhao Dehua wanted to kill Mei Qinghe to silence her and cover up everything that happened here.

But he still had a trace of conscience at that time, so he couldn't do it. He thought that a five-year-old child would not survive in this wilderness, so he took away all the dry food, left Mei Qinghe alone in the mountains, and returned to the Huwei Escort Agency.

Mei Qinghe's father reported the case to the police, but was suppressed by the Huwei Escort Agency's connections. He then spent all his family wealth to look for Mei Qinghe, but gradually there was no news, and it was believed that she had died on the road.

The thief was later caught up and killed by the Jinyiwei.

From then on, Zhao Dehua stopped practicing sword skills and gradually became the mainstay of the Huwei Escort Agency by relying on the claw skills secret book given to him by the thief.

Zhao Dehua was kind to others, courteous to people in the underworld, and fair in his dealings. Under his leadership, the Huwei Escort Agency also flourished and gradually grew stronger.

Zhao Dehua thought that everything was over. His daughter was very talented and had made some progress in her studies. In a few years, she would take over his business. He could then enjoy a peaceful life at home with his grandchildren. By then, the intrigues in the underworld would no longer concern him.

He thought fifteen years had passed, and he thought he had forgotten Mei Qinghe's mother. Until this moment, he saw Mei Qinghe's face clearly.

Mei Qinghe looked very much like her mother, and he recognized the face at first sight.

Zhao Dehua's face was covered with sweat, his hands were shaking uncontrollably, and his ears were buzzing as if a bug was crawling on his eardrum, making a rustling sound.

The face that had appeared in his dreams countless times with the young Zhao Dehua, questioning him, mocking him, and insulting him, finally appeared before him again.

That pretty face was now in the moonlight, looking at him with hatred.

And the Zhao Dehua of fifteen years ago seemed to have returned to him.

Zhao Dehua fell to his knees with a bang and kowtowed to Mei Qinghe repeatedly.

"Mrs. Mei, Mrs. Mei, I was wrong, I was wrong!"

"Rest in peace, rest in peace, please, rest in peace!"

"My martial arts skills are not good enough, I can't beat him, I just don't want to die, I have no choice!"

Mei Qinghe looked at Zhao Dehua and slowly walked towards him.

Zhao Dehua watched Mei Qinghe approaching and suddenly fell backwards, crawling back using his hands and feet.

"Don't! Don't come here!"

"Mrs. Mei, don't look for me, go look for him. He forced me to do this!"

"I wanted to protect you too. I let you go because you walked too slowly! Don't blame me!"

"I didn't want to do those things to you, but he forced me to!"

Zhao Dehua crawled to the wall, with nowhere to retreat, and he began to cry.

"He tortured me, it hurt so much! He cut me so hard that I was covered in blood. He is not a human being, it is his fault!"

"He put bugs in my ears and the bugs were crawling in my ears!"

He slammed his head on the ground and kept digging into his ears with his fingers.

"Come out! Come out!" It was as if there were still bugs in his ears.

Seeing that Zhao Dehua seemed to have suddenly gone crazy, Mei Qinghe turned to look at Li Miao, who was leaning against the wall with his arms folded.

After listening to Mei Qinghe's story and Zhao Dehua's words, Li Miao had roughly figured out where the grudge between the two came from.

He smiled, took out a packet of powder from his arms and threw it on the ground.

"I told you, you can't beat him."

"Your martial arts skills are indeed better than his. He is second-rate, and you are barely first-rate. If you use a sword, he won't last more than thirty rounds in your hands."

"But you will go to him tonight, and this thing he has prepared will be used on you."

In martial arts duels, apart from fighting in the ring, martial arts skills are often not the final factor that determines the outcome.

Traps, smoke screens, poisons, hidden arrows, each one can take the life of a master.

Zhao Dehua was ambushed by Mei Qinghe last night, so how could he be unprepared tonight? He had already set up traps in the room, just waiting for Mei Qinghe to come to him.

He also prepared a mind-confusing poison, which he intended to use on Mei Qinghe, so that she would tell him the truth about her background and why she became his enemy, so that he could prepare countermeasures in the future.

But Li Miao used it on himself.

Li Miao said calmly: "I am not a knight, but at least I hope that my subordinates have some bottom line."

"It's good that you are loyal to Huashan Sect. But if it's just loyalty, I'm not very interested."

"It just so happens that he prepared this thing, so I'll let him tell the truth so I can hear whether he's right or wrong."

"Now I almost understand."

"However you want to take revenge, it's up to you."

(End of this chapter)