Encountering another evil official again

  Zhang was looked at by his scorching eyes, her face burning with heat, covering his eyes with her hand and laughing: "You haven't answered my question yet, you're not allowed to change the subject. Do you know which woman of the Western Han Dynasty wrote this poem of numerical lament, for whom it was written, and why? If you can't answer, I'll have to punish you."

  Zhen Ming suddenly had a strange idea, perhaps the beautiful woman in front of him was not an ordinary tofu western beauty, but a stunningly beautiful woman from history who could topple cities with her charm, and he might have accidentally brought her home as his wife.

  However, his poor knowledge of history made it impossible for him to think of a beautiful woman named Zhang E during the end of Sui Dynasty.

  Thought for a long time, really can't think of it, with a disappointed face said: "Can't answer, punish me then."

  Zhang saw that the total was finally difficult to defeat Zhen's bitter fate, and he was delighted in his heart. He said with a smile: "If you can write such beautiful poems as 'The Tomb of Flowers', how could you not know the story of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun? You must have guessed it on purpose and let me win."

  As she spoke, she stretched out a slender hand and lightly tapped his forehead, which was her way of punishing him.

  ……

  After three rounds, Zhang's body had no more clothes, her chest was half exposed, and her snow-white arms were crossed in front of her chest, covering the magnificent scenery, she refused to let Zhen Ming take off the last piece of clothing on her body, and she struggled out of his arms, drilling into the quilt.

  Two snow-white jade-like feet carved like tofu protruded from under the quilt.

  Smooth and delicate ankles, tender pink soles, naturally like a dancer's arches. The small and ruddy toes have pearl-like nails that are neatly trimmed, appearing crystal clear in the candlelight, as if carved from jade, warm and lovely.

  He couldn't help but hold her two delicate jade feet in his palms, admiring them as if they were works of art, studying them carefully, and the more he looked, the more he adored them. Unable to resist, he lowered his head and kissed the back of her foot.

  Mrs. Zhang in bed was like being electrocuted, her body violently shook, and she pulled her feet back.

  Zhen Ming's patience was wearing thin, and he could no longer suppress the flames of passion in his heart. He hastily shed his clothes, kicked off his shoes and socks, and just as he was about to lift up the bed curtains and slip into her bed, a loud knocking sound echoed from the entrance downstairs.

  ……

  Zhen Ming's footsteps stopped abruptly, a hint of irritation flashing across his face at being interrupted in the middle of something good.

  Mrs. Zhang also poked her blushing face out from under the quilt and asked timidly, "Master, is it that they have come to find you for something? Why don't you go out and take a look?"

  "Let them be, let them make a fuss. What's more important than our wedding night? My dear wife, the spring night is short, we'd better go to bed early."

  Heedless of the knocking at the door, he hastily climbed onto the bed, got under the covers, and pinned her down beneath him. As he gazed at Zhang's face, flushed with shame, his desire flared up like a raging fire.

  Just then, there was a loud crash from downstairs.

  The door of the house was suddenly kicked open, and Zhen Ming finally lost his temper, muttering: "Is that all?"

  As she spoke, Yunyun poked her head out from under the covers.

  "Goose, you stay here and don't move, I'll go take a look at what's going on."

  Zhang nodded obediently.

  Her fate was bitter to look at, and her heart skipped a beat for a moment. She couldn't help but lower her head and savor the fragrance of her lips for a while before reluctantly getting out of bed, putting on her clothes, leaving the room, and walking downstairs.

  As soon as he came down the stairs, two government runners rushed up and pulled out their shiny big knives, pressing them against his neck.

  Outside the door, a dozen or so neatly dressed yamen runners stood guard at the entrance. Zhen Ming swept these people with a bitter glance and already knew that they were not here to make trouble on the wedding night. When he saw the head of the yamen runner walking in from outside, he was shocked.

  ……

  The incoming official was nearly six feet tall, with a large build and slightly plump, with a big belly, wearing a rhinoceros leather belt around his waist, inlaid with a circle of emerald jade beads, just this one belt around his waist is already quite valuable.

  The steel knife and scabbard in his hand were the latest alloy knives made by Zhenming's bitter efforts at the Wei Chi Ironworks, with limited production and not available to anyone.

  What made Zhen Ming's life bitter was the terrifying scar on his face, which extended from the corner of his mouth to his eyebrow, and one eye had already gone blind.

  This ferocious face, Zhenming's bitter fate this lifetime will never be forgotten.

  He was the prison guard who had tortured him for two months and almost used corporal punishment on him. What did he come here for?

  Zhen Ming's mind suddenly flashed back to Yang Zuo's resentful expression when he left, and the harsh words he threw out as he departed. His eyebrows furrowed deeply, with a faint sense of foreboding.

  As the saying goes, ordinary people should not fight against officials. In this era, officialdom is just a legitimate gangster with a license plate. He is an ordinary old hundred, and he will never have a good outcome if he collides with them hard. If it weren't for Dugu Sheng's support at the beginning, he would have been killed by the salt gang and thrown into the river. Zhang Shi also can't escape being sold to officials as a concubine. Now that Dugu Sheng has followed the emperor on his eastern tour, if he provokes these officials again, he will probably be sent to prison once more.

  It's unclear whether it was a coincidence or someone intentionally came to make things difficult at this time.

  He subconsciously blocked the staircase, Zhang was still in her room upstairs, and she was disheveled, he didn't want these wolves to see her like that.

  The head of the prison guards also saw him, and was clearly stunned for a moment, quickly recognizing him, with a sly smile at the corner of his mouth. He had been a prison guard for most of his life, and people who died in agony and begged for death at his hands were as numerous as fish crossing the river. There were not many people who could make him remember, except for Zhen Mingsu, this hard bone.

  He walked up to Zhen Mingshu and sized him up: "You're still alive, and you look quite well-fed. It's been over a year since I last saw you, I don't know if your bones are still as hard as ever. Come on, take the person away for me!"

  Two bailiffs put away the knives on Zhen Mingsu's neck and stepped forward to bind his hands behind his back. Zhen Mingsu did not resist, furrowing his brow: "I don't know what crime I've committed, please enlighten me, sir?"

  The prison guard glared at him with a cold smile: "Someone accused you of forcibly taking someone else's wife and harboring the family members of a rebel!"

  Zhen Ming smiled quietly and said, "Sir, you must be mistaken. I am the advisor of the Right Wuwei Camp's Armory in Luoyang. Tonight, I am marrying Zhang Shi through a proper arrangement with matchmakers and guests as witnesses. The eight carriers have just carried her into our home. How can there be any talk of forcibly taking someone else's wife?"

  "What's with the equipment?" The head of the yamen's expression changed slightly upon hearing this.

  As for the Armory Division of the Right Imperial Guard, he had heard something about it. Even the steel knife at his waist, which was handy to use, came from the Armory Division of the Right Imperial Guard. He never thought that this man, who had been brutally tortured by him in prison for several months, would become a consultant for the Armory Division.