Guizhen

Chapter 173
Gao Tang nodded slightly, and said softly, "Be gentle, don't hurt anyone."

"Just look at it." Ake puffed up his chest, "Small ones can't be as indifferent as a goblin." With a kick of his legs, he jumped off the horse lightly, and walked over with big strides.

In the crowd, there was a 12-year-old girl sitting timidly behind Zhang Pingting, crying and crying. Zhang Pingting stood in front of the little girl, and was reasoning with the fierce middle-aged man standing opposite.

"Even if it's a niece, you can't sell her into a brothel! She's only a little girl, how can you bear it?"

The middle-aged man cocked his neck, looking like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, "Why can't you sell it? Why can't you sell it?" Pointing at the little girl, he raised his eyebrows and stared at Zhang Pingting, "Her mother is my sister. I gave her to me before I remarried. It was agreed at that time that it doesn’t matter whether she lives or dies for my sister in the future. I have raised her for six or seven years. The dowry is not acceptable. Sell her, and buy a dowry for my daughter. It's not your business, get up!" While speaking, she stretched out her hand to grab Zhang Pingting.

The maid serving Zhang Pingting is a son of the Hou family, who has practiced boxing with her father and brother.Before the middle-aged man's hand touched Zhang Pingting's sleeve, he raised his leg and kicked. This kick hit the middle-aged man's knee, and he fell sideways on the ground with a groan, yelling, "I've hit someone!" , Hit someone! You have to pay me for breaking me!"

The servant girl spat at him harshly, "Shameless thing! I didn't even use [-]% of my strength for that blow just now. If I kicked you, I'd rather go to the Yamen to receive the punishment!"

Those who watched the excitement and didn't mind the trouble, clapped their hands and applauded, "This kind of person should be punished!"

"Kick him to death. There will be fewer disasters in the world."

"I went to the yamen to testify, he fell, and he didn't move a finger!"

"I'm a witness too! He tripped over Tanghulu!"

"Where is it? It must have slipped on a piece of fat pork!"

"How can you open your eyes and talk nonsense? How can there be fat pork and candied haws on the clean street? He just fell into a pit with one foot!"

"Eh? No matter how you make up a lie, you can't make up a lie..."

"..."

Everyone was arguing.

The middle-aged man blushed, felt bored and slowly got up, brushed off the dirt on his body, and looked up at Zhang Pingting.Zhang Pingting pursed her lips tightly, took out a dime and handed it to him, "Since you insist on selling it, then I'll buy it."

The middle-aged man frowned in disgust, "Are you sending a beggar? With the appearance and stature of our Xiaotao, it is worth at least ten taels of silver. What do you do with this little money?"

Zhang Pingting gritted her teeth, wanting to pay another piece of silver.Having figured out the whole story, Ake stood up and scolded the middle-aged man, "Oh! How dare you sell a decent girl in the street?"

The middle-aged man looked Ake up and down, saw that he seemed to be able to work hard in wearing arrow sleeves, rolled his eyes and softened his tone, "I didn't sell it." He pointed to Zhang Pingting, "She wants to buy it, I'll buy it." No promise."

Akehu put on a face, "If you say you sell it, you will sell it." He showed Wu Dewei's waist card, and said sharply: "Follow me to Wu Dewei!"

The moment the word Wu Dewei blurted out, the people who had been watching the excitement on the inner three floors and the outer three floors scattered like birds and beasts, and all of them ran away in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Pingting looked around in bewilderment, "This...what's going on?
The servant girl was used to it, but she couldn't say much because Ake was in front of her, "Perhaps she was in a hurry to go home and collect the clothes."

Collect clothes?Zhang Pingting became more and more puzzled, and murmured in a low voice, "Have we agreed to collect the clothes together? The people in the capital are so strange." She raised her eyes and looked at Gao Tang who was sitting upright on the horse.

The two looked at each other, and Zhang Pingting blushed for a moment.

"That's the High Commander." The maid clung to Zhang Pingting's ear and lowered her voice, "Don't be afraid, he doesn't eat people."

I'm not afraid, but I just think that person... is a bit good-looking.

It's beautiful and you can't look too much.Zhang Pingting quickly looked away and settled down.Unexpectedly, Commander Wu Dewei Gao is actually a good-looking talent, which is completely different from the rumors she heard when she was in her hometown.

"The high commander has eyes as big as copper bells, ears hanging down his shoulders, and is about ten feet tall."

"The high commander killed two cows with one punch."

"The high commander will not eat, drink or sleep, and drink a bowl of human blood on the fifteenth day of every month."

And so on, to name a few.

Finally got to meet the real one today.Zhang Pingting lowered her eyes.Look...it doesn't look like you're killing two cows with one punch, and you don't look much different from ordinary people.It's just a little more powerful.

Gao Tang saw that everyone had run away, so he got off his horse and walked over holding the rein, his eyes stopped on Zhang Pingting's face, and he raised his eyebrows and asked Ake: "What's going on?"

Pointing at the middle-aged man, Ake said bitterly, "He's going to sell his niece to buy a dowry for his daughter. It's useless to keep such unscrupulous goods. Just take them back and use them as arrow targets for the brothers."

The middle-aged man was dumbfounded when he heard this, his knees softened and he knelt down on the ground, begging bitterly, "My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life!"

The little girl hiding behind Zhang Pingting got the courage from nowhere, walked quickly in front of Gao Tang, and knelt down on the ground with a thud, "My lord, please help me. If my uncle can't sell today, I can't guarantee the day after tomorrow." I can't sell it." There was a hint of determination in his eyes, "I would rather die than enter a brothel!"

Gao Tang looked down at her and asked, "How old are you? What's your name?"

The little girl hurriedly replied: "I... My name is Xiaotao. I am fourteen this year."

Fourteen?Zhang Pingting was a little surprised.The child was thin and small, with yellowish hair that hadn't grown at all.She thought it was twelve or three at most.This shows how her so-called uncle treated her.

It's about the same age as Miss Wan.The corners of Gao Tang's lips curled up, his eyes swept across the middle-aged man, and he coldly reprimanded, "You're a filthy thing!"

Ake nodded heavily, "Being an archery target is even cheaper for him." Rolling up his sleeves, he stepped forward and grabbed the middle-aged man by the collar, "He probably won't be able to carry three arrows like this."

The middle-aged man burst into tears, and said tremblingly, "Small...you can't hold an arrow."

Ake snorted, "It's fine if you don't shoot at the vital point! How can our brother Wu Dewei not even have this point?"

The middle-aged man was so frightened that his three souls disappeared and his seven souls disappeared. He couldn't even say a word for forgiveness, so he prostrated himself on the ground and cried.How did he meet Commander Wu Dewei?Isn't this bad luck?
The middle-aged man raised his eyelids to look at the delicate flower patterns on Zhang Pingting's embroidered shoes.If it weren't for this stinky woman's meddling, he would have already taken the money, bought a pot of good wine and went home to have a comfortable meal.

damn it!When he passes this hurdle, he will never end with her!

(End of this chapter)