Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 413 Stealing

As he spoke, Xiao Cui proudly turned his face 180 degrees for Liu Manqiang to admire: "Nian Nu likes my grandson's face and figure the most. Who in Chang'an City can have a face and figure as good as my grandson's?"

His mother secretly told him that as long as he took good care of himself and kept practicing martial arts every day, Nian Nu would never change her mind!

Liu Manqiang's face was gloomy, and she felt a little tired. She avoided Cui Bianxu's face and turned her head away, not wanting to look at it again. "Before the fall of Nanyue, our ancestors changed their names and made their way all the way to Guazhou, a remote and cold place, to settle down. That's how the Liu family came to be."

"This Liu...?"

"Zhao Jiande's biological mother's surname is Liu, and she is a Miao woman." Liu Manqiang said lightly.

Cui Bianxu was curious: "Does grandma have another name?"

"Zhao Qiang."

Liu Manqiang slowly uttered this name that only existed in her heart but no one would call her.

Although the Liu family changed their name and surname, they still thought about the glory of Nanyue. Before each child was born, they would give him the surname Zhao, and then marry him to a child with the surname Liu to show him off to others.

"Zhao Qiang..."

Cui Bianxu immediately slammed the table and said, "This name is very well chosen. It sounds like she will be a beautiful lady. It is not an insult to my grandmother."

Cui Bianxu's flattery successfully hit the mark, earning him a wide eye roll from Liu Manqiang. "Back then, after my Liu family arrived in Guazhou, we relied on the wealth and tactics we earned to establish a strong presence there."

The Kingdom of Nanyue was actually very wealthy. They took with them countless gold, silver and treasures when they fled. In addition, the Liu family was Miao people and had some means at their disposal, so it was easy for them to gain a foothold in Guazhou.

However, because of his identity, he did not dare to let outsiders know, so he pretended to be a rich man and lay dormant, living and multiplying in Guazhou, preserving the bloodline of his ancestors.

Unfortunately, because of the Miao magic inherited from their family, the Liu family had great difficulty in having offspring, and their family was completely wiped out with her.

"Grandma, is the Liu family's method this poisonous insect?"

After hearing the story, Xiao Cui quickly regained his composure after being amazed, and brought the topic back to the part he wanted to know most. No matter who the ancestors of the Liu family were, the mountains and rivers have changed now, and how many masters have changed in this world?

Does it matter who the Liu family's ancestor is?

Liu Manqiang waved her hand again, trying to call Manman over to rub him for a few times, but Manman kept looking at her warily, unwilling to be rubbed: "There are many snakes, insects, rats and ants in the deep mountains. To survive there, our ancestors naturally had to use some tricks."

She said it lightly, but this was definitely more than just some small trick. Cui Bianxu saw through it: "How did the Zhao family in Dunhuang get these things? Did the Liu family give them to them?"

Isn’t that too generous?

When you marry off your daughter, you also give her the means to keep the house?

He was still pondering when he heard Liu Manqiang slap him hard again. She gritted her teeth so much that Cui Bianxu was worried that she might break her teeth at her age. "Those rotten bastards from that family must have stolen something from my Liu family at some point to come up with this ridiculous thing!"

"Stealed?"

Cui Bianxu was stunned, but then he felt that this... was something they could do.

He couldn't help but feel a pang of anger. This was such a shameless person...

With such a maternal clan, Xiao Cui instantly felt that his clean face was stained.

Embarrassing as it may be, I still need to ask the right question: "Grandma, could you please explain it in detail?"

The next day at noon, at the Jiang family in Jiahuifang.

"Crack, crack, crack", the sound of melon seeds and shells separating rang out again.

Jiang Shangxian sat cross-legged on a bamboo couch covered with a mattress. In front of him were melon seeds, oranges, and a variety of other essential New Year snacks. "So, the one-legged man and the poisonous insect are actually unrelated. The Zhao family in Dunhuang stole a broken book?"

She grinned in disgust and accidentally pulled the broken corner of her mouth, causing her face to wrinkle immediately.

Recently, she has been staying at home every day eating melon seeds, oranges and fried food. The corners of her mouth are broken and a sore has appeared on her tongue. She is so unlucky.

Cui Bianxu dropped the melon seeds in his hand one by one, landing precisely on the small plate. His movements were so skillful that they moved people to tears. "According to my grandmother, that one-legged man is a monster that lives in the deep mountains of Lingnan Road. He is extremely ugly but extremely powerful. He was born with only one leg. Local people also call him a one-legged ghost. He likes to suck human blood, especially the blood of young children."

What he didn't say was that Liu Manqiang said that in addition to loving to eat human blood, Dujiaolang also liked young and beautiful human women.

Originally, these monsters lived in the deepest part of the Ten Thousand Mountains. They became known to the world because they ran over mountains and ridges to abduct women and have sex with them.

Xiao Cui touched his nose awkwardly, feeling embarrassed to tell Jiang Shangxian this, as it would make him seem disrespectful.

"In order to prevent complications, the Liu family has been teaching these things orally."

They trudged all the way from Nanyue to Guazhou, and many of the secret scrolls were damaged on the way. They did not repair them. They kept the damaged ones and made the intact ones look damaged. They kept them as a memory to show that they missed their homeland.

Jiang Shangxian was also speechless. If they wanted to steal, they could just steal it, and they stole the damaged scroll. If they knew it was broken, they should use their brains to think about it. Every step of this kind of mysterious thing required precision, but they actually dared to skip steps and do something unnecessary according to the damaged scroll.

"Then why did Wu Sanniang use Yan Yin..." Jiang Shangxian was even more confused. After all, they had done bad things together, been exiled together, and escaped together. How cruel could Wu Sanniang be to use Yan Yin as an experiment?

Cui Bianxu had already asked Wu Sanniang about this question that morning: "She said that she had deceived the Third House by posing as Zhao Dieyi and obtained this secret scroll from them."

Wu Sanniang is such an ambitious person!

After getting the secret scroll, she studied it day and night without sleep and actually figured out some tricks.

She saw a recipe for a poison in the secret scroll, which said that after this poison was refined and placed into the human body, it could make the person extremely powerful and only obey the orders of the person who cast the poison.

As luck would have it, there were several bamboo slips missing in the middle, so it jumped directly to the one-legged man. Wu Sanniang used her clever little head and successfully combined the two things together to create this weird thing.

As for using Yan Yin....

I can only say that Yan Yin is really unlucky. It's his fault that he is missing a leg!

Wu Sanniang was just looking for someone to try out the good thing she had created with her supreme wisdom. When she saw Yan Yin, who was missing a leg, she immediately hit it off and used Yan Yin as an experiment.