After the marriage, I married the most treacherous minister of the dynasty

Su Qinghe grew up in the capital and was brought up in a pampered manner. The greatest hardship she had to endure was the injustice she suffered in the Yongning Marquis' Mansion.

However, those were nothing compared to the bandits in front of them who killed people without blinking an eye.

She opened her eyes wide, full of fear.

Zhou Shulang's situation was not much better than hers. Although he knew some martial arts, they were all self-defense skills learned from aristocratic families, and he had never used real swords or guns.

He himself is more of a civil servant and has never seen such bloody scenes.

Right now, he was just trying to remain calm.

"What do you want to do?"

"I am an official appointed by the imperial court. If anything happens, the imperial court will not let you go."

"I am the son of the Marquis of Yongning. If you dare to touch a hair on my head, my father will lead his troops to destroy this place."

He bluffed.

In fact, Marquis Yongning was just an idle marquis and had no military power.

But now, he can only intimidate the bandits in this way, otherwise he really doesn’t know what they will do.

As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped hard in the face.

"you?"

Zhou Shulan had never suffered such an injustice since he was a child. His eyes turned red and he was about to take action, but a bloody knife was placed on his neck and he dared not move.

"Pah, Lord? Prince?"

"If you were really that powerful, why would you be brought to this godforsaken place?"

"Still acting crazy here with me!"

Zhou Shulang's face turned red, but he couldn't refute.

The bandits had already counted their spoils, and their eyes were shining.

This guy from the capital is indeed a fat fish, with several thousand taels of silver.

The bandit leader's eyes changed when he looked at Zhou Shulan.

"You have quite a bit of family background, kid."

When he received the news before that someone from the capital was sent to be an official and had a lot of money, he didn't believe it, but now it seems to be true.

"You are so young, but I have so much money. It seems that you are also greedy."

"What I hate most in my life is you, the shitty officials."

As he said that, the bandit leader patted Zhou Shulan's face. Zhou Shulan's face was stinging, but the handle of the knife on his neck made him dare not move.

"It's not impossible for me to let you go."

Hearing this, Zhou Shulang felt relieved:

"You want the silver, let me go, and I'll have someone send it back."

As long as he is allowed to go to the county, he will mobilize troops to raze this place to the ground and return all the surrender today.

The bandit leader was an experienced man. He knew what Zhou Shulang was thinking when he saw him like this, and he sneered:

"Want to go back and find someone to deal with me?"

"Go to Yun County and ask around. Who in this area dares to touch me?"

"Don't even mention you, a small county magistrate. Even if the prefect came, it would be the same."

"I advise you to be obedient."

"Come here, ask him to sign and seal."

As soon as the bandit leader finished speaking, the people below brought up the things they had prepared.

Zhou Shulang took a look and his face changed drastically.

Those were some forged correspondence between him and the bandit leader, as well as proof of sending silver.

If these things get out, there will be no way to escape the charge of collusion between officials and bandits.

He didn't want to sign, but he had no choice.

Seeing that he was resisting, the bandit leader cut his arm with a knife, and blood immediately came out.

After being treated like this by the bandit leader, Zhou Shulang no longer dared to resist and simply signed his name.

"Can you let us go?"

Zhou Shulang asked in a low voice.

He was really scared this time.

The bandit leader snorted coldly upon hearing this:

"Why panic?"

"Your wife looks delicate and tender, but my brothers have been idle for a long time. Today they have worked so hard. You and I are brothers now. Seeing your men working so hard, shouldn't you reward them well?"

Zhou Shulang's face turned ugly when he heard this. Su Qinghe, who had been keeping her head down and dared not speak, didn't care about anything else when she heard this. She quickly looked up at Zhou Shulang, her eyes full of fear and panic:

"no no……"