Chapter 236: Drinking in the Rain
The passage is wide, and the interior is dry and tidy, and there is no feeling of suffocation. Ye Heng quickly caught up with Liu Xinyue and the others, and everyone walked a long distance before finally reaching the exit.
Yun Yifeng stepped forward to find the mechanism, and a stone door slowly opened. After everyone went out, Yun Yifeng closed the exit again.
"When I went out to do tasks before, Brother Kong took us through a few times. Yun Yifeng explained to Ye Heng.
Ye Heng nodded and didn't ask any more, looked around, and walked out with the group. This is a valley outside Wuling City, and if you walk out along the valley, you can see Wuling City in the distance.
Ye Heng looked at Wuling City and said, "What do you think of this city?"
"Majestic, prosperous, powerful!" Liu Xinyue commented.
"It's easy to defend and hard to attack, it's impregnable!" Qiao Yong said.
"Yi Feng, Yi Yao, you have lived here for more than a year, what do you think?" Ye Heng looked at the Yun brothers and sisters.
"We've been training for more than a year, and although we're in this city, we're not from this city, and if we want to say that the image of it is that there are more houses, more people, more cars, and nothing else. Yun Yifeng said coldly, he had no sense of belonging to this city.
"I've been out a few times and it's a lot of fun, and there's a lot of good food. However, the people here are not very good, they always look high, as if they are superior to others in Wuling. In front of the rich and powerful, groveling and spineless, how to say, the people here lack blood and are very philistine, I don't like it. Yun Yiyao expressed her opinion.
"A majestic city, inhabited by a group of philistines, located in the middle of the Suncheon Empire, far away from the bitter cold land, and the economy is prosperous, life is rich, and the long-term living and working in peace and contentment not only does not make them grateful, but also makes them forget the hard-won life now, isn't it?" Ye Heng concluded.
"It seems like that!" Yun Yiyao nodded and said.
"If we were to build a city, what would you like it to look like?" Ye Heng asked, and the others all stared at Wuling City in front of them in deep thought.
After being silent for a long time, Ye Heng cleaned up his mood and said, "Okay, let's go!"
A few days later, Ye Heng and the five finally returned to Jinyang Prefecture smoothly.
However, in the past few days, Wuling City has fallen into chaos. Since Ye Heng has not been found, Murong Xin was furious, and strictly ordered to increase the search efforts, so that it was inevitable that there would be incidents of bullying and disturbing the people, under Kong Ying's arrangement, things became more and more intense, and finally broke out into a bloody conflict. Under the guidance of Kong Ying, the people of Wuling City were full of hostility towards the Murong family, and the fourteen plum blossoms were mixed among the civilians, assassinating the people of the Murong family from time to time, and in just a few days, the conflict continued to heat up, and the hostility of the Wuling people towards the Murong family became deeper and deeper, and the Murong family suffered a lot of casualties, and it became more and more difficult to control their emotions. With the development of things, the contradictions between the two sides were further stimulated, and soon, a storm was set off in Wuling City to kill the Murong family, and even their industry was taken care of and could not operate normally.
In addition, many of the Murong family's industries in the imperial capital were also destroyed by unknown figures, and because of the manpower drawn from chasing Ye Heng, their headquarters were like empty shells, unable to resist the sudden attacks of others. Of course, these things were also planned by Kong Ying, but the development of things far exceeded his plan, because there were many super forces in the imperial capital, and several of the forces on the Longmen list were entrenched in Yong'an City, and everyone was also well-informed.
On the second day after some of the Murong family's properties were destroyed, because the Murong family did not take effective measures to protect these properties, others noticed that there was an opportunity. These big forces immediately arranged for their people to disguise themselves and immediately take action against the property of the Murong family, which had been coveted for a long time. Of course, they don't do anything too out of the ordinary, which is to ransack these places.
Everything is afraid that someone will take the lead, and with the first person to eat crabs, everyone will see the beauty of his food, and they will inevitably flock to eat crabs together. When the other forces saw that others had benefited from the Murong family, they stared at it with their eyes open, and it seemed that their hearts were very unbalanced! Therefore, the next round of looting was even more ferocious, even if it was the pillar industry of the Murong family that was guarded, it was also patronized by other forces that had robbed their eyes.
As a result, it can be imagined that none of the industries within the imperial capital of the Murong family escaped the fate of being ransacked, and there were signs of rapid spread to the surrounding areas. If you can't organize an effective resistance in time, you can't suppress other people's ambitions and **, you can't protect your own industry at all, and it will soon fall apart! Moreover, the power of the imperial capital is not comparable to the power of Wuling City, after they operate privately, they directly embezzle the property that originally belonged to the Murong family, and they really can't even spit out the bones. Even if Murong Xin came to the door afterwards, he didn't want to take back what originally belonged to him, since they had made a move, they had a way to deal with it. They are also the forces on the Longmen list, and they don't scare the Murong family at all, and they are likely to push the two, five or six, and put the blame on the thugs, they just can't bear to see the Murong family's property destroyed, and they just clean up the mess afterwards. If Murong Xin wants to take back his own property, then it can also be discussed, but this cost will definitely not be less. Whether you want these industries or not, they are huge losses, if you want them, you will cut the flesh from the Murong family's body, and if you don't want it, you will stab the Murong family's body, and it will hurt both horizontally and vertically!
When Murong Xin received an urgent letter from the imperial capital, his whole person was stupid! He couldn't understand at all, how could things have developed to this point?
Fang was also empty, but no one had ever stabbed him in the back, what went wrong this time? Could it be because he was chasing and killing Ye Heng? This is impossible! It's not that the big man who is countless times more powerful than Ye Heng has never been chased and killed, and nothing like this has ever happened! Why is this happening, what is going on with his grandmother?
Murong Xin was about to be mad, but he knew that he couldn't mess up! Murong Xin forced himself to calm down, he must not panic! He locked himself in a hut, discarded all outside news, and thought quietly for most of the day. When he walked out of the hut with blood-red eyes open, his whole person changed.
After careful inference and thinking, Murong Xin suddenly realized that someone was deliberately targeting the Murong family, but he didn't find out who this person or organization hidden in the shadows was, which made him very passive. However, he was sure of one thing, this person or organization must have a close relationship with Ye Heng, but, judging from the current situation, he could not continue to trouble Ye Heng. Murong Xin had already guessed that Ye Heng should not be in Wuling City, pushing himself and others, he himself had a way to leave Wuling City without making a noise and not alarming anyone, and Ye Heng could certainly have this method.
Murong Xin had already realized that he could not continue to delay in Wuling City, so the first thing he did when he walked out of the hut was to cancel all actions to hunt down Ye Heng, and immediately summoned Murong Xing, making him do everything possible to quell the turmoil in Wuling City, and immediately gather everyone brought from the imperial capital, and they must gather at the branch within an hour! He wanted to lead people back to Yong'an City as quickly as possible, Murong Xin had already realized that the headquarters was in danger! If you can't go back in time to sit in person, it is likely that there will be an irreparable situation!
However, when Murong Xin saw the people gathered together, he found that the number of people was less than one-third of what they had come! Such a big loss made him even more heartbroken, but it was a pity that he didn't have time to grieve, Wuling City was already like this, what would happen to Yong'an City?
Murong Xin gave an order and led the remaining elites to return to Yong'an City. It's just that the situation in Yong'an City is even less optimistic, except for the unborn old monster in Murong Villa, no one dares to do it easily, and the rest of the property has all changed hands!
Murong Xin hurried back, but what was waiting for him would be a mess full of holes, whether he could turn the tide, take back his family's property, or even go further, and forcefully suppress those forces who dared to attack the Murong family, all of this could only be answered when he returned to Yong'an City.
It's a pity that Tiangong is not beautiful, and after leaving Wuling City, he only traveled for half a day, and suddenly it rained heavily. Murong Xin was in a hurry to rush to Yong'an City, and he planned to travel day and night, but the rain was pouring down, the roads were muddy, and he had no choice but to find a place to shelter from the rain, thus delaying the time to return to Yong'an City.
As soon as Ye Heng and his party arrived in Changye City, the heavy rain suddenly came, and the five of them rushed to the Fengbing Pavilion in the rain, and soon they all turned into soup chickens. Fortunately, they were about to reach their destination, and not only were they not depressed, but they were also very excited.
In front of a tavern not far from the Frontier Pavilion, Ye Heng suddenly pulled his horse and stopped suddenly, and the others didn't know why, so they also stopped.
I saw that there were a few tables outside the spill hall, and all the guests at the other tables were transferred to the tavern to drink, but there was still a table sitting alone, let the rain hit him, soaking wet, but still drinking in a big bowl.
At a wine table on the street on a rainy night, the man sat alone, his brows furrowed, as if he had nowhere to talk about his troubles.
"Xue Gai!" Ye Heng recognized that the man who drank in the rain was his good brother. Ye Heng turned over and dismounted, handed the reins to Liu Xinyue, and said, "It's raining heavily outside, Xinyue, you go back to the Fengbing Pavilion first, and I'll sit with Brother Xue." ”
Liu Xinyue looked at Xue Gai silently for a while, didn't say anything, knocked on the horse's belly, and led the others to the Fengbing Pavilion.
Yun Mengyao walked last, past Ye Heng's figure, she looked back at Xue Gai, for a moment, her eyes turned bewitching blue, and then she turned around and left with Liu Xinyue as if nothing happened.
Ye Heng slowly approached Xue Gai, Xue Gai was unaware, as a martial artist, he should never be, even if he was an ordinary person, someone would be aware of it if he approached a certain distance, which could only show that Xue Gai's soul flew out of the sky and was completely cut off from everything around him.
Ye Heng sat directly opposite Xue Gai, grabbed a piece of sauced beef soaked in rain from the plate, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly. He took the wine jar on the table again, picked it up and drank four or five sips, and then put it down.
Xue Gai's sloppy gaze finally focused, and when he saw someone opposite, he couldn't help but look slightly angry, but when he saw the appearance of the person opposite, his eyes suddenly brightened and were full of excitement.
"Beef in sauce soaked in water tastes much worse. Ye Heng said calmly.
Xue Gai didn't speak, just nodded silently.
"And the wine with rainwater doesn't taste very good. Ye Heng continued.
Xue Gai still nodded silently.
"It's even worse to be drenched in heavy rain, eating soaked sauce beef, and drinking wine with rainwater!" Ye Heng said with a wry smile.
"It doesn't feel good. Xue Gai finally spoke.
"Then why don't you move to the store, where at least it can be sheltered from the wind and rain, at least not deserted. You know what? Now you look like a fool, a big fool!"
"Aren't you also sitting here, aren't you a big fool too!" Schaegay retorted.
"I'm sitting here because my brother is sitting here. Ye Heng said, "Drinking with my brother, it's fun to drink anywhere." ”
"I'm sitting here,
It's because there's no my brother in it. Xue Gai said, "Where there are no brothers, it is bitter to drink and sprinkle everywhere, so it is better to sit and not move the nest." ”
The two looked at each other and laughed, bent down with laughter, and tears of laughter flowed out, laughing like two neuropaths, laughing like two big fools!
The customers and guys in the store heard the sudden laughter outside, and they all looked over inexplicably, some people just frowned and turned back, while others stared curiously, and the guys in the store didn't know whether to greet these two or not, and they were in a dilemma for a while. However, almost everyone scolded in their hearts: "What two big fools!"
The fool's behavior is obviously different from that of normal people, these two fools laughed enough, Ye Heng shouted: "Little Er, serve the wine!"
The guy in the store glanced at the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper immediately gave him a look, and then the guy took a jar of wine out, and by the way, he helped Ye Heng take a wine bowl and send it out in the rain.
Ye Heng took out a piece of silver and put it on the table, and said to the guy: "Little Er, this is our wine money, you see how much wine you can buy, just come up." ”
Xiao Er was originally unhappy, but when he saw the silver, he immediately smiled and promised to run into the store with a fart. After a while, Xiao Er ran out with two other guys, each holding two jars of wine in their hands.
"I'm sorry, we only have these wines left in the store today, and they're all here for you! Xiao Er said politely.
"Don't look for it, help us cut a plate of beef in sauce, and you can take the rest to buy a bar." Ye Heng said generously.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Xiao Er said happily, no longer bothered by the rain. If all the guests were as generous as this Ye Heng, he would be willing to rain a few more times.
"Come, drink!" Ye Heng opened a jar of wine and said to Xue Gai.
Xue Gai picked up the wine jar on the table and touched it with Ye Heng, the two raised their necks and drank half of the jar, then put down the wine jar, and a stream of heat poured directly into the dantian from the throat, and the two couldn't help shouting "happy"!
The two of them grabbed the sauce beef with their hands and ate a few bites, pressed the wine, and Ye Heng said again: "Drinking on the street on a rainy night, the opposite brother is still the same." I don't ask where you come from, I don't ask why you're waiting. Wipe your face with rain and shake off all your sorrows. Drink and get drunk tonight, the Ming Dynasty will break through the fog! Come, Brother Xue, I will respect you again!"
"It's a good one to drink and get drunk tonight, and the Ming Dynasty will break through the fog! Come on, do it!" Xue Gai's mood completely changed at this time, and he said heroically. Then, the two of them drank all the remaining half jars of wine.
"Brother Xue, why are you drinking alone?" Ye Heng asked when he saw that Xue Gai had finally returned to his soul.
"In a few days, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, the full moon is full, so I'm homesick!" Xue Gai replied.
Ye Heng smiled sadly and said, "You still have a home to think about, but I don't even have a home." ”
"No, my home is gone, I just miss my father and mother. Xue Gai said.
Ye Heng still smiled bitterly: "You have parents to think about, but I don't even know what my parents look like." ”
"I can only think about it, they are gone, and you, at least there is hope to meet them. This time it was Xue Gai who was smiling bitterly.
"In that case, am I happier than you?" Ye Heng asked rhetorically.
"We are both fallen people at the end of the world, why do you and I have to take fifty steps and laugh at a hundred steps, we are all motherless children, who can be better than whom?" Xue Gai concluded.
Ye Heng laughed and said, "The two of us are like two gamblers who have also lost money, I was very frustrated, but when I know that you have lost more than me, I have at least one pair of pants left to cover my shame, and my heart will be much more comfortable, understand?"
"You inhuman fellow, you actually make fun of Lao Tzu! punish you for drinking!" Xue Gai roared and scolded with laughter.
"Okay, okay, I admit the punishment!" Ye Heng surrendered. However, Xue Gai still accompanied Ye Heng to drink half an altar.
"Ye Heng, I have never mentioned my family affairs to others before, thank you for accompanying me today, I want to talk to you. Putting down the wine jar, Xue Gai stared at Ye Heng and said seriously.
"You say, I listen!"
"The Xue family, which is ranked eleventh on the Dragon Gate List, the Xue family in the land of Fengchuan, you have heard of it, I was born there!" Xue Gai finally said his origin, such a birth is really amazing, Ye Heng, who has had a lot of contact with the forces on the Dragon Gate List, of course understands the meaning of this sentence. It's just that he had similar guesses about Xue Gai, and he has always been an enemy of super forces like the Murong family, so Ye Heng's performance was not too surprised, but he was a little surprised.
"Do you remember the decisive battle between you and You Yue? I suddenly disappeared for a while. That's because I received a letter from my family saying that my father had died in battle, and that I had to go back to see him off for the last time, and that I was in a hurry to say goodbye. Xue Gai explained the ins and outs of the matter and said, "It's a pity that I came back a step late and couldn't see him for the last time." ”
Ye Heng didn't interject, motioned for Xue Gai to touch the wine jar, and drank some more, Xue Gai continued: "As soon as you enter the Hou Gate, it is as deep as the sea, and the big family looks beautiful, but behind it is a dark place that eats people and does not swallow bones. My father was killed in battle, and before I could return, they rushed to take away the property that belonged to our family and kicked my mother out of the house. When I went back, I saw only my mother, who told me to leave the Xue family and committed suicide by taking poison. I buried my parents together and left there. ”