The bright moonlight sprinkled from the sky with a little scarlet, Pei Ziyun could still smell the smell of blood on his body, and from time to time he spurred the horses and headed towards the county seat as fast as possible. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

A fork in the road, to the left is the Peach Blossom Spring, glanced at it from a distance, and Ye Su'er's appearance appeared in his heart, he didn't want this Peach Blossom Source View to do this, but now is not the time to care, riding a horse towards the county seat.

In the county seat, Tang Zhen had just been thrown out of a flower building, and an ox cart on the side of the road, a groom and a scholar were already waiting.

Seeing that his son-in-law was drunk and drove out, the scholar was also distressed, since the young master participated in the literary meeting and had a scandal in public, the angry teachings took off his fame, and he became like this, the master didn't care, the lady was distressed, and she was still persuading from time to time.

The grunt of ox carts sounded at night in the county seat.

The ox cart stopped at the door, and when he went up the steps, the boy got out of the car and knocked on the door, and a voice came from inside: "Who?"

"It's Childe who is back, open the door quickly. The boy shouted.

"Childe, which childe?" the porter poked his head inside.

"Of course it's Tang Zhen Tang Gongzi, Gongzi has arrived at the door, open the door quickly. The boy shouted to open the door.

"The master said, is it Tang Zhen who has done ugly things, lost his fame, and harmed the Tang family and lost his ugliness, and he still has the face to come back? The porter said with a frown, yawning and going back to sleep, regardless of the sound of the boy outside.

"Brother Hu, please go through the back door, I will call Grandma Hu to open the door. The boy talked to the coachman, and when the car arrived at the backyard door, the boy lifted the curtain and shouted, "Childe, childe?"

Zhang Yuyu was still sleeping in the car, her face was pale, she seemed to be much haggard, and she occasionally talked nonsense in her dreams: "Don't arrest me, I was framed." ”

Speaking nonsense, his brows furrowed tightly.

"You can live if you do evil in heaven, but you can't live if you do it yourself. This scholar is actually fifteen or sixteen years old, and he has read a lot of books with him, and then there is sadness in his words, and a strong mood is permeating.

Seeing that his son-in-law had changed from a few months ago to what he is now, he almost burst into tears, lowered the curtain, and knocked on the door: "Grandma Hu, Grandma Hu, open the door." ”

After a while, an old voice agreed: "It's coming, who's coming, it's the third watch in the middle of the night." ”

"Grandma Hu, it's me, my son is drunk, I called an ox cart to take my son back, and I hope that the old grandmother will open the door. ”

"It turns out that the young master is back, I'm here to open the door, wait a minute. After waiting for a while, an old woman in her fifties opened the door, and only by the moonlight could she see clearly, an ox cart, and a scholar was waiting at the back door, this scholar was the little scholar beside Tang Zhen.

The old woman opened the door and asked, "Where is the young master?" Hurry up and send the young master back to the room, the old man didn't see the young master at night, and he lost his temper again!"

This old woman is Grandma Hu.

"Yes, the lord also notified the porter and said that he was not allowed to come in, so I knocked on the back door. "The little scholar actually has resentment in his heart, this is the old man's angry words, are you still serious about the porter?

At this time, he raised his head and looked at the coachman: "Brother Hu, please help me carry the young master, I am too young to lift alone." ”

The coachman looked at the scholar and sighed deeply, jumped down, helped the drunk Tang Zhen into the courtyard, and put him on the bed to rest.

At night, Pei Ziyun crossed the city wall into the city, the county town has been quiet, the lights of ordinary people have been extinguished, some people are still on, the lights are dim, in the streets and alleys, sometimes there are men carrying small lanterns and knocking gongs or bangzi, everywhere is silent, occasionally there are catchers with bud tea patrolling the street to prevent thieves.

Pei Ziyun sneaked all the way, it was all a trail, there was a dog alarmed, "Wangwang" shouted, and he didn't care, as long as he didn't stop, no one would go out to check - they all thought it was a husband.

At present, it is Tang Zhen's house, strictly speaking, Tang Zhen's ancestral house is in the countryside, but the place of residence is in the county, and after the boy's exam, he invited himself to his house to drink tea and know the location.

The road in this alley of the county seat is all bluestone paved with bluestone pavement, or some fist-sized river pebbles, and it is a little awkward to walk on it, and with the footsteps, there is an echo in the alley.

There is moonlight, so you don't have to worry about not being able to see the road at night, just about to go out of the alley, suddenly saw an ox cart jogging from the road, Pei Ziyun hid in the shadows, looked around, the surroundings were very quiet, only there was a lantern on the steps not far away, with a little light.

It's a little strange that there is still an ox cart in the middle of the night?

When the ox cart passed, there were officials patrolling, and when the footsteps were far away, Pei Ziyun went around to the backyard and climbed over the wall into the Zhang family's mansion.

The courtyard was quiet, and the rockery was faintly visible in the moonlight, Pei Ziyun laughed silently, and walked along the corridor, and suddenly saw a scholar coming out of a kitchen, holding something in his hand, and sighing as he walked: "The young master has made a name for himself, these days are so decadent, how is it good, even the master is not waiting to see him." ”

As soon as Pei Ziyun heard this, it seemed that the scholar knew where Tang Zhen was, so he followed, and it didn't take long to see a room with a light on, and the scholar went in.

Pei Ziyun followed, poked a hole from the window, looked over, and saw that in the candlelight, a person was drunk and talking nonsense inside.

The scholar went in, it turned out to be a bowl of sobering soup, shouting Tang Zhen to drink the soup, Tang Zhen was still talking nonsense, this scholar was going to feed, this Tang Zhen hit the bowl with his backhand, only to hear the bowl "snap", the sobering soup knocked over on the scholar's body, splashed all over.

The bowl fell to the ground, the scholar sighed deeply, turned around to change clothes, and when he turned around, he only felt a blow to the neck, and he fainted for a while.

Pei Ziyun gently supported the scholar, put it to the side, and turned away, but he was stunned.

A voice sounded in the room, and there was a cough: "Brother Pei, came in with a sword tonight, did you want to kill me?" I really wanted to harm you at the beginning, damn it, if it is fatal, Brother Pei, even if you take it, don't affect others, anyway, if I don't die in your hands, I won't live long." ”

Tang Zhen sat up, his eyes had drunk too much in these days, they had turned blue and sunken, his hair was unkempt, he hadn't been groomed for a long time, and he was dressed in a white robe with some filth.

A gentleman, calm and relaxed, has long since disappeared, sitting upright at this time, tilting his head, ready to lead his neck to death.

Pei Ziyun looked at Tang Zhen's appearance and asked, "I don't want you to be an understanding person, you are so decadent these days, and you know that time is running out, right?"

Seeing that Tang Zhen didn't speak, Pei Ziyun didn't care, poured a cup from the teapot on the table, and didn't drink it, just smelled: "It's just that you're wrong, I'm going to kill you, I'll kill you a long time ago." ”

"I'm here tonight, I don't want to talk nonsense with you, I just want to ask you, do you still want to be famous?"

Hearing this, Tang Zhen's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he was gloomy, got up from the bed, no longer drunk like mud just now, sat on one side, and poured himself a cup of tea.

The tea was cold, coarse and bitter, drank it, frowned, laughed a little maniacally, laughed for a while, and then said: "Think, why don't you want to, these days, I'm going crazy." ”

"But how can I get this thing back? In front of everyone's eyes, how can I change it? After committing such a wrong thing, there is no turning back. Tang Zhen's eyes were full of despair: "Zhang Yuyu won't let me go, maybe I won't wait long, I'll fall into the water and die!"

Pei Ziyun pressed the table, leaned forward and approached Tang Zhen, and said, "Brother Tang, now I know how much of a crime you have committed, if I am in the middle of the day, it will be worse than you are now." ”

"After all, your Tang family is a gentry, at most you fall into the water and die, your Tang family is fine, you still have a younger brother, but if something happens to me, what do you say my Pei family will do? What should my mother do?"

Tang Zhen was silent for a while, and suddenly raised his head, his eyes clear: "Brother Pei, is something big happening?"

"You guessed right, tonight Zhang Yuyu led the monks of Yinlong Temple, and the people from Luo Bang Heru came to kill me, and I killed them. Pei Ziyun said coldly: Now that the Holy Prison Gate is in Dong'an Mansion, there is no leader, I have a law, which may not be able to restore your fame, but it is still possible to restore your qualification for the imperial examination, do you do it?"

Tang Zhen looked at Pei Ziyun, Pei Ziyun's body was covered with dust, there were blood stains on his body, and a strong blood came, Tang Zhen hesitated for a while, stood up, paced a few steps, and then made up his mind and bitten: "It's done, Brother Pei, you tell me how to do it." ”

Pei Ziyun approached Tang Zhen's ear and whispered, Tang Zhen nodded from time to time, and his eyes gradually became bright.

County

In the early morning, the birds chirped, jumping on the branches of the trees from time to time, the old man sprinkled water on the street to sweep the road, and two soldiers at the gate of the county were standing lazily at the gate of the city, yawning, and some pedestrians passed by.

Suddenly, a soldier woke up and asked, "Did you hear that there was a funeral?"

"Nonsense, if someone goes and wants to pass through the city gate, they will tell us in advance, if it is not too mildewy, and they are not afraid that we will find trouble?"

Another soldier said impatiently, only the next moment, his mouth was wide open, and his face was dull and he looked at the road.

A group of people appeared in the distance on the road, beating gongs and drums, blowing mourning songs, and holding white spiritualist flags, getting closer and closer.

"Whoever is so mildew, not out of the city but into the city. The soldier who spoke before was furious, straightened his spear, and when he looked over, he was stunned, and his teeth chattered up and down.

I saw eighty or ninety people carrying coffins, and in front of them were dozens of women wearing white scarves and mourning clothes, crying and shouting as they walked, scattering paper money.

Da Xu Chuding, looking at this scene, a bold passerby went up: "Who are you, how dare you trespass into the county seat like this, aren't you afraid that the county order will punish you?"

A clever official happened to go out, and he saw Cao San and several archers also wearing white scarves, wearing mourning clothes and carrying two loads of baskets, and a few people behind him carried a coffin, and a few people in black were tied, but they were shocked, and just went up to stop it, they saw Cao San scolding: "Get out, didn't you see that the inspectors are all in the coffin, and Xie Yuangong is leading the way in front?"

This official knew Cao San, but didn't know Xie Yuan, at this time, when he said it, he looked up, and found that one of the middle people came with a team, dressed in a person's clothes, and trembled for a while, something big happened, and at this time he didn't dare to stop it, and ran towards the city reflexively, and he was about to report the news.