Chapter 284: Killing
The uncle continued: "In the past few days, Li Zhen and I have met late, and he invited me to open a museum at his house to teach his son, Fan Ye's children, and Fan Ye's brothers' children. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Li Zhen's house is large, and there are many ancient and rare books. Huizong of the current dynasty is also a person who loves calligraphy, painting, gold and stone, and he is not as strict as his ancestors against Li Yu, who has the same hobbies as him, and no longer persecutes and supervises. ”
"The Fan brothers are also people who are familiar with the inside story of officialdom, and they use money to buy off the officials who are in power, so the life of the Li and Fan families in Tokyo is relatively good, and because of the money, some people help them ventilate the news, and they are also very well-informed. ”
"Last year, Li Zhen was deceived to Yanggu County by someone he regarded as a friend, and was not only made to make money, but also almost killed. If he hadn't met Wu Song, Wu Song not only saved his life to regain the money for them, but also escorted them out of Yanggu County in order to protect them. ”
He listened to Wu Song's words very much, and from then on, he no longer had trouble with the Fan family, and he was far away from a group of friends from the fox group and dog party, and the person completely changed. Since then, the brothers and sisters of the Fan family have always kept Wu Song's life-saving grace in mind, and when they have the opportunity, they will burn incense in the temple to pray for Engong. Unexpectedly, I went to Daxiang Temple to burn incense on a whim that day, and met Engong by mistake. ”
Pan Jinlian asked her uncle, "Then how long have you lived in Master Li's house?"
The uncle said: "It was about 20 days, and I stayed at his house on the third day of the second month and left on the 24th of February. Wu Song went to Tokyo to help the county commander move around with Gao Yu's faction, one of the four traitors favored by Huizong. These four people are in collusion, embarrassed and treacherous, each of them does his own thing, and sells his official position and sells his lordship. ”
"Later, if Fan Ye hadn't told me something we didn't understand, I wouldn't have made up my mind to open a teaching museum in Li Fan's house. Fan Ye said that if we are willing, then our family can gain a foothold in Tokyo, Wu Song can be the head of the forbidden army through the relationship of the Fan family, I can open a museum to teach, you can teach Li Fan and the two female relatives to needlework, and Wu Dalang can open a delicatessen shop. ”
Pan Jinlian was a little surprised, because although his uncle was just a showman, he was a person who did not panic in the face of major events, and this matter must be very important: "What kind of great thing is that?"
The uncle said: "The eldest brother of Li Zhen's fox group and dog party relying on Yanggu County is actually Ximenqing, and one of them told Fan Ye about Ximenqing because of his conscience. Ximenqing is the eldest brother of the bullies and ruffians in Yanggu County, and many things in Yanggu County that bully men and women and cheat people out of money are planned by him. ”
And that Ximenqing is suave on the outside, with a strong body, and a pair of peach blossom eyes I don't know how many ignorant women have charmed. Relying on his charming appearance, he chose rich women to kill rich men and force the widow to marry him with the property, and deceived the rich widow to buy off her relatives with the money, and then remarried him with the property. ”
In a short period of time, Ximenqing expanded his family property, which only had one crude medicine shop, but only a few thousand taels of silver, to a dozen pharmacy shops, silk villages, antique shops, grain shops, and family properties of seven or eighty thousand taels of silver. ”
"The reason why he is desperately trying to make money is that he is not willing to lie dormant in Yanggu County as a local bully, he buys the money he collects, he is looking for today's Cai Taishi Cai Jing, and he offers tens of thousands of taels of silver before and after. Cai Jing gave a deputy Qianhu of Jin Wushi of the Shandong Provincial Punishment Center, and served as a doctor of the fifth grade. ”
"Wu Song is in Yanggu County, and he is against the evil forces led by him, and I don't know how much wealth he has cut off Ximenqing. It turns out that Ximenqing is a local bully, he can still do so much evil, and now he is about to live in the fifth grade, and this county order is only seven grades, how can we deal with him?"
"It's better to follow Li Fan and the two masters, move to the feet of the Son of Heaven, and avoid Ximenqing, the opponent. Wu Song and I thought about it, let's see the opportunity to act after returning to Yanggu County, but I didn't expect another incident to happen suddenly. ”
My uncle sighed and continued: "In the middle of the night on February 20, I heard movement in Wu Song's room next door, which woke me up, and then I heard Wu Song shouting loudly for my eldest brother. Later, before dawn, Wu Song knocked on the door of my room, and said that he saw his eldest brother covered in blood and bleeding, said goodbye to him, and asked him to avenge himself. ”
"Thinking of what Fan Ye said about Ximenqing, although I comforted Wu Song, I felt that something was wrong in my heart. said goodbye to Li Fan and his two masters, and the two of them told them to move to Tokyo after they finished dealing with things. Fortunately, Wu Song's work was almost completed, and on the 23rd, he stopped everything and made some preparations. ”
"On February 24, we returned to Yangya Prefecture from Tokyo. Before leaving, Li Zhen saw that Wu Song was particularly good for self-defense, so he gave Wu Erlang a retractable sword, when it was reduced, the sword body was only less than a foot long, and this sword could cut gold and break stones. Wu Song thanked him and put it away. ”
Pan Jinlian listened with relish, so she didn't notice that the night had fallen outside, and it was more than the usual time to cook dinner. Uncle raised his head and looked at the sky outside: "That's all for today, I should also cook and take a rest, and I'll tell you tomorrow what happened on the road back to Yanggu County." ”
Pan Jinlian secretly felt that this might have something to do with the blood stains on Wu Song's body.
After dawn, Pan Jinlian boiled porridge, baked cakes, boiled water, and chanted scriptures according to the rules of this period of time. My uncle also waited patiently for her to finish reciting the scriptures, and then continued to talk about yesterday's events.
"We left Tokyo in the early morning of February 24, because we didn't have anything of value with us this time, and we were in a hurry, so naturally it was much faster than the trip to Tokyo. ”
"Because I rushed back day and night, I was anxious that day, so I didn't ask for directions carefully, and it turned out that it was already dark, and I still didn't see the village in front of me and the store in the back. But God didn't help, and it snowed heavily, we were really hungry and cold, and in the dark paint, we saw a little light, and we hurriedly went up and knocked on the door. ”
"It was a grange, and the owner of the farm, who was a man of great talent, and when he saw that we were cold and hungry, he prepared a pot of wine and a few kinds of tea, and let us go to the rooms at the back of the farm, so that we could sleep when we were full of food and drink, and we could hurry the next day. ”
"The owner didn't even ask our names or identities, he was really understanding. When I slept until midnight, I felt dizzy, and I thought I was traveling overnight, and my mouth was very dry due to the wind and cold, and I remembered that there was a pot of tea in the guest room, so I got up and poured water. As a result, when I got out of bed, I fell to the ground top-heavy, and I don't know what happened next, but when I woke up, it was already dawn, but I slept in a broken straw hut, and the mats on my body were all straw. ”
"And in the middle of the hut was a fire, the firewood had been burned out, and a pile of black and white charcoal ash. Wu Song was tying the bleeding wound on his arm with the cloth in the baggage, and Wu Song told me afterwards that when we lay down in the guest room not long ago, there were three young people who were not much different in age, none of them were more than 30 years old, and they came to ask the owner, and the two men, an old man and a young man who had not even seen it, described the appearance of Wu Song and me as exactly the same, and the owner told the three of them that they had just gone to the guest room to rest. ”
These three people said that they were friends of the old man and the young man, because there was an emergency, their master sent the three of them to chase the old man and the young man, but they did not expect to chase after a few days. The owner of the village pointed out to them the guest room where I and Wu Song rested, and the three of them said that they didn't bother with the old man, so we went to say it ourselves, and the owner didn't think much about it, and went to rest by himself. ”
"I didn't expect that these three people who claimed to be Hu Da, Hu Er, and Hu San said that they were friends with Wu Song, but I didn't know who hired the killers. Not to mention the quick knives of these three people, what is even more powerful is that no matter how many people they deal with, the three of them are on the same page, and the three knives surround the people, and you can't escape the knife net composed of three people even if you insert your wings. ”
"The employer told them that one of the people to be killed this time was Wu Song, who was famous for killing the white-fronted tiger in Jingyanggang, and they didn't dare to take it lightly. Ran to the guest room where Wu Song and I lived, and blew the incense of the three rivers and lakes into the room, which was the most powerful Mingyu and soul-breaking incense. If this kind of drug is put in a small amount, it will make ordinary people fall asleep until the rooster crows until dawn, and they will slowly wake up, and the whole body will be weak for a long time. The most important thing is that people will never wake up, so it is called soul breaking incense. ”
"I was stunned by this incense, and Wu Song had been walking in the rivers and lakes for a long time, sleeping with one eye open, and he had already heard footsteps and whispered words, running towards the room where we lived. He got dressed and hid behind the door and waited, and when he smelled the fragrance, he busily plugged his nostrils with cotton. ”
"When these three stupid thieves heard the sound of me falling to the ground, they thought they had succeeded, so they touched it lightly, and before they could find a big fold, one of them was poked to the ground by Wu Song. The other two fought with Wu Song, and the remaining two people were much less powerful than the three people, but they were also against five or six good players. ”
Although Wu Song is extremely brave, he is holding a short sword given by Li Ye, which is not as good as the two holding a big sword, and the two have the upper hand in weapons, and the incense still plays a role after all, Wu Song spent a lot of effort to kill these two. But he also had several wounds on his arm from a large knife, and he was bleeding profusely. ”
Wu Song opened the fire fold and recognized that this was Hu Da, Hu Er, and Hu San, who were a little famous in the rivers and lakes, and they were famous because they never cared about the morality of the rivers and lakes, as long as they were willing to pay money, they killed innocents indiscriminately, and they deserved to die in the hands of Wu Song today. ”
Wu Song thought to himself that if the bodies of these three scum were left in the village, it would also affect the well-meaning owner of the village, so he pulled the three corpses to the side of the official road and posed as if the three of them were fighting to death due to a quarrel. At this time, it was almost dawn, and Wu Song saw that I couldn't wake up after being struck by the incense, so he carried me on his back again, found this grass shed with grass, lit a fire, and treated the wound. ”
"When I woke up, it was already dawn, and Wu Song and I thought that if someone bribed these three scum to kill us, and we couldn't wait for a response and saw the corpses again, we wouldn't give up. In order to prevent such a thing from happening again, we can only live in places where people live, we can only live in broken temples and straw huts where no one lives, and we can only travel in the dark and hide during the day. ”
"The worst thing is that Wu Song was injured, and the knives of the three brothers of the Hu family were very deep, and they couldn't buy medicine, so they had to find some water to wash. Fortunately, we also had dry food and knife medicine on our bodies, so Wu Song's wounds did not fester. However, for the first three days, Wu Song had a fever, his whole body was weak, and he couldn't walk, and finally the dry food was also eaten, so he had to go to the temple to find fruit offerings to satisfy his hunger. ”
"Fortunately, Wu Song's body is strong, and he survived this hurdle, to be honest, if he were someone else, it would be difficult to say that he could escape this catastrophe. We wondered all the way, who could be so hateful to us that they wanted our lives?"