Chapter 21: A Thousand Miles of Escort
Zhang Liao put on a new cotton jacket for Guan Ping in the house, and Xu Huang helped Hu Shi make porridge on the fire outside.
Hu Shi saw the tall and strong Xu Huang squatting next to the stove and picking up the charcoal with a branch, lest Xu Huang's clothes be smeared with charcoal ash and hurriedly snatched the branch and said: "Gongming, your eight-foot man is a person who wants to do big things, go into the house and drink some water, these things can be done by the concubine." ”
Xu Huang saw that the branch was snatched away by the Hu family, so he picked up a big spoon and scooped it into the pot to mix porridge.
"Sister-in-law, it's freezing this day, you can go to the house and rest, I cook the cold pot and cold stove at home, it's not difficult, it's okay."
Just then, there was another knock on the wooden door.
"Brother and sister, open the door, let's go to Liangzhou for the New Year this year."
A room full of people were confused by this sentence, and Hu Shi opened the door and saw that it was Yang Feng who brought a little brother, so he welcomed him in and said, "Brother Tiger Head, come in." ”
"Yo, Komeito is there."
Xu Huang, who was cleaning up by the stove, looked up and saw that it was Yang Feng and smiled: "Brother Tiger Head is here." ”
Zhang Liao poked his head out of the house when he heard someone knocking on the door, and when he saw that it was Yang Feng, he immediately frowned and scolded: "Yang Huzi, you get out of here, if it weren't for your big brother Guan, you wouldn't be dead!" What are you still talking about in Liangzhou for the New Year here, you tell me again. ”
If this Hedong County people don't care who scolds Yang Feng like this, it will definitely not work, Yang Feng has a tiger head, and his temper is like a tiger in the mountains. But if this person is Zhang Liao, he has to say two things. After Guan Yu fled his homeland for Yang Feng, Zhang Liao, who was far away in Yanmen, received the news and rushed to Hedong alone, and beat Yang Feng and a group of little brothers without saying a word.
That year, Zhang Liao beat Yang Feng, and the appearance was very similar to the scene when Guan Yu beat Pang Rou for Ma Yue, and Yang Feng jumped up and down in the courtyard of the Guan family. If it weren't for Xu Huang trying his best to stop Zhang Liao, whether Yang Feng could stand here and talk now is still two words, Yang Feng, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, was beaten by Zhang Liao that time and lost his temper.
Hu Shi said to Zhang Liao: "Wenyuan, don't talk to Brother Yang like this, if it weren't for the support of your brothers and sisters, we wouldn't know how hard it would be to live these years." Don't blame you Brother Yang, speak kindly. Immortality, death, the end of the world, that is fate...... I can't complain about Brother Yang. ”
Zhang Liao muttered: "Who is with his brother..."
"Hey." Yang Feng laughed dryly and said, "Wen Yuan, I know that you have been complaining about me for so many years, but this time you really can't complain about me." Brother and sister of the Guan family, we really have to go to Liangzhou for the New Year, Gongming Wenyuan, will you go? ”
Zhang Liao couldn't say good things when he saw Yang Feng, so he said angrily: "You love to go to Liangzhou, you can go, I won't go to that barren land, and you don't take your sister-in-law to go!" ”
Yang Feng smiled: "You really don't go?" ”
Zhang Liao said angrily: "Liangzhou is bitter and cold, teach me to go to Liangzhou rather run around the county shirtless to cool it!" ”
Yang Feng laughed, then took out the bamboo slip from his arms and shook it, took it right and read it word by word: "Seeing the letter is like me, I don't know my wife and children at home for many years, is it okay?" Guan wants to settle down and help the wind, and I hope that Brother Yang will inform Gongming Wenyuan to protect my wife and children..."
Yang Fengzheng read comfortably, Hu Shi and Xu Huang listened carefully, Zhang Liao threw off the wolf fur and tore off his shirt and ran out of the hospital shirtless.
"I, Zhang Wenyuan, have not been afraid of the cold since I was a child!"
"Hahahaha."
Zhang Liao was so full of laughter, and after laughing, Xu Huang dragged Yang Feng and asked, "Brother Hutou, is Brother Guan really in Liangzhou?" ”
On the side, Hu Shi didn't know what to say, and he didn't think it was where he put his hand, Guan Yu had not heard from him for five years as soon as he left, and Hu Shi thought more than once about whether Guan Yu died outside. Now that she suddenly got news from Guan Yu, she was in a mixed mood.
Thousands of days and nights of longing, and thousands of days and nights of resentment.
Yang Feng nodded seriously and said to the Hu family: "If your brother and sister don't believe it, you can ask this horse brother if you don't believe it, and the letter was sent by him." ”
Only then did Hu Shi see the horse playing behind Yang Feng, and hurriedly said: "Thank you Lang Jun for sending the letter thousands of miles away, Changsheng... Is he okay with Changsheng? ”
Ma Yu hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, Brother Guan is very good in Liangzhou, and everyone in the village respects him very much." ”
"It's good to be safe, it's good to be safe..."After pondering for a while, Hu Shi reacted, and hurriedly invited a few people into the house to sit, but when he arrived in the house, he realized that there was no such big place on the couch in the house.
Everyone didn't stay at Guan Yu's house for long, so Ma Yu followed Yang Feng to the wine shop to eat something, along with Xu Huang and Zhang Liao, who had just run around the county, and they came to discuss the route to Xiliang. None of these people had ever been to Xiliang, and after chatting a few words, they began to feel sorry for Guan Yu's years of exile and anxiety about Liangzhou. In the eyes of the Central Plains, the place in Liangzhou is a barbarian land without public security. It's all hearsay, most of the people in the Central Plains who have really been to Xiliang have committed crimes and have been assigned to the border, otherwise who would go there.
It's good, which one of the Central Plains wants to go to that ghost place in Liangzhou to stay?
Yang Feng didn't want to go to Liangzhou either, but Guan Yu wrote a letter from home, and he didn't have any reason to stay in Hedong to enjoy himself. No matter how bitter and cold Liangzhou is, and how chaotic and sad it is, it is not as good as Guan Yu's grievances when he was convicted of murder and went into exile for several years.
The three of them spoke energetically, and the faces of the horses became darker and darker.
Damn, the land of barbarians, does Lao Tzu look like a wild man who has just jumped out of the mountains? Ma Yu now wants to jump up and pout his ass at this Hedong man, telling them not to be afraid, Lao Tzu has no tail.
Yu Guangma listened to everyone with a blank face, and then hurriedly interrupted everyone: "Liangzhou Duolie Horse, maybe you can still let one of you ride a good horse in the past, right, Brother Ma." ”
Ma Yu smiled bitterly and sighed: "Hey, you don't have to worry too much, Liangzhou is indeed worse than here, but it can still survive." ”
Only then did everyone react, when they were talking about how bitter Liangzhou was, there was still such a man who grew up in Beixi Liang. I was embarrassed and didn't say anything anymore.
Yang Feng saw that he was cold, so he asked again: "Brother Ma, it takes thousands of miles from Hedong to Liangzhou Fufeng, how many days can I get there?" ”
Ma Yu said: "I came with the caravan all the way to spend more than a month, if you ride a fast horse and drive a light car, it will take 20 days, the distance is far away, there are too many passes, there will be some delay." ”
Xu Huang was happy when he heard that it had only been ten days, "Eh, Wenyuan, have you heard, Brother Guan is only twenty days away from us, and I always thought that he was thousands of miles away from us." ”
Zhang Liao nodded and didn't say much, but he was also surprised in his heart, looking at the little burn scar on Ma Yu's neck, he frowned and asked, "Brother Guan... How are you doing all these years? ”
Ma Yu shook his head and said: "It's not good, Zhangshan Village, where he only arrived this summer, is said to have been a relationship with San Lang's house to collect skins as an animal skin merchant, Brother Guan didn't tell us about his past experience, but he told San Lang." When drinking, Saburo revealed a few words, Brother Guan has been a pawn and a peddler for several years, and his life is very difficult. ”
Picked up the wine bowl and took a sip, Ma Wan, who always drinks Northland spirits, is not very accustomed to the fine wine of the Central Plains. Although the mellow aftertaste is endless, it lacks the feeling of cutting the throat like a knife in the mouth. frowned and said: "But after all the hardships, Brother Guan is now friendly with the Ma family brothers, especially with San Lang." This time, his wife and children should have settled in Longxian in the past. ”
As soon as Yang Feng heard that he had settled down, he frowned and said, "Yun Chang is still wanted in Hedong now, can he settle down in Liangzhou?" ”
"Of course not in Hedong." Ma Yu waved his hand: "But in Longxian, San Lang found someone to burn the case that the court had sent to Longxian." Brother Guan is white in Longxian County, and he just needs to get a new household registration at that time. ”
Yang Feng clapped his hands and said, "This San Lang is really good." ”
Xu Huang and Zhang Liao didn't know who San Lang was, so Xu Huang asked, "Brother Ma, who is this San Lang?" ”
The horse smiled, took out the flute on his waist and pointed to the west and said, "San Lang is the third in the family, and he is just twelve this year." The two elder brothers of the Ma family are all in our robes, and they are very popular with us to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds. San Lang is younger than us but very sensible, we went to the north of Xinjiang to enlist, the family sister-in-law and sister-in-law rely on him to take care of, he carried an ax into the mountains to chop wood, met a wolf slaughtered the wolf and brought home. It was the skin of this wolf that made him know Brother Guan. ”
Zhang Liao took his elbow to Yang Feng and said, "Yang Huzi, did you kill a wolf when you were twelve years old?" ”
Yang Fengzheng listened attentively, and was about to say Guan Yu, but suddenly Zhang Liao was elbowed and said angrily: "I can't, then you can?" ”
Zhang Liao originally wanted to see Yang Feng's jokes, but after hearing him say this, he pondered and whispered: "Even if I can fight the wolf, I will have to die half to death." ”
The horse had fun, and he liked the word half-dead. said: "San Lang is similar, when Brother Guan went to the house, he was paralyzed and lay at home for a month. Brother Guan said that the money to buy the skin was not enough, and said that he would buy it again after taking the money, so San Lang asked him to take the skin without blinking, and sold the money back to him. When Brother Guan came back, he was escorted by the official to return the skin, and San Lang paid to bail him out. Later, Brother Guan had nothing to teach San Lang martial arts riding at home, and settled down in Zhangshan Village. The Mid-Autumn Festival wrote a letter to the family and asked Brother Ma to find someone to send it, and I saw that Brother Guan took care of San Lang, so I took it and sent the letter. ”
In this era, it is more difficult for people to come and go from different places, and the traffic is not developed enough, and it is inconvenient to communicate between a state, not to mention that Liangzhou and Sili Road are thousands of miles away, so it has also developed new friends who know other places and like to chat and chat about some things in different places.
A few people drank like this, exchanged their experiences with each other, and at night, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang went to Xu Huang's house to rest, and Ma Play followed Yang Feng to his house to rest. On the second day, Yang Feng woke up and went to borrow a horse to find someone, Xu Huang helped Hu clean up his belongings, Zhang Liao rode back to Anyi to say goodbye to his parents, and his parents were still alive among several people.
On the third day of the horse play to the east of the river, everyone set off. Guan Yu didn't have anything to take at home, except for a few calligraphy and paintings on his ancestors, the rest were clothes or something, and a wooden box was packed in the whole house. Yang Feng borrowed four inferior horses and a carriage, and the group of seven people left Xie County and embarked on the road to Liangzhou.
Of course, Ma Yu did not forget to go to Uncle Zhang to buy a dozen mung bean cakes. Everyone rode fast and lightly all the way, and Zhang Liao took the wolf with three fine iron swords tied to him. Xu Huang immediately carried a short axe. Yang Feng tied his cherished twenty-refining long knife tightly behind his back with hemp rope. And Ma Yu carried a package of mung bean cakes that Guan Yu never forgot, took Guan Yu's wife and children who were haunted by his dreams, and returned to Liangzhou with a strange tune made up by himself.
There is no shortage of heroes and chivalry in this era, and individual heroism is so strong that it is almost crazy. Just like a horse playing, just because of admiration, you can leap a thousand miles and send a family letter. For example, Yang Feng was escorted by a thousand miles of joy when he saw a familiar font because of a grievance a few years ago. This is the best of times, just like the roses blooming in the field, it is difficult to control the desire, and you can eat it all with four taels of old wine and swallow it all summer.