"Yo he!" After a moment of silence, Gu Dexin suddenly became interested, "I can't see that you still have such a means!" You noble sons and brothers, do everything you can to hurt the heavens and reason. Tell me to this official, do you oppress the good and hurt people to death, or do you force adultery and kill people? ”

When Gu Dexin's pro-soldiers heard this, they immediately leaned back and fell back with laughter, and said one after another:

"Brother Gu, how old is this kid? Do you know what 'adultery' is? ”

"Ergouzi, then you can do good deeds and teach him how to rape!"

These people humiliated themselves so lightly, Li Tong was not angry, he said calmly: "Ladies and gentlemen, don't guess. Li Tong is not a noble son, although my Pingyang Li family is also from the Li family in Longxi, but the ancestor has a low status in the clan, and he has long been self-reliant, and has nothing to do with the Li clan. In Pingyang City, my Li family is just a grass-headed common man who runs a medical center. Li has never bullied the good, I killed Pingyang Haoqiang, who framed my father and ruined my family, I killed people in order to avenge my father! What's wrong? ”

He said this with a straight and bold attitude, standing in the curtain at a young age, as straight as the abyss stopping the mountain, his expression was awe-inspiring and inviolable. Everyone in the audience was moved. Gu Dexin and the sergeants glanced at each other and asked indifferently: "Who did you kill and how did you kill it, let's listen carefully." ”

At this time, Li Tong's forehead was slightly swollen, and he looked at the bonfire in the tent in a daze. The dark red light of the fire divided his face into light and dark, and he looked up, his eyes red, his expression first angry, then sad, and finally calm and relieved. After a long time, everyone listened to him slowly explain the reason for his killing:

The ancestor of Li Tongjia was originally the concubine of Li Kang, the marquis of the Li clan in Longxi, and after the great-grandfather Li Kang was killed by Huo Quai, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gave his descendants corresponding compensation. However, Li Wen's grandfather, Li Wei, was expelled from the Li family by the big house and exiled to Pingyang City due to his humble status and his half-brothers. His grandfather, Li Wei, relied on his superb medical skills to gain a foothold in the local area, and got married and had children in Binh Duong. After his grandfather passed away, Li Tong's father, Li Nian, inherited his grandfather's mantle and became a famous local doctor. He married his wife Tian, because of the thin people, the Li family can be said to be alone in Pingyang.

There is a powerful bully named Zhang Cheng in Pingyang, who looks powerful and powerful. Zhang Wei is a butcher in Dongshi, because his sister married Zuo as a concubine in Pingyang County, and he is quite favored. Under the care of the county leader, Zhang Cheng gradually monopolized the Pingyang meat market and became a tyrant in Pingyang.

Originally, the Li family and the Zhang family did not intersect, and they were safe. But a fortuitous incident made the Li family and the Zhang family grudge. The ins and outs of the matter are as follows: Pingyang County is over forty years old but has never had children, but Zhang Cheng's sister Zhang added a boy to him after marrying, which made Zhang's status in the county Zuo family soar. At the beginning of this year, the ten-year-old boy of the county Zuojia had a serious illness, and asked Li Nian to go for diagnosis and treatment, but due to the seriousness of the condition, he still died.

The county is heartbroken by the loss of his beloved son. And after the Zhang family lost his son, the county Zuo Zheng's wife, who had been oppressed by the Zhang family over the years, took the opportunity to fall into the well and took out the style of being the eldest wife of the family, so Zhang's position in the family was in jeopardy. In order to consolidate his favor, the Zhang family asked his brother Zhang Cheng to spread rumors outside, saying that the cause of the child's death was caused by Li Nian's improper medication, in an attempt to blame others. Zhang Cheng was instructed by his sister to lead his minions to the Li Family Hospital many times to make trouble. Zhang was not idle, and kept blowing the pillow wind.

This county Zuo listened to slander, and this is why there is an unjust case of the Li family. In prison, Li Nianqu made a trick and died in prison in grief and anger. Zhang Cheng still did not spare the door to bully Li Tong's widowed mother, and Tian was unwilling to be humiliated and committed suicide. In May this year, Li Tong, who had returned from studying art abroad, was shocked to hear the bad news, and after learning the truth in a sad way, he was furious. After he buried his parents in tears, with his superb martial arts, he killed Zhang Cheng's family and injured the county Zuo, so he took revenge and had what happened now......

The wind and snow outside the tent seemed to be bigger, the wind swept the sand, hit the felt tent, "crackling" sound, Li Tong told the story, everyone in the tent listened to this thrilling past, all of them were awe-inspiring, until Li Tong finished speaking, they were still concentrating, silently thinking about their hearts, but no one spoke. For a long time, Gu Dexin sighed: "Drinking wine in a bottle and cutting off the enemy's head are the two great pleasures in life!" Well done, little brother! Do you dare to drink? As he spoke, he threw a wine bag beside him at Li Tong.

Li Tong caught it with one hand and said arrogantly: "What's so terrible about drinking! Xie Guhou gives wine! Raising his head, he poured a big mouthful. This is a mare's milk wine made outside the Saiwai, which is not as good as the Central Plains, but the wine is stronger and the taste is not very good. After Li Tong took a big sip, he felt a warmth flowing into his stomach, and a hot breath rushed to the top of his head, and praised: "Good wine!" Gu Dexin laughed and said: "This mare's milk wine is not good, but it is most suitable for the use of the Saiwai Rong soldiers in winter to keep out the cold, and the temperament is the most fierce, I can't imagine that Brother Li is so arrogant at a young age." Come, come and sit down and talk. ”

Seeing Li Tong's strong martial arts and daring to kill the powerful and corrupt officials who oppressed the good and the corrupt officials, they couldn't help but admire them wholeheartedly.

Hou Chang Gu Dexin personally poured wine for Li Tong, and he was full, and then raised his eyebrows, drank it all, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, patted Li Tong's shoulder and said loudly: "Brother Li, Gu seems to have really misunderstood you, thinking that you are from the Li family in Longxi, and you are a young man in Pingyang, killed someone, and went to Rongbian in the Western Regions to save your life. This glass of wine just now is a gift to you! ”

Li Tong was a little confused when he saw this person. He said a few words of humility on his face, but he was thinking in his heart: "That Gu Dexin asked me to come here without knowing what his intentions were, is it just to inquire about the background of a certain family?" Why do these nearly 1,000 prisoners only ask me? Also, he said earlier that I have a very hard backer, so what backing do I have...... Unless...... Unless it's my master, but my master is just a hermit, can he have so much energy? He was puzzled, but he couldn't open his mouth to ask.

I only heard Gu Dexing ask: "Brother Li, your fists and feet are very good, especially the sharp and weird legs, and you can kick that Hu Laosan with his back facing the sky, is this kind of kung fu a family of the Li family in Longxi?" I didn't expect the hand-fighting skills handed down by General Li Guang to be so powerful, what an eye-opener! Li Tong was amused when he heard this, he couldn't explain that this was the fierce actual combat Muay Thai in later generations, he smiled and said: "I practiced indiscriminately, but it was just some three-legged cat style, and I couldn't see the world." ”

Gu Dexin said disappreciatively: "No matter what the trick is, as long as you can defeat the enemy, it is a good trick." Your ancestor, General Li Guang, has never been instructed by a master, and his invincible ability in the world is really killed on the battlefield. Hehe, Hu Laosan of the dog day, the remnant of the Huns' slavery, only knows the fish and meat in the countryside on weekdays, bullying the lonely and weak, and actually wants to emulate General Li for a hundred generations, I bah, he also deserves it! ”

Li Tong saw that he mentioned Hu Laosan again and again, and he was a little strange, so he asked: "Chief Hou, you said that Hu Laosan took the initiative to ask to go to Rongbian, is this true?" Goodheart glared and said, "Of course it's true!" I have a relative who lives in Maoling and once told me about this person. In Maoling, when Hu Laosan is mentioned, everyone is discolored, and he can be regarded as a real notoriety. This guy's ancestor was the guard of the Xiongnu prince Jin Riyan, and he was a surrendered Hun man. After the fall of the cavalry general Jin Ilyan, his Hu family also fell into ruins. In the past, Hu Laosan was just a strong and tyrannical skin, but in the past two years, he has made a windfall by buying and selling, and Hu Laosan has become more and more popular. also accepted hundreds of apprentices to work for him. is an out-and-out Maoling tyrant, and even the Maoling County Order doesn't dare to mess with him. ”

Li Tong frowned and said: "Gu Hou Chang, I have only heard that thieves are afraid of officials since ancient times, and they are so big, I have never heard of officials who are afraid of thieves!" There are county lieutenants under the order of Maoling County, and there are soldiers under the county lieutenants, so can't the soldiers in the yamen be no match for this Hu Laosan's apprentice? ”

Gu Dexin drank too much, his swarthy face was drenched in hot sweat, and he had no scruples about speaking at the moment. I only heard him say coldly: "Hehe, if you really want to arrest him, how can there be any reason why you can't catch him." The most afraid is that there is no distinction between officials and thieves! Isn't the county Zuo who bullied your Li family also an official? What is the difference between a butcher and a thief? The Maoling County Order must have received the benefits of this Hu Laosan on weekdays, and he took other people's short hands, so naturally he didn't dare to take care of him, not to mention that this kid caught up with Lu'an Hou Liangsong, and there were some unclear relatives, with this big backer, no one dared to touch him. ”

Speaking of this, he sighed and scolded: "His grandmother's, I waited on the side plug to climb the ice and snow, slept in the open air, and bled desperately for the Han Empire, and all I got was the case of corrupt officials and heroes. Those bastards violated the criminal law, violated the king's law, pretended to be public and private, and invaded the people to enrich themselves, but they were safe and sound, and they were happy every day. It's disheartening to think about. That Pingyang County Zuo was just unlucky, and he met a hero like you, Brother Li, with unique skills. If ordinary people are bullied, how many people dare to raise their swords and kill them in the city! ”

When Li Tong heard this, his heart sank, and he thought: "What's special, it's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, if I had known that this Hu Laosan had such a deep background in the morning, I might not have dared to kick him." Whoever has offended him to death today will be in trouble in the future. It is important to be more careful with this person in the future. Impulsiveness is the devil! Lao Tzu inexplicably crossed into this time and space, and as soon as he came, he made a strong enemy for himself, easy to dodge with open guns, and difficult to defend against hidden arrows, so he had to be cautious in the future. Forget it, I've done everything, I'm afraid it's a ball! Now that he is going back to the Western Regions, three generations of his family have lived in the Xinjiang Construction Corps for sixty or seventy years, and the mountains and rivers there are extremely familiar. With this prescient advantage, how can you start your own business over there? Bear with it first......" He was thinking about it with a lot of thoughts, when he suddenly heard a burst of laughter in the audience, and he didn't know what Gu Dexin said, which caused everyone to be so happy.

A sergeant who lived next to Li Tong asked: "About this Liu'anhou may not know that Hu Laosan is so rampant below, and besides, they are not real relatives, if Maoling County really moves this Hu Laosan, Liu'anhou will not be able to stand up for him!" ”

Goodixin snorted and said, "You know a fart! If a person becomes an official, he will only hide from things that are not beneficial, and he will not take care of them. Moving Hu Laosan is indeed good for the people of Maoling, and for him, the county order, in addition to cutting off his own financial route, there is a fart benefit? Of course, Liu'anhou will not stand up for him openly, because it is not worth it. But I can't guarantee that this Liu'anhou will think in his heart: 'The county magistrate of this dog day dared to touch him even because he knew that Hu Laosan was related to me, and he didn't take me seriously at all!' With such a thought, I will rectify it when I have the opportunity, and this Maoling County Order will not be able to eat and walk around. People who mix in officialdom are more accountable for gains and losses, the common people give word of mouth, and the officials give black yarn, whichever is less, the county order is naturally willing to offend the people rather than offend the officials. ”

Everyone couldn't help but nod their heads in agreement. The sergeant said again: "Chief Hou, according to what you said, this Hu Laosan's position should be very stable, how could he fall into such a field of exile?" ”

Gu Dexin was not in a hurry to explain, first smacked the wine, and then added firewood to the bonfire, but everyone looked at him with eager eyes, and then said slowly: "This person, I am most afraid of getting carried away." Hu Laosan is indeed just a gangster, but he regards himself as the emperor of Maoling City, thinking that he can do whatever he wants, and anyone can bully. This man has just forgotten his duty, and sooner or later something bad will happen! He is a character in Maoling, once he is placed in this world, he is a fart! Two years ago, the hussar general Dongping Wang inspected Hedong, and there was an entourage under Dongping King who went back to Maoling to visit relatives, and he met Hu Laosan in the East Market Market, when this guy was taking his apprentice to collect taxes and fees from door to door. In addition to paying the taxes of the imperial court, the merchants of this Maoling also have to pay another tax called Ping'an to Hu Laosan, and if you pay this tax, if you encounter any trouble in the future, only Hu Laosan will stand up for you. It is said that the imperial court collects more money and manages less things, but this Hu Laosan collects less money and manages more things, so this guy's business is prosperous, and this one alone earns about 5 million yuan every year. It happened that on this day, Hu Laosan met a new merchant who did not pay the safety tax, so he emptied all the things in his shop, and with Hu Laosan's temperament, this is also the lightest punishment. However, this merchant didn't know how powerful he was, and he happened to be a relative of this entourage of King Anping, and the entourage couldn't get used to it, so the two sides argued. Hu Laosan was used to being powerful in Maoling, and where could he bear it, he let his apprentices beat this entourage and beat him to death. It's a big deal! The Maoling County Commander couldn't hold it back, so he had to show the few people who beat people to the public. Hu Laosan went bankrupt and went away, was exempted from the death penalty, and was punished as a city dan. It's interesting to say, this Hu Laosan is also at ease in Maoling as a city dan, and the officials in the county government are all raised and fed by him with money, who can let him work? This guy is still eating and drinking spicy food and being his uncle in Maoling, but he has changed places. After the sentence is over, he is still the No. 1 splash here, and he can still turn the clouds and rain in Maoling. Who would have thought that Hu Laosan might be tired of being a splasher, and felt that no matter how big the splash skin was, it was not as good as being an official. So he asked for a way to Rongbian, planning to make a great name for his wife and son on the battlefield. You say it's ridiculous, but he actually let him do it. ”

Speaking of this, Gu Dexin glanced at Li Tong with a strange expression, moved his gaze to the bonfire casually, and said meaningfully: "Xubian is a heavy punishment of one degree of commutation. Hu Laosan actually dared to have a city and not do it, and he had to spend money to increase his punishment, which is also a strange story. But then again, if someone takes care of them in the army, maybe they can come back to life. ”

Li Tong saw his eyes and heard the meaning of his words. This guy is looking for his own details. Li Tong can also see that someone must have greeted him and asked him to take care of himself. To be honest, he didn't know who was going to help him at the moment. It is impossible for the Li clan in Longxi, the two sides have already cut off contact, and searched their own memories, except for their own masters, there are no great characters in the memories of his original deity. This is strange, he is confused, so he has to keep silent. His style made Gu Dexin mistaken, and he felt that Li Tong had a deep background and was unpredictable, and he didn't dare to underestimate him.

Back to his tent, the campfire in the tent was about to burn out, and the cold was blowing. Wan Fu sat by the fire and dozed off and waited for him, while the other prisoners were huddled on the haystack, salivating and snoring like thunder, and they slept like dead people. Li Tong wrapped the cotton clothes on his body tightly, yawned, added some firewood, and said to the nervous Wanfu: "Little Liuzi, it's almost dawn, sleep for a while, and you'll have to hurry when it's dawn!" ”

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After more than a month of arduous trekking in the wind and snow, eating and sleeping in the open air, starving and cold, and 91 prisoners died one after another. At the beginning of the sixteenth year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (73 AD), the remaining more than 800 prisoners arrived in Dunhuang, and the team finally stopped here to repair. At this time, Dunhuang was still a large oasis, although Buddhism had been introduced to China, but the Thousand Buddha Caves in Mogao Grottoes would not come out for hundreds of years.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the Xiongnu, who were dominant in the north of the desert, rose up, defeated the Yueshi and occupied Dunhuang. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, after the war against the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu were forced to "follow far away", and the Hexi region was included in the territory of the Han Dynasty; In the sixth year of Yuan Ding (111 years ago), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up Dunhuang County, which means "Dun, Daye, Huang, Shengye", which is one of the four counties in Hexi. Since Zhang Qian's trip to the Western Regions, the far-reaching Silk Road has been opened. The new era was once renamed Dunde. When Wang Mang was in power, Dou Rong served as the crossbow general Sima and participated in the suppression of Qu Yi and Zhao Ming's uprisings. In the last years of Xinmang, he accompanied Wang Kuang to suppress the Green Forest and Red Mei Army, and worshiped General Boshui. Later, he was attributed to Liu Xuan and was awarded the title of Lieutenant of Zhangye's subordinate state. After Liu Xuan's death, he was promoted to the military of the five counties of Hexi, and protected himself according to the northwest. After Liu Xiu became emperor, Dou Rong decided to return to the Han Dynasty, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was established and renamed Dunhuang County.

After Dou Rong returned to the Han Dynasty, the imperial court's painstaking management of the five counties in Hexi led to the emergence of social stability, "the warehouse is saved, the people are rich" and "the soldiers and horses are strong". Since the Northern Xiongnu controlled the Western Regions, Dunhuang County was responsible for defending against Xiongnu attacks. During this period, Dunhuang's economic development and status improved, and the deputy lieutenant in charge of the affairs of the Western Regions was stationed in Dunhuang, which became the military and political center of the Han Empire to govern the Western Regions.

When Gu Dexin and others arrived in Dunhuang, it was already late, a round of red sun slowly fell west according to the tall corner tower on the Dunhuang city gate, and ten thousand golden lights burst out from the gap in the arch of the corner tower, illuminating a brilliant all around.

Li Tong and Wanfu came to this side of the town for the first time, everything was surprised, not to mention the hard work along the way, more than two months for everyone to endure the hardships, today finally arrived at the westernmost military town of the five counties in Hexi, the joy in Wanfu's heart is self-evident. Even the vast desert outside the city seemed to him to be vast and desolate.

Of all the prisoners, only Li Tong knew that a more difficult road was yet to come. Dunhuang to the west seventy miles is the Yangguan, out of the Yangguan, out of the Yangguan, along the north foot of the Altun Mountain westward, through the Altun Mountain in front of the hundreds of miles of quicksand, the Gobi zone will enter the Western Regions. Then along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, the oasis gradually appeared to the west, which shows that it is not far after the west out of Yangguan, that is, it is a thousand miles of uninhabited land. The march along the way will be the real test for the prisoners.

All the prisoners will be gathered in a military camp for reorganization, the prisoners will be removed from the torture equipment, reorganized, part of them will become the garrison of the beacon outside Yangguan, and some of them will become the soldiers who go to the tuntian in various parts of the Western Regions, the Sifu who guards the east gate of Dunhuang City is a big fat man, and the fat all over his body trembles when he walks, he is very familiar with Gu Dexin, and when he saw it from afar, he laughed and stepped over, scolded and said: "Old Gu of the dog day, how did you come back, did you miss Lao Tzu and me?" ”

Gu Dexin also pretended to be surprised and shouted: "Oh, it turned out to be Liu Qifu, I don't think about tea and dinner every day along the way, I just think about you, why don't you die like an old boy!" Hehe, if your old boy dies, I can take over my sister-in-law! When everyone heard him fight, they couldn't help but hide their mouths and snicker.

The husband surnamed Liu was not angry, and still said with a smile: "Lao Gu of the dog day, you can't spit out ivory in your fucking dog's mouth, and there are no good words all day long." Let's not talk about it, let's get down to business first. He waved his hand from the sergeants on either side and said, "All right! Don't be stunned, count the number of people entering the city. ”

Gu Dexin handed over the pass to the city gate official Liu Qifu, and boasted triumphantly: "There are eight hundred and twenty-one people in total, and less than 100 people died in the wind and snow. Brother, I've done a great job. When the reward money comes down, Lao Tzu invites you to drink. ”

Liu Qifu glanced at Gu Dexin and replied: "Old Gu, don't be beautiful first, your leisurely days in Dunhuang are coming to an end." Let me tell you, the new lieutenant of the Western Regions is not a good talker. You've been in trouble for almost half a year. On weekdays, no one takes care of you, and you sleep until three poles a day, and sometimes you don't go to patrol, but your ability is broken. Not now! This lieutenant is a great character, so you should be careful. In the future, when you are beaten to the board and cry your father and mother, don't blame the brother for not reminding you! ”

Gu Dexin let out an "oh", with a look of concern on his face, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Liu, who is the newly appointed deputy lieutenant of the Western Regions?" ”

Liu Qifu leaned his head over and said in a low voice: "I don't know, I have a lot of background, I am in my forties, I am polite and polite, and I seem to be able to write and martial arts." By the way, I heard that his name is Ban Chao. ”

"Ban Chao!"

Goodixin looked confused.

(To be continued)