Chapter 49: Gathering (1)
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At this moment, a young man with a pale face squeezed through the crowd, glanced at the two officials and did not speak, but put a small piece of broken silver in his hand into the hand of one of them, and walked inward without looking back.
After taking the silver, the local official immediately showed a hint of joy on his face and said: "Have you seen it, this time the county government is recruiting young talents, and they will enter our righteous army to take on important responsibilities, that young man is actually willing to pay a few dollars and silver to obtain the qualification for entry, everyone hurry up!" ”
At this moment, several more officials came in from the crowd, and without saying a word, they took off the hats of the two officials guarding the door, and pressed them to the ground and tied them with iron chains.
One of the officials said with a cold face: "These two officials took bribes on the occasion of recruiting talents in this county, and immediately took them down and put them in prison to wait for their fate. ”
"Li Bantou, what's wrong? We're just getting a little money to spend, so we don't have to be so serious, right? ”
"Yes! Li Bantou, since the rebel army entered the city, we have run out of oil and water, and finally got this opportunity, thinking about collecting some money and distributing it to everyone, you can't do this and us! ”
The two officials immediately looked extremely aggrieved and said, they didn't understand why Li Bantou, who was the most greedy for money before, did this to them.
Li Bantou said with even more anger on his face: "Lord County Cheng just saw you and others behave like this, and now you are to blame for taking you down!" As a person in the government, you should be the master of the people, and you can't do evil in the Yuan court like you did in the past! Escort them back to the county office, and the head of the team will personally select talents here. ”
As a result, the two officials who were chained to the iron chain were immediately speechless, and the county lord saw them ask for money from the onlookers, and with the temper of the county lord, he would definitely be punished severely, and if he talked nonsense again, he would definitely be punished more severely, so he was escorted out of the crowd by several officials.
The hundreds of teenagers who were watching outside the inn suddenly applauded together at this time, all with convincing smiles on their faces, and many teenagers were still looking around at the possible location of the county lord, but they found nothing.
"Okay, please sign up in order, we will arrange a group of ten people to enter the inn to meet Lord Wei and conduct a written test!" Li Bantou said with a serious face, but he reminded himself that he could no longer secretly search for oil and water in the future, otherwise if the position of team leader was lost, the livelihood of more than ten people in the family would not be able to be maintained.
The teenagers gathered outside immediately cheered and jumped for joy, and consciously lined up in line, waiting to enter the inn to be received by Wei Bi in batches.
At this time, Wei Bi was seeing the sixth batch of teenagers in a group of ten people, and twenty of the five groups of teenagers who had entered earlier were qualified, and Wei Bi felt very satisfied.
"Please sit on the seats in front of you, and write down your life within the limit of a pillar of incense, and I will be sure whether to hire or not after watching it later!" Wei Bi deeply admired Shang Yu's topic.
Literacy and whether the net worth is innocent can be seen from the written life of the young people, and the strong physique can be known from the writing, plus visual inspection, and then compared with the county's population book, you can finally determine the selected talents, which is the method of selecting people dictated by Shang Yu to Wei Bi.
"Yes, Lord Wei!" Seeing that the young Wei Bi, who was almost the same age as them, was sitting in the main examination position, the ten teenagers said respectfully, and then sat down one after another.
Wei Bi raised his eyes but suddenly saw a familiar yellow-faced young man, he was slightly stunned but said again: "Then please write as soon as possible, brothers, we will probably work together in the future." ”
He didn't know about the two officials outside receiving money, but the yellow-faced young man was Shang Yu's attendant Mu Thirteen in the county government, but he didn't know how this Mu Thirteen would come to apply, although Wei Bi was a little strange, but he could only ask afterwards.
In a short time, the ten teenagers finished writing on rice paper, all with a hint of confidence on their faces, and a servant stepped forward to collect them and handed them to Wei Bi.
After Wei Bi looked at it, he couldn't help but nod again and again, most of these ten teenagers are natives of Lai'an County, and their net worth is also innocent, and they can be included in the hundreds of people after they are confirmed against the population register.
But after turning to the last piece of rice paper with his life written on it, Wei Bi raised his head and said with questions: "Lu Yuan, you said that you are from Sichuan, how could you leave your hometown and run to my Lai'an County?" ”
I saw a young man with a pale face standing up and saying: "Lord Wei, my parents are from Sichuan, not long ago I separated from my parents and took a boat down the river to Lai'an. ”
"What is your specialty? Can you give Wei a demonstration? Seeing that the young man's face was pale, his voice was still slightly sharp, and his body was a little weak, Wei Bi couldn't help frowning and asked.
Sichuan is thousands of miles away from Lai'an, how can we prove that what he said is true? If it is said that it is a young fine work sent to Chuzhou by the Yuan Court, it is not like it, but it seems that he is extremely weak, but how can he be included? It was only when he heard him talk about his experience that Wei Bi felt a little pitiful, and then he thought about what he was good at.
The pale-faced young man Lu Yuan smiled slightly and said, "In addition to writing, I also know some light body kung fu!" Do you need me to demonstrate on the spot? ”
"Light body kung fu? Okay, then let's ask this Lu brother to demonstrate. Wei Bi said a little excitedly at this time.
Many generals in the righteous army were born in the grassy army, and they all had extremely strong martial arts, among which there were many masters of light skills, so they heard that this young man would get light skills, but Wei Bi had to pay attention to it.
"Good! Then I'll give it a try. Lu Yuan smiled and bowed lightly to Wei Bi, got up and walked to the corner of the courtyard, observing the height of the courtyard wall.
The wall of the inn was about a foot high, and Wei Bi couldn't help but be a little worried when he looked at Lu Yuan, could such a little boy jump to such a high place?
Among the ten teenagers, his face turned yellow, and Mu Thirteen was about to exhale in surprise, because he had already recognized who this Lu Yuan was.
However, a window on the second floor of the inn was opening outward, and a man dressed as a Confucian was looking curiously at Lu Yuan, who was about to jump by the wall.
I saw Lu Yuan take a deep breath, gently raise his feet, and then take off and climb the wall, during which his movements were like flowing clouds and water, without the slightest breath of fireworks, which seemed extremely smooth.
"Good! There is such a light body kung fu. Brother Lu Yuan, you have been hired exceptionally! Come down quickly, it won't be nice to let the people in the city look at it for a long time! Wei Bi immediately stood up in surprise and said, he really likes Lu Yuan's excellent light body kung fu, and if such a person joins the army, it will definitely be of great use.
Lu Yuan smiled slightly: "Thank you, Lord Wei!" As he spoke, he jumped down, landed without making a sound, and after saluting Wei Bi, he walked back to his seat among the young men and sat down again.
"If there are any other young heroes who have other specialties, they can also try it here!" Wei Bi asked happily, if he could select a few more young people with expertise, it would not only become an excellent help for his future secret soldiers, but also show Shang Yu his ability to recognize people.
"What is he jumping up for? My brothers and I were able to tear down the wall with our bare hands, and in a very short time. The younger brother of the Roche brothers immediately stood up and said loudly.
Wei Bi was stunned when he heard this, the walls of the Fuze Inn were made of bluestone, and the words of the Luo brothers said that they were extremely powerful and could be demolished by hand.
"You don't have to tear down the wall, you just need to lift the stone lock on my side to pass the level." Wei Bi reacted later, pointed to the land taken from the east school yard next to the table, which was a stone lock with five hundred catties of ground and said.
This stone lock is the larger of the three taken from the school field, and originally I just thought that I might meet a powerful earth boy, but I didn't expect that there would really be a boy like the Luo brothers to apply.
After hearing Wei Bidi's words, both of the Luo brothers stood up, and one of the brothers said after saluting Wei Bi: "I am Luo Hu, and my younger brother is Luo Bao!" Our brother has made a fool of himself. ”
Glancing at his younger brother as he spoke, Luo Leopard, who spoke first, walked towards the stone lock next to Wei Bi's table.
Everyone looked at the tall Luo brothers, muttering in their hearts if they were capable of lifting the stone lock.
Only on the second floor of the inn was that the person dressed as a Confucian suddenly jumped down from the window, looked at Lu Yuan who was in the middle of the young man in mid-air and shouted: "Xiao Wan! ”
Lu Yuan raised his pale face to look at the man dressed as a Confucian student, but he was taken aback, and his figure jumped up more than two feet in a flash, wanting to press the man who fell from mid-air.
"Xianggong, is it really you?" Lu Yuan's hand had already touched the placket of the Confucian student's clothes at this time, and he also trembled and whispered these words.
And at this moment, the figure dressed as a Confucian suddenly paused in mid-air, took Lu Yuan into his arms, and the two of them did not fall in mid-air but rose up, and returned to the inn window, all of which made people feel very weird.
At this time, Luo Bao was effortlessly lifting the stone lock weighing five hundred catties, and threw it at Luo Hu with a smile, while Luo Hu stared at the Confucian dressed man and Lu Yuan, and muttered: "There are really people in this world who are Longyang, and they actually let our brothers see it." ”
As he spoke, the stone lock had already arrived beside him, and Luo Hu didn't look at it at this time, and reached out to take the stone lock in his hand, and then said to Wei Bi: "Lord Wei, although that Lu Yuan can get light kung fu, but he is a person from Longyang, not as good as us, if you hire our two brothers to join the army, it should be more useful." ”
Wei Bi was also shocked and inexplicable, that Lu Yuan had just jumped on the top of the high ground wall, which had already surprised him a lot, and he didn't know that Lu Yuan was Lu Wan's Confucian from the outside, but listening to that voice was clearly Shang Yu, and from that conversation, this Lu Yuan turned out to be Shang Yu's lost wife Lu Wan.
Before Wei Bi's surprise in his heart passed, he saw Shang Yu and Lu Wan suddenly drift back into the inn window from falling into the air, and thought to himself: "Could it be that Brother Shang's wife's light body kung fu is actually so high?" Then why do you have to mess around with me when it's time to select talents? ”
Hearing Luo Hu's question, did he reply? "The Roche brothers were also selected, which other brother has expertise?" For the strength of the Roche brothers, he also felt that he could be admitted.
I only heard Mu 13 stand up and say: "I don't know how to light up my body, and I don't have the strength of the Luo brothers, but I am good at managing things. "Mu Thirteen was originally instructed by Shang Yu to join the secret army and serve as a military position in the quartermaster accounting area.
Mu 13 was Kuding in the Lu Mansion, and he handled most of the inventory and supply of hundreds of items in the house, and Shang Yu had ordered him to practice the arithmetic he taught him in the yamen for several months, although he was not very skilled, but it was more than enough to manage military supplies.
At this time, the window on the second floor of the inn was closed, and Shang Yu was hugging and crying with Lu Wan, ignoring what was happening outside.
"Xiao Wan! It's really you, I didn't expect you to come so soon, and you can learn such good light body kung fu. Shang Yu said with a cry of surprise, stroking Lu Wandi's hair with his hand, a little unable to believe that meeting Lu Wan at this time was real.
"Xianggong! Dead thief, dead wood fish! You're really alive and you're a petty officer. Lu Wan cried and suddenly pushed Shang Yu away, avoided him from his arms, and said with a flushed face and lightly struck his chest with his fist.
"Xiao Wan! I'm really alive, otherwise how could I send someone to deliver a letter to you. Shang Yu smelled the familiar aroma wafting into his nose, and said with a sour feeling in his heart.
The feeling of loss and recovery rose in the hearts of the two at the same time, and the two stared at each other silently, although they had not seen each other for several months, but from each other's eyes, they could see the feelings of missing each other at the same time, and a warm feeling lingered in the hearts of the two.
After a long time, Shang Yu began to tell all the things that had happened in this place, Lu Wan just listened silently with tears, but his hands were always shaking hands with Shang Yu and refusing to let go.
When he heard that Shang Yu was almost poisoned in the water prison, he couldn't help screaming in fright, and when he heard that Shang Yu was actually the actual parent official of Lai'an County, he was a little relieved.
But Shang Yu remembered Li Yanhong at this time, and immediately said, "That's right, Xiao Wan!" Your mother came to the county government yesterday, and I almost forgot about it, so I'll take you to your mother now. It's just that she didn't dare to say anything about Li Yanhong's injury, and it might be better to let her know after seeing Li Yanhong, so as not to keep asking questions on the road, even Shang Yu didn't know who Li Yanhong's enemy was this time, so he simply didn't say it.
"What? My mother is in the county government now? Then take me to her. Lu Wan said with a happy but somewhat sad face after hearing this, and pulled Shang Yu and walked towards the door.