Chapter 649: The Hanged Scholar
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then jumped up and shouted: "Oh no, Dashuai was abducted, chase him back!" It would be terrible if he was humped to the Rakshasa country by the four dislikes! One by one, they immediately turned over and chased after them, during which some people couldn't help laughing, but they didn't expect the wise and martial generalissimo Zhang Xiaowu, a ghost general who killed like hemp, and today the horse lost its front hooves and was abducted by the elk and ran away.
In fact, elk don't run as fast as horses, but when they run on the snow in winter, elk have more flesh than horses and are more resistant to frost.
Zhang Xiaowu shouted "Huhuhu", but unfortunately this elk from Rakshasa could not understand Chinese, only understood Rakshasa language, and did not know how to stop, so it ran faster and faster.
An An didn't know why, but thought that Grandpa was holding her and riding a horse like usual, and shouted excitedly: "Drive!" Drive! Drive! Zhang Xiaowu couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, and secretly said that he was careless and reckless. He clutched the saddle on the elk's back, ready to find a floppy snowdrift to jump on, while protecting An An from hurting the little one. Unfortunately, however, there was a gravel all around, and the pointed stones exposed to the snow looked so scary that if you jumped like this, half your life would be gone.
But the elk ran for a while, and probably found himself too tired, so he slowly slowed down, and then walked slowly, and his strange temper was very much like that of a Rakshasa man. After Zhang Xiaowu took the reins, the elk stopped, and he jumped down and sat aside with the rope. The elk didn't hurt anyone, but was dressed roughly, and then lay down on the ground to rest, not repenting at all for the mistake he had just committed.
"Do you think you're pretty good?" Zhang Xiaowu said angrily, "I'm scared to death, do you know?" ”
An An happily ran over and touched the elk's belly and shouted, "Warm, ease." The elk probably liked this child very much, and after sneezing, he continued to lie down, lazily like Uncle Ge You. Perhaps for animals, children can bring them a sense of security, just as humans see kittens, dogs, tigers, and foxes, and animals have a natural love for their young.
Zhang Xiaowu was worried that the beast would hurt An An, but fortunately, the elk enjoyed the touch of An An's little hand very much, and Zhang Xiaowu scolded in his heart: "Little beast, Lao Tzu's daughter can't serve you." Suddenly, the elk raised its head and looked to the side, and Zhang Xiaowu also heard the sound of crunching at the same time. Fearing the appearance of the beast, he immediately drew his waist knife and turned to look, only to see a shabby scholar hanging from a tree with a crooked neck.
Hang oneself? Suicide?
Zhang Xiaowu, of course, could not sit idly by and watch this person commit suicide, so he threw the waist knife in his hand, and the waist knife slashed the rope with unmistakable accuracy, and the scholar fell from the crooked neck tree and fell on the snow.
Zhang Xiaowu walked over with An An in his arms, and the elk obediently stood up and followed them, rubbing his arm with his horn affectionately. Zhang Xiaowu scolded with a smile: "You brute has the eyesight, I'm ready to eat your flesh, let you scare our father and daughter." He picked up the knife and inserted it back into its scabbard, before turning to look at the death-seeking scholar on the ground.
The scholar sat on the ground, and after a while he realized that he was not dead, he immediately howled and cried: "I...... I...... I...... Die...... Die...... Deathmatch ...... Die...... You can't die! I...... I...... How do I do this...... This...... So unlucky! ”
It turned out that this scholar was a stammer, and when he saw that he had failed to commit suicide, his mentality collapsed.
Zhang Xiaowu said: "You are stammering - don't speak, just nod or shake your head." ”
The scholar nodded.
Zhang Xiaowu asked, "Can you write?" ”
The scholar nodded.
Zhang Xiaowu said: "Then answer me with a withered branch on the ground, why do you want to commit suicide, don't write me an elegant essay, write me a hundred-character essay." ”
The scholar found a branch and wrote on the snow: "I have been wronged, my reputation is ruined, life is worse than death, my benefactor is gracious, lend me the sword." ”
"Fart! No matter how big the grievance is, you can't do it yourself, your life was given by your aunt and grandfather, did they let you die? Zhang Xiaowu asked.
When the scholar heard this, he cried even more sadly.
At this time, Lei Wenqian and others rode over on horseback, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the snow off the trees. Zhang Xiaowu reacted quickly, jumping aside with An An in his arms, and the elk also ran to them cunningly, but the snow fell on the scholar's face and body, and the snow almost buried him for a while. An An looked at his embarrassed appearance and smiled in Zhang Xiaowu's arms, and the elk also shook its head, as if it was very happy to see this embarrassed person.
Zhang Xiaowu patted his daughter's ass and said, "Don't move, I will fall to the ground and fall you." He glanced at the elk, and said to himself, that this beast would laugh at humans, and that the goblin would not be able to keep it......
"Grandpa, Grandpa, he's like a snowman." An An clapped his finger at the scholar and smiled.
Zhang Xiaowu also laughed, and at this time, Lei Wenqian and others ran over and said with concern: "My lord, are you okay?" ”
"My lord, it scared us to death."
"My lord, how did you stop this beast?"
Zhang Xiaowu glanced at them and said, "I'm fine." ”
Qi Yuanshan said: "My lord, let me slaughter this beast." ”
Zhang Xiaowu stared at the elk, and the elk rubbed him with his antlers flatteringly, then relented and said, "No, keep it, you can still eat meat when you are hungry in the future." ”
"That's right."
The scholar stammered, "You...... You...... You...... It's a big ...... Big...... Big ......"
Zhang Xiaowu said: "I am an official, you guessed correctly." Tell me, if you have any grievances, I may not help you clear them, but at least before you die, there are one or two people who will not wronged you, lest you die and be misunderstood by everyone. ”
When the scholar heard this, he cried even harder, but after crying for a while, he felt that he should write about his grievances, so he began to write on the snow. In fact, this unjust case is not unusual, this scholar is called Cai Yu, he is a showman, and he is preparing to participate in the imperial examination in October of the sixth year of Dade, which can be regarded as a spring breeze. It's just that this person was naughty when he was a child, and he learned to stammer, but he didn't expect that after a few days of learning, he became a stammer, so he still stammered.
In order to facilitate learning and reading, Cai Yu moved from Tsinghua County to his uncle's house in the countryside, preparing to study in retreat. Uncle's house is in Yuanmei Village, which is a quiet village, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there have been several children and talents in the history of the village, but none of them have been lifted.
Cai Yu's arrival made this small village curious, and some village girls couldn't help but look at him twice, and many women frequently secretly sent him autumn waves, but Cai Yu was dedicated to studying, plus he was stammering, and he didn't want to talk to others, giving people a sense of arrogance. Especially the neighbor's little widow Tang, who threw him a few flattering eyes, he actually thought that Tang had an eye disease, so angry that Tang almost vomited blood.