Chapter 144: I'm a Good Man
Li Xiaofei hired a carriage and brought two servants to take luggage to take office. When I arrived at the tomb of Emperor Ming, it was really desolate and tight, the stele was a rough bluestone stele, and a few words on the inscription were not very strict, and the guards of the mausoleum were said to be thirty lame veterans with broken arms.
There are no tributes on the altar for a long time, and it seems that there is almost no incense.
"What did you do? Assigned to guard the cemetery? A veteran with a scar on his face walked towards Li Xiaofei
"Haha, I took the initiative to receive the order, what's wrong, you were assigned?" Li Xiaofei regretted a little, in fact, this place was like being assigned, barren grass was everywhere, crows came over from time to time to join in the fun, and the soldiers guarding the tomb also lived in thirteen thatched huts.
"Don't laugh, if you hadn't committed a crime, you wouldn't have come here because of what the adults looked like. Since you're here, let's spend a day here," the scar-faced veteran limped over step by step to lead Li Xiaofei
"Brother, where have the rest of the people gone?" Li Xiaofei looked around and found that only this scar-faced veteran was here
"Hey, they've gone to a nearby liquor store to gamble and drink!" Scarface told Li Xiaofei
"Oh, no wonder, it's boring to be guarding here, by the way, why didn't my brother go?"
"I've had bad luck these days, I've been losing, and I just can't go! Don't worry, no one will come to check this place, who will come to show loyalty to the previous emperor? Isn't this looking for death! ”
"Haha, it seems that the old brother is still quite knowledgeable, by the way, I just happened to have some spare money in my hand, come here, give this old brother a hundred yuan to spend first!"
The scar-faced veteran's face suddenly became energetic, and he changed his previous half-dead state, and thanked Li Xiaofei with a smile: "My lord, you are too generous, how can you be embarrassed?" ”
"Brother take it to spend it, you are all heroes who have made meritorious contributions and suffered injuries, what is this money!"
This time he opened the scar-faced veteran's chatterbox: "My lord, my name is Deng Baoguo, what my lord said is exactly right, at the beginning, we were also the ones who charged forward and fought to the death, but later because we drank and made trouble in the city, we were all school captains, and we were all assigned to guard the grave." Alas, unload the mill and kill the donkey! ”
"Don't say that, brother, we are all old men who have followed the emperor for many years, in fact, the emperor asked me to take care of you this time. This kind of thing is not good fanfare, we also have to think about the emperor" Li Xiaofei spent his own money, but he came to give Pharmacist Zhu a favor. In addition to Li Xiaofei's righteousness and squandering money, the more important reason is that Li Xiaofei does not know the details of these mausoleum guards, in case it was arranged by Pharmacist Zhu in advance, if he said bad things about Pharmacist Zhu, he would probably die ugly.
"Oh, that's the case, no wonder we are coarse people, it seems that we are wrong to blame Your Majesty! In fact, we don't have any other requirements, nothing more than to be able to live a decent life, don't gamble and drink pits every day like now, and live a life without dignity! After Deng Baoguo finished speaking, he pointed to the thatched house
"My lord, the houses we live in are not as good as the people outside the city, and the bedding has long been rotten, alas, rotten people live in rotten houses and cover rotten quilts!"
Li Xiaofei didn't answer, but walked straight towards the grass hut and then turned around: "Brother Deng, you go and invite everyone back, from today onwards, we will improve everything here together, you don't have to worry about money, I want everyone to live in a good house, eat meat, drink wine, practice martial arts, play chess and chat every day, and live for a long time." What do you think? ”
Deng Baoguo knelt on the ground: "Thank you, thank you, I'll go and call them back immediately!" ”
"Don't thank me, don't thank me, thank your majesty the emperor if you want to thank me! Brother Deng, please get up" Li Xiaofei pulled Deng Baoguo up and asked him to hurry up and call the others back
Deng Baoguo happily ran around and called people, and Li Xiaofei took two servants to clean in front of the altar of Emperor Ming's mausoleum.
The world is impermanent, yesterday's king, today is just a piece of loess, Li Xiaofei sighed, and remembered the various circumstances of seeing Emperor Ming back then, and even shed a few tears.
Deng Baoguo quickly called the rest of the people back, and everyone knew that Deng Baoguo had received a hundred yuan of money, so they surrounded Li Xiaofei and asked for money.
"Don't panic! Don't rush! Everybody! Li Xiaofei hurriedly waved his hand, but everyone still gathered around him to pick up his clothes, searched him and took a few gold leaves and jade pendants
The group of people still didn't stop, and went to the carriage to get things again, but Li Xiaofei scolded him repeatedly, but it was useless.
Li Xiaofei was shaking his head, a man in white fell from the sky and swung his sword to slash over more than a dozen people on the side of the carriage, and then fifty warriors in white clothes and white robes rushed behind him and slashed at the remaining tomb guards.
"Don't kill! Don't kill! They are all poor veterans! Li Xiaofei hurriedly stopped it, but to no avail, even Deng Baoguo died under the swords of these warriors
"You haven't changed at all, you're so stupid that it's distressing" The man in white in the lead laughed at Li Xiaofei
"Mr. Liu, why do you kill innocents indiscriminately at will? They were already very pitiful, just now they just wanted some money, but you took their lives! Li Xiaofei recognized that it was Liu Mingge who was the leader, so he questioned Liu Mingge
"Hehe, you think they are the mausoleum keepers, the real mausoleum keepers have long been driven away, these people were ruffians in the previous dynasty, they usually steal chickens and dogs, and when they meet a fat sheep like you, they start to kill people and steal goods. If I hadn't been here for a long time today, you would have been killed by them, and if you don't believe me, search them! ”
Li Xiaofei suspiciously peeled off Deng Baoguo's clothes, and there were short knife lime powder and ropes hidden in them: "Okay, thank you, Mr. Liu, but what are you doing here with someone to spy on them, do you think that I will come here?" ”
"Don't be sentimental! I have calculated an auspicious day and come to pick up Liu Xuan on the ship today! ”
"You, pick up Emperor Ming, get on the boat? Emperor Ming has died and is buried here, how can you please? Li Xiaofei was a little confused about Liu Mingge's intentions
"Dig up his mausoleum, won't you be able to invite him?"
"What? You're going to rob a tomb? Li Xiaofei's eyes widened
"You're wrong, it's the robber of the Emperor's Mausoleum! Dig it up! Liu Mingge gave the order, and the samurai took out short shovels from their backs and began to dig in the earth
"Stop! You're crazy! Digging the imperial tomb in broad daylight! Mr. Liu, don't do anything stupid! Li Xiaofei rushed up to stop him, but was held down by Liu Mingge
"You know what? Liu Xuan is my lifelong friend, and today I want to take him away! Liu Mingge felt that Li Xiaofei was in the way, so he tied Li Xiaofei to the carriage.
Li Xiaofei continued to shout, not letting everyone steal and dig the imperial tomb, but no one listened to him at all, and an hour later, Emperor Ming's tomb was dug up.
The coffin of Emperor Ming, who was hastily buried, was not buried deeply, and Liu Mingge and his subordinates opened the lid of Emperor Ming's coffin without much effort and got Emperor Ming's body out.
Li Xiaofei opened his mouth wide on the carriage and couldn't accept all this, so he began to scold Liu Mingge, Liu Mingge thought he was verbose, so he raised his hand and threw a mud pill to knock Li Xiaofei unconscious.
When Li Xiaofei woke up, the carriage had already arrived at the Liujiagang wharf.
Li Xiaofei opened his eyes and saw Liu Mingge carrying the almost dry body of Emperor Ming in front of him: "Mr. Liu, you are really unreasonable, you will be scolded to death by the world like this!" ”
"I robbed tombs, visited green houses, robbed, and killed people, but I am a good person!" Liu Mingge looked at the angry Li Xiaofei casually
"Mr. Liu, I really can't understand! You said that you were Emperor Ming's lifelong friend, but you took people to rob his mausoleum in broad daylight, so that he could not rest in peace after his death! There are no treasures in the tomb of Emperor Ming, and even the new dynasty knows to protect Emperor Ming's mausoleum, but you? ”
Liu Mingge interrupted Li Xiaofei: "No one knows Emperor Ming better than me, go!" After speaking, Liu Mingge jumped onto the boat with the body of Emperor Ming on his back.
"Mr. Liu"
"Say no more, get on board!"
The tomb of Emperor Ming was stolen and excavated by Liu Mingge and others, and someone immediately reported it to Zhu Yaoshi, who thought he had heard it wrong: "You mean Emperor Ming of the previous dynasty?" The mausoleum, which did not even have gold and silver for burial, was stolen in broad daylight? ”
"Back to Your Majesty! Precisely! ”
"Why don't you send troops to stop it? I don't know, do you think that I, Pharmacist Zhu, did this unethical thing of robbing and digging graves? Wu Zheng, the middle man in front of the palace, quickly take 500 people to arrest them and correct the law on the spot! ”
"It's late, Your Majesty! The tomb robbers set up a flag there, writing Gravedigger Liu Mingge! This man's martial arts are extremely high, and our people can't resist it at all! ”
Pharmacist Zhu slapped the dragon case: "Bastard!" It's clear that you are not doing things well! Wu Zheng, you must capture this person! ”
By the time Wu Zheng arrived in front of Emperor Ming's mausoleum, Liu Mingge had already taken Emperor Ming's body on the boat.
Wu Zheng left half of the people to clean and deal with the tomb of Emperor Ming, and he took people to Liujiagang Wharf to pursue Liu Mingge.
Wu Zheng didn't know Liu Mingge's strength, but he would rather be killed by Liu Mingge than be accused of incompetence, so he had to shout at Liu Mingge on the boat: "You tomb robbers, hurry up and arrest you!" ”
"I'm a good person!" Liu Mingge responded on the boat
At this time, Liu Mingge had personally dressed Emperor Ming's body in a brand-new dragon robe, put on a crown, and placed it on a throne made of rosewood.
The people around him were panicked, and they didn't know which one Liu Ming was singing.
Only Black Pearl and Li Xiaofei dared to ask him, and Li Xiaofei was a little angry: "Mr. Liu, you are too much."
Black Pearl also said: "Liu, your friend is dead, people can't be resurrected after death, it's not good for you to be like this"
Liu Mingge smiled faintly and turned his head and said: "People always look at problems from their own point of view, Liu Xuan and I once had an agreement to take him all over the world, no matter life or death." Also, Liu Xuan tried the pill himself to help me find the correct alchemy method. My friendship with him is beyond your comprehension! So, please don't say any more, what you have to do now is to defend against attacks along the coast, and in addition, we should leave for Wuchang, I haven't eaten Wuchang fish for more than ten years! ”
Li Xiaofei and Black Pearl couldn't go on, Li Xiaofei saw that many people and horses came to the dock and were already ready to take the bow, Black Pearl waved the green flag in his hand unhurriedly, and Liu Mingge's fleet lifted anchor and hoisted sails upstream.
Wu Zheng led people to shoot a volley, only nailing a lot of arrows, only on the cable linen on the side and hull of the ship. Wu Zheng wanted to attack with fire, but it was already raining at this time, and Liu Mingge waved his hand at the people on the shore: "Everyone is exempt, it's time to go home and collect your clothes!" ”
The popularity on the shore was in a hurry, but there was no choice but to watch Liu Mingge's fleet go away.
The rain was not urgent, a little rain smashed countless circles on the river, Liu Mingge ordered someone to carry the body of Emperor Ming and the throne into his cockpit, but he unscrewed the wine jug and drank in the rain.
Li Xiaofei wanted to go over and say something, but Black Pearl pulled him back: "Leave him alone, he's always like this, but he's really a good person!" ”
"Do you really think he's a good guy?" Li Xiaofei was a little unconvinced, in his opinion, these people from overseas were nothing more than shocked by Liu Mingge's strong martial arts, and had to succumb to Liu Mingge.
"He saved a lot of people! Liu, a good person! No matter what you think, he is a lifesaver for us! He's a good guy! Black Pearl replied firmly
Li Xiaofei looked back and thought about it, this Liu Mingge had saved him a few times, purely from Li Xiaofei's point of view, Liu Mingge was indeed a good person. The reason why I don't think Liu Mingge is a good person is nothing more than that Liu Mingge's actions are shocking and contrary to common sense. And Liu Mingge always sees people too thoroughly, so that people with bad intentions have nowhere to hide.
But it was such Liu Mingge, but he suffered a loss on the edge of Wuchang City. This thing makes people laugh and cry, Liu Mingge has been hungry for fried Wuchang fish with tempeh for a long time, and at that time he ordered a plate of fried Wuchang fish with tempeh in the wine shop, and repeatedly told the tempeh and Wuchang fish must be authentic. As a result, the store served him a steamed Wuchang fish and a plate of tempeh, Liu Mingge was a little surprised: "Didn't you say that it was fried Wuchang fish with tempeh?" How did you get apart? ”
"Let's be together, okay, let's go!" As he spoke, the shopkeeper poured the tempeh on top of the steamed Wuchang fish
Liu Mingge stared at the shopkeeper and was almost about to draw his sword, but the shopkeeper threw the plate on the table: "What do you pay attention to when you are poor, there are so many requirements in the roadside shop, do you like to eat or not!" ”
After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he walked away, leaving only Liu Mingge and Li Xiaofei looking at each other.
Liu Mingge tasted a few mouthfuls and vomited them all, this fish is fishy without salt, and this tempeh is too salty, but they have their own flavors when mixed together, which is extremely unpalatable.
Liu Mingge threw the chopsticks away, "Forget it, don't eat it, admit it!" ”
Then the shopkeeper came again: "Pay!" ”
Liu Mingge relied on his status as a superior, and when he encountered such a store at this time, he didn't know how to deal with it, and the people around him also coaxed: "These two people are dressed like nobles, but they come to this roadside shop for dinner, and they don't want to give money after eating, are they liars?" ”
"It's only twenty cents, and you see that tall man is about to draw his sword! It's broad daylight! ”
"If you two can't afford to eat, don't be poor!"
Seeing this, Li Xiaofei hurriedly dropped a hundred yuan and pulled Liu Mingge away, Liu Mingge smiled bitterly all the way and shook his head: "Blame me this time, how can you come to this roadside shop if you want to eat authentic fried Wuchang fish with tempeh!" ”
"Mr. Liu, this roadside shop was originally eaten by coolies, and the fish you can eat is a good dish, and a master like you will definitely not be able to eat it!"
"Haha, why don't you eat minced meat and it happened to me too! What a lesson! ”