Chapter 562: Xiongdu (5)
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Lu Baisui's memory of Chang'an began in the eighth year of the emperor's reign.
Before that, Lu Baisui was just a small businessman in Jingyang County, guarding a faΓ§ade and doing nail business.
The Lu family is not an old household in Jingyang, according to Lu Changling, Lu's hundred-year-old father, the Lu family originally lived in Luoyang, and the family has been an official for several generations, with a large area of land, property and more than 100 slaves. Until the Rebellion of the Eight Kings occurred, the Sima family did not hesitate to lead Hu Ma south in order to compete for the throne, Luoyang turned into white land, and the Lu family had to flee out of the city with the people. Fleeing from one place to another, they did not live there for long, and they lost their lives in some time. It wasn't until the emperor mixed with a single universe that he could have a stable life.
When he said this, Daddy Lu was sweating profusely and preparing for the next day's business. The ragged clothes, the rickety body and the beads of sweat on his head did not look like an official eunuch at all, so that Lu Baisui always suspected that his father was talking about it. However, when Father Lu said this, there was no melancholy or sadness in his expression, but his eyebrows fluttered.
Lu Baisui can also understand the truth of this, after all, according to his father, since the beginning of his family's escape, there were more than 130 people in the family, and there were 59 men among them. When it came time to say this to himself, only his father was left, and only father and son were left in the famous Lu family.
Other clan relatives either died under the butcher's knife of the Hu people, or died of disease or banditry. Glory, wealth, gold, silver, and treasure are nothing but things outside the body, and only life is the foundation. Being able to survive in troubled times by relying on this skill of nailing is the greatest creation. Now that the troubled times are calm, there is no need to flee from one place to another, you can settle down in one place with peace of mind, and the good days of the Lu family are coming.
Father Lu died in the seventh year of the emperor's reign, although until his death, the Lu family still did not have enough meals, and he was exhausted in order to cope with the rent of the imperial court, but Father Lu still died with a smile. He believes that his son will definitely live the life he wants, as long as the world stops being chaotic, sooner or later, the Lu family will still be rich.
Daddy Lu's thoughts also influenced Lu Baisui. Even though he was forced to leave the thriving shop and his father's tomb when he was eight years old, as countless skilled craftsmen and small traders were forcibly moved by the government to the prosperous eastern and western cities of Chang'an, he was still grateful and believed that this was a gift from the Son of Heaven.
When Lu Baisui saw the towering walls and neat alleys of Chang'an City, he decided in his heart: The time has come for his family to turn over!
Relying on the skill of making nail sitting, coupled with hard work, Lu Baisui finally gained a firm foothold in Chang'an and lived a decent life. Although he did not have as many servants as his ancestors, and did not have a high-rise house, he at least married a wife and had children, and hired helpers. He believes that as long as life is so peaceful, his son will definitely be able to live better than himself.
It's a pity that everything changed with the death of the emperor emperor. After the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, he built the Great Wall and dug canals, and then used force against Liaodong. Of Lu Bai's three sons, one died of the plague, and the other two were selected to join the Jingzhao Eagle Yang because of their strong body, and then stayed in Liaodong, and they didn't even see the bones.
Lu Baisui thought that his stupid third son would definitely die, but he was smart and clever, and he learned to speak from Hu Shang in the same Liren City when he was a teenager. The eldest son, who also learned how to make cakes, can come back, and is still confidently waiting for him to inherit his own nail shop. I don't want him to be like his stupid third brother, he was shot through the throat with an arrow, and he didn't die like a businessman at all. The rent of the government is getting heavier and heavier, making it difficult for Lu Baisui to cope with his age, and his physical strength is not as good as before.
But in order to survive and look forward to maybe getting another son, Lu Baisui still gritted his teeth and persevered. Even if the people around him persuaded him to leave Chang'an and return to Jingyang, at least he could return to his homeland, he gritted his teeth and insisted that he would never leave Chang'an. Lu Baisui once swore in private: The Lu family escaped from Luoyang back then, and finally lived like this all the way. Even if you die, you have to die in the national capital! This is at least worthy of the ancestors of the Lu family.
Liren City is a lively place, where you can buy clothes, candles, cakes, medicines and other daily necessities of the people, and you can also see Hu people's illusions or rare treasures mixed with true and false, and the news is naturally very well-informed. Lu Baisui had heard of the rise of thieves in the world and the rebellion of Tang Guogong in Jinyang, and he could also feel the danger. What father and son have been worried about for generations seems to be happening again. Not long after the world was peaceful, it was about to fall into war again. But what does all this have to do with you?
No matter whether Li Yuan or anyone else occupies this city, they should not embarrass a businessman who has done his duty. As long as you do business with peace of mind and pay rent according to the rules, no one should come to trouble you. Even if Li Yuan was as murderous as his father said about the Hu people, he didn't care. Anyway, there is nothing left to lose, whoever wants to kill will come and kill.
Lu Baisui knew that there were many people in Liren City who had similar thoughts to him, and since the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, he had been constantly tossing, which not only made many people bankrupt, but also made people numb, and they no longer cared about everything, including their own lives. Merchants who have a way or are less daring have already managed to escape. Those who stay are either desperate, or they don't care about anything like themselves, and just want to keep their last bit of peace. If you don't even have these, and you have to flee from place to place, it's not interesting to live.
Chang'an City is a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and there has never been a shortage of heroes who can make trouble. When the news of the Pujin ferry being captured by Jinyang and Yujuluo being killed, some rangers haunted Liren City.
Lu Baisui is a businessman, and he has no dealings with these rangers, and these rangers don't talk to people like Lu Baisui. Their main communication partners were Hu merchants, and then young and powerful merchants. It's just that Lu Baisui has been in Liren City for many years, and many Hu businessmen love to eat his nails and sit on his nails and are very kind to him, and the deeds done by these rangers soon spread to Lu Baisui's ears. They were contacting people everywhere to prepare to sell Chang'an to Tang Guogong. These Hu merchants are their guarantors for joining the army, young and bold people, and they are the helpers they try to woo.
These people have always been unpopular with stealing chickens and dogs and committing adultery, and they are unlikely to do great things. But Lu Baisui did not regard their actions as nonsense or death. A group of rangers who are usually idle suddenly have the money to buy Hu Shang, and there is a way to join the Yingyang Mansion, and there is naturally someone behind them. Then he thought of what his Lao Tzu had said, the whole world nominally belonged to the Son of Heaven, but in fact it was controlled by the family, and most of the things this time were made by those behemoths.
He is just a small citizen of Shengdou, and he has no intention of getting involved, and all this has nothing to do with him. Lu Baisui neither likes the Son of Great Cause nor Li Yuan. Although the latter has a benevolent name, he may not be as absurd and cruel as the Son of Heaven, but he can't bring his dead wife and son back to life, and he can't give himself another son, so what does he have to do with himself? It's just that this Chang'an City is probably going to be chaotic again.
Those rangers are just mustard figures, and if you kill a batch, a new batch will appear. As long as the family is still around, there will be no shortage of such people. Besides, the court owes too many debts over the years, and now when it is time to repay the debts, more than half of the people in the entire city prefer him Tang Guogong. What's more, now that the imperial court has lost his powerful force, everyone is naturally not afraid of him, can they still kill everyone? See, it's time for this city to change its surname soon.
With such thoughts, Lu Baisui still worked hard every day, dealing with the rent that had doubled, waiting for the city to change hands, and he didn't care about other things. When a group of heavily armed eagles burst into his shop and arrested him and his customers, he took him as an accomplice to the rangers.
The fire captain Lu Baisui who led the team knew him, but he was a robe who had fought in Liaodong with his son, and he had to call him uncle when he met in the past. Therefore he was not afraid of the eagle, but shouted, "You have caught the wrong man, and I have not broken the law!" The fang is looking for to speak! β
The fire chief came to Lu Baisui, his face was a little embarrassed, and he was stunned for a moment before he said, "Uncle doesn't need to shout. No one will say that you have broken the law, and no one will take you to the test. Just to get you out of town. β
"Out of town?" Lu Baisui was stunned for a moment, is it like moving himself from Jingyang to Chang'an back then, and he wants to move himself away? However, the displaced people should post official documents, and they should also make trade-offs. How can there be a reason to directly let the eagle soldiers come to the door to arrest people? What's more, he has been living in Chang'an for half his life, why should he be moved?
He shouted, "There are so many people in the city, why are you sending me out of the city?" Even if the court acts, it has to talk about the royal law! My store, my decades of operation, is it just taken for nothing? β
The fire chief's face was even more embarrassed: "It's not just that Uncle and a few people are asked to go out of the city, all the fathers and elders in Chang'an City have to go, and Fang Zheng is no exception." Uncle still don't make trouble, now the general in the city is the king, and if he makes trouble, he will only suffer a loss. As for the goods...... In this kind of world, it is a blessing to be able to save one's life, so don't worry about those external things anymore. β
The guests who were nailed to the shop and were taken together were originally in the same mind as Lu Baisui, and when they heard this, they all immediately shouted. Someone said angrily: "Now that the army is in chaos, where am I going?" Besides, even if the court moves the people, they have to issue an official document first, how can they do it? It's too late to clean up the softness at home, how can you go? I am General Yuwen's disciple, and whoever dares to touch me, the general will never agree! β
The fire chief looked at the speaker's eyes, his eyes were cold, and he suddenly pulled out a straight knife and slammed it across the speaker's neck, and said coldly: "General Yin has an order, except for the courtiers, government soldiers, and everyone in the palace, no one else in Chang'an City is allowed to stay." Shen Shi moments of the big Suo City, resist the order of the disrespectful, kill without forgiveness! β
Huo Chang's words were like a thunderbolt, shocking everyone in shock. Lu Baisui almost didn't believe his ears, and the Great Sui Dynasty was extremely mean to the people during the decades since its founding, but it didn't come to this point. After a long while, he said with trembling lips, "Wei ...... Does Wei Gong know about this? β
The fire chief looked at Lu Baisui and shook his head, then waved his hand, and several soldiers struck several guests with spear shafts, urging them to go out of the door. Lu Baisui knew that this was Huo Changnian and shared three points of face with his son, and walked out with the guests blankly.
When I came to the outside of the store, I saw that the entire Liren City had become a mess. The officials at the gate were gone, and in their place were a fire of officers and soldiers, all with bows and ready to fire. The doors of the storefronts on the street were wide open, and from time to time there were men cursing, women and children crying. A rooster flickered its wings and flew desperately, and then was flipped to the ground by a soldier with the shaft of a spear, and fluttered feebly on the ground.
Dark red blood flowed slowly on the ground, but I didn't know if it was chicken blood or human blood. Suddenly, Lu Baisui only felt a chill on the top of his head, and when he looked up, he didn't know when the rain fell, which made people feel cold to the bones.
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