Chapter 30: A Bowl of Wine at the Friend of Life and Death
After sending Chen Yujie back to Xu Guangqi's mansion, Yang Xin rode his horse and continued to play with Cao Wenzhao and the others in the city.
Cao Wenzhao and others were also idle.
They entered Beijing this time to escort a crony of Liu Kongyin to the capital, and the latter was visiting the door to give gifts at this time, and he was not interested in caring about them at all, and it is estimated that this has been the case for the past few days. They were originally waiting at the inn, but now that there is a good person like Yang Xin to treat them, they are naturally happy to continue to eat, drink and have fun together. The four of them wandered around until it was almost dark, and then returned to Xianyifang together, found a pure restaurant, and when they were drinking hotly, the drums outside suddenly sounded......
Yang Xin, who was swinging his fist, stopped in astonishment.
Then he looked around at the drinkers who were unresponsive.
"It's the drumbeat of the curfew, right?"
He asked, grabbing a guy passing by.
"Childe, we can't help it in the workshop!"
The guy said with a smile.
"Uh, let's go ahead then!"
Yang Xin said.
The curfew is when the doors are closed, and you are not allowed to walk around the street outside, and then theoretically the same patrols start to be patrolled, but in reality it means that who cares, a lot of people are pointing to the nightlife! In the late Ming Dynasty, commerce was developed, and some of the people who did business at night were that neither the government nor the people would really enforce any curfew, as long as they did not go out of the workshop, they sang and danced in the workshop.
However, Cao Wenzhao and the others couldn't go back to the inn.
Their inn is not in Xianyifang, and it is definitely not possible to go out of the workshop.
Fortunately, this kind of trivial matter is also not worth mentioning, there are also inns in Xianyifang, the square of Beijing City in the Ming Dynasty is amazingly large, far from the square of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty can be compared, although Xianyifang is not big, but it is really not lost to an ordinary county seat. And the Ming Shifang where Wang Wanqing lives is comparable to Dongchangfu City, and the squares in the outer city are even bigger, and the total of more than 20 square kilometers in the entire outer city is only eight squares, so this curfew is really similar to nothing. In the era when there were no cars and other means of transportation, who was so idle in the middle of the night that they ran two or three miles away?
Cao Wenzhao didn't care about this either.
The four of them continued to drink for half an hour, and when they were basically drunk, they went downstairs crookedly, and stood on horseback in the night breeze in the street.
The streets are still bustling.
"Brothers, are you going to go to my place for a night or find you an inn?"
Yang Xin said drunkly.
"Just go to you, why should our brothers break the bank again!"
Cao Wenzhao said with a big tongue.
"Let's go! The big river flows eastward, the stars in the sky participate in the Beidou, a bowl of wine at the turn of life and death, and we will leave when we say let's go......"
Yang Xin howled like a convulsive.
"This song is good! Let's go! ”
Cao Wenzhao hiccuped and howled.
"Then sing!"
Yang Xin howled.
"Don't look back in the water and fire, you have me, I have everything, and the wind and fire break into Kyushu......"
He howled excitedly.
Then Cao Wenzhao and the two soldiers behind him also learned, and the more they sang, the more skilled they became, it was obvious that this kind of song was more in line with their style, and the four broken gongs and ghosts cried wolf-like howls, singing good Chinese songs on the streets at night, which caused a side-eyed on the road. However, at this time, it is less than nine o'clock, because it is summer, most of them are in the cool, so it will not disturb other people's dreams, and it is inevitable to scare the children on the side of the road.
The four of them sang a good song, and soon arrived at the mouth of the alley where Yang Xin lived.
It's a cloudy day.
On the street outside, there are still shops on both sides of the street, and there are many people who are enjoying the shade to light smoked mosquito grass and smoke mosquitoes, so it is somewhat bright, but this kind of alley is dark.
The four men dismounted.
Cao Wenzhao asked the two soldiers behind him to lead the horse for him and Yang Xin, and they walked in front, these two people were still holding hands, to be precise, Yang Xin was supporting Cao Wenzhao, the former had a special body, and he was almost awake at this time. But Cao Wenzhao was really drunk, he couldn't walk steadily, one foot deep and one foot shallow in the dark alley, and he was still howling a bowl of wine between life and death......
"Brother Yang, you are righteous enough!"
He staggered as he spoke.
"I, Cao Wenzhao, recognize you as a brother, just like you sing, don't look back in the water and fire......"
Before his howl fell, a lantern suddenly came out of the wall next to him, and almost at the same time a fishing net fell from the sky, Yang Xin drank after all, and was grabbed by Cao Wenzhao's arm, just when he reacted and tried to dodge, the fishing net covered him and Cao Wenzhao together......
"Quick, take it!"
A shout suddenly rang out from the wall.
Immediately after that, several lanterns lit up at the same time, and in the dim light, figures fell one after another.
Cao Wenzhao, who was covered by the fishing net, watched this scene with drunken eyes, and the first few people in front of him had already pounced, like a group of ghosts in the dark, he shook his head violently, and then grabbed the fishing net in front of him with both hands at the same time......
"Open!"
He roared like a roaring tiger, and his hands tore outward, and the fishing nets woven of thick twine were violently torn open by him in an instant.
Almost at the same time, an iron ruler fell on the opposite side.
Cao Wenzhao grabbed the wrist of the person holding the iron ruler with his right hand, and pulled his left hand into his arms, and the person fell to the ground without the slightest pause, and the next moment a short spear stabbed, Cao Wenzhao's head tilted to avoid, and the iron ruler that he had just grabbed in his hand threw it out, hitting the head of the short spearman opposite. The moment the latter screamed and fell, the short spear also came to his hand, this guy immediately walked out of the fishing net, and pulled the short spear upside down with the person in front of him, the iron chain in the latter's hand smashed down and was wrapped around the short spear, Cao Wenzhao's hand shook, and the spear shaft with the iron chain was directly pestled in his throat.
The man fell on his back.
Yang Xin quickly followed and drilled out the fishing net, but he leaned against the wall very smartly, and watched in amazement as Cao Wenzhao was like a tiger out of a cage, and a short spear continued to fall with the sound of breaking through the air.
There was no one in front of him.
All those officials who jumped down from the wall, holding iron chains, iron rulers, short spears and other weapons, in front of the number one general of the Ming Dynasty in history, were like a group of ducks being chased by wolves, and they all turned around and fled in panic. They chose to ambush in such an environment, probably just to catch turtles in the urn, but unfortunately they didn't expect the plan to succeed, but instead of trash fish, they caught a megalodon, and there was more than one, but they turned out to have nowhere to escape. Cao Wenzhao drank too much, and he couldn't see these people clearly in the dark, he was in a passionate relationship with Yang Xin, and suddenly someone attacked them, and this fierce general who died on the battlefield to save his subordinate brothers was not interested in thinking about anything else at all.
Just smash it!
Who cares about anything else at this time?
"Shoot arrows, thieves resist arrest, don't count killing!"
Someone shouted at the top of the wall.
Yang Xin hurriedly raised his head and happened to meet a person.
"That's him!"
Wang Gongzi shouted.
Yang Xin suddenly jumped up, and Wang Gongzi was so frightened that he hurriedly retracted.
At the moment when Yang Xin dodged an arrow, he grabbed the archer who had just shot the arrow, and dragged it down in the latter's screams, at this time Cao Wenzhao also saw the archer, but he did not dodge, but roared again and crashed into the wall in front of him like a bison. Yang Xin immediately woke up, and moved forward at full speed with excitement, the two of them reached the root of the wall almost at the same time, and their shoulders hit the adobe wall at the same time, these are two fierce beasts, two real peerless fierce generals, and one of them is open.
With a dull thud, the adobe wall collapsed.
The walls immediately burst into screams.
"Happy!"
Cao Wenzhao let out a sigh of relief.
"Wait, wait for a thief, dare to resist arrest and kill the official, aren't you afraid of raiding your house?"
In the dust of the fallen adobe wall, Wang Gongzi stood trembling in the gap with a lantern and said in a trembling voice.
A civil servant next to him was also trembling.
In the dust in front of them, the archers, who had been smashed below by the adobe wall, wailed and struggled out of the broken adobe, not killed, but all wounded.
Cao Wenzhao's face changed, and he hurriedly reached out and grabbed an unconscious ...... from the ground
"The archers of the Five Cities Terracotta Division!"
He said in amazement.
"It should be here to arrest me, I killed a splash in Tianjin to avenge my brother."
Yang Xin said very frankly.
Cao Wenzhao's eyes widened and he looked at him in disbelief.
"Where are you a soldier, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division arrested only the wanted criminal Yang Xin, this person accidentally injured people's lives in Tianjin and absconded here, you are ignorant, not his accomplices, just deceived him, as long as you can take down this thief, you will be guilty!"
The civil official's spirits suddenly lifted, and he immediately shouted with a sense of neutrality.
Yang Xin calmly stretched his hands forward......
He was gambling, he was gambling that the people who refused to abandon their subordinates on the battlefield, and as a result, rushed to the camp alone to save the people who were trapped and wounded and committed suicide, they would not betray their friends for glory.
Cao Wenzhao looked at him.
There was silence in the entire alley.
"What are you waiting for, do you want to follow him to the Dharma field!"
The civil servant shouted.
Cao Wenzhao's body trembled slightly, it was obvious that he was making a difficult choice, struggling with righteousness and the future, and Yang Xin was still looking at him calmly with his hands outstretched, and suddenly he looked up to the sky and let out a long roar, suddenly turned his gaze to the civil official, and then threw his hand over the unconscious official......
"Come with me, let's get out of the city first!"
At the exclamation of the civil official, he yelled at Yang Xin.
Almost at the same time there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves outside, and then the light of the torches appeared at the entrance of the alley behind, and the two soldiers leading the horses immediately came to their senses and were so frightened that they quickly avoided them. Yang Xin and Cao Wenzhao looked at the entrance of the alley at the same time, and then saw more than a dozen cavalrymen with torches rushing in, all wearing hats and helmets and yellow round-necked armor. The first man in a red embroidered patch and an eight-petal hat led his horse, and in the light of the swaying torches, he looked at the mess in front of him, and the fierce beast that looked like a dragon and not a dragon poked down from his shoulders spread his teeth and claws......
"Jinyiwei is on an errand, which one is Yang Xin?"
He said coldly
(Thanks to the book friend for the pot, the free Muye Yingyang, the Xuanyuan noble ancestor Shu Yaoshun, the book friend 20181114202159380 and others for the reward).