Chapter 22: No Doubt (6.6k)
"Abi wants to come with us?" Three days later, on the evening of Zhao and Julu County, Gongsun Xun seemed to have reacquainted with someone. "This is murder!"
"I have a sword too!" Liu Bei's little white face was completely red at this moment, and the hands that held the delicate saber given by Gongsun Xun were also trembling slightly.
"This is the son of a eunuch, the clan uncle of the family is inclined to the government and the opposition, if something really goes wrong, but he will really die outside." Gongsun Xun continued to scare. "Didn't you shout a few days ago that you wanted to escape from the city of Tao?"
"This time and that time." Liu Bei gritted his teeth and replied. "At that time, I thought that all the brothers had the intention of retreating, and I was a kid who shouted to run first, but I could save some face for my brothers. Now that I know that your brothers are going to do great things, in that case, how can I fall on everyone's face? β
There were many people around who were sorting out their horses and weapons, and they couldn't help but laugh when they heard this:
"It turns out that Abei, you shouted that you were going to run that day to save face for us?"
"You pull out your sword and see if you have that sword height?"
"Ah Bei, this time we are going to kill people, but we have to be masked, don't you think about breaking into the name of 'Zhuojun Liu Bei killed people for his friends at the age of fifteen'...... Who was the fifteen-year-old who killed the teacher last year? β
"Xiahoudun!" Someone suddenly said a name that made Gongsun Xun quite stunned. "It's Xiahoudun from Peiguoqiao County, I once heard a visitor at home talk about him, saying that someone insulted his teacher, he was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, but he directly killed the other party, known as 'Gang Lie', and he became famous all over the world at once."
Listening to this group of fellow disciples talking here and there, just seeing themselves as a joke, Liu Bei became more and more impatient, but he had no choice but to ask for help with his eyes.
"Why don't you let him go!" At this moment, Gongsun Chan suddenly interjected. "Although Abei is young, he always has the courage, better than those useless nerds, and when he hears that we are going to kill people, he is so scared that he can't speak......"
Nerds aren't necessarily useless these days! Gongsun Xun said secretly in his heart, but he didn't show it at all: "It's okay, for a big event like this, a lot of people may not be useful, what you want is a real hero...... As for Abi, his courage is commendable, but his figure is too obvious, and he is only afraid that he will be remembered by others, and then think that it is us who did it. β
These words almost sealed Liu Bei's path with the past, but this kid's reaction was very interesting, and he was obviously relieved in addition to being disappointed. It can be seen that although he looked heroic before, he also has a bit of a hard support.
Of course, after this experience, whether it is Gongsun Xun or others, they all look at him differently, no matter what, this bear child's courage and ambition are still very strong.
"You're all set, aren't you?" Gongsun Chan nodded, then walked around with his knife in hand, and began to check the clothing, bow horses, and other things for the dozen or so noble children on this trip, and loudly encouraged and comforted them. "Don't worry, we planted people in Julu before we left, and we were lucky, the surnamed Zhao has lived in a manor outside the city since yesterday, which is also trouble-free. And there were only seven or eight ranger guests following, and they were all fake tricks who only knew how to fight bravely and ruthlessly, and did not go through real battles. When we get there, we don't have to worry about them, just quickly sweep in the 351 team, as long as we cut off the head surnamed Zhao, and then put a fire on it, we will come back directly! When the time comes, return here and throw your head on the ground, not only can you breathe a bad breath for Brother Dayin, but also let those fellow disciples in Jizhou know our ability! β
As soon as these words came out, the sophisticated border guests in the distance were not enough, and several scholars from border counties really became excited.
"Do you want to leave you here to know what you're going to do?" On the other side, Gongsun Xun was also explaining something to Gongsun Yue and Liu Bei.
"First, I want the young people among the confidants and guests to put on your brocade clothes, and deliberately drink and make noise in front of the villagers here, as if everyone is there;" Gongsun Yue replied while looking at Liu Bei who was standing aside. "Second, it's to ...... It is to look at those fellow disciples who do not have the courage to participate, from Brother Zhen Yi himself down, no one is allowed to walk out of the station for half a step! β
"What if they want to run away by force?" Gongsun Xun asked coldly.
"Just have them tied up!" Gongsun Yue's eyelids didn't blink.
"That's right." Gongsun Xun nodded appreciatively, and then suddenly smiled at Liu Bei on the side. "Ah Bei, I and your eldest brother Gongsun will go and get a head, you will follow Brother Zhen Yi and wait here for them, don't move! Got it? β
Liu Bei swallowed his saliva and bowed down.
It is said that the convoy rarely stayed in a post pavilion in a poor countryside, and the two sunny houses in the middle could only barely allow the scholars to sleep in a clean Datong shop; The maids had to live in the courtyard and in the surrounding shady houses, so that they could boil water for their masters, cook and clean and so on; As for the pavilion chief, the thief, the pavilion father, and a few pavilion guards were all kicked out, and the guests and entourage in the convoy ran outside to camp.
And it seems that in order to escape from such harsh conditions, the sky is getting dark, and a group of pampered aristocratic children do not rest, but even drink and have fun in the courtyard, barbecue and gamble. Seeing those young nobles in brocade clothes with northern accents staggered, not even closing the door, it seems that they are ready to light torches and precious candles, and have fun all night, which undoubtedly makes the people in the vicinity, as well as the pavilion chief road and the pavilion guards, envious.
However, in the middle of these lively scenes, those real noble children all had expressions that were hard to see as if they were dead fathers...... The maid poured the wine and cut the meat and brought it up, but the group did not look at it.
"There are twenty-seven people on this trip, and a total of thirteen have been there!" Someone said with a wine glass covering his face. "The group of people from the border counties, except for one Gongsun Yue, all seem to have gone, and two from Zhuo County have also gone, Liu Bei wants to go It seems that he was driven back because of his young age, and my Jizhou children also went to Han Rui of Anping Country......"
"Gongsun Yue is not going anywhere, this guy is obviously specially left to take care of our people." Someone else couldn't help but interrupt. "Those two bastards Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Xun look down on people too much, they even think that we will go to report to the official?"
"This kind of life and death event, since we don't go, people can naturally be suspicious."
"You seem to want to go, too?"
"The children of my generation, killing the children of eunuchs is the truth, not to mention that there is a reason for it......"
"Then why don't you go?"
"Most of you Jizhou colleagues haven't gotten there, so why should I abandon everyone?"
"Then why did Han Rui go again?"
"People said it themselves, and their hearts were broken by the courage of Brother Gongsun!"
"You just want to say that we Jizhou people have no guts, right?"
"That's it!" Zhen Yi, who had been expressionless, suddenly put down his wine glass heavily. "Things have come to this point, what else is there to fight?"
Everyone was immediately solemn, and a few quarrels were born...... No matter what, family background, age, identity, status, education, in short, in all aspects, this Zhen Yi and Zhen Dayin are the well-deserved chief of the Jizhou scholars on this trip, and everyone is of course willing to respect him.
In fact, the main theme on this road was originally Zhen Dayin leading the Jizhou scholars, Gongsun Bogui leading the children of Youzhou border counties, the two groups of people fought each other, and then a few Zhuo County Hanmen children followed to play soy sauce.
"First of all...... Don't say that you can't do anything about reporting to the official, even don't mention it! "This Zhen Dayin has a serious expression, as if he is real." Don't forget, after all, people killed people because I Zhen Yi was humiliated. I'm working hard in front of me, and I'm still muttering in the back, so what face do I Zhen Yi have to live as a person?! Not to mention what to report to the official...... I put my words here today, who dares to mention an official word, no need to guard the door Gongsun Yue to do it, my guests will cook who first, and bury it in this pavilion to make fertilizer for the plum blossom in the corner! Ladies and gentlemen, the children of eunuchs are strong, I really didn't want to do much at first, but since I can't stop others, then we can only pinch our noses and admit it, and then try our best to help! β
"If you want to help as much as you can, why didn't your brother let us go with them before?" Someone couldn't help but ask rhetorically.
"Why don't you go?" Zhen Yi was helpless when he heard this. "Look at your arm...... I asked you to hide their weapons before, but you couldn't even lift Gongsun Xun's point steel spear! I'm not mocking you alone, I'm mocking everyone, including me...... This kind of thing, just us scribes, can we do it? Do you add to the chaos? It's Han who said that, you listen to Gongsun Zhan's arrangement, don't you also let him be responsible for looking at the wind? This kind of thing, not the more people the better, if you really go to a dozen lookouts, then it's called help! β
The crowd was silent for a moment.
"But Brother Dayin, I have one more question." Suddenly, Liu Bei, who came out of nowhere, interjected suddenly, almost scaring the Jizhou scholars.
"You say." Zhen Yi was also happy at this time.
"Brother Dayin, here's the thing." Liu Bei straightened up and asked seriously. "You see, even if this murder is certain, it is a very risky ......"
"It's nature." Zhen Yi's face couldn't help but turn a little pale when he heard this. "Otherwise, I won't try to persuade you in the afternoon."
"Besides, Brother Dayin, you also talked about it, this matter is because of you after all."
"I've never denied it."
"Moreover, this time they killed the children of such powerful eunuchs, so they have to cover their faces when they kill, so I am afraid that they will not be able to make a name for themselves afterwards."
"It's also inevitable."
"In that case, why did the two grandson brothers do such a thankless thing?" Liu Bei asked very seriously.
Hearing this, all the scholars hesitated for a while...... In other words, there are some things that everyone knows, but it is difficult to discuss them on the table, that is, a child like Liu Bei can ask so much.
When Brother Gongsun said that he was going to kill someone in the afternoon, his mouth was full of what friends were insulted, and the righteousness of the same family should not be taken lightly, and then he naturally wanted to stick a knife in both sides and other nonsense, but everyone couldn't refute it.
But in reality? In fact, everyone has only known each other for more than ten days, and there are disputes every day, what kind of 'friend' is this? As for talking about the same door, to put it mildly, after all, everyone has not been officially included in the document by Lu Zhi and has become an official 'classmate', so it is too early to say anything about the meaning of the same door at this time, right?
And since that's the case, Liu Bei asked this question very well...... Why would the Gongsun brothers take such a risk to do something that seems to be unbeneficial?
Naturally, everyone instinctively set their eyes on Zhen Yi.
"Hey!" Zhen Yi let out a long sigh. "There are some things I didn't want to say, but since you asked, I'll just say it...... This grandson brother is obviously trying to 'get out of the position'! β
Out of position?
Many people are thoughtful, but there are also many people who are at a loss.
"You, some people are too young, their minds are too simple, they haven't experienced many things, and it's normal not to understand." Zhen Yi shook his head slightly weakly. "But I'm different from Gongsun Bogui and Gongsun Xun, the three of us have already worked as officials in the county, even if we have two thousand stones, we can talk and laugh, so we naturally know more truths...... Let me ask you, Gongsun Bogui and I have been fighting back and forth since we started on the road, what are you trying to do? β
"Isn't it that the scholars of Jizhou are biased towards the literary style, and the scholars of the border counties are biased towards the martial style, and the two sides are not pleasing to the eye?" Someone asked cautiously.
"It's natural, but then what?" Zhen Yi continued to ask. "Jizhou and the border county scholars are not pleasing to the eye, let me ask you, when we go to Luoyang, will those Luoyang local scholars on the Wushi Mountain look at us Hebei people? Will the senior brothers who have been studying for a year or two look down on us newcomers? β
"Brother means that you and that Gongsun Bogui are competing to be the leader of our group?" Naturally, there are smart people who have come to their senses. "When we arrive in Luoyang, we are naturally one no matter what, so we must first separate the beginning and the end on the road?"
When the people around heard this, they sighed again and again, as if they all reacted: "Yes, if this matter is done, then Brother Dayin has received great favor from others, and he will never be able to raise his head in front of the two brothers." β
"Not only that, but we weak Jizhou scholars can't raise our heads in front of their border county disciples."
"Sure enough, that group of Youzhou guys are going to use this to set a priority?!"
"The children can be taught!" Zhen Yi also nodded. "That's it."
"But......" someone swallowed. Of course, this is the truth, but if you really succeed, it is only the head of more than 20 Hebei scholars, is it really worth killing people for this? β
"This is going to talk about 'out of position' again." Zhen Yi sighed. "You don't know, there is always such a kind of person in this world who is bold and likes to do nothing! Think about it, is there always someone in the army who wants to skip the rank and ask for a fight? Is there always someone in the officialdom who wants to encroach on the power of colleagues? Is there always someone in Confucianism who wants to stir up trouble and attack others for no reason? These things seem to be worthless to ordinary people, but there are people who want to do them! β
"Of course there are such people." Someone hastened to reply. "But from what I've seen, most of them don't last long, right?"
"That's right, eight CDs won't last long." Zhen Yi nodded again and again. "It's not uncommon for me to help take care of my family's business since I was a child, and then I went to work as a county official, but what is the result...... Nine times out of ten, they hit a wall everywhere, and then the edges and corners are lost, and even people fall into the well, and finally collapse. However, there are still one or two percent of people who can always stand out and swim against the current...... This is the so-called human mastery! You have all read history books, think about the people in the books, are they all heroes of this kind of escape? The reason why these people are called masterpieces and can leave their names and history depends on not only being able to get out of the position, but also to do a good job of being in the position, which makes people speechless and have to be convinced! β
"Then Brother Dayin thinks, this Gongsun brother, is it eight or ninety percent or one or two percent?"
"When things are done, it's one or two percent, and if things can't be done, it's naturally eight or nine!" Zhen Yi didn't have a good airway. "We'll find out tomorrow at the latest. But now, we can only hope that they happen to be the heroes of one or two percent, otherwise everyone will be involved. β
"But......" Liu Bei suddenly asked again. Brother Dayin, if Brother Gongsun is a hero, what are we? β
Bear kids are so annoying! Zhen Yi glared at the other party coldly, and then ignored the other party and stood up, causing several Gongsun guests sitting at the gate of the pavilion to suddenly become nervous.
"Zhen Leopard!" Zhen Yi ignored this, but directly called the names of his cronies.
"Shaojun!" The person called Zhen Leopard hurriedly got up.
"Go and tell the pavilion chief outside the door, saying that the sister-in-law of Zhongshan Wuji Zhen is passing by here, and the night is lonely, so go to the countryside for me to find a small jasper, if the net worth is innocent and the appearance is appropriate, I can also accept it as a concubine!"
Zhen Bao was dumbfounded.
"Don't go yet!" Zhen Dayin glared angrily.
"Yes." This Zhen Leopard hurriedly bowed down, and then went to choose a concubine for his master in the stunned eyes of the people in the courtyard.
"Me too!" After being stunned for a while, another person suddenly stood up and shouted. "Who, for me Liaoxi Gongsun Zhan also go to choose a concubine, do it quickly! You have to be more beautiful than Brother Dayin's concubine! β
Only then did everyone react, and for a while, the night inside and outside the pavilion was particularly lively...... As for the concubine who was favored by the Liaoxi Lingzhi 'Gongsun Zhan' later, she was snatched away by Zhen Dayin from Zhongshan Wuji, and then made the whole township pavilion chickens fly and dogs jumping, not to mention the drama.
The night of turmoil was not mentioned for the time being, and in the early morning of the second day, Zhen Yi, who had something in his heart, was awakened by the movement outside the door, and hurriedly opened the door, only to see a familiar human head being placed under the threshold, and more than a dozen children of the nobles of the border counties were standing in the courtyard laughing and talking, but none of them were damaged.
Zhen Yi sighed in his heart, kicked the head away, and then stepped forward and bowed to Gongsun Zhan and Gongsun Xun who were the leaders: "Xian Kunzhong is above, Zhen Yi is grateful, if there is a dispatch in the future, he will never refuse!" β
Gongsun Chan laughed, but Gongsun Xun seemed to be smiling.
After the killing, the convoy set off again, but it accelerated a lot, but on the 57th, it crossed the Zhao State, crossed the Wei County, and entered the Hanoi County directly under the Si Li. Hanoi County has 15 counties under its jurisdiction, with 180,000 households and a population of nearly 800,000.
However, everyone still didn't dare to stop more, just lowered their heads and hurried up, and they didn't even dare to take the pontoon bridge in Mengjin, but they just crossed Pinggao all the way to Wushejin on the edge of the Yellow River, and then hired a large group of ferries. When the entire convoy got on the boat and went straight to Luoyang on the other side of the river, everyone was relieved!
The Yellow River is turbulent, and many people can't help but laugh out loud as soon as they board the ferry, which is understandable, after all, due to the level of communication in these years, as long as they cross the Yellow River, it is unlikely that the 'big things' that have been done on the side of Julu will be able to find their heads again.
Therefore, whether it is the children of the border counties who committed the crime with their own hands or the somewhat timid Jizhou scholars, they will naturally have a bit of a taste of profligacy.
However, standing on a ferry boat owned by his family, Gongsun Xun's performance was a little different from that of his peers, he first looked at the river and sighed, and then couldn't help laughing out loud like everyone else, but in the end he shook his head again and again.
Han Dang behind him was inexplicable, since Feng Dashui followed this young gentleman, he had more or less noticed a little bit of this character, although he was young, but he acted quite steadily, and only when he should have a Bo would he seem so unscrupulous...... It's just a river, it's not so gaffe, right?
As soon as he thought of this, Han Dang couldn't help but ask: "Doesn't Shaojun have something on his mind?" β
"I can't call it a matter of heart," Gongsun Xun glanced back at the north bank of the Yellow River behind him. "It's just a little emotional."
The other party was reluctant to say anything, so Han immediately said no more.
In fact, even if he is a confidant, there are some things that Gongsun Xun does not say much.
In other words, for a long time, his mother, Gongsun Auntie, always told him that the Han Dynasty was going to die, and the troubled times were about to begin, and in order to survive, we had to prepare early. And with the gradual arrival of time, the development and emergence of various things are constantly verifying this statement, from his brother Gongsun Zan to Han Dang Chengpu to Liu Bei, from the development of Taiping Dao to the unscrupulousness of eunuchs, all of them are exactly the same as what Gongsun Auntie said...... I can't help but Sun Xun doesn't believe it.
However, passive belief and active belief are completely different mentalities, if you don't see something with your own eyes, don't test it with your own hands, Gongsun Xun is always unwilling - here is one more nonsense, it is precisely the Gongsun aunt who teaches his son to be this kind of 'materialism'.
Back in front of him, it is true that as soon as Gongsun Xun came out of the border county, he saw the unscrupulous and tragic annexation of the low-level heroes to the people, and then he also met the powerful Taiping Dao who was fishing in troubled waters, and got acquainted with the mainland officials of the Han Dynasty who were on a vegetarian diet because of party disputes...... But it may be because this kind of testimony came too quickly and directly, so that Gongsun Xun had a sense of coincidence and a feeling that it was not real enough.
Therefore, as soon as he returned to the team and heard the arrogance of the eunuch's son, he almost instinctively wanted to test itβwhy not use the hand of his brother with great luck to stab this world, and then see the reaction of this world with his own eyes?
The nephew of Zhao Changshi, who leaned towards the government and the opposition, was inexplicably beheaded in his own manor, and then even the place where he lived was burned down, so how much energy will the most representative force of the Han Dynasty, that is, the bureaucrats, burst out?
The answer is to search the whole city, investigate carefully, and then be confused.
Then, after a temporary setback, the county magistrate and the local county magistrate abandoned the official before the wrath of the imperial court came, which completely collapsed the investigation of the entire case. And the real murderer and his party swaggered through the entire Zhao Kingdom, the entire Wei County, and the entire Hanoi, and now they are about to arrive in Luoyang!
With a radius of thousands of miles, a population of tens of millions, a million armor, and a heritage of nearly 400 years, the Han Dynasty even relied on the heavy land of Hebei to collapse like this, so it is no wonder that there will be those things in the future.
But I don't know what's going on, Gongsun Xun, who is about to arrive in Luoyang, has a little more sadness in his heart at this moment after removing the doubts in his heart. Because, after all, this is a man who was born and grew up in Si, and he has to learn from Si Shiyu. For his mother, he can not regard this era as his roots...... But what about yourself?
Just when Gongsun Xun was in a complicated mood, there was a burst of cheers in front of him, and it was obvious that the ship in front of him had docked. Gongsun Xun put away his superfluous thoughts and looked at Luoyang on the south bank of the Yellow River, and his eyes gradually became firm again.
As the saying goes: Eighteen years of looking for swords, a few times back leaves and branches. Since I saw the peach blossoms, I have no doubt about it until now.
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