Chapter 683 Buying Words and Killing Dogs

The chaos in the country is chaotic in the hearts of the people.

I don't know who said this sentence at the earliest, in my spare time, I feel that this sentence has a sense of commotion and pedantic, and it seems pretentious to say this sentence in peacetime, but when the world is in chaos, think about it carefully, in fact, people's hearts have been chaotic, otherwise how could it be so fast and so thorough?

There is a fierce beast hidden in people's hearts, and most of the time they are asleep, and once they wake up with the smell of blood, it is difficult to control this beast.

Because of the war, how many pure and good people have become bandits who kill people without blinking.

Fang Xie once again opened the killing ring in the county soldier camp, and then sent the capable generals of the Black Flag Army to reintegrate the county soldiers, since these 30,000 people Fang Xie wanted from the three governors, he had no intention of returning them. And the generals who led the troops were all cronies of the three governors, just like the roar of that Lang before he died, Fang Xie would kill them after all.

Fang explained, if you don't make a mistake, I won't kill you, and this sentence is not wrong.

But how can they not make mistakes?

After leaving the Swallow Tower, Fang Xie asked all the entourage to go back, and then left the big dog in a daze on the third floor of the Swallow Tower, and he went downstairs alone and planned to walk along the street casually. After going downstairs, Fang Xie glanced back at the big dog standing on a high place, and suddenly thought if he was a little embarrassed for him.

The big dog has always said that he has no desire to return to the country, but that is his heart knot for decades, if he does not have an explanation, he is afraid that he will not be practical in this life. He has been running away from himself, and Fang Xie wants to help him face it. But when he went downstairs, Fang Xie suddenly found that the figure of the big dog looked so lonely, Fang Xie shook his head, and said that he hoped it was his illusion.

A while ago, the blood of the Black Flag Army slaughtered the clan has dried up, and the people have started to live a normal life again. On the crowded street, Fang Xie erected the collar of his black cloak to cover half of his face. The day Fang Xie led the Black Flag Army into the city and ten thousand empty alleys, and this face is no longer unfamiliar in Yongzhou City.

Fortunately, the collar of Fang Jie's windbreaker designed by himself was large enough, and after standing up, it covered his nose all the way, revealing only a pair of eyes, and it was not easy to recognize.

He stopped in front of a scholar's booth selling words and looked at the words on the table.

To be honest, Fang Jie's words are ugly, so he looks at other people's words beautifully.

"Ask for words?"

It looked like a scholar of about forty years old was holding a book in his hand, raised his eyelids and glanced at Fang Xie and asked. Fang Xie shook his head, and the scholar snorted in his nose and ignored it.

"Why didn't you ask me if I would buy it, but instead used a request word?"

Fang Xie asked him.

The scholar rolled his eyelids again and replied with a very natural emphasis: "I am a literati, how can I be stained with the smell of yellow and white brass, so I can't say business, if you want words, you can only say and ask." Wind bones, wind bones, do you understand? ”

Fang Xie shook his head: "I don't understand"

The scholar pursed his lips and whispered to himself, "I don't even understand the word wind and bones, what else do you ask for?"

Fang Xie took out a stack of silver tickets from his cuffs, picked out a hundred taels from the inside, and put it on the table: "I want to buy a few words." ”

The scholar was obviously moved when he saw the silver ticket, and after opening his mouth, he shook his head: "If you want to ask for words, say buy, I won't write." ”

Fang Xie picked out a piece of five hundred taels and put it on the table: "I want to buy a few words." ”

The scholar licked his lips, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became extraordinarily bright: "This guest, you are really discerning, my words have even been praised by Song Lanqiao, the great Confucian of Yongzhou, and he said that he knows that people have style and bones when they look at my words." Song Lanqiao, do you know? It is a learned Confucian who can be counted in the southwest, and he is famous for thousands of miles. ”

"Write what?"

"Abundant Wealth"

Fang Xie replied

The scholar was stunned for a moment, and looked at Fang Xie with some incredulity: "These four words, aren't they...... Something vulgar? I think you are a person with great status, if you give it away, why don't you write some words? ”

Fang Xie found a silver ticket of 1,000 taels and put it down: "Write a hundred times." ”

The scholar gritted his teeth: "Okay! ”

Then splashed ink, I have to say, this person's writing is extremely fast and excellent, the pen walks the dragon snake, the wolf pen dipped in ink flies on the straight face, a hundred times Wishing you prosperity only took half an hour to write. The floor was covered with a layer of stones, and he picked up some stones to hold down the paper. At the end of the last stroke, he raised his wrist and smiled proudly, as if he was very satisfied with the words.

"It's written, do you want me to send it to the house for you?"

Fang Xie looked at the hundred pieces of paper, shook his head, then took back the three silver tickets, turned around and left.

"Hey!"

The scholar was furious: "What do you mean by this person? I said I wanted to buy my words, why don't you want it now? I'm going to sue you in the yamen, don't go!" ”

Fang Xie turned his head, glanced at the scholar and shook his head again: "I wanted to buy wind bones, but I really couldn't buy them." Other than that...... The Song Lanqiao you are talking about, was raided a while ago, and before he died, he had to sacrifice his concubine to survive, he praised your words for being graceful, and he couldn't praise you. ”

The scholar's face flushed, and he didn't know what to say.

When Fang Xie walked away, he spat and scolded. Sitting down indignantly and scolding, a person came over and asked how to sell this wealth Guangjin? The scholar casually replied that one or two pieces of silver would not be sold! The man didn't speak, but took out a tael of silver and put it down, took one and walked away.

The scholar was stunned, looked at the one or two pieces of silver, and looked at the wealth that was spread all over the place.

I always feel like I understand something, but I'm confused again.

On this day, he sold five pieces of wealth and got five taels of silver. In the past ten days, he didn't sell a single copper coin. The next day, he wrote two big characters and hung them up, and then felt that he felt a lot more relaxed and very down-to-earth.

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Fang Xie walked to the corner of the street and saw two old men playing chess, surrounded by five or six people watching, but they were all very regular, and no one spoke.

A few meters away from them, a beggar curled up under a large locust tree basking in the sun. There was a broken bowl next to it, and there was rice and vegetables in the broken bowl, and it seemed that the beggar's life was not too hard. In the distance, a wild dog kept its eyes on this side, perhaps only the broken bowl of food.

Fang Xie didn't go to see the two old men playing chess, but sat down next to the beggar and asked, "Do you sell food?" ”

The beggar opened his eyes and glanced at Fang Xie in surprise, and when he was sure that Fang Xie was indeed asking him, he hesitated for a while before answering tentatively: "Sell?" ”

"How do you sell it?"

Fang asked.

"Five...... Wuwen? ”

The beggar asked tentatively again.

"One Hundred Taels"

Fang Xie handed the silver ticket of one hundred taels to the beggar.

The beggar opened his mouth wide enough to swallow a goose egg, and he stretched out his hand, but he didn't dare to take it.

"I ...... What else can I do for you? ”

The beggar asked, his lips trembling.

"Do you think this one hundred taels of silver is too much?"

Fang asked.

"Hmm!"

The beggar nodded vigorously: "If you give me charity, this hundred taels is indeed too much." Like me, I couldn't exchange the silver for the money when I took the 100 taels of silver tickets, and I was either taken away from the silver tickets and beaten out with a stick, or I was tied up and sent to the official to say that I stole it...... I really want to take this silver ticket, but I can't hold it. ”

Fang Xie nodded, and touched the money bag, which contained dozens of taels of silver.

"Ten taels?"

He asked the beggar.

"Good!"

The beggar nodded like a pound of garlic, took the silver and handed the broken bowl over. Fang Xie shook his head and pointed to the wild dog not far away that was already hungry and obviously suffocating: "Feed it." ”

"Hey it? Why? ”

The beggar asked.

Fang Xie didn't answer, and the beggar didn't want to ask again, so he put the broken bowl on the side of the road and then retreated, the wild dog hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't resist the temptation of food, ran over and began to devour, not yet vigilantly looking at this side, grinning at the people passing by from time to time. The beggar walked back, and said that he had really met a strange man, and spent money to buy the beggar's leftovers to feed the wild dogs, and no one believed it.

Fang Xie looked at the wild dog and shook his head.

The dog, he remembers, the first day he woke up, when he was standing by the dry lake in Luofu, there was a dog in the ruins in the distance that kept wailing. Later, Fang Xie sent people to dig up the ruins and find an old corpse inside. The old man did not heed the advice of the Black Flag Army to leave his home, and as a result, he was shattered by Luo Yao's Vajra Realm and buried his house inside.

"There's some silver here."

Fang Xie handed it to the beggar: "Find five people on the street at random, go west and turn around the street, there is a scholar selling words, and ask them to help buy five paintings and make a lot of money." ”

The beggar was stunned again, and said in his heart that he had seen a lot of strange people, and it was the first time he had seen such a strange. But he didn't dare to refuse, who knows what this master came from, he got up and begged a few people on the street to sell words, and there were a few taels of silver left to collect by himself.

"I'm asking you a question."

Wait for the beggar to come back and explain.

"You said, I walk the streets and alleys, I don't know anything else, whose widow has a concubine, whose man has a woman outside, I have heard a lot of this kind of thing."

Fang Xie ignored it, was silent for a while and asked, "Someone is in chaos, so the world is in chaos, and then people's hearts are in chaos." When people's hearts are disturbed, the good become evil. Many simple people have become bloodthirsty, and they can also raise butcher knives to their former fellow villagers and friends. How can this be stopped? ”

The beggar was completely stupid, and asked in a daze, "Are you asking me?" ”

"Yes"

"This ......"

The beggar thought for a while, then sat up straight and replied: "Actually, it is not the world that is chaotic when people's hearts are chaotic, people's hearts are the most ruthless things. It's like the wild dog over there, it is too hungry to eat people now, but once one day it is so hungry that it runs to the grave and eats the dead, then it dares to bite the living the next day. It's the same with people, they all have evil thoughts in their hearts, but they don't usually go hungry, so they don't need to do evil. If you are hungry, the owner can bite it. ”

"How?"

Fang asked.

"Kill"

The beggar replied as a matter of course: "In this kind of world, there is a lack of a cold-blooded and ruthless person to come out, kill from beginning to end, kill until everyone's hearts tremble, no one dares to oppose him, whatever he says is what he says, so that order will be restored." Although I haven't read any books, I also know that the founding emperors of all dynasties and dynasties did not have a million lives in their hands? There are many, but I'm afraid there are tens of thousands. ”

"For the evil in people's hearts, in peacetime, we can teach with goodness, everyone promotes good, and evil is obediently hidden and dare not run around. People are all imitating each other, and they are all like each other. Like this dog, he follows the good and keeps the good. Follow the wicked, and you will only bite. But in troubled times, Yangshan has a dick-bar? ”

The beggar said a foul word, quickly shut up and smiled apologetically.

"Kill that dog, there is a new grave in the west of Luo Yao's Mansion, bury this dog next to the grave."

"Why?"

"Keeping Good"

Fang Xie got up and put down the silver ticket of one hundred taels: "Thank you"

"Thank you?"

The beggar was surprised: "Thank you for killing this dog?" ”

"Both"

Fang Xie patted the dirt on his clothes and glanced at the dog that was looking at him with a fierce face.

"You, what's going on?"

The beggar couldn't help but ask curiously.

Fang Xie tidied up his clothes and walked away slowly. The beggar watched him leave until Fang Xie completely disappeared from his sight. Then he pulled out another bowl of leftovers from the haystack next to the locust tree and whistled at the wild dogs. The wild dog hesitated, but finally tentatively approached. When the wild dog lowered his head to eat, the beggar quickly tied the dog by the neck with a rope and dragged it away, and before long, the dog lost his breath.

Beggars killing dogs is a good trick.