Chapter 23 Grafting
Emperor Taizu's yellow robe was added to his body, looking back on the lessons of the previous dynasty, and came to the insight of "winning the world immediately, not ruling the world immediately", and then set the fundamental national policy of advocating literature and suppressing martial arts, so the two emperors of this dynasty like to spare no effort to elevate the status of literati, and often give officials to scholars, Liu Pu's fathers have received the emperor's grace, and went out to be officials very early.
The Liu family is a wealthy family, and the Liu clan is even more well-known, so when the children of the Liu family go out to be officials, they often do not take their children with them, but leave them to study at home in Suzhou, and Liu Pu's father is the same.
There is no parental discipline around him, and he is the son-in-law of the family, Liu Pu has been spoiled since he was a child, and he has been dyed with a stubborn temperament, although he is subject to family rules and has to go to the clan to study, but he is not motivated at all. A few years ago, he was forced by his father to participate in the imperial examination, but his name fell to Sun Mountain, and his father saw that he was not enterprising, so he had to ask for a shadow supplement for him, and threw him into Shu, which was thousands of miles away from home, in order to temper his character.
Since it is a tempering, the first thing is to be able to support himself, and with a wave of his father's hand, he ordered his family to cut off his offerings to him. Liu Gongzi, who has been drunk with money since he was a child and does not know firewood, rice, oil and salt, has fallen into embarrassment in his life, and can only live on a meager salary, not to mention going to Ma Zhangtai, and he dare not go to eat and drink with his colleagues, and sighs in the house every day, thinking about how to persuade the Suzhou family to give him money. Who knew that his simple behavior fell in the eyes of Fan Zhigu, and he also got a good impression of hard work and not greedy for pleasure, and he became more and more optimistic about him.
But Liu Gongzi's ambition has never been to be a thrifty and honest official, but to continue to be the noble son of the freshly dressed and angry horse, the observer who saw the profit and forgot the virtue used to be the same as him, living a life of eating and drinking, and after returning from Pengshan County, he actually spent all day drinking and drinking, which had already made Liu Gongzi envious.
After he got Fan Zhigu's assignment, he immediately went to the previous observer and asked him to help greet Wu Jindong, so that he could also go to fight the autumn breeze, so Wu Jindong knew his itinerary in advance, and he had already prepared delicacies and filial piety and silver, and waited for him.
After the Li brothers and sisters figured out the reason, they naturally became even more disdainful of Liu Pu, and felt that just beating him was not enough to relieve their hatred. The brother and sister already boasted of being chivalrous and chivalrous, and they heard that Wu Jindong, the commander of Pengshan County, was a corrupt official who was rampant and tyrannical, so they thought it would be better to take this opportunity to rectify him together, so that these two dog officials knew what it meant to be cocooned and self-bound.
So the two of them searched for his waist card from Liu Pu, knocked him and the two attendants unconscious, and carried him into Pengshan County on horseback.
Entering the city gate, the county ordered Wu Jindong to wait for a long time, Li Zongyu showed his waist card, claiming to be Liu Pu, Wu Jindong saw that he was only carrying a woman, and there were three people on horseback, very strange, so he asked.
Li Zongyu naturally thought of a countermeasure a long time ago, explaining that Fan Waitai sent him here for an unannounced visit, he was afraid of attracting attention, so he only brought a personal maid, the two met robbers on the way to come, and were in danger of being persecuted.
Although this explanation is quite absurd and far-fetched, Wu Jindong saw that Li Zongyu was handsome, and he was indeed a child of a family, and his age was right, so he did not have him.
Li Zongyu also said that these three gangsters were treacherous and murderous, and they pretended to befriend him before, revealed their own identity and origin, and intended to deceive them by impersonating their identities after committing the murder, so that Wu Jindong would definitely send someone to take strict care of them, and no matter what they said after they woke up, they should not be gullible, so Wu Jindong did as he said.
After that, Li Zongyu was warmly entertained by Wu Jindong, and a thousand taels of silver were offered, Li Zongyu humbly shirked it and accepted it, preparing to take it to help the poor after getting out.
After two days, Wu Jindong gradually came back to his senses, and saw that this "Liu Pu" only ate and drank every day, and did not talk about official affairs at all, and tested him with some interesting things about people in the officialdom, but he was also perfunctory. Wu Jindong was alert, so he asked someone to interrogate the three "gangsters" carefully, and then he knew that he had been fooled, and immediately took someone to arrest the Li brothers and sisters, but the two had already prepared, so that Wu Jindong pounced.
Wu Jindong was like a mourner, and in just two days, Li Zongyu extorted more than 2,000 taels of silver from him, plus a thousand taels of silver to bribe the last observer, almost went to his small half of his house, and the most aggrieved thing was that he still had to find a way to appease the real Liu Pu, otherwise if Liu Pu couldn't help but tell the truth when he went back, he would really lose his wife and break his army.
The dignified county order was blackmailed, and if this matter got out, Wu Jindong was afraid that people would laugh off his big teeth, so he could only order the arresters to arrest it quietly and not make a noise.
The Li brothers and sisters here are also bold artists, and after the two slipped out of the city, Qiao changed her makeup and returned to Pengshan County. Because in their opinion, what is taken from the people should be returned to the people, so when the two returned to the city, they saw that someone's house was in tatters, hungry and cold, and they used the silver given by Wu Jindong to help.
Today, when the two of them were wandering in the streets, they saw a boy who was bullied by a group of splashes, and his nose was blue and his face was swollen, so they drove away the boys, and when they saw that the boy's clothes were in tatters and he looked like a beggar, they threw him a piece of silver, and told him to buy some food to satisfy his hunger, and then left.
Within a few steps, the Li brothers and sisters found that there were two people stalking them, and the Li brothers and sisters were so skilled that they naturally got rid of the tracker's sight with a little trick and stared at the two instead.
I saw that after the two people chased to no avail, they turned back and aimed at the boy who had just been rescued by them, one of them had already run to report the news, the Li brothers and sisters naturally knew that the boy was affected by themselves, so they wanted to come forward to rescue, who knew that the gang of head catchers came very fast, and the two were afraid that they would attract more pursuers in the city, so they chased the boy all the way to this Yihe Village, and then there was this farce just now.
The encounter of the Li brothers and sisters made everyone in the courtyard stunned for a while, and they all admired the two brothers and sisters for being so brave and chivalrous.
The Li brothers and sisters themselves felt the same way, seeing that everyone had a look of appreciation and admiration on their faces, they were very happy, and Li Zongyu couldn't wait to laugh three times.
After talking about the past, it is natural to deal with the things in front of him, Wang Xiaobo said to Song Yuanzhi and Song Xiaoruo, who were already in a somewhat better mood: "Now that the matter has come to this, if you still stay in Pengshan County, I am afraid that it will be more auspicious, would you like to go to Qingcheng County with us?" Don't worry, I will never force you to make the decision, if you don't want to go to Qingcheng County, I can also give you some money and find a way to send you to other places to live, but you are still young, if you go to another place and have nothing to rely on, I am afraid that it will be very difficult. ”
The brothers and sisters of the Song family thought about it and understood that what Wang Xiaobo said was good, so they nodded and agreed.
Li Zongyu suddenly spoke: "Since Wang Dadong's family is willing to take care of them, it can be regarded as a favor for us, otherwise if they are implicated by us and retaliated against by the government, our brothers and sisters will really be guilty." ”
"Don't mind, the two of you are also kind-hearted, but they were sent by those officials to spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain." Wang Xiaobo was relieved.
"Yes, my brother and sister are good people, those officials are bad people, you are doing the right thing, if I have the ability, I will definitely clean them up." After years of misfortune, Song Yuanzhi had no good impression of the people in the government, and he admired the Li brothers and sisters for their chivalrous behavior, punishing the evil and helping the weak. Song Xiaoruo also nodded again and again.
Looking at the admiration of the two children, Li Jin'er only felt that the sword in her hand was even more shining and brighter.