Chapter 102: Goose Feathers Make Gifts

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Since beating Wang Shichong to his own death, Li Chengzong pushed the boat down the river to destroy Zheng Guo, a large area of the Central Plains centered on Luoyang became Li Chengzong's territory, he set up the Central Plains Province here, the provincial capital was temporarily placed in Luoyang City, which is known as Zhongzhou, and the prosperous Luoyang City was more prosperous and rich than before under the governance of Li Chengzong, so that many people came to Luoyang to seek life.

Zhou Fan is one of them, he is originally from Beizhou and is a candy peddler, he went around begging for a living, and lived in the Luoyang area. On this day, he was blowing candy people on the street, and suddenly heard a familiar local voice: "Little Fanzi!" ”

When he looked up, he couldn't help but be surprised and delighted: this person was Kang Yong from the neighboring village. I saw Kang Yong wearing a silk shirt and brocade shoes, like a rich man. Zhou Fan couldn't help but think: This Kang Yong was originally just a craftsman who made up the pot, how did he suddenly become developed?

The two rarely met in another country, and Kang Yong warmly invited Zhou Fan to a tavern for dinner. Eating happily, Zhou Fan asked how Kang Yong made a fortune, Kang Yong said: "We have a fellow in Beizhou named Gao Mingyu, who is a big official here, I heard that it is the prefect, and I asked him to sell silk." ”

It turns out that I have found a backer! Zhou Fan secretly sighed, looked at Kang Yong and said, "Brother Yong, can you introduce me to me, I ...... I want to find him too. ”

Kang Yong hesitated for a moment and said, "That's it, I'll show you the way, and you go to see Master Gao yourself." As long as you make it clear that you are from Bezhou, and bring a little courtesy, he will definitely help. ”

After the meal, the two said goodbye, and Zhou Fan took the ten taels of silver he had accumulated to the prefect's yamen to visit Gao Mingyu. When he arrived at the yamen and saw the porter, he handed over a post, stating that he was from his hometown in Kochifu.

The porter took the post and turned around and went inside, and soon came back: "The master said, no." ”

What, not seen? Zhou Fan was taken aback and thought: He has seen Kangyong, why don't you see me? Did I bring too little of the gift? Zhou Fan said: "I am from the adult's hometown, please report it again." ”

The porter said, "The old man said he was gone!" Go back! Zhou Fan was disappointed and puzzled: How did Kang Yong meet Gao Mingyu?

Three months later, Zhou Fan went to see Kang Yong again and told him about his gift-giving encounter, and finally said: "I said that he was from his hometown and brought a gift, why didn't he see him?" ”

Kang Yong said: "Gao is honest and honest, I heard that it was my hometown who asked to see him, so it was inevitable to avoid suspicion. ”

Zhou Fan asked rhetorically, "Then why did he see you?" Could it be that I have too few gifts? ”

When Kang Yong heard this, he smiled again and said, "To tell you the truth, I didn't even send a copper plate." As the saying goes, 'Thousands of miles to send goose feathers, courtesy is light and affectionate', I just sent him a goose feather. ”

Zhou Fan said suspiciously: "Goose feathers, really sent a goose feather?" Why? ”

"I don't know," Kangyong said. Before my father died, he said that Gao Mingyu was a big official here in Luoyang and asked me to come to him. And said that if he didn't want to help, he could give him a goose feather. I think Gao Mingyu must be more affectionate than gold and silver. ”

Listening to Kang Yong's remarks, Zhou Fan had a score in his heart. After waiting for a few days, he really went to Yamen to visit Gao Mingyu again, and wrote on the worship post that he was from his hometown of Beizhou, and attached a goose feather.

That Gao Mingyu is really a person who values love and righteousness, and this time he actually came to greet Zhou Fan in person.

When he arrived in the living room, Gao Mingyu ordered someone to pour tea and asked, "Where are you from?" Zhou Fan replied: "Zhoujia Village." "Oh!" Gao Mingyu nodded and said, "We are a high-rise building, not far from Zhoujia Village. ”

In this way, the two talked a lot about their hometown, and what made Zhou Fan secretly happy was that Gao Mingyu did not have a bit of an official in front of him, a fellow countryman, and was very easy-going. In the end, Zhou Fan bluntly said that the candy blower makes little money and is not familiar with life, so he hopes to sell some jade, and asks Gao Da to help him a lot.

Gao Mingyu muttered: "As officials, we should be worthy of the court and the people, if we help you, it will be favoritism......"

Zhou Fan said: "I am in a legitimate business, you are a big official, as long as I let my subordinates take care of my business more, anyway, this money will not be too much to be distributed to everyone." ”

"Let me think about it......" Gao Mingyu lowered his head and thought deeply, for a long time, as if he had made up his mind, "Okay, who made us fellow countrymen?" I'll help you. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Fan got up and said goodbye happily, but Gao Mingyu stopped him and said, "Don't panic, tomorrow I will have a banquet for our fellow Beizhou villagers in Jinfeng Villa in the suburbs, and you must come then." ”

Look, people promise to help, but also invite yourself, how rare this affectionate righteousness is! Zhou Fan happily asked, "How many Beizhou villagers do we have?" Gao Mingyu smiled and said, "Not much, seventeen." Zhou Fan listened to it and sighed with emotion.

After going back, the more Zhou Fan thought about it, the happier he became, and he drank a beautiful meal at night, and he was so dizzy that he overslept in one night. Seeing that he was about to miss the appointment, Zhou Fan hurriedly trotted all the way to Jinfeng Villa, which was more than ten miles away.

Jinfeng Villa is a village house purchased by Gao Daren in the suburbs, the gatehouse is towering, Zhou Fan saw it from afar, but he was suddenly shocked.

Tongues of fire flew above Jinfeng Villa, thick smoke billowed out, and bursts of people shouting horses neighed like wild waves. "What's on fire, what's on fire?" Zhou Fan muttered to himself.

When the people nearby saw that the mountain village was on fire, they rushed to put out the fire, but the fire was so raging that it could be extinguished by a few basins and buckets of water? Helpless, they could only watch as the villa collapsed little by little in the fire.

Zhou Fan was stunned, and suddenly, a figure popped out of the firelight, "Little Fanzi ......"

Zhou Fan was startled and hurriedly shouted, "Brother Yong! ”

The person who jumped out of the fire was Kang Yong, Kang Yong immediately fell to the ground after jumping out, rolling left and right, and Zhou Fan also quickly took off his clothes to help him extinguish the fire on his body. Soon, the fire on Yasuyong's body was extinguished, but his face was dark.

Zhou Fan asked anxiously, "What's wrong?" ”

Kang Yong turned his head to look around, and said with a face full of fear: "Run, help me run!" ”

The two of them ran towards the distance where no one was around, and behind them, a raging fire engulfed everything around them...... The tall man who rushed to hear the news seemed to be directing everyone to put out the fire.

Kang Yong saw that there was no one chasing after him, so Zhou Fan stopped: "Stop...... Stop......" said and gasped.

Zhou Fan asked anxiously, "What's going on?" Kang Yong looked back in the direction of Jinfeng Villa and said viciously: "He...... He's such a human-faced beast! ”

Zhou Fan was taken aback and asked, "Who?" ”

"High ...... Bright...... House. ”

"Him?" Zhou Fan was puzzled, thinking to himself Isn't he enthusiastic about helping fellow villagers and a person who values love?

Kang Yong took a breath and said, "I just knew...... He invited all the people who had sent him goose feathers into the lodge and said...... It's good to invite fellow countrymen, and it's ...... In fact, I want to kill people and kill people......"

"Kill whom, kill what?" Zhou Fan is even more strange.

Kang Yong smiled miserably and said, "Kill us who gave him goose feathers......"

"The one who sent him goose feathers? Doesn't that include me, too? Zhou Fan was puzzled.

Kang Yong said: "Not bad......" said a very terrible thing: Gao Mingyu was just a poor scholar in his hometown in Beizhou, and he wanted to go to Chang'an to participate in the scientific expedition of Emperor Yang Er, but he didn't even have a travel fee. In desperation, one night seven years ago, he and several of his cousins pretended to be masked bandits, burned, killed and looted several nearby villages, including Kang Yong's Kangzhuang and Zhou Fan's Zhoujia Village, and then he donated a prefect to be an official here. However, his pretending to be a bandit was known to Kang Yong's father and a few neighbors. Because Gao Mingyu used goose feathers on their heads when they burned, killed and looted, and pretended to be a goose feather gang to hide people's eyes. Kang Yong's father knew that Gao Mingyu was a big official in Luoyang, so he ordered his son to come to him, saying that if he didn't want to help, he would send goose feathers.

"This move is not a 'goose feather for thousands of miles', but an implicit threat: if you refuse to help, you will denounce him. I didn't know the secret before, so I asked you and other fellow villagers to send goose feathers to Gao Mingyu, alas...... Gao Mingyu saw that there were more and more people coming to deliver goose feathers, and he became more and more uneasy, so he became murderous. ”

Zhou Fan sighed: Fortunately, he was drunk last night and overslept, otherwise he would have died in the villa.

"Xiao Fanzi, let me tell you, since this Gao Mingyu is unkind, then don't blame us for being unjust, I plan to go to Qindao to find His Royal Highness the King of Han to expose him, will you go??" Kang Yong asked Zhou Fan, obviously Kang Yong was very unwilling, "Anyway, I went to decide, and they all said that His Royal Highness the King of Han was extremely virtuous, I think if he knew what Gao Mingyu did, well, did you say it??" ”

Kang Yong only said half of what he said, but Zhou Fan understood very well in his heart, and he was very happy, since Gao Mingyu was unkind, then don't blame him for being ruthless......

"Brother Yong, I also want to go to the capital to complain, I don't believe that his Gao family can cover the sky with one hand in Luoyang........." Kang Yong also hates Gao Mingyu and hates that Gao Mingyu, and he also wants to trip this senior brother.

The two brothers packed up and rushed to Qin Island non-stop, and they went directly to Jinyiwei's office and denounced the Kochi Mansion. Li Chengzong has always advocated the principle that governing the country must first govern officials, and after learning that Gao Mingyu was not clean, Li Chengzong sent Jinyiwei to investigate, and the results confirmed this greedy guy, and after the trial, Kang Yong and Zhou Fan achieved their goal and brought down Gao Mingyu........

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