Chapter Twenty-Three: Another General
Early in the morning of the second day, before dawn, the sound of talking sounded outside the village chief's house.
The five people who only drank a bowl of gruel had already had their stomachs ringing, how could they still sleep? Especially Xu Chu, looking at his figure, how can he use it without five or six bowls of rice in one meal? If it weren't for Liu Zhang's persuasion, I'm afraid he would have started scolding a long time ago. A few people stopped sleeping at this time, and came out of the voice.
I saw a dozen hungry villagers gathered outside the village chief's house, arguing with the village chief. Seeing Liu Zhang and others come out, the villagers couldn't help but be overjoyed, and the village chief was also relieved.
A young man with slightly better physical strength and a bit of heroic spirit stepped forward and said, "In the lower Wei Yan and Wei Wenchang, I have seen all the sons!" ”
Xun You and the others saw that he knew a lot of etiquette, and they were afraid that they would not be very human, so they all returned the courtesy one by one, but Liu Zhang glared at the man as if he had seen a ghost, and muttered in his heart: "He is Wei Yan?" A guy with a brain? Then he thought, "No, but it is very common to have the same name and the same sex, but it is not always common to have the same name, surname, and words!" Could it be that he was illuminated by the so-called halo of the protagonist? This is really someone who cuts flowers and doesn't let go, and unintentionally inserts willows and willows! Haha......"
Xun You and the others looked at him very strangely when they saw Liu Zhang's smirk, not understanding what was wrong with him.
After a long time, Liu Zhang came back to his senses: "It turns out that you are Wei Wenchang, you have admired the name for a long time, fortunately, fortunately!" ”
Full Pet and Xu Huang suddenly understood, isn't this similar to Liu Zhang's reaction when he saw him, it seems that this is another person who responds to dreams!
Wei Yan was confused: "Childe has heard of being a cheap name?" ”
Liu Zhang said: "Of course I have heard it, it is like thunder!" I often hear that people are brave and brave, and there is a talent for breaking and rushing to the outside and protecting the country. ”
Wei Yan was still in white clothes at this time, but he was always ambitious, he studied hard when he was young, and he was compared to Han Xin without any papers, but he was from a humble background, and he couldn't get into the eyes of others. There is no need for Liu Zhang to spend any quarrels, he should have expressed his willingness to work when he ran into walls everywhere.
Liu Zhang was naturally overjoyed, although the image of Wei Yan in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was not glorious, but that book was originally "three points of history, seven points of story", not to mention that even if Master Luo may have an opinion on Wei Yan, but in the book he still highly respected his civil and military affairs, he served in Hanzhong for nearly ten years, you must know that Hanzhong is the barrier of Shu State, and it is also the advance base of Cao Wei of the Northern Expedition. It shows his talent. Later, he participated in Zhuge Liang's previous Northern Expeditions, repeatedly won offensive awards, and became a former military division, a general of the expedition to the west, and a marquis of Duting. It's a pity that Zhuge Liang said that he was rebellious and didn't believe it, so it can be said that he was quite suppressed, which is probably the reason why Zhuge Liang will rebel after his death (if you want to say that he is not in harmony with Yang Yi, Liu Zhang does not believe it, Yang Yi is not a long history, is it necessary for Wei Yan, who has a heavy army, to oppose him?) It's not so much that he is against Yang Yi, it's better that he wants to get an explanation for the various injustices he suffered when Zhuge Liang was alive)! As for Zhuge Liang saying that he has a backlash and will be reversed in the future, Liu Zhang will not believe such a ridiculous thing, anyway, in his opinion, Zhuge Liang is famous for not knowing people, one is Wei Yan, and the other is the famous Ma Yan, as the saying goes: A person is about to die, and his words are also good, but Zhuge Liang ignored Liu Bei's earnest admonition before his death, misused Ma Tan, and eventually lost the street pavilion!
Seeing that he had no food to eat, he went out hunting, hoping to hunt some food, but the people who could fill his stomach in this neighborhood had already been eaten up, and after looking for a long time, he didn't even find a mouse, and he was frustrated when he returned home to find that his mother had used the pot that had long been abandoned to boil porridge, and asked Fang Zhi how many sons came to the village, and saw that the villagers were hungry and had no food, so he distributed his food to everyone. He was grateful for his virtue, and heard his mother say that the group of people looked like they were from extraordinary backgrounds, so he decided to rush to see him the next morning, half to repay his kindness, half to find a way out......
Wei Yan came with all the villagers of this village, and they received Liu Zhang's help and came to express their gratitude. Liu Zhang asked Hou one by one and asked them to leave.
Liu Zhang ordered Xu Huang to take some money and hand it to the village chief, bought some sorghum from the village chief's house, and slaughtered the only old chicken in the village chief's house and asked the village chief's daughter-in-law to help make breakfast.
According to Wei Yan, the cottage where they are located in Zhoucang is named Lion's Head Village because it is located five miles away from the Lion's Head Peak, there are about 3,000 bandits in the village, and there are a group of women and children with an unknown number of family members, and the Lion's Head Peak is only more than 200 zhang high, and the terrain is also dangerous, and the bandits in the village are just a group of rabble......
As soon as Xu Chu heard this, he immediately shouted to step on it, and Liu Zhang hurriedly drank it.
Wei Yan said: "Although the village is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the bandits are mostly local chickens and dogs except for a few leaders, but the victory is in the crowd, although Brother Xu is brave and invincible, but his fists are difficult to defeat with four hands, and he is afraid that his life is in danger!" ”
Xu Chu respected Liu Zhang, but he didn't care about this hungry Wei Yan, who was almost falling, he shouted: "Hmph, are you afraid? We are afraid of everything, but we are not afraid of death, as long as the son says a word, I will step on that bullshit lion head village. ”
"Shut up!" Liu Zhang shouted: "Zhongkang, how can Wen Chang die a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death? He's doing this for your good, you must know that a hero can't stand a lot of people, not to mention more than 3,000 people, it's 3,000 pigs, lining up for you to kill, when will you finish? What's more, no matter how powerful you are, can you be better than the Chu Overlord? Didn't he end up being forced to kill himself by Wujiang? I don't have anyone around me who is afraid of death, but I don't leave anyone who is looking for death either! Our ideal is to revitalize the Han, if we want to revitalize the Han, we must save our lives, if we don't even have a life, what can we do to revitalize the Han? So I decided not to allow my people to make fearless sacrifices, get it? ”
"Yes, Childe!" Xu Chu said busily.
"Then you apologize to Wen Chang."
"Yes!" Xu Chu didn't dare to complain about Liu Zhang's words, turned his head and saluted Wei Yan respectfully: "Chief Wen, Lao Xu is just a big old man, I have always been full of feces, don't be surprised!" ”
Wei Yan hurriedly returned the salute and said: "Don't dare, don't dare, Zhongkang is also eager to eliminate harm for our county, it's too late to be grateful, how dare you blame!" ”
Wei Yan's next words finally made Liu Zhang a little happier, it turned out that although there were eight owners of the lion head village, but the four people who were in charge were Liu Bi, He Yi, He Man, and Huang Shao, Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Pei Yuanshao, and Gong Du only hung the name of the owner of the village, and in fact did not have much power, and the evil deeds of the lion head peak over the years were all committed by Liu Pi and the four of them, although Zhou Cang and others also robbed the aisle and tied up people, but they were all aimed at those who were rich and unkind, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and only took money and silk, and rarely hurt their lives.
Liu Zhang nodded secretly: "Yes, this is the Zhou Cang and Liao Hua in memory, if they are full of evil, presumably Second Brother Guan and Liu Da'er, who is hypocritical and righteous, will not accept them!" He immediately decided to go and meet with the two, it is best to say that the two of them should go down the mountain to take refuge in themselves, it should not be too difficult in his mind, after all, they have not been the king of the mountain for a lifetime.
After a while, the strong aroma of duck soup came, and Wei Yan, who had been hanging on to his life with gruel for several years, couldn't help but swallow his saliva.