Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Dust Has Settled
When several uncles and cousins of Zhang Xian saw the direction pointed by Zhang Xian's finger, it was Zhang Xian's father, mother and Nianxin, and immediately knew it, which meant that as long as Zhang Xian's father, mother and concubine thought about it, they promised to spare their lives, Zhang Xian would not embarrass them, the desire to survive made these people crawl to Zhang Xian's parents, everyone cried, begging their father to tell their grandmother for a chance to live, even Zhang Xian's uncle and cousin Daniel Zhang, the scoundrel who knelt on the ground and hugged his father's thigh and cried, really made Zhang Xian cry and laugh. Zhang Xian's mother was so angry that she didn't look at them at all, her mind was too kind, and she seemed to be a little at a loss, but Zhang Xian's father was enraged, flicked the sleeves of his wide robe, and stood up and said:
"What are you doing now with your sad faces? Didn't you have to find a way to kill our family a moment ago? Falsely accusing my son of raising a private soldier and plotting a great crime of rebellion! We are all brothers of the same mother, how can you bear to do such a cruel and shameless thing? Rest assured, you are beasts, and our family will not be able to do anything to put you to death, but if you do not punish you, you will not repent. You can sell your family land, leave Yangzhou, and go as far as possible, I don't want to see you again. ”
As soon as Zhang Xian's father finished speaking, the county commander saw that the opportunity to stammer came, and he immediately took a step forward, looked at Zhang Xian with a smile, and turned back to Zhang Xian's uncle and cousins seriously:
"According to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, falsely accusing others of sitting back, that is, what crime you falsely accuse Lord Zhang, what crime you will suffer, now you falsely accuse Lord Zhang of the great crime of rebellion in raising private soldiers, and you should be beheaded according to the law, and it has been ascertained that the evidence of your false accusation is conclusive, so you should be beheaded according to the law, since Lord Zhang Ling Zun is mindful of your flesh and blood, and does not pursue your capital crimes, and allows you to sell your land and family property to make a living elsewhere, which is already a great favor to you, why, you don't hurry up and sell your family property and roll away, Do you want to wait for the official to wait for the prison to ask for a major crime of treason? ”
"My lord, I'll leave right away, I'll leave right away, thank you fourth brother, thank you nephew, we'll go sell the land and family property today, move away tomorrow, and promise to move away tomorrow!" Uncle Zhang Xian kowtowed like pounding garlic and kept saying. Although everyone is reluctant, but compared to escaping death and picking up a life, living is the most important thing. After saying that, everyone immediately scattered and went home, and each sold his land and property and ran away.
After the county order finished speaking, he quietly glanced at Zhang Xian again, and saw a slight smile on the corner of Zhang Xian's mouth, and a stone in his heart fell to the ground slightly. At this moment, a servant with Fang Kun escorting several carriages came to the county order and said:
"Your Excellency, according to your requirements, all the items have been loaded and transported here, please show me!"
When the county magistrate saw several big cars, his face twitched with pain, but he turned around and said with a crying voice:
"Lord Zhang, the money and things borrowed from you by this official have already been shipped, has Lord Zhang counted them?"
After Zhang Xian heard this, he looked at Fang Kun, but saw Fang Kun smiling and nodded, proving that Fang Kun had already checked clearly, Zhang Xian also knew that this county official would never be a threat to himself now and in the future, and he would never dare to deceive himself again, so he said to the county order with a smile:
"Lord County, the lower officials trust you, but there is one thing, whether you believe it or not, the lower officials can tell you clearly that every penny of silver you give to the lower officials is actually handed over to the Great Song Dynasty, and the lower officials will let every penny be used to benefit the country and the people, and they will never be fattened."
The county order squinted at Zhang Xian, nodded his head, and said words of absolute belief, in fact, there is a ghost in his heart, this Great Song Dynasty, there are all kinds of strange things, but if you want to say who is high and bright, and uses his family's money to do things for this Great Song Dynasty, in the eyes of the county order, it is absolutely impossible! In today's words: "I believe you are a ghost, you little cub of the monkey spirit is very bad!" ”
Seeing that the matter has come to this, the whole person is annoyed, regretting why he provoked this little king of Hades in the first place, and almost put the lives of his own big family into it, fortunately, he can bend and stretch, give up his family property, and the lives of the old and young of a big family are also saved, and the handle is in the hands of others, what he can do now is to be a man with his tail between his legs, but he also has to tell the situation to the backstage of the court, otherwise those backstage in the court, from now on, they will not see their real money and filial piety, and they really want to launch a rush, His family also can't escape death, and compared with the cruelty of those high-ranking officials in the court, he is a kind little white rabbit
The county magistrate came happily and said goodbye to Zhang Xian and left!
Zhang Xian came to his father and mother, looked at his mother's loving face, his father's caring eyes, and slowly knelt down, Zhang Xian warned himself, no matter what happened in the past, now these two are his fathers and mothers, they treat me as dear, I also have to be filial and sincere, and said:
"Father, mother, the child has wronged your two elders, and I ask my father and mother to forgive me, but the child promises that from now on, he will never let his father and mother suffer a little grievance, if the child can't even protect his father and mother well, he really has no face to be a man, and he doesn't dare to stand between heaven and earth with a cheeky face."
"Silly boy, what do you say? This kind of flying disaster is not your fault, as long as you are well, your father and I are wronged and there is no big deal, but I miss this child, I miss you every day, I don't think about tea and dinner, and I look like I'm thin. After Zhang Xian's mother finished speaking, she took Zhang Xian up, and Zhang Xian's father also nodded and said:
"Xian'er, your mother is right, you are the only hope of our Zhang family, and our second elder also hopes that you are well! In the future, you must not take the danger lightly, if it weren't for my son taking the deadly handle of the dog officer this time, our family would be over. ”
Zhang Xian stood up and nodded, looking at Nianxin with tears on his face with a smile, thinking that Nianxin was willing to let himself be beaten in order to protect his father, which made Zhang Xian feel distressed to the bones all of a sudden, took Nianxin's white and tender hands, and said softly:
"Lady, Xianggong has wronged you!"
Nianxin looked at Zhang Xian's affectionate and caring eyes, a word of grievance, and let Nianxin's tears fill his eyes again, maybe he doesn't feel anything at ordinary times, but this time he has been away for a few months, Nianxin really feels like a year, and the places he has walked through and passed by are all the shadows of Xianggong, even if it is usually a witty remark about himself, thinking about it quietly, it is so full of affection and honey, and now his father-in-law appears in a heroic way to save beauty, and his admiration seems to be imperceptibly deepened, Nian Xin blinked with a pair of tearful eyes, looking at Zhang Xian stupidly, as if he had forgotten that there were still many people around.
Not only the people around, but even in the distant corners, there are a pair of eyes that seem to be resentful and incomprehensible, and they are also looking at the scene of Zhang Xian and Nianxin looking at each other infatuatedly, a refreshing fragrant breeze is wafting, and I saw a slender woman, with black hair and high temples, a few strands of hair hanging down on the exquisite facial features, dancing lightly and freely, the woman's skin is as white as mutton fat, so tender that it seems to be blown and broken, the woman is wearing a white dress and white dress, and the white dress is fluttering with the wind. It's like a fairy in the sky who doesn't eat fireworks in the world. Zhang Xian smelled the aroma from afar, and knew that it must be the fairy sister who had arrived, Zhang Xian looked back, who else could this be the Yuyao fairy? smiled embarrassedly at Wang Yuyao and said:
"Miss Yuyao, you are here, let me introduce you, this is the official's father, this is the official's mother, and this is my lady!"
After Zhang Xian finished speaking, Wang Yuyao saluted the three of them and said:
"Little woman Wang Yuyao, thank you for taking care of your father, the little girl has no teeth and never forgets!"
After Wang Yuyao finished speaking, Zhang Xian smiled and said to his parents and Nianxin:
"Father, mother, mother, this is Wang Yuyao, the daughter of Wang Jiaotou, on the way to rhyme with grain and grass this time, the child was in danger many times, but fortunately, Miss Wang is strong in martial arts and has saved the child's life many times!"
Zhang Xian didn't say that it was okay, as soon as he said that he was in danger on the road, his mother began to interrogate the cause and result of the incident again, Zhang Xian had no choice but to retell the original story of the matter, Zhang Xian's parents heard that Wang Yuyao had saved Zhang Xian many times, and simply regarded Wang Yuyao as the Guanyin Bodhisattva who saved the suffering, and said words of thanks vigorously, and the thought was even more moved to hold Wang Yuyao's hand, wipe the tears and said:
"Good sister, thank you for saving me, I don't know how to thank you, my sister looks like a fairy, my sister really likes it, the little woman can't repay her sister, if my sister doesn't dislike it, let's worship as sisters, okay?."
Wang Yuyao was a little overwhelmed by the gratitude of the Zhang family, but Wang Yuyao had to say that she liked this kind young lady who was almost innocent very much, and promised to be a sister with a different surname when the matter was done.
Zhang Xian appeased his father, mother and Nianxin, and let them go back to rest, and he had to explain some things to Wang Jiaotou and Niu Dameng. When the family and Wang Yuyao slowly left, the rest were Zhang Xian's confidants, and said happily to everyone:
"We have done a good job in this matter, not only solved the worries of the official's family, no one in the local area made me stumble, but also got a large amount of silver in one fell swoop, plus we compressed the profits of dry food, with the current financial resources, even if we raise an army of tens of thousands of people, but the official said, I only raise absolutely elite strong soldiers, not one in a thousand strong soldiers This official does not want, this officer is really not eye-catching for the number of troops, now I am the county lieutenant of Yangzhou, just put our three thousand brothers to use, A once-in-a-lifetime training opportunity! “
After Zhang Xian finished speaking, he clapped his hands excitedly, everyone hasn't come back to their senses, why did Zhang Xian say that being a county lieutenant is a once-in-a-lifetime training opportunity? How many soldiers are there in this county? Even if all of our three thousand family members take turns to be government service soldiers, it will take several years, and those government service soldiers, compared to our family brothers, it is not a little bit worse, just when everyone was puzzled, I saw Wang Fu smile and said:
"My lord's good idea, the county lieutenant is in charge of the local judicial arrest of thieves, and around Yangzhou City, bandits are rampant, and the people are miserable, but the soldiers of Yangzhou City, it is a good hand to oppress the people, and they want them to suppress the bandits, it can be said that they are opening the door to thieves, and the surrounding bandits are more and more, for no other reason, when these officials and county soldiers go to suppress bandits, they are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they beat gongs and drums from afar, and put on a big battle, which bandit is stupid? The small bandits are still waiting for you to fight when they see such a big battle? It's long gone without a trace. I heard that in the past, the county government officials and soldiers chased the bandits far away, and encountered a large number of bandits surrounded by bandits in the mountains. Later, these soldiers never went to distant places to suppress bandits, but marched in arms on the outskirts of the city, making a show, never clashing with bandits, let alone fighting, and even slaughtered the common people in the village pretending to be bandits. ”
After everyone listened, they suddenly realized, Zhang Xian also had to admire Wang Fu, he really deserved to be a generation of famous generals, and he was able to understand it at all.