Chapter 4: Ups and Downs (Part 3)
To be honest, tonight's scolding, Fang Yanzao was really wronged. When he left, he didn't know that Xiong Kuohai was striding towards his home with a gift. And the "generous gift" that Cheng Mingzhen made up for him was also a step in the entire plan for Bowang Camp, but it was just a mistake, and it actually had an unexpected effect.
When he returned to his residence, Xiong Kuohai had already put down his suitcase and left. Looking at a large box full of official silver, Fang Yanzao sneered slightly, "Just thousands of taels of silver want to buy the old man, are you the reckless old man?" If you don't want your life this time, the old man swears not to be a man! ”
While being ruthless, he fell asleep in a daze. When he got up the next morning, he immediately went to Wang Deren's Chinese army to urge the other side to fulfill the promise made last night. Just as Cheng Mingzhen came to say goodbye to Wang Deren, he saw Fang Yanzao's dark eyes, paused for a moment, and asked with concern, "Sir, what's wrong?" The face is so ugly? Do you need to invite a man to come and give Mr. a careful pulse! ”
"You still care about yourself!" Fang Yanzao said secretly in his heart. His face was full of smiles, and he was kind to Wang Deren, "Is Master Cheng leaving?" What's the hurry? Why not stay in the mountains for a few more days? Let's talk a lot! ”
"No, no. Now it's over, it's time for me to go back to life! Cheng Mingzhen instantly showed a little panic, looked at Wang Deren's expression, and resigned.
Wang Deren didn't want to continue to keep Cheng Mingzhen, but when he saw Fang Yanzao's attitude suddenly change sharply, he was very disdainful in his heart, so he also smiled and said very politely: "What's the hurry, in this day or two." Brother Cheng, let's stay for another day, we haven't had enough fun yesterday! ”
"That" Cheng Mingzhen was very hesitant. looked around, and finally turned his heart sideways, and said with a smile: "Okay, just bother Wang Da for another day." Brother Xiong, you go down and replace General Wang. Let him also meet with the heroes of Bowang Camp. In the future, everyone will inevitably have frequent contacts, and it is easy to do things when the face is familiar! ”
"General Wang, which General Wang?!" Wang Deren didn't expect that there was such a hero hidden under the mountain, so he couldn't help but ask.
"It's my good brother Wang Ermao, the one who once had a one-sided relationship with the head of the house!" Cheng Mingzhen smiled and responded casually.
"It's General Xiao Wang, who was once rescued by my Wagang Army, right? I remember. This man is a hero! Fang Yanzao immediately thought about it, and smiled and put gold on his face.
"But with 500 people to break through Liyang, and then on the bank of the Yellow River, General Xiao Wang of Wei Wensheng's 5,000 iron cavalry!" The skinning ghost Jia Qiangbang paused for a moment and asked.
"Exactly, I didn't expect Hall Master Jia to hear of him too!" Cheng Mingzhen smiled and nodded, readily admitting.
"How could I not have heard of it. Come on, let me have a drink with him later!" Jia Qiangbang shouted excitedly, as if it was a great honor to be able to drink with Wang Ermao.
"Please come up, please come up. Just dare to slap Wei Wensheng's tiger beard at him, and it's worth having a drink with him! Wang Deren was also very happy, clapping his face and shouting.
Back then, Wang Ermao attacked Liyang, and then took five hundred light horsemen to fight Wei Wensheng, which had already been spread all over the green forest road. Everyone didn't care that he was defeated in the hands of Wei Wensheng in the end, and he was able to escape by relying on the rescue of the Wagang Army.
Unexpectedly, the appearance of a Wang Ermao actually brought the relationship between the two sides closer by several layers. Fang Yanzao was not angry in his heart, coughed a few times, and said indifferently: "Fang Mou has one more thing here, and he needs Cheng Junshou's help." Last night, someone took advantage of Fang's absence and left 5,000 taels of official silver in Fang's apartment. Fang couldn't spend it, and he didn't dare to accept it in vain, so he asked Cheng Junshou to send someone to retrieve it as soon as possible. ”
"Well said, well said." Cheng Mingzhen didn't seem to know shame, and his gift was rejected, but he still talked and laughed. "If I am free tonight, Cheng will definitely go to visit Mr. I hope that Mr. will not hesitate to give advice! ”
"Let's wait until you live until tonight! Hum! Fang Yanzao snorted coldly and said secretly in his heart.
Both of them knew what they wanted to say to each other, but in the eyes of the onlookers, they completely changed their taste. Previously, Fang Yanzao was kind to guests, but he was misunderstood by the people in Bowang Camp as seeing a box of bribes. Now he wants to return the official bank in public, and he feels that this move is above board and falls in the eyes of others, but it has become an insatiable desire and continues to extort. Otherwise, why did Cheng Mingzhen say that he would go to visit the house at night, but the surnamed Fang did not refuse at all?
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, silver was rarely circulated in the market, so the price was extremely high. One tael of silver can be equivalent to about 2,000 pieces of flesh. In the Taiping years, five pieces of meat can be exchanged for a bucket of rice. Although it is a troubled time now, twenty pieces of meat is enough to buy a bucket of rice. Fang Yanzao knocked out 10,000 yuan from others, but it was too little, and he was not greedy enough.
Fang Yanzao knew that his actions had aroused public outrage, and he still regarded himself as honest and honest. Two of the three sentences that came out of his mouth were tingling. And Cheng Mingzhen has completely become a soft persimmon, Ren Bian and Ren Yuan, no matter how you pinch it, you won't return it. Later, even Qin Degang and other generals couldn't see it, and they interjected to lead the conversation to other places, so as not to spread the matter, and make people say that there was a Mr. Fang in Bowang Camp who was greedy and shameless, causing everyone to lose face together.
A moment later, Wang Ermao was ordered to go up the mountain. still brought a dozen guards, carrying a heavy big box. This box must be the result of Fang Yanzao's run just now, and the more the heroes of Bowang Camp think about it, the clearer it becomes, and the colder their gaze at Fang Yanzao becomes. They all secretly said in their hearts, how could Lao Tzu be so unlucky in his life, and he actually had to listen to the orders of this insatiable guy!
Wang Ermao is a self-acquaintance, and after entering the Juyi Hall, he immediately called everyone brothers. Everyone chatted for a while, and it was noon. Wang Deren clapped his hands, ordered someone to set up a banquet, and drank again. The heroes of Bowang Mountain and the heroes of the Zhaozhou Army came and went, and they did everything they could laugh at.
Fang Yanzao hinted at Wang Deren several times, asking him to take the opportunity to kill all the generals of the Zhaozhou Army. Wang Deren just turned a blind eye. In the end, Fang Yanzao couldn't bear it anymore, put down the wine cup, laughed haha, and suggested with a smile: "It's not interesting to just drink, the army pays attention to rewards and punishments." Let's make a drinking order, the winner doesn't drink, and the loser admits punishment, how about it? ”
"We're all rough people, how can we afford to play such a delicate thing!" Wang Ermao was already drinking high, and he was the first to jump out against it. "If you want to enforce the alcohol order, you go to the head of the sect alone. Other brothers, let's tell jokes. After saying that, amusing everyone is considered to be passing. Whoever laughs, drinks a bowl himself. If one of the people in the audience does not laugh, the joker will be punished for drinking a bowl! If the two don't laugh, they will be fined two bowls, and so on, what do you think of this method? ”
"Okay, listen to Brother Wang!" The crowd responded, ignoring Fang Yanzao's stubble at all.
Fang Yanzao just wants to give everyone a chance to get maggots, and he doesn't care about any form. smiled and nodded in agreement, "In this way, Fang will follow the crowd." Where to start, how to say, please Brother Wang specify! ”
"The head of the house has the highest level of history, of course, he is the first to say. Others, in order from left to right, top to bottom, and then from bottom to top! Wang Ermao thought about it and proposed loudly.
"Good!" Everyone responded again, and then they all filled the wine cups, staring at Fang Yanzao's first joke.
"Uh-huh!" Fang Yanzao cleared his throat and thought about it. "It is said that there is a big fish in the North Sea, thousands of miles long. Born for thousands of years, thousands of years and long, thousands of years incarnated as Kunpeng, its wings, I don't know how many thousands of miles wide. With a flap of the two wings, it is 108,000 miles away, flying from the North Sea to the South Heavenly Gate, which is half a day's scene! ”
He is very knowledgeable, and his mouth is Zhuangzi's leisurely journey, and everyone is staring at him. Fang Yanzao was proud in his heart, and his voice became higher and higher, "An owl saw it and thought that Kunpeng was going to snatch the dead mouse from his mouth, so he jumped up and yelled, quack, quack, quack, quack!" ”
With that, he raised his arms and waved them up and down. The wide robe fluttered, and it really has a bit of the charm of an owl protecting a mouse. Everyone present didn't want to laugh, but when they saw his funny appearance, they couldn't help but laugh 'hahahaha'. Fang Yanzao took a sip of wine and continued to add, "The owl only sees the dead mouse in front of him, but he doesn't know that there is another scenery above the nine skies. This man, you must look far away when doing things. Don't learn from that owl! ”
When everyone heard this, the smile on their faces immediately froze. Before he could figure out how to ridicule this snarky guy, he heard Wang Ermao take the first step and said with a smile: "Changshi's words can be said to be right, or they can be said to be wrong!" ”
"Oh! What does General Wang have to say? Fang Yanzao had already expressed his desire to remind Wang Deren of what he meant, and he was in a good mood and asked with a smile.
"The Kunpeng is thousands of miles in size, and the night owl is only the size of a palm. If Kunpeng wanted to grab its food, it would be easy. So as a night owl, it never hurts to be more careful. Wang Ermao drank the wine in his bowl and explained with a little drunkenness, "If I were the owl of the night, not only would I have to hide my dead mouse, but I would also have to hide far away." Lest Lord Kunpeng be in a bad mood one day and wave his claws at me casually, I won't even have a place to be buried! ”
"Yes, yes, night owls have the way night owls live. Kunpeng has the way of life. No one is qualified to laugh at anyone! After hearing this, everyone suddenly raised their eyebrows and echoed with a smile.
Fang Yanzao was about to refute, but Jia Qiangbang, who was sitting under him, didn't give him a chance, slapped the short table in front of him, and shouted loudly, "It's my turn, it's my turn, I see who dares not to laugh after listening to it!" ”
After shouting, he cleared his throat and said loudly: "It is said that there is an amnesia in our hometown, what you say or do, and you forget it all when you turn your head." After a long time, his wife began to dislike him and had a ** with the neighbor. ”
Although the story is vulgar, it is more accessible to those present than the previous one. Except for Fang Yanzao frowning slightly, everyone else listened with relish. After telling a few stupid things about amnesia, Jia Qiangbang danced and gradually brought the whole story into gaochao, "One day, his wife with amnesia said to him, Mr. 6 is a smart person, you go to him, maybe he can cure your disease." As soon as the amnesia heard this, he stepped on the horse. When the front foot went out, his wife immediately welcomed the adulterer to the house. At the moment when the two of them were doing something wrong, who expected that amnesia suddenly remembered that he didn't prepare a gift for Mr. 6 Machine, and ran back in a panic. The amnesiac wife quickly pulled down the curtain and hid the adulterer in bed. Then he greeted his husband and poured tea and water to be courteous. After drinking a bowl of water, the amnesia began to recur, and he pointed to the boots on the ground and asked, 'Whose boots are they?' How does it look so familiar. The amnesiac wife was startled, quickly picked up the boots, and responded with a smile, "Didn't you just take them off and let me wash them, why did you forget them so quickly?" When he heard this, he became more and more confused, and pointed to the house and asked, 'Where am I, this place looks familiar.' ''In your own home, of course?'' His wife replied helplessly. 'My own home? Who was the man lying on the bed? The amnesia became more and more confused, and asked casually. His wife couldn't hide it, so she simply turned her heart sideways, 'Who else is lying on my bed, isn't you?' ''yes, it's not me who else can I have.' So who am I, who am I? ’”
Before the words fell, the heroes present had already laughed. Jia Qiangbang himself smiled and wiped his tears, gasped for a moment, and continued to add, "So people, you can't remember what you have done or what you have said, and you must not forget who you are!" ”
Next it was Wu Tianxi's turn, he was not good at words, and casually told an interesting story on the battlefield, which only made half of the people laugh, so he had to bow his head and admit punishment. Then there are Qin Degang, Wang Fei, etc., some of them have very good results, and some have mediocre effects. In a blink of an eye, he came up upside down again, punished Zhou Wenqiang with five bowls, and arrived at Wang Ermao. Fang Yanzao was afraid that the other party would take the opportunity to ridicule him, so he quickly pricked up his ears and looked for flaws.
I only heard Wang Ermao say slowly: "Our hometown is a small place, and the people are simple. Everyone admires the famous people who have read books, and they are always proud to talk to them. But these celebrities don't like to talk, and it's hard to catch up with them! ”
As he spoke, his eyes glanced at Fang Yanzao, intentionally or unintentionally. Fang Yanzao was looked at with a weak heart, and hurriedly explained with a smile, "The so-called noble man is late. Words are like gold, it is originally the style of celebrities! ”
"Well, I thought so too!" Wang Ermao smiled and nodded, "As a result, one day, there was a person named Hanako in the village who happily showed off everywhere, and the 6 celebrities talked to me, and the 6 celebrities talked to me!" ”
"The celebrity surnamed 6 has always been known as Nanmu Bodhisattva, and he is one of the most talkative. Everyone was curious, so they asked Hanako, "What did the six famous people tell you, tell us!" ’”
"Hanako was very proud, and Ang said, 'I grabbed his sleeve and asked him for money, and he said to me, 'Get out!' ”
"Haha, haha, haha!" Everyone laughed and fell, wiping their tears while saying that Wang Ermao's mouth was damaged. Fang Yanzao smacked the taste, and soon understood that he was being put on the table again, and he was not laughing, nor was he angry, so he had to cover up the embarrassment on his face by drinking.
With such a big joke in the front, it will be difficult to make everyone laugh in the back. In a daze, Cheng Mingzhen was also fined several times, relying on his good physical strength, he barely got down. In the blink of an eye, it took nearly a circle, and finally it was Wang Deren's turn. Looking at Fang Yanzao, who was almost angry, and then looking at the brothers who were full of interest, he was so embarrassed. sighed and said in a low voice, "I'll still admit the punishment." I'm a clumsy guy who can't tell jokes! ”
"The big boss will say two interesting things he has experienced!" The crowd did not follow and smiled and advised. Wang Deren smiled bitterly and shook his head, "What so many interesting things." Before the grass fell, I was so poor that I couldn't survive, and every day I was worried about what to eat for my next meal. After falling into the grass, I only know how to kill people and set fires over the years, but there are many times when I am upset, and there are few times when I am happy! ”
"No, no, the big boss can't take the lead in breaking the liquor order!" Everyone still refused to let go of Wang Deren, and they had to force him to say a joke to pass.
Wang Ermao looked at Cheng Mingzhen, then at Fang Yanzao, filled the wine cup in front of him, and picked it up with a smile, "Or, I'll say one for Wang Da Boss." We are all surnamed Wang, and we can't write two words of Wang! ”
When everyone heard this, they had no choice but to let go of Wang Deren and turn their heads to listen to Wang Ermao's jokes. Fang Yanzao looked at Wang Ermao's posture, knowing that the other party was going to take the opportunity to ridicule him again, and he didn't care about forcing Wang Deren to harm Cheng Mingzhen anymore, so he took the lead and proposed loudly, "It's okay if you want to talk, but you can't just make everyone laugh." Yes, it sounds interesting and everyone understands! ”
"It's up to you!" Wang Ermao happily agreed. After sorting out his thoughts, he began to speak with a smile, "It is said that there is a monk from the Northern Dynasty who prays in front of the Buddha every day, asking the Buddha to show him a clear path so that he can kill his biological father!" ”
"What kind of monk is you so disobedient?" When the crowd heard this, they immediately retorted.
"Fei Ye, Fei Ye, this monk is a big filial son!" Wang Ermao waved his hand and immediately hooked everyone's spiritual heads.
It is indeed inconceivable to kill the filial son of his biological father at all times. Just when everyone was puzzled, Wang Ermao took a sip of wine and continued: "The reason why he only wanted to kill his biological father was because he was an illegitimate child. His mother went out to collect firewood and was polluted by a Xianbei general, so he was born. Therefore, not long after giving birth to him, his mother died of depression! ”
Speaking of this, everyone felt that the beast father should be killed. Without waiting to speak, he heard Wang Ermao say in a low voice, "But since his beast father is a humble and nobleman, he naturally has many guards, and it is easy for ordinary people to approach. The monk begged day and night, thinking that it was annoying the Buddha's generation, and finally responded one day. He sent down the decree and said that the monk should sleep on the bed, and the Buddha would naturally cast a spell to take him to a certain place. There, he will get the only chance to kill his father, and if he misses it, he will not have it again! ”
"The monk was overjoyed. Take a shower and change clothes, and fall asleep with a steel knife in your arms. When I woke up, I saw a wood, and a Xianbei military general dressed as a woman pressed a woman to the ground, and was about to do the things of beasts. Looking at his eyebrows, this beast is just his father who wants to fight every day! ”
With that, he let out a long sigh and closed his mouth.
"And then?" Everyone was whetted by him and asked questions.
Then he woke up from his dream and never spoke of his father's murder again. Wang Ermao poured himself full of wine, and responded while drinking. "From now on, I will devote myself to cultivating Buddhism and eventually become a generation of monks!"
"Why is that?" Jia Qiangbang's heart was itchy and couldn't wait to ask.
"Because," Wang Ermao smiled mysteriously, his face full of desolation, "because the person who was pressed on the ground by the beast was vaguely her mother!" ”
"Ahh Everyone couldn't help but cover their mouths, no one could laugh, and no one could care about Wang Ermao drinking anymore. If the monk kills his father, it means that there is no more him in the world. There is no way to talk about hatred. If the monk does not kill his father, then his mother conceives naturally, and then he is born into the world, suffering all the hardships of loneliness. When you grow up, you are determined to kill your father and avenge your mother, isn't it another cycle?
The cycle of life and life, karma, a few people can taste it, and a few people can say it clearly