Chapter 6 The Past Comes to Mind
After figuring out the intentions of the two of them, Chen Yue went home. He pulled out the spear head from the box, found a stone in the yard and began to sharpen the spear.
Tomorrow he has to settle the ledger with Wu Liang, and he needs to deal with two people at the same time, in order to prevent the two dogs from jumping off the wall in a hurry, Chen Yue needs a weapon. This spear head looks rusty, but when sharpened, it is a good weapon. The entire head of the gun is about 30 centimeters, and the handle of the gun barrel is about 10 centimeters, and the whole shape and size are similar to a dagger. The sides of the gun have jagged openings that can easily cut through muscles when pierced into the body.
The head of the spear was made of stainless steel, and because it had been left for too long to look rusty, Chen Yue sharpened it for a long time before it regained its sparkling cold light.
It is said that a military family should not lack weapons, not to mention that Chen Jianghe is still a general banner, but as far as Chen Yue knows, there are no other weapons in the entire family except for a goose wing knife hanging on the wall. The goose wing knife is more than a meter long, and it is very inconvenient to carry it on the body, but the length of this spear head is just right.
As always, his father, Chen Jianghe, did not return until dark and brought back half a bag of grain. The father and son, as usual, did not communicate much. In Chen Jianghe's eyes, there is nothing to say to his son who lacks heart, as long as his son stays at home obediently. And Chen Yue was also afraid that Chen Jianghe would find out that he was abnormal because he had something in his heart.
Early the next morning, after Chen Jianghe had made breakfast, he went to work at the blacksmith shop.
Chen Yue got up a little later, moved his body in the yard, and played a set of punches and kicks. When he was a policeman in his previous life, Chen Yue only learned a set of sanda in the police academy, and after work, he didn't come in handy as a police officer in the police station.
But now is an era of turmoil, and a certain amount of force is needed to protect the lives of the wealthy! Chen Yue decided that in the future, he must get up early, exercise, and practice martial arts, so that he can have more money to save his life in this troubled era.
After practicing a set of grappling and grappling sanda, Chen Yue felt that his body had just heated up, and at this moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and he lifted a wooden stick erected on the wall and danced. Tie, push, pick, collapse, roll, smash, shake, wind, frame, frustrate, block, a long stick danced in Chen Yue's hand, like a swimming dragon to change out of all kinds of wonderful uses. There is fiction and reality, and there is oddity and righteousness; Fiction and reality, strange and upright; Its advance is sharp, its retreat is fast, its potential is dangerous, and its knots are short; Immovable as a mountain, moving as thunder!
Yang's pear flower gun! These five words appeared in Chen Yue's mind, and then countless scenes suddenly appeared in his mind like an explosion.
The first scene is a large mansion with three entrances, and a martial arts arena has been specially opened in the backyard, with weapons racks against the wall, swords, guns, swords, halberds, and various weapons are complete. In the martial arts arena, five or six years old himself was squatting on a horse, and his father's stern scolding was heard in his ears from time to time, and the beads of sweat were rolling down his forehead, but he didn't dare to reach out to wipe it.
As soon as the scene changed, the eight- or nine-year-old self was holding a spear and practicing, and his father was tirelessly correcting his posture and explaining the essentials of the movement over and over again.
In the next scene, a large number of Jinyi guards suddenly raided the Chen family, that was because of the defeat of the Great Ling River, the prison commander Dao Zhang Chun, who commanded 40,000 reinforcements, was captured, and the grandfather who died in the battle was mistakenly thought that he had surrendered to the Manchu Qing and the family was implicated, and the ten-year-old himself stood in the corner and watched everything coldly.
In the next scene, the family is in the middle of the road, the mother dies of illness, and only the father and son are left in the family to depend on each other, but the fifteen-year-old self is reckless and competitive, and he only knows how to fight with people every day, and finally in a fight, he was hit in the head with a wooden stick, and since then he has become a muddy nightmare, and has been called a fool since then, and his father Chen Jianghe is looking at himself sadly.
Chen Yue only felt that there was a warm liquid constantly flowing from the corners of his eyes, and the long stick danced even faster like a violent wind.
With a "bang", the long stick slammed into the wall, the dust was flying, and the earth wall made of rammed earth was poked into a shallow pit the size of the bowl.
After practicing a set of marksmanship, I only felt refreshed, and I couldn't help but let out a long howl.
After a hasty wash and eating the food left by his father, Chen Yue went out of the house and walked towards the house where the hemp pole was.
Along the way, Chen Yue smiled hard, but the neighbors still looked at him with the eyes of a fool, which made Chen Yue extremely discouraged.
"Uncle Ma, you're early!" Chen Yue blocked the way of the old horse's head with a cigarette pouch in his mouth, trying to prove that he was a normal person now.
"Fool, I didn't see where the sun had risen. Good boy, don't get in the way, uncle, I'm busy. The old horse head pushed away Chen Yue's body and walked away by himself. Chen Yue could only shake his head helplessly and sigh.
Ma Gong and Wu Liang were eating breakfast, there were fragrant buns and fried dough sticks on the low table, Chen Yue had a signature smirk on his face, and he looked at the food on the table in a daze.
"Fool, why are you here so early?" Wu Liang yelled.
"Who is saying that he is a fool, I am in a hurry with him!" Ma Pole scolded, "Does the fool know to step on the meal and come over?" ”
Chen Yue smirked and didn't speak, reached out and picked up two big buns from the table. He didn't have enough to eat at all when he was at home, and he just now fills in the fill.
"Grass, fool, eat slowly!" Wu Liang was in a hurry, grabbed two buns with one hand, and grabbed two fried sticks with the other.
After eating, Ma Zhuo asked Chen Yue to change into yesterday's clothes, and repeatedly explained what he had to do. The thing is very simple, that is, wait outside the Jiading Bo Mansion, when you get the news, go to the Jiading Bo Mansion to pay respects, send a red envelope to the concierge of the Jiading Bo Mansion, and you will be invited to sit in the concierge. Of course, not everyone can see Jiadingbo, when he hears the whistle outside, he comes out of the mansion, at this time Wu Liang will pretend to enter the mansion, and then the two talk, after that, Chen Yue can walk in a sedan chair.
It turned out that he let himself pretend to be the son of the Jiading Bo family to deceive people! Chen Yue finally figured out all the plans of Ma Stick. Ma Zhu was afraid that Chen Yue would make a mistake, and he was still chattering and explaining.
"Remember, fool?" Ma Zhu stared at Chen Yue's eyes, and Chen Yue nodded to remember.
"Do it well, don't make a mistake, I'll treat you to three days of steamed buns after it's done." The hemp rod was tempted, so Chen Yue drooled and showed an excited look.
"If something goes wrong, don't talk about eating buns, Lao Tzu will discount your doglegs!" Ma Zhu's face changed, and he warned in a fierce voice, and Chen Yue hurriedly showed a scared expression.
"Go ahead, go to the teahouse outside Jiading Mansion and wait first, don't talk to people too much, don't let people see that you are a fool." Ma Pole threw a string of copper coins and a small silver ingot into Chen Yue's hand, "The copper coin went to the teahouse to drink tea and buy snacks, and the silver was given to the gatekeeper of Jiading Mansion at that time, don't lose it." Chen Yue nodded vigorously, signaling that he remembered.
"Why do you have to be a fool for this, can he do this?" After Chen Yue left, Wu Liang said to Ma Zhu dissatisfied.
"I'd like to find someone else, but do you think about who among the people we know has a foolish appearance? Besides, this kind of thing, can't you find more people to share an extra share of money? "It turned out that Ma Zhu didn't plan to give Chen Yue any money at all.
"But what if something goes wrong?" Wu Liang was still a little worried.
"Don't worry, you can't make mistakes, you don't know the fool, although he is stupid, he is very honest, let him do whatever he wants, he won't make mistakes." Ma Zhu said with a smile.
After speaking, the two began to go their separate ways.
Wu Liang went to Qipan Street, hired a sedan chair to wait there, and Ma Gong personally went to the inn where the official runner Liu lived.
Lord Liu's surname is Liu Zhengfeng, he is a county Cheng of Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan, he is not a serious Jinshi background, he is a miscellaneous official who started as a clerk, and it took more than 20 years to get the position of a county Cheng. In September this year, Li Chuang's army attacked Kaifeng three times, dug the embankment of the Yellow River, and flooded Kaifeng City. After Liu Zhengfeng escaped death, he also lost his official position. He is in his prime, and he finally became a county leader by drilling camps, how can he give up. So he took out the savings of being an official for many years and ran to Beijing, hoping to get an appointment from the imperial court through operation.
But he is still the number one person in Kaifeng Mansion, and he is nothing when he comes to Jingshi. In addition, he was born as a miscellaneous official, and he didn't have any teachers of the same year to help him, so he ran into walls everywhere after coming to Beijing. Not to mention running an official position, even the people in power in the ministry can't be seen.
Suddenly, Ma Pole came to him and said that he could help him achieve his wish, Liu Zhengfeng was naturally overjoyed, but out of vigilance, he asked to meet with a dignitary who could really help him. And yesterday, Ma Pole made an appointment with him to meet the nobles in the Piaoxiang Teahouse.
"Brother Ma has worked hard!" Liu Zhengfeng gave up his hands and thanked the hemp pole for his help. Although he is an official, and Ma Zhu is just a civilian, through the continuous encounters in the past few days, Liu Zhengfeng really knows what it means to be an official, and where to dare to be an official.
"Lord Liu, don't be polite, I'm not helping in vain, I'm asking for benefits." The hemp pole grinned, fully exposing the face of the villain who was greedy for money.
Liu Zhengfeng nodded understandingly, he has been an official for many years, and he naturally knows that if he wants someone to help you do things, he naturally has to spend money.
"But can't you really meet the old man Jiadingbo?" Liu Zhengfeng asked unwillingly, he couldn't meet the main master, but just met with a housekeeper, which made him feel faintly uneasy.
"What is Jiadingbo's identity? He is the father of the court and the queen's mother, can he see him when he sees him? Don't say it's you, it's a Jingguan who was born in Jinshi, five or six grades, and don't want to see his old man's face easily. Besides, as an old man from Jiadingbo, how could he personally run such a thing? The transfer of a seven- or eighth-grade official like yours is not worth his old man's appearance, and he can handle it as a housekeeper. ”
"You must not underestimate Steward Zhou, as the saying goes, the prime minister has seven officials in front of the door, and Uncle Jiading is a super earl, and his status is higher than that of the prime minister, plus his old man is the father of the emperor and the queen, who dares not to give him the face of the housekeeper? Do you know that the director of the Ministry of Literature and Literature is a native of Suzhou, and he is a fellow villager of the old man. Steward Zhou will help you operate and help you achieve your wishes! ”
Ma Zhu's words were extremely tempting, and Liu Zhengfeng's blood boiled when he heard it, as if he saw a bright future for him.