Chapter 67: The Brotherly Wall
Li Kuangchou led the army back to Youzhou, and when he entered the Shuaifu, he saw that it was white everywhere, and the servants were all dressed in white. When I came to the hall, I saw a coffin in the center, and several women were crying and burning paper.
Li Kuangchou stepped forward quickly, but saw his father lying in the coffin with a dejected face. "Father, father!" Li Kuangchou held the coffin and wept bitterly.
At this time, Li Congwei walked in from outside the door dressed in white, "Second brother, you are back, father, he..."
"What happened to the end, how could my father die suddenly?" Li Kuangchou grabbed Li Congwei's shoulders with both hands and asked.
"My father drank some wine the night before yesterday, and after a while, he said that he had a headache, and before I could go to invite Langzhong, it was gone!" Li Congwei cried.
"I don't believe it! I don't believe it! How could my father have a headache! Li Kuangchou shouted! Oh, yes! Who can believe that a strong man who is in middle age suddenly disappears because of a headache!
"I've checked, the wine was poisoned, and my father was poisoned!" Lee Conso said.
"Who did it, who did it!" Li Kuangchou jumped up, "I'm going to cut him!" "No need, after that person was poisoned, he also committed suicide by poisoning his father when he saw that he was poisoned!" Lee Converse said.
"Who poisoned it, who instructed it!"
"I have checked, this person is a cook, and he has received the life-saving grace of the Cui family. Knowing that you went to slaughter the Cui family, he poisoned his father out of retribution! Lee Converse said.
"Annoying, hateful!" Li Kuang trembled with anger. Li Congwei said, "Now let's take care of my father's aftermath first, and we'll talk about it later!" Li Kuangchoi nodded: "Okay! ”
Changing into a white suit, Li Kuangchou knelt in front of the spirit and wept bitterly. Li Congwei breathed a sigh of relief, and finally didn't let his younger brother see the problem. Suddenly, he felt a gaze look at him, and when he looked up, a woman in front of him was looking at him. His eyes glared fiercely, looked at Li Kuangchou and then made a motion to wipe his neck with his hand, and the woman lowered her head in fright.
Li Congwei smiled, and then said to Li Kuangchou, "Second brother, you accompany your father here first, and I will come back as soon as I go to do some errands!" ”
Li Kuangchou nodded: "You go!" I'm with my father! ”
Li Congwei turned around and walked out of the mourning hall, turned into the study, and there was a general waiting for him in the room. Li Congwei waved his hand, "Is the Cui family's treasure really not found?" ”
The man arched his hand again and said, "Dashuai, it is true that we haven't found it, we dug three feet into the ground and didn't point it, and the general was going to propose to dig up the small pond behind the ancestral hall, but before he could return to Youzhou with the army." "You're saying it's the only place that hasn't moved, right?"
"Yes, handsome! The last general always felt that the location of the small pond was a little strange! "Okay, when it's here tomorrow, you and I will lead the troops to go again the day after tomorrow!"
"Whoa!"
Li Congwei waved his hand, and the man turned around and went out.
Li Congwei came to the mourning hall again and said to Li Kuangchou, "Second brother, since you have rushed back, then you will give your father a funeral tomorrow!" ”
Li Kuangcho turned his head and said, "Big brother, why are you in such a hurry?" Li Congwei said, "Now that Lu Long is not the same, King Shou's army is eyeing him, Wang Chongrong and Li Keyong may also have ideas, and generals from all over the country should not stay in Youzhou for a long time." It must be rushed back as soon as possible. Otherwise, once the other party raids, it will be a big deal! ”
Li Kuangchou nodded, "The eldest brother is right, it was the younger brother who was negligent!" Lee Converse breathed a sigh of relief. It's okay, you and my brother have to work together to keep Youzhou. ”
In the evening, Li Kuangchou did not go back and stayed in front of the spirit. The woman tried to open her mouth several times, but in the end she said nothing and went back to rest.
The next day, the gate of the Shuaifu opened, and a long funeral procession walked out. The two Lee Congwei brothers walked in front wearing filial piety clothes. Ten miles out of the city to a mountainside, there were already people digging graves, waiting for the coffin, the two of them cried bitterly, and everyone behind them also cried bitterly.
In the evening, Li Kuangchou returned to his residence, and when he entered the room, the woman stepped forward to salute, "Husband! Li Kuangchou hugged her and kissed her, "Yu'er, do you miss your husband!" The woman blushed, "Husband, you are bullying Yu'er again!" Li Kuangchou smiled. The woman served Li Kuangchou to change clothes, but her eyes glanced at a woman standing outside, intentionally or unintentionally. The woman was also staring at her with a fierce light.
At dawn, Li Kuangchou got dressed under Yu'er's service, the two of them ate millet porridge and gossiped, and the woman stood behind the two of them and served. Li Kuangchou seemed to feel a fierce light, and glanced back at the mother-in-law, who stood with low eyebrows. Li Kuangchou asked, "Why don't you seem to have seen it?" ”
The woman hurriedly saluted, "Young deputy marshal, the little one was sent by the young marshal yesterday," Li Kuangchou glanced at Yu'er and said nothing, turned his head and continued to eat.
At this moment, a maid came in and said, "Young master, the eldest young master is waiting for you in the study, please come over!" When Li Kuangchou heard this, he got up and said, "Lead the way in front of your head!" When he went out of the door, the mother-in-law said, "Young grandmother, you'd better be smarter and don't say anything, it's good for you and the second young master!" Do you understand! Yu'er lowered her head and whispered, "The concubine understands that she won't say anything!" ”
Li Kuangchou came to the study, Li Congwei was waiting there, and when he saw him come in, Li Congwei said, "Second brother, for my brother, I will go out to inspect today, it will take about ten days, and you will sit in the Shuai Mansion!" Be careful! Li Kuangchou nodded, "Big brother, don't worry, you and my brother's foundation, the younger brother will naturally take care of it!" ”
Li Congwei went out of the house and led the team straight to Cuijiazhuang. Li Kuangchou turned around and went back to his residence, and when he saw Li Kuangchou coming in, the woman stood there with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.
"Yu'er, get ready, take you out for your husband!" Li Kuangchou opened his mouth and said, Yu'er nodded.
On the street, Li Kuangchou took Yu'er around, several guards followed from afar, but the woman still followed closely behind, Li Kuangchou glanced back, glanced at Yu'er again, and saw that she bowed her head and was silent, so she didn't say anything.
The two came to the city gate, Li Kuangchou took Yu'er to the city tower, the woman was about to follow, Li Kuangchou suddenly drank "Catch her!" Several guards immediately pinned the woman to the ground and tied her up. Li Kuangchou looked at the smoke and dust in the distance, Li Kuang and the others drove everyone down the city tower, and said to Yu'er, "Now you can tell the truth!" ”
Yu'er knelt down suddenly, "Husband, Yu'er is a capital crime!" He got up and wanted to jump off the building, but Li Kuangchou grabbed her, "What happened?" Yu'er cried and told the events of the past few days.
After Li Kuang and others sent troops, Li Quanzhong's father and son sat in the flower hall and drank, and their long-cherished wish for many years was fulfilled and the father and son were drunk. Li Congwei got up and left the table and stumbled all the way to Li Kuangchou's yard, and happened to bump into Yu'er, the woman who made him excited, but Yu'er Shili was grabbed by him in his arms, and dragged into the room without saying anything.
When he woke up, looking at Yu'er who was huddled aside and crying in a low voice, Li Congwei was dumbfounded! hurriedly dressed and left, but was bumped into by Li Quanzhong, who rushed to the door after hearing the news.
Li Quanzhong pointed at Li Congwei's nose and scolded: "Son! Do such an ugly thing! How to convince the public! How can I entrust you with the office of the Measure? Li Congwei was suddenly angry, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to ask for guilt, secretly murderous in his heart.
At night, taking advantage of the unpreparedness, Li Quanzhong was drugged in the wine, and when Li Quanzhong lost consciousness, Li Congwei personally mixed arsenic in the wine and gave it to Li Quanzhong.
Hearing this, Li Kuangchou was furious, "Brute, you dare to kill your father and take your wife, damn it!" Looking at the mother-in-law in the city, Li Kuangchou pointed "Kill!" In the midst of the woman's pleading, the guard raised his sword and killed the woman.
Li Kuangchou took Yu'er down the city to return home, and when he passed by an alley, he suddenly killed more than a dozen people, and several guards desperately resisted and protected Li Kuangchou and the two. Seeing that he was about to be unable to resist, a general happened to be patrolling nearby, heard the shouting of killing and came to check, saw this scene and led the troops to kill, surrounded more than a dozen people, rescued the two, and all the dozen people were killed. Li Kuangchou stepped forward to check and recognized one of them as Li Congwei's personal soldiers.
Li Kuangchou was immediately furious and immediately sent his own soldiers to kill all Li Congwei's family. Sitting in the lobby of the Shuai Mansion, Li Kuangchou immediately beat the drum and gathered the generals. When the generals heard the drums and didn't know what was happening, they immediately rushed to the Shuaifu.
When everyone arrived, Li Kuangchou told what Li Congwei had done, and the generals were boiling. "Killing one's father and taking one's wife, what a beast does! Don't deserve to be a handsome man! The second son, the last general is willing to follow left and right, and serve you as the handsome! One of the generals shouted.
The generals reacted, and they also bowed their hands in unison, "We are willing to serve the second prince as the handsome!" ”
Li Kuangchou was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the generals to be rewarded, and then ordered someone to post a proclamation announcing Li Congwei's crime. At the same time, the garrison of Youzhou was ordered to fight.
Ordering the generals to prepare, Li Kuang and the others turned around and went back to the room, but saw that Yu'er was putting her head into the rope noose and wanted to commit suicide. Frightened, he hurriedly stepped forward to relieve Yu'er, and Wang Er cried bitterly, "Husband, why did Hugh save Yu'er, Yu'er is already an unclean body, how can you be left and right, you better let Yu'er die!" ”
Li Kuangchou hugged Yu'er, "Silly girl, you and I once said that we want to grow old, how can you bear to leave me alone to live alone!" When Yu'er heard this, she cried loudly, and Li Kuangchou didn't let go of Yu'er for a long time, until Yu'er fell asleep in his arms, carefully picked up Yu'er, and put her on the bed. carefully covered Yu'er with a quilt, and Li Kuangchou held Yu'er's hand and fell asleep.
The next day, Li Congwei's evil deeds spread all over Youzhou. As soon as Li Congwei arrived in Cuizhuang, he heard about this, and was immediately shocked, and immediately led his troops to rush back, and marched all the way to the city of Youzhou, but saw that the heads of his wife and children were hanging on the head of the city.
Li Congwei was furious and immediately ordered the siege of the city, but many cavalry rushed out from both sides to surround it. In the city, Li Kuangchou shouted, "Listen to the army, Li Congwei is cruel and unreasonable, killing his father and taking his wife!" Why do you support such a handsome! And your parents, wives, and children are in the city, don't you fear for their safety? ”