Later, there was not much to say, Tang Cheng continued to live a busy life of residence, county school, and county government, and occasionally went to the old monk Chengning of Tianfu Temple to learn painting skills in his spare time.

The teaching of the "Book of Songs" in the county school has been completed, and now it has entered the study of the "Book of Songs", the text of the "Book of Songs" is very difficult, only to give a class of Ming Jing students a headache, when Mr. checked the recitation of the scriptures, all of them grinned bitterly, Tang Cheng was not much stronger, but he was better than hard work, and his heart was also tenacious, so that the progress was much faster than those fifteen or sixteen-year-old classmates, so that after each inspection and recitation, Mr. had to praise him as a typical example. After spending the adaptation period of the county school, Tang Cheng faintly became the top student in the Ming Jing department.

Because of the relationship with his son's family affairs, Tang Zhang's family found Liu Lizheng after returning to the village, and Tang Cheng's expectations, Liu Sanneng knew that the first daughter-in-law of the Tang family was actually the nephew daughter of Zhao County Lieutenant, Li Yingjun, and his attitude towards the Tang family quietly changed, Tang Xuan's name was removed from the list of conscripts, and he also resumed the habit of going to "Brother Tang's" house from time to time to sit down, everything was the same as in the past six months, as if the estrangement had never happened.

As for the practice of calligraphy, Tang Cheng still insisted on the 200-character ink scripture task assigned by the old monk Chengning every night, but his speed was slowly accelerating, and when the ink scripture reached the final stage, the daily time to complete the task was reduced by at least half compared with the beginning.

When Tang Cheng finally returned the entire hand-copied "Diamond Sutra", Cheng Ning lightly told him that Zhong Shu's "eight-point Kai method" had almost used his kung fu in terms of "likeness", and as for the more difficult and more divine "godlikeness" to be able to do that step, it was not only hard work, but more importantly, enlightenment. Then, the old monk threw him a copy of the Myoho-renge-kyo, which was also written only at the beginning, but this time the number of words per day was reduced from 200 to 100 when he assigned the task.

After more than a year, Tang Cheng finally overcame the obstacle of writing with a brush, and now his brush writing is not very good, but it will not be worse than his classmates. As for when he will be able to remove the craftsmanship in the word, it depends on his entry in the "god-like".

Because the self-study of the Four Books has been completed, and the time for calligraphy practice has been shortened a lot, he has been able to free up more time to concentrate on painting skills. Just like what Liu Suifeng did outside the gate of Wanfu Temple, Tang Cheng also deliberately went to the school building of Jinshike to find Liu Suifeng and informed him of the change in his schedule. From that moment onwards, he spent at least twice as much time studying painting as an hour and a half for the rest of his life.

Your pride, I have too! Tang Cheng returned to the Ming Jingke school building, and when he was about to enter the classroom, he deliberately looked back, and Liu Suifeng, who was dressed in white, was just like he was in front of Wanfu Temple, and was quietly looking at his back.

Somehow, at this moment, when Tang Cheng saw the Shengxue white dress again, there was a faint warmth in his heart that had never been seen before.

During this period of time, many aspects of Tang Cheng's life have changed compared to before, and if there is no change, it is the county government. Since that day, Zhang County's order consulted with Zhao Laohu and Lin Xuezheng, and the next morning, Zhang Ziwen, the chief arrester of the county, took the tolerance of the two team leaders to Erlong Village.

With the ten hard-tired bows and five powerful crossbows that had been sealed in the official warehouse for a long time, the eighteen tolerances led by Zhang Ziwen locked the mountain bandits on the mountain, making it difficult for them to go down the mountain to commit crimes, but this was all they could do, and the special terrain made it impossible for the tolerance men who were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers to attack the cottage at all.

In the same county office, Tang Cheng can meet with Zhang Xiangwen every day, and he learned from him that there is no progress in exploring other ways, Pingtou Peak, where Erlongzhai is located, is simply a good place made in heaven for bandits to open mountains and set up cabinets, there is no road to the cliffs on three sides, Ren is Zhang Ziwen led people to visit the elderly people in the nearby villages, and did not find the path in hope or a cave that can lead to the peak, but instead sat on the status quo that Erlongfeng is only one road passable.

It was in this situation, after the four times of hoeing in the countryside was completed, Zhao Laohu applied for it, and Zhang County Decree immediately issued a proclamation for the transfer, and the middle-aged Ding men who were over 25 years old and under 45 years old in dozens of villages near Erlongfeng were all recruited, and hundreds of people gathered under Erlong Village.

When the requisition order was issued, Zhao Laohu went to Erlongzhai with the requisition notice, and personally presided over the simple training of the conscription and deployment of strong men with the help of more than a dozen veterans of the town army.

Half a month later, the first assault and encirclement that Zhang County ordered to place high hopes on was officially launched under the personal leadership of Zhao Laohu, and the initial success was smooth, but after the team arrived at the scissors' mouth, the original momentum of the bandit brigade had to stop, this ghost place is really impossible to go, except for the middle of the sheep intestine mountain road that only allows three people to go in parallel, both sides are full of his mother's sharp and sharp stones, and people can't even stand here at all.

Although the bandit brigade had a hard-tired bow and a powerful machine crossbow to help in the battle, even if the arrows were far away, they were not as convenient as the big stones that the bandits rolled down the mountain.

The first attack on the bandits ended in such an embarrassing situation, not only did the battle fail to attack the mountain, but even the mountain bandits failed to kill or injure a single person, but the bandits' team was suddenly rolled down by the stone and injured dozens of people, fortunately, there were no deaths, and it was a great luck in misfortune.

After resting for a while, on the third day, Zhao Laohu went up the mountain again, this time Zhao Laohu was really ruthless, the fifty-two-year-old man was stunned and rushed to the front with a bright waist knife, dodging the rolling stone and easily entered the scissors, but he was forced to step by the hoe and long shovel that suddenly stretched out after the stone on both sides, there were blocks left and right, and there were rolling stones under his feet.

The second time the bandits were attacked and suppressed, they still failed to break through the scissors, and what was stronger than the first time was that a few people who followed Zhao Laohu rushed in seized the opportunity to kill and injure five mountain bandits, but the price paid was that almost all of these people who rushed in were more or less injured. The three most seriously injured legs were broken.

Without waiting for the bandit brigade to rush again, the mountain bandits, who were frightened by the death, actually moved stones to block the scissors mouth, so far, the mountain bandits certainly couldn't get down, and the bandit team didn't want to go up again.

When the news came back, Tang Cheng watched Zhang Xianling smash the precious white porcelain tea cup of the torture kiln with a bang, and his increasingly haggard face became a little more anxious.

Hundreds of strong men gathered in one place, and they couldn't attack it, but there was a lot of food to eat, and as the time of the delay grew, the county official warehouse gradually felt the pressure. And as the time for the wheat harvest double grab approached, the strong men who were originally happy to be able to eat and not work were also unstable, thinking about going home to prepare for the double robbery.

The pressure of time, the pressure of the official warehouse and the unstable pressure of the strong man's heart accumulated to Zhang Xianling, the haggard sè on his face became more and more obvious, and his temper became more and more hot, Tang Cheng ate a few times and hung down without saying, on a rainy afternoon, Zhang and Yao, who had been indifferent, finally broke out for the first time in their verbal filth, and the cause could even be negligible.

There was a shallow layer of bloodshot in his eyes, and after Zhang Xianling returned to the official room with a gray face, Zhang **'s errand was to ask Tang Cheng to inform him to prepare the carriage and horses, and set off for Erlongzhai early tomorrow morning.

The situation has developed to this point, and as time passes, Zhang Xianling can no longer sit still in the county office.

Early the next morning, Tang Cheng, who had taken leave in the county school, followed Zhang County's order and went out of Yunxi County to Erlongzhai under the escort of a group of tolerances.

Zhang Xianling seems to be in a hurry, he is a civil official who actually gave up the Xuanche, and ran to Erlongzhai on horseback, so it was really miserable to toss Tang Cheng. To say that some rìzi also followed Zhang Xiangwen to ride a horse, but the time was too short, and the mare when he learned to ride was also very docile. This sudden appearance, the taste is really uncomfortable, it is tired from long-distance horseback riding, and his riding skills that can barely be regarded as falling are doubly tired.

But even if he was on a business trip, even Zhang County's order was to ride a horse, Tang Cheng could only grit his teeth and work hard, the journey of nearly two days rushed down, although he rested several times in the middle of the horse rest was not young or old, but when he arrived at Erlongzhai, he was really exhausted with stiffness all over his body, and his legs sandwiched the horse's belly were even more grinded red.

I can't rest even here, and after arriving at Erlongzhai and getting off the horse, Tang Cheng, who was stiff and gray-faced, accompanied Zhang Xianling to Zhao Laohu's residence.

This is obviously a temporary earthen fence, it is really very simple, it is dusk, and the lighting in the house is not good, so that when Tang Cheng stepped into the door framed by logs, he couldn't see the scene inside clearly for a while.

Zhang Xianling was obviously the same as him, but the people in the house saw them first, "Lord Zhang, why are you here?" Ziwen, light the lamp".

As the orange oil lamp lit up, Tang Chengcheng saw Zhao Laohu lying on a rough couch in the room, the expression on his face was no different from when he was in the county office, the only difference was that the exposed leg was thick and swollen, and there was a layer of black paste on it that I don't know what it was, which looked very scary.

Although Zhang Ziwen, who was standing by his couch, was not injured, his eyes were black, and he looked really haggard.

"The place in this house is small, the lamp is heavy, I can't be impatient and I don't light the lamp, Master Zhang sit down", Zhao Laohu made a gesture to get up, but as soon as his body moved, he was held down by Zhang Xianling, who rushed forward, "You hurt your leg, don't move."

"Lord Zhao has suffered", carefully looked at Zhao Laohu's injured leg, and Zhang Xianling, who was a little depressed, stood up straight and raised his tone and said: "Zhao County Lieutenant took the lead, personally risked the bow and arrow, in order to eliminate the local bandits, although life and death are not avoided, if the bandits are successfully suppressed this time, this official will personally carry out the Ministry of Clerks to test the merit department for the county lieutenant."

"It's a good feeling! Tang Cheng, what are you doing in a daze, move the wooden pestle over and invite the adults to sit down", at this moment, Zhang Zishan, who was holding two bowls of tea in his hands, walked in, "This place is simple, only white water is for guests, and Lord Zhang will drink something to quench his thirst."

Tang Cheng moved the wooden pestle over, and looked at Zhao Laohu lying on the bed while drinking the water handed over by Zhang Zishan, the bandit failed, and he was so seriously injured, how could he still be like a normal person? Is he really not annoyed, or is he deliberately putting up with it?

After Zhang Xianling asked a few more words about the injured leg, the topic of the two naturally turned to Erlongzhai, and Zhao Laohuyin carefully explained the scene of leading the team up the mountain the first few times, but there was really no good way to face such a dangerous terrain.

Zhao Laohu said that these are all written in the news sent back, Zhang Xianling came in a hurry, and what he heard was these things that were nothing new, and the anxiety in his heart was not only not solved, but became more and more serious, but Zhao Laohu had been injured like this, and he really didn't say anything, so he could only sit sullenly for a while, and said something to let Zhao Laohu rest assured that he would raise his legs first.

After making a plan to go to the mountain to see the terrain the next morning, Tang Chengcheng was led by Zhang Zishan to the lodging with Zhang Xianling, which is a small mountain village seven or eight miles away from Erlongzhai, and the whole village is only thirteen families, although it is also very poor, but after all, it is much stronger than the soil weizi where Zhao Laohu lives.

Zhang Xianling was in a bad mood, he was really tired in the past two days, and he fell asleep straight after hastily eating the pie meal, and Tang Cheng did the same, after soaking his feet in hot water, he fell asleep as soon as he fell into bed.

The next morning, I followed Zhang Xian's order to go to Erlong Peak, and the terrain of the scissors mouth was exactly the same as Zhao Laohu said, not only dangerous, but now it was blocked by the cowardly mountain bandits from above with stones, and if the bandit brigade wanted to rush up, they had to move the stones first.

Seeing this scene, there is nothing to say, but even if Zhang Xianling, who came down from the mountain, is anxious in his heart, he can only make a kind appearance to comfort those strong men who have been recruited.

Zhang County ordered him to go with Zhang Zishan, and Tang Cheng stayed in the house where Zhao Laohu was recuperating from his injuries.

After handing over a bowl of water, Tang Cheng began to change the medicine for Zhao Laohu, "It's over fifty people, even if you work hard, why do you want you, the county lieutenant, to rush to the front?" ”。

Although Tang Cheng's words were a little complaining, but in the bottom line it was the intimacy of his own family, Zhao Laohu couldn't hear it, and after a silent smile and a silent sigh, Zhao Laohu spoke: "Since the year I beat me from outside the stream to inside the stream, I haven't caught the thief in person."

"Then this time ......".

"After the first time I took the brigade to Erlongzhai, I understood that it was impossible to storm Erlongzhai before September without dispatching the town army."

"Then you ...... for the second time", Tang Cheng's hand holding the medicine bowl shook suddenly, "This is a deliberate injury?" ”。

Hearing Tang Cheng's question, Zhao Laohu rarely showed a wry smile on his face, "I thought it was a meaning to hang a flower, who knew that a person who didn't hide his leg injury like this, mother, after all, he is old, and his legs and feet don't obey."

Hearing this, Tang Cheng really didn't know what to say, and was silent for a long time before he said, "Why is this so?" ”。

"Erlongzhai is too important to Zhang County, I am personally presiding over this matter, if he can't attack it, even if he doesn't say it, his heart will definitely be very deep for me", speaking of this, Zhao Laohu's face pulled out a self-deprecating wry smile, "It's not that I'm afraid of him, but wouldn't it be better if I could hang a little color to avoid this mustard?" Besides, after all, I'm a county lieutenant who specializes in catching thieves, and since I came, I can't do it without a little action, I thought I would always have to go up, and by the way, a little injury is also a matter of killing two birds with one stone, who knows that if I calculate it, I can't keep up with this old body."

In this dimly lit simple room, listening to Zhao Laohu talking about the thoughts in his heart, Tang Cheng inexplicably remembered the scene when he first saw Zhao Laohu, that was the first time he entered the county office, and saw Zhao Laohu scolding and scolding a subordinate tolerance, and his words were staggering, anyone who saw him like that would naturally think that this Zhao County Lieutenant was a rough man with no brains, after all, his experience of being born in a big green skin was known all over the county.

But after further contact, he knew that being a rì Zhao Laohu's whipping of his subordinates was nothing more than a bitter ploy, and after the last two conversations, Tang Cheng had a deeper feeling that this yamen can really train people, and he has tempered a big green skin that was good at Ren Xìng back then into a deep-thinking old fox today.

Then the two said something else, the topic was naturally inseparable from Erlongzhai, after arriving here in person, Tang Cheng knew that wanting to solve the problem of Erlongzhai was far more complicated than he had thought before, and at this time, thinking back to the words of Zhao Laohu, his feelings became deeper and deeper.

It's just that the feeling is touched, the heaviness in Tang Cheng's heart is not much less than that of Zhang County, whether it is naïve or stupid, whether a young man is impulsive or irrational, at least once he has linked his position in the county government with the future of Zhang County.

Once the Erlongzhai problem cannot be solved, and Zhang County Ling goes to the official because of this, Tang Cheng is not ready to continue to stay in the county government without being welcomed.

I just want to think so, but this is really a last resort, in terms of his heart, Tang Chengshi hopes that this eradication of Erlongzhai can be successfully completed.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Xianling came back, and as soon as he entered the door, the confidence and ease that he had just forced himself outside the door suddenly disappeared. Zhang Xianling, Zhao Laohu, Zhang Zishan, and those retired town soldiers discussed together for a long time, but they could not come up with a practical and effective way to attack the mountain.

The whole atmosphere ended in a dull one.

Because the county lord was personally appeased, the mood of the strong men temporarily calmed down, and in the next two days, Zhang Zishan led the team to go to Erlong Peak twice, Tang Cheng accompanied Zhang Xianling, who was urging the formation, but except for a few more people, it did not help much in the situation.

Repeated efforts and no success have dealt a great blow to people's morale, not only those strong men who have been transferred to see that it is impossible to storm Erlongzhai, but even the tolerance people already think so in their hearts, although Zhao Laohu and Zhang Zishan did not say such words clearly, but the expressions on their faces have actually revealed the thoughts in their hearts.

Under such circumstances, although Zhang Xianling was still supporting himself, the occasional flash of despair in his eyes did not escape Tang Cheng's eyes.

Zhang Xianling is a literati, a typical literati official encountered such a thing for the first time in charge of the place, and it was really difficult for him, looking at Zhang Xianling, who was chic and comfortable on the chess table in the mountain pavilion a year ago, became what he is now, Tang Cheng, who was also in the same heavy mood, couldn't help but sigh, being an official is indeed a scenery, but who sees the heaviness behind the scenery in front of this person?

The weather was very bad on this day, just like Tang Cheng's mood, when the sun set, he returned to the small mountain village where he was staying with Zhang Xianling, and both of them were speechless.

After dinner, Zhang Xianling went back to the room, Tang Cheng was bored to sit outside, so he also went back to the room to lie down, helplessly unable to sleep because of something in his heart, and rolled around on the couch for a long time, and his heart became more and more anxious and couldn't lie down.

Hard, Tang Chengsuo turned over from the couch and wanted to blow the night breeze outside to breathe.

Because Zhang Xianling lived in the same house, he deliberately put his steps very lightly when he came out, the night was cold in the mountains, and suddenly he came out to eat The cool night breeze blew, Tang Cheng's whole body was shivering, but the irritability in his chest was much more relaxed.

Standing under the eaves and looking at the dark mountain in front of him, Tang Chengcheng, who was very unquiet in his heart, heard a muttering voice on the melon shelf on the left, and it was clear that the voice was the owner of the house.

"Boss, if you don't go to Wang Lizheng tomorrow, I can't cook this meal", the one who spoke was the hostess Yu Qi's sister-in-law, this woman is in her thirties and early forties, although the family is not rich, but she is very clean and clean, and the tea and rice in her hands are good, which is also the reason why Zhang Xianling and Tang Que were arranged to stay at his house.

The man Yu Qi listened to his mother-in-law's complaint and didn't speak, and after being silent for a long time, he smacked his lips and said: "Since the county wants to suppress the bandits in Erlongzhai, what is the mess here, Wang Li is busy with his heels these days, I will go to him now, this is ......."

"He's busy with heels hitting jiriko, let's get better? No matter how busy he is, the people who support him are just some bad masters, but the county lord who has settled down in our family is the county lord, and this county lord is easy to serve? On this day, I gave eighty yuan, and in the past two days, I dare to miss six dishes for dinner? That dare to miss four meats? On that day, you must not put ten or twenty wen ......" Yu Qi's sister-in-law deliberately lowered her voice full of grievances, but it turned out that these two people didn't sleep at night to hide here to discuss this matter, presumably they were also afraid that they would be heard by Zhang Xianling and Tang Cheng when they talked in the house.

Listening to what the two of them said was related to themselves, Tang Cheng listened more and more carefully, and the seventh sister-in-law was silent for a while, and when she saw that the man was still sullen and didn't speak, her anger suddenly came up again, "I can tell you, if you don't go to Wang Lizheng again, our family won't even be able to weigh the salt back tomorrow, and when the time comes, the county lord will be blamed, and you have to be the man in charge if you want to fight the board, don't blame me when the time comes." ”

Yu Qi was annoyed when he heard his wife's words, "What's the noise?"

"Am I noisy? Look at the county lord and that Tang Lushi, I haven't laughed since I moved into our house, such people are hard-hearted, when the greeting is not good, you wait! It's good to say that there are always some dry mountain goods in the neighborhood that can be borrowed, but I can't borrow the salt goods! ”。

When Tang Cheng heard this, thinking about the food preparation in the past few days, and then totaling the eighty wen per day to receive the official money, it was really not enough, no wonder this Yu Seventh Sister-in-law was full of complaints, thinking of these in his heart, Tang Chengjue, who was secretly shaking his head, suddenly felt a move in his heart.

Salt, yes, it's salt!

Since this thought suddenly popped up in Tang Cheng's mind, the mood that had been very low for the past two days suddenly became excited, and his heart was beating faster and faster as if he had been stimulated by something, and he couldn't care about listening to the complaints of the two of them, Tang Cheng turned around and walked towards the house.

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