Everyone followed Yang Shisan to the house, and sure enough, they saw the dead Yang Laoqi and the Yang family lady lying on the ground, and they were all embarrassed.

Yang Shisan ignored everyone, went to the house to take out two mats, moved the old man and the lady to the mats, and took out the table at home, put on the four heads and cut ugly things on the memorial service, and cried a lot.

is still the chief of the guard, and said to Yang Shisan, who was crying: "Thirteen Lang, you have avenged your revenge now, but it is the official who killed, you can go!" The funeral of your father and lady will be handled by our neighbors on your behalf, and in the future, whether you go to the grass, you must always leave a life to continue the incense for your Yang family. ”

Yang Shisan thought about it and agreed, so he went back to the house to pack up a baggage, took the rotten silver gun and went out to lead the horse to the east.

After he left, the chief of the security department mobilized the neighbors to handle the funeral affairs for the Yang family, and sent someone to Ezhou to report to the official.

That night, Ezhou sent a team to arrest and seal the Yang family, and the same people also collected the corpses of Hun Geer and others to the Yang family along the way, and they were all admired when they heard the reason for the chief.

Early in the morning of the second day, the only companion who escaped came to the Yang family with more than a dozen messengers who should be served, along with the Ezhou garrison and the two hundred Xiang troops, and saw the four heads placed on the case as tribute, and the companion cried loudly and said: "Lord Garrison, you want to avenge our brother Hun Wow!" Our brother Hun is the nephew of Concubine Liu Guifei, and this time he came to Ezhou on a business trip to be ordered by Lord Cai Jingcai and Lord Zhu Mianzhu, who knew that under the rule of Ezhou, he called the thief harmed, how could the adult get rid of it? ”

Although the Ezhou garrison looked at the four heads on the case with a frightened face, he did not panic, grabbed the collar of the companion, and asked: "It's easy to want the official to make a move, but you have to tell the official the ins and outs of this matter." ”

When he was drunk by the momentum of this garrison, when even if he poured beans into a bamboo tube, he said how Hun Ge'er saw the tree, and said the matter of seeing the color, after the Ezhou garrison listened, he looked at the four-zhang high laurel tree in the courtyard of the Yang family and sighed, and shouted: "This laurel tree is really a bane, and it is not a nobleman who has attracted it." A few people cut down this tree, and six lives were killed in vain, and this tree was ominous! ”

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw a figure flying down from the tree, and a rotten silver spear in the figure's hand flew out of his hand, nailing the lucky companion to the ground.

Such a change suddenly frightened everyone stupidly, but seeing that Yang Shisan actually calmly pulled out the Pu knife on his back and cut off the head of the companion, put it on the case and kowtowed, then pulled out the rotten silver spear from the corpse and wanted to leave.

The Ezhou garrison respected him as a good man, so he didn't let people take him when he kowtowed to incense, and when he saw that he was actually leaving, he shouted: "Yang Shisan, you avenged the murder of your father and wife, and it is understandable." It's just that the person you killed is both an official and a royal relative, and this official can't let you get away anyway, so I advise you to abandon your weapons and go to Ezhou with your official! ”

When Yang Shisan heard this, he said with a faint smile on his face: "The Yang family has never abandoned their weapons, just come and get it!" ”

After saying that, Yang Shisan shook the rotten silver gun in his hand, and then went to the box army around him to kill, he intended to get away and didn't want to do more killing, just a few guns knocked down more than a dozen people, which highlighted the encirclement out of his own small courtyard, and fled to the southeast.

Helplessly, the Ezhou garrison couldn't let him get away no matter what, so he ordered to chase him, and let the Xiang army not engage him, and surrounded him and shot him with arrows from afar.

This chase and escape, that is, for one day and one night, Yang Shisan was surrounded and forced to go to the southeast several times, and he could only turn back and want to get close to the Yangtze River, but he was also forced to retreat. Although he was a skilled marksman, he also carried six arrows, and an arrow flew under his left ear, cutting a large hole two inches long and two points deep in his face.

Before the afternoon of August 17, Yang Shisan finally broke through the encirclement, stumbled to the embankment of the Shibantan River not far from Yanji Town, looked at the more than 100 Xiangxiang troops hanging far behind him, and said to the Ezhou garrison after smiling miserably: "My lord, Yang Shisan has a request, and I hope that my lord will fulfill it!" ”

At this time, the Ezhou garrison had a piece of bleeding clothes tied to his hands, stretched out his tongue and licked his chapped lips, looked at the more than 100 subordinates around him who were all exhausted, and nodded: "Come on!" ”

Yang Shisan stuck the rotten silver spear upside down on the ground, and said with his hands in courtesy: "Please also ask my lord to cremate my body with my father and my wife, and scatter the ashes in this river!" ”

"Good!" The Ezhou garrison naturally nodded and agreed, but he secretly said in his heart: "This matter is very important, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do." ”

Come to think of it, even if Yang Shisan is dead, the corpse cannot be cremated easily, whoever told him to kill the imperial prince will inevitably alarm the Huainan West Road Punishment Division, and then report all the way to Dali Temple, and may even alarm Emperor Liu, who dares to destroy the corpse easily?

Yang Shisan naturally didn't know what the Ezhou garrison was thinking, so he immediately straightened up, and after laughing three times in the sky, he shouted and stepped forward to hit the rotten silver spear that was stuck upside down on the ground, but at this moment, Yang Shisan's feet staggered, and the tip of the gun, which was originally going to hit the heart, was a lot lower, piercing from the left lower abdomen and piercing out of the back.

Yang Shisan screamed in pain, then held the rotten silver spear with both hands and lifted it, then staggered back a few steps under his feet, and his body was tilted down the river embankment.

When everyone saw it, they hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, but found that the river was surging, the turbid waves were rolling, and in the blink of an eye, Yang Shisan's body was washed away more than ten zhang away, and just when a wave hit on the river, it was never seen again.

The guard was stunned for a while, then shook his head and sighed: "Alas! Such a good man...... What a man! ”

After half a ring, the garrison waved his hand and said: "Yang Shisan was arrested and did not surrender, he touched the gun and cut himself, and his body fell into the Yangtze River without a trace." ”

And when they all said so, they also turned back.

After coming to the small courtyard of the Yang family again, the garrison saw that the laurel tree in the courtyard was angry, so he ordered someone to cut it down, but he called the chief of the security guard to chat a few words privately, which made him collect the corpses of Brother Hun and others and returned to Ezhou.

That night, the small courtyard of the Yang family accidentally caught fire due to a candle, and the bodies of the old man of the Yang family and the lady were burned clean by a fire along with the laurel tree in the courtyard.

After the fight, the legend of the iron spear Yang 13 happy to kill the official with a vendetta, and then killed through the encirclement with one hundred and seven enemies, and finally committed suicide with a desperate gun, gradually spread in the Ezhou area.

However, some people say that he is indeed dead, and some people say that he is not dead, but went to Xiajiang to fall into the grass. Some people also say that they saw Yang Shisan do Langlizi, specializing in robbing the boats carrying Huashigang on the river and attacking and killing the officials of the Ying Feng Bureau, and also taking the lead for the people who were violated by the Ying Feng Bureau, and was called the Yang Yan King of Jiangnan.

Soon after, a storyteller compiled a Tao Zhen joke about the bloody case caused by a laurel tree on August 15 of that year, which was widely circulated along the Yangtze River.

(Tao Zhen is a type of rap art that is accompanied by a pipa or drum.) It originated in the Northern Song Dynasty and prevailed in the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin and Yuan Dynasty, and was very popular with the masses. Most of its lyrics are seven-character sentences, such as "When there is peace, the official is small, and when he leaves the chaos, he is afraid of going to war"; "Emperor Taizu Taizong Zhenzong, the Four Ancestors Renzong has a Taoist monarch" and so on. Musically, it is probably also a format of repeated chanting of the upper and lower sentences; It may originate from the folk "lotus fall". ）