Chapter 449: Yang Hu's Death
PS: The big chapter is one top two, and there will be two more tomorrow
At the same time, Zhen Yi, Yang Hu, who had become the focus of contention between Zhao and Kongqiu, was lying on the bed bored.
A month ago, when Yang Hu first arrived, he looked around and concluded, "It's a cozy prison." ”
The word prison is actually too demeaning to the place that Zhao Wuxian found for him, and the living room is on the inside of the Zhenyi wall, which is not only hidden, but also can be monitored by the soldiers on the building at all times. The nearest road is also hundreds of steps away, and because it is classified as a military exclusion zone, no one dares to come there on weekdays.
Inside, it's spacious and airy, and there's no shortage of decorations: a rough pile carpet on the floor to retain the temperature in the winter, a soft bed with thick bedding, and a well-ventilated toilet with built-in incense to eliminate odors.
Although it was declared "dead" to the outside world, Yang Hu of Li Zhuang of the Tao Dynasty was still treated as a guest of the Zhao family, and he was able to eat fish and pasta and drink wine syrup. It's a pity that this place is still too small for Yang Hu, who is tall and has been in the thick of Lu Wei, and the time spent exploring the room is not as long as the time he usually wears a deep coat.
And in order to prevent outsiders from prying eyes, the windows were basically sealed, and only a skylight for smoke exhaust was open. Therefore, he could not see the sunrise and sunset, and could only look up from the skylight in the middle of the night at the half-round pale crescent moon that crossed Zhenyi.
"Be content." Yang Hu comforted himself so much, he had heard someone say a sentence from the sage Lao Tzu: "There is no greater misfortune than not being satisfied." "If the tiger falls in Pingyang, don't expect too much.
Think of the situation he was in when he was imprisoned by the Marquis of Qi in the state of Qi, which was the real prison: the straw laid on the floor was full of urine, and there were no windows. There was no bed, not even a urine bucket. He vaguely remembered that the walls were stone. It was cold to the touch, and he could only rely on his sense of touch. There was not a single ray of light in it, and it was no different from a blind man.
Compared with Qi Hou's harshness, Zhao's father and son had already given him enough respect, and even after Zhao Wuxian suddenly became difficult, saying that he was infected with "typhoid fever", he and Zhao Ying came together to ask Yang Hu's opinion.
"If the Lu people learn that Yangzi is still alive, they will not give up, and the Zhao family can't bear the charge of splitting Jin and Lu, so Yangzi can only be wronged!"
What can Yang Hu do except bow his head? He is simply a homeopathic person. Afterwards, he also thought with relief: If Zhao Wuxian wanted to put him to death, why bother so much, asking him to pretend to be dead, and deliberately providing a comfortable prison?
There is a "chess" table in the corner of the room, Yang Hu heard that this is a thing that Zhao Wuxian brought from the Jin Kingdom, it is said that he invented it, the chess pieces are carved from mulberry wood, and they have been polished for a long time. It is said that in Xinjiang, the children of the ministers of the Jin Kingdom have begun to carve with ivory and agate.
General, handsome, slaughter, shoot, car, ride. The chess pieces are arranged on both sides of the Jinhe Chu Boundary, which is quite in line with the current way of military struggle, and Zhao Wuxian, this child, is the method of training and leading the army on this simple chessboard? Thinking that he lost to such an opponent. Now he still has to look up to his nose, and Yang Hu still has a lot of things he hasn't figured out.
But he didn't lose any temper.
He was locked up in his room all day, and he could only judge the time by the time between the meals delivered by his subordinates. The snow fell and stopped, and stopped and fell. Half a month has passed.
After eating food every day, Yang Hu has nothing to do. He circled the room. One, two, three. Then he sat down at the chess table and moved a "ride" aimlessly, and now he has become a pawn trapped on the chessboard, allowing the Zhao father and son to write words.
When the past hit, he pondered why he was so defeated, and combed through the events of the past two years over and over again, and came to only one conclusion, that Zhao Wuxian had done something bad.
I always thought that those things that made me gnash my teeth were not beneficial, so I deduced the future again and again. He thought about the situation that the Zhao family and his son were facing now, if he was received again, how he should make a suggestion, it was the kind of suggestion that could be relied on by Zhao Qing, but would not provoke Zhao Xiaojunzi.
In short, he was ready.
But as the days passed, the lord did not come, as if he had forgotten him.
As a result, Yang Hu's patience was polished as thin as paper.
When he was bored, he also wanted to learn to play chess, but he had no opponents.
Finally, Yang Hu's eyes turned to the bamboo book in the other corner of the room, he was not very literate, and he was very impatient with reading. But in the next few days, he was as tireless as Confucius's love for disciples. Wrapped in a futon, the tall tiger warrior curled up under the lamp and read a book until sleepiness hits him, his arms ache, and his words become blurred.
This kind of day did not last for a few days, and when the old and new versions of "Sima Fa" were flipped through and had to be separated, Yang Hu had no books to read. Because the other bamboo books in this room are boring, full of long and difficult "poems" and "books", as well as some fragments of Zhou Li.
It's all something that Kong Qiu respects like a heavenly thing, but Yang Hu sneers at it.
Yang Hu learned that these bamboo books, chessboards, and living rooms belonged to a military official named Wu Jing, who he had seen on the day he first came, and looked at him with a straight face like a thief. Judging from his preferences, this is a studious but extremely boring person, and Yang Hu is willing to change to an interesting "The Biography of Mu Tianzi" at any cost.
His complaint was fulfilled the next day, when it was the beginning of January, when the snow melted and the weather warmed up, and birds could occasionally be heard chirping, and there was also a cuckoo, and a handsome young nobleman with clogs stained with moss and a roll of paper in his hand pushed the door in......
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The person who came was Zhao Wuxian's most trusted subordinate recently, Kan Zhi, and Yang Hu's placement and transfer in Xilu were completely responsible for him.
Yang Hu noticed that he was missing for a month, and this son smiled with some banter, and he held a roll of paper in his hand, and several large characters were written on the first page. "Si Kou heard that Yangzi wanted to read "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", so he sent me to send this hand-copied paper book......
"Paper books?"
Yang Hu was very surprised after taking it, compared to the bulky bamboo slips, the paper book is dozens of good parchment paper glued together, it is light to start, the ink on it is not scattered, and there is a sound when Yang Hu quickly flips through it. The content font size is small. And there are also dots on it that are extremely friendly to people like Yang Hu who are not proficient in literacy and hyphenation, separating the sentences. "This thing was also newly made after the war. The black dot on the top, Si Kou called it punctuation. It is different from writing only one sentence on each piece of bamboo slips. The words on the paper are smaller, and there must be punctuation between the sentences in each column, otherwise only the learned can read through them, and the military officers and assistants who are new to writing will have dry eyes. It's just a simple dot today, but it may become more complicated in the future. Kan Zhi explained. Good, this thing is very good. "Yang Hu had also heard of the dispute between bamboo slips and paper in Lu last year, and now it seems that books made of paper may be the trend of the times to replace bamboo scrolls.
But he didn't show much interest in this volume of legendary pastimes. Throwing it to the side casually, he looked directly at the young man who was on the opposite side of the official road.
"I left me here for more than a month, ignoring it, why don't you talk to me today? I used to be in power in the country, but now I end up like this, do you think I am extremely ridiculous? ”
That's right, Kan Zhi is very self-controlled, he has seen Yang Hu's indispensability since he was a teenager, and when Yang Hu Zhengwei passed by Kan Yi a few years ago. Kan Zhi, who was pulled out by his father and presented as a "prodigy", disdained, and said: "Any boy in the streets and alleys of Lucheng can beat the contemptible boy here." “
Now Yang Hu has fallen like this, so after accepting the task of Zhao Wuxian sending him to place Yang Hu, Kan Zhi did not dare to take revenge openly. But it also has some sadistic thoughts.
He laughed and said: "Yang Zixiu has to think more, Jun has already gone to Qi to enter Zhao, and he will be reused by the Chinese army in the future." How dare the kid do that? Having said that, the smile on his lips did not disappear.
"It's just that I've heard that Yoko is good at cultivating talents. Dare to ask, do you think the kid is a talent now? ”
Yang Hu often boasts that he is good at "tree people". But the talents he cultivated turned against him in the end, Kan Zhi was sarcastic, and he also wanted to say that basically if you could see my talent back then, I might be able to treat you more respectfully today.
Yang Hu naturally heard the meaning of his words, so he pretended to be ashamed and said: "When I was in the Lu Kingdom, I cultivated three people, one of them became Shaozheng, and the other became the Yi Zai, and finally ascended to the position of Xiao Zongbo (his news is lagging behind); The third of them obtained the city, and became a little Sikou all the way, ranking first among the doctors of Xilu, and even Sanhuan had to be afraid of a few points. When I was convicted in Lu, all three of them rose up against me, and they fought back against me in the court, listing my crimes; The hatred of being a Zongbo can't kill me in the temple; It's even more excessive to be a priest, chasing me all the way to the Qu of the Five Fathers, and finally letting the tiger return to the mountain......"
"From this point of view, I am too bad at cultivating people. Grow orange grapefruit, which tastes sweet and smells fragrant; Planting citrus aurantium thorns will sting people when they grow up, so the world should take me as a warning, and gentlemen should be cautious when cultivating people. ”
He changed his words and asked with a smile: "I just don't know, am I an orange pomelo cultivated by Zhao Xiaosikou, or a thorn?" ”
Kan Zhi was stunned: "What do you mean by this?" ”
Yang Hu smiled: "Since Zhao Xiaosikou can let you handle my affairs, maybe when you think about it, you must be the person he trusts the most, right?" ”
Without waiting for Kan to answer, Yang Hu said again: "But as far as I can see, you still can't compare to Zhang Mengtan, who is ranked first, he is the mastermind of Zhao Xiaosikou, and he is given to take charge of the internal affairs of several towns alone, and seek major events in the confrontation between the two armies. There is also the second Duanmu Ci, in this battle, he single-handedly transported the expenses and food of more than 10,000 Zhao soldiers, and persuaded Cao Guo to participate in the Zhao side that seemed to be defeated. As for you, the most you do on weekdays is to follow Zhao Xiaosikou to be an assistant to pass the word, or to deal with some unsightly things......"
"Hugh is nonsense!"
To tell the truth, it is the most stinging, although Kan Zhi is talented, but after all, he is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he was poked in pain by the experienced Yang Hu, and he couldn't help but be furious.
Yang Hu pressed over like a mountain: "You think you are really talented? I saw it through when I first met you years ago. What is the difference between you, who pretend to be smart but ignore the overall situation, rashly make enemies with Zhao Qing and Zhao Xiaosikou's reuse, and what is the difference between me and when I angered Dr. Qi, Wei, Song, and Lu Qing everywhere back then? Isn't it ridiculous that you want to see me have fun today, not only do you not reflect on yourself? "If you go on like this, I'm afraid that in the end, you will be suppressed by Duanmu Ci and other people from the Confucius Sect, in case you fight back too much and do something that makes Zhao Xiaosikou disgusted." It's probably the end of a fleeing from the owner, becoming a thorn that was pulled out and stepped on by the master. How much better can you be than me? Today's Yanghu is the time when you come to the future! ”
Kan Zhi was completely shocked by Yang Hu. With that unruly eyes and sharp words, I thought he would be downcast and low in his voice this month, but no, this is still the man-eating tiger that no one can afford to provoke!
After subduing this arrogant junior, Yang Hu straightened his clothes and asked lightly, "Son, I'm here today." I'm afraid it's not just for the sake of delivering books and watching my jokes, Zhao Xiaosikou locked me up for a month, and now what do you have to say to me? “
Kan Zhi Muran's expression was restrained, but his attitude became much more respectful, and he arched his hand and said: "Without him, in a few days, Yangzi will be able to go to the Jin Kingdom with the Chinese army, and fame and fortune are in front of him." But if Yoko wants to become a retainer of the Zhao family, he must first change the clan. Change your name, mask your face, that's what Si Kou wants! ”
……
"Changed the name. Masked? ”
Yang Hu smiled bitterly.
His temperament has been almost worn out by this month's "quarantine", and Kan Zhi's words will definitely make him angry if he changes it before. Now he only trembled slightly with his thick beard, and his heart was sour.
The gentleman of the Zhao family was right. He has a deep relationship with Lu Hou, Sanhuan, and even the now hot Dazong Bo Kongqiu. If Yang Hu does not die, the Zhao family and the Lu State will no longer be able to continue to get along.
Therefore, Yang Hu must disappear from everyone's eyes, he can only be a veiled, abandon the shadow of his old name, and survive under the protection of Zhao's father and son.
"Well, that's my life."
Like surviving in the snow and decisively rebelling, he made a decision.
Yang Hu turned around suddenly, and when he turned back, he had an extra handful of copper shaves in his hand that he usually cut meat for eating!
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"How do I think that what Yang Hu said also has some truth?"
Kan Zhi's little heart was squirted by Yang Hu, and a cold sweat also broke out on his forehead, and he finally calmed down, reluctantly said Zhao Wuxian's request, and then began to think about Yang Hu's words.
When he came back to his senses, he saw Yang Hu grinning at him, his canine teeth were snow-white, his gums were like blood, and there was an extra bright bronze shaved in his hand.
"Wu Sima!"
Kan Zhi was startled, staggered back, only thinking that Yang Hu was going to kill him, and was about to call Wu Jing, who was guarding next to him, to come to the rescue, but saw Yang Hu pull out the copper cut and make a few horizontal and vertical strokes on his face.
The sharp blade slashed through the face, slashing at the skin and leaving deep furrows. Bright red blood dripped into Yang Hu's mouth, and finally soaked through his rich black beard.
"What's wrong!?" When Wu Jing arrived with his soldiers, he saw such a scene: Kan Zhi fell to the ground on his back, looking at Yang Hu dumbfounded, and Yang Hu, is this still Yang Hu? His face was blurred with flesh and blood, and he was unrecognizable.
Self-disfiguring?
Kan Zhi's reaction was quite fast, he even said that it was a misunderstanding, and asked Wu Jing to find the medical officer, medicine, linen and other things, and then asked in surprise: "Yangzi, Si Kou just wants you to cover your face, you, why are you here?" ”
Yang Hu was ruthless to others, and he was also ruthless to himself, and the flesh on his face was turned out, bloody, and terrifying. Although Kan Zhi has experienced the battlefield, he has never killed anyone, he feels unbearable pain just by looking at it, and the little bit of drama and contempt for Yang Hu is completely gone, only admiration and fear remain.
Yang Hu slowly shaved the blood with copper, and even the thick black whiskers that he usually carefully protected were shaved off, so it seemed that he had changed a person, but his tone was steady, and he seemed to disagree.
"There are also many people in the Jin Kingdom who have seen me, I am tall, and I can tell by guessing. Covering his face is not safe, it is better to destroy his appearance, and then swallow charcoal to change his voice, anyway, Yang Hu is already a lost dog, he can only serve the Zhao family with all his heart, not seeking profit, only seeking to be able to build a great career in the world, what is the use of keeping this appearance? ”
Yang Hu allowed the healer to stick honey to his face to stop the bleeding, and wrapped it in a bandage.
"Since Zhao Xiaosikou wants me to change my name to Yi's, what is my name, can he think about it for me?"
"Si Kou said that if Yoko can't think of a suitable harmony, it is better to claim to be Mr. Uyou from the seashore."
Yang Hu was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Nothing, nothing, nothing...... Good! From now on, Yang Hu is dead, and there is no such person in the world! (To be continued......)
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