Du Yan (1), a student who has a family and can't go back and travels all over the world, trying to change his fate through the imperial examination.

Fortunately, a wealthy businessman took a fancy to his talent and conduct, married his daughter to him and supported him to participate in the imperial examination, but he didn't want to follow his father-in-law in everything, so he arrived at Kaifeng Mansion in advance, because two years later was the year of the new examination. He found a house close to the academy, and went to class every day, but it was also very fulfilling.

Winter is coming, because I have little money to spare, I can't afford to buy too much charcoal, and the house is cold, and my hands and feet are so cold that people can't read books. Because the Spring Festival was approaching, the college had begun to have a holiday, and he had nowhere to go, so he and a few students of the same kind got together to study in a newly opened teahouse.

The shopkeeper of the teahouse is a visionary, and he does not treat students like them harshly, not only provides seats, but also provides them with free refreshments, and there are not many requirements, only one, requiring the students to have two people stand on the stage every day to tell the tea guests in vain - that is, to tell some classic stories in the vernacular, or anecdotes, etc., well, there is also the so-called moisturizing fee.

This can be said to be a rare anecdote for the children of the poor family.

On this day, there are still thirteen days before the Spring Festival.

Du Yan and a few students sat early in the window seat on the second floor of the teahouse, which not only had plenty of natural light, but also had a bird's-eye view of the nearby street outside the window.

Because it was early in the morning, there were not a few tea customers coming, and seven or eight students either discussed the problems encountered in the text, or exchanged views on the interesting things that happened in Kaifeng Mansion near the Spring Festival.

Suddenly, someone shouted out of nowhere, "Look outside, it's lively, could it be that the frontier has won the battle, and the border army has come back to report the good news to the emperor?" All of them are riding high-headed horses, which is really powerful! ”

"Where? Where is it? "A few students with active temperaments don't argue anymore, and you push me and squeeze into the window.

Du Yan, who was reading a book by the window, turned around and arched his back in a hurry, and grabbed the sturdiest frame on the window with both hands to prevent himself from being squeezed out of the window, and shouted in a panic, "Don't squeeze, don't squeeze!" Beware of falling out and breaking your legs! Yingzhou Qi, Suzhou Meng, you two bastards, aren't you just war horses, what's so strange? ”

Although the young student known as Suzhou Meng was thin and small, he had a very clever tongue, and his subordinates kept moving, passing through the gap between the tables and chairs in three times and two times, and then got into front of the window from under Du Yan's armpit, and then shouted: "Shanyin Du, the guy who just shouted is a famous ear god in the store, and it is not an ordinary sight to be able to surprise him so much...... Hey, Yingzhou Qi, you don't push! ”

The one who is called Yingzhou Qi is not a good stubble, well, it should be said that the students who dare to come out alone to study in this era have a good physique and a good tongue, "Suzhou Meng, you little man, shut up and listen...... What's being called outside? ”

Outside the teahouse is the main road leading directly to the Royal Street, which is spacious enough for ten strong men to stretch their arms out and parallel.

The Spring Festival is approaching, and although it is early in the morning, the main road has already begun to be full of people. In the distance, people began to avoid left and right, and it was a team of horses that came over that didn't look real, but the noisy sound came, and a few students put up the window, and when they were lying on the window and looking out, they happened to hear someone carrying a gong, someone carrying a drum, and someone shouting half-speaking and half-singing:

"Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to me......

There is a Yang Erlang in Kaifeng,

Splashy scoundrels are ruthless,

When he met the girl, he was entangled,

The girl's companion wants to push,

He was annoyed and angry, but he couldn't argue,

will play with the dog's legs,

Cold-hearted and cold-hearted, cold-faced knife raised......

Ouch......

Pity the ......

Five heroes lost their lives,

Poor my brother and mother,

White sends black desire to break the bowel......

There's still that... The young son of the family is anxious to be fed,

Who wants to taste the pain of loss?

Ouch......

Ask: Where is the relationship between heaven and earth?

The government is busy......

Now we're on our own...... Gathering people's hearts ......

Go and ask for a question about the right and the wrong.

Ouch......

Listen, young and old,

Don't be at a loss to block the road,

Our brothers go and ask the powerful,

It's hard to know how long the road is to life and death......

If a mistake kills you,

And please help make a name for yourself!

Let's go, ......"

As soon as the singing fell, the gongs opened the way, the drums cheered, and then the ox carts and horses' hooves sounded.

Where have people in this age ever seen such a formation? Speaking of outsiders, even those who were born and raised in Kaifeng Mansion and claim to have seen the world have never seen such a situation!

Some people have heard the mountain folk tune, but no one has ever seen it when it is sung loudly in this kind of scene.

It is not uncommon for a car to pull a coffin, but now no one has ever seen such a scene of five large red lacquered coffins walking around in a wheel.

Kaifeng Prefecture belongs to Kyoto, and it is common for cavalry to travel through it, even if the emperor travels, but such a majestic horse is matched with a tall and fierce rider - no one has ever seen it.

The passers-by who stopped on the side of the road on the left and right were dumbfounded, and the students in the teahouse who were leaning on the windows were also not much better.

The little Suzhou Meng was the first to react, muttering: "Warm, what is that guy singing?" That Yang Erlang is not easy to mess with, he is a splasher who often walks around, and he can't be messed with by idlers......"

A student with a northland accent next to him said in a condensed voice: "Suzhou Meng, don't use your vernacular dialect, it's hard to understand, so who is Yang Erlang?" ”

Suzhou Mengtou didn't reply, his eyes stared straight out of the window, and continued: "If I guessed correctly, the man said that Yang Erlang must be the Yang palace servant who lives in Beicheng Thorn Horse Lane, no, that guy has just been promoted to the Marquis of the Pavilion Gate, that guy's full name is Yang Jingzong, the word is Zhengchen, but his temperament is not right, he is a scoundrel who is a Su Xi Bop, how can he have a sister who married into the court, and now he is getting the favor of today, then Yang Erlang is becoming more and more unbeatable......"

didn't finish taking him to finish, Du Yan, who was close to his back, shouted in a low voice: "Be cautious, don't talk about what is going on today, just say that Yang surnamed Jingzong, what did he do to provoke such a group of people to ......"

"Hey, Lao Shanyin, thank you ......" Suzhou Meng turned his head and smiled low at Du Yan, Xun turned back and stared out the window, his mouth was still non-stop, but it was much more restrained, "More than ten days ago, it is said that in Fat Powder Street, that Yang Erlang teased a boudoir lady, the people who accompanied the little lady were some foreign men, I don't know that Yang Erlang's roots, the two sides started to move, and Yang Erlang's fists couldn't compete with others, so he called out a bunch of idle people to draw knives and cut them, according to people, three died on the spot...... Tsk, now these five coffins, presumably someone has died, and two more have died! ”

"Don't gloat!" Du Yan hammered this kid on the shoulder, and asked, "Then who is this team?" is so fierce, mixed with the faces of the Western Regions, could it be that the soldiers recruited by the town west of the river? ”

"This is not a border town!" Suzhou Meng shrunk his neck, saw the horse team outside walking by the window, and shouted, "God, this war horse is really majestic!" I'm afraid it's far from the palace and the royal horse garden! ”

"You're going to sell it again! Don't talk about it quickly, this ...... Who is it? How can you carry a sword and hang armor into the city? Why didn't those ruffians of the Imperial City Division stop it? Yingzhou Qi was also anxious, pinching Suzhou Meng's neck and asked.

"Don't catch, don't catch! The gentleman does not move his hands...... Brother Qi, your surname is just Qi, not that Qilu strong man! Yes, I don't know it yet! Being pinched by the neck, Suzhou Meng didn't dare to break his mouth again, "Look at the riders on horseback, all of them are dressed as Han families, including the green-eyed Hu people...... I heard it said two months ago that these people are former Tang ...... It is said that they are the descendants of the defeated soldiers when the Anxi army attacked the Western Regions in the past, and now they have returned from thousands of miles away and are stationed in Lingzhou, Hexi...... Tsk, what a warrior! Yingzhou Qi, don't worry, such a fierce person, the people of the Imperial City Division, which one can reach? Don't say obstruction, I'm afraid I'm going to be scared to pee my clothes! ”

The rest of the scholars also stared out the window—like pedestrians on the street—listening to voices from all sides, but they all lost their words involuntarily.

The scene in front of me was really a bit shocking, but dozens of horses, plus some strong men who were obviously helpers, actually walked out of the fierce aura that the victorious division did not have.

The scholars have never seen the real killing field, but staying in this Bianjing City, they have not seen the soldiers of the border town, with the naked eye alone, they can't tell the quality of the soldiers' equipment, but the intuition in their hearts tells them that compared with the knights passing through the street in front of them, the sergeants of the Imperial City Division are good-looking straw pillows, and the so-called majestic sergeants of the border army are just beggars along the street!

The gongs and drums outside seemed to be getting louder and louder, and the few men who led the shouting did not become depressed, but became more and more energetic, and they were stunned to tear a broken gong as if they were about to tear it, but it also won the attention of more people, and the silent knight was speechless, and seemed to look down on everything in the world coldly, and the huge coffin in the middle for the horses, the red on it, in this winter, became so dazzling!

The crowd gathered more and more, and the marching cavalry did not stop at a moment, although it was a little slow because of the increase in the number of onlookers, but it still moved forward steadfastly.

At the rear of the team, dozens of fellows who were also cavalry followed behind, but their momentum was far inferior to that of the former, and their morale looked like frosty late autumn greens - wilting heads, and the shiny armor seemed to be covered with indelible dust......

"Ah, that's the person from the Imperial City Division in the back? How does it look like a gelding? Where is the usual arrogance? Of course, this was not loud, nor did the people along the street dare to say it, but Suzhou Meng muttered on the window in the teahouse.

"You're a troublemaker!" Du Yan raised his hand and patted Suzhou Meng's head, then grabbed his neck again, and said softly: "Everyone has gone away, I want to go down and have a look, are you going to wait?" ”

Without waiting for Suzhou Meng to answer, someone from several scholars on the side replied: "Brother Shichang (1), the so-called gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, this kind of fierce war and chaos is not something that ordinary students such as me can control, so why wait for it to rest......"

"Thank you for reminding ...... a few senior brothers" Du Yan didn't wait for the man to finish, just looked around left and right, and saw that the same year that he used to think was good, but at this moment, he was quite disgusted, so he said: "I am not willing to wait for the letter to come to the door, such a strange thing, such a heroic person, if I don't go to observe with my own eyes, I am afraid that I will not be able to sleep at night...... So I decided to go to have a look, who walks with me? ”

"San'in Du! How can you forget me! Yingzhou Qi, who had been quiet for a while, reacted and hurriedly spoke.

Suzhou Meng, who was held by Du Yan, also stalked his neck and said: "Go together, go together!" ”

The so-called things gather by like, people by groups, both are students, and they are all from the door of poverty, but in the face of such seemingly trivial things, they are clearly distinguished.

The procession carrying the coffin went straight away, and at the back of the procession, on the long street, there were many scenes like this.

It's just that Luo Mou, who only intended to solve the previous affairs with Yang Mou, was still sitting on horseback, and at this time, he couldn't imagine what the gains of his actions were.

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Note: (1) Brother Shichang, Du Yan's table. Du Yan, a native of Shanyin (Shaoxing), Yuezhou, 978-1057, was a Jinshi and the first in 1008 AD.

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P.S. Thinking left and right, hurrying and hurrying up, it turned out that this section was still a little late. In this verse, I made up the tune sung on the street, which consumed some brain cells. For the sake of such hard work, be cheeky to reward, recommend, collect and help promote...... Thank you!