Chapter 31: The Hypocrite (II)
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Stepping on the wooden bridge that was trampled by Lu Da Fat Man and crossing the Hanjiang River, the ancient city of Chenghai, which is famous for producing lychees and seaweed, appeared in front of Lu Da Fat Man and Shang Wanhuan and his party. At the same time, Lu Da Fat and Shang Wanyan appeared in front of him, of course, there were Chaozhou prefect Fu Honglie and Chaozhou general Yang Guotai and so on and so on Chaozhou civil and military officials.
Like the legend, the prefect of Chaozhou, kneeling at the front and wearing a four-grade official uniform, is indeed a very attractive and heroic man, in his thirties, with a moderate figure and slender limbs, a sharp and angular face, hard lines, and two mustaches trimmed neatly, looking very energetic, a pair of black and white Danfeng eyes are blazing, looking forward to scanning the room, as if he can go straight to the bottom of his heart - our big county Ling Lu is a fat man compared to him, in fact, it is a little unnoticeable.
What made Lu Da Fat Man even more angry was that when Fu Honglie went to Shang Wan's car to salute Qianxing, Shang Wanzhen, who was too lazy to move all day and night and was too lazy to talk to Lu Da Fat, actually took the initiative to get out of the carriage without anyone greeting him, and returned the salute to Fu Honglie.
"Master Fu doesn't have to be polite, please get up quickly." Shang Wanzhen tried to squeeze out a little smile, blessed Fu Honglie, and said: "You are an official of the imperial court, and a well-known Qing official, the little girl is just an ordinary woman who has not been titled, how dare you be such a big gift to Lord Fu?" And all the lords and generals, please hurry up. ”
"Stinky girl, why don't you talk so much in front of me?" Lu Da Fat suddenly sensed a sense of crisis, and after scolding secretly, he hurriedly stepped forward and said to Fu Honglie: "Lu Yifeng, the magistrate of Qujing County, Xiaguan, meet the prefect." ――I don't know how many wives and concubines does the prefect Gui Geng have? ”
"Lu Yifeng, is there anyone in the world who has you visited Shangguan like this?" Yang Guotai, the general of Chaozhou, jumped out and asked angrily: "As soon as we met, I asked how many wives and concubines Master Fu has, what do you mean?" ”
"Forget it, Lord Lu may just be making an inappropriate joke." Fu Honglie smiled heartily, waved his hand to rebuke Yang Guotai, and said to Lu Da Fat: "Actually, it's nothing to tell Lord Lu, there are two Chinese New Year's Eve in this mansion, there is only one wife in the family, and the family is poor and has never taken a concubine." ”
"Did you hear that? This kid already has a wife. The big fat man turned his head to look at Shang Wanzhen triumphantly, but saw that Shang Wanyan's expression was cold, and he still looked so ignorant of himself.
After the routine mutual greetings and hypocritical manners in the officialdom, Fu Honglie began to invite Shang Wanzhen and his party into the city, saying that he borrowed a garden from a wealthy merchant in Chenghai City for Shang Wanzhen to stay, and specially told Li Tianzhi: "General Li, the small people in Chenghai City are poor, and the lower officials implore the general to restrain his subordinates and not let them disturb the people, otherwise, the lower officials will not know what to do." ”
"Master Fu, say this to others." Li Tianzhi, who was born in the Shang Zhixin faction, didn't have much to say about Fu Honglie, and said coldly: "When did my Li Tianzhi's subordinates disturb the people? ”
"General Li, what Master Fu said is right, you have to restrain your subordinates." Shang Wanzhen probably deliberately angered Lu Da Fat, and even gave Fu Honglie a helping voice: "If you let it go and disturb the people of Chenghai, it will be my sin." ”
"The last will obey." Li Tianzhi helplessly hugged his fists and agreed, and then turned back and shouted angrily from his subordinates: "Pass the order, after entering the city, the soldiers are strictly forbidden to disturb the people, if there is disobedience, Hugh blames General Ben for his ruthless military law!" ”
"Yes." All the soldiers in Guangdong agreed in unison, Shang Wanyan got back into the car, and rushed to Xingxuan under the personal guidance of Fu Honglie, and it was not until this moment that Lu Da Fat Man was surprised to find that Fu Honglie, the dignified prefect of Chaozhou, did not even have a sedan chair, and led the way to Shang Wanyan on foot into the city.
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"Fu Qingtian! Fu Qingtian is here! ”
"The grass people visited Fu Qingtian and kowtowed to Fu Qingtian."
"Folks, come and kowtow to Fu Qingtian!"
Fu Honglie is indeed deeply popular in the territory of Chaozhou Mansion, this way, everywhere he goes, there are countless people kneeling on both sides of the street, scrambling to kowtow to Fu Honglie, and even many people run out from the roadside houses and shops to salute and kowtow, but they completely ignore Shang Wanzhen and Lu Da Fat Man and his party who are wearing the banner of King Pingnan. Seeing this scene, Lu Daxian Ling couldn't help but ask Liu Zhen and the others beside him: "A few of you are from Guangdong, you know the situation in this Chaozhou Mansion, why is this Master Fu so loved?" ”
"Lord Hui, Master Fu is indeed a good official." Liu Zhen replied respectfully: "In the past, when the little ones went to Chaozhou to perform arts, they often heard that after Master Fu took office in Chaozhou, he cleared up all the backlog of cases in less than three months, rehabilitated many unjust prisoners, and rescued countless wronged people. Also, Master Fu only received three points for fire consumption, and the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes sent down by the province, Master Fu also wore a black gauze hat and did not want a hard top, and even the orders of the prince of Pingnan dared to top, and the people of Chaozhou Mansion who were very poor said that they were living well. ”
"But don't worry, sir." Liu Xu said mysteriously: "The little ones have already heard Erlang say, you are not as stupid as Master Fu, when you arrive in Qujing and are ready to collect seven coins of silver, the little ones will definitely support you fully, if there is that Diao people who dare to resist taxes and donations, the little ones will clean them up for you!" ”
"Shut up! Don't learn from Xiao Erlang's idiot! The fat man scolded angrily, and turned his head to look at the carriage beside him a little timidly, but saw that Shang Wanyan happened to turn his head to look at him in the car.
"Seven coins of silver for fire? Sure enough, it was Lu Qingtian. Shang Wanzhen seemed to be smiling, and her tone was full of sarcasm.
The fat man Lu felt aggrieved, and hurriedly distinguished: "Little county lord, don't listen to their nonsense, I have such a black heart?" It's a pity that before the words were finished, Shang Wanyan had already lowered the curtains quickly, and I don't know if I heard Lu Da Fat's cry.
While talking, Shang Wanzhen and Lu Da Fat and his entourage had already arrived at the line prepared by Fu Honglie, and after quickly settling down, Fu Honglie and others went to the front hall to arrange a reception banquet, Li Tianzhi went to arrange a night guard, and Lu Da Fat also took the four big dog legs to guard in the back hall where Shang Wanyan was at Li Tianzhi's private request, and finally caught an opportunity to talk to Shang Wanyan.
Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, the fat man Lu hurriedly pulled Liu Xu in front of Shang Wanyan, who was drinking tea, and explained while rewarding Liu Xu with a few feet: "County Lord Niangniang, this slave who was talking nonsense just now, the lower official brought it to you!" The county lord, you ask clearly in person, what do you charge seven coins and consume silver or something, but it is definitely not taught by the lower officials, it is a few of them who are talking nonsense by themselves. ”
"County Lord's mother, small moves, small moves!" Liu Xu, who had been kicked a few times, also knelt down obediently, kowtowed and said: "What is the fire consumption of seven coins of silver, it is really not Lord Lu who teaches the young, it is Erlang, it is the adult's housekeeper Xiao Erlang who taught us to say this, and it has nothing to do with our master." ”
Lu Da Fat Man and Liu Xu were here to teach the house slave a lesson, kowtow and explain, which made several maids around Shang Wanzhen purse their lips and snicker, but Shang Wanzhen slowly tasted fragrant tea and continued to maintain the usual attitude of ignoring Lu Da Fat. It wasn't until the fat man Lu was tired, Liu Xu kowtowed tired, and his throat was dry together, that Shang Wanyan put down the tea bowl, half-squinted his big eyes, and asked the big fat man Lu coldly: "What's the use of you saying these words to me?" Do I have an explanation for this? ”
"This ......." The big fat man hesitated for a moment and said, "Of course, the county lord didn't want to explain her position, but ...... But the humble position was afraid that the county lord's mother would have a bad impression of the humble position, so she took the initiative to explain. ”
"What if you make a bad impression on me?" Shang Wanyan asked rhetorically, and said indifferently: "You are not my house slave, I am not your boss, no matter how bad the impression you left on me, what can I do to you?" No matter how good the impression you make on me, what can I reward you? ”
"It's ......." The big fat man Lu completely opened his mouth and stammered. Liu Xu, who had been completely taken by Xiao Erlang, raised his head and hurriedly said: "County lord Niangniang, my lord cares about you so much, of course, because he likes you and wants to marry ......you." ”
"Shut up!" Lu Da Fat's fat face was flushed, and he kicked Liu Xu when he raised his fat leg, finally stopping Liu Xu, who had been taken by Xiao Erlang, from talking nonsense.
After the kick, when the fat man Lu turned back to look at Shang Wanchen with a weak heart, he saw that several maids around Shang Wanyan had already shown a look of disdain on their faces that the fat toad wanted to eat swan meat, but Shang Wanzhen still looked cold, and did not react at all, only a pair of big bright eyes stared at the big fat man Lu, looking up and down, and staring at the fat man Lu so much that his heart was beating wildly. After a long time, Shang Wanyan asked coldly: "So, it turns out that Master Lu, you like me and want to marry me?" ”
"This ......." Lu Da Fat Man never dreamed that Shang Wanzhen would ask so directly, and his attitude was so calm and terrifying, and in a panic, Lu Da Fat Man didn't know how to answer.
"If you really want to marry me, then you can go directly to my father and ask for marriage." Shang Wanyan continued to throw a bombshell with an indifferent expression, which blew up the eyes of the maids and servants present, as if they saw a white swan jumping into the mouth of a fat toad.
"Really?" The fat man couldn't believe his ears, and asked in surprise: "County Lord, are you willing?" ”
"Since I was born in the Shang family, it is up to me whether I want to or not." Shang Wanyan said expressionlessly: "My father and mother do not allow me to become a monk, of course they will marry me in the future, whether it is a chicken or a dog, it is up to them to decide, and I don't count if I say it." So if you want to marry me, go to them and propose marriage, and as long as they agree, I don't care -- marry a chicken or a dog, marry a big fat pig, and marry a big fat pig. ”
"Hahaha......." Everyone present, including Xiao Erlang, burst into laughter, and the fat man Lu Da was so fat that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.
"How? Now you get the idea of what I mean, right? Shang Wanyan glanced at the big fat man and said solemnly: "If you understand, please walk away from me, I'm a little tired and want to rest for a while." As for our family affairs, go to my father and the king, and don't bother me. ”
In the snickering laughter of the maid servant, Lu Da Fat Man shrugged his head and retreated dejectedly, Xiao Erlang and other unscrupulous family members immediately opened another gambling game over there, betting that if Lu Da Fat Man went directly to Shang Lao Han to ask for marriage, Shang Lao Han would not agree - the result was very natural, one to one hundred lottery heads, no one dared to bet that Shang Lao Han would agree to marry his daughter to Lu Da Fat, and this gamble was quickly aborted.
"County Lord, County Lord's Mother, something happened, something happened!" Just when the fat man Lu was depressed, a guard from the Pingnan Palace's mansion suddenly shouted and rushed in. Hearing this shout, Lu Da Fat, who had been secretly warned by Li Tianzhi in advance, did not hesitate, and rushed to Shang Wanyan with an arrow step, and opened his arms to protect Shang Wanyan with his back.
Fortunately, the guard did not come up directly to Shang Wanyan as Lu Da Fat Man imagined, but only rushed to Shang Wanyan five steps in front of him and knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists and said: "Yu Gege, a large number of people gathered outside the line to shout grievances to Lord Fu, the prefect of Chaozhou, accusing our soldiers of robbing the people of fruits, beating the people without giving money, and asking Master Fu to make decisions for them." ”
"So coincidentally?" Lu Da Fat Man was stunned, and said in his heart that Fu Honglie had only warned Li Tianzhi when he entered the city to restrain the soldiers from coming, why did he really make trouble just after entering the city?
"Master Lu, what are you stopping me for?" Shang Wanzhen rolled her eyes to interrupt Lu Da Fat's doubts, and after driving Lu Da County Order away, Shang Wanzhen stood up and frowned and said, "How did this Li Tianzhi do it?" When he entered the city, he warned him and asked him to restrain the sergeants from coming, why did he rob the people's property as soon as he entered the city? He's not usually like that, huh? No, I'm going to go out and have a look. ”
"Don't worry, it's just a trivial matter, you don't need to worry about it." Lu Daxian Ling persuaded: "Just let General Li come forward, preempting the fruit is just a trivial matter, it's a big loss of silver, the county lord is a golden branch and jade leaf, don't show up in front of so many people." ”
"I'm willing, I want you to take care of it?" Shang Wanzhen rewarded the fat man Lu with a pair of hygienic eyeballs, and led the maid out of the back hall directly. The fat man Lu was helpless, so he had to hurry up with four doglegs, always ready to protect Shang Wanyan's escape.
The seriousness of the matter obviously greatly exceeded Lu Da Fatty's expectations, and when he arrived at the gate of Dexingyuan, the street was already crowded with people, and there were hundreds of people who came to see the excitement when he heard the news, and a green battalion soldier wearing the color of a soldier's uniform was tied up and knelt at the gate, and next to him was a villager with a fruit basket. In addition, Fu Honglie, Yang Guotai and other civil and military officials of Chaozhou Prefecture also rushed to the scene after hearing the news, and Li Tianzhi stood in front of the soldier who caused the accident with a blue face, kicking the soldier one after another.
"Li Tianzhi, what happened?" Shang Wanyan walked out of the door and asked. Seeing that she was out and in front of the public, Lu Daxian Ling didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly took a few dog legs like dog skin plasters and pasted them, which naturally attracted Shang Wanyan's eyes.
"Xiao Gege, the last general's incompetence in governing the army has alarmed you, and the last general is guilty." Li Tianzhi let go of the unlucky soldier who caused the accident, and introduced the incident to Shang Wanzhen in frustration.
It turned out that just less than a tea time ago, Li Tianzhi's team of a fire chief named Xiao Liuzi led the team to stand guard at the mouth of the alley, and met a villager with fruit to sell, because the villager sold Chenghai's specialty camphor forest tree, which is very rare, Xiao Liuzi stepped forward to taste a fresh, felt that the taste was good and was reluctant to give money, so he bullied people and robbed it, the villager did not follow, and was beaten by Xiao Liuzi, the result was naturally angry, and hundreds of people ran to the door of the line to find Fu Honglie to shout grievances, What was originally a trivial matter naturally became a big fuss.
"Little Gege, forgive me, it's all because the general didn't bring the army well." After introducing the original story of the matter, Li Tianzhi pleaded with Shang Wanzhen in frustration: "Please rest assured, the last general will definitely deal with this little sixth son heavily to correct military discipline." ”
"General Li, you don't have to feel guilty." Fu Honglie came over and persuaded: "Fortunately, the matter is not big, so let's do it, according to the lower officer, the general, you should dispose of this little sixth son in public according to military discipline, and then ask this little sixth son to compensate this fellow countryman's losses, and the matter will be over." ”
After that, Fu Honglie also turned to the onlookers and said, "Fellow villagers, fellow villagers, please listen to what this official has to say." Today's matter, this little six-son military master is indeed wrong, but please remember that he is also our Qing Dynasty soldiers, open a favor, let him compensate this fellow for the loss, and then let him apologize to this fellow countryman, if you continue like this, General Li is strict in governing the army, maybe he will take the life of this little six-son military master. ”
"Master Fu is right, we listen to you." One of the people took the lead and shouted.
"That's right, Master Fu is a clean official, and he won't let our people suffer, and he won't wronged a good person." The rest of the people shouted.
The crowd was excited, and Li Tianzhi was embarrassed to open this mouth even if he wanted to shield the soldier who caused the incident, and immediately ordered: "Come on, press this little sixth son down, and beat twenty military sticks in public!" After the fight, he was removed from the rank of fire chief, punished to do miscellaneous work in the gang, and started from scratch. ”
"Order!" Several soldiers agreed neatly and were about to step forward to torture them. But at this moment, the fat man suddenly shouted, "Slow, this is not right!" ”
"Lord Lu, what's wrong with things?" Li Tianzhi asked in surprise. Fu Honglie, Yang Guotai and others also looked at each other, and they really couldn't understand what was wrong with Lu Da Fatty. Shang Wanzhen rolled her eyes, and threw Lu Da Fat a pair of hygienic eyeballs.
The fat man didn't answer Li Tianzhi's question, but just strode up to the farmer, took out a liner from his fruit basket, checked it, and asked the farmer sharply, "Are you from there?" ”
"Lord Hui, the grass people are from Zhanglin." The villager replied inexplicably.
"How far is Zhanglin from Chenghai?" The big fat man Lu asked.
"More than thirty miles." The farmer replied.
"Then what is your fruit called, and how much does it cost to sell for a catty?" The big fat man Lu asked again.
"Go back to my lord, two pennies a pound." The farmer replied again.
"That's weird." The fat man sneered and asked, "Why are you, a middle-aged man with arms and legs, carrying such a small basket of fruits into the city to sell?" I checked the weight of this fruit just now, it is very light, such a small basket, even if it is filled with this fruit, I am afraid it will not be able to hold five catties, right? Even if there are five catties of fruit in this basket, and you carry the five catties of fruit that can only be sold for ten cents and walk more than 30 miles to the city to sell, do you lose money? Is it because you don't have a big basket at home, or do you have no baskets? Or are you not eating and have no energy? A big man brings such a little bit of fruit into the city to sell for money, are you worthy of your wife or your children? ”
"This kid is so careful! You can see the flaws in such a small place! Fu Honglie and Yang Guotai were both shocked, and their faces changed a little.
"Grass people, grass people......." The farmer was sweating profusely, and he didn't know how to answer the tricky question of the fat man Lu.
"And." Lu Da Fat asked, "When did Xiao Liuzi snatch your fruit happen?" Why did so many people come to watch in such a short period of time? How do you explain this? ”
"Oops! There are still such flaws! Fu Honglie and Yang Guotai looked at each other again, only to find that their so-called seamless plan was actually full of flaws in front of Lu Da Fat.
"Can't answer, can you?" Seeing that the farmer's face was sweaty but speechless, Lu Da Fat Man was even more proud-this time he was showing off in front of Shang Wanyan, and at that moment Lu Da Fat Man immediately stood up straight and said loudly: "General Li, this is not right, you can't scold the sergeant now, you have to arrest this villager first and torture his real purpose!" In addition, those among the people who take the lead in crying out for injustice are also very suspicious, and it is best to arrest those who take the lead in crying out for injustice and interrogate them carefully. ”
"My lord, my lord, the grass people have been wronged!" The villager panicked and hurriedly shouted loudly. The people around him were also in a state of turmoil, some said that they thought that Lu Da Fat Man was reasonable, and some people said that Lu Da Fat Man was bullying people and oppressing the people with the power of the government, and he was a typical dog official -- from the perspective of the Qing Dynasty, the judgment of the dog official did not wronged our Lu Da Fat Man at all.
"There's something wrong with that." was reminded by Lu Da Fat, Li Tianzhi also felt that things were a little strange.
Li Tianzhi was about to give an order, but the little sixth son who was kneeling on the ground raised his head and said to Lu Daxian with tears in his eyes: "My lord, you have the kindness to excuse the villain, and the villain understands it." But Fang Cai is indeed a little ghost, robbed this fellow of the fruit, and beat him, the little one is willing to accept the guilt, willing to compensate the fellow for his losses, and correct the military law. ”
"Fuck you!" The big fat man Lu almost wanted to kick this little sixth son to death. Over there, Li Tianzhi was in a great difficulty, so he could only turn to Shang Wanyan and ask, "Xiao Gege, what do you think about this?" ”
"Now that our people have confessed their sins, what else is there to say?" Shang Wanyan said lightly: "Just do what you want, don't be partial, it will hurt the hearts of the people." ”
"Piercing!" Li Tianzhi hugged his fists and agreed, waved his hand again, and signaled the soldiers to execute in public, and after beating the little six sons with twenty military sticks, Li Tianzhi asked the little six sons to pay the copper money for selling the fruit farmers, and finally shouted: "From today, I will be removed from the post of fire chief, and I will go to the gang to make meritorious contributions!" ”
"Is this really just a coincidence?" With the disdainful eyes of the monks all over the street, Lu Da Fatty's eyes rolled wildly, "If this is not a coincidence, but someone deliberately arranged it, then what is his real purpose?" Also, Yang Guotai next to Fu Honglie blinked his eyes just now, was he looking at him? Could it be that all this was arranged by him? ”
"This Lu Yifeng must be killed." Fu Honglie whispered in Yang Guotai's ear: "This fat man Lu is very delicate and cunning, if he is a thief, he will become a great harm to the court!" Do not follow the thief, with the appreciation of him and his own talents, the future will be above you and me! Therefore, in this operation, I will personally command and remove this confidant for the court and us in advance! ”