Dou Ranlan was very suspicious when he saw that the marks in the book were all sentences of reading, and couldn't help asking: "These marks on the Brother Tai book are very chic, but they are used to break sentences?" ”

The boy looked a little ashamed, "This...... It really makes you laugh, it is. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" The scribe suddenly interjected next to him: "There is a problem with this gentleman, but you don't know it, you don't draw these circles in the text, and the book does not read well." Hey, Hu Gong gave you so many rare books, and you made a mess of scribbling. ”

"Haha, uncle...... Hu Gong gave me these books, but he didn't give them to you, so how to use them is up to me. ”

"Boy, relying on these strange things, when will you be able to do anything?"

Dou Ranlan listened to these few words of their dialogue, and was so surprised that she couldn't speak, the so-called one year can only be dedicated to the group after three years. That is to say, literacy and sentence breaking is just a scholar's early years of learning, and it will be two years before I can have some academic discussions with you. This boy looks like he is also in his twenties, but he has to read the sentences well before he can read them smoothly, and the articles he reads are extremely difficult, which is really incredible.

"Brother Tai's surname? What is the name of the table? ”

Although he was unable to move in the carriage, Dou Ran Lan still reluctantly made a salute: "In the lower Dou Dye Blue, the word Guanghai." Gongzi Qi said: "Dou dyed blue? How different is this name? ”

This remark made the other party very embarrassed, it turned out that Dou Ranlan's father traveled to Qishan and Yuzhou twenty years ago and returned, just in time for the birth of the child, Dou's father and his wife counted the days and hours, and then rejoiced, the birth of his son was just when he first saw the East China Sea.

For a Chu person, in the face of the vastness of the East China Sea, it is like being reincarnated, so Dou Ranlan also got this name. However, the word "dyeing" is taken from the dye of "dyeing blue nirvana soap" (Note 1), rather than the dye of "dyeing Han", but in fact, it has the meaning of Dou's father's self-deprecation (a metaphor for a person who sometimes smears at will without rules).

The boy smiled and said, "Brother Guanghai, I guess you can't get along with those merchants as a scholar, so you missed the opportunity to play the top tonight, yes or no?" ”

"Exactly." Dou Ranlan had no choice but to smile reluctantly.

"Actually, you can pay attention to those wandering monks on the road, these people are from Buddhism and are in the name of happiness, and it is okay to have a companion."

The scribe suddenly interjected, "It's hard to say! These monks are only afraid of being even less reliable. ”

What surprised Dou Ranlan was that this kid actually received a rebuttal: "Uncle, you are obviously a bamboo pole that overturned a boatload of people." ”

The other party said angrily: "What kind of bastard metaphor is this? ”

Where did Dou Ranlan know, what the kid was thinking at this time was: "Yes, in the five generations, I'm afraid this kind of witty remark is really unlikely to spread." ”

The two people in this car are naturally Chengyuan and Cao Zheng.

A few days ago, Cao Zheng originally wanted to go back to the county to arrange a call and ask them to investigate whether Shuangxia Temple had anything to do with the eight-character proverb. But time was pressing, so he could only take Chengyuan to travel in advance, and he met with his nephew and uncle along the way. When he arrived at the junction of Chen and Xu, Cao Zheng seemed to be unwilling to attract too much attention from the surrounding officials, so he wanted to leave the official road to avoid the post station, it seemed that this Xuzhou was a little dangerous, but now it was the most dangerous part of the road in Xuzhou at night, and he could only turn back to the official road.

In Dou Ranlan's view, Chengyuan is clearly a person with a different temperament.

He speaks in an approachable manner, so that he has no sense of estrangement;

Cao Zheng, dressed as a scribe, was much older, but he didn't have much respect or commitment to him;

There is a lack of awe in his expression, saying that floatiness is not like floating, that cynicism is not like cynicism, in short, everything in the world seems to be taken for granted;

For ordinary literati, when they meet, they often have to meet politely before acting, but he first pulls himself into the car before asking for his name.

And before he asked for other people's names, he didn't introduce his name clearly, so that Dou Ranlan didn't ask him back, and he didn't ask back.

"Oh yes...... In the next Cheng Kui far word public fight. Chengyuan finally remembered this joint.

Dou Ranlan breathed a sigh of relief......

For Dou Ranlan, this person seems to see intimacy slightly less than himself. It stands to reason that the scribe was at least familiar with him, if not his elder, but at this time, there was almost no big difference in his attitude towards the two of them.

Of course, he couldn't understand that Chengyuan was not a big maniac, but just a modern young man who appeared in the eyes of the Tang and Song scholars.

These incompatible feelings, in fact, for Cao Zheng, who has amazing insight, almost knew it without saying anything at the beginning, and it was clear at a glance. It's just that Cao Zheng has long adapted to it, and Hu Luan seems to be easy-going by nature. For people like Liu Yanseng and Jiang Xijie, the temperament of modern people can only be described as "Diao".

In fact, for many days, Chengyuan has been warning himself in his heart: as a modern person, he will definitely show an inexplicable sense of disobedience in front of the ancients, and if he does not pay attention to it, it will be bad for himself, but some things are inadvertent. Chengyuan has been slowly adapting and adjusting.

At this time, Dou Ranlan heard a dense sound of horses' hooves, he poked his head out, and came on a horse, and when he was panicking, it was gone.

"That's a stagecoach, we're already on the official road." Cao Zheng said coldly.

"I see," Dou Ran Lan said with a sigh of relief, "I think it's the same horse bandit who just killed a pedestrian and hung himself from a tree. There are stagecoaches passing by from time to time, and it's obviously much safer. ”

Cao Zheng thought that Xu Zhou would not open the city gate before dawn, and since there was no danger, it was useless to go fast, so he shouted: "Qiu Er, slow down!" Let the animals take a breather! ”

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Hearing Qiu Er's promise, Cao Zhengcai turned white and said with a blue face:

"Oh, do you think those killers are really horse bandits?"

Dou Ranlan naturally wanted to ask again, but when she saw Cao Zheng yelling at Qiu Er, who was driving the car, she closed her eyes, obviously not wanting to say any more.

Chengyuan heard Cao Zheng talk about it: Although the Central Plains is full of homeless bandits, the vicinity of Xuzhou is particularly dangerous. Xuzhou is the territory of Liu Xin, the cousin of Gaozu Liu Zhiyuan, and it is considered a royal family, this person is not only mediocre, but also absurd and cruel.

After the death of Gaozu at the beginning of the year, the emperor's tomb was built in a treasure land in the remaining veins of Funiu Mountain, that is, near Yucheng, Yucheng is only a few dozen miles away from Xuzhou, so Liu Xin is responsible for preparing for the construction of the tomb and the stone of the Shinto stone carving Weng Zhong divine beast before sealing the soil, and will be buried at the end of the year.

In Chengyuan's view, although most of the mausoleums of the five generations of monarchs will not be built during their lifetimes, so as to show their frugality, they are expensive after all. The situation of mortuaries without burials will increase the urgency of construction, but in fact, it will cause concentrated suffering to the local people. According to the rumors known to Cao Zheng, in order to raise the necessary resources, Liu Xin secretly indulged his subordinates to disguise themselves as bandits, taking advantage of the darkness of the night to rob the lonely merchants in the past, and even robbing the graves to collect money.

Chengyuan wanted to close his eyes and take a nap like Cao Zheng, but soon after a while, he was upset by the post guards who came speeding again on the official road, and for the biological clock habits of modern people, there was really no sleepiness at this hour, so he simply teased Cao Zheng to speak:

"Uncle, I guess this won't even arrive at the beginning of the day, and you're actually sleepy?"

"I didn't fall asleep, and I still wasn't very relieved about the cattle slaughter."

"Oh? Why? ”

"The bandit leader executed in the city a few days ago claimed to have come to life Maitreya, and when he was captured, there were two monks around him, but unfortunately he was killed on the spot without proof. Shuangxia Temple...... Well, Huishan Temple, if you find out the inside story of the eight-character proverb, it is really difficult to dig deep. ”

Chengyuan wanted to persuade him a few words, but he wanted to come up with a common saying like "you can afford to put it down", I am afraid that it will be like the "bamboo pole hitting the boat" just now, the characters of the five generations sound like the second monk of Zhang, if he still has to explain this, it will be really annoying, and the burden of being boring is even more like a wilting fart.

"Actually, the turmoil of the cattle slaughter case should not have happened at all, and only one person is to blame."

"How?" Cao Zheng opened his eyes suddenly.

"Originally, whether people were dead or alive could be pushed up, from Li Tang to the Later Jin Dynasty, the right of execution had to be reported to Dali Temple in Shangshu Province for execution, so if I want to say that it is still a matter of the first emperor, the execution power is delegated to the state government and the envoys, and this regulation of cutting first and then playing has become a hot potato for Hu Gong."

Cao Zheng was shocked: "Don't talk nonsense!" You are arguing about the government and disrespecting the royal court! ”

Cheng Yuan smiled: "Don't be nervous, no one will hear it anyway." After saying that, he pointed to his side, Cao Zheng turned his head to look, it turned out that Dou Ranlan was frightened and afraid of starvation and freezing all the way, and the situation was stable at this time, so he was already snoring under extreme fatigue.

Cao Zheng was a little relieved, and sighed again: "Hu Gong too, it was originally enough to hang people in the county, who would have thought that he would have to ask." ”

Cheng Yuanqi said: "Could it be that this matter was not appealed to the state department by the cattle slaughtering criminal, but Hu Gong personally went to mention it?" ”

Cao Zheng sneered: "The so-called beggar appeal regulation, when Tang Chu formulated the detailed terms, it was to block the possibility of the offender's appeal in disguise, think about it: before mentioning the state department, it will have to be reviewed many times in the county, and it will have to drag on for at least a year and a half." According to the temper of the county order of Neixiang, the next few times the big prisoner will die in prison. Duke Hu hung the title of Imperial Doctor, so he could personally inquire and directly refer to the state department. ”

Cheng Yuan shook his head, and secretly admired in his heart: "Hu Luan, you are really the parents of the people......"

Thinking of this, Cheng Yuan was worried about Hu Luan again:

"Liu Shuai didn't know how to react, and Hu Gong didn't know if he would be wearing small shoes when he turned around."

"You don't have to worry about this matter, Hu Gong seems to be gentle and respectful on the surface, but in fact he is not a vegetarian. Do you remember that slashing man? When this person was arrested, he was directly escorted to the prison of Jiedu Envoy Yacheng, and he was tortured in many ways without confessing, or Hu Gong didn't know what method he had done, and he obeyed it in two hours, and there were no more traces of torture on his body. In the future, if you commit a crime in his hands, I am afraid that it will be completely in vain. ”

Cheng Yuan imagined it for a moment, and couldn't help but shudder. That's right, everyone in the world has two sides, he originally studied history, and he should understand that no matter how good a person is, if he doesn't have the means behind it, how can he sit in a high position?

Chengyuan thought of Liu Yanseng, and thought of the people Liu Yanseng wanted to see when he entered Beijing, the more things went up, the deeper and more unpredictable they became, even if the Shi Shouxin he saw in the assassination history yamen, if he hadn't read the history books, who would have thought of his absurd actions in the future?

He suddenly fell into a deep fear: the reason why people live in the world and can enjoy every day and do things with peace of mind is because the people around him only show the tip of the iceberg, out of sight and out of mind. However, as a person who "understands the future", the frightening faces behind many characters can be glimpsed from the history books.

When you think about it, it's really unsettling......

Note 1:

Yes, you guessed it right, if you remember the author's pen name "Dye Lan Ni Soap", you will find that the character of Dou Dye Lan is unusual.

At the same time, the three characters Dou Ran Blue are also homonyms of the author's own name, and this character can actually be seen as the author's incarnation in the book.