Wang Daokun, the squire of the military department, suddenly fell ill at home.

Now that it is approaching the end of the year, the weather is cold, and it is snowing heavily, such a thing is naturally not strange in the eyes of ordinary officials. Although Wang Daokun is still in his prime, and he is not yet fifty years old, in this era when he may lose his life due to a cold or flu, it is reasonable to take a few days off due to illness and not go to court. At this time, Wang Daokun transferred seven or eight capable old servants from his family to give New Year's gifts to his hometown in Huizhou, which seemed a little out of place. After all, the canal is frozen, and it is really drudgery to go to Huizhou by land on this cold day, and I don't know if I will be able to catch up with the New Year.

Which wealthy southerner is a Beijing official in the north, and instead of sending people to his hometown two or three months in advance, he would rather send them over early and actually deliver them to his door when he is ten days and half a month before the Chinese New Year?

The team of Wangfu leaving the city to go to his hometown to give New Year's gifts was a total of eight horsemen, a blue cotton mule cart, and it looked inconspicuous when it came out of Chongwenmen. The capital has always had a pattern of being rich in the west and rich in the east, and not all the officials and dignitaries are crowded into the one acre and three points of land in the west city, and as the inner city is full of people, there are not a few officials who live in the east city. Of course, the guards of Chongwenmen are also bright-eyed, and it is good to enter the city, and it is even more false to respond to the routine inventory of going out of the city. Facing the mule cart with the Wang brand, when asked if it was the Wang family, the squire of the military department, several people smiled and let them go without thinking about it.

And out of the city and on the official road, a group of eight people and a car walked slowly, and there was no hurry to give the New Year's gift. The official road is heavy, and the snow on the road has long been cleared by the government to clear the middle section that can be walked, but from time to time there will be ice on the road and the horse's hooves slip, so the already slow line of people will inevitably be hindered by the trip. It took most of the day's work until the afternoon, when the road out was less than ten miles, and a pedestrian on the road heard a few horsemen swearing outside the mule cart.

"It's a big New Year. I even have to go all the way to Huizhou! ”

"Uncle, didn't you say that you went to Huizhou to give New Year's gifts?"

"Fart's New Year's gift, that guy in the carriage dares to go back to Huizhou? Don't be afraid of people beating him to death! I'm half-dead now, and I don't know if I can hold on to the road. ”

"Silence, forgot the master's orders? The old man really doesn't want to do much, and besides, this guy has already scared out of his guts. That's when I planned to leave quickly. Don't talk nonsense, after An'an is stable in the south, you can't miss the reward! ”

Although these discussions are not loud, compared to the howling cold wind and the noise on the road, it is only a slight movement, but if you really have a heart, of course, you can still see and hear it. In the evening, when the men were staying at an inn, the men who came up saw a man wearing a hooded black cloak coming down from the mule cart. I have to be supported when I walk, and obviously I am either injured or sick, so I can't help but smack my tongue a little.

On this cold day, in such a physical condition, he is still in a hurry, not afraid of dying on the way?

However, not long after the group entered the inn, they hadn't said how many rooms they wanted and what kind of food they wanted. Or maybe it was some other request, and I saw a sudden shout from behind. Immediately after, seven or eight people broke in. The man who walked in the front stepped forward with a big grin, intentionally or unintentionally, and slammed into the mysterious man in a hooded black cloak, and heard an irrepressible cry of pain, and he suddenly pulled down the hood of this guy, and saw that his hair was messy and gray. But he tried his best to keep his head in his eyes and refused to look at him, and he burst out laughing arrogantly.

"Shuai Jiamo, you dog thing also has today? I think when you went to the Huizhou Mansion to sue Xia for the injustice of the silk silk, where was the righteousness of all the axioms in the world on your side? ”

At this time, one of the most stable men among the eight horsemen suddenly stepped forward to stop: "Hey." Who are you? This is the guest that my lord ordered to send to the south, not called Shuai Jiamo! ”

"Not called Shuai Jiamo? That's amazing, I can recognize this guy even if he turns to ashes! I think when I was in Huizhou four years ago, it was this guy who made a lot of nonsense, saying that it was unfair for Shexian to send more than 9,000 horses of summer tax silk, and he had to send them to the six counties, so many years, he worked tirelessly to sue here and there, went to Nanjing to Beijing, and now there is also a time to run away with his tail between his legs? ”

At this moment, there were a lot of guests gathered in the inn, and when they heard such a dispute, they couldn't help but be a little curious, and they also asked the later people directly about the clues, but they learned that it was originally for the purpose of apportioning the summer tax of the six counties of Huizhou. The man who stubbornly stopped Shuai Jiamo from leaving was certainly derogatory and did not leave any emotion, and the other companions around him were also afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and they were desperately promoting Shuai Jiamo's deeds one by one. And listening to it, many of the guests who stayed there tasted a little bit of taste, and looked at the handsome Jiamo's eyes unconsciously with a little more respect.

turned out to be a man who was willing to pay taxes for the sake of the fathers and villagers of a county, and dared to go around to the government to complain, and he was a man for three or four years after tossing! Looking at this tragic situation now, doesn't it offend people? If you fall on this, you will be humiliated, and it is simply unreasonable in this world!

Only the shopkeeper and the two guys of this inn were pushed back at this moment. In this kind of inn, there are many send-offs, but it is the first time they have encountered this kind of strange and inexplicable scene, among which the young man who welcomed people into the store at the beginning muttered to himself: "It's strange, that scolding mouth and dog things, but how can you say it as if it is to help the surname Shuai publicize his merits?" ”

"You're not stupid." The shopkeeper has lived most of his life, and at this time, he is not like those good guests who only care about meddle in things, and the bystanders are clear, and he can taste it. At this moment, he squinted his eyes and whispered, "If something is abnormal, it is a demon, look at it, this thing should have just begun, and it is still early to finish!" ”

Sure enough, just when the later men and their companions were laughing and scolding loudly, and the guests staying in the hotel were watching the play with relish, the Shuai Jiamo, who seemed to be so weak that he would fall down when he pushed it, even with the support of the two Wang family members, suddenly lowered his head and asked in a hoarse voice: "Don't you feel sorry for you to bully people so much?" ”

Hearing the word bullying, the man who provoked the chaos at the beginning couldn't help but laugh gloatingly: "Sorry? What do I have to be sorry for, you She County want to transfer these more than 9,000 horses of summer tax silk to our five counties, who can agree! Shuai Jiamo, you have a self-inflicted ...... today."

However. Almost instantly, he saw Shuai Jiamo's rickety figure standing up straight, and he used his sleeves and gray hair to hide his face, but now he generously let that face be revealed in front of people. But as soon as this really took a look, all his next derogatory comments were cut off in his mouth. Instead, horror was heard.

This guy isn't Shuai Jiamo, so who is that?

"This degrading and praising drama is well acted, and it should be rewarded, but it's really hard to recognize people! Keep saying that you can recognize Shuai Jiamo turning into ashes, but do you still recognize it? We left from Wang Shilang's mansion today, saying that we were going to Huizhou to give New Year's gifts, that is, we decided to announce it temporarily, from leaving Wang's house to here, that is, a few hours of effort. Who are you to be able to find out that there is a handsome Jiamo in it, and he is chasing us all the way here and sneering? Don't tell me that this is a chance encounter, if there are all such encounters in the world, then I might as well casually find a small restaurant and bump into it and meet the first assistant of the court! ”

Shuai Jiamo, who has been miserable and gray-haired, took off the wig on his head and tore off a lot of the messy folds on his face, and he turned out to be a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man. Hearing the teasing of the gun clamp again, the man almost wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into. Or reflexively flee. However, what made him helpless. The gate had long been firmly guarded by the Wang family, and the young man who was facing him threw out a word that made him even more flustered.

"Also, just now I kept saying that we have five counties, so let me ask you, Qimen, Wuyuan, Jixi, Xiuning, and Yixian. The accent of each county is different, can you give me a sentence of the country accent? If you are really from Huizhou, I will only think that the words that went to Shuai Jiamo just now are dizzy nonsense, if not, peeping into the mansion of the imperial court Sanpinming official is plotting against him. In front of the public, the gossip confuses the public and disturbs people's hearts, don't blame me for directly sending you to Shuntianfu! ”

At this moment, not to mention that the guests in the hall were all shocked, and the shopkeeper and the two guys who looked at the excitement behind them almost didn't stare out of their eyes. They were aware of the suspicion that the two groups of guests before and after were suspected of singing, but they thought that they were singing with one gear at a time, but who would have thought that the group in front would suddenly tear off the façade and suddenly force the group of people behind them into a corner!

Even the old shopkeeper couldn't help but rub his eyes and muttered in a low voice: "Now, I really can't see what's going on!" ”

"Brothers, go!"

The man who played the leading role before was a good singer and songwriter burst out a few words without thinking about it, and then pounced on the young man who pretended to be Shuai Jiamo before. However, the other party didn't move at all, he only felt that someone had kicked him hard in the back, and then the whole person flew up in the clouds, and then fell heavily to the ground and fell to the mud. When he got up with a dizzy head and a black brain, he saw that all the people he brought were knocked to the ground, and they could only lie there and hum one by one. At that moment, he was full of anger and suddenly turned into panic and fear, and subconsciously screamed.

"We are just pawns who are supported by others, taking people's money and money to eliminate disasters with people, and please be merciful to your subordinates!"

As soon as the words fell, he saw a figure flash in front of him, and someone grabbed him by the collar, dragged him up from the ground, and gave him a slap in the face: "Whose money and wealth will be taken and whose disaster will be eliminated?" ”

Although the big-eared scraper hit his face with a burning pain, the man recognized that it was the young man who had eaten his own ridicule and sarcasm before, and he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "That person came and went in a hurry, and I don't know him, but he wrote me that set of words before!" We received a hundred taels of silver, so we ran this trip on a cold day! ”

Although he knew that this time he set up bait fishing in a hurry, and the possibility of catching small shrimp was the highest, and there might not even be a harvest, Wang Fulin understood better that it was not so much a dismount as a temptation, but he designed an illusion, the purpose was to make people think that Shuai Jiamo had gone through hardships and was disheartened and wanted to leave Beijing, while Wang Daokun was discouraged and just wanted to protect himself! And after this incident, he and other relevant people can be sure that the person who calculated Shuai Jiamo this time is only afraid that it is not simply a person from the other five counties of Huizhou Prefecture, and that is enough.

Therefore, he did not continue to ask, threw the person to the ground, and then clapped his hands and said, "Shopkeeper, stay in the hotel." ”

Do these people really want to live? cough, too, I can't go back to the city at this time, and the capital is under curfew!

Finding that there were five or six broken tables and stools in the front hall of his small shop, the shopkeeper was distressed, and he was relieved when he saw someone throw out a piece of broken silver. But what Wang Fulin said later made him happy.

"Frightened everyone. To tell you the truth, what these guys said just now is true and false. It is indeed true that Shexian County, Huizhou Prefecture bears more than 9,000 horses of summer tax silk alone, and Shuai Jiamo has been pleading for many years, which is also true, but people were plotted and intercepted before, and now they are still recuperating in the city with broken legs. He also thought that the people from the other five counties of Huizhou Prefecture were not good for him, so he asked me to help, and I could only pull up the tiger skin to make a big banner, and go into battle to see who was making trouble behind, who knew that he had encountered such a group of treasures that took people's money and people to eliminate disasters! Tonight, I'll invite everyone to drink and suppress the shock, which is considered to be reparation! (To be continued......)