Persuade you to have a glass of wine, and there is no reason to go out of Yangguan in the west.

This is a famous sentence of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei, simple, ordinary fourteen words, but with the taste of saying no, it is also like a man's blood.

Ruda said goodbye to Ubur and his family and headed in the direction of Yongzhou.

All the way west, you will finally arrive at Yongzhou City, which is sixty miles away from Wild Wolf Ridge.

The sky is clear, the clouds are pale and the sky is blue, and the tall city walls are in sight in the distance.

Empty mountain road, empty and lonely,

Walking with Ruda, only his own figure in the sun.

Ruda came to the city gate, took out the guard given to him by the Ubur, and handed it to the Western Xia soldiers guarding the gate.

It was a piece of koji made of sheepskin the size of a palm, and the name and address of the holder were written on it in Tangut script.

Because it is far from the border, most of the people who enter and leave the city are merchants of various ethnic groups such as Western Xia, Great Song, Great Liao, and Dajin, and the defense is much more lax than that of the cities and towns near the border.

The soldier guarding the gate took a brief look at the guard handed over by Ruda, and then put you into the gate.

Yongzhou City is a large and important town in Western Xia, with more than 50,000 or 60,000 residents and 8,000 garrisons, plus other offices of the government and many business travelers, so the market is particularly lively and prosperous. Now it is the warm season of spring, and the streets and alleys are full of people.

Ruda walked for a long day, feeling tired and hungry, he decided to find an inn to settle down first.

Ruda came to an inn on the street, the hotel doubles as an inn business, called Hongbin Lou, asked for a guest room, washed his face first, and then called the store, ordered wine and food, and sat in the guest room alone and poured himself a drink.

After eating, it was almost time to apply. Ruda put his baggage and knife in his room, locked the door, and went out into the street, where he had to walk around and familiarize himself with the customs and streets of a place, so that he could find out what was going on.

Ruda walked casually along the street, and suddenly an unkempt beggar stood in front of him with a broken bowl: "This big brother is okay." Poor and pitiful, give me a few pennies. Ruda took out a piece of broken silver from his bosom and threw it into the broken bowl in front of him, and the beggar looked up and said, "Thank you, good man." Looking at each other, the beggar knelt down in front of Luda and said, "Young master, why are you?" ”

Ruda asked in surprise, "Who are you and how do you know me?" ”

The beggar cried and shouted: "I'm Lu Wu, why don't you know me, young master." ”

Luda took a closer look, it was really Lujiazhuang's Zhuang Kelu Wu. Hurriedly helped him up and said, "This is not the place to talk, let's go to the inn." ”

Luda led Lu Wu back to the guest room of the Hongbinxuan Inn. The shopkeeper called for bath water, asked Lu Wu to take a bath first, and then found a set of clean clothes for him to change into.

Lu Wu changed his clothes, took Lu Da's hand and said, "Young Master, you made me look for it so hard." ”

Ruda said: "You eat first, and after eating, then you will speak carefully." ”

Lu Wu devoured all the food that Lu Da called the shopkeeper to bring. Porphyry knelt down in front of Luda again and cried, "Young master, the master and the wife are dead." ”

Hearing this, Luda suddenly had a buzzing head as if he had encountered five thunderbolts, his tall body shook, and he almost fell to the ground, Lu Wu hurriedly supported him.

Luda stretched out his hand and grabbed Lu Wu's collar and said, "What happened at home?" ”

Lu Wu was strangled and couldn't get angry, and stammered: "Less, young master, you let go of your hand and talk about it." ”

Only then did Luda realize that he was holding Lu Wu's collar tightly with both hands, and Lu Wu was sweating, so he hurriedly let go of his hand.

Lu Wu rubbed his neck and said, "Young Master, you almost strangled me." ”

Ruda said, "I'm sorry, I was a little panicked just now. What's going on at home? ”

Lu Wu said sadly: "Since the third young master of the Bai family you killed ran away from home, the people of the Bai family have been to the village twice in three days to make trouble, and the government has also forced the door, saying that the master is murderous, shielding criminals, and escorting the master into the prefect's yamen to torture." As soon as the wife saw that things were not good, she hurriedly took out the silver taels and sent the villain to the yamen to dot around, but after more than ten days, the people were released, but they had been tortured, and they swallowed their breath within a few days when they returned home. ”

Hearing this, Ruda opened his mouth, spurted blood, and fell to the ground with a thud, fainting in anger.

scared Lu Wu, pinched people again, and beat his chest: "Young master, young master, don't scare Lu Wu." ”

After a long while, Ruda woke up, with two empty eyes, lying there in a stupid daze, not crying, not crying, just muttering, "I don't have a father and mother, I don't have a home." ”

Lu Wu cried and shouted: "Young master, you still have me, and I Lu Wu." ”

Lu Wu is only three years older than Ruda, he lost his father and mother when he was a child, and it was Lu Laozhuang who adopted him. He grew up with Luda, regarded Luda as a relative, and was even more loyal to the Lu family.

Ruda was lying on the ground, motionless. Lu Wu didn't dare to make a sound, so he had to lie on the ground with Luda. The two of them lay down until the evening when the lights were in charge.

Luda got up from the ground, greeted Lu Wu, came to a longevity material shop, bought incense, candles, paper money, and went to a hotel to buy three animals such as pig's head and other sacrificial items, came to an open place in the northeast of the city, put on offerings, knelt there to light incense candles, paper money, and began to worship from afar. Luda cried with tears streaming down his face while burning the paper money: "Daddy, it's all children who are not filial, and they have affected you two elders, you are blessed by the spirit of heaven, and the children must have slashed those beasts of the Bai family and those dog officials in the Zhou Mansion to avenge you." Ruda kept snorting his head on the hard ground, and blood oozed from his forehead.

Bright red blood flowed down his forehead, on his face, and on his clothes, and Ruda didn't wipe it, letting the blood flow, and his heart was bleeding at this time.

God, from now on, he Ruda will have no home, and from now on, he Ruda will be a homeless orphan. Although Ruda has grown up, no matter how old a person is, without his parents, he is an orphan.

I don't know how long it took, but Luda stood up and said to Lu Wu: "Let's go, let's go back to the inn, pack up our things, and go home tomorrow." ”

Lu Wu said to him sadly: "Young master, the old lady told her when she was dying, she didn't let you go home again, and she didn't let you take revenge, as long as you live well in the sky." ”

Ruda said angrily: "Live? The revenge of parents is not avenged as a son of man. ”

Lu Wu said: "The old lady does not allow you to avenge them, she said when is the time for revenge, if you are disobedient, her old man will be difficult to see under Jiuquan." ”

Hearing Lu Wu say this, Luda knelt on the ground again, turned his back to the sky, and shouted loudly: "Daddy, the child is not filial." His voice was full of grief and desolation.

The sound of desolation and grief pierced through the vast night sky......

Respecting his parents' wishes, Ruda had no choice but to suppress his grief and anger and thoughts of revenge deep in his heart.

He sat on a chair in the guest room, took a piece of cloth, and wiped the big knife over and over again; Lu Wu saw what he wanted to say next to him, but he didn't dare to speak, the cold light on the blade, Lu Wu was terrified when he saw it, and his hair seemed to stand on end.

Rub, rub, rub, from morning to noon, Ruda still kept wiping the big knife. Lu Wu stood up and cautiously walked to Luda's side and whispered, "Young master, don't wipe it, it's time to call for dinner." ”

Ruda raised his head and said, "I don't have an appetite, you can eat it yourself." ”

Lu Wu said: "Then how can it be done, people are iron, rice is steel, no matter what, you have to eat." ”

"I'm not hungry," Rueda said. ”

Lu Wu said: "Okay, if you don't eat it, I won't eat it either, I'll hold it with you." ”

Seeing Lu Wu like this, Luda had to simply eat a few bites, then put down the dishes and chopsticks, and continued to wipe the big knife.

After Lu Wu finished eating, Lu Da took out five taels of silver from his baggage and said to him, "Go back to your hometown." ”

As if he hadn't heard clearly, Lu Wu asked in surprise, "Young Master, what did you say?" ”

Luda said solemnly: "I mean to let you go back to your hometown and go back to our Lujiazhuang." ”

Lu Wu asked, "Young Master, why did you let me go back to Lujiazhuang?" ”

Ruda said, "It's inconvenient for you to be here. ”

Lu Wudao: "I have legs and feet, what's inconvenient." ”

Ruda said: "I have my own things to do. ”

Lu Wudao: "If you do your business, I won't delay you." ”

Luda said: "Obedient, you should go to your hometown." ”

Lu Wu said: "Why don't I understand, why does the young master have to drive me away?" ”

Luda said: "You don't know, what I did was dangerous. ”

Lu Wu said: "Since there is danger, then I can't just leave." Master, my wife is gone, I'm leaving, you don't even have a relative by your side, how lonely! ”

Seeing that Lu Wu was dead or alive, Luda had no choice but to say: "Okay, it's okay if you don't leave, but you can only stay in the inn honestly, and you are not allowed to go there." ”

Lu Wu nodded again and again: "Okay, everything is up to you, who made you the eldest young master." ”

Ruda said, "Okay, I'll go out, and you are not allowed to go there if you stay in the guest room." ”

Ruda thought about it and decided to start with the garrison first.

Luda came downstairs and asked the shopkeeper, "Little Er, where is your local military camp." ”

The shopkeeper said, "What are you asking about?" Be careful that the public hears and arrests you as a spy. ”

Luda smiled and said, "I can be a spy, I have an elder brother who is a soldier here, and I want to go and see him." As he spoke, he stuffed a piece of broken silver into the shopkeeper's second-hand shop.

The shopkeeper took the silver, and his heart was like drinking ****, and he happily opened his mouth and said patiently: "You go out and go all the way north, and when you reach a teahouse called Pinchunlou, turn east, and quickly walk to the root of the city, there are a few rows of big tents, and that's it." ”

Luda came to the street, walked in the direction that the shopkeeper said, turned around the Pinchun Building, and suddenly saw that there was a high flagpole erected in the distance, with a big black flag fluttering on it, embroidered with a vulture with golden thread, hula in the wind, hula fluttering, the huge vulture above, staring at the eyes made of red threads, condescendingly overlooking the grass and trees below.