This is an ordinary day, Chang'an City ended the hustle and bustle of the day, in the night to return to tranquility, next to the street east of Liquanfang, a few strong men who are digging a ditch, are busy cleaning up the guys, the curfew will start immediately, before the patrol of the ban on the street do not rush home, tonight had to squat in this waterless ditch all night,

The new emperor ascended the throne, and the night ban in Chang'an City was much tighter than before, no wonder, how dare you not be cautious in an eventful autumn, foreman Zhao Er saw that his brother-in-law Huang Yan was still grinding in the ditch, and shouted impatiently: "You really want to squat here all night." Huang Yan replied angrily: "What if you squat all night, I can't be killed by a tiger." ”

He didn't want to go for a reason, and when he was digging the mud in the ditch in the afternoon, he dug up a clay pot, which was full of yellow, orange, and orange gold ingots, Huang Yan endured it and didn't shout it, but got some mud and covered the jar,

Because of the delay in the construction period, Zhao Er was scolded by the small officials sent by the county to inspect for an afternoon in the afternoon, and he was full of anger, seeing that his brother-in-law dared to hit himself in front of so many people, he couldn't help but be furious, pointing at his brother-in-law's face and scolding: "You have a kind, you just stay here, go, everyone go." ”

Huang Yan was afraid that the matter would not be big enough, so he jumped to his feet and shouted with his neck: "If you don't go, don't go, Lao Tzu won't leave tonight, see who can eat me." "Seeing the two uncles arguing, no one persuaded them, it was uncomfortable enough to be tired for a day, these two living treasures are usually not good things, just make trouble, anyway, no one can die,

Huang Yan was left alone in the ditch on the side of the road, there were bursts of twilight drums from Daming Palace, night fell, Huang Yan lay in a bush of thorns, not daring to move, this place is not far from Taiji Palace, closer to the imperial city, the night patrol of the Luo beat the imperial city out, a ** fight this, more than a dozen people, the bag is not allowed which one is sharp-eyed, to let them be caught, indescribable, do not die and have to shed the skin, catch up with the more unlucky, hope that you shoot another arrow, the small life will be gone,

The first wave of soldiers has passed, the horses' hooves are rumbling, this is to patrol the south of the city, because the road is far away on horseback, the second wave has also passed, the officials are riding horses, the soldiers are on foot, giggling, this should be to patrol the east and west cities, even if the current investigation is so tight, there are liquor shops in those places that are open all night at night, and the officials of the city bureau have already been bought by them, as long as they don't commit crimes in the hands of the lawyers, the store is only open, but how can they be in the hands of the lawyers, they can buy the officials of the city bureau, will they not buy the soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion,

Huang Yan jumped up, pulled out a shovel from the thorn bushes, climbed down to the bottom of the ditch with a rolling belt, picked up the silt at the bottom of the ditch with his hands, and found the jar buried during the day.

Huang Yan threw away the shovel and picked up the jar with his hand, the jar was so heavy, so heavy, Huang Yan was happy and sad, how to get such a heavy thing back, it would definitely not work to get it back at one time, or find a secluded place to bury him first, and slowly go home again, he made up his mind, he dragged the shovel along the north-south street ditch, trying to find a place that was both secluded and few people to dig and dig a pit,

Before the place was found, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves on the street, Huang Yan was so frightened that he hurriedly threw away his shovel, threw himself into the grass, used his elbow as his foot, and slapped into the bushes on the side of the road, and hidden.

Rows of elm trees on both sides of the street, near the ravines, grow dwarf shrubs with well-developed root systems that can effectively cling to the soil and help the streets not collapse during a rainstorm.

The team of men and horses suddenly stopped a foot away from Huang Yan, and the sound of the horseshoe hitting the bluestone slab in the center of the street was like a thunderbolt, making a sound on Huang Yan's scalp.

"Damn, this is for me, why is Lao Tzu so unlucky, he has no money, and he has to suffer from flesh and skin." Huang Yan had the heart to cry, "Alas, no, this is not a pawn." Huang Yan looked through the cracks in the bushes and found that the people on the horse were wearing leather robes and fur hats, these people did not look like pawns, but like Uighurs who came to the Hajj, yes, they were Uighur merchants who entered the city with the Hajj mission, these people came from outside, they did not understand the rules of the city, and these eighty percent were going to drink flower wine.

"There are good flower wine to drink in Liquanfang, but, Sao Tartar, you are also worthy of drinking flower wine, are you the girl in the Tang Dynasty who you can touch, what is it?" Huang Yan cursed in his heart, but his mood gradually became clearer,

"Thank God, God treats Huang well." Huang Yanchang breathed a sigh of relief, and thought beautifully, "Huang is about to develop, let's also go to Liquanfang to drink flower wine, alas, don't go to Liquanfang, get mixed with these Tartars, disgusting and disgusting, yes, Lao Tzu went to Pingkangli, where dignitaries and nobles gathered, and only then did I see the taste." ”

Huang Yanzheng thought beautifully, and two horsemen came from the north to join the Uighurs, and the leader said eagerly: "People are in the museum, come with me." Speaking in the Chang'an dialect, this Uighur tribe randomly followed the people to Liquanfang, and soon the walls of the fang were blazing with fire, and the sound of killing was earth-shattering.

Huang Yan didn't come home until the afternoon of the next day, his mother-in-law saw that he hadn't returned overnight, she gritted her teeth with hatred, and as soon as she entered the door, she rushed over, pulling Huang Yan's collar and about to beat, Huang Yan said: "Silly girl, what kind of foolishness, look at what this is." He took out two yellow gold ingots from his arms, and his wife's eyes fell out, and he didn't bite a word, but cautiously followed him into the door, and put them in his mouth as soon as he snatched them.

Huang Yan smiled: "It's true, how can this be fake." ”

The mother-in-law also judged the truth and falsehood, and she liked it happily, she really didn't know where to hide, she thought about it, and took a shovel behind the door to dig a pit in the backyard to bury it, Huang Yan grabbed her and asked: "The second and third, go and call them back, oh, just say that his grandmother is dead, let's go to the funeral." ”

The mother-in-law crossed her waist and scolded: "Your mother is just dead, are you so cursed in the daytime?" ”

Huang Yan said with a smile: "My mother has died a long time ago, this time I have to die of your mother, don't be wordy, go quickly, this time I really have to go, if I don't go, I can't go, the sky is going to fall." The mother-in-law muttered angrily: "Let's go, how many things do the people in Pingtou, there are tall people on top of the sky falling, it's your business, is it, what is your gold...... Ouch, you foolish person, you have long been able to endure it, you dare to take this ill-gotten gain, and my mother is also, this day is not passable. ”

The mother-in-law was about to spill, Huang Yan was annoyed, grabbed her hair, crackled her mouth, and finally kicked and said: "Do as I say, leave before dark, and if you dare to be nonsense, I will kick out your intestines." ”

The mother-in-law was frightened by him, so she hurriedly got up, didn't say a word, gathered her hair, and went obediently, Huang Yan looked at her back and spat, and sneered: "Don't fight for three days, go to the house to uncover the tiles, this stinky old lady." ”

Sending his wife away, Huang Yan was thinking about lying down and taking a nap for a while, when he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, banging, the voice was very urgent, and Huang Yan's legs were also weak, and he reluctantly asked: Who is it?

"It's me." The voice of the eldest brother came from outside the door, Huang Yan was a little bold, and reluctantly struggled to open the door.

The eldest brother carried a hanging of meat in his hand, threw it into his arms, and said, "Don't go these two days, rest at home." Huang Yan said: "What's the matter, if I talk to you for a few words, you will cut off my eating guy." "Huang Yan is rich and bold in his hands, and secretly thought, even if you beg me to go, I won't go, thinking so in my heart, but what I said on my lips is good,

The eldest brother pursed his lips and said, "Mo Hu thought, if you don't eat, my sister and nephew still have to eat, there was a murder case in Liquanfang last night, I heard that it was a group of Uighurs and a nobleman in the city because of a fight for a singer, the blood of the killing flowed like a river, and at the end of the big Quguan was burned, before and after, I heard that hundreds of people died, there was an order from above, Liquan and several surrounding squares were all under martial law, we just want to go, but we can't go, stay at home and rest for two days." ”

Huang Yan smiled and asked: "The new emperor has just ascended the throne, and the Uighurs have made such a big noise, this is not to give us the Tang Dynasty face, uncle, I didn't say you, you can be regarded as a loss to your family for this job." ”

The eldest brother pursed his lips, shook his head, and was about to leave, when he suddenly stopped, turned around and asked, "No, didn't you squat there last night, Liquanfang killed people, you didn't see such a big movement." ”

Huang Yan smiled: "I'm so stupid, squat there for a night, you walk on the front foot, I will sneak back and climb over the wall to get in." ”

The eldest brother didn't say much, nodded and left, he didn't go far on the front foot, his mother-in-law came back with her two sons, Huang Yan immediately closed the door, and said, "Don't ask anything, quickly pack up, go, and take refuge in your old Uncle Yang's house." ”

Huang Yan went out of Chang'an City that afternoon, slept all the way, and arrived outside the Xining Army camp in Xiaochang'an for a month, the gatekeeper came out to ask him who he was looking for, Huang Yan took out a string of copper coins in his sleeve, and said with a smile: "My surname is Huang, I am from Chang'an, and I am the old man of the handsome. ”

Huang Yan squeezed out two lines of tears as he spoke, and the sergeant shook the money in his hand, Huang Yan thought he was too little, so he hurriedly took out two more strings of money, but the sergeant threw the money back to him, and said, "You wait, I'll go to Tongyu, move the carriage aside, be careful that the inspector sees that we are responsible." ”

Huang Yan bowed his waist and thanked him for a thousand thanks, and moved the carriage to the side of the road with the Hun family, and after waiting for a while, there were several waves of people and horses roaring in and out, bluffing his mother-in-law trembling, and the two sons were frightened, and his mother-in-law asked: "Do you really know the commander in this battalion, and you will be killed by pretending to be an official." ”

Huang Yan said to her: "Close your stinky beak, am I tired of living, dare to climb the official relatives, this master was originally my serious master, but I haven't seen him for some years." ”

"If you don't come to the door for three years, whether you are a kiss or not, can people still recognize you?" Mother-in-law is still not down-to-earth in her heart, Huang Yan is not down-to-earth in her heart, yes, I haven't come to the door for three years, I haven't seen him for six years, does he still recognize me as an old man?

When he was suspicious, a military academy rode out on horseback and asked on the horse: "Where is Huang Yan from Chang'an?" ”

Huang Yan waved his hand and shouted, "Shangguan, I'm here." ”

Yang Haozai carefully looked at the young man with two goatees in front of him, except for his nose and eyes, there was still a little shadow of the old days, the rest had changed, even his voice had changed,

"Xiaosi, you are really Xiaosi, why did you change your goddamn name and surname, Huang Yan, who gave it to you."

"If you go back to your father, Xiao Si was originally surnamed Huang, but as for the name, it was given by the old lady, saying, 'You are married, it is not good to call Xiao Si again, it is hot outside, so I will give you a name Huang Yan'."

"Now that you have a family, you have married a girl from whose family and have given birth to several sons."

"If you go back to your father, you have two sons, one is Huang Zhong and the other is Huang Yi, and the girl didn't marry and married a widow."

"Are all the people coming, let them in, I'll see."

"Ugh."

Yang Hao didn't expect that the little four who had been separated for many years would come to find him, according to him, he was because he couldn't live a life, and he had nowhere to stay in Chang'an, so he had to come to the northwest to join him, when he said this, he kept winking at himself, Yang Hao knew that what he said was false, although Xiao Si was not a capable person, but with his cleverness, it was more than enough to beg for food in Chang'an City, in front of many generals, he was not good to ask, and set up a family banquet in the house at night to catch the wind and wash the dust for Xiao Si's family, after the banquet was dispersed, Lu Rui personally took Huang He to the backyard to settle down, and Yang Hao took Xiaosi to the study.

Xiao Si changed his clothes, shaved his face, the whole person was refreshed, more energetic, and when he arrived at the study, Xiao Si saluted Yang Hao and cried: "The little one couldn't take care of the old lady, which caused the old lady to die early, the little one is guilty, the little one is guilty." ”

Yang Hao helped him up and said: "It's me who is guilty, it's me who is sorry for her, the old saying is that the tree wants to be quiet, and the wind does not stop, the son wants to raise, and the relatives are not there, I only understand the meaning today." ”

He poured a bowl of tea for Xiao Si, and the panicked Xiao Si hurriedly wiped his tears, Yang Hao asked with a smile: "When you talk today, you always wink at me, you don't tell the truth." Xiao Si said: "I can't hide anything from your eyes, I'm here because I heard something that shouldn't be heard, which may endanger you, so the little one rushed over overnight, I'm afraid that the master won't let me go back, and even the family members have brought it over." ”

Yang Hao said: "It's right if you think so, you are the old man in my family, you don't even come to help me, who else is willing to help me, don't mention the past things anymore." ”

Xiao Si said: "In the past, Xiao Si was sorry for the master, the master was willing to forgive the little one, and the little one dared not to be loyal to the master." ”

He wiped away his tears and said, "These days, although the little ones are getting worse and worse, the ears and eyes are not idle, and they have been inquiring about the affairs of the master, about ten days ago, the little one dug a ditch outside the Liquan Fang, and accidentally dug up a jar of gold, and the little one did not tell others, and wanted to swallow it alone, so he stayed there alone, but in the middle of the night, a group of Uighurs rode over from the direction of Yanshoufang, about a hundred and ten people, and stopped in front of the little one, and soon a Tang man came and said to them, 'People are inside, You can pass', so this wave of people and horses killed to Liquanfang, I thought that this is going to be a big thing, if you can't get fatal, how can you take care of the money, as soon as they passed, I got up and ran home, my home is in Jing'an, I can run a few steps, I heard the sound of fighting in Liquanfang, and then the flames soared into the sky, many people ran out of Liquanfang, fleeing for their lives. ”

Xiao Si said this and drank a sip of water to moisten his throat, and continued: "I ran south in the crowd, did not dare to stay for a moment, just ran to the corner of the West Market, I saw a team of Shence Army sergeants rushing over, saw us, without saying a word, immediately released arrows, immediately shot five or six people, I jumped into the ditch and escaped with a life, Shence Army shouted to catch the thief, set up a defense at the corner of the street, but saw that someone no matter how good or bad, they were shot as a thief, the people on the side of Liquanfang couldn't run out, someone ran over the wall to the fang, I thought that instead of dying under the random arrows, it would be better to go into the workshop and hide, don't they all say that it will be dark, maybe it is the safest there. ”

"When I turned into the workshop, the fire was already very big, the whole Liquan Fang burned more than half, and the people who did not die all rushed to the southwest corner, and there were five or six beautifully dressed people who asked me where the entrance to the ditch was, and they asked, I also opened my mind, if I walked along the ditch, wouldn't I escape from the place where this was wrong, I said, I'll lead the way and come with me."

Yang Hao asked: "What are the faces of those people?" ”

"It's too dark to see clearly, a man in his twenties, very tall, everyone takes him as the leader, and desperately guards him."

Yang Hao nodded and asked, "Did they escape smoothly?" ”

Xiao Si said: "I took them from the ditch to climb into the Gude Fang, from the water gate of the Wei Canal out of the city, the water gate was guarded by dozens of soldiers, two of them appeared to lure people away, the rest of the people escorted this young man and rushed out, I was afraid that they would kill people, pretend not to pass through the water, sink under the water, so they took advantage of their inattention, fled back to the Gude Fang." ”

Xiao Si said, blinked and said: "The next day, there were rumors in the city that His Majesty was assassinated in Liquanfang, and the Shence Army imposed martial law everywhere to search for anti-thieves, I think the person who escaped from the Water Gate was not an assassin who assassinated His Majesty, and it would also be related to this, otherwise, he could stop when he ran to Gudefang, why risk going out of the city, so I thought about it, in the end, I felt that it was inappropriate, so I ran out, it was rumored in the capital that Qiu Shiliang and you fought in Fengxiang Town last year, and the slave thought that if he took advantage of this matter to trap His Majesty, I can't say that it's going to be bad for you. ”

Yang Hao praised: "Okay, good, good, you can think so much about the master, the master is very happy, the master has been in the northwest for many years, there are no intimate people around him, you are here, it's good, you will follow the master in the future, not to mention the fragrant and spicy food, but also mixed with the background, the glory of the ancestors." Xiao Si said goodbye happily, Yang Hao helped him up, gave him three days off to settle down at home, and then came to listen to the errand.