"It's a juggler, robbed by thieves, but he hasn't killed anyone, it's really wronged!"

"Phew, which one believes you, you don't have water, you can't drink urine!" The scoundrel sneered, and as he spoke, he unbuttoned his pants to pee.

Zhou Ping was about to step forward to stop it, but he saw a woman step forward, holding a bowl of water in her hand, and placing it next to Yang Wu, and the onlookers couldn't help but be in an uproar. The woman didn't hear it, and said to Yang Wu loudly: "Although you are a thief, you also saved my Du Erniang's life, and now that you are in trouble, this bowl of water should repay your kindness!" ”

Zhou Ping heard it clearly on the side, he had also heard from the thief about Yang Wu's prevention of the indiscriminate killing of the robbed women, and secretly thought that the thief leader said that he occasionally did a good deed, but now he got the result, although he is in accordance with the criminal law, he will definitely die, but at least he has suffered a little.

Zhou Ping was thinking about it, and suddenly a shout came from behind him: "Ah Ping, the inspection is looking for you everywhere, but you are here to watch the excitement, why don't you go back with me quickly!" ”

"Looking for me?" Zhou Ping looked back, but it was Zhuangzhong's companion: "Do you know what is going on?" ”

"The Han family wants to invite someone to the banquet in the evening, go back quickly!" The companion hurriedly said: "The inspection is urgent, and the upper beam is on fire!" ”

Zhou Ping had to rush back to the station, and when he asked, he learned that someone from the Han family had come to invite someone to the banquet, and he only said that he was replying to the love of capturing the thief, but the payment on the invitation was Han Xiaoxuan. Xue Liangchen is just a small official, and when he got this invitation, he hurriedly called a few brothers, and after a little discussion, it was decided that not only the Xue family would go, but even Zhou Ping, the person who shot and injured the head of the thief, would have to go, otherwise it would not be good if Han Xianggong asked if the person was not there, so he first asked Zhou Ping to call back, and then each packed up a new dress and prepared for the banquet in the evening.

In the blink of an eye, it was already dinner time, Xue Liangchen and his party changed into new clothes, and handed over the invitation outside the day brocade hall to ask for a meeting, and the Han family opened the side door to greet them. Under the guidance of the family servant, the group walked through several courtyards and arrived at a Ming Hall, where the four brothers of the Xue family came up to the hall, while Zhou Ping could only sit down in one of the ear rooms of the side room, and there was only a pot of cold tea on the several cases.

Zhou Ping snorted and sat down, although he was a little prepared for the reception of the Han Mansion, but it was still unexpected to be treated like this, but he had just helped your Han family eliminate the thieves, and he was treated like this, not to mention that he was thrown into the ear room, and he didn't even have a cup of hot tea, and he was not even as good as his family's slaves.

Zhou Ping was sulking, when he suddenly heard the door creak, and when he looked up, he saw a person coming in with a cane, and when he looked at it, it was Yue Fei.

When Yue Fei saw Zhou Ping, he threw off his crutches with a smile on his face, walked over and said, "Brother Zhou, I heard that the owner invited the heroes who captured the thieves to the banquet, so I came to take a look, I didn't expect you to come too!" ”

"Brother Yue, sit down, how is the injury on your leg?" Zhou Ping hurriedly helped Yue Fei to sit down, and said with a wry smile: "What a hero, it's just a coincidence, in the eyes of your lord, we are just some flying eagle lackeys!" ”

"It's already four or five points better!" Yue Fei looked at the furnishings around him, and his face changed slightly: "It's too much, Brother Zhou, wait a minute, I'll come back when I go out!" After saying that, Yue Fei went out the door, and when he came back a few minutes later, he already had an extra tray in his hand, on which were placed two pairs of dishes and chopsticks, a large pot of wine, a plate of meat, and a plate of tofu. Yue Fei put aside the dishes and chopsticks, and said with an apologetic smile: "Brother Zhou, the person who took you in doesn't know anything, and treats you as a subordinate of his peers, I have already told him, don't blame him!" ”

"How dare I blame him, besides, I was originally a Tianke of the Xue family!" Zhou Ping smiled and grabbed a piece of chopsticks and said, "But it seems that Brother Yue is doing well in the Han family?" ”

"What did Brother Zhou say!" Yue Fei's face was slightly red, he poured a glass of wine for Zhou Ping, and he drank a full glass and said: "It's just that after this incident, the owner felt that the defense at home was too poor, so let me be an archer master and teach the servants in the family archery!" ”

"That's Sect Leader Yue!" Zhou Ping raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "Come, kid Jingyue teaches the first cup!" ”

"Brother Zhou, you have to laugh!" Yue Fei drank all the wine in the cup: "If you talk about archery, you're not bad, right?" I heard that the thief Yang Wu was shot and wounded by you. ”

"Just by chance!" Zhou Ping took a sip and looked at the young man in front of him who was already blushing, it was hard to imagine that the young peasant in front of him was the King Wumu who was admired by thousands of people in the future, his heart moved, and asked, "Brother Yue, what are your plans in the future?" ”

"From now on? Intend? Yue Fei was stunned, his family was poor when he was young, although he liked to drink, but he rarely had the opportunity to drink, at this time, a few glasses into his stomach was already a little smoky, and he subconsciously replied: "What else can I plan, if I can bring my mother and wife here, the family will live together and be beautiful." ”

"I see!" Zhou Ping nodded, and was thinking in his heart, when someone suddenly knocked on the door outside and asked loudly: "Zhou Ping and Zhou Xiaolang from Xuejiazhuang are there?"

"In!" Zhou Ping stood up and pushed open the door, only to see a servant in Tsing Yi looking at Zhou Ping and saying, "My master wants to see you!" Without waiting for Zhou Ping to answer, he turned around and walked towards the hall. Zhou Ping gritted his teeth and followed.

The two of them came up to the hall, only to see a middle-aged man in his thirties sitting at the top, with a relaxed smile on his plump and fair face, three long beards under his chin according to the habit of scholars at that time, and a pair of clear eyes looking towards Zhou Ping. Zhou Ping guessed that this person should be the host of this banquet, Han Xiaoxuan, so he lifted the front of the robe according to the requirements of etiquette, bowed down to him, and said, "The villain greets Han Xianggong!" ”

"Strong men are exempt!" Han Xiaoxuan didn't show the usual arrogance of a scholar at this time, he stretched out his hand to hold it up, waited for Zhou Ping to stand up, looked up and down at Zhou Ping, who was tall and upright-looking, with an appreciative gaze, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, he is a good man, if it is not so, he can't shoot the head of the thief!" Come on, get the wine, I want to toast Zhou Zhuangshi with a glass! ”

"Thank you Han Xianggong!" Zhou Ping hurriedly took the wine glass, drank it all after saluting, although he didn't know why this high-ranking turban was like this, but he made up his mind as soon as he came up, all the sugar-coated cannonballs were sugar-coated and eaten, and the cannonballs were thrown back.

"Good!" Han Xiaoxuan saw that Zhou Pingman drank this glass of wine, made a gesture to let him sit down, and turned to Shen Heng, the county magistrate who was accompanying him on the right, and said: "Old parents, it seems that these strong men are all white except for Xue Xun, I don't know what the reward is this time." ”

Shen Heng was stunned when he heard this, and then he reacted to the meaning of the other party, and his feelings were to ask a few other people what other official positions in the county were expressed, and he couldn't help but be secretly annoyed, these people are ordinary martial artists, but they killed a few thieves, and he is a county magistrate at most in the excerpt of the court, as for how the above will reply, it is not clear, your surname Han is in charge of the personnel of the house, and the Chinese book is an important person, asking me these in front of these martial artists, isn't it embarrassing me? Having said that, Shen Heng didn't dare to refute it in person, so he had to smile and say: "Please rest assured, the lower officials will definitely show the merits of a few strong men in the recital to the imperial court!" ”

"That's good!" Han Xiaoxuan said with a smile: "This official happened to be an official in the Shangshu Provincial Officials Department in the same year, and he was involved in the right election, such as the selection of military ministers below the eighth rank, and he could also say a few words. After the official returned to Beijing, he just mentioned a sentence for several strong men, presumably it is not difficult to accept Xinlang and Bao Yilang! ”

As soon as Han Xiaoxuan said this, the brothers of the Xue family in the hall suddenly burst into tears and fell to the ground, Zhou Ping hurriedly knelt down, Xue Liangchen kowtowed two heads and said in a trembling voice: "Xianggong is so loving, we are really hard to repay!" "It turns out that the Song Dynasty inherited five generations of shortcomings, and the official system was mixed, and it was specifically divided into the official (Jilu official), the ministry official, the dispatch and so on. The so-called official indicates the rank of the official and determines the amount of the official's salary. The ministry and dispatch indicate the specific duties and work of the person. After the restructuring of Yuanfeng, the military ministers were divided into fifty-two ranks from Taiwei to Chengxinlang, Chengxinlang was from the ninth grade, and Baoyilang was the ninth grade. These people were originally just archers in the countryside, not even a non-product armor, public evidence (the name of the Song Dynasty military ministers), this time they can be included in the ranks of the small envoys, it can really be said that they are on the rise, at that time the Northern Song Dynasty military ministers have not yet been indiscriminate, for these people are very attractive.

"Get up, a few of you are skilled in bowing and horses, and you are all talents, and it is a good thing for me to recommend the country!" Han Xiaoxuan made a gesture, motioned for them to get up, pointed to Shen Heng, who was a little embarrassed on the side, and said with a smile: "You guys don't have to thank me, if it weren't for the old parents who recommended you in the fold, I wouldn't have been able to do it in the same year!" ”

Only then did the brothers of the Xue family realize that they had just snubbed the magistrate, and hurriedly turned around to thank Shen Heng, Zhou Ping kowtowed behind him, secretly thinking that Han Xiaoxuan's actions were clearly buying people's hearts, although the brothers of the Xue family cleaned up the group of thieves for him, but he was in charge of the house, he was a noble person in the center, and his identity was so different, at most he sent a few glasses of wine to them at the wine table, why work so hard? Could it be that this guy is also a traverser like himself, knowing that there will be a fire disaster in the Great Song Dynasty a few years later, and he will buy the skilled brothers of the Xue family here? That's too bizarre, isn't it?

Zhou Ping was thinking nonsense on the side, and Han Xiaoxuan's laughter sounded in his ears: "I received a letter from Bianliang two days ago, which said that this time I was in the mission to Liao. I heard that in the past few years, there has been a lot of anxiety on the land over there, and I want to bring two guards who are skilled in bows and horses, originally Yue Fei, the Tian Ke in my house, has a good bow and let him go, but unfortunately his arrow wound has not healed yet-" Speaking of this, Han Xiaoxuan sighed, and his face showed embarrassment.

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