Chapter 2 The Inkstone

"Hey......" A loud shout sounded, dragging out the voice, and then many people shouted in unison: "Hey! ”

Xue Chongxun had just crossed a stone mountain in the old boatman's boat when he heard such a sound. Because of the small size of the boat, there were only five or six people in the group, and a dozen or so guards remained on the shore to the north and waited.

The boat traveled for a while, and soon many large ships on the river came into view. Not only boats, but also countless people trekking on the strange rocky and rugged paths on the shore, and cables connected to the large hulls of the rivers are slender men, who are pulling the boats with human power.

This section of the river is extremely turbulent, and it is upstream, and it can be seen that the slender men are pulling very hard. Xue Chongxun estimated that each grain ship had hundreds of slender boats. The shouts I heard at the mountain pass just now were made by these slender men. Each boat's slender man has a leader, and the man first shouts "hey", and then all the slender men shout "hey" and exert themselves together.

So the river bank was really lively, and there were faint people crying in the middle, looming in the rushing water.

The small boat that Xue Chongxun was riding approached the big grain ship, because there were few people who came, it was not like a bandit, and the people on the boat didn't care about them. There were also a number of small boats between the big boats, and the people on them were searching for something with long poles.

So Xue Chongxun turned his head to look at a big boat in front of him, and there was a middle-aged man wearing a pu head on the deck who was lying on the side of the boat and crying while looking at something, "Goro! Gorou, you hear a ......"

It seems that someone has not been rescued in the water, and several small boats around are searching everywhere. And the small boats in the back were busy salvaging things, as if a ship had sunk.

At that moment, someone shouted, "Over there, I want to see someone come up!" ”

The middle-aged man on the side of the boat hurriedly stopped crying and shouted, "Is it Goro?" The others hurriedly shouted and went into the water to touch it, and someone in the boat shouted: "The water is turbid, it is full of mud and sand, and those who go down are careful of their own lives!" Put the rope! ”

No one cared about Xue Chongxun and the others, they looked at the busyness on the river, and continued to walk east in a small boat. At this time, Xue Chongxun saw that something seemed to be popping up not far from the boat, so he immediately turned around and said, "Who is good at water, that position!" I seem to see someone. ”

"I'm from Jiannan, I'm playing Xiaohuishui, Lang Jun looks at me!" When Xue Chongxun looked back, the guard had already jumped into the water with a thud. Xue Chongxun hurriedly said: "The water of the Yellow River is not comparable to the water of Jiannan, on the boat, we are saving your people, quickly throw a rope down!" ”

The big boat next to him quickly lost a rope and came down, and after a while, he saw the guard rise out of the water, and shouted as he pounced, "Catch it!" There is indeed a person in the water, throw the rope! ”

Fang Yuzhong took out an inkstone from his backpack, tied it to the end of the rope, and threw it violently into the river. Xue Chongxun was relieved to see the guards grabbing the rope, and personally helped pull him over. The guard was still laughing: "Ha, the Yellow River is muddy!" ”

Xue Chongxun and the others got the man who fell into the water onto the boat, only to see that he was covered in yellow mud, like a clay man. Leaning limply on the boat, I don't know if I am dead or alive. The guards were busy pressing his chest to administer first aid.

At this moment, the people on the big ship lowered the rope ladder and shouted, "There is Lang Zhong on the boat, get people up quickly." So Xue Chongxun's guards carried the man who fell into the water, and everyone helped him to get it to the big boat.

"Goro!" The middle-aged man who was crying on the side of the boat just now ran over, and wiped the face of the person who fell into the water, and the middle-aged man immediately cried, "Goro, how can you explain to my sister-in-law when you tell me to go back!" ”

Lang Zhong was quickly invited out of the cabin, and Xue Chongxun looked at it and said in surprise: "Li Ghost Hand!" Ha, I didn't expect to see you here. ”

The crane hair lang who came out of the fairy wind bone is not Li Ghost Hand, who is Li Xuanyi? Yuwen Ji's master. Ghost Li clasped his fists and said, "Save people first." ”

Everyone said gossipingly: "Zhang's family, let let, it's not too late to cry if you can't save it." ”

"Hold it, lift it upside down!" Li Xuanyi said. A man next to him hurriedly hugged his thigh from behind Nagoro and lifted the person upside down. Li Xuanyi quickly pulled out a silver needle from his waist, pointed at another person and said, "Clamp Gorou's chest hard, and make a lot of hoops." ”

The man next to him did as he said, and as soon as the two of them did this, murky water kept flowing out of Goro's mouth. At this time, Li Xuanyi squatted down, stretched out his fingers and pressed hard near Goro's collarbone, and at the same time suddenly inserted a needle. "Poof!" Suddenly, a lot of filth spat out of Nagoro's mouth.

"Ahem...... "The man who looked like a dead man just now actually coughed a few times." It's gasy! Everyone immediately cheered, "Ghost Li deserves to be a famous doctor in the world!" ”

At this time, the middle-aged man pulled a young man in his twenties and thirties who passed the robe and walked over, and without saying a word, the two of them kowtowed three times with "dong dong": "Save your life, first accept three bows from my Zhang family, and in the future, wherever we are useful, just say a word." My name is Zhang Yueran, my ancestral home is Qujiang, Shaozhou, and this is my nephew Zhang Jiuling......"

"Hah!" When Xue Chongxun heard Zhang Jiuling's three words, he immediately exclaimed, and the five mountains of the Heart Dao Divine Prefecture were not so big.

The middle-aged Zhang Yueran said again: "Doctor Li Ghost Hand Li is my friend, and I know him, but I don't know what kind of people this Langjun and the benefactor who went into the water are. ”

Xue Chongxun helped Zhang Yueran up: "We passed by here, and we happened to see a person who fell into the water next to us, and it was natural to raise your hands, don't be so strict, it's good if the person is alive, hurry up." I am...... Ghost Li knows me, they are all acquaintances, hehe. The one who went into the water was my entourage Zhao Er. ”

Hearing the middle-aged man ask which yamen are you, Xue Chongxun said in his heart that the people of the Zhang family really have some knowledge, probably because they saw the ornament on my waist.

Li Xuanyi also helped to help the two people of the Zhang family, and said: "I know both sides, so let me introduce it, this Lang Jun is Wei Guogong, the nephew of today, the eldest son of Princess Taiping's family, and his name is Xue Chongxun." Hey, I remember that you are Taichang Siqing, how did you come to the rivers and lakes? ”

Xue Chongxun observed Zhang Jiuling's appearance while saying: "I have been transferred to an official, and the household servant and the transfer envoy will come down to see Caoyun." ”

I saw that Zhang Jiuling has a long face, small eyes and big ears, but the facial features are more coordinated, and the face is also more upright, the shape of the two eyebrows is sharp, and there are three vertical and horizontal between the eyebrows, which looks very strict.

Li Xuanyi sneered: "Manage Caoyun? Come on, what good can you guys do, look at the boats in this river, they all came from Lingnan, and it took them ten months to get here! There is also Liu An in Luoyang, who has a group of 'oblique officials', who will not do anything else except make money. ”

The so-called oblique seal official is the official given by Princess Taiping, she put the official's name in the letter and handed it to the emperor to let the emperor approve the appointment of the official, because the seal is obliquely sealed, so the person who enters the official career through guò is called the oblique seal official, and has been despised by other bureaucrats. Among these people, there are also talented people, but most of them are crooked and heretical people, and the most people who send money to buy officials, in short, the good and the bad are mixed.

Zhang Yueran said: "Mr. Li, don't talk about this, the Tang Dynasty is such a big court, don't people want to eat, let's not transport grain over, where is the national society?" Let's go, go to the cabin and sit down. ”

At this time, Zhang Jiuling said: "My uncle's family was designated as a grain transport household, and I happened to be at home, so I went with my uncle, passing through the entire Caoyun line, but I thought of a way to change it...... But the powerful are in power, so they can only look at the ocean and sigh. ”

Li Xuanyi, who was next to him, suddenly picked up the inkstone that Fang Yuzhong had tied to the rope just now, took it and looked at it carefully, and said with a smile: "Wei Guogong's thing is worth a lot of money, it's really a waste to use it like this...... The inkstone, the rope that saves people, hehe, interesting. ”

Xue Chongxun understood what he meant, it was nothing more than that a big villain like Lao Tzu was very surprised to do good deeds, and it was not easy to say anything at the moment, so he kept silent. At the same time, he also saw the breadth of Li Guishou's communication again, although he was not in the temple, Yao Chong and Song Jing were his friends, and now Zhang Jiuling seemed to be his friend, which was very powerful. This kind of things gather, people are grouped, and making friends is not something that anyone can talk to.

Because of the presence of his acquaintance Li Ghost, Xue Chongxun was not in a hurry, so he asked someone to pay the money of the old boatman who brought him over and stayed on the grain ship. He had promised the old boatman to pay twice the price after the deed, but Xue Chongxun did not break his promise. The uncles and nephews of the Zhang family, the other leaders on the ship, as well as Li Xuanyi and others, waited on the boat for a while, and then Xue Chongxun called Li Xuanyi to the deck for a private interview.

Xue Chongxun bowed: "No matter what, last time you had a life-saving grace for me, I don't dare to forget it." ”

Li Xuanyi looked at the turbid water of the Yellow River and said lightly: "Didn't you say okay, I treated you for the Yuwen family at that time, otherwise I really wouldn't have taken care of it." Don't mention it...... But today Wei Guogong rescued an unknown person, which shows that he still has a good heart, not bad, not bad. The inkstone has the smell of books, used to save people, the fragrance of books adds righteousness, what a good thing, I hope that Wei Guogong can realize something. ”

Xue Chongxun humbly arched his hand and said, "I will definitely miss today's conversation with Mr. Li from time to time. But I also have something to say to Mr. Lee. ”

"Please." Li Xuanyi's attitude this time was much kinder than last time.

Xue Chongxun said: "To cure diseases, one person can only heal a few people; But governing the country can save more people from being in dire straits. Can Mr. Lee agree? You have the art of healing the disease and the country, why do you have a small righteousness and sacrifice the great righteousness? ”

Li Xuanyi laughed at the Yellow River: "The art of governing the country? Being an official is not virtuous and virtuous, I am not suitable for being an official, I can't do anything, as long as I take small righteousness and be good to myself, without me Li Xuanyi, there are still Huang Xuanyi and Yao Xuanyi in the world...... There is a specialization in the art industry, and each can stop the bird in its own way. ”

After laughing, Li Xuanyi turned to look at Xue Chongxun and said: "If I don't like to say a word, if I really want to enter the WTO, I will not assist Wei Guogong or Taiping, the prince is the blessing of the country." Ha ha...... Wei Guogong, I advise you, this is an official, and a truth in being a lang, no matter how well you use your skills, it is the end, don't forget the word 'benevolence and righteousness', this is this. Back then, Wei Zheng had a saying, 'Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn a boat', and now the old man will give you this sentence, kind. ”

Xue Chongxun groaned. Li Xuanyi said again: "Who is not a person who has a palm print? My Chinese classics are like a sea, open every book, and the word 'benevolence and righteousness' is revealed between the lines, why do you say that the world can't see it? ”