Chapter 129: The Rogue (Part 3)
In Wangjia Village, Wang Ming and Wang Xuanwu's homes are also just ordinary adobe courtyards, and the roofs of the courtyards are covered with thatched grass and soil, which looks very simple.
Li Chengming was taken to Wang Ming's home, which was a courtyard about the size of about one or two hundred square meters, with a small fence around the courtyard, and about seven or eight chickens and ducks in it, which looked very harmonious.
In Wang Ming's family, in addition to himself, there is a beautiful woman who looks about thirty years old, who is his wife, and a child named Wang Ping'an, who looks seven or eight years old.
Wang Ming's wife's name is Wang Zheng's, well, I don't know the specific name, Wang Ming called her Yingniang, after seeing Wang Ming take Li Chengming home, he didn't show any dissatisfaction, but after gently asking about it, he found a few pieces of Wang Ping'an's clothes from home, and then wanted to help Li Chengming treat his injuries with potions and rinse.
However, although Li Chengming is now pretending to be a six or seven-year-old child, he does not have the habit of letting people help him groom himself, that is, there were two little maidservants in Datang before, and he has not thought about this aspect, so it is naturally impossible for Yingniang to help him groom himself.
Fortunately, Yingniang is not that kind of rude woman, after seeing Li Chengming's insistence, she thought that Li Chengming was afraid of life, so she no longer insisted, and after helping Li Chengming to make good water, she retreated.
Li Chengming took off the dirty clothes on his body, looked at the abrasions on his hands, feet and face because of the abrasions when he hit the ground just now, frowned, and finally ignored them, but reluctantly cleaned them little by little.
In fact, with his current strength, he only needs to use medical ninjutsu to heal these injuries in a moment, but now that he is in this strange world, he doesn't know what this world is, and he feels that it is better not to show his strength for the time being.
washed up, and then picked up the set of clothes that Yingniang gave herself before, this is a set of linen clothes, and there is a set of underwear that seems to be made of silk cloth.
Although Li Chengming has not worn the clothes of this world, he is not stupid, he knows how to wear these clothes after studying it casually, not to mention, he found that these clothes have some similarities with Datang's clothes, which makes it even more difficult for him.
After getting dressed, Li Chengming opened the bathroom door and walked out.
However, as soon as he went out, he saw Yingniang, who seemed to be waiting for him outside, and Yingniang smiled and pulled him to the living room, and then began to take out a bottle of ointment and began to apply it to his wounds.
Li Chengming was a little secretly glad that he didn't use healing ninjutsu just now, otherwise he would have been exposed now.
At this time, Li Chengming noticed that there were several more people in Wang Ming's family, in addition to Wang Xuanwu, there was a girl who was about the same as Wang Ming's son, who seemed to be Wang Xuanwu's daughter, and the other was the middle-aged man named Brother Song who he met at the entrance of the village before.
Li Chengming felt that after he came out, the middle-aged man named Brother Song looked at him for a while, but he just didn't feel it, and continued to let Yingniang help him apply the ointment.
After Yingniang helped him deal with the wound, it was time to start eating, only to see Yingniang enter the kitchen and bring out two bowls of meat, plus a bowl of wild vegetables, and a bowl of porridge cooked with corn for one person, and then followed another woman about thirty years old and walked out, looking like Wang Xuanwu's wife, she should have been busy in the kitchen just now.
However, Li Chengming and these children did not sit with Wang Ming and the three adults, but were assigned to another small table by Yingniang to sit down and share some meat and wild vegetables.
After the meal, compared to Wang Ping'an and Wang Xuanwu's daughter, Li Chengming ate unhurriedly, and he paid more attention to the table where Wang Ming and the three of them were sitting not far away, wanting to listen to see if he could hear some useful information from their mouths.
After a while, Li Chengming really heard Wang Xuanwu suddenly say, "Brother Song, I heard that the county has not been peaceful recently, have you heard any news recently?" ”
"Hmm!" Hearing Wang Xuanwu's words, Wang Qingsong, whose face was a little solemn, said, "The last time I went to the county seat, I heard some rumors that there was a group of bandits who seemed to have entered Chenliu County from Jiyang, and people had seen their traces near Kaocheng. You must know that although our Bo County belongs to the Liang Kingdom, we are only a hundred miles away from Kaocheng, so some people suspect that this group of bandits may have infiltrated our county. ”
As he spoke, Wang Qingsong also looked at Li Chengming, who was sitting at the table eating, his eyes flickered, and he stopped talking.
"What's wrong, Brother Song? Do you doubt that this baby ......" Seeing Wang Qingsong's appearance, Wang Ming on the side frowned.
"Yes, I doubt that this baby's family will be killed by those bandits. Didn't you just appear in the wild because this baby was injured all over his body? I've seen it before, the clothes on this baby are not ordinary people, such a baby, it's too late for someone else's family to hurt, how can he let him run outside alone, in addition to this, something happened to the family. ”
"By the way, Amin, did you ask what happened to this child?"
Wang Ming shook his head, "No, this baby can be injured, and he doesn't trust people very much now, and he doesn't speak, I plan to wait for him to get acquainted with it!" ”
"Alas, that's all it can be!" That Wang Qingsong glanced at Li Chengming, and regarded the appearance of him eating slowly as a war, and he couldn't do anything to force the child, so he couldn't help sighing, picked up the wine on the table and took a sip.
Wang Xuanwu next to him also took a sip of wine, and then said, "By the way, Brother Song, when you entered the city, did you hear what our government had to say about this matter?" ”
"No, but I heard that the government is mobilizing officers recently, and I don't know if it has anything to do with it." Wang Qingsong shook his head and said.
"It seems that we can only be careful ourselves, tomorrow call the men in the village over to discuss, everyone be careful, if the bandits really flow to this vicinity, I think everyone should go into the mountains to hide, anyway, there is nothing valuable in our village, even if these bandits come, there will be no loss, as long as the people are fine!" Wang Ming thought for a moment, and then suggested.
"Well, Ah Ming, you're right, this thing will be done tomorrow!" Wang Qingsong nodded, raised the wine bowl in front of him and said, "Okay, come, don't talk about this, we are poor and remote, maybe those bandits have passed by, and they still can't look down on it, tomorrow's business will be talked about tomorrow, come, drink!" ”
"Haha, okay, drink!" Wang Ming and Wang Xuanwu looked at each other and smiled, didn't say anything more, laughed, and then raised their glasses and drank together.
Next, the three of them didn't talk about the bandit just now, but Wang Qingsong talked about some of the things he had heard in the county before, such as which big family was harsh on the tenants below, and which family's son-in-law spent money in the restaurant.
Although Li Chengming listened to these things boringly, he still listened carefully, because what these three people said was the information that he had been able to find out about the outside world so far.
In fact, from the words of the previous three people, Li Chengming also heard some information, such as the place where he is now should be a place called Liang Guobo County.
Speaking of this Liang country, Li Chengming thought about it for a while, as if he remembered that there were four "Liang countries" in history, namely the Southern Liang, the Western Liang, the Great Liang and the Later Liang.
Among them, Nanliang was created by Xiao Yan of the Southern Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, well, it was this guy who turned the monk who could have eaten meat into a vegetarian, and during the period of being the emperor, he entered the temple as a monk several times, so that the ministers under him could only pay money to redeem him and continue to be the emperor, which has to be said to be a wonder;
The West Liang, also founded during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, is also known as the Later Liang, there are 800 miles of land in a radius of the country, about the same size as a city, only existed for 33 years, and was later abolished by Emperor Wen of Sui;
Daliang, created by Xiao Milling at the end of the Sui Dynasty, participated in the struggle for power at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but later failed and was destroyed by Li Tang in the fourth year of Wude;
The last one was a state of power during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, established by Zhu Wen and dying after less than twenty years of existence.
It's just that, based on the news that Li Chengming heard, it seems that the Liang countries they mentioned were not the four Liang countries he thought, because they also mentioned Chen Liujun.
This Chenliu County is still relatively famous in history, because as long as you have watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", you should know that Emperor Han Xian in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was once King Chenliu before he ascended the throne.
It's a pity that these people talked about Bo County and Jiyang before, Li Chengming didn't have any impression, otherwise maybe he could deduce more information.
Because he didn't eat at the same table with Wang Ming, and Wang Ming's son and Wang Xuanwu's daughter finished eating early, in order not to be conspicuous, Li Chengming could only drink the porridge in the bowl at will, and sat next to him alone.
During this period, Wang Ming's son Wang Ping'an wanted to come over to play with him, but Li Chengming still pretended to be unapproachable, which made Wang Ping'an retreat.
The ancients did not have any entertainment, Wang Ming and the other three drank for a while, and then dispersed, and because Wang Ming's house had limited rooms, Li Chengming was arranged by Yingniang to sleep in a room with their son Wang Ping'an.
The room is very simple, it can even be said to be simple, there is no bed, no table or chairs, just put some soft hay underneath, and then put two straw mats on top, and two thin mattresses, this is the so-called mat house.
Yingniang commanded her son Wang Ping'an not to bully Li Chengming, and after warning him to sleep well, she went out with an oil lamp.
After the door was closed, when he heard that there was no movement outside, Wang Ping'an, who was originally lying on the mat obediently, suddenly turned over and got up, looked at Li Chengming, who was also lying on the ground, through the moonlight coming in from the window outside, and then whispered viciously, "Boy, get up, I want to tell you something!" ”