Reunion of the Dead (IV) (Part II)

Qi Hai was not surprised, nor angry, but said flatly: "A few adults, I don't know why they are blocking the villain's way. "On the way, there are a lot of people coming home from all over the place or coming out to eat and drink, and some people who like to watch the excitement have come around.

"Qi Hai, you ungrateful, now pretend not to know us? In vain, the commander of Zhou took you so seriously, but you went to the Tang family to be a subordinate. ”

Qi Hai slowly took off the hat, revealing a ruined face: "I have lost all my martial arts, do you think Commander Zhou will still value me with such a face?" ”

Several officers gasped, and the officers froze there. One of them reacted, pointed to his nose and said, "Although you are injured, the prince has specially sent someone to reward you with silver to heal your injuries." Wouldn't it be good for you to take that money and do some small business? Why do you want to do things for the Tang family? Have you forgotten how Commander Zhou treated you when you were in the forbidden army? Have you already taken refuge in Tang Xinyang? ”

Qi Hai said calmly: "When Qi Hai was in the forbidden army, Commander Zhou did bring me along, and I am very grateful. But Qi Hai is a useless person to him now, and it doesn't matter who he eats with. ”

"Are you so poor that you don't have anything to eat?" An officer scoffed: "You saved the prince, what about the reward that the prince gave you?!" ”

"Reward?!" Qi Hai snorted coldly: "Does Lord Luo think that a hundred taels of silver is a generous reward?" Or is it just now that the * people said to do small business, a hundred taels of silver * people think they can do business in the capital? ”

The people around were surprised by the number of one hundred taels, since yesterday when the prince took people into the Ping'an Inn, some people began to talk about the severance pay of disabled soldiers, it was really desperate, missing arms and legs, so much. If it weren't for the Tang family, many people might have been even more miserable. After listening to Qi Hai's words today, I was even more emotional, I didn't expect that it was only one hundred taels to save the prince. The prince's meal is probably hundreds of taels. The crowd immediately talked about it.

Another officer watched the crowd talk about it, deviated from their purpose today, and spoke again: "You come out of the forbidden army, you can also find a decent way to live in the nursing home, if you don't know anyone, you can ask our brothers for help, why do you go to the back kitchen of the Tang family's restaurant to help?" Don't you feel ashamed? ”

Qi Hai looked at the officer, who spoke to the point: "Lord Liu, only those who have kung fu have the right to choose what to do." You adults may only see my face ruined, but you don't know that Qi has lost all his martial arts because of the poison on the arrow, and he can't pull a bow and shoot arrows in this life, even if he can't do the ordinary work of carrying it on his shoulder. I, Qi Hai, originally only wanted to be a hero all my life, but unfortunately now I don't talk about self-preservation, and I don't even have the ability to farm to support myself. ”

The officer surnamed Liu was a little moved, and said regretfully: "Don't you still have the severance silver?" You can stay up for a while, and you don't have to do those lowly jobs?! ”

"One hundred taels of silver, how long can you survive in the capital? What will we do when we run out of money? Begging for food on the streets? And although I Qi Hai has no parents, I have an only sister, and I have already made a dowry for her of the one hundred taels of silver, and I married her off a year ago. My brother is incompetent and can't do anything else for her, so she can only give her a little dowry so that she won't be too angry in her in-laws' house in the future. I'm married to a sister, so I can support myself a little bit by myself. Mr. Liu may think that helping in the kitchen is a low-level job, but I think it's very good. There, the guys wouldn't ask me where I came from, and they wouldn't care if the adults I was talking to were against the Tang family. And everybody is hurting and hurting, and we are considerate of each other. I don't have to see outsiders in the back kitchen, and no one dislikes my face. That's all I've had for the rest of my life, I just want to live quietly and live my life. In the future, if I can see my sister's child born and grow up safely, I will be worthy of my parents' kindness. ”

"Then you don't have to go to the Tang family's restaurant! There are many places in the capital that can accept miscellaneous servants. The officer surnamed Luo still wants to accuse.

Qi Hai sneered: "Wait until Lord Luo falls to my point one day, and then see if you have the ability to choose where to work." Look at how many places and owners in the capital were willing to accept a crippled person who couldn't do heavy work and had a hideous face. At that time, you can also just look at who is really kind and willing to help the weak in this world. ”

The officer surnamed Luo replied angrily: "You haven't looked for us, how do you know that we won't help you?!" ”

Qi Hai said sadly: "Who said I didn't look for it?!" When I left the Praetorian Army, the medic only saw that I was disfigured, but he didn't know that my degree would recur two months later. When the toxicity returned, I tingled all over my body, and it cost me what little silver I had left to seek medical treatment everywhere. When there was no way, I went to Commander Zhou, but at that time he was sent by the emperor to the south to do business, and I also looked for Deputy General He of the forbidden army, but he saw that I was already a waste, and he threw a penny at me and drove me out, and the senior staff general closed the door to me. I was looking for a job everywhere, and I ran into General Tang when I was down on the street. Fortunately, General Tang took me to the Ping'an Inn regardless of his previous suspicions, placed me in a place, and asked the doctor of Baicaotang to treat my wounds, but I am afraid that I am really paralyzed today due to lack of money to continue healing, or I can't do any work, lying on the street begging for food, and there is a possibility that I will freeze to death and starve to death on the street. ”

After a while, several forbidden soldiers were chilled, and the onlookers around them also felt very sad.

Xinjie gently hugged Lian'er's shoulder, and Lian'er turned her head and asked him in her ear: "He reported a reward of only one hundred silver in this way, will there be trouble?" ”

Xinjie smiled: "No, because that's exactly what I need." Yesterday, Yiyi didn't dare to say it at the scene, because he didn't know what joints and people were hidden in it. At that time, the reward he ordered to give was one hundred taels of gold, and Qi Hai got one hundred taels of silver. For the sake of his own face, our master is going to figure out the ins and outs. This just gives us an opportunity to convince everyone that it is not the Tang family that donates silver to the imperial court, and this matter can be done. ”

"You already know who's involved?" Lian'er looked at the man beside her, and the man just smiled: "I've been thinking about how to break this out for a long time, and this is just an opportunity." These people's hearts are too dark, and they dare to be greedy for the blood, sweat and silver that the disabled soldiers have been honored, and it is intolerable to treat them. ”

Lian'er reached out to hold his calloused hand: "Maybe this will attract his jealousy towards you." He's not exactly as gentle and elegant as he seems. ”

He turned to look at her: "Are you afraid?" ”

Lian'er shook her head slightly, with a gentle smile in his eyes, holding back her soft, there was a tacit understanding between each other, sometimes there was no need to say it explicitly.

Early the next morning, when the ministers went to court, they heard Ding Jizhong's self-reproach read out in public. Among them, the focus is self-blame as the imperial history, not understanding the people's feelings, not observing the lives of ordinary people and veterans and soldiers, chasing the wind and shadows, subjective assumptions, asking for seven days of thinking behind closed doors, raising grain and rice to Baoguo Temple to distribute good porridge to the hungry people for ten days. Everyone praised Ding Jizhong for knowing his mistakes and being able to change them. Seeing the trend of the times, Du Tingxi had to bow his head and admit his mistake, and applied to go to Baoguo Temple to put good porridge together. It's just that his confession of mistake is understood in most people's hearts as a last resort. Du Tingxi also knew what everyone was thinking, but he hated Tang Xinjie to death in his heart. He was waiting for the prince to clean up Tang Xinjie.

As the crown prince of the prison state, Yiyi naturally took this opportunity to praise the Tang family for sharing the worries of the imperial court in a low-key manner for many years, and promised to take more care of the military department and the household department in the future to improve the treatment of sergeants. said a bunch of high-sounding words, and a group of people who saw the wind and made the rudder followed to praise the kindness of the Tang family to their subordinates over the past hundred years, and the contribution of the Tang family army to the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty. There are also some bold ones, who inquired about the Guo family clearly, and knew that Jing'an was deeply loved by the queen's mother, and Yiyi also liked this sister. Even if they are all relatives, of course, there are near and far. Some people gambled on this, and took the opportunity to demand the punishment of relatives who indiscriminately flaunted the royal banner and did evil outside. Yiyi immediately made a decision and sent a special envoy to Huayan Town, in addition to investigating the matter, he also asked him to check whether the Guo family had bad bullying behavior in the local area. If it is found, it will not be tolerated. As a result, a group of literati praised the prince for his broad-mindedness of killing relatives with righteousness.

Yiyi made a decision to abandon the Guo family as soon as he knew that the matter involved Jing'an. Even if it is not his sister who is involved this time, or even a royal princess, he will use this to eradicate the Guo family, and relatives like the Guo family will only drag him down. This time it is the brother of the Tang family, and he is not specifically using this to calculate him, if it is someone else, he may just take this opportunity to suppress him. In a way, it was the brothers of the Tang family who helped him and gave him a chance to show his selflessness and clarity. But he also knew that with the ability of the Tang family, he was afraid that the Tang family would have passed the news to Xinjie a long time ago, but this brother did not explain, it seems that he is still a member of the Tang family.

On the way back to the East Palace, Yiyi has always been worried, he has been thinking about the Tang Gate, the first important thing that the Tang Gate teaches his children is to protect the peace of the world and the safety of the people, and he has never said that he is loyal to the monarch and the country. Is it appropriate for the Queen Mother and his brother to hand over important affairs to the Tang family? As a monarch, of course, he wants the world to be peaceful, but when this peace conflicts with his throne...

"Old Yang," Yiyi asked Yang Quan'an beside him, "Do you say that peace in the world is the best?" ”

Yang Quanan was stunned and replied carefully: "For the people of the world, peace in the world is of course the best. The common people think about that and live in peace. But it is not necessarily the best for some of the rulers or people who have ideas, because there is a war, and they may have the opportunity to make a profit. ”