Chapter 8 The loach also wanted to jump over the dragon gate, and fell into the pot and did not live long
The robbery outside Yangzhou City, before the arrival of Jinyiwei, had always been investigated by Li Mo, the magistrate of Yangzhou Mansion.
Even if Li Mo and Lu Yan are still classmates, the grievances and grievances of the two families are a long story.
Lu Yan is the son of Lu Chai, the first god in Jiangnan, and Li Mo is the son of the Li family, a rice merchant in Jiangnan. Li Mo's eldest brother Li Yan bullied people, killed a small trader on the street, and fled overnight, and the person in charge of the pursuit was Lu Yan's father, Lu Chai.
Li Mo's father bribed Lu Chai with a large sum of gold and silver, hoping that Lu Chai could let his son live, but Lu Chai sternly refused! Two days later, Lu Chai arrested Li Yan and brought him to justice, and the human and material evidence were all there, and he was sentenced to beheading.
The feud between the two families was concluded at that time!
After Lu Chai died in the line of duty six years ago, he was framed for ineffective handling of the case, and the Li family did not fall into the ground. After Lu Yan was stripped of his fame, Li Mo replaced him and became Xie Yuan of Yangzhou City. In the spring of the second year, Li Mo participated in the examination, and when the spring breeze was proud, Lu Yan entered the Jinyi Guard and became a secret sentinel, doing the hardest, most tiring and most dishonorable errand.
One day, Li Mo and a group of high-spirited scholars met friends in the private room of the restaurant, he casually glanced downstairs, and saw Lu Yan, who was dressed in shabby clothes, sitting in the corner of the hall eating a bowl of clear soup noodles, Li Mo must have ordered a plate of small yellow croaker and asked the shopkeeper to send it over.
Like Lu Yan, as long as a bowl of noodles still occupies a seat, the shopkeeper naturally despises it in his heart and can't say anything, after sending the little yellow croaker to Lu Yan, he said sourly: "You are lucky today, a good man ordered a plate of small yellow croaker for you!" ”
Lu Yan looked up and saw Li Mo leaning on the railing upstairs with a proud face.
Li Mo stared at Lu Yan, who was thinly dressed, and pointed to the plate of small yellow croaker in front of him and made a dozen oil poems: "Rivers and lakes and seawater soup, shrimp soldiers and crabs will be too arrogant, and loaches also want to jump over the dragon gate, and they won't live long if they fall into the pot!" "When I thought of the township test, I was depressed when I was pressed by him, and compared with today's scene, I couldn't be too happy!
At that time, Lu Yan only glanced at him, lowered his head and finished eating the Yangchun noodles in the bowl, paid three copper plates and left!
There is a way that is thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, life is so capricious, six years later, Lu Yan became the military attache of the fifth grade, the guard of the Son of Heaven, and Li Mo is still in the seventh grade of Yangzhou to promote the qualifications.
Therefore, at this moment, Li Mo's complicated mood can be described as indescribable. If it was just their fall to the Lu family back then, it would have been enough, but he also married Lu Yan's fiancée, and now his children have given birth to a pair!
Now Lu Yan is coming with a holy order, there is revenge and revenge, revenge and revenge, the hatred of killing his father, the hatred of taking his wife, all of them have to be counted on himself, his official calculation is at the end, whether he can save his life has to be said separately!
If it was another brocade guard official, Li Mo could still grovel, but Lu Yan came, let alone grovel, even if he was a cow and a horse, it would be useless, rather than this, it would be better to retain the backbone of his scholar, even if he died, he would die decently. There is a way that a soldier can be killed but not humiliated, he has made up his mind to pay attention!
However, Lu Yanlai did not talk to him about the old grudges back then, but simply asked him to learn about the progress of the case, with a businesslike face, which made Li Mo's big stone that was originally hanging in his heart instantly mentioned in his throat!
Everyone knows the depth of the case, and if you are not careful, you will have to drown, but the pressure is tight, and they can't find an unlucky person like Lu Chai six years ago to apologize for their crimes, so the officials related to the case are very entangled, the real Jiangyang thief, who robbed the military salary and ran away early, where can he find it.
But they always have a way to fool things around, and if they can't catch the thieves who rob the army's salary, they will deal with the thieves in the city, and by the way, they will catch a large group of men and women in the villages near Duyunpu to fill up the numbers, and they will loot them on a large scale! Anyway, the hard work is down, and the results are also reported.
Lu Yan looked at the case file handed over by Li Mo, and sneered with a gloomy face, which frightened Li Mo into a cold sweat on his back.
Lu Yan took the file and left, the soles of his feet were windy, and he walked to the yamen in a few steps. Li Mo collapsed on the ground all of a sudden, and in the end, his desire to survive overcame his scholarly temperament, and he chased him out with a crawl, "Lord Qianhu, Lord Qianhu... It was our fault back then, and you can't declare a personal vendetta..."
Just as they were about to get on their horses, a young woman came up to them, holding a little girl with pigtails in her left hand and a little boy in open crotch pants in her right hand. Lu Yan had already stepped on the stirrup with one foot, and stopped abruptly!
Li Mo, who chased out the door, saw a man and a woman standing in front of the mansion looking at each other, his face was white just now, and now it has turned black!
"Wanrong?"
Over the years, Lu Yan has been plagued by hatred, rarely thinking of his fiancée, and he didn't expect that one day, she would come to him abruptly like this!
In fact, Wanrong's marriage may not be a relief for Lu Yan, her family is ruined, and she is also burdened with a deep hatred of blood, that is, she has no time to take care of Wanrong, and it is impossible to give her happiness, and she can only silently wish her to marry a good family, but she didn't expect Wanrong to marry Li Mo! God really loves to joke!
The young woman was dignified and gentle, with a touch of alienation, and there was just the right amount of intimacy, "Brother Lu, you have been gone for more than six years, and there has been no news, I heard that you are back, I want to come over to meet you!" This meeting was not like seeing the man who had been married back then, and he greeted as if he had seen a distant relative who he hadn't seen for a long time: "Is the brother of the Lu family doing all these years?" ”
Even after experiencing a thousand hardships, Lu Yan is not easy to talk to a woman, not to mention that this woman is already married, and it is just a faint sentence "Very good, what about you?" ”
Wanrong showed a smile and said: "I have lived a very happy life all these years, my husband has been very good to me, this is Qiu'er, she is four years old!" Wanrong pointed to the girl in hand, and then looked at the boy in her hand, "This is Bao'er, not yet two years old!" ”
"Qiu'er, Bao'er, hurry up and call Uncle Lu!"
Two children, a man and a woman, shouted crisply, "Hello Uncle Lu!" ”
Lu Yan has had too much blood on his hands over the years, but in the face of these two innocent and lovely children, he doesn't know what to do! Carefully touching the little boy's hair, and fearing that he would not be able to control the strength and hurt him, he timidly withdrew his hand.
"If the elder brother of the Lu family has time, you might as well come to the house to sit down, my husband and I hope you can come!"
Hong Wanrong's purpose is obvious, this is to intercede for his husband Li Mo, the most powerful weapon in the world is a woman's weakness, Lu Yan can't even refuse directly, so he has to deal with it casually: "I've been busy with official business recently, and I may not have time!" ”
"Then when you're not busy, go and sit at home!"
"Good!" After talking for a few words, Lu Yan got on the horse and took Jinyiwei away, and Zhu Yixiang followed the horse's ass and trotted all the way, eating ashes!
After they left, Li Mo's face was extremely pale, he is now also an official of the imperial court, his wife is actually on the street, under his nose, hooking up with his former fiancé, where to put his face in the future, and said angrily: "You are a woman who is not filial to your in-laws at home, what are you doing here in the yamen?" Is it embarrassing? ”
Wanrong had tears in the corners of her eyes, and still said softly: "You haven't been home for seven or eight days, and my mother is very worried, so I asked me to look for you!" ”
"Recently, there have been so many official duties, how can you have time to go home, do you know how to do things?"
"But my mother really doesn't worry about you!"
"Got it, I'll go back, you take the child and leave quickly, this is not the place you should be!"
Wanrong led the two children to turn around and walk back, tears finally came out of her eyes, her son was too young to be sensible, and her daughter saw it and asked, "Mother, why are you crying?" ”
Wanrong hurriedly wiped away her tears and said, "I didn't cry, my mother was just blinded by the sand!" Didn't Qiu'er want to eat osmanthus cake? Take you to buy it for your mother! ”