Chapter 33: The Cold Shadow of the Sword (I)

On the streets of the capital in Ladong, there are some messy snowflakes fluttering. The street markets on both sides are still as lively as in summer, with noisy people and horse-drawn carriages, which are indispensable for half of the prosperous scene.

A young man in simple clothes and tattered walked alone in it, his tired body shivering in the cold wind, and the old package wrapped around his back seemed to add weight to it, and it looked even more hungry and cold.

The young man's messy hair fluttered in the wind, but his eyes radiated a sharp light, and his body was draped in the notorious shabby fur cloak, all revealing the breath of a street corner. It seems that there is no need to think about it, the person who came must be the wolf and angry Li Qiusheng in Liyang Town.

Speaking of Li Qiusheng, everyone can't forget his ruffian spirit. Although the old bustard's mother, Liu Zhi'er, asked Li Qiusheng to move into the backyard of the Blue and White Embroidery Building to learn calligraphy with Dong Yanzhi after the incident of 'Geng Houye's big trouble in the Blue and White Embroidery Building', the full market atmosphere has been greatly improved. But as soon as Dong Yanzhi walked on the front foot, after looking for relatives in the capital, the backyard of the blue and white embroidery building ended up empty.

Li Qiusheng was no longer a cell leader for discipline, and his full market anger was also revealed. Although Liu Zhi'er, the old bustard's mother, watched Li Qiusheng's appearance slowly become heartbroken, and looked like she hated iron but not steel, but in the end, it was the meat that she had raised with her own hard work, and she turned a blind eye and passed, and she didn't dare to have any hope anymore.

In this way, Li Qiusheng seems to have returned to the image of a ruffian who wandered in the wilderness at the beginning, and he lived a poor and sour life without heart and lungs. It's just that Li Qiusheng is disguised as this disgusting appearance, but I am afraid that no one in the world knows the pain in Li Qiusheng's heart and his ardent longing for Dong Yanzhi.

Fortunately, half a year later, Old Man Dong sent a letter from Dong Yanzhi to Li Qiusheng. At that moment, the ecstasy of seeing words like seeing people once again ignited the hope that sprouted in Li Qiusheng's heart, Li Qiusheng ignored the strong opposition and dissuasion of the old bustard's mother Liu Zhi'er, quietly packed up his baggage, put on his notorious fur cloak, and went all the way north to the capital to find people.

Although it was miserable along the way, sleeping in the open air, hungry and full of snow, and sleeping in the mountain streams, it was finally to the capital and lived up to its original intention.

On this day, Li Qiusheng walked in rags on the streets of the city. Although the streets of the capital are prosperous and dazzling, and the lively platform thunder is lively, it has nothing to do with Li Qiusheng. Like a newcomer to the begging industry, he took the tissue paper with Dong Yanzhi's address and graphics, which had become pale yellow and broken, and searched street by street.

After going around and going back and forth for a long time, Li Qiusheng, who had just entered the capital, couldn't figure out the north and the south. Looking left and right, the contrast graphics are still blank. Asked someone to ask, the person pointed with his left hand, waved his right hand, and the torn paper tossed back and forth for a long time, Li Qiusheng was so touched that he was sleepy and hungry, and he was so light-headed that he didn't know why.

fell down, the sky was dark, and Li Qiusheng, the kid, lay on the street to Hanfu leisurely. The crowd of onlookers on the left and right suddenly gathered like fish playing in the water, pointing and pointing back and forth and then scattered, and only Li Qiusheng's half-tired body was left on the cold and windy street.

Coincidentally, that day coincided with Han Gongzi going to visit Lei Mansion and having a big closed-door soup, but it ended in vain. Han Gongzi was depressed, so he simply took advantage of the time to return home to wander around the street alone, leaving the wine shop and entering the teahouse, and dissipating the sullenness that had accumulated for many days between greedy cups and drinks.

When I was cooking wine and sighing tea, I heard the guests talking about it, and there was a young pedestrian at the front door who was in a daze, and few people cared about life or death. The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart. Han Gongzi frowned tightly at that time, and his heart seemed to ache faintly. Do you think that the weather is freezing, and the children of that family are going to go through this torment of falling and falling? Maybe he must be a person with a story, just like his mood at this moment, with unknown torment.

Han Gongzi's hands were soft for a while, and he gave birth to half pity. The silver was thrown in front of the shopkeeper, and he asked the shopkeeper to warm a pot of warm wine, plus a few freshly baked buns to be delivered to the front door immediately, and asked three or five onlookers to help the shopkeeper pour hot wine into the mouth of Li Qiusheng, who had fainted.

In the middle of the night, Yang Qiusheng slowly woke up after the hot wine, opened his misty eyes, and saw a few steaming big buns in front of him, no matter if you are thirty-seven twenty-one or thirty-seven twenty-three, grab the big buns in front of you and send them straight to your mouth, that embarrassed look caused a few men next to him to be funny.

With a pot of hot wine and a few big buns in his stomach to satisfy his hunger, Li Qiusheng suddenly regained his strength. Li Qiusheng got up from the ground and immediately thanked the shopkeeper and a few men who rescued him, but the shopkeeper shook his head and said, "Guest officer, the life-saving benefactor you want to thank is not me, but the handsome boy in the shop." If you want to thank this son, thank this son, it was his money that saved you. ”

Li Qiusheng followed the guidance of the shopkeeper and saw a handsome son in the hall looking at him from a distance, as if he was waving to him and motioning him to enter. Li Qiusheng was originally an honest person who knew how to repay his kindness, and what he experienced in the Blue and White Embroidery Building understood this truth even more. So even if the son who saved his life in front of him didn't call him, according to Li Qiusheng's character, he would go in to thank this son.

Li Qiusheng slowly came to Han Gongzi's face, and immediately clasped his fists and saluted: "Li Qiusheng worships Gongzi for saving his life, and thanks Gongzi for his kindness and righteousness." How could it be that Xiaosheng didn't meet the destitute here, he was poor and poor, and he couldn't repay him. If you get the son, he will be called by the child, and the little life will be rewarded by the spring. ”

Before Li Qiusheng could finish his words of gratitude, Han Gongzi was suddenly shocked, and his mind immediately showed a person that Dong Yanzhi had mentioned to him, that is, the best Li Qiusheng that Dong Yanzhi had met in the courtyard of the Blue and White Embroidery Building.

Han Gongzi looked blankly at the ragged and shriveled young man in front of him, and after a while, he said slowly: "You, are you here to join your relatives?" Who voted for that relative? Somewhere, I said that listening to this son might be able to help you find your relatives. ”

Li Qiusheng hurriedly took out the yellowed shredded paper from his pocket and handed it to Han Gongzi, Han Gongzi took the shredded paper and looked at it, and a few lines of fine and familiar handwriting came into view. Mom, didn't the flood wash away the Dragon King Temple? The address of the Du Mansion was clearly written on this shredded piece of paper, but the Du Mansion was located on the outskirts of the city, no wonder Li Qiusheng couldn't find the north and south as soon as he came.

Han Gongzi was shocked again: "You, you, you are Li Qiusheng?" Is it Li Qiusheng of Liyang Blue and White Embroidery Building? Is it Li Qiusheng, who Dong Yanzhi often misses and ties up? Are you here to find Dong Yanzhi? I am Han Yuhong from Hanfu, and I am worried about Dong Yanzhi in Dufu. ”

"Ah, Han Gongzi, do you know Dong Yanzhi too? Where is she now, tell me quickly, and I can find her. Li Qiusheng didn't care to admit that he was Li Qiusheng of the Liyang Blue and White Embroidery Building, and he was already telling Han Gongzi to guide him to Dong Yanzhi quickly. It can be seen how desperate Li Qiusheng is at this time, wanting to see Dong Yanzhi, who has been missing for a long time day and night.

Seeing this, Han Gong sighed deeply and said, "Li Qiusheng, no matter how anxious you are now, you won't be able to see Dong Yanzhi." She is not in the Du Mansion now, but in the prison of Lord Feng, the county capital, maybe she is suffering from this heart-wrenching sins? It's a pity that now my son is also at a loss, and there is nothing to do. ”

When Li Qiusheng heard Han Gongzi say this, his face changed greatly, and his eyes were full of shock. Li Qiusheng trembled and asked in horror: "Master Han, what's wrong with Dong Yanzhi?" What great crime did she commit and was thrown into prison? Is it a capital offense? Or some other crime. ”

Han Gongzi motioned for Li Qiusheng to sit down, and told Li Qiusheng not to be too nervous and worried about Dong Yanzhi's situation at this time, he himself had been trying to rescue Dong Yanzhi and help her clear her of her wrongs. Then, another 1510 explained the causes and consequences of Dong Yanzhi to Li Qiusheng in detail. I only heard that Li Qiusheng gritted his steel teeth and was resentful for a while, and at the end, he couldn't wait to stab a treacherous and fierce old man Lei into millions of transparent holes, crush him into a pulp and throw it to feed the dogs.

After Li Qiusheng was angry, his mood slowly calmed down a lot, and Han Gongzi asked Li Qiusheng what his plans were at this time? Li Qiusheng said: "Today, thanks to the great grace of Gongzi Han, and the son-in-law sacrificing his life to save the deceased Dong Yanzhi, Li Qiusheng feels deeply guilty for having nothing to do. The ancient saying: The scholar dies for the one who knows it, and the woman is the one who reads it. Today's matter, I have to be a last resort, in order to have a death reward, I want to find the old thief desperately. ”

Han Gongzi laughed and said, "Li Qiusheng, do you think that Lei Mansion is so easy to enter?" Is Master Lei so easy to be stabbed? You're naΓ―ve, you're really not brave enough to be a puppet? If Master Lei was so easy to deal with, this son would not have such a headache and upset. Han Gongzi paused and said: "That's it, you just came to the capital for a lot of inconvenience, there is a shortage of money and food, and you are not familiar with the place." You first take some silver and find a place to stay, and then we will plan and plan to make a plan." ”

Li Qiusheng took the scattered silver and hugged his fist and said, "Thank you Han Gongzi for your righteous kindness, I have thanked you in advance." No matter what, you have your way to save people, I have my crooked ways, even if I don't succeed in rescuing Dong Yanzhi, I have to give it a try. Ken asked Han Gongzi to guide me on his behalf, and help Li Qiusheng guide me to Lei Mansion again. ”

Han Gongzi saw that Li Qiusheng said absolutely righteous and firm, and it didn't seem like he was joking with himself, so he smiled calmly: "Hey, it's okay, come here, I will show you the way to Lei Mansion on the table, whether you can make a difference or not depends on yourself." ”

So, Han Gongzi told Li Qiusheng on the table the detailed terrain of Xu Qulei Mansion, and told Li Qiusheng not to act recklessly, and then slowly crossed back to Han Mansion from the tea pile without mentioning it.

Although Mrs. Li of Lei Mansion is a pungent person, she is a believer in Buddhism. On this cold winter day, Mrs. Lei's wife Li did not forget to go out to the temple on the fifteenth day of the first month to burn Buddha incense and donate oil lamps and money.

This day is the fifteenth day of the cold winter, Mrs. Lei's Li ordered early in the morning, today must go to the Foguang Temple outside the city early to worship and pray for blessings, so that the horse steward has prepared a temple to worship the things and not miss the auspicious time. Steward Ma knew that this was a must-have Buddhist thing for Mrs. Lei every month, and he didn't dare to be careless and leave it to his subordinates, so he took care of it himself. Steward Ma was also happy and thoughtful for a while, just waiting for Mrs. Lei to call and galloped towards Foguang Temple.

Because it was a monthly confession, Mrs. Lei's wife Li became acquainted with Master Kulai, the presiding officer of Foguang Temple. On the fifteenth day of the first day of each month, the master sent monks to treat each other at the mountain gate, and the monks and guests who waited for Mrs. Lei's car to arrive to greet them would flock to the temple and lead Mrs. Lei Li as a saint. Master Kulai bowed to the Daxiong Treasure Hall and led a group of disciples to greet each other respectfully.

When the sun passed, the winter sun was still a little tender, and Mrs. Lei and her party had arrived at Foguang Temple. After the Kulai master greeted him, he led everyone to walk towards the Daxiong Treasure Hall in the temple with the Buddha name.

Mrs. Li knelt in front of the Buddha in the hall, folded her hands, closed her eyes and made a wish. As soon as the ceremony was completed, Master Kulai knelt aside, led the disciples to hold the magic weapon, recited the scriptures, praised Mrs. Lei, and prayed for the Lei Mansion to exorcise evil spirits.

After the Buddha ceremony, the Kulai master put his palms together and invited Mrs. Lei and others to tour around the temple for a while, and then shouted the Buddha to thank each other and left.

At this point, Mrs. Lei's fifteenth day of the first month of the first month to worship the Buddha and pray for blessings is over, and she waited until she went down the mountain and took the carriage back home.