Chapter 42 The Earth Kiln and the Swallow Return to the Nest

Autumn Fruit Inn.

At dusk, two middle-aged guests came to the inn, two of whom spoke with a Shaanxi accent in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, and their faces were cold and stubborn. The two who claimed to be from Shazhou asked for an upper room, and after putting down their luggage, they went downstairs and ordered a few catties of beef and a jar of wine.

Chen Lotian is not in the store today, and if he was here, he would not know these two people. But these two people are familiar with Chen Letian's appearance, and they can't be more familiar. In their Shazhou home, there has been a portrait of Chen Letian hanging for two or three years. Every morning and evening, they would shout at the portrait.

Shazhou is an important border town in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, and adjacent to it is Ganzhou, a border city of Wei State.

It is true that Ganzhou was an important border town of Wei, but because the Great Song army was too strong, they often crossed the border from Shazhou to harass Ganzhou. Therefore, in the dozens of miles of desert between Ganzhou City and Shazhou City, many horse bandit forces have emerged. These forces ran away when they saw the army, the Song army was too lazy to take care of it, and the Wei army was afraid that the Great Song Dynasty would misunderstand, so they did not dare to send troops to clear it. Besides, even if an army is sent to destroy a litter, another litter will be born. There is no way, this horse thief is like yellow sand everywhere, inexhaustible.

These two people are actually from Wei, and there were originally three brothers in the family, Huang Chai, Huang Yan, and Huang Rice. Their deceased father gave them this name so that they would have no shortage of food and clothing in the future, and they could live a peaceful life. Unfortunately, it backfired, the year their parents died, the eldest of the three brothers was only thirteen years old, and the youngest was only nine years old. In the eyes of the Ganzhou brothers, who are not enough for gold and silver bumps, the days of being horse bandits are very happy.

"Your club, let's come to Gerry, there is wood in the pots and pans at home, and someone is worried about it?"

"You melon skin, who cares about that thing to go to the ball, and it's not worth much, drink your wine!"

The second Huang Yan was scolded by the boss Huang Chai and had nothing to say, so he shut up and drank. Although the third brother Huang Mi has been dead for three years, as long as he thinks about it, he is still sad in his heart.

Back then, a group of dozens of horse bandits encountered a group of Wei caravans on the desert, and they were killing and robbing. As a result, he was met by five Song soldiers who had changed into civilian clothes. At first, when the five horses appeared, they thought it was another horse gang, and besides, they had ten times as many people as them, so they didn't care. Who would have thought that the five horsemen would rush straight and kill more than a dozen of them back and forth. The rest of the horse bandits didn't know if they were killed, or if they were frightened when they saw the waist card of the Song army riding one of them, anyway, they were scattered, and they got off their horses and knelt down to beg for mercy.

The leader of the five horsemen pulled down the mask covering his face and asked them whether they were Song or Wei, and they said at first that they were Song people, thinking that they would be able to save a person from death for the sake of the people of a country, but the leader immediately killed a few more people. So they hurriedly and honestly said that they were from Wei. The leader sneered a few times and said, "I'll just say, how can we Song people have you like this." Remember me, my name is Chen Letian, and I am from the forward battalion of the Northern Army of the Great Song Dynasty. You guys run for your lives and go to the ball, and be good people in the future, haha..."

In the laughter of the five horsemen, everyone fled, and the horses did not dare to ride.

The people who fled for their lives did not know what the leader had said later.

The leader, Chen Letian, said to the robe next to him: "If the Song people, we won't leave any of them, since they are from Wei, then let them go and let them continue to plague the people of Wei, haha." "The reason why I changed my costume to fight Grass Valley is really helpless. Wearing the Great Song Dynasty armor, there are no people within ten miles of everywhere you go. Even if they found it from a distance, the horse bandits immediately turned around and ran, and they couldn't catch up at all.

The third brother, Huang Mi, died under that unwarranted disaster, under the knife of that Chen Letian. Later, Huang Chai and Huang Yan found someone to draw down Chen Letian's appearance, hang it at home, and scold it every day.

Later, they didn't dare to continue to do the horse bandits, after all, they were scared to pee their pants that time. Half a year ago, they once had a drink with an old-timer, and they heard the old-timer talk about how many horse bandits Chen Letian had killed in Ganzhou and Shazhou, and he didn't finish killing them every time, leaving some people alive, and telling them his name. However, I heard that Chen Letian has returned to the capital of the Great Song Dynasty now.

Huang Chai and Huang Yan combined, anyway, there is no good way to live in Ganzhou, so it is better to go to the capital of Song Kingdom to find that Chen Letian to take revenge. For Chen Letian's hatred, in the words of Mr. Storyteller, it is hatred to the bone. Since the death of the third brother, the lives of the two have plummeted, all of which are due to the guy named Chen Letian.

The two brothers had already made up their minds and immediately set off from Ganzhou.

The two pretended to be from Shazhou in the Great Song Dynasty, because the accents of Ganzhou and Shazhou were basically the same, and the Great Song Dynasty had never strictly checked the identities of immigrants. After walking for half a year, I came to the capital of the Great Song Dynasty with a full meal and a hungry meal. Half a month ago, they stole a rich merchant's package in the bazaar, as if pie had fallen from the sky, and there were hundreds of taels of silver in the package. Only then can I afford to live in the store, drink wine, and eat meat.

Bianjing City is really the first capital in the world, what do you want, as long as you have silver, you can buy everything you can't think of.

Compared with the vast yellow sand of Ganzhou, one in the sky and one underground, a noble concubine and a second aunt next door.

The two were dazzled for several days at first, but then they became bold with silver, and even spent a hundred taels of silver to visit the world-famous Qinglouyan homecoming. Listening to the music, it is not good, the babbling two people did not understand a word; the dance is very beautiful, seductive, almost did not see the two of them eyeballs fly out; the most comfortable thing is to light the lamp on the embroidery bed and plough the field, and finally open the eyes wide and roar that the voice is trembling, which is definitely worth a hundred taels of silver. Compared with the women in the earthen kilns of Ganzhou City, whose voices are sour, 10,000 taels of silver are worth it.

I think when they were horse bandits, every time they grabbed some property, they had to go to the earthen kiln a few times. At that time, they thought that this life was enough, and they thought that they could visit the earthen kiln every once in a while, which was the enjoyment of the sky. But when I came to Bianjing City, I realized that what kind of life I had lived there before, it was simply not a human life.

Killing Chen Letian was certainly the most important thing on their trip, but it did not prevent them from enjoying themselves.

The facts are here, and it is very likely that they will not return this time. In that case, you have to enjoy it before you die.

In order to hide people's eyes, they never stayed in an inn for more than five days, so as not to be suspected.

After eating and drinking, the two of them went upstairs and returned to the Tianzi room.

Leaning against the window, the boss Huang Chai said: "This time, the dead ball is fixed, are you afraid?"

The second Huang Yan said: "It's time for me, I'll listen to the pot and pot you drip." "The strong Shaanxi accent, people who haven't lived there can't understand what they're talking about.

Huang Chai's idea was that before they arrived in Bianjing, they had no hope for life, and they just wanted to avenge their third brother and then reincarnate. But when I got here, after enjoying myself, I suddenly found that there was still hope in life, and I died here like this, isn't it a bit of a big loss? Huang Yan, I don't have any brains, I have listened to my eldest brother since I was a child, and I will eat it when my eldest brother gives him food, and he will go to the kiln when my eldest brother takes him to visit the kiln, and he will do it when my eldest brother takes him to be a horse bandit. Everything is under the command of the eldest brother. So although Huang Chai seems to have been discussing with him all along, he is actually only talking to himself.

After muttering for a while, Huang Chai's head was already a piece of mush, so he simply didn't want to, so he fell into bed and went to sleep. Seeing this, Huang Yan scratched his head and simply went to sleep.

The next day, the brothers counted the silver they had on their bodies, and there were less than a hundred taels left. One hundred taels is already a lot of money, and the annual expenses of ordinary people are only twenty or thirty taels. However, they now live in a guest house and eat at a restaurant every day, have a meal of wine and meat, and occasionally go to a newly found gambling house to play a few hands. From this point of view, this one hundred taels can't help but be spent, and if it is spent like this, at most three months, the two of them will be beaten back to the original state.

Huang Chai thinks that it is better to change the strategy. So he quit the house and went out of the city with Huang Yan to find a house to rent. I found a very small dilapidated house in the southern suburbs, just a kitchen and a hall house with two beds for one person, and it cost one or two silver a month. Huang Chai felt that the owner of the house was too black-hearted and wanted to scold, but suddenly remembered that this was in Bianjing, not in Ganzhou, so he didn't dare to scold, but only dared to complain that it was too expensive.

Think about it, don't rent, and find out if there is an ownerless house that no one wants. The two of them really found an abandoned land temple in the southern suburbs. There was nothing in the temple except for a few cases covered in dusty cobwebs. I don't know if the land god has moved to a new house, anyway, there is no land statue inside, if it weren't for the three words of the land god that can be vaguely seen on the couplets on both sides of the door, they don't know its original use.

The brothers were standing in the house, and there were more than a dozen holes in the roof, and the sunlight was shining through the holes from the outside, indicating that if they wanted to use this as a place to live, they had to go to the roof to make up for it.

"Brother, will we live in the future?" Huang Yan felt that this place was very good, similar to their home in Ganzhou City, and even more spacious here.

Huang Chai nodded: "That's it, you go find some thatch to repair the roof, this will be our base camp in the future." ”

Huang Yan was very satisfied, and happily went out to find thatch. Huang Chai cleaned up in the house, but in fact, there was nothing to clean up, and a few cases were wiped as a dinner table in the future. As for the rest, it's to get rid of the spiders or something, and sweep them clean.

That night, an elderly beggar came in, saw the great change in the house, and saw the two brothers of the Huang family, and couldn't help but wonder: "Where are you two from?"

Huang Chai was nibbling on steamed buns and asked rhetorically, "Where are you from?" and tried to speak in a newly learned Bianjing accent.

The old beggar said: "I came from Yangzhou and have been here for more than a month. You two are beggars too?"

Huang Chai put his mind at ease, and dared to love from other places, so he scolded: "Who allowed you to live here? If you dare to take a step in the future, I won't be able to kill you!"

The old beggar hurriedly ran out, and when he saw that Huang Chai didn't chase him out, he scolded as he walked: "Turtle son, bully my old man, lack of moral goods." ”

Huang Chai was too lazy to care, let him go, the old beggar didn't threaten the two of them, just scold a few words.