Chapter 17 Shoes that Fit Properly
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The sudden attack of the mountain people caused the city to be captured without any defense, and after Cai Rong woke up, when he reacted, he led two thousand subordinates to go around and continued to return to the newly built city to spend time and wine. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In his opinion, his duty and officers and soldiers were not to protect the common people here, but to fight against the Western Xia.
After those mountain people entered the city, they were quite restrained, only robbing the big households, as long as there were small red forks on the wall of anyone's house, who would be unlucky, which is also the fact that people thought that after the fact, it was unanimously believed that these mobs had stepped on the point first, otherwise they would not have found these big households so accurately.
The worst loss was none other than the three major families, although there were no deaths, but the house was looted, and the servants of the family not only did not help, but also took the initiative to join the army of looting.
Who told them not to be kind to their servants in normal times, when the mountain people came, these people could have resisted for a while, so that the main family had time to escape, who knows, these people also took the initiative to open the gate and let the mountain people come in to rob.
In addition to several major families were looted, other shops along the street did not suffer losses, Lao Liangtou said that he was just taken away a few buns, and Aunt Dou, who sold cold powder, also got a piece of silk, which was still a good material.
Afterwards, the case was characterized as a robbery case with strategy and preparation, not a riot of mountain people based on false rumors.
If the mountain people revolt, they don't care who is a peasant or a rich merchant.
The main bookkeeper, Liu Yancheng, committed suicide by hanging the beam, and almost all the people in the back house were empty, and their whereabouts were unknown.
Hu Yihu, the magistrate of the county, had already drawn his sword and died before the Qin mission came.
And their property has been sealed and preserved by Cao Dutou, just waiting for the Suizhou Jiedu envoy to send someone to clean it up.
To say that the most seriously injured is Cao Dutou, who sat in the courtyard where Wu Xi borrowed his whole body with bandages wrapped all over his body and laughed non-stop.
The medical knowledge of later generations perfectly created an injured patient who was not injured but looked distressed.
And this injured patient is now drinking cup after cup with Wu Xi.
There is indeed a lot of wine in the backyard of Hu Yihu's house, all of which are high-standard tribute wines from the royal family, and they are refreshing to drink.
"You said that if Hu Yihu knew that the two of us were enjoying his wine, he would jump out of the coffin in anger. ”
Cao Hui's heart is really big.
"It's better to respect him, I just want to get rid of him and carry out our plan, I didn't expect him to die. ”
It seems that the scenes of those greedy petty officials in later film and television dramas who are greedy for money and sacrifice their lives are not all true, at least Hu Yihu is still more virtuous.
The ancients attached great importance to integrity, especially at the moment of life and death, even if it was a death, the heroism of dying was worthy of one's body.
Liu Yancheng was scared to death, and only afterwards did people hang up and say that the scandal was exposed, and he was sorry for the court's fart and so on.
This kind of mental quality still has to learn from others to fight for power, and he takes himself too seriously.
Ergouzi has now adapted to his identity, standing in the middle of the courtyard and commanding the subordinates he just recruited very properly, which is completely in line with Wu Xi's style of preaching to him.
The style of a family is the thinking of the head of the family, what the head of the family is like, and the people below are definitely the same.
"The head of the success of the fame, the promotion period is not far away, gratifying and congratulating, and hope that the people under the rule of more love in the future, we take different paths, destined to part ways, the road ahead is more dangerous, in case I come back that day, I also hope that this Zhuangzi, the head of the head to me to keep the mountain to make a comeback. ”
Wu Xi is a little proud of their team-up, but also a little sad, his appearance will change the lives of some people, or a lifetime, just like Cao Dutou in front of him, in the county chronicles of later generations, has died in this conflict.
But now he was sitting in front of Wu Xi, smiling like a fool who had won the prize.
"Brother Wu, don't worry, I, Cao Hui, am not the kind of ungrateful person, in the future, as long as it is your Brother Wu's business, that is, my Cao's business, even if you do what you have to do, Heiwu City is your mother's home, and when you are tired, you will come back to live for a few days."
What you want me to do, I have already done it, and I will follow the pacification envoy of Suizhou to Heiwu City in the next few days, the road has been paved, it depends on whether you can move. ”
"Wu Xi, thank you for all the successes. ”
Wu Xi stood up and saluted respectfully.
Cao Hui was tied all over, laughed helplessly, and hurriedly waved his hand, saying that he couldn't stand it.
At this time, the second dog came to report that someone knelt in front of the gate and said that he wanted to repay the favor, and it seemed that he was the scholar he met in the woods the day before yesterday.
"Meng Tong, go and take a look. ”
Wu Xi has always been very respectful of readers.
Cao Hui was unable to move and was inconvenient to participate in this matter, so he left through the back door with the support of the family servant.
When Wu Xi came to the front door, he saw Meng Tong kneeling in front of the door almost with his whole body on his knees, tears flowing, and the original scholarly spirit turned into tear ducts at this moment, gurgling and trickling.
There was also a woman kneeling next to him, who was supposed to be the wife he had sacrificed his life to save.
"The old Meng Tong, grateful for the life-saving grace of the son, was able to get better, so he thanked him in person, and at the same time brought the cheap into the Wu family, and was a slave for life, as a cow and a horse, in order to repay the kindness. ”
The words are short, and it seems that they are well thought out, and the pride of a literati is gone.
It is really difficult to give up the pursuit of his life and let go of the integrity that a literati should have, he knows that he has no ability to change the current predicament, and after careful consideration, he still feels that letting go is the way out.
The old wife has worked hard for herself for half her life, in order to live a good life with herself, and now she has no hope for a good life, but she is branded with a disease, if she is persistent, a man's dignity will disappear in front of his wife.
Wu Xi never thought that Meng Tong would come back to find him, there are some differences between the way of the ancients and later generations, he said that he would treat you as a cow and a horse, then he would really be a cow and a horse.
Since he is the descendant of the Wu family, what Wu Xi has to do is to give orders from the head of the family.
"I don't lack anything in my family now, but I lack people, and I'm worried about how to carry it forward, so you came to me to be a cow and a horse.
Since you're here, it's a family, hurry up and get out of business, you're too busy with a lot of things, and you don't have the time to pay attention to the sensationalism of you literati.
Put away your weakness in the future, I don't want a straw bale. ”
Speaking like this, Meng Tong stood up when he heard it, wiped a handful of snot and tears, all of them stuck together, and the two dogs had eyes, and handed over a handkerchief.
Ergouzi is very smart, he has been with the eldest brother for so long, he knows who the eldest brother is angry, don't look at the scolding of Meng Tong so much, this is what treats you as his own family, if the eldest brother is respectful to you, then eighty percent will look down on you from the heart.
Meng Tong still has this awareness, knowing that this is treating him as his own person, and the position of the housekeeper is afraid that he will not be able to run, if the son wants to develop here, then he can just play a role, which is something he is happy about.
It's always the case that wherever the son goes, he will follow him, who let you spend two silver cakes to buy yourself?
"Take your family over tomorrow, this will be your home from now on, don't be polite, there are no cumbersome rules at home, just be casual." ”
Wu Xi looked at Meng Tong, who was quickly changing between sadness and joy, and added.
"Our whole family is here, and we have brought everything we can. ”
Grinning and smiling like a child who has been rewarded.
Wu Xi's heart twitched when he heard this, as if he had drained all his vitality, and his eyes suddenly darkened, and he didn't know anything.
When I woke up, it was already three days later.
It's not that he can't wake up, but he doesn't want to wake up, just like an old monk who has entered meditation.
The doctor has changed three waves, and they all say that it is a matter of blood and qi attacking the heart, and there is no major problem, and it needs to be recuperated.
The angry Ergouzi lifted Lang Zhong up and threw him out.
If Wu Xi doesn't wake up again, the two dogs will have the heart to kill.
For a time, everyone in Langzhong in the entire Siwu City was in danger.
As Wu Xi woke up, Lang Zhong finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Wu Xi likes this property very much, in the east of Siwu City, the courtyard of Sanjin, very quiet, he lives in the innermost, there is a flower hall and a moon gate in the middle, and there is a pond after the moon gate.
In the past few days, under the care of Lao Meng, the water has been crystal clear, there are small fish in the water, as if they have just arrived in, and the weather has begun to turn cold, so there are no lotus leaves in the pond.
It is impossible to go boating, which directly ruins Wu Xi's good wish to go boating on lotus leaves and flirting and scolding.
It's good that from having nothing at the beginning, to now owning a property of your own in a feudal society, there is really an extraordinary sense of accomplishment.
Wu Xi sat at the round table on the edge of the pond, stupidly looking at the ripples in the water, one sadness, two sorrows.
Lao Meng is indeed very capable, as long as he is not allowed to study, he can do everything in an orderly manner, he is not a student who reads, he has to drill into the pile of scholars, he is making himself uncomfortable.
Whether the shoes fit or not, only the person who wears the shoes knows that Meng Tong finally found a good pair of shoes for himself.
In the afternoon, Ergouzi came and said that he had prepared all the gifts for Aunt Niu's house.
Wu Xi got up stupidly, got into the carriage that had been prepared a long time ago, and went to visit Aunt Niu's house.
Lang Zhong said that he had just recovered from a serious illness, and it was better to walk less.
Aunt Niu is a very important person in herself, her husband died early, she was pulling three children, and she had to suffer from the eyes of others, if she followed herself, she might be able to make up for the trauma in her heart.
After crossing Fude Street, the carriage in Youlin Alley couldn't get in, so Wu Xi had to get out of the carriage.
After turning around, I finally found Aunt Niu's home in the deepest part of the alley.
When Wu Xi pushed the door open, Aunt Niu's mother-in-law was counting Aunt Niu without a sentence, and her words were very sharp, which made people feel the urge to go up and smoke her a few big mouths when they heard it.
"Aunt Niu, I'm here!"