It was dusk, and the sunset dyed the rammed earth wall with a patch of gold, and the tone was gloomy and thick, as if it could not be dissolved. Li Zheng is holding a bowl of thick corn, squatting on the stone platform in the courtyard, holding two chopsticks in his hand and scraping them on the edge of the bowl to fill his mouth, and after eating, he has to sink his face to the bottom of the bowl, stick out his tongue and lick it back and forth.

The mother-in-law picked up a bundle of dry firewood from the firewood stack in the west corner of the courtyard, and Li Zheng put down the dishes and chopsticks and exhaled, and instructed the mother-in-law: "Go and put the courtyard gate on the top, there is a group of bandits entrenched on the Wusheling Ridge recently, although they have never attacked our village, but they have to take precautions, close the door and turn off the lights as soon as possible."

The mother-in-law nodded, and was just about to pick up the bundle of firewood when she heard a sudden knock outside the door. Her body froze, and Rimasa also tilted her ears.

"Go open the door."

He got up from the stone platform and said, "Forget it, I'll go."

Li Zheng put his hands behind his back, walked to the gate of the courtyard with steady steps, coughed and asked, "Who, the door is closed."

"I'm Dai Rokuro."

"Which Dai Rokuro"

"There are several people surnamed Dai in Wuling Village."

"Rokuro! You're not ......" Li Zheng stood at the door, unable to speak, he lowered his head and pondered for a long time before saying: "The door has been closed today, Rokuro, or you will come back tomorrow morning"

"I'm already here, I don't have to wait until tomorrow morning, besides, if I want to come in, your courtyard door can't stop me." Dai Rokuro's voice was deep and heavy, as if it came from between his teeth.

Li Zheng couldn't shirk it, so he had to slowly open the courtyard door and open a gap wide for a person's face. I saw Dai Liulang standing in front of the door with his head bowed, his eyes dark, but there was a flame burning inside.

Li Zheng was so frightened that he took two steps back, and said in a trembling voice: "Liulang, what is your family...... It's none of my business. ”

"I know that I have asked the people in the village about my family, but they are vague or afraid to say anything. As a righteous person, you must know best. ”

"I don't know much about that."

"I don't know, or I don't dare to say it? Don't worry, no one knows I've been to you. ”

Li Zheng swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and only after a while did he say, "This ...... Don't tell anyone that it's me. ”

"That's nature."

……

Li Zheng squatted on the stone platform with his hands on his knees, and said slowly in a slightly sympathetic tone: "That happened in July this year, your sister-in-law led the eldest lady to the county seat to the blacksmith to fight the sickle, but on the way back, she was stopped by Langjun of the Zhang family, a big family in the county, saying that she wanted to take the eldest lady back to take a concubine, so she ordered a few evil slaves to rob people. Your sister-in-law ran home crying and told Dai Ah Da. Because this Zhang family is a first-class family in our Changsong County, Dai Ah Da knows that he can't afford to provoke him, so he swallows his anger, as long as his daughter can live, he will be a concubine, but he must go to Zhang's mansion to see his daughter is so good that he can rest assured. ”

"But how did Dai Adaa know that this Zhang family claims to be a noble surname in the county, and poor families like us are not even qualified to be concubines of others. Besides, the lady of the Zhang family is jealous, and on the second day after your niece was arrested and sent into the house, she was beaten to death by this and drowned in the septic tank of the Zhang family's vegetable garden. Your brother went to the door to beg, and was beaten out of the door by the Zhang family several times, he should have gone to the county party to complain, but unfortunately he was in a hurry, so he sneaked into the Zhang Mansion, although he learned that his daughter was killed, but he was held by the Zhang family Mansion, and the wicked first sued and sent to the county party. ”

"The county order and the Zhang family are distant relatives, where are you willing to listen to your brother's complaint, and directly put him in the county jail and died, claiming to be a violent death. Your sister-in-law was waiting at home for her husband to not return, and she had no idea from a woman's family, so she took her children to the county to file a complaint. The county ignored their orphans and widows, but the Zhang family couldn't sit still, and sent a central Qu evil slave to take your sister-in-law and two children, imprison them in your brother's house, and send people to guard them, and they didn't allow the villagers to approach. ”

"Then you will know, they are afraid that they have already been poisoned by the Zhang family, and now they don't even send guards anymore, but the people in our village are afraid of the power of the Zhang family and dare not approach your yard."

After Li Zheng finished speaking with a long sigh, he raised the back of his hand and wiped a handful of tears.

Dai Liulang always stood silently in the courtyard, nodding with a cane and saying, "I know."

He turned around and walked out the door, and Li Zheng got up from the stone platform and asked, "Dai Liulang, where are you going?"

"I'm going to think about it."

Dai Wang walked out of the door with a wooden staff, turned over and stepped on the horse's back, whipping the horse towards the end of the village. Li Zheng stood in the courtyard gate, poked his head out to look at his distant figure, and sighed faintly.

He galloped all the way to the forest at the back of the village, dismounted and threw away his staff, and staggered deeper into the woods, the pain in his right heel seemed to be completely gone, and his nergs were overwhelmed by a raging anger of hatred.

He knelt down in front of three new graves, one large and one small, the graves of his sister-in-law and two children, who were at home, clutching the wet soil in front of the grave with both hands, his head planted on the grave in pain, and at the same time a tangled storm brewed in his heart.

He wants to take revenge in person, and only the enemy can lift the hatred in his heart, but in doing so, he will undoubtedly become an outlaw, lose his qualification to be a man, and can only survive in the mountains and wilderness in this life, and be in the company of bandits.

The sky gradually darkened, and Dai Wang's difficult choice finally had a result, he decided to go to the Liangzhou Mansion of Wuwei City to file a complaint, the county order and the county clan Zhang clan colluded, Liangzhou Assassin Cao Ding was able to judge impartially and legally, this is a tragedy! If the officials in Liangzhou have a trace of conscience, how can they bear to let his brother's family be wronged

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The team of the Jiedu envoy entered Weicheng, because the team was too large, the pavilion in the city could not accommodate it, so Li Siye and Duan Xiushi and a few other entourages stayed in the guest house in the city.

Nowadays, Wang Wei's poems Weicheng Song are already very famous in the city, and many brothels in Qinglou have made up songs to sing.

I don't know if the guest house they stayed in was Wang Wei's stay, but it was cold in winter, and they couldn't find the corresponding scenery in the poem, and there was no new guest house.

Fumeng Zhongcheng sent someone to spread the word, and the envoys from all sides were to stay in the city for three or two days before leaving.

The speed of travel has become slower and slower, and before there were two posts a day, now there is one post a day, and whenever you encounter a city, you have to rest for two days. He really didn't know what these envoys were thinking in their heads, and he refused to enter Chang'an City earlier, but he was afraid that if he continued like this, it would be the end of the month when he entered the city.

Since they are not in a hurry, Li Siye is also not in a hurry, don't they stay in the city for two days, go to the wine shop in the city to drink for two days, and it will pass.

After settling down, Li Siye took Duan Xiushi and Yan Xiaosi to wander around Weicheng, randomly visited a pleasing wine shop, went in and found an empty table, and the five of them sat down cross-legged.

This wine shop is not opened by Hu Ren, it is exactly what he wants, he has been going back and forth between Chang'an and Xixi for a long time, and he is used to seeing that kind of orchid wine shop, and he is always happy with the orchid whirling dance. I can't help but suspect that all the orchid restaurants in Datang are chain stores, and there are no new tricks in the first part of the entertainment.

The layout of this wine shop is also decent, after entering the door on the left is the wine bar and the counter, and there are several desks in a large area on the right, which are used to entertain guests, and there is a compartment opposite the door, there is no screen to cover it, but there is a gauze tent, you can see a figure sitting on the pipa, and someone is standing next to it, and I don't know what musical instrument is in my hand.

Dr. Wine brought the jar of wine and filled them with a few more.

There was a light plucking sound in the gauze tent, and the people next to him held the bamboo board and gently knocked it, and the mellow and tactful singing voice of the people in the curtain came out, singing Wang Wei's Weicheng song, also known as Yangguan Three Stacks. There are no ups and downs in the singing, but there is a long melancholy that can quickly pull people into a situation like the afterglow of the west wind.

It is said that the pipa girl in this gauze tent is Wu Ji from the south of the Yangtze River, and looking at the sitting posture of the curtain, you can see a little graceful and slender, which is completely different from the wide shoulders and fat buttocks of the Hu girl.

After singing a few tunes, the woman in the gauze tent came out with a lute in her arms and bowed to the crowd. Many of the guests present gave copper coins, and even Yan Xiaosi went up to join in the fun, and came back and whispered: "The appearance is good, but it's too thin, the butt is not big, and it is not easy to give birth."

Duan Xiushi and the others laughed and taunted him for a while, and the woman had already walked up the stairs with the blind old man beside her to the upper floor.

Although there was no sound of the piano, it was still not quiet downstairs, and a group of guests from north to south talked about the anecdotes that happened in the countryside and city walls.

"Have you heard, a group of mysterious black-clothed people broke into the Xianyang County Party Prison and robbed a death row inmate."

"This thing is unusual, after so many years of traveling south and north, I have never seen anyone dare to rob the county party cell, what is the origin of this death row inmate?"

"Hey, it's not a big deal, it's a soldier who used to be a soldier in Longyou, saying that he killed people to vent his anger because of personal revenge, and it is said that he killed the county Cheng of Xianyang County, and this soldier has been imprisoned in the county cell for more than two years. No, it was suddenly robbed by someone. ”

A few people on Li Siye's side also heard it clearly, maybe they were sensitive to the word soldier, so they kept more attention in their hearts.