Chapter 13: The Taoist
"Brothers, call me!"
In front of the vermilion lacquer gate, several strong servants of the family, rolled up their arms and sleeves, and began to beat a Huangguan Daoist, beating the Taoist with a blue nose and swollen face, and shouted: "Don't fight!" Don't fight! The grapevine knows that it is wrong! ”
This person shouted and ran, struggled to break out of the encirclement, and came to Li Mu, shouting: "Son, help!" Childe, help! ”
Before Li Mu could speak, this person turned around, and had already hid behind Li Mu, and said in a low voice: "This son, please do a good deed and save me!" ”
Li Mu frowned slightly: "This Dao Master, what's going on?" ”
The Taoist looked gloomy: "Lao Dao wanted to beg for a cup of wine at Zhang Yuanwai's house today, but I didn't expect that as soon as I entered Zhang's mansion, I found that there was a demonic aura in Zhang's mansion, so I reminded Zhang Yuanwai, but the face of Zhang Yuanwai was suddenly not good-looking, not to say that Lao Dao deliberately added blockage and let people drive me out......"
Several servants on the opposite side had already chased after him, and one of them scolded: "Stinky Taoist, my son-in-law is the reincarnation of Wenqu Xing, with the support of his own gods, and all evils are avoided, how can any monster dare to enter the house?" Dare to talk nonsense again and break your dog's legs! ”
Several people scolded and surrounded Li Mu and the Taoists.
Li Mu raised his eyebrows, gently pulled out the long sword on his waist, and said with a smile: "What?" Even I want to fight together? ”
Seeing Li Mu draw his long sword, several servants were startled and retreated.
The first person dared to scold: "Boy, the young master of our family has just been lifted, and he is a man who is called a brother and brother with the county lord, don't meddle in your affairs!" ”
Li Mu said with a smile: "Lifting people or not lifting people, it's my business!" ”
Several servants looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a while.
After all, Li Mu was also wearing a robe, wearing a scarf, a great figure, and his own bearing, just now they relied on their own young master to be so arrogant to others.
But as soon as the others did not eat them, several servants suddenly became suspicious.
Especially Li Mu drew his sword in his hand without saying a word, although there was no murderous aura on his face, but the smile on his face didn't matter, but it was even more incomprehensible.
The Taoist who was hiding behind Li Mu praised softly: "Son, so arrogant, these dogs and dogs are fighting against people, if you want me to say, you should beat them up to eliminate harm for the people!" ”
Li Mu smiled, put his sword into the sheath, leaned on one side, let the Taoist out, and said to a few servants in front of him: "Okay, okay, you continue!" ”
Several family members glanced at each other, rushed up, and surrounded the Taoist again, and punched and kicked again.
The man who was beaten squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, and kept screaming: "Don't slap your face!" Don't slap your face! Childe, the poor Dao knows that he is wrong, he shouldn't have provoked you to beat them! Help me! ”
The miserable howl of this person killing a pig shook the long street, and many pedestrians in the vicinity watched sideways.
This voice also alarmed the people in the courtyard, and after a while, a young man walked out of the gate and scolded, "Don't stop yet!" ”
This young man is the new man who rode a horse and wore red before, Zhang Shihong, the son of Zhang Yuanzheng.
He was drinking with the guests in the courtyard, and after hearing the screams of the Taoists, he was afraid that the matter would become big and affect his family's reputation, so he came out and stopped a few domestic servants: "There are no light and heavy dog things, why don't you go back to serve the guests quickly!" ”
He walked up to Li Mu and said with a smile: "The domestic servant has no form, so this brother Tai has seen a smile, and the younger brother Zhang Shihong has seen Brother Tai." ”
Li Mu smiled: "Little brother Li Mu, I've seen Brother Zhang!" ”
Zhang Shihong stretched out his hand and said: "Today, the little brother is inviting guests to a banquet, if Brother Zhang does not give up, he may as well go inside and drink a glass of water and wine." ”
This person is slender, dignified, polite in his manners, with a bit of pride, seeing Li Mu wearing a robe, hanging a long sword at his waist, and his bearing is extraordinary, he glanced at Li Mu when he landed.
Li Mu said: "The little brother passed by here, came in a hurry, and never brought a gift for Brother Zhang, so it was really not good to come to the door empty-handed. ”
Zhang Shihong laughed: "Everyone who comes is a guest, what does it matter if the gift is not a gift!" Come on in! ”
When he said this, he glanced at the Taoist who was lying on the ground like a dead dog: "This Taoist leader, if you don't give up, you might as well come and go to the cold house to eat a glass of water and wine......
"Don't dislike it! Don't dislike! ”
The Taoist who was lying on the ground turned over and got up, wiped the nosebleed that had been beaten, showed a hint of scorn on his swollen face, bowed his head and said, "Disturb, disturb, really disturb!" ”
Li Mu saw that his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he was beaten like this, and he even had to go inside to eat and drink, and couldn't help laughing: "It's really yours!" ”
Zhang Shihong also laughed: "Both, please!" ”
Li Mu and the limping Taoist walked through the vermilion lacquer gate and came to Zhang's mansion.
This mansion is extremely vast, the courtyard of the three entrances, at this time the courtyard is crowded with people who come to say goodbye, the cups are staggered, and it is extremely lively.
Zhang Shihong ordered someone to add a seat of chopsticks, sat down with Li Mu, and said with a smile: "Brother Li is very good, is he also from Qinghe County?" ”
Li Mudao: "My brother is from nearby Baoming County, but because of the plague, his family unfortunately died, and my brother had to come to Qinghe County and live for the time being. ”
Zhang Shihong sighed: "It turns out that Brother Li is from Baoming County, I don't know who the old teacher is?" Have you ever taken the township test? If there is a need, the brother can hand a post to the county lord to try it out for the brother and the township, and be a guarantor. ”
In this Great Yin Dynasty, if a scholar wanted to take the township examination, he had to have a local magistrate or a county order or a famous Confucian student as a guarantee before he could take the exam.
Li Mudao: "The family died, let's talk about it in three years." ”
Zhang Shihong said: "Yes, this is the proper meaning. ”
He chatted with Li Mu for a while before getting up and leaving.
This person is exquisite, very sophisticated, and even more rare is very kind to everyone, which makes people feel like a spring breeze, and indeed feels at home.
In the process of chatting between Li Mu and Zhang Shihong, the Taoist with a blue nose and swollen face next to him was sitting on the desk and chewing wildly, throwing off his cheeks, picking up his back molars, and eating and drinking like a hungry tiger.
A few people next to him looked horrified, and one of them laughed and said, "What is this Taoist name?" What do you belong to? ”
The Taoist stuffed his mouth with food, and whimpered: "Poor Dao Anyangzi, belongs to a dog." ”
The questioner laughed: "Where is this a dog, it should belong to a tiger, and it is a hungry tiger." ”
An Yangzi choked and rolled his eyes, picked up a pot of wine, and drank a few sips directly at the spout before he washed down the food, took a sip of wine, and said to the man: "Others laugh at me, you hand over the canopy, the black gas is on the eyebrows, and a catastrophe will come in an instant, do you still have the heart to laugh at me?" ”
The person who laughed at An Yangzi was a white fat old man in brocade clothes, and after hearing An Yangzi's words, the old man's face changed: "Nonsense! How did I get into a big disaster? ”
An Yangzi sneered a few times, lowered his head to eat, and ignored the old man.
The old man was furious, and was about to get up to find An Yangzi theory, when suddenly two dogs under the table tore up for a meat and bone, and a dog suddenly burst out from under the table, knocking the white fat old man to the ground, and the other dog chased him out from behind, ah, woo, and bit the dog forward.
It happened that the white fat old man fell down, rode on the head of the back dog, and was bitten in the crotch by the back dog.
The fat white man fell to the ground, smashed over a table of banquets, howled miserably, covered his wounds with his hands, and rolled all over the ground.
The guests were stunned.
Some people carried stools to beat dogs, some people went to investigate the old man's injuries, and some people went to Zhang Yuanwai and Zhang Shihong.
Only the old god Anyangzi is here, and he continues to drink wine and eat meat.
Li Mu looked at An Yangzi and said with a smile: "You have some skills, come on, come on, you show me, see what disasters I have recently?" ”
An Yangzi glanced up at Li Mu, shook his head and said: "Mr. Li, you are returning to Yu Yuan on the Great Day, just lurking for the time being, one day, the Great Sun will cross the sky, what moon, stars, fireflies, all eclipsed, there will be only you in the light of the whole world." ”
He said to Li Mu: "Your fate is not something that I, a small Taoist, can calculate, if I talk nonsense, I have to be punished by God...... Eh! ”
He coughed suddenly, stretched out his hand to his throat, and his face turned red: "It's bad, my throat is stuck and the fish is stinging!" I...... cough cough cough ......"
This person lowered his head and couldn't stop coughing, he was extremely uncomfortable by a fish bone, and finally Li Mu took out his hand and patted him lightly on the back, so he stopped coughing and pulled out the fish bone.
"It's dangerous! It's dangerous! ”
An Yangzi drank a few cups of tea one after another, and glanced at Li Mu with palpitations: "Mr. Li, you also saw it, just because I had a lot of mouth and tongue just now, I almost choked to death by fish bones." Your life is too big, like the scorching sun, the light pierces people's eyes, and the poor road really dare not calculate. ”
Li Mu smiled and didn't ask any more.
At this moment, Zhang Shihong brought a few servants to Li Mu and An Yangzi, he looked at An Yangzi with an extremely serious face, and asked softly: "Dao Chief, you said before that my house has a demonic spirit, is it true or false?" ”