Chapter 182 How unlucky can people be?
People who eat fat are definitely not fattened by eating a meal, it is caused by the continuous nourishment of hundreds of meals eaten before.
Yun Chu's family gradually changed from penniless to a standing family in Chang'an City, and it was also through a mouthful of profits that they finally became like this.
In Datang, everyone is not fighting for personal strength, but for the family's heritage, so in the era of Datang, which itself was born out of the gate valve, everyone thinks about how to increase the strength of the family itself.
Those who do not have a family want to be the founder of the family that bears his name.
In this battle that belonged to the newcomers, Yun Chu was at the forefront.
Pei Xingjian and Xue Rengui are also working very hard, don't look at their official positions higher than Yun Chu, but when it comes to the background, they are far from Yun Chu.
Sometimes, the victory or defeat of this kind of battle is actually metaphysical, just like Yun Chu can buy back Liu Zhao, the son of the original prince of the Tang Plain, for a little money.
Speaking of which, Fei Jiu's past is really miserable.
His father, Liu Lan, the governor of Xiazhou, likes to socialize with strangers, one day, Xu Xuan, a member of the Changshe, will read the prophecy, I don't know where to get a piece of prophecy, and after identifying it, he said to Liu Lan: There are elders in the world, and they all say that General Liu will become the lord of the world.
Liu Lan has been fighting with Emperor Taizong for many years, where is he willing to believe such a thing, and then laughed.
But when Fei Jiu was in his twenties, arrogant and in his prime, after hearing this, he happily said to his father Liu Lan: The book says that Haibei is born of the Son of Heaven, and our family lives in Beihai.
This was originally a joke between father and son, but it was heard by his friend You Wenzhi, the county lieutenant of Juxian County.
Three months later.
You Wenzhi, the county lieutenant, was sentenced to autumn execution for the crime of corruption and murder.
You Wenzhi wanted to save himself from death. He tried his best to slander, and finally confessed the laughing conversation between Liu Lan, the governor of Xiazhou, and his son.
After poor Liu Lan heard about this incident, she let go of her son, dismissed her family, and killed herself and her old wife.
Who knew that the person who came to investigate his family's case was Qiu Xinggong, the general of the Right Xiaowei, and Qiu Xinggong boiled Liu Lan's heart and liver in order to show his loyalty to the emperor.
Fei Jiu had no choice, so he hid in Tibet, but no matter how he hid, there were always friends who reported his hiding place, so the people around Fei Jiu gradually dispersed the money in their hands.
Fei Jiu, who was poor and sick, was going to see his wife who had suffered this catastrophe only half a month before he died.
But after being humiliated by the Cui clan, he also reported it, fortunately, his wife Cui sent a maid to warn him in advance, and gave him all the jewelry, hoping that he could run far away, no one should believe it, and insist on living.
So Fei Jiu continued to start his life of fugitive, the process of escape was very painful, Fei Jiu found a former friend without changing his character, hoping to get the old shelter, but he was sold again.
Fortunately, this time he had a heart and deliberately reported his wrong address to his friend, but after seeing that the officials accurately found the address he reported to his friend, he understood the warning given to him by his wife Cui.
In order to fulfill his wife's request for him to live, the extremely ashamed Fei Jiu put his face into the oil pot, sprinkled water on the oil pot, and fried his face with splashing oil flowers.
As a result, this bombing became addictive, and when he thought that his father's heart and liver were eaten by Qiu Xinggong, he was extremely remorseful, and then blew up his face again.
As soon as he thought that he had failed his wife's instructions, he was ashamed, so he put his face into the oil pan again and fried it again.
In the end, Mo said that others didn't know him, and even he couldn't recognize himself.
He wanted to sell the jewelry that his wife had left him, buy a plot of land near his parents' grave, build two houses, and live his life like this.
As a result, because he was too ugly, he was deceived by the landlord and the Chinese in partnership, not only took his money, but also stripped him naked, put on a ragged linen coat, and sent him as a slave to Xiudefang to sell for money.
He tried to die several times, and each time he was rescued by the slave traders, who beat him every time he came back.
Just when his heart was like ashes, he suddenly heard from the slave trader that Mrs. Cui would come to buy slaves for the housekeeper tomorrow, and originally only bought slaves from the official family, but unfortunately the slaves of the official family did not take a fancy to them, so they came to see the slaves of his family, and asked all the slaves to come out with the best spirit and let Mrs. Cui choose.
After hearing Mrs. Cui's three words, Fei Jiu, who was originally like ashes, was in good spirits, hoping to be taken by Mrs. Cui and sold himself into the Cui family.
He has nothing else to ask for in this world, he just wants to be able to sell himself into the Cui family, and secretly take a look at the only wife in the world who still treats him as a human being, and it is best to become a slave of his wife, so that he can stay by her side for the rest of his life, and he will be satisfied to see her live well.
For this reason, he knelt down in the cold wind all night, begging God to allow him to fulfill this last obsession.
It is too easy for a well-rounded man to stand out from a group of slaves.
In addition, Cui's is a knowledgeable person, after seeing the ability shown by Fei Jiu, he naturally will not judge people by his appearance, just a house slave, what should he do so good-looking.
So in the wail in Fei Jiu's heart, he became the servant of the Yun family, and he didn't have a boundary with the Cui family at all.
Listening to Fei Jiu's story, the pig's head meat that Yun Chu was holding on the chopsticks fell off, and he didn't know anything.
After a while, he came back to his senses and said, "You are the most unlucky one I have ever seen and heard of."
Fei Jiu nodded and smiled, "So, people can't just think about heaven, when you think about heaven, it's actually the closest time to hell and hell."
Yun Chu said again: "No wonder, when you came to the house, you were an ordinary doorman, except for the errand time, you didn't drink and fall asleep every day, but fortunately, the errand was done well, and the speech was good.
This is only when I stayed in the Yun Clan, and since I crippled Qiu Shenji, you seem to have become useful.
After I kill Qiu Xinggong's family, you will become very useful.
It turns out that I helped you avenge the blood of the sea."
Fei Jiu nodded and said, "The opportunity of people is really unpredictable, I didn't expect that when I was most unlucky, I met you, and then it was all a good thing in my heart."
Yun Chu raised his glass and touched the wine bowl with Fei Jiu and said, "You are all unlucky like that, how unlucky can you be if you are unlucky?
But what you don't meet is all good things?"
Fei Jiu took a sip of wine and said, "Since Yonghui entered the Yun Clan in the second year, I have killed six people."
Yun Chu drank calmly and said, "This is the behavior of a big husband."
Fei Jiu looked at Yun Chu and said, "Don't you ask who I killed?"
Yun Chu looked up and thought for a moment and said, "The slave trader who sold you."
The middle man who will harm you, and the landlord."
And that last friend you trusted."
Fat Jiu blinked his eyes and looked at Yun Chu and said, "You know?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "I don't know, I just know your character and personality, slave traders and Chinese people, landlords don't say, these three people must die, as for why it is the last friend you trusted, it is because at that time, the trend of chasing you has almost passed, as long as you hide for half a year, no one will ask about your whereabouts."
I am the county magistrate of Wannian County, and I have issued countless sea fishing documents, so of course I know how long it will be useful.
As for why you didn't kill the people who betrayed you in the first place, to tell you the truth, if you go to someone to shelter you, you are asking for trouble for others."
Fei Jiu nodded and said, "That's indeed the truth."
Yun Chu squeezed his eyes and said, "Tell me, how did you get in touch with your wife?"
Fei Jiu took a sip of wine, and sang softly with chopsticks on the square table in the concierge with a beat: "Ten miles of Pinghu is full of frost, and the years are green and sorrowful, and the moon-shaped single looks at each other, and only envy the mandarin ducks and not the immortals."
Fei Jiu sang this song of lovesickness to the bone, and Yun Chu was stunned for a long time before he whispered, "It's very familiar."
Fei Jiu said softly: "Hou Ye accompanied his wife to go outside the city for his wife and grandfather, when A-Niang returned from the grave, his wife was in a bad mood, and Hou Ye told his wife a story about the love between a ghost and a scholar in the world.
When the lady listened to the tune, she frolicked with the Hou Ye and said that it was nonsense.
But when I was sitting on the wheel to catch the car, I couldn't cry when I heard it, and the Hou Ye laughed at me at the time."
Yun Chu picked up the wine bowl and touched it with Fei Jiu and laughed, "What, do you feel something?"
Fei Jiu picked up the wine bowl and said dryly, "Actually, I am that ghost, and my wife should be the scholar named Ning Caichen.
I wrote this poem on a painting I had drawn with the name of the Jade Ghost, which was exactly the same as the boudoir painting I had painted for my wife on my wedding night, with her sitting in front of a mirror in a robe, combing her hair.
I handed the painting to the copper plate and asked him to hang it in the most conspicuous place in the bookstore, and not sell it unless someone from the Cui family came to buy it.
My wife likes to collect all kinds of novel books in her life, and sooner or later she will see this painting in Tongpan, the largest bookstore in Chang'an City.
"Two months ago, this painting was bought by my wife's maid, and then my wife would come to Tongpan's bookstore on time every five days."
After listening to the poignant story told by Fei Jiu, Yun Chu looked up at Fei Jiu's miserable face, and waved his hand again and again: "Even if you are an old immortal, there is no way to restore your potholed and pockmarked face."
Fei Jiu took a sip of wine and said, "I call myself a ghost, and I will be willing to block my wife there."
"I feel that she is the best destination for her to be a teacher in the Yun family, and I can watch her every day."
"Master Hou, do you think this is beautiful?"