Chapter 40: The Cool Officer
Yuncheng County, the county town known as the "first county of the Water Margin", occupies a great space in the entire Water Margin, and the two successive owners of Liangshan are from here.
The situation in Yuncheng County is a microcosm of the entire Great Song Dynasty, with officials and businessmen colluding, and Xu and officials colluding with each other.
In the original text of the Water Margin, Chao Gai snatched the Birth Gang, and there was Song Jiang, the head of Zhu Tong and Lei Heng to help; Song Jiang killed Yan Poxi, and he was protected by Shi Wenbin in the county; Lei Heng killed Bai Xiuying, and Zhu Tong also secretly let go; These big things in the eyes of ordinary people are all controlled by people in the dark, and the entire Yuncheng County is like a spider web, connecting the big and small people in it.
Zhu Biao led Hu Qing'e and Xiao Taoyao, like ordinary couples with their own children, strolling on the streets of Yuncheng County, a pair of fairy couples led a combination of pink and jade little girls, attracting sideways attention from pedestrians on the street.
Zhu Biao is also a rare relaxation, buy everything that Xiao Taoyao wants to eat, and Hu Qing'e also buys what she likes, only enjoying the rare leisure at the moment with satisfaction.
Passing through the street where people come and go, the secluded alley behind the Yuncheng County Ya, at this time the gongs and drums are noisy, and it is lively, Zhu Biao only passed by the alley, and did not go inside to join in the fun, but walked into a restaurant opposite the county government.
In the private room on the second floor of the restaurant, Zhu Biao watched the black-faced Song Zhusi lead a charming beautiful girl, led a large group of people, beat gongs and drums, came out of the secluded alley, and turned into an attic on the west side of the county government.
Hu Qing'e on the side stretched out her head and leaned on Zhu Biao's shoulder, and said, "San Lang, is this Song Jiang really that important?" ”
Zhu Biao nodded, and said in a deep voice: "This person's city government is scheming, unfathomable, to be honest, if it weren't for the shortcomings of that Chao Gai being too obvious, I wouldn't want to make a fuss about this person." ”
Hu Qing'e raised her head, only a pair of smart eyes looked at Zhu Biao with affection, and said after a while: "It's this timely rain and deep city, and now he has become a chess piece for you without knowing it?" ”
When Zhu Biao heard this, he was stunned, so he laughed, only took Hu Qing'e's hand, patted it gently, and didn't say much.
After a while, I heard a commotion downstairs, and the hotel shopkeeper hurriedly pushed the door in, and said to Zhu Biao with a bitter face: "This son, today we are married to the priest in the county, and I want to charter a certain restaurant to entertain guests, and please move to another house, and the tea and snacks on the side are all sent by the shop." ”
After listening to this, the corners of Zhu Biao's mouth showed a hint of banter, and his heart was probably white, so he only said to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, you can open such a big restaurant opposite the county office, you must also have some background, so Song Zhusi will not let you be unable to do other business, and entertain his family alone, right?" ”
This shopkeeper is also a Jingyin person, looking at the son in front of him, and then looking at Hu Qing'e, who looks like a fairy, and Xiao Taoyao, who is carved in pink and jade, they are all gorgeously dressed and behaved, not like ordinary people, so he sighed patiently and said.
"Who said no, don't hide it from the son, a certain is indeed a little related in the county government, but he can't stand the power of the people, that Song Zhisi is a serious person, but his brother Lei Dutou, but he is a master who does not hesitate, relying on his own identity, in this Yuncheng County to bully the market, rampant, he said that he wanted to cover a certain field, how dare he say more."
Hearing the shopkeeper's words, Tao Yao on the side raised a small face, and asked Hu Qing'e prettyly: "Sister Qing'e, how big an official is Du?" ”
Hu Qing'e smiled and said, "Dutou is not an official, there is no grade, he can only be regarded as an official, just like your second uncle Wu, he catches bad people." ”
"Then since he is catching bad people, why does the shopkeeper say that he is still doing bad things, Second Uncle Wu makes a mistake Uncle Wu will beat him on the board, and when Uncle Wu comes back, let him hit this board at the head of the city." Xiao Taoyao said with an angry face.
Hu Qing'e grabbed the little girl's body, gently stroked her hair, and said with a smile: "Your Uncle Wu can't control him, so he can't beat his board." ”
"What about Grandpa Cheng? Can Grandpa Cheng spank him? ”
"Grandpa Cheng is an official in Yunzhou, and he can't manage the affairs of Jeju, so it's inconvenient for Grandpa Cheng to beat him."
"What about Grandpa Zhang? Didn't Grandpa Zhang say that he was the biggest official in Jeju, so he could always beat him. Xiao Taoyao said unconvinced.
Hu Qing'e smiled slightly and said, "Well, Grandpa Zhang can fight." ”
After receiving an affirmative answer, the little girl jumped up with a smile, broke free from Hu Qing'e's embrace, ran to the front of the shopkeeper, and said coquettishly.
"Uncle shopkeeper, don't be afraid of Nadutou, the next time I see Grandpa Zhang, I will let him hit the board of Nadutou and give you anger."
At this time, the shopkeeper was in his heart, and the waves were rolling, and the conversation between Hu Qing'e and Tao Yao was one big and one small, which made the shopkeeper's thunder scorched on the outside and tender on the inside.
At the beginning, when he said that the eldest brother of Shiwu, the second brother of Wu, and Grandpa Cheng, the shopkeeper was not yin, until he heard the sentence Grandpa Zhang, the biggest official of Jeju Mansion, that the shopkeeper reacted. This Jeju Governor Zhang Shuye is not surnamed Zhang; Next door, Cheng Wanli, the governor of Yunzhou, is not surnamed Cheng.
The shopkeeper came back to his senses after a while, and he was glad that he had not spoken ill of him and offended the person in front of him.
"You are a shopkeeper, you can't drive anyone away for half a day, and I'm still impatient with my lord."
The shopkeeper was about to speak, when he heard an impatient curse from outside the door, and the door of the private room was violently pushed open from the outside, and a man with a purple begonia skin, a fan-circled beard, and a soldier dressed in a costume appeared outside the door menacingly.
As soon as the big man was about to lift his feet and walk inward, he saw two bamboo chopsticks shooting like sharp swords, and they were fixed on the place where he was about to land, and he heard a sharp shout.
"Get out."
Da Han's teeth were about to crack at once, like a wounded beast, about to burst out and hurt people, only to raise his head but met a fierce gaze, Da Han's heart chuckled, this gaze seemed to devour it, and he couldn't help but take two steps back.
After a while, the big man relieved himself, thinking that there were still a group of catchers behind him, and he was actually frightened by the young man in the middle with his eyes, and he only felt that his face couldn't be hung up, so he broke in again.
This time, there were no bamboo chopsticks flying, the big man entered the private room, and saw that in addition to the restaurant shopkeeper, there were only a pair of young people and a child, when his eyes fell on Hu Qing'e, his eyes lit up, and his throat swallowed saliva unconsciously.
Zhu Biao saw the appearance of the big man, and said in a deep voice: "If you don't want this pair of tricks, I don't mind helping you get them." ”
The big man's face sank, and he said grimly: "Where did you come from, the wild man is impatient, and he dares to talk to your Grandpa Lei like this." ”
Zhu Biao glanced at him playfully, and said: "Lei Heng Lei Dutou, if it weren't for the fact that you still have an old mother to support, it would not be an exaggeration for you to die a hundred times today, you have a little friendship with Zhu Tong, didn't he mention to you how he became a training envoy of the Jeju regiment?" ”
This big man is the head of the conversation just now, and the thunder heng called the winged tiger on the rivers and lakes, but when he saw that this thunder heng heard Zhu Biao's words, he suddenly felt like a lightning strike, and lost his voice: "You are the third son of Zhu in Dulonggang?" ”
Zhu Biao didn't raise his eyelids when he heard him, only took a sip of tea lightly and looked out the window.
Seeing this, Lei Heng's heart was nameless, and he only felt that he had never been ignored so much in his life, and said sharply: "Even if you are the Taishan King?" This Yuncheng County is my thunderous territory. ”
Zhu Biao looked back at him, and said secretly in his heart: This guy used to be just a person who killed cattle and gambled, and he was lucky to become the head of the infantry in Yuncheng County.