Chapter 44: Rebirth

The day before Guan Shengyun's army left Yan'an Mansion, the infantry stationed in Ansai County evacuated, took twenty or thirty boats, and arrived at Yan'an Mansion along the Yanshui. At the same time, on the official road along the river, a fast horse carried Chang Wenping towards Ansai, passing by the fleet of boats going downstream.

The defenders had just left, and the people in the county town were still ignorant and didn't understand the taste, Chang Wenping had already ridden into the city and went straight to the empty county mansion - there was no crime here, and everything was still in order. I had nothing to do and took a broom to sweep the old yard (the janitor and the servant, and the county lord of Ansai couldn't afford to raise more people) was stunned to watch the old man fall from the sky, and rushed into the bedroom without saying hello. After a while, he came out in a cyan official uniform with the official seal of the county governor hanging on his waist, and hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed him: "Master, where have you been these days?" You don't know what's going on! How dare you wear this? It's about to get off, and if you are seen by a thief, you will die! ”

Chang Wenping waved his hand to interrupt the old man's chatter: "The thief has run away." Go and gather the people in the lobby to listen to the orders of the county! ”

Ansai County is not very big, and order is maintained very well. In a moment, the officials were almost there. Everyone was surprised to find that Mrs. Chang, who usually looked slippery and slippery, sat righteously in the lobby, looking heroic and dry. only listened to the generous statement of Mrs. Chang, who wanted to personally marshal the officials and Ding Zhuang to counterattack the thieves entrenched in Yan'an Mansion, while proudly expressing the determination to serve the country and kill himself, he slapped the shocking wood loudly. In addition to being frightened, everyone couldn't help but admire in their hearts: it turns out that we all looked away before-this is called the wind knows the strength of the grass, and the board knows the hero!

Chang Wenping hurriedly settled down the work in the county, personally led one hundred and fifty officials Ding Zhuang, and went to Yan'an Mansion majestically! Although everyone was afraid, but they didn't dare to disobey Mrs. Chang's order, they were terrified along the way, and then looked at the indomitable heroism of Chang Qingtian riding on a horse, and felt more and more ashamed of themselves in the bottom of their hearts.

Fortunately, in the northern suburbs of Yan'an Mansion, they encountered a team of 100 court officials and horses, and everyone settled down slightly. Chang Zhixian talked with the guerrillas who led the team for a while, and without hesitation, he led the crowd across Yanshui, and drove straight into the empty Yan'an Mansion with a golden knife.

The Yan'an government sentenced Mo Hantao and more than 20 other officials to prison for many days.

Beatings are inevitable.

In order to squeeze out the silver, the thieves invented a lot of unbelievable torture. For example, one of the most painful punishments for officials is to clamp their heads with two wooden planks, insert a wooden stick into the rope after tying them, and grasp both ends and spin them vigorously - the feeling of "headache splitting" is completely indescribable! Mo Hantao saw with his own eyes a state judge, the skull crack that had been closed in adulthood was squeezed open, the scalp was cracked, the two eyeballs were horrified and intact bulging outside the eye sockets, and a round face became as long as a donkey...... Nightmares wake me up to its terrible howls.

A few days later, it was seen that these officials really had nothing to squeeze any more oil and water, and the thieves tortured less purposefully, and their situation was better, but it was also limited. From time to time, groups of thieves come to prison drunk and run to prison, purely for the pleasure of torturing the once high lord.

Somehow, no one came to deliver the porridge for more than two days. Every day, a large bucket of gruel cooked with rotten vegetable leaves and moldy rice was the food of the prisoners throughout the day, and sometimes the thieves deliberately spit in front of everyone. After the officials were hungry for several days, no one could resist the temptation of this bowl of porridge, and even the bottom of the bowl stretched out their tongues and licked them to the fullest.

Mo Hantao, who was lying on the grass and was drowsy, heard a burst of messy footsteps, and then a pair of official boots came into view, and when he looked up, it was a familiar cyan official robe, and then, it was the sincere and concerned face of Chang Wenping of Ansai County! I only heard Changzhi County shouting: "The next official is late, and Lord Mo has suffered, capital crime, capital crime!" Then, someone opened the prison door, and Chang Zhixian rushed in and helped himself up with his own hands...... Walking out of the prison, looking up at the sun hanging in the sky, and looking around at the officers and horses and the officials who were raising swords and guns in all directions, Mo Tongju finally believed: This is not a dream, he has really seen the light of day again, and he has been a human being in two lives!

Fortunately, the thieves did not burn down the prefect's yamen, but the fly in the ointment was that the belongings inside, along with official uniforms, official hats, official boots and other things, had already been looted. Chang Wenping personally washed Mo Hantao and others, and then brought a bowl of thick vegetable porridge, saying that let Master Mo nourish his stomach first - unexpectedly, Lord Mo was hungry, but when he saw the bowl of porridge, he vomited on the spot! Well, the adults who saw the porridge threw up. There was no food in their stomachs, and all they spit out was green water, and the adults tried their best to wave their hands and say, "Take it away, I will never see this kind of thing again", and the cook had to steam the soft dough for the adults again......

Changzhi County settled Master Mo after running before and after, and made amends: "Lord Mo, you are wronged first, you will wear this dress first, the thieves have taken away the tailors, and you will find someone to make two new sets for you." As he spoke, he put the change of clothes he had brought on Master Mo with his own hands......

Without waiting for Master Mo to express his feelings, he heard a commotion at the entrance of the yamen, and vaguely heard someone shouting: "Let me in!" Even louder was the official guarding the door: "Death calls flowers, get out!" Look at you, like a thief, don't roll and kill on the spot! ”

Chang Wenping hurriedly ran out, and saw an old man named Hanako in tattered clothes and dirt on his face, holding a broken bowl in his left hand and waving a bamboo pole in his right hand. Just as he was about to turn around and go back, he suddenly felt that this old man called Huazi was a little familiar, and at the same time, he only heard the old man shouting: "Changzhi County, the old man is Yan Wenlong!" ”

Yan Wenlong, the same governor of Yan'an Mansion, appeared.

Chang Wenping scolded the soldiers who were guarding the door, and quickly invited Lord Yan in, so that it would inevitably be another time to wash and bathe—changing clothes was more troublesome, Chang Zhixian only brought a change of clothes, which had already been worn by Mo Hantao. was about to take off what he was wearing, but was stopped by Lord Yan: "Old man, don't do it!" The reason why the old man endured the humiliation was to leave this useful body to kill the thief and serve the country! The old man wants to wear this dress to kill the thief, so that they know that they have no eyes, and the old man is called shame and almost bravery......"

Everyone knows that Lord Yan's hysterical shouting is to cover his face, but now that he is of a high level, no one will be stupid enough to expose it on the spot, and they have praised his great wisdom and bravery, and he knows how to make a big plan if he can't bear it. As soon as everyone said it, Lord Yan himself believed it, and he resolutely refused to wear Chang Wenping's official uniform. However, he wore the tattered clothes that he had bought for nowhere, and it was needless to say that he was dirty and tattered, and the lice and fleas inside were rampant, and he definitely couldn't wear them back again, so he changed into a green coat and a small hat.

Several adults shouted that the thief would be killed to report the country, but except for Chang Wenping, everyone else didn't know in their hearts: the thief seemed to be gone, however, it was hard to say how far he had gone, and it was even harder to say whether he would kill him again! Therefore, they all only shouted cruel words without moving, and cooperated with each other very tacitly.

"How did you get over these days" is a question that Changzhi County can't get around. However, he and Luo Yonghao had already thought of a countermeasure: the night patrol suddenly had a headache, and the thieves attacked as soon as they returned to the inn. There was also an old gentleman in the inn who wrote the paperwork on behalf of him, who ran out and was killed by a thief in the head, so he took the old gentleman's cloth disguise and pretended to be. A thief leader surnamed Guan wanted to be his own master, and pretended to agree. I didn't expect this guy to be the younger brother of the bandit leader Guan Shengyun! After a while, I heard the thieves talking about going to attack Ganquan, and in the middle of the night, while he was drunk, he smashed his skull with a stick, stole his horse and galloped back to Ansai, and gathered Ding Zhuang to return to kill him...... These heroic deeds stunned the officials, and some people didn't believe that Mrs. Chang had the courage to kill - it was the bandit leader's own brother who was killed! But Mrs. Chang seemed to suddenly remember, and explained lightly: Go to a house in the backyard to see if the thief's corpse is still there. In a few moments, the servant reported that there were no bodies in the house, but a new mound of earth in the courtyard was very conspicuous. Everyone dug it up and saw that there was indeed a corpse in brocade clothes in the thick coffin, and the face was smashed to the point that it collapsed into a mess!

Now Mrs. Chang is a big cow!

Compared with Mo Hantao's unyielding loyalty and Yan Wenlong's lying salary, Changzhi County's feat of killing one of the bandit leaders with his own hands can be described as earth-shattering, and he must go straight to heaven! Yan'an Mansion has produced such a model hero of the Ming Dynasty, and the future of all officials has been preserved! Well, the sloppy sewage was poured on Yu Shengliang.

The guerrillas of the officers and soldiers and horses ignored the obstruction of the adults for various reasons, and led the crowd to "pursue" the thieves. Now, the civil officials are a little confused: although this guy is directly subordinate to the Dusi Mansion, but my Ming ancestor system uses the civil imperial army, and a broken guerrilla should not have such a bold face to directly refute the civil officials, right? Moreover, there are more than 100 people in total, and they want to chase down 20,000 or 30,000 thieves, is this guy's brain in the water?

Then again, if you're so daring, why did you & & mom go earlier?

Or Chang Wenping, who woke up the dreamer with a word: "Ladies and gentlemen, since there are officials and soldiers of the Dusi Mansion chasing the remnants of the thieves, I think that you have the responsibility to defend the land for the saints, and it seems that recovering the prefecture and county is also a top priority, right?" ”

Yan Wenlong and Mo Hantao couldn't help but suddenly realize: That's right! Changzhi County has the great merit of the thief chief, although he is "loyal and unyielding", but that is within his bounds, we still have to make meritorious contributions! Since Lord Chang - it will definitely not be Qipinzhi County in a short time, let's call it Lord first--said conclusively that the thieves went to Ganquan, and the "credit" for "recovering and prolonging" Yanchuan County is there, if you don't take it, wouldn't it be like that guerrilla with your brain in water!

Chang is really interesting. He said that all his 150 men should be brought by the adults to recover the lost territory. That being said, you can't let Chang Daren himself be the commander of the bare pole (read separately - "division" and "order", this is the original meaning of this word) Yan'an Fucheng, right? To put it mildly, Lord Chang left twenty people to maintain order, and the rest of the people were divided into two, and some people were gathered in the city, Yan Wenlong, Mo Hantao and others each led a team of more than 100 people.

Pulled a lot of colorful cloth, the adults showed their powers, thick pen and thick ink wrote "begging thieves", "", "rebellion", "suppressing bandits", "protecting the territory and the people" and other dragon flying phoenix dance full of sincerity of the big characters, with bamboo poles and sticks to pick up the colorful flag. Lively out of the city. The displaced people along the way can be regarded as opening their eyes: the front is a gong and drum to open the road, and the back is waving flags. The adults should sit in the sedan chair according to the level (Guan Shengyun dismantled the official sedan chair and burned it, and it was useless for the two people to carry the small sedan chair, they didn't move), the door panel that should ride a horse and ride a donkey (the donkeys and horses were all taken away by Guan Shengyun), the two teams of people and horses went straight to the two counties with a majestic and murderous spirit, and fought bloodily for the Son of Heaven to recover the lost land!

There was a five- or six-year-old baby in the lively audience on the ridge, and innocently asked: "Dad, who are these?" ”

His father rubbed his hands excitedly and replied, "The officers and soldiers are going to kill the thieves." ”

Xiaowa stared at it for a long time, and then asked: "The officials and soldiers kill thieves, what are you doing with so many flags, why don't you see a few people with knives and guns?" ”

When the father was stunned, then there was a crisp sound, and the baby was slapped in the face. Dad reprimanded: "Bastard, what nonsense! Be careful of being caught as a thief! ”

The little baby covered her face and cried.

But the cry was drowned out in the noise of gongs and drums, and no one paid attention.