Chapter 20: Fools
The remnants of the willows outside the county of Sizhou have withered, and the rivers that pass through the city have dried up like Huaishui.
In Li Yi's memory, Sizhou County is a prosperous and splendid place.
Because it is located in the south of Chuzhou, the climate here is closer to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
But at this time, the scene of the water town in my memory has completely changed.
When a few people were about to enter the county seat of Sizhou, Yi Chongdao and Mi Yiren were about to part ways with them.
Because they are the famous grass army, if they are recognized in the city, they can only be caught in the urn at that time.
Although Yi Chongdao has always wanted to pull Li Yi to join the Grass Army, he also understands that this matter cannot be done overnight.
However, he did not intend to give up, because he had a strong feeling that Li Yi would join the Grass Army one day.
Then Li Yi took Yang Ping and a few people into the county seat of Sizhou.
I think he was only ten years old when he left Sizhou County, and he was already sick at that time.
Now that he has returned to Sizhou County, he is already a high-spirited young man.
This time, he returned to Sizhou County to pay homage to his family, and secondly, to see if he could find the murderer who killed his family back then.
Countless midnight dreams, the vicious mob would appear in his dreams, their wanton laughter lingering in his dreams, making him always frightened and angry.
There is also the figure of the parents swearing to protect themselves in the sea of fire, and the desperate and painful face of the sister.
Thinking of this, Li Yi's face became resolute, no matter what, he had to find out those beasts and make them pay.
Yang Ping, who was walking beside Li Yi, suddenly felt that Li Yi exuded an awe-inspiring momentum.
This frightened Yang Ping.
"Brother Li, what's wrong with you?"
Yang Ping asked cautiously.
At this time, Li Yi realized that he had just fallen into a memory.
"Oh, nothing, I just thought of something."
Li Yi said with some embarrassment.
"Now that we have entered the city, I don't know what Brother Li plans to do next? If you don't have a place to go, you can borrow it from my brother for a while. ”
Yang Ping had also heard about Li Yi's life experience along the way, and he was worried that Li Yi would not have a place to live in Sizhou County, so he suggested that Li Yi go to his brother's place.
But Li Yi refused without thinking.
"Thank you for the invitation of Shopkeeper Yang, the kid also has a senior brother who happens to live in Sizhou County, and this time the kid is going to visit the senior brother in addition to coming back to pay tribute to his family."
The senior brother Li Yi said was his fourth senior brother Jing Zizheng.
As early as when he first went up the mountain, he had heard about the senior brothers, and later Liu Yu would bring the latest news about the senior brothers every time he went down the mountain.
And from the latest news brought back by Liu Yu half a year ago, it was learned that these four senior brothers Jingzi were once again defeated by Sun Shan in last year's imperial examination.
This is the third time he has fallen to Sun Shan.
At the same time, this also confirms the prophecy that Taijizi gave to Jing Zizheng: Zizheng will not have a chance to take the imperial examination in this life.
After falling off the list for the third time, Jing Zizheng returned to his hometown to study hard, but he and Li Yi are fellow villagers, and he is also from Sizhou County.
It's just that at this time, Li Yi and this Sizhou county town are like flowing water and drifting, and the relationship is not very big.
Some people have said that the place where there is a family is the hometown, but at this time, there is no one of Li Yi's relatives in the huge Sizhou County.
Whether this is his hometown or not, Li Yi himself does not know.
In fact, Li Yi didn't want to return to Sizhou County from the bottom of his heart, because in addition to burying his family, it also buried his memories.
Coming back here are always those painful memories that reverberate in his heart.
Therefore, he has a love-hate mentality towards Sizhou County.
Li Yi walked aimlessly on the streets of Sizhou County with his bags on his back, he wanted to find some good memories around, even if there was only a trace of it, he would be satisfied.
But today's Sizhou county town has not lost the prosperity of the past, the shops on the street are less of the shouts of the shopkeepers, and the pedestrians on the road have lost their former calmness.
Walking and walking, Li Yi came to the place where his house was located.
At this time, the place where the original Li Mansion was located was no longer a charred ruin.
Another mansion has been built here, and this mansion has covered up everything in the past Li family.
Li Yi looked at the newly built mansion with a plaque of "Qi Mansion" hanging on the door, and couldn't help but feel sad.
Two lines of clear tears broke in their eyes in an instant, and they stayed down their cheeks.
It is said that men have tears and do not flick, but they are not sad.
At this time, Li Yi could no longer control his emotions, he knew that from this moment on, his home really disappeared.
is not just disappearing in this world, but also disappearing in Li Yi's heart,
Originally, when he was on the mountain, Li Yi asked Liu Yu to ask him how his home was when he came down the mountain.
At that time, Liu Yu was only vague, but Li Yi already had a hunch, but he was still very sad when he really saw his home completely disappear, even if it was just a burned and unrecognizable ruin.
Whatever it looked like, it was his home, the place where he had all his good memories.
Just as he was standing silently weeping at the gate of the original Li Mansion and the current Qi Mansion, he suddenly found a figure on the south wall silently sticking out his head.
The man stuck his head out and looked around, and when he made sure that no one was around, he immediately threw out a baggage, followed by a second.
After the burden was thrown, the man struggled to flip his body over the wall, and then he slowly slid out of the wall with both hands.
However, because the courtyard wall was too high or he was too short, he could only hang straight on the wall with his feet in the air.
Li Yi looked at the other party with a ridiculous look, and his original sad mood was completely destroyed by him like this.
So Li Yi stood at a distance and looked at this person carefully.
I saw this man put his toes up, and kept groping to see if his feet could reach the ground.
While he was still hanging on the wall and couldn't get down, another head stuck out of the yard.
In addition, this man saw that the person in front of him was still hanging on the wall with both hands, and he couldn't help but count them all at him.
It's just that because Li Yi is a little far away from them, he can't hear what they are saying.
Just as Li Yi was thinking about whether he wanted to go up to help the person hanging on the wall, the guy who came out later grabbed a sword and turned the hilt of the sword to the person's head and knocked it on.
But the man refused to let go even if his head hurt, and this time the guy inside aimed the hilt of his sword at his upper hand on the top of the wall and smashed it.
This time, the person hanging on the wall could no longer bear the pain and finally withdrew his hand.
So he sat down on the ground, and just as he was about to cry out in pain, the man inside the wall threw half of the wall tile in his face.
The guy who was about to scream was hit in the face by the tile, and the shouting was swallowed back.
Only then did he realize that he was about to scream, so he quickly shut up and rubbed his aching ass with his aching hands.
At this time, Li Yi had already quietly arrived at a tree not far from them, and at this time he could already hear the conversation between the two clearly.
"You bastard, why don't you get down the wall quickly, otherwise how can I get out?"
The man at the top of the wall pointed to the man below and cursed quietly.
The man under the wall had to mumble and stand by the wall.
So the man in the wall slowly climbed over the wall and put his feet on the shoulders of the people outside the wall.
The man outside the wall was stepped on by him and almost didn't fall down, and the person on the wall was jumped.
So he immediately kicked the head of the man outside the wall again.
"You waste, you can't even bear this weight, what kind of general do you want to be?"
The man on the wall scolded.
"You know what, why don't you say it's because you're too heavy!"
The man outside the wall obviously didn't dare to contradict the man on the wall.
"Qi Dynasty! Do you want to die? ”
The man on the wall spoke with a menace in his tone.
The man outside the wall couldn't help but shrink his neck, and immediately stood honestly under the wall again.
This time, the man outside the wall gritted his teeth and let the man on the wall step on his shoulder and come down from the wall.
As soon as the people on the wall jumped off the wall, they jumped up excitedly.
"Let's hurry up, otherwise we will definitely have no good fruit to eat if we are caught."
Qi Chao couldn't help but remind when he looked at the man's excited appearance.
At this time, the man found that they were still outside the walls of the Qi Mansion, so he immediately realized that he had not really escaped from the Qi family.
"Then why don't you hurry up!" The man was about to run at once.
But before he could start, he heard Qi Chao say, "You haven't taken your burden yet." ”
The man looked back at the burden on the ground and frowned.
Then he shifted his gaze to Qi Chao's body: "Give you a chance to exercise, otherwise you will not accept you when you arrive at the northern frontier of the country." ”
As he spoke, the man turned and left, and at the same time he added: "Don't thank me!" ”
Qi Chao in the back looked at the two huge burdens on the ground and cried with a sad face and scolded angrily: "Thank you grandma for a leg!" ”
"Don't forget, my grandma is also your grandma!"
The voice of the man in front of him came slowly.
Qi Chao in the back could only carry the two burdens on his back while jumping to his feet, and then followed behind the man.
When the two walked past the tree where Li Yi was hiding, Li Yi saw the appearance of the two up close.
The taller the person in front of him is, the taller he is, the more tall Li Yi is now.
It's just that this person looks thinner and weaker, and he looks like a literati, but Li Yi can't feel the temperament of a literati in him.
This man has clear eyebrows, fair complexion, and a pair of bright eyes that reveal a smart light.
It's just that Li Yi felt a little weird when he saw this person, and this feeling was difficult for him to describe in words.
Li Yi thought about it for a while before he understood, he felt that the person in front of him was somewhat similar to Liu Yu, according to Tai Jizi, it was a boy and a girl.
And with two burdens on his back, Qi Chao is shorter than the person in front, and this person is also clear and beautiful, and his eyebrows are five or six points similar to the person in front.
Although Qi Chao looked not tall and thin, he was also relaxed and did not look like he was struggling with his two burdens.
It's just that he is wearing a Confucian robe, but he is doing the work of carrying goods over the wall, which is a bit nondescript.
When Li Yi saw the two clearly, they also saw Li Yi.
At this time, Li Yi was squatting next to the tree, looking like he was watching a play.
"Startle me, why are you squatting outside the wall of our yard trying to climb over the wall and steal something?"
The man in front was obviously frightened by Li Yi's sudden appearance.
"Can't you see that he is clearly a beggar begging for food!"
Before Li Yi could speak, Qi Chao in the back explained to the people in front.
"I see, hey, it's pitiful."
The person in front looked at Li Yi with pity, and then took out some dry food from the burden that Qi Chao was carrying and sent it to Li Yi.
At this time, Li Yi had been completely speechless by the two.
At this time, he didn't know whether it was better to take dry food or not.
"It's over, this guy is still an idiot! You see, he doesn't want anything to eat. ”
The person in front of him looked at Li Yi happily, his eyes were full of curiosity and inquiry, he really couldn't imagine that he had just met a fool when he left the house.
Li Yi was completely speechless at this time.
"Alas, it's better for good people to send the Buddha to the West in the end."
As he spoke, the man took a small piece of the dry food in his hand and shook it in front of Li Yi, and then stuffed it into his mouth.
Then he grabbed another piece and stuffed it into Li Yi's hand, motioning for him to put the dry food in his mouth.
Li Yi saw that the dry food in his hand began to tighten tighter and tighter, and his expression began to become more exciting.
He was just about to stand up and shout, "Lao Tzu is not a fool. ”
But before he could shout this sentence, Qi Chao on the side immediately pulled the man away.
"I'm afraid this guy isn't constipated, look at his expression."
Li Yi was stunned by Qi Chao's words again.
"Huh~~~!" The man immediately stepped back in disgust, his face full of disgust.
"This fool doesn't take off his pants, wouldn't it stink and disgusting to pull them in his crotch immediately, let's go quickly."
The man pinched his nose and said with a look of disgust.
Qi Chao also nodded in agreement, and the two immediately turned around and left.
The man who hadn't taken two steps suddenly turned back again, and Li Yi originally thought that they were coming back to apologize.
But the man just stuffed the dry food in his hand into Li Yi's hand again.
"Remember, it's food, don't forget to eat when you're hungry."
After pinching his nose and giving instructions, he trotted all the way to catch up with Qi Chao.
Li Yi looked at the dry food in his hand, and then looked at the two people who were far away, and couldn't help but be angry.
He threw the dry food on the ground.
"You're stupid, you're constipated, you're pulling your crotch!"
Li Yi roared angrily.
From beginning to end, he didn't have time to say a word, and he was regarded as a fool by these two Qi family people.
It's okay to be treated as a fool, and he said that he would pull a crotch when he was constipated, which made him angry.
It's just that the two of them have already walked away at this time, and they can't hear Li Yi's angry scolding.
But the roar on his side was heard by the people in the Qi family's courtyard.
Not long after, panicked shouts came from the courtyard of the Qi family.
"Oh no, Childe and Miss are running away!"
It's just that Li Yi didn't hear the shouts in the Qi Mansion, because at this time he had already scolded and walked away.