Volume 1 Xiao Yuanba Chapter 4 Conspiracy Chamber

"What? Master Chen has just taken office, and he is unlucky enough to encounter this incident, and he still wants to be exiled? ”

After Li Dan finished speaking, he saw that Chen Meng's face was getting whiter and paler, and he hurriedly said: "Sister, don't worry, the Jingshi is too far away, I can still go to Yingtian Town to guard the mansion and ......!" ”

"You ...... last time," Zhou Dutou glanced at Chen Meng and held back the words behind: "The national dynasty puts filial piety first, you are a white Ding mixed in it, aren't you afraid of death?"

Let me tell you, those scholars, the leader must be sentenced to hanging, the servants will win fame, and all the criminals will be charged with the army and distributed to the nine sides!

If Master Chen only takes his post and is exiled for three or five years and can return to his hometown, it would be good. If you can save your life, thank the emperor for his grace! ”

Seeing that Li Dan was still unconvinced, he waved his hand: "Okay!" Brother Dan, don't be here to complain, you can't talk to me. I've got that talked, and now I have to get back quickly.

Don't mix up here, it's not good to be known when you turn around, hurry up and take advantage of no one else to know, how to get in and how to get out.

As for me, I should have seen nothing and heard nothing. ”

Chen Meng hurriedly thanked Zhou Dutou, and then stretched out his hand to pull Li Dan to salute him and thank him. Li Dan looked at Chen Meng helplessly and nodded, and walked out with his tall back.

Moon Shadow lit the lantern and shone it on them, and walked straight to the back under the wall where he came in, Zhou Du suddenly stood on his feet, grabbed Li Dan and said softly: "There is a sentence in the house just now that is not easy to say, you Li Sanlang and bring it back to give your uncle a word, let him refer to it." ”

"Zhou Dutou, but you want to talk about the marriage of my fifth brother and the eldest sister of the Chen family?"

Zhou Du was stunned: "Smart, I didn't expect you to think of it?" Then you should understand how important this matter is to the Li family? ”

"If it were me, death would not agree to do this!" Li Dan said firmly.

"Hmph, fortunately, it's not you who are engaged!"

Zhou Dutou sneered: "The Chen and Li families are both prominent families in our Yugan County, and now that the Chen family has an accident, it is enough, and Fan Taizun (county order) doesn't want to take another Li family."

It's about the decency of the whole county, you kid must bring the words, no jokes! ”

"Okay, okay, I promise you." Li Dan had no choice but to come down. Zhou Dutou told him to be quiet in the past two days, and to go out less to make trouble before Tiqi left, etc., and Li Dan responded one by one.

Zhou Dutou let go of his arm, and in a blink of an eye, he jumped up, vertically, and held three times to reach the other side of the wall, shook his head angrily, and muttered in his mouth: "Master Li's poetry and book heirloom, how can you teach such a monkey?"

It's really what people say, 'the concubine doesn't erect a beam'! As he spoke, he held the handle of the knife in one hand, walked through the front yard under the guidance of the lantern, and left the Chen family.

Coming out of Jizhu Alley and seeing the broken branches and fallen leaves all over the ground, Li Dan remembered that there had been lightning and thunder, and it can be seen that there are not many water marks on the ground, and there must be loud thunder and small raindrops.

About the time I talked to Sister Meng'er, the storm passed.

Li Dan walked with his head down and stopped at the intersection. To the left is the county yamen, to the front is to go to the market, and to the right is the way home.

He wanted to go to the left, but when he looked up at the archway at the crossing, Li Dan gritted his teeth and held back, turned around and turned right.

The archway is because the ancestor of the Li family refused to write a text to insult the first emperor and was killed, and the first emperor gave it to stand in this county.

Although the four golden characters of "moral model" are not very clear at night, they have long been deeply rooted in Li Dan's mind since he was a child. Zhou Dutou is right, you can't ruin the whole family because of your willfulness, right?

As soon as he saw the dark shadow on the shadow wall of his house, he heard a voice shouting: "Who is that, walking at night, don't you know that it is curfew?" ”

"Shuji, what are you yelling at? Barks louder than a dog! Li Dan scolded.

The housekeeper named Xiu Er hurriedly took off the lantern when he heard the sound, ran down the steps in a panic to meet him and followed the road, and said with a smile: "Third brother? Look at me, an old dog, and my eyes are not good at night. Didn't surprise you, did you? ”

"Huh? What do you say, it's not easy to look at at night? How long has it been? Li Dan asked as he walked inside.

"Yo, it's been about half a year." Xiu Er grinned: "I've seen the doctor, and I've also asked Wu Erniang to invite immortals, but it doesn't work." ”

"Even if it's night blindness!" Li Dan turned around and looked at his face, and pointed with his finger: "You go to the market to find the two brothers Lu Da and Lu who sell meat, and ask them for some dolphin and sheep liver, and ask you to eat Hun family slices with carrots and stir-fried them, one pair a day, and it should be good to eat three or five pairs." ”

As he spoke, he shook his hand and gave him a silver bean: "If your Hun family also has this problem, it can be cured together, and the water used to boil the liver is also useful, but the effect is slower." Shuji took the silver at the back, and he was very grateful.

Li Dan stopped paying attention to him and was about to go back to his house, but he saw a lantern next to the fifth brother who was napping under the porch, and was awakened by his footsteps back, got up and greeted him and asked, "Third brother, are you back?" What about it? ”

"You've been waiting here?" Li Dan was surprised.

"What then? My uncle and mother didn't allow me to go out, so I had to wait here for your news. ”

Li Shuo smiled bitterly, and lowered his voice to tell him: "The third uncle went to see the county honor, but unexpectedly the door said that the eldest master was accompanying the guests and it was inconvenient to see him, he saw that it was almost curfew and came back, and now he went to the council room." ”

Li Dan glanced at him: "In this case, fifth brother, you go and invite your mother to the meeting room, and I will say it together." Li Shuo listened and agreed, turned back to find Gao, and Li Dan went to the meeting room first.

The council room is on the east side of the study and is an independent courtyard. There was a stalagmite standing at the door, and there was a blue brick with inscription on the door of the moon cave, and Li Dan knew that it was the word "pure".

The right hand of the entrance is a gatehouse, and the left hand is a porch leading directly to the tea room. The house is built on the hillside behind the small pond, with two rooms on the front, on the left is a flower window corridor that communicates with the tea house along the slope, and on the right is a flower hall with a window to look at the scenery.

As soon as Li Dan came in, two people came out of the gatehouse when he heard the sound of footsteps. "Yo, Saburo is back?" The first is Hu Qin, the steward of this hospital, and the one in the back is the third old man Li Yan's beloved little servant named Shun'er.

Li Dan glanced at the two of them: "My uncle, are they inside?" ”

"Yes, yes, let us wait here, Changjing is serving tea." Hu Qin replied. Changjing is the eldest master Li Su's long-term follower, Li Dan knows when he looks at this posture that the two people inside don't want others to be present.

"Wait a minute, I'll report!" No matter how Li Dan is also a young master, Hu Qin hurriedly asked Shun'er to move a stool to invite him to sit, and he went around the pond and went up to knock on the door to report.

After a while, he ran back, bowed down with a smile and said, "San Lang, the two masters let you in and talk." ”

Li Dan called out first when he arrived at the door: "Uncle, third uncle." Listen to the voice inside: "The third brother comes in." When I entered the house, I saw that Li Su and Li Yan were sitting separately.

"Come in and sit down." Li Yan beckoned with a smile, he was whiter than his brother, with two thin eyebrows on his round face, compared to his brother who was used to holding the big man's shelf all day long, he looked much softer.

"Where have you been so late? I'm looking for you all over the yard, and I can't find you!" Li Su asked unhappily. His dark and long winter melon face made Li Dan bored when he saw it.

In fact, in Li Dan's heart, he didn't regard this place as his home, this was just a temporary place to stay, a place to pass by.

He believed that he remembered a lot of things in his previous life, otherwise how could he explain his lack of knowledge of martial arts? Why is it that I can never forget my own reading, and I seem to have a mature understanding of history? How to understand "night blindness" and its treatment?

Li Dan didn't know the answer, he just knew: they were like this, they should be like this, there was no other possibility. It would be strange if the answer was different from what he knew.

For example, what dynasty is it now? From the perspective of historical development, it should be the Ming Dynasty, but this dynasty is not called "Ming", and the emperor's year name and name do not match, but the historical events and context are strikingly similar.

Li Dan couldn't explain this phenomenon, the only possibility was that he was in another parallel space, where everything was similar to the original rather than identical.

Li Dan can clearly remember many things, including the sounds he heard when he was in his mother's womb, the things he saw when he opened his eyes, and many other things that children at that age should not remember.

He was very quiet when he was young, because he had to spend all his time observing and learning about life in this new environment.

He still remembers the first time his father Li Mu saw him climb the ladder to find a book, and then sit alone for two hours and turn the pages of the book to read it page by page.

At that time, the father also did not understand how his son could know the pros and cons of books and characters when he caught Zhou, how to know where the first page was and the order of reading was from top to bottom, from right to left.

You must know that children of the same age didn't even know how to eat the pen at that time, how did Saburo know these at a young age? The father didn't understand, but just said that this son was born smart and was the auspicious Rui of the Li family.

His father, Li Mu, is the second son in the family, but he is the earliest among the brothers and the last to do the highest grade.

Unfortunately, during the tenure of the prefect of Dongchang Prefecture, he unfortunately fell into the water and died in the project of controlling the old road of the Yellow River (that is, the old river), which made the status of the second room plummet.

Li Dan also began to change his temperament greatly in that year, and suddenly became obsessed with martial arts, which led to everyone's sideways eyes in this family of poetry and books, and became an outlier in everyone's eyes.

In fact, Li Dan knew in his heart that his father did not die normally, and he found that in this era, he must have the awareness and means of self-protection, and he can't live in peace just by reading and writing!

"Everything is inferior, only reading is high!"

In his previous life, Li Dan also knew this sentence, but now his father's experience has made him understand that at least in this era, although books and fame are steps or tools to pick up steps, even he and his family are powerless to protect them, and this step is equivalent to being built on the mud and sand, which is not reliable at all!

Didn't Li Mu lose his name because he found out that the rations of the embankment repairers had been misappropriated?

In these days, there is no public, procuratorate, or law, and there is no such thing as equality and rights.

Yes, Li Mu is not a clean official, otherwise where would he get so much property to make his brother and younger brother crazy with jealousy?

can earn a life to spend money, and after death, the court will reward a reputation, a nickname, and give some compensation, that's all.

Li Dan saw that his father's result was a spirit, and he immediately realized that the relationship between people in this era has a different reality from five hundred years later.

In this era, only if you protect yourself, others will not reach out and be unreliable!

He began to consciously squat on the horse, and asked the little maid Beixi to make a pair of leg wraps for herself, which was first stuffed with river sand, and then replaced with stones when he couldn't feel heavy when he ran ten miles on it, and finally replaced it with iron sand.

He began to carry two small wooden buckets full of water and run around the family. At first, the family thought he was hysterical, but later he yelled at him several times before he knew that Saburo was going to boil his body.

The small wooden barrel became bigger and bigger, and Li Dan's strength became bigger and bigger, and when he took off his shirt, it was full of muscles.

He proposed to eat chicken every day, and he also slapped the table with his family for this. People said behind his back that he was willful and didn't understand that a good young master didn't do it, what is San Lang going to do?

Of course, in the end, he also made a concession and changed to six eggs a day and one chicken every ten days.

But soon he added a problem of eating water, and he ate the liver, stomach, lungs and waist instead, but he didn't eat the heart and intestines, saying that the thing was not clean.

Later, somehow, he fell in love with the craft of making air-dried sausages with sheep intestines and shochu, and it is said that he learned it from the hunters in the mountains.

Alas, in short, it is not like words, and it is becoming more and more alien in the eyes of the uncle and the third uncle. A scholar should look like a scholar, how can there be such a person who carries a knife all over the yard to catch chickens?

Li Dan disagreed, he said that this is called "more skills do not press", and even went to the restaurant to watch the chef cook dishes, steamed meat, and sometimes put his fingers on it.

He is keen to contact with all walks of life, so he does not have the frame of a son's brother, coupled with great strength, martial arts, righteousness, and magnanimity, he gradually won the love of Yang Yi and others, but he was despised by his brothers (except for the eldest brother).

His mother-in-law, Gao, always reprimanded his adoptive mother Qian for his "not doing his job", which made her suffer a lot of grievances.

This Qian is not Li Dan's biological mother, that is her sister. Qian was the concubine of Li Mu when he was in Renzhi County, Lujiang, and her family was a well-known wealthy merchant in the local area.

Li Dan's biological mother died when he was five years old, and soon after Li Mu moved to the prefect of Dongchang, he married Xiao Qian before taking office, brought her to his post and handed Li Dan over to her to raise.

Unexpectedly, before the two could have another heir, Li Mu died. Xiao Qian's funeral was buried, and he stayed in Yugan to treat Li Dan as his own.

Therefore, whenever Li Dan gets into trouble or makes unbelievable moves, the Gao family says that the Xiaoqian family is not well educated, and so on.

Although he doesn't look down on Li Dan's actions, there are some big and small things at home, and everyone thinks of "going to San Lang" for some reason, just like Li Su mentioned "little evil animal" when he opened his mouth this evening.

But now that the "little evil animal" is in front of him, he is expecting Li Dan to bring back some news for him, and he is also afraid of his martial bravery, so he asked in a loud voice and said no more, pricking up his ears to listen to what he said.