Volume 1 Xiao Yuanba Chapter 18 Sai Kui Xing Opens the Letter
"Done?"
"That's it!" Xiao Yi leaned closer and whispered: "After presiding over the abbot's room, under the third stone from the left." ”
Li Dan nodded and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother Xiaoyi worked hard, and they also arrived." Let's go, eat and drink together, and taste what my steamed pork tastes like! ”
Yang Yi grinned. He is an orphan who has lost his parents and grew up in his aunt's house since he was a child, so he has some sympathy with Li Dan.
The two are like brothers and sisters, and some words can be understood without saying anything.
Like Li Dan patted him on the shoulder, he didn't like to touch other people's bodies these days, but he knew that Li Dan was expressing gratitude and intimacy like this, and he also knew that Brother Dan had no malice, and the basis for allowing this way of expression was to fully trust the other party.
When he came upstairs and met everyone, Li Dan took a step back with his hands behind his back and looked up and down.
Seeing that Yang Dayi chose a blue-gray dark coat, a blue coat on the outside, and a pair of new cowhide boots on his feet, he couldn't help but smile:
"Brother, I almost can't recognize this change of clothes, sure enough, people rely on clothes!" The crowd laughed.
Because today's name is to pick up the wind for Yang Dayi, he was invited to sit on the head, Gu Da and Xiaoyi on both sides, Li Dan sat on his opponent, and Liu Hongsheng and Li Biao were on both sides.
Li Biao prides himself on being a junior and is busy pouring wine for everyone. Li Dan opened his mouth and asked Yang Dayi to have a cup first, and when he saw him get up and hold the cup, he said:
"Yang was down, and he had to meet nobles and brothers, buy clothes for me, settle the next place (hostel), and recuperate horses.
The carelessness is full of gratitude, and there is no way to repay it. This glass of wine is a toast to you, and the coarse people who can't speak are all in this wine! After saying that, he raised his head and drank first.
Everyone applauded, followed to drink and eat vegetables, and saw the guys bring the dishes and soup made by Li Dan himself, and they all applauded.
Especially the chrysanthemum tofu, which stunned everyone.
The wine is hot, and the cups and plates intersect. At this time, Li Dan looked at Yang Yi, he saw that he understood, and while sandwiching a piece of steamed pork with Yang Dayi, he asked casually:
"Brother Yang, you and I have the same surname, fortunately! I will consider you a brother. I don't know what my brother is for, how did he come all the way to our small place, and how did he get trapped here?
I just heard that you mean to come out on a mission, but my brother is from an official family? ”
"Hey, it's okay, it's not."
"How?"
So Yang Dayi told his story.
It turned out that Yang Dayi's family was the most ordinary boatman, and his parents were both supporting boats and ferrymen on the river ferry, and their lives were barely passable.
When he was ten years old, the flood (Li Dan's father died) was a country in his hometown, and the people's lives were difficult.
There happened to be a monk who took his boat to Linqing, and the child had a lot of strength, so he discussed with his parents that he was willing to pay ten taels of silver and take Yang Dayi to be a layman disciple for ten years.
The so-called lay disciples, eat and live in the master's place, do not have to shave their hair, and can often come back to visit relatives, and after ten years, no matter what you learn, you have to go down the mountain and return home.
At that time, there were ten taels of life-saving money, and the careless father turned around and looked at the three younger children behind him and nodded, so Yang Dayi picked up the master's cage and followed him up to Wutai Mountain.
In the past ten years, he not only learned physical martial arts, but also became literate under the guidance of his master, and also read a lot of history books and classics.
In the tenth year, the master said that you have completed your studies, and I will let you go down the mountain as promised, but you need to remember that I taught you this skill, not to ask you to return to your hometown to farm, fight in the fields, and beat up the rich man at the entrance of the village, but you must find an opportunity to become a soldier, and you will be able to be a good general.
Yang Dayi listened to the first half, but he didn't believe the second half. When he went to the house, he saw that his younger brothers had grown up, and his sister also said that they were home, but his parents died one after another in the first year.
He thought about it for a long time, and the next day he called his two younger brothers and began to teach them boxing and kicking, and after two months he carried the burden on his back, handed over the ferry business to his younger brothers, and went to the north himself.
He originally planned to go to the capital to see if he could replace a certain Wuxun disciple to infiltrate the forbidden army and learn something.
Who knew that before he left Cangzhou, he encountered the official army and the salt bandits fighting, and was directly involved in the battlefield. In the chaos, Yang carelessly rescued several officers and cut down seven or eight fierce bandits.
After the battle, I learned that one of the people who was saved by him was the Qianhu Lord of the Changlu Salt Field Guard, and because of this, he got a letter of recommendation, and he went to Baoding to join the guerrilla general as a personal soldier.
Later, the Koubian people of the Kerr surrounded Weipingbao and defeated the Pingyuwei reinforcements, and the Shanxi Xingdu Division asked for help from the imperial court, and the Baoding Dusi was ordered by the military department to transfer part of the troops to aid Shuozhou under the leadership of the guerrilla general, and as a result, he participated in the battle of Jingping and the battle to recover the Pingyuwei.
After the battle, the Baoding soldiers were supposed to go back, but their guerrilla generals could not leave because of their injuries. After suffering for more than two months, some of his relatives finally escorted his coffin back to his hometown.
However, Yang Dayi was selected by the general Luo Shiying, and wanted to keep him in the army to be a calming down hundred households (specializing in military discipline and supervising wars).
Remembering that the master said that he could be a general, Yang Dayi felt that the opportunity had come, so he agreed to stay.
Next, he followed Luo Shiying to Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi to quell the rebellion, and recently because of the Tatar Koubian, General Luo was transferred back to Datong again.
As a result, Yang Dayi bumped into the general's cousin in a burglary atrocity case! Yang Dayi is not stupid, he thinks that I will tie you up to see the general, and how to send it is a discussion between the two of you.
Who knew that the buddy didn't appreciate it at all and started to resist, but when Yang carelessly stopped, the person had already been pierced with three holes, and he couldn't survive.
General Luo didn't say anything when he saw the corpse, but only told him to go back and restrain his subordinates.
That night, the cousin's subordinates suddenly made a noise, and after General Luo suppressed the crowd, he called him and said, "You see that this situation is not easy to handle, and you can't do this suppression at least."
I just want to find someone to go back to my hometown to send something and a letter to my family, you can run this trip for me. said to the outside world that you were taken as a personal soldier and sent on a long business trip, otherwise I wouldn't be able to explain that you killed your peers.
Once back and forth, the cold and summer alternate, maybe this stubble will pass, come back and continue to do well, there is always a chance, how?
Yang Dayi listened to it and felt that what the general said was reasonable, and it was really like this. Wouldn't it be nice to hold people down at that time? This is indeed to blame for their mishandling.
Now either find a subordinate to calm down the brother and come out to take the blame, and if you don't want to do this kind of unwilled thing, you have to bear it yourself. He agreed to General Luo's suggestion.
The general asked him to pick a good horse from the captured horses overnight, and gave him a reward of fifteen taels of entanglement, and Yang carelessly took his leave and set off.
Listening to him talk about this, everyone sighed and regretted.
"Brother Yang, it turns out that you also did the first time to pacify hundreds of households?" Gu shouted.
"It's not the first time," Yang Dayi smiled: "I left that night, and I still had a waist card on my body, and I didn't see any dismissal documents issued by the military secretary office when I left."
So, ......, I should still be in this official position now. As he spoke, he took out a bronze medal from his bosom and handed it to him.
Gu Da didn't know much about it, so he glanced at it twice and handed it to Li Dan.
When Li Dan took it, he saw that there were words on both sides, one side of the cloud head flying tiger stripe was "Zhenfu Hundred Households", and the back was "Guangxi Guiyang Counselor General Zhenfu Soldiers Carried, Lost and Questioned, Borrower and Borrowed with the Same Crime, Entry and Exit Can't Help It".
The bronze medal was handed over to Yang Yi and returned to Yang Dayi, Xiao Yi said: "In this way, General Naluo treats his brother really well." ”
"I'm afraid not necessarily." Li Dan smiled.
"Why did Saburo say that?" Yang was stunned, and everyone's eyes were also over.
"This General Luo must be a strategic person after a hundred battles, and he must be familiar with the world when he fights in many places, and he knows his brother's personality very well."
After Li Dan finished speaking, he looked up at Yang Dayi and asked, "Does Brother Yang know what he asked you to bring home, in addition to the peace letter?" ”
"This ......," Yang Dayi looked at the people around him a little embarrassed: "It's not that I can't believe the brothers, this burden has never been opened when it is handed to me." ”
"Brother Yang is really a believer! Can the general tell you what's inside? Gu Da asked.
"This is natural!"
"Brother Yang, don't misunderstand, I don't have anything else."
Li Dan shook his hand: "If the general tells you what's inside, my brother has been out for more than two months, traveled thousands of miles, and has encountered thieves on the way, hasn't he taken inventory?"
Wouldn't it be ...... if there was a mistake in the stuff and you were still in the dark now, and you handed it over to others like this when you got to the place? ”
"Oh, that's true!" Yang carelessly slapped his braincase! He immediately got up and went to the table behind him to take the burden in his hand.
Li Dan walked up to him and said softly: "None of us are coming, Brother Yang, you first check whether there is any difference in the baggage." Maybe I'm thinking too much? With that, he returned to his seat and sat down.
Yang Dayi thought about it, turned his back to everyone and opened the baggage to look at it carefully, and finally laughed out loud and said, "It's all right, there is no shortage of things!" ”
"Then it's just a matter of checking the letters." Li Dan said.
Yang Dayi's face changed a little: "This ...... Not okay? This is a family letter. ”
"Brother Yang doesn't have to worry. If the letter is just a general's family matter, everything will be closed. The younger brother is willing to make amends to his brother. But if ...... There are words in it that are not good for my brother......? ”
"San Lang, are you sure? What kind of person is a general, he wouldn't do such a thing, would he? Gu Da frowned and said.
"Hmph, that's hard to say! There are few good officials in this world! Liu Hongsheng shouted: "I think it's not too much to think of them dirty!" ”
"What does Brother Dan mean by suspicion that the general sent Brother Yang to his hometown, and then designed to frame him?" Yang Yi asked.
"Exactly. His cousin was killed, and grief and sadness are human nature. Li Dan spread his hands and said, "But what did you hear Brother Yang say?"
He didn't say anything at first, not even complaining. But then there was a night of uproar, and it was he who came forward to calm down.
His cousin should live with him or next to him, right? Wouldn't Brother Yang go back to deliver the letter in danger of falling into the tiger's mouth?
So I asked Brother Yang to check the contents of the baggage, and if he didn't do anything with the items, it might be in the letters.
The general knew that Brother Yang was a believer, and knew that he would not open the letter to read, so what if he wrote two sentences? Maybe when he sees the letter in his house, he will be bound up.
Who can find out if someone died thousands of miles away? As long as the army reports a flight or a violent death, everything will be fine! ”
These words made everyone dumbfounded, and they all looked at Yang Dayi. Yang Dayi's face was ugly, and he said for a long time: "But, I can't open the letter?" ”
The letter was sealed with fire paint, so it was difficult to dismantle, and if it was not done well, it would leave traces. His statement really stumped a few people.
Yang Yi thought about it and slapped the table: "I'll go find Sai Kuixing and his wife, they know a lot of people, maybe there is a good way!" Li Dan suddenly ordered him to go quickly.
Saikui star Han An was originally a showman, but he was later imprisoned by someone and lost his fame, and his family was ruined after he was released from prison.
He relied on his ancestral medical skills to enter the Su family in Renli Lane, married Su Siniang, who returned to the family after divorce (divorce), and continued to run the inn business with her.
Han An is good at calligraphy and painting, and is good at appreciating ancient products, and he got the nickname of "Saikui Xing" in Yugan, and he is famous.
His wife Su Siniang is as bold as a man, and she was disliked by her previous in-laws, but she is actually very neat and capable.
He also made a pair of two-foot rolling pins, and three or five men could not get close to him, so he was called "jade-faced yaksha" behind his back.
The couple was pulled by Yang Yi and listened to the general situation as they walked.
When I went to the restaurant and saluted everyone, I saw it, and then I asked Yang Dayi to show the letter, the two of them looked at it together for a while, the two looked at each other and nodded, Su Siniang turned around and asked:
"San Lang, are you going to open this letter without leaving a trace?"
"Exactly, if there is nothing wrong, it needs to be sealed as it is, so that no one can see the fault." Li Dan replied.
"It's not difficult, you don't need others, just my husband and wife. Bystanders need to get out of the way. Han An said.
"Make!" Li Dan looked at Yang Dayi again and said softly: "It's still the same as just now, the letter is opened, and my brother will watch it himself." If nothing happens, Mr. Han will return it. Can? ”
Yang sighed carelessly, but nodded for peace of mind.
Li Dan and the others all returned to their positions, and Liu Hongsheng asked the men to bring fire candles, tweezers, and rice according to Han An's instructions, and then everyone looked at him and his wife with their backs to everyone for a while.
After a while, Han An turned around and carefully placed the letter paper on the table, and the two of them came to sit at the round table and watched Yang Dayi read the letter with everyone.
Li Dan saw that Yang Dayi's face suddenly turned pale, and he knew that there must be something wrong with the letter, so he hurriedly gave Xiao Yi a look. Yang Yi went over and grabbed his arm and asked softly, "How is it?" ”
Yang Dayi covered his face with his hands, sighed and handed the letter to Yang Yi: "Look." ”
Yang Yijiadao had read books for five years before the fall of the road and knew some words. He took it. Take a look, scold:
"This dog officer! As San Lang guessed, he instigated his family to get Brother Yang drunk and then tied up a stick and beat him to death! ”
"What? There's still no king's law here! Gu got up, stepped on the stool, and slammed his fist on the table. Liu Hongsheng and Li Biao also scolded.
Li Dan waved his hand to quiet everyone in the room, and stepped forward to say to Yang Dayi, who was depressed and bowing his head:
"Brother doesn't have to be like this, it's good to meet our brother. With everyone here, you don't have to worry, no one can harm you in this spare place! ”