At the end of the procession of Suzhou guards escorting the gangsters, a fat monk followed, wanting to sneak into the barracks.

At the beginning of the country, the officers and soldiers still maintained a high degree of vigilance, and discovered this shining bald head in the dark night in time.

"Where did the monk come from?" However, the officers and soldiers guarding the gate were also taken aback. If he is allowed to get in, they will all be beheaded.

By the very least, he had succeeded.

"Arrest him!" Annoyed and angry, the officers and soldiers shouted and rushed forward.

"Slowly, donors, listen to the poor monk." Unexpectedly, the fat monk was actually an unusually flexible fat man.

While dodging the arrest of the officers and soldiers, he explained: "The poor monk Fa is called Daoyan, and he is a friend of His Royal Highness the King of Chu. ”

"Oh?" Although the officers and men did not believe it, they did not dare to believe it rashly. So he surrounded him and hurried in to report it.

After a while, a waiter from the Chu Palace's mansion came out, holding on to the thick lenses and looking at them. "Yao Guangxiao, is it really you?"

"Oh, Mr. Guanzhong, isn't it just a little monk?" Dao Yan smiled all over his face and shook his fat hand vigorously. "Let me in."

"I'd better come out." Luo Guanzhong looked at the hot scene inside, and decisively took Dao Yan to the outside of the barracks, a tavern specializing in unloading.

~~

Entering the tavern, the two of them picked up a secluded corner and sat down.

Luo Guanzhong ordered a few plates of pig water, and made a pot of wine, and then drank a cup with Monk Daoyan and said:

"Didn't you place an order in Beijing, why did you go back to your hometown again?"

"Oh, I put an order in Beijing to find an opportunity. Now that there is an opportunity in my hometown, of course I have to come back quickly. Daoyan took a sip of wine, put a chopstick on the intestines, and sent it to his mouth to chew carefully, only to feel crispy but not rotten, fragrant but not greasy, and he couldn't eat the smell of pig water.

"I haven't eaten this bite for several years, and the large intestine is wrapped around the small intestine. It's really nostalgic. The fat monk looked intoxicated, and his triangular eyes narrowed into a line.

"Is it so delicious...... Luo Guanzhong put a chopstick on his intestines, looked at it for a long time, and still didn't dare to put it in his mouth.

"If you don't taste it, how do you know?"

"I don't want to know." Luo Guanzhong rolled his eyes and said, "What do you want to do?" ”

"The poor monk said, at the moment when Suzhou is in danger, the poor monk should solve the disaster for his hometown." Dao Yan said with a straight face, and said with a smile on his face: "Of course, the poor monk is also a little selfish - he wants to take the opportunity to show his face in front of His Royal Highness the King of Chu. Brother Guan Zhong is nostalgic for the old, and he will definitely help me introduce him, right? ”

"I'm sorry." Luo Guanzhong shook his head resolutely and said, "Liu Bowen told me to take a good look at His Highness and not let you get close to him." ”

"It's too much." Dao Yan said pitifully: "You all have official positions and have eaten the emperor's food." The poor monk still doesn't even have a place to go. You don't pull your old friends one by one, and you don't go up to the house anymore, right? ”

"Isn't this all self-inflicted? Learn what is not good, learn to teach rebellion. Luo Guanzhong took a sip of rice wine and said, "I can't let you take our Highness badly." ”

"Wronged." Dao Yan shouted and said: "The poor monk just wants to have a formal establishment, and he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life." Besides, Your Highness, do you still use people to bring it to the ground? ”

"......" Luo Guanzhong thought of the 'obedience test' that the sixth child had done to him, and suddenly felt that what Dao Yan said was right.

That's a bad seed, how can it be bad?

"It's useless for you to tell me this." Luo Guanzhong smiled apologetically: "Now Mr. Qingtian is my boss, he said to keep you away from His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and I can only do it." ”

"Okay......" Dao Yan was depressed for a long time, and Fang didn't say angrily: "That poor monk changed to follow the path of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, Liu Bowen won't care about it, right?" ”

"I don't think so." Luo Guanzhong shook his head indifferently, he was just entrusted by others and loyal to people. I don't have any ill feelings towards Dao Yan. "If you just want to be an official and a half-job, King Jin is a good place to go. He will be a vassal next year, and there are no monks in the palace yet. ”

"Alas, forget it, the third is not interesting over there." When Dao Yan heard this, he was deflated and said: "He is too smart and has too many ideas, and he will not obey the words of the poor monk." ”

"That's what you said, is it stupid to be in line with our Highness?" Luo Guanzhong doesn't like to listen to it.

"That's not what the poor monk meant." Dao Yan sighed and said, "Can't you really be accommodating?" ”

"I can't." Luo Guanzhong shook his head resolutely.

"Alas......" Dao Yan couldn't help but sigh and said: "It's really 'the road is like a blue sky, I can't go out alone'." ”

"Hey, the road is up to nine heavens." Luo Guanzhong's comfort was a little pale and said: "Guangxiao, times have changed. You don't need that dragon slaying technique now. Put it down, let it go, and you will think that the world is wide. ”

"Poor monk, I want to try again." Dao Yan shook his head, put the half-full wine jug and the rest of the sausages into his sleeves, and said, "Thank you for your hospitality, the poor monk will come back again." ”

Luo Guanzhong nodded, looking at his departing back. Suddenly, I understood why Liu Bowen was so jealous, this fat monk who was forty years old and had achieved nothing......

Without it, you can't go crazy, you can't live.

~~

The next day, Suzhou Chengguan Front Street was crowded.

On the high platform erected by the government overnight, a row of executioners wrapped in red cloth and with tall chests and bellies stood there holding ghost-headed knives.

In front of the executioner, knelt a row of prisoners with large ties and faces as if they were ashes.

The leader is that Xie Yunzhang.

In the audience, there are still a large number of prisoners waiting to be beheaded......

Officials of the prefect's yamen read aloud the names and crimes of the perpetrators.

The big families who conspired in Lu Yuan that day, as well as the gangsters and ruffians who instigated the citizens' riots, were basically wiped out.

There is no way, the big families are all soft bones, and under the torture of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, they all confessed 1510.

The citizens of Suzhou have a relatively high level of education and can understand the charges read by the officials on the stage.

When they heard that their livelihood was embarrassed at the beginning of the year, it was actually caused by the big families who deliberately did not start work in order to put pressure on the imperial court......

My heart was all cold all at once.

They actually naively thought that the old men were fighting with the imperial court for their good and for the sake of the whole of Suzhou.

It turned out to be all for themselves!

But what made them most angry was that the old men admitted that in order to force the imperial court to revoke the city and implement the sea ban, they actually colluded with the Japanese and plundered the coastal people!

Is this still human? Is this what people can do?!

"Bastard!" I don't know who started first, and the citizens bent down to pick up the clods on the ground and threw them at the old men on the stage.

"We treat you as ancestors, what do you think of us?!" The citizens were furious and scolded.

(End of chapter)