Chapter 7: The Burning of the City Gate

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the day of revenge to finally come.

On this day, Wang Xun, Yun Shangzhong and others gathered more than 2,000 people, held high two banners, wrote "burn the county hall, capture Huang Liyou alive" ten big characters, held all kinds of equipment, carried guns and cannons, and each person had a bundle of dry firewood.

The county governor Huang Liyou was so frightened that he quickly ordered someone to close the city gate and defend it strictly because he got the secret report in advance, but he cowered in the county office in a panic and did not dare to show up.

When Wang Xun's army came to the city, when he saw that the city gate was closed, he couldn't help but be angry, and he couldn't stop shouting and scolding. From noon until the sun turned west, Huang Liyou didn't dare to open the city gate, only the five-colored flag on the city gate was fluttering alone and showing off.

Seeing that it was getting late, people were even more excited and angry. At this time, Wang Xun gave an order, only to see Yun Shangren roaring, rushing out of the crowd with a torch in hand, ordering someone to lift out the cannon, turn the muzzle, and aim at the flagpole, "boom" is a cannon. The flagpole snapped off on the spot, and the five-color flag immediately burned and flew down.

The crowd suddenly cheered, and Wang Xun hurriedly commanded everyone to light the dry firewood around them and threw them to the city gate. For a while, the wind borrowed the fire, the fire borrowed the wind, and the fire rushed to the city gate in an instant, and the entire city gate tower suddenly rolled thick smoke, and the fire soared into the sky.

The fire crackled, burning until late at night in the noise of everyone, seeing that the city gate and gatehouse were all destroyed, Wang Xun's army played a triumphant song and returned to the camp.

A few greedy guys took advantage of the chaos to run to the Maosheng Pavilion in the south of the first road of Xumen, stole a few fried buns, and hurried back.

Some righteous squires in Lijin County have long been dissatisfied with Huang Liyou's tyranny, and after burning the city gatehouse, they took the opportunity to jointly write a letter to report Huang Liyou's various bad deeds such as arson, poisoning the people, collusion between officials and businessmen, and storing grain for personal gain; He also tried his best to praise Wang Xun, Yun Shangzhong and others when they were in a famine, and took the initiative to open a warehouse to release grain and provide relief to the victims, which was really a righteous act, and the burning of the city gate was also out of righteous indignation. After verification by the Provincial Council and the Provincial Overseer, Huang Liyou was removed from his post and investigated, and the rest of the people were offset by their merits and demerits, and they were no longer pursued.

When the people of Lijin heard the news, they beat drums and gongs, fired salutes, and celebrated all over the city. The people who hated Huang Liyou hung the couplets on both sides of the city gate, "Three thousand punishments will be endured, and seventy forgiveness will be swum in hell", and the horizontal batch of "moral and political plaques harm the people and thieves" was hung in the middle of the city gate; In addition, he asked someone to carve a kneeling statue of Huang Liyou holding an ingot, hanging a silver dollar, and the base was written with several big characters of "Huang Liyou, a thief who harmed the people", and placed it in the place where the people peed at the head of the school gate on Chengdong Street, and ridiculed Huang Liyou to the fullest.

When the news reached the camp of Wang Xun's army, the camp was full of jubilation, and when everyone was excited, they raised their glasses to celebrate. Yun Shangzhong was drinking with everyone, and suddenly saw the third brother Shangren running over, saying that there was something important to urge him to hurry home.

When Yun Shangzhong rushed to the house in a hurry, he learned that it was his daughter-in-law Qian Wanhong who was about to give birth to an eight-pound fat boy. It can be said that double happiness is coming, and the Yun family is very happy.

Later, the child was named Yun Zirong, nicknamed Bajin.

Early in the morning of the 12th, the old lady Yun Shan and Yun Shangzhong were arranging the celebration of wine in the hall, when they suddenly heard a noisy sound of dogs barking and sheep barking at the courtyard gate, and they were surprised and hurriedly ran over......

I saw that inside the threshold, the old child Lao Siyun Shangai had a red face, full of sweat, pouting, hands on his shoulders, and was struggling to pull two ropes to the door, and the two fat goats outside the threshold were stretching their necks, withdrawing their bodies and sitting back, baating, and barking, and the big black dog on the side wagged its tail and jumped, and roared twice from time to time......

Yun Shangai is the eldest son of Yunhe, and the Shangzi brothers are the fourth. is more than ten years old, but he doesn't grow tall, he is a dwarfism patient, his intelligence is normal, and he looks like a child who can't grow up, so everyone calls him an old child - this makes Yunhe and his family very worried.

As soon as they saw the situation at the gate of the courtyard, everyone couldn't help laughing, the old child blushed more and more, and when they saw Shang Zhong coming, they took the opportunity to stuff the rope into Shang Zhong's hand, and pretended to be angry and said: "Add a vegetable ...... to you."

After saying that, he picked up the big black dog and ran away with a jump.