Chapter Ninety-Six: Visiting the Countryside
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Now the accommodation is to find another house, and there are still Sun Donghai's family members in the Pingyang Mansion, Da Kui doesn't want to see the mother-in-law crying and rushing to trouble him.
Yang Xiaohu came back, but he was depressed. Seeing this, Da Kui asked the reason, but Yang Xiaohu just didn't say anything. Wait for two more days in Pingyang, and there will be nothing to worry about beheading Sun Donghai. But seeing Yang Xiaohu's depressed appearance, Da Kui couldn't help but get angry in his heart. At that moment, he held back and asked in a cold voice: "What is going on? You can't even deceive your father-in-law?"
Yang Xiaohu saw that his father-in-law was angry, so he said that he had passed the basketball fire.
It turned out that when Yang Xiaohu was young, his mother had ordered a baby for him, and the two children grew up as childhood sweethearts, and it was time to get married.
Yang Xiaohu's mother couldn't afford to fall ill due to water and soil, and died not long after. Poor Yang Xiaohu has just turned fifteen years old, wandering the rivers and lakes alone. Later, Yang Xiaohu joined the army and followed Da Kui to block the west and kill until now, and finally returned to his hometown in Pingyang, Shanxi, and the girl who didn't want to marry Yang Xiaohu had become his wife.
Hearing this, Da Kui not only laughed, but also stopped laughing after a while: "Why does the eldest husband have no wife? Xiaohu must not take it to heart." ”
Yang Xiaohu said in tears: "This is the family affair that my mother set for me, and I am sorry for my mother." ”
Da Kui got up and came to Yang Xiaohu, patted Yang Xiaohu on the shoulder and said: "Xiaohu, relax, with your appearance and character, if you want to find a daughter-in-law, you must also be a lady who knows how to read and write." After a pause, Da Kui continued: "This matter is wrapped up in my father-in-law, and I will tell you a good family matter." ”
Hearing his father-in-law say this, Yang Xiaohu was relieved. But then he remembered something, and hurriedly said: "It is a good thing for the righteous father to punish the evil and help the poor, but if he really kills Sun Donghai, I am afraid that there is something wrong." ”
Da Kui not only smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Yang Xiaohu thought for a while and then said: "Sun Donghai, as the Yin of Pingyang Mansion, is naturally appointed by the imperial court. Now if he is punished for dereliction of duty, it is still excusable, but if he is killed, he is suspected of overkill, and he hopes that his father-in-law will think twice. ”
Da Kui walked to the window, looked at the spring garden through the window, and said leisurely for a long time: "Emperor Taizu worked hard to lay down this great river and mountain, and in his early years, when he was appointed as the political envoy of Jiangnan for his father, he inspected the bad deeds of hundreds of officials. Later, Emperor Taizu issued an edict, and all officials in Jiangnan who had ten taels of bribes were beheaded, which shows the emperor's intentions. After a pause, Da Kui continued: "There is no back garden in the emperor's palace, and there are not so many exotic flowers and plants. Even the vegetables used in the imperial dining room every day are planted by the emperor and the harem ladies, how can this scene not make the courtiers feel grateful?"
Turning his head and seeing Yang Xiaohu's puzzled face, Da Kui said: "The emperor's words and deeds are setting an example for the courtiers, why is this? Those who are diligent are diligent in government and love the people. Thrifty, anti-corruption and protection. If you govern a big country, you will cook small and fresh, and you will become thrifty and lose because of luxury. Looking back at the rise and fall of the past dynasties, they all prospered with the people and died with the people. The deceased were greedy and luxurious, and the people were overwhelmed, and the natural officials forced the people to rebel. It is an eternal truth that water can carry a boat and capsize a boat, and it is good to be diligent and self-controlled. ”
Yang Xiaohu heard what his father-in-law said so much, not only scratched his head and muttered: "My father-in-law said so much, what does it have to do with Sun Donghai? If my father-in-law really killed Sun Donghai, if the officials knew, how could they give up?"
Da Kui laughed coldly: "Sun Donghai died on the 'lack of diligence', Pingyang profiteers and inferior gentry are in trouble, Sun Donghai is arbitrarily indulgent, and his crime should be punished." After that, he bowed his head and pondered for a moment, and then he instructed: "Give you an errand for your father, sort out the confessions of the inferior gentry and the people's complaints, and then write a report for your father and send it to Zhongshu Province." ”
Yang Xiaohu scratched his head and asked, "Do you want to go to Shuntian Mansion?"
Da Kui nodded and said, "When you arrive at Shuntian, you can go straight to King Yan's Mansion and hand over the table and other things to His Royal Highness King Yan for the latest chapter of the savior of the fairy world." ”
"Huh?" Yang Xiaohu's head grew when he heard this, and he couldn't help asking: "How noble is His Royal Highness King Yan, the palace must be heavily guarded, how can the child see His Royal Highness King Yan?"
Da Kui said: "You can go with your father's waist card, and His Highness's guards will definitely not stop him when they see the waist card." ”
Yang Xiaohu nodded and promised, Da Kui immediately prepared, and before noon, Yang Xiaohu had already ridden the black wind and went straight to the east.
Two days later, at noon, the banks of the Fen River were crowded.
The officers and soldiers blocked the water around the execution ground, and the onlookers could only stand outside a limited circle to watch the excitement. For more than a year, the people of Pingyang have suffered misery but have no way to complain, today the dog official Sun Donghai will be beheaded, and the people have come to watch each other, and the city of Pingyang at this moment is afraid that there are thousands of empty streets.
Da Kui sat down on a high ground, and before the execution, he ordered someone to escort Sun Donghai to the prison beheading platform and asked, "Sun Donghai, what else do you have to say?"
Sun Donghai said bitterly: "When Sun first arrived here, he was weak, and even if he learned that he was bullying the people, he could only ignore it. Now the adults want to question me, and Sun confesses!"
When Da Kui heard this, he not only smiled and said: "You are still a bachelor, don't you know that if there are more officials like you, won't the people of the world suffer from them?"
Sun Donghai didn't speak again, and turned around and walked towards the prison platform.
It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and the heads of the people under the order fell, and everything went according to plan.
Pingyang Mansion has no Fu Yin, and Da Kui wants to find someone to temporarily replace him. At the moment, the county magistrate Baozheng and others from the surrounding counties and townships were summoned to discuss how to deal with future political affairs, who would have thought that someone would dare to delay his arrival. Da Kui was a little angry in his heart, and he asked others carefully to learn that the person who had been delayed was called Zhao Yongnian's character Fangda, who was a former dynasty and had been the chief bookkeeper of Pingyang Mansion. After the Ming army occupied Pingyang, this Zhao Yongnian also hid back in his hometown 'Pillow Township'. Zhao Yongnian is quite decent, and he is also well-known in Shili and Eight Townships, and later became the Baozheng of Pillow Township.
Knowing that this Zhao Yongnian was a person from the previous dynasty, Da Kui had some expectations in his heart. Since it is natural to have some ability to lift people, if his character is passable, it is not a good thing to ensure that he is the governor of Pingyang Mansion.
The plan was decided, and Da Kui told the others to stay in Binh Duong Mansion for three days. Then he only took one guard and disguised himself as a mountain citizen to go to Pillow Township.
Pillow Township is located in the northwest of Pingyang Mansion forty miles, after Luliang Mountain is the Pillow Township.
Left and right are not in a hurry, Da Kui is dressed in green clothes and riding a mule, and his guards pretend to be porters, and you travel westward. When I came to Pingyang, I walked around Zhongtiao Mountain, but Luliang Mountain was the first time to come back. I saw the peaks and peaks undulating, sometimes towering and precipitous, sometimes continuous and long, sometimes the mountain springs surging birds and beasts running, the strange pines and strange stones are dizzying.
A pot of wine and a pack of braised pork, Da Kui watched the scenery while eating and drinking, it was really a living fairy-like free and easy.
The guard carried the burden and asked as he walked: "My lord, I went to visit that Zhao Yongnian on this trip, but I don't know who he is? ”
Da Kui stretched out his sleeve to wipe the wine stains from his mouth and said: "As everyone knows, people who read are a little arrogant, and some people must be invited." The terrain of Pingyang City is dangerous, but it is a place where soldiers must fight, and it is not appropriate if there is no virtuous and virtuous person to sit in charge. ”
The guards not only smiled: "Now my Ming army is rejecting Liaodong in the north and Bashu in the south. This Pingyang is the land in the belly, even if there are no virtuous people to guard it, why not?"
Da Kui couldn't help but reprimand: "It's all nonsense." ”
The guards followed Da Kui's mule and just walked, but they didn't dare to say a word when they heard Da Kui's rebuttal.
Da Kui thought for a while and then said: "The border pass is important, but if the land in the belly is completely defenseless, once the border pass city is broken, isn't it too late to make up for it?"
When the guards heard this, they muttered: "General Xu Da commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, and now he has driven that Kuangkou Timur to the desert arctic wilderness. It is expected that there will be no more war in the northland, how can my lord worry about the sky?"
Da Kui was a little angry when he heard this, but he thought to himself that he was out on patrol at the moment, and he had to walk for a few hours on the road, so why bother with this guard.
"Well, I said. Da Kui looked back and greeted.
Seeing this, the guards hurriedly took two steps to Da Kui's mule, and Da Kui waved his hand and said, "Don't be so restrained. ”
The guard smiled and said, "You are an adult, and the small one naturally has to obey the call." ”
Da Kui shook his head and said, "At this moment, you and I are pretending to be people, so you don't have to be like this. After thinking about it, Da Kui continued: "Now we have to change our name, you call me Fifth Brother, and I call you Little Sixth Son." ”
"Huh?" the guard's eyes widened when he heard this, and his mouth couldn't close.
Da Kui said angrily: "Why are you so unconscious? fake, understand?"
The guard nodded, and then said: "The little one naturally knows that it is powerful, but now there is no one, how can the small one be abrupt?"
Da Kui glared at the guard, pretending to be angry and said, "Call like this first, when you get to the ground, you will be able to open your mouth and show the stuffing." ”
"The little one understands, the fifth brother can rest assured. The guard was also clever, and immediately changed his tune.
Da Kui nodded with satisfaction, he had been walking for most of the day, so he had to find a place to settle down first. Where do you stay in this barren mountain and wild mountain? Pingyang City is said to be 40 miles to Pillow Township, and it will take a day to walk. What's more, Da Kui is riding a mule at the moment, so he is naturally extremely slow.
After another journey, I saw that it was getting dark, and when I turned around the foot of the mountain, I saw curling smoke in the distance.
Da Kui rode on the mule, pointed to the distance and said, "Let's go quickly, there is a village ahead, where we will rest tonight." ”
The guard Xiao Liuzi was full of promises, carrying the burden and trotting all the way behind Da Kui's mule, and arrived at the entrance of the village when it was only tea.