Chapter Twenty-Three: Fools Get Out of Adultery
In the ten miles and eight towns in the east of the city, Zhang Langzhong's medical skills are some doorways, but no matter who comes to seek medical treatment, if he has no money to see a doctor, he will be rejected. If Zhang Langzhong is not rescued tonight, his mother may not survive until dawn. Da Kui hated himself for being stupid, why couldn't he learn the medical skills of the second senior brother Kongzi after five years in the mountains, if he understood the medical skills, he would not be desperate today.
I don't know how my mother is doing now, but I thought of my mother Da Kui standing up and rushing home. When I entered the courtyard gate, there was silence in the courtyard. The oil lamp in my mother's room was still on, and I didn't hear a cough.
Da Kui secretly screamed badly, and rushed into his mother's room in three steps and two steps. Da Kui was stunned to see his mother's eyes, and there was a pool of blood at the corner of her mouth. His hands were clutching at the clothes on his chest, and he was lifeless.
In the silence of the night, a cry resounded through the heavens and the earth. Da Kui hugged his mother's corpse and cried, and the movement of Da Kui's house alarmed the neighbors. First Ge Ye came, and then the neighbors before and after. Everyone advised Da Kui to mourn, and the neighbors didn't leave that night. accompanied Da Kui until dawn, Da Kui also cried until dawn, and Da Kui cried three times in one night.
At dawn the next day, the village servants came to examine the body. The villagers helped set up a mourning hall, Da Kui knelt in front of the spirit for three days and three nights to keep a vigil for his mother, and on the fourth day, everyone helped Da Kui bury Da Kui's mother.
Da Kui's mother was buried, and Da Kui knelt in front of the grave and wept silently, at this time he could no longer cry. His eyes were red and swollen and his face was filthy, and he was unrecognizable. The villagers persuaded for a while, and Ge Ye said: "Tell Da Kui to stay by himself, everyone should disperse." Ge Ye and the villagers went home separately.
When the villagers left one after another, Da Kui muttered to his mother's grave: "Mother, our family has been poor since I can remember." Dad died young, you worked in the fields during the day, and you washed other people's clothes at night, and you never enjoyed it. As soon as there is white flour at home, you will give me pancakes to eat, and you will eat corn and dry food in the field yourself. I've been out for five years, and you've endured all the hardships at home, and you haven't touched a penny of the money you've left for you. said it was for my daughter-in-law, mother, do you know, I saw the corn food next to your pillow, my heart was broken... Back then, Brother Tang said: The son wants to be filial and his relatives are not there, which is the greatest pain in the world. Now that I have the ability to support you, you're just leaving. I'm left alone..."
The autumn wind rose again, and a whirlpool blew a few yellow leaves. Not far away, the small river is gurgling all the way to the west, and the sound of the murmuring water tells the joys and sorrows of the world. Da Kui lay down on the edge of the grave, as if next to his mother. Closing his eyes, in front of his eyes was his mother's old voice and smile, and Da Kui gradually fell asleep. He was tired and tired. The autumn wind blew on his body, as if to soothe the pain in Da Kui's heart, just like his mother's gentle hand.
Late at night, when the second watch was approaching, Da Kui came to the door of Zhang Langzhong's house with a fine iron flat in his hand, and the door that he reached out to knock on was 'popping'. Zhang Langzhong heard the sound outside the door and came out of the house to get dressed and came to the door, and looked out through the crack in the door to see that it was Da Kui, and suddenly felt that the situation was not good. I couldn't help but embolden myself, and asked sharply: "Da Kui, what are you going to do? My son Zhang Bao is the captain of the Jeju City Defense Soldiers and Horses, if you dare to mess around, I will pull you to see the official and put you in prison." β
Da Kui didn't say a word, took a step forward and kicked his foot on the door. There was a 'click' and the deadbolt snapped in two, and a door panel flew into the courtyard and landed on the ground with a loud bang.
Da Kui walked towards the courtyard, and asked as he walked, "Why don't you save my mother?"
Zhang Langzhong was so shocked that he stepped back again and again: "Da Kui." You heard the third uncle say that saving people is a favor, and not saving is a duty. You don't want to hate your mother's death on the third uncle. β
Da Kui said step by step: "My mother is dead, and I am alone now." In the future, I will go up to the mountain to be a bandit, and it is my duty to kill people. As he spoke, he took out the dried wild boar gall from his bosom and said, "If you want this pig gall for you, you can take it and compensate my mother." After speaking, he threw the pig gall in Zhang Langzhong's arms, where did Zhang Langzhong dare to take it, and let the pig gall roll to the ground.
Da Kui's eyes were red at this time, and he picked up the fine iron flat pole with both hands and smashed it into Zhang Langzhong's head. Da Kui has practiced martial arts, and his shots are naturally fast and ruthless. Zhang Langzhong couldn't dodge it, so he only let out a scream, and then he was smashed and died on the ground.
Da Kui killed someone, but he was not afraid. He turned around and went out with his shoulder. Zhang Langzhong's daughter-in-law heard the movement in the house early and was so frightened that she didn't dare to come out. It wasn't until Da Kui walked for a while that he opened the door tremblingly and poked his head out, and saw Zhang Langzhong's corpse by the moonlight, and suddenly screamed, 'Poof' fell to the ground and fainted.
Da Kui returned home and sat on the edge of the kang for a while. I was thinking in my heart: 'Now that I am alone, where should I go??' Go to Jiangnan to join Brother Tang?But Jiangnan is so big, where to find it' Da Kui suddenly remembered that Brother Tang had said that he would go to Cangxian to find Liu Futong, and if he found Liu Futong, he would know where Brother Tang went.
Thinking of this, Da Kui immediately got up, packed a few clothes, took all the money from the family, and went out to look back at the family he had grown up in. In the end, he went out with a heavy burden and a flat burden.
Da Kui went out and walked all the way north, and looked back after walking for a short time. The village is already brightly lit, presumably because of Zhang Langzhong's death, which caused chaos in the village. Da Kui knew that someone would chase him after him, and he really couldn't bear to leave his homeland like this, but he didn't want to be sent to the government for questioning.
Da Kui knelt on the ground in the direction of the village and said, "Mother, I'm leaving." You bless your son in the spirit of heaven and find Brother Tang safely. I'll come back to see you when I have a good day. After saying that, he kowtowed three times on the ground, stood up and ran north. Dae-kyu kept running north, until dawn, and he was already hundreds of miles out of Jeju's boundary.
Along the way, Da Kui met people and asked Cangxian how to go, and it took two more days. Da Kui arrived in Cangxian County, all the way to the county seat, Da Kui found a restaurant to sit down, ordered two bowls of noodles and devoured them. Inadvertently heard the diners at the next table talking about the Red Turban Army, and Da Kui pretended to listen casually.
"Have you heard? Jiangbei Bozhou has been captured by the Red Turban Army."
"Which rebel army is it?"
"I heard that it was Liu Futong's team, and after they occupied Bozhou, they established Han Lin'er as the king of Xiao Ming, and the country was called the Great Song Dynasty. β
"Who is Han Lin'er?"
Speaking of this, Han Lin'er is really pitiful, and he followed Liu Futong to kill before he was weak. His father used to be the leader of the Northern Rebels, and his surname was Han Mingshan Tong, and laterβ" The lobbyist said this, taking a sip of his wine glass. Seeing that his companion just listened, he urged: "Quick, drink the wine, if you don't drink it, I won't talk about it." β
Seeing him say this, his companion hurriedly took a sip of the wine in the cup and swallowed it, and then urged: "Brother Li, go on, I'll drink it." β
Only then did this Brother Han continue: "If you want to know the details, you have settled the money for this meal." β
Da Kui was anxious when he heard this, and immediately shouted: "Man, the meal money at the table next to me is worth it." Hearing this, the two brothers at the next table couldn't help but look at Da Kui together.