The one hundred and seventy-fourth round: Hongmen Night Banquet
The void is clear, and the love and gratitude are gone. Li Wenyan held a banquet to entertain Cui Ningxiu, and his master Shao De accompanied him. The mountain dishes are wild and miscellaneous, and the three of them push the cup and change the lamp, and they are drunk and happy. Li Wenyan and Shao De tried their best to flatter, and they boasted nonsense for a while, making Cui Ningxiu's praise foggy and forgetful.
Cui Ningxiu was drunk and confused, laughing at Li Wenyan, he patted his chest and swore to Li Wenyan that with him in charge of the Chinese army, the little people would never dare to make a mistake, so that he could rest assured and boldly prepare for the construction of the ancestral statue.
It's good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and with Cui Ningxiu's guarantee, Li Wenyan is getting bolder and bolder, and he is also acting arbitrarily. Those who donated unfavorably and delayed the delay were all convicted and sent to prison by him. And Cui Ningxiu, a fierce horseman, was poured a stomach full of yellow soup by Li Wenyan, and said a few stinky sycophants, but he was willing to listen to his drive. The two thieves acted in caustica and colluded, turning Yunxian upside down.
After removing the "stumbling blocks", all the lake stones and blue bricks were loaded onto the ship, and Wei Zhongxian's ancestral hall began to break ground. Li Wenyan and Cui Ningxiu, two thieves who tended to be inflammatory, blindly urged the work to work regardless of the life or death of the stonemasons, and the number of people who died due to unbearable labor was not only hundreds. It is because all the people are angry and every man is angry.
When the news of the ancestral hall reached Funiu Mountain, the minions rushed to tell each other and discussed, Ma Wanli heard about it, and he was angry, shouting that he was going to go down the mountain and give Li Wenyan a look. Chen Tianba was afraid that he would cause trouble and was arrested by the government, so he insisted on refusing to let him go.
Although the woodcutter Li Kui had to be rescued by Ma Wanli and retrieved a life from the Ghost Gate, Ma Wanli robbed the Dharma field, and the matter was serious, Li Wenyan posted pictures and figures, and ordered Li Kui to be arrested everywhere.
Bu Laosi and Li Kui in the neighboring village met each other when they were young, Li Kui was desperate and temporarily went to Bu Laosi's house to hide, who knew that Bu Laosi harbored evil intentions, and after Li Kui was drunk, he went to the county government at night to denounce it. Li Wenyan took a quick arrest and put Li Kui on death row. The next day, a verdict was made.
It is embarrassing to make friends carelessly, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Bu Laosi's lack of virtue in betraying friends for glory soon spread. The street discussion is everywhere, and the storyteller arranges it into a book and publicizes it in the tea shop restaurant.
Bu Laosi has now become Li Wenyan's minions, dogs' legs, this person has bad water in his stomach, arranging eyeliner everywhere, and the supervisors of the people's every move, Wei Zhongxian has a big east factory, and he Bu Laosi himself also has a small east factory. With Bu Laosi, who is a tiger fighter, Li Wenyan doesn't have to bow down to everything, he has to work hard, as long as the evil dog is on the line, everyone is in danger.
Ma Wanli was extremely bored on the mountain, and from time to time asked his minions to go down the mountain to find out the news, and bring him new things to relieve his worries. On this day, Ma Wanli was drinking alone again, and a minion hurriedly ran to him, Ma Wanli saw him looking panicked and asked him what happened?
The minion replied to Ma Wanli in a trembling tone, Li Kui, the woodcutter he saved the day before yesterday, had been beheaded by the county commander Li Wenyan. Hearing the bad news, Ma Wanli was grief-stricken, although the two met in Pingshui, but they were like each other at first sight, Li Kui was honest and upright, Ma Wanli liked him in his heart, he himself was also a rough and bold person, and he had a sense of sympathy.
Ma Wanli's eyes widened in anger and gritted his steel teeth, and he asked how Li Kui died? The minion told him that a villain named Bu Laosi had recently come to the Yamen, and it was said that he was Li Kui's son, and it was this person who denounced Li Wenyan, so Li Kui was sentenced to death.
"How can it be justified? What is the use of such a ruthless and unrighteous thief staying in the world?" Ma Wanli thundered and became furious, and slapped the white jade porcelain cup into a mess with one palm, and then he got up in his clothes and strode outside.
In the middle of the night outside, the minions saw that he was going out, and stopped Ma Wanli on the grounds that the owner of the village had an order. Ma Wanli pushed his cross arm and threw the minion to a stumble, and then flew into the sky and disappeared into the vast night.
After entering the city, it is already a closed house, Zhuang Shengxiaomeng, a huge county town, where to find the figure of Bu Laosi, a thief. Looking for him thousands of times at night, when Ma Wanli was helpless,
A watchman knocked on the bangzi and walked over, Ma Wanli flashed over, pushed the watchman to the depths of the alley, the watchman was so frightened that his knees were weak, Ma Wanli told him that he had no malicious intentions, and he entered the city to find a thief named Bu Laosi.
The watchman nodded, and pointed forward casually: "Good man, that big house with lights is the home of the fourth concubine of Bu Lao, and the little one saw him enter with his own eyes." ”
Ma Wanli took out a piece of silver from his arms and stuffed it into the arms of the watchman, and before he could react, Ma Wanli performed light skills, like a monkey climbing, and flew on the roof of the mansion. Then he jumped and dived into the hospital.
A man and a woman in the house flirted and laughed, Ma Wanli was angry, kicked the door of the house, and walked straight in. Bu Lao held a saber in his fourth hand, the toad's eyes were round and rolling, and he said to Ma Wanli: "Dare to thief, dare to run to Bu Ye's house to steal, eat the bear's heart and leopard gall." As soon as he spoke, he jumped forward with an arrow, and swung his saber towards Ma Wanli's head.
Ma Wanli bent down to dodge the knife, and then shifted his position with a lightning and fire-like body move, he used his grappling hand, tightly choked Bu Laosi's wrist, and then took advantage of the situation to make a move to return the favor, reversed the blade, and gave Bu Laosi a knife. Bu Laosi screamed "ah" and fell to the ground with his head up. The woman on the side hurriedly walked out of the door, Ma Wanli Jinpeng spread her wings, and ambushed her with one palm.
There is a wrong, and there is a debtor. Ma Wanli avenged Li Kui, and he wrote on the snow-white wall: "If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, and Ma Wanli, a good man in the green forest." After writing the words, Ma Wanli came to the county office again, found a trunk with a thick bowl mouth, and broke the statue of Wei Zhongxian standing on the street.
The next day, when the yamen ordered Mao, Li Wenyan shouted three times in a row, but Bu Laosi did not respond. He hurriedly sent the catcher to check on Bu Laosi's homestead, and found that Bu Laosi and his concubine had been dead for a long time.
Then he saw the handwriting on the wall, and was horrified, and hurriedly ran back to the county office to report to Li Wenyan. When Li Wenyan heard this, his face changed dramatically in fright. However, what he didn't expect was still to come, and he quickly told him that the statue on the street had been damaged.
This matter is like a thunderbolt from the sky, Li Wenyan's soul is not possessed, if this matter is known by Wei Zhongxian, he will definitely be punished for the crime of unfavorable affairs, this is really a slap on the horse's hooves.
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead from time to time, and his eyes were dull.
Master Shao De whispered in Li Wenyan's ear, and Li Wenyan woke up like a dream. He hurriedly prepared gold, silver and jewelry, and took a sedan chair to find Cui Ningxiu. It turned out that Li Wenyan wanted to make an offensive and defensive alliance with Cui Ningxiu, only saying that the thief Ma Wanli had bad intentions, this time he openly made trouble with Li Kui and obstructed the construction of the ancestral hall.
Take people's money and eliminate disasters with people, after Li Wenyan said the strategy, Cui Ningxiu hit it off, and now the two are grasshoppers on a rope, and only by hugging together can they get through the difficulties. At this time, the master Shao De offered a plan from the side, and he told the two that the paper could not contain the fire, as long as they reported it to Wei Qiansui.
Li Wenyan was worried that Wei Zhongxian would be demoted, so he hesitated.
Shao De told him that it was reasonable for Ma Wanli to attack Ma Wanli's Shuizhai thief's nest and Ma Wanli's hatred and revenge. The second thief nodded, thinking that Shao De's analysis was very reasonable, Li Wenyan prepared the letter and sent someone to rush to Beijing and hand it to Wei Zhongxian.
The old thief sat in the mansion with a spring breeze on his face, and used his old hand to read the drawings of the ancestral hall submitted from all over the country, and he grinned and laughed non-stop, and was dreaming of yellow sorghum. Li Wenyan's letter, after Wei Zhongxian saw it, he jumped three feet high, he gritted his teeth and said: "It's Ma Wanli again, how can he be so ghostly, tell Li Wenyan that he can't get Ma Wanli, let him come to see me." ”
The messenger went back resignedly, Li Wenyan was really angry when he saw Wei Zhongxian, he didn't dare to disobey Wei Zhongxian, and immediately came to the camp in a hurry to find Cui Ningxiu, Cui Ningxiu looked calm and relaxed. He told Li Wenyan that he had long wanted to do something to the cottage, and his younger brother Cui Chengxiu looked down on him like him, saying that he was a wreck who only drank too much. Then Cui Ningxiu grabbed Li Wenyan's collar, and asked with spit flying around: "Master Li, am I a wreck?" Li Wenyan's eyes flashed with a strange smile, and he told Cui Ningxiu that he was invincible, won every battle, and made Cui Ningxiu very useful.
Cui Ningxiu laughed wildly for a while, and saw Li Wenyan holding a letter in his hand, his expression was full of sorrow, Cui Ningxiu was illiterate, and asked Li Wenyan what he said in the letter, Li Wenyan replied to him, it was Wei Zhongxian who urged us to arrest Ma Wanli. Cui Ningxiu laughed and said: "My father-in-law is really discerning, this time I want to make a beautiful turnaround." After that, he pulled the letter from Li Wenyan's hand, returned to the camp to beat drums and gather generals, and discussed the choice of a day to attack Funiu Mountain.
Cui Ningxiu's subordinates are all disciples of the fly battalion, and when they talked about how to attack the cottage, they discussed it for half the night and didn't say that they were ugly. Cui Ningxiu held the golden silk saber in her hand and said to the generals: "What's so great about the grass kou, tomorrow the third watch will make food, the fourth watch will set off, beat the drum and move forward, and step on Funiu Mountain." ”
The straw bag generals under his subordinates were all happy, and they kept praising Cui Ningxiu for his loyalty and bravery, and he looked even more fluttering, I don't know why. Cui Ningxiu was reckless and reckless, but Chen Tianba was prepared for danger in times of peace, and always sent people to monitor Li Wenyan's every move, especially when he knew that Ma Wanli went down the mountain after getting drunk and made a big fuss at the county government, Li Wenyan would never give up.
Things were as he expected, Cui Ningxiu led a team of men and horses to advance towards Funiu Mountain with murderous spirits.
The patrol minion hurriedly informed Chen Tianba of the matter. Chen Tianba strategized and vowed to beat Cui Ningxiu, a thief, to the point of running away to frustrate Wei Zhongxian's old thief's spirit.