293. King Xiang did a lot of evil
Feng Niang saw that Du did not forget to pull her sleeves to prevent herself from leaving, so she was naturally a little puzzled, so she asked:
"Don't forget what you want to do?"
Du did not forget to reply:
"It's okay, I just wanted to tell you a secret!"
Feng Niang looked at the bed with curiosity and said:
"What secret, don't forget what you said?"
Du Cheng said:
"I've actually gotten traces of what might be Huang Yishou from the second concubine!"
Feng Niang immediately said:
"Then why didn't you tell the White Lotus?"
Du did not forget to smile and said:
"He doesn't care about my life or death, of course I have to be angry with him!"
Feng Niang also laughed and said:
"You don't even look at how old you are, how old she is, and you still have the same knowledge as her!"
Du Cheng Cheng said:
"Didn't I just beat her up at the age of ten? He's nineteen, not young!"
Feng Niang also glared at Du Niang and asked:
"Then are you going to tell the White Lotus?"
Du Cheng Cheng said:
"Yes, you tell her that the tattoo painted by the second concubine is Zhuge Caolu, which was told to me by the second concubine herself, there should be no mistake in this, and she doesn't want to mention other things!"
Feng Niang said:
"Then I know!"
Then out of the Du do not forget the room.
Early the next morning.
Du Buyi, White Lotus, and Feng Niang left Xiangwang's Mansion and went to the location of Zhuge Caolu, dozens of miles away from the city.
Since the three of them were relatives of Xiangwangfu at this time, naturally the soldiers guarding the city did not dare to search.
The three of them arrived at the place where the grass house was located at noon after asking around, but they didn't expect that this was just a simple grass house pavilion, nothing else, and the other side was the mausoleum of the White Lotus's grandfather, King Xiang Jian.
A few people rested at the Caolu Pavilion, and just as the White Lotus was going to take this opportunity to visit her grandfather, the two accompanied the White Lotus to the gate of the royal tomb.
At this time, a group of officers and soldiers were guarding in front of the door, and the white lotus stepped forward to clearly explain her identity, and the officers and soldiers guarding the door asked carefully, and then let the three of them in.
After the three of them entered the cemetery, when they entered the Xiangjian Palace, they met a strange old man, although the old man was sweeping the floor outside the Hall with a broom, but his eyes were always staring at the stele tower, as if there was something on the stele tower that attracted the old man.
Du Yi couldn't help but be a little curious, so he stopped, walked over and asked the old man who was sweeping the floor:
"Uncle, what are you looking at!"
The old man read directly:
"Once the sea was a mulberry field, but now the grass house has become a stone building, it's a pity, a pity!"
didn't wait for Du to ask again, and the old man left without looking back.
Du did not forget to come over at this time and said to the White Lotus and Feng Niang:
"This old man is really inexplicably strange!"
The White Lotus then said:
"Wait, I seem to have something in mind!"
Du did not forget and said to the White Lotus:
"Then you hurry up!"
White Lotus touched her head and said:
"Didn't the old man just now have a sentence that the grass house turned into a stone building? I remember that the place where Zhuge Caolu used to be was where my grandfather's stele tower was, and the current grass house pavilion was rebuilt by later generations!"
Du Yi did not forget and asked:
"What's going on here?"
The White Lotus preached:
"I heard that the place where the stele tower used to be was the grass house where Zhuge Liang studied before he came out of the mountain, and the descendants kept it for a few years until more than 40 years ago, but who would have thought that my grandfather, that is, the king of Xiang at that time, fell in love with this place!"
At this time, Feng Niang said:
"Then your grandfather must have demolished Zhuge Caolu and turned it into his own mausoleum!"
白lotus says:
"That's right, so I think the grass house on my second aunt must be this stone building!"
Du did not forget to look at the stone building behind the palace and said:
"The stone building is just a monument building, how can it live in people!"
Feng Niang says:
"Let's go to the stone building and have a look!"
Then the three of them went up a step together, and walked around one side of the steps to the stele pavilion on the second floor of the stone building, only to see that there was nothing else on the stone floor except for the aisle below, the stone stele above and the incense case in front of the stone stele, let alone someone who could live here.
At this time, the old man who swept the floor just now suddenly came up and asked Du Buzhi and a few others:
"Since you have come to worship, why don't you go up to incense?"
Bai Lian immediately came over to the old man at this time and said:
"I almost forgot, I haven't incense my grandfather yet!"
He took the incense table, lit the incense sticks in front of the tablet, and bowed a few times in front of the stone tablet.
At this time, the old man suddenly asked the White Lotus:
"Little girl, what did you just say? You are the granddaughter of this old Xiangwang?"
The White Lotus replied:
"Yes, my mother is my grandfather's third daughter, Zhu Shuhui!"
The old man said:
"It turned out to be the daughter of the three county lords!"
白lotus says:
"Exactly, I don't know how long you've been guarding the mausoleum, uncle?"
The old man replied:
"I've forgotten how long I've been here!"
Then he glanced at Du Forgetfulness and said:
"Little brother, I think you also seem to be a righteous person, I don't know if you know what this old king did back then?"
Du did not forget to reply:
"How do I know, uncle, you can degrade!"
And the old man began to speak.
It turned out that the old Xiangwang Zhu Jianshu was evildoer, rampant in the township, not only occupying the people's fertile land everywhere, but also often killing the people near Xiangyang City for no reason, and the old man's parents died at the hands of the old Xiangwang.
At this time, after listening to this, the White Lotus said to the old man with some anger:
"My grandfather has been dead for so many years, I think you are here to guard his mausoleum, why should you slander him so much?"
The old man smiled bitterly and said:
"This is not my old man framing and slandering the old Xiangwang, if you don't believe it, you can go to the nearest nearby old man of the same age like me to ask if I am slandering others!"
White Lotus was angry, and pulled Du Buyi and Feng Niang and said:
"Let us go out and ask the people of this place, and if this old man dares to slander my grandfather, I will not spare him. ”
So a few people began to find some elderly people in the neighborhood and asked one by one, some of the people were hesitant to speak, and some of the words were more intense than the old man's criticism of the old Xiangwang for poisoning the township, and none of these people praised the old Xiangwang, and even the current Xiangwang's insults were endless.
White Lotus also understood at this time that her grandfather was really what the old man said, and when he came back to the old man, he didn't say much.
Du did not forget to ask the old man at this time:
"Uncle, have you heard about the theft of the treasury of King Xiang's mansion?"
The old man suddenly smiled and said:
"I've heard that this is retribution, and I just hope that those ill-gotten gains can help some poor people!"
Du didn't forget to hear it, and quickly asked again:
"Uncle, how do you know that the stolen silver has been used to help the people?"
The old man replied:
"I don't know. ”
Then he walked away without looking back.
Feng Niang said on the side at this time:
"It seems that we should leave this silver theft alone, it seems that this is a blessing to the poor people!"
White Lotus, who hadn't spoken for a long time, heard Feng Niang's words at this time, and walked over and asked Feng Niang:
"Sister Feng'er, why do you say that?"
Feng Niang replied:
"Listening to the uncle's words, he has already told us that the silver has been relieved for the poor people, of course, there are kind-hearted people who rob the rich and help the poor to do good things for the people!"
After the White Lotus "hummed ......" a few times, she said:
"Even if he robs the rich and helps the poor, he can't do this, he emptied my uncle's money and gave it to the poor people, but it also provoked the entire Xiangyang City to be under martial law because of his bank theft, and now the people in the city are inconvenient to travel!"
Du Cheng said:
"I also wanted to do such a chivalrous thing before, although it can make people happy for a while, but it actually harms other people, and it is really difficult to tell right and wrong in this world!"
Feng Niang says:
"Don't forget, you're just too soft-hearted, everyone is good, and sooner or later you'll hurt yourself!"
White Lotus then said:
"Brother Du, don't forget, we are mainly looking for Huang Yishou, in fact, the theft of the palace silver has nothing to do with us, and you know what I care about!"
Du did not forget to say:
"Of course I know, White Jade Lotus!"
Then he said to the two:
"You go to the gate of the cemetery and wait for me first, I'll go find the old man and find out some news!"
Feng Niang says:
"Good!"
He pulled the white lotus, who seemed to be a little unhappy because he knew that his grandfather and uncle were both harmful to the party, and walked to the cemetery.
Du did not forget to look around in this cemetery for a few laps, and finally found the old man on the side of the Yixiang Palace.
At this time, the old man was wiping the dust on the wall outside the hall, and when he saw that Du was coming, he asked:
"Little brother, are you okay?"
Du Cheng Cheng said:
"I want to know the news of a person, I don't know if you can tell me, uncle!"
The old man looked up at Du Forgetfulness and asked:
"Little brother, you can ask whoever you want, I think you are also a good person, I won't hide anything from you!"
Du did not forget to be happy in his heart and said:
"Then thank you, uncle!"
Then he asked:
"Uncle, have you ever heard that there was once a thief named Huang Yishou on the rivers and lakes?"
The old man smiled and said:
"You mean the flower thief Huang Yishou?"
Du Buyi also smiled and said:
"Yes, exactly!"
The old man stopped what he was doing, stepped aside and sat down, and then said:
"I don't know the flower thief Huang Yiyi, but I do know an infatuated Huang Yiyi!"
Du did not forget to hurriedly ask:
"Why do you say he's infatuated?"
The old man motioned for Du to sit beside him, and then said:
"This Huang is a joke, he has loved two women in his life, one is a vain person, and the other is someone else's concubine, do you say it's ridiculous?"
Du Cheng said:
"I've also heard that Huang Yishou was rewarded with five thousand gold for stealing the belly pocket of Tatar Dayan Khan's favorite concubine for the vain woman who loved it!"
Old man says:
"I didn't expect you to know a lot, so do you know the next thing?"
Du Cheng Cheng said:
"Isn't it like the second princess of King Xiang later?"
The old man said:
"No, no!"
And then he spoke.
After Huang Yishou received a reward of 5,000 gold, he found someone to transport the cart of gold back to Qiao'er, a woman who loved vanity, and Qiao'er was naturally excited when she saw Huang Yishou come back with the 5,000 taels of gold.
So Qiao'er asked Huang Yishou to buy this and that for himself all day long, everything wants the most expensive and the best, time is impermanent, no matter how much gold there is, there will be a day when it runs out, when Qiao'er knows that Huang Yiyi's gold is all spent, he took the opportunity to climb up to a big businessman nearby, and hooked up with this big businessman.
After Huang Yishou found out, he was naturally angry, so he killed Qiao'er and the big businessman in a fit of rage, and then fled to Xiangyang City, changed his name and surname, and wandered around the land of fireworks in Qinglou all day long.