Chapter 47 The Liu Family Caravan
On this day, around Shenshi, the sky over Qiyang County was full of red light, like a fire that ignited the sky. www.biquge.info The reason why I knew that it was a caravan was because the soldiers guarding the city had seen it, and the three-legged golden crow was the family emblem of the Liu family in Fengxian County, and I often came to Qiyang County to buy seafood in the past few years. Once, there were still branches of their family in Qiyang County. Later, because of the problem of banditry, it was revoked.
Seeing the Liu family's caravan again today, Kang Xing's excitement is indescribable. He said to another soldier, "Hao Mian, you are waiting here, and I will report to your lordship." Kang Xing got off the city wall and rode a fast horse to the county office. At this time, the prefectural magistrate was playing a game of hide and seek with the maidservant girl in the study. "Xiaohuan, don't hide, the master has seen you. The study was abruptly pushed open. The county commander was so frightened that he thought it was the dominatrix who came to check the post again! Hurriedly took off the blindfold, knelt down on his knees and said: "Madam Mingjian, it's all this maid bastard, who came to seduce me, and I was fascinated by her for a while, and fell for her." ”
An Ran looked at him with disdain and said, "My lord, Madam didn't come!" Deng Chao raised his head and saw that there was only the master, so he got up busily, patted the dust and said, "Master An, are you guilty?" An Ran said: "The lower officials don't know." Deng Chao said angrily: "You entered my room without permission, and I now suspect that you intended to murder Lord Ben?" An Ran ignored Deng Chao's anger and scolded: "You idiot, you know how to eat, drink and be merry all day long, Mrs. Deng let me watch you before going to my mother's house, don't make a mistake about yourself." ”
When Deng Chao heard this, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Master An, don't be angry, I'm just joking with you." Master An said: "I don't have time to joke with you, the soldiers guarding the city Kang Xing came to report that a caravan came to my county today." Deng Chao squirted a sip of the tea he had just drunk on the ground and said, "What did you say? There was a caravan in the county?" Master An said: "Exactly, it is still the Liu family caravan that came to my county a few years ago." Deng Chao stomped his feet back and forth in the study, obviously very unsettled, "Do you think they will find out our secret?" "Probably not, we are so secretive." ”
For a while, news of a caravan coming from the city spread. Yuelai Inn was overcrowded for a while. "The county order is here" shouted, and the crowded crowd consciously gave way to a road. A fat-headed, big-eared man who looked like a marshal of the canopy came out of the sedan chair, and the people knelt down in unison and shouted: "The grass people have seen the county commander." Deng Chao pressed his hand and said, "Get up." "The money shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn heard the sound outside and hurriedly came out to check.
Seeing that it was the county order that arrived, he knelt down to greet him, Deng Chao held the money shopkeeper and said: "This county, I heard that there is a caravan in the city, and now it lives in your place?" Deng Chao said again: "But the caravan of the Liu family?" said the shopkeeper Qian: "Exactly, the leader is the horse steward who came to our county three years ago to choose a site and open a shop." ”
Deng Chao said with a serious face: "You have to entertain them well, this may be the distinguished guest of my county." The money shopkeeper said: "Don't worry, I have made arrangements." Deng Chao said: "It's getting late today, the county will no longer bother, and ask the money shopkeeper to inform the horse steward tomorrow, and come back another day to talk about the past." Deng Chao turned around and left. "Greetings to your lords".
The shopkeeper saw that he had sent away the county order, and hurriedly reported to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, a few days ago, I encountered a strange thing?" The shopkeeper said: "What is the strange thing?" That day, I was sitting in the lobby, and suddenly a rich Taoist priest came, and the Taoist priest was dressed a little gorgeous and peculiar? The shopkeeper said: "What's strange?" The shopkeeper said: "The Taoist priest was wearing a dark gold robe, and there was a little starlight on the robe, as if it was inlaid with thousands of gems, but it was not. That day, the weather was sunny and there was no rain, but he was holding a blue umbrella and a blood-red sword on his back. It looks a little nondescript, and when he left, he disappeared in the blink of an eye, and he once said that the bandits outside the city were killed by him. ”
After listening to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper said: "Your kid is lucky, that person may be a high-ranking person, your kid's fortune is not ordinary! By the way, can he tell you his origin?" The shopkeeper said: "He said that his Taoist name is Moyang, and he is a native of Dongsheng Shenzhou." ”
The shopkeeper said: "I can't be wrong to think about it, Dongsheng Shenzhou is only a long way to go, and there are countless dangers, ordinary people can't walk." Besides, the arrival of the caravan today proves that his words are true. You continue to look at the store, I left beforehand. ”
The next day, in the early morning, another rumor flowed out of the city, saying that Qiyang County was favored by immortals, and the bandits outside the city had been eliminated. At three o'clock, Deng Chao led Master An to the Yuelai Inn to see Ma Guanshi. Deng Chao said: "Brother Ma, you and I haven't seen each other for three years, have you lost a lot of weight?" Ma said: "Brother Deng's eyes are still so sharp, looking at Brother Deng's face, I think I've had a good time in the past three years!"
Deng Chao said: "Brother Ma, I don't know, my figure is really natural, in the past three years, the plague of bandits has made it difficult for me to sleep and eat." Speaking of this, I also want to ask Brother Ma, didn't you meet bandits when you came?" Steward Ma replied: "Coincidentally, my road is unimpeded and there are no bandits. After hearing this, Deng Chao's expression was a little dazed. I don't know what I'm thinking.
Seeing this, Master An secretly stepped on Deng Chao and said, "That's really gratifying, I don't know what goods the horse steward has brought here?" Deng Chao said yes again and again. Steward Ma said: "I have come here to bring cloth from neighboring counties, pastries from Lanji Fang in Fengxian County, rouge from Mohe County, glass cups from Beihai and many other goods. ”
Deng Chao said: "There are many kinds and there are options. Deng Chao chatted with Master An and Steward Ma for a while, and when he left, one of them took a box of golden guns and pills. In the next few days, the horse steward discussed the distribution and price of the goods with the major shopkeepers in Qiyang County. And said that he would come again in a few days.
After Deng Chao and Master An came back from the horse steward, they hurriedly sent a few carrier pigeons to contact the bandits outside the city, but there was no news. Master An and Deng Chao were arrested on charges of colluding with bandits to seek money and intent to rebel. and appointed a young rookie to be the county magistrate of Qiyang County. People put up lanterns and set off firecrackers to celebrate.
The people were grateful for Moyang's merits, and learned about his appearance from the second child of the Yuelai Inn, so they raised funds to build a temple for him and create a statue of a god. Huang Hong, who was far away on Penglai Island in the East China Sea, had a sense when the temple was built, and gave a wisp of divine consciousness to attach to it, giving it spirituality.