Dangyang is just a small county town, which can be regarded as a barren place. In such a bitter position, if the means of being an official are not very old-fashioned, not only will they not be able to reap the benefits, but they will even have to fill in some of the land scraped elsewhere. There is also a disadvantage here, the surrounding mountains are high and dense, and there are many bandits and bandits. These gangsters are numerous and powerful, roaring back and forth, except for not daring to blatantly attack Dangyang County, the robbery of houses and roads is commonplace.

There are also garrisons in the city, and more than 50 old, weak, sick and disabled people just reflect the face of the imperial court. Usually collect money and food, take a chicken and dog thief, but also fierce and vicious, as for going out of the city to suppress bandits, that is absolutely undare.

But I don't know how many generations of yin virtue have been accumulated in Dangyang County, but there is another big person. Now the smash hit in the court, the servant of the side of the road, that is the close minister who often plays the right role with the Son of Heaven, is a family born in Dangyang. Not in the scholar clan but can be in a high position on his own, in today's terms, it can be said that it is rare. Such an encounter between monarchs and ministers has become a conversation among students from poor families in the world, and the servants over there have naturally become the leading leaders of this group of characters.

The border servant grew up in Dangyang, and since he ate the rice and water here, he had a constant incense feeling. With such a weighty villager in the DPRK, the people of Dangyang County will naturally live more confidently. As the saying goes, the Son of Heaven also has a few poor relatives, and the relatives are naturally one person who has ascended to heaven.

As a result, the three consecutive terms of Dangyang Zhixian failed to complete their terms, and half of them lost their official positions in a daze. The reason is nothing more than that a local letter was sent to the border house of Jinling City, and the content was just that the local officials were in the fish and meat township, or they indulged in banditry. When Bian Fu received the letter, how could he have the effort to go into detail, but since it was a matter of his hometown, he had to have an explanation. Then another corner of the official document was issued, together with the original letter, and sent to the Imperial Historical Tower. Lord Shizhong is the backbone of that class of gossip officials, and his official affairs naturally cannot be neglected, and there are people who are in front of the emperor.

Therefore, when Yangzhi County has become a place for those officials whose rank is above and below the seventh grade, they all spend money to ask for vacancies;

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The name of the mountain around Dangyang is Zhuma Mountain, and according to legend, Emperor Taizu of the previous dynasty raised troops here to make a fortune. Whether the rumors are true or false is unknown, after all, hundreds of years have passed. But it is true that Zhuma Mountain has always been a place where soldiers must fight, and it is true that when it was pushed forward for 50 years, the south was still the former dynasty, and this was the border with the Northern Wei Dynasty. Later, there was a scholar born in the famous marshal Yu Shiwen Yu Shaobao, who pushed the border north for more than 300 miles, if it was not for the early death of illness, it is difficult to say what the current pattern of the world is.

Yu Shaobao also set up a large camp on the side of Zhuma Mountain, in order to facilitate the transportation of grain and grass equipment, opened a side road outside Dangyang County, crossed Zhuma Mountain, and shortened the footsteps of Henghai County in Shannan and Luyang County in Shanbei by more than 300 miles. The Northern Expedition was unsuccessful, but this path remained, which can be regarded as Yu Shaobao's little shadow for the counties in the north of the Yangtze River. Although the road is now in disrepair, it cannot withstand the trampling of horses by large groups, and the passage of small caravans on a single horse, as long as they can pay enough money to buy the road, can save a few pennies more than taking the thoroughfare to the west.

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At the end of the year, the heavy snow for more than ten days and nights finally stopped, the long-lost sun also showed its head, the small county town was a little warm, and the market gradually became lively, and there was also a scene of the New Year's Festival.

As the proverb goes, Laliu does not move, which means that in the middle of the year, the month of Laliu and June are not suitable for moving. Although I don't know where it came from, word of mouth has been passed down for a long time, and there is finally a reason for him. However, there are also those who do not believe in evil, or perhaps there is a last resort, on the first day of the winter moon, a new family moved to the county seat of Dangyang.

There are not many people in this family, just two of them, both of them are around forty years old, and they look like people who are used to living a poor life. The house is rented in the east of the city, and the owner is a local old family, turning seven or eight up and ten turns, and he is also a relative of the servant over there.

The people in the small town are not hospitable, and there is always some curiosity, so some of them go to gossip with the man who rents the house. The man was dressed as a scribe, always dressed in a long robe, and the washed was white, and the corners were torn in many places, but he was clean. Although he is not very talkative, he does not reject people thousands of miles away.

After a few days, the residents in this area generally understood that the new tenant of Lao Chen's family, surnamed Wu, was a teacher, although he had never been lifted, but he also had a reputation for being a talent. In the first few years, at the invitation of the deceased, I found a good museum in a state town in Henghai County, and I also lived a few years of leisure. Who wants to offend the local party with the same surname for some reason, not only cut off the source of money and food, but also has a problem in the local foothold, and in desperation, he moved to Dangyang County in this season of the emperor of Layue.

So the locals called him Wu Fuzi.

Because of the border attendants, in addition to liking to compete with the magistrates, the people here always have more awe for ordinary scholars. This Wu Fuzi is a scholar, but he is just a showman, so he can't talk about the fear of words, and he still has a little bit of respect. So the neighbors who are quite simple in folk customs, especially the head of the household, Lao Chentou, will often let the mother-in-law of the family fry a few dishes of side dishes, and then sell a pot of old wine, and go to the small courtyard to invite Mr. Wu to sit down.

Usually scholars disdain to drink and chat with ordinary people, and the people do not dare to take the initiative to talk to readers. But with Bian Dao, a model of reading in the world, the people of Dangyang are also bolder, and Mr. Wu is not as high-minded as the average scholar, and he is also kind when he sees his neighbors, although it may be a little because of the current Luotuo, in general, he is still close to people.

When you are invited, you naturally want to invite back, and you will get acquainted with each other as soon as you come and go. Lao Chen, a common man, is clumsy in the end, and what he turns over and over is nothing more than whose second daughter-in-law does not abide by women's morals, and the pork in today's market is more expensive than yesterday. Wu Fuzi taught his students to the point, but he was not good at small talk, so the two of them drank more and talked less. However, neither of them is very good at drinking, so after a few glasses of old wine, the strength stimulates the conversation, and the conversation gradually increases.

As for how to offend the local wealthy family at that time, it was a taboo for Wu Fuzi, no matter how much old wine he drank, he would never mention it. Although the old Chen Tou couldn't recognize a few big characters, he still knew the general situation, and asked faintly, but was prevaricated by Wu Fuzi in other words, so he stopped mentioning it with interest. However, once it comes to children, the green face that Master Wu is always worried about will always be rarely stretched, and his cloudy eyes will also brighten due to drinking too much old wine.

Old Chen Tou knew that Wu Fuzi and his family also had a daughter, who was only fourteen or fifteen years old this year, and had been following him all the time. Now that she is about to leave the cabinet, Wu Fuzi sees that it is estimated that it will be difficult to return to Jiangnan in the short term, so she sent a letter to her to Dangyang to get together, and it is good to choose a good family here in the future. The letter was sent away more than two months ago when Wu Fuzi was still in the southern state city, and it was decided to move to Dangyang and let the girl come here to pick it up. Counting the time, it is estimated that he can arrive in the next few days, and Wu Fuzi's mouth has been guarding the city gate all day long, waiting for his daughter.

Listening to Wu Fuzi's tone, the little girl is the heart of the old couple, and now she hasn't seen her for a few years, so she naturally misses it tightly.

"Mr. came out of the house, naturally everyone is beautiful, and the appearance and talent must be excellent. The prince who is looking for him in the future must be a big official. Rush this, this glass of wine cleared. After pouring a large glass of cheap rice wine, Lao Chen Tou thought of the stupid girl of his own boss, and didn't know if he would be able to marry a good family in the future, with envy in his eyes, but he was secretly worried in his heart.

"Overdosed, overdosed. That girl, she has been pretty good since she was a child. As for the talent, I can't talk about it, but I have followed me since I was a child, and I have learned a few words, and I have not been around for the past few years, and I don't know if it has been deserted. Wu Fuzi picked up the wine glass, his body shook a little, but he drank it all without hesitation, but his eyes became brighter and brighter.

It was night, and there were two more drunk men in Dangyang Town.

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