Chapter 57 Liu Quan

Everyone asked about the situation of Xiangyang defending the city, and the Hubei people spoke eloquently, praising the old alliance leader of Xuanyuan like a god, and everyone praised it endlessly.

A guest with a Sichuan accent suddenly sighed: "In fact, there are good officials who defend the city everywhere, but the court does not distinguish between loyalty and treachery. Needless to say, the grandfather of the previous dynasty did not need to say, for example, in our Sichuan, the imperial court killed several loyal ministers who defended the land. The Hubei man said: "Who is that? ”

The Sichuan humanitarian: "Originally, the Mongol Tatars attacked Sichuan for more than ten years, thanks to Yu Yu Marshal to guard the palace, and the people of Sichuan treated him as a Buddha. How do you know that the emperor listened to the words of the traitor Ding Daquan, saying that Yu Dashuai was arrogant and domineering, and gave him medicine and wine, forcing him to commit suicide, and replaced him with a cowardly and incompetent traitor to be the marshal. Later, as soon as the Tartars attacked, northern Sichuan could not hold it on the spot. The soldiers in front of the battle will be Yu Dashuai's old department, and everyone will fight desperately. But the marshal will only flatter his superiors, and when it comes to war, he will not be able to do anything with the troops, so he will naturally not be able to resist. Ding Daquan's gang of traitors sheltered the bullshit marshal, and the unyielding General Wang Weizhong collaborated with the enemy, and actually arrested his whole family in Beijing and beheaded General Wang. When he said this, his voice whimpered, and everyone sighed in unison.

The Guangdong guest said: "The major national affairs are bad in the hands of these traitors." I heard that most of you have now fallen in Sichuan, and it has been destroyed in the hands of a big traitor. That Sichuan indignantly said: "Yes, Liu Quan, this dog thief!" Someone on the side interjected and asked: "What's the matter, tell everyone." The Sichuan humanitarian: "Originally, this Liu could be regarded as a hero, but when the Dajin Kingdom was in turmoil, he descended to the Great Song Dynasty and was under the command of Meng Heng, the envoy of Jinghu Regulation." This General Meng's grandfather, Meng Lin, was the general of Grandpa Yue's back then, and it can be said that after the general, he himself was brave and good at fighting, and repeatedly defeated the golden dog. As he said this, some of the men who came in after him looked at each other with a cold glint in their eyes.

The Sichuan man continued: "General Meng wants to attack Xinyang and send his subordinate general Liu Cheng as the vanguard. This Liu Quan is also very powerful, he only brought eighteen iron horses, crossed the trench and landed in the city, attacked and captured the guards, and made miraculous achievements. At that time, General Meng gave him the title of 'Sai Cunxiao', when Li Cunxiao pulled Luoyang with eighteen horses, Liu Cheng now takes Xinyang with eighteen horses, if you talk about fighting, it is indeed a good hand, and it has also made miraculous contributions for our Great Song Dynasty. How could he have thought of such a famous general, but he lowered his tartar and willingly became a dog for Mongolia. As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone say: "In fact, if you talk about this Liu Quan, it is good to treat our people in Sichuan." Everyone followed the prestige and saw a hunchbacked black-faced man in his thirties, who said in a Sichuan accent: "More than five years ago, I reported a grievance in Luzhou Mansion in southern Sichuan, killed a ruffian, killed a ruffian, and sentenced him to death, so I have nothing to say." How do you know that a few days later, the county magistrate interrogated a local tyrant who did all kinds of evil, and took me to the court and tortured me, and my disability fell at that time. The county official said that the local tyrant was murdered for money, kidnapped people for extortion, robbed people's daughters, and arranged prostitutes and gambles, and I released the local tyrant in court. Later, the cell boss told me that the local tyrant had given 1,000 taels of silver to the county magistrate, and the county magistrate had put all his capital crimes on me. When I heard this, I was so angry that I yelled and scolded the corrupt officials in prison, but what was the use of that? A few days later, the corrupt officials were brought to court for retrial, and the local tyrant knelt side by side with me. I scolded: 'Thief and stolen official, you are corrupt and pervert the law, and you will not die well in the future!' The stolen official smiled and said: "He Lao Liu, you don't have to be so hot, this official has found out clearly, you are wronged." You didn't kill that ruffian, it was all the work of the culprit!' Then he pointed to the local tyrant, ordered the official to be beaten heavily, and put on a stick to force him to confess to killing the ruffian, and then released me. I'm at a loss for words, how can that ruffian be counted in someone else's account when I killed him?"

The girl in the royal blue shirt who entered the room first sneered and said, "This county official is really nonsense. ”

He Lao Liu said: "He is not nonsense, I returned home, my mother told me, it turned out that after I was sentenced to death, my mother cried on the street every day, this day coincided with Liu Quan, who was the history of Luzhou at the time, passed by, asked the reason, Liu Cheng went to inquire again, understood the reason, his old man said that he had something to do, and he didn't have time to settle accounts with this stolen official, he gave my mother a handwritten message, and I was brought out. Three months later, rumors spread in the county that the county officials had been detained and interrogated. I knew it must have been Liu's doing. Someone in the crowd asked, "You obviously committed a crime, but Liu Cheng didn't sentence you, and you can be regarded as a foolish official." He Laoliu said with a smile: "Actually, it's not, I also heard later that Liu Cheng had also been in the rivers and lakes before he became an official, and he was quite righteous, I think it was also because I killed a scoundrel, so he opened his net." Everyone was amazed, and some people scolded: "No matter what, it's a dog traitor!" A middle-aged woman sitting in the northwest corner suddenly said: "Liu Quan also helped my family." My cousin and I are sisters, we are sixteen years apart, and her mother is my aunt......" The girl laughed, "Her father is your uncle." The woman laughed and said, "You see, I instigated Rory, no wonder the girl is impatient." My uncle is from Henan, and that year the Mongolian Tatars hit Neihuang and took my uncle captive as a slave. My aunt took my cousin and begged for food along the road, from Henan to Shandong, and from Shandong to Sichuan, to find my uncle's whereabouts. Someone sighed: "Thousands of miles to find a husband, that's extremely rare." The woman said, "Just because my aunt and cousin are good-looking, it is not easy to travel on the road." The two of them blackened their faces with sludge so that the bad guys wouldn't be tempted to see it......"

The girl asked, "What do you mean?" and half of the people sitting around the fire laughed.

The girl in white who was walking with her said: "Sister, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, big girl's family, doesn't this teach people jokes?" The girl pouted and said: "I don't understand before asking, what else do you ask?" A young man at the same table smiled and said: "In the tavern in Shijiazhuang, there is an old man who wants to see the ......" Before he finished speaking, he was pulled by a man next to him, and seeing that the man's face was full of gloom, the young man didn't dare to say more. But the girl in the royal blue shirt had already blushed, and said, "A dog can't spit out ivory!" The crowd didn't know what they were talking about, so they heard the woman smile and say, "It's good that the girl doesn't understand these unpleasant words." Well, my aunt and cousin searched for four years, and the emperor finally found his uncle in Luzhou, who turned out to be a slave under a land tyrant. The landlord was so vicious that when my aunt saw my uncle, he had just discounted one of his left legs. My aunt was heartbroken and begged the landlord to be released and return home. The land tyrant was willing to agree, and said that this slave was bought with a hundred taels of silver, and unless there were five hundred taels of silver to ransom, he would rather be killed than let go. My aunt couldn't even get five taels of silver, so where did she get five hundred taels ......of silver?

The girl didn't understand it again, but just a question aroused the laughter of many people, and she didn't dare to ask any more, but listened to the woman continue: "After a few years like this, although the mother and daughter have a little savings, how easy is it to save up to five hundred taels of silver? The mother and daughter suffered all the hardships and humiliation, and finally scraped together enough five hundred taels of silver on the eve of the New Year. The two of them went to the tent of the land tyrant, thinking that the family could reunite from now on and celebrate the New Year happily. ”

When everyone heard this, they rejoiced on behalf of the mother and daughter. But he heard the woman say, "When the landlord received five hundred taels of silver, he called his uncle out and let him see his husband and his daughter." My uncle's family of three kowtowed goodbye to the landlord. How do you know that when the land tyrant saw my cousin, he suddenly became ill-hearted, and said: 'Okay, you come to redeem this slave, that is the best, five hundred taels of silver, and exchange it!" My aunt was shocked, the five hundred taels of silver had already been handed over to the account of the land tyrant to accept, how could she still exchange the silver? The land tyrant's face changed, and he shouted: 'I am a dignified squire from Luzhou, will I still rely on the money of the slaves?' My aunt was scared and sad, and immediately cried loudly in the hall, and the land was domineering:" On Chinese New Year's Eve today, I will be kind to reunite your husband and wife, but I am afraid that this slave will never return, and I will mortgage your daughters here. 'How could my aunt agree when she knew that he had bad intentions?' The landlord shouted at the house slaves and drove my aunt and uncle out of the house. My aunt was reluctant to give up her daughter, and cried in front of the Diba's mansion. The people knew that she had been wronged, but at that time, the landlord was the victim, and I heard that there was still an official and a master to support her, and killing someone casually would be like trampling on an ant, who would dare to come out and say a fair word? He then asked where the five hundred taels of silver came from. My aunt refused to say it at first, but she was forced to do so. My uncle was furious, saying that my aunt had ruined her reputation and did not abide by women's morals, and that she was willing to degenerate herself and do such a lowly thing, and immediately wrote a letter of resignation and divorced my aunt. Everyone sighed in unison, and they all said that her aunt's life was really unfortunate.

The middle-aged woman said: "My aunt has worked hard for seven or eight years, and she really didn't want to live like this, so she went to the woods to untie her belt and hang herself. The emperor has eyes, and Liu Cheng happened to pass by when he went out hunting that day and rescued her. When asked about the reason, he was furious. That night, I personally took people to the mansion of the land tyrant, only to see that the land tyrant was persecuting my cousin, my uncle actually persuaded my cousin to comply, saying that she had been in the kiln for all these years, and she was not a good girl, did you still think of any chastity archway? Liu Quan was so angry that he slapped my uncle seven or eight times in a row, until half of his face was swollen, and ordered someone to arrest the land tyrant, who knew that the land tyrant said that he had someone on top, and he openly resisted arrest, Liu Cheng didn't say a word, grabbed the land tyrant and threw it into the moat, and rescued my cousin. ”