Chapter XXXV. Arrangement
Fucheng finally has a bit of autumn, the heat dissipates, even at noon the sun is not so sunny, many people are still selling the goods left over from the morning market on the street, the prices at this time are cheaper than earlier, and also meet the needs of some poor families. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In front of a meat stall, a woman is arguing with the stall owner.
"Can't you miss me? You can't see this meat that has been causing flies since the morning?"
The stall owner took the iron pestle and sharpened the meat knife covered with dried blood, and snorted twice nonchalantly, his face trembling.
"Old woman, I'll tell you! If you want to buy it, you can buy it or not, get out! I can take this meat back and feed it to the dogs if I don't sell it! Look at you. The boss stuck the knife in the wooden table and looked at the woman in front of the stall with a look of disgust.
"Eh, how do you do this business, can you speak, what is your attitude when I buy things from you? Believe it or not, I made someone open a stall!" The woman felt that she had been treated rudely, and her voice became sharper and sharper, like a shrew scolding the street, and as she spoke, she shook the gold and silver jewelry on her fat hand, as if she was showing off her strength.
A few bosses who were still guarding the stall on the side were so angry that their eardrums hurt by the woman's noise, and they looked at it impatiently, and then covered their faces with a fan and lay down on the recliner and continued to sleep.
The butcher stall owner looked at the jewelry in the woman's hand, snorted coldly, and with a disdainful smile, he reached out and pulled it around his neck, and a large gold chain turned around his neck, which at a glance was the thickness of a man's fingers.
"Who are you with? Look at your rags, I don't know how rich you are, didn't you just buy it from a stall a few days ago? Tell you! That stall belongs to my younger brother! Lao Tzu, this is the real thing. ”
The butcher's expression was uncontrollable, and the woman's eyes were a little evasive when she heard this, and she hurriedly covered the things in her hand with her hand, but her mouth was still mean.
"Yo, what are you pretending to be with me? You are a meat seller as if you are really some big official and boss. ”
"Hehe, aren't you going to ramp up my stall? Tell you, I'm slapping the table on this street, and the whole street will shake three times!
Saying that, the owner of the butcher stall really slapped the table, and was silent for a moment, and suddenly there was a real vibration sound on the street. Even a large piece of fat on the table began to tremble.
"It's... What's wrong.... Is the ground moving?" the woman screamed and crouched in front of the stall, her head clenched and her face cried.
The butcher stall owner was much calmer, just stunned and stared at the hand he slapped the table, looking left and right with a face full of incredulity.
"I'm X, when did Lao Tzu have this hand, don't kill that loser when I go back this time, see how arrogant she usually is. When he spoke, his face was full of longing, thinking that he was not less oppressed by his mother-in-law on weekdays.
The butcher shop owner waved his face excitedly, imagining that he had begun to smoke his own domineering woman with a big mouth, but the vibration became more and more obvious, and he couldn't help but panic, turned his head to look at the excuse, and suddenly his face changed greatly, and he suddenly lay on the table in front of him where the meat was placed and didn't dare to look up.
But in a moment, the source of the tremor approached, and the woman squatting in front of the stall secretly raised her head and opened her eyes to look, and was immediately frightened to run behind the butcher shop and did not dare to stay in front of the street.
A group of people galloped through the street on horseback, and regardless of whether they hit pedestrians or not, each horse galloped and neighed as if it were no one.
After only a few moments of passing, the group of people brushed past the stalls and quickly disappeared at the end of the street not far away, and the sense of vibration also weakened.
The woman and the butcher shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief as they watched the last horse disappear from sight at the end of the street.
"What kind of people are these! I don't know if you can't ride a horse so fast in the city! I'll go to the government to sue them!" The woman seemed to have forgotten how frightened she had been half to death, and at this time she dared to speak out against her.
"Hehe, you go and sue, you dare to sue me for today's meat money, I won't accept you. The butcher shop owner sneered.
The woman was stunned, and she had to look at each other for some reason.
"Do you know what kind of clothes the person in charge is wearing? The official uniform of the Arrest Division is above the authentic level! You don't look at what the horse is wearing on the head of the horse that follows, it is the horse helmet that only the war horse of the military general! I can't see the next few clearly, but can the people who can follow those few come from a small one?" The butcher shop owner mocked the other party's ignorance.
"It may also be the subordinate who is following behind, the fox is fake and the tiger is mighty, what's the big deal. The woman was still muttering, and one could only sigh for her ignorance and innocence.
"Okay! You are amazing, you go and sue them, remember that after I went to the Yamen, I will take the pork I gave you, ensure that it is fresh and do not need money, now, please move away from me. The butcher shop owner said and began to chase people.
"What's the big deal...", though she said that, the woman was so honest that she left the butcher's shop, and was so sullen that she didn't even buy anything more.
In fact, many people in the city saw the pair, and along the way from the city gate to the west of the city, some people kept repeating the same reaction as the butcher shop owner and the woman with a broken mouth.
No one knew why so many big people suddenly came to the palace city, which had always been calm, and what they didn't know was that there were even generals guarding the frontier in this pair, and the only thing that could mobilize these people on weekdays was the order of the imperial city.
This time they entered the city with great fanfare, they had been running around for a few days, and the destination was a building in the west of Dayuanfu City.
Wang Li stood in front of the gate of the mansion, looking at the people and horses galloping not far away, and his face did not change.
Soon the violent trampling of the horse's hooves came to him, and the leader pulled the horse's reins violently, and the horse immediately neighed and raised its front hooves, and was about to step on Wang Li's body, and the guard in front of the rear mansion was about to draw his sword and step forward to stop it.
Wang Li still looked at the raised horse's hooves and remained silent.
Fortunately, the horse's hooves fell sharply to the other side, and did not step on Wang Li's body, and the middle-aged man wearing official uniforms on horseback turned over and dismounted, bent over and clenched his fists.
"I've seen Lord Wang. ”
"I haven't seen you for a long time, and I thought I was going to give me a dismount as soon as we met. Wang Li chuckled and shook his head.
"Lord Wang said with a smile, you are the boss of the Arrest Division, pointing to you to support your family. The middle-aged man said with a smile, but his tone did not have a sense of humility, joking like a friend.
As the two spoke, all the people behind them dismounted, and there was the sound of armor clashing.
This time, Wang Li bent down and saluted first, "Generals, the journey has been tiring, and it has been hard all the way. ”
"You're welcome. "The leader of the general has a gold medal hanging from his waist, and a clawless dragon ornament is carved on it, which is the identity certificate that only a general of all armies can have.
At this time, Wang Li also raised his head, and the two looked at each other and smiled a little deeply.
In this mansion, Li Zhi and Zhang Feng stood in the corridor and looked at some yellow and withered flowers and plants in the yard and were silent, and suddenly vaguely heard the sound of horses from outside the mansion gate, Wang Feng turned his head around his hands, and Li Zhi sighed slightly.
"Do you guess that the people who came here at this time brought good news or bad news?" Wang Feng turned around and said with a smile.
"At this time, where do I have good news and bad news to choose," Li Zhi shook his head, and then looked at Wang Feng, "But I guess you can't get out of it this time." ”
"What can I do, I'm so old, it's impossible for me to lead troops to the frontier for two months. ”
"That's not for sure. Li Zhi said and turned to look at the camera in the corridor, and Wang Li came over with a group of people.
Li Zhi walked over with his sleeves, and Wang Feng shook his head and followed.
"Ladies and gentlemen, long time no see. Both sides greeted each other.
"The lord of the mansion is polite, it turns out that General Zhang is also here, so that's fine. ”
Zhang Feng listened to the other party's words, and his face instantly became a little exciting.
"I won't say anything more, but I'll explain the main things about this visit. Before the leader of the group sat down, he directly took the scroll handed by him behind him and held it in his hand.
"Zhang Feng, the deputy general of Dayuan Mansion guarding the city, led the order. ”
Zhang Feng looked at the ornament on the appearance of the questionnaire in the man's hand, and his heart chuckled, but he still half-knelt down and bowed his head.
It was an edict from the Imperial City, although it was not necessarily issued by the emperor, but it was definitely an order conveyed in the name of the emperor by three of the six departments of the imperial city.
"The minister is here, the command. ”
Except for the general who was holding the scroll and commanded, the others all bent down slightly, after all, the identity of the people present was not low, because this oracle only mentioned Zhang Feng alone, so he was the only one who needed to kneel halfway.
"The two orders of the ordnance industry, Zhang Feng led Dayuan with 5,000 soldiers and horses, and set off for Yunxuan Pass to defend for two months on the same day, and promoted the official to the third grade...."
The rest of the reading was all some detailed arrangements, and Li Zhi and Zhang Feng just listened to the first few words, and their hearts were a little heavier.
"What are you really talking about..."Zhang Feng secretly looked at Li Zhi who lowered his head, and the meaning of that gaze was that the elder brother would rely on yourself after taking care.
Wang Li, who also bent down and bowed his head, listened to this edict, and the corners of his mouth quietly raised a slight arc.
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In Wang Li's mansion, a young man in black stood in the courtyard and looked at the birds in the birdcage in his hand with a smile on his face.
It's just that the bird is not as cheerful and spiritual as ordinary people, at this time it is full of scars, its wings are uneven, as if it has been mistreated by something, and its eyes are full of fear when it looks at the young man in black who is playing with him.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. As he spoke, the young man took an iron needle in his hand and plunged through the crack in the cage, and with a sharp stab, the bird suddenly let out a frightened cry, vibrating its wounded wings with all its might, and its tiny feathers fluttering in all directions, as if it were trying to escape from here.
The young man chuckled and kept pricking until the bird's last remaining feathers were soaked in blood and lay dying at the bottom of the cage.
At this time, a man walked into the courtyard and said something in the young man's ear, and the young man's smile deepened, and he looked at the caged birds and whispered.
"Why do you want to escape when you're all in a cage?" the young man got up and stretched, and gave a hache to command.
"Tell them that the time has come and that some of the things in the cage can be removed. ”