Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Obstruction of Mount Hua (II)
Dugu Jian and Zhang Linxin had no choice, and they couldn't really do anything with the two, so they had to turn around and leave and walk down the mountain. www.biquge.infoHalfway up the mountain, Zhang Linxin looked back at the mountain gate that was already invisible, scratched his head and stomped his feet and shouted: "I'm so angry! I didn't expect the disciples of the Huashan faction to be so arrogant and unreasonable! How could there be such a person? Really!" Dugu Jian was also very helpless, who would have thought that Gu Feng was also a well-known figure in the rivers and lakes, respected by everyone, but the disciples who could be trained were so arrogant and unreasonable?
Looking at the towering Huashan, Dugu Jian sighed: "Now we can't go up the mountain, we can't see Gu Daxia, and we can't tell him the news, how can this be good?" Zhang Linxin took Dugu Jian's hand, "Brother Dugu, or we will go up directly! I don't believe what kind of Longtan tiger's den this Huashan is, if you want me to say, those Huashan disciples are not the opponents of the two of us at all, just beat them up, and let out this evil breath!"
"No, it's not good. Lin'er, you advised me to calm down just now, why do you want to do it myself again now. We came here this time, originally asking to see Gu Daxia and pass the message to him, if we were rash and moved with Gu Daxia's disciples, and offended Gu Daxia, wouldn't it go against our original intention of coming here?" Dugu Jian thought about it, shook his head and said.
Zhang Linxin looked at the steep mountain road and asked: "But Brother Dugu, we have also heard, 'Huashan has been a road since ancient times', the road that can lead to the mountain, it seems that it is just that, we don't enter from the main gate, where can we go up the mountain?" Lin'er, it seems that we can only go down the mountain first, and go back to the town below the mountain to inquire, the people there live here all the year round, and often go up the mountain, and they must know more than us, maybe they will have other ways to go up the mountain. Zhang Lin smiled bitterly and nodded, knowing that this possibility was very small, but it was difficult to refute, "Okay, it seems that it can only be like this." ”
The two went down the hill, returned to the town, and began to inquire around. But when the people in the town heard that they were asking about other ways to go to Huashan, they all shook their heads and said that there was no. The two asked for a long time, but they didn't get any useful news. At this moment, Dugu Jian and Zhang Linxin really have no way.
Standing at the intersection of Shitang Town, Zhang Linxin looked at Huashan from afar, and said: "Brother Dugu, it's really not good, let's just break through, it's a big deal to compensate Gu Daxia when the time comes, we are kind enough to come to deliver the letter, I don't believe he will really care about us." Dugu Jian looked at the towering peak, sighed, and said, "Lin'er, let's think of another way, if there is really no way in the end, we can only break through." ”
At this time, not far away, an old man with a bundle of firewood on his back, with a gray beard, Zhang Linxin's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly shouted to Dugu Jian, pointing at the old man: "Brother Dugu, look, that old man went to the mountains to collect firewood, he is so old, it looks like he must have lived here for many years, maybe he knows?" Dugu Jian felt that Zhang Linxin was right, so he hurriedly stepped forward, Shi Li asked: "This old man, please ask, this is going to Huashan, in addition to this right road, is there any other way to go up?" ”
The old man put down the firewood, looked at Dugu Jian carefully, and said: "Young man, haven't you heard of the phrase 'one road from ancient Huashan'? Born dangerous, it's hard to fly with wings!" Dugu Jian asked again: "Old man, is there really no other path for this huge mountain?"
"Is this ...... I have only lived here in recent years to escape the war, and I have never heard of any other way. But ......" The old man thought about it carefully and continued: "However, we have a woodcutter named Li San here, who grew up here since he was a child, he not only goes up the mountain to collect firewood, but also often goes to collect medicines, you know, many medicinal materials grow on the cliffs, so he is very familiar with Huashan." You can go to him, maybe he knows there will be another way. ”
"Then dare to ask the old man, I don't know where this Third Brother Li is now?"
"Well, I just came back from collecting firewood, I haven't seen him on the way, I don't know where he went, you better find someone else to ask. ”
After Dugu Jian thanked the old man, he went around to inquire about Li San's whereabouts, only to learn that he had gone into the city early in the morning to sell firewood, and he had not come back yet, so the two hurried to Huayin City.
When he arrived in Huayin City, Zhang Linxin asked: "Brother Dugu, this Huayin City is not small, where can we find Li San?" Dugu Jian looked around and said, "Since he is here to sell firewood, he will definitely go to the market, let's inquire around first." ”
Not far from the city gate was a small market, and it was almost noon, and most of the people had already gone home to eat, except for a few small vendors. Dugu Jian saw an old man selling vegetables, so he walked over and asked: "Uncle, we are looking for a person named Li San, I don't know if you have seen it?" The vegetable seller didn't know whether it was behind his ears or slow to react, and after looking at him, he replied: "Ah? You are looking for Li San who sells firewood, right? Oh, it's really amazing, to say that Li San is really a man, every time he picks up such two bundles of firewood, he is a very good person." It's a pity, it's just that he doesn't know the current affairs, he actually dares to take care of Yao Gongzi's affairs, it's a lantern in the dung pit - looking for (death)!"
"What's going on? Uncle, please tell me clearly. Dugu Jian was very puzzled and hurriedly asked.
"Today, Yao Gongzi came to play in our Huayin City, and saw a very beautiful girl on the street, so he grabbed it. was bumped into by Li San, so he went up to fight the grievances. Do you think that Li San is just a woodcutter, no matter how strong he is, where will he be the opponent of Yao Gongzi's men? Yao Gongzi's thugs beat him up, tied him up, and brought him back to Chang'an. If you want me to see it, this will probably not come back. The old farmer shook his head and said.
Zhang Lin listened to it and was very angry, "What is the origin of this Yao Gongzi, how can he arrest and beat people at will?"
"As soon as I heard this, I knew that you were from other places, this Yamen in Chang'an is the Yao family, and this Chang'an City is also the Yao family's final say, naturally these state capitals in Chang'an have to listen to the Yao family. ”
"Why is this? How can this Yao family be so powerful?"
"This Yao Gongzi's father, Yao Zhijie, is the parent official of Chang'an City, he was originally a small official who grinds ink, after the Jin people called, it turned out that the officials of the Great Song Dynasty died in battle, and those who ran away escaped, leaving such an empty city. This Yao Zhijie, who knows the festival and does not know the festival, opened the city gate and organized a lot of people from the lower three to welcome the Jin soldiers into the city. He so brazenly took refuge in the Jin people, became a lackey, and became the prefect of Chang'an City, and the state and county officials near Chang'an were appointed by him. And this Yao Gongzi bowed to the golden general who guarded Chang'an, and became brothers. As a result, the father and son became the emperors of the entire Chang'an area. This Yao Gongzi is eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling all kinds of evil, from time to time out to play, when he saw the beautiful girl's house, he forcibly robbed it, and today he snatched the fourth one we have here......" The vegetable seller said so much in one breath, Dugu Jian and Zhang Lin were angry when they heard it, and Dugu Jian scolded loudly: "This bastard thing! He lives in Chang'an's mansion, doesn't he?"
Zhang Linxin also said: "Brother Dugu, let's go to Chang'an Yamen, kill this Yao Gongzi, eliminate harm for the people, and then rescue that girl and Li San!"
This frightened the vegetable seller, he waved his hand again and again, and shouted: "Oh, I can't help it! I can't help it! Don't mess with him, this Yao Gongzi is not only powerful, but he himself also has kung fu, and ordinary three or five people are not his opponents at all, and many people have already planted them in his hands." Besides, if the two of you still have mercy on the lives of our ordinary people, it will be even more unbearable!"
As soon as these words came out, Dugu Jian was even more puzzled, and asked, "Uncle, how do you say this?" The vegetable seller hurriedly explained: "Two, if you really enter the yamen and make a big fuss, and the Jin people can't take you, so they want to take the people here, then we will be in a big disaster again." ”
When Zhang Linxin heard this, he became even more angry, and shouted: "Then you are so willing to endure the insult of the Jin people?" But you don't know that no matter which emperor is at the feet, as long as there is a war, it is all us poor people who suffer. All we want is to live a peaceful life, as for who will be the emperor and official, it will be the same for us, anyway, we all have to pay taxes and be apportioned, alas. ”
When the two of them heard this, they didn't know how to reply, and the vegetable seller looked at them and said, "Don't be nosy, you can live a few more years this way!" After speaking, they began to shout loudly again: "Sell vegetables and sell vegetables! Cabbage and greens, green cabbage and cabbage, poor people's vegetables as meat, rich people's meat as vegetables!"
Listening to the shouts of the vegetable seller, Dugu Jian and Zhang Linxin turned around and walked to the side and began to discuss. Zhang Linxin asked: "Brother Dugu, now that I have listened to the words of that old man, what are we going to do? Dugu Jian thought for a while and said, "No matter what we do, we still have to rush to Chang'an City as soon as possible, I'm just afraid that if we go too late, then Li San will be killed by Yao Gongzi." Zhang Linxin nodded in agreement, and the two hurried out of the city and rushed west to Chang'an City.