Magistrate Fang’s words almost scared the little concubine to death. How did she know about the number one scholar and the editor of the Hanlin Academy?
Before, she thought he was just a young man from the country with some relatives.
This was because her status was low and she could not attend the family banquet. Otherwise, when she saw the respectful look on Fang Xiaoyue, the magistrate of Fang County, at the family banquet, she would have known that Fang Xiaoyue was not an ordinary person.
Of course, the slap she received was not unjust.
After all, Magistrate Fang is willing to call him uncle. As Magistrate Fang’s pillow, when have you ever seen Magistrate Fang act so cautiously?
Of course, after slapping him and scolding his concubine until she burst into tears, Magistrate Fang still told her the reason.
After all, he was worried that the concubine would become stupid after being slapped and destroy Fang Xiaoyue's calligraphy.
As Baili Hou, he did not dare to underestimate the cruelty of women. During the interrogation in the lobby, he had seen many women do some ridiculous things because they were slapped by their husbands.
"What do you, a woman, know? This Fang Mingrui is a great Confucian, and his writing contains literary spirit..."
After explaining to County Magistrate Fang how precious the word "general" was and the benefits to the child, the concubine obediently knelt down and admitted her mistake to Magistrate Fang.
This is not surprising, most mothers love their children.
Although this concubine may look snobbish, but after knowing the benefits of this word to the child, she understood.
Even later, she invited the best watch maker in the city to use the best materials to decorate the two characters of her children.
If it weren't for the fact that there was no glass in this era, maybe she would have covered it with bulletproof glass and not allowed anyone to get close.
In short, from that moment on, she understood that people cannot be judged by appearance, and sea water cannot be measured.
Not to mention that Magistrate Fang was beaten and scolded at home, after the carriage left the city, Fang Xiaoyue asked the driver to drive slowly.
Because the last wave of rice is being harvested in this area, many farmers are traveling on the official road. If the carriage goes too fast, it is easy to injure people.
But it was precisely this that delayed the trip.
According to the normal speed, they arrived at the next town just in time to check into the inn at nightfall.
But because they wasted too much time, they were still walking slowly on the mountain road at nightfall.
The most terrible thing was that dark clouds began to gather in the sky, and a heavy rain was about to fall.
"Do you know who lives around here?"
As soon as Fang Xiaoyue asked this question, she remembered that the groom was from the capital and didn't know much about this place at all.
However, the groom's answer was beyond his expectation: "Mr. Fang, I came here once before, and I remember that there was an abandoned mountain temple not far ahead, which can provide shelter from the wind and rain."
"Then let's go to the mountain temple and take a rest."
Fang Xiaoyue nodded in agreement.
Then the coachman swung his whip and accelerated the carriage's speed.
Not long after, I saw a piece of flat land about twenty meters away from the mountain road, and a mountain temple was built on the flat land.
When she saw the mountain temple, Fang Xiaoyue frowned slightly.
In his eyes, there was something about the mountain temple that made him feel uncomfortable.
This is evil spirit.
He had seen this kind of evil spirit in those yellow-skinned men, and they would leave such an aura wherever they moved.
It's just that the rain is about to fall at this time, and Fang Xiaoyue doesn't want to rush in the heavy rain.
Even the horses pulling the carriages can't stand the long hours of rain.
Besides, the mountain temple is surrounded by evil spirit, but the evil spirit is relatively weak. It should be the remnants of the monster that stayed in the mountain temple before.
If you frequent or live here, the concentration of evil spirit will be completely different.
After getting off the bus, Fang Xiaoyue and Zhang Yuanming entered the mountain temple.
The groom will
The horse was unloaded from the cart, led under the eaves and tied to a pillar.
It should be said that this mountain temple is indeed too shabby.
The main door of the mountain temple fell to the ground, and most of the windows fell off the wall.
In the mountain temple, there is a clay statue of a mountain god with its head missing. There are also some spider webs hanging on the statue. The altar table in front has a broken leg and is lying crookedly on the ground.
Discarded straw and other debris could be seen everywhere on the ground, and Fang Xiaoyue even saw a few piles of poop in a corner.
Well, this is not surprising. There are not too many travelers and caravans traveling on this mountain road, so when it rains, the mountain temple is undoubtedly a good shelter from the wind and rain.
When there are more people, there are also more careless people, so it becomes normal to urinate and defecate anywhere.
Fang Xiaoyue and Zhang Yuanming worked together to clear out a corner where there was no poop, and they didn't look like the number one scholar or editor of the Hanlin Academy.
By the time the coachman came in, heavy rain was already falling outside, causing the temperature to drop sharply.
The driver hurried forward and lit a bonfire with a fire sickle. The three of them sat around the bonfire. The heat radiated from the bonfire dispelled the coldness brought by the heavy rain.
Counting the time, it's almost the New Year's Eve in Daze Country.
Then Fang Xiaoyue and Zhang Yuanming took out the wheat cakes and dried meat they bought at the inn. The driver set up a small pot on the bonfire, borrowed some rainwater outside, and after boiling, he tore up the wheat cakes and dried meat and put them away.
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After a while, the aroma of wheat and meat began to float in the mountain temple.
The taste was so good that Zhang Yuanming couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
It wasn't until the three of them started feasting that Zhang Yuanming let out a comfortable sound of satisfaction.
Fang Xiaoyue was also very satisfied. Although the place she lived in was a little dilapidated, it was sheltered from the wind and rain and had hot food to eat. What was there to be dissatisfied about?
But at this moment, there was a sound of horses neighing outside, and then a voice came faintly over the sound of rain: "Guard head! Look! There is a temple ahead!"
"Everyone, hurry up. We can take shelter from the rain when we get to that temple."
Following these few words, Fang Xiaoyue and Zhang Yuanming looked at each other. It couldn't be such a coincidence, right?
Obviously, the group of people outside should be the escort team that ran away early yesterday morning.
Unexpectedly, they ran earlier, slower than me, and ran behind me.
After a short while, the door of the mountain temple, which had been closed again by Fang Xiaoyue, was knocked open with a bang.
In an instant, the wind outside carried raindrops and rushed into the temple, causing the bonfire to sway.
Fortunately, Fang Xiaoyue and Zhang Yuanming had cleaned up the temple before, otherwise this gust of wind would have blown up so much dust and debris, and the wheat cake broth on the bonfire would have been uneatable.
"Hurry up and close the door! Didn't you see how strong the wind is?"
Zhang Yuanming was a straight-tempered man. He knew that the escort he had quarreled with before was coming, and he was dissatisfied with his rude actions, so he started shouting.
"It's off to you!......"
The first bodyguard who rushed into the temple heard this and cursed him before he saw anyone. However, he was a bodyguard with good eyesight. He immediately saw Fang Xiaoyue sitting by the bonfire and subconsciously lowered his voice.
It is much smaller, and its sprinting pace has also slowed down.
Yes, he still remembered that the young man sitting by the campfire was the same guy who had a conflict in the stable yesterday and claimed to be some kind of official?
"Li Erwa, let's go, don't block the road!"
The escort at the back was a little dissatisfied. Li Erwa was at the front and deliberately slowed down to block the road. What did this mean?
Now everyone has been caught in the rain and is very cold, and they want to find a place to make a fire to grill themselves.
"Ah, I'm sorry."
The escort Li Erwa immediately gave up his position, then turned around and slipped out of the mountain temple, and found the head of the escort team: "Brother Cui! Brother Cui! I saw the official.
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Escort Cui was called Hutu by Li Erwa, while tying the horse to the eaves
After getting off, he directed the bodyguards to stop the carriage: "Remember to cover it with tarpaulin! Don't let the rain damage things! Li Erwa, what do you mean by being an official?"
"This is the official who had a conflict with us in the inn yesterday!
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Li Erwa was so anxious that she almost couldn't finish what she said.
"It's him?"
Escort Cui immediately thought of the young man, so he inquired carefully about the situation in the temple.
Li Erwa immediately explained the situation in the temple.
"That should be fine. It was just a coincidence."
After listening to Li Erwa's introduction, Escort Cui immediately felt relieved. He probably wasn't chasing after her to cause trouble.
If he really wanted to catch up and find trouble, it would definitely not be just these three people. There might be a large group of government officials, county soldiers, etc. waiting for him inside.
Seeing Escort Cui walking towards the temple, Li Erwa became a little anxious: "Brother Cui, are you still going in?"
"What are you afraid of? It's okay. At worst, we can just apologize."
Escort Cui is very open-minded. If the people don't fight with the officials, he will lose more face. In this wilderness, there are only three people on the other side. It's impossible for them to pester him, right?
Of course, if that's really the case, I'm afraid...
A gleam flashed in Escort Cui's eyes.
This is not surprising. As a traveling escort, I have never seen any kind of situation.
If there was an emergency, killing a few people would be nothing to Cui Escort Master.
It's just that the escort team is full of talkers, so it would be best if we don't do that.
There were fifteen people in the escort team, four of them were temporarily guarding the carriage, and the rest entered the temple.
However, the loud talk before became muted after seeing Fang Xiaoyue and others.
Fang Xiaoyue did not cause any trouble for them, so they ignored Fang Xiaoyue. Instead, they hurriedly lit a bonfire in another corner, warmed up comfortably, and started eating.
But having said that, their food is much better than Fang Xiaoyue and others.
In addition to the regular wheat cakes and dried meat, they also bring rice wine.
Although rice wine is also wine, its alcohol content is very low, it is not easy to get drunk, and it can relieve alcohol addiction. It is a perfect drink for escorts to relieve their fatigue.
As for them, they also shot a few pheasants on the way here. After taking care of them, they grilled them on the bonfire.
The smell of meat mixed with various seasonings made Zhang Yuanming, who was sitting in another corner, suddenly feel that the wheat cake broth in his hand was no longer fragrant.
Of course, his obsession with food does not mean that he would lick his face and ask for a pheasant to eat.
However, after the pheasant was roasted, Escort Cui thought for a moment and actually brought one over and gave it to Fang Xiaoyue.
Of course, such behavior is not surprising to Cui Escort.
As an escort who travels all over the world, he is not only able to raise the knife at critical moments, but also lower his head at critical moments.
Just a pheasant.
If the conflict with Fang Xiaoyue can be alleviated, it will be a great deal.
Fang Xiaoyue had no intention of continuing to argue with the other party, so she happily accepted the pheasant.
Zhang Yuanming had no objection at all to this, because Fang Xiaoyue gave him a whole pheasant.
It made Zhang Yuanming a little embarrassed.
Of course, Fang Xiaoyue did not say that she did not eat the pheasant because the roast was too poor.
After eating and drinking enough, everyone, whether it was Fang Xiaoyue or the escort team, felt warm and fell asleep while sitting by the campfire.
But at this moment, there was another movement outside.
A sound of cursing was approaching.
Escort Cui reacted quickly. He jumped up from the bonfire and rushed to the temple door. He opened the temple door and looked outside. He saw seven strong men holding knives and walking towards the mountain temple.
Come on, two of them are injured.
And some of the words that came from it made Escort Cui feel his heart sinking.
"Cao! How did those six-fan dogs find us?"
"Brother, please be gentler next time, that girl in Xuejiazhuang was crushed to death by you..."
"It's okay for you to say that this business is losing money. I bumped into Liu Fan Dog and lost two brothers. Lao Liu, I asked you to inquire about the situation. Is this how you inquired?"
"Brother, I don't know what's going on?"
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As an escort who travels all over the world, Escort Cui easily thought of something from these words, and immediately turned around to remind the escorts: "Everyone, please be alert, there is something serious coming."
His words immediately made the sleepy escorts wake up and rush over one by one.
After all, they are all experienced veterans, so no one needs to tell you when and what to do.
With Fang Xiaoyue's hearing ability, he could naturally hear what Escort Cui could hear.
He could also relate to the situation that Escort Cui could relate to.
There is no doubt that the group of people outside are probably not good people.
Because the so-called "six-fan dog" must be their derogatory name for the yamen's catchers.
This group of people were probably bandits, and they probably went to Xuejiazhuang to rob something. Then they accidentally ran into a Yamen police officer, and the result was a lot of losses.
In fact, at this time, the group of bandits approached the mountain temple, and naturally they saw the horses and carriages tied by the escort team under the eaves, as well as the escorts.
The two sides looked at each other, and suddenly the atmosphere became tense, and both of them were secretly complaining in their hearts.
However, Escort Cui didn't want to conflict with the other party, and the bandits had someone injured, and they were soaked in the rain. They lost a lot of strength, and felt unlucky. Why did they bump into such a group of guys with guns and knives in the mountain temple.