"Hey, you said you have no knowledge, but you still don't believe it!"
The smart man had a look of disdain on his face, squinting at the questioning person and said: "What do you really think what others say? Marquis of the country, what kind of status is that? Can people come to Yangzhou without any problems? Do you really think that you have a lot of land?
valuable?
And I’m not afraid to tell you, we also know a little bit about the rules of this officialdom! Look at those ministers in the court, except for being exiled, who dares to leave the capital? If you really leave, want to go back? That will be difficult! That’s why the fool ran away
Build a house thousands of miles away in Yangzhou!"
"Ah? Are you saying that the owner of this house is just selling dog meat on the head of a sheep?" The man next to him suddenly turned pale and murmured to himself: "No wonder Sun Shenxian didn't come! But now, are we shielding the sinners?
Already?"
The smart man became more and more proud, and spat lightly and said: "Bah! What nonsense are you talking about? We are here to eat, we should eat, we should drink, and we will be full after a while! Hum, go to the Yamen and ask, what are the instructions?
There may even be a reward for it!”
Smart people deliberately describe going to the official as asking questions, so that they can have room for maneuver if they make a mistake.
However, other people didn’t think so much. They just thought that what he said made more sense the more they thought about it! So the flattery immediately started rolling in: “Best regards, brother!”
"Haha, not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."
Everyone at the table whispered, and many people looked at Xiao Han with strange looks in their eyes.
This made Xiao Han suspiciously check several times. Didn't he wear the wrong clothes today?
It was also a rule of the Tang Dynasty to set up a banquet and invite neighbors on the full moon.
At this time, apart from the fact that the neighbors were not getting along very well, or the outsiders like Xiao Han, no one said they knew each other.
Moreover, no matter what your identity or status is, if I meet you at my doorstep, you will be my neighbor!
Even if you don't meet someone as noble as Fang Xuanling or Du Ruhui, you still have to say a few words when you meet a neighbor's official whose status is a thousand times worse. Occasionally, if your neighbor has a happy event, you will be invited to sit among a group of peddlers and have a drink.
Xunxunran?
The dishes were served like water, and there was no shortage of wine.
Not to mention what everyone at the banquet thought of Xiao Han, the food and wine really made people reluctant to stop eating. As for the matter of the big thief, they had long been thrown out of mind. Anyway, with so many people, he
Nothing can happen.
The atmosphere in the courtyard gradually became lively.
On the road outside Yangzhou City, there was a large group of people and horses surrounding two carriages, rushing towards the city.
The city gates in Yangzhou are not as good as those in Chang'an, or even far behind Luoyang.
Although the city gate is not small, there are only three or two soldiers in slanted clothes and hats guarding it at noon.
To say he is a guard is actually not quite correct.
At most, these people just sit in the middle of the road and bask in the sun. Even if they occasionally reach out to collect the city tax, they do so reluctantly.
The sun above his head warmed his whole body, and the gate guard lowered his head and dozed off without realizing it.
Just when he was dreaming about flirting with the little widow next door and something was about to happen, suddenly, the person next to him shook him hard.
"Head, someone is coming, um, a lot of people!"
"Huh?" The guard was shaken awake, his eyes blurred, and he looked at the oncoming horseshoe smoke on the road.
Perhaps because he had just woken up from a dream, his reaction was too late. It was not until the huge horse's hooves were about to step on him that the guard finally woke up!
Before he could scream in surprise, the guard immediately rolled like a donkey into a ditch on the roadside.
"You guys..."
After finally struggling to get up from the ditch, the guard, who was covered in mud and water, wiped his face and was about to open his mouth to curse! Unexpectedly, he glanced and saw a bright yellow flag fluttering in the wind in the team. His legs and feet immediately went weak.
He fell into the water again.
"Hmph, boy, your reaction is very fast! If you had dared to say the following words just now, you wouldn't have needed the mouth and the head!" At the front of the team, a Qingqi reined in his horse. It was a pity that he was still in the water.
said the struggling guard in the ditch.
From the looks of it, it seemed that the guard's head was not chopped off, which made him quite disappointed.
"Thank...Thank you, Master, for your life! Thank you, Master, for your life!"
The guard who was still in the water couldn't care less about this. When he heard Qingqi's words, his whole body was shaken and he stopped struggling and quickly bowed and saluted.
During this period, it was because Zuo Yi was so immersed in it that half of his body was stuck in the water, which made him cough violently. Everyone in the team couldn't help but burst into laughter when they looked at his embarrassed figure like a drowned dog.
.
"Ahem..."
Just as everyone was laughing, a sharp voice came from a luxurious carriage in the center of the team: "Don't waste time, ask where the residence of Xiaohou is. Let's go there quickly. We have been delayed a lot on the way.
It can’t be any later!”
Suddenly hearing this voice, Qingqi, who had spoken at the beginning, immediately stopped laughing. He shook the reins, looked at the guard who was still coughing and said, "Hey, do you know where the residence of Lord Xiao is in the city?"
"Ahem, what are you, Mr. Xiao Hou?" The guard was so choked that he rolled his eyes. But when he heard the question, he still tried his best to answer.
Qingqi didn't get the answer, so he immediately frowned and said in a somewhat unkind tone: "What Xiaohou Lord?! How many Xiaohou Lords do we have in the Tang Dynasty?"
The guard was really about to cry and said with a hint of crying in his voice: "This military master, I have been here in Yangzhou City for more than thirty years, and I am quite well-informed, but I have never heard of Mr. Xiao! You see,
Did you remember it wrong?"
"You really haven't heard of it? This?" Qingqi had been staring at the guard. After realizing that the guy's expression didn't look like he was lying, he looked at the carriage behind him with some embarrassment.
"It's impossible to remember wrongly, Xiaohou is in Yangzhou City!" The voice, so sharp that it was hard to distinguish the male and female, came from the carriage again, but this time, even the guard could hear the coldness contained in it.
His body began to swing involuntarily again. He looked at the flag and thought of the voice. How could the guard not guess the identity of the person in the carriage?
More than ten years ago, when Emperor Sui went to Yangzhou, the eunuchs accompanying him would kill people if they were a little negligent!
"Father, don't be anxious!"
Just as the guard was sweating like rain, the curtain of the second carriage in the team suddenly opened, and an old woman sat inside. She looked up at Yangzhou City in front of her, then looked at the trembling guard in the water, and asked kindly
Said: "Then did you know that Taoist Priest Sun Simiao is in the city?"
"I know, of course Dr. Sun's family will know!" The guard nodded quickly as if he had received an amnesty.
"Then please take us to Dr. Sun's house." The old woman's voice was clear and gentle, with no emotion at all, but to the guard's ears, it sounded better than the sounds of nature!
"Okay, come with me!"
Not daring to hesitate, the guard quickly climbed ashore shivering and ran ahead to lead the way.
During this period, he did not forget to wink at the dumbfounded subordinates and ask them to hurry up and inform the county magistrate:
