At the end of the team of Suzhou guards escorting gangsters, a fat monk followed behind, trying to sneak into the military camp.
The officers and soldiers at the beginning of the Republic of China still maintained a high level of vigilance and discovered this shining bald head in the dark night in time.
"Where did the monk come from?" But the officers and soldiers guarding the door were also shocked. If he got in, they would all be beheaded.
Just a little bit, he succeeded.
"Arrest him!" the angry officers and soldiers shouted and rushed forward.
"Slowly, all donors, listen to what the poor monk has to say." Unexpectedly, the fat monk turned out to be an extremely flexible fat man.
While dodging the arrests of the officers and soldiers, he explained: "The poor monk, whose name is Daoyan, is a good friend of His Highness the King of Chu. I heard that His Highness was coming, so I came here to visit."
"Oh?" Although the officers and soldiers didn't quite believe it, they didn't dare to disbelieve it. They surrounded him and hurried in to report.
After a while, an attendant from Prince Chu's Mansion came out, holding his thick glasses and looking closely. "Yao Guangxiao, is it really you?"
"Oh, Mr. Guanzhong, isn't he just a young monk?" Daoyan smiled with a smile on his face and shook his fat hand vigorously. "Let me in quickly."
"It's better for me to come out." Luo Guanzhong looked at the heated scene inside and decisively took Dao Yan to a tavern outside the military camp that specialized in delivery.
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After entering the tavern, the two found a quiet corner and sat down.
Luo Guanzhong ordered a few plates of pig meat with ease and a glass of wine, then he drank a glass with Monk Dao Yan and said:
"Aren't you placing orders in Beijing? Why did you come back to your hometown again?"
"Oh, I placed orders in Beijing just to look for opportunities. Now that there is an opportunity in my hometown, of course I have to come back as soon as possible." Daoyan took a sip of wine, put a chopstick in the sausage, put it into his mouth and chewed it carefully. It felt crisp but not rotten.
, fragrant but not greasy, with no smell of pig urine.
"I haven't had this bite for several years. It's like the large intestine is inside the small intestine. I really miss it." The fat monk looked intoxicated and his triangular eyes narrowed into a straight line.
"Is it that delicious..." Luo Guanzhong put a chopstick into the intestines and looked at it for a long time, but still didn't dare to put it into his mouth.
"How will you know if you don't try it?"
"I don't want to know." Luo Guanzhong rolled his eyes and said, "What exactly do you want to do?"
"The poor monk said that now that Suzhou is in crisis, the poor monk should help his hometown to eliminate disasters." Dao Yan said sternly, and then said with a smile: "Of course, the poor monk also has a little selfishness - I think
I will take this opportunity to show my face in front of His Highness King Chu. Brother Guanzhong is nostalgic and will definitely introduce me to you, right?"
"I'm sorry." Luo Guanzhong shook his head firmly and said, "Liu Bowen asked me to keep an eye on His Highness and not let you get close to him."
"It's too much." Dao Yan said pitifully: "Every one of you has an official position and is eating the royal food. The poor monks still don't even have a place to live. It's fine if you don't help your old friends.
Why don’t you go up to the house to take the stairs again?”
"Didn't you bring this on yourself? What's wrong with learning is teaching people to rebel." Luo Guanzhong took a sip of rice wine and said, "We can't let you lead our Highness astray."
"It's unjust." Dao Yan called out to Tianqu and said, "The poor monk just wants to have a formal establishment so that he can have enough food and clothing for the rest of his life. Besides, your Highness, are you still being led astray by others?"
"..." Luo Guanzhong thought of those 'obedience tests' that Lao Liu had put on him, and he suddenly felt that Dao Yan was right.
That is a bad seed, how can he be brought up to be bad again?
"It's useless for you to tell me this." Luo Guanzhong said with an apologetic smile: "Now Mr. Qingtian is my boss. He told you to stay away from His Majesty the King of Chu, so I can only do it."
"Okay..." Dao Yan was depressed for a long time, then he said angrily: "If the poor monk changes to the path of His Highness the King of Jin, Liu Bowen will not care about it, right?"
"I shouldn't care about it." Luo Guanzhong shook his head indifferently. He was just being entrusted by others and was loyal to others. He had no ill feelings toward Dao Yan. "If you just want to be an official and a part-time official, King Jin will do it."
It's a good place to go. He will become a vassal next year, and there are no monks in the palace yet."
"Oh, forget it, the third one is boring." Dao Yan was discouraged after hearing this: "He is too smart and has too many ideas to follow the advice of a poor monk."
"What are you talking about? Are you, Your Highness, stupid?" Luo Guanzhong didn't like hearing it.
"That's not what I mean." Dao Yan sighed and said, "Can't you really be accommodating?"
"No." Luo Guanzhong shook his head firmly.
"Alas..." Dao Yan couldn't help but sighed: "It's true that 'the great road is like the blue sky, I alone cannot reach it'."
"Hey, the right path reaches all the way to the sky." Luo Guanzhong's comfort was a little pale: "Guangxiao, times have changed. Your dragon-slaying skills are no longer useful. Put it down. If you put it down, you will think about the world."
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"I want to try again, poor monk." Dao Yan shook his head, put the half-full wine bottle and the remaining sausage into his sleeves, clasped his hands and said, "Thank you for your hospitality, poor monk, I will come back again."
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Luo Guanzhong nodded and watched him leave. Suddenly he understood why Liu Bowen was so afraid of this fat monk who was forty years old and had accomplished nothing...
Without it, there is no madness and no life.
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The next day, Suzhou Chengguanqian Street was crowded with people.
On the high platform that the government had set up overnight, a row of executioners with their heads wrapped in red cloth and puffed-up chests stood there holding ghost-headed knives.
In front of the executioner, kneeling was a row of prisoners who were tied up and looked ashen.
The leader is Xie Yunzhang.
Under the stage, there are a large number of prisoners waiting to be executed...
Officials from the prefecture's Yamen read out loudly the names of the criminals and their crimes.
The big businessmen who conspired in Luyuan that day, as well as the gang members and ruffians who incited the citizens to riot, were basically all wiped out.
There was no way, the big families were all weaklings, and under the torture of His Highness the King of Jin, they all confessed.
The citizens of Suzhou have a relatively high level of education and can understand the charges read out by the officials on the stage.
When they heard that their livelihood difficulties in the past year were actually caused by the large households deliberately not starting work in order to put pressure on the court...
My heart suddenly felt cold.
They actually naively thought that the gentlemen were fighting against the imperial court for their own good and for the whole of Suzhou.
It turns out it’s all for themselves!
But what made them most angry was the admission by the gentlemen that in order to force the imperial court to abolish the Shipping Department and implement a maritime ban, they actually colluded with Japanese pirates and robbed the coastal people!
Is this still a human being? Is this something a human being can do?!
"Son of a bitch!" I don't know who started it first. The citizens bent down to pick up the clods of soil on the ground and threw them hard at the gentlemen on the stage.
"We treat you as our ancestors, what do you think of us?!" The citizens were furious and yelled.
