Yang Hao walked out of the city gate amidst the complicated expressions of the two government officials. He looked back and saw that the officials were still standing where they were. Yang Hao waved to them from a distance, his hand on
Just after waving twice in the air, he suddenly found a woman standing on the top of the city. She was dressed in white and her clothes were flowing, standing alone, seeming to be staring at him.
Yang Hao stood firm and looked intently at the top of the city, but the man had quietly disappeared. The sky was blue and white clouds were blooming. There was only a big banner with Song characters on the top of the city facing the wind. What he saw just now seemed like a dream. There was no trace.
trace.
"Sir, please get on the road."
General Yuhou Wang Baocai bent down on his horse and said loudly to him.
Yang Hao nodded and glanced at the servants accompanying him. Yang Hao's servants were more complete than when his family members were in the capital. They had housekeepers, servants, and maids, but...he was the only one.
He didn't know him either. These people were all found by people from Jisitang in a surprise attack after he changed his escape plan.
Yang Hao only knew that his butler was called Li Qingfeng. Looking at his age and hearing his name, Yang Hao strongly suspected that he had something to do with the Li Tingfeng family that he had saved in Tang Dynasty. However, so far, he has not had any relationship with this butler.
Discussed in detail.
Yang Hao boarded the car, lowered the sedan curtain, and the whole team sped up.
After passing Wapoji, a colorful shed suddenly appeared at the intersection ahead. It was said to be a colorful shed. Because the emperor was in mourning and was in state mourning, he did not wear red and colorful clothes. He only decorated the facade with some pine and cypress branches. The name of the colorful shed did not live up to its name.
There was no drum music to greet us below. There were only a group of common people in black and white clothes standing there, shouting loudly from a distance: "This military master, dare I ask if the person coming from the front is Taiwei Yang?"
A Japanese soldier agreed in a very stiff Chinese dialect, and the people immediately became happy. They summoned a Ten Thousand People Umbrella from nowhere and came forward without opening it.
When they saw that Mr. Yang was being sent off to leave the capital, Gongsun Qing and Wang Baocai were not in a position to stop him. They looked at each other and ordered someone to pass the news back to Yang Hao. In a moment, Yang Hao came forward to greet him.
The leader of the group of common people was a well-built member of the Communist Party of China. He bowed before him with great respect and said: "Lieutenant Yang, I am a humble citizen, and I am the protector of my hometown. When I was in Beijing, my virtuous administration benefited the people, which benefited countless people.
Today, the Taiwei is leaving Beijing to take up his post in the northwest. The common people are so grateful that they are reluctant to leave you. They specially entrust the common people to present a Ten Thousand People Umbrella and ten jars of fine wine to the Taiwei, in the hope that the Taiwei will accept it."
From a distance, Mr. Wang Shoucai, a Japanese warrior, was very puzzled when he heard this. He turned to Gongsun Qing and asked: "Master Gongsun, the last general is a military attache. He doesn't know much about Taiwei Yang. He has served here."
Magistrate?"
At this time, Yang Hao thanked him profusely, and the people were flattering and flattering him so much that Gongsun Qing, the minister of etiquette, almost vomited. He sneered and saw that there was no one around Yang Hao, so he said: "Wang
General, this is just a habit in the officialdom. Since ancient times, when a good official who loves the people as his son leaves office, the people will not leave him. It is common for people to send umbrellas to show their respect. However, the subsequent officials, no matter whether they are honest officials or not, love the people or not
Like children, they all like to play such a trick when they leave office.
If the official reputation is good, some gentry will take the initiative to send umbrellas. If the official reputation is not good, he is not willing to leave in despair, so he has to find other ways to have others deliver them. For example, in the previous dynasty, the Kangyuan County Magistrate was
A corrupt official is hated by the people. When he leaves office, he also wants the people to give him an umbrella, but who among the people is willing to give it to him?
Don't you want to send it? If you don't send it to him, he will stay in the county government office and the new official will not be able to take over. So the new county magistrate has to take the lead in persuading the local gentry to send umbrellas. The gentry really refused to agree.
The county magistrate had no choice but to do something himself and asked his family members to pretend to be local people, so he sent his predecessor away in glory. Do you understand? "
"Oh..." Wang Shoucai suddenly understood and nodded repeatedly: "I understand, I understand." When he looked at Yang Hao again, Wang Shoucai showed a look of contempt.
Gongsun Qing said with a smile: "The later officials always wanted to be more solemn than the original officials when they left office, so they made new tricks, not only giving umbrellas to the people, erecting monuments to virtue and politics, but also the shameless ones, hiring a few rogue idlers in advance.
Lying down on the dirt in front of the sedan chair where he left office, he rolled all over the ground and refused to get up. This meant blocking the road and preventing their good official from leaving. In officialdom, this kind of thing is called "lying down", hehe,
Such ugly officialdom spreads widely, but the people love him infinitely."
The two people couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.
Ahead, Yang Hao couldn't refuse, and finally accepted the Wanmin Umbrella presented by the local squire Yu Yuan on behalf of the local gentry and people. Since the Wanmin Umbrella was made of cloth of different colors, it was inconvenient to open it during the national mourning period, so it was wrapped in plain silk.
After putting them in the car, Yang Hao took ten more jars of fine wine and put them all in the car and continued on their way. Yu Yuan and others chased after him for a long time as if reluctant to leave, and then they gradually dispersed.
Seeing that the squires who were putting on a show had left, Gongsun Qing breathed a sigh of relief and ordered: "Speed up your journey."
It was already afternoon when they left the capital, and they could not travel far that day. In the evening, they arrived near Banqiao Town. At this time, the sun was setting and the red sun was getting darker. In order to reach the town before sunset, the speed of the convoy continued to increase.
, saw a wooden bridge in front of him, and the warriors who were advancing suddenly slowed down. Gongsun Qing had something on his mind, and when he noticed that his forward speed had slowed down, he immediately raised his head and asked, "What happened?"
"Sir, look!"
A warrior pointed forward. Gongsun Qing took a look and saw another colorful shed erected at the end of the bridge. There were not many people under the shed, only five or six people, two of them standing, and the remaining few lying on the bridge.
superior.
Wang Shoucai was stunned for a moment when he saw it, and then shouted: "Are you lying there?"
Looking at Gongsun Qing, the two couldn't help laughing and laughed together.
"The person coming from the front is Taiwei Yang. A local scholar, Yu Yizhou, led fellow scholars Lin to meet with Taiwei."
Yang Hao received the report and went forward to receive him with a smile on his face. So, asking for names, greetings, receiving, thanking, and saying goodbye, it was a lot of trouble.
Wang Baocai became impatient and whispered to Gongsun Qing: "Master Gongsun, how long will it take for him to walk around like this? We arranged it in Banqiao Town..."
"Silence!"
Gongsun Qing immediately interrupted him, looked at Yang Hao in front of him with a smile on his face, and sneered: "Master Wang, it doesn't matter if he is allowed to be famous for a while, in the middle of the night, for dead people... we have to be a little patient, you say so
What?"
Wang Baocai smiled bitterly and said, "What Master Gongsun is teaching you, uh... hmm? What are those people doing?"
When Gongsun Qing raised his head, he saw that Yang Hao had been pushed to sit on the bridge. Someone was taking off his boots next to him, and another person was standing aside holding a pair of new boots. Gongsun Qing couldn't help but his eyes widened, and he murmured after a while:
"So shameless, so shameless, so...shameless?"
"Huh?" Wang Shoucai pinched his chin and asked in surprise: "What happened?"
Gongsun Qing gritted his teeth and laughed: "I don't know where this Lieutenant Yang got it from, but he actually used the trick of leaving his beloved boots."
"Legacy boots?"
"Well, the Ten Thousand People's Umbrella, the Monument of Dezheng, and the Lie Zhe are all used to see off officials. There is one more thing, and that is the boots of legacy."
Gongsun Qing took a long breath and said: "In some places, the gentry flattered their stinky feet, so they came up with new ideas. When officials left office, they asked them to leave their worn-out boots and hang them on the archway to let the wind blow.
Blow and rain until they rot. Hey, General Wang, wherever you go in the future, if you see some strange, rotten and smelly boots hanging on the local archway, it means that there have been many "good officials" in the local area, hahahaha
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After hearing this, Wang Shoucai nodded seriously: "I understand, thank you very much for your advice."
At this moment, I heard a strange cry of "ah" and saw Yang Hao limping back with his bare feet. The scholar named Yu Yizhou was holding a bright dagger in his hand.
Chasing after them, Wang Shoucai stared straight-eyed and said in amazement: "The customs in our country are really strange. Lord Gongsun, please enlighten me. Do they... want to leave anything behind?"
"Still thinking... Still thinking..."
Gongsun Qing suddenly screamed strangely and said in surprise: "Assassin?"
At this time, Yang Hao was seen jumping up and down, shouting angrily: "There are assassins, there are assassins, help, help!"
As he said that, he had grabbed Wang Shoucai and jumped behind his horse. Wang Shoucai wished that he would be killed by someone so that he would not have to painstakingly arrange the means. However, he had already escaped to him. As the escorting general,
No matter what, he couldn't pretend to be deaf and dumb, so he pulled out his sword with a loud sound and cursed viciously: "Who dares to assassinate an official of the imperial court?"
After living in the Central Plains for nearly twenty years, he could already speak Chinese quite well. He didn't even say "Bagaya Road, where are you working?" When Wang Shoucai moved, his soldiers immediately drew their swords out of their sheaths.
He shouted and rushed forward...
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, Yang Hao and his party appeared in Zaohua Town, which was far north of Banqiao Town, more than thirty miles away from Banqiao Town.
The few assassins who had failed to accomplish anything and were exposed enough failed to kill Yang Hao. Instead, they frightened the snake. Seeing that they could not do anything, they jumped into the water to escape. As soon as the soldiers who followed the path climbed onto the bridge, the bridge suddenly collapsed.
, it turned out that the bridge had been tampered with. The frightened Taiwei Yang refused to go to Banqiao Town even if he died. He changed the route on his own initiative and took a detour to Zaohua Town. Wang Shoucai was furious, but he had no choice but to go on this journey.
There are many opportunities to go there. Even if the layout of Banqiao Town is in vain, there are still opportunities ahead.
The clothes on Yang Hao's back were torn open by Yu Yizhou. He was so frightened that as soon as he entered Zaohua Town, he got into a room and couldn't get out. The local squire heard that such a big official had come, and he couldn't get out.
They hurriedly came to visit, but he refused to show up at all. Gongsun Qing and Wang Shoucai couldn't laugh or cry, so they sent the squires away casually. As soon as they returned to the requisitioned inn, another person broke in from outside and asked in a grand manner: "
Dare I ask, is Taiwei Yang staying here?"
Before Gongsun Qing could take a sip of tea, he asked angrily: "Who are you?"
The middle-aged man smiled slightly, cupped his hands and said, "My surname is Yu..."
Gongsun Qing held a cup of hot tea in his hand and spilled it on his front: "Is it Yu again?"
On the side, Wang Shoucai pulled out his sword with a cry, pounced on him fiercely, and shouted: "Take him down!"