The Eight Great Bandits——Li Hongji
Li Hongji pulled out the knife from Ai Juren's chest, then gently pushed Ai Juren, who had a frightened face, and saw that his chest was bleeding and soft. He fell to the ground and sighed softly: "I don't know what kind of bad luck happened to my grandpa. He actually killed two people in the past two years. Next, he will kill Yan Zibin, a dog official. It seems that grandpa and this Ming Dynasty Chaosheng's horoscopes are not compatible."
His nephew Li Guo took the donkey that Ai Juren had ridden, and spat at Ai Juren who fell to the ground and twitched: "It's a dead ball. My uncle only owes him half a pound of money, but it’s not like he won’t pay him back. As for suing the government, he will be chained and paraded through the streets?
He deserves to be eaten by wild dogs.”
Li Hongji sighed and said: "I didn't want to kill him, but this guy was too pushy, so I'll just kill him anyway. If he dies early and is born early, grandpa can be considered a good thing."
As he spoke, Li Hongji squatted in front of Ai Juren's body, took out two ingots of broken silver and a dozen large coins from his waist bag, threw them to Li Guo and said: "Take these coins and give them to your mother." After taking the medicine, her cough became worse."
Li Guo took the money with a smile and took out a half-foot-long short blade from his waist to kill the donkey.
Li Hongji raised his hand to stop his nephew's hand and said: "Don't kill here, go to the river, leave me a leg to satisfy your aunt's greed."
Second uncle and nephew The people first put Ai Juren's body on the back of a donkey, found a ravine and threw it into it, then pushed down a loess mountain wall to bury the body, and then followed the ravine to the Yinchuan River.
After killing the donkey, the uncle and nephew saw that it was already getting late, so they roasted donkey meat and drank wine in the wilderness all night. It was not until dawn that they slowly returned to Yinchuanyi.
Yinchuanyi is in a remote area, and even at dawn, there is not a single rooster crow. Li Hongji opened the firewood door of his house with a donkey's leg, walked in lightly, and then prepared to call his wife. Suddenly he heard a man's voice in the house, and he immediately stopped, his smiling face suddenly covered with frost.
Unable to hear clearly what the people inside were saying, Li Hongji paused for a moment, then decisively turned around and went to Li Guo's house.
Li Guo's house is opposite his house. When he entered the door, he saw Li Guo serving his wife to eat the donkey meat they roasted last night.
"Don't let my sister-in-law eat a lot. She has been hungry for a long time. Tear it into pieces and eat it with gruel, otherwise it will damage her stomach."
As soon as Li Hongji entered the door, he put the The donkey legs on his shoulders were thrown on the earthen platform. He sat on the bed with a smile and took over from Li Guo to tear up the cooked donkey meat into small pieces and feed it to his sister-in-law, who was more than ten years older than him.
After taking two bites, Mrs. Li said to Li Hongji: "Your mother-in-law hasn't eaten yet."
Li Hongji smiled and said: "She has eaten."
Mrs. Li glanced at the room opposite and whispered: "In the future, when you are not delivering letters, stay at home more often. Don't always go to your friends."
Li Hongji laughed when he heard this and said: "Well, my sister-in-law, if my good brothers hadn't snatched me away from the civil servants, your brother's bones could be used as drumsticks, and my sister-in-law wouldn't have to worry about it. "Xiao Zao'er has his own reasons!"
Li sighed, took a sip of the millet porridge brought by Li Guo, and said no more.
How could Li Hongji not know why his sister-in-law said these things? He was a universal man and a lawless person. He always did things in a systematic way. Seeing that his sister-in-law was still hiding for that bitch, Not to mention it, when he saw his sister-in-law lying down again, he said hello to Li Guo and left his sister-in-law's house.
At this time, the sun has completely risen. The sky and the earth do not appear bright because of the abundant sunshine. Instead, they appear gray because of the dust.
Seeing from a distance that his wife Han Jin'er had stood up and was lighting a fire in the kitchen to cook, Li Hongji smiled, tightened his belt and turned around to go to the inn.
It’s not like Li Hongji had never heard rumors about his wife and Gai Hu before. Based on his trust in his wife, he always laughed it off. Unexpectedly, he would bump into each other today, which made him think again. She was ashamed and angry, and a feeling of depression accumulated in her chest that she couldn't let go.
In a blink of an eye, we arrived in front of Gai Humen, and saw Gai with a blue handkerchief on her head, lying on the pig pen and looking tenderly at the two fat pigs she raised, and the two boys with runny noses. Some of them would follow their mother's example and lie down on the pig pen, constantly asking their mother when they could kill the pig.
Gai saw Li Hongji and said hello from a distance. Li Hongji came over with a smile, stroked the two boys' round heads, and left Gai Hu's house.
There is an injustice and a debtor. Li Hongji never thinks that killing women, children and young children is a matter of gratification. Only those swordsmen who are like beasts will do such outrageous things. .
Gai Hu was not at home, so Li Hongji thought about it for a while, then came to the edge of the post road, found a wooden post and sat down, looking at the dark yellow sun in the sky, not knowing what he was thinking.
Yinchuanyi is not a prosperous place to begin with. In addition to the constant border troubles in recent years, Mongolians often come to this area to clear grass in the valley. The merchants have long been cut off. As for the local people, most of them are sergeants from military households. , who is interested in wandering on the road early in the morning during busy farming days!
I don’t know how long it took, but a majestic figure swayed over from the direction of the rising sun.
When Li Hongji saw Gai Hu coming, he greeted him with a smile. Gai Hu was stunned for a moment and immediately put on a big smile and said loudly: "Brother Hongji, your errand to Hengshan has been completed. "You're so fast, I thought you wouldn't be able to come back until tomorrow."
Li Hongji smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm a little anxious because I'm worried about my family. I'll rush back overnight after finishing the work." Come on, brother Gaihu, are you drinking?
Drinking so early in the morning, is there some happy occasion?
Come on, come on, take a rest here and tell me about the things at the station. I heard that Zhang Yicheng is about to be promoted? "
Gai Hu's slightly frowning brows relaxed. He sat on the tree stump and breathed out the strong smell of alcohol: "Zhang Yicheng is probably going to die of old age in our Yinchuan Station. , but something big happened in the capital. The news came only yesterday, which made people’s hair stand on end. "
Li Hongji quickly approached Gai Hu, arched his shoulders and said, "Tell me, what's the big deal?" Could it be that the slave chieftain passed through Ningyuan? Didn't it mean that the slave chief had been killed by Marshal Yuan with artillery? "
Gai Hu shook his head and said: "The slave chief stayed in Liaodong and did not come out, but there was a drought thunder in the capital. The newspaper said that first there was a huge fireball rolling in the air, and then It exploded suddenly, and in an instant, the sky became dark and the earth became dark, dust and fire flew together, the sky collapsed and the earth collapsed, and thousands of houses fell into silence.
Wood, stones, human bodies, and bird carcasses fell from the sky like raindrops. Tens of thousands of houses and more than 20,000 people were blown into powder, rubble fell into the sky, clothes flew as far as Changping, and the dead were all dead. The craftsmen who were working in the Forbidden City were knocked off the tall scaffolding, and two thousand people fell into "meat bags".
The elephants in the guard of honor prepared for the emperor to leave the palace were frightened and ran away from the elephant room, running around in the streets, trampling on the people, and killing countless people...
I also I heard that He Yushi's concubine was well-dressed. After the loud noise, her clothes and shoes were gone in an instant. She was naked and covered herself with her hands... Why don't we brothers have such a beautiful scenery? Eyesight?
Li Hongji frowned and said, "It is said that evildoers appear in troubled times. Could it be that the Ming Dynasty is about to fall?" "
Gai Hu laughed and said: "What does it have to do with our brothers whether the Ming Dynasty dies or not? It is only right that we urge Zhang Yicheng to pay the arrears as soon as possible tomorrow.
Li Hongji nodded with a smile, put his arm around Gai Hu's shoulders and said, "Whether the Ming Dynasty dies or not is indeed none of our brothers' business. It's just that we should take care of the matter of you sleeping with my wife." Let’s talk about it? ”
Gai Hu was startled and wanted to get up. His chest hurt, and half of the blood-stained knife tip came out from his chest.
Li Hongji looked at Gai indifferently. With eyes full of begging for mercy, Hu strangled Gaihu and dragged him into the reed field on the roadside.
The reeds as tall as a person were rippling and calmed down after a while.
p>At noon, Li Hongji returned home and threw a piece of meat to Han Jin'er and said: "Cook the meat and get a dime of wine.
Han Jin'er was so happy that she picked up the meat and started to wash it. Li Hongji said: "Don't wash away the blood, otherwise the taste of the meat will be gone." ”
Han Jiner nodded repeatedly and stopped washing the meat. He put large pieces of skinned meat into the pot and squatted beside the stove to light the fire.
Li Hongji also squatted on the stove. On the edge of the stage, I saw a lock of Han Jin'er's hair hanging down, so I carefully lifted it up. Han Jin'er smiled brightly and leaned closer to Li Hongji.
"You have worked so hard for following me all these years. It is difficult for you to have a full meal. This will not happen again, and you will not starve with me again."
Han Jin'er smiled and said: "If you don't Then give the food at home to your poor brothers. The food at home is enough."
Li Hongji said with a smile: "Don't worry, Ai Juren's debt has been paid off."
< p>Han Jin'er was stunned for a moment, then looked back at Li Hongji and said: "Where did you get so much money to give back to Ai Juren?"Li Hongji said calmly: "I have my own way!"
< p>Han Jin'er looked at Li Hongji for a long time, and then slowly said: "The world is not good now. I heard that a drought and thunderstorm exploded in the capital, killing tens of thousands of people. You must not do anything bad outside. "Things about lightning."Li Hongji laughed silently, patted Han Jin'er's plump back and said, "Don't worry, don't worry, Thor will only look for those who are weak, not me. Such a villain."
Han Jin'er sighed: "Are you going to take people to Zhang Yicheng again to ask for the arrears of money and food?"
Li Hongji shook his head and said: " I won’t go this time. Zhang Yichen is thin. Even if he squeezes out the oil from his bones, how much oil can be squeezed out?
I am going to find Yan Zibin. He is fat and has a lot of oil. ."
The meat in the Kung Fu pot was already steaming as the couple talked.
Han Jin'er poked the meat with chopsticks and said strangely: "Today's meat is tender, already six times ripe."
Li Hongji stood up and took a look at the meat in the pot. , reached out and fished out a piece, took a big bite and said: "The taste is just right!"
Han Jin'er also took a bite, but the taste was not as good as she expected. Thinking that it was meat, it was... Just lower your head and continue eating.
Li Hongji wiped the grease from the corners of his mouth and stood up, took out the saber from his waist, and chopped off Han Jin'er's head with one blow...
Han Jin'er's head fell to the ground, and rolled on the ground. After a few turns, a piece of meat fell out of her mouth.
"You and I have been husband and wife for three years, and letting you die unknowingly is the greatest forgiveness I can give you!"
After Li Hongji said this, he walked out of the stove He pulled out a burning firewood, threw it on the haystack, then turned around and walked out.
Not long after, thick smoke billowed out of his home, and tongues of flame came out of the window.
Li Guo discovered that there was a fire in his uncle's house very early. When he saw his uncle coming out of the house, he did not come forward. He just said loudly: "Do you know everything?"
< p>Li Hongji nodded and said: "I just found out this morning...I made my grandfather suffer so much humiliation for nothing.""Where are you going?"
"Jishishan !"
"I heard that the frontier troops in Jishi Mountain are in chaos. It's not a good place to be!"
Li Hongji stopped and looked at Li Guo: "For me, , that’s the best place to go.”
After that, without waiting for Li Guo’s answer, he strode towards the place.Walk towards Jishi Mountain.
"Uncle, I'm going too!"
Li Guo shouted!
Li Hongji waved his hand casually and said: "Your mother, come to Jishi Mountain to find me in a hundred years!"
At this time, Li Hongji's home was already enveloped in fire, and the neighbors were in panic. When I went out, I saw that the fire was out of control, so I had to stop thinking about putting out the fire. When I looked around for Li Hongji, I saw from a distance that he had climbed up the distant hills and walked farther and farther in the long yellow sand...