In this way, Gan Feihong confusedly recognized Sun Yixie as his eldest brother.
Of course, Sun Yixie is well versed in the ways of the world and knows how to stabilize people's hearts. He promised Gan Feihong some benefits at that time - Sun Yixie said to Gan Feihong, as long as I see our big brother. Hao Jingyu, I will definitely give Brother Gan a few good words in front of him. Not only will you be able to enter the Tao, but no matter what happens, you will be ranked in the "Zhou" generation in the "primordial universe".
This cake painting made Gan Feihong so happy that he almost knelt down and kowtowed to Brother Sun.
He never thought... Even if Sun Yixie is really Hao Jingyu's brother, he might not be able to see Hao Jingyu for the next year and a half. What will happen in a year and a half? Does anyone know the situation? Maybe their gang of bastards would have been wiped out by the court by then.
But in front of him, Sun Yixie was truly enjoying big brother-level treatment.
This gang of prostitutes was also really loyal. After paying homage to their eldest brother, they not only stopped robbing Sun Yixie, but also did not touch any other passengers on the boat, and returned directly to their own boat. They escorted their big boat to the ferry on the other side and then dispersed.
After Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai came ashore, Gan Feihong also sent a few brothers to be responsible for tracking (water thieves usually place some sharp-eyed minions with quick legs to find targets on the shore in advance. Before that, Sun Yixie Xiehe Huang Donglai was targeted because he looked like two second-generation ancestors), and specially sent two pieces of brown brocade to "Brother Sun"; this brocade was agreed upon by the water and land thieves on both sides of the Yangtze River. Mark, as long as you tie this on your body, it means that you are one of your own, and colleagues along the road will not attack you when they see you.
With this heavy guarantee, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai's next journey was much smoother. The two drove horses and walked north around Chaohu Lake. After two days of walking, they arrived at Lu. Zhoucheng.
This place belongs to Luzhou Prefecture, directly under Nanjing. It is a thousand-year-old city with many scenic spots.
After staying at the inn, Huang Donglai proposed a rare trip and wanted to take a look at Xiaoyaojin. Sun Yixie didn't want to go and said he wanted to go with you.
Huang Donglai asked him: "Is it because Zhang Wenyuan fucked your old Sun family here before, so you don't want to go?"
Sun Yixie answered him: "Yes. "Yes, I don't want to go to such a sad place."
But in fact, based on Brother Sun's half-empty understanding of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and his inverted understanding of Chinese geography, he is. Neither he could recall the allusion that "Zhang Wenyuan was so powerful in Xiaoyaojin", nor did he know that Xiaoyaojin was in Hefei (i.e. Luzhou). He just simply didn't want to go.
So Huang Donglai decided to go there alone and asked the "high-speed rail gang" here if they had tickets suitable for them.
After Huang Donglai left, Sun Yixie waited for a moment, then locked the door, went to the bronze mirror in the room, and quietly took out a bottle of bruise medicine.
Huang Donglai didn’t know that the place where Sun Yixie was hit by Ma Si in the back was still there today.It's not completely healed yet, there is still a bruise that has not faded away.
It is true that Ma Si’s ten years of sword skills were not in vain. If it weren’t for the fact that he had been too comfortable in the village these years and slacked off in his practice, he would have used the sword at that time. Sun Yixie had to break a few bones.
Fortunately, Sun Yixie's current injury is not serious. When he had sword fights with people in the fish market, he often organized or participated in large-scale fights, so he was very sensitive to this kind of injuries. I have long been accustomed to injuries.
In the past few days, Sun Yixie has been quietly applying medicine to himself in his room; this is also his old habit, and sometimes he is a little too concerned about face. In fact, if he just tells Huang Dong, let Huang Dong come. He took out Huangmen's secret healing medicine and applied it on him, and it would take up to three days to recover. However, he felt that it was a bit embarrassing that he was injured when he beat a bandit leader while wearing protective armor, so he never mentioned it.
But I still have to say that the battle at Zoumazhai was to some extent a lesson for Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, who were new to the world.
The two of them had almost zero previous experience in the world of martial arts. Needless to say, Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai also traveled from Shuzhong to Jiangnan by a high-speed rail gang's carriage until he met Shen Youran outside Hangzhou. This was the first time I fought with someone, and the only ones I dealt with were miscellaneous fish.
In their impressions, an existence like the "bandit leader" is not an opponent worth taking seriously... However, Ma Si told them with his actions that in the world of martial arts you face Don't be careless when facing an opponent who doesn't seem to be doing well.
After all, there are mountains beyond the mountains, and there are people beyond the people - you never know whether one day you will be beaten to death by a sweeping monk or a brothel waiter.
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Let’s talk about Huang Donglai.
After leaving the inn, the first place he went to was the drug store. A few days ago, when he was teaching the villagers how to prepare "poison explosive bombs" in Nanyuan Village, although most of the materials were from the village drugstore, he still used some of his own inventory, otherwise he would use just a small The supplies in the village cannot produce effective poison. Later, because his stay in Xuancheng was too short, he did not have time to supplement it.
Now, when he arrived in Luzhou City, he had to prepare more medicinal materials, and then go back to the inn at night to mix more elixirs in case of emergency.
After going to the drug store to place an order and leaving some deposit money, he greeted the drug store manager and asked them to prepare the things and he would pick them up in a few hours; then, Huang Donglai I ran to Xiaoyaojin leisurely.
Xiaoyaojin was privately owned by a bureaucrat named Dou more than a hundred years ago and was renamed "Doujiachi". Later, it was passed down for several generations. When the power of the Dou family failed, it was changed again. After several owners, during the Yongtai period, it fell into the hands of a wealthy man named Zeng. His mansion was built next to Xiaoyaojin, surrounded by woods and water.
Of course, Huang Donglai didn’t know about this. He thought that the area around Xiaoyaojin was similar to his previous world.It's also a park, but this time...it was blocked by the courtyard wall.
Although he could easily get in by relying on Qinggong, but in broad daylight, he didn’t know whose land was behind the wall, so just climbing in would be like breaking into a private house; helplessly, he walked along the wall again. I've been walking along the courtyard wall for a while and wanted to take a look at the situation.
Not long after, Huang Donglai arrived at the gate of Zeng Mansion.
Coincidentally, at this time, in front of the Zeng Mansion, a group of people watching the excitement were gathered, talking and talking.
Huang Donglai squeezed through the crowd to the front and saw several officials carrying a corpse wrapped in a straw mat walking out of the gate.
Logically speaking, if someone from a big family dies, they shouldn’t come out like this...
If someone dies in a big family, they will have to cry first, then mourn, and Notify the government; as for the dead body, it should be placed in the ancestral hall of the family for at least three days (some antiseptic treatment will be done, especially in summer), waiting for relatives and friends to come for the funeral, and at the same time, quickly find a coffin shop and a master who specializes in sewing shrouds to make and wrap it. , wait for three days to confirm that the person is completely dead (in ancient times, people who were in shock were often regarded as dead and then woke up during the burial), then put the deceased in a shroud, put it in a coffin, and go to the back door for the funeral.
After the burial, when the eldest son or grandson holds the memorial tablet and leads the funeral procession back home to eat tofu rice, they still have to take a different path than when they went there, and they must enter through the front door... and so on. Yes, the rules are very big.
In those days, especially wealthy families, they were very particular about these things. Any mistake in etiquette would be very unlucky and disrespectful.
However, if a servant dies, then there is no need to pay so much attention. Usually, you just wrap it up with a straw mat and go out through the back door on the same day. If you meet a kind-hearted boss, he will send it to the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village, buy a cheap coffin, put it in for burial, and simply set up a monument; but if you meet the kind of boss who is unkind and unkind, he will just tell people to give you the order. You wrap yourself in a straw mat and take it to the graveyard for a shallow burial... If you are unlucky enough to bury it like this, wild dogs will pick up the grave that night and gnaw on the body.
But today’s battle is unusual.
First of all, the government came to collect the body, which means that there was a murder... But let’s talk about it for another time.
Secondly, when the officials moved the corpse, they walked through the main entrance. Could it be that the local magistrate deliberately refused to save Mr. Zeng’s face?
Huang Donglai listened to the conversations of the villagers next to him and realized that this should be impossible.
According to what these people said, the county magistrate here regards Mr. Zeng as his own father. Not to mention how many benefits he gets from the Zeng family every year, just because of Mr. Zeng’s in-laws The fact that he is the Minister of the DPRK is enough to make Mr. Wang bow down and obey his orders.
So what's going on?
When Huang Donglai was confused, the officers had already shouted to drive away the onlookers and opened a road. Then, they saw them carrying the corpse wrapped in a straw mat and walking straight towards it. There are only two lines between Ben and Zeng Mansion.Went to the Mingjiao Temple (also known as Mingjiao Yuan and Mingjiao Terrace) on the street.
"This old man, may I ask where this song comes from?" Huang Donglai is a curious person. Besides, he was just wandering here today. When he saw a show, he stopped a person. Old man, just ask.
"Young man, are you a foreigner?" This kind of man who stood here in broad daylight with nothing to do and watched the excitement was actually looking forward to someone chatting with him. When Huang Donglai asked, he responded with excitement. , "Heh...this thing is really evil."
"Oh?" Huang Donglai also showed a more curious expression as the other party wished, "What is going on?"
"I'm telling you..." The uncle deliberately lowered his voice and said with a mysterious expression, "This is already the third one carried out this month..." He He looked around, as if someone really wanted to eavesdrop on him, "...It is said that there is something unclean in the Zeng Mansion."
"Unclean thing?" Huang Donglai said slightly Frowning, he asked tentatively, "You mean..."
"Tsk, what else do you want me to say?" The old man said in a deep voice, "It's just haunted."