Fu Song

Chapter 73 Little People

Outside the small courtyard, seven or eight idlers with filial piety stickers on their heads and hemp ropes tied around their waists gathered together in twos and threes, yelling at a small courtyard in front of them from time to time, and occasionally picking up some broken bricks from the ground. The rotten tiles were thrown in across the courtyard wall, making a clanging sound.

The courtyard was deadly silent.It seemed that no one was there at all.

"This doesn't look like a family member of the deceased!" Xiao Ding frowned, looking at all this in front of him.

Xiao Cheng sneered: "The real family members of the deceased may make a scene out of a momentary anger, but how can they persist for so long? Brother, look, where are these people's faces half sorrowful? He was still eating snacks while yelling. It was clearly some idle people who were hired to make things difficult for Xin Jian.”

"Damn!" Xiao Ding was furious.

Xiao Cheng turned to Li Xindao: "Take my post, go to the nearest patrol shop, and tell the army chief inside, if he doesn't care, I can go directly to Kaifeng County or Kaifeng House."

The head of the army patrol in Maozhu Street, Li Tong, was holding a plate of spiced broad beans and drinking a little wine.More than a dozen soldiers in the military camp were also stuffed in the room. As for what happened at Xin Jian's house not far from here, they just assumed that they had not seen or heard.

Someone greeted them and gave them a reward. Anyway, it was just yelling, and he wouldn't rush into Xinjian's yard to kill people, so he was happy to be a favored man.

Besides, this Xin Jian is also useless.I heard that the Grand Lieutenant valued him and asked him to bring a hundred Long Guard soldiers to compete with ten frontier troops from the north. He suffered heavy casualties and lost a mess. How could such a person still have the face to live?

Should have been killed by a head-on.

Most of the people living on Maozhu Street are the family members of the guards and the army. So many people died this time, who doesn't feel the same way?

"Boss Li, a servant named Li Xin came outside, saying that Xin Jian's house was in trouble, and he wanted us to drive those idlers away!" A soldier rushed in.

"What is an idle man, that's the family of the victim." Li Tong stared at him and said angrily, "What is this Li Xin's origin? Dare to yell at our army's patrol shop?"

"It's said to be from a family surnamed Xiao. Well, boss, this is the name thorn that he gave!" The soldier gave Xiao Cheng's name thorn to Li Tong.The soldiers were illiterate and did not know what was written on them.

Although Li Tong is not literate, he can generally see the name thorn clearly.

When I took it, I just glanced at it, and my hand was scalded by a red-hot soldering iron, and I almost dropped the famous thorn on the ground.

"Damn, you dare to accept his famous thorn!" Li Tong could not wait to kick this ignorant lone crutch, so that he would never stand up and walk straight in his life.

"Who is this person, does he have a big background?" The soldier said innocently.

Li Ze straightened his clothes and said, "You don't know about Xiao Cheng, but do you know about Xiao Ding? Do you know about Xiao Yu and Xiao Longtu, the third secretary?"

The soldier shuddered: "Is that the one who was ruled by Xiao Dingxiao who broke through [-]?"

"It's the commander now." Li Tong strode out: "My God, why did these ancestors come to my small temple."

When he walked outside, he saw a young servant in green clothes standing there with his hands behind his back.

Li Tong didn't dare to be slighted, he stepped forward and returned the name thorn with both hands, "This little brother, I don't know what orders Xiao Erlang Jun has?"

"Then where are the messy people outside Xinjian's house making trouble?" Li Xindao: "Today, my family's Dalang and Erlang came to visit Xin Yazheng, and they were very unhappy when they saw this."

"It's all the family members of the victims!" Li Tong said indifferently.

"The victim's family?" Li Xin sneered, staring straight at Li Tong. "I can't see it!"

A layer of cold sweat broke out in Li Tong's vest, what victims, these people died in the hands of Xiao family Dalang.You are scolding the bald man in front of a monk, are you tired and crooked?

"I'll deal with it right away. It must be some idlers who want to extort money. They must not be allowed to ruin the atmosphere of this Bamboo Street!" Li Ze said loudly, grabbing the iron chain and iron ruler by the wall with one hand, and shouted loudly. He shouted, "Brothers, come with me."

The Xiao brothers watched coldly as the patrolling soldiers on Maozhu Street waved iron chains and iron rulers, and in an instant they beat up a group of idlers to the point of screaming and running away.

"I've seen you two gentlemen!" Li Tong's heart skipped a beat, and only glanced at the grim bearded faces in front of him, and his calf turned a little.In fact, Xiao Ding himself is very kind and pleasant, but from his heart, Li Tong identified the guy in front of him as a ferocious figure, and in his eyes, he naturally looked like Yama.

"Thank you Li Xunpu!" Xiao Cheng smiled brightly and gave Li Xin a wink. Li Xin knowingly took out the money from his horse's jacket and handed it to Li Tong.

"This is the duty of a villain, how dare you ask for a reward from Erlang-Jun?" Li Tong shook his hands.

"It should be." Xiao Cheng laughed and said, "We know what's going on here. Speaking of which, it has nothing to do with my Xiao family, but it makes Li Jun's head difficult to deal with. A little care is not a respect. , buy some water and wine for my brother. Li Juntou can't refuse any more, I'll be angry if you refuse again."

Seeing that Xiao Cheng's demeanor didn't seem to be fake, Li Tong accepted it with great gratitude.

Xiao Ding was too lazy to talk to this person, and walked directly towards Xin Jian's small courtyard.

Standing in front of the door, Xiao Ding knocked on the iron ring on the door.

There was silence in the house.

After listening carefully, he seemed to be able to hear the whimpering of very small women and children in the room.

"Xin Jian, I'm Xiao Ding, open the door!" Xiao Ding said directly.

There was a thud in the yard, as if something had been knocked over to the ground.

"Xin Jian, Commander Xiao has come to see you. You are so embarrassed, you still haven't opened the door!" Outside, Li Tong also shouted loudly.

However, his flattery slapped the horse's hoof directly, Xiao Ding turned his head and glared at him, Li Tong shuddered and stepped back a few steps.

"Li Junpu, our brothers can do the rest by themselves. If it's too much trouble, please ask the military leader to bring the brothers back!" Xiao Cheng said with a genuine smile.

"Yes, yes!" Li Tong also wanted to stay away from Xiao Ding, the Yama King, but he didn't dare to leave without anyone's orders. Hearing Xiao Cheng's words, he immediately saluted and ran away in a hurry. .

Xiao Ding knocked on the courtyard door again. This time, it didn't take long for the courtyard door to open with a bang, revealing Xin Jian's tired, desperate but vigilant face.

"Brother Xin, Xiao Mou is visiting, won't you invite me in and sit down?" Xiao Ding said with his fists folded.

Xin Jian couldn't think of why Xiao Ding would come to him.

The family background of the two is very different, and their status is even more so.Xiao Ding became famous in the first battle and has been promoted to commander, and he even lost his military loan.

It can be said that Xiao Ding's commander stepped up on Xin Jian's head.

Xin Jian really wanted to drive the culprit out, but looking at Xiao Ding's determined face, he felt guilty for a while.A Huang Hai, who was just a general among the guards and the army, tossed himself to the death and tormented himself. If he really wanted to offend the commander in front of him again, how could he still have a chance to survive?
The Xiao family is not comparable to the Huang family!
After hesitating for a while, Xin Jian still turned his body sideways, "Please!"

Stepping into the yard, the small yard is full of broken bricks, rotten tiles, rotten vegetables and leaves, and even some rotten and smelly internal organs. The whole yard is filled with a stench, and there is almost no place to go .

"Commander Xiao, please come inside!" Xin Jian bowed.

One positive and two partial houses can be seen at a glance.When the Xiao brothers entered the door, they happened to see a woman with two children hurriedly escaping into the side room and walked into the small main hall, but they heard clearly from the side room on the other side. The moan of an old woman.

"This is?" Xiao Ding asked.

Xin Jian lowered his head and said, "Xin is not filial. My mother fell ill because of my incident, but Xin has no money to ask her husband for treatment."

Xiao Ding suddenly realized that this Xin Jian had been pursued earlier because of his empty pay, and his family had almost lost everything.

He turned to look at Xiao Cheng.

Before the eldest brother could speak, Xiao Cheng had already turned to Li Xindao: "Li Xin, you took your eldest brother's sticker and went to Wang Taiyi's house, and asked Wang Taiyi to come and take a look."

To invite Imperial Physician Wang over, Xiao Cheng no longer has the qualifications, but there is no problem with the newly released commander and the father's name.

Xin Jian suddenly raised his head and instinctively wanted to refuse, but he pursed his lips when he heard the moans next door.He could only cup his hands and say, "Xin Jian, thank you for the commander."

Xiao Ding shook his head: "You have a lot to do with me today."

Xin Jian lowered his head a little aggrieved.

On the other end, Xiao Cheng was not idle, but continued to direct a few servants to clean up the messy yard, and even assigned one person to go to the nearest restaurant to book a table and come back.

"Xin Yazheng, you won't stand talking to my eldest brother all the time, will you?" After all this was arranged, Xiao Cheng walked over and smiled.

"Commander, please take a seat!" Xin Jian then reacted, and hurriedly pulled over a bench. "Sir Erlang, please take a seat."

He invited the two of them to sit down, but shouted loudly, "A Zhai, A Zhai, boil a pot of boiling water."

(End of this chapter)