Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 85 Stealing the Sound of the World (4)

When Zhao Xingde and Li Ruoxue realized that the door had opened, Li Ruoxue stroked her cheek shyly, and said in a low voice, "It's all you." Just as she was about to rush to the door, she saw the pitiful appearance of the roller blind at the door, and suddenly pointed at the door. Her face was trembling with laughter while clutching her stomach.

It turns out that at this time, women are good at applying thick powder. First, apply a thick layer of powder on the face to cover the original color. Crimson lips are like painting.And Li Ruoxue couldn't apply such a thick powder when going out because of her head and face sweating a lot, and she couldn't enjoy natural makeup like others.Therefore, from childhood to adulthood, what I love the most is when it rains heavily when I go out, seeing the heavy makeup on other people's faces being washed away by the rain, turning purple and red, I can't help but laugh and hurt my stomach.

It was pouring rain, and the roller blind came in a hurry when they heard the noise outside, but the makeup powder on my face was washed into a mess. Fortunately, this relieved a little bit of embarrassment.After the two entered, the shutter was closed and bolted. When they passed by Zhao Xingde, they saluted slightly, and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "Wanfu, my aunt." Li Ruoxue just smiled and didn't hear it. Zhao Xingde was very happy in his heart, he stretched out his hand to take out three taels of silver from his bosom and stuffed it into her hand.When Li Ruoxue had laughed enough, the three of them rushed back from the yard to their rooms.

Back in the boudoir, she changed out of her wet clothes, took the towel from the roller blind, Li Ruoxue dried her hair while looking in the mirror, her lips were slightly purple, she couldn't help but feel a little shy, fortunately, it's popular in this era. The lip gloss she wears is also purple, called sandalwood color. She took out the lip gloss and dabbed it on her lips, as if she had applied a little more lip gloss. The shutter talked too much, so he took out a volume of poetry and books, and listened to the rain hitting the banana leaves outside the window alone.

Even so, when eating, both Zhao Xingde and Li Ruoxue felt a little guilty.The Li family has always been particular about not talking when eating or sleeping, and Li Gefei practiced it himself, except for asking a few words about Zhao Xingde's studies before eating, he didn't say a word, not even mentioning the matter of exposing the post.But the two of them always felt that Mrs. Wang looked over with a hint of reproach in her eyes.From then on, Zhao Xingde prepared for the autumn in August with peace of mind, and Li Ruoxue seldom set foot in the study.Both of them are looking forward to the summer passing quickly.

Time passed quickly, and it was already August in a blink of an eye, and the impact of the denunciation of Tong Guan's public exposure was still accumulating bit by bit.Under the full suppression of the Kaifeng government officials, this tearing and sticking, sticking and tearing, the battle like brown sugar is endless. Gradually, Kaifeng government is also a little tired, and often send more government officials to face the street every two days Let's clean up the "messy" pasted paper in a unified way.Rumors that Tong Guandang was responsible for the "chaos" in Hebei spread more and more widely among the people. Almost all the people in the capital, no matter whether they supported the crown prince or the third prince, no matter what they said verbally, they were deeply concerned. Secretly believe that what this post says is true.

However, bowing and bowing in the hall is still the same.Even if it is a gust of wind, this post cannot be blown into the palace.Even if the government issued an order to recall Tong Guan, no one came out to stop him with a post. A few irrelevant remonstrances were easily suppressed by Cai Gongxiang, Liang Yinxiang, Li Shumi and other giants in the court. .Sure enough, there are people in the DPRK who are good at being officials. After Tong Guan received the order to return to Beijing, he was overwhelmed with gratitude, and his forehead was swollen from facing the direction of Tokyo city.That night, Eunuch Tong accepted the jewels from the general Hejian who came to surrender his sincerity at night, but no one was seen.

This short period of time made Eunuch Tong very anxious. The post from Bianjing actually spread to border areas like Hejian. The soldiers who had seen it all applauded. , this must be the act of Mr. Zhao who was drunk and wrote scolding thieves. "This scholar made such a fuss at a critical moment, it was a waste of love and nurturing for him." Tong Guan still remembered that he gave Zhao Xingde preferential treatment for joining the army. Tong Guan hated the hypocrite with his own head for fame.

The capital is far away, to avoid long nights and many dreams.In the early morning of the next day, Tong Guan led more than a hundred entourages of the Zhenbei First Army, and forcibly took away more than 200 horses.

After passing through the border of Zhending Mansion, Tong Guan hurried on his way, and he didn't care to say hello to Yang Yanqing, the newly appointed Chengde Army Jiedu Envoy by the imperial court and the founding marquis of Hanoi County. It was noon, and I saw a thatched house beside the official road from a distance, and an old locust tree grew beside the stream beside the road. There was a curtain on the branch of the locust tree, and three strong characters "Wangjiuyang" were written on the green cloth.

Xin Xingzong, the commander of the First Army in Zhenbei, pointed to the curtain and joked, "My lord, Marquis Yang is purposely standing on this slope, and he opened the curtain to wait!" Bearing a grudge in his heart, he deliberately made fun of him.

Tong Guan also smiled and said, "I'd like to see what good things his Yang family has." More than a hundred people came to the door of the thatched cottage, and the soldiers naturally sat on the ground outside under the shade of the trees and chewed dry food. Xin Xingzong brought a few A soldier accompanied Tong Guan inside, and saw a three-tiered steamer next to the counter, with white steamed buns on the surface, and "Yiguan" written next to it.A man dressed as a Taoist priest was holding a fly whisk in his hand and was constantly driving away the flies. This man didn't have long eyes, and when he saw several people in official clothes coming in, he didn't greet them politely.

Xin Xingzong was used to being arrogant, so he pointed at the Taoist priest and said, "Aren't you crazy, you are not the crab roe steamed buns from Taishi Cai's mansion, you want to be consistent?"

The Taoist raised his eyelids and said listlessly: "Poverty Dao Yang Yiguan, this steamed bun is called Yiguan steamed bun."

"So that's how it is," Xin Xingzong laughed dumbfounded even Tong Guan. Pedestrian vendors in Bianjing often put up some unconventional signs. Unexpectedly, the wild Taoists in this barren mountain and wild ridge are also doing the same, deliberate to make their name famous.

Before they finished laughing, the wild Taoist muttered again: "Many passers-by persuaded the poor Taoist to change the name of this steamed bun, so as not to think of the 10 people in Hebei Province who have harmed me when they saw this character." Traitor, I want to change it too, but I'm just lazy by nature, too lazy to make a new signboard. If the high officials don't like it, they can simply treat this meat-stuffed steamed bun as a child's body, After eating one, it's like swallowing a whole child, and your appetite will be better."

His wicked commentary made Tong Guan so angry that his sparse beard trembled slightly. Xin Xingzong immediately cursed angrily: "You wild Taoist priest, you dare to insult the court officials for no reason." He turned his head. Said to Tong Guan, "Your Excellency, calm down, and in the end, the general will punish this mad Taoist priest."

A cold light flashed in the Taoist's eyes, he stared at Tong Guan and said, "If you don't want to change your name if you are a real man, and if you don't change your surname when you sit down, are you Tong Guan?"

Tong Guan was watched by him and took a step back. Seeing that he was surrounded by his own soldiers, his courage suddenly became stronger, and he shouted sharply: "This official is Tong Guan. You unscrupulous people, dare to assassinate this official, come on, let me go!" I took it down!"

The Taoist suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, pointed at Tong Guan and said, "I forgot, you eunuch, no matter how much you pretend to be garlic, you are still eggless and can't be a real man." With a lot of force, the heavy counter made of cypress wood was completely overturned, and the steamed buns rolled all over the ground, and when they fit together, they slammed back and hit a pillar of the thatched cottage.This hut was originally simple and crude, but when the pillar fell down, the whole hut collapsed. The soldiers outside were unknown, so they were about to go forward to rescue Mr. Tong, when they saw a Taoist with disheveled hair rushing out of the thatch pile, with no head on his head. ran back.Not long after, there was a piercing sound of arrows in the col.

Protecting Tong Guan, Xin Xingzong got out of the hut in a panic, his face was pale, and he cupped his hands and said: "My lord, here are high mountains and dense forests, I'm afraid that wild Taoist is also weird, let's go first!"

Tong Guan had been terrified by the collapse of the thatched hut, and immediately mounted his horse with the support of his own soldiers, and started on the road again hungry.

After walking for a long time, he heard the sound of horseshoes behind him. Xin Xingzong looked back, but it was the Taoist priest leading a team of three or four hundred horsemen chasing him just now.

The Taoist held an iron gun and rode his horse to chase after him. A middle-aged man in brocade clothes beside him asked, "Zai Xing, is it really a traitor in front of you?" If the interception and killing secret order is completed by oneself, the forces of Wuma Mountain may be able to recruit them.The bandits in Wuma Mountain became very powerful during the "turmoil" in Hebei. From the original 3000 horse bandits, they grew to nearly 2000 people. Zhao Bangjie knew that the Yang family's army never recruited and surrendered, and he focused on showing sincerity to the Jinyan Mansion, which he had contact with before. Wang Yan's secret message was that if he found the traces of the traitors, he would kill them if they wanted to die or not.Wang Yan didn't say who this 'traitor' was, but the heroes of Mount Wuma were not fools, so they were the children who killed more than [-] brothers who had just gone up the mountain.

Yang Zaixing said in a deep voice: "That 'treacherous' thief couldn't stand the excitement, so he admitted it himself." He raised his head and shouted loudly: "Tong Guanxiu go, leave the head!" Gao Ming, from time to time, officers and soldiers who were left behind were cut down by them.At last they stopped the army of more than a hundred cavalry officers, and the two soldiers wearing official robes immediately knelt down and begged for mercy. It turned out that Xin Xingzong and Tong Guan had changed into ordinary people's clothes and fled across the mountain.

"What a cunning traitor!" Yang Zaixing spat fiercely on the ground. Although Tong Guan was not caught in this battle, Wumashan got more than 200 good horses. The brothers tied the captured officers and soldiers with both hands. Behind the horse's buttocks, he triumphantly drove the horses back to the village.