Chapter Nine: The Dragon Sees the Beginning but Not the End (IX)
Long drought meets Ganlin, and he knows that his hometown is old.
When the gold list is inscribed, the cave house flowers candle night.
For a man, there are three joys in life, promotion and wealth and death of his wife. But for Wu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of Jinzhou, all this came suddenly, which made him feel incredible. Wu Xiang successively served as the commander of the capital and the governor of Tongzhi. Now that the Jin Manchutars had advanced to daming and the liaodong war was tight, he now became the commander-in-chief of Jinzhou and held an important position as the governor of the Chinese military government.
Jinzhou has a long history.
During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, this place belonged to the Ji and You'er prefectures. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it belonged to Yandi, and during the Warring States period, it belonged to Yanliaoxi County. During the Qin and Western Han Dynasties, they belonged to the counties of Liaoxi and Liaodong, and during the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of them belonged to the Liaodong vassal states. During the Three Kingdoms period, it belonged to Changli County, Youzhou, and in the Jin Dynasty, it belonged to Changli County, Pingzhou. During the Sui Dynasty, the western part belonged to Liucheng County, and the eastern part belonged to Yan County. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of the Yingzhou Governor's Office, and later under the jurisdiction of the Andong Capital Protectorate, and after the abolition of the palace, it was under the jurisdiction of the Pinglu Jiedu Envoy. The Liao Dynasty was divided into Nakagyo Province and Tokyo Province. Liao Taizu Yelü Abaoji "built Jinzhou with Han prisoners", and the name of Jinzhou began at this time.
The Jin Dynasty changed the Liao Road system to a road system, which was under the jurisdiction of Beijing Road at that time, and the Yuan Dynasty was under the jurisdiction of Daning Road and Guangning Fu Road. In the Ming Dynasty, the military guard system was established, and there was a guard station under it, and at that time, Guangning Wei was placed, and Guangning Front, Rear, Left, Right, and Zhongtun Wei, as well as Yizhou Wei and Ning Yuanwei, were first under the command of the Liaodong Capital, and then under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Inspectorate.
Wu Xiang had now been promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief of Jinzhou and held the power of one side.
Promotion means getting rich, and fortune depends on your official position. Not long ago, Wu Xiang's wife died violently, but the cause of death has never been identified. For Wu Xiang, the unknown has no relationship, anyway, the person is already dead, and he has forever got rid of the tigress, the Hedong lion.
Promoted to rich and dead wife, these good things all let Wu Xiang catch up, even he himself did not know which door he stepped on the luck.
The thing that made Wu Xiang even more excited was that today he was going to marry the bride and become the groom's official. He can finally raise his eyebrows and breathe, and he can finally prove that he is also a man.
Who in the whole of Jinzhou did not know that the tigress in his own family was supported by his father and brother, and said that wu Xiang had never even married a little wife, which was a very faceless thing among his bureaucratic subordinates.
But now it's different, the tigress is dead, the death is not white, he is now the head of the family, the waist pole is straight, it is already a natural thing to take a second room, and it is already a natural thing to take a concubine, not to mention a young and beautiful Ruyi beautiful woman?
Three days ago, the lights in Jinzhou City were already displayed, the gongs and drums were noisy, the firecrackers were fired in unison, and even the head of Jinzhou City was full of firecrackers, but all this could not drive away the trauma and pain of the war.
Wu Xiang's General Soldier Mansion is right in the middle of Jinzhou City, a quiet mansion with two courtyards. Everyone in Jinzhou City knew that The chief soldier Wu Xiang was going to get married today. However, in Jinzhou City, which was shrouded in war, the people could not feel much festive atmosphere.
No one knows when the Manchurian Tartars will begin to attack the city of Jinzhou again, and no one knows where their fate will go.
Many people who came in and out of the General Soldier's Mansion, the local squires and rich people, and the local officials, all came to send congratulatory gifts to General Wu Xiang. Everyone had a smile on their faces, they only knew about the marriage of The Chief Soldier Wu Xiang now, but they had already forgotten about the Manchurian Eight Banners Iron Horse outside Jinzhou City, who had been staring at the Later Golden Emperor Taiji, and had already regarded Jinzhou as a piece of fat meat, and had been coveted for a long time.
Outside the gate of the General Soldier's Mansion was a spacious street, and a hundred and ten guards dressed in armor and armed with long guns stood on both sides of the street, maintaining order outside the General Soldier's Mansion.
Diagonally opposite the General Soldier Mansion is a somewhat dilapidated restaurant. Standing on the restaurant, gently pushing open the window, you can clearly see the entire General Soldier's Mansion.
There are two courtyards in the General Soldier's Mansion, and there are lights everywhere. There is a hall in the front yard, a lotus pond in the hall cloister, and a rockery stands in the lotus pond. Walk through the cloister, walk through the arched doors, and you'll reach the backyard. The water of the lotus pond crossed the backyard, and a small stone bridge crossed to the bedroom, which was the marriage room, and a large red silk flower hung under the eaves. On the left-hand side of the backyard is a small hall, and on the right-hand side is the kitchen dining room.
There were dozens of guards patrolling the General Barracks.
In the restaurant outside the General Soldier's Mansion, an old man wearing a gray cloth robe, with gray hair and a ruddy face, was drinking in the restaurant, but his eyes had never left the General Soldier's Mansion. The old man poured himself a drink, although his eyes looked at the General Soldier's Mansion, but the pouring wine was just right, not a drop of wine in the pot was poured on the table, he drank cup after cup, as if the wine in the restaurant did not cost money.
Opposite the old man sat a middle-aged man wearing a bucket-like bandana, a worn-out soap-lined sackcloth shirt, a tea brown luan belt tied around his waist, a clear eyebrow, and a long white beard. The man was full of sorrow, as if there was something on his mind, he did not move his chopsticks, just blindly drank, as if he wanted to drink all the wine in the restaurant.
The so-called borrowing wine to pour sorrow is even more sorrowful, drinking wine can never solve things. But for things that cannot be solved helplessly, everyone often borrows wine to pour sorrow.
Although the two men sat at the same table, they did not say a word. Drinking is what they want to do most now. Both people seem to have hidden secrets in their hearts...
With the sound of horses' hooves, a carriage came galloping from a distance.
The old man in the restaurant looked out and saw a ten-year-old boy dressed in a white mourning dress and two buns on his hair driving the carriage.
Immediately, the teenager "called" and tightened the reins of the horse, and the carriage stopped in front of the General Soldier's Mansion. What is surprising is not that a ten-year-old child is driving a carriage straight down the street, but surprisingly frightening that there is a coffin on the carriage.
Today is the wedding day of Wu Xiang, the chief soldier of Jinzhou, but he did not expect that someone would send a coffin as a congratulatory gift.
The hundred and ten guards on the long street with long guns did not move, as if nothing had happened.
The old man felt very strange, he did not know who this child really was, how could someone send a coffin as a big wedding gift for others, and ruin the good mood of the master's marriage.
He didn't know why the guards in front of the General's Mansion had no one to drive the child away.
The old man was curious in his heart, not knowing whether Wu Xiang, the chief soldier of Jinzhou, would be angry enough to vomit blood if he knew that someone had sent a coffin on the day of the big wedding.
Passers-by also forgot About Wu Xiang's big wedding, and everyone stopped and began to quietly talk about the teenager driving.
A soldier on duty in front of the General Soldier's Mansion saw the situation and rushed in to report wu xiang.
Wu Xiangwu's short stature, a pair of mouse eyes, like a stinky rat who stole food and became fat, he was wearing a fiery red groom's suit today, a big red flower was worn on his chest, full of smiles, overheard the soldier rushing in to report what happened outside the door, leaving behind the friend who was talking happily, twisting his fat body and stepping out of the General Soldier's Mansion.
Wu Xiang stepped out of the General Soldier's Mansion, saw the coffin on the carriage, and then looked at the ten-year-old child. His face instantly became unusually ugly, his brows furrowed, his fists clenched, and he himself had heard the bones "click" to make a sound. Wu Xiang was eager to break the child's head with his hand, but he did not move. But the whole body was already slightly trembling with qi.
But as if he hadn't seen Wu Xiang's ugly face, the ten-year-old child held his head in his hands and lay on the carriage and smiled silly at Wu Xiang. The child smiled brightly, like the sun today. His eyes were transparent, innocent like a fountain of clarity.
Who would have thought that a naïve child would be so stubborn?
Wu Xiangqi's face was bloodless, and the excitement and joy of just being in the palace had long been wiped out by everything in front of him. He was eager to arrest the child and beat him severely, but he did not move, but only scolded: "Sangui, you, you, this little king and eight lambs, what are you going to do?" Today is the happy day of Daddy's big wedding, do you want to be angry with Lao Tzu? ”
Wu Xiang had already been angry and couldn't speak clearly.
But the child said, "Father, you are also a person who reads poetry and books to explain the truth, how can you break your mouth and curse people?" Besides, if I were a little king and eight lambs, wouldn't you also be born to me? What are you? The Eight Lambs of the Old King? You must not curse people, but to scold me is to scold yourself. ”
The child's words and words made Wu Xiang speechless, but it caused passers-by to cover their faces and laugh. The soldiers on duty in front of the door wanted to laugh but they all held their stomachs and did not laugh.
The child stood up, stretched out his finger outside the city, and righteously said, "The so-called king-eater must be loyal to the king." Now the Manchurian Tartars are coveting us in Jinzhou, but you have left the emperor behind, but here you enjoy the pleasure and begin to marry a wife. Don't you want to forget that your mother has just been buried, and the bones are not cold, but you want to marry a bride here? In this way, you are sorry for the emperor of the dynasty, sorry for the people of Jinzhou, and you are sorry for my mother and me. I don't want a random woman to be my harem. Come to think of it, why is it so embarrassing? ”
The child turned out to be Wu Xiang's son Wu Sangui, who grew up reading and writing books such as the Three Principles and Five Constants, Ethics and Morality with Wu Xiang in the study. Since childhood, Wu Sangui has also understood the principle of loyalty and patriotism. In the land of Liaojin, the most common thing to see every day is the war in Liaodong, seeing countless deaths and injuries, and rivers of blood. Every day, I can see a large number of displaced people, who are not clothed, have no food, and even more are selling children and women, surviving in the world, and their hearts are even more rippled.
Seeing that his father Wu Xiang was promoted to the position of commander of jinzhou, he always thought that he could reorganize his strength, establish a defensive line, and lead the jinzhou soldiers to join forces to fight against the Manchurian Tartars. Who knows, Wu Xiang did not think about how to guard the frontier, resist the foreign Kou, and serve the imperial court, but all day long he only thought about singing and dancing.
When Wu Sangui heard of Wu Xiang's big marriage and wanted to marry back a harem for himself, he was indignant and sneaked out of the General Soldier's Mansion to wander the streets alone. Suddenly seeing the coffin shop in Jinzhou City, he had a plan, and dared to prepare a coffin as a gift when Wu Xiang was married.
Wu Sangui knew that although Wu Xiang was the commander-in-chief of Jinzhou, he absolutely did not dare to fight himself. Because everyone knew that he had an uncle, who was Ning Yuan's general soldier Zu Dashou.
Zu Dashou, zifuyu, Ningyuan people, ancestral family for generations to Liaodong Wang.
The three brothers Zu Dashou, Zu Dale and Zu Dabi were all liaodong generals. Zu Dashou was a guerrilla for the Jingdong camp at the beginning. At the beginning of the apocalypse, Quang Ninh Inspector Wang Huazhen thought that the Chinese army was guerrilla. Quang Ninh was attacked by the Later Jin Manchuria Tartars, and Zu Dashou led his troops to avoid Juehua Island. The university scholar Sun Chengzong was the superintendent of the golden crown to guard the island with zu Daishou Sasuke.
In the third year of the Apocalypse, Zu Dashou presided over the construction of Ningyuan City. In the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Nurhaci attacked Ningyuan, and Zu Dashou assisted Yuan Chonghuan and others in defending the city, and after the great defeat, the Jin army was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief with merit. In May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Emperor Taiji led an army to attack Ningyuan again, zu Dashou and ManGui led troops to garrison the horns outside the city, and fought fiercely with Houjin Manchuria, and in June, the Manchurian Tartars were defeated, known in history as the "Ningjin Victory".
The child's words and deeds reached the ears of the old man who was drinking in the restaurant, and he opened his mouth to the middle-aged man: "The son wore filial piety clothes at Lao Tzu's wedding feast, and sent a coffin. This is enough to be a good story. ”
The old man took a sip of wine and continued, "A ten-year-old child, but he knows how to be loyal to the king and patriotic." Unexpectedly, Wu Xiang, who did not learn any techniques, actually had a tiger. It is definitely not easy for this child to grow up. ”
The middle-aged man seemed to be deaf, or his heart was drunk, and he did not have the heart to listen to the old man's words, let alone respond to the old man's words. He just drank blindly, and only wine could make him forget everything. It was as if he wanted the wine to intoxicate himself and forget all the sadness and injustices of the world.
Only to hear Wu Xiang downstairs scolded: "You bastard turtle son, you don't have a mother-in-law, I will find you a mother-in-law to take care of our grandfather and grandfather, is it still my fault?" The ancients Yun 'self-cultivation Qi family rule the country and the world', Lao Tzu read poetry books in order to cultivate himself, now find a wife is the Qi family, then you can rule the country and the world, you know a fart ah? ”
The old man upstairs heard Wu Xiang's words, and the wine he drank into his mouth almost spewed out, and he scolded in his heart: "Wu Xiang, Wu Xiang, you broke your mouth and scolded but brought yourself in." The child is the son of the turtle, and isn't Lao Tzu the eighth turtle king? It was cool to scold people for a while, but I didn't know that I was also on the way? ”
The middle-aged man heard Wu Xiang's crooked heresy, and Huo Ran stood up and scolded in his mouth: "What a shameless bastard turtle son." His eyes spewed out fire, clenched his fists, and hurried downstairs to find Wu Xiang desperately.
The middle-aged man walked to the staircase, only to see a man dressed in a black robe, holding a short sword, with clear eyebrows, a high nose bridge, two small mustaches on his lips, and a high bun on his head.
The middle-aged man saw the situation and said, "This young man, why did he want to stop me from going?" Hou Sheng smiled and said, "I didn't stop you in your way, I just didn't want you to become a dead body, a wronged soul." The so-called show meets the soldiers, that is reasonable and unclear. Do you go downstairs to find Wu Xiang like this, do you want to find him desperately or do you deliberately seek short-sightedness? ”
Hou Sheng placed the short sword in his hand in front of the middle-aged man, and continued: "You have no power to bind the chicken, and it is a fool's dream to desperately think about it." But if you want to deliberately seek short-sightedness, it is better to use my short sword directly. ”
The middle-aged man took two steps back, his clenched fists gradually loosened, and the old man who had been drinking laughed and came to the middle-aged man's side, saying: "I brought you here today to see the play, the good play has just been staged, you are in a hurry to leave, then it is not a waste of my good intentions." Only by living will there be a chance to turn the tables. Dead, worthless. ”
The middle-aged man did not want to see any good drama in his heart, and he was now only worried about the safety of his sister.
The old man saw the middle-aged man with a sad face and said, "You can rest assured, your sister is very safe in the General Soldier's Mansion, and there will be no danger." But if you can't hold your breath and act rashly, you will definitely hurt your sister. ”
The middle-aged man's heart was cold, but he looked at the old man doubtfully. The old man did not speak anymore and sat down again to continue drinking. Drinking a little wine, watching a good play, such a life, is not comfortable.
The middle-aged man had no way, did not know how to be good, and had no choice but to sit down, but his anxious heart could not be calm. His sister was now in Wu Xiang's general military palace, and after tonight, she might really become Wu Xiang's wife. Perhaps, not today, his sister seems to think of a way to protect herself for her innocence, that is, death. It was something he would never want to see. But there was nothing he could do to save him.
The old man sitting in front of him has to leave himself here to "watch the play". The middle-aged man was angry, annoyed and remorseful in his heart, but he had no choice.
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