"Place me tea in the pavilion."
The speaker is Li Guangyuan, who is about fifty years old. He wears a black gauze Dongpo scarf, a cloud-water pattern silk robe, and a clear beard under his chin. At a glance, you can tell that he is a powerful local gentry.
The servants set up a folding-leg table in the pavilion and placed a complete set of tea sets. Boiling water is stewed on the bamboo stove. Someone also brought a rattan chair from Qiongzhou.
Li Guangyuan sat down on the wicker chair and looked at the river. This pavilion was built on the pier of his private residence for welcoming distinguished guests. Shelter from wind and rain.
The distinguished guest he was going to welcome today was not very prominent, but his arrival was related to the future fortune of his family. This made him anxious in his heart, thinking about his move over and over again. Whether it is right or wrong.
Li Guangyuan's family is the largest grain farmer in Lijiawei, and is also the head of the Li clan in this village and several nearby villages. In addition to Lijiawei's property, he also has a trading name in the nearby market and Dongguan County. In this county Although he is not a well-known figure, he can be considered a powerful figure in this area.
The boy servant ordered tea for him, and Li Guangyuan held the tea cup and sipped it slowly - he was not thirsty, and he had no special appreciation for tea. He drank tea just to cover up his anxiety and to dismiss the others. boring.
He wants to wait for someone's name, and he is no stranger to it. He lives in Wuxian Village. He was born with a big body and a round waist. He has been a wanderer since he was a child. He has traveled all over Guangfu and gained a lot of experience. Luo Heying was righteous and righteous, and his family had wealth, so all the heroes in flood and drought areas in Guangfu had to give him a share of honor. His wife's family is the only one in Mr. Li's family that does not have five clothes.
When the Kun thieves went upstream and attacked Sanliang, Wuxian Village was one of the joint protectors. Luo Heying is also the nephew of the Luo Tianqiu family in Sanliang City. When Luo Tianqiu was the deputy general manager of the Dongguan County Youth League Training Bureau, he recommended his nephew to the county to take on the responsibility of "leading the team on his behalf."
This recommendation allowed Luo Heying to escape with his life. When Sanliang was besieged, he was on duty in the county. Hearing that the Kun thieves were besieging Sanliang, he hurriedly led hundreds of regiments of warriors to rescue him. However, the rural warriors assembled in the county were not his family's soldiers. He heard that the Kun thieves were powerful and very powerful. They were so afraid of fighting that no one was willing to go back and die. It wasn't until they heard that the Kun bandits had withdrawn that Luo and Yingcai rushed back to Sanliang with their servants, only to see the devastation all over the ground. When we arrived at Luo's house, it had already been looted. There are not even one big gentry family in Sanliang City. After asking the Taoist monk who maintained order in the market, he found out that most of the gentlemen in the town had been killed or committed suicide, and many of the family members had also committed suicide. The rest had been kidnapped by the thieves and their whereabouts were unknown.
Finally, it was said that the monk had collected the corpses of the slain wealthy family members and their subordinates and temporarily placed them in the temple. Luo Heying lay down in front of the coffins and cried loudly, vowing revenge.
However, there was no trace of the Kun thief. Fortunately, Li Cunfa, one of the two people in charge of the aftermath, was his wife's brother. From his mouth, Luo and Yingcai roughly knew what happened before and after Sanliang's fall.
Hearing that his clan uncle would rather die than surrender after being captured, he cursed Kun as a thief. In the end, Luo Heying was hanged by the thieves on the threshing floor, and Luo Heying burst into tears. Hearing what happened to Sai Qingxia, he immediately said: "Not to mention that this girl is a strange woman! Although she is a lowly person, she acts with a chivalrous style, just like Nie Yinniang and Hongxian. Where is her body?"
"It has been collected and buried." Li Cunfa said.
"Okay, okay, burn incense and paper for me." After saying that, Luo Heying gave Li Cunfa a tael of silver, and asked him about the various scenes after the fall of Sanliang, so that he could settle the accounts later.
However, there were frequent bandit activities in this area. Luo Heying stayed in Sanliang for less than a day, and the servants on patrol sent out several warnings. Luo Heying had no choice but to go back to Wuxian Village and hide before making further calculations.
Not long after I didn't want to stay in the village, because Wu Xian was Sanliang's co-protector, the army of thieves came to Wu Xian Village again. There were rumors in the village that Mr. Luo had injured the life of Director Kun Thief when he was taking out Yong, and that Kun Thief was coming to massacre the village to vent his anger. Under the instigation of a few scoundrels, the ignorant people in the village rushed into the Lin family's house and demanded that the Lin family's children be sacrificed to the thieves. Luo's wife was already seven months pregnant at the time. She was so frightened that she had a miscarriage and ended up with one dead and two dead. The entire Luo family was also kidnapped and taken to Qiongzhou after the Kun thief arrived, and the property title deeds of the family were sold to an evil gentry named Yuan Laoyuan at a low price. Luo Heying secretly reburied his wife in the Lin family's ancestral grave, opened a cellar to hide money, and then went to Foshan.
Foshan was a crowded place at that time. He had money and was able to get by in Foshan. He kept asking about the news about the thief Kun. He originally wanted to wait for the thief Kun to retreat, appeal to the palace, return to the Five Sages and Three Good People, punish the stupid people and regain the family property. After finally waiting for the thief Kun to retreat, he did not wait for him to go back to "counterattack and settle the matter". Instead, he waited for the servant sent by "Yuan Laoyuan" to collect the rent.
This "Yuan Laoyuan" is said to be a local gentry, but in fact no one has ever seen him, but the servants under him are all extremely vicious. Twice every summer and autumn, they come to the Five Sages to collect their "burdens", just like the government is collecting taxes. Needless to say, the money gained was given to the thief. The thief Kun here arbitrarily collects "reasonable burdens". He either submits reports, or through his mentor-friend relationship, he constantly advises the officials in charge, but he does not expect that everything will come to nothing. The officials in Guangfu were either in cahoots with Kun's thieves, or they cowered and avoided seeing the documents that wanted to sue Kun. On the contrary, when it came to the "anti-Kun" case, the situation was as fast as a spark. He sent servants to capture "tongkun gangsters", but he was released as soon as they were delivered to the county. Instead, he beat the two servants he sent with forty strokes each before releasing them.
In the land of the Ming Dynasty, the thieves not only openly stole and sold his land, but also openly sent people to collect "burdens". The government still pretended to be deaf and mute, and even aided the evildoers. Luo Heying's crown and canthus were split. From then on, he no longer trusted the imperial government and only thought about his own revenge.
He did not go back to the Five Sages, but lived in seclusion in the Foshan area, wandering around from time to time, gathering friends from all walks of life with extraordinary abilities, taking the opportunity to accumulate dead men, and preparing to assassinate a few true disciples in order to avenge the destruction of his family.
This stay lasted for several years, during which he met many capable people and strangers operating in Foshan, including members of the Eight Immortals Society.
The Eight Immortals Association is a branch of the Tianmen Taoist Association. Originally, Luo Heying was too lazy to pay attention to such a lower-class association, but after contacting the Eight Immortals Association, he felt that it was a quite exploitable force.
Since the "gentleman" of the court cannot be relied on, he has to rely on the "villain". Luo Heying joined the association, and with his talents, he soon became the third leader of the Eight Immortals Association. It was at this time that the Kun thieves made a comeback - this time they not only besieged Guangzhou, but also plundered four towns. Instead, they directly captured Guangzhou and established the country without any hesitation.
Foshan originally had the Zhongyi Camp and many large clans. Luo Heying originally thought there would be a battle, but he never thought that the local Jin gentry would simply surrender to the Kun thieves. The Loyalty Battalion also transformed into the "National Army" of the Australians.
When Luo Heying was at a loss, he met a hero at a Dharma gathering of the Eight Immortals Society. From then on, he devoted himself to the "rebellion against Kun".
It's just that Foshan has become some kind of "demonstration county" and a group of "little thieves" have arrived. Luo Heying and the Eight Immortals Society could not stay in the county, so they had to disperse to Nanhai, Xiangshan, Sanshui and other places. Hibernating and waiting for the opportunity.
Ten days ago, he received a letter from Li Guangyuan. Mr. Li has made up his mind to join the "Great Cause". Immediately, he asked a few heroes to go first with his name card. He waited for several days, gathered two other companions, and then took a boat straight to Lijiawei.
As soon as we got off the boat, we were greeted by servants of the Li family. All the way to the tea pavilion, Li Guangyuan immediately greeted him and the two parties greeted him.
"Brother Lin is still looking good." Li Guangyuan crossed his arms and saluted, "I wonder who the two people behind Brother Lin are?"
"This is my clan brother, Luo Hetu, who fought with me from Sanliang City back then." Luo Heying pointed at a young man behind him who was carrying a long package on his back.
Neither he nor Luo Hetu participated in the battle of Sanliang City at all. However, Luo Heying has been bragging about his "past" in Sanliang City over the years: why Zhuang Yong, his personal leader, was killed in a bloody mess, and the thieves could not enter Sanliang even an inch. Liang, for a moment the sky was shaking and the earth was shaking, and the sun and the moon were dim. He fought his way through thousands of horses and horses to escape.
Fortunately, the person in charge of Sanliang, Li Cunfa, is his brother-in-law. He knows most of Sanliang's offensive and defensive matters, which also gives Luo Heying the capital to brag.
"He is indeed a heroic tiger, majestic and majestic."
Luo Heying turned to the other side and introduced a monk in monk's robes in a low voice: "This is Master Walrus. He is originally from Lingao County, Qiongzhou Prefecture. He defeated the Kun Thief when the iron ship landed on the shore. Later, I traveled to Guangfu for study, and I can be said to be the first person in the Ming Dynasty who knew everything about Kun. This time, I was going to Beijing to meet with the emperor to present the details of Kun's thieves in order to prepare a strategy. I will stay with you for a few days, and talk to us first. The thief’s scrutiny.”
Gou Xunli has been wandering for many years and has developed an indestructible face. Hearing Luo Heying blowing his beard like this, his face remained unchanged and his heart stopped beating. He just pretended to be a worldly master and saluted Li Guangyuan with his arms folded.
Li Guangyuan heard the origin and couldn't help but take a few more glances. Seeing that this man has a thin body and sonorous movements, he looks like a man who has experienced a storm. In all likelihood, this so-called "monk" is also a "wild fox Zen" who has no ultimatum. It seems that he became a monk in order to avoid the thieves. He then returned the courtesy and said: "It turns out to be Master Walrus. Please stay in the village for a few more days. The thieves are coming so fiercely this time. What are their intentions? Please enlighten me." Then he faced everyone and said, "Please come home first." , Li has prepared a banquet to welcome you all."
