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. At that time, he promised Gan Feihong some benefits - Sun Yixie said to Gan Feihong, as long as I see our eldest brother Hao Jingyu, I will definitely be there. He gave Brother Gan some kind words in front of him. When the time comes, 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 was really Hao Jingyu's brother, he might not be able to see Hao Jingyu for the next year and a half. Who knows what will happen in a year and a half? Maybe their group of Jiang thieves would have been wiped out by the court by then.
But in front of him, Sun Yixie was actually enjoying big brother-level treatment.
This group of Jiang thieves were also truly righteous. After worshiping their eldest brother, they not only stopped robbing Sun Yixie, but also did not touch the other passengers on the ship at all. They returned directly to their own small ship and escorted their big ship all the way to the other side. Near the ferry, they dispersed.
After Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai came ashore, Gan Feihong also sent several brothers who were responsible for tracking (water thieves usually deploy some sharp-eyed minions with quick legs to find targets on the shore in advance. Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai had previously done so because they looked like Only two second-generation ancestors will be targeted), and specially sent two pieces of brown brocade to "Brother Sun"; this brocade is the mark agreed upon by the water and land thieves on both sides of the Yangtze River. As long as this is tied to If you put it on your body, it means you are one of our own, and colleagues along the road will not attack you if they see you.
With this heavy guarantee, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai's next journey was much smoother. The two drove their horses north around Chaohu Lake, and after two days of walking, they arrived at Luzhou City.
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 that it was 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 your old Sun family was fucked here by Zhang Wenyuan before, so you don't want to go?"
Sun Yixie answered him: "Yes, I don't want to go to such a sad place."
But in fact, based on Brother Sun's half-full understanding of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and his inverted understanding of China's geography, he could neither recall the allusion of "Zhang Wenyuan shocked Xiaoyaojin" nor did he know about Xiaoyaojin. Tianjin is in Hefei (i.e. Luzhou), and he simply doesn’t want to go.
So Huang Donglai decided to go there alone and ask the "high-speed rail gang" here if they had tickets suitable for them to buy.
After Huang Donglai left, Sun Yixie waited for a while, 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 on the back had not completely healed to this day, and there was still a bruise that had not faded away.
It is true that Ma Si's sword skills in those ten years 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, Sun Yixie would have had to break several of his swords when he used them. Bones are not allowed.
Fortunately, Sun Yixie's injury was not serious at the moment. When he had sword fights with people in the fish market, he often organized or participated in large-scale fights, so he had long been accustomed to such injuries.
In the past few days, Sun Yixie has been secretly applying medicine to himself in his room; this is also his old habit, and sometimes he is a bit desperate to save face. In fact, if he just told Huang Dong, he would ask Huang Dong to come up with Huangmen's secret medicine. He was given healing medicine and it would take up to three days to recover. However, he felt 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 have to say that the battle at Zoumazhai also taught Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, who were new to the world, a lesson to some extent.
The two of them had almost zero previous experience in the world of martial arts. Needless to say, Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai had previously traveled from Shuzhong to Jiangnan by a high-speed railway carriage. It was not until he met Shen Youran outside Hangzhou that he was with someone for the first time. If you take action, you will only deal with miscellaneous fish.
In their minds, an existence like the "bandit leader" was not an opponent worth taking seriously... However, Ma Si told them with his actions that in the world of martial arts, you can face anyone who seems to be a bad person. Don't be careless when dealing with opponents.
After all, there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside 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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The words are divided into two parts, 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 drug store, 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 strolled to Xiaoyao Tianjin.
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 changed several owners. During the Yongtai period, it fell into the hands of a rich 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 the area around Xiaoyaojin was a park like his previous world, but when he went there... he 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 inside the wall, so climbing in would be like breaking into a private house; but he had no choice but to walk along the courtyard wall for a while. Want to see the situation.
Not long after, Huang Donglai arrived at the gate of Zeng Mansion.
Coincidentally, at this time, a group of people were gathered in front of the Zeng Mansion to watch the excitement, chatting and talking.
Huang Donglai squeezed through the crowd to the front and saw several officials carrying a body wrapped in straw mats walking out of the gate.
Logically speaking, someone from this wealthy family should not come out like this after someone dies...
If someone dies in a wealthy family, they have to cry first, then announce the funeral, and notify the government; as for the dead body, it is first placed in the family ancestral hall and kept in crypt for at least three days (some embalming treatment will be done, especially in summer), waiting Relatives and friends come to attend the funeral, and at the same time, they quickly find a coffin shop and a master who specializes in sewing shrouds to make the package. After three days, it is confirmed that the person is 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 the 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 at this time they must enter through the front door... and so on, the rules are very strict.
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, there is no need to pay so much attention. Usually, you just wrap it up with a straw mat and go out 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 rich 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, the officials moved the body through the main entrance. Could it be that the local magistrate deliberately did not save Mr. Zeng’s face?
Huang Donglai listened to the conversations of the villagers next to him and found 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 much benefit he gets from the Zeng family every year, just because Mr. Zeng’s in-laws are the ministers of the court, It was enough to make Mr. Wang grovel and obey his words.
So what's going on?
When Huang Donglai was confused, the policemen had already shouted and drove away the onlookers and opened a road. Then, they were seen carrying the corpse wrapped in a straw mat and running straight away from the Zeng Mansion. Went to the Mingjiao Temple (also known as Mingjiao Yuan and Mingjiao Terrace) on Liang Street.
"Old man, may I ask where this song comes from?" Huang Donglai was a curious person. Besides, he was just wandering here today. When he saw a show, he stopped an old man and asked.
"Young man, are you a foreigner?" This kind of man who stood here in broad daylight and had nothing to do to watch the excitement was actually looking forward to someone chatting with him. When Huang Donglai asked, he responded with excitement, "Ah... this matter My son, it’s a very evil thing.”
"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 the third one that has been carried out this month..." He looked around, as if he was really It was as if someone wanted to eavesdrop on him, "...it is said that there is something unclean in the Zeng Mansion."
"Dirty things?" Huang Donglai frowned slightly and asked tentatively, "You mean..."
"Tsk, what else do you want me to say?" The old man said solemnly, "It's just haunted."
