Chapter 3 Three Han families travel together
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Having said this, Xu Xianzhi looked around for a while, and then mysteriously handed Liu Yu a small bag of preserved fruits: "Brother Liu, you can give these preserved fruits to the children. Five or six people have already arrived in two hours. It's so scary to look at them." They are the ones raising the family. Alas, those children are all sallow and skinny, and they look pitiful. You happened to be doing a good deed, so you have fulfilled your duty as a landlord."
Just as he was talking about this, there was a sound of water coming from the boat from the river, and a long-drawn-out Jiangnan call sounded: "We are docking, putting down the board to disembark the passengers!"
Everyone followed the sound and saw a large ferry approaching the ferry. A large group of refugees with braided hair and leather robes, who were obviously dressed as Northerners, stepped off the gangplank. Xu Xianzhi quickly ran back to his stall and shouted: "Preserved fruits, good preserved fruits, Jiangnan flavor, three yuan a bag!" All the vendors at the ferry started shouting and hawking loudly, and the atmosphere suddenly changed. became active.
Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly, and he thought to himself: Well, another servant has arrived. I, being the most upright person, should also go and fulfill my duty of welcoming and sending off. Maybe there is a legendary northern scholar here. .
More than thirty people with braided hair and leather robes, including men and women, strong and young, stepped off the board of the ship. As soon as they got off the ship, many people knelt down and cried loudly. While crying, they wiped the hair off their heads. The braids were untied, the hair was disheveled, the clothes were taken off, and they were thrown heavily on the river beach.
Although Liu Yu had picked up many people from the north, he rarely saw them dressed like this. The clothes of these northerners had their front flaps turned to the left, which is called a left gusset. This was exactly the same as the Han people who wore right gussets with their front skirts covered to the right. In contrast, only the people under the rule of the Hu people in the north were forced to dress like this.
Then there is the hair. The Han people all wear their hair in buns, but the Hu people from the grasslands braid their hair into small braids, which look like ropes. Therefore, the Han people in the south call the Hu people in the north Suolu.
In order to avoid being oppressed by the barbarians in the north, many Han people could only dress like them. So why do we say Yiguandu Nandu? It's because only in this land of Jin Dynasty can authentic Han people dress up.
A trace of anger flashed in Liu Yu's eyes, and he thought bitterly: These Suolu are really bullying people so much that they even want to change the hairstyle and clothing of us Han people! Hum, if I could one day fight back to the Central Plains and recapture the two capitals, I would have to teach them all to wear their hair in a bun and wear right trousers like us Han people!
But Liu Yu then thought about it: The situation in the north is tense now, and a large number of Han people are going south. These people should be Han people coming from the north. In Guangling, north of the Yangtze River, there is no way to stay in the Lianghuai area. It is not until they cross the river that they feel safe. This Then he abandoned the braided hair of the barbarians and took off the left skirt of his clothes, which meant that he could finally become a Han man again. Alas, it’s not easy for these people. I have to treat these people well.
Thinking of this, Liu Yu stepped forward and said in a deep voice to the group of people who were crying bitterly: "I am Liu Yu, the mayor of Suanshan Township, Jingkou County, Yanzhou, Southern Shanxi Province. Who are you? Please tell me your name. The county magistrate. !”
The men kneeling at the front looked at each other, stopped crying, and stood up.
Although there were more than thirty people, both young and old, it was obvious that the three men standing in front were the leaders. The three pairs of sharp eyes swept over Liu Yu's body, bringing with them a bit of doubt and a bit of confusion. Be very vigilant.
Liu Yu himself was a big man eight feet long and as strong as a bear, and two of the three people standing in front of him were also tall and strong men, with a strong back and a strong back.
The person on the left is in his twenties, with a dark complexion, a Chinese character face, big eyes and a beard. Behind him were five or six children, all only four or five years old, standing beside three or four women. There was also a child about one year old who was held in the arms of a woman.
They all had white filial piety belts wrapped around their heads and hemp ropes around their waists. Apparently, their relatives had died and were still in mourning period.
The black-faced man said in a deep voice: "My surname is Tan, so I am from Jinxiang, Gaoping, Qingzhou. These young boys are my nephews. Their father, my eldest brother Tan Xiuzhi, came south along this way. At that time, he was attacked by bandits and died in battle."
"On this journey, our brothers from the Tan family, the Meng family, and the Wei family traveled together, and finally entered the Shan Dynasty! When we arrived at Guangling City, the officials there asked us to cross the river to Jingkou, saying that there was someone Reception and placement, this is the road guide!”
As he spoke, he took out a wrinkled cowhide envelope from his arms and handed it to Liu Yu.
Liu Yu's face turned slightly red. He had been practicing boxing and fighting since he was a child, and his writing skills were only rough, but he still took the cowhide bag, loosened the mouth of the bag, pulled out a crumpled piece of paper inside, and quickly scanned it. Fortunately, I still recognize the words on it.
Finally, his eyes stopped on the big seal at the end and nodded: "Yes, it is indeed an official letter from the Zhenbei General's Office. It says that there are three families: the Gaoping Tan family, the Rencheng Wei family, and the Pingchang Meng family. Thirty-seven people, men, women, old and young, asked the local officials to take them to the county to find the chief official for placement."
Liu Yu raised his head, looked at Tan Pingzhi, and said, "You must be the Gaoping Tan clan. Who is the Rencheng Wei clan?"
Standing next to Tan Pingzhi, a tall, thin, and powerful man in his early twenties stood up. His features were relatively ordinary, but the most unusual thing was his mouth.
This man's upper lip seemed to have been cut with a knife. It arched upward from bottom to nostril. The entire lip seemed to be split, like a rabbit.
Although Liu Yu didn't have much knowledge, he did have some knowledge of medical science and knew that this was called cleft jaw, or harelip.
The hare-lipped man spoke, and as he spoke, his lips, which seemed to have three pieces, moved, making people look indescribably uncomfortable: "My name is Wei Yongzhi, from Rencheng. I heard that the Qin army is going south to attack. Jin, my brothers together could not help the Hu people to fight against us Han people, so they went south together."
"On the way, we encountered the Tan brothers who were besieged by Ding Ling barbarians from the Central Plains. Together with another Meng brother who happened to arrive, we fought off the Ding Ling barbarians."
"It's a pity that the eldest brother of the Tan family was hit by a barbarian's arrow and can't get it back!"
At this point, Tan Pingzhi shed tears, and several women behind him even cried.
Liu Yu felt sad in his heart and said softly: "I heard that since the Yongjia Rebellion, when the Han people went south, they would face attacks from countless Hu people, horse thieves and bandits. Even the Hu people's state and county soldiers and generals would be attacked at any time. It's really not easy for you to go out to rob and kill these Han people who went south. Then, this must be the leader of the Meng family in Pingchang."
