The wind and snow were like knives, and Chai Shao was wearing a long coat of coarse cloth and a bamboo hat on his head. He drove a broken ox cart, and slowly walked out of the winding and narrow Lishan mountain road, and turned onto the flat official road with the snowflakes on it. The bamboo hats were covered with snowflakes, and the coarse cloth long clothes stuffed with reed flowers did not do much to keep out the cold. The severe cold made Chai Shao's face livid.
There was not a single servant, and the old cows pulling the carts were borrowed, and the carts that were broken and falling apart were loaded with furniture from the summer resort that Lao Chai built in Lishan when his family was prosperous. The new owner of the furniture did not want it, and Chai Shao was reluctant to throw it away, so he borrowed this ox cart to pull the old furniture down Lishan, and planned to transport it back to his new home in Chang’anfang, Daxing, for his father and family members who were paralyzed in bed. , but for the new home with nothing but four walls, it is a good thing that is urgently needed-a lot of things, you really only know how precious they are after they are lost.
Baqiao, the eternally famous bridge on the Bashui River, is already in sight. Chai Shao, whose hands were already frozen, couldn’t stand the cold. Just as he put his hands to his mouth to warm them, his dull eyes suddenly moved, because Chai Shao suddenly saw that the two The rich son in fresh clothes and furious horses was rushing from the Baqiao bridge, followed by groups of servants, holding swords and bows, carrying birds in cages, and holding hounds and flying eagles. . Although they were still far away, Chai Shao didn't see clearly who the two rich men were, but hurriedly lowered his head, worried that some acquaintances he met would be recognized.
The two rich sons arrived very quickly on horseback. Just by listening to their frolic, Chai Shao already knew their identities. Li Yangcheng, the youngest son of Li Yangcheng, is his former playmate. I don’t know how many times he rode horses and swam with him, hunting and shooting rabbits, fighting cocks and dogs. But now, Chai Shao didn't even want to see them, to be precise, he was afraid of seeing them.
Trying to hide with his head down, but the more he hides, the more he can't dodge. Li Yangcheng, who has been ridiculed by Chai Shao many times for his riding skills, is as bad as ever. He can't control his mount when he rides on a flat and wide avenue , hit Chai Shao's ox cart directly with a bang, almost smashing the broken ox cart to pieces, and Li Yangcheng himself almost fell off his horse. In the past, Chai Shao would definitely laugh loudly and presumptuously. First he and Yuan Qi laughed Li Yangcheng into anger, but this time, Chai Shao refused to say a word, and even lowered his head a little. .
Patience was useless. While Li Yangcheng was yelling at Chai Shao for not being good-looking, the servant Li Yangcheng brought to shoot also rushed up cursing, and a servant on horseback whipped Chai Shao directly, cursing: " Blind your mother? Almost knocked our young master down, why don't you roll down and kowtow to our young master to make amends?"
The whip was whipped heavily, and it hurt Chai Shao's body as well as Chai Shao's heart, which made Chai Shao suddenly think of a sentence, "Don't bully the young and poor."
Another whip was drawn, and the bamboo hat covered with thick snowflakes flew away. After seeing Chai Shao's face under the bamboo hat, Li Yangcheng, who had already rolled up his sleeves and was about to do it himself, suddenly exclaimed, "Brother Sichang, what is it?" You? Stop! Retire, this is Mr. Chai Shao, the eldest son of the Duke of Julu County! Do you want to die? Why don’t you apologize to Mr. Chai?”
Reluctantly raising his head, Chai Shao squeezed out some smiles, and said to Li Yangcheng and Yuan Qi: "Yangcheng, Brother Yuan, long time no see, don't you come here?"
"Okay, we are all fine." Li Yangcheng nodded quickly, and then asked curiously: "Brother Sichang, why are you dressed like this? What happened? Didn't I hear a few days ago that you joined the army to go to Yanmen Qinwang? When did you come back to Daxing?"
Hearing Li Yangcheng's series of questions, Yuan Qi on the side laughed out loud, while Chai Shao's face turned ashen from the cold, and it took a long time before he reluctantly replied: "It's been a while since I've been back. , I resigned from my post in the army and came back to do some housework."
"Resigned from the army? Why are you willing?!" Li Yangcheng was taken aback, and asked with an exaggerated expression: "Didn't I hear that, Brother Sichang, you have made a lot of contributions this time? I am full of praise for your performance, and personally praised your contribution to His Majesty the Emperor, you have a bright future, why are you still willing to resign from your post in the army?"
The hands that were stiff from the cold immediately turned white at the joints, and slowly moved away from Li Yangcheng's face full of strange smiles, suppressed the anger in his chest, and said in a swallowed voice: "I don't like the military camp. They all violated the criminal law and thought it was meaningless, so they resigned as captain and returned to Daxing. I still have something to do, so I’m leaving first, Brother Yangcheng, Brother Yuanqi, see you again if you are destined.”
After all, Chai Shao didn't even pick up the convulsed bamboo hat, and just urged the cow to go forward. Fortunately, the servants brought by Li Yangcheng did not stop him, so Chai Shao was able to leave slowly, but he hadn't gone far. Shao heard the wanton laughter from behind the car again...
"Bad! You are so fucking bad! Knowing that in order to raise money for his father-in-law, he sold all his property, and deliberately stopped him from asking so many questions. You are hitting him in the face!"
"What's the matter with the slap in the face? It's your own fault! Damn it, if my brother-in-law could be as powerful as General Chen, I would have walked away in Daxing City long ago! If you, Yuan Qi, met me, would you dare not?" Make way for Laozi, and Laozi will come up with a whip!"
"Fuck your mother, are you really fighting? Just your sister's ugly appearance, I don't even want to marry me, and General Chen can also like it? Haven't you heard? Jiangdutong guard Wang Shichong, is also a local governor. In order to get married to General Chen, Leng gave his only daughter to General Chen as a concubine!"
The insults and ridicules pierced into Chai Shao's ears one after another, and like needles, they pierced Chai Shao's heart one after another. Shao's eyes...
Chai Shao drove away slowly with the old cow and broken car, but Li Yangcheng and Yuan Qi were still chattering on the same spot. It wasn't that they were still laughing at Chai Shao, but they were just waiting for a few later companions. After a while, Their companions chased after them one after another, and they were all wealthy sons with servants, and then Li Yangcheng and Yuan Qi immediately grabbed one of their companions and asked loudly: "Brother Dugu, your cousin and son-in-law came over just now, did you Do you see it?"
"My niece and son-in-law?" It was a man in his thirties who was wrapped in white fox fur. He was the nephew of Empress Dugu, the wife of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty. .
"Of course it's Mr. Chai Shao Chai!" Li Yangcheng laughed wantonly: "Aren't you and Tang Guogong cousins? He is Tang Guogong's son-in-law, isn't he your cousin and son-in-law?"
Surprised and asked, it was Chai Shao who was driving the broken ox cart just now. Dugu Huai'en not only showed no sympathy, but also spit heavily at the back of Chai Shao, "Bah! Sangmen star! My cousin's family , I was killed by this poor man! If he hadn't looked down on others, my cousin would have gone bankrupt?"
Seeing Dugu Huai'en's angry appearance, a group of rich and powerful children laughed wildly even more presumptuously. While laughing, another group of servants with hawks and lackeys rushed over the Baqiao Bridge, and the number was as many as a hundred , the attitude is also very arrogant, and the clothes of the two leaders are even more luxurious. They are both in their thirties. The two precious sons mentioned above, Yu Wenhuaji and Yuwen Zhiji, Li Yangcheng and Lonely Wynn and other powerful children did not dare to neglect them when they saw them, so they hurriedly got off their horses to greet them.
"Huh? Why are you guys?" Yu Wenhua, who was full of flesh, reined in his horse and asked in surprise, "Are you also here to shoot?"
Li Yangcheng nodded quickly, saying that a few of his good friends made an appointment to come to Lishan to shoot today. Yu Wenhuaji was overjoyed when he heard that, and said with a big grin: "What a coincidence, my second brother and I also decided to come to Lishan to shoot on a temporary basis." , By the way, soak in Xingchen soup (the name of Yikou Hot Spring in Lishan), since we have met, let's go together, and I will treat you to a drink later."
All the rich and powerful children applauded loudly, completely disregarding that Yu Wenhuaji and Yu Wenzhiji's current household registration status is just slaves, and they are vying to be the first to flatter the Yuwen brothers. The horses that praised Yuwen Zhiji were tall and handsome. They were famous in Dawan. They played and laughed loudly and stayed for a long time. The horse came to a standstill, swallowing his anger and waiting for the group of villainous youngsters to end their noise and get out.
"In the end, it's still Huaji brother and Zhizhi brother prestige." Dugu Huai'en praised: "Little brother, I grew up in the imperial city, and I only went in and out with about twenty entourages. I didn't dare to bring anything except swords and bows." A decent weapon, for fear of being caught by the official censor. Like the two Yuwen brothers, they can bring hundreds of entourages when they go out of the city to shoot and hunt, and they even bring military crossbows."
Dugu Huai'en reminded that a group of dandies found out that among the hundreds of entourage brought by Yu Wenhua and his brothers, there were indeed a dozen military crossbows with the stamp of the Weifu. Yu Wenhuaji laughed loudly and said: "Of course, I don't know about other places. In this land of Jingzhao County, there is absolutely no second son of an official who dares to bring so many entourages and friends like our brothers." Such a weapon shoots hunters!"
The sound of wild laughter came to an abrupt end, because Yu Wenhuaji suddenly discovered—the slapper came—to the east of the official road, there was a rich man in luxurious clothes, riding a pure white war horse that was even taller and more handsome, and he was very pretentious. Trotting here, behind him, there is actually a larger number of entourage, and what makes Yu Wenhua even more unbearable is that the weapons and equipment of these entourages are better than his entourage. They all carry expensive and high-quality horizontal knives, bows and crossbows on their backs, and the color of the feathers and arrows is even more pretentious that they are all snow white!
Yu Wenhuaji just boasted that no one dared to compare with his brothers in the land of Jingzhao, and when the rich man rode his horse and ran close, Yu Wenhuaji became even more furious. It turned out that this rich man was born with delicate features Handsome, fair-skinned, greasy-haired, and pink-faced, he happens to be the type of boy Yu Huaji hates the most! After hearing the dandy who was still surrounding him and flattering him just now talking in amazement about who came, Yu Wenhua became more and more furious. He hurriedly pulled the horse across and stopped him in the middle of the avenue. The servants and servants brought by Yu Wenhua understood, Immediately they lined up, blocking the road completely, and many servants even pulled out their horizontal knives aggressively.
The action of drawing the sword aroused the vigilance of the little boy's followers, and a tall and burly black-faced knight stepped out immediately, commanding the followers to protect the little boy, while shouting: "Who are you? What are you trying to do? Why are you blocking our way? "
"Who am I, sir? You can ask me?" Yu Wenhuaji asked viciously, pointing at the boyish face that he hated no matter how he looked at him, and shouted, "Hey! Boy, you are not timid. Dare to walk with so many followers? Who are you showing off to?"
The little boy didn't answer, but shook his head in a strange way, and muttered that Daxing and I were at odds, why are we in trouble every time we come back? Then he smiled at Yu Wenhua and said: "My lord, you misunderstood, the younger brother is not showing off, but with so many entourages, the younger brother also has unavoidable difficulties. If there is any offense, please forgive me. Also , I have something urgent to go back to the city, so please get out of the way, Young Master and Servant.”
"It's okay to make way, first report your father's name and official position, and let me see if you are qualified enough to let me make way." Yu Wenhuaji said proudly.
The black-faced knight was furious when he heard that, and just about to step forward, the little white-faced boy stopped him, and then smiled at Yu Wenhua and said: "Young master, my father has passed away for many years, you must have never heard of his name, I don't think so." Reported, he doesn't have any official position, but my younger brother is a serving military officer, please make way for your son, I really have something urgent to go back to the city."
"A serving military officer? Are you a serving military officer?"
Yu Wenhuaji laughed wildly, Dugu Huai'en, Li Yangcheng and other dandies laughed even more when they heard this, and they scrambled to encourage him: "My lord, tell him to crawl under your crotch to see if he dares to steal your limelight." ?!"
Hearing the instigation of the dandies, Yu Wenhuaji really got off the horse, spread his legs to stand in the way, and said with a manic smile: "Boy, I will give you a chance to crawl under my crotch, and today's business will be over! Otherwise, Not only did I tell you to lose your official position, but I also told you to lose your head!"
"Who are you? How dare you be so mad?" The black-faced knight couldn't bear it any longer, pointed his thumb at the little boy's face, and asked, "Do you know who he is? Do you know who he is in our Sui army? "
"I don't care what your status is." Yu Wenhuaji said viciously: "Looking at your small appearance, you are only a rank six or seven. I will give you a high estimate. Even if you are a general Guangde and Hongyi of rank five, today you If you don’t climb, I’ll make your head fall to the ground too!”
Hearing this, Xiaobailian couldn't help showing anger no matter how good his temper was, Dugu Huai'en said with a sinister smile: "Boy, if you are smart, climb up quickly! Do you know who this young master is? General Zuo Yiwei, Duke Xu , Yuwen Shu, the eldest son of Yuwen Shangzhu Kingdom!"
"Young Master of Yuwenzhu Kingdom?" The little boy's reaction was even more strange. Not only did his anger disappear, but he immediately burst out laughing, "It turns out that he is the son of Yuwenzhu Kingdom, no wonder, Brother Huaji, you are looking for trouble this time." You have found the wrong person, and the flood has washed away the Dragon King Temple, and you are a family that does not recognize your family."
"What do you mean by that?"
Yu Wenhua was confused, and all the dandies looked at each other in blank dismay. While waving his hands to disperse his followers, the little boy rode his horse and walked directly towards Yu Wenshu. He cupped his hands on the horse and said with a smile: "Brother Huaji, I have admired your name for a long time, and I can see you today." , my little brother is really lucky. Just in time, Uncle Yuwen asked me to give you a family letter, and I also said that I will see you again tomorrow, what a coincidence to meet you today."
"You know my father?" Yu Wenhua asked doubtfully.
"Of course we know each other." Xiaobai said with a smile: "Little brother Chen Yingliang, currently holds the post of Great General of Youwuwei. He and brother Huaji, your father Yuwenzhuguo, are both generals of the 16th Weifu, so we often see each other."
"You... you are General Chen?" Yu Wenhua and all the dandies all opened their mouths wide open, looking up and down Chen Yingliang in disbelief, saying that they couldn't believe that the legendary Chen Sangliang could be so handsome.
"It's guaranteed to be a fake one." Chen Yingliang nodded with a smile, got off his horse, showed his Jade Lin Talisman, and said with a smile, "This is the Jade Lin Talisman bestowed on me by Your Majesty, if you don't believe me, Brother Hua, you can take it and have a look. "
Looking dumbfounded at the jade talisman in Chen Yingliang's hand, Yu Wenhuaji fell to the ground with a thud, and the dude next to him quickly stepped back a few steps, finally regaining his senses, Yu Wenhuaji hadn't had time yet Getting up from the ground, he had already hugged Chen Sangliang's legs with his arms, and begged: "General, I don't know Mount Tai. Don't tell my father what happened today, and don't let him go." His Majesty the Emperor knows! I was already guilty of the crime, but if His Majesty and Father knew about it, it would be even worse for me."
Chen Yingliang was a fool to offend Yu Wenshu because of such a trivial matter. While asking his followers to bring Yu Wenshu's family letter to Yu Wenhuaji, he comforted Yu Wenshu with kind words and patted his chest to promise that he would not be with Yu Wenshu. General knowledge, at the end, Chen Yingliang also took the initiative to ask Yu Wenhua and his brothers to be commensurate with him. By the way, he also met a few friends of Yu Wenhua and his friends. He didn't put on the airs of a newcomer, and moved a group of playboys who were not liked at home to the point of tears. He hated himself for getting acquainted with Chen Sangliang too late.
After being hypocritical and polite, Chen Yingliang, who was in a hurry to go home to pick up his wife, hurriedly bid farewell and left. Yu Wenhua, his brothers and all the dandies hurriedly made way, and respectfully sent Chen Sangliang to leave. Neither Brother Yuwen nor the dudes got up yet.
The matter was not over yet, after seeing off Chen Yingliang respectfully and leaving, the treacherous and cunning Yu Wenzhiji said to Yu Wenhuaji again: "Brother, it's not true that my father asked Brother Yingliang to bring us a letter, and let us take the opportunity to establish friendship with Brother Yingliang." Really, brother Ying Liang is so polite to us, we have to show it, we have to find a way to make him happy."
Yu Wenhuaji nodded again and again, and quickly started to think about how to please Chen Sangliang with the few remaining brain cells squeezed by his muscles, while Li Yangcheng next to him couldn't wait to suggest: "Brother Yuwen, it's not easy to make General Chen happy? He was bullied so badly by that bastard Chai Shao back then, and now that he has a high status, it is definitely not convenient for him to do it himself, let's go and clean up Chai Shao and give General Chen a bad breath, how can he not be grateful to us?"
"Good idea!" Yu Wenhuaji clapped his hands.
"Good idea, I'll go too!" Dugu Huai'en, who was unlucky to get married with Chai Shao, also clapped his hands and said: "I like Brother Ying Liang, I will go with you, and beating him Chai Shao is equivalent to breaking away from him. From now on, you can rest assured to be friends with Brother Yingliang."