Of course Li Yuanying didn't know that his group traveled mightily to and fro in various villages and there were still many people watching. The news spread rapidly with errand runners and sellers everywhere, and the original route map also followed Xu Jingzong's instructions. It flowed out, and when he went to the next place, people were already ready to welcome him.
On the morning of the third day, Li Yuanying took his friends to the next destination. There were few people on the way, and no one was seen. Unexpectedly, just as they passed through a forest, a person suddenly jumped out from the side of the road. The accompanying yamen servants had already received Xu Jingzong's order, and as soon as they heard any movement, they quickly stood in front of Li Yuanying and the others, and shouted vigilantly: "Who is it?!"
The person who came was a weak-looking scholar, extremely thin, and his clothes were covered with patches. Seeing the posture of the yamen servant protecting each other, his originally hopeful eyes dimmed instantly, and he said in his mouth: "Xiaomin ran a little hastily when he encountered a poisonous snake, and you are an abrupt nobleman." Drill back the same way.
Li Yuanying saw that this person didn't look like a villain, so he asked the yamen servants to leave, called the scholar and asked strangely: "Didn't you say that there are poisonous snakes? Why do you still go in? There must be poisonous snakes and beasts on the path in the forest. Look at your text." Weak and weak, isn't it easier to walk the right way?"
I don't know which sentence touched the scholar's sadness, the scholar sat down on the ground when he heard the words, and burst into tears, without the gentleness of a scholar.
Li Yuanying froze for a moment, then turned to look at Wei Shu and the others, wondering what was wrong with what he just said.
Seeing that Wei Shu and the others didn't have a clue, Li Yuanying asked directly: "What's wrong with you? Is there any difficulty? A man doesn't flick his tears easily, he just cries when he's not excited!"
The scholar cried: "It's easy to walk the right way, but not everyone can walk it."
Di Renjie and Wu Mei looked at each other and realized that this book was probably intended to sue, but when they saw that there were government servants accompanying them, and they were either half-age boys or girls of about the same age, they retreated on the spot .
Judging by this posture, the matter may not be small, maybe he filed a complaint with the county but got no results!
Di Renjie was thinking about whether to remind Li Yuanying, but Li Yuanying in front of him didn't look back at them, and stepped forward to say nonsense: "Hey, don't cry, where do you live? What's delicious and fun at your house? Tell me about it." Introduction. If the introduction is good, I will give you money! You have money, what can't be solved!"
Although the scholar was desperate, he didn't dare to ignore Li Yuanying, a nobleman whom even Xu Jingzong had to please.
You must know that there is still a frail and sick mother in his family to take care of - if not for this, he would have died long ago!
The scholar cheered up, and talked to Li Yuanying about the mountains and rivers around his home, and also talked about the delicious food, the melon should be the best, now go ask someone's melon is ripe, you can try it.
Li Yuanying nodded and asked the scholar to lead the way. He wanted to take his friends to eat melons.
Although the accompanying yamen servant felt that Wu Zhiyuan was crying out of nowhere, he didn't take it seriously. Aren't scholars so strange
Hearing that Li Yuanying finally asked people what to eat and enjoy, the yamen servants were relieved. Li Yuanying and the others have been doing business for the past two days, so it's not easy for them to rest, it's too tiring.
Although the attitude of the villagers towards them has changed a lot along the way, it was all paid by Li Yuanying in exchange for it. Later, when they come down to run errands by themselves, they can do whatever they want, and they might as well do less work!
A group of people followed the scholar to his house in a mighty manner. Seeing that the scholar stopped crying, Li Yuanying asked the scholar to ask questions like gossiping with the villagers like the previous two days.
After questioning, Li Yuanying knew that the scholar was Wu Zhiyuan. He had studied in the county school. He was the hope of the family. not coming out. The village where the scholar lived was not far from the mountain forest just now. Li Yuanying took out the road map he had drawn up and looked at it, and found that this place was not on the map, so he asked the scholar what his village was called.
The scholar said: "Everyone's surname is Wu, so they are called Wujiacun."
Wujia Village is located at the northern foot of Zhongnan Mountain, and you can see the lush mountain peaks not far away. It is said that relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, Wujia Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and life is quite passable. Otherwise, it would be impossible for this Wu scholar to have the opportunity to study and even be admitted to the county school.
Li Yuanying has not been to Zhongnan Mountain yet. The Supreme Emperor ordered people to build the Taihe Palace in Zhongnan Mountain, and even brought people here to escape the summer for hunting, but the Supreme Emperor abdicated not long after. In a few years, the Supreme Harmony Palace will also be abolished. Li Yuanying did not have the opportunity to see Zhong Nanshan's demeanor. Seeing that Wu Zhiyuan was still full of frustration, he asked Wu Zhiyuan again: "Can you go to the Taihe Palace here? I haven't been there, and I want to see it."
Although Wu Zhiyuan was still full of sorrow, but after all, he had read books and seen the world, and knew that such noble royals and nobles would be easy to coax, so he could only reply: "It's a bit far, but there is a way to go."
Li Yuanying said: "Well, take me after dinner!"
Li Yuanying followed Wu Zhiyuan into the village, and proposed that the troops be divided into two groups, and that he would take his friends to conduct a census, and the accompanying people would help him buy some good melons. After all, they have official business, so business matters!
Li Yuanying was generous, he raised his hand to buy a few carts of melons, and all the servants patted their chests and promised to find the sweetest melons in the village, and let the nobles eat to their heart's content! Li Yuanying smiled and said to them: "If it's really sweet, I'll reward you!"
The yamen servants went looking for melons with great energy.
After all the yamen servants were dispatched, Li Yuanying and Wu Zhiyuan went to their house, saying they wanted to rest first. After entering the house, Li Yuanying asked Wu Zhiyuan straight to the point: "Tell me, what's wrong with your family?"
Li Yuanying had never been the master of Qingtian, but he could also see that Wu Zhiyuan was crying strangely and speaking even more strangely. It sounds wrong!
Di Renjie and Wu Mei looked at each other again, and felt that Li Yuanying's reaction was very quick, and he knew how to avoid the yamen servant to ask.
Seeing this village that did not appear on the road map, they also tasted it: Xu Jingzong had told the people below to "entertain" them well, and Xu Jingzong had chosen for them in advance even where they were going. , the place is calm and peaceful everywhere, no matter how carefully they choose, it is impossible to pick out anything wrong!
They didn't come here to find fault, so naturally they didn't think there was anything wrong. Even if there are missing villages on the road, Xu Jingzong can also say that the villages are too small or have just sent people there, so the people below did not list them. After all, they only came here for three or two months, so could they really visit all the villages? Of course, pick some suitable ones for them to go!
Both Di Renjie and Wu Meike are high-minded people. From Xu Jingzong's arrangement, it can be seen that this person treats them with contempt. Both of them were unhappy, so they didn't stop Li Yuanying and Wu Zhiyuan from asking and answering.
At this time, Wu Zhiyuan also understood that Li Yuanying had deliberately dismissed the yamen servants, and immediately began to cry again. The son's crying alarmed Mother Wu, who came out of the room leaning on a stick, and saw Li Yuanying and his party dressed in extraordinary clothes, obviously the "nobles" that the shopkeeper said yesterday.
Seeing that her son had really brought the nobleman home, Mother Wu knelt down on the ground with a plop, and couldn't help but kowtow twice to Li Yuanying.
Seeing his mother kowtow, Wu Zhiyuan knelt down with her.
Seeing this posture, Li Yuanying knew that he had guessed correctly, so he hurriedly stepped forward to help Wu Zhiyuan's mother and son, and told them to sit down and talk carefully, without others watching. Wu Zhiyuan then told Li Yuanying about the matter. It happened last year. He fell in love with a girl last year, but that girl was a tenant of the Yin family's village, and she was a tenant who had not registered. If she is a household, she cannot marry the locals, and his family still wants to send her to the Yin family as a maid.
In the county school, Wu Zhiyuan heard that the imperial court issued an edict to allow those who were not naturalized, and urged the young lady to persuade the family members to find opportunities to become naturalized. Unexpectedly, just after the family closed the door to discuss, the news was spread. The next day, the little lady's family fell to her death when she went to work in the field. The pillars of the family were buried for a few days. I was burglarized again, and nothing was lost, but the little lady's boudoir was broken into, and rumors spread everywhere in Zhuangzi.
Within a few days, the little lady was scolded by her newly widowed mother and threw herself into the well.
There was no son in their family, the old and the young all went, and the mother didn't live long, and soon went with her husband and daughter.
After Wu Zhiyuan gave his idea, he went back to the county school to study. It took him a long time to learn the news, it was like a bolt from the blue. I heard that the three members of this family died because they wanted to be naturalized, and they were insulted before they died. Wu Zhiyuan regretted it, and then heard that because the little lady died unseemly, she didn't even set up a grave, she just threw a straw mat into a mass burial After going to the post, he went to the mass grave like a madman to find the bones that had been gnawed by wild animals, and quietly buried the person. After returning to the county school, he was still haunted.
At that time, it happened that the county magistrate was inspecting the county school, and Wu Zhiyuan's brain became hot, so he told Xu Jingzong about the death of the little lady's family of three, and wanted Xu Jingzong to avenge his grievances. Xu Jingzong's attitude was very gentle at the time, but within a few days, he was expelled from the county school by the teacher of the county school. When he returned home full of grief, he was shocked to hear that his father and brother were washed away by the water when they were recruited by the county government to build a bridge.
Everyone said it was an accident. No one expected that the water would rise so suddenly that people would be swept away in a blink of an eye! The county government also closed the case according to this. As for the young lady's family, they had fled without registration, and they would not be recorded in the county government if they died. Which county magistrate wanted to add a murder case to himself during the exam? So, death is death, and no one cares.
Accidents happen every year, how come such a coincidence happened to him? Wu Zhiyuan suddenly understood that not only the three members of the little lady's family died because of him, but also his father and brother were dragged down by him. Perhaps it was because he was too eye-catching in the county school that it was difficult to start, so he was spared.
Without his father, brother, lover, or anything else, Wu Zhiyuan suffers from daily torments and becomes thinner and thinner. If it weren't for his mother to take care of him, he might not be able to survive long ago.
Li Yuanying didn't expect such a tragedy where human life was at stake.
The Yin family Zhuangzi was not on his course of action either, but he remembered the Yin family in Hu county. Didn't he just read the picture of the twenty-four heroes? Among the twenty-four heroes, there was one named Yin, Duke Xun Yin Kaishan. Yin Kaishan has no biological son, his heir is his nephew Yin Yuan, although I have never heard that Yin Yuan is particularly outstanding, but just because His Majesty Li Er can count his meritorious officials above him, it is known that the Yin family is still a bit of a holy family.
Could it be that the Zhuangzi of the Yin family mentioned by Wu Zhiyuan has something to do with the Duke Xun's family
Thinking of Xu Jingzong's graciousness to him, Li Yuanying felt that even if Duke Xun did not speak up, Xu Jingzong might take the initiative to "handle" the matter cleanly and properly. Thinking of this, Li Yuanying said, "Do you have evidence in your hand?"
Wu Zhiyuan was at a loss for words.
Li Yuanying understood, but it seems that he didn't. He said: "You mother and son will go to the Taihe Palace with me. I will ask someone to wait there. After parting, I will take you to my Zhuangzi to live temporarily. I will ask someone to investigate what you said. If you What I said is true, and I will definitely give you an explanation; but if it is found out that there is no such thing, you can live your life well, take good care of your mother, and stop thinking about it."
When people are sad, they may blame the things on unrelated people. Li Yuanying thinks that he still needs to investigate to find out.
Hearing what Li Yuanying said, and to keep their mother and child safe, Wu Zhiyuan's eyes lit up with hope again, and hesitantly said: "I still have a younger sister..."
Li Yuanying said: "Then take it together."
Wu Zhiyuan then called out his younger sister, who was about thirteen or fourteen years old, and looked very lively, but a little shy of strangers. When he came out, he clutched the corner of Wu's mother's clothes and timidly greeted Li Yuanying according to the instructions of his mother and elder brother.
Li Yuanying nodded, didn't say any more guarantees, only discussed with Di Renjie and the others, and sent a call to the white-headed bird that came to Hu County with him, and asked for a pen and paper to write some instructions for it to take to Dong Xiaoyi.
After finishing his work, he didn't stay at Wu Zhiyuan's house, and brought Di Renjie and the others to check the population.
Li Zheng had already been notified by the yamen servant just now, and he cooperatively took Li Yuanying to check it from house to house, and asked Li Yuanying how he met Wu Zhiyuan.
Li Yuanying told Li Zheng about Wu Zhiyuan's encounter with the poisonous snake, and asked Li Zheng why Wu Zhiyuan stopped studying, and whether there were any difficulties at home? It's not easy to become a scholar in this rural village, so it can't be delayed because the family is poor!
Li Zheng saw that Li Yuanying didn't know anything, so he said that Wu Zhiyuan had just lost his mother, and the rules of scholars were to observe filial piety for three years, so he couldn't study anymore for the time being, and promised to persuade him to continue studying in the future.
Li Yuanying saw that he was not very interested in whether Wu Zhiyuan was studying or not, so he didn't continue to argue, but mentioned Wu Zhiyuan's sister to Li Zheng: "His sister is really good-looking."
Li was shocked. Earlier when he saw Li Yuanying bringing three young ladies who looked like flowers and jade, he felt that this little prince was very lucky. Now hearing what Li Yuanying said, he naturally thought that Li Yuanying might have taken a fancy to the young lady of the Wu family!
Is this Wu Zhiyuan going to stand up
Li Zheng took an opportunity to get away, called a trusted nephew to whisper a few words, and told the nephew to rush to the county to tell the magistrate Xu that Li Yuanying came to Wujiacun and had contact with Wu Zhiyuan's family. If Wu Zhiyuan is really going to turn around, I will tell you if Xu Jingzong has anything to do. Those who are responsible for doing it will definitely be the first to suffer!
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Little Prince: The outside world is so dangerous!
Yin Kaishan is one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion. Wu Cheng'en, a giant of the Ming Dynasty, felt that this status was awesome, so he decided to write Tang Seng as his grandson! As a result, Xuanzang had more love for cheap parents and cheap grandfathers. It is said that the Great Sage also had several brothers and sisters in the early legendary stories. Wu Chengen Juju felt that the ability to spread over several people was not enough, so he combined them into one person, and the fashionable value came out! Wu Chengen is so smart, he knows the importance of character design!