Jingzhou is the main traffic route from southwestern Hunan to Guizhou and Guangxi. There is a flying mountain in the west of the city. There is also a "five old peaks", where five peaks are juxtaposed, just like five old men.
Jingzhou is not only beautiful and pleasant, but also located on an important road, with many merchants and extremely prosperous. Because the locals often come into contact with foreigners, most of the Ming Dynasty can speak Mandarin, which looks quite like Dachengfu.
It's just that Ye Xiaotian is from the capital city, and the people under the emperor's feet not only have high vision, but also high spirits. In his eyes, no matter how big the city is, he sees it as the countryside, and the people who live in this city are naturally countrymen, probably only Suzhou, Hangzhou or Jinling. Only then will he face it squarely.
Because of this mentality, Ye Xiaotian entered Jingzhou City calmly and naturally, without any timidity. Seeing a white-haired old man staggering along with his little granddaughter who combed her hair with double horns, Ye Xiaotian immediately sang "Fat Ye" and asked, "Does the old man know where the Yang Mansion in Jingzhou is? Hehe, Yang Lin, the owner of the Yang family, is in Beijing." As an official, the old man must know his residence."
Old man: "@#%￥%…"
Ye Xiaotian said: "Uh... the old man can speak official language?"
The old man shook his head, obviously someone who could listen but not speak. Ye Xiaotian retreated with a wry smile, stopped another scholar, cupped his hands and said, "Ah! Sir, where is the Yang Mansion in Jingzhou? The owner of the Yang family is an official in Beijing , surnamed Yang Minglin..."
"Pooh!"
The scholar who had been smiling and returning the salute suddenly changed color, spit in disgust, and walked away. Ye Xiaotian shook his head and sighed: "It's really good to be at home, but it's difficult to go out. The folks in Jingzhou are too unfriendly!"
Ye Xiaotian bit the bullet and asked around for a while, finally asked where the Yang Mansion was, and gradually found a secluded long alley. Yang's Mansion occupies a very large area, and there is half an alley. Once you enter the alley, there is a memorial archway. When you walk to the gate of Yang's Mansion, you can see the vermilion lacquer gate, the red copper gate, the green brick floor, and the white stone as the steps. It is style.
There is also a pair of male lions guarding the gate on the left and right sides of the gate, and there are six horse-tying posts on the left and right of the stone lions. Fenghou".
At this moment, horses are tied to the twelve horse-hitting posts, and there are many vehicles parked under the wall, it seems that many people are visiting Yang's residence.
Ye Xiaotian looked at the majestic gate of the Yang Mansion, stood still, and felt overwhelmed for a moment: After going through all kinds of hardships and dangers, ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties, he finally arrived in the West Paradise... Ah no, it's Yang Mansion.
When Ye Xiaotian was in the capital, he heard Mr. Shu tell "The Legend of Journey to the West", and his mood at the moment was just like that of Tang Sanzang who went to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures in the story.
Ye Xiaotian was about to knock on the door excitedly, when the door of the Yang Mansion opened with a bang, a birdman flew out from inside with his arms outstretched, and landed on his feet with a bang, which made Ye Xiaotian lift his feet hastily, So as not to stain his shoes with the blood sprayed from the man's mouth.
A thin servant in a green coat and a hat came out of Yang's mansion waddlingly, put his hands on his thin bean sprout-like waist, and stood still on the stone steps, followed by four big and round servants, everyone Portable whistle stick.
The thin servant shook the crooked hat on his head, and cursed: "You kid doesn't even look around in the autumn wind, is our Yang family so easy to bully?"
The person who flew down the stone steps from the door was a middle-aged man. He fell hard this time. He clutched his stomach and curled up on the ground like a shrimp. : "I... I'm really an old man of Master Yang. I passed through the treasured land and exhausted all my money. I'm just asking for a piece of Cheng Yi."
The servant in Tsing Yi stared at him, and shouted: "Ah bah! When did our master give up such a worthless old friend like you, and actually come to the point of begging for food? You trickster still dare to quibble, come on, hit me, Hit him hard until he changes his words!"
Immediately, a big and round domestic slave ran down the stone steps, took off his shoes, grabbed the man by the collar, and slapped the man's head from side to side like a rattle with the soles of his shoes, like a cat in a storm. Seeing Ye Xiaozhou, Ye Xiaotian was dumbfounded.
Standing on the stone steps, the servant in Tsing Yi said triumphantly: "Do you know what nickname the people in Jingzhou call me, Steward Yang? 'Iron Rooster!' You made a wrong idea and hit me on Yang Sanshou's head. You are really blind!" Eye."
At this time, a group of wild geese flew by in the sky, and the sound of geese wailed. Yang Sanshou pointed at the air, and said proudly: "I, Yang Sanshou, will be fine if I don't go geese and pluck their hairs, but there are still those who don't open their eyes Things want to take advantage of our Yang family, do you think you should fight?"
"Don't... fight, don't fight, I... I have nothing to do with Master Yang..."
The middle-aged man couldn't escape, his cheeks were swollen, he couldn't see his true face, so he could only cry and beg for mercy. Yang Sanshou laughed coyly, and said complacently: "If you don't shed tears when you see the coffin, you are a lowly person!"
"Tell him to get out!" Yang Sanshou ordered, and walked into the gate of Yang's mansion twisting his buttocks.
The house slave who slapped the middle-aged man put on his shoes, kicked the middle-aged man hard on the buttocks, and shouted: "Get out of here! Let us see it again, and beat it once!" After finishing speaking, he Staring at a pair of bull's eyes, he shouted ferociously at Ye Xiaotian who was close at hand: "What do you do?"
Ye Xiaotian was taken aback, and quickly took two steps back, keeping a safe distance from him, and forced out a friendly smile: "Passerby! I'm just a passerby!"
The servant of the Yang family heard that his accent was indeed not from the local area, so he waved his hand and said: "Go farther, be careful and take you as a thief!"
"Bang!" The door of the Yang Mansion was slammed shut, Ye Xiaotian shuddered for a moment when he heard the door closing, and then looked at the middle-aged man on the ground with a bruised nose and a swollen face and bleeding from the corner of his mouth, he secretly took a breath of air with lingering fear, secretly Thinking: "Yang Lin, this ghost, you have hurt me!"
Seeing how miserable this middle-aged man is, how dare Ye Xiaotian come to the door. He suddenly remembered that Yang Lin had said that he and his wife had always been in the same bed with different dreams, and that they seemed to be divorced from each other, and when he thought of Yang Lin's family's disregard for him after he was imprisoned, Ye Xiaotian's heart suddenly became cold: "Madam Yang and her husband have a bad relationship and are addicted to money. As fate would have it, my letter..."
The middle-aged man got up, turned his head and spat at Yang's mansion, and staggered away. Ye Xiaotian thought for a while, followed the man disheartenedly, frowning: "If you just come to the door like this, call Yang Madam divides the family property to her concubine who doesn't look up to her daughter, and then pays herself five hundred taels of silver. I'm afraid I will be worse than the person in front of me.
Yang Lin, Yang Lin, you failed as an official, and even more so as a human being. But don’t cheat me if you fail, I came all the way to Jingzhou, is it easy for me? "
The more Ye Xiaotian thought about it, the more unwilling he became. As he was walking, he suddenly saw a pear seller under the archway, with a basket of yellow pears in front of him. The pear seller sat lazily on the ground, looking listlessly at the people passing by on the road.
Ye Xiaotian rolled his eyes, walked up to the man and knelt down, reached out and took out a pear from the basket, took a bite, and said vaguely: "How do you sell the pear?"
When the pear seller saw that the business was coming, he sat upright and said, "Three for a penny."
Ye Xiaotian took out a penny and threw it to him, picked two larger pears and put them in his arms, leaned against the stone base of the archway and sat down, shyly shyly pointed his chin in the direction of Yang's mansion, and said, "What's going on in front of the Yang mansion's door?" Are there so many carriages and horses?"
The man who sells pears said: "I heard that the master of the Yang family died, and guests and friends from all over the world came to express their condolences."
Ye Xiaotian said in his heart: "Well, I'm going this way, after all, I can't be as fast as the official station. I think the news of Yang Lin's Fa-rectification has already come back."
Ye Xiaotian asked again smoothly: "The Yang family brought Master Yang's coffin back so soon?"
The pear seller curled his lips and said sarcastically: "I heard that Mrs. Yang is not in a hurry to transport the coffin in Beijing. A woman who loves money like her life, hey! More greedy than her man! But the funeral has to be done, how about it?" Nice gift."
He didn't dare to say this at first, but he told the truth after hearing Ye Xiaotian's foreign accent and his lack of respect for the Yang family.
Ye Xiaotian followed his tone and said: "That's right, I heard that just now that person is old master Yang's old friend, I don't know if it's true or not, the Yang family really can do it."
The pear seller sighed and said: "Who says it's not, the Yang Mansion is such a big family that even their own young ladies are treated harshly, let alone outsiders."
Ye Xiaotian was about to bring the topic to Miss Yang's family, but he didn't want the pear seller to take the initiative to talk about it, so he immediately asked, "What's wrong with Miss Yang's family?"
The pear seller raised his chin and said, "Here, have you seen that alley? It's a dead end. It was built in the yard of the Yang family, and there is a small courtyard at the end. Miss Yang's family lives there now. She has been kicked out of the Yang Mansion for more than two years, and the Yang Mansion only pays for a little brown rice every month, alas! The most poisonous woman's heart... "
Ye Xiaotian was overjoyed, this is really dozing off, someone gave him a pillow, he knew all the news he wanted to know, it didn't take much effort to get it. Ye Xiaotian chatted with the pear seller for a while, then excused himself to walk away, wandered around for a while, peeking at a gap that no one was paying attention to, and then slipped into that dead-end alley.
Ye Xiaotian came to Jingzhou after going through a lot of hardships, and the only motivation that supported him to keep going along the way was the five hundred taels of silver. Along the way, after getting the five hundred taels of silver, how to spend it and what to do to make a living, he has already figured it out. After making up his mind, how could he give up lightly.
Seeing that Mrs. Yang is not a kind person, Ye Xiaotian thought of Miss Yang's family. In this matter, the interests of the two of them are the same. If he finds Miss Yang's family, he will have the most staunch ally in the local area. At that time, I will go to the court together with Miss Yang's family to hold Yang Lin's suicide note and ask the official to judge.
Once this matter goes to court, no matter how domineering Mrs. Yang is, there is nothing she can do. After all, Yang Lin is the head of the family. At that time, he can only divide the property according to Yang Lin's will. He will leave Jing immediately after receiving his own reward. Zhou, no matter how much Mrs. Yang, a local snake, annoys him, so what can she do.
These are Ye Xiaotian's plans, he thinks quickly, and acts without hesitation. Ye Xiaotian entered a dead end, walked quickly to the end, and saw a dilapidated courtyard, stones were built into a wall high as a person, the courtyard was barren, although it was clean, it was lifeless.
Ye Xiaotian threw away the pear core he had just gnawed, wiped his mouth, and called out, "Excuse me, is there anyone at home?"