Thirty miles outside the city of Liangzhou, there is a Huitou Pavilion, which means to send someone back here and then turn back. Since the early morning, old people have come here one after another. There are five or six hundred people, from three religions and nine streams, not all of them are ordinary people in the city, there are also elderly people in their sixties who come from hundreds of miles away, some of them are acquaintances in the city traveling together, and then they occasionally see old brothers whom they haven't seen for many years in the Huitou Pavilion. Intersection, there must be a heart-to-heart sigh of the world, more because I didn't recognize it at first, because I got close to waiting for people, I couldn't bear the loneliness, and chatted with each other, I realized that they were all from different old camps. Come and go, the scene of Huihui Pavilion is very strange There are old men in brocade clothes and fine clothes bowing down to the poor and simple old peasants;
On the post road, there are many angry horses in fresh clothes and luxury car riders. Young people who are not familiar with the past see this old guy getting together, and wonder whether these old guys have taken the wrong medicine or something. In the afternoon, a The armless old man who came in a bullock cart was about to get out of the cart and lead the ox down the post road, so as not to delay the business trips on the post road, but unfortunately he still blocked a carriage. The driver was a strong and strong man. I am used to being irritable and yelling in a rough voice, but the old cow was stubborn. The groom from the Haoheng family jumped out of the carriage. On the head of that lonely old man, as for whether he is dead or alive, he doesn't care about this kind of thing, but the whip is swung away, and he is lightly held by the poor old man who is leading the cow. After a few apologies, he let go of the whip and continued to follow The old cow who depended on each other "reasoned", which made the groom in his prime feel ashamed and furious, and wanted to kick the old man to the ground, so as not to be seen by the master in the carriage and dislike him It's not easy to do things, but I never thought of him kicking fiercely, and the old man staggered away as if drunk, and gently pushed the groom's chest with one arm, and the whole person floated three or four feet backwards, but he didn't fall to the ground. Feeling horrified, do you dare to feel that you have met a real person who doesn't show his face? Seeing this scene, the old people on both sides of Huihuiting Pavilion and Post Road applauded and applauded continuously. The groom was frustrated, and the five or six riders behind the carriage, who were both honored and humiliated, couldn't stand it anymore, and were about to charge, an old man wearing luxurious Shu brocade outside the pavilion sternly shouted, and almost at the same time, no less than a dozen voices stopped him in unison , these relatively well-dressed old men walked past the crowd, smiled at each other, and then made a simple meeting ceremony with fists in their hands. The old man of Shu brocade faced the knight and said angrily, "Which one of you dares to try?"
A fat and big-eared rich businessman got out of the extravagant carriage. Seeing the old man of Shu Jin, he was so frightened that he was so frightened that he repelled the dog's legs and slapped the groom heavily. I met General Youzhou."
The Shu brocade old man said blankly, "You know me, but I don't know you, what the hell, go away!"
As a sixth-rank civil servant in Liangzhou, Song Long once met General Zhou at a feast for the last table. Although Zhou Lao had just stepped down from the position of General Youzhou, he had countless disciples, even Zhong Hongwuyan When a general like Wen Luan saw this person, he was equally polite and warm-hearted. Where is his little sixth-rank official able to disobey, Beiliang Road only governs three states, except for the first-class generals in the frontier army who guard the border, the next is the generals of Liangzhou, Youzhou, Lingzhou, and Lingzhou. Deep, cool and close to Beimang, and far from being comparable to the generals of Lingzhou. The title of the generals of the three states is not a general with a good name and no tiger charms. Even if Song Long is given ten bear hearts and leopards for nothing Old Zhou.
A tall old man who walked out at the same time as Zhou Kang, the old Youzhou general, was a little younger and more robust than Zhou Kang. He fixed his eyes on the one-armed old man who came in a bullock cart, tears filled his eyes, and immediately knelt down on the post road. Weeping uncontrollably, he said, "Yuan Nanting, a veteran of the Lianziying Camp, is meeting with General Lin!"
Song Long, who was thinking about how to make Old General Zhou lose his temper, felt his heart tremble again when he heard this. Yuan Nanting, Bai Yuqi, the number one crossbow shooter in the Beiliang army, was divided into three, and one of the four teeth in Beiliang. After the famous Wei Fucheng rushed to Xishu, General Yuan Nanting took the second place, and he really held the power. But that's all, who is General Lin who can make the fourth-rank general Yuan Nanting kneel down? Song Long, who was hit by a catastrophe from the sky, wanted to die! At this moment, regardless of the "military order" of old General Zhou telling him to leave, he also knelt down and kowtowed vigorously. It didn't matter which big Bodhisattva General Lin was in the Beiliang Army who didn't show his mountains and dews, he just burned incense and kowtowed. .
Zhou Kang held the position of General of Youzhou for more than ten years, and Yuan Nanting, who held the first white feather guard in Beiliang's feathered crossbow, naturally recognized his face, but he was not very familiar with him. He fought more and more bravely in the smoke of spring and autumn, and continued to grow, making the composition extremely complicated, each with their own origins. He and Yuan Nanting came from different factions, and each was supported by senior veterans of the older generation. But when Yuan Nanting knelt down and called General Lin, Zhou Kang immediately knew who the one-armed old man was ten years older than himself, the first head of the Eighteenth Old Battalion Lianzi Battalion, Lin Doufang! In order to save the general, someone chopped off his arm. The general once said that if Brother Doufang has daughters and granddaughters, he will be my daughter-in-law Xu Xiao in the future! It's just that after the great general became king, he never heard from Old General Lin again. Fortunately, he met this man, even if he was as arrogant and conceited as Zhou Kang, he clasped his fists and said respectfully, "Zhou Kang pays respects to Old General Lin!"
The one-armed old man led the ox down the post road, walked to the side of the road, nodded to Zhou Kang, then went to help Song Long, and calmly said: "The general finally trained an elite army to rule the world, not for you and the common people. Playing prestige. Well, Mr. Song, stop kneeling and go about your business. You don’t need to care about me today, more than the common people.”
Song Long didn't even dare to wipe off the sweat from his forehead, he quickly nodded in agreement, afraid of being an eyesore, he fled in embarrassment.
These old people didn't take the clown Song Long seriously at all. Zhou Kang asked with a smile, "Why is Old General Lin here?"
One-armed Lin Doufang is not the kind of official who plays mysteries. When the Beiliang Army should be rewarded for his merits, he "retired bravely". He has been an ordinary commoner for nearly 20 years in anonymity. Looking at the post road, he sighed softly: "You haven't waited for the son to come to Beijing?"
As a veteran of Lianziying, even though he became a general, Yuan Nanting was still respectful to this old boss, and said with cupped fists: "General Lin, Yuan Nanting has been waiting with the old brothers for a whole day, but he still hasn't encountered any iron horses guarding the carriage." Passing the Huitou Pavilion."
Lin Doufang nodded and said with a smile: "On the way here, I also heard that he went to Beimang to pick off two heads, do you believe it?"
Zhou Kang said in a deep voice: "The story of Xu Huainan, the great king of the Northern Academy, and the fifth raccoon dog in Tibing Mountain has been spread all over Beimang, and the paper can't contain the fire. It is no doubt that someone forcibly cut off his head. If it is only Xu Huainan The death of one person in Huainan, Zhou can be regarded as the artifice of the Northern Mang empress cunning rabbit, but the fifth raccoon also died suddenly, which cannot be explained by the internal strife in Beimang. Now news comes intermittently, leaving the city behind. The death of Tao Qianzhi was also at the hands of the son, and Xie Ling, the demon leader of Beimang, was also beheaded. Later, the son met Tuoba Chunying, the youngest son of Bodhisattva Tuoba, and two of his men were famous The devil was forced to kill one person by the prince who was fighting alone. Zhou Kang privately drew a route for the prince's trip to Beimang in the mansion, which completely coincided with the time of death of these heroes. The guy is really blind."
Lin Doufang smiled, and said calmly: "I don't care much about these scary statements, regardless of whether they are true or not. I ran to the Huitou Pavilion this time before I died, just because I heard that Yulong Yingxu In the case of Chungguan, after he was trampled and broke a leg, a young man who rescued him often bought wine for him before he died, and promised to carry the coffin to see him off after his death. Carrying the coffin, I'm afraid Xu Yongguan will never know who that young man is for the rest of his life. As for me, I have a stubborn temper. Such a young man took over Beiliang, and he didn’t feel aggrieved. Back then, he was angry with the general and ran off to farm. A few years ago, he heard about this young man’s absurd behavior, and even scolded the general in his stomach from a long distance away. , scolding the general, you raised such a bastard, and it’s also because I, Lin Doufang, have no daughter or granddaughter, or we can’t regret it?"
Zhou Kangyuan Nanting and a group of old people nearby laughed knowingly.
Lin Doufang also followed suit, and said with a smile: "As a result, I regret it even more now. I knew that I married the princess of the Southern Tang Dynasty as my daughter-in-law. She looked so pretty. Unfortunately, I was so angry at the time that I missed it when I hesitated. Otherwise, it would be a big nest of descendants at this moment."
Yuan Nanting, who was unsmiling in the army and looked like a mourner, was like a naughty child at the moment, licking his face and smiling: "General Lin, you still have such a good thing with Princess Nantang? Tell me?"
Lin Doufang glared, Yuan Nanting immediately looked up and down with concern, Lin Doufang slapped the old subordinate on the forehead, and said admonishingly: "Your boy was like a dog when you were a pawn, but when you become a general, why not?" I’m still a rogue, let’s talk about the ugly words first, I heard that you are newly promoted to take care of most of the Baiyuwei, don’t be fooled by lard and patronize to make money, if I hear it in the future, I will not break your three legs! If I If you don't have that chance, you have to ask General Zhou to do it for you, and if this kid dares to fight back, General Zhou, you can reason with the general."
Zhou Kang laughed heartily, "If you have this sentence, Zhou Kang can really remember it, General Yuan, you have bumped into me several times in these years, and you stared at me. Now I have the edict of Old General Lin, Will you come to my house with chickens, ducks and fish every now and then to get close?"
Yuan Nanting was straightforward: "You didn't see General Zhou in the past. There was nothing you could do about it. The frontier army and the local army in Youzhou inevitably bumped into each other. It wasn't that Yuan had opinions on you. To be honest, since you can When I met you here, I, Yuan Nanting, decided that you could be an old brother. It’s a pity that you, Zhou Kang, don’t continue to be the general of Youzhou! I’ll tell the general later that if you don’t become the general of Youzhou, you can’t be the general of Liangzhou. Already?!"
Zhou Kang shook his head and smiled and said, "It's not the same as Brother Yuan's life and death. We are not strong enough, so we don't have the cheek to compete with young people for jobs. But on the day when we really need to ride a horse, Zhou Kang can still drink every day." A few big bowls of wine and a few catties of beef, risking your life, killing dozens of northern barbarians is no problem!"
Lin Doufang said suddenly: "I think he didn't bring cavalry with him when he went to the capital this time. Maybe we all missed it."
Zhou Kang was stunned, Yuan Nanting laughed and said, "That's good, the eldest son of the general, our future King of Beiliang, should have this kind of arrogance."
A large group of old people around them nodded with a smile. Although they failed to meet His Royal Highness, they had no regrets after waiting for a day.
A simple carriage passed by slowly, pulled out of the back booth, seemed to hesitate, and paused.
A man with white hair and white clothes stepped out of the carriage.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the man bowed to the end.
Worship the old pawn.
When Lin Doufang saw this person, tears welled up in his eyes.
He patted his vulgar sleeves, knelt down, and said in a loud voice: "Lianzi Yinglin Doufang, I respectfully send His Royal Highness to Beijing!"
Zhou Kang followed closely behind, knelt down and said in a deep voice: "Zhou Kang of Youzhou, I respectfully send His Royal Highness to Beijing!"
"The last general, Yuan Nanting, respectfully send His Royal Highness to Beijing!"
"The 18th old camp ascends to the city camp, Qu'an, and sends His Royal Highness to Beijing!"
"He Tuiren, a veteran of the cavalry army, respectfully send His Royal Highness to Beijing!"
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Six hundred veterans, facing the young man who bowed for a long time and couldn't straighten his waist.
One after another, six hundred congratulations!