Yulin Guard was only established during the Chenghua period. It was located at the throat of the Hetao, and supported the two armies of Shanxi and Ningxia to defend Guanzhong. This is a must for the Tartars to invade from the Hetao. Every year there are constant wars. There are many dangerous mountains and mountains near the garrison, the loess is windy and sandy, and there are often horse thieves and people in chaos. The road is extremely difficult.
Approaching the area of Yan'an Prefecture, because the border town was not very peaceful, they came to transport military supplies, and there was no delay. The two Jinyi guards also changed their style of urging them in the customs, telling them to get up late and rest early, and only stay in the city at night. They only traveled more than 1,000 miles in the customs for nearly a month. After entering the Shaanxi Dusi, the short distance of more than 300 miles actually dragged on for 20 days.
Seeing that Nano's deadline was approaching, and the punishment of overdue flogging was hanging high above his head, Cui Ju was so anxious that his quarrels erupted, and he wished he could even reach Yulinwei with Ye Xingxing. But when they arrived in Suide Prefecture, the prisoners Sun and Cheng Erlis forced them to stop and waited in the inn on the back street of the prefecture. Zhen Fu.
It's been two days since he left.
Cui Ju could bear it at first, but after the afternoon of the third day, seeing that it was getting dark, and the two Jin Yiwei hadn't come back, he couldn't wait any longer.
Yulin is only more than 200 miles away from Suide, and the two Jinyi guards were riding on military horses. Without their grain cart, even if they stayed there for one night, they would be able to come back during the day with ease. They hadn't returned by this time, so the Liu family must have been delayed, deliberately delaying their payment of food, so that he could be punished for failing to meet the deadline!
Master Cui was never afraid to speculate on the Liu family with the greatest malice, so he could not wait any longer, and instructed his family and the driver: "The two Jinyi Guards will not come back, let's go to Yulin by ourselves, get up at five tomorrow, and go to Yulin!"
The family surnamed Liu advised: "Master, just wait. The border gate has not been peaceful for a while. Last year, there were Tartars invading Jiubian. Our family's New Year's ceremony for the Liu family stopped at Yan'an House and waited for Liu's uncle. Grandpa brought someone to pick it up."
Cui Juzheng couldn't hear the word "Liu", and when he saw the people who dared to use the Liu family to oppress him, he became more and more irritable, and waved his sleeves: "You are going to be the master of my Cui for the Liu family! Let's do it, I don't need their Liu family to point and point, and let people show off their power in front of me!"
He asked someone to drag Steward Liu down, stopped waiting for Jin Yiwei, and watched the convoy on the road in person.
It was still dark when I went out on this day, the wind and sand on the Loess Plateau were all over the place, and even the days of socializing in summer and autumn had a gloomy and cold air. Cui Ju had been going to bed early for days and nights, but got up too early today, and was too sleepy to hold back, wrapping up his long gown and pretending to be in the car.
Couldn't sleep well in this car.
The muffled sound of horse hooves and wheels roared in my ears, and the soil foam with a continuous smell was blown into the car by the wind. The spun yarn curtains had been bumped and dirty on the road long ago. When the wind blew, the soil accumulated on the curtains was blown into the carriage, and the wet rustic atmosphere carried a rust smell unique to the border town.
He has smelled this smell for many days, but he is still not used to it, and the carriage under his butt that bumps like a board is also uncomfortable. He couldn't help knocking on the board of the car, and told the driver to stop for a drink and take a break - anyway, there were no two guards in custody who were watching when they went and stopped, and Master Cui made the decision on the road.
The car stopped immediately, and it stopped so hard that it almost threw him against the wall of the car, and the dust from the windows poured into the car, causing him to cough heavily for a while. The family serving in the car also bumped into it, and shouted out of the car, "Why did you stop so quickly, it hit our master!"
The driver's voice trembled slightly into the carriage, shouting like "Sir, spare your life". Master Cui shouted out the window impatiently: "Who wants your life, the old man just told you to park safely, don't be so bumpy!"
As he was talking, he suddenly felt that something was wrong - not only was his driver shouting for mercy, it seemed that several voices were shouting in unison. It was clear that their motorcade should have stopped, and the sound of horses' hoofs still passed by his ears clearly.
He couldn't help but lift the curtain and glanced out, and saw a scene that made him heartbroken - his grain caravan was surrounded by a group of horse thieves, the swords were standing brightly, and the family behind them were all tied up like quails. Several cars were also taken over by thieves.
When the horse thieves saw that half of his face was stretched out, a middle-aged beard slapped the horse, took the tip of his sword and slashed his beard, shaved off half of his face, and said with a smile: " This king is short of food and grass, you old man is very interesting, and you sent so many cars to wait for the polished rice, the king will laugh at it!"
Horse thieves come and go like the wind, rob them of their rice and leave without hurting people and robbing money. When they were far away, only a few family members struggled to untie each other's ropes to help him.
Cui Ju waited for a long time before standing up, his legs were still a little weak, and panting heavily, he said, "This will definitely cause Liu's harm to me! This will definitely cause Liu's harm to me!"
The accompanying family members were so frightened that they tried to cover his mouth: "Master, be careful when you speak! My own master is a Zhenfu, and all the children and grandchildren are here as generals. The master is no longer an official, so how can I scold that person with official status? Woolen cloth!"
But a veteran...
Cui Ju wanted to scold happily, but closed his mouth sadly. Just over half a year ago, he was still a fourth-rank official and a Qingliu civil servant who was admired by the elders of his hometown. He could disdain these military attaches, but now he is not only no official, but also a prisoner of nano redemption. His identity is not as good as these military attaches. .
He gritted his teeth, lifted the car board up, and looked at the family members who were accompanying him: "Is there any money left? They want to torture me by robbing me of the rations, how can I do what they want!"
He was going to buy food again, and when he got home, he would ask his eldest son Shangshu to report the Liu family and vent his anger on his father!
He misses Liu Jialan deeply, and Liu Zhenfu, who is far away in Yulin Town, is also thinking of him, and asks his second son, who is sitting next to him, "This family property that hates things will belong to my brother Xie in the future. If he robs him of rice on the road, will he still have money to buy grain? If I ask him to buy expensive rice and come back, isn't it all my grandson's money that will be paid for?"
His caring son smiled and said, "Father, don't worry, I have told those people to take Mira to Suide and resell it to the Cui family. The silver in the middle will fall into our hands, and we will send someone Just give it to Brother Xie? Cui Ju is no longer an official now. A man who has been punished by his son's holy favor to pay his grain to redeem his death can still turn the sky over in our Yulin? I will put these carts of grain into storage , you always stamped the two Lord Jinyiwei, and sent them back to Beijing to talk about it."
When Jin Yiwei is gone, they can clean up their son-in-law.
The father and son were prepared to entertain their son-in-law in a measured manner, and as expected, Master Cui was going to buy another ten stone of rice and send it to the border officials. The family members scared the robbers from Fang Cai, fearing that they would be robbed after buying rice, and they persuaded the master to wait for the two adults Jin Yiwei to return before making arrangements.
But where could Cui Ju be willing to listen
He determined that the two wrestlers went to Liu's house for two days, and they must have collected their money. The two colluded, and he couldn't trust it!
If they delay Nami's life, the Liu family will definitely punish him with a crime; if they go for help empty-handed, not to mention - he and the Liu family had a feud early on. What, now the feng shui turns, how can there be no revenge
No matter how powerful the eldest son is in the court, at most he can only seek justice for himself afterwards. Shouldn't he suffer from it himself
He was determined to buy rice, but the rice at the border gate was nearly twice as expensive as in Beijing, and he dared to ask for nearly forty taels of silver for ten stone rice, which was almost the rest of their return journey. Everyone was afraid that if they bought rice, they would not have the money to return to their hometown, so they persuaded him not to be impatient, bow his head to the Liu family, and ask his ex-law-in-law and brother-in-law to lend him some rice to feed him.
Master Cui is proud of himself, how could he be destroyed so easily!
He has always been a decisive and action-oriented person. At the beginning, he turned against the Liu family, abandoned the Xu family, and cleared the Yellow Book... Everything was done by himself, and this time buying rice was the same. He stared at someone to take the money that Cui Xie gave to Steward Liu, and sent his family to buy rice everywhere.
The customs here are all military colonies, which produce more grains and less white rice. Even though they have money, no one is willing to buy so much. The family and the coachmen spent a few days wandering around, and finally a passing convoy came from nowhere, carrying four carts of rice, and sold them ten Shishi at the price of five taels and one shi.
The money in the hands of the Cui family was all gone, so Master Cui had to pawn a few thick silk clothes that he wore in the spring, and hired a car to set foot on the road to Yulin again.
They didn't know that, just as they were looking for rice, the two guards in golden clothes had already embarked on their way home happily with stamped documents and a waist full of gold and silver.
Along the way, the two of them kept admiring: "Although Mr. Liu's daughter died early, he didn't have to say anything to his son-in-law and grandson. Then Mr. Cui hasn't reached the border yet, and I just heard that we had a rice penalty. The family hurriedly took out the private treasury to make up for it, and used the seal for us, for fear that the son-in-law would go too slowly and violate the deadline."
Sun Lishi tried his best to praise the generosity of the Liu family, but Cheng Lishi said: "It's not like he loves his son-in-law too much, maybe it's because of Cui Hanlin's face. After the daughter goes, isn't the grandson a treasure? It has to be done for the grandson's father. Face, Cui Hanlin's face is also good-looking..."
It's a pity that with such a father who has been in trouble again and again, as a son, he can only think of getting old.
The two walked towards the gate while discussing, and they did not collide with the Cui family's team in Yulin City, so they diverged further and further. Without the support of Jin Yiwei, Mr. Cui hated to go home and play them a copy, but he acted more cautiously. After buying the food, he personally led someone to guard the inn's backyard for one night. The next day it was bright and he set off. Finally, he was in time for Arrived in Yulin before dark.
Master Cui was afraid that the Liu family would come out and humiliate him, so Da Xiandi covered his body with a cloak and prepared many words to deal with the army men. But he didn't want that no one from the Liu family came to pick him up, no one even came to see him, and the two Jin Yiwei who escorted him were not there, leaving them alone in this unfamiliar place.
Liu Zhuangtou, who was familiar with the local area, told him to throw it in Yulin, but he couldn't even call him.
But he is a firm and decisive person. He no longer thinks about the Liu family, and only asks his family to find out where their nano products should be shipped. This Yulin Guard is a guard house, not an ordinary city. Most of the craftsmen and residents in the city are from the army. They are very familiar with the affairs of the army and quickly pointed them to the guard house.
When they arrived outside the Weijun Mansion, Cui Ju hid in the car and ordered his family to inform him that Cui Ju had come to Nanami after leaving the post of Yunnan Councilor.
The people from the Liu family still did not come out, but a middle-aged officer dressed in a Beijing-like figure was walking out of the gate, and he smiled vulgarly at his carriage: "What about the resignation, our manor didn't accept it. Having written such a document, I only heard that there is a sinner Cui Ju, who is corrupt and perverts the law, and wants to come to Nano to make amends. Where is the sinner Cui Ju
Cui Ju was so embarrassed that she didn't want to get out of the car. But the sergeant of the Wei residence gradually surrounded him, and the big man even called his name directly against his car. He couldn't help but hide his face and dawdled out of the car. He coughed and said with the air of a jinshi: "Cui Mou has been ordered to come here..."
The official didn't wait for him to speak at all, he waved his hand, ordered someone to carry him into the mansion, put him in the second hall, and instructed: "The sinner Cui Juyunmi has missed his term for two days, and he should be punished with 20 floggings. This official took off his clothes and punished him!"
Do not! Can't pick it up! He was a scholar of the former dynasty, and he was a senior member of the fourth rank. How could he be humiliated by the military and Han! These people deliberately framed him, in order to make him bow his head and be humiliated!
Those hands pulled away his clothes and trousers, forcing him to finally call out the word "father-in-law": "My father-in-law is Lord Liu of Yulin Weizhen, how can you treat me like this!"
The man had already received the strict order from his superior, and had someone press his shoulders, waist, and legs with sticks, and sneered: "Master Cui is both an official and a relative who is an official, but he doesn't know that the official is a prisoner. Relatives, the law of evasion in the event of an incident? You should be punished by flogging according to the law if you fail to deliver food on time. This official saw the face of Liu Zhenfu and the two young masters, and did not ask you to take off your pants in the yard to meet people. , to use the punishment in the second hall, do you still think it is not enough?"
He threw the small sign in the tube down and shouted: "You want to rely on relatives to suppress this official? Our army can't tolerate such illegal things, give this official ten more, fight!"
The sound of the wooden plank piercing into the flesh rang out crisply, mixed with Cui Ju's tragic cries. Liu Zhenfu and his second son who stayed in the city sat in the back hut and listened. Hearing his voice gradually faded, he couldn't help but feel a little worried, and asked his son who was serving next to him: "That Cui Ju is a prisoner who has just been released from the prison, and he is a little old. Pupu ran to the border, his body was numb, and he couldn't stand these dozens of slaps? Don't really beat him to death, Brother Xie still has to keep his filial piety for him, won't this delay him from becoming an official?"
His son only hated that he didn't hit hard enough, and he didn't care that Cui Ju couldn't stand it. He said with a smile: "He hit a small board and didn't hurt his body. How can someone die so soon? The big deal is that after the fight, he will be kept at the border for a few months, and he will be released next year when he is ready. Anyway, he has to pay for four years, and he will slowly toss. "
There's nothing wrong with being killed. Cui Xie has never been able to get married, isn't it because he is afraid of hurting his father, grandfather and brother? Now that his grandfather has passed away, as long as his father is dead and his brothers are separated, he can get married...
The father and son of the Liu family quietly listened to the sound of the board and the increasingly hoarse cries from outside the hut. When the sound gradually subsided, Liu Zhenfu made up his mind: "You have cleaned up the paperwork, Don't ask people to find out the traces in the future. We will not leave Cui Ju to recuperate, and send people out like this... "
He couldn't kill his grandson's biological father with his own hands.