Chapter 280: Loyalty (Part 1)

The Yimeng stretches for 800 miles. If the mountains are high and the slopes are steep and the ridges are steep, then the turtle top, one of the main peaks of Mengshan Mountain, is full of rocks and cliffs, and is three hundred feet high, which looks very majestic.

Although there are many bandits gathered in the 72 peaks and 36 caves of the towering Yimeng, no one dares to walk towards the land of Guimengding, because this is the territory of the most famous group of heroes in Yimeng Mountain.

Of course, these heroes would not foolishly place their nests on the top of the mountain. In that case, if officers and soldiers surrounded the mountain, they would become dumplings and asked people to take them to the pot. However, the place where they were placed has always been secret and unknown to outsiders, so everyone only knew that it was in the Turtle Head.

The leader of this group of heroes, named Qin, and had a bandit name called "Qin Huzi". He was a righteous and wealthy man and was very famous in the Yimeng Mountains. He had two sworn brothers, one was named Liu, Guotai, and a scholar who was a landlord, and the second leader; the other was named Zhang, Jiang Hu, and the third leader, and the first boss of Guimeng. He has always been known for his bravery.

Except for Liu Guotai who has always had a high vision and has not yet married a wife and concubine, Qin Bajia and Zhang Jianghu have both married and had children.

It was the 18th day of the first lunar month. Because there was something wrong, Mr. Qin and Mr. Zhang left before dawn. Liu Laoer stayed at the mountain village because of his discomfort and did not go together.

Although Zhang Jianghu's wife, Guan, grew up in the mountains, had taught her daughter very carefully because her father knew a few words. She didn't say anything about her little feet, and she was extremely virtuous. She looked like a good woman, but who would have thought she would be a bandit woman?

After breakfast, Guan thought of his second uncle who was unwell and went to the kitchen to use the pheasant breasts and meat foam, add rice to make a small pot of hot meat porridge.

After packing the food box, she was thinking about whom she wanted to send food to her second uncle, but she heard an old lady say, "Third grandma, if it was delivered to her second master, it would be a pity. The eldest grandma also cooked porridge early in the morning and delivered it in person."

The big grandmother in the woman's mouth was Qin Bajia's Fang Luo family. She said that she was much younger than Guan family. She married into the mountains the year before yesterday.

When Guan heard that Luo was also on the other side, he thought that he had the style of a sister-in-law and was so considerate and considerate to others, he smiled and said to the woman, "Since the big grandma is on the other side, I will send it to her in person, just to talk to her sister-in-law!" As he said that, he carried the food box and went to Liu Guotai's residence.

The old lady who was speaking just now was about to speak to dissuade her, but was stopped by a young wife: "Mom, don't you want to die. Are these things we can take care of?"

The woman looked sad. After a while, she said, "Grandma San is a good person!"

After entering Liu Guotai's yard and walking down the corridor, Guan put down the food box and was about to call someone, he heard a woman's moaning from the room.

Guan was stunned and didn't understand what was going on. Then the rustling sound of the mattress mixed with the woman's voice: "Ah...ah...good man...satisfied and dead slave..."

Guan was shocked. Even if he hadn't seen each other, he had been married for ten years. Even a fool could hear that this was the movement of men and women. She was so shocked that she felt that her body was stiff and she didn't dare to move. She was so careful that she was "thumping" and "thumping" that she wanted to jump out of her throat. The voice of the woman in the room was clearly the big grandmother Luo.

While he was stunned, Liu Guotai gasped and said, "Xiuxiu, your body is getting softer and softer, more intriguing than before giving birth. I can't bear it for a long time. I have to come here early in the morning... This breast... is cheaper for our son..."

"Enemy, and I have a face to smile. Xiaobao's eyebrows are gradually growing. It's okay now, but I'm afraid I can't hide it anymore..." Luo said coquettishly: "You're going to think of an idea to avoid the beard being suspicious..."

"I have my own arrangements, so Xiuxiu and feel at ease..." As I spoke, the squirming became louder and louder.

He heard Luo's moans become more and more rapid, and finally he was like crying: "...It's really not in vain... hurry up... hurry up..."

Not to mention how happy the two people in the room were, Guan outside the room was so scared that his face was pale and almost lost his soul. He couldn't stand steadily and almost fell to the ground. He hurriedly held the door frame, but accidentally made a sound.

All kinds of voices stopped in the room, and Liu Guotai asked, "Who is outside?"

After encountering such a secret, Guan did not dare to respond. He was no longer concerned and ran out of the yard with a blushing face.

When Liu Guotai pushed out the door in his clothes, the yard was empty. Just as he was about to close the door and go back to the room, he saw a lacquer food box under the corridor. He was slightly stunned, bent down and lifted it, without panic.

Mrs. Luo is very young, only about twenty years old, and is surrounded by a quilt, slightly closing his eyes, half opening his mouth, immersed in the spring.

Liu Guotai put the food box on the table, and when he left his clothes, he threw himself on the kang, hugged Luo, and kissed him: "Look, you are so brave, a little slut, you are not afraid of being sunk by the pond like this..."

Luo turned over and lay on Liu Guotai's chest, giggling and said, "It's just a couple halfway through. I'm doing a good wife in my family. I'm just a turbulent beard, which makes me a bandit, but it's a cheaper one..."

Liu Guotai rubbed the handle twice, and said with a smile: "It's not a joke, it's something that people can see..."

Luo put his little face hard on Liu Guotai's face and said in a sweet voice: "Enemy, come and coax the slave. Can you really think of slaves as stupid women? Boss Qin and Zhang Laosan are just paper tigers. Apart from the few around them, everyone else is obedient by the master? Otherwise, why are you doing so diligently when you run to Rizhao? My official fan..."

Liu Guotai smirked, hugged Luo's waist, pointed to the food box on the table, and said, "I told her to hear it. She is a serious person..."

Luo followed Liu Guotai's arm and saw the lacquer food box. She had seen this thing before. She was stunned and asked uneasy: "How is this good? The husband and wife are in love, and she designated to tell Zhang Laosan."

Liu Guotai responded: "Don't worry, Zhang Laosan followed Boss Qin to Jinan Prefecture. It will take about ten days to go back and forth. At that time, all your ideas will come up. If you get an emergency, you will fall and fall, you will not be able to save yourself."

Although Luo is not a woman's wife, she is a woman's family and is somewhat kind. When she listens to this, she seems to be Liu Guotai trying to silence her mouth and murmured: "Sister Guan is a good person. She has taken good care of me in the past two years and is also very good to our little treasure."

Liu Guotai smiled and said, "What a great method? You are not afraid of mistakes and want to let her go."

Luo replied: "My mother has never been early and no one has taught me since I was a child. The Guan sister is kind-hearted and treats people well. I treat her as her relative in her heart."

Seeing that Liu Guotai was not going to change his mind, Luo was a little anxious, kissed him in the face and said softly: "If you are not at ease, then you will be close to the Guan sister. Zhang Laosan is a reckless man, and he is a habitual lover of mercy and loves prostitution, so he only thinks that a virtuous lady is a yellow-faced woman."

Liu Guotai rubbed Luo's breasts and joked: "You are becoming more and more mature. If you want to find a younger brother, you will feel sad? But if she doesn't have any beauty, she is older, which makes me feel embarrassed."

Seeing that he was loose, Luo was getting tighter and tighter, and said softly: "My sister, the Guan family is ordinary, but she is very fleshy and very good. She will definitely not let her suffer. This "dew couple" has been made. She has a ghost in her heart, so she can only cover it up for us. How dare she mention it again..."

...

When Guan returned to his yard, he saw the maid Xinghua and her two children playing in the yard. The two children were wearing thick fur coats. When they saw Guan coming back, they all came over to hug her. This one said, "Mom, I want to eat jujube nectar", and the other said, "I want to eat too."

The older one is five years old, the younger one is the daughter; the younger one is three years old, the younger one is the son, both of which are from Guan. Seeing that the sister and brother were blushing, Guan said to Xinghua: "It's cold after all, even if they are naughty, they have to wait until noon before playing."

Xinghua responded, and saw that Guan's face was not good, she asked, "What's wrong with grandma? But I feel uncomfortable? Do you want to invite the second master to come and have a look?"

Guan's face froze, and he squeezed out a little smile, saying, "What are you talking about? Second Master... Second Master is still sick, why bother him? I just didn't get off last night and was a little tired. I want to lie in the house for a while. You take them to the east room to play with you." As he said that, he touched his daughter, his son's little head, and lifted the curtain into the house.

It was not until he lay on the kang that Guan sighed heavily. I really didn't expect that there was such a thing in the village? And two of them were Luo, who had always been shy, and the other was Liu Guotai, who spoke very well of rules and etiquette.

These two people have always acted without telling what they have to do with the "adulter and adulterer".

She remembered the words "our son" that Liu Guotai said. When she thought about the origin of Luo's family, she was brought into the mountain by Boss Qin and Liu Guotai. Because Boss Qin liked him, she became Boss Qin's house filling.

Could it be that she and Liu Guotai had already been in love, but were separated?

Guan's heart is kind, and he always thinks about others. When he contacts Luo, he doesn't like much in his usual love. Liu Guotai has not married yet, so he complains that Boss Qin has snatched the love, making lovers unable to be with him.

Although it is sympathy, women in this world value chastity the most. Since they have married Boss Qin and have a final say in Liu Guotai, they are not aware of their wife's morality.

Guan sighed in his heart, only to feel that Luo's life was miserable and in a daze, he actually forgot about the food box. He didn't know that he was plotted against by those two "hard people"...

*

In Yizhou City, Daotai Mansion.

Cao Yong looked at the court's residence and said that the court was busy with the longevity of Jiazi. In addition to the ministers and their families who came to the capital to celebrate their birthdays in other provinces, the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolian, Han Army, and officials and civilians in the coatings in other provinces also had many old men over 65 years old to come to the capital to celebrate their birthdays. The old women over 70 years old also wanted to come to the capital to pay their respects to the empress dowager. Among them, these "people auspicious people" who were 80 years old and over 90 years old had to send them to the capital without hesitation.

For the elderly in other provinces, those over 80 years old must count the records of the elderly in various provinces, waiting for the court's reward.

Kangxi, who was about to celebrate his birthday in Jiazi, finally admitted that he was an "old man". Such a great show of kindness showed his king's "benevolence and righteousness" and made the world realize that "peace in prosperous times" was given by him, the "wise king".

Cao Yong looked at it, but couldn't help but shake his head. Although later generations heard that the "Feast of Thousand Old Ones" was held in the Qing Palace, they were originally considered to be an old man in the capital, but they did not expect that the trouble would be a bit wide. The roads were rugged and the carriages were exhausted. These eighty-nine-year-old birthday stars may not be blessed to enjoy the emperor's "grace", and they might die halfway.

Mr. Zhuang also saw this, and when he saw Cao Yong's expression, he knew that he did not agree with the court's behavior of consuming people and causing money, but he did not say anything. Now, it is late in the first lunar month, and although the announcement of the Ministry of Rites has been issued, the provincial designation has long been moved.

After Cao Yong shook his head, Fang knew that he wanted to leave.

If it were the old people from the capital and Zhili area, there might be ordinary families; those old people from the Eight Banners who came to Beijing to celebrate their birthdays in other provinces must be the old masters of officials, Lao Fengjun and others.

With limited quotas, how could it be the people's turn? I'm afraid that the whole province would treat it as a "great honor" and squeeze out his head and send his parents to Beijing.

Along the way, I naturally served me properly, otherwise I would not be able to make any face and make a fool of myself.

Thinking of this, Cao Yong felt very bored and put the newspaper on the desk. He thought of his parents who were going to Beijing to celebrate their birthday, they were going to fight Jiangning in mid-February.

Thinking of the cumbersome exchanges between the various prefectures in the capital, Cao Yong felt a little lucky. It seems that his parents are good for retirement in Jiangnan, at least they don’t have to pay tribute to others.

If Cao Yin was in the capital, although he was a uncle, there were countless people with higher status than him. Even if he saw a baby in the royal family, he would have to greet him. The Li family was also there, and in front of those concubines, he could only stand and speak.

After reading the newspaper, Mr. Zhuang remembered the incident of Cao Yong sending someone to leave two days ago, and asked: "Furuo, the matter of Baoquan Temple needs to be carefully planned and carefully."

Cao Yong replied with a smile: "This is a sir. It's not a sneaky thing, I just avoid some verbal talk. If I weren't afraid that they would be timid and wouldn't dare to enter the house, I originally wanted to meet them in the yamen."

Mr. Zhuang said: "Even so, we must beware of their intimidation and have some thoughts. In a few days, we will probably send the oral message from Rizhao to the mountains, and we will also have to make two people stare at Mengyin. How many people go down the mountain? It is better to have a few things in our hearts to avoid being troubled. If there is no trouble, it will be unpleasant to hurt the people or make some other statements."

Cao Yong said: "Please arrange it, sir. I don't think there will be too many people coming, it's just a way to explore. We stay at home and are afraid of them."

Mr. Zhuang nodded, touched his beard and said, "These days, people have also been investigated in several counties near Yimeng. Qin Bajia is the leader of the Yimeng Mountain bandit. I heard that he is very loyal. If he can be sent to surrender, there will definitely be many followers. At that time, I need to think of a safe way to avoid being considered by the Green Camp to steal their credit and accumulate old grudges."

Cao Yong thought of the ring that had already been sent to the Hongmen with Mr. Zhuang's secret letter, and was a little puzzled. If Qin Bajia had something to do with the Hongmen, how could he think of joining the government? If it was said that it didn't matter, how could he make good contacts with the Du family's token?

He expressed his confusion in his heart, and Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "No matter whether he has anything to do with the Hongmen or not, he always needs to fill his stomach before he can live. Force them to surrender voluntarily is also a credit for Furuo. Not only Qin Bajia, but it is probably the bandits in the Yimeng Mountains. It is better to say that there are few people, and those with many people are planning their own."

Cao Yong suddenly realized and patted his head, "It turns out that it's because of this! No wonder he thought something was wrong before. These bandits were too earnest to surrender. They thought they had planned first when they saw the Du family being detained and afraid of being wiped out. Now, thinking about it, if they were so brave, they wouldn't have occupied Yimeng Mountain for many years. Eight hundred miles of Yimeng and fighting guerrillas, those green camps were just for nothing, what's the scary thing!"

The contribution of Cao Yong mentioned by Mr. Zhuang refers to the "real-name system" for rice purchase implemented in Yizhou at the end of March, which is to prevent the private people from hoarding rice and grain. As long as you buy more than one stone of rice and flour in the grain store, you must register your name and address and the county government will inspect the matter every quarter.
Chapter completed!