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Chapter 623 So come and see, I want to die for my country
People in desperation always have unparalleled strength. Encouraged by Yang Liujin to eat mutton in the city, the rogues finally captured Lanzhou City at dawn the next day. The footsteps of the rogues entering the city awakened the residents in the city. Under such circumstances, the rogues did not rob the poor, but went straight to the richest families in the city and started to rob, and there were endless screams for a while.

Xu Zhiyuan also soon learned that Lanzhou City was broken. For a while, he felt that the sky was spinning and the sun and the moon were hanging upside down, but Xu Zhiyuan still had a responsibility. The magistrate's yamen even ran away from the janitor, and the whole yamen was empty, except for those dilapidated tables, chairs and benches.

Seeing this, Xu Zhiyuan's energy was drained in an instant, and he sat powerlessly on a chair and stared at the sky with dull eyes. He wanted to kill the thief, but he was powerless!
At this time, Houzhai ran out with his wife who had been with him for half his life. Seeing her husband leaning on a sword and sitting on the steps of the magistrate's yamen, he was stunned. He hurried over and said, "Husband, where are the government soldiers?"

Xu Zhiyuan waved his hand and said, "Run away, they all ran away, they ran away as soon as the bandits entered the city."

The wife was shocked when she heard this and said: "Ah, then there is no one in the whole mansion to protect the master. Master, let's run too."

After hearing this, Xu Zhiyuan said mockingly: "Run, although the world is big, there is a place for me, Xu Zhiyuan, to stand. Besides, I am the magistrate of this Lanzhou prefecture, so what if I run away? Does the dignified Ming have a guard?" Are there no people left in the tomb, today there are only magistrates who died for the country, and there are no adults who escaped!"

Xu Zhiyuan held the sword at this time and said with a tragic face: "Madam, run away, I still have 500 taels of silver, hidden under our bed, you take this money, run back to your hometown quickly, help me take care of my mother, and take care of my mother." Raise the child, tell the child that he must be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, and it will not be in vain for you and me as a husband and wife."

After hearing this, his wife looked at Xu Zhiyuan and said: "What nonsense are you talking about, we are a family, if you die, how can I live alone."

Xu Zhiyuan heard the words and said: "I want to die for the Ming Dynasty, and for the integrity of our scholars, why do you bother?"

The wife heard the words and said: "The husband dies for the country, and the wife dies for the husband. It is an eternal truth that the husband sings the wife to follow. If the husband wipes his neck with a knife, the wife will follow the husband. In the future, she can do the same thing when she is underground. Forest bird."

Hearing this, Xu Zhiyuan looked at his wife, especially at his wife's stubborn expression, and couldn't help sighing: "My wife, why are you doing this? You and I both died here. Who will take care of our old mother, and who is our youngest son?" How should I live?"

Xu Zhiyuan's wife heard the words and said: "Don't worry, my husband. I have already thought about it. Our eldest son is already 14 years old and can be the master of the house. I will ask the old servant to send the money back to the family in a while. The whole family will live without worry." .”

Seeing his wife like this, Xu Zhiyuan heaved a long sigh and said, "Forget it, forget it, you go and arrange for the old servant to escape from this place quickly, and then..."

"After that, I will accompany my husband."

After the wife finished speaking, she ran to the inner house, and soon an old servant dressed up as a commoner hurried out of the magistrate's yamen, while the wife came to the lobby and came to the husband's side. At this time, Xu Zhiyuan was sitting on the magistrate's stool, with The sword was placed on the table not far away. As long as the bandits broke into the door, he would draw his sword and commit suicide and die for the country.

His wife came in and looked at Xu Zhiyuan, Xu Zhiyuan patted his big chair and said, "Sit together."

The wife waved her hand and said: "If you don't have a husband, how can you allow me to sit peacefully as a woman in the temple."

Xu Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "The temple is about to collapse, why are we so particular about it, madam, please sit down."

The wife also sighed and sat down when she heard the words, but the stool is so big, although it is more than enough for one person, but it is a little too small for two people, Xu Zhiyuan said: "Madam, please sit on my lap."

The wife was taken aback when she heard the words. Isn't it a little too exciting to sit on her husband's lap in the magistrate's lobby?
But seeing Xu Zhiyuan's insistence, his wife could only blush and sit on her husband's lap.

Xu Zhiyuan was sitting on his lap by his wife, his long-numbed heart suddenly jumped, and he felt a different feeling.

At this moment, Xu Zhiyuan knew that he couldn't continue to think wildly, otherwise this scene of generous martyrdom would become weird.

Xu Zhiyuan thought about shifting his eyes to stare outside and said: "In a moment, if a thief breaks in, my husband should take a step first."

"Don't worry, my husband, I will go with my husband after my husband leaves."

His wife said with a cold face, Xu Zhiyuan nodded and said: "Okay, okay, in this case, you and I will go to the Nine Springs, and we will be a husband and wife."

The wife heard the words and said, "That's it."

So the two sat in the lobby of the magistrate and waited for the bandits to sneak in.

After two hours...

The two were still sitting in the prefect's lobby. At this moment, Xu Zhiyuan was looking at the gate of the prefect, eager to see through. Why didn't the bandits rush in? After a while, the motivation to commit suicide was gone.

The most fearful thing about suicide is waiting. Time will make people dispel the idea of ​​committing suicide, and the longer the time, the less people want to die, just like modern insurance, in which there is a risk of someone committing suicide and fraudulent insurance, so it is stipulated, This kind of insurance will take effect two years after purchasing the insurance, and with these two years, the person who originally wanted to commit suicide may not commit suicide.

And now Xu Zhiyuan has this feeling, these two hours are for him, and the days are like years. The original enthusiasm, ready to show the strength of the Ming Dynasty scholars in front of the bandits, is gradually fading, and the desire to commit suicide The desire is getting lower and lower, lower and lower.

"Ahem, cough, cough, ma'am."

At this time Xu Zhiyuan coughed lightly and called Madam, at this moment Madam Xu was stunned and said to Xu Zhiyuan: "What's the matter, husband?"

Xu Zhiyuan said with some embarrassment: "Ahem...you get up, my leg is numb."

Madam suddenly said: "Ah, husband, I will help you."

Xu Zhiyuan got up, stretched his legs that were numb from sitting, and wondered in his heart, there was a lot of shouting and killing outside, but why didn't anyone rush into the government office? Dead in vain!

Xu Zhiyuan moved his feet on the ground, wondering in his heart, and waited like this for another two hours. It was getting dark outside, and Xu Zhiyuan's stomach started growling.

Seeing this, the lady at the side said, "Husband, why don't I cook two dishes for you, let's have something to eat?"

Xu Zhiyuan looked at his wife, then looked outside, stomped his feet and said: "These damn thieves, why don't you come to arrest me, and Madam, I can't eat. If I am eating and the thief comes, I will wipe my neck again, right? Doesn't it seem very heroic?"

Madam's expression was very intriguing when she heard the words: "Your husband can do whatever you say."

Xu Zhiyuan nodded and said: "Well, what Madam said is very true, just wait."

Another hour passed.

Gollum...

Xu Zhiyuan's stomach was already bulging, at this moment Xu Zhiyuan stomped his feet and cursed at the street, why didn't these bastards and thieves rush in, did they know that I was here?
Xu Zhiyuan wanted to rush out to have a look, but when he thought about the turmoil outside, he died outside, and no one knew who he was, so he was still guarding the government office, waiting for someone to rush in, and then wiped his neck to show his literati character.

Gollum...

But Xu Zhiyuan's stomach growled so badly that he woke up early in the morning and drank a bowl of millet porridge, and then tossed and tossed until now, his physical strength obviously couldn't keep up.

Xu Zhiyuan's stomach was rumbling, and his wife's stomach was also bulging, and the wife said: "Husband, do you want to make something to eat? I'm too hungry."

Xu Zhiyuan said: "Don't eat."

The wife heard the words and said: "Forget it, if the husband doesn't eat, I'll make something to eat first, even if you are a ghost, you can't be a starving ghost!"

Speaking of his wife running away from the back hall, Xu Zhiyuan couldn't help but said: "Well, bring me something to eat too, these thieves are really hateful, they want to use this trick to deal with the old man, the old man will not give in, never !"

Xu Zhiyuan yelled again and again, his wife came to the back kitchen, and soon two bowls of hand-rolled noodles were ready, Xu Zhiyuan had an egg on top of the bowl, at this time his wife brought over the noodle bowl, and the two of them started eating in the mansion. .

When he was full, Xu Zhiyuan continued to sit on the chair. He estimated that the thieves would break in when it got dark.

After his wife was full, she packed up the dishes and came to accompany Xu Zhiyuan, and the two of them sat on the chairs in the courtroom again in the dark.

Another two hours.

It was early in the morning, the door of the government office lobby was open, and the draft was blowing, and the whole lobby was very cold. At this time, the sitting husband and wife couldn't help hugging each other. Xu Zhiyuan shivered from the cold and said: "This group of people The thieves are really hateful, if you don't come to see me, you want me to submit, it is absolutely impossible, and I will never let this group of thieves stop today."

At this moment, Xu Zhiyuan hugged his wife and said, "My husband, why don't we go back to the back hall to get the quilts, we can freeze to death in the middle of the night, isn't freezing to death considered martyrdom?"

Xu Zhiyuan trembled when he heard this, and said: "Madam said that these thieves have disappeared and they must want to torture me like this. I will never follow his wishes. Madam, go to the back hall to get the quilt."

The quilt was brought, and the two of them were sitting on the chair, hugging each other, wrapped in a layer of quilt, waiting like this, and after another hour, the two of them couldn't hold on any longer.

The two eyelids started dating frequently and wanted to be together.

His wife was the first to fall asleep, and Xu Zhiyuan was already dozing off, cursing at this time: "Thief, don't want me to give in...fufufu..."

Soon the two of them fell asleep, and they didn't know how long they had slept. They only heard someone chattering next to their ears, which woke them up. Immediately after Xu Zhiyuan opened his eyes, he saw three ordinary people in ordinary clothes. The man in the clothes was pointing at Xu Zhiyuan and his wife who were sitting in the middle of the courtroom and sleeping together hugging each other.

"Hey, look, this is our prefect."

"Yes, that's him."

"Hey, is that his wife?"

"That's right, it's the magistrate's wife, I've seen it once."

"Then what are they doing?"

"Then who knows? Maybe it was too crazy to play last night, and I thought the bed in the back hall was boring, so I came to the lobby of the government office..."

"I'll go, is it so exciting? Master Fu Zun can play!"

……

A group of people twittering, twittering, Xu Zhiyuan heard what they said, Madam blushed even more when she heard it, what are they bastards talking about, what is it called being in the lobby, oops...

Madam wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in, but Xu Zhiyuan didn't care to hug Madam even tighter at this time. He was so aggrieved yesterday that he didn't even have anyone. Today, he finally saw someone. , it just so happened that the time for martyrdom came, and since it was time to die, it would be good for husband and wife to die together.

Thinking that Xu Zhiyuan touched the sword in his hand, looked at the three people in front of him and said, "I'm sure you are a bandit, did your king want you to arrest me? Let me tell you, there are only magistrates who died for the country in Ming Dynasty, no..."

"and many more……"

Before Xu Zhiyuan could finish speaking, these three people interjected: "Master Zhifu, how can you pretend to be innocent? We are all carpenters in Lanzhou City, and we are not thieves. Why are you labeling us? We It’s just to make some furniture, so there’s no offense to your lord?”

"Wood, carpenter?"

Xu Zhiyuan was stunned, and at this moment one person said: "Yes, we are all carpenters, if you don't believe me, ask Madam, I was the one who built the pear wood cabinet in your house, Madam forgot?"

Madam was taken aback when she heard this, then looked at this man and frowned and said, "Lao Zhang from Majie?"

"Isn't it me, Ma'am, fortunately you still remember me, please tell your lord quickly, we are all carpenters with due diligence, we are not thieves!"

Xu Zhiyuan looked at his wife in bewilderment, she nodded and said, "Majie Zhang Laosan, the most famous carpenter in Lanzhou City, he made many of the furniture in our back house."

Xu Zhiyuan had a sad expression on his face when he heard the words, no, can I still die for my country? Why is it so difficult to die for a country?
Xu Zhiyuan spent a long time building his mind and said, "Since you are not bandits, what are you doing in the government office?"

After hearing this, Zhang Laosan said: "Oh, someone paid us to come to the magistrate's yamen to help make a new set of furniture for the magistrate's yamen. That's all, my lord, if you finish asking, can I trouble you to get up? Measure the size of the chair under your butt, so you can go back and measure it to start work."

After hearing this, Xu Zhiyuan got up in a daze, and several people came over to measure the wood. Xu Zhiyuan thought to himself, it should be the new king who is going to occupy the mansion, so that's fine. up!
Thinking of Xu Zhiyuan, I was looking forward to it. I was looking forward to it. It was noon and there was no one. At this moment, a person came in outside. Xu Zhiyuan was very excited. Is it a bandit? Is it a bandit? I want to wipe my neck!
As a result, a person came in and said: "Fu Zun, I'm from Piaoxiang Building, someone ordered a meal for you and brought it to you."

Xu Zhiyuan was about to cry when he heard the words, the bandits of Mahle Gobi, can you come, I will die for my country!

(End of this chapter)