Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

"Xiao Langjun is the lord's younger brother. How big a deal is it to die because of you? You just want to end it with your own life, but it's a good business!" Yiji Lianbode said with a smile: "Forget it, today you go first Go back! Close your doors and think about your mistakes, and wait for your disposal!"

"Obey!" Fan Changan kowtowed before bowing and exiting the door.Yiji Lianbode came to Wang Wenzuo's place, told what Fan Changan said, and finally said: "This subordinate believes that what Fan Changan said may not be true. If you want to find out the truth, you should arrest him and strictly control him." Add torture!"

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Wang Wenzuo raised his head: "What proof do you have?"

"There is no proof!" Yiji Lianbode said: "However, I have sent people to inquire about the details of this guy in the past few days. Unlike merchants like Zhuge Wen and Cai Dingshan, this Fan Changan is not only rich, but his ancestors were Fan Changsheng, who was the prime minister of the Dacheng Kingdom, is quite powerful in the Tao of Heavenly Masters. People like this should not do such things just for money!"

Wang Wenzuo nodded. He has been in Jiannan for more than a year, and he already has some understanding of the local situation.Due to the Tang Dynasty's policy of serving officials in other places, local officials such as governors and county magistrates in Shu were basically served by scholars from other places, and local scholars could only serve as bureaucrats in prefectures and counties. It was monopolized by Guan Long Xungui, and Shu people were more homesick. Local scholars in Shu did not have much enthusiasm to leave Shu, but stayed at the prefecture and county level, or served as staff members, or simply ran family businesses at home. Entertain yourself.And the result of this is that there are many powerful people in Shu who have no official positions, but have strong financial resources, material resources, and local appeal. In other places, such people have already gone to Chang'an, Luoyang to study and find official positions. The opportunity came, but the land of Shu stayed in his hometown and became the tyrant.Fan Changan is such a person, and such a person cannot be regarded by ordinary businessmen who are greedy for wealth.

"Since this is the case!" Wang Wenzuo said: "Then let Fan Changan hand over the personal wealth obtained from this matter first, and the right is settled!" He paused for a while: "You stay and investigate slowly, Find out the whole story of the matter, and then deal with it!"

"Your subordinates obey!" Ijilian Bode responded, "What about Cai Dingshan and Zhuge Wen?"

"The two of them are not at fault in the first place, and it's not their idea to blend fine linen with raw silk, so let's stop here!"

"Yes!"

"I'm almost ready here, and I'm leaving for Chang'an the day after tomorrow!" Wang Wenzuo said: "After I leave, the situation will be very different. You must be more careful in your actions, and don't let others fall for you, you know? "

"Subordinates obey!"

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Outside Chengdu.

In the first year of Xianheng (AD 670), twelve or three days before the winter solstice, there was just a slight snowfall. Looking down from a high altitude, the land was white, only dots of black spots, with villages, woods, and people. and the tracks of the beast.Two young men with aristocratic appearance walked all the way along the Jinjiang River. Judging from the falcon cages and saddles carried by the attendants behind them, they should have gone out to hunt falconry. It is a quite popular sport in the upper class of Chengdu. ,

Compared with normal hunting, the main target of falconry is not medium and large animals such as wolves, deer, and bears, but small and medium-sized birds and animals such as quail, skylark, stork, and hare.Hunters don't use bows, arrows, spears, but just mount horses, wrap their arms or shoulders in cowhide, and let the falcon squat on their arms.Whenever prey is found, the hunter lets go of the hawk.In an instant, the falcon spread its wings and flew high, and then swooped down like lightning. Even though the prey ran wildly, it could not escape the falcon's sharp claws and steel pecks.Obviously, compared to normal hunting, falconry is much safer, there is no need to worry about being backlashed by the prey, and the price of a good falcon is also extremely expensive, at least several hundred dollars, expensive ones are not expensive. Capped.This kind of "elegant" entertainment has become very popular in Chang'an and Luoyang. It is normal for a master who knows how to catch and tame excellent falcons to earn thousands of guan a year, even for big men like princes and generals. , will not care about the disparity in status, and invite top falcon hunters to their homes to learn the knowledge of raising and training falcons.They will also not hesitate to use all kinds of compliments to praise the abilities of these people.

"Brother Sheng!" A young man in his early twenties said with a smile to his companions: "This time we have hunted as many birds and beasts as you and I, and we are not far from Wangting now. Why don't you and I make an agreement?" How about a bet, whoever catches another prey wins?"

"Okay!" The person next to him looked quite a bit older, and at least he was fifteen or sixteen years older than the young man who spoke. This was already a generation gap at the time, but he completely regarded the other party as his eyes. As a peer, he didn't look down on him: "Zian, you bet if you want, but you don't know what to bet!"

"Let's bet on a five-character poem!" The young man said with a smile, "The loser has to recite a five-character poem within half a moment, and the theme is eagle hunting, how about it?"

"Zian has created a problem for Brother Yu!" Although the middle-aged man said he was embarrassed, there was no embarrassment on his face.

"Brother Sheng, why should you be too modest?" The young man laughed and said, "People in the world call Yang Jiong and King Luo Bin together with you and me, but in my opinion, Yang Jiong's writing is better than quality, but it's just a name; Not as good as your brother. You are the only one in the world who can convince me of five words and seven unique skills!"

The middle-aged man smiled, but did not answer, but acquiesced to the bet.It turned out that these two people immediately were Wang Bo and Lu Zhaolin. At that time, they, Luo Binwang, and Yang Jiong were called together, and they were considered treasures in the literary world of the Tang Dynasty.Although the four said that Wang Bo at that time had not produced the "Preface to the Pavilion of the King of Teng" that has been handed down to later generations, but in terms of talent and high status in the literary world, it was Wang Bo who was the youngest.Although Lu Zhaolin was also famous for making poems and prose, he was fifteen or sixteen years older than Wang Bo, and he had been beaten by fate for fifteen or sixteen years. Naturally, his personality was much calmer, and he was not as sharp as Wang Bo at this time.

Now that the two had agreed on a bet, they rode away on horseback. At that time, there was a thin layer of snow on the ground, and the footprints of pedestrians and wild animals were very obvious on it.

The two walked about another three or four miles, and the snow began to fall again. Wang Bo was secretly anxious, kicked the horse's belly, and rode the horse a few steps ahead. He suffered from impatience again, and he didn't want to lose just like that, so he also rode his horse to keep up.At this time, a hare was startled by the sound of horseshoes in the bamboo forest not far away. Wang Bo was overjoyed, and quickly stretched out his arms to send out the falcon, shouting: "Falcon, take this rabbit down quickly!"

Lu Zhaolin at the back saw it, and hurriedly let out his own falcons. The two falcons rushed down like lightning, and they were about to catch the hare, but the hare was very alert, and made a sharp turn and turned back to the bamboo forest. In the middle, the two falcons circled twice on the bamboo forest, but they were afraid of the dense bamboo forest, so they had no way to start, so they could only circle the bamboo forest twice, and returned to the arms of their respective masters.

Wang Bo had already lost his temper at this time, he whistled, rode his horse and rushed to the side of the bamboo forest, drew his sword and cut off two bamboo branches, trying to drive the hare out of the bamboo bush, but he didn't think that the rabbit seemed to have got spirituality, even though The bamboo forest was hacked by Wang Bo, but they still huddled tightly in the bamboo roots and refused to go out.

"What a cunning rabbit!" Wang Bo said angrily, "Do you think I will have nothing to do with you if you don't come out? Come, bring fire!"

While speaking, the servant had already lit the fire, and Wang Bo threw it into the bamboo grove. It was already winter, and there were many withered bamboo branches and leaves in the bamboo grove, and they immediately caught fire. The hare was forced by the fire to turn around. After five laps, he finally had to rush out of the bamboo forest.Wang Bo was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to send the falcon out: "Falcon, hurry up, don't let that hare go!"

Lu Zhaolin was ready to admit defeat, and was thinking about how to arrange words and sentences to deal with the bet.But a sharp cry was heard, the falcon had just caught the hare, and was nailed to the snow by an arrow, the rabbit and the hawk, like a skewer.

"My falcon!" Seeing this, Wang Bo felt great pain in his heart. He jumped off his horse and rushed to the side of the falcon. Seeing that the falcon was shot through the chest with an arrow, he must be dead. He said angrily, "Which bastard shot me dead!" Falcon, I want him to pay me with his life!"

Lu Zhaolin's personality was much calmer. He jumped off the horse and carefully pulled out the arrow. He saw that the arrow was a full meter long, with long and hard feathers and a thick shaft. It was heavy in his hand. It was an arrow, more like a shrunken spear.Who would shoot a rabbit with an arrow like that?Lu Zhaolin thought to himself, but said in his mouth: "Brother Zi'an, don't worry, when the owner of the arrow arrives, we will play by ear!"

While they were talking, there was a sound of horseshoes in the distance, and the two of them saw three or four horsemen running towards this side. The knights on horseback were all wearing black round-necked short robes, hooded heads, and holding bows and arrows. Yuan shouted, "Who set this fire?"

"Is it me?" Wang Bo was upright, pointing to the dead eagle and rabbit in Lu Zhaolin's hand: "This falcon is mine, but you shot it to death?"

The leading man approached, and only then did Lu Zhaolin see his face clearly. He should be a few years younger than Wang Bo, and still a little childish. He was taken aback by Wang Bo's question, and immediately said: "I shot a rabbit. How can you blame me for the eagle bumping into it by itself?",

"Shooting rabbits doesn't work either!" Wang Bo was originally from a noble family, and his grandfather was Wang Tong, a great master at the end of the Sui Dynasty. The fault of ", I read the Six Classics thoroughly at the age of ten, passed the Su Ke examination at the age of sixteen, and was awarded Chao San Lang, becoming the youngest official in the imperial court.Later, although he was expelled from Chang'an because he offended the emperor, how can ordinary people match his high spirit and arrogance?
"This is a hare, neither yours nor mine, why can't you shoot it?" Immediately the man laughed.

"If I say you can't, you can't!" Wang Bo said proudly, "Who are you? Haven't you reported your name yet?"

"My name is Acton!" The man on the horse said with a smile, "The master just saw the fireworks and asked me to come over to see what happened? What's your name?"

"Master?" Wang Bo heard that the other party was a servant, and he was even more unwilling to talk to the other party: "You are not worthy of knowing our names, go and call your master, I will only talk to him!"

When Acton heard this, his face became ugly. He slapped his whip and shouted: "You are so rude. You asked my name and I told you, but refused to say my name? Want my master to come to see you? What kind of person are you, you have such a big face to let my master come?"

Lu Zhaolin heard Acton's self-reported name from the side, and knew that the other party was a barbarian, and he was so good at shooting, his master was probably a nobleman.Both himself and Wang Bo are being relegated right now, if they get offended, they will probably suffer a loss, so they hurried forward and said: "Everyone, my friend is still young, and that falcon was his favorite thing, and it suddenly disappeared. You must not pay attention to such angry words!"

Acton glanced at Lu Zhaolin: "You are reasonable, it would be better if you did this earlier. It's just a bird. If it really belongs to you, I'll just pay you one. Why bother?" Tongue hurts?"

Wang Bo was furious when he heard the words: "It's just a bird, pay me? Do you know what it is? If you were in Chang'an, you might not be able to buy one for a thousand guan, so I sold you all together." I can't afford it either!"

Acton shook his head: "Seeing that you are also a learned person, how can you compare people with birds? Forget it, if I say I will compensate you, I will compensate you. It will only be better than you, a bird, not you." Poor! Let's go!"

"What?" Lu Zhaolin asked.

"Didn't your friend want me to pay for his birds?" Acton said with a smile, "I don't have any birds here, so how can I compensate him? He still wants to see my master. Does he really want my master to come and see him?" Can't he?"

After finishing speaking, he turned his horse's head around, turned around and said with a smile: "Unless he doesn't dare to come with me, it's not that I don't pay him, it's that he doesn't dare to come and take it!"

Just as Lu Zhaolin was about to speak, Wang Bo got on his horse and followed closely behind Acton.Acton whistled when he saw this, and the knights beside him dispersed immediately, wrapping Lu Zhaolin and Wang Bo among them, and headed eastward all the way.

Seeing this, Lu Zhaolin cried out inwardly, so he rode his horse along with him. He lowered his voice and said to Wang Bo, "Zian, why are you doing this? These people obviously come from different backgrounds, so why bother putting the whole person in for a falcon?"

"I just want to see who the master of the Hu population is!" Wang Bo said coldly: "Teach out such a crazy slave, and I will tell the world in the future, so I can humiliate that guy!"

"Hey, you also saw the barbarian's arrows. They are not for hunting at all, but for killing people with their armor on the battlefield. How can the master of such a strong man be easy to provoke?" Lu Zhaolin said earnestly: "Xian Although my younger brother is as big as a pen, how can we resist it? Let's be soft and get rid of this group of people!"