Red Tang

The entire Qujiang pool suddenly fell into silence, and the "knowledgeable" Chang'an people turned and left one after another, unwilling to provoke this trivial matter.Several young men dressed as scholars tightly grabbed the cuffs of Yu's theory partner, and warned in a low voice. After hearing some "good words", the scholar sighed and gave up.

Seeing that no one dared to brush his tiger beard, the young man surnamed Wang who was riding the horse was very satisfied, squinted around the crowd, snorted softly, and wanted to get on his horse and leave.

"Stop!" A man with a Chinese character face in a dark blue short skirt yelled and squeezed out of the crowd, helping the little girl who was just in shock.The man was six feet tall, with sword-like eyebrows and tiger eyes, and a beard all over his face, he spoke quite imposingly.He glanced sideways at the young man surnamed Wang who was riding the horse, stroked the treasured knife at his waist with his right hand and said with a sneer, "I wonder whose dog is barking here. It turns out to be the son of Wang Bao's family. Then No wonder, just like your old man, a mad dog!"

These words are extremely vicious, how can the young man surnamed Wang bear it.I saw him startled for a moment, then raised his head and laughed a few times, pointing his right hand at the man with the Chinese character face and shouted: "Anyone who has the guts to report his name, son, I don't want to kill a dog and I don't know his name!"

The man with the square face never looked directly at the young master surnamed Wang. After calming down the frightened lady for a while, he turned around and gently pushed the fingers on the tip of his nose, and said loudly: "I am Nanba Nanjiyun in Weizhou Nanba. (Note 1) If you don’t change your name, you don’t change your surname. This life is here. If you have the ability, come and take it. But you, a little pup, dare not report your own name, but rely on your own name to commit crimes , do you have to call your grandpa for a personal conquest when you get married and the bridal chamber is weak? What a laughing man!"

Where did the young master surnamed Wang suffer such humiliation? He could no longer hold back the anger in his chest, turned his head and yelled at a follower beside him: "Wang Lu, what are you waiting for, my son, I have been bullied to the top, you are still here!" Watching a play? Bring someone to break this fellow's leg for me, and I will bear the consequences, my lord!"

After getting his son's order, Wang Lu gave instructions to the evil servant and servant beside him.In an instant, a dozen evil servants with fleshy faces and strong muscles and bones surrounded Nan Jiyun.

For a while, the atmosphere by the Qujiang Pool became extremely oppressive. Many people who came to play quietly walked towards the gate of the square, and some bold ones stood on their toes to watch a good show of the southern hero fighting the evil servants.

Du Jingtian's young girl's disposition is the worst to see the excitement. Seeing that there are so many people here, she has already squeezed in, only suffering from Li Kuo who is beside her, sweating profusely from eating with two big bags.

"I said, Miss Du, can you stop running around all the time on your own whim, your running around is really hard for me, my little follower, and the fine cotton boots that I just ordered at Suji the other day are about to wear out. There's a big hole!" While trotting, she complained, but the lazy tone obviously didn't have the effect of moving people's hearts, "Miss Du" still pushed forward in her own way, for fear of missing a paragraph for her to talk to her girlfriends in the future. A wonderful thing to chat with friends in China.

"Uncle, this evil young man who rides the horse is the son of Jing Zhaoyin? What is the origin of that Nan Daxia? Humiliation of the evil young man in public is really satisfying!" Du Jingtian squeezed a seat with great difficulty, before he could catch his breath , the two petals of cherry lips opened and closed, and Li Xiaoqi covered his face with his hands and sighed helplessly.

The middle-aged man who was asked was obviously very surprised that someone didn't know the origin of the son surnamed Wang. Seeing that everyone's attention was focused on the confrontation between the hero Nan and the evil servants, he called Du Jingtian to his side and said in a low voice "That evil young master is Lord Jing Zhaoyin's eldest son, named only Zhao. He is a well-known dandy in our Chang'an City. He relies on his grandfather's power to bully goodness in Yurou Township, but because of his grandfather's Power, Chang'an, and Wannian county magistrates all turn a blind eye, as long as no one is killed, they will be ignored, so as not to be upset!" After a slight pause, the middle-aged man changed again. With a subdued tone: "As for the Nan Daxia, I don't know. After all, we have many rangers like Datang, and who can say which one is good and which one is bad."

The middle-aged man wanted to talk again, but saw that a fight had started over there, so he left Du Jingtian aside to watch the excitement.

However, under the command of Wang Lu, dozens of evil servants attacked Nan Jiyun together. They seemed to have no sense of shame. The harm came, and a set of boxing techniques was well coordinated, giving off a mighty power.

These evil servants have always worked for tigers in Chang'an City, and it is unpopular to do bad things.Seeing that Nan Jiyun was in a dangerous situation, all the people immediately felt aroused.A few timid girls even covered their eyes and couldn't bear to watch any more!

Unexpectedly, the scene of Zhongnan Jiyun being beaten to the ground by a group of people did not happen. He gave a soft drink, picked up his toes, and a piece of gravel on the ground went towards the face of an evil servant in front of him. Poor this evil servant Jumping in front of Nan Jiyun, he couldn't stop for a long time. He was hit by the gravel, blood flowed from his face, and he fell to the ground in pain.The other two evil servants attacked from the left and right sides of Nan Jiyun, trying to take advantage of his distraction to gain advantage, but Nan Jiyun was not an idler, he grabbed the arm of the attacker on the left with his left hand, and only gently When he twisted it, the villain fell to the ground with a long cry of pain.The evil servant on the right side obviously slowed down slightly when he saw his companion's tragic situation, but Nan Jiyun didn't give him time to react, the scabbard slapped the evil servant's face, and the evil servant fell to the ground in response.

Seeing his servants being subdued by this brazen man with the southern surname one after another, the eldest son Wang Zhao lost his confidence, but he couldn't just admit defeat, otherwise how would he, Young Master Wang, hang around in Chang'an City in the future?

Thinking of this, Wang Zhao gritted his teeth and yelled at the absent-minded servants: "Don't be afraid, whoever beat this barbarian down today, after returning to the mansion, my young master rewarded him with two maidservants, ten taels of silver!"

These words had an immediate effect. Driven by their interests, all the evil servants lost their rationality and launched a more violent attack on Nan Jiyun.

We must know that the purchasing power of silver was very strong during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years. One tael of silver was equivalent to Kaiyuan Tongbao. In the early years of Kaiyuan, a bucket of rice was only sold for five Wen. 2) Therefore, the reward of ten taels of silver is enough for these evil servants to squander for a while, not to mention the rewarded maid who warms the bed.You must know how beautiful the maids of rich families are, and it is difficult not to be tempted under the double temptation of wealth.

Nan Jiyun didn't have time to think about these twists and turns, he just felt that the fighting power of this group of evil servants seemed to have suddenly risen to a new level, and the eyes they looked at him revealed a ray of greed as a beast looks at its prey.

It's just that Nan Jiyun didn't panic, he jumped lightly, temporarily avoided the attack of the evil servants, turned around like a goshawk and got behind the evil servants, with a light sweep of his iron legs, all the evil servants came together They all fell to the ground, and a few of them still wanted to step forward and waited to see the murderous look in Nan Jiyun's eyes, so they couldn't help but stop.

Seeing this scene, the Chang'an people who were present were all very happy. Most of them were oppressed by these evil servants. Although they did not dare to complain due to the power of the other party, the resentment in their hearts accumulated day by day.Now there is a ranger who can act righteously to teach these evil servants, young and old, without taking any risks. Everyone is happy to see such a good thing.

Seeing his servants fell to the ground one after another, and those who barely stood were frightened by that bastard ranger, Wang Zhao was really angry.At this moment, he had already lost his mind, his chest heaved violently, his shoulders trembled slightly, and finally he pulled out a bow and crossbow from the saddle bag, and shot an arrow at Nan Jiyun.

Nan Jiyun didn't want to entangle these evil servants at first, but when he turned around and was about to leave, he felt a pain in his shoulder and turned back angrily, only to see Wang Zhaozheng holding a short military crossbow and looking at him with a sneer.

Nan Jiyun was instantly furious. From Wang Zhao's eyes, Nan Jiyun could see that the other party had already launched a murderous intent on him. As for why the crossbow arrow didn't hit his vest but his shoulder, I'm afraid he could only use shooting techniques to distract himself. Let's explain.Although the range of this military short crossbow is short, it can definitely kill a person within twenty steps.In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the folk customs were open, and the use of swords, bows and arrows has always been involuntary among the people.Therefore, even literati often wear a long sword to show that they are not frail scholars.But this kind of military crossbow has always been strictly forbidden by the imperial court to be used by civilians. How dare Wang Zhao have the guts to steal the military crossbow?

Knowing that this matter could not be resolved, Nan Jiyun was about to explode when he heard a slightly lazy voice from behind: "What is this Mr. Wang Zhao? I wonder if I can hear what Li said?"

Facing everyone's surprised eyes, Li Kuo squeezed out half of the crowd and asked pantingly.

Wang Zhao was already impatient to hear this person's disrespectful words, waved his hands and shouted: "Fart if you have to, don't hinder my son's work."

Li Kuo didn't take it as annoyance, and said with a slight smile, "I'm humble, I don't know if the crossbow and arrows in the hands of the prince belong to the army?"

Without even thinking about it, Wang Zhao asked impatiently, "So what, is it possible that you still want to go to Jingzhaoyin Yamen to sue me for the crime of hiding arms?"

These words were very arrogant, which caused a lot of discussion among the surrounding people, and more people lamented the profound influence of the Wang family in Chang'an City.

The corners of Li Kuo's mouth lightly raised, he cupped his hands towards the north of the city, and said, "I dare not touch the prince's tiger beard lightly, but if Yang Zhao and Yang Shilang know about the crime of impeaching your father-in-law to a saint for laxity, I'm afraid Prince Wang will not feel better then."

Hearing these words, Wang Zhao, who was full of disdain before, turned snow-white in an instant.

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Note 1: Nan Jiyun: A famous ranger during the Tianbao period of Tang Dynasty. He later served under Zhang Xun's command and died heroically in the battle of defending Suiyang City.

Note 2: It has to be admitted that Tongbao’s purchasing power was extremely strong during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. Although there was a slight depreciation during the Tianbao period, it was still considerable.

Another: In the Tang Dynasty, one foot equals 30.7cm today, and 6 feet equals 1.8 meters four, very mighty.