The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 228 The Covenant
Hearing Meng's words, the two dogs only smiled but did not answer.

Only Li Shouzhen patted the table lightly and shouted: "Woman Wu, this matter is beyond your control! If I find out the secrets you shouldn't know, you will be killed!"

Meng held the wine pot and said with a smile: "Master Tao, don't be upset. I don't want to explore any secrets. I just want to make sure that my uncle has not been plotted by anyone."

But Meng couldn't help but think too much. In her opinion, Jiao Dong was just a helpless cripple. Although her husband was kind to him because of the kindness of his ancestors, the virtue of a gentleman declined in three generations and in five generations. As for Zhan, Jiao Dong was a real waste without Meng's care.

The Meng family didn't feel that Jiao Dong and his clan had any great benevolence with the Meng family that was truly worthy of helping each other.

The Jiao family couldn't get up.

This is not because the Meng family underestimated the Jiao family. Not to mention other things, they were only the direct descendants of the Jiao family. They were once the generals' children, but now they can only make a career in wrestling in Zhongshan Mansion, but they have fallen from a high family to a low-ranking family. The lowest level of the world.

Now a group of people suddenly appeared, but they used some means to get Jiao Dong a right hand of unknown origin.Why should this penniless Jiao Dong fall into the hands of the devious Taoism, not to mention evil demons and evil ways?

Meng couldn't think of a reason why Jiao Dong was valued by a group of Taoist masters, but she was worried that someone would use Jiao Dong as a breakthrough to murder her family.

Ergou didn't get a glimpse of Meng's thoughts and just smiled and said: "Mrs. Meng is overly worried. What Taoist Jiao got today is the reward he deserves for the sacrifices he has made! No one plotted against him. No one would dare to plot against him."

As soon as Ergou said this, no one else said it, but Jiao Dong couldn't help but feel excited in his heart, and only said: "My dear friend, Jiao is really ashamed! Back then, because I couldn't bear the provocation, I forced myself to fight... and what happened to me later..." I was defeated miserably, and my hands were cut off by the thieves. Since then, I have been blaming others, and more often than not, I have the intention of seeking short-sightedness. It is because of my father-in-law who never gave up on me, and because of the constant guidance of Brother Jiao Ze, I have managed to survive until now. After my hands are completely restored, , If my benefactor does not think that I am anxious and vulgar, I am willing to serve under my benefactor and be a pawn who leads the horse and falls to the pedal!"

But Meng was dumbfounded. She looked at Ergou and Jiao Dong in horror, then murmured: "You...you wait...there is a magical method that can regenerate missing limbs..." ?”

Li Shouzhen winked at Xue Daoyuan. Xue Daoyuan understood, but he took his sword and went out of the house to look around, then returned and shook his head, and then stood guard at the door, looking around.

Li Shouzhen then spoke to Meng and his son Meng Li and said, "What you see and hear today must be kept in your heart. You must not reveal it to any outsider. If you violate it, you will be punished by everyone!"

Meng Li was a bit young and energetic, but he said: "You have such a loud voice, you old bastard! The Meng family also has martial arts inheritance, who is afraid of you?!"

Li Shouzhen laughed loudly and said: "You ignorant boy! How dare you act so arrogantly in front of a certain family?! Hehe! Although your Meng family's ax is somewhat impressive, it's just that! Wait until your father Meng Ze When you come back, ask him who the [Crazy Big Insect] is and see if he is afraid of it?!"

[Crazy Big Insect] Li Mengxuan was the name given by Taoist Shouzhen before he entered the Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Master's Mansion.

This guy joined the army in his early years and made some achievements in suppressing bandits. He killed many so-called heroes in the world. He earned the name "Crazy Big Bug" with a tiger-tailed steel whip. It was only later that he entered the Taoist sect and became famous in the world. Silenced.

Meng Li was young and had never heard of the name "Crazy Big Insect", but this was not the case with Meng. When she married Meng Ze, it was the time when Taoist Shouzhen's reputation was at its peak. Now that she heard Taoist Shouzhen reporting his name, she couldn't help but feel... surprised.

This Taoist Shouzhen was from Henan Prefecture, and his reputation was forged with the blood and tears of heroes from Henan Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture and their surrounding areas.

Meng Ze, who was fashionable and young at that time, had some thoughts of entering the world due to the restlessness of young people. Only after witnessing the battle in which Taoist Shouzhen killed a gangster, he calmed down and obeyed his elders honestly. Arrangement to gain entry into the Forbidden Army.

Only then did Meng bend down to pay her respects and said: "It turns out that Mr. Mengxuan is in person. Please forgive me for my blindness. It is a sin for me not to recognize the real face."

Taoist Shouzhen sneered, "What? You don't believe in the identity of the Sa family?"

Meng said repeatedly: "Don't dare! How dare you be suspicious of me!"

Taoist Shouzhen pulled out the four-sided copper mace from his back and pressed the mechanism on it, but there was a slight electric light crackling on it.Li Shouzhen gently swung the four-edged copper mace on the ground, but saw that the bluestone bricks on the floor were like cakes, turned into pieces and shattered into pieces.

The actions of the Taoist Shou Zhen only frightened Meng's mother, her son, and Jiao Dong. They had never seen such a terrifying method.

It should be noted that a normal person can use a whip hammer to crack a bluestone and smash it into pieces, but the situation of a guy smashing it into powder is really just a legend.

Xue Daoyuan, on the other hand, was a little disdainful. It was really shameless for this Taoist Shouzhen to rely on the power of the demon-conquering treasure weapon to scare ordinary people who didn't know what was going on.

Meng's eyes showed anxiety, with a look of pleading.

Jiao Dong stood up and cupped his hands and said, "Taoist Master Shouzhen, please calm down. My sister-in-law is just thinking too much, and there is no malice in her. I hope that Taoist Master will be lenient and forgive her."

But Meng also pointed her finger to the sky and swore: "I am willing to swear to the sky, but if I reveal even a little bit of the secrets about you, I will be killed with swords and killed without a burial place!"

Ergou said with a smile: "Mrs. Meng's words are serious. It's not us who force you to wait, but our secret is too important. But if you leak it, we will be in trouble, but we are not afraid of it. You are the only one who is afraid of it." They will be harmed by evil spirits."

Although the two dogs comforted her, after that, Meng's mother and son were always trembling and did not dare to show any slightest care.After the meal, Meng ordered some people to set up several upper rooms for everyone to stay temporarily.

Ergou didn't care much about this. After everyone settled down, he said a few words to Li Shouzhen and Xue Daoyuan, comforted Xiaoshi, and then left Mengjiazhuang and rushed straight to Bianliang City.

After entering the city, the two dogs did not go anywhere else, but went to the Li family's house.

When he arrived at the door of Li's house, Ergou did not come through the front door. In fact, the Li family had been visited by a constant stream of guests in the past few days. He wanted to enter the Li family's door, but there was some inconvenience.

However, this was not a problem for Ergou. He walked around to the backyard of Li's house, but he jumped up onto the courtyard wall, turned over, and jumped down.

When he came to the ground, he happened to see Li Hao, the cub of the Li family, sitting on a swing, staring at him in shock.

Ergou laughed a little awkwardly, but then asked in a low voice: "Little brother of the Li family, where is your sister?"

Li Hao seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly closed his open mouth, looked around a few times, and then shouted to Ergou: "I know you! You are the brother who sang the poem in the morning!" "

Ergou chuckled and said, "I don't want you to remember me, little brother!"

Li Hao hugged his little arms and suddenly said angrily with a cold face: "I'm very angry! Don't you ask me why?"

Ergou smiled and asked, "Why are you so angry, little brother?"

Li Hao shouted: "Sister, she is unreasonable! We all agreed! I stole the poems you sung to my elder brother, and then she took me out to play. But my sister was unreasonable, and I even copied it specially. I gave her a poem, but she refused to acknowledge it!"

Ergou laughed in his heart when he heard this, and said: "Oh! Is your sister so unreasonable?! It's really annoying! Let's do this, I'll write another poem, and you can make money from her! If she's lucky To apologize, show her the poem. If it makes her uncomfortable, just tell her not to look at it!" When Li Hao heard this, he clapped his hands and said with a smile, "This one is good! This one is good! Brother, just write it. Psalms, I took them so that I can ask my sister for profit!"

Ergou spread his hands, but smiled bitterly and said: "This... is a bit difficult. You see, how can I write a poem without pen, ink, paper and inkstone in my hands?"

Li Hao suddenly jumped down from the swing and said excitedly: "Why is this so difficult! Just wait, I will go to my sister's room to get it!"

After the boy said that, he ran away quickly.

The two dogs chuckled, then sat down on the swing and started to sway gently as soon as they stepped on it.

But it was said that Li Hao rushed to Li Qingzhao's boudoir in a hurry. When Qingzhao was sitting in front of the window grilles, quietly reading a book, when he saw his younger brother hurriedly entering the door, he shouted: "Dou Chong! Why are you in such a hurry?"

But Li Hao puffed up his little chest and snorted: "Sister, please come and beg me, and I will tell you. I will have a good poem soon! Last time you were unethical and took away my poem. But you are cheating, but this time you don’t want me to be fooled again!”

After saying that, Li Hao rushed to the desk, picked up Li Qingzhao's usual small pen, two pieces of snow-paper, a square of purple pine ink and a small inkstone, held them in his arms, and rushed out.

"Come back! What are you doing with these things?!" Li Qingzhao only shouted a few words, but he couldn't stop him, so he collected the scrolls, hurriedly put on his Xia clothes, and chased after him.

After chasing her deep into the back garden, she heard Li Hao's voice talking to someone: "With your paper and pen, write out the poem!"

Then a familiar voice said: "Well... I'm not good at writing. I'm afraid I won't be able to write a good book. How about you, little brother, write it?"

Li Hao said, "Don't do it! Last time I wrote it myself, my sister said that I wrote like a ghost! If you write this time, your writing is bad, so let my sister scold me too!"

This kid has a bad heart, but he is serious!

Ergou smiled, then took a handful of water from the small pond next to him, sprinkled it into the inkstone, and then lightly ground the purple pine ink in it a few times to allow the ink to dissolve a little.

This purple pine ink is made from fine old pine wood and burned into soot, and then many spices are added to make the ink block using a secret method.This ink block is purple-black in color, faintly fragrant, and the ink is full and delicate. It is a rare and top-quality ink.

Ergou drained the water from his hands, then spread a piece of snow-paper on the smooth boulder. He picked up a small pen, dipped some ink, and started writing on the paper.

Speaking of which, Ergou’s calligraphy is really incredible. He has never had any basic skills since he was born. He practiced calligraphy with Master Pang for a few days, but he also spent three days fishing and two days drying nets. His writing skills now are comparable to those of Li Hao. Naughty boy, I'm afraid it's a little worse.

When Li Hao saw Ergou's handwriting, he laughed and said, "Haha! Brother, your handwriting is really bad. My sister said that I write like a ghost scratching my hand, but your handwriting is like an insect crawling!"

Ergou smiled bitterly and said: "You kid, don't save face with me! I can't help it! I think I have been reading and literacy for less than a year, and I haven't practiced seriously, how can I write well! I can write It’s not easy to look like this.”

Li Hao was surprised, but smiled and said: "Then you are not as good as me! I have practiced calligraphy for two years and read books for three years. How can you write such excellent poems like you?"

Ergou said with a proud smile: "There is no way! My parents gave me a good mind, but I am so willful!"

Li Hao said with some envy: "My sister also has such a good mind! Hey! Why don't I have such a good mind?!"

Ergou joked: "Oh! There is nothing we can do about it. Who said you are unlucky? Or maybe your parents are partial?!"

Li Hao snorted in embarrassment, but shouted: "Mom and dad are so partial! Huh! This time, big brother, I won't give the poem you wrote to anyone, I'll just read it myself!"

As he said this, he picked up the poem written by Ergou and read to himself:
"The beds are piled up in a mess, short, long, wide and narrow,

Level dyeing and light jade color.

Is it because I don’t care about needlework?
The surname should be entrusted to the study room.

Brother, what kind of poem are you writing? "

Ergou said with a smile: "Xue Tao, a poet in the former Tang Dynasty, was a talented woman of her generation. I think your sister's poetry is not inferior to Xue Tao's in any way, but I want to give this poem to her to express her wisdom!"

The poem "Er Gou" is one of the eight poems copied from "Ode to Beauty" by the talented Tang Bohu of the Ming Dynasty. It is said in later generations that Tang Bohu had eight lovely wives, which originated from this rhetoric.

Li Qingzhao listened with joy in his heart, but he rushed forward, snatched the poem note from his younger brother's hand, and said with a smile: "Douchong, you stole everything from my study, but what are you doing here!" Return it with me pen and paper!"

Ergou had known that Li Qingzhao was peeping at her side, so she rushed out, but pretended to be surprised and got up and bowed: "Oh! It's Madam Li in front of you, but I'm rude!"

Li Qingzhao turned his eyebrows and asked with a smile: "Brother Chen family, when did you come here? Why didn't you have access to the front yard?"

But Li Hao jumped to grab the poem note in Li Qingzhao's hand, shouting repeatedly: "Give it back to me! Give it back to me!"

At the end, he said: "He came in over the wall! My father and mother in front of me don't know!"

Li Qingzhao glanced at Ergou in surprise, but Ergou sneered and said, "My dear, please forgive me Meng Lang! It's not that I don't want to go through the front door, it's just because I have offended some powerful people, and it is inconvenient for some of them to show their faces, but I have to use They came to see the young lady like a rooster and a dog thief, so as not to implicate Xianggong Li."

Li Qingzhao herself is not a stickler for rules. Of course, this does not mean that she likes others to be so wild.After hearing Ergou's words, she was relieved of her doubts and said with a smile: "That's it! Brother has his own intentions!"

She rolled her eyes and saw Ergou's handwriting, but she was even more surprised and said: "Brother, this word is really hard to describe!"

There is no way, Ergou's handwriting is really bad.

But Ergou blushed a little and said awkwardly: "Hey! Little lady, you are always laughing! I have only been practicing calligraphy for half a year, and no one has ever taught me how to write well!"

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(End of this chapter)