Second Continuation of Golden Plum

Chapter 5

Misfortune is deep and wealth is unused. When you die first, the sky will report you quickly, and the talent will kill you early and hurt your body. The poem said: Repeating the heart is always like chess.

Fish are caught by hooks because they are greedy for bait, and birds are caught by nets because of worms.

There are many killings by the side of the sharp knife, and the side of the money is bound to be in danger.

The ancient man-made characters are still admonishing, and the world does not know about the hidden pearls.

It is said that Chu Yunniang resigned from Cen Ni and went back to the city. She only said that she and Mr. Chu had gone to the funeral, and said nothing about it.But he said that the whole family was blessed, conspired with Xiaoxi, pretended to be a robber, and robbed Yunniang's gold and silver at night.Quan Fu wanted to get away, so he dug up the burdens, suitcases and other things that Yunniang had buried first, and handed them over to Li Xiaoxi and his son, and took them to Xicun's house overnight to hide them.Quanfu and his wife pretended to be ghosts instead, cried once, called once, resigned from Yunniang, and moved to the next door to Li Xiaoxi's house, expecting to share the gold and silver with him, but refused to give him half.Thinking: "These suitcases are sealed with Yunniang's own jewelry and clothes, gold hairpins and hairpin rings, and three or four beaded crowns. Even the leftovers of silver buttons and red embroidered shoes are all in the suitcases. It's also worth five or seven hundred silver. In the bundle are two or three pieces of Nangongji's official clothes, cups, rulers, and the marten cloak. There are so few things! Take them out slowly one by one, pawn some silver in the pawnshop, and Li Xiaoxi is a partner, but he is not a ready-made rich man!" Thinking in his heart, chanting in his mouth, his wife was discussing, very happy.What's more, the newly rented three thatched huts, a kitchen, a small yard, and a well are very inconvenient.

Three days later, my wife said: "Let's take our burden here at night. I'm afraid that the women of Li Xiaoxi's family will leave our needles and threads. It's hard to say how close we are, and I'm afraid it will hurt our friendship." Quan Fu said: "You don't know Li Xiaoxi was originally from our father's yamen, and he was very loyal. I took care of his fortune, but he was so ignorant that he dared to do such a thing? He also wanted to discuss becoming a clerk and open a shop. Tighten it up, let him say that we are small things, so that we are underestimated." After hearing this, the wife remained silent.

It is:

Rats and foxes live together and are not companions, while snipe and clams are at odds with each other.

I know that I plan cleverly, but who knows that he is more energetic.

But he said that Li Xiaoxi got such a fortune that night, and he was overjoyed. On the way, he discussed with his son Li Dahan: "This fortune is really sent to your door, and it doesn't take any trouble, and it doesn't show your eyes!" open the door.In the back garden, there is a cellar for burying gourds. Put some grass, put gold in boxes, and bury them with soil.He took out two large magnetic urns, messed up the baggage and the jewelry in the suitcase and dumped them into two vats: there were all shining beads, gold bracelets, gold jewelry, mink jacket and python satin, and the whole family was overjoyed.

Li Xiaoxi's wife said: "What you and Uncle Quan did, don't you share some with him, let's hide it and leave some for him, so as to save money and hurt peace." Li Dahan said: " The hard-earned money is in our hands, and then we distribute it to others and offend officials, and everyone’s name as a thief, whoever can replace us!" After discussing for a long time, Li Xiaoxi left behind a burden, which was Nangong Jidongxia's official clothes: One is a sky blue cloud satin collar with a tiger patch and a green satin shirt; the other is a huaisu yarn collar without a patch and a moon white gauze shirt; It was sent by Eunuch Hu; there are also several old Lu silk bean-yellow blouses, purple silk clothes, silver and red silk bijia with double breasts, two white silk skirts, old and new, two handkerchiefs, a pair of gold-wrapped hairpins, two Silver diggers - also weigh more than three coins.Li Dahan stopped him and said, "That's enough. The wealth of each family is the money earned by Quanfu's blood and sweat, and the money that is obtained by contract with someone who cooperates with it.

Is there anyone who witnesses the delivery and who dares to talk to my mouth?He is just a slave of Nangong Ji's family. The master kicked him out, took outsiders, and robbed the property of his mistress. He dared to say that he committed a big crime first, and then forced others to rely on me. Giving him a few clothes is still cheaper for him.He can say whatever he likes, if he dares to gossip, let's beat him first.In this troubled world, coax him to a place where no one is around, and give him a last resort, he is a poor wife, and I don't know how his man died! "With a few words, Li Xiaoxi was pointed out to be murderous, and he was greedy for money. Everyone cares about it, and hides it in his heart.

On that day, Li Xiaoxi saw that Quan Fuxin moved to the next door, because he bought some liver, lung and sausages in the city, together with a large piece of beef and two catties of shochu, he killed a chicken and warmed the pot for Quan Fu.Please sit down on the kang in the hut, and set up a low table. When two people go to the kang, Li Dahan pours wine back and forth, picks up vegetables and meat, and then sits down on the edge of the kang.Everyone closed the door to discuss.Li Xiaoxi first said: "It's okay to have a small amount of silver, but I dare not sell the gold here. If it is not Linqing, I will go to Tokyo. The 300 taels of gold will cost seven or eight at least, and it is worth two or three thousand silver. Make the goods. , we opened a green cloth shop in Linqing; two of us, one made the goods in the south, and the other opened in the shop. In less than two years, we had a three-in-one business. The cloth goods can be calculated, not sporadic, and There are no leftovers." Quan Fu heard this, full of joy, and then said: "This cloth business has a lot of business! Nangong Ji's family started with a herbal medicine shop and a cloth business. In Linqing, there are three businesses, but the cloth business It’s top-notch. No matter how many tens of thousands or tens of thousands of cloth comes in, it will be lost in a few days. They are all big customers from the two capitals and the three sides, and they gather together to collect, and each side is closed to sell and make money. "Speaking of In the happy place, after a drink of shochu, Jing Quanfu said: "In the past few days, I have no money. It's cold again. I still need to buy a few bolts of cloth to wear. I don't know if there are any clothes in the bag. I will take it out and have a look." .” After hearing this, Li Xiaoxi just ate and didn’t agree.

Li Dahan poured another cup, and Quan Fu said again: "There is still a bag of scattered silver in the bag. The box was not filled that day. Let's take it out and buy some rice. After the New Year, we brothers can go out. Do business. If you sell the gold, you won't have to worry about poverty." Li Xiaoxi didn't agree after hearing this.Quan Fu felt bored, and also a little anxious.

Li Dahan came to pour the wine again, Quan Fu caught Zhong Zi with one hand and said: "I don't want to eat the wine, but no one sees it in the dark night. Take out the box and the bag from the day before yesterday and take a look. Everyone will remember clearly. I still keep it, my brother." There is nowhere to put him in a narrow house. There are old clothes and old clothes in this bag, take out a few to wear, and my sister-in-law doesn't have a cotton jacket yet."

Li Xiaoxi was in a hurry when he saw the pressure, and he was a little drunk with make-up, squinting his eyes and said: "Are you good at talking! This thing, but it can be taken out in a short time. In that dark night, pick it here, I will pass it." I have no strength to walk, but he is the only one who is burdened with the burden of the future. A villain is a small family, if someone comes, it is not a joke to hide there and cause trouble.

Everyone bears the death penalty, you still can't save me! Pointing to Li Dahan, he said: "Thanks to him, a cellar more than five feet deep was dug in the dark and buried in one go."Fly grave, dare to take a grain of rice from you!I see you are busy, I'm afraid people will ignore you.

How unreasonable!People also need to have a conscience, maybe the two of us will stop being buddies?According to me, please bring some incense paper tomorrow, we two brothers will make a clear heart first, and the Guanwang temple in the village will make an oath.From now on, you and I will be like brothers, if you betray your heart, you will not be rewarded!

Tomorrow the door will be closed, but I will not be at home, so the two of us will open the cellar.As Yuan said, I only need three points, and you take everything else.Brother, what is your heart? "Quanfu laughed at what he said, and after drinking a few more glasses of wine, he was also drunk. Everyone dispersed.

When Quan Fu arrived home, his wife went on to ask him what he had said, and Quan Fu told him that he would take the boxes tomorrow and share the burdens.Both the husband and wife believed that Li Xiaoxi was a good person, so everyone went to sleep without asking.

At dawn, Li Xiaoxi first took a marten cloak and pawned it in the newly opened pawn shop of Zhao Erguan's family in the city.As long as it is ten taels of silver, it is presumed that a passerby from afar threw it at his house and entrusted him to pawn it.Deng San, who used to be in charge of Nangong Ji's family, since Nangong Ji's death, saw that no one was in charge, so he switched to the new Zhao Erguan's family, and he was in charge as usual. He recognized Li Xiaoxi at the east gate.He took the leather jacket, looked at it again and again, it looked familiar, but couldn't think of it for a while, weighed ten taels of silver, and gave it to him.Later, he thought about it carefully: "It belongs to the aunt of the Nangong official's family. How did this cloak get into his hands?" Then he thought: "In this current situation, the soldiers have robbed the city, and no one has lost anything." Also dropped it.

But he said that the next day, Quanfu got up early, and he wanted to fetch boxes and bundles with Li Xiaoxi, and went to call the door, but no one agreed, even Li Dahan went out.Asked his wife, said he went to the market.Quan Fu sat and waited for a whole day, very suspicious.At dusk, I went to ask again, but Dao hadn't come home yet.The wife said: "He's a bit evasive. This is not the rabbit we killed. We sent it to him to eat! In the future, this property will take a lot of money." Quan Fu was dubious, and only said that he was not like this person, so he called his daughter-in-law : "You go to have trouble with his wife again, try his tone."

The wife of Quanfu put on her sarong and walked all the way to the west of the wall. She asked about Li Xiaoxi's house. I have some old silk and silk clothes, I need to take them out and wash them earlier." Li Xiaoxi's wife is a shrew, she is very bad, she changed her face and said: "No, you are so loud, farting and ashamed, talking nonsense! Who is your slave, who collects your family's burden, knocks on the door and knocks on the door in the middle of the night, and the old man comes, and the noisy old lady didn't close her eyes all night, and led my man and son. I don't know what he is doing. Want my family to ask for a burden! Why did you come to my house with your burden? You can tell whoever you want, people don’t believe such a thing!” The wife of Quan Fu turned her face yellow with anger, and said: “Sister-in-law, don’t say that , wait for the uncle to come home, and ask the right person face to face. He originally said that he would come to pick up the burden today, so I will tell you. Are these things ignorant? You need to have a conscience!" Li Xiaoxi's wife answered: "Be conscientious, have Heaven is right, so I won't do such a thing!" Quanfu's wife couldn't get in or back out, and she didn't dare to argue loudly for fear of being overheard.Listening to the random speculation here, the Quanfu partition knew that he couldn't explain it, so he hurriedly called his wife to go, and said deliberately: "Speak slowly, you are such a petty fellow! What do my brothers share with each other?" They all fell silent. .

Li Xiaoxi's father and son came home drunk, and his wife told him in detail: "Quanfu's wife came to ask for a package, she talked to me, and then went away without a word."

On the next day, Quan Fu came over, pretended to be a virtuous person, and said: "The wives are small, and they don't fight because of the burden insurance." Everyone laughed.Li Xiaoxi felt sorry, and said: "I took out one of the burdens, and you take it away tonight and use it first. When you are free tomorrow, everyone will open the cellar and look at things. My brother, don't be a child. You have nowhere to clean up. Why don't I hide it?" It's tight." Quan Fu also agreed: "Leave it alone, it's not a big deal."

On the first watch, Li Dahan shook the bundle and threw it over the wall.The Quanfu couple were full of joy, and said again: "Li Xiaoxi is still a good person, I said he would not betray our kindness." Opening it, it turned out to be a few official collars, two or three old silk and silk jackets, and a few hairpins , It's not worth ten taels of silver. "Could it be that in such a situation, we have been cheated of our thousands of gold coins?" While talking, he thought: "Now that he has changed his face, he just refuses to accept his account and dare not tell the officials, so it's better." Coax, if you can coax, everyone can make up his own mind." No words.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month of the following year, Quan Fu bought a set of three animals, invited incense paper, and wanted to make a vow with Li Xiaoxi.Then Li Xiaoxi couldn't wait, and changed into a new green straight gown, which was neat and tidy.When they entered the temple, they put up incense paper, and each cast two ambiguous mantras, saying: "Whoever betrays his heart will die first!" Quan Fu and Li Xiaoxi bowed down.Because Li Xiaoxi Daquan Fu was five years old, he called Li Xiaoxi his elder brother; Li Xiaoxi called Quan Fu his younger brother.When he got home, he called Li Dahan again, kowtowed to Quanfu and his wife, and called them uncle and aunt.From then on, I will not speak.

Quan Fu saw that Li Xiaoxi bought wine and meat every day to make money, but he had no money. He didn't dare to pawn a few official clothes, so he swallowed his anger and made a plan with his wife, saying: "Now we only talk about talking to him." When I partnered up to open a cloth shop and went to Linqing to buy goods, he would naturally take out gold and sell it. At that time, he bought hundreds of rolls of cloth, which could not be hidden. He dared not share with me, and the official would not be afraid of him when the season came. It's better than this gold can't be opened." The husband and wife agreed.Tomorrow, tell Li Xiaoxi that he will go to Linqing to sell gold and buy cloth.Li Xiaoxi said casually: "My dear brother, this knowledge is so high! I just believe that you are a man. You expect to share this gold all day long, and you blame me for killing me, and I dare not take it out. If something happens, everyone People's lives are important. Looking at the day when we are traveling, you and I are unaware, and you and I each wear half of our waists, pretending to be on errands, and carrying a yellow bag, which is said to be written by Linqing, the governor of Yanzhou. I went to Linqing to buy goods and opened a store. After two months, I hired a car to leave Wucheng and live in Linqing. Who will ask you! What is the plan?"

Quanfu heard that he couldn't be overjoyed, and said: "I said brother is a good person. How could your sister-in-law know that brother is so careful, she just said that she didn't give you any burden, and I was deaf because of the noise. Sure enough, brother's idea is very serious today. Yes!" He hurriedly asked Li Dahan to borrow a calendar day, and saw that the 28th of the first lunar month was a good day to travel and open the market to collect money, and he was scheduled to get up on this day for a long walk.Quanfu was happy: "It's in the middle of my heart!" I don't know if it's good or bad, there is a poem to prove it: Knuckles and go into the green forest, how will Guan Bao divide the money?
It's easy for colleagues to make money around their waists, but if they lose their heads, there is nowhere to find them.

On the 28th, Quan Fu put on a half-worn Tsing Yi and got up early to call the door.Li Xiaoxi and his son Li Dahan have settled their disputes.I saw him wearing a black and blue old cloth horse riding jacket and two hemp sandals on his feet, and he came out with a smile.Close the door first, and hurriedly invite Quanfu to go to the hut, take out the box, and ask Quanfu to look at it: "It's not the same. You only know that you are a brother now, and you have to do great things by entrusting your wife and son!" As he spoke, he divided the gold into two piles.They are all ten taels and one ingot, and each person packs fifteen ingots and puts them under the bag.This Li Xiaoxi also said that he didn't pack well, he made three small bags, two bags on his shoulder pockets, and one bag on his waist.Everyone carries a yellow burden, and they dare not carry knives and sticks. They only pretend to be the tolerance of the next document.Everyone asked to pay their wives, didn't eat, and went on the road like they liked.

After walking for two days, the weather was cold, and it was enough to eat two minutes of soju on the way.It turned out that Quan Fu didn't know that this road went to the mouth of the small river, not the main road.Li Xiaoxi led the way and went westward for more than ten miles. There were rivers and lakes as far as the eye could see, and there were no houses.Quan Fu was also a little scared, and said: "It's okay to walk? I will follow the master to pick up the hospital. Is this the way?"

Li Xiaoxi said: "You don't know, this small road is nearly twenty miles away, and no one walks it. We carry luggage, dare to take the big road? Now there are a lot of thieves, this road is safer." Before I could say anything, I saw In front of the dense forest, a person was there looking out.Walking into the woods, I saw Li Xiaoxi sitting on a rock and said: "I'll take a rest."

Quan Fu also sat down.At that time, the sun was about to set and no one was walking, only to see a man emerge from the woods, with a heart-piercing knife in his waist, and an eyebrow-level stick in his hand, looking at Quan Fu's forehead.Quan Fu used his bare hands and shouted: "What a thief!" Li Xiaoxi was afraid that he would go away, so he grabbed it with one hand, and saw: the stick was used as a skull, and blood spurted out;One stepped on the neck and filled the throat with loess; the other pressed the chest and cut the head first with a white knife.The blue sky above Ming Ying's head is Yan Luo's life-seeking ghost; now he puts the yellow things around his waist, which is the only way to kill the heartless slave.Dead bodies are hidden deep in the green forest, hot blood flows in front of the green grass slope.

This is the sky's net recovery, sparse but not missing, borrowing thieves to kill thieves, a coincidence of ghosts and gods.Fearing that someone would recognize it, Li Xiaoxi cut off the head, dug a pit with a knife behind the forest, buried it with soil, and covered it with a stone.Then he dragged the corpse, stripped off the waist of the moon in the deep grass, and gave Li Dahan fifteen ingots of gold to his waist, not daring to stay for long, and hurriedly left the forest at Xiaohekou.The father and son discussed: "And you can't go home, but where should you go?" Li Dahan said with a smile: "Why do you come here as an errand? I'm confused at this moment. We have these luggage. The father and son went to Linqing and sold the gold. Then we can do business. Could it be that Quanfu knows how to do business, and our father and son are not as good as slaves?" Li Xiaoxi was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "It makes sense!" He wandered to the main road.

At this time, it was dusk, so I rested all night and left tomorrow.But all of a sudden, there was a whirlwind, rolling with his father and son, heading north.This is the estuary of Linqing River, where there are many officials and businessmen coming and going.It turned out that the Jin soldiers had robbed it, and there were few merchants on the road. A group of local thieves got up, robbed the village, and made thieves with some rangers from the camp. There were about two or three hundred people, and they blocked the road from time to time.As Li Xiaoxi and his son were walking, they saw a whirlwind in front of them, and there was no one on the other side.After the wind passed, there were only twenty or thirty war horses, all of them wrapped in red scarves. Seeing Li Xiaoxi and his son walking, they whistled, and an arrow shot at Li Dahan's left leg first, and fell to the ground.In the end it was Li Xiaoxi. After traveling around for a long time, he knew it was a thieves, so he quickly untied a bag of gold, put it on the ground by the roadside, and kicked up the soil to cover it.

People and horses had already come to the front and shouted: "lose your luggage quickly, and spare your dog's life!" The two knelt on the ground and begged, "it's really a business trip. I have documents and no property." The letter is a mission, so let it go.Perseveringly, the local thief caught up with him and said, "Why don't you have any property? This clothes are also money!" They were about to strip them naked.They found two big bags, and another bag, all of which was gold, hurriedly reported to the thief immediately, and asked him to turn around and see.I couldn't see it, because I asked, "Where did you get this gold?" Li Xiaoxi said, "It was sent by the Taiye of Yanzhou to the master of the courtyard, who wanted to be promoted. The thieves heard this and said happily, "I'm so happy to wait. use! "Scream " get rich " , a gust of wind went.

Li Xiaoxi, father and son, were frightened for a while before pulling out the arrow.After walking a few steps with bare hands, seeing the horse go far away, he turned around and took out a bag of five ingots of gold that had been buried, which was still tied around his waist, father and son looked at each other, Li Xiaoxi said: "What a misfortune!
Li Dahan said: "The 50 taels of gold are worth more than 400 taels of silver. There are still 500 taels of silver at home. These jewelry and clothes also have more than [-] taels of money. They are also used by our men. This is not our own." thing.But go home to discuss how to coax Quanfu's wife, so that nothing will happen. "The two were dejected, and slowly returned to the main road.

It is:

The small road intercepts the main road and throws it away, the crow meets the Peng's mouth with its meat in its mouth

Nowadays, there are so many ways in the world, always helping others first.

It is unknown how Li Xiaoxi will enjoy the remaining gold and silk, and how Quanfu will find out about this fate in the future.Just because of this enjoyment and discovery, there are different teachings: gold debt collection, killing four lives;

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