Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 18
"If you have a chance, bring that Mr. Xiang Kang here, and let me see what the descendants of Xiang Yan, the famous old Chu general, look like and how they are different from ordinary people."

County Magistrate Zhou just gave a casual instruction out of curiosity, it doesn't matter whether he can see Xiang Kang or not, and whether he will forget about it later, I'm afraid even he himself can't be sure.But there is no way, he said these words to Feng Zhong who had just retained the throne of pavilion chief, Feng Zhong not only kept it in his heart, but also carried it out as an imperial decree.

Feng Zhong is actually a scheming person—otherwise he would not have been accidentally discovered by the Xiang family brothers until the last moment when he organized his men to capture Uncle Xiang; nor would he have chosen to go to County Magistrate Zhou's house when he was about to eat dinner Visiting, let Magistrate Zhou taste the already delicious beggar's chicken on an empty stomach.

It was precisely because of his scheming that Feng Zhong paid more attention to the casual orders of the county magistrate Zhou, because Feng Zhong knew Xiang Kang's eloquence too well, and from various things, he could see that Xiang Kang was actually a person who knew how to advance and retreat. After meeting with County Magistrate Zhou, Xiang Kang's brains and eloquence to win Magistrate Zhou's favor was as easy as pie.And as long as County Magistrate Zhou appreciates the Xiang Kang he introduced, then his official position is equivalent to an extra layer of protection. Even if there are any mistakes in the future, he can ask Xiang Kang to come forward to lobby, which is better than asking for help.

So, on the second day of October, I was delayed in the county for a day, and paid homage to the county magistrate and the two county magistrates in turn. After the year, Feng Zhonggang returned home on the third day of October, and immediately bought a gift, and asked the diners to bring two altars Drinking wine, I ran to Xiang's house to pay New Year's greetings, and begged Xiang Kang and himself to go to the city to meet Zhou County Magistrate.

Feng Zhong's luck was good, the sons of the Xiang family who had been wandering around all day just didn't go out of the village to play, Feng Zhong just arrived at the entrance of the village, and saw the children of the Xiang family and a group of men and women from the same village who were in the slack period playing in the open space in the village Liubo and Touhu, Xiang Kang, his primary target, also sat on a big rock to watch the fun while knocking on Erlang's legs.Feng Zhong was overjoyed, hurriedly walked directly in front of Xiang Kang, cupped his hands with a smile on his face and said, "Young Master Xiang, Zhengdan is well."

"Brother Feng, is the matter settled? Is there any problem with the position of the pavilion chief?"

Xiang Kang's words made Feng Zhong a little surprised. When he quickly asked Xiang Kang how he knew, Xiang Kang said with a smile: "How else do you know? Seeing that you are smiling so happily, what is it?"

Suddenly enlightened, Feng Zhong bowed his hands to Xiang Kang in a hurry, and said in a low voice with a smile: "Thank you brother, according to your instructions, once the two Miyue chickens are made, the county lord will immediately promise not to pursue my mistakes last year, and let me continue." Get on with it."

"Congratulations." Xiang Kang cupped his hands to express his congratulations. He glanced at the gifts and wine jars brought by Feng Zhong's family, and asked casually, "What? Who else do you want to congratulate for the New Year?"

"Of course it's for you brother." Feng Zhong could still speak, and said with a smile: "Brother, you have helped me so much this time. Brother Yu, if I don't come to congratulate you for the New Year, who will I congratulate for the New Year?"

Glancing at Feng Zhong again, seeing that the friendly smile on his face did not seem to be fake, Xiang Kang hurriedly declined and said, "Brother, you don't have to be polite, it's a little effort, don't worry about it. Besides, you also know my situation, so come and congratulate me on the New Year , I don’t even have anything to entertain you, so there’s no need.”

"Brother, you don't need to be polite." Feng Zhong snatched the gift from the doorman, stuffed it into Xiang Kang's arms, and then pointed to the two jars of wine and said: "You don't need to treat me, brother, see? I brought the wine , we two brothers have a good drink today, brother, brother, I’m here to congratulate you on the New Year, why don’t you invite me to your house?”

Seeing that Feng Zhong's actions and tone were quite sincere, Xiang Kang couldn't continue to refuse, so he could only say to the Xiang family brothers who had gathered around to watch the fun: "Brothers and brothers, Brother Feng is here to invite me to drink, come to my place together Have a drink."

The Xiang family brothers, who like to eat and drink together, applauded loudly, and hurriedly surrounded Xiang Kang and walked to the village with Feng Zhong, leaving behind the men and women in the same village who watched the fun looked at each other in surprise, and said in surprise: "I heard you right, didn't you?" ? The head of the pavilion came to congratulate Xiang Kang on the new year with a gift? When did Xiang Kang become so powerful? Even the head of the pavilion respects him so much?"

Not only the young men and women in the same village were dumbfounded, Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Sui and other Xiang family brothers were actually quite shocked, because they not only saw Feng Zhong take the initiative to come to Xiang Kang to pay New Year's greetings, but also saw Feng Zhong in Xiang Kang's dilapidated hut with their own eyes. They scrambled to get the bowl to pour the wine, held the wine with both hands and asked Xiang Kang to enjoy it. They were so respectful that they almost regarded Xiang Kang as his superior and elder.The completely upside-down scene was so weird that Xiang Guan couldn't help but quietly nudged Xiang Zhuang with his elbow, and asked in a low voice: "What's the matter? Why did Feng Zhong treat Xiang Kang so respectfully? Are you going to help Xiang Kang again?" Are you scaring this Feng Zhong?"

Only Xiang Kang knew that Feng Zhong would never be courteous for nothing. After drinking two bowls of rice wine, he took the initiative to say to Feng Zhong: "Brother Feng, is there something wrong? Just talk about it if you have something to do. You don't need to be so polite, as long as I can help." , must help as much as possible.”

"It's still brother's loyalty." Feng Zhong raised his thumb obsequiously, and then said: "Brother, then I will not be polite, two things, first, I want to ask if you still cook Chu Palace delicacies, Can you teach my wife to do a few more tricks?"

"I have to recall this, but it shouldn't be a big problem." Xiang Kang agreed without hesitation, and then asked, "What's the second thing?"

"Brother, I would like to ask you to accompany me into the city to meet our county magistrate in Xiaxiang County." Feng Zhong said the purpose, and then told Xiang Kang the ins and outs of the matter, explaining the magistrate Zhou's respect for Xiang Kang. The reason for Kang's identity interest, and said: "Don't worry, brother, I think this is a good thing, even if you can't talk with the county lord, it is a good thing to know the county lord of this county, and maybe you can use it that day This relationship."

Xiang Kang did not immediately agree to Feng Zhong this time. There are two reasons. One is that Xiang Bo was rescued by Xiang Kang that night, and Xiang Kang had to guard against leaking the news, and the government set up a trap to trap him.The second is that Xiang Kang must weigh the consequences of making friends with Zhou County Magistrate, and worry about whether it will arouse his brothers' resentment-the Xiang family brothers' hatred for the Qin Dynasty government is not just talking about it, but Xiang Kang also has to worry about it. If I, a descendant of Xiang Yan, were too ostentatious, would someone be stalking me and bring about unforeseen consequences.

After thinking about it carefully, Xiang Kang soon found that he was a little unfounded on the first point—if the government really wanted to arrest him for questioning, he could just send someone to arrest him, and it would definitely be Lian Xiangzhuang, Xiang Guan, etc. To catch the same criminals together, there is no point in such a deliberate design to trap the helpless self, and give Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Guan and others the opportunity to escape.

The second point is not a big problem, because Xiang Kang suddenly remembered a historical detail when he was calculating. This is enough to prove that the Xiang family brothers did not object to associating with officials of the Qin Dynasty.At the same time, Xiang Liang, Xiang Bo, and the Xiang family brothers never deliberately concealed their identity as descendants of the Xiang family in Xiaxiang County. Even the neighboring Yu family knew that they were descendants of Chu nobles. The article must have been started a long time ago, there is no need to wait until today, and there is no need to worry too much.

Eliminating the disadvantages, and thinking about the benefits carefully, Xiang Kang found that being friends with the county magistrate definitely has a lot of benefits. Not only can he find the temple gate to directly burn incense when something happens, but he can also get some from the county town that ordinary people cannot touch. Confidential information—for example, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's rebellion. It is better to take precautions in advance than to keep an eye on it all day long.

Quickly weighing these pros and cons, Xiang Kang made up his mind on the spot, and immediately said: "Okay, since the eldest brother spoke, I'll give you this face, let's talk about a time, let's go to the city together, and go to the county for a while Respect."

"That's great, Brother Xiang Kang really gave me face." Feng Zhong applauded happily, and then said quickly: "Brother Xiang, strike while the iron is hot, how about going tomorrow?"

Xiang Kang, who didn't care about the time, agreed immediately, and immediately agreed with Feng Zhong to go out together the next morning, and was invited to visit the county magistrate surnamed Zhou in the city.Feng Zhong was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly toasted Xiang Kang again and again, and finally invited Xiang Kang and the Xiang family brothers to his home, and took the initiative to let Xiang Kang and the Xiang family brothers eat and drink at his home again.

That night, Xiang Kang naturally had to use sweet words to fool his brother, let the Xiang family brother know that he went to visit the county magistrate Zhou for his own benefit, and it didn't take much effort to get the Xiang family brother to agree that he would go alone the next day. The city went to visit the county magistrate Zhou.Then the next morning, just after breakfast, the neatly dressed Feng Zhong came to Xiang's house, invited Xiang Kang out of the house respectfully, and went straight to the county seat with Xiang Kang talking and laughing. Come.

After successfully entering the city, under the guidance of Feng Zhong, Xiang Kang, who was also dressed as neatly as possible, went directly to the gate of the county temple where the magistrate of Zhou was working. The servants went in and reported.However, at this moment, Xiang Qi's anxious shout suddenly came from behind, "Uncle Ji! Uncle Ji! Uncle Xiang Kangji! Wait, don't go in yet."

Xiang Kang turned around in doubt, and saw his nephews Xiang It and Xiang Yang rushing towards this side. Xiang Kang knew that something must be wrong, so he went up to him and asked, "What happened?"

"The Yu family..., someone from the Yu family is here." Panting heavily, Xiang Ta said, "As soon as you left today, someone from the Yu family came to our house, saying that something serious happened to their family and that Duke Yu was very ill again. Heavy, I can’t handle anything, I want to ask us to go to Yanjiting to help his house. Uncle Xiang Zhuang Ji and the others went first, and asked me to report to you, and told you to go too.”

"It must have something to do with that Shan Youwei!" Xiang Kang quickly came to a conclusion in his mind, and at the same time, he immediately realized that this matter was really troublesome - just now, the door of the county temple had already gone in and communicated. , if he happened to be free to meet him, he would not be able to go to Yanjiting immediately to help the Yu family.

"Brother, what happened?" Feng Zhong, who found out that the situation was not good, came up and asked.

"The Yu family in Yanjiting is my friend. There is an emergency at his family and he wants to ask me to help." Xiang Kang explained smoothly, and then asked Xiang Ta and Xiang Yang: "The members of the Yu family, did you say what happened? ?”

"I didn't say anything about it, I just said that Captain Shan You deliberately punished their family, wanted to kill Yu Zhi, and also wanted to force Yu Gong to death." Xiang It answered a little vaguely, and said: "Xiangzhuang Jishu and the others have already gone. Uncle Ji, you have a lot of ideas, so go too."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Xiang Kang made up his mind, and was extremely worried that if he wasn't there, Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Guan's brawny and simple-minded brats would make things impossible to deal with, and not only would the Yu family's affairs become even more serious. Trouble, maybe he might have harmed his own brother.So after nodding, Xiang Kang immediately turned to Feng Zhong and said, "Brother Feng, I'm very sorry, the affairs of the Yu family are too urgent, I have to leave immediately, otherwise I'm afraid it will be too late."

"But what should we do here?" Feng Zhong's face was mournful, and he said: "The gate guard has already gone in to communicate. If the county lord agrees to meet, how can I explain?"

Xiang Kang hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands and said: "Then I can only ask you to tell the county venerable the truth. I think Zhou Xianzun should be reasonable and understand my difficulties. Then please tell Zhou Xianzun, and say If I have the chance, I will come to the door to apologize."

After all, Xiang Kang didn't give Feng Zhong a chance to distinguish, and he pulled Xiang Ta and Xiang Yang back and forth, and Feng Zhong couldn't stop him, so he could only complain repeatedly, "Brother Xiang, you are saving me!" One person kills one person! If you leave, what should I do here?"

It's Feng Zhong's misfortune too. As soon as Xiang Kang left, the doorman who had gone to inform him came back to Feng Zhong and said that the county magistrate had an invitation.As a result, the doorman got angry when he heard it, and said angrily: "Are you kidding me? I just passed the pass on for you, and the county lord agreed to see you, but the person you brought suddenly left again. How can I explain to the county lord? Go away , you go in and tell the county magistrate yourself!"

Forced to do so, Feng Zhong had no choice but to obediently follow the door into the official temple, and bit the bullet to enter the back hall to greet the county magistrate Zhou who was taking a lunch break.Seeing that only Feng Zhong came in alone, County Magistrate Zhou felt very strange, and hurriedly asked, "Feng Zhong, didn't you mean to bring Mr. Xiang Kang to visit this official? What about the others?"

"Xiang Zun forgives the sin. He is in a hurry, so he is leaving first." Feng Zhong's voice was filled with tears. He first told about Xiang Kang's friend asking for help in an accident, and then about Xiang Kang's choice to help his friend first, and then Bowing and bowing, he said: "It's all the villain's fault that the county lord forgives the crime. The villain didn't know that it would be so coincidental. Mr. Xiang Kang just arrived at the gate of the official temple. Such a thing happened, and the county lord waited for you in vain." He, the villain is guilty, the villain is guilty."

When he said these words, Feng Zhong's face was pale, but his heart was ashamed, and he was already prepared to be dismissed on the spot.However, to Feng Zhong's great surprise, after listening to his explanation carefully, Zhou County Magistrate not only did not get angry, but also said in great surprise: "For the sake of a friend, you would rather give up the opportunity to meet with me? This Xiang Kang Son..."

Surprised to himself, Zhou County Magistrate suddenly raised his voice and said, "He's really a chivalrous man!"

"Xianzun, are you not angry?" Feng Zhong asked cautiously.

"Why should I be angry?" County Magistrate Zhou asked back, and then said: "If Mr. Xiang Kang chooses not to save his friend in order to meet with this officer, this officer will look down on him instead! Mr. Xiang Ren Xiazhong Righteousness, I am proud to have such a chivalrous man under my rule!"

Feng Zhongchang heaved a sigh of relief, and immediately put his heart that was in his throat back into his stomach, and said secretly: "Brother Xiang, you are really a lucky star, the county lord can not only not be angry about such a thing, but also think highly of you! Look Come on, it's really good to be a human being and show morality."

"Okay, it's all right, Feng Zhong, you go back." The county magistrate Zhou waved his hand and said, "When Mr. Xiang Kang finishes his friend's business, you can invite him to see me. The officer will go out to meet him in person."

Feng Zhong grinned, and he didn't know how to evaluate what he encountered today.County magistrate Zhou made some calculations, and then ordered: "By the way, you are the head of the pavilion. Shiling Pavilion and Yanji Pavilion are not far away. Find a way to find out what happened to Mr. Xiang Kang's friend's house. If you If you can help, try to help Mr. Xiang. If you need any help from me, you can also ask Mr. Xiang Kang to tell me that I like knights like him."

Feng Zhong hurriedly nodded and bowed his thanks to County Magistrate Zhou on behalf of Xiang Kang, and muttered in his heart: "If I had known that this would be the result of playing Zhou Xianzun, I should have followed Brother Xiang Kang to help that Yu family just now, maybe Zhou Xianzun will also give me a high look because of this."

(End of this chapter)