Aspirations

Chapter 33 Right and wrong
"Huaguan! Muen!" Dong Qiniang and Dong Si exclaimed in unison.

Xia Deshui's mind was blank at this time, he couldn't care about anything, he didn't even think about it, he even ran back to Zhongshan Village.

Man Tuo came to Zhongshan Village and learned that Xia Xiang's mother had passed away, so he couldn't help but feel sad.Fortunately, she found out about Li Dingshan and Xiao Jia, and at the same time knew that Li Dingshan was chased and killed by Gao Jianyuan and Yanhao sent by the third prince, which was not a small gain.Staying in the village for more than half an hour, she won the favor of many people with her generosity, and asked everything she wanted to know.

When Xia Deshui saw her inquiring about Xia Xiang, she thought she was Xia Xiang's friend in Shangjing.Mantra readily agreed.

When night fell, she decided to leave.

Returning to the shore, he was surprised to find that Wei Xiaoba's body was no longer there, and only a small boat was docked on the shore alone.Mantuo got on the boat, and unlike the boat sailing against the current when he came, the return journey was downstream.

Shortly after Mantuo left, the four of them came to the shore, and it was Dong Si, Dong Qiniang, Hua Guan and Mu En.Dong Si had already been bandaged, his face was very pale due to excessive blood loss, and his spirit was also lethargic.Dong Qiniang also had a frustrated look on her face.

Huaguan lacked his right ear, and he was more ferocious. He looked at the boat that disappeared into the sky, and took a sip: "Just let her go like this? Damn, it's too cheap for her. If you don't believe me, the four of us teamed up and returned the favor." Can't take her down? Dong Si, you really are, why are you so afraid of a delicate little lady?"

"Little lady? If you see her, you will be less promising than me, maybe you will pee your pants in fright, hum." Dong Si was quite unconvinced. Who are Hua Guan and Mu En, who deserve to be compared with him?He was born in a family of officials and officials, although his family was in decline, at least he was a child of a family, unlike Huaguan and Muen who were born in bandits, "You don't know how powerful she is, her swordsmanship is superb, her flying knife skills are unmatched in the world, and her She looks as beautiful as a flower, but she is as cold as a snowman."

Mu En rolled his eyes, smiled, and touched his left ear: "I have fought against Huaguan and the little lady, and I know her skills. The four of us may not be her opponents just by fighting, but if we fight wits, Hehe, not necessarily. Mantuo... the name is nice and the person is nice, one day, I will take her down and make her my woman, haha."

Dong Qiniang glanced at Mu En with contempt, just based on Mu En's looks and ability, still want to win Mantuo?Really delusional, and really dare to think wildly.Not to mention that Mantuo wouldn't like Mu En anymore, even if she looked at Mu En a few more times, she would lose interest in men.

However, contempt in her heart turned into contempt. On the face of it, she still wanted to share the same hatred with Mu En. Dong Qiniang said, "As soon as Song Dingniang dies, the clues will be cut off, and no one in Zhongshan Village knows Song Dingniang's true identity... Let's return to Beijing to return to life. You and Shall we travel together or separate?"

Mu En grinned and said, "No, you guys go first. Huaguan and I have to stay in Lingshou for one night. It's hard to come out. If you don't have a good time, I'm sorry for your exhaustion."

"If that's the case, let's just leave." Dong Si was in a bad mood and didn't want to say anything more. He didn't bother to deal with Mu En and Hua Guan any more. If the idea wants to kill him, he can also use the power of Mu En and Hua Guan, otherwise, he will feel shameful even talking to the two of them.

What's more, he belonged to King Jing, and Mu En and Hua Guan were the subordinates of King Xing under the jurisdiction of Gui Yanhao, so they were not the same people.

For Wei Xiaoba's body, Dong Si has entrusted Xia Deshui to take care of the funeral, and entrust Xia Deshui to transfer the compensation to Wei Xiaoba's family.Wei Xiaoba was from the neighboring village of Wu's family, and Xia Deshui happened to know him.

"Fourth brother, it's strange, why are King Jing and King Xing so interested in Xia Xiang?" When Mu En and Hua Guan walked away, Dong Qiniang asked her doubts, "Xia Xiang is just Li Dingshan's student, even if He is only eight fights tall, so he won't let the two princes send someone to check his details, who is he?"

"Doing things for the lord, just do it, don't ask why." Dong Si stroked his bandaged right arm and sighed, "No matter who Xia Xiang is, the lord will investigate and kill if he asks, the more we know. The more you have, the quicker you might die."

"It's better to understand something than to be confused." Dong Qiniang kicked a stone away in dissatisfaction, and then thought of something, "Xing Wang and King Jing are investigating Xia Xiang, do they want to reuse him or kill him?"

"Kill him? Xia Xiang is in the capital at this time. Wouldn't it be easy to kill him?" Dong Si smiled, "The two princes are people with deep hearts, so what are their plans? Let's not guess. , Guessing and guessing is just a waste of time, and there is no reason to worry about it. Well, let's go on the road. "

"Mu En and Hua Guan really went to Lingshou to be happy?" Dong Qiniang still had questions in her heart, but she felt uncomfortable if she didn't ask.

"They didn't want to die, and most of them went to kill Mantuo." Dong Si smiled coldly, "Alright, if the two of them are willing to go and die, they can go anyway. If the two of them succeed in killing Mantuo, it is also a good thing. "

"That's right." Dong Qiniang helped Dong Si get on the horse, "It's important to return to the capital to send business to the prince."

After Dong Si and Dong Qiniang rode away from Zhongshan Village, Zhongshan Village returned to calm.Except for Xia Deshui, the lives of the others are still peaceful and stable.Xia Deshui was entrusted by someone to transport Wei Xiaoba's body to Wu's house.

Wu's house is more than ten miles away from Zhongshan Village.Xia Deshui drove an ox cart and took a whole day to arrive at Wu's house.When the body was handed over to Wei Xiaoba's family, Wei Xiaoba's family cried and cried, claiming that they were going to report to the official. After Xia Deshui paid out the compensation, the family instantly petrified the scene, and then smiled and said nothing again. Official affairs - if you report to the official, the compensation will be confiscated, and the government will hunt down the murderer according to law.In case the murderer is really on official duty, in the end, compensation can be used instead of punishment. The compensation stipulated by the government is far less than what we have now. Wei Xiaoba's family are smart and kind people, and they naturally understand the truth of which is more important. .

He warmly entertained Xia Deshui, regarded Xia Deshui as a guest of honor, and invited the neighbors to accompany him. After a good funeral, it turned out to be a happy event.Presumably Wei Xiaoba knew it underground, and he would feel that people's hearts are not old.Of course, if he was magnanimous, seeing that his death brought the opportunity for his family to become a rich man, he could also smile at Jiuquan.

Wei Xiaoba can really smile at Jiuquan. Dong Si and Dong Qiniang are sons of an aristocratic family, and they do what they say, and they will compensate Wei Xiaoba's family with all the money they bring, which is as much as a thousand.With a huge sum of [-] yuan, the Wei Xiaoba family did not build houses and eat and drink, but let more than ten children of the Wei family go to the county to study.As a result, ten years later, a jinshi was born in the Wei family. Since then, the Wei family has completely turned over and has become one of the well-known big families in Lingshou.It can also be regarded as the yin virtue accumulated by Wei Xiaoba.

This is a later story, let's not mention it for the time being.

Xia Deshui was half-drunk at Wei's house, and when he wanted to leave, an old man who claimed to be nonsense came.Hu Bu said that his head was full of white hair and his face was red. At first glance, he had a childlike face and looked like a fairy, but his clothes were so dirty that they didn't look like they had been washed for several years.

He came uninvited, sat next to Xia Deshui, drank a few jugs of wine in one breath, then pulled Xia Deshui's sleeve and talked about some ethereal cultivation techniques, which made Xia Deshui Shui was at a loss. Seeing that everyone around Hu Bu said that he could not avoid it, he understood something in his heart, so he didn't pay much attention to Hu Bu.

Not talking nonsense, and seeing that even Xia Deshui, an outsider, ignored him, he felt bored, but the conversation was lively, so he changed the topic and talked about the jade road of going out of the fortress to do business.

"There is the Ancient Tea Horse Road in the south, and the Jade Road in the north. Who do you know about the Jade Road? Humph, forgive you for not knowing." Hu Bushu didn't care about the disgusting eyes of others, he took a peanut and put it there. In his mouth, he can eat and speak vigorously, "Early before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions, gems and jades from the Western Regions were introduced to the Celestial Dynasty, from Kunlun Mountains, Hotan, eastwards, northwestwards to Taiyuan, and then to Taiyuan. Entering Kaifeng, this is the Jade Road. Later, after Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions, the silk of the Celestial Dynasty flowed into the Western Regions. Now the caravans that come and go are dealing in silk. It is not appropriate to call it the Jade Road. appropriate……"

Some people couldn't stand it anymore, and said with a sneer: "Old man Hu, you have never been to Lingshou County in your life, how do you know what happened so far away, whether you heard it or dreamed it?"

"Haha..." Everyone laughed.

Hu Bushu blushed, and dipped his chopsticks in the wine to write on the table: "What about the scholar, can you call it a dream? Talk nonsense and nonsense, the sage said that those who do not teach and do good are the best. , those who teach and then are good are ordinary people, those who teach badly are inferior, and all of you are inferior, and inferior! The so-called scholar knows everything in the world without going out. I don't understand such a simple truth, what can I do? , no matter what."

The crowd laughed even louder, and Xia Deshui couldn't help laughing. He patted Hu Bushu's shoulder and said comfortably, "The sage also said that there is no class, if you call Hu Bushu, if you don't say it, it means nothing. already."

"Why didn't I say it? I just wanted to say it." Hu Bushu straightened his neck and stood up, drinking the wine in the bowl in one gulp, slammed the bowl and took out a letter from his arms, "I His son Hu Shuhua is in Wanli Trading Company. He has just returned from the Western Regions, and he will return to Beijing. He will return home soon. What he said in his letter was what he saw with his own eyes. Hmph, you wait for a group of frogs at the bottom of the well, what have you seen? "

The crowd roared, and they had to drive away the nonsense.Xia Deshui saw that it was not early, got up to leave, and left the Wei house with Hu Bushu.

"Brother Xia, do you believe what I say?" Hu Bushuo staggered, hugged Xia Deshui's shoulders, and almost fell several times.

"Believe, why don't you believe it?" Xia Deshui didn't believe it at all, but he couldn't say no to his face, so he had to say perfunctorily, "Besides the customs of the Western Regions, what else did your son say in the letter?"

"He said that there is a new person in the business, what is Xia, Xialai..."

"What?" Xia Deshui's wine was half awake in an instant, "Is there really such a thing?"

"I never talk nonsense, my son never talks nonsense, he said yes, there must be, if you don't believe it, see..." Hu Bushu gave the letter to Xia Deshui, winked with a smile, "If you don't know how to read, there's nothing you can do. already."

Fortunately, Xia Deshui didn't know much, but he knew some. He hurriedly opened the letter and read it. He didn't know many words, but it didn't affect him when he saw Xia Lai's name at a glance. He was ecstatic, Xia Lai really Not dead, is Xia Lai really in Wanli Business?

"When will your son come back?" Xia Deshui was extremely excited, and nothing made him happier than knowing the exact news that his son was safe and sound, "Shangjing is not far from Lingshou, and he will be back in three or five days."

"Where is the time to go back to Lingshou? Their firm brought in goods in Shangjing, and then went to the grasslands. I'm afraid they won't be able to come back in a year and a half. Unfortunately, I have to celebrate the New Year alone again..." Hu Bu said He sighed, turned around and walked away, took a few steps and then turned back to wave at Xia Deshui, "As soon as you enter the business, it is as deep as the sea, from now on, your relatives are passers-by, Brother Xia, if your son is also in the business, I advise you not to think about him. Now, it is more difficult to see him than to go to the sky. In fact, you can think of it the same way, as long as your son is promising, no matter where he is, whether he returns home or not, he is your blood. "

Xia Deshui nodded heavily, as long as Xia Lai was alive, there would be a day when they would meet.It's just that the joy in my heart has just risen, and the worry has come again. Xia Lai is sure that everything is fine, and Xia Qu?
I hope that Xia Qu will be safe and sound, and I don't ask him to be rich or noble, as long as he lives, Xia Deshui secretly prays.

(End of this chapter)