Heroes of the Sons and Daughters

Chapter 6
Don't bother talking.The next day, Zhang Jinbao made a decision on the assignment of the outside affairs, and asked the young master to put a deposit on the loan agreement and exchange the money back.Thanks to his uncle and wife, he brought Nanny Hua and two or three servants to help him with the clothes he should wear on the road and the things he needed at hand.It was agreed for a while that Hua Zhong would go with him, and another rough envoy named Liu Zhu'er was sent to follow him to help take care of him on the way.He hired four long-distance mules, and three of his masters and servants rode three of them, one of which was loaded with luggage and silver.Even the expenses of relatives and friends have collected [-] gold.The young master didn't have time to bid farewell, and didn't wait to choose an auspicious day, he hurriedly packed his luggage, and the three of his master and servant got up from the manor.Two mule drivers followed, heading for Changxindian along the Southwest Road.When we arrived at the Changxin store, it was already sunset that day, Hua Zhong and Liu Zhu'er served the young master to eat, after cleaning up, everyone went to sleep, without mentioning the night view.

When I got up the next day, just as I was about to get up, I saw a watchman named Bao Lao barge in and said to Liu Zhu'er, "Go home quickly, your old lady is useless!" Startled, before he could answer, Hua Zhong asked, "Where is this? When I was leaving, his mother asked me to say, 'Tao'er is in charge of him, don't make me angry.' How could it be so bad?"

Bao Lao said: "Who knows! He fell a somersault and lost his breath!" Hua Zhong asked again: "Who taught you to tell?" Bao Lao said: "His relatives. I When I came, the coffin wasn’t there yet.” Hua Zhong said, “Did you come here without seeing Master Zhang?” Old Bao said, “My son and Master Zhang asked me to leave and I wanted to go back to Sanhe. Because I bought something, it was late, and I left at night, so my relatives told me to send this letter by the way. When I came, Master Zhang went to the city to say goodbye to his uncle and wife. I haven’t seen him.”

The two of them were talking here, and Liu Zhu'er was already crawling on the ground, crying and kowtowing to Mr. An, begging to let him go back and send his mother.Hua Zhong pouted his beard and said, "Don't embarrass me first. Listen to me and tell you: we slaves are the masters of the sky. Except for the affairs of the master's family, we have to rely on the back. Your mother is already finished." If you fly back, you won’t be able to see him anymore. According to me, you might as well serve the uncle wholeheartedly. When you arrive in Huai’an, you won’t have to worry about the master and wife’s unkindness. You don’t want to think about it, am I right?” I dare not say more.

After hearing this, the young master said quickly: "Father mother, that's not the case. I watched and listened to this incident, but I couldn't bear it. Besides, I came out for the master's business, and he is also a son for others. Is there any reason not to teach him to send it when his mother is dead? Absolutely not! Instead, give him a few taels of silver, let him go back, and exchange Quluer." His surname was Bai, and he was raised by Bailu on the same day. His original name was Bai Lu'er. Later, Master An thought his name was Bai and Bai, and it was not easy to call him, so he called him to be Bailuer. He was still diligent and honest.Hua Zhong listened to the young master's words, thought for a while, because he said: "You are right." Then he said to Liu Zhu'er: "Don't you kowtow to the uncle?" Get up and kowtow to Hua Zhong again.Hua Zhong took five taels of silver, went back to Young Master Ming, rewarded him, and said: "When you go back, first meet Mr. Zhang, tell Mr. Zhang to understand, and then say what Mr. Zhang said: send Kanluer here, and teach him what to do." He followed. But I told him that I understood, I only walked half a stop with the uncle today. Wait for him at the tip station, teach him to walk overnight, and come quickly. You hurry up and take your luggage and leave " Liu Zhu'er cried, tidied up, agreed, and hurriedly got up to go.Then Hua Zhong dismissed Mr. Bao, and he followed the young master on the road alone.

When he arrived at Jianzhan, Mr. An had been looking forward to chasing Luer since that night, looking left and right, but he never saw him.Hua Zhong said: "If you can't make it today, he has to come tomorrow morning after leaving overnight. Let's go to sleep." Who would have thought that the next morning, when the sun rises, Chaluer will not come.Hua Zhong complained: "These little guys can't be relied on anymore! I don't know where they are stubborn." Yin said: "Let's not delay the way, leave a message for the shopkeeper, and when he comes, teach him later." Let's go." Then, he told the store: We live there, and there is a guy surnamed Bai walking behind us, come and tell him.The owner of the store said: "You old Wan'an, this is a common thing to do when you walk. When he tells him, it's over for him. There's nothing wrong with it."I didn't want to walk two stops in a row, but Luer didn't come.The son couldn't stop asking anxiously: "Father mother, what if he doesn't come?" Hua Zhong said: "Damn it! You can't catch up with this, and come out as a slave! Don't worry, sir, rely on me Alone, with this old bone, I will send you to Huai'an."

Lie Gong, you said that Liu Zhu'er was only a day's journey back, and Lu'er came all night, so he should have caught up with Mr. An, why didn't he catch up?There is a reason.It turned out that Liu Zhu'er's mother lived outside the house, and when Liu Zhu'er came home, she ran to cry for his mother, bought coffins for funerals, delivered letters, and picked up the third party, and forgot that she was called to drive Lu'er in a daze. No trace.It wasn't until three days later that he suddenly remembered that he told Zhang Jinbao, and was scolded by Zhang Jinbao, before he hurriedly dismissed Luer and got up.So he chased left and right along the way, and couldn't catch up with the young master.He didn't catch up until the young master arrived in Huai'an, and he really became a "traveler for nothing".This is not to mention later.

But he said that Hua Zhong served the young master Nanlai alone, and he was extra careful, mediating the hunger, cold and warmth of the young master, and from time to time urged the two mule drivers to leave early and stay early.The most difficult thing in the world is the "foot and teeth of the car and boat shop".The two mule drivers didn't say that he had left a mule idle, but he was still begging for money for money and money for wine, yelling at the old man for a while, and the road was never clean for a day.

One day, I was walking to Zaiping's upper station.This day, I was standing in Dao Ben Da, and the young master was really tired, so I opened the bedding and wanted to go to bed early, but the bedbugs in the shop were biting me so I couldn't sleep anymore.Hua Zhong had to lie down, but suddenly got up again and opened the door to go out.The young master then asked, "Father, where are you going?" Hua Zhong said, "Come as soon as you walk." He came back after a while, and then went out again.The young master asked again, "what's the matter with you?" Hua Zhong said, "it's not a big deal. I think I drank too much water and had some diarrhea."Earlier they went out of the yard, but later they walked around in the outer room, humming, humming, humming into one place; beeping, beeping, beeping into a ball.The young master hurriedly asked: "Does your stomach hurt?" Hua Zhong responded and came in, and saw that his face was blue, and when he touched it, his hands and feet were cold, and he didn't even have the strength to speak. screaming with his neck down.The young master was so frightened that he trembled all over, tears streaming down his face, he rubbed his hands together, and only shouted: "How good this is! How good this is!"

The man on the watch heard all this commotion, so he went to tell the shopkeeper, "There is a patient in the shop!" The shopkeeper lit a lantern, and asked the young master to open the door through the window, and came in to have a look, saying: "Not good! This is hooked feet Sha, turn your calf! Hurry up and scrape it out for him!" He quickly took a bronze coin and a handful of hemp straws, scraping and beating, until his whole body was purple and rotten. Qingqing, his hands and feet gradually warmed up when he was covered in black and purple bags.The owner of the store said: "It's irrelevant, but it's still unreliable. The Sha is still afraid of coming back. Don't worry, you have to prick it with a needle." Because he said to the young master, "You have to ask the customer that you are old." The young master said "As long as he is good, but at this time, where can I find a substitute who can prick needles?" The shop owner said: "If you always want to be the master, I will prick him." The young master was in a hurry and couldn't agree.It's Hua Zhong who is good at comparing, so tell him to tie it.He just went to the cupboard to get the needles, and pricked four needles in the four acupoints of "Fengmen", "Ganshu", "Shenshu", and "Sanli".Only when Hua Zhong was sweating a little on his head did he speak.The young master thanked the owner of the shop again and again, and wanted to give him money.The owner of the store said: "Guest, please don't! Firstly, we are here for the sake of doing good, and secondly, we are afraid of dirtying my shop. If we are really going to die, it will be more burdensome." Saying that, he took the lantern and went to light it. , and said: "Guest, you want to close the door." The young master closed the door, but greeted the mother and father in the middle of the night, and then fell into a deep sleep.There was nothing to say all night.

The next day, I saw that Hua Zhong had slept in the middle of the night and recovered, but he couldn't move, and even his face was no longer human.The young master expressed condolences to him again.The waiter came with a boiling kettle and gave him some soup to drink.The young master just ate a meal in a hurry.The shop owner was worried, so he came to see again.Hua Zhong thanked him on the kang.The owner of the shop said: "If you talk there, it will be the two virtues of Tianyue!" The young master asked, "Look, you will be able to get on the road tomorrow?" It’s good to start the kang in 20 days!” Hua Zhong said, “Master, just don’t worry, I’ll tell you later.”

After the owner of the store left, he said to the young master: "My lord! It really corresponds to the saying: 'One person is blessed, and the house is full. You are suffering so much, yet you meet Liu Zhuer’s dead mother again. I hate that thing called Lu’er, and I haven’t come here until today. ——It was said that they were not needed, and I went to serve you alone, who I want to suffer from this serious illness again, and I almost died yesterday. To us masters and servants, as sons and daughters, and as slaves, we all deserve it. But if I really died yesterday, it would be nothing more than a stinky lump to me if I died like a thousand people. It's just that you can't move forward or retreat, sir, so that's great! Now that you're alive, this is the mercy of God."

When the old man Hua said this, Mr. An was crying so hard that he couldn't speak.

He said again: "My dear young master, don't be sad! It's important to let me speak." Then he said: "It's just that although I survived, if I can't get up on the kang after 20 days as the owner said, it is also nonsense; It will take about ten days or eight days to struggle to get up. If you want to delay the master's money, if you take it easy on me, it will not be worth the crime. My master, what are you doing here? Now I have an idea: after passing Chiping, turn south from the main road, there is a place twenty miles away called 28 Red Willow Trees, and there is a sister-in-law of mine. His surname is Chu, and people call him Chu An official. He is a bodyguard, and he lives with his master in Dengjiazhuang. My sister is more than ten years younger than me, and my parents are gone. The two of us raised him and hired him, so they Treat me the best. Now he is following his master to make a family and a business. Last year, he brought a book and taught us two to take a leave of absence and take off the slave. I thought about receiving the grace of the master, and greeted you so big again, let me go away, where is my conscience? Do you still want to happen? I replied to them and said, "I beg you to go when I am begging you." "Didn't I still beg you to read this book to me? Now I beg him to go. Master, just write a book for me for me according to what I said and the reason now." My son, just say that I begged him to send you to Huai'an all the time, and the master will naturally not let him down. You don't want to forward the text, the words are too deep, I'm afraid he won't understand. You write this letter and bring it with you I will get up with you tomorrow when I ask the shopkeeper to find a suitable person. Just walk half a stop to the old Yuelai shop in Chiping, and stay at the old shop in Chiping. I will give the muleter a few hundred dollars and tell him to take the book. Send them to 28 red willow trees and ask Mr. Chu to find Yuelai shop. He has a big body, a yellow face, two mustaches, and a six-branch on his left hand. If he is not at home, you will write in this book Come on, just ask my sister to come to the store. Someone should be called to take you there, and he can handle this matter. My sister has a hole in her right ear. Uncle, you must see you If these two people meet to discuss leaving, otherwise, it would be a waste of time to delay in that store for half a day. It's important! It's important! As long as I struggle to stay, I will rush over. If I can't catch up on the way, it's a disappointment The grace of the master and wife, I have suffered a lot. I have to wait until I take office and give these two legs to the master!" As he spoke, he began to sob and cry.

The young master wiped his tears, lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "If there is such a thing, wouldn't it be more appropriate to send someone from here to invite him to meet you again?" Hua Zhong said, "I thought of this too, one , the mule driver may not be willing to go after more than 100 lands; secondly, if Mr. Chu is not at home, my sister will not be able to run so far; Get up and walk half a stop longer. My lord, according to my words, you are safe." Although the young master is unwilling, he is not as impatient to see his parents. There is no other way but to follow Hua Zhong If he asked, he wrote a letter to Chu Yiguan for him.After finishing writing, read it to him again, and then seal it.On the surface was written "Chu Zhai's family letter", and also wrote "The internal letter was sent to 28 red willow trees, Deng Jiu Taiye Baozhuang, and asked to hand over to the relatives of the house, Chu Yiye, to check and collect".Hua Zhong then invited the owner of the store and told him to find someone to send the young master to Chiping.

The owner of the shop said: "Coincidentally, there are some customers who are selling leather goods from Zhangjiakou to Nanjing. They will also take this route tomorrow. They all have capital. If you go with them, the insurance is heavy, so you don't have to go any further." Find someone." Hua Zhong said: "You'd better find someone for us, in order to send this one, so I can get a reply." The owner said: "Yes, yes. It's not worth anything. Come back and give him some money for the wine and that's it." The young master saw that Mammy's father's arrangement was completed one by one, so he let go of his distraction, and took out 50 taels of silver to pay for Mammy's father's recuperation.Hua Zhong said: "I don't need these, I keep 20 taels, which is enough. There is one more sentence to tell you, this money is related to the master's important affairs. If you are talking about the master, there will be escorts on the way, but you have to double it." Be careful. This road is a place where thieves come and go. It’s okay to get off the store. It’s the relationship between the store owner. You need to be careful when you walk. It’s okay to walk on the right road. There are ten miles to one pier, five miles to a fort, and there are pedestrians who come and go, so be careful when you go back It's okay in the daytime, let there be bad guys, he doesn't have a clear day to attack, and you need to be careful at night. Then you get out of the shop, you must remember not to walk around, and the money should not be exposed. The idle people don't have to call He enters the house for the purpose of acting as a beggar, a prostitute, or a prostitute who comes to the shop for the sake of a class of people who often come to the house, and Qiao dressed up as an eyeliner for robbers. You must guard against it. Copy a hundred words, you 'When you meet someone, you only talk about three points, but you can't throw your whole heart away'. Remember! Remember!" After hearing this, the young master kept everything in mind.For a moment, both of them felt that there were so many things to say and ask in their hearts, but they couldn't say it, and the master and servant were very reluctant to part.

Don't worry about talking, don't talk all night.When it was five o'clock, Hua Zhong called the shop assistant who sent the young master to come, asked the young master to wash his face and eat something, told the two mule drivers, and urged the young master to go with the guests.The poor son was spoiled and spoiled, his parents cherished him in every way, surrounded by many nurses and maids, and now he has to follow two mule drivers, wearing moon and stars, and going on the road through wind and rain.This is exactly:

The green dragon and the white tiger walk together, and good and bad things are not guaranteed at all.

You must know that when Mr. An arrived in Chiping, how could he ask someone to look for Chu Yiguan, and whether Chu Yiguan came or not, he will explain in the next letter.

(End of this chapter)