Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Young Master Ye's Journey to the North

Outside the east city, the Ding family's convoy stretched for several miles, and several small stewards ran to the front to ask what was wrong, but the chief steward, Li Shouyin, didn't know the details.Ask the person who reported the news, and the person only said that the magistrate personally ordered the food team to wait outside the city and not enter the city. If you ask more questions, he will stare blankly. I was so anxious that sweat dripped down the stem of my neck. In fact, his ability to handle affairs is limited, and because he knows himself to be stupid, he seldom competes with others, so he has never expected to be able to get involved with the hot top manager.As a result, the steward Ding Haoding, who was in the limelight, was finished, and the witty and cunning Liu Shiliu, the chief steward, was also finished. In the end, he didn't want to fight, but he was picked up and became the chief steward of the outer court.But after all, he is not capable enough, and in a special situation, his eyes will be blackened, and he will only be blinded.

Now the Ding family is the head of the second young master, Yang Ye is the steward of the inner court, Li Shouyin is the steward of the outer court, Chen Feng has been transferred to the city to take charge of the five shops, Ding's mansion has now set up the position of chief executive, and Master Yan Jiu is in charge of the overall situation .The grain transportation this time is of great importance, and Master Yan Jiu originally came with him. Seeing that he had arrived in Guangyuan City, he estimated that there would be no more accidents, so Master Yan Jiu left in a hurry, saying that he had a personal matter to attend to. Come back to Guangyuan to find him and return to Bazhou together.Unexpectedly, Master Jiu was not around, but he was involved in such a thing.

Li Shouyin is afraid. Last time, because of the delay in the delivery of grain, Cheng Shixiong, the Guangyuan defense envoy, sent them to the abandoned military camp in Xicheng for ten days. This time, even the city was not allowed to enter. Elder is not happy? Several stewards, big and small, were thinking about it, when they saw a group of people crowding out of the city gate.Now the city is extremely well guarded, and many people are waiting in a long line at the gate of the city for Songcha. As soon as the team comes out, these people are pushed aside.Seeing the passers-by riding on tall horses, some of them were obviously patrolling masters in soap gauze official hats and red robes, Li Shouyin led a group of stewards, big and small, to greet them quickly.

When he saw a horse galloping ahead, Li Shouyin hurriedly landed with a long bow: "Master, Li Shouyin, the steward of the Ding family in Bazhou, has arrived to escort the grain and grass. I don't know when I can enter the city to pay the grain. Uh..." He hesitated for a moment, and asked carefully Said: "My lord, we... haven't delayed the delivery of food this time, have we?" Immediately the man laughed and said: "That's not true. I'm not the master either, this is the master of our prefect." That man was Yang Jincheng. He lifted his horse and stepped aside. When Li Shoujie heard that he was the magistrate, he had never seen such a big official before. His legs softened and he knelt down: "Li Shouyin, a grassroots man, I have met the prefect."

Li Shouyin was dizzy and just thought: "When I came back last time, the biggest official I met was Ambassador Cang. From the ninth-rank officials, Ambassador Cang is in charge of a granary. This master of the prefect is in charge of Guangyuan City and nearby counties and towns. I don't know how many high-level officials he is, how...how did he greet him in person?" "Hmm..." The prefect Xu immediately twirled his beard and asked in an official tone, "Has the food... arrived?" "Back to the old man, it's arrived, it's delivered, this time there is a lot of food, in order to store the official warehouse, the Ding family bought it for half a year, and it's all shipped this time."

Li Shouyin didn't dare to catch his breath, and he talked with this big man like a drum, feeling a little suffocated. "Well, it's very good, it's really timely rain, hahaha..., Mr. Imperial Envoy, this time your business and mine are all settled. Look, how many carts of grain are you going to take away, so you can announce the decree to them?" When Li Shouyin heard that there was an imperial envoy behind the magistrate, he was almost frightened. He had only heard of such an official in dramas before, so why did the emperor's imperial envoy come here? Yang Hao has been looking at these people in Ding's team, many of them he knows, looking at them, Yang Hao can't tell what it feels like, until Xu Fengqing turned around and asked him, he kicked the horse's belly and came forward , replied lightly.

Seeing the imperial envoy's horseshoe approaching them, Li Shouyin and others didn't dare to lift their heads. They just felt that the imperial envoy's accent was familiar, but at this moment they heard the imperial envoy say: "Li Shouyin, this imperial envoy is ordered by the emperor to move to the north. The people of the Han Dynasty are in urgent need of food and grass as they go to our Song Dynasty. You came just in time. This imperial envoy holds a Jieyue and has the right to recruit civil servants and civilian objects. Now you send me the food in Guangyuan Prefecture, and this imperial envoy will take some of it away. , and recruit your carriage and coachman."

When Li Shouyin heard Yang Hao call out his name, he raised his head in shock. He had heard Yang Hao's voice familiar before, and now he looked at this beggar imperial envoy. After all, he had been with him for many years, and he recognized him immediately Identity, could not help but exclaimed: "Ding Hao!" Yang Jincheng shouted: "Bold! This is the imperial envoy, you dare to call the imperial envoy by his name, are you getting impatient?" "Yes yes yes, offended by villains, offended by villains." Li Shouyin quickly lowered his head, thinking in his mind: "It's so strange, how did he become an imperial envoy in less than a month? An imperial envoy... how can he be more like a beggar? Still miserable?"

Yang Hao had no time to talk to him at this time, so he chatted with the magistrate Xu for a few words, calculated the approximate grain consumption, and then rode forward, selecting tall mules and horses and strong vehicles from the grain team, which he designated, Then he drove out of the convoy and stopped on the other side of the road. Yang Hao picked out some big carts and asked them to stop outside the city to follow him back to the north, and then ignored the whispers of Dingjiazhuang people, fearing and respecting them, and hurried back to the city with Xu Zhifu.When he arrived at the official warehouse, Fu Yaozi had brought several carts of herbs and rushed back, and after a while, the cars from Ye's car dealership also came one after another. It was not until an hour later that Young Master Ye came with a mournful face and brought the last dozen or so carts , Said: "Master Imperial Envoy, Ye's car dealership has already transferred all the cars that can be transferred now."

Yang Hao said: "That's enough, let's set off now, Mr. Xu, Yang Hao is in a hurry to return, so I won't tell you more. If there is a chance, I will meet you someday, and Yang Hao will serve wine and thank you." Xu Fengqing hurriedly said: "It's all for business, Mr. Yang must not be so polite." Yang Hao smiled, and bowed to the officials and gentry again. Just after saying a few words on the scene, he heard the sound of arguing behind him. Yang Hao turned around and saw the people behind him forming a circle. Fan Laosi and Liu Shixuan were There to persuade, Yang Hao rushed over to take a look, and saw Bisu grabbing an old Taoist, his face flushed with anger: "It's you, it's you, it's you, if you didn't steal Grandpa's purse, how could Grandpa get away with it?" It's so miserable, you old man, if you fall into my hands today, I won't do anything to you."

Fu Yaozi dryly smiled and said: "Little benefactor, this remark is wrong. If the poor benefactor hadn't borrowed your money, would you have a chance to join the imperial envoy's family today? One drink and one peck, could it be a pre-determined one? Little benefactor, poor benevolent one Monk, it's not proper for you to gossip like this." Bi Suqi said indiscriminately: "Who is your benefactor? You are a veteran, and I am a monk. This bald donkey will not stand against you. Where is my money?" Fu Yaozi spread his hands together: "It's all spent." Bi Su screamed: "Ah! You need so much money to do something as a monk, that's a hundred hangs." Fu Yaozi rolled his eyes, and said disapprovingly: "A hundred tang is a lot. When the old Taoist was in Taihua Mountain, his apprentices and grandchildren brought the top-quality purple bamboo shoot tea as filial piety. One tael would cost ten tang." Bi Su laughed angrily: "If you are ruthless, I don't care too much with you. Since you are so rich, return my money." Fu Yaozi smiled and shook his head: "Little benefactor, that's too bad again. Look at the current appearance of the poor, and you might be able to find a penny all over his body? Hehehe, the spirit of the little benefactor is inside and out, and after that Follow the imperial envoy to Qingyun straight up, why worry about having no money to spend? Wait until the day you hear about it, look back, what is a mere 100 yuan? The poor Taoist sees that you have a lot of wisdom. Dao is too lazy to reach out." Bi Su was furious, immediately lifted up his cassock and went to untie his trousers: "Come here, let me show you the root of wisdom of the master, what kind of trouble can it help..." Fan Laosi, Liu Shixuan, and a group of patrolling yamen officers all covered their mouths and snickered. Yang Hao hurriedly stopped and said: "Bi Su must not be rude, in front of you adults, how decent is it? Since you have followed me, in the future Those gangsters must be curbed." Fan Laosi smiled and stepped forward to hold Bisu's shoulders and said, "Okay, okay, it's just a hundred slings. After finishing this errand, I'm going to be an official. I'm afraid I won't make money with this one hundred slings." not coming back." At that moment, a few people came up to you and said something to each other, and then closed the Bisu talk, Fu Yaozi shrugged his shoulders and smiled. A group of convoys joined the Ding family's convoy outside the city, and with fifty carts full of grain and rice, they hurriedly set off to the north. Yang Hao requisitioned fifty carts from the Ding family and more than a hundred fellows. How could Li Shouyin rest assured? I had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow, and told the other stewards to wait in the city for Master Yan Jiu to return before returning together. Yang Hao took a big car with him, and the car went around to Beicheng and got on the road, Yang Hao asked about the situation of Ding's family in Bazhou: "Guan Li, what's the situation in Ding's village now?" Li Shouyin knew that he would question him, so he was already prepared.Although he knew that he was an imperial envoy, he was an acquaintance after all. Instead, he was nervous when he saw the prefect Xu, so he said with a smile, "Ding Guan...Master Yang, what do you want to know?" Yang Hao smiled faintly: "What do you know, just chat as you like, the road is still long, I want to hear it." "Yes, yes," Li Shouyin thought for a while, and said, "Since Master Yang left, many things have happened in our Dingjiazhuang." "Oh? Let's hear it." "That...Liu Shishi and Manager Liu...is dead?" After Li Shouyin finished speaking, he stared closely at Yang Hao's face, but Yang Hao's face showed no expression at all. He was a little disappointed, so he went on to say: "He was a widow Dong who died on a bed. It was a pity that the murderer has never been found out so far. The arresting master Zhao Jie sent by Mr. Zhao to investigate the case on behalf of Bazhou Prefecture spent all day at the two plaintiffs, Li's and Liu's. Eating and drinking there, the two families couldn't take it anymore, and finally had to send this master catcher Gong Gong back to the city, this murder of two corpses is now over." "Oh?" Yang Hao was slightly moved when he heard this, and a feeling of warmth and gratitude surged in his heart: "Lieutenant Zhao, brother will write down this feeling for you." Li Shouyin said again: "Also...Master...has also passed away..." "What?" Yang Hao turned his head eagerly, staring at him with wide eyes: "What did you say?" Li Shouyin was a little scared. According to word of mouth, imperial envoys have the right to kill people at will. He believed in Yang Hao that he was the one who killed Liu Shishi and Dong Lishi. Although he had never offended him, but...but The Ding family was sorry for him, he was in charge of the Ding family, so he should not kill himself in a fit of anger, he was even more cautious at the moment, and said: "Yes, master... In fact, he has been ill for a long time. It must have been too tiring for a few days, but on... the third night after Master Yang broke through the door, the master... passed away." Yang Hao was silent and didn't say a word for a while.He had already killed the culprit who caused Dong'er's death.Now there are only the murderers who forced the mother to die: Ding Tingxun and Ding Chengye.Unexpectedly, Ding Tingxun also died. After hearing the news of his death, this father by blood and enemy in life, Yang Hao was not sad, and the hatred also dissipated, leaving only emptiness and bewilderment. Seeing him staring blankly at the front and not speaking, Li Shouyin didn't know whether to continue talking, so he had to wait timidly aside. After a long while, Yang Hao said in a low voice: "What else is there, continue talking." "Yes..." Li Shouyin knew that the matter he asked about the Ding family village must be related to the Ding family. If Liu Ming's family was born with a handle, the boy in the second year of high school would be arrested for watching the Huo family's girl go into the latrine. Her father broke two ribs and said such a mess, I am afraid that the imperial envoy will really be annoyed, so he picked up the important matter related to the Ding family and continued: "The master is dead, the young master is unconscious, and now the Ding family is in a coma. ...The second young master is in charge of the house. The second young master set up the position of chief manager, and the ninth master...Yanjiu will be in charge, and Yang Ye will be promoted to be the steward of the inner court, and I... will be the steward of the outer court, and Chen Feng will take care of Bazhou Several pawnshops in the city..." Yang Hao sneered, and suddenly asked: "How is Missy doing now?" Li Shouyin knew that besides Young Master Ding, only Miss Ding was close to Yang Hao in the Ding family, so he never dared to tell her news, for fear of offending Yang Hao. He said: "Miss..., before the master was alive, he wanted to betroth the young lady to the son of the Xu family as his wife. The son of the Xu family is called Xu Molin, he is a son of a family of officials and eunuchs, and it seems to be a good match. After the master passed away, the second young master talked about the marriage. It was decided by the master before his death, so we can stop the funeral first, arrange the wedding for the eldest lady first, and then organize the funeral for the master, so that it will not be considered as a marriage during the father's funeral, and it will not be considered as a breach of etiquette..." Yang Hao raised his brows slightly, and Li Shouyin said again: "But the eldest lady was resolutely unwilling, and the two sisters and younger brothers finally fought in front of their souls. Finally, after Yan Jiu persuaded, the second young master took a step back, saying that a woman's filial piety is enough for a year." Well, but after a year, I will arrange the marriage for my sister. The eldest lady said that she will never marry for life, and there is no need for him to advocate marriage for herself. "Anymore?" "The other thing...it's gone. The master was buried in our Ding family's Xiazhuang under the Jiguan Mountain. The young lady moved there and said that she wanted to keep a vigil for the master nearby. She also said that there are beautiful mountains and rivers there, and she wanted to take the young master to recuperate from his illness. I'm angry with the second young master, but the eldest young lady doesn't want to move out, when I came to Guangyuan, my aunt and sister-in-law were still arguing about this matter." Yang Hao couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.Speaking of which, when I go back to Bazhou, I will find Ding Chengye to settle the score sooner or later, but how is this account calculated?Ding Chengye's framing of him was definitely the cause of his old lady's death, but not the direct cause of his death.Even if he becomes an official now, can his family be ruined to pay off his debts?He didn't have that kind of power, and Song Ting couldn't tolerate such cruel officials. But Ding Chengye was really unwilling to deal with that beast.With the cruelty of Fan Laosi and others, coupled with the background of horse thieves, and the friendship between them, it is not difficult to ask them to help kill Ding Chengye, and they will definitely agree. Soldiers have military discipline in their eyes, but they have no kingly law. However, what should Ding Yuluo do?Even if Ding Chengye has eleven million faults, he is still a member of the Ding family and the only descendant who inherits the Ding family's incense. With Ding Yuluo's temperament, even if she hates Ding Chengye to death, if Ding Chengye is in trouble, she will be too. She would rather die herself than protect him well. Do she really want to turn against the young miss from now on? He raised his head, let out a long breath, and saw a goshawk hovering in the sky, Yang Hao suddenly envied that eagle: If only he could reincarnate into an eagle, soaring above the nine heavens , fluttering its wings in the sky, overlooking the world, no matter where it is, it is always so lonely, with other creatures, there is only a simple life and death, there is no love and hatred, grievances and entanglements in the world, eagles, eagles, You are much happier than me, Yang Hao. In the motorcade, Ye Zhixuan, the young master Ye was also looking up at the eagle at this time: "Grandma's, it's much more powerful than the flat-haired animal that I bought for sixty pennies, look at those wings , the roots are like iron, tsk tsk tsk, I have played with so many birds, but there is not one that is so magnificent. If I get it back to the city, don’t you envy those fellows? Well..., let’s go to the Northland Grassland , there must be a lot of eagles, I have to find a way to catch one of them back, otherwise, wouldn’t it mean that I entered Baoshan and returned empty-handed?” Thinking about it this way, Ye Zhixuan immediately excitedly asked her buddy for something to catch eagles. In Young Master Ye's mind, this food delivery was probably similar to a spring outing...