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Chapter 25 Brown.7

Bandits 贾平凹 6843Words 2018-03-19
Standing out from the crowd was a young pawn. His clothes with the wolf head logo were wide enough to reach his knees, and his legs seemed short and short, but his features were delicate and cute. Bai Lang recognized him as the one who once played the suona and later became a guard An old subordinate of Hei Laoqi in the chanting building.He stood on the open space in front of the crowd, made a half-kneeling posture facing Bai Lang, and then blinked his left eye. Bai Lang was teased by his old movements, and unconsciously blinked at him left eye.The pawn said: "The Mrs. Yazhai of Hei Laoqi that the king just mentioned is my cousin. The king has already told about my cousin in public. In fact, my cousin has told me all this, because it is a woman's work." The matter, the king didn't say it just now, and I won't say it now. But the king must only know my cousin, but he didn't know that there was one of her maids who died for the king! When Lu Xinghuo and Liu Songlin died, we can say Few of those who came to Dikengbao to save the king were better than Hei Lao Qi in martial arts, but there were so many people who came to save the king, which already made Hei Lao Qi nervous. In order to make Hei Lao Qi nervous, he had to kill him soon Your Majesty, my cousin secretly wrote a lot of notes with the maid, all of which were one sentence: "Take the head of Hei Laoqi!" In the middle of the night, the maid posted it on the wall, on the tree, and in the hut. Hei Laoqi thought that the people from Langya Village had sneaked into the Pit Fort, or that there were spies from Langya Village among the soldiers of Dikeng Fort. He searched and searched and searched and searched, and killed many of his people. My subordinates, however, there are still notes every day that Hei Laoqi never dared to sleep at night, worried that someone would take his head off after falling asleep, and never dared to eat first during the day, worried that there would be poison in the food. First, let others eat the first day. How can a person not get sick while living like this? Hei Laoqi gets sick. He is startled when he hears the wind blowing the leaves, and he is also startled when he sees the shadow of the sun and lights. He often starts to doubt the people around him. People, either torture them or kill them. Think about it, my lord, he got your short gun. He could have aimed at the attacking people on the gate tower of the pit fortress, right? One, he could hit one with three shots, but he never went to the gate tower of the castle. He is a mental patient, his body is so weak, he finally went upstairs to kill the king, the king must be able to see that he is a different person from before, he was forced by the king with a short knife and did not resist, he was fierce before People like leopards! When my cousin was dying of illness, she repeatedly told the maid not to tell anyone about it. The maid nodded to her cousin, but she cried behind her back. She thought her cousin was worried about her. No wonder, she was originally the daughter of shopkeeper Yang in Qixing Town. Shopkeeper Yang once hid Hei Laoqi, and Hei Laoqi often went to shopkeeper Yang's house and took a fancy to her. Seduction. Hei Laoqi was an expert at stringing nests and breaking through fences in his early years. The shopkeeper Yang's daughter was bewitched by him like this and became a traitor, but later he got tired of playing with it, so he made her my cousin's maid. This girl Huan had this past experience, so she thought that her cousin suspected that she was not up to date, and that night, she hanged on the door frame of an empty courtyard. She hanged and posted the last note. The note was pasted on her body. Of course Hei Laoqi didn't think about what the servant girl did. Who committed suicide? Her merits are not inferior to those of the soldiers shouting outside the gate of the pit, and even she can withstand ten soldiers, twenty soldiers, but the king did not mention her at all!"

After the young pawn finished speaking, he retreated to his seat, Bai Lang picked up the wine, and he Deeply moved by the actions of the unknown maid, his mouth was trembling, hot tears dripping down the wine bowl, and he was about to kneel down to face the god Someone was wailing loudly when the undead wandered in the dark and didn't know where to go.This cry is so sad and shrill. At noon on the scorching sun, when the top of the pan is like frying oil, everyone's internal organs are shaken, convulsed, and they think that the cry comes from the sky. The ghost of the maidservant, whom almost no one will ever know, wailed at this revealing moment. Bai Lang, who thought it was a hero, took the lead in defending himself.

Weeping with guilt.However, when the lords of the mountains and the soldiers saw that Bai Lang raised their eyes in astonishment, they heard the cries clearly coming from the north corner of the earth-rock field, among the crowd of mountain people who came to watch the excitement, And someone has already staggered over! At this moment, Bai Lang yelled: "Liu Songlin?!" Hearing the word "Liu Songlin", a group of personal servants standing behind Bai Lang suddenly rushed over like a herd of tigers blowing the wind, overturning those who hadn't come to the field to the ground.Bai Lang, whose face was flushed with blood, smashed the wine bowl in his hand and shouted angrily, "Liu Songlin, what a traitor, do you still have the guts to come today? It's just in time for you to come, that thief head of yours is using The heroic soul of my Langya cottage!,,

The man's neck stiffened suddenly: "My lord, can you see if it's Liu Songlin?!" The enraged Bai Lang was stunned, and when he took a look, he found that the man looked very similar to Liu Songlin, but he was shorter and fatter than Liu Songlin after all, and his face did not have the dusty gray of the smoking native. Also puzzled: "Aren't you Liu Songlin?" The man said: "I am not Liu Songlin, but Liu Songlin is my first-in-law compatriot. Your Majesty has regrouped and made a comeback today. Liu Songlin is the first rebel you want to kill, but how did your Majesty know that the first person to sacrifice should be killed?" It's him!"

The lord of the mountains and the remnant soldiers on the reed mat were almost angry: "This guy is talking nonsense. Liu Songlin betrayed the lord and became a thief, and killed Lu Xinghuo. Could it be that he has become a hero?!" However, Bai Lang waved his hands to make the subordinates let go of the man, and asked sternly, "Is Liu Songlin dead?" "He is dead, Your Majesty. He died without a body to be buried without a tomb," said the man. "He's dead?" Bai Lang repeated, but he suddenly took a step closer and said, "You said he should be the first person to lay a memorial ceremony for him. Can he compare to Lu Xinghuo? Can he compare to that woman from the pit castle?" People and maidservants?"

The man stood up, almost sad again, but wiped away his tears under the red sun.Said: "Lu Xinghuo is a loyal man, that woman and maid acted virtuously, I don't need to mention Liu Songlin's achievements in Langya Village, the king knows it well, and everyone present knows that his biggest fault is not Is it because of a woman that he escaped from the king? But when he learned that the king was imprisoned and Yanchi was lost, Lu Xinghuo went to save the king and broke his arm. He cried a lot, and the woman who killed him ran away. Went to Dikengbao. He didn’t bring many people with him. He just wanted to find a secluded place to live a quiet life with that woman after leaving the Queen. There were only two of them, and their martial arts were mediocre, but he still went. When he went to the Pit Fortress, he realized that it was heavily guarded. Pit Fort, but the casualties were almost finished. The two of them stayed at my house that night, discussing from the first watch to the second watch, and the second watch to the third watch. After eating, he lay down on the table and cried again. At five o'clock, Lu Xinghuo finally figured out to let Liu Songlin cut off his head to pretend to be the black old seven, and then enter the underground pit to kill the black thief to avenge the king. Learn an ancient book Jing Ke assassinated Qin as mentioned above. This method is good, but Liu Songlin couldn't bear Lu Xinghuo to die like this. Lu Xinghuo said: Don't fight with me, you just offered your head to let me go. Hei Laoqiyi can't trust me, The second is that I couldn't even kill Hei Laoqi with a single arm. I used the excuse that he went to the latrine to relieve his hand, and cut off his head with a knife there. Liu Songlin didn't cry at that time, he dripped Lu Xinghuo's head blood into the wine and drank it. Said: Brother, Liu Songlin is not Liu Songlin alone now, but Liu Songlin is Lu Xinghuo and Liu Songlin: so he took the lead and rushed to Dikengbao. Hei Laoqi really believed him and let him take Lu Xinghuo's head and enter him In the living room, he first asked Hei Laoqi to take out three hundred taels.

Putting the money aside, he asked Hei Laoqi to prepare the tobacco soil, saying that he was addicted to smoking and needed to smoke.Hei Laoqi complied one by one, asking him to take Lu Xinghuo's head, but not letting him get close.How can it be done without getting close, Lu Xinghuo hides a short knife under his head, so he said: "I have another request, the Lord of Black Mountain will definitely agree to me!" Hei Laoqi said: "What request?" He said that Lu Xinghuo had a gold tooth in his mouth, and asked him to knock out that gold tooth! Hei Laoqi laughed and asked someone to hand him his head. As he walked towards Hei Laoqi, While cracking the mouth of the head, he suddenly pulled out a short knife from under the head, but stepped on a melon rind and slipped.It was too late for him to get up again.Your Majesty, you know that Liu Songlin has become addicted to cigarettes, and it’s boring without a cigarette. He smoked three cigarettes when he left my house, but when he arrived at the pit, the smoke was gone.He couldn't get up, and the left and right soldiers of Hei Lao Qi chopped him down with knives, and chopped him into a pile of meat.After Liu Songlin's death, Hei Laoqi was terrified. Just now the little brother talked about the maid's note which made Hei Laoqi almost go crazy.For such a heroic man, the king not only did not pursue him, but even called him a traitor, my brother will not be at peace under the Nine Springs!"

The man started crying again at this point, Bai Lang couldn't hold it anymore, he slumped on the bench and said repeatedly: "Is that so? Is that so?" "That's right, Your Majesty!" Liu Songlin's elder brother said, "If I have told a lie, Your Majesty will kill me now, and they can testify! Among the mountain people who gathered to watch the excitement, two people came and knelt down. They reported that they were Hei Laoqi's followers, and they had witnessed this heroic scene with their own eyes.After Hei Laoqi killed Liu Songlin, he closed the gate of the hall and blocked the news, so the other soldiers in the pit fortress did not know about it.When Hei Laoqi finally died, they didn't want to go to the mountains to eat food, so they went back to work on the farm. Today, they didn't come to watch this kind of excitement, but Liu Songlin's brother specially asked them to testify.

Bai Lang's face darkened, he didn't bring up the wine to make offerings, nor did he He shed a tear, but left the high steps he had been standing on, walked towards the King of the Mountains and his subordinates, and murmured, "Is there anyone else that I, Bai Lang, don't know? Someone who died for me, Bai Lang, should I not forget?" His appearance was very pious and terrifying, when his eyes fell on the ten mountain masters, two of them suddenly turned pale and jumped. Dump thud almost fell to the ground together and fell unconscious. The hot summer made all the people unable to support themselves in this heavy and suffocating atmosphere. The fainting of the two kings caused the crowd to riot. Immediately, some minions scooped up mung bean soup and poured it, thinking that this soup would surely fail. Furious, but the two mountain masters closed their eyes and spoke loudly. One said: "Speak up, speak up quickly! If you don't talk today, how can there be room to talk?" The other said: "I'm afraid Mile".One said: "Your Majesty is King Bai Lang. Isn't it true that a white wolf ate you?" The other said, "I still won't say anything." The other got angry and said, "I'm not the same as you, a worthless man." Eight lifetimes of mold! If you don’t tell me, let me tell you!” The two said one sentence to another, without looking at each other, and they agreed naturally, and it was completely in the tone of a husband and wife. Someone yelled in horror: “This is a ghost possessed, this It’s a good story! Quickly cover the whipping with a dustpan and peach sticks!” The king who spoke in a woman’s voice closed his eyes and became angry: “Whoever wants to beat me, I’m here to complain to the king!” Someone asked: "Who are you? What do you want to sue the king for? If you have any injustice, go to the county government court!" The woman said, "I am the lady of the Xingmao Inn in Qixing Town, and he is my husband. We are here The inn is the people who have received your Langya cottage, there are twenty people, they said they want to

Going to fight Hei Lao Qi to rescue King Bai Lang, our husband and wife will give them wine and meat for free, but when they come out of the store in the morning, they will fight with people from the pit bunker, and they will all be killed. People came to the store to look for us again.Killed my husband with a knife in the yard.Come to the kitchen and look for me again.I jumped into the jug with a gourd ladle on my head, but I managed to find it.They said I was from Langya Shanzhai, and I said my mother was not, but my mother looked down on Hei Laoqi, he didn’t kill officers and soldiers but imprisoned King Bailang, he was a little cow! They asked me what is a little cow? I said it was a little boy My baby! They chopped off my right arm with one knife.I knew I couldn't live, so I scolded Hei Laoqi, and they said that if you scold me again, your left arm will be chopped off! I still scold him, and my left arm will be chopped off.I fell on the ground and was still cursing, so they cut off my tongue, and finally even my milk..." At this point, the other said: "Don't tell me, I'll tell the king, king, my husband and wife are not wolves People from Ya Shanzhai, my husband and I died for Langya Shanzhai, can you tell your Majesty that you died for Langya Shanzhai? If His Majesty refuses to talk to us, wouldn’t we die too unjustly? If His Majesty can take care of us , just treat us as members of the Langya Village, and the king’s libation, then we husband and wife can also enjoy a sip!" Bai Lang, whose face became even uglier, didn't know how to deal with the accident before him. Fainted and worried, he was also surprised by how the fainted mountain master said this sentence in someone else's tone, he said: "Of course the person who died for my Langya cottage had a good wine. "As soon as the words fell, the mountain master who fell on the ground said: "Lady, did you hear, did you hear?" Then the husband and wife said in two voices at the same time: "Thank you, king!" At this moment, I opened my eyes and sat up, dripping with cold sweat, weak and weak, as if I just finished the hardest and most tiring work. Everyone asked what was the matter, but they only said that they didn't know anything after their minds buzzed just now.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay and their bones were terrified. This is a rumor that ghosts are possessed. Then, on this day of victory and celebration, how many ghosts were summoned in the Langya cottage where King Bai Lang drank to the dead? The couple from Xingmao Store came, but this couple was not the only one who died for the Langya Village, but they were not from the Langya Village. All the soldiers looked sallow and frightened, so an older veteran rushed to beat the received fire paper with copper coins and burned it on the spot, trying to let the ghosts who came to get a piece of money and rest in peace.The huge paper fire was burning, and the paper ashes were floating in the sky like thousands of black birds. Bai Lang, who didn't stop him, also raised his head, staring at a leaf of paper ashes swimming in an uncertain direction for a long time, and finally It fell quietly on his head, and he didn't brush it away. At this time, a group of people came up from the stockade. They were haggard and torn, and the leader was the leader who had ordered Zilang to go down the mountain to recruit the old department.When he came up to the village, he was startled by the chaotic and terrifying scene, and was also shocked by King Bailang's face stiffened in pain, so he knelt down, and the old troops who came with him also knelt down, and all the people from Langya Village All the soldiers and minions knelt down and shouted in unison: "Your Majesty!" King Bai Lang looked at them dumbly, and finally stepped forward to help the leader, and asked: "Is this the only way to recall these people, and the old brothers don't want to come again?" The leader said: "Report to Your Majesty, as long as they are brothers from the past, all of them are back!" Bai Lang said, "That's three thousand people, three thousand?!" "Yes, everything else is dead," said the leader. Bai Lang said, "Dead?" The leader said: "I have traveled all over their hometowns, and they are all dead. Some of them died when Hei Laoqi attacked Yanchi, and 370 people died. Some fled after the defeat of Yanchi, and were captured and killed by the government Yes, seven hundred and twenty-one people died, and some of them died fighting around the pit fortress back and forth in order to rescue the king. Six hundred and thirty-nine people died: only thirty-eight people did not come, they were when they rescued you If they couldn’t be rescued, their legs were injured, their eyes were blind, or they were so seriously injured that they were carried back and they couldn’t walk anymore.” Bai Lang didn't say anything, he turned his head and said, "It's my brothers from the old department, all stand here." Half of the soldiers kneeling on the ground stood up and gathered together.There were thousands of people, but a third of them were either handicapped or limping, and even more had thick bloody cloths wrapped around their heads, shoulders, and legs. Bai Lang asked suddenly, tilted his head back to the sky, and laughed wildly: "Did I win? Am I the hero of the king of kings?" The laughter and shouts were so strange that everyone shuddered when they heard them.Goosebumps all over my body popped up.The kings and soldiers of the ten hills in Saihuling were all horrified to see that they were under the flaming sun rolling like a poisonous hedgehog.Bai Lang's face was no longer so radiant, his lips were red and his teeth were white and his eyes were like stars. He suddenly aged, his scalp was sagging, his face was ugly, he suddenly became motionless, and then his body slowly swayed, swayed, and finally fell down. On the ground, the stone pagoda of the Tianyuan Temple in the distance, split into two swords, collapsed with a dull bang at the same time. On the morning of the third day, a group of women saw a man approaching with a short gun on the official road on the highest mountain ridge in Saihuling, by the only spring at a glance. The bandit or an officer hurriedly hid in the grass.When the man approached, a bold woman who knew him screamed, "Isn't this King Bai Lang?" A woman's eyes are good, and he is Bai Lang.But King Bai Lang, who was already as old as a rotten man, no longer wore the white tuanlong long coat, nor the pair of white high-heeled shoes, but a dirty short suit, and a short gun. He didn't wear the belt slung over his shoulders, nor put it on his waist, the body of the gun was covered with mud and the barrel was blocked, so he used a short crutch when he went up the ridge.He stopped when he heard his name being called, but looked at the woman in front of him suspiciously. "Your Majesty doesn't recognize me anymore, can you?" the woman said, "But I know you! Think about it, when you were dragged by the black old seven iron shackles and passed the mountain in front of you, someone said that you looked so good. Alright, another wild rose for you, the one who was kicked by Hei Laoqi's minion? That person is me!" Bai Lang thought for a while, but couldn't remember, so he shook his head. "Of course you don't recognize me. You are such a famous king of kings, and you are so handsome. How many women will surround you. You won't notice that I am a middle-aged woman who runs a shop." After that, the woman laughed dissolutely.Someone next to him said, "Are you talking like a woman?" The woman said, "Isn't what I'm telling the truth? Who of you doesn't think about King Bailang? I heard that many people bought the portrait of the king and worshiped it at home. Women keep thinking about it at night. They are going crazy!" Turning to Bai Lang again, he said, "But King, if I want to say something that offends you, you wouldn't shoot me with a gun, would you? You are much older now, if I hadn't met you, no one would believe that you are the hero King Bai." What about Lang? It must be that the king has accepted so many women as Mrs. Yazhai! Your Majesty, you are a hero and a handsome man. You really shouldn’t make yourself like this for the sake of those vixen girls. , so that we are disappointed to see you from now on!" Bai Lang still stared at this fast-mouthed and dissolute woman in a daze, but said, "Can you carry the water jug, can you give me a drink?" The woman said: "What's the matter with you, my lord, you have already come to this spring, do you still ask me for a drink?" Bai Lang finally saw the mountain spring, he approached it, put down his spear, bent down and started to drink.He drank so fast that he even stuffed a head with ring marks into the water.After drinking, he stood up, said something toot, and walked away step by step.The women all looked at Bai Lang in surprise, and found that Bai Lang drank the water and did not carry the short gun again, so they shouted, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you forgot your gun!" Bai Lang didn't seem to hear it, and gradually walked away. The women went back to the spring and picked up the short guns. There was a cloud of white air, the gun was gone, and a whitebait with a black spine lay quietly at the bottom of the water.It turned out that when these women saw Bai Lang, even though Bai Lang was old and ignored them, they thought that he was an unrivaled hero after all, he was a handsome man, and they couldn't be with him forever in this life. The spring water is like kissing his mouth to mouth, and the water will turn into his blood after drinking it.But now there was a fish in the water, and it muddied the water with a wag of its tail, and the short spear disappeared in an instant.They were puzzled, did they think it was just a dream? The slutty woman said, "It's not a dream, it's also caused by that person. How can he be Bai Lang? I saw Bai Lang when he was a prisoner." He was so heroic and handsome back then, and now that Langya Village has won, how could the King of Langya Village be like him?!" The good-hearted woman was insulted and felt that the man was worthless, so she followed Bai Lang's path to look for him to vent her anger. They walked a long section of the mountain road, and finally found a cave at the bottom of an inconspicuous cliff. I saw the man sitting cross-legged and eyes closed.They thought it was strange at first, but then they realized that he really wasn't Bai Lang. He was a hermit who lived indefinitely, refined and subdued, and wanted to learn the way of Taoism.The cave made a bet, and they couldn't learn his lesson, so they asked again at the entrance of the cave: "Do you still dare to say that you are Bai Lang?" The man looked at them and said, "It is Bai Lang." The women His anger could no longer be contained, While throwing the clods into the hole, he shouted: "Why are you Bai Lang? You are not allowed to be Bai Lang! You are not Bai Lang, you are not Bai Lang!!" Written in May 1990
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