Chapter 51 Chapter VIII Honors and Misfortunes - Li Chendian dies in disgrace

The one who was ordered to supervise the beheading of Li Xiucheng and Hong Renda was Li Chendian, the commander-in-chief of Guidezhen, who was the commander-in-chief of the army.There were hundreds of people onlookers.Brothers Xing Jinqiao and Xing Yuqiao were also among them.That night, Xing Jinqiao fled halfway, taking advantage of the fact that the Hunan Army only cared about Li Xiucheng.Two days ago, the two brothers took some Chinese herbal medicine and dog skin plaster, and set up a street stall in Jinling City to make ends meet. After seeing the notice on the city gate, they rushed to Qingliang Mountain to see King Zhong off.When they saw that the loyal king whom they had always admired chanted the death sentence and died calmly, they felt extremely uncomfortable.After learning about Li Chendian's unscrupulous and wanton sexual pleasure, the two brothers hated the executioner even more, and decided to kill him to avenge the loyal king.

The next day, the Xing brothers roasted a ten-year-old salamander caught in Fangshan not long ago and ground it into ashes. Using the secret recipe handed down from their ancestors, they made more than ten pills and took out a century-old gourd to serve. Then, he walked to the station of Xinziying outside Shence Gate, and intentionally placed the stall next to the barracks.Xing Jinqiao took out a piece of cloth, spread it on the ground, and put various Chinese herbal medicines in small piles. He also took out a light yellow silk curtain and hung it on the branch of an old locust tree. There is a black word: "Compassion for the world and compassion for the people", so I hang the century-old gourd beside the silk curtain, which is an allusion of the ancients hanging a pot to help the world.At this time, Xing Yuqiao had already rang the small gong in his hand, shouting loudly: "To congratulate the recovery of Jinling, the Xing family's old pharmacy practiced medicine by dispensing medicine to eliminate disasters, save lives and heal the wounded. Citizens ask for medicine and charge half price. The heroes who conquered Jinling City asked for medicine, and this medicine will be donated out of righteousness, without taking any money.” In a short while, the small medicine stall was crowded with people, most of whom were officials from Xinziying.Almost all of these Guan Yong had trauma, and in addition to the hot weather, eating too much wine and meat, a lot of diarrhea and abdominal distension, so taking advantage of the opportunity, this one asked for plaster, that one wanted herbal medicine, and they huddled together in a mess.More and more people surrounded him, and the shouting became louder. Li Chendian, who was teasing with the women in the room, was also drawn out.When Xing Yuqiao, who was beating the gong, saw Li Chendian, he beat the gong even louder.He stood on a borrowed long board, and after vigorously beating the gong a few times, he shouted to Li Chendian who was standing outside the circle: "This medicine house also has a special strong medicine prepared with a secret recipe handed down from the ancestors. Because the materials are rare, Collection is difficult, so we have to charge some money.”

"How much money for a serving?" Someone in the crowd asked loudly. "To be honest, one grain of ten taels of silver." Yuqiao replied with a smile. "What precious medicine is so expensive!" "Pharmaceutical seller, what are the benefits of this strength medicine, and the asking price is so high?" "Is this medicine for strengthening the body?" Yuqiao said with a smile. "Its benefits are really wonderful, but there is one thing, you don't burn incense when you don't see the real Buddha, and you are not the buyer, and you don't say it casually."

"If you can't tell it, it's a fake!" Li Chendian felt itchy in his heart.He finally couldn't bear it anymore, separated from the crowd and walked in.Seeing that it was Li Chendian, everyone stepped aside one after another, and someone said flatteringly: "Li Zhentai, you are always here to watch the fun." "Medicine seller, you can buy a pill for ten taels of silver, you are too bullying!" Li Chendian put his hands on his hips, with a full-bodied attitude, Yuqiao wished he could swallow him up in one gulp.Elder brother Jin Qiao hurriedly smiled and bowed over: "I heard from my brothers that I know that your lord is the famous Li Zhentai, and you are being rude." Li Chendian snorted, and did not answer his words, still with his hips on his hips. "My lord is the number one hero who attacked Jinling. We admire him so much, so I came here to your lord's barracks to dispense medicine and practice medicine for the brothers voluntarily, without charging a penny. It's just that the strengthening pills are expensive, so we have to do this as a last resort."

"What are the peculiarities of your Qiangshen Pill, you have to explain it in front of your brothers, otherwise I will be rude to you!" Li Chendian's face was swollen, his mouth was full of alcohol, and he pointed at Xing Jinqiao viciously nose roar. "Li Zhentai said it well!" "Speak clearly in front of us!" "Say it, don't say it's a son of a bitch!" The soldiers of Xinziying shouted together. "Li Zhentai!" Jin Qiao whispered into Li Chendian's ear, "The benefits of this health-enhancing pill are incredible. I can't tell everyone, but I can only tell you, my lord."

Li Chendian glared at him: "Okay, bring the medicine and follow me!" Xing Jinqiao took off the century-old gourd beside the silk curtain, and followed Li Chendian out of the crowd.A few Yong Ding followed behind and wanted to know what happened, but Li Chendian turned his head and gave him a fierce look, which made them stop quickly in fright.In the circle, Yuqiao is still loudly selling powdered medicine. "Speak quickly!" Li Chendian urged impatiently as soon as he entered the room.Jin Qiao closed the door and went to close the window. "Say something quickly, fart quickly, what are you doing sneakily?" Li Chendian scolded contemptuously.

"Master Zhentai, to be honest, this is not another medicine, but an aphrodisiac." Jin Qiao said quietly, with a very mysterious look. "Aphrodisiac?" Li Chendian's eyes shone with surprise, as if he saw a stunning woman. "Take it out and have a look!" Jin Qiao poured two balls from the gourd and put them in the palm of his hand. Li Chendian grabbed them, looked carefully, and put them to his nose to sniff them twice.The balls are very ordinary, dark brown, and have no special smell. "What is the effect of your aphrodisiac?" Li Chendian is 27 years old this year. He joined Xiangyong at the age of 15 and served as Zeng Guofan's personal soldier. Later, he followed Zeng Guoquan and fought bravely without fear of death. Battle exploits.The biggest characteristic of this person is that he is greedy for women.Leading soldiers away for a long time, and never begging for wives in his hometown, he wandered around blindly, every time he won a battle and occupied a city, the first thing he did was to ask his own soldiers to catch women for him.The camp officials are like this, and all the brave officials in the Xinzi camp follow suit.The Xinzi camp became the worst camp in the Jizi camp, but it also fought fiercely.Zeng Guoquan never blamed Li Chendian for this, so Li Chendian was confident.He had long heard that the women in the south of the Yangtze River were beautiful, and when they attacked Jinling City, they used them as bait to boost morale.After conquering the city, he took the lead in robbing women, even the maids around Hong Xiuquan.Although Li Chendian was young and strong, he couldn't stand the excessive beating after all, and these days he often felt exhausted and drowsy.He had only heard of aphrodisiacs, but he had never seen them, let alone ate them. At this time, someone brought them to him. He was really hungry, and Li Chendian was so happy that he scratched his ears and scratched his head. He was so excited that he wanted to try it. .

"My aphrodisiac," Xing Jinqiao said quietly, still smiling, "if you take it, it doesn't matter if you sleep with three or five women a night." "It's true?" Li Chendian held the two balls tightly in his hands, and unabashedly shot his lewd eyes at Xing Jinqiao, and at the century-old gourd on his back. "It's true, Mr. Zhentai might as well give it a try."Xing Jinqiao was secretly happy when he saw Li Chendian's look of a hungry ghost.Li Chendian put the two balls in his hand to his mouth.Just as he was about to swallow it, he stopped suddenly, stared at Xing Jinqiao, and shouted loudly: "You are a long hair that slipped through the net, you want to use these two pills to poison me to death!"

Xing Jinqiao was taken aback, he didn't expect that this reckless warrior had subtleties in his roughness.He quickly calmed down, laughed a few times, and said: "Li Zhentai, you are indeed a victorious general. You have both courage and strategy. The villain admires you very much. Although you have long hair We have been defeated, but there must be many people who want to take revenge and restore the country without understanding the current affairs. It is absolutely necessary for adults to be vigilant. However, for villains, adults may not know that the villains have opened a medicine shop by the Zhusheng Bridge for generations. , It has been passed down to the generation of the villain brothers, and it is already the fifth generation. Although it cannot be said to be a family of medicine, it can also be said to be a family of duty. When it comes to Zhuqueqiao Xingjia Pharmacy, everyone in Jinling City knows. If you don’t believe me, you can Just ask someone in the city. Not only is the villain not long-haired, but there are more than 20 men and women in the villain's family, and none of them has anything to do with long-haired. The villain specially followed the secret recipe passed down from his ancestors out of admiration. I prepared more than a dozen pills and presented them to my lord. I thank you for restoring Jinling and saving the people of Hecheng. Since your lord is suspicious, I will pour out all the ten pills in the gourd and let you choose one. Swallow it with the noodles." After saying that, he poured out all the balls in the gourd.

Seeing what he said, Li Chendian's doubts were greatly dispelled. Just in case, he still picked one of them and handed it to Xing Jinqiao.Xing Jinqiao swallowed it without even looking at it. "Okay, righteous man." Li Chendian gave a thumbs up in praise, "How do you take this medicine?" "My lord, half an hour before going to bed, dissolve this medicine in white wine, take three pills, one or two white wine, and take it in one mouthful. The little man will protect the spirit of the dragon horse at night, and he will never fail in all battles." "Okay, righteous man!" Li Chendian praised again, "I'll give it a try tonight, and tomorrow morning you come here to receive the silver, ten taels a piece, which is a lot of money. Now I will give you fifty taels to reward your filial piety. "After entering the city, the gold and silver treasures captured by Li Chendian were at least worth a hundred thousand taels of silver, so it is natural to do this kind of thing generously.

"No, no!" Xing Jinqiao shook his hand, "The villain just said that this medicine is dedicated to the adults, and there is no charge for it." "What are you talking about, take it!" Li Chendian threw an ingot of fifty taels of ingot in front of him, Xing Jinqiao had no choice but to take it, said "thank you" and went out. Xing Jinqiao went out with his front foot, but Li Chendian closed the door with his back foot.He hurriedly took out three balls, melted them with good white wine, swallowed them in one gulp, and walked around outside the barracks a few times, feeling as if a fire was burning in his heart, he put a lot of effort into his body, and it was less than two minutes Zhong, he couldn't hold back anymore, and called some women to come in.Li Chendian fooled around with these women like crazy, and he really felt that the effect was very good.At night, he took out three more pills, melted them in white wine and drank them, thinking in his heart: Xing Jinqiao will come tomorrow morning, and he must tell the recipe.If it's easy to talk, it's worth buying it for two or three thousand taels of silver. If it's hard to talk, you can threaten it with a knife on your neck.In the first half of the night, Li Chendian was still full of energy and fighting spirit, but in the second half of the night, his limbs seemed to be falling apart.On the second day, I didn't think about eating or drinking, and my condition became more and more serious. On the third day, my whole body was in limbo, and I was no longer a human being. It turned out that the medicine Xing Jinqiao sent was indeed an aphrodisiac, but the correct usage was to take one pill at a time and swallow it with plain water.Xing Jinqiao intentionally harmed him, so he swallowed three pills mixed with wine, which greatly damaged Li Chendian's energy, but Li Chendian took six pills in less than three hours and swallowed them all with white wine.This is equivalent to burning a fire in the stomach, and the internal organs are burned to death.Li Chendian knew that he had been fooled, so he sent someone to Zhuqueqiao to find the Xing family drug store.The drug account no longer exists, and the Xing brothers have already fled.The world is so big, where to catch them! On the afternoon of the third day, Zeng Guoquan rushed over after hearing the news, and Li Chendian was already out of breath.Zeng Guoquan forced him to tell the truth.Li Chendian spoke intermittently, making Zeng Laojiu so angry that he was about to die, and couldn't bear to criticize him, so he cursed bitterly in his heart: "What an unworthy bastard!" A doctor accompanying the army came in to take a look. When the doctor heard about the situation, he felt the pulse casually, then shook his head and left, ordering to prepare the coffin quickly for the funeral.Li Chendian also knew that his death was imminent, so he asked to see Zeng Guofan. Zeng Guofan heard that Li Chendian was critically ill and had an accident, so he hurried to the door of Shence. Zeng Guoquan told his eldest brother Li Chendian's illness, Zeng Guofan was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time. When he came to Li Chendian's bedside, he saw that a few days ago he was a vigorous warrior, but now he was as sick as a skeleton, his face full of anger just now turned into infinite sorrow. "Xiangyun, Xiangyun!" Zeng Guofan called softly, while touching Li Chendian's forehead with his hand.After calling several times in a row, Li Chendian slowly opened his eyelids, his eyes were completely lost.Li Chendian watched for a long time, and finally recognized Zeng Guofan: "Master Zhongtang, I can't do it anymore." The voice was as thin as a gossamer, and Zeng Guofan had to bend down to listen.As Li Chendian spoke, he raised his hand again with difficulty, but he couldn't.Zeng Guofan raised his hand for him, only to see him pointing to his younger brother Li Chenzhang standing aside.Li Chenzhang quickly leaned over: "Brother, what do you want to tell me?" Li Chendian looked at Zeng Guofan, and said intermittently: "The monkey son of the official chapter will be adopted by me... In the future... if the court... rewards... my son... will receive..." As he spoke, his head tilted Closed eyes.Li Chenzhang cried bitterly on his brother's chest. Zeng Guofan pulled his younger brother aside and said solemnly: "The matter of Xiangyun taking aphrodisiacs must be strictly blocked, and it is absolutely not allowed to spread. If the news leaks out, not only will Xiangyun's reputation be greatly damaged, but the face of the entire Jiziying will be smeared." Hei. To the imperial court, it can only be said that he died due to injury and sickness, and the treatment was ineffective. This time Li Chendian must be rewarded heavily. After the imperial decree comes down in a few days, he will have a funeral for him according to the new official title. The funeral must be done properly. It is very solemn to commemorate all the meritorious soldiers who sacrificed their lives for breaking Jinling City." "Brother, it stands to reason that the imperial decree should have arrived the day before yesterday, why hasn't it arrived today?" "Who knows where it was delayed." Zeng Guofan's face was gloomy.Conquering Jinling was a great feat, but the imperial decree of the emperor's reward has not yet arrived. It is already worrying enough, but the first great hero to enter the city died so disgracefully. Looking at the straight zombies and hearing the crying in the room, Zeng Guofan suddenly felt an inexplicable melancholy and fear in his heart.