Fox Road Travel Notes

After walking around behind the courtyard wall and looking at the footprints on the ground, he raised his hand and knocked on the neighbor's wooden door.

"Min Xiaozi, Min Xiaozi, let me borrow your ladder!"

"Hey, Dalang is back. When did he arrive?"

"Come on, come in and sit down. I've been yearning for you so much. I'm back today..."

Hearing the shout, Min Jingzong ran out with his shoes on and a small bronze mirror in his hand.

Enthusiastic, as if he had found his long-lost biological father.

Qi Yongkang dodged his outstretched hand, smiled and nodded.

"Min Xiaozi, please lend me your ladder and return it when you use it."

Min Jingzong didn't mind, agreed, and ran in.

After a while, a wooden ladder was brought over with difficulty.

Panting, "Da Lang, please let me go and I'll move in for you."

Qi Yongkang turned sideways and pointed to the back of the kitchen: "You're busy, just put it over there."

Seeing Qi Dalang climb up the ladder, Min Jingzong quickly helped to stabilize it.

He did not climb onto the roof, but leaned out halfway to take a look, then climbed down.

"Min Xiaozi, thank you very much."

Min Jingzong helped him brush the dust off his clothes and said with a smile, "What are you talking about, Dalang?"

"After school tonight, I'll prepare some wine. Let's have a couple of drinks and have a good chat..."

Qi Yongkang's eyes flashed and he thought for a moment.

"Okay, just in time, I also have something to tell Brother Min!"

Today, Mr. Qi seemed a little strange in the lecture hall.

Moreover, Gao Xinzhi is not the only one who feels this way.

As soon as he entered the door, he got angry at two students who were joking and didn't see him.

Not only were they made to kneel as punishment, but each of them was also rewarded with several rulers.

The ferocity and ferocity when he struck made Gao Xinzhi, who had fought with others for his life, feel dangerous.

Throughout the day, whether Gao Xinzhi was dazing alone, talking to others, or taking a nap at his desk, that subtle feeling of sudden heart palpitations would always flash through him from time to time.

With a warrior's intuition, he could determine that the danger came from Master Qi.

Mr. Qi who holds him in the palm of his hand and puts him on his head these days?

He felt a little ridiculous.

This old man may be a little paranoid, a little mean, and a little spiteful, but in any case, he is not dangerous.

Every time he sensed something, he looked up and saw Master Qi reciting scriptures, as usual.

Today, he didn't even deliberately look at Gao Xinzhi.

So, when Gao Xinzhi asked him in a low voice: "Zican, do you feel that something is wrong with Mr. Qi today?"

"Tell me, did he discover something?"

Chen Zican did not refute, but lowered his head.

After thinking carefully for a while, he shook his head in confusion: "This - it shouldn't be possible."

"The binding is not tight, and those toads can quickly tear off the straw rope from their mouths, spit out the pepper, and then dig out."

"It's been a few days, and he won't find anything except the bamboo cage."

After school, Gao Xinzhi put that unpleasant feeling out of his mind.

He mounted his beloved bay-red horse and rode alongside Chen Zican along the streets that were particularly noisy in the evening.

At the gate of Deyifang, the two parted ways.

At this moment, he was going to find Sun Er Mazi, the best tailor in Xiuwu County, to customize Jifu.

A complete set of Hu silk, Su embroidery, white silk and red satin were all purchased by my uncle in Baoding Prefecture and then quickly delivered to Xiuwu County.

Min Jingzong's study was as quiet as a tomb.

It was not dark outside, and the three tallow candles as thick as arms on the candlestick did not make the small study any brighter.

Instead, Qi Yongkang's pale face became even more gloomy.

Min Jingzong sat opposite, bit his lip, and twisted his body uneasily.

The chair under the buttocks made a "squeaking" sound, which was particularly harsh.

The sound made him even more nervous, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

He coughed lightly and quickly covered his mouth.

He picked up the tea cup and took a sip. He felt that his throat was not so dry, and then he said with difficulty: "Da, Da Lang, I'm afraid it's not that simple to punish Gao Xinzhi!"

"That guy is a reckless man, his uncle..."

Before he finished speaking, Qi Yongkang sneered across from him: "Haha, are you scared?"

"Min Xiaozi, have you forgotten how you got your identity as a junior?"

"Why weren't you afraid when you cut your heart to save your father?"

Min Jingzong blushed, feeling that the words "Min Xiaozi" were particularly harsh.

Chi Chi said: "Da, Dalang, I'm not afraid. Of course I think of you well, but..."

Qi Yongkang interrupted him again: "You know Tu Guobao, right?"

Min Jingzong was stunned, unable to keep up with Qi Dalang's thoughts: "Governor Jiangning?"

Qi Yongkang didn't answer, picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and narrowed his eyes.

He didn't even look at the table full of chicken, duck, and fish.

As if he was savoring the taste of this cup of ten-year-old Huadiao, after a while, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Yesterday, I saw the writings of Prince Rui's Mansion at Yefutai."

"Tu Guobao was greedy, cruel and cruel to the people, and plotted rebellion. The imperial court ordered the execution of nine of his tribes."

"If there is any abnormal movement in our troops, we will destroy them all!"

"In a few days, the news should come back."

"what?"

Min Jingzong couldn't help but be surprised. The governor of a province and the official of the border area were killed directly without even using the military talisman.

"Brother Min, you said that this national treasure was just a water bandit in Taihu Lake back then."

"There are thirteen water villages in the two lakes. He is not even qualified to be listed. How can he become a high-ranking official in just five years and dominate the south of the Yangtze River?"

Min Jingzong was stunned: "This, I don't know."

"Most likely, he saw the opportunity quickly and surrendered early. He also made some military exploits in pacifying the Hongguang Dynasty and Lu Jianguo, right?"

Qi Yongkang nodded: "Not bad!"

"Tell me, he went from being a grassroots bandit to a second-grade high-ranking official and a high-ranking official. Why did he want to rebel?"

Min Jingzong twisted his body again, feeling a thorn in his back.

"I don't know, little brother, Dalang, could it be him? He wants to be the emperor?"

"laugh--"

Qi Yongkang sneered, picked up the wine bottle, and poured himself a glass.

At the same time, Min Jingzong stopped his hand from taking the jug.

"I don't know whether he is treasonous or not."

"I only know that the imperial court will eradicate all these sloppy affairs sooner or later."

"But--"

"But what? But he surrendered? But he has military exploits?"

Qi Yongkang shook his head: "These are nothing!"

He pointed to the top: "There are too many Han people, making it uneasy up there!"

"The imperial court is now using the Han to destroy the Han."

"In the past few years, in the prosperous and prosperous south of the Yangtze River, some people have been slaughtered in the wars, some have their heads shaved and some have been slaughtered. Come here and kill some, go over and kill some!"

"Nowadays, there are no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, and foxes and rabbits roam the city."

"The imperial court feels at ease, this knife should..."

Min Jingzong's hair stood on end when he heard this, and his throat grumbled a few times, but no sound came out.

Qi Yongkang drank another glass and said leisurely: "The cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackey will be cooked!"

“Before Magistrate Ye took office, the Ninth Prince personally summoned him.

"He told Mr. Ye that the Qing Dynasty's military might was as powerful as the Han and Tang Dynasties."

"In the future, when the world is peaceful and the southerners are weak, all they have to do is cultivate the land and study hard, and there will be athletes from the Eight Banners guarding the four directions..."

He suddenly drank his wine glass.

He said sharply: "Do you understand what this means?"

This "snap" sound frightened Min Jingzong so much that he shook his head quickly.