Aggrieved Fish Sprite

It was just dawn, and the aroma of hot porridge and pancakes began to permeate the streets and alleys.

"Sell soup, hot soup!"

The sound of selling hot water through the streets and alleys also followed.

The so-called hot soup is actually boiled water, which is a custom handed down from the Chu Dynasty. Due to the epidemic disease in the waters of the south of the Yangtze River, the people in the city generally do not drink raw water, nor do they get up early to boil water. Spend a penny to buy a pot of hot water.

Some are used for drinking, and some are used for washing.

Stand guard at the door in the early morning, waiting for the peddlers to come one by one, from washing water and hot tea to cooking cakes and rice porridge, and even shaving your head and beard. After such a round, you can walk out decently after shaking your clothes.

Today is especially lively, everyone has a smile on their faces, and even the chatter when they meet each other is particularly energetic.

——After a month of anxiety, Jiang Xia finally reopened the city gate.

It is said that the generation of rebels from Hua County to Jiangxia has been completely wiped out, and King Ning's troops also withdrew to the east to confront King Wu.

There is no need to fight anymore, how can the people not like it?

The vendors who do business prepare their burdens before dawn, stepping on the thin morning light, and after the drumming, they shout to break the silence of the night.

"Rice cake, delicious rice cake!"

There were also crowds of people in front of the wonton burden. A scoop of hot soup was poured into a bowl with chopped green onions, and the smell wafted far away.

"what."

"why are you laughing?"

Ink carp turned around strangely and asked.

Meng Qi shook his head, but did not answer.

King Jing died, but Jiang Xia did not announce the funeral. Firstly, it was because Nanping County deliberately concealed it. When the news spread, Old General Nie focused all his energy on defending the city. Because everything was restored, I was so happy that I collectively forgot this "big" event.

In this world, the death of the emperor and vassal is a major event, which is equivalent to the collapse of the sky. Scholars and officials must all wear filial piety, as well as the people in the capital or the county. Land, this prohibition is also equivalent to empty.

Are the poor and lowly not qualified to serve filial piety, no.

The court has nothing to do with it, who can make Orion not eat meat?

"This kind of scene makes people happy." Meng Qi gestured towards the lively streets.

Mo Li followed Meng Qi's gaze, and then...saw a peddler selling chestnut cakes.

"cough."

Meng Qi walked around the barber's burden as if nothing had happened, walked forward without even looking at the chestnut cake.

The laughter of children lingered in my ears, the woman with her hair in a hasty bun dragged her baby who refused to wear shoes to the house, the old woman carried her clothes to the well, and the yellow rice just opened the steamer Cake, the hawkers shouted one after another...

Such days are not rich, but peaceful.

Mo Li and Meng Qi walked through the crowd, almost no one would notice them, because they were keen to greet their neighbors and familiar hawkers, and everyone couldn't wait to know if everything was okay after not seeing each other for so many days.

There is no shortage of food in Jiangxia, and the city defense has never been in a hurry, but the people are still terrified by the army of the heaven-sent king.

Successive greetings, short chatter from parents...like ripples echoing in the river, water waves illuminated by warm sunlight, extending from the narrow streets all the way to the crowds gathered under the trees by the well, and then crossing the ridge of the roof, spreading to gradually A noisy market.

Occasionally, I would meet people from Fengxing Pavilion and Hengshan School disciples on the road, and they were also in the market at the moment, some were busy buying dry food, some were picking out shoes that fit their feet in a shoe store——Jiang Xia was no longer in danger, but they were still in danger. go somewhere else.

In such an atmosphere, even the most rigid people on weekdays can relax a bit.

"Cough, Mo...doctor."

A certain Hengshan sect elder was holding a shoe in his hand. He raised his head and saw the ink carp, and he greeted embarrassingly.

"The soles of these boots are solid, with three layers of seams sewn on the sides. Look, sir."

Mo Li glanced at it and knew it didn't fit, so he continued to search in the shop.

The clerk in the shoe store followed closely.

"How long will it take to get a new one?" Meng Qi casually chose a look and gestured, "Compared to this one, it's half an inch smaller."

He said it so seriously that others thought he was wearing it, Mo Li couldn't refute it, the Hengshan sect elder over there looked suspicious, after all the Meng Qi he saw was 89 years old.

After leaving the shoe store, within a few steps, I saw chaos ahead.

"Who's riding downtown?"

Meng Qi's pupils shrank, but it was not his turn to make a move. The Jianghu people mixed in the crowd took the lead in grabbing the horse.

The common people were silent like cicadas and dodged one after another.

The horse rider fell to the ground in embarrassment, and jumped up angrily, but he was not alone, there were dozens of riders, and the momentum was huge.

"Get out of the way, you untouchables!"

The Jianghu man dodged it with a dodge, and his movements were extremely flexible.

The leader of these riders was furious, and immediately ordered his subordinates to drive their horses to trample over there, ignoring the objects of the surrounding vendors and the people screaming to avoid them.

"It's you reckless bandits again! Kill me!" the leader shouted madly with red eyes.

As soon as Mo Li took a step forward, he saw people pouring out of shoe shops, wonton stalls, cloth shops, and tea shops.

From the elders of the Hengshan faction to the leaders of the Cao Gang, everyone rushed forward, pulling these people off their horses like a hungry tiger preying on a sheep.

For a moment, the sound of wailing was endless.

This is a rare sight. People in the Jianghu usually don't openly oppose the government, especially in the city, they may smash the tables and chairs of the restaurant and hurt the people on the side of the road because of the fight, but as long as the government servants show up, they will will leave immediately.

So much so that martial arts people are equivalent to the title "Jiangyang Thief", and they will only bring trouble.

Now the candy peddler on the side of the road opened his mouth wide, unable to recover for a long time.

"General Han, what are you doing?"

A person from Fengxing Pavilion scolded angrily and spoke contemptuously, obviously not paying attention to this group of cavalrymen.

Mo Li belatedly remembered who the leader was.

Unexpectedly, the people also whispered, as if they had heard something.

Meng Qi had a keen ear, so he could hear the common people asking each other who General Han was and what was going on.

The people of Jiangxia didn't even know that King Jing was dead, nor did they know that Nanping County's capital was almost lost, and it was even more impossible to know that General Han's wrong choice led to the reversal or even collapse of the defense situation. They were simply surprised, no untie.

Surprised that the Jianghu people openly fought with the government, and wondered that the two parties seemed to know each other.

"That Taoist priest bought cooking cakes from me just now!"

"There is also that old man, who still holds the shoes in my shop... I can't tell that he is a high-spirited gangster. He has a beard, and he seems to fall down when the wind blows. Who would have thought that he would fall like this?" Jump, and the shadow will disappear, and jump again, and the galloping horse will be stopped! Divine power!"

Just a little thinner, he was slandered as an elder of the Hengshan School who would collapse in the wind: "..."

He is not a rabbit, where did he jump left and right?

Poor thing, he is already a respected celebrity in Jianghu, and now he has lost all his old face.

This burst of whispers sounded like sarcasm to the ears of General Han, who was getting up in a panic. The expressions on the faces of those whispering turned into knives.He didn't hear the real content at all, he just thought it was the ridicule he had heard countless times in the army these days.

Talking about war on paper, suffering a crushing defeat, and fleeing in disgrace!

"Damn it, it's those incompetent soldiers who drag me down..."

General Han never admitted these crimes, but he couldn't yell like this, he needed to recruit more old subordinates, and then leave Jiangxia.

But when the street was overturned to the ground, the sense of shame in my heart rose to the apex along with the astonishment and bewilderment on the faces of the surrounding crowd.

During this period of time, he lived like a year in Jiangxia, Old General Nie didn't see him at all, the others didn't say anything in front of him, and the ridicule and ridicule behind him didn't stop for a moment.Now not only gangsters dare to humiliate him, but even ordinary people can point fingers at him?

There was a buzzing in General Han's mind, and his anger directly shattered his reason.

He whipped out his saber and swung it at the crowd.

"Shut up! Shut up all of you, you ignorant pariahs! How dare you laugh at me?!"

"..."

Facing those red eyes, Mo Carp had nothing to say.

Maybe it's because he looks thinner?Or is it more conspicuous to stand in the crowd?

The answer is no, General Han did choose a random direction to swing the knife, but he met Mo Li only because he hated the young man's eyes, which passed lightly like fallen leaves, and then turned to the distance.

This kind of indifference is more annoying than contempt.

The people who were near the ink carp screamed and avoided, and the others were about to stop them, but they suddenly found out that General Han was pointing at the ink carp with a knife, and they couldn't laugh or cry.

There are so many people in the market, but they just look for the one with the highest martial arts. What kind of luck is this?

This scene was so absurd that the elders of the Hengshan faction thought seriously that the general who lost the war might not be cowardly and afraid of death, but lost the advantage of defending the city with the luck of drinking water and choking his throat and knocking his teeth flat?

"Say, do you look down on me? With you ants, you dare to be presumptuous!"

General Han was overwhelmed by the anger, he didn't notice Mo Li's ability to dodge his knife with ease at all, and he felt that he had slashed crookedly, and the panic of the surrounding people satisfied his mood of being ignored and ridiculed for so many days , so he vented his anger to his heart's content.

Meng Qi looked at the end of the market calmly.

Sure enough, there was dust.

"What's going on here?" Mo Li was tired of the knife reflecting light in front of his eyes, so he secretly got lucky, causing General Han to rush straight ahead, and stumbled over the stone that fixed the banner of a shop by the street.

"what!"

In the eyes of everyone, it seemed that General Han couldn't hold his sword steadily, but Mo Li was lucky enough to take a step back to avoid it.

In fact, there is a reason why Meng Qi didn't take General Han's "hidden danger" to heart. The old general in Jiangxia is not stupid, and Fengxing Pavilion is not stupid either.Just like the Japanese and Korean generals who broke into the mansion but were easily kicked out, he was just a clown, and it stands to reason that there should be no trouble.

But now dozens of people and horses gathered, galloping in the market.

How did General Han get the horse, how did he call back all the scattered subordinates, why did he pretend to be leaving Jiangxia but no one stopped him?

"I'm afraid someone deliberately let it go." Meng Qi looked worried.

General Han didn't have any conclusive charges. Even if he failed to defend the city, Jiang Xia didn't have the power to take him down for questioning. Besides, this person might have a powerful background in Jingzhou. Old General Nie didn't want to tear his face directly.Then usually at this time, they will deliberately run on people to embarrass them, and take advantage of the other party's anger to do something out of line, and then justifiably take them down.

Meng Qi looked at Jiang Xia's soldiers who were swarming up.

"Han Fu, how dare you steal a horse and join the enemy!"

"Take them all and hand them over to Old General Nie!"

In an instant, the situation was reversed, and all the people who were showing off their might before were tied up into rice dumplings and forced to leave.

From the beginning to the end, these Jiangxia soldiers did not greet the Jianghu people who saw the rough road, and the market gradually returned to calm.

Meng Qi still had an ugly expression.

It's not because of the means of Jiang Xia's soldiers, but that those who gave the orders obviously don't care about the consequences of General Han, and the death of some civilians is insignificant in their eyes.

This is a habit in the officialdom, even if it is changed to a general or a prefect, it will still be the same.

Everything about the superior is a big deal, even if it is the glory after death, but everything about the inferior is irrelevant, even life.

When will the world change, and when will people's hearts be solved?

"Ah Li, the road in the world is still very long."