The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

The gate of the magistrate's yamen came out to thank Prime Minister Zhen Mingdao for saving his life. Jia Cong and his daughter-in-law looked at each other, looked at him and cupped their hands and said, "This uncle! Is it you they want to kill?"

Menzi lowered his head to look at the man in the green shirt, and said with a wry smile, "Yes." Then he bent down and bowed deeply to Jia Cong, "I beg Mr. Jia to spare his life."

"why."

Menzi sighed: "At any rate, he is my apprentice." Jia Cong frowned slightly: Could it be another bloody story?Then he ordered people to arrest the man in the green shirt and go in, and made a gesture of "please" to the door.Menzi glanced at the crowd, pointed to a thin man wearing a bamboo hat, and said, "That's his accomplice."

Just as Menzi pointed his hand at the man, he immediately turned and fled.After running for a dozen steps, he suddenly fell down.Got up and ran again, fell again.So there are three.Before he fell for the fourth time, two guards with guns stepped forward and twisted his arms, turned around and pushed him back.Menzi looked at him and sneered, "I'm sorry, I have a bad memory." The man's face was ashen.

Menzi straightened his back and nodded slightly at Jia Cong, Jia Cong couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth—why does this demeanor look like a soldier?It seems that Uncle Menzi is a man with a story.Then he nodded slightly.Menzi led the way into the gate of the government office, wearing an old cloth shirt, looking at his back, he was very imposing.

Su Tao was asking questions in the hall, Jia Cong invited the door directly and went to the back office.The two sat down in Su Tao's study, Chen Ruijin ordered his servants to bring tea, and sat beside Jia Cong himself.After eating half a cup of tea, Menzi looked up at Jia Cong and said, "You have heard of the name Yang Guotai."

"I've heard it." Jia Cong said with emotion, "A true hero!"

The door was stunned, and looked at him for a while: "Do you know what crime he committed?"

Jia Cong asked back: "What crime did he commit? The crime of acting on behalf of the heavens? The crime of loyalty? The crime of justice? What crime did you say he committed?"

Menzi was stunned for a while before he said, "He committed the crime of killing the king, and he should punish the nine clans."

"Isn't that the murder was not successful?" Jia Cong said casually, "at most it is an attempted regicide, since the attempt is not a crime. Besides, others have been dead for so many years." I have read the dossiers and asked all the legends back then, and the only one who can reach the hero is General Yang, not even my grandfather. Uncle, if you are relatives and friends of General Yang Guotai, don’t worry that we will harm you and your family.” He stood up, "Please accept the junior's respect for General Yang."

Jia Cong bowed down solemnly, and the disciple accepted it without moving.Jia Cong couldn't help taking a deep breath: It seems that this person is really a relative of General Yang.Just about to speak, Menzi nodded slowly, and suddenly laughed.The laughter was loud, and the wind of desolation and death exuded, shaking the tables and chairs slightly.After a long time, he finished laughing and sat thinking again.Jia Cong was so startled that his heart was pounding, he didn't dare to sit down, and stood in front of him respectfully, holding his breath.Suddenly the door said: "I am Yang Guotai."

Jia Cong was dumbfounded.half an hour. "ah?"

Menzi was already sitting upright, with his back straightened and his eyes shining brightly: "I am Yang Guotai."

Jia Cong blinked and looked at him for a long time: "You are always joking. I respect General Yang very much. If you make fun of him, I will turn my face off." Menzi snorted.

Chen Ruijin stood up and pushed Jia Cong: "Really." He bowed and bowed down. "Meet General Yang."

Jia Cong was excited, shook his head and hurriedly bowed again: "Greetings to General Yang!"

Menzi let out a long breath, watched the two of them hesitate to speak, and finally sighed: "It's really not like Jia She has a son like you." Jia Cong was still excited and didn't know how to react.The doorman, General Yang Guotai, pointed to the chair and said, "Sit down." Chen Ruijin gave another blessing and pushed Jia Cong again.Jia Cong saluted again before sitting down.

Without waiting for Jia Cong to ask, Yang Guotai said first, "I know why they are in a hurry to kill me."

Jia Cong hurriedly asked, "Why?"

Yang Guotai chuckled lightly and said, "You have such a temper! If they don't kill me before you come to Nanchang Mansion, will you still have time?"

Jia Cong was at a loss: "Who are they? Are you still alive? Why did you become a doorman in this government office?" After a while, he added, "Your surname is also Yang, is it related to my uncle Yang?"

Yang Guotai laughed again.This time the laughter was much more relaxed, not as cold as before.After laughing, he was stunned for a long time, and sighed: "I don't know where to start."

Yang Guotai was originally a confidant general beside Shi Xiangyun's father, General Shi, who was loyal and skilled in martial arts.After the death of General Shi, Jia Daishan and others worked hard to clear his reputation and redress his grievances, while Yang Guotai disappeared.Two years later, Yang Guotai assassinated the late emperor in the hunting ground, and fell off the cliff with several arrows in his body.No one knows how he got in or what he did.Anyway, the late emperor's body has been in bad condition since then.Less than two years later, the first emperor deposed the prince and demoted him to Prince Yizhong, passed on the throne to the third prince, and became the Supreme Emperor himself.Yang Guotai didn't have a family back then, and he was picked up by General Shi from the battlefield, and his name was taken by the general, so he has no origin.Even though the first emperor wanted to destroy his nine clans, he was alone and had no clan to destroy.Thinking about it, the first emperor was probably quite angry.When Jia Cong learned about this person's deeds, he admired him so much.If the science student didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he would have wanted to build a temple for this righteous man.

After a long time, Yang Guotai said: "I have been in the green forest these years."

"Oh. When the court is completely dark, the green forest becomes the conscience of society."

Yang Guotai glanced at him: "When did Lulin ever have a conscience?"

Jia Cong blinked: "I just said that casually."

Yang Guotai snorted and said, "You read a lot of commentaries on green forests? Do you know what green forests are? Eliminate violence and bring peace to the people? Steal the rich and help the poor? Do justice for the heavens?"

Jia Cong touched the back of his head: "There must be some."

Yang Guotai shook his head: "No. What is done on the Green Forest Road is killing, kidnapping, robbing, stealing, picking flowers, and abducting children."

Jia Cong frowned slightly: "Picking flowers... is also a business?"

Yang Guotai said: "There is nothing you can't do business with. Although the two families compete for marriage and invite people from the green forest to pick flowers, although there are few businesses, it is not impossible."

Jia Cong pursed his lips and said, "I always thought that green forests are cleaner than imperial courts."

Yang Guotai smiled and said: "The world is as black as crows, where can I find it clean? Seriously, the imperial court is cleaner."

"Oh no!"

Yang Guotai sighed lightly: "When you meet Mingjun, you will be much cleaner."

"Mingjun is a rare species, how many are there in 5000 years?"

"There are not many fools, most of them are mediocre. But good officials are not rare." Yang Guotai said, "For example, Su Zhifu. When he takes office in Jingzhou, Jingzhou will be clean."

Jia Cong thought for a while: "That's right." Nai asked, "General Yang, who wants to kill you?"

Yang Guotai thought for a moment and asked, "Have you heard of the name Gu Erdai?" Jia Cong looked at Chen Ruijin, who shook his head.Yang Guotai said, "Obviously it's not his real name. But this is the name I know."

"Who is he to you?"

Yang Guotai said calmly: "My boss." Jia Cong was surprised.Yang Guotai clearly only has one pair of eyes, yet he was able to stare at Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin at the same time.He said, "The assassination of the late emperor was arranged by him from the beginning to the end."

Both Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin took a deep breath, and looked at each other for a moment - such a great character, have you never heard of it?Jia Cong asked, "Is it someone like the Godfather of Hei Tao?" Yang Guotai didn't understand.Jia Cong explained, "It's like the king of the green forest. Uh...Song Jiang? No, Song Jiang is not suitable. Have you read the commentary called "Meteor. Butterfly. Sword"? A character like Sun Yubo."

Yang Guotai pondered: "No. This person is not the leader of a group of bandits in the green forest under his command. Take the water and Liangshan as an example, and compare it to Wu Yong. It's just that he doesn't have Song Jiang Chaogai, and many things are the same. What he moved secretly is not the main thing."

Jia Cong thought about it for a long time: "A turbulent... profiteer?"

Yang Guotai's eyes lit up: "Like!"

Jia Cong thought for a long time again: "Why did he kill you?"

Yang Guotai looked at him and said, "Why am I working under him?"

Jia Cong was at a loss: "... how would I know..."

Chen Ruijin said: "General Yang is such a criminal, no matter which prince catches him, he will not let him go. He violated the biggest taboo of the Tian family."

It was as if a window had opened in Jia Cong's mind, a flood of thoughts suddenly flooded him, and he was stunned.Yang Guotai opened his mouth to speak, but Chen Ruijin hurriedly said, "General Yang, don't disturb him now. He hasn't looked like this for several years."

Yang Guotai raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"

Chen Ruijin stood up to refill Yang Guotai's tea, and said, "In these years, he has more helpers around him, so he has less time to think about things."

The two of them sat and waited for half a day. Jia Cong's eyes gradually brightened and he took a deep breath.Nai grabbed Chen Ruijin's hand: "I'm covered in cold sweat!"

Chen Ruijin said softly: "Don't worry. Since they failed, we won."

Jia Cong nodded and shook his head again, closed his eyes and shook his head vigorously a few times, his hands still trembling slightly, he held his breath and said to Yang Guotai: "General Yang, think about it, if you stay away from that old man, you will What's wrong with him."

Yang Guotai said: "I have been with him for more than 20 years, and I don't know how many things I have done for him. I know his details."

"Are you helping officials and gangsters to build bridges? You have a lot of dirty materials about officials and eunuchs?"

"Not only." Yang Guotai said, "Not only officials and bandits, but also officials and bandits."

Jia Cong took a few deep breaths, stood up and bowed to Yang Guotai: "Old General, I guessed it, you listen. If there is anything wrong, please point it out for me." Yang Guotai nodded.

"There is a person named Gu Erdai, who builds a bridge between the green forest and the government to pimp, and helps people do some secret and illegal things--I'm afraid many of them are devoid of conscience. This person was born more than [-] years ago. Planned General Yang Guotai to avenge General Shi, sneaked into the royal hunting ground to assassinate the late emperor, and escaped by feigning death."

Yang Guotai said: "No. He didn't arrange for me to feign my death to escape. I wanted to die on the spot. It was a fluke that I was able to live."

Jia Cong didn't have the time to ask carefully at this moment, and then said: "Although you are lucky to be alive, because the assassination of the emperor is definitely not tolerated by the court, you can only commit yourself to the green forest. So you have taken refuge in Gu Erdai again."

Yang Guotai said: "At that time, I was hurt too badly, and there was no one to help except him."

"Well. After all, you've been hanging around with him. For more than 20 years, I've known him too much. However, apart from his criminal identity, he can't take advantage of your shortcomings, right?"

Yang Guotai sneered and said, "A person who dares to kill even the emperor, what disadvantages can he have?"

"Have you seen him in person? Do you know what he looks like?"

"I have never seen the real face." Yang Guotai thought, "I have only seen the masked appearance."

"How's your temperament? Part literary and martial?"

Yang Guotai thought about it for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I don't understand. I'm not a martial artist."

Jia Cong pondered for a moment and said: "The old man Lu and the dwarf from Changfeng Tower came to fight at the gate of the prefect's yamen that day. They wanted to take advantage of your unpreparedness to sneak attack. But my senior brother killed those two people before they had time to interrogate. General Yang You have thought about what it is for. This mouth was killed too quickly, too hastily, and it was completely unnecessary."

Yang Guotai frowned and said, "I think it might have alarmed me? If I get suspicious, they won't be able to succeed next time. I'm not easy to kill."

Jia Cong said: "Why didn't you trick you to Changfeng Tower to kill? Since you are his subordinate, you can find any excuse to coax you out, and silence you as you like. No matter how powerful you are, tigers are also afraid of wolves."

Yang Guotai shook his head: "I don't know."

Jia Cong breathed out, thought for a long time, and said, "Let's talk about the main point. I don't think the emperor is superior to others. I respect General Shi and never respect the former emperor. Su Tao, the prefect of Jiangxi, is my senior brother. When I return to Taiwan from Shu, I must After passing through Nanchang. Since Xie Jing left an indescribable mess here, I can’t leave after staying for three or five days. The probabilities are very high. And I have a territory in my hands, which is enough to shield the king and protect those who have attempted regicide. People have a sunny nature, especially those who have been in the dark for many years. So I stopped by There is a high possibility that you are abducted." He looked at Yang Guotai with a smile, "Right."

Yang Guotai snorted.

"Your boss is afraid that I will kidnap you and expose many of his secrets, so he hastily sent someone to assassinate you. The most terrifying thing here is—" Jia Cong said, "They know my temperament well , And know the time when we rushed over. We are half a day late, maybe they will succeed."

Chen Ruijin said: "They will only know about it, or they will want to understand these things. Otherwise, why did they rush to take action? It is much cheaper to act earlier. When did General Yang realize that they wanted to kill you?"

Yang Guotai said: "Miss reminded me." Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin looked at each other.Yang Guotai went on to say, "Missy mentioned that while chatting with me a few days ago, you suspected that the fight that day was deliberately done to kill someone in the yamen in order to take advantage of the chaos. I thought, am I the right one?" "

"That little girl's film!" Jia Cong's mouth twitched, "She clearly guessed it, and deliberately told you to keep hearing it! I figured it out and didn't tell the elders."

Chen Ruijin asked: "General Yang, are you and Cheng'er considered to be close friends?"

Yang Guotai opened his eyebrows with relief: "Forget it. The eldest lady is a good girl, and I like her very much."

Chen Ruijin said: "Although Cheng'er is small, she has always been transparent. She is very accurate in judging people and respects affection. Now that this is the case, I know why they want to fight in groups."

Jia Cong hurriedly asked, "Why?"

"Only when General Yang died accidentally, Cheng'er wouldn't make us investigate."