The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Yang An followed Eunuch Guo and Monk Jianru to Chenzhou, and temporarily settled in three yards in the inn.Those two went to see King Chen, Yang An took the opportunity to chat with those strong men, a dozen people were lively in the yard.For a while, Yang An took two playing cards from the room and came out with a smile, "This game is lively, unlike playing dominoes, which is deserted."

A little leader said after seeing it: "I saw our boss's young master played this in the early years!"

Yang An asked while shuffling the cards, "Can you play?"

"will not."

"It's easy, I'll teach you."

Yang An called everyone to gather around the stone table and taught them how to play poker.During the laughter, I accidentally turned sideways, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw the saint standing at the window and looking out.He thought for a while, played cards to let everyone get acquainted, and went to the door of the saint's room by himself and knocked lightly.

The sage asked in the room, "Who is it?"

"Yang An."

There was a moment of hesitation in the room: "Is General Yang okay?"

"I want to invite the sage to come out to play cards." Yang An said, "Staying alone in the room is too boring. Anyway, Master Jianru and Eunuch Guo are not here, so no one will know when we will play." The room was silent.Yang An said again, "I'm sure those two won't notice."

After a while, the door opened with a "squeak", and the sage stood at the door, looked at him for a long time, and said, "Do you want to invite me to play cards?"

"Yes." Yang An smiled, "Is the saint coming?"

The sage thought for a long time and said, "I'm afraid you won't have a good time."

"This is easy." Yang An said, "The sage changed into ordinary clothes and told them that your name is...Wang Wufu? How about your surname is Wang, and the sage is five. Anyway, few people have seen your true face."

The saint bit his lips: "I don't have any ordinary clothes."

Yang An smiled and said, "I'll lend you. And don't call yourself I, I'm sure you'll be fine."

The saint hesitated for a moment, then looked at Yang Anhuizi again, and gritted his teeth: "Okay. I agree."

Yang An smiled and ran back to his room to find a set of stone blue cloth robes, and the saint took them and changed them for himself.Yang An was surprised: "You can change clothes by yourself! I still think that you are emperors and princes who don't know this."

The saint was slightly annoyed: "I'm not a fool, why can't I even change clothes?"

"It was my fault, Brother Wufu, don't be upset." Yang An accompanied him without sincerity.The sage waited for a long time without any further words, and changed his clothes in a sullen mood.

When the two came out, Yang An pointed to the saint and said to everyone, "This is brother Wang Wufu." Several sharp-eyed people looked at the saint, looked at Yang An, and looked at each other.Yang An usually introduces his friends to the sage, "This is Liu Grasshopper, this is Hou Ming, this is Chen Shizhu..." The sage was a little at a loss.

A dark man laughed and said, "Anzi, where did you find such a young scholar! He's as white as a woman."

Yang An scolded with a smile: "You stupid donkey has no knowledge! Scholars don't go out and know everything about the world. We don't have this ability, and we don't have the ability. Scholars don't have it. It's good to learn from each other. Besides, studying must be a good thing. You don't expect your son to study in the future Is it?" Everyone looked at the saint again, their eyes changed slightly, and the contempt just now was gone.

Yang An then pulled a stool for the sage to sit down at the stone table, taught him how to play poker, and said in his mouth: "This game is learned by pirates from the West. Western sailors have been floating on the sea all year round, and they play this game when they have nothing to do. Gambling for fun. Each round is short, and after a while, maybe the captain’s mate or the like will tell them to do their work, and they can just drop them off. Unlike those wives and grandmas wiping dominoes, a round can last half an hour.”

The sage laughed and said, "How can it be so long?"

I thought it would be easy to learn to play poker, but it took a long time for this group of strong men to learn it, because they were all recruited from other countries and did not know Arabic numerals, so it was very difficult to memorize cards.The sage learned it very quickly, Yan Guo has been promoting this kind of number for two or three years.Yang An threw the cards away and said, "Everyone should learn Arabic numerals first, it will be useful in the future."

The sage said: "This is only the country of Yan, and it is useless for other countries."

Yang Andao: "This is easy and cheap, and it is easier to recognize than words. It has been learned by merchants from all over the world. It is also very easy to spread from merchants to other families."

He stood up and looked at the ground, picked up a piece of green brick from under the garden tree, and drew an Arabic numeral "1" on the stone table.Then he pointed and said, "This is the number one."

Someone asked: "Isn't it horizontal?"

"The text is horizontal, and the numbers are vertical. Is this easy to remember?"

"Easy to remember, easy to remember! Anyway, there is only one, and it is one."

Yang An erased the "1" with his sleeve and wrote a "2". "This is two. Does it look like a goose?" He added a few strokes on the "2" to make it look like a goose.

"It really looks like it! Why does the word "two" look like a goose?"

Yang An said solemnly: "Probably because the cry of the goose sounds like 'two two two'?"

Everyone laughed: "Like! Probably because of this." The sage smiled slightly.

Yang An then taught the young men ten Arabic numerals in order, and each number was related to other things, so it was easier for everyone to learn.After a while they remembered.Teach how to play cards again, and learn immediately.Yang An clapped his hands: "Okay! It's time to play!"

A man who recognized the sage hesitated and said, "We're just playing... I'm afraid Mr. Guo will be angry when he comes back."

Yang An pretended to frown: "That's right..." Immediately he patted the stone table, "Let's see. There are already a lot of people. The losers of each game go to the door to watch until the next two lose. Replace them. Eunuch Guo Master Jianru came in to report the news from far away at the other end of the stone bridge. We collected the cards immediately, and you were practicing martial arts in the yard. ?”

Everyone laughed and said, "That's a good idea! Let's do it like this!"

Everyone started to play poker, and the loser stood guard.After a few rounds of cards, everyone, including the saint, was familiar with Arabic numerals.They fought until it was almost dark, but the two of them hadn't come yet.Coincidentally, Yang An lost once, touched his stomach and said, "Let's eat, stop beating."

Everyone shouted: "If you lose, you won't fight anymore! General Yang is so stingy."

"Where are you stingy? It's time for dinner, and those two should come back."

Before the words were finished, the sentry outside shouted: "Here we come! Clean up quickly!"

Like lightning, Yang An picked up the cards and pocketed them on his front, shouting: "Xiao Wang Xiucai go back quickly!"

Only then did the sage understand, and ran towards the house.All the strong men hurriedly lined up to practice martial arts.It's just that each practiced its own way, and it was messy.

Yang An walked quickly, put the cards back in the blink of an eye and returned to the courtyard, shouted: "Follow me!" Then he ran to the front and started gesturing.When others saw him, they immediately followed him and made gestures, and they were in unison in an instant.Jianru and Eunuch Guo happened to see it when they entered the door, and they nodded together.

That night, the two talked to the saint.Because the doors and windows were guarded, Yang An did not eavesdrop.

The next morning, the two of them went out again and ordered Yang An to lead others to practice martial arts.Yang An promised in his mouth that he would lead others to play cards as soon as they left.Xiao Wang Xiucai also came out to fight together, and everyone got acquainted with him yesterday.When those two came back at dusk, everyone pretended to practice martial arts.After dinner, the two discussed secretly with the little sage for several days.

One day, the two of them took the saint out together.While playing cards, someone shouted: "Xiao Wang Xiucai—playing cards——" No one answered.

Yang An said: "Xiao Wang Xiucai won't fight today, he has something to go out."

Someone nearby laughed and said, "General Yang, you can pull him down! Do you really think we don't know who he is?"

Yang An winked: "Xiao Wang Xiucai! Otherwise, who do you think is playing cards with us all day long?" Everyone smiled tacitly, and suddenly felt like they had done bad things together.

For the next few days, Xiao Wang Xiucai never had a chance to play cards, and every day he came back with a bad complexion.After staying for half a month, everyone moved out of the inn and went to a small village in the suburbs of Chenzhou.Monk Jianru told Yang An: "Chen Wang has promised to help us buy firearms."

Yang An was stunned: "Buy a gun? He bought it for us? He paid for it?"

Jianru sighed, "We will pay for it. There is only one company in the country that sells firearms and guns that can be used, but they don't sell them to people casually, so we have to entrust a few princes to help us buy them."

"Huh? Are they so stupid? Don't they earn money?"

"It's not wrong for them to do this, otherwise the world will be in chaos." Jianru sighed again, "Let's get the firearms first."

Yang An nodded, and said, "There are so many types of guns and guns, each of which is used in a different way, which one is Master going to buy?"

Jianru was startled, thought for a moment, and asked, "The kind you used in Nanyang?"

"Meteor No. [-] is usually used." Yang An said, "A while ago, all of them were replaced by Meteor No. [-]. This gun is better, much better than No. [-]." Jian Runai asked about the two types of guns, Yang Ann tried her best to persuade him to buy the number six.

They lived in this village.Jianru and Eunuch Guo often went out to recruit men, and Yang An was entrusted with the military training.Being pregnant is like being pregnant.Yang Anzhi's talent is becoming more and more prominent, and those two are also paying more and more attention to him.Yang An found that although the monk Jianru was not young, he was a bit innocent, and the eunuch Guo didn't know anything about military affairs, so he used his skills even more.Unknowingly, Yang An has become the leader besides those two.Although the saint is indifferent, he will talk to Yang Anduo when there is no one else.

A few days later, the fire gun arrived.Monk Jianru looked at the boxes of black guns and guns, and heaved a sigh of relief.Eunuch Guo sighed beside him, "What can you do with such an idea?"

Jianru said: "There are other homes."

So eunuch Guo was left in Zhuangzi, and monk Jianru went out to work.

After returning from this trip, Jianru seemed to have encountered something, with a disheveled expression on his face.Nai took eunuch Guo to discuss secretly in the house for a long time, and then invited the saint over.After less than a stick of incense, the sage came out, sullen like a flatulent puffer fish.After a while, the two went out with sullen faces.Yang An looked behind for a long time, only to feel that they were hesitant even from their backs, and they were very curious.

Just as he was about to set up a puffer fish, a young man ran over and quietly pulled Yang An's clothes: "General Yang..."

Yang An was uneasy: "Is there something wrong?"

"That...Xiao Wang Xiucai wants to find you." The young man gestured twice and blinked vigorously, "It's Xiao Wang Xiucai, the little Wang Xiucai who double-ducked with us at the inn a few days ago."

Yang An secretly rejoiced: "Where can I find him?"

The young man pointed to the back and said, "Isn't there an elm forest over there?"

"Is he already there?"

"Just now he asked me to come and find you, and then he passed by."

Yang An nodded: "I see. Thank you very much." Then he turned and walked towards the elm forest.

The forest is not big, Yang An is a small soldier, and his eyes are very good.After a few glances, he found the saint and walked over quickly.I saw the sage sitting under a big elm tree, with one hand tightly clenched into a fist, and the other hand squeezed a twig and folded it into several pieces, his face was flushed, and his anger could almost be seen smoking.Yang An stepped forward, bowed and cupped his fists: "Saint."

The sage threw the branch in his hand: "General Yang, I ordered you to save me." Yang An was slightly stunned.The saint gritted his teeth and said, "I was originally coerced by them two. Just because they gave the fourth uncle's blood letter, I still thought that maybe they were really thinking about my Situ family's country. Now... I can't bear it any longer." .”

Yang An hurriedly asked: "Saint, what's going on?"

The sage slammed his fist on the tree trunk: "Evil thief! Desperate!"

It turned out that a while ago, monk Jianru sneaked into the palace with his martial arts, and after eavesdropping, he found that the saint was a fake, so he went to the empress dowager at night to inquire, only to learn that the saint had left the palace to open a cosmetic shop.Then he found the sage together with eunuch Guo, and handed over the blood letter of King Wu to him.The saint was shocked, but he didn't know what to do, so he only left eunuch Guo to work in the shop.The two of them seem to have other things to do, Jian Ru often goes to the palace to look for the Empress Dowager, and Eunuch Guo occasionally goes there twice.Suddenly one day, the police came to the shop with Yang An's portrait to inquire, but by chance, Monk Jianru overheard him and slipped away quietly.After he came back, he had a secret discussion with Eunuch Guo for a while, and then left again.Eunuch Guo pretended to have an important matter to discuss with the saint, led him outside, forced him into a carriage and half-kidnapped him, and took him to a small house in the north of the city.It was there that he and Yang An met for the first time.The next day the group left the capital.

When they arrived in Chenzhou, although the two of them had been discussing with the sage how to contact the kings to deal with Jia Cong, most of them were discussing on their own, and the sage couldn't get in the way.And the saints have no idea where they got the money.It's just that I am no different from being under house arrest. I have nothing to do with them, so I have to endure it.

A few days ago, Jianru hurried to several nearby countries, and three countries agreed to help buy firearms, but just like Chen Wang, no one was willing to pay for it.Jianru was so angry that he cursed.Suddenly, someone gave him an idea.Although Jianru is unwilling to do so, there is really no other way.Then he hurried back to discuss with eunuch Guo.Just now the sage was invited to discuss.

After hearing this, Yang An already guessed that the idea must be wrong, and asked: "Saint, what idea made you so angry?"

The saint said coldly: "Because the national policy of Yan State is beneficial to the people, the people of all countries flocked away, and the national power increased sharply. Only armed officers and soldiers pretended to be bandits, went deep into the factories and houses of Yan State, massacred the people, and frightened the people to flee. Right and wrong places can stop the current situation of Yan Kingdom."

Yang An pulled his ears: "The last general was just afraid of hearing hallucinations. What did the saint say?" The saint said nothing.Yang An slammed his fist on the tree trunk, "I'll fuck his eighteen generations of ancestors! Whose idea?"

The saint shook his head: "He won't tell." He looked at Yang An, "I beg the general to save me!"

Yang An gritted his teeth and shook his head: "No way. We can't leave, we have to find that bastard."