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64. Make waves again

This was an ordinary day. Chang'an City ended the hustle and bustle of the day and returned to tranquility in the night. Next to the street to the east of Liquanfang, a few strong men who were digging ditches were busy cleaning up the guys. The curfew began immediately. Before the patrol patrol went to the street, he had to squat in this waterless ditch all night. W     w√Wく.

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When the new emperor ascended the throne, the night ban in Chang'an City was much tighter than before. It's no wonder. How dare you not be cautious when it's a turbulent time? Foreman Zhao Er saw that his brother-in-law Huang Yan was still whispering in the ditch, and shouted impatiently: "You really have to squat here all night." Huang Yan replied angrily: "So what if you squat overnight? I can't even have a tiger come to eat it."

It makes sense for him to not want to leave. When he was digging mud in the ditch in the afternoon, he dug a pottery jar full of yellow and orange ingots! Huang Yan endured it and did not shout it out, but made some mud and covered the jar.

Because of delaying the construction period, Zhao Er was scolded by the minor officials sent by the county to inspect for an afternoon. He was so angry that he saw that his brother-in-law dared to confront him in front of so many people. He couldn't help but be furious and pointed at his brother-in-law's face and cursed: "You have the guts, just stay here. Let's go, everyone."

Huang Yan was afraid that the matter would not be too big, so he jumped up and yelled with his neck, "If you don't leave, I won't leave tonight. Let's see who can eat me." Seeing the two uncles quarrel, no one would explain it. It was so uncomfortable for a day that they were tired. These two living treasures are not good things in normal times. Just make trouble, as they can't die anyway.

Huang Yan was alone in the ditch on the side of the road. The sound of evening drums came from the Daming Palace, and night fell. Huang Yan was lying in a bunch of thorns, not daring to move. This place is not far from Tai Chi Palace and closer to the imperial city. The patrolling lords attacked the imperial city at night. After a single shot, there were more than a dozen people. If they were not sure which one was sharp-eyed. If they were to catch them, they would have to peel off even if they didn't die. As for the more unlucky one, they would have to shoot another arrow and their lives would be gone.

The first wave of Luoshu had passed, and the horse's hooves were rumbling. This was a patrol to the south of the city because the road was long and riding horses. The second wave also passed. The commander rode his horse, the soldiers were walking, laughing and laughing. This should have been patrolled by the East and West City. Even though the investigation is so tight, there are taverns in those places that are open all night at night. The officials of the Municipal Bureau have long been bribed by them. As long as they don't violate the Lu Zu's hands and just open the store, how can they violate the Lu Zu? Can they bribe the officials of the Municipal Bureau and not buy the Lu Zu from Jingzhao Prefecture?

Before midnight, the sixth wave of lords passed. Huang Yan jumped up, pulled out the shovel from the thorn bushes, rolled and climbed down to the bottom of the ditch, used his hands to dig the mud at the bottom of the ditch, and found the jar buried in the daytime. He took advantage of the dim light from the wind lights on the building on the Liquanfang in the west, and looked carefully, and couldn't help laughing. What a big jar of gold ingots, a total of hundreds of taels. With it, I'm digging what ditch? I bought two shops and opened a shop to be the boss.

Huang Yan threw the shovel and pulled out the jar with his hands. The jar was so heavy, so heavy. Huang Yan was happy and worried. How could he get such a heavy thing back? It would definitely not work if he got it back in one go. It would be better to find a secluded place to bury him first and then rush home slowly. He decided to drag the shovel and walk along the streets that were north and south, hoping to find a secluded place where few people go and dig a hole.

Before the place was found, a sudden sound of horse hooves came from the street. Huang Yan was so scared that he threw away the shovel, threw himself into the grass nest, and used his elbow as his feet. He thrust into the bushes on the side of the road and hid in the bushes on the side of the road.

Rows of elm trees are planted on both sides of the street, near the street and ditch, and there are short shrubs. The roots of these shrubs are very well-equipped and can effectively climb the soil and help the streets not collapse in a heavy rain.

The team suddenly stopped ten feet away from Huang Yan. The clanging sound of horseshoes hitting the bluestone slabs in the middle of the street was like thunder, sounding sounds on Huang Yan's scalp.

"Damn, this is for me. Why am I so unlucky? I have no money and I have to suffer a lot of flesh and blood." Huang Yan cried, "Oh, no, this is not a Luzhu." Huang Yan looked through the gaps in the bush and saw that everyone on the horse was wearing leather robes and leather hats. These people didn't look like Luzhu, but like Uighurs coming to the city. Yes, they were Uighur merchants who came to the city with the Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Ho

"There are excellent flower wines in Liquanfang, but you are worthy of drinking flower wines. Are you the girls of the Tang Dynasty? What's the thing?" Huang Yan cursed in his heart, but his mood gradually became clearer.

"Thank God, God treats Huang well." Huang Yan breathed a sigh of relief and thought happily, "Huang is about to arrive. Let's go to Liquanfang to have a drink of flower wine. Oh, if you don't go to Liquanfang, you will be disgusting with these slutty tatars. Yes, I'll go to Pingkangli, where there are great officials and nobles gathered to see the taste."

Huang Yan was thinking happily, and two cavalry came to the north and came to meet with the Uighurs. The leader said anxiously: "The person is in the museum, come with me." He was speaking in Chang'an dialect with a straightforward word. The Uighur horses randomly followed the visitor to Liquanfang. Soon, the fire in the walls soared into the sky, and the sound of killing was shocking.

Huang Yan didn't return home until the next afternoon. When his wife saw that he had not returned for a night, she gritted her teeth in hatred. As soon as she entered the door, she rushed over and pulled Huang Yan's collar and was about to hit him. Huang Yan shouted, "Silly girl, what are you doing? Look at what this is." He took out two yellow gold ingots from his arms, and his wife's eyes fell out of her joy. Without chewing, she carefully followed him into the door. She snatched the gold ingots and put them in her mouth.

Huang Yan smiled and said, "It's true, how can this be fake?"

The woman also judged the truth and falsehood. She was so happy that she really didn't know where to hide her. After thinking about it, she took a shovel behind the door and wanted to dig a hole in the backyard. Huang Yan grabbed her and asked, "Where are the second and third brothers? Go and call them back quickly. Oh, just say that his grandmother is dead and we are going to attend the funeral."

The woman cursed with her hips on her hips, "Your mother is dead. Is there anyone like you who cursed people like this in the sky and day?"

Huang Yan smiled and said, "My mother has died long ago, so I have to die this time. Let's go quickly. This time I really have to leave. If I don't leave, the sky is about to collapse." The woman muttered angrily, "Walk, there are so many things for ordinary people. There are tall people who are holding on to the sky. It's all your business. Is it your gold... Oh, you are so powerful, and you dare to take this ill-gotten fortune. My mother, you can't live this life."

The woman was about to make a fuss when Huang Yan was annoyed, grabbed her head, slapped her mouth, and finally kicked her and said, "Do as I say, leave before dark. If you dare to be careless again, I will kick out your intestines."

The woman was scared of being beaten by him, so she hurriedly got up, without saying a word, put her head together, and went obediently. Huang Yan looked at her back and spat, sneered, "If you don't fight for three days, go to the room to remove the tiles. This stinky old lady."

When Huang Yan was about to lie down and doze a few times, he suddenly heard someone hit the door, banging, and the sound was so urgent that Huang Yan was so scared that his legs and feet became weak. He asked reluctantly: Who is it?

"It's me." The brother-in-law's voice came from outside the door. Huang Yan was a little brave and barely struggled to open the door.

My brother-in-law was holding a hanging meat in his hand and threw it into his arms, saying, "Don't go there these two days, just rest at home." Huang Yan said, "What's wrong? Let's talk to you and you will break my meal." Huang Yan was rich and courageous in his hand, thinking to himself, even if you beg me to go, I won't go. He thought so in his heart, but he still said it nicely.

The eldest brother-in-law curled his lips and said, "Don't think about it, if you don't eat, my sister, my nephew will have to eat. Liquanfang had a murder case last night. I heard that a group of Uighurs and a nobleman in the city fought for a singer. The killing was bloody. At the end, he burned a very large music hall. In the end, he heard that hundreds of people died. There was an order from the top, and Liquan and several surrounding yards were all martial law. Even if we wanted to go, we couldn't go. Stay at home and rest for two days."

Huang Yan asked with a smile: "As soon as the new emperor ascended the throne, the Uighurs made such a big noise. This is not giving us face to the Tang Dynasty. Brother-in-law, it's not that I told you that you will lose money if you take this job."

My brother-in-law curled his lips, shook his head, and was about to leave, but suddenly he stood up and asked, "No, didn't you squat there last night? Liquanfang killed someone, you didn't see such a big noise?"

Huang Yan smiled and said, "I am so stupid. I'm squatting there all night? You guys walk forward and I'll sneak back and climb over the wall."

After hearing this, my brother-in-law nodded and left. Not long after he walked, his wife came back with her two sons. Huang Yan immediately closed the door and said, "Don't ask anything, pack up quickly, go, go to your uncle Yang's house to take refuge."

Huang Yan left Chang'an City that afternoon, and slept all the way. One month later, he arrived outside the Xining Army camp in Xiao Chang'an. The soldiers guarding the gate came out to ask him who he was looking for. Huang Yan took out a string of copper coins from his sleeve and said with a smile: "My surname is Huang, I came from Chang'an, and I am an old friend of the Grand Marshal. I asked Shangguan Tong to report it and said that his unworthy son Xiao Si came to kowtow to him."

Huang Yan squeezed out two lines of tears as he said that. The soldier shook the money in his hand. Huang Yan thought he was too little, so he hurriedly took out two more strings of money. The soldier threw the money back to him and said, "Wait, I'll report it. Move the carriage aside, and be careful that the inspector will be punished if he sees it implicated us."

Huang Yan thanked him for a long time and moved the carriage to the side of the road with his family. As he was waiting for a while, several waves of people roared in and out, making his wife tremble with fear, and his two sons were frightened. His wife asked, "Do you really know the commander in this camp? You have to be beheaded if you pretend to be a relative of the official."

Huang Yanshou said, "Close your stinky bird beak, are I tired of living? How dare I recognize my relatives? This master was my serious master, but I haven't seen him for some years."

"If I haven't visited the house for three years, I'm not going to kiss you. Can someone still recognize you?" The woman was still uneasy. Huang Yan was not at ease. Yes, if I haven't visited the house for three years, I'm not going to kiss you. I haven't seen him for six years. Does he still recognize me, an old friend?

While he was suspicious, a military academy ran out on a horse and asked immediately: "Where is Huang Yan from Chang'an?"

Huang Yan waved his hand and shouted, "Shangguan, I'm here."

Yang Haozai looked at the young man in front of him with two goatee beards. Except for his nose and eyes, there was a bit of old shadow, the rest changed, and even his voice changed.

"Xiao Si? You are really Xiao Si! How did you change your name? Huang Yan? Who gave it to you?"

"If you want to go back, Xiao Si's surname is Huang. As for the name, it was given by the old lady. He said, 'You're married, it would be bad if you call Xiao Si. It's hot outside, so I'll give you a name called Huang Yan'."

"You have started a family and started a business now? Whose girl did you marry and how many sons did you have?"

"If you say goodbye, you have two sons, one is Huang Zhong and the other is Huang Yi. The girl didn't marry her and married a widow."

"Have everyone come? Let them come in and I'll take a look."

"well--"

Yang Hao did not expect that Xiao Si, who had been separated for many years, would come to him. According to him, he had nowhere to live in Chang'an, so he had to come to the northwest to join him. When he said this, he kept blinking at himself. Yang Hao knew that what he said was false. Although Xiao Si was not a capable person, with his cleverness, he was more than enough to ask for food in Chang'an City. In front of many generals, he was not easy to ask in detail. In the evening, he set up a family banquet in the mansion to welcome Xiao Si's family. After the banquet, Lu Rui personally took Huang He's house to settle down, and Yang Hao took Xiao Si to the study.

Xiao Si changed her clothes and shaved her face. She was completely refreshed and became more energetic. When she arrived at the study, Xiao Si bowed to Yang Hao and cried: "The young man failed to take good care of the old lady, which led to the old lady's death early, the young man was guilty, and the young man was guilty."

Yang Hao helped him up and said, "It is me who is guilty, and I am sorry for her. The old saying goes that trees want to be quiet, but the wind does not stop, and the son wants to raise them, but the parents are not here. I only understand the meaning today."

He poured a bowl of tea for Xiaosi, and Xiaosi hurriedly wiped his tears and took it. Yang Hao asked with a smile: "When you talk today, you always wink at me, you are not telling the truth." Xiaosi said: "Nothing can be hidden from you. I came here because I heard something I shouldn't have heard. This may endanger you, so Xiaosi rushed over overnight, afraid that I will not let me go back, and even my family brought it with me."

Yang Hao said: "It's right that you can think so. You are the old man in my family. You don't even come to help me. Who else is willing to help me? Don't mention any of the past things."

Xiao Si said: "In the past, Xiao Si was sorry for his grandfather. He was willing to forgive the young man. The young man dared not be careless and loyal to him."

He wiped his tears and said, "Although the young man is getting worse and worse these days, he is not idle. He keeps asking about the matter. About ten days ago, the young man dug a ditch outside Liquanfang and accidentally dug a can of gold. The young man didn't tell anyone and wanted to take it alone, so he stayed there alone. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, a team of Uighurs rode horses from Yanshoufang. There were about a hundred people, and stopped in front of the young man. So a Tang man came over to them and said, 'You can go there,' so that the wave of people rushed to Liquanfang. I thought that something big was going to happen. If I could do it, I would not have to worry about the money? As soon as they passed, I got up and ran home. My family was in Jing'an. I could run a few steps. Then the fire came to the sky. Many people ran out of Liquanfang and ran away."

Xiao Si said this and drank a mouthful of water and profit-making voice, and continued, "I was mixed in the crowd and ran south, not daring to stay for a moment. As soon as I ran to Xishijiao, I saw a group of soldiers of Shence Army rushing towards me. Seeing us, without saying a word, I immediately shot five or six people. I lost that I jumped into the ditch and escaped my life. Shence Army yelled to catch the thief and set up defenses on the street corner, but when I saw someone, regardless of whether they were good or bad, they were shot and killed. People in Liquanfang couldn't run out, so some people climbed over the wall and ran into the yard. I think instead of dying under the arrows, it would be better to go into the yard to hide. Don't you say that it's dark? Maybe there is the safest place."

"When I flipped into the yard, the fire was already very big. Most of the entire Liquanfang was burning, and the undead people rushed to the southwest corner. Five or six beautifully dressed people asked me where the entrance to the gutter was. When they asked, I also opened my mind. If I walked along the gutter, wouldn't I escape from the place of fault? I said, I'll lead you to your door and come with me."

Yang Hao asked: "What are those people's faces?"

"It's too dark to see clearly. A person in his twenties is very tall. Everyone regards him as his best and tries his best to protect him."

Yang Hao nodded and asked, "Have they escaped successfully?"

Xiao Si said, "I took them into Judefang from the ditch and out of the city from the water gate of Weiqu. There were dozens of soldiers guarding the water gate. Two of them showed up to lead the people away, and the rest rushed out to guard the young man. I was afraid that they would kill people to silence them, pretending to be water-free and sink to the bottom of the water, so I escaped back to Judefang while they were not paying attention."

Xiao Si said, blinking and said, "The next day, there were rumors in the city that Your Majesty was assassinated in Liquanfang. The Shen Ce Army was in martial law everywhere and searching for rebels. I think that the person who escaped from the Water Gate was not an assassin who assassinated Your Majesty, would be related to this. Otherwise, he could stop after running to Judefang. Why risk leaving the city? So I thought about it and felt it was inappropriate, so I ran out. The Beijing Sheng rumored that Qiu Shiliang and you fought in Fengxiang Town last year. I thought that if he used this matter to win over Your Majesty, it would be unfavorable to you."
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