Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Ximen Qing already had his own guess in his mind, and Lu Xiaoyi's words at this moment proved that his guess was right, the two who just walked past were "Shenxing Taibao" Dai Zong and "Black Whirlwind" Li Kui.

Why do these people fear and hate both of them?Ximen Qing stepped forward to grab the spitting man and asked him to talk to the tea house on the street.

Seeing that Ximen Qing didn't have any malicious intentions, and he received the money from Ximen Qing, he immediately agreed to Ximen Qing's invitation, and followed Ximen Qing and others into the teahouse.

Ximenqing asked the man, and then he knew why Dai Zong and Li Kui appeared outside the Town God's Temple.It turned out that the "Shenxing Taibao" Dai Zong had no children in his family, and he only rested in the Guanyin Nunnery on the wall of the Town God's Temple.

What is Guanyin Nunnery?It was a nunnery, a temple where female practitioners lived.The "Shenxing Taibao" Dai Zong, who is a jailer in Jiangzhou's two courtyards, did not know what despicable tricks he used to force him to live in the Guanyin nunnery, and spent the night in the nunnery every day!

There are so many mischievous people in Jiangzhou City, and none of them are as shameless and vulgar as Dai Zong, and no one who sees around here does not secretly despise him.

Behind Dai Zong, the "Shenxing Taibao", was a small jailer next to Dai Zong, whose surname was Li Mingkui. It is said that Zu Guan was from Baizhang Village, Yishui County, Yizhou.Li Kui himself has a different name in the world, called "Black Whirlwind" Li Kui, and some people call him Li Tieniu.

Li Kui was rough and cruel, unreasonable, and he was not good at drinking, and he liked to beat people after drinking. People inside and outside Jiangzhou feared him.

This Li Kui is the younger brother of Dai Zong, the "Shenxing Taibao", who has beaten many people in Jiangzhou City for him.Therefore, among the people in Jiangzhou City today, who would dare to oppose that Dai Zong? Regarding his misdeeds, they can only dare to be angry but dare not speak out.

After listening to the introduction from the people on the street, Ximen Qing thought that this "Shenxing Taibao" Dai Zong really deserved to be a Taibao!The evil of this guy is no less than the kindness of Mengzhou's "Golden Eye Biao", and even more victorious.

Shi En took advantage of his father's status in charge of the camp to exploit the labor of the prisoners in the prison camp, and let these prisoners serve as his thugs to help him bully the market in Happy Forest.

When Shi En wanted to take over women from the people, he was mainly targeting those who crossed the state and bumped into the mansion, or the prostitutes who lived in Happy Forest.

All in all, "Golden-eyed Biao" Shi En still had some scruples when he did bad things, and he did it relatively covertly, and even put up a signboard of "Spectacular Mengzhou Weather" to cover up his embarrassment.

Compared with Shi En, "Shenxing Taibao" Dai Zong was even more unscrupulous.This guy is extremely greedy for money, and as a jailer of the Jiangzhou two courts, he openly extorted money from the prisoners in the prison.If the prisoner refused to pay, Dai Zong would blatantly threaten to kill the prisoner.

Before Dai Zong read Wu Yong's letter, he said this to Song Jiang when he blackmailed him: "You are a licensed product in my hands. It is a crime to cough lightly! I will kill you, just like killing a fly. "

This shows how dark Jiangzhou Prison is under Dai Zong's management, and how arrogant Dai Zong himself is!

What's even more arrogant about Dai Zong is that this guy has a unique taste, he doesn't bully the women performing arts in the rivers and lakes like Shi En, but seduces the nuns who occupy the nunnery!The dignified officials of the imperial court do not find a house to settle down by themselves, but force them to live in a nunnery. It can be said that they have no bottom line in their actions and are not afraid of people's words.

2 Chapter Twenty

Ximen Qing sent him out of the teahouse after listening to the man on the street.Looking back, I saw that Jiang Zhong couldn't hold back the anger in his chest.

When Ximen Qing returned to the tea table, he saw Jiang Zhong slapping the table and said: "What a domineering man and woman! That guy surnamed Dai is more hateful than Mengzhou's Shi En! But I can't spare this dog lightly." Man and woman! Brother Ximen, brother, I want to pull that dog man and woman out of Guanyin Nunnery right now and beat them up!"

Lu Xiaoyi whispered to the side: "Brother Jiang Zhong, don't be impulsive, everything is under the control of Brother Ximen. Among the two, Li Kui, a big black man, has long been under surveillance by me and Brother Shi Yong. Speak, and we can cut him off!"

Jiang Zhong said: "There are too many monks and too little porridge. At that time, all the brothers must leave that bitch named Dai to me, Jiang Menshen!"

Everyone laughed when they heard the words, Ximen Qing said: "Brother, there are so many people talking here, it's not a place to talk. Why don't we find another good place to have a few drinks."

Shi Yong said on the side: "Out ahead of Jiangzhou City, there is the Pipa Pavilion Tavern next to the river. It is said that it is a historical site of Bai Letian in the Tang Dynasty. Let's go to the pavilion for a few drinks and enjoy the river view."

Jiao Ting said: "A good place to go! The wind by the river is cool and cool, it's a good time to drink and have fun! I can buy some delicacies outside this Town God's Temple and go."

Shi Yong said: "Brother Jiao Ting, don't bother. Now there are people selling wine in that kiosk, some of them are good wine and delicacies."

After hearing this, Ximen Qing remembered that the Pipa Pavilion Tavern recommended by Shi Yong was the place where Li Kui ate wine and fish soup together when Song Jiang first met Li Kui in history.At that time, because there was no fresh fish, Li Kui volunteered to go to the river to buy fish, which led to two fights between "Black Whirlwind" Li Kui and "Langli Baitiao" Zhang Shun on land and in the water.

Ximen Qing wanted to see it, so he said, "It's good when you are here. Brothers, I'll go to the Pipa Pavilion Tavern to have a drink and be happy!"

At that time, Ximenqing, Jiang Zhong, Jiao Ting and others left the tea house and looked at the Pipa Pavilion together.Everyone came to the north gate of Jiangzhou City, and when they went to look outside the pavilion, they were surrounded by thick willow trees. The Pipa Pavilion tavern was on one side of the Xunyang River, and on the other side was the owner's house.

Next to the pavilion, there is a stone tablet.Ximenqing went to the stone tablet and looked carefully, only to see that "Pipa Xing" written by Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, was engraved on it.Its article reads:

In the tenth year of Yuanhe, Yu Zuo moved to Sima of Jiujiang County.In autumn next year, see off guests at Panpukou, and hear the sound of those who play the pipa in the middle of the boat at night, and there is a sound of Kyoto in the clang.Ask her, I am a woman advocate in Chang'an, and I learned the pipa from Mu and Cao Ershancai.Sui ordered the wine to play a few songs quickly.The song strikes me with embarrassment, and I narrate the happy things when I was young, but now I am drifting and haggard, and I am migrating between the rivers and lakes.I have been out of office for two years, and I feel at ease, and I feel the words of others, and it is the evening when I feel the intention of relegation.Because of the long sentence, the song is a gift, and every 610 six words is called "Pipa Xing".

Xunyang River head night to see guests off, maple leaf digi flowers autumn surging.

The owner disembarked from the boat, drinking wine without restraint.

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This "Pipa Xing" was written by Bai Juyi, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, when he was the Sima of Jiujiang County in Jiangzhou and saw off guests by the river in the 11th year of Yuanhe.The Pipa Pavilion was built by later generations to commemorate this Yuefu poem written by Bai Juyi.In the Song Dynasty, when monks sold roast pork, the Pipa Pavilion, which was originally used to commemorate the ancients, became a tavern.

Taking advantage of Bai Juyi's golden signboard, this Pipa Pavilion Tavern has made a lot of money from literati.It seems that the people of the Song Dynasty with a developed commercial economy will also play the trick of "building a stage for culture and acting for the economy"!Ximen Qing secretly sighed in his heart.

There are more than ten seats on the Pipa Pavilion.Everyone entered the pavilion and chose a clean seat to sit down, and then asked the bartender to lay down vegetables, fruits, seafood and wine.The bartender took two bottles of "Yuhuchun" wine, which is a famous colored wine in Jiangzhou, and it was opened.

After Ximen Qing waited for the bartender to sieve the wine, he asked the bartender to leave, raised his glass to Jiang Zhong and the other brothers and said, "The two people I saw in front of the Town God's Temple today are exactly the ones I told my brothers about in Yanggu County. The villains in the state. I will wait for them to come here this time, and I will not let them go. However, Song Jiang, the leader of the villains, has not yet arrived in Jiangzhou, and Dai Zong, the "Shenxing Taibao", cannot be killed for the time being. He must be spared. Help me lure all the thieves from Jiangzhou into the city. As for that 'Black Whirlwind' Li Kui, let me..."

After hearing this, all the brothers nodded in unison, saying that they would act according to Ximen Qing's plan.After discussing the business, Ximen Qing and the others enjoyed delicious food and wine, watched the view of the Xunyang River outside the pavilion, and chatted some gossip.

It was the early summer of May at this time, and although there was no such scenery as Bai Juyi’s "seeing off guests at night on the Xunyang River, maple leaves and flowers rustling in autumn" by the riverside, there was nothing like hazy willows, gulls and birds skimming the river, merchants coming and going, and thousands of sails racing against each other. prosperous scene.

Jiang Zhong is now running a restaurant business in Yunzhou, and is very interested in fine wines from all over the world.After he had two glasses of wine, he put Dai Zong and Li Kui and other thieves behind him, and started talking with Ximen Qing about the operation of the Pipa Pavilion tavern.

Jiao Ting, Shi Yong and Lu Xiaoyi also drank fine wine, talked about some rumors in the world, and told their own stories.

Everyone was talking to their ears, only to see a girl, twenty-eight years old, wearing a gauze dress, entered the pavilion, came to the front gracefully, said five blessings deeply, and then sang with her throat open.

The sunny pigeons try the bell and the wind is soft, and the young warblers play with their tongues and the spring is cold and thin.

As soon as the girl opened her mouth, the crisp and melodious voice surprised Ximen Qing and the others.What a little lady, she can sing such a beautiful song.

Jiang Zhong, who was sitting next to Ximen Qing, put down the wine glass in his hand, and looked at the girl bewilderedly.Ximen Qing saw it from the side, and thought to himself, could it be that brother Jiang, the door god, is interested in this little singer?

After the girl sang a song, before everyone had time to applaud, they heard Jiang Zhong shouting hello.The girl was also stunned by Jiang Zhong's loud voice.

Jiang Zhong didn't care how surprised the brothers around him were, he got up and walked to the girl, took out an ingot of ten taels of silver and handed it to her.

Although the girl is a singer, how have you ever seen such a generous guest official?She didn't dare to take the money in Jiang Zhong's hand rashly, but turned to look at an old couple at the door of the tavern.

Seeing this, the old couple walked into the pavilion, took the silver from Jiang Zhong's hand, thanked him a thousand times, and asked the girl to say a thousand blessings to Jiang Zhong.

"What's your surname, where do you come from?" Ximen Qing walked up to Jiang Zhong who was giggling, and asked the old woman.

The old woman said: "To tell the truth from the officials, the old couple's surname is Song, and they were originally from the capital. There is only this daughter, whose name is Yulian. His father taught him a few tunes by himself, and randomly asked him to come to the pipa pavilion." Singing and singing. It's really unbelievable that this official is so generous, the old couple and the youngest daughter are deeply grateful for the official's kindness."

"Song Yulian, you are really a good little lady. Old man, I want to find a husband for your daughter to marry, so she won't have to sing here. I don't know what you want?" Ximen Qing asked the old woman straight to the point.

Chapter 221 Song Heizi Entered Jiangzhou

Hearing what Ximen Qing said, Jiang Zhong hurriedly pulled Ximen Qing, and asked in his ear: "Brother, who is the lover you are talking about?"

At this time, the little lady Song Yulian heard that Ximen Qing was going to propose marriage to her parents, her ears turned red with shame, she lowered her head and hid behind her parents, but pricked up her ears, unwilling to miss a word.

The few officials in front of them seemed to be from rich and noble families, and the tall officials gave them ten taels of silver as gifts.If my daughter can climb up to these officials, she won't have to wander around the rivers and lakes to suffer.It's just that I don't know who the handsome official in front of me wants to introduce to my Yulian?

The old couple of the Song family looked at each other, and the old woman asked Ximen Qing: "Thank you, old lady, officer! I wonder where is the beloved man in the officer's mouth?"

Ximen Qing pointed to Jiang Zhong and said with a smile: "My brother owns many big restaurants, his family is rich, and he is also a hero. He is really a rare match for your daughter! I think he has a good impression of your daughter. I intend to facilitate this matter. I wonder if you and your wife are willing?"

Ximen Qing turned to Jiang Zhong and asked, "Brother, brother, did I say something wrong?"