Volume 1 Little Yuanba Chapter 4 Conspiracy Chamber
"What? Mr. Chen has just taken office. He is already unlucky enough to encounter this, and he still needs to be exiled?"
After Li Dan finished speaking, he saw Chen Meng's face getting paler and said hurriedly: "Don't worry, sister, the capital is too far away, I can still go to Yingtian Guards House to submit a letter...!"
"You last...," Zhou Du glanced at Chen Meng and held back what he said next: "The country puts filial piety first, and you, an idiot, get involved in it, aren't you afraid of death?
Let me tell you, those scholars, the leader will definitely be sentenced to death by hanging, the followers will have their honors and honors taken away, and all the criminals, their entire family, and the three clans will be sent to the army and sent to the Nine Sides!
If Mr. Chen only seizes his post and can return to his hometown after being exiled for three to five years, that would be good. If he can save his life, just thank the emperor for his great kindness!"
Seeing that Li Dan was still dissatisfied with his pout, he waved his hand: "Okay! Brother Dan, don't complain here, you can't talk to me. I have brought my words to you, and you have to go back quickly.
Don't mess with it here. It's not good for others to find out later. Hurry up and get out the same way you got in before others know.
As for me, I just pretended that I saw nothing and heard nothing."
Chen Meng quickly thanked Zhou Dutou, then stretched out his hand to pull Li Dan to salute and thank him. Li Dan helplessly looked at Chen Meng, nodded, and followed his tall back out.
Yueying lit a lantern for them, and walked straight to the wall behind where he came in. Zhou Du suddenly stopped, grabbed Li Dan and said softly: "There was something difficult to say in the room just now. You, Li Sanlang, take the lead."
Go back and give your uncle a message to ask him for details."
"Zhou Dutou is going to talk about the marriage between my fifth brother and the eldest sister of the Chen family?"
Zhou Du was startled: "Smart, I didn't expect you to have thought of it? Then you should understand how important this matter is to the Li family?"
"If it were me, I would never agree to do this!" Li Dan said firmly.
"Humph, then it's a good thing you're not the one getting engaged!"
Zhou Dutou sneered: "Both the Chen and Li families are prominent families in our Yugan County. It's enough that the Chen family is in trouble now. Fan Taizun (the county magistrate) doesn't want to get involved with the Li family again.
It’s about the dignity of the whole county, so you must speak up, you can’t make fun of it!”
"Okay, okay, I promise you." Li Dan reluctantly agreed. Zhou Dutou also asked him to be quiet these two days and not go out to make trouble before Tiqi left, etc. Li Dan agreed one by one.
Only then did Zhou Dutou let go of his arm, and in the blink of an eye he watched him jump up and down, and he reached the other side of the wall in three strokes. He shook his head angrily and muttered: "Master Li's poems and calligraphy heirlooms, how do you teach them?"
Such a hozen?
It’s true that people say ‘a common man has no moral integrity’!” As he said this, he held the handle of the knife with one hand, walked through the front yard under the guidance of the lantern, and left the Chen family.
After coming out of Jizhu Lane, he saw broken branches and fallen leaves all over the ground. Li Dan then remembered that there had been lightning and thunder. It could be seen that there were not many traces of water on the ground. The thunder must have been loud and the raindrops were light.
Around the time I was talking to sister Meng'er, the storm had passed.
Li Dan walked with his head down and stopped at the crossroads. To the left was the county government office, to the front was the market, and to the right was the way home.
He really wanted to go left, but when he looked up at the archway at the intersection, Li Dan gritted his teeth and resisted, turning to the right.
That archway was given to us by the late emperor and erected in this county because the ancestors of the Li family refused to write a memorial to insult the late emperor and was killed.
Although the four golden characters of "moral model" cannot be clearly seen at night, they have been deeply rooted in Li Dan's mind since he was a child. Zhou Dutou is right, you can't ruin the whole family just because of your own willfulness, right?
As soon as I saw the dark shadow on the screen wall of his house, I heard a voice shouting: "Who is that? You're walking at night. Don't you know it's already curfew time?"
"Xiu Er, why are you yelling? You bark louder than a dog!" Li Dan scolded.
The servant named Xiu Er heard the sound and hurriedly took down the lantern, hurriedly ran down the steps to meet him and illuminated the way, and said with a smile: "Third brother? Look at me, an old dog, my eyesight doesn't work well at night.
.I didn’t surprise your driver, did I?”
"Huh? What are you talking about? It's hard to see clearly at night? How long has it been?" Li Dan asked as he walked inside.
"Oh, it's about half a year old." Xiu Er grinned: "I've seen the doctor, and I've also asked Wu Er Niang to ask for help, but nothing works."
"Even if it's night blindness!" Li Dan turned around, looked at his face, and pointed with his finger: "Go to the market to find the meat seller Lu Da and the two Lu brothers, and ask them for some dolphin and sheep liver, and ask your wife to slice them into pieces.
Eat fried carrots, one pair a day, three or five pairs should be enough."
Then he waved his hand and gave him a silver bean: "If your wife also has this problem, we can cure it together. Drinking the water to boil the liver will also be useful, but the effect will be slower." Xiu Er took the silver bean from behind, happy.
Thank you very much.
Li Dan stopped paying attention to him and was about to go back to his room when he saw his fifth brother taking a nap on the porch with a lantern next to him. He was awakened by his footsteps and stood up to greet him and asked: "Third brother, you are back? How is the situation?"
"You've been waiting here?" Li Dan was surprised.
"Then what should I do? My uncle and mother don't allow me to go out, so I have to wait here to wait for news from you."
Li Shuo smiled bitterly and lowered his voice and told him: "Third uncle went to see the county magistrate. Unexpectedly, the door said that the elder was with a guest and it was inconvenient to see him. He came back when the curfew was approaching and now he went to the meeting room."
Li Dan looked at him and said, "In that case, fifth brother, please go and invite your mother to the meeting room, and I'll talk about it together." After hearing this, Li Shuo hurriedly agreed and went back to find Gao. Li Dan went to discuss the matter first.
Room comes.
The meeting room is an independent courtyard on the east side of the study. There is a stalagmite standing at the door, and there is a blue brick with an inscription on the moon cave door. Li Dan knows that it is the word "pure".
On the right hand side of the entrance hall is a concierge, and on the left is a corridor leading directly to the tea room. The house is built on the hillside behind a small pond, with two rooms on the front. On the left is a corridor with flower windows that goes down the slope to the tea room, and on the right is a sliding window looking out at the view.
's flower hall.
As soon as Li Dan came in, he heard the sound of footsteps and two people came out from the concierge to greet him. "Hey, Sanlang is back?" The first one was Hu Qin, the steward of the hospital, and the one behind was the third master Li Yan's beloved boy named Shun'er.
Li Dan glanced at the two of them: "My uncle and the others are inside?"
"Yes, yes, we were asked to wait here. Changjing is waiting for the tea." Hu Qin replied. Changjing is the long-term attendant of the eldest master Li Su. Li Dan knew from this posture that the two people inside did not want to let him go.
Others are present.
"Wait a minute, I'll report!" After all, Li Dan was a young man, so Hu Qin quickly asked Shun'er to bring a stool for him to sit on, then walked around the pond and climbed up the steps to knock on the door to report.
After a while, he ran back, smiled and bowed: "Sanlang, the two gentlemen asked you to come in and talk."
Li Dan went to the door and called out first: "Uncle, third uncle." Hearing the voice inside: "Third brother, come in." When he entered the room, he saw brothers Li Su and Li Yan sitting separately.
"Come in and sit down." Li Yan waved with a smile. He was fairer than his brother, with two thin eyebrows on his round face. Compared with his brother who had a straight face all day long and was used to acting like a big man, he looked much softer.
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"Where have you been so late? I searched all over the yard for you but couldn't find you!" Li Su asked unhappily. Li Dan was bored by his long, dark, winter melon face.
In fact, in Li Dan's heart, he didn't regard this place as his home. It was just a temporary place to stay, a place he was passing through.
He believes that he remembers many things from his previous life, otherwise how could he explain his self-taught knowledge of martial arts? Why can he never forget his reading and seem to have a mature understanding of history? How can he understand "night blindness" and its treatment?
Li Dan didn't know the answer to these, he just knew: they are like this, they should be like this, there is no other possibility. It would be strange if the answer was different from what he knew.
For example, what dynasty is it now? From the perspective of historical development, it should be the Ming Dynasty, but this dynasty is not called "Ming", and the emperor's reign and name do not match, but the historical events and context are surprisingly similar.
Li Dan couldn't explain this phenomenon. The only possibility was that he was in another parallel space, and everything here was similar but not the same as before.
Li Dan can clearly remember many things, including the sounds he heard when he was in his mother's belly, the things he saw when he opened his eyes, and many other things that children at that age should not remember.
He was very quiet when he was young because he needed to spend all his time observing and learning life in this new environment.
He still remembers the first time his father, Li Mu, saw him climbing up a ladder to find a book, and then sitting alone for two hours flipping through the pages of the book. He was so excited that he was incoherent.
At that time, the father did not understand how his son knew the front and back of books and characters, how he knew where the first page was and that the order of reading was from top to bottom and from right to left.
You must know that at that time, children of the same age did not even understand that the pen holder could not be eaten. How did Sanlang know this at such a young age? His father did not understand, but kept saying that this son was born smart, which was the auspiciousness of the Li family.
His father, Li Mu, was the second son in the family, but he was the first among his brothers to become an official and the one with the highest rank in the end.
Unfortunately, when he was the governor of Dongchang Prefecture, he unfortunately fell into the water and died during the project to control the old Yellow River (i.e. the old river), which caused the second house's status to plummet.
It was also that year that Li Dan's temperament began to change drastically, and he suddenly became obsessed with martial arts. As a result, everyone in this family of poetry and calligraphy was looking at him with suspicion, and he became an alien in everyone's eyes.
In fact, Li Dan knew in his heart that his father did not die in a normal way. He found that in this era, he must have the awareness and means of self-protection. He could not survive by just reading and literacy!
"Everything is inferior, only reading is superior!"
Li Dan also knew this sentence in his previous life, but now his father's experience made him understand that at least in this era, although books and fame are steps or tools to advance in life, they cannot even protect himself and his family.
This step is built on sand and is not reliable at all!
Didn't Li Mu lose his name for no apparent reason because he discovered that the rations for the embankment and river construction workers had been misappropriated?
These days, there is no such thing as public justice, prosecutors, and laws, and there is no such thing as equality and rights. If you die, you will die.
Yes, Li Mu is not considered an upright official, otherwise how could he have so much wealth to make his elder brother and younger brother go crazy with jealousy?
But if you have a life, you will earn a life flower. After your death, the court will reward you with a reputation, a posthumous title, and some pension, that's all.
Li Dan was shocked when he saw his father. He immediately realized that the reality of the relationship between people in this era was different from that five hundred years later. It would be inappropriate to live in the present with the thinking of that time.
Long life.
In this era, you can only protect yourself, and no one else can help you!
He began to squat on horseback consciously, and asked the little maid Beixi to make a pair of leggings for him. He first stuffed river sand into them, and when he couldn't feel the weight after running for ten miles, he replaced them with stones, and finally replaced them with iron sand.
He began to carry two small wooden buckets filled with water and run around the whole family. At first, the family thought he was suffering from hysteria, but after being yelled at by him several times, they realized that Saburo was going to take a beating.
The small wooden barrel grew bigger and bigger, and Li Dan became stronger and stronger. When he took off his Confucian shirt, it was full of muscles.
He proposed to eat chicken every day, and even broke the table with his family because of this. People said behind his back that he was willful and did whatever he wanted. They didn't understand that a good young master wouldn't do what he wanted. What was Saburo doing?
Of course, he finally gave in and changed to six eggs a day and one chicken every ten days.
But soon he developed a habit of eating water. He ate the liver, stomach, lungs, and waist, except the heart and intestines, saying that they were unclean.
Later, for some reason, I became interested in the art of making dried sausages using sheep intestines and shochu. It is said that I learned it from the hunters in the mountains.
Alas, in short, it is outrageous. In the eyes of the uncle and the third uncle, he is becoming more and more strange. A scholar should behave like a scholar. How can he be like this, holding a knife and catching chickens in the yard every now and then?
Li Dan disagreed. He said that this was called "having too many skills to overwhelm one's body." He even went to the restaurant to see how the chef prepared the dishes, steamed the meat, and sometimes even gave some pointers.
He is keen on contacting all walks of life, so he does not have the airs of a young master. In addition, he is strong, has martial arts, is righteous in doing things, and is generous in his actions. He gradually gains the love of Yang Yi and others. However, he is ignored by his brothers (except
scorned by the eldest brother).
His aunt, Mrs. Gao, always took advantage of his "not doing his job properly" and scolded his adoptive mother, Mrs. Qian, which made her suffer a lot of injustice.
This Qian family is not Li Dan's biological mother, that one is her sister. Qian family was Li Mu's concubine when he was the magistrate of Lujiang County. Her family was a well-known wealthy businessman in the local area.
Li Dan's biological mother died when he was five years old. Soon after, Li Mu moved to the post of Dongchang magistrate. Before taking office, he married Xiao Qian, brought her to the post and gave Li Dan to her to raise.
Unexpectedly, Li Mu passed away before they could have any more children. The Xiao Qian family buried the deceased, leaving Yu Qian to treat Li Dan as his own son.
So every time Li Dan got into trouble or did something unbelievable, the Gao family would say it was because of Xiao Qian's poor upbringing and so on.
Although they despised Li Dan's various actions, if there was something big or small at home, everyone would think of "looking for Saburo" for some reason, just like how Li Su mentioned "little evil beast" when he opened his mouth this evening.
But now the "little evil beast" was in front of him. He was expecting Li Dan to bring him some news, and was also afraid of his bravery, so he asked in a stern voice and stopped talking. He listened carefully to what he would say in reply.