After Wu Dalang and Wu Song were pulled up by all hands, Ximen Qing complained: "Brother Wu Dao, the most important thing about our friendship is knowing each other, but this is a false courtesy, but you don't care about it."
Wu Dalang's face turned red, and after a long while, he said quietly: "This...I also know that Brother Ximen doesn't care about this...but, we just can't let it go! I can't say it, but let me be willful..."
At this time, Wu Song said from the side: "Master Ximen, brother, brother, I have something to say here, but you don't know whether to say it or not?"
Ximen Qing said quickly: "Second brother, where are you talking? If you have anything to say, please tell me."
Wu Song then crossed his hands and said: "The official Ximen and my eldest brother were talking very intensely. I didn't dare to interrupt at first, but I, my younger brother, have been wandering around for two years. Now that I am destined to return to my hometown today, I can't wait to get home right away. Putting away the dishes on the table and going to my parents' graves to pay homage and sweep them can be regarded as their giving birth to me, Wu Er."
As soon as he said these words, Wu Dalang felt happy and sad at the same time. The tears of reunion were not dry yet, and tears of emotion were added. What he was happy about was that his brother finally grew up and understood the truth of being a human being; what was sad was that although My brothers have all become weapons, but my parents can no longer see them with their own eyes.
Ximen Qing heard what Wu Song said was just and reasonable, and hurriedly crossed his hands and said: "Oh! This is my fault, Ximen Qing! Brother Wu Dao and Brother Wu are reunited, and they don't know how much they have to do and how much they want to say. How could I stand in the middle of this and miss your family affairs? Brother Wu Dao, Second Brother Wu, Xiao Ke will leave now!"
Wu Dalang said hurriedly: "Brother Ximen Xian, don't worry. No matter how much my Wu family has to do, I can't miss tomorrow's meritorious cooking cake. I, Wu Dalang, can't do anything, but I still have to abide by the word 'faith'. Wait for tomorrow After all the worldly matters are over, I will come again to take my brothers and treat Brother Ximen to a drink."
Wu Song also said: "Wu Er has always been outspoken throughout his life. If I have offended him in any way, I would like to ask the high officials of Ximen to forgive me."
Ximen Qingqian said: "Where is it! Brother Wu, Brother Wu, let's say goodbye and see you tomorrow!"
Wu Dalang said: "In that case, I will take my brother home right now!"
Wu Song asked: "Are our family still living in Zishi Street in the city?", while taking Wu Dalang's burden of cooking cakes that never left the scale, he nodded to Ximen Qing, and the two brothers followed each other. .
Ximen Qing looked at the tall figure of Wu Song, who was holding the bag of cooking cakes with one hand and holding his brother Wu Dalang with the other, and sighed in his heart: "This is the public security chief of Yanggu County, this is the dignified tiger-fighting hero!"
While sighing at Wu Song's filial piety and loyalty, he walked back slowly. Along the way, he admired Wu Dalang endlessly. It was not that he envied his strong bones and strange appearance, but that he had such a good brother.
Suddenly remembering that Wu Song seemed to have a look of disdain flashing in his eyes when he mentioned himself, Ximen Qing couldn't help but feel a little unhappy. He secretly thought that since he came to the world of the Northern Song Dynasty, he has always behaved in an upright manner. Brother Ye Dao He never forgot the Nine-Character Scripture taught by him, and he never missed a step in matters of right and wrong - he had already reached this point, why did Wu Song still feel a little contempt for him?
It is only said that Wu Dalang was a close friend. After Wu Song returned home, feeling grateful for his deep kindness to his brother, he must have thrown himself to the ground, bowed his head and said, "I am willing to serve brother Ximen Qing." Wouldn't everyone be happy at that time? Unexpectedly, the beads in the abacus were turned back and forth, but today they all came to nothing.
Suddenly, a random thought came to Jiao Ting: "Could it be that Brother Jiao is really a bad mother and son, an unlucky broom?" But then when he realized it, he couldn't laugh or cry for a while. Alas! This man! When things happen, it's not from him. Looking for the cause deep down, but only looking for the fault in others. If this kind of laziness does not change, any ambition will be just a dream!
Why was Wu Song so cold to me? Ximen Qing peeled off his skin, tore it into pieces and analyzed it in detail, but he couldn't figure out the key points of the joints.
On the other side of Qinghe County, Wu Dalang was also asking Wu Song: "Brother, I think you seemed to be disrespectful to Brother Ximen just now, but why?"
Wu Song said with a smile: "Brother has thought too much. Even in Yanggu County, I have heard about the great kindness shown to my brother by the great officials of Ximen. I am only grateful to him. If I say it is disrespectful, it is... That’s serious!”
Wu Dalang sighed: "Brother, I have been looked down upon by others since I was a child. If I didn't know how to look at people's eyes, how could I survive today? Besides, you are my brother. Since you were a child, what can you hide from me? If in your heart If you are really dissatisfied with Brother Ximen, please tell me as soon as possible, and Brother Yu can help you resolve it!"
Hearing what Wu Dalang said sincerely, Wu Song held his brother's hand tightly: "Since my brother said so, I will tell the truth! I can't say I'm disrespectful to the official Ximen, but I can't say I'm respectful either. He I am very kind to my brother, but I am grateful in my heart without saying a word. If he uses our brother, he will be shattered to pieces without even frowning! But let me treat him respectfully and sincerely. But it’s absolutely impossible!”
Wu Dalang wondered: "This is something strange! Brother, what are you thinking about?"
Wu Song said with emotion: "Brother, little brother, I heard that the high-ranking official from Ximen went to the street to cry bitterly for a brothel girl, and even wrote a long elegiac couplet. In the end, he took the woman's spirit back home. Went there, did this happen?"
Wu Dalang said: "It is indeed true! Who in Qinghe County doesn't say that Brother Ximen has a deep love and a profound sense of justice? This is what everyone has seen with their own eyes. Do you think it was made up by storytellers?"
Wu Song snorted and said firmly: "It's because this thing is true, brother, that I feel uncomfortable in my heart! A good man, but he indulges in female sex, and his heroic spirit is tarnished! Brother's eyes There is no room for such people here! So, he loves his beauty while I watch with cold eyes. There is no conflict between us, so there is no need for me to worry about it, brother!"
Wu Dalang was stunned for a moment and then laughed dumbly: "Brother! I really don't know what to say to you! Brother Ximen Xian, a person who values love and justice, are you regarded as a womanizer? Alas! Wait until you marry me You will know it when you have a daughter-in-law! Even if I tell you everything now, you still won’t understand!"
Wu Song sneered and said: "What do you mean by valuing love and keeping righteousness? There are too many people who value love and righteousness in this world, right? Don't blame me, brother. When it comes to valuing love and keeping righteousness, no one I have seen in my eyes is as good as As good as Song Jiang and Song Gongming’s brother!"
Wu Dalang's eyes lit up: "Could it be that the Song Jiang and Song Gongming brothers mentioned are the Song Yasi in Yuncheng County, Shandong Province, which is known as the 'Timely Rain'?"
Wu Song smiled brightly: "Exactly! It turns out that my brother has also heard of Gongming's name!"
Wu Dalang nodded and said: "In our eight prefectures in Shandong, there are rumors everywhere about the benevolence and righteousness of Song Jiang and Song Gongming. Although my brother is just a cake seller, I have heard it a lot! But brother, from what I can see in my eyes, Brother Ximen's
What he did is not necessarily much worse than that of Timely Rain Song Yasi!"
Wu Song's thick eyebrows were raised, and when he was about to refute something, he had already turned into Zishi Street. He was born and raised on this street since he was a child. He chased cats and dogs, and did everything he could. Everyone recognized him.
Yes, when they saw him coming with a load, all the neighbors gathered around and said with a smile: "It turns out that the second brother of the Wu family is back!"
Wu Song's name as a tiger-fighting hero has already spread throughout Qinghe County with the promotion of county chief Le Hean, bookkeeper Ren Lianggui and others. When people in Qinghe County heard that their county had a tiger-fighting hero, they were overjoyed at first, and then heard about their own.
The heroes who fought against the tiger were actually poached by Yanggu County. They all beat their chests and stamped their feet, as if they were mourning their heirs, and treated the magistrate and husband of Yanggu County as worthless.
The neighbors on Zishi Street in Qinghe County heard that the hero of the tiger fight was actually Wu Song, who had been naughty since he was a child and made trouble when he grew up. They were surprised at first, and then suddenly realized - no wonder Wu Song was brave and different from ordinary people since he was a child. He thought he was a local chef.
Xing's younger brother must have also come down from some kind of star. Both brothers were born in a flash. Otherwise, how could they defeat the fierce tiger on Jingyang Hill?
When I saw Wu Song coming back today, all the neighbors were very proud. They gathered around him one by one and rushed to say hello to Wu Song.
Wu Song saw that many of the old neighbors with white heads and white heads were also saluting him, so he hurriedly put down the burden of cooking cakes on his shoulders and did not return the favor. Wu Dalang, who was watching his brothers' actions, became much more calm and serious. He was no longer the same as before.
The ignorant young man who was so brave but ignorant of etiquette felt both proud and bitter in his heart.
In the middle of the hustle and bustle, I heard a "click" sound in the attic of Wu Dalang's house, the window was opened, and a delicate voice called out: "Brother, there is so much noise in the street, but is our second uncle back?"
When everyone looked up, they saw a beautiful girl with red makeup on the loft, her hair was cloudy, her face was covered with a veil, she was floating in the wind and shadow of the loft, like a fairy from heaven.
Wu Dalang raised his head and said happily: "Sister-in-law guessed it right, it is my brother Wu Song who is back!"
The woman said "Ah" and quickly closed the window on the attic, presumably to prepare for her uncle's arrival.
Wu Song was stunned, and after a long time he said: "Brother, it turns out...it turns out that after all these years of not seeing each other, you actually married your sister-in-law back?"
Wu Dalang laughed loudly and took Wu Song's hand: "Come on, come on! My brother will take you home now. I have met your sister-in-law! Dear neighbors, please! Please!"
The neighbors scattered in all directions. Wu Song hugged everyone and picked up the burden of cooking cakes again. When he came to the door of his ancestral house, the door opened with a "squeak". Where the embroidered curtain rose, the light
The veiled woman came out from under the curtain and said deeply, "Uncle, please come in!" This is exactly what she said:
A hundred years of love and enmity have been looked at, and they have been chatting and laughing through the ages. But I don’t know what will happen next. Let’s hear the explanation next time.