The big man is on the run

Chapter 65 Little girl, come here

Besides, it is only ten miles away from Huashan Daying to Huayin County.

However, along the way, Liu Yi and others stopped and sighed several times.

The immature wheat was trampled and harvested, and the village males were forcibly conscripted as peasant husbands. All these things are naturally good things done by Yang Ding.

Liu Yi sighed. Naturally, it was because the people were really miserable, and they were living a good life, but when they were disturbed by the rebels, their families would be ruined, and there were inevitably other factors in this.

Yang Xiu sighed because many of the property here belonged to his family's Yang family, and he felt sorry for his own property.

It should be said here that the biggest beneficiary of Guo Bang's defeat was Yang Ding.

First of all, Yang Ding's camp was not Guo Bang's main attack direction in the Battle of Zheng County, and Yang Ding suffered little loss.Secondly, when the troops were divided up and surrendered after the war, Yang Ding, who was originally the number two figure in the Guo Si coalition army, took away many parts that were not directly related to Guo Si.

It is precisely because of having more than 4000 soldiers and horses close to [-], and ranking first in the official army, Yang Ding dared to fight Duan Yao himself.

Duan Yan has more soldiers and horses, but he has been stationed in the fields for a long time. Since Dong Zhuo moved his capital to Chang'an in the second year of Chuping (191), Duan Yan's [-] soldiers were left behind in Huayin. The soldiers have not fought for four or five years. Duan Yan didn't dare to fight Yang Ding in the field, so he could only defend the city.

It is also for this reason that even if Yang Xiuliang knew his identity, and even if the guarding the south gate of Huayin was Yang Xiu's clan brother, he did not dare to open the city for them, but took a few large baskets for internal and external transportation and hung them up. When they came up, the horses stayed under the city, so they had to send two people to guard them.

After entering the city, Liu Yi looked around. The order of the streets in the city was relatively stable. There were soldiers patrolling the streets to prohibit night walks, but lights were not prohibited. .

After entering the second largest and second most luxurious mansion in the center of Huayin County, Liu Yi felt that his judgment before departure was correct.

Look at this carved beam and painted building, look at this beautiful maidservant, besides his name, what else can General Duan look up to?Anyway, Liu Yi thinks there should be no more.

Duan Yan was very enthusiastic, and when he heard that the envoy of the imperial court was Yang Xiu, he held a banquet for him without any hesitation.

If you look at the banquet from the perspective of a private banquet, the standard is definitely not low, which can be judged from the beauty of the singer and dancer.

However, after drinking for three rounds, whenever Yang Xiu wanted to talk about something serious, he would be distracted by Duan Yan.

"Nephew, let's drink."

Duan Yao held a wine cup to persuade him to drink, and he didn't know which one it was.

"Uncle Duan."

Yang Xiu bit the bullet and said: "My little nephew is here on a serious mission in the imperial court."

The smile on Duan Yan's face slowly faded, he drank the wine in the glass and put down the chopsticks in his hand.

"I know, tell me to stop fighting with Yang Ding."

"But right now, nephew, you also know that it's not that I don't strike out with him, but that he is determined to fight me. I don't know if it's Duan and Yang's grievances, or he doesn't want me to join the team to share a share of the pie."

"General Duan."

Yang Xiu even changed his title. Just now, Duan Yan was not qualified for an official position, but treated him as his nephew, which made it difficult for Yang Xiu to speak.

What he did with the imperial edict and what Yang Xiu did in his private capacity as Yang's son were two different things.

"The imperial court wants your help." Yang Xiu tried his best to say: "Yang Ding will not obey orders and act privately. The imperial court needs a general like you to assist the current situation and wipe out the rebellious generals."

"That's a matter for the imperial court." Duan Yan was calm, "I can only guard my one-third of an acre of land, and I can't do much about the rest."

"General Duan, you have to take responsibility."

Yang Xiu didn't say much, and directly took out a silk book from Wang Can's hand and handed it to Duan Yan.

Duan Yan didn't pick it up, Yang Xiu had no choice but to let go and put it in front of his case.

"Fenghou?"

Liu Yi could see clearly that Duan Yan, who was already a middle-aged man, didn't even twitch the creases on his face when facing the Marquis Edict in front of him.

"Your grandpa's idea? Take it back, Duan did not do anything, and deserves it."

Obviously, Duan Yan said this on purpose, he knew very well that taking this imperial edict was not for nothing!It is to send troops to fight!And the last thing Duan Yao wants to do now is to fight a war, otherwise he wouldn't be watching the battle from afar in Zheng County.

At this moment, Wang Can, the deputy envoy, walked out tremblingly holding a wooden box.

"what is this?"

"Guo Si's head."

"Why do I want Guo Si's head?" Duan Yan just sneered.

Wang Can fumbled and forgot the words, Yang Xiu hurriedly added: "It's just like this."

Duan Yan didn't pretend at all, he got up directly, stared at Yang Xiu and asked, "You mean, I, Duan Yan, are rebels, and Yang Ding is righteous? Threatening me with Guo Si's head? Do you really think that I, Duan Yan, dare not kill people?" ?”

Duan Yan pressed the belly of his thumb on the scabbard, and three inches of light had popped out.

"Not so."

Seeing the old general Duan Yan in such an attitude, Yang Xiu also panicked now.

"Whoever stands with the imperial court is righteous!"

Liu Yi supported the sword and stepped out majestically.

"Who are you? Is it your turn to speak in the lobby?!"

Duan Yan frowned, the guards around him became more and more murderous, the startled dancers all stopped dancing, only the singer was still playing music, but she was a little out of tune.

Just when the sword was on the verge of breaking out, there was a sudden coughing sound at the entrance of the lobby.

"Suwa, why aren't you sleeping?"

At this moment, Duan Yan couldn't care less about admiring the head of his old friend Guo Bang on the case table, he left the table in a hurry, almost tripped over by the hem of his clothes.

"Auntie!"

A senile old woman, leaning on a cane, walked over with her back bent sixty or seventy degrees.

Duan Yan bent down as much as possible, stood up sideways, and twisted his whole body into a shape that looked a little funny.

He said loudly into the old woman's left ear: "I still have a banquet to entertain the angels of the court!"

"Oh"

The old woman raised her head with difficulty, her eyes were cloudy, and her teeth had already fallen out when she opened her mouth.

Now, in terms of the average life expectancy in this era, this old woman is definitely one in 1 people who can live to this age.

"There are angels, you can't drink too much, your grandpa just drinks too much, you know?"

Regarding the cause of his grandfather's death, Duan Yan wanted to correct something, but in the end he didn't say anything, and finally nodded dejectedly.

"I know! I know!"

"Suwa, why aren't you sleeping?"

Duan Yan took a deep breath and repeated it again.

"I still have a banquet to entertain the angels of the imperial court!"

"Oh"

The old woman raised her head, her eyesight was very poor, and everyone was just blurred shadows in her eyes.

"Little girl, come here."

Yang Xiu was stunned for a moment, and then his face turned red. The white and tender skin formed by pampering him from not being exposed to the sun was as bright red as if dripping blood.

(End of this chapter)