The First Great Ancestor of the Five Dynasties

Chapter 258: Parting is for a better reunion
In early November, Zhu Xiu and his party returned to Jingzhou under the protection of Beihu Camp.

Li Guangrui and Li Guangyan were imprisoned in two prison cars. They were first paraded in Pinggao County and accepted angry criticism from local people.

That day, thousands of people came from all directions to this poor and dilapidated small county town, crowding the narrow streets to the brim.

Li Guangrui and Li Guangyan, with disheveled hair and prison uniforms, were imprisoned in a prison car. As they drove slowly through the street, the crowd was furious and the noise filled the air.

Many relatives of the herdsmen who were innocently killed, with red eyes and tears, angrily rushed forward to climb into the prison car and beat the murderer of their relatives, but the county police officers and sergeants tried their best to stop them.

Raindrops of broken stones and mud were thrown at the two of them, and angry and angry curses engulfed the two of them like a tide.

Previously, a notice to calm the people was posted, stating the fact that the Dangxiang people went south to invade Wonju, and how the Changyi Army sent troops north to fight the invading enemies. It also briefly introduced the inside story of the two battles, focusing on describing how the Changyi Army fought bravely and how the Dangxiang people lost their helmets. Abandoning armor, Zhu Xiu, the commander-in-chief, took command and annihilated the hateful party member Hu Man.

The confession written by Zhu Xiu and printed with Li Guangrui's bloody fingerprint was also posted, and will be widely circulated within the jurisdiction of the Changyi Army in the future.

We must let the soldiers and civilians of the two states of Zhangyi Army, the people in the northwest border areas, and even the entire Guanzhong know that the Zhangyi Army and the Dingnan Army fought a fierce battle outside Pinggao County in Yuanzhou.

The arrogant party members were defeated miserably, and even Li Guangrui, the commander of the disaster army, became a prisoner.

The party members dominate the five states of Hetao, like a big mountain pressing on the heads of Guanzhong and the northwest region.

Youdao is the flowing emperor of the Central Plains and the iron-clad Party member Li.

The party members have been dominating and dominating, and the military and civilians in the northwest region have been suffering for a long time.

The Changyi Army, which has always shown itself to be small in land, poor in population, and weak in military strength, actually defeated the Dingnan Army that spread across the northwest. I believe that after the news spreads, it will definitely cause a great sensation.

No one knows that the so-called "Dingnan Army" defeated by the Changyi Army in Wonju is just a group of miscellaneous soldiers from Wuyuan. In the entire Dingnan Army's sphere of influence, they are just leftovers and cannon fodder. They can suppress places, but they can attack. There is no hope of pulling out the city and fighting in the field.

Since it is a propaganda offensive, it is natural to highlight the enemy's evil, ugliness, and failure, and to emphasize our greatness and righteousness.

After Zhu Xiu's advice in a few words, Yan Pingmao came to his senses, and excitedly prepared to call the officials in charge of propaganda from the Zangfeng camp and the prefectural and county government offices to study and deploy how to use the Yuanzhou war to make a big fuss.

After extensive publicity, the people of Pinggao County all knew that the tall young man from Dangxiang with dirty and messy brown curly hair was called Li Guangrui. He was the biological son of the leader of the Dangxiang nobles. He also invaded Yuanzhou this time to kill our people and seize our country. Cattle and sheep are the culprits
Li Guangrui was almost drowned in saliva by the angry people, and some even carried two loads of excrement and water to give two damn party members a excrement bath.
Under Zhu Xiu's secret manipulation, the prison van that escorted Li Guangyan disappeared silently at the corner of the street. The angry crowd rushed to the prison van where Li Guangrui was imprisoned. The county government officials and sergeants immediately stayed away, and then Li Guangrui screamed. It was washed countless times by the feces and water splashed all over the sky.
Throwing stones, spitting, splashing feces and urine is fine, but you can't kill people with knives. Only when the people were almost exhausted did the government officials and sergeants come to disperse the crowd.

Li Guangrui collapsed in the prison car, his body covered with feces and urine. He had eaten a lot of Baijiaxiang, and his expression became dull and numb. The sergeants did not want to approach him, so the county government officers had to take the prison car away with curses.

It is said that after that day, the stench in Pinggao County continued for three days.

On the day the flag of the Zhangyi Army came out of the city, the common people lined the road to see them off. Many white-haired old women and old men with hunchbacks knelt down by the roadside and wiped away the army flag with tears.

Poverty in Pinggao County would not last long. While Zhu Xiu led his army back south, Shen Xuemin, the magistrate of Quaigu County, had already set off to the north. He would be the magistrate of Pinggao County as well as the magistrate of Yuanzhou.

Shen Xuemin is a young and reformist official promoted by Zhu Xiu, and he can basically integrate Zhu Xiu's ideas on the reform of local civil affairs.

After Shen Xuemin takes office, the people's livelihood in Yuanzhou and Pinggao County will definitely be greatly improved.

The Changyi Army's next development focus will also be shifted to Wonju, where it will continue to secretly implement the basic policy of emigrating to the border areas, improve the trade environment, and vigorously develop Pingliang pastures, smelting workshops, and ordnance workshops.

Jingzhou and Wonzhou are the basic bases of Changyi Army's sphere of influence. The future pattern is that Jingzhou is mainly engaged in agricultural production and trade, and Wonzhou is mainly engaged in animal husbandry and handicraft production.

On the second day after returning to Anding County, Chai Rong, Zhao Kuangyin, and Zhang Yongde left. They wanted to rush back to Chang'an, and then prepared to return to Kaifeng.

By the way, Li Chongjin was also taken away by force.

Li Chongjin was reluctant to leave, but it was a pity that Chai Rong brought out Guo Wei's order so that the black guy did not dare to disobey.

Zhu Xiu coaxed him away and finally let him leave reluctantly.

When leaving the city to say goodbye, Li Chongjin held Zhu Xiuzhi in his arms and wiped away his tears. He made it seem like he was parting from life and death, and threatened fiercely that he must come to Kaifeng for a reunion as soon as possible, and that the brothers would get together to drink, eat meat and play mahjong.

Although Li Chongjin left, Changyi Army's winter training lacked a bit of fun, but considering that after the end of the year, it would usher in the third year of Qianyou, which was full of great changes in history, Zhu Xiu still drove him away cruelly, so as not to cause trouble and be affected by this. Guy broke the layout.

The day after Chai Rong and his party leave, Fu Jinzhan and Fu Jinhuan will also leave for Qizhou, meet up with Fu Zhaoxin, and then return to Kaifeng together.

Zhu Xiu sent Pan Mei to escort the sisters along the way until they were sent to Qizhou.

Outside the east gate of the county town, Fu Jinzhan took Shi Lingyan and said goodbye to the Shi family's father and daughter.

Fu Jinhuan jumped off the carriage and dragged Zhu Xiu aside.

"What do you want to do with all this tugging?" Zhu Xiu's new light blue round-neck robe was torn into wrinkles. She threw her hand away in dissatisfaction and adjusted the robe.

Fu Jinhuan flashed his big eyes, hesitated for a while and whispered: "Recently, have you noticed that eldest sister and brother Chai seem to have a particularly close relationship? They. They"

Madam Fu Er seemed to find it a bit hard to say anything, she gritted her teeth and stamped her feet and said coquettishly: "That's it."

Zhu Xiu looked at her in surprise: "Which one? You said they hooked up with each other?"

Fu Jinhuan opened his eyes wide in shock, seemingly not expecting that Zhu Xiu would use such straightforward, vulgar but accurate words to describe the progress of the relationship between Fu Jinzhan and Chai Rong.

"Ouch! Disgusting! What... hooking up? It's so ugly!" Fu Jinhuan blushed and reached out to pinch the soft flesh on Zhu Xiu's arm.

Zhu Xiu dodged and mocked: "Anyone who is not blind can see that the eldest lady and Chai Shuai have been getting closer and closer in recent times. What is it if they are not hooking up?"

"Damn it! You are not allowed to speak ill of my sister!" Fu Jinhuan protested angrily with her arms akimbo.

Zhu Xiu spread her hands: "The two of them talk to each other and express their admiration for each other. Is that okay?"

Fu Jinhuan blinked and whispered, "Did you see it too?"

"I'm not blind!" Zhu Xiu rolled his eyes inwardly. During this trip to Yuanzhou, the relationship between Chai Rong and Fu Jinzhan improved by leaps and bounds. As an old matchmaker, he did a lot of work in the middle, but it was just not enough for outsiders to know.

Fu Jinhuan seemed to be happy to see the success, covered his mouth and giggled: "Brother Chai is a good-looking talent, and he is on good terms with my family, and has known my sister for many years. It would be best if they can be together."

"But Brother Chai is already married. Alas~ What a pity! After all, it is my sister who is unlucky. It would have been better if my sister had met Brother Chai back then."

Fu Jinhuan frowned and sighed sadly.

Zhu Xiu smiled lightly and said: "As the saying goes, time is also destiny. Meeting earlier may not be a good thing. Who knows how they viewed each other back then? Things like fate need a certain degree of heat to highlight. After experiencing the beatings in the world, it is difficult to taste them. After going through ups and downs, when we meet again, maybe we can find that each other is the right person.”

Fu Jinhuan was dumbfounded, nodded his head involuntarily, and murmured: "It makes sense." Mrs. Fu Er opened her moist and bright eyes, and looked at him with a re-examination: "Unexpectedly, at such a young age, you will not be so concerned about the matter of marriage. You can have such a profound understanding.”

Zhu Xiu raised his eyebrows with a proud look on his face, and then sighed and said: "I can't help it. After more experience, I will naturally understand."

Fu Jinhuan was startled, glanced at him disdainfully, flicked his waterfall-like hair, snorted and turned away.

Before taking two steps, Fu Jinhuan stopped, turned around and said seriously: "Ms. Yan is very affectionate and loyal to you. You can't let her down! In the future, Miss Yan will also be my good sister. If you dare to bully her, huh~"

Fu Jinhuan wrinkled his nose, waved his fist fiercely, held up his skirt and ran towards the carriage.

Zhu Xiu laughed in surprise, this little girl was quite righteous.
The carriage turned and rolled away. Fu Jinzhan and Fu Jinhuan stuck their heads out of the window and waved goodbye to everyone who was seeing them off.

Pan Mei led more than a hundred cavalry troops to escort them along the way, and arrived at Yong County in Qizhou. They safely handed the sisters to Fu Zhaoxin before returning.

A few wet raindrops fell on Zhu Xiu's forehead. She raised her hand to wipe it. The raindrops were still mixed with some frost. Looking at the changeable weather, I was afraid that a new round of snowfall was about to come.

All my friends have left. I don’t know what it will be like next time we meet.

At that time, it must have been a completely new situation.
Shi Kuangwei was wearing a thick fur coat, a big-eared hat on his gray hair, and a white beard under his chin. He squatted on a stone pier with his sleeves rolled up, like a man who was guarding the entrance of the village and teasing the passing village women. A wretched idle man.

"What is that girl Fu Jinhuan whispering to you?" Shi Kuangwei asked warily.

"What are Madam Fu talking to you about again?" Zhu Xiu asked.

Shi Kuangwei glanced at Shi Lingyan who was not far away and groaned: "Madam Fu said that Privy Guo had good intentions in arranging the marriage between you and Fu Jinhuan, and he didn't mean to poach my Shi family and Zhang Yijun, so I don't want to Misunderstanding. If there is any offense, she will apologize to me on behalf of the Fu family."

Zhu Xiudao: "What did you say?"

Shi Kuangwei curled his lips and said, "Mrs. Fu is considerate, and I, Old Shi, am not a troublemaker. Mrs. Fu didn't know about this in advance, so I can't blame Mrs. Fu."

Zhu Xiu smiled and said, "Do you mean to blame Privy Secretary Guo for not saying hello in advance?"

Shi Kuangwei said sourly: "Privy Guo has a high position and is famous all over the world. I, Old Shi, am not a green onion. How can I dare to complain about others?
Privy Guo thinks highly of you, and it’s your boy’s good fortune.
Anyway, before I brought you to Zhangyijun, I had expected that the Zhangyijun temple was too small and Jingzhou was too small to accommodate the true god of yours.One day, you will leave. "

Zhu Xiu patted him on the shoulder: "If we want to leave, let's go together. Kaifeng is big, and the world is big enough for us to have a try."

Skuangwei pushed his hand away, and said angrily: "I'm old, and I just want to enjoy life, unlike you young people who like to mess around. No matter where you go, remember to take Yan'er with you and take good care of her."

Shi Kuangwei jumped off the stone pier, patted his butt, blew his nose, casually wiped it on the stone pier, rolled up his sleeves and walked slowly towards the city gate.

"Hey, come with me to Kaifeng in the future!" Zhu Xiu shouted from behind him.

Shi Kuangwei didn't look back and shouted casually: "Let's talk about it later."

Cars and horses passed by at the east gate of the county seat. Shi Kuangwei squeezed into the crowd, like an honest and humble farmer, and was inconspicuous at all. He quickly disappeared into the crowded doorway.

Zhu Xiu smiled and shook his head, this guy is really hypocritical.

Shi Lingyan came jumping up and down, grabbed Zhu Xiu's arm and complained: "Sister Fu and Sister Huan'er are gone, and there is no one to play with me! You have been in Yuanzhou for so long, I am almost bored to death, go to You have to play with me well from now on!"

Zhu Xiu pinched her cheek, causing a burst of jealousy.

Although Shi Lingyan's wheat-colored skin is not as smooth and delicate as Fu Jinhuan, it is still firm, elastic and very healthy.

The dark brown ponytail on the back of her head swung from side to side when she spoke, and the silver bell on her wrist jingled softly, giving her a vibrant and youthful look.

"In the next ten days, Xiaosheng will obey Lady Yan's arrangements!" Zhu Xiu said with a colorful smile.

"Seriously?" Shi Lingyan was overjoyed, his black eyes shining brightly.

"Ms. Yan asked me to chase the dog, but I will never chase the chicken!" Zhu Xiu vowed.

Shi Lingyan jumped happily and naturally put her arm on his arm: "Well, first tell me about the story of Yuanzhou's party-beating people, and then...then you will dance rubber bands with me. I will do the same jumping method you taught me last time." Forgot. Then I want to eat hot pot and mutton!"

In the evening, Zhu Xiu appeared on the side of Baiyan Avenue, where Li Guangyan was being held in a prison van and was about to be sent to a rehabilitation center.

"You don't want to be suspected by Li Yiyin even if you do a full show, so you can only suffer for a while."

Zhu Xiu took away the escorting soldiers and said solemnly.

Li Guangyan's head was locked in the shackles of the prison car, and his hands were tied with chains, unable to move.

There is a bruise on his forehead, which was hit by a stone while parading in Pinggao County.

Li Guangyan said nothing and looked at him coldly.

"Compared to Li Guangrui, your treatment is much better. It's better to be hit with rocks a few times than to be showered with feces and urine.

I specially selected a group of able-bodied people from two thousand prisoners, about 300 of them, and took them all to the reconstruction site to dig stones. You can go and work with them.

I have sent someone to Xiazhou to report the news, and I will contact you again when Li Yiyin's envoy arrives. In the meantime, just keep your head down and work. When the time is right, I will inform you of the next plan.

Those more than 300 captives, through my operation, will become your die-hard followers from now on, and they will also be the foundation for your success."

Zhu Xiu muttered for a while, but Li Guangyan remained silent.

"Hey, at least we have a cooperative relationship now. If you have any objections, why don't you say anything?" Zhu Xiu was very dissatisfied.

Li Guangyan had a complicated expression and said in a low voice, "Uncle, will you really abandon me?"

Zhu Xiu sneered and said: "Now that things have happened, you still pin your future on the charity of Li Yiyin and his son? Don't worry, when Xiazhou sends people, you will know what choice you should make!"

Zhu Xiu looked at him deeply and waved to the escorting soldiers. The prison car creaked away, leaving two ruts on the snowy road.

"Even if Li Yi's conscience finds out and wants to save your good nephew, I won't let him succeed. Li Guangyan, Li Guangyan, if he got into my bowl, just stay here obediently."

Watching the prison van go away and disappear in front of the foggy avenue, Zhu Xiu muttered to herself.

(End of this chapter)