Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 19
Continue to look at Xiang Kang's situation. He is young and strong, and his feet are brisk, but after all, he first arrived at the county seat and then turned back to the Yanji Pavilion in the neighboring county. After Xiang Kang hurried to the gate of Yu's house with Xiang Ta and Xiang Yang At that time, the sky was still close to dark, and Xiang Kang, Xiang Ta, and Xiang Yang, who had been walking all the way hurriedly, were also very tired. However, Xiang Kang and others did not dare to delay at all, because the symbolic and already familiar The old servant of the Yu family's gatekeeper greeted him, and rushed into the Yu family's gate without waiting for an announcement.

All the way, he was worried that his brother would be too impulsive to cause a big disaster, but Xiang Kang was relieved that although Yu Jian's precious son Yu Zhi was sitting on the master's seat in the living room of Yu's family with a sad face, Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Guan, etc. However, the Xiang family brothers sat in the living room of the Yu family and whispered to each other, discussing in low voices, as if they had made a fuss to the point of getting out of hand.

Xiang Kang's status among the Xiang family brothers also changed a lot unconsciously. Seeing Xiang Kang rushing in, the Xiang family brothers including Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Guan couldn't help showing joy, and stood up to greet him. Xiang Kang and Xiang Zhuang complained, "Xiang Kang, why did you come? Everyone is waiting for you alone."

"It's fast enough." Xiang Kang explained casually, "In order to come here as soon as possible, I might have got Feng Zhong involved this time. He has already begged to see the Magistrate Zhou for me. Xiang It and Xiang Yang happened to find me , I can't wait to see the county magistrate, I left Feng Zhong and came straight over."

After explaining a few words casually, Xiang Zhuang couldn't wait to ask Yu Zhi who had also stood up to greet him: "Brother Yu, what happened?"

"Brother Xiang Kang, that Shan Youwei is bullying people!" Yu Zhi's voice was full of grievances, and he said like a child complaining: "He deliberately wanted me to serve in the military service, and wanted to deliberately kill me so I sent my life to the frontier to avenge his son."

"Military service?" Xiang Kang frowned—it has been a while since he traveled here, and Xiang Kang already knew that there were two types of corvee service in the Qin Dynasty. Projects, such as repairing the mausoleum for Qin Shihuang or digging canals, building palaces, etc., although it is hard and tiring, each adult only needs to serve for one month a year, and at the same time, life is relatively guaranteed, unless it is particularly unlucky and encounters an accident , otherwise basically they can come back whole, the risk factor is very small.

The other is garrison service, which is to participate in various military operations in the bitter cold frontier. In addition to receiving strict military training, they also have to patrol the frontier fortresses and fight against foreign enemies. At the same time, they have to participate in military projects such as the construction of the Great Wall. Not only is it more difficult and tiring, but the service time may be extended to several months or even years at any time, and the death rate and disability rate are much higher. Most of them haven't come back yet.

After frowning, Xiang Kang remembered something again, and hurriedly asked Yu Zhi: "Are you required to serve in the military service in order of status? Or was that Shan Youwei deliberately finding fault and finding an excuse to send you to the military service?"

According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, the conscripts were divided into five echelons. The first echelon was for criminal officials, son-in-laws and businessmen; For those who are sons-in-law and businessmen, the fourth step is the left neighbor (Zuolu), and the fifth step is the right neighbor (Youlv). ——By the way, in history, a certain surnamed Chen and a certain surnamed Wu were conscripted by the Qin Dynasty government in the fourth echelon.

"Deliberately making excuses." Yu Zhi hurriedly said: "Last year, the harvest in my field was good, and most of the surplus food was sold in the market. Once I personally took people to sell it in the Ling County market. You Wei didn't know where he got the news, so he insisted that I was in business, and wanted to force the township and Li Dian to change my household registration to city registration (merchant household), and then sent me to serve in the garrison."

"Master Yu, this is your fault." Xiang Ta, who had just followed Xiang Kang to Yu's house, interjected, "Your family has so many servants, why do you go to the market to do business in person?" ——Qin Chaohe In the Western Han Dynasty, people with a little bit of status did not enter the market, and servants were usually responsible for buying and selling anything. This is also the reason why the Xiang family brothers met the Yu family twice but did not see Yu Jian or Yu Zhi.

Yu Zhi blushed a little, and said: "I heard that some servants of rich families will collude with merchants in the market to deliberately make money with coupons with wrong prices (false invoices with false high prices), and I am worried that this is the case in my family, so I I personally went to do a sale to check the situation.”

After some murmured explanations, Zhi Yu hurriedly said: "But it was only once, and I only went once. That Shan Youwei used this excuse to demote me to a city status, and he deliberately punished me. Mr. Xiang Kang, It is said that you have many ideas and many methods, and this matter has something to do with you, you have to help me, you have to help me."

I didn't mind that Yu Zhi didn't regard himself as his brother-in-law in addressing him, so Xiang Kangfei quickly thought about it and asked, "Have you changed your household registration?"

"Not yet." Yu Zhi quickly said: "It was Li Dian (the director of the neighborhood committee) who quietly passed the news to my family yesterday, saying that Shan Youwei had brought a message to the village, asking him to use the money I used to do business in the market. An excuse to change my household registration to city registration, and then send me to serve in the garrison, which has not been changed yet, but it may only be a matter of a day or two."

After that, Zhi Yu pleaded again: "Master Xiang Kang, you have to help me, you have to help me, I am the only seedling of the Yu family, I can't go to the frontier to die in vain. My father was already sick, listen Immediately after this incident, I became seriously ill, and I haven't even gotten out of bed since yesterday."

"If possible, I would like to meet Duke Yu and discuss with him how to resolve this matter, and then see what to do." Xiang Kang replied.

"Okay, I..." Yu Zhi suddenly changed his mind and said, "I'll go in first to see how my father is going to see me, and see if I can see you."

"I don't want me to go directly into your house and tell me what excuses I'm looking for." Xiang Kang was angry, but after all he owed the Yu family a favor, so Xiang Kang held back his anger and nodded, letting Yu Zhi go in and ask Yu Jian what he meant .

After Yu Zhi left, the brothers of the Xiang family immediately surrounded Xiang Kang again, and said in a hurry: "Xiang Kang, what should we do about this matter? Do you want to go to Ling County to find that Shan Youwei directly?"

"What are you going to do in Ling County? Sending you to die?" Xiang Kang asked back, "That Shan Youwei is an official, let alone that we may not be able to see him directly when we go to Ling County, even if we can see him directly, what can we do with him?" Like? Run away after killing with a knife? Can you run out of the city?"

"Then what should we do?" Xiang Zhuang asked quickly.

"Don't worry, let me think about it." Xiang Kang shook his head, while trying to recall the relevant memories left by the previous Xiang Kang, while thinking about it, he said: "Solving this matter is difficult or difficult, and it is not difficult at all. The key point is not that Shan Youwei, but another person."

"Who else?" Xiang Zhuang asked again, but Xiang Kang didn't answer anymore, he just tried to figure out how to start from other aspects, smashing Shan Youwei's dream of deliberately punishing the Yu family and even killing Yu Zhi.

After a while, Yu Jian came down to the front hall with Yu Zhi's support, and Xiang Kang hurriedly went up to the ceremony, only to realize that he hadn't seen him for just a few days, and Yu Jian seemed to be ten years old, with an expression on his face How haggard and haggard you are, how weak and weak you look, your voice is even weaker, moaning and saying: "Mr. Xiang Kang, forgive your sins, Mr. Xiang, forgive your sins, this old man is seriously ill, and I didn't personally..."

"Yu Gong, there is no need to say more, you should sit down first." Xiang Kang interrupted Yu Jian's politeness, first helped Yu Zhi to sit down with Yu Jian, and sat beside Yu Jian himself, and then Said: "Gong Yu, I already know the matter, and I have thought of a way to solve it, but there is no way, you must have suffered some blood this time."

"Some blood? What do you mean?" Yu Jian was taken aback.

"I just need to spend some money and food to open up the joints and resolve this matter." Xiang Kang explained his modern terminology.

"How much food do you want?" Yu Zhi asked with distress on his face, unwilling to reconcile, "Is there any other way?"

"Yes." Xiang Kang answered very simply, and then said: "There is another way, Mr. Yu, you go with us, go to the prime minister first, and then I will send you to a safe place, and find a way to come back later. "

"You want me to be a fugitive?" Yu Zhi's face turned pale, and he said, "If I'm caught, I might be cut in half." (This punishment is not fictional, it comes from "Zou Qiao Shu".)
"Then we can only use the first method, money or life, you can choose, Mr. Yu." Xiang Kang replied more simply.

Yu Zhi closed his mouth, while Yu Jian coughed a few times, and said, "Young Master Xiang, use the first method. I will pay the money and food, but who will it be given to? Shan Youwei?"

"It's useless to give it to Shan Youwei." Xiang Kang said: "He doesn't want money, he wants Yuzhi and your life, or wants you to marry your daughter to his bully son."

"Then who is it for? The county magistrate?" Yu Zhi hurriedly asked again.

"The relationship between the county magistrate is not good." Xiang Kang shook his head, thinking and said: "The law of Daqin stipulates that the household registration is reviewed and determined by the Lidian in the township (Qin Shi said that the case is compared, and the initial decision is in the hands of the Lidian). As long as he gets through this pass, so that he can withstand the pressure of Shan Youwei and the village, and don't change your son's nationality, it will be difficult for Shan Youwei to be in charge of arresting robbers, and it will be difficult to force Mr. Yu to obey. Garrisoned."

"But can it work?" Yu Zhi asked with some concern: "Although the old man and the local Lidian are hometowns, they don't have a deep friendship and don't have many contacts. He can stand up to the right captain of the county for me. Pressure, don’t change my son’s citizenship?”

"As long as you pay, there is no..." Xiang Kang stopped in the middle of his sentence, and said in surprise: "Wait, Yu Gong, you don't have a deep friendship with the local Lidian? Then why did he sneak here yesterday?" Give you news?"

"He said that for the sake of his hometown (folks), he deliberately let me in." Yu Jian replied truthfully: "The old man also thanked him."

"Then did he say anything else?" Xiang Kang rolled his eyes and asked, "Did you mention me and say that I am not worthy to be your son-in-law?"

Both Yu Jian and Yu Zhi felt a little embarrassed, and then Yu Jian coughed a few more times, nodded and said, "To tell the truth, Mr. Xiang, he did mention you, and even belittled you a bit, complaining that the old man is old and dim-sighted, and promised his daughter to you." .”

Xiang Kang suddenly understood everything in his heart, and said with a wry smile: "Yu Gong, needless to say, I know everything. Shan Youwei is the mastermind of Yu Gongzi's matter, and the local Li Dian is an accomplice. Wei threatens you, and is also going to help force you to resign and marry your daughter to Shan Youwei's ugly son."

"Li Dian is an accomplice? How did you know, Mr. Xiang?" Both Yu Jian and Yu Zhi were taken aback.

"It's very simple, Mr. Yu, you and Li Dian don't have a deep friendship. He can't risk offending Shan Youwei and quietly leak the news to you in advance." Xiang Kang replied: "Since he took the risk, You are deliberately belittling me inside and outside the words. In fact, you want to help Shan Youwei force you to submit, and remarry your daughter to Shan Youwei's ugly son. The main purpose of Shan Youwei and him is not to kill the project. Young master, I want to force you to marry your daughter, if you really can't do it, then think about how to get revenge."

Yu Zhi and Yu Jian came to a sudden realization together. After the hammer case hated Li Dian's help and abuse, Yu Zhi gritted his teeth and scolded: "My maidservant girl, help that man with a surname to punish me, and I want my family to thank him. My family's a horse Good silk!"

"Master Xiang, what should we do?" Yu Jian hurriedly asked again: "Since that Li Dian is Shan Youwei's accomplice, it is impossible for him to help my family anymore?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Yu, it's a bit embarrassing that Li Dian is not Shan Youwei's accomplice. Since he is Shan Youwei's accomplice, then this matter will be easier to handle." Xiang Kang smiled and said: "Many excessive means , you don’t have to be so scruples.”

"Master Xiang, what should I do?" Seeing Xiang Kang's confident expression, Yu Jian couldn't help but feel confident in Xiang Kang.

"It's very simple, first tell me about Lidian's situation, and I will send someone out to inquire immediately if I need it." Xiang Kang said confidently: "Tonight, our brothers from the Xiang family will disturb you all night, and then tomorrow, you Send someone to invite Li Dian, just say you have figured it out, and ask him to discuss something, and I promise he will definitely come."

When Xiang Kang said this, his expression was extremely confident, and his face seemed to exude some brilliance, which made Yu Jian and Yu Zhi and his son feel more confident.Little did they know that at this moment, outside the window in the front hall, two pairs of clear and beautiful eyes were fixed on Xiang Kang's face, and the owner of one pair of eyes said in a low voice: "Sister, the one sitting next to father is that Xiang Kang."

"He is Mr. Xiang Kang? Little sister, didn't you say that he is ugly and rascal? Why can't I see it?" the owner of the other pair of eyes whispered.

"He is a rascal. He often comes to our house to eat and drink. Tonight, our house will definitely be eaten by him again. Hey, sister, don't you think he is ugly? Do you really like him? ?”

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm just talking about the facts, let's go, don't let them find out, or brother will blame us again."

(End of this chapter)