Chapter 34 The people do not fight with the officials

The team entering the city moved forward slowly, but Liu Xi and the others finally arrived in front of the city gate. Officers and soldiers had already noticed them.

An adult and two children, consistent with the description on the wanted poster.

An officer and soldier walked towards Liu Xi with a wanted notice in hand and a solemn look.

One step, two steps, three steps...

Every step seemed to step on Liu Xi's heartbeat, making her unable to even breathe.

what to do?

How about pretending to be sick?

Infectious diseases, the kind you can catch if you take off your scarf?

In this case, will the officers and soldiers not allow her to enter the city?

Liu Xi thought quickly in his mind.

It seems that not being able to enter the city is better than having the officers and soldiers take him away as a wanted criminal.

The worst case scenario is to ask Liu Tielan and Shen Liangjun to go to the city to visit Mr. Niu. Maybe he can find a solution?

The officer and soldier were almost in front of her, and Liu Xi covered his mouth and nose with his hands almost at the same time, preparing to cough.

"Master nephew!"

A familiar voice came, causing Liu Xi and the officer and soldier to look at the person coming.

It turned out to be Song Youzhen!

They saw him jumping out of a carriage parked at the city gate with his lips pulled open, and he was walking towards them with a smile.

The officers and soldiers did not recognize him and subconsciously stopped him with their hands holding instruments.

"What are you doing? Get aside!"

Immediately, a steward who came down from the carriage came up and stuffed money with the officers and soldiers.

"My lord, please make it easier for me. These are Mr. Niu's guests. Mr. Niu specially asked us to come through the city gate to pick them up."

I guess that Mr. Niu must be a well-known figure in Harbin. When the officers and soldiers heard his name, they immediately trembled, put away their weapons, and let them go without even looking at Liu Xi and the others.

Song Youzhen didn't waste much time. She walked up to Liu Tielan and said with a smile, "Let's talk about it after we get in the car."

The three of them then followed Song Youzhen and boarded Niufu's carriage.

It wasn't until the car started to move that Liu Tielan dared to ask Song Youzhen questions after looking at the officers and soldiers through the car window and no longer paying attention to them.

"What's going on, Uncle Master? How did you know that we would arrive at Harabin today, and why are you still waiting here to pick us up?"

Before Song Youzhen could say anything, the little steward from earlier rushed to say, "How do we know? We just estimated that you will arrive in the next two days, and we have been waiting here for three days."

Song Youzhen turned her head to look at the steward, knowing that he had been working hard these past few days and had resentment in his heart, so she did not argue with him. She just looked at the three of them with a smile, and finally set her eyes on Liu Xi and said: "New Year's Day Niu

The young master received Boss Li's letter. He wanted to wait until after the New Year and ask me to go to Vladivostok and pick you up personally. I didn't want something like that to happen to Boss Li on the first day of the new year.

We thought that you must be coming this way, so we went to pick you up rashly, fearing that we would miss you, so we had to count the days and wait in front of the city gate. Finally, the emperor paid off and waited for you."

There was a lot of information in Song Youzhen's words, and Liu Xi captured one of them very keenly.

They knew about Li Jinshui's bombing that killed Master Tong on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

"Uncle Master, does he have any news about my master?"

This seniority is quite chaotic, which makes Liu Tielan sitting next to her very embarrassed.

But everyone knew that the master Liu Xi asked about was Li Jinshui.

In order to avoid being wanted, the three of them had been hiding their names and traveling secretly. They had no chance or dared to inquire about Li Jinshui.

Even among their wanted portraits, only Liu Xi's looks more like this, and he just saw it in the newspaper.

Now that he knew that Song Youzhen and the others were well-informed, Liu Xi couldn't wait to find out more.

But when talking about Li Jinshui's fate, Song Youzhen couldn't help but sigh.

"I should have thought that Boss Li was not the kind of person who would live quietly, but I didn't expect him to be so tolerant."

Song Youzhen said, her voice a little choked.

"It is said that he was in the house with the man surnamed Tong. After the explosion, the whole house was blown up, and even Boss Li - not even a whole body was left behind, and his old bull was screaming. , He said he wanted to protect his master life and death. When he was found, he had more than a dozen steel knives stuck in his body, and he was bleeding. His bull's eyes were still staring in the direction of Boss Li. It's true that all things have animism."

Liu Xi and the others felt quite uncomfortable when they thought that Niu Mingtian ended up in this miserable situation because he was trying to save them that day.

"What's going on? The old man is fine, why do you want to blow up that person named Tong?"

Liu Tielan was so curious that she couldn't help but ask.

Liu Xi and Shen Liangjun were also curious about this and looked over at Song Youzhen.

Song Youzhen began to shake his head and sigh.

"The government later searched Boss Li's home and found a suicide note in the main house, which exposed the scandal that Tong had done. It turned out that he had unreasonable feelings for his eldest sister and was unable to resolve them. Over time, he entered the prison He is obsessed with acting and likes to be abused by his younger brother in the acting.

Back then, Boss Li's daughter was lively and cute, and had a good voice.

But Boss Li was very strict and did not allow her to learn opera, so she secretly learned it on her own, and even accidentally got into the box office of the organization named Tong Weimingxuan.

Not wanting to enter the box office for the first time, he was swayed by the man surnamed Tong, and took advantage of Boss Li to take his apprentice on stage to trick him into going to Vladivostok to sing an opera.

By the time Boss Li and his old wife chased her to Vladivostok, his daughter had already been ruined by the man surnamed Tong. She was so angry that she jumped into a well and died.

Aunt Li couldn't bear the blow, so she followed him.

Only Boss Li wanted to seek justice and claimed to go to the government to declare customs. Unexpectedly, the man surnamed Tong had a human face and a beast's heart. He actually ordered people to kill Boss Li and almost killed him. Fortunately, he should not have been killed, but he saved his life. , but also ended up with a lifelong disability and can no longer perform on stage."

Hearing this, the young steward of the Niu family, who was still a little resentful just now, smashed the carriage angrily and said: "With such a blood feud, the man named Tong really deserves to be beaten to ashes! It's a pity that Boss Li's life has been spared!"

"If that's the case, then this person named Tong deserves to be killed! Why are we still wanted?" Shen Liangjun was a little unconvinced.

The others stopped talking.

These people also include Liu Xi.

Her family had done nothing wrong, so why didn't the people above just say a word and die without a burial place?

Now Li Jinshui had killed someone after all, and the person he killed was the court doctor.

The saying that the people do not fight with the officials does not mean that the people do not want to fight with the officials, but that the people are not worthy of fighting with the officials.

Regardless of whether he is an official, he is still an official of the imperial court, an official selected by his ancestors and the emperor.

His decision can only be decided by the ancestors and the emperor, and it is not the turn of a common person to take action. Otherwise, he is telling the world that the ancestors and the emperor are wrong, and is openly slapping the ancestors and the emperor in the face.

Thief Tong deserves to be killed, but the common people who ignore the face of their ancestors and the emperor deserve to be killed even more!

This is the principle that imperial society can never get around.

If the people no longer want to abide by this principle, they will have no choice but to abandon their ancestors and emperor and make their own decisions.

But who has the ability and the courage?

Isn't it just because I don't have the ability or the courage that I can only be an ordinary citizen?

Thinking of this, Liu Xi felt even heavier.

Li Jinshui's enemy is just a fifth-grade doctor, but it is so difficult for him to seek revenge. It takes six years to prepare, find the right time, and meet a suitable candidate like her by chance to serve as bait in order to succeed.

Her enemy is the Prime Minister Yuwen Shike. If she wants to take revenge, how much effort will she have to put in, how many things to consider, and how many steps to take.

She silently warned herself in her heart that she should not slack off in the future and should use every moment to sing well!

Moreover, she will never imitate Li Jinshui and will not risk her life on her enemies. She will take the right path and bring her enemies to justice in an open and honest manner!

Regarding box office: This concept is different from the current box office concept.

The box office here refers to a singing and opera group organized by fans. It only began to appear in the last few years of the late Qing Dynasty. At the beginning, the box office was formed by members brainstorming and choosing a more elegant name, which is similar to the poetry club founded by Jia Baoyu and others in "A Dream of Red Mansions"

The form is almost the same.

Fans: A group of opera enthusiasts who are based on hobbies, are not from a major, have no formal apprenticeship, and have not registered with the Jingzhongmiao Opera Association.

At that time, in order to distinguish those who came from a professional background, amateurs would add the character "jun" in the middle of their names, or the character "chu" after their surnames.

For example, the well-known fan Liu Gansan, whose name is Baoshan, whose courtesy name is Yunqing, and whose stage name is Gansan, but when people see him, most people will call him Liu Chu.

Let’s talk about going to the sea: In the past, I heard more about people with formal jobs going to the sea to do business. Here, people who quit their formal jobs to sing in opera are also called going to the sea.

Comparing it with the current concept that people call success in the postgraduate entrance examination "going ashore", the meaning of "going to the sea" should be easy to understand.
Chapter completed!