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Chapter 18 - 4

When Zhao Xingde and Li Ruoxue found that the door was open, Li Ruoxue stroked her cheeks shyly and whispered: "It's all you." Just as they were about to rush into the door, they saw the pitiful rolling curtain at the door, and suddenly pointed at her face, covered her stomach and laughed so hard that her branches were trembling.

It turns out that women are good at applying thick powder at this time. They first apply thick powder on their faces to cover the original color, and then draw eyebrows on this layer of foundation, apply rouge, applique flower ornaments, slanted red, and red lips, just like painting. However, because Li Ruoxue is sweating, she cannot apply such thick powder when she goes out, and naturally she cannot enjoy the makeup as much as others. Therefore, since childhood, her favorite thing is that when she goes out, she encounters heavy rain when she goes out. Seeing the heavy makeup on other people's faces washed by the rain, the purple and red pieces of the body, she can't help but laugh and hurt her stomach.

It was raining heavily. When the roller shutter heard a sound outside, he came hurriedly. The makeup powder on his face was washed away. Fortunately, he relieved a little embarrassment. After the two entered the interior, the roller shut the door and bolted it. When they passed by Zhao Xingde, they saluted slightly and said in a thin voice like a mosquito: "My son-in-law is blessed." Li Ruoxue beside him was smiling but didn't hear it. Zhao Xingde was very happy and reached out to take out three taels of silver from his arms and stuffed it into her hands. After Li Ruoxue had enough laughter, the three of them hurriedly went back to their room from the yard.

Back in the boudoir, she changed into a wet dress and took the towel handed over to the roller shutter. Li Ruoxue wiped her hair drying and looked at the mirror. Her lips were slightly purple and she couldn't help but feel a little shy. Fortunately, the popular lip gloss in this era is also purple, called sandalwood. She took out her lip polish and gently taped her lip polish, just like she applied a little more lip polish. After covering it, she still felt her cheeks were hot and she didn't dare to talk to the roller shutter. So she took out a volume of poetry and books and listened to the rain outside the window hitting the banana leaves alone.

Even so, Zhao Xingde and Li Ruoxue felt guilty when they were eating. The Li family always paid attention to whether to eat or sleep or not. Li Gefei practiced it himself. Except for asking about Zhao Xingde's studies before eating, he did not say a word, and even did not mention the matter of revealing the post. But the two of them always felt that Mrs. Wang had a faint sense of blame in the eyes of Mrs. Wang. From then on, Zhao Xingde had been prepared for the August autumn examination, and Li Ruoxue rarely stepped into the study. Both of them were looking forward to the summer passing quickly.

Time flies very quickly, and it is August in a blink of an eye. The impact of the public disclosure that denounced Tong Guan was still accumulating little by little. Under the full suppression of the Kaifeng government's yamen runners, they tore and stick, and then tear them. The battle like candy is endless. Gradually, Kaifeng government was a little tired. They often sent additional yamen runners to clean up the randomly pasted paper on the streets every two days. The rumors that Tong Guan was responsible for it were spreading more and more among the people. Almost the entire capital, whether they were the prince or the third prince, no matter how they expressed it verbally, they secretly believed in the heart that what the confession said was the fact.

However, the court bowed and still the same. Even if there was a gust of wind, it would not blow into the palace. Even if the official issued an order to recall Tong Guan, no one would come out to stop him. The irrelevant advice of Qingliu was suppressed by several giants in the court without any effort. Sure enough, there were people in the court who were easy to be an official. After receiving the order to return to Beijing, Tong Guan was immediately grateful and even his forehead was swollen towards the direction of Tokyo. That night, the general Tong Gongzi, who came to save the jewels while the night was shivering, and the man Tong took the jewelry and disappeared.

This short time made Eunuch Tong very anxious. The revelations circulated from Bianjing were actually spread to border areas like Hejian. The soldiers who had seen them applauded. Even if they didn't need to be informed by others, they would definitely be Mr. Zhao who was drunk and slandered. "This scholar made such a joke at a critical moment, which was simply a waste of the miscellaneous people's desire to cherish and cultivate him." Tong Guan still remembered that he was a white-born Zhao Xingde who was preferential to join the army. Tong Guan hated such a hypocrite who was ungrateful, deceived the world and robbed the world and gained fame by his own head.

The capital was far away, to avoid the long nights and dreams. The next morning, Tong Guan took more than 100 followers from the First Army of Zhenbei and forcibly took away more than 200 war horses, and left the boat and landed. He rushed to Tokyo without stopping.

After passing through the territory of Zhending Prefecture, Tong Guan was anxious to go on a journey, and did not care about the newly appointed governor of the German Army with the imperial court. Yang Yanqing, the founding marquis of Hanoi County, hurriedly passed by the city and came to the foot of Wuma Mountain in the south of the prefecture. It was noon. From a distance, I saw an old locust tree next to the stream beside the road. There was an old locust tree growing on the branches of the locust tree, and three powerful characters "Wangjiu Yang" were written on the green cloth.

Xin Xingzong, the commander of the First Army in Zhenbei, pointed to the curtain and joked: "Sir, Mr. Yang specially set off the curtain to wait on this slope!" He knew that Tong Guan was so angry that Yang Yanqing took the opportunity to take over Hebei, so he deliberately laughed at him.

Tong Guan also smiled and said, "Let's see what good things are there in his Yang family." More than a hundred people came to the door of the thatched house, and the soldiers naturally sat on the ground under the shade of trees outside and chewed dry food. Xin Xingzong brought a few personal soldiers to accompany Tong Guan in. He saw a three-layer steamer next to the counter, with white steamed buns on the surface, and "Yi Guan" was written next to it. A Taoist priest dressed in a hand holding a whisk and was constantly driving flies. The man was not very eye-catching. He saw several people wearing official clothes coming in, but he didn't greet him diligently.

Xin Xingzong was used to being arrogant and pointed at the Taoist priest and said, "Are you crazy? You are not the crab roe steamed buns on the Grand Master Cai's mansion? You actually want to be consistent?"

The Taoist priest raised his eyelids and said listlessly: "I, Yang Yiguan, this steamed bun is called Yiguan steamed bun."

"So that's it," Xin Xingzong even laughed. The traveling vendors in Bianjing often put on some unique signs. Unexpectedly, the wild Taoist in this wild mountain ridge was the same, and they were determined to make their name known.

Before they finished laughing, the wild Taoist priest muttered again: "A lot of people passing by advised me to change the name of this steamed bun, so as not to think of the traitor who harmed me hundreds of thousands of people in Hebei when I saw this word Guan. I also wanted to change it, but I was lazy by nature and too lazy to make a new signboard. If all the officials don't like it, they simply treat the steamed buns with meat as Tong Guan. After eating it, it will be like swallowing a Tong Guan raw, and the appetite will be better."

His evil explanation immediately made Tong Guan angry and smoked his orifices, and his sparse beard shook slightly. Xin Xingzong immediately cursed in anger: "You wild Taoist priest, you dare to insult the imperial court for no reason." He turned to Tong Guan and said, "Stop the anger, and wait until you will punish this crazy Taoist priest who is lost."

The Taoist priest's eyes flashed with a cold light, staring at Tong Guan and said, "A real man will not change his name or his surname. Are you Tong Guan?"

Tong Guan took a step back when he saw that he was surrounded by personal soldiers. His courage suddenly became stronger and he shouted sternly: "I am Tong Guan. You are a troublemaker, you dare to assassinate me. Come on, take it down and chop it up!"

The Taoist suddenly laughed at the sky and pointed at Tong Guan and said, "I forgot that you, a castrate, are still fragile and cannot be a real man." While the personal soldiers had not approached, he used his arms to overturn the thick counter made of cypress. The steamed buns rolled all over the ground, and they hit a pillar in the thatched house. The thatched house was originally simple, but the pillar fell down, and the entire thatched house collapsed. The personal soldiers outside were wondering why, and were about to come forward to rescue Lord Tong, but a Taoist priest with disheveled hair rushed out of the pile of thatched trees and ran away without looking back. Soon, a harsh arrow came from the valley.

Xin Xingzong protected Tong Guan in a mess and came out of the thatched house in a mess. His face was pale and bowed, saying, "Sir, the mountains are high and dense here. I'm afraid that the wild Taoist also has strange things. Let's go first!"

Tong Guan was scared by the collapse of the thatched house. He immediately rode on a horse with the help of his personal soldiers and set off on the road again hungryly.

Not long after, I could only hear the sound of horse hooves behind me. Xin Xingzong looked back and saw that the Taoist priest had just led a team of three or four hundred riders to chase him.

The man held an iron spear and chased the horse. A middle-aged man in brocade clothes beside him asked, "All up, is it really a traitor in front of him?" He pondered secretly. If Lord Wang Tongzhi's secret order was completed by himself, the forces of Wuma Mountain might be able to recruit him. The bandits in Wuma Mountain were very powerful in the Hebei chaos, from the original 400 horse thieves to nearly 3,000 people, but it was difficult to lead the country.

The same is true for other big and small bandits. Zhao Bangjie, the leader of the village, knew that the Yang family army never surrendered and rebelled, and was determined to surrender to Jinyan Mansion, which had been in contact with him. Wang Yan secretly brought it to him that the traces of the traitor were found, and the ones who were about to die should not be killed, and no matter who killed him. Wang Yan did not say who the traitor was, but the heroes of Wuma Mountain were not fools, so they naturally caused Tong Guan, who had destroyed more than 2,000 brothers who had been newly up the mountain.

Yang Zaixing said in a deep voice: "The traitor couldn't bear it and admitted it himself." He raised his head and shouted loudly: "Don't leave, leave the head!" Although the bandits' horses were not as good as those of the official army, they had excellent riding skills. From time to time, the fallen officials were cut down by them. Finally, they finally stopped the more than a hundred cavalry officers. The two soldiers wearing high-ranking officials immediately knelt down and begged for mercy. It turned out that Xin Xingzong and Tong Guan had changed into ordinary people's clothes and fled over the mountains and changed directions.

"What a cunning traitor!" Yang Zaixing spitted hard on the ground. Although he did not catch Tong Guan in this battle, Wumashan got more than 200 good horses. The brothers tied the captured official army's hands behind the horse's butts and proudly drove the horses back to the village.
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