Bastard's Counterattack [Rebirth]

"Ah!" Yuan Yi screamed in horror, he couldn't hold back the castration when he accidentally fell down, he cringed and hugged his head, his eyes closed tightly as if evading.

Rong Youtang was startled, caught off guard, instinctively reined in the horse's head, and shouted: "Get out of the way!"

"Lord be careful!"

"Master!"

The guards were terrified, and quickly rode their horses closer, forming a circle in an instant.

The horse's hooves swung high into the air, almost standing on the ground. Relying on his skilled riding skills, Rong Youtang took two quick steps to avoid trampling on the people under the hooves.

At the same time, Wei Jie was the closest, and his reaction was extremely quick. With his legs clamped between the horse's belly, he flew forward, lying on his stomach, passing like an arrow. Zhu Yuanyi—and then throw it a foot away!

With a sound of "Boom~", Yuan Yi fell face-down into the snowdrift, his heart beat wildly and his face turned pale, he no longer had the suave appearance of a handsome young man.

"My lord, are you all right?" "Young Master, how are you?" The confidant asked nervously, Rong Youtang shook his head, just recovered from the shock, and asked angrily with a downcast face:

"Yuan Yi, what do you mean?"

"Arbitrarily intercepting the driving of an official ordered by the imperial court, and almost injuring our lord, how courageous you are!" the guard sternly scolded.

Wei Jie frowned, got off his horse, and flicked his shiny black whip in the air. Pointing at the culprit, he shouted, "Say! Who ordered you to murder our lord?"

Murder?

"I, I didn't, I didn't!" Yuan Yi was dumbfounded, frightened for a while, his back was sweating from fright, and he sat limp in the snowdrift, waved his hands hurriedly, and stammered to explain: "Don't, don't get me wrong, I'm just serving my uncle. It's just an order to invite Mr. Rong to have breakfast with him—"

"Could it be that Lord Yuan ordered you to stop our lord's car on purpose?" Wei Jie interrupted and questioned.

"No no no!"

Yuan Yi complained incessantly, mixed with shame and anger, but he knew he was wrong, tried his best to calm down, and explained: "Master Rong, please don't misunderstand, I blamed you for being rash and reckless just now, I didn't intend to disturb, it has nothing to do with my uncle, please be clear."

Rong Youtang sat on the tall horse, and said with a blank expression: "Your Majesty Yuan sincerely invites you, and you should not resign. Unfortunately, I am busy with urgent affairs, so I have no choice but to decline. You just rushed out without saying a word and stopped the horse. Fortunately, you are safe and sound." , if unfortunately casualties are caused, who will bear the responsibility?"

The sudden accident attracted many people to watch.

"My lord, you can punish him just by recklessly obstructing him!" Wei Jie proposed majesticly.

Rong Youtang nodded slowly, without taking his eyes off.

"My lord, please calm down. I didn't mean it on purpose. I was just in a hurry to invite you." Yuan Yi yelled bitterly, and was supported by the book boy to stand up. His crimson purple brocade robe was half covered with snow, his hair was disheveled, and he was in a state of embarrassment.

"In front of everyone's eyes, no matter how you rush forward, you really, really... amazed me." Rong Youtang commented meaningfully.

Yuan Yi squinted, disgustedly gouged out a look at the onlookers at the post station, gritted his teeth, bowed and cupped his hands and said: "The student was in a hurry and was careless, I hope the adults will forgive me, and Hai Han will forgive me."

Rong Youtang smiled slightly, and said reasonablely: "Young Master Yuan acted on Master Yuan's orders with extra dedication, I should forgive you, get up, there is no need to do this."

Diaozhou is rich, but the prefect of Yuan Dynasty has a hard waist; Xizhou is poor, and a new official of the magistrate takes office.Recalling the incident in the room last night—tsk tsk tsk!All the handymen suddenly realized that they thought they had discovered the secret, so they all tacitly clasped their hands and sleeves, squeezed behind the gate and poked their heads with relish.

Yuan Yi's family is wealthy and his studies are going well, and he has always walked sideways in Diaozhou, but now he is in a pinch of embarrassment.In order to get out as soon as possible, he sighed and endured the humiliation, knelt down with a "plop", and spoke with difficulty:

"The student surprised the adults, and the crime should be punished, and I beg the adults to come down." Hmph, even if I take the initiative to plead guilty, do you really dare to commit the crime?

Rong Youtang was dignified and steady, and said gently: "Young Master Yuan please hurry up, I am an official in the same dynasty as Master Yuan, how can I punish you for trivial matters?"

really!

I knew it, you dare not do anything to me!

Yuan Yi snickered proudly, stood up as he said, and said: "Thank you for your forgiveness, sir."

"Are you not injured?" Rong Youtang asked kindly.

"Students are fine." Yuan Yi shook his head, the sense of humiliation subsided a lot.

"It's fine." Rong Youtang nodded in relief, and then told: "I am in a hurry to go to the disaster relief, you can go back and tell Mr. Yuan, and I will visit you again when you have a chance."

"Yes."

Rong Youtang stopped looking at Yuan Yi, turned the horse's head, and tapped his heels lightly: "Drive!" He whipped the horse, and was surrounded by his cronies as he went away, the horse's hoof splashed white snowflakes.

Yuan Yi watched for a moment, then gave a deep "pooh" in secret, and hurriedly walked back to the backyard like a gust of wind.

"what?"

"Rong Youtang really left?" Yuan Bai turned pale in astonishment.

"It's absolutely true!" Yuan Yi was indignant and aggrieved to the extreme. He told the story in detail, and said bitterly: "He is so arrogant! He has no one in his eyes, and he doesn't take you seriously. Uncle, it can be seen that 'there is no wind without waves', The rumors in the capital turned out to be true, Rong Youtang entered into an official career only by clinging to King Qing, he himself has extremely poor manners, arrogant and conceited—"

"enough!"

Yuan Bai interrupted his nephew bitterly, and scolded angrily: "Why are you recklessly blocking the horse? You made a joke yourself, and you still have the face to laugh at others. You are stupid and don't know it."

"I..." Yuan Yi blushed, felt ashamed and lost, and said in disbelief, "What's so great about him? Xizhou is next to Diaozhou, and every prefect of Xizhou couldn't avoid asking for your financial help. Faced with a big mess, Lord Rong will definitely come to the door for help."

"Hmph." Yuan Bai's eyes were dark and unpredictable, and his tone was flat:

"Although I'm a colleague, I'm a senior anyway. He's really crazy, but you didn't think about what you did, that's all, both sides are at fault." They each slapped [-] slaps on their mouths, but their hearts naturally favored their nephew. Waiting for the relegated younger generation to pay respects to him, immediately put Rong Youtang into the first class of "Arrogant Lizi".

"Hey?" Yuan Yi suddenly clapped his hands together, curled his lips contemptuously, and reminded: "Uncle, on the first day of this year, do you think he paid the governor first? Mr. Qi has only been in office for more than two months. Xiu Mu made a special trip to visit during the New Year's Eve."

"Hiss..." Yuan Bai gasped, his eyeballs were fixed, after a while, he "snapped" his teacup, and ordered decisively: "Since this is the case, we must hurry up!"

"That's right!" Yuan Yi agreed very much, and said angrily: "Yesterday's New Year's Eve, we hurried on our way just after the New Year's Eve dinner, just not to fall behind. How can we be overtaken by people from the capital all the way?"

In the post station, the uncle and nephew of the Yuan family urged to start; outside in the wilderness, Rong Youtang and his party ate, drank, and slept, and the spirits of people and horses were much better.

"Haha, God help me, today is a smooth wind." Rong Youtang shouted happily.

"Finally much lighter! Last night against the wind, the wind made my eyes hurt and my tears kept flowing. I was so anxious that I wanted to curse." Wei Jie smiled, paused, and asked in wonder: "Yuan Yi is arrogant and arrogant, why don't you borrow it?" The machine cleans him up?"

"I don't have time right now, so let's remember him for now." Rong Youtang said with a smile, and swung his whip with a "crack", loudly boosting morale,

"Brothers, cheer up, we will be able to go to Xizhou after a day or two of hard work, and then we will have hot wine, rice and kang, and have a good night's sleep after eating and drinking!"

Hejian has high mountains and dense forests, vertical and horizontal valleys, and the sky is different for ten miles.

After Yuan Bai got into the sedan chair, he walked for a quarter of an hour. The weather suddenly changed, the wind direction changed, the wind swept the goose feathers and the heavy snow roared and rolled.

"Hey! Stop it, stop it, it's all stabilized by me."

Yuan Bai sighed heavily, and sat in the sedan chair, anxious but helpless, he sighed, "It was fine when we set off, but the weather is so bad in the blink of an eye!"

In the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the city of Hejian is decorated with lanterns and festoons to welcome the new year. The smell of firecrackers is strong, and children play and chase in groups, peaceful and happy.

Rong Youtang got off his horse, stood in front of the steps of Hejian governor's yamen, glanced intently, couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion.

"Are you afraid?" Wei Jie asked jokingly.

"What are you afraid of?" Rong Youtang returned to his senses.

Wei Jie joked: "Last time when you investigated the case, you packed a boat full of corrupt officials from Hejian and escorted them back to the capital. Official relations are always complicated. Now that the magistrate is here, are you afraid of being made things difficult?"

"What are you afraid of? Brother, you also said that all I arrest are corrupt officials. Corrupt officials deserve to be severely punished." Rong Youtang was frank and fearless.

"Good! You are so courageous, no wonder His Majesty thinks highly of you." Wei Jie praised you greatly.

Rong Youtang smiled bitterly and said modestly: "It's just a matter of duty. If it is done well, it should be done. If it can't be done well, you will be punished. Let's go! Let's pay a visit to Mr. Qi."

a quarter of an hour later

"The magistrate of Xizhou?" Qi Shaozhu raised his eyes and put down the teacup in surprise.He was nearly forty years old, of medium build, with drooping eye tails and deep and sharp eyes.

"Yes." The steward bowed back, handed something with both hands and said: "Master Rong is already waiting in the front hall, here is his greeting card and the official fuse."

Qi Shaozhu took it, took a closer look, put it on the table and pressed it down, pondered for a few breaths, and said: "Departure on the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and arrive on the first day of the first lunar month. The journey is full of wind and snow, and the attitude is commendable."

"Master Rong sent you some earthen rituals of the capital, and brought a few packs of festival gifts for Mr. Guo of Dingbeihou's Mansion. For the time being, they are kept in the anteroom of the front hall. Please show me, Your Excellency." The housekeeper reported again.

"Oh? Tzuyu has a heart." With a smile on his face, Qi Shaozhu got up and said, "Let's go and meet the visitors from home."

not long

Rong Youtang drank half a cup of tea, and was suddenly shocked by the heat, his bruised and swollen palms were extremely itchy, and he was quietly scratching, when he heard footsteps outside the door, he stood up when he heard the news, raised his eyes Seeing a middle-aged man wearing a sapphire blue and half-worn brocade robe stepping across the threshold with a smile, his hands behind his back, he gathered himself together, stepped forward, bowed his hands upright, and said loudly:

"My lord, Rong Youtang, pay my respects to your lord."

"There is no need to be polite." Qi Shaozhu stretched out his hand to help him halfway when he passed by, then took the seat and said, "Sit down."

"Thank you, sir." Rong Youtang sat down as he said, and apologized: "I'm sorry for the disturbance on the first day of the new year. I'm so sorry."

"Where, you are going to the post on order, so why bother? You will arrive in only ten days, which is rare." Qi Shaozhu is elegant and kind, with a low voice but clear enunciation, coupled with a smile throughout the process, which makes people feel good.

"Your Majesty was very concerned when he received the report of the snow disaster in Xizhou. He specially ordered his subordinates to go to the post as soon as possible to assist the adults in the disaster relief. However, the subordinates are young and inexperienced, so they are very frightened. I just hope that they will not cause you any trouble." Rong Youtang said frankly , neither humble nor overbearing.

Qi Shaozhu smiled, and said slowly: "Since ancient times, heroes have been born as teenagers. Although you are young, this is the third time you have gone to Hejian. How can you be inexperienced? You are too modest."

Uh... Is it a compliment or a derogation?

Uncertain for a moment, Rong Youtang thought about it, and said earnestly: "I am ashamed of myself."

Qi Shaozhu had a leisurely posture, reclining on the back of the Grand Master's chair, resting his elbows on the desk, looking carefully at the handsome but alert young magistrate, tapping on the armrest with his fingers, and asked coldly: "Has Pu Cheng ever talked about this magistrate to you?"

Lunan, whose name is Pucheng.

Speaking of Master, Rong Youtang quickly stood up, bowed his head and replied respectfully: "When he left Master before taking office, the old man talked a little bit, and asked the next official to bring you a letter." After speaking, he took it into his arms Offer the letter in both hands.

Qi Shaozhu picked it up, but without looking at it, he put it on the table casually, watching the other party's expression from the corner of his eye:

Well, I'm not in a hurry, and I don't mean to flatter or get close.

"What did your master say about me?"

Rong Youtang told the truth: "He praised you for being upright and promising."

"anything else?"

Rong Youtang said euphemistically: "Master also praised you for being jealous and humorous."

"Hahaha~" Qi Shaozhu chuckled lightly, and asked cheerfully, "Is this not the original words?"

Rong Youtang's eyes were like bright stars, his figure was straight, and he answered solemnly: "But the meaning is similar."

"Oh~" Qi Shaozhu raised his eyebrows, Shi Shiran stood up, put his hands behind his back, his smiling face disappeared suddenly, and he said seriously: "Relief is like firefighting, no delay is allowed, and this official is also new to the post, with a lot of thoughts, and I really have no time to take time. Arrive quickly without unnecessary delay—Have you had your lunch yet?"

"It's time for lunch when we enter the city, and the group of people are hungry on the way, so they have already used up in a hurry." Rong Youtang replied.

"Very good." Qi Shaozhu nodded in satisfaction, and ordered vigorously: "In that case, you immediately set off to Xizhou to preside over the overall situation of disaster relief, and pay special attention to appeasing the victims safely, without any mistakes!"

Rong Youtang took the order seriously, cupped his hands and said: "Yes!"

Qi Shaozhu's eyes were complicated, he glanced at the overly beautiful face of the other party, solemnly and coldly, said in a deep voice:

"In addition, I have one or two words to remind you."