[Rebirth] Emperor Yonggao Ji

Yang Jiu originally had three sons. He didn't read much and couldn't read, so he didn't know how to name them, so he kept calling them "the eldest" and "the youngest".After the war, he built a house in the suburbs of Chang'an and settled down. He felt that it was not an option to always call it that way, so he brought ten coins and asked the only person in the village who was said to have read a few books to name the child.The scholar glanced at his three children, without thinking, picked up a pen and wrote three names on the paper, "Yang Meng", "Yang Zhong", and "Yang Ji", and told the pronunciation to Empress Yang Jiu, Yang No matter how I heard it, I thought it sounded good, and felt that the name seemed to have a lot of meaning. I couldn't help praising people who had read books as better than those who were soldiers who didn't know big characters. Let the sons remember their names carefully, and then Go happily.Later, a veteran who fought with Yang Jiu died, leaving behind a half-old son. Yang Jiu and his wife pitied him for his loneliness, and this man had saved Yang Jiu's life on the battlefield before, so the couple brought the child back. The family is raised as one's own son.Seeing that her three sons all had names, Yang Jiu was afraid that the younger son would feel uncomfortable, so she went to the scholar with money to ask for a name for the younger son.The scholar thought about it this time, and after a long time, he asked Yang Jiu if he could change the names of his first three sons. The two characters "Yang Si" spit out from the cracks. Yang Jiu thought the name was ordinary, but the scholar really couldn't say anything else, and saw that the child liked this name very much, so he finally called it that.

When Yang Jiu came home that day, he saw that his wife had stopped making clothes, and she was sitting on the bed moaning, so she sat down too, "I said, you mother-in-law's mind is as big as the eye of a needle, what's the use of moaning all day long? You and I Said, I found our prime minister today, and the prime minister said that he would make decisions for our family, and said that he would send someone to investigate immediately!"

His wife gave him a blank look, "Check it! How many times have you been to Sili's mansion, and when did you not say that you sent someone to check it? What about people? How can an official like the prime minister take care of you? It's just fooling around Let's go!"

"That can't, can't." Yang Jiu said affirmatively: "I think it's different this time, and someone must come to check. Come on, stop talking a little bit, and quickly make dinner for our masters. I'll go to the field The children are called back."

The wife sighed and twisted into the kitchen.

That night, Yang Jiu's family set up a wooden board as a dining table, and the six members of the family were sitting around the dining table eating, halfway through eating, they actually saw people from Tingwei's mansion.Yang Jiu laughed, and said happily, "Look, what did I say! Our Prime Minister is really a good man." His wife also put down the bowl, her brows beaming with joy.Yang Jiu stopped eating, and went to tell the people sent by Ting Wei what he had said to Wang Sheng, and then went out to show them his rice fields.Yang Meng asked: "Mother, the government has come to compensate us for our rice?" The woman patted his head, put the rice bowl into his hand, and said "Eat your rice well" while looking out.

Almost all the neighbors in the village came back to farm after serving as soldiers with Yang Jiu. When they heard about his family, they all cursed and tried to defend him. It was time to eat dinner, but they all put down their jobs and came out to testify to Yang Jiu. Everyone was arguing that Hai Qihou must be arrested.

After Ting Wei's men left, Yang Jiu greeted everyone to go home for dinner, and he also returned home, grinning behind his ears, staring at the rice bowl and couldn't stop saying, "That's great, that's great." Yang Si asked "Father, what are you happy about?" Yang Jiu said with a smile: "Father is happy that someone finally decides for our family. The Prime Minister is a very good man."

Unexpectedly, that night when Yang Jiu's family was sleeping, there was a light sound from the window. Yang Jiu turned over, thinking it was the wind, and didn't care. He was startled when he suddenly heard soft footsteps. Immediately squinting his eyes to see, he saw a long strip of light flashing in front of his eyes in the darkness. He hurriedly rolled around on the bed, and then heard his wife scream.

"Who!" Yang Jiu shouted, but no one answered, he stepped back and shouted: "Mother, mother?" The wife didn't answer, but the eldest son's confused voice sounded, "Father, what's wrong?" Already?" Before he finished speaking, he screamed.Yang Jiu retreated to the door, touched the hoe from the corner to cover his chest, and shouted: "Don't make any noise, run here!" After speaking, he kicked the door open, and the moonlight came in, reflecting two bloody bodies. dead body, three and a half children, and two masked men.

Yang Jiu yelled, swung the hoe with his only arm, and threw it at the two men, saying, "Yang Zhong, take your two younger brothers and run!"

The two masked men came to meet them with their knives upright, Yang Jiu felt grief and anger, and was eager to protect his son, he didn't know where the strength came from for a while, he blocked them, swung the hoe vigorously, and was able to withstand it for a while.Taking advantage of this time, Yang Zhong protected his two younger brothers, bypassed them and ran out the door.How could the two assassins let them go out? When Yang Jiu's strength slackened, he immediately switched from defense to offense. Yang Jiu had only one arm left. He left the barracks and planted the land for several years. He swung his hoe and smashed at the two of them.An assassin took aim at the opening in Yang Jiu's chest when he swung his single arm. He straightened out a knife and stabbed in. Seeing that the blow was successful, he wanted to pull it out. His eyes turned to the three children at the door, and he was about to go towards them. go.Seeing this, Yang Jiu was in a hurry and only wanted to let the three sons escape. Although he was stabbed in the opposite direction, he didn't even care about the pain. The assassin staggered, Yang Jiu didn't care about the assassin behind him, took this opportunity to swing a hoe, and hit the head of the person in front of him hard, this blow mustered all his strength, and smashed the brains of the person in front of him come out.Seeing that the assassin fell to the ground and did not move, Yang Jiu could not turn around yet, suddenly his waist felt cold, and he looked down to see another point of a knife protruding from his stomach, and then the point of the knife shrank inward, leaving a hole on his body. A transparent hole gurgling blood.Yang Jiu's eyes darkened, he staggered and fell forward, the assassin dropped him, and rushed out the door with a knife in hand.Seeing his father lying on the ground covered in blood, Yang Zhong handed Yang Si to Yang Ji's hands, pushed his two younger brothers forward, turned around and shouted, "Father! I'll save you! "He ran back.Yang Jiu shouted towards the door with blood in his mouth: "Good boy! Yang Ji, take your brother and run! Run!" The assassin saw such a half-grown boy throwing himself into the trap, how could he be polite to him, and stepped forward Raising the knife in one step and chopping, he suddenly felt tripped, and looked down, it was Yang Jiu who hugged his calf tightly with his single arm, just in such a dazed effort, Yang Zhong suddenly rushed up and pointed at him. The assassin bit down hard on the hand holding the knife.The assassin yelled, but couldn't hold the knife, and the long knife fell to the ground with a "clang". He swung his arm vigorously, but Yang Zhong bit his mouth tightly and never let go.The assassin was so angry that he bent down and pulled out the knife on Yang Jiu's chest with the other arm, raised his arm and lifted Yang Zhongyang, who was hanging on his arm, into the air, and cut his throat with the other hand, and the knife cut He chopped off his head, waved the head that was still hanging on his body, and then stepped on Yang Jiu's heart.Yang Jiu spat out a mouthful of blood, stared at the door, and finally died.

Yang Ji and Yang Si had already fled outside the courtyard. At this moment, the neighbors heard the noise and lit candles one after another to watch. Seeing that the scattered candles were gradually approaching, Yang Ji took Yang Si's hand and ran while saying: "Si Brother, Dad often told the three of us that your biological father saved his life, and said that even if our Yang family had no descendants, he would definitely bring you up. Today our family is killed, and I can’t be the only child. That assassin chased him out, I'll block him for a while, run as fast as you can, go find Uncle Liu and Uncle Li, and run towards the bright place! If you are alive, our father can rest in peace even if he is dead!" Yang Four burst into tears, tightly holding Yang Ji's hand and shaking his head desperately.

At this time, Yang Ji heard the shouts in the house, and looked back, just in time to see Yang Zhong's bloody head rolling out of the door, and then a foot stretched out from behind the door, and was stepping on the side of the head, The assassin came after him again.The assassin saw them at a glance and ran towards the two of them.Seeing that his second elder brother died in a terrible state, and his father's life and death were unknown, Yang Ji's blood surged up, he roared angrily, and shouted: "Fourth brother, run!" Then he was about to rush towards the assassin.Yang Si clung to his hand tightly, but was thrown away by Yang Ji. Then Yang Ji picked up a stone from the ground and held it in his hand. He shouted and ran towards the assassin.

"Third brother!" Yang Si shouted, followed by two steps, then gritted his teeth, turned around and ran desperately in the opposite direction.Yang Ji's screams sounded from behind, and Yang Si burst into tears, not daring to look back, only to run faster.At this time, the neighbors had arrived one after another, holding candles and hoes in their hands, and formed a circle around the door of Yang's house, surrounding the assassin in the middle.The assassin didn't expect that the assassination of this family of civilians would be delayed for so long. Seeing so many people, he panicked and gestured left and right with his knife, trying to scare them off.Most of the nearby villagers came out of the battlefield, and they were not afraid of trouble, let alone blood, so they rushed forward and captured the assassin.Some experienced ones, after handing over the assassin's knife, tied his hands behind their backs and removed his jaw to prevent him from committing suicide.Yang Si was protected by everyone, and he almost died from crying. They held candles and entered Yang Jiu's yard. Seeing the dead bodies of a family of five scattered all over the ground, they couldn't help being shocked, angry, hated and sad. He grabbed Yang Si and asked what was going on.

How did Yang Si know?After Kankan stopped crying, he could only tell them how the assassin suddenly appeared while sleeping and how he killed his parents and brothers.Although he was young, his mind remained calm after undergoing such a drastic change. Although he was choked up several times and could not speak, and his narration was intermittent, he explained the process clearly within a short time.

Li Zheng Liu Zhu listened to his speech, gritted his teeth and thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Brother Yang has always done his duty and has never had any enemies. He must have offended someone because of reporting to the official this time, otherwise, who would invite him?" Assassins come to kill?"

Everyone agreed, and Li San said angrily with tears in his eyes: "Damn it! Brother Yang has always been good to us, but now his whole family has been killed by the government. We must ask for an explanation!"

"People who are killed by the government, who do you ask for an explanation!" "That's right!"

Someone threw the hoe on the ground resentfully, "Isn't there any reason for us to live at the foot of the capital?"

Li Sandao: "Call out all the men in the village, let's go to Sili Mansion and take the dog officer inside! Damn it, it must be theirs!"

"No, it must be that Hai Qihou!"

"Which official is still in the government at night, they all go home and sleep!"

Liu Zhu held up the candle and said loudly: "Everyone, calm down! Fighting against the government is treason! What can we, a few hoes, do?"

"Then Brother Yang won't take revenge?" Li San held the hoe firmly in one hand, and held Yang Sihu in his arms with the other, crying endlessly, "If the government doesn't take our lives as their own, it will plot against him." What can we do! Just ask, who among us has not died several times on the battlefield, are we still afraid of death!"

Yang Si suddenly got out of Li San's arms, and said in a hoarse voice: "My father said that the prime minister will uphold justice for us, and I want to go to the prime minister."

Li Si hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Son, don't go, your father was killed after looking for Cheng quite late! We will help you out, you are still young, don't get involved in this matter."

But Yang Si insisted: "Uncle Li, let me go. I want to find the prime minister, but my father said that the prime minister is a good person, and the prime minister will help us."

Liu Zhu sighed: "We have nothing else to do... Everyone is carrying the corpses of Brother Yang's family, and this assassin, follow me to the prime minister's mansion, and let the prime minister help us decide!"

"Yes, go find the prime minister!" "Let's go!"

Yang Si knelt in the courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and told Wang Sheng the story with tears in his eyes. After hearing this, Wang Sheng was speechless for a long time, and after recovering, he asked, "Where are the rest of the villagers?"

Yang Sidao: "They were all stopped outside the prime minister's mansion, and I climbed in through the courtyard wall."

"Let the villagers come in," Wang Sheng said to the steward, then lifted Yang Si up from the ground, wiped his tears, and said softly, "Son, your Yang family is full of loyal people. Surely justice will be done for you.”

Not long after, more than 30 peasants wrapped their heads in white cloth, held hoes and torches in their hands, and carried six corpses and a struggling living person into the prime minister's mansion.They spread the corpses one by one on the ground of the Xiangfu, and then remained silent, staring at Wang Sheng with dozens of pairs of eyes with tears in their eyes.

Wang Sheng looked down and saw that the women and children were all covered with stab wounds, and one child was even decapitated. The miserable state of Yang Jiu who stopped his frame during the day was even more unbearable.Wang Sheng looked over one by one, then raised his head again, his eyes swept over everyone's eyes one by one, and his heart sank straight down.

These were dozens of pairs of eyes suppressing grief and hatred, staring at him for a moment, waiting for his next words.

As soon as he saw these eyes, Wang Sheng knew that if he handled this matter a little bit wrongly, these ordinary people who only knew how to farm and cultivate the fields would have to fight the court forever.