phoenix knot

Dong Yiming, whose name is Zhongjin, is the sixth eldest in his family. He is known as Dong Liuye and leads thousands of households.In such a small place as Songcheng, Dong Liucai became famous within a few days after he came here, although he became famous in a way he didn't want, all because of his pretty face.

In Songcheng, there are four thousand adults who are equal to him, and the guard Ma Yu, who is further up, is still in the prison in the capital because of a crime, waiting for the military law to deal with it.At this juncture, Dong Liu fell from the sky, and his colleagues felt that he might have come to succeed Ma Yu. He only had a little experience at Yanmen Pass, and he didn't even need any experience. Anyway, he was promoted in a year or so.This is the emperor's direct descendant, and it seems to be related to the empress and the old Liang family. In short, he is young and has no outstanding military exploits. He has led thousands of households. Isn't it because he is related to the emperor's relatives?

As soon as Dong Liu came, four adults from thousands of households drank with him, and they felt that this man was thin-skinned, soft-spoken, and literate. Isn't he just a frail scholar from Jiangnan?

The confidant sent by Chang Qinghe, the Commander of the Dragon and Tiger Guards——Li Mingtang, is a fifth-rank official, but a senior official who overwhelms everyone, and is an official who takes care of everything. He came a few days earlier than Dong Liu. , everyone thought he was going to take over Ma Yu's errand, waited and waited, only said to investigate the case, but there was no transfer document, so they checked and checked, fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. For more than half a month, he went back to the barracks of the Yanmen Pass Guards, reckoning that Chang Qinghe couldn't do without this confidant, and he still had to go back after a while.

In such a modest guardhouse in Songcheng, it is now a pool of muddy water. Everyone wants to find out each other's bottom, thinking that they don't need to fight or hurt their friendship, and then they can rise up step by step.

The team led by Dong Liu has a total of 120 people, of which 480 are related to foreign descendants, and there seem to be Mongols among them. After the new year, 520 people have just completed their military registration. There were 70 bandit soldiers, 28 veterans who were kicked out from other thousand households, and finally 22 veterans who had military registration but had to stay in Songcheng before they were allowed to leave due to injury or illness.

Then look at the team led by the other four adults from thousands of households, each of them is a well-trained soldier with high spirits. After the busy farming in the late spring, Chang Qinghe, the commander of the dragon guard, will come to inspect the team. The team led by Dong Liu If you take it out, you simply cannot see it.

Dong Liu suffered from being dumb, so he didn't quarrel or make trouble. Once the month of conquest was over, he went to the barracks to investigate in person on the first day of February. The recruits and veterans who came down saw him handsome and eloquent, so they couldn't help making dirty jokes. .Dong Liu was not annoyed, he just said that he is not a manly man, and there is a beautiful wife who is pregnant with Liujia at home.Naturally, the female relatives in the family are not easily seen, and they are only allowed to meet when there is a chance.

On the second day of February, when the dragon raised his head, Dong Liu was waiting for his soldiers in the cold windy school grounds. He went to the barracks the night before and personally notified him, and the notice was also pasted at the door. He was afraid that everyone would be illiterate, so he hired a literate man to take up the post. , standing next to the notice to explain.After receiving 120 people, more than half of the more than 600 people were late, and those who arrived were also disheveled and crooked.

Dong Liu asked Xiyu and two guards to hold him down, one to beat one army stick, two to beat two army sticks, the later they came, the more they beat, Feng Xu sat beside him and tied up the windproof cloth Record the name and the number of boards beaten in front of the table.When people arrive and have not freed their hands for execution, they will record the number and line up to receive the punishment.

For a while, there were endless screams on the school field.Those who were still in the barracks heard this, and some of them were so frightened that they rushed to lead the batons, some continued to sleep on him as a feeble scholar and dared not move, and some even packed their bags and prepared to run out of Songcheng and return to the mountains to become bandits.

Dong Liu waited patiently in the school grounds. The flagpoles planted in the snow were getting shorter and shorter. It was already past noon, and those who came later, and those who continued to sleep in the barracks, were dragged out together and knelt on the ground. On the sidelines of the school.

"The military order is like a mountain, everyone knows it, right?" Dong Liu cleared his throat and said in a hoarse voice.

It was very quiet in the school grounds, because he cried out in pain after eating the army stick, so he didn't dare to make a sound at this time.

"It was written in my notice yesterday that after noon, he will be executed according to military law."

These kneeling soldiers were startled.

"I led you to practice on the first day, and I didn't want to start a big killing spree. Today, the dragon raised its head and let the hair take the lead. The right is a lesson." As soon as the words fell, Xiyu took the dagger and stepped forward, took off the soldiers of these people. Helmets, "swish, swish, swish" several times to shave the heads of the kneeling soldiers in a row, not to mention the technique, the shaved look like a dog chewing.While she was shaving, Dong Liu sat in Lord Qianhu's chair, raised his legs, stroked the stubble on his chin, and just watched quietly.

Parents with body, hair and skin, although shaving their hair is not as painful as being subjected to military sticks, but it is possible to cut a little scalp, and more importantly, they will not be able to tie it up in the next year or two. How to explain this shameful humiliation to others ?Don't even need to ask, just look at the bald dipper on the forehead and you will know that he was punished on this day.

After shaving his head, Dong Liu turned around and asked his servant Feng Xu, "How many people are still here?"

"There are still six people who are missing, and no one was mentioned in the barracks." Feng Xu handed over the list.

Dong Liu looked at it, and called some people in the team to come forward, "You are in the same room as these six people, do you know where they are going, if you tell, you will be rewarded, if you can't tell, you will sit together."

The soldiers told the whereabouts of these six people one after another, and one of them even stayed in the kiln and didn't return all night.

Dong Liu asked Feng Xu to record that those who confessed the whereabouts of their colleagues were rewarded with ten taels of silver and ten army sticks.

The soldiers looked at each other, and Dong Liu explained to them, "A reward of ten taels of silver is your three-month military salary. I will do what I say, and a fine of ten military sticks is because you betrayed your brothers and broke your promise. In front of military law, brotherly love, how to choose?" , think for yourself."

Someone refused to accept it, stood up and said: "Lord Qianhu didn't say just now that he would be punished with ten army sticks."

Dong Liu raised his eyebrows, "So you have neglected righteousness for profit?"

The man said: "There is no brotherhood in front of the military law, so the younger ones confessed them. In the future, if someone surrenders to the enemy and treason, the younger one will also give up his life to stop them, and let them go to the enemy and treason on the little corpse. But the adults of Qianhu lied Everyone, let them reveal the whereabouts of brothers and receive punishment, this is really unreasonable."

Dong Liu smiled and nodded: "What's your name?"

"Ling Shishi."

"Born on October [-]th? My ancestral home is Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province. I'm [-] years old. I'm a fourth-year-old. Am I wrong?"

Ling Shishi was a little surprised, but the loud voice should be.

"You speak uprightly, you are upright, and I admire you very much. You rewarded one hundred silver and led one hundred households. But you did not dissuade the brothers in the same room and let them ignore the military law. This brother is not good. Brothers on the battlefield should depend on each other and live with each other. Robe, walk with the son, you can't dissuade first, then betray your brother, beat twenty army sticks, are you convinced?"

"Convince!"

Dong Liuyi waved: "Hit!"

When the fourteenth army sticks were being beaten, the others took the ten army sticks one after another. After the beating was over, Dong Liu ordered them to go out to find the six missing colleagues, and they had to come back before Shen Shi.

At the time of application, the five soldiers were finally tied back.

These five people were paid for one month, received [-] military sticks, and were confined for three days. During this period, they were only provided with water and no food. After they came out, they went to the camps to clean the latrines for a month.

Dong Liu stood up, stretched and prepared to go back home, leaving Xiyu to continue training the soldiers.

Ling Shishi had just been called out and promoted to be head of a hundred households and stood beside Dong Liu. At this moment, he couldn't help reminding Dong Liu that there was another one who was visiting the kiln that he hadn't found.

Dong Liu patted his head, "Oh", as if he just remembered, "If you find it, let's cut it off." After speaking, he was ready to walk away.

Another soldier saw that Ling Shishi was promoted to a hundred households in one fell swoop even though he was beaten by a military stick, so he decided to follow him and stood up and proposed to Dong Liu that since those who are late will be punished, why should they be punctual? Should there be rewards for trustworthy soldiers?

Dong Liu sneered, and said in a hoarse voice: "The salary of the emperor, the matter of loyalty to the emperor, as soldiers of the imperial court, you should be given points for daily drills, and you have to receive extra rewards for coming to the school grounds on time?"

The soldier was choked by the question.

Lord Qianhu left, leaving the cold and handsome guard behind him to continue training the soldiers.

What Dong Liu said was "if you find it, you will chop it up", and the person who has not returned from visiting the kiln is naturally not an ordinary soldier, but a head of a hundred households under Dong Liu.When his subordinates found him, they told him everything that happened on the school field today. He panicked at first, and then figured out what Dong Liu meant.

"If you can't find it, then you don't need to chop it up?" He said to himself.

Of course, he can't be a deserter, saying that failing to find it is a way to slow down the army. He immediately asked his subordinates to bring the banknotes and generous gifts to Baishui Town to find Dong Liu, begging Lord Qianhu to forgive him, while he hid in the kiln behind closed doors and continued. Drinking and eating meat whoring - woman.

Those who went to Dong Liu's house in Baishui Town to ask their sister-in-law's wife to give gifts to ask for mercy, did not see Su Mingyue, but only saw the two servants Lianxiang and Cailian, who asked Su Mingyue if they wanted to accept them through the curtain.

Su Mingyue said from behind the curtain: "I don't dare to make a decision about my husband-in-law. You can talk about it after he comes back."

How could these people dare to wait for Dong Liu to come back, they dropped the presents and ran away.

Lianxiang lit the banknote and handed it to Su Mingyue, "It's only the second day, and I've started offering bribes."

Su Mingyue didn't answer: "Don't give it to me, quickly take it to the Songcheng military camp to find Liu Ye, let him make a decision, don't spend the night."

Lianxiang took the order, so she took the banknotes and gifts and ran to the camp to find Dong Liu.At that time, Dong Liu was drinking and eating hot pot with Li Mingtang in the meeting hall of the chief of the camp. He took the silver ticket and listened to Lianxiang's story. He couldn't help but patted his mustache with his ring finger, and said with a smile: " In the morning, he promised the soldiers in the battalion casually a reward, but he was wondering where the money would come from. No, the money came. Oh, it’s quite a lot.”

Li Mingtang also took it over and took a look, "This lord of a hundred families is quite well off."

"The whores are private prostitutes, which cost more money than military camp official prostitutes."

Li Mingtang said: "Are you really giving this money away as a silver reward?"

"Of course, it's right to inform the Commander of the Dragon and Tiger Guards. Once you take someone, you can't just cut them off. I'll ask Lord Chang to make a decision. The procedures that need to be followed have to be followed."

Li Mingtang laughed loudly, "I really can't see that you look like a frail scholar, but you are actually a cunning and cunning man. You are afraid that the backer behind the hundred households will come to trouble you at that time, so you will push this matter to Mr. Chang. If he says chop it, It’s not too late to chop it off. Then what if he says not to chop it off?”

Dong Liu spread his hands together, "Anyway, this lord of a hundred households, I can't afford to support this small temple, so I'll leave it to lord Chang."

Li Mingtang poked him with his finger, "Didn't you want me to take him to Yanmen Pass?"

Dong Liu clasped his hands and said: "Thank you very much!" After finishing speaking, he picked up the wine slinger, turned his head and scooped up the hot wine that was boiling on the stove under the table, and poured it for Li Mingtang, "My cousin, come here Come, let's eat vegetables."

"Then what I said..."