The gray-clothed man is surnamed Zhou, and his single name is the word "Xing"!

That's right, it's the cool official who is as famous as Lai Junchen and Suo Yuanli - Zhou Xing!

Cui Geng never expected that the gray-clothed man with thick eyebrows and big eyes in front of him was Zhou Xing, a cool official who could stop children crying at night!

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Since Wu Zetian completed the crucial leap from the queen mother to the emperor, his mood has changed a lot, and he has become less and less interested in the Cool Officials Group.

In February this year, someone accused Zhou Xing and Qiu Shenqian of rebellion, and she did not hesitate to order someone to be imprisoned for questioning.

Qiu Shenyun was soon beheaded by Wu Sansi at the entrance of the vegetable market in Taiyi Gate.

As for Zhou Xing, his experience is well known, before he was imprisoned, Lai Junchen invited him to drink first, and asked the prisoner what if he didn't recruit him to death?

Zhou Xing said that this is easy to do, prepare a big man, light a charcoal fire around him, and let him become a fireplace roast duck if he doesn't move.

Come to Junchen and say Okay, now Your Majesty will let me interrogate you, and the official will go and prepare the big man and the charcoal fire, and you can prepare yourself.

Zhou Xing knelt down and pleaded guilty at that time.

This is the famous urn in history.

Zhou Xing's luck was a little better than that of the khu, and Wu Zetiannian did not kill him for the sake of his previous merits, but exiled him to Lingnan Dao.

Zhangpu County was his place of exile.

When he arrived here, because he was originally an official, he didn't have to serve hard labor, as long as he reported to the county government every three days. In addition, the county government will provide him with food and vegetables to support his basic life.

That's why he happened to appear outside the county government hall today to watch the excitement.

Cui Geng secretly pondered, no wonder he was arrogant and rude and refused to report his name just now, I am afraid that as soon as the words "Zhou Xing" came out just now, he would have to order the officials to beat him out on the spot.

Just kidding, if you have a relationship with Zhou Xing, it is not only an enemy of the entire officialdom, but also an enemy of the entire world!

Wu Zetian doesn't want to carry the notoriety for him, can I afford it on my small shoulders?

He hurriedly snorted and said, "It turned out to be the famous Lord Zhou, fortunately!" Fortunately! So what~ This official is busy with official business, so I won't keep you much. Chang Qing, seal a bag of twenty taels of silver for Lord Zhou, send off guests! ”

"Cui Yushi, save me!"

Suddenly, Zhou Xing lost the arrogance just now, ran forward, hugged Cui Geng's thigh without discipline, and shouted: "Zhou's help just now can be regarded as a small achievement!" Please also ask Cui Yushi to take action and save his next life! ”

Not?

Cui Geng was stunned by Zhou Xing's sudden move, but Zhou was right, if he hadn't been reminded by him just now, he would have almost fallen into the big pit preset by Liang Bo and others!

No matter what his purpose is to help himself, this favor is indeed owed to him Zhou Xing.

But Zhou Xing's words were in his ears, and he felt that they were too exaggerated, how could this be related to life-saving?

He asked: "You are just exiled to Lingnan now, you have something to eat, you have to drink, what do you have to worry about your life?" That's right, a person like you who has been rich and wealthy in Chang'an suddenly lets you live such a frugal life, it's really a little difficult for you! In this way, I will give you another 2,000 yuan, which can be regarded as funding your life. With this amount of silver, it is enough for you to live in this small place of Zhangpu! ”

To tell the truth, favors belong to favors, but Cui Geng knows very well that Zhou Xing is not a bad person, not to mention his reputation, and he has too many enemies with bad intentions, which is really untouchable. If only you could repay this favor with money

"It's not about money at all." Zhou Xing smiled bitterly: "The villain has offended too many people before, who doesn't have a few relatives and friends?" It turned out that they didn't dare to provoke me when I was in power, and now I am a feathered phoenix who is not as good as a chicken, how can they not take revenge? Even if Xue County's orders don't help each other, I can't escape my life. ”

"That's ......" Cui Geng said: "So you would rather offend Xue County's order just now, but also take a risk to attract the attention of this imperial history?" ”

"Shame, Zhou did have this thought."

As he spoke, Zhou Xing let go of Cui Geng's thighs with both hands, kowtowed to the ground with his arms and said: "Now in the sky and on the ground, only Cui Yushi can save the villain's life, you must not let it go!" Please be gracious to Lord Cui! ”

Seeing his pitiful appearance, Cui Geng was really a little unbearable.

According to the years of birth and death contained in history, Zhou Xing was only forty years old at this time, but he became a gray hair in a short period of time.

Cui Geng is a good person, but he is definitely not a bad person, and he is more of a pragmatist.

For Zhou Xing, in fact, he is not as disgusted as those Li Tang loyal ministers, after all, he has never intersected with Zhou Xing, and what he knows and understands about Zhou Xing is from history.

At least in his opinion, the Zhou Xing in front of him is a poor worm who has fallen and lost power, but he is just a very useful poor worm.

Because of what he learned about Zhou Xing, unlike Suo Yuanli, Qiu Shenxian, and Lai Junchen, Zhou Xing did not rise to the throne by virtue of luck alone, he was very talented himself.

According to the history books, as early as thirteen years ago, Zhou Xing was famous all over the world for his unauthorized imprisonment, and was personally received by Li Zhi, Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty. If it weren't for the fact that he was neither born in the imperial examination nor a famous family, he would have soared a long time ago.

It was precisely because the right road did not go through that Zhou Xing began to embark on the road of luck. He did a lot of bad things and made a lot of unjust cases, but all of them were instigated by Wu Zetian, and Zhou Xing himself was just a knife of Wu Zetian.

Otherwise, after Wu Zetian ascended the throne, when he wanted to throw away this night pot, he would not open his net to him and kill him completely.

If you can take this person under the account, and ask him more questions in the future, at least the officialdom will have a few more chances of winning.

However, Cui Geng also has hidden worries, after all, Zhou Xing was instructed by Wu Zetian, and there were too many unjust cases created, and there were naturally many enemies...... If I accept him, how bad will that reputation be?

Saving his life and taking it for his own use?

Or stay away from him, don't set yourself on fire?

After thinking about it for a while, Cui Geng said, "Lord Zhou, please go back." There is a saying in Buddhism that the day before yesterday is the cause and the effect of today. Even if you are kind to your own officials, but if you don't die once, how can you wash away your sins all over your body? How can we get the supreme positive results of the coming days? ”

To others, these words are nothing more than prevarications full of Buddhist principles. However, to Zhou Xing's ears, it was like a slap in the face.

At this moment, he seemed to have some epiphany.

Zhou Xing's frowning eyebrows slowly stretched, the pleading color in his eyes slowly disappeared, and he clasped his hands together and said, "Good!" Wonderful! Yesterday's everything, such as yesterday's death; Today's everything, such as today's birth! Thank you Cui Yushi for his teachings, that villain will die once, haha! ”

After speaking, Zhou Xing stood up, like a monk who had attained the Tao, walked leisurely, and turned away with a smile.

Xue Yingde looked stupid, and thought to himself, is this Cui Yushi Mo not from a god stick? Why is a good Zhou Xing, and he was fooled and lame by his three or two sentences of Buddha? In the future, this guy won't be crazy, right?

Cui Geng didn't know what Xue Yingde was thinking, and when he saw that Zhou Xing had left, he turned his head and asked Xue Yingde: "How should this case end, I don't know if Xue County's order has a plan?" ”

"Uh...... The stakes are very high in this case, so please allow this official to think twice. ”

"That's fine."

Of course, Cui Geng can seize this case and chase it hard, but all the witnesses are dead, and Xue Yingde's empty words and white teeth alone can't bring down Wu Sanzhong, and even implicate Liang Bo very reluctantly.

In the end, it's nothing more than a pen and ink lawsuit.

In this case, it is better to be a favor to Xue Yingde, in his opinion, Xue Xianling is just an unlucky officialdom who doesn't know anything.

In the end, the two discussed privately and decided to treat the case of these three lives as if they had never happened. Wu Sanzhong didn't mention it as a thief, Cui Geng and Xue Yingde didn't mention it, and the Tiangao Emperor of Zhangpu County was far away, so this matter was over.

Following.

Cui Geng's guard of honor changed slightly and continued to come towards the capital city of Zhangzhou.

After inquiring on the way, Cui Geng realized that he had misunderstood, and Chen Yuanguang, a famous Tang Dynasty general in later generations, had indeed been the assassin of Zhangzhou, but now it is no longer so.

Three years ago, Chen Yuanguang's grandmother, Wei, passed away and he buried her at the foot of Xianren Mountain, not far from Zhangzhou.

Because Chen Yuanguang's father Chen Zheng died early, he lived in front of Wei's tomb in the name of his grandson, declared that he would guard the tomb for three years, submitted a table to the imperial court, and resigned from the post of Zhangzhou assassin.

The people revered Chen Yuanguang for abiding by filial piety so much, and gave him the nickname "General Radius".

There's nothing to say, let's change the road radius mountain, and being able to worship the old man of the Wei family is also a very happy thing for Cui Geng.

In that absurd dream, there is a popular commentary called "Yang Jiajiang", in which Yang Jiye is naturally the famous general Yang Ye of the Great Song Dynasty.

However, his wife She Taijun, there is no such person in history, and the actual prototype character is this old lady of the Wei family.

As for Yang Wenguang's prototype character, it is Chen Yuanguang.

The so-called wonderful story of Yang Wenguang's eighteen caves is actually adapted from Chen Yuanguang's experience of fighting with his wingmen.

The play said that She Taijun was 100 years old, although this old lady of the Wei family, although it was not so exaggerated, but after the death of her son Chen Zheng, she was indeed in her eighties, and personally went into battle to help her grandson calm down the rebellion of the bureaucrats.

The old man died at the age of ninety-three, and he was such a hero, of course he had to pay homage.

Just as Cui Geng was thinking wildly, the sedan chair suddenly stopped, and Song Genhai stepped forward and said softly: "Lord Yushi, now you have reached the foot of the radius mountain. ”

"Okay." The sedan chair man pressed the sedan chair and lifted the sedan curtain, Cui Geng bowed his head and bent over, and said loudly: "Order all the officers and soldiers to dismount, put away the official's guard of honor, let's go up the mountain on foot and worship Mrs. Wei!" ”