Chapter 873

During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

There is no rain in Qingming this year, but the people of Chang'an City have lost their souls.

In the early morning, when the sky was just dawning, the medicine seller Lang Pi went out on crutches and a yellow paper sleeve.

When the Rong clan came over, he was requisitioned by the imperial court to defend the city and do some drudgery of moving stones and arrows. Outside the city, the Rong tribe is recruiting people, and the same thing is being done inside the city. Each household has a quota assigned to the head.

Large families can naturally use money to buy people to top the poor, and the descendants of poor families can also substitute for rich families, so as to exchange a sum of money for their families to dress and eat. If you are able to do things well in the city, you are favored by the superiors and promoted to serve in the army, it may not be a way out for ordinary people.

Not long after the medicine seller Lang Pi San went to the city, he broke his leg, and since then he has to walk with crutches. There should have been a pension, but it was exploited layer by layer, and finally in the hands of Pi San, it was almost equivalent to nothing.

Now the price of rice in Chang'an City is more expensive than gold, and it is already difficult for ordinary people to live, not to mention that Pi San also broke his leg. In the past, he sold some rat poison and strong pills to get by, but after breaking his leg, life became more and more difficult. But snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths, and they survived by relying on the ability of chicken thieves who were abducted and abducted by the pit.

After walking a short distance, he came to a mound of graves, lit the yellow paper, and sorted out the dry grass in front of the grave.

"Brother, are you worshipping your ancestors today?"

Before he could do it in front of the grave for a while, a man in brocade clothes came over. Pi San glanced at him and hung his head again.

"It's not. ”

The man in brocade was stunned and said, "That's a friend?"

"Not really. The skin didn't lift his head: "I'm not familiar with the grave." ”

"Forehead......" The man in brocade was completely speechless, he didn't ask, he didn't ask, and finally said, "How do you call my brother?"

"Pi San, who sells medicine. Pi Sanxian waved the cloth pocket on his body: "Snakes, insects and rat poison, bruises, longevity medicine, fetal medicine that can't give birth to children, and aphrodisiac to nourish and nourish the body, I see that your face is a little weak, do you want to have some aphrodisiac?"

Li Letian coughed violently: "No need, no need, my body ...... It's still holding up. ”

"The big officials are also here to go to the grave?" asked Pi San.

"Sort of. Li Letian sighed and said, "I don't need the medicine, my eldest brother will chat with me for a while." ”

As he spoke, he reached into his arms and subconsciously wanted to take out the silver, but found that he had nothing on his body. When today, when you are walking around the city, how can you bring gold and silver.

Pi San's eyes looked at him, Li Letian couldn't raise his hand, he took a bead from his belt, and said, "Brother, buy some wine to eat." ”

"I can't buy any wine. Pi San said: "I heard your tone very loud, I thought you were going to give me the jade pendant." ”

Li Letian looked at the jade pendant hanging from his waist and gritted his teeth in his heart. Poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people......

"It's a family heirloom, which makes my brother laugh. Li Letian smiled, sat cross-legged on the grass, and said, "How many children does my brother's family have?"

"Three boys, two girls?"

"Many sons and many blessings, my brother is so blessed. ”

"They're all dead. ”

"Uh......" Li Letian was speechless again.

"As soon as I got out of my mother's womb, I starved to death, and I sold it to a big family as a maid, and then I didn't know what happened, so I jumped into the well. ”

"Should I pay some money?"

"The eldest son came to the door and was beaten violently, saying that my daughter had stolen other people's things, and it would be good if she didn't ask me to lose money. The eldest son was raised at home for three months, but he did not save his life, and finally he went. ”

Li Letian really had nothing to say until now, and he didn't squeeze out a trace of a smile on his face.

"My brother hasn't told me yet, who is buried in the grave?"

"Actually, I don't know her well, she was originally a singer of Qinglou, and it is said that she is still very famous, and many dignitaries and nobles are cheering. But the fireworks woman, the blessing and misfortune can't help herself, I don't know who she provoked, and finally made a half-open secret prostitute. Later, I met a former guest, probably who had no face to see people, and found a short meeting by himself. ”

Speaking of this, Pi San's words gradually increased, and he said: "The guest is good, he gave a sum of money and asked me to bury the person." Supposedly, there are other things that I don't know. ”

"But a righteous man. Li Letian nodded.

"It's a pity that I don't know which master's name and surname, he looks very vicious, but he is a good person in his heart. People, it's really not good-looking, some little white faces have thin skin and tender flesh, but they are very stingy in their bones. ”

Li Letian touched his nose and said in his heart: Are the mouths of the people of Chang'an so damaged?

"How is my brother's leg lame?"

"There was a list above that asked me to go to the city to move stones, so my leg was lame. ”

"I was injured for guarding Chang'an City, and my brother is also a righteous man. ”

Pi San shook his head: "I'm not, I broke this leg on purpose?"

Li Letian froze again: "Good body, why do you have to ......"

"Well, if you don't understand. Pi San sighed: "If I hurt my leg, I don't have to go up to the city wall anymore, there are ten people who go to the city with me, and now I am the only one alive." This big official, do you say that one leg is important, or is life important?"

Li Letian was silent for a long time: "What the elder brother said makes sense, he is confused." ”

"Did you just want to ask me, why do you want to burn paper for people who are not relatives?" Pi San looked at the mound in front of him and said slowly: "Actually, I think of the original guest, and when I think of that guest, I feel that there are still people in the world who miss us people, and they are still willing to do something for us people." Every time I see this tomb, my heart is more steady. ”

At this moment, Li Letian was no longer speechless, but completely embarrassed. The empire is very large, and this empire belongs to the Li family, and people like Pi San are all the people of the Li family. It can be said that the Li family is a little incompetent.

As the master of the empire, does the Li family accumulate more virtue or create more evil?

Li Letian stood up, clasped his fists in both hands and said, "Thank you for my brother's teachings today, I have been taught." ”

"Do you want to give me the jade pendant?"

"Uh......" Li Letian smiled, stretched out his hand to take off the jade pendant, and said, "The last question, according to the elder brother, can Chang'an City be defended?"

Pi San took the jade pendant, looked at it very seriously, and finally muttered a sentence in his mouth.

"In the chaotic world, it's not easy to shoot. ”

When he raised his head, he saw that Li Letian was still looking at him, expecting the answer to his question.

He put away the jade pendant and said, "If you want to keep it, you can keep it, and if you don't want to keep it, you can't keep it at any time." As for whether you want to keep it or not, it depends on your Majesty's wishes. ”

Li Letian frowned and pondered Pi San's words, and when he heard the last sentence, he was suddenly startled and looked at Pi San with wide eyes.

But he saw Pi San on crutches and limped away.