The Dark Lord Ye Tian Zi 夜天子 CHAPTER 3
Ye Tian Zi
CHAPTER 3
The Only Way to Go
Yang Lin was stunned for a long time, let go of Ye Xiaotian's ankle, and said slowly: "When the old man is in power, he is in control, like Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion who responds to every request. Whenever anyone comes to ask me, he can always call me. He returned with satisfaction, but he couldn't go to heaven to ask for a son for himself."
"Maybe it's because he has done too much unethical things. Since his later years, the old man has repaired bridges, made up roads, donated to schools and disabled people, and donated a lot of alms to the temple. The sesame oil money of the pen keeps accumulating Yin virtue, but still can't get a son, so I have to adopt one from the clan."
Yang Lin sighed melancholy, and said, "But after all, he is not the flesh and blood of this old man. Ah. This old man has only given birth to one daughter in his life. Her mother is the concubine of the old man, and she has never been seen by his wife. The old man is worried that after his death, the wife will be unscrupulous and it will be difficult for their mother and daughter."
Ye Xiaotian said doubtfully: "Then Mrs. Yang What do you mean?"
Yang Lin choked and said: "My daughter is cute, smart and pretty, but I regretted that the old man only cared about the position of power and didn't take much pleasure from his knees, and now he has no time to regret it. Although the old man violated the laws and regulations of the country, although he died, the only thing in my heart now is this daughter."
He slowly fixed his eyes on Ye Xiaotian and said, "This old man wants to repair a book, please hand it over to the old man's house so that they can divide the property according to the old man's wishes and keep it for the little girl. A dowry will keep her safe for life, would you like it?"
Ye Xiaotian asked in surprise, "Is this the big event that the lord said?"
Yang Lin nodded solemnly and said, "Yes! This old man has been in power all his life, and he is greedy. Money has been in all my life, I finally understand when I die, what is the most important thing to me, this is the most important thing in my heart!"
Ye Xiaotian said generously: "Thank you! Even if you don't deal for fifty taels of silver, I should also do act of kindness. Of course, it's better to have money, haha! It's just... since it involves the division of family property, boy, I'm red-mouthed and white-toothed. I'm afraid no one will believe me if I say it. I still need you to leave a letter as evidence, and wait for me to get pen, ink, paper and inkstone.”
Yang Lin said gratefully, “Okay! The old man lives in Jingzhou Mansion on Huguang Road, as long as you send this letter on behalf of the old man, the reward of fifty taels of silver will be a lot!"
Ye Xiaotian suddenly widened his eyes and said in surprise, "Jingzhou Mansion on Huguang Road? Listening to your voice, this place should not be in Beijing City. Right ?"
Yang Lin gave him a strange look and said, "Jingzhou Mansion is Jingzhou Mansion, of course it's not in Beijing City, why?"
It's not in Beijing, so where is it? Ye Xiaotian, who grew up so big that he had only been to Tongzhou as far as possible, immediately imagined a scene of the wild world in the “Shanhai Jing" in his mind. He shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, no, that's not possible. I can't find the north without leaving the boundaries of Beijing.”
Yang Lin cut off: "Five hundred taels! The old man gave you five hundred taels, how about it? This is money you can't earn in your life!"
“Five hundred taels", Ye Xiaotian's heart was pounding, but this struggle only lasted for a moment, and he shook his head resolutely.I'm going to Huguang to deliver the letter, Huguang! In this era of inconvenient transportation and inconvenient communication, it sounds as if the end of the world is so far away.……
For Ye Xiaotian, who has never left Beijing, this is a fear that made him feel hesitant from the bottom of his heart when he heard it.He hesitated for a moment, but still refused: “It's too far away, so it's better to wait for your family to arrive in Beijing before I hand it over...”
Yang Lin smiled tragically and said, “The old man has been in prison for three years. Since he knew that the old man could no longer go out, no one in the family has been here. The old man and his wife have always been indifferent. If she arranges for someone to come all the way to transport my coffin, I don't know what year and month it will be.”
Ye Xiaotian heard the words “a thousand miles away” He even refused to agree, shaking his head again and again, "Xiao Tian can't do it, Master Yang, please just ask someone else."
Yang Lin said, "Who else can I ask for this old man? Are there any good people in this huge prison?"
Ye Xiaotian's face froze immediately.
Yang Lin said: "These prisoners in the prison often use some money for your jailers to buy food for you. This old man looks on with a cold eye. All the guards on the side do not deduct, or use shoddy or greedy money. Only you are the most promising. Although you are greedy for profit, you are not betrayal, so only you I can trust."
Ye Xiaotian shook his head and said, "Your Excellency has raised it, this trip has really gone a long way. Xiaotian, I am a small loach in the pond in front of my house. What kind of storms have I seen, I really can't handle this, farewell!"
Ye Xiaotian cupped his hands, turned around and left, Yang Lin shouted loudly behind him: "Five hundred taels, five hundred taels, that's enough. Make you rich and noble all your life, are you willing to be the little prison boss all your life?"
Ye Xiaotian didn't look back, but just walked away, from a distance, a piece of Kunqu Opera came out with his eloquent words: "I am~~~ Why do you need to fly for nine days to be a Kunpeng, a little bird in the city of Four Nine, Kunpeng doesn’t know how good a bird is~~~”
Ye Xiaotian’s voice faded away, Yang Lin stood in the same place dumbfounded, listening to his voice on the railing, After a long time, he slowly raised his head, looked at the gloomy top of the prison, and murmured a long sigh: "Kunpeng, maybe it's really not as good as the Sparrow..."
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Ye Xiaotian’s home is in Xiquzi Hutong, Xuanwu Street. The neighbor on the left is a hereditary executioner, and the family also runs a grocery store. The neighbor on the right is an aristocratic family. In the middle, the lintel is the smallest.
As soon as he entered the small courtyard, he pushed open the door, and saw his old lady, Ye Dou, who was feeding the chickens in the yard with a dustpan. Several old hens clucked happily, chasing the scattered bran. The big rooster, who was basking under the wall, heard the sound, held his head high, and pushed his cocks aside in a domineering manner.
Ye Xiaotian greeted the old lady: "Mother, I'm back."
Ye Dou's face was gloomy and did not speak, Ye Xiaotian was slightly surprised, and was about to ask, when he heard a burst of scolding from the West Room, and the loud voice was naturally Father Ye: "You! You muddled-head boy! You damn indecisive and timid little fart! Having such rotten ideas."
Ye Xiaotian said in surprise: "Mother, who is my father scolding? Big brother is back?"
Ye Xiaotian hurriedly said, "I'll go take a look!"
Ye Xiaotian hurried to the West Room, opened the door and looked, and saw his father Ye Old Man holding a broom and slapped his brother Ye Xiaoan facelessly. Ye Xiaoan curled up on the kang, covering his head and face, pouting his butt, neither hiding nor shouting, letting Lao Tzu beat him.
Ye Xiaotian hurried forward to stop his father, he tried to persuade her, “What's wrong? Dad, please calm down. There's nothing that a family can't talk about. Eldest brother already has a family. You can just teach him a few words, why the need to exert yourself?”
Ye Xiaotian said and gave his elder brother a wink, Ye Xiaoan and Ye Xiaotian are twins, they look exactly the same, but the expression is far less than that of Xiaotian. Seeing the second brother winking at him, Ye Xiaoan hurriedly protect his head and ran away.
Ye Xiaotian pulled his angry father, pressed him to the edge of the heatable brick bed and sat down, sat with him, hugged his father's shoulders, and said affectionately, "Father, eldest brother is such an honest person, what can he do to make you angry? , why are you so angry?"
When Lao Ye heard it, he was angry again, and said angrily, "This bastard is really driving me crazy, you ask what he does, ah? You ask what he capable to do?"
Ye Xiaotian listened obediently, vaguely understood, and asked tentatively, "Why, eldest brother's rice noodle workshop... is not running well?"
Lao Ye patted his thigh and said, "Not good? If it was only that, your father would burn incense to the Ancestors! This stupid bastard! His rice workshop business is failing with a bundle of debts. The shop had barely opened, it was run on a bank by the people and was taken as payment".
Your Sister-in-law went back to her parents' house in a fit of anger. Tell Me, why is your brother so stubborn? He can't even open a business. What's even more annoying is that from the beginning to the end, he didn't tell me that he was making decisions on his own, does he still have eyes for me?”
Ye Xiaotian hurriedly consoled: "Father, this is the end of the matter, what's the use of you being angry, if you want to be angry, elder brother will be even more sad." In business, there is always a loss and a profit. Otherwise, everyone will go into business. Don't be angry. "
Old Ye was silent for a moment, sighed heavily, and said slowly: "It doesn't matter if Dad is angry or not. The important thing is, your sister-in-law is angry with your brother, her parents' family is better than ours, and our family is rushing this marriage, and your brother is not up to it..."
Old Ye said, touching the sad thing , there were faint tears in his eyes: "It's your father who can't stand it, just this bowl of Gongmen rice handed down from the ancestors, two sons, who should I give it to? Dad calculated, you are smarter, you can't lose money in that place, and the envoy of this prison will be handed over to you. Because of this, Dad felt that I owed your brother, so I took out all the savings that I had saved all my life, bought him a workshop, and helped him to get a wife... I did everything I could.”
Old Ye choked, and tears finally rustled down: “Your brother can't lift his hands or his shoulders. He is useless to be honest. This drag on the family, now he doesn't even have a living livelihood. What can I do in the future? It's my inability to be a father...”
Old Ye covered his face sadly, tears continued to flow from the edge of his palm, Ye Xiaoan didn't escape, just squatted outside the door curtain and listened. Ye Xiaoan's head was miserable, and he couldn't help crying: "Father, don't talk about it, it's not your fault, it's your son's incompetence..."
Ye Xiaotian saw his father cry, and his nose was sour, so he quickly held back the tears. He pretended to be relaxed and said: "Father, what are you doing, let the neighbors listen to it and not laugh at our old Ye family? Big brother, this is easy to handle. Wouldn't it be enough for big brother to take over the job of a jailer? "
Old Ye was taken aback, shook his head and said, "How can that be done! How could Xiaoan's own misfortune withstand your mission?”
Ye Xiaoan also said quietly outside the door curtain: "Second brother, this can't be done. Even if I starves to death, I can't take his brother's job. If your sister-in-law really doesn't want to go with me, then let her go! I might be incapable, but I can't be without conscience!”
Father Ye beat the head and roared loudly, "Shut up! What ability, do you have any ability now? If you have any, you have to bring back my daughter-in-law first ! You Bastard!”
Ye Xiaoan was timid, and was so frightened that he ran out of the house in a panic. After father Ye finished scolding the eldest son, he shook his head at Ye Xiaotian again, and his mood was calmer: "You take care of your own things, for your brother's matters, father will think of a way."
Ye Xiaotian said with a big smile: "Dad, no need to think about it. Just do what I said. In fact, I came back today to tell his father about this matter, even if the eldest brother's workshop is running well, I also want to ask him to replace me, because I am going to travel far away."
Lao Ye said in surprise: "Going far away? You want to go?"
"Yes"
Ye Xiaotian told him the cause and effect of the incident. Once again, he said: "Dad, what do you think, it's just sending a letter, and there are five hundred taels of silver. With these five hundred taels, does your son still needs to point to this public door to eat? Why can't I make a living? Do it?"
Lao Ye was greatly moved, it was five hundred taels of silver, this is a huge sum of money that can't be imagined in a dream, but this mountain is so high and the river is far away, can Xiaotian make it?
In today's era, transportation is inconvenient, there is less movement of people, and public security varies from place to place. It is very difficult to travel far. In many cases, when you go out, you will be separated from life and death, and you will never have the chance to meet again in your life.
Except for the refugees who really can't survive, they need to communicate with each other. Only officials and scholars who travel to study will leave their hometown. Therefore, although they have five hundred taels of silver, if it is not There was such a big incident in the family, and a sum of money was urgently needed to fill the famine. Lao Ye didn't think about it at all, but now...
After hesitating for a while, Old Ye said worriedly: "Son, you have never traveled far, can you make it this far?"
Ye Xiaotian was also concerned in his heart, not only the anxiety of traveling far, but also the unwillingness to the bowl of Gongmen rice he cherished, but seeing the dense wrinkles on his father's face, could he let the old father who had worked hard all his life continue to make it difficult? Besides, the eldest brother has reached the point where the husband and wife are separated. Can he sit indifferently on the side and watch as his blood-related brother's marriage fell apart?
Ye Xiaotian said to the old man with a relaxed expression: "Dad, you underestimate your son, isn't it just sending a letter, I can't do such a trivial thing? Your son wants to go! To be honest, your son has never like a dull place like Tian Prison, this is a chance for your son."
Looking at his father's silver hair on the temples, Ye Xiaotian gently held his father's rough big hand and said softly, "Father, my son always feels that no matter how much money he has, there will always be a time when he runs out of money; no matter how much power he has, there will always be a day when it is out of date; even if he has a huge family business, a natural disaster and man-made disasters will fall.".
This person must have some real skills. With all my skills, even if I am impoverished with bare hands, I can stand up again if I fall, just let me go for it and gain some experience, maybe I will have great prospects."
Old Ye listened with great comfort, looking at his son's tender face and the faint fur on his lips, he suddenly felt that his son had really grown up. It's a pity that Xiaoan's is too honest, otherwise this letter should have been sent by the boss, and now he can only rely on the second child.
Seeing that his father was appeased, Ye Xiaotian couldn't help but feel relieved, but when he thought about the address of the great Yang Dashen stick's house, his heart tightened again, "Jingzhou Mansion, it sounds really far away..."
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