The Dark Lord Ye Tian Zi 夜天子 CHAPTER 6
Ye Tian Zi
CHAPTER 6
No Door
Jingzhou is an important transportation route from Nantong in western Hunan to Guizhou and Guangxi. There is a flying mountain in the west of the city. It is known as the “First peak in Southern Chu” for its “danger, wonder, and beauty”. Opposite it, there is another “Five old Peaks”. The five peaks are juxtaposed, like the five old ones.
Jingzhou is not only beautiful and beautiful, but also located on the main road, with many merchants and extremely prosperous. Because the locals often come into contact with foreigners, they can also speak the mandarin of the Ming Dynasty, which looks quite like Dachengfu.
It's just that Ye Xiaotian is from the capital city. The people under the emperor's feet not only have high vision, but also have high spirits. No matter how big the city he sees along the way, he sees it as a country. The people who live in this city are naturally also country people, probably only Suzhou, Hangzhou or Jinling. That's where he will face it.
Because of this mentality, Ye Xiaotian was calm and natural when he entered Jingzhou City, and he was not timid. Seeing a white-haired old man head-on, staggering along with his little granddaughter with her hair combed and horned, Ye Xiaotian immediately sang a fat man and asked, "Do you know where the Yang Mansion in Jingzhou is located? Yang Lin, the master of the Yang family, is an official in Beijing. I'm sure you know where he lives."
old man: "@#%￥%&&*&&..."
Ye Xiaotian said: "Er... can the old man speak Mandarin?"
The old man shook his head, apparently someone who knew how to listen but couldn't speak. Ye Xiaotian smiled bitterly and retreated. He stopped a scholar and cupped his hands: "Sir, where is the Yang residence in Jingzhou? The master of the Yang family is an official in Beijing, surnamed Yang Minglin..."
"Bah!"
The scholar who was originally smiling and returning the salute suddenly changed color, spit in disgust, and walked away. Ye Xiaotian shook his head and sighed: "It's really good to be at home for a thousand days, but it's hard to go out. The folks in Jingzhou are too unfriendly!"
Ye Xiaotian bit his head and asked around for a while, and finally asked Qing Yang's residence, and gradually found a long and secluded alley. Yang Mansion occupies a very wide area, with half an alley. As soon as you enter the alley, there is an archway. When you reach the gate of Yang Mansion, you will see the red lacquer gate, the green bricks are all over the ground, and the white stones are the steps. It is very magnificent.
There was also a pair of lions guarding the gate, and there were six staves tied to each side of the stone lion. Each stump was carved out of a uniform white marble, with a stone monkey engraved on the top.
At this moment, there were horses tied to the twelve tie-posts, and many vehicles were parked under the walls. It seemed that many people were visiting Yang’s residence.
Ye Xiaotian looked at the grand gate of Yang's mansion, stopped, and his heart was surging for a while. After going through all kinds of hardships, ninety-nine-eighty-one hardships, he finally arrived in the West... Ah no, Yang's mansion.
When ye Xiaotian was in the capital, he had heard that Mr. Shu had told the story of a journey to the west. His mood at this moment was just like the story of Xuanzang, who went to the west to get Buddhist scriptures. He felt a kind of joy that he had finally obtained the true scriptures, and the bitter had finally turned to the sweet!
Ye Xiaotian was about to knock on the door in high spirits, when the gate of Yang's house opened with a bang, and a birdman flew out from the inside with open arms, soaring through the fog, and landed at his feet with a thud, making Ye Xiaotian hurriedly lift his feet. Lest the blood from the man's mouth stain his shoes.
A slender servant in a blue shirt and a small hat walked out of Yang's house swaying, with his hands forked on the thin bean sprout-like waist rod. He stood on the stone steps, followed by four large-shouldered house slaves, each carrying a whistle.
The skinny housekeeper shook the crooked hat on his head and scolded: "You kid don't even look at the place when you hit the autumn wind. Are our Yang family so easy to bully?"
The one who flew down the stone steps from the door was a middle-aged man that fell hard. He covered his stomach and curled up like a shrimp on the ground. It took a long time for him to take a breath, spit out a mouthful of blood foam, and said: "I...I really It’s Master Yang’s old past, passing through the treasured land, exhausted, just asking for a piece of Cheng Yi.”
The housekeeper in Tsing Yi glared at him, "PFFT! Since when did our master hand over such a useless old man like you to the point of begging for food? How dare you quibble? Come on, beat him up! beat him up until he changes his mind!"
Immediately, a servant with a big waist and a big waist flew down from the stone steps. He took off his shoes, grabbed the man's collar, and fanned the man's head with the soles of his shoes, causing him to sway from side to side like a rattle, like a small boat in the wind and waves, Ye Xiaotian was stunned.
Standing on the stone steps, the Tsing Yi family member said triumphantly, "Do you know what nickname these Jingzhou people call me, butler Yang? 'Iron Rooster!' How dare you tried to attack me."
At this time, a line of geese flew by in the sky, and the sound of geese chirping came, Yang Sanshou pointed a finger in the air, and said proudly: "You want to take advantage of our Yang family, you say, you should be beat up or not?"
"Don't... hit, don't hit, I... I have nothing to do with Mr. Yang..."
The middle-aged man couldn't escape, his cheeks were swollen, and he couldn't see his true colors, so he had to cry begging for mercy. Yang Sanshou laughed and said complacently: "Don't shed tears if you haven't seen coffin, you are a bitch!"
"Tell him to get lost!"
The servant who had slapped the middle-aged man in the face put on his shoes and kicked the middle-aged man's butt hard. he shouted, "Get lost! If we see you again, we'll beat you up every time!" He stared at a pair of Bull's eyes and shouted at Ye Xiaotian, who was close at hand, "What do you do?"
Ye Xiaotian jumped, took two steps back, and kept a safe distance from him, forcing a kind smile : "Passers-by! It's purely passers-by!"
The servant of Yang's house heard that his accent was indeed not a local, so he waved his hand and said: "Go further, be careful to take you as a thief!"
Bang! The gate of the mansion was closed heavily, Ye Xiaotian shuddered when he heard the sound of the door closing, then looked at the middle-aged man on the ground with a bruised nose and a swollen face and blood dripping from the corners of his mouth, he secretly took a breath of air with lingering fears, and thought to himself, "Yang Lin this Dead Ghost, can still harm me!"
Seeing that this middle-aged man was so miserable, how could Ye Xiaotian dare to go to the door. He suddenly remembered what Yang Lin had said, that he and his wife had always been in the same bed and seemed to be separated from each other. Thinking of the situation that Yang Lin's family ignored after he was imprisoned, Ye Xiaotian's heart suddenly became cold: "Mrs. Yang has a bad relationship with her husband and is addicted to wealth. My letter...”
The middle-aged man got up, turned his head and spit blood at the Yang residence, and staggered away, Ye Xiaotian thought about it, followed behind the man sullenly, frowning tightly, "If you just come to the door like this, ask that Mrs. Yang to split the family fortune with her concubine and daughter and give yourself five hundred taels of silver as a reward, I am afraid that you will be worse than the person in front of you."
Yang Lin, Yang Lin, you have failed as an official, and you have failed as a human being. But don't pit me if you fail. Is it easy for me to come all the way to Jingzhou? I am worse than Tang Sanzang's Western experience. Now that I haven't got five hundred taels of silver, I just leave like this?”
The more Ye Xiaotian thought about it, the more unwilling he became. As he was walking, he suddenly saw a man selling pears under the archway. A basket of yellow pears was placed in front of him. The man who sold pears sat lazily on the ground, looking listlessly at the people passing by.
Ye Xiaotian rolled his eyes and squatted down in front of that person. He reached out to take out a pear from the basket and took a bite. He mumbled, "How much are the pears?"
When the pear man saw the business coming, he sat up straight and said, "Three for a penny."
Ye Xiaotian took out a penny and threw it to him, picked up two bigger pears and put them in his arms, sat down against the stone pedestal of the archway, and headed towards the Yang residence. He shyly lowered his chin and said, "Why are there so many carriages and horses in front of Yang's house?"
The pear-selling man said, "I heard that the Yang family master died, and friends from all over the world have come to mourn."
Ye Xiaotian said in his heart, " Well, I walk this way, I was not as fast as the official post, presumably the news of Yang Lin's legalization has already spread."
Ye Xiaotian asked again, "The Yang family brought back Master Yang's coffin so quickly?
The pear seller pouted and said sarcastically, "I heard that Mrs. Yang isn't in a hurry to transport the coffin to the capital. She's a woman who loves money like a demon. Hey! She's even more greedy than her man! But she has to attend a funeral. It's not easy to accept gifts."
He didn't dare to say this at first, but after hearing Ye Xiaotian's foreign accent and not being very respectful to the Yang residence, he told the truth.
Ye Xiaotian went along with his words and said, "That's right. I heard that the person just now is old master Yang's old friend. I wonder if it's true or not. The Yang family is really capable of doing this."
The pear seller sighed and said. "Who said it wasn't, this Yang residence is so big that even the young lady of her own family would be mean and abusive, not to mention outsiders."
Ye Xiaotian was trying to bring the topic to Miss Yang's family, but he didn't want the pear seller to take the initiative to talk about it. After talking about this topic, he immediately asked, "What's wrong with Miss Yang?"
The pear seller raised his chin and said, "Hey, do you see that alley? It's a dead end. It was built in the Yang family's yard, and there is a small courtyard at the end, where the eldest young lady of the Yang family lives now. She was kicked out of the Yang residence for more than two years, and the Yang residence only pays a little bit of brown rice every month, sigh! The most poisonous woman's heart..."
Ye Xiaotian was overjoyed, this was really dozing off and someone gave him a pillow, all the news he wanted to know. You know, it doesn't take much effort to get it. Ye Xiaotian chatted with the pear seller for a few more words, then walked away for an excuse, wandered around for a while, caught a glimpse of a gap that no one was paying attention to, and then slipped into the dead end.
Ye Xiaotian had gone through a lot to get to Jingzhou. The only thing that kept him going along the way was the 500 taels of silver. Along the way, how would he spend it and what would he do for a living after he got the 500 taels of silver, he had already planned it, he wouldn't give up so easily.
Seeing that Mrs. Yang was not a good person, ye Xiaotian thought of the young miss of the Yang family. In this matter, the two of them had the same interests. After finding the young miss of the Yang family, he would have the strongest ally in this place. At that time, I will go to court together with Miss Yang's family and hold Yang Lin's suicide note to ask an official to make a judgment.
Once this matter was brought to court, no matter how domineering Mrs. Yang was, there was nothing she could do. After all, Yang Lin was the head of the family. At that time, she could only divide the property according to Yang Lin's will, he left Jingzhou as soon as he got his share, and Mrs. Young couldn't be bothered any more.
These are Ye Xiaotian's plans, his mind is fast, and he does not hesitate to act. Ye Xiaotian entered the dead end and walked quickly to the end. He saw a dilapidated yard with stones built into a one-person-high yard wall. The yard was completely deserted.
Ye Xiaotian threw the pear core he just finished eating, wiped his mouth, and raised his voice, "Excuse me, is there anyone at home?"
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