Chapter 117 A Wonderful Flower Among Nobles
"Young Master, I have found out the situation of the next family, but this family is not easy to mess with. Why don't we go?" Lao Dao went out to inquire about it, but he said with a hint of embarrassment on his face. He had already found out the details of the next family's war in the morning. But the more he found out, the more worried he was. It was not that he was timid, but that the family next to him was too special.
"What's the details of this family?" Li Zhang asked while tidying up his clothes. He planned to wait and visit the family so that they knew that such a noisy in the morning had affected him. If the other party could accept his opinions, it would be better if he didn't accept it, it would not be too late to think of other ways. This is called being polite first and then being soldier.
"This..." Lao Dao hesitated for a moment, and then finally spoke, "This family's surname is Huyan. Although it is not prominent among the generals, it is very famous. At that time, the former owner of our mansion, Wang Qinruo, had to move away because he couldn't stand this family!"
"Hu Yan? It's not Hu Yan's pill, right?" Li Zhang was stunned when he heard Lao Dao's words, and then said with an incredible expression.
When he was a child, Li Zhang, the general of the Yang family, read a lot and was naturally very familiar with the famous iron whip king Hu Yanzan. Of course, when he grew up, he realized that Hu Yanzan in history was not an iron whip king, but a middle-level general. Even during the entire Northern Song Dynasty, no king of different surnames appeared. After his death, he did not count the posthumous gifts. It was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that in order to win people's hearts, he was granted several kings of different surnames.
"It turns out that the young master knows that that's easy to deal with. The Huyan family's reputation is not very good. Even Wang Qinruo had to avoid it at the beginning. Let's not provoke them!" Lao Dao heard Li Zhang calling out Huyanzan's name, thinking that Li Zhang had heard of the reputation of the Huyan family, and he was relieved.
"Wait a minute, the Huyan family is still a descendant of the general, why is there a bad reputation?" Li Zhang asked in confusion at this time. His understanding of Huyanzan mainly comes from novels of Romance. As for Huyanzan in real history, he only knew that the other party's official position was not high and his personality was a bit weird, so he didn't know it other than that.
"Young Master doesn't know?" Lao Dao immediately said in surprise when he saw Li Zhang's appearance. It seemed that as a Tokyo native, it would be a very strange thing to not know the name of the Huyan family.
"I don't know! Is the veteran general Hu Yanzan still alive?" Li Zhang asked again. Although he felt that Hu Yanzan could not live so long, he still had hope in his heart. After all, he grew up listening to Hu Yanzan's story since he was a child. If he was lucky enough to meet the prototype character of the story, he would of course be very happy.
"The Old General Huyan has passed away long ago. Now the four sons in Huyan's family are his masters, that is, the four who stood beside the school ground this morning to cheer for the drums." Lao Dao sighed at this time. He said that he had a relationship with Huyanzan back then. Of course, he was just a soldier at that time, but they were already inspectors, so even if the other party was alive, he probably wouldn't remember such a small person as himself.
"I heard that the veteran general Hu Yanzan was extremely brave and was the first to climb to the top of Taiyuan City, but unfortunately I couldn't see him!" Although Li Zhang was mentally prepared, he still said a little regretfully when he heard that Hu Yanzan had passed away.
"Young master, in fact, since the time of the Old General Huyan, the Huyan family's reputation has not been very good. Now that the Old General Huyan is gone, the Huyan family's behavior is even more weird. Most people really can't afford to provoke him!" Lao Dao advised again at this time, and he also saw that Li Zhang had never heard of the reputation of the Huyan family.
"Oh? What is the situation in Huyan's family? Why can't I afford to provoke me?" Li Zhang asked again with a curious expression when he heard this.
"This is a long story. The Huyan family was originally a Hun, but they had moved to Central Plains to live. Although the veteran general Huyanzan was extremely brave, his temper was a bit strange. After Emperor Taizong failed in the Northern Expedition, no one in the court's civil and military officials dared to mention the Northern Expedition. Only the veteran general Huyan wrote a letter to request another Northern Expedition. In order to express his determination, he actually stabbed his whole body with the words "Child-hearted killing thief" and did not even let go of his lips..."
With Lao Dao telling, Li Zhang finally knew what the real Hu Yanzan looked like. Speaking of which, Hu Yanzan was originally a cavalryman. Because of his bravery in combat, he was appointed as the leader of the Dongban by Zhao Kuangyin, and later promoted to the envoy of the Xiaoxiong Army. When Wang Quanbin attacked Hou Shu, Hu Yanzan was the vanguard. He had to lead the way in every battle. He was seriously injured in many places without retreating. Later, he followed Zhao Guangyi to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty. He was the first to climb to the top of Taiyuan City, and was knocked down four times and then climbed to the top of the city. He was extremely brave.
It was precisely because of these military achievements that Hu Yanzan was promoted all the way. He had served as a governor, a regiment training envoy and other senior officials. Hu Yanzan was indeed a good player in charge, but it was too embarrassing for him to become an official. Even every time he served as a local official, he messed up his government affairs and was finally transferred back to Tokyo. Not long after Zhao Heng ascended the throne, Hu Yanzan died.
Although Hu Yanzan passed away, legends about him have been circulating in Tokyo. The most eye-catching thing is the tattoos Hu Yanzan on his body. Since the Five Dynasties, tattoos have been popular among military generals. For example, the founder of Zhou Taizu Guo Wei, who founded the Later Zhou Dynasty, was the uncle of Chai Rong, who was the father of Zhou Shizu. Because he had a kite tattoo on his body, he was called Guo Yaozi, also known as Guo Queer.
However, no matter how many generals tattooed, no one was as exaggerated as Hu Yanzan. He was covered with the four words "Kill the Thieves with a red heart", and he didn't even let go of his lips. From a distance, he looked like a big face. Moreover, he not only tattooed himself, but also his wife and children, but also had to tattoo characters on their faces. As a result, Mrs. Hu Yan refused to obey. In the end, Hu Yanzan finally made concessions, and changed to the four words "Kill the Thieves with a red heart" on his arms. Women were no exception.
In contrast, the more unlucky one is Hu Yanzan's children and grandchildren, because like him, they have to tattoo words on their faces, the four words "Kill the Thieves with a red heart" on their foreheads, and the two lines of words "I forget my family and make my country when I go out, and forget my death when I am in the battle." So as long as you see someone with these words on the street, you don't need to ask, you will know that they must be from the Hu Yan family.
What is even more worth mentioning is that Hu Yanzan may be the most famous wolf father in history. In order to exercise his son's body, he actually used ice water to wash his sons' bodies in the middle of winter. It is said that he once threw his son, who had just been a hundred days old, off the city wall to test his son's luck. As a result, his son was really lucky and was not killed.
However, although Hu Yanzan is very cruel to his son, he does not have no feelings for his son. In fact, he loves his son very much because once his son fell seriously ill, he didn't know where to hear a folk remedy that eating his father's meat could cure the disease, so he actually cut off his own meat and cooked soup for his son. Although this behavior is a bit extreme, it is enough to show his feelings for his son.
From the above behaviors, we can see that Hu Yanzan is not only cruel to his sons, but also to himself. Of course, he is also cruel to the enemy, so it is not surprising that such a ruthless person with an extreme personality does anything. Of course, it is easy to imagine what the children and grandchildren who were educated by Hu Yanzan are like.
In fact, although the Huyan family is not the most prominent general, it is definitely one of the most famous generals in Tokyo. However, their family's reputation is not a good reputation, but rather a rogue reputation.
In theory, the Huyan family was considered a noble family, but they did not act at all. Once, the Wang family, who was also a general, provoked the Huyan family. This Wang family was a descendant of Wang Quanbin. When he attacked Hou Shu, Huyanzan was once a subordinate of Wang Quanbin. Moreover, the Wang family had higher contributions and greater reputation. In theory, the Huyan family was much worse than the Wang family.
But the Huyan family didn't care about this. Not only did they strip the Wang family who provoked them and threw them on the street, but they also went to the door in person. As a result, the Wang family was not a vegetarian. Both sides fought on the street, and were finally stopped by Zhenzong. However, the Wang family's gate was then thrown into a heavy feces. It is said that someone saw all the men from the Huyan family going out that night, and the soldiers who were patrolling the night did not dare to care. The Wang family jumped up and scolded him angrily, but he was helpless.
There is more than one thing like the above. It can be said that as long as you dare to provoke the people of their Huyan family, they will do everything they can torture, throw manure, throw lime, and secretly set fire to other people's yards. Anyway, as long as you provoke them, it is like stabbing a hornet's nest, and you will never give up until you get back with revenge.
When encountering such a rogue family, it is naturally unavoidable for everyone to avoid it. Moreover, because the Huyan family has a family tradition of using a woman with a character-shaped character, the nobles are unwilling to marry their daughters to suffer, so the Huyan family rarely marry other nobles. The final result is that the Huyan family becomes a strange flower among the nobles, and no one dares to provoke, and no one wants to provoke, and even has no contact with each other.
Of course, although the Huyan family is rogue, it is only aimed at the people who provoke them. Usually, they rarely hear that they bully the people. Those who conflict with them are generally nobles. Therefore, although the Huyan family has a bad reputation among the nobles, they have good evaluations among the people. Especially as a noble, they often create some shocking things and add some rumors and jokes on the streets and alleys to many people. Therefore, the Huyan family's reputation has always been very famous. It is probably one of the reasons why the Huyan family was written into the Romance novel later.
Chapter completed!