Chapter VIII The Foreigner Plays a Rogue
When Wu Jianzhang was worried about how to wipe the baby grandson's shares in the customs office, another big boss behind this matter, Yuan Zuqi, the magistrate of Shanghai, hugged the beautiful maid in the back hall of the county government office and laughed, saying to Xiao Fujian, the leader of the Bird Party who came to report the results of last night, "I did a good job last night, but unfortunately I couldn't take the opportunity to kill Liu Lichuan and directly cut off Wu Ashuang's right-hand arm. This made me feel a little regretful."
"I was originally young to take the opportunity to kill Liu Ayuan, but unfortunately that bastard ran too fast." Xiao Fujian said truthfully: "Not even twenty people blocked him, so he let him climb over the wall and ran away, so he only killed three of his subordinates. However, he was stabbed in the head and should have been seriously injured."
"What's the use of not killing him, just letting him get hurt? If he is healed in a few days, he will still be against us." Yuan Zuchen scolded and sneered: "Remember, hitting a snake requires seven inches! Killing Liu Lichuan is equivalent to cutting off Wu Ashuang's hands and feet in Shanghai and digging out his eyes in Shanghai. Wu Ashuang can't stay in Shanghai, and you can only occupy the golden nest of Shanghai Wharf!"
Little Fujian quickly nodded repeatedly and said, "My benefactor, there is still a chance. Liu Lichuan has now made enemies with gangs in Shanghai. As long as he appears outside, we will receive the news immediately and kill him immediately! Moreover, Yuan Bantuo had already captured his most capable subordinates yesterday. He is now alone. It is easier to kill him than kill a chicken."
Yuan Zushi nodded with satisfaction, then turned to Yuan Wuba, a clan nephew who was serving the marquis, and asked about the arrested members of the Double Sword Club. Wu Chaoyue's old rival Yuan Wuba replied grinningly: "Uncle, don't worry, I have explained to the prison for special entertainment. Even if those people are released in the future, they will not be able to use the axe and knife."
Yuan Zuqi laughed when he heard this, and rubbed one hand hard in the maid's underwear, and waved the other hand and said, "Okay, you can go down, do it well, seize this opportunity and get rid of the double swords completely. Shanghai Wharf is yours! Wu Ashuang, let him hold his baby grandson and cry!"
Yuan Wuba and Xiao Fujian agreed with a grin. Just as they were about to go out for Yuan Zuqian to enjoy the newly bought maid, Yuan Zuqian couldn't wait to chew on the newly bought beautiful maid's face. Unexpectedly, a yamen runner suddenly rushed in outside the door and said in a panic: "Master, it's not good, someone beats the drum to complain! Master Xie sent me a young man, please go to the court to ask the case immediately."
"Bastard!" Yuan Zuqi, who was pulling the maid's clothes, was furious when he heard this and roared: "It's a person who beats the drum and complains. Master, I have to go to the court immediately? Go and tell Master Xie, and first complain to the drum and beat the powerful stick to the 20th killing stick! Let him ruin my official Yaxing!"
"Master, you can't beat him! You can't kill the powerful stick!" The yamen runner said with a sad face: "The one who beats the drum and complains about the foreigner! They are two foreigners! That's why Master Xie asked you to go to the court quickly, otherwise, how dare you come and disturb you?"
"Foreign people?" Yuan Zuqi and Xiao Fujian and Yuan Wuba were both shocked. Then Yuan Zuqin not only had his anger on his face, but also asked quickly with great nervousness: "Who are they suing? For what reason?"
"They sued Brother Chen Ming and Brother Chen, and Brother Yuan Wu." The yamen runner pointed to Xiao Fujian and Yuan Wubayi, who were named Chen Ming, and said with a sad face: "They sued Brother Chen unreasonably obstructing them from preaching, beating and killing religious people, colluding with Brother Yuan Wu to arrest innocent religious people, and ask you to make the decision for them!"
Yuan Zuxu's face began to turn pale. He was so excited that he quickly pushed away the beautiful maid who had been tortured by him. He stood up and asked Xiao Fujian and Yuan Wuba, who also changed their faces, "When did you offend foreigners? Haven't you warned you repeatedly? You can provoke anyone in Shanghai, but you can't provoke foreigners!"
"No, we didn't mess with foreigners?" Xiao Fujian and Yuan Wuba shouted injustice together, and they both said, "Master, even if we borrow a hundred courages from us, don't dare to mess with foreigners?"
"Then why do foreigners sue you?" Yuan Zuqi asked sternly. Xiao Fujian and Yuan Wuba shook their heads together and said they didn't know. Yuan Zuqi had no choice but to curse the accomplice and thugs to cause trouble for himself, while quickly changing into official uniforms to prepare for the ceremony.
What made Yuan Zuxu even more nervous was still behind. When he changed his official uniform and went to the lobby, there were already crowds of people outside the county government, and Shanghai people were crowded with people watching the fun. Two blonde and blue-eyed foreigners were wearing black robes and sitting on two magistrate chairs outside the lobby door with their legs crossed. There was a large piece of paper in front of them. Please think about the scene when petitioners complained, and please ignore the arrogance of the two petitioners. At the same time, Yuan Zuxu's helper Xie was also leading several yamen runners to bow to the two foreigners, constantly begging the two foreigners to speak into the lobby and not to let so many ordinary people watch on the street. Unfortunately, the two foreigners did not listen at all, and kept calling on the people to see their paper in stiff Chinese.
Seeing this scene, Yuan Zuqi's careful heart was inevitably trembling even more. He quickly ordered Yuan Wuba to take people to drive away the onlookers. However, when Yuan Wuba took the yamen runners to expel the people, the two foreigners stood up. While holding Yuan Wuba and others, they scolded in stiff Chinese: "What are you doing? What are you going to deceive the people? You can't let them go, so that they can see clearly why we are complaining!"
Yuan Wuba was completely helpless and could only turn his eyes to Yuan Zuqi in the lobby. Yuan Zuqi had no choice but to nod, asking Yuan Wuba to give up the act of expelling the people, and then slapped the gavel and shouted: "Enter the hall!"
"Wei-Wu-!" The yamen runners in the county yard beat the water and fire sticks and blew, but their momentum was far less than their usual majesty. The two foreigners walked into the lobby in a swagger, and did not kneel down, and roared at Yuan Zuqi: "Mr. County Magistrate, we accused your subordinates of colluding with Shanghai mobs, beating and killing our religious people, and wantonly arresting innocent religious people. We want you to release people immediately and punish the murderer immediately!"
The two foreigners were too excited and unconsciously brought some of their own languages when they yelled. Basically, the words were not meaningful. But the more they did, the more frightened Yuan Zuqi, who could not understand foreign languages, was more frightened, and there was a little trembling in his voice. He said politely: "Two foreign gentlemen, please take your paper for me."
A foreigner raised the paper that he had deliberately shown the public just now. Yuan Zuqi stepped forward in person and carefully took the paper carefully. When he saw that the handwriting on the paper was extremely ugly, he used vernacular text that Yuan Zuqi had never seen before. The content was accusing Chen Ming, the leader of the Shanghai gang leader, who was nicknamed Little Fujian, colluded with Yuan Wuba, the head of the Shanghai County, to beat and force innocent workers on the Shanghai wharf to give up studying the Bible, killed three innocent religious people who had been baptized, injured twelve people, and abused their power to arrest nine devout religious people, demanding that Yuan Zuqi release the innocent religious people immediately, arrest the murderer and compensate the religious people for their losses! Finally, there were two foreign language signatures that Yuan Zuqi could not understand, including Prussian and Belgian.
After reading the paper in a terrified manner, Yuan Zu was still confused and was inevitably confused. He didn't understand when his two big legs did such a big thing and caused such a huge disaster to himself. However, the two foreigners followed Wu Chaoyue's instructions and urged fiercely: "Mr. County Magistrate, please arrest the murderer as soon as possible, and release the innocent arrested religious people immediately. We heard that our religious people were subjected to cruel punishment in your prison! You must also investigate the culprits in this matter and give us an explanation!"
After a lot of effort, he begged the two foreign masters to say it again in a low voice. Yuan Zuqi finally barely understood what the two foreign masters meant. Then Yuan Zuqi immediately turned his angry eyes to Yuan Wuba next to him. Yuan Wubazi wiped his cold sweat and whispered: "Master, no, I didn't catch people randomly? Yesterday, I just arrested nine people from the Double Sword Association as you ordered?"
"Two swords will happen?" Yuan Zuqi was shocked, his heart suddenly became clear, and Wu Jianzhang's vulgar face immediately appeared in his mind. Then Yuan Zuqi screamed in his heart: "Oh no! Why did I forget Wu Ashuang's other foreign master backstage? How could this immortal, how could he ask the foreigner to come forward to punish me? "
"Mr. County Magistrate, please catch the murderer immediately and release our religious people immediately!" The two foreign masters roared in unison again, with a cruel attitude that was not like the victim of complaints. They were even more terrifying than the evil Shura in the eighteenth level hell! - Of course, this is only for our poor Yuan Zuxu Yuan County Magistrate Yuan.
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"Open the door, I am Father Martin of the American Presbyterian Church, and I want to visit the religious people who have been baptized by me."
According to the English instructions of his Chinese friend Wu Chaoyue, Father Martin, regardless of whether Pan Jinggui, the Shanghai County Prison Prison in front of him, could understand his language, made this request directly to Pan Jinggui. Father Martin's other two American companions also shouted loudly in English, with an extremely bad attitude. However, the local emperor Pan Laotao in the prison not only did not dare to lose his temper, but also kept bowing his head and bowing, and asked Wu Chaoyue, who was standing next to the foreigners in a low voice: "Master Wu, please translate it, what are these three foreign gentlemen talking about?"
"Give the way, open the door, and they want to visit the innocently arrested priests. Some of the people who are locked in your prison have been baptized by Father Martin and his priests."
Wu Chaoyue answered lightly, but Pan Laotou was confused and said in confusion: "Teach the people? I am locked in this prison. I don't know so much?"
Wu Chaoyue was too lazy to pay attention to him, but he just talked to Father Martin and others in English. Then Father Martin and others immediately shouted at Head Pan. Wu Chaoyue translated and said that if the door did not open, these foreign masters would go to the county government to find Yuan Zushi to preside over justice. Head Pan was shocked when he heard this, so he could only order the prison guards who were guarding the gate to give way and let go. He respectfully invited Martin, Wu Chaoyue and others into the door, and said very considerately: "Master Wu, please tell the three foreign gentlemen that it is smelly and dirty inside, and they are wronged."
Wu Chaoyue nodded expressionlessly and said, "Take us to meet the nine people arrested yesterday, those nine people from the Double Sword Society."
When he heard Wu Chaoyue's words, Pan Laotu's expression changed suddenly. However, when he saw three foreigners roaring at him in the croaking birds, Pan Laotu no longer dared to hesitate and immediately stepped forward to lead Wu Chaoyue and others into the cell where the members of the Double Sword Society were imprisoned.
The nine members of the Double Knife Association who were unfortunately arrested were now covered in blood and blood. They looked so miserable. They were tied to the toilet. The people of the Double Knife Association were covered in feces. At the same time, there were several prisoners with thick waists and round waists in the cell, all with blood on their hands. Obviously, they had just taken the action and were obviously prison bullies in the prison. Wu Chaoyue was so angry that he snatched the whip from a yamen runner and slapped the prison bullies without saying a word. The prison bullies said that they did not dare to fight back. They all looked at the foreigners brought by Wu Chaoyue in fear, dodging and not understanding what was going on.
After whipping more than a dozen whips, Wu Chaoyue turned to Martin and others, first talked to them in English for a few words, and then ordered to Captain Pan: "Mr. Yang wants you to drive out the other prisoners. These nine prisoners must be loosened and can only be locked in a cell until they are released."
Although he knew that Wu Chaoyue had no power to control him, Prison Pan nodded and quickly agreed, and then arrogantly ordered the prison guards to lock the prison bullies in other cells. Wu Chaoyue personally loosened the nine fellow villagers who were unfortunately implicated by him, and said in Cantonese with tears in his eyes: "I'm sorry, I'm implicated you. But it doesn't matter. I've asked foreigners to help save you, and you won't suffer any more."
The members of the Nine Double Sword Association had long recognized Wu Chaoyue, the young master Sun. They were so moved that they burst into tears. They also loosened each other and cleaned up the dirt on their bodies. While asking their followers to take delicious food, clothes and wound medicine, Wu Chaoyue continued to say in Cantonese: "Nine brothers, you must remember that if you pass the court in the future, you will insist that you were baptized the day before yesterday, and you are the people who baptized you. The person who baptized you is Mr. Martin, the priest of the United States! As long as you stick to this, you will definitely be able to go out, and the government will never dare to do anything to you!"
It is advantageous to be able to speak a few languages. Wu Chaoyue spoke in Cantonese hometown left by his ex-master of his body. He couldn't understand it even when he spoke to others in person. However, the nine members of the Guangdong Double Sword Association could understand it. While nodding desperately, they also cried and repeated Wu Chaoyue's instructions in Cantonese according to Wu Chaoyue's request, and kept it in their hearts. Wu Chaoyue choked and thanked them again, promising to send people to them every day and promised to send them food and medicine for injury every day. He reminded them for a long time before he got up again.
Before the matter was over and was about to leave the prison, Wu Chaoyue called Pan LaoTe in front of him and said, "President Pan LaoTe, I won't say much nonsense. I know that these people's affairs may not be your intention. Someone must have forced you to do this. I don't blame you. But don't blame me for not reminding you that this matter has already involved foreigners. Foreigners are so angry that they even said harsh words about driving warships into Huangpu River. At that time, foreigners must pursue the murderers who torture these religious people. The people behind you must find a scapegoat. Who would you say the unlucky scapegoat?"
Mr. Pan's face changed drastically, and he quickly nodded and said, "Don't worry, Young Master Wu, they will not suffer anymore. The young one understands, the young one understands."
"Just understand." Wu Chaoyue snorted coldly, "I might as well tell you clearly that the foreigners and I are fighting with Yuan Zuxu this time. If we don't fight to the death, we will never give up! Tell me, Yuan Zuxu and foreigners will fight, who will lose?"
Mr. Pan's face changed, and he nodded and said, "Mr. Wu, I understand, don't worry, your people come to deliver rice, pineapple medicine in the future. As long as it is not Yuan Wuba's person, I will let it go immediately, and I will let it go immediately."
Wu Chaoyue nodded with satisfaction, and then invited Martin and others to leave with him. However, as soon as his steps moved, Wu Chaoyue's heart moved and turned around and asked the nine fellow villagers in Cantonese: "Brothers, have you ever been a soldier among you? You can do it as a team training, even if there is one."
"I have been a brave man." A member of the Double Sword Club quickly said: "Last year, I was a pirate. I worked as a brave man to defend pirates for several months. Later, the pirates were disbanded in the group training, so I followed Brother Ayuan to do things."
"Very good." Wu Chaoyue showed a grim smile and ordered in Cantonese: "Remember, you are still practicing courage now and are still making up! Also, what's your name?"
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When Wu Chaoyue remembered the name and organization of the fellow villager in the cell, Yuan Zuqi also made up his mind in the lobby of the county government. Knowing that the foreign gods moved out of the Wu family could not afford to offend, he decided to take the Qing officials' most procrastination and perfunctory skills. He said to the two foreigners politely: "Two foreign gentlemen, I already understand your affairs. I will investigate in detail and I will definitely give you justice. But this will take some time. Please go back first and wait until I find out."
"It's okay, we have time to wait for you to investigate." The two foreign priests had long been given guidance from Wu Chaoyue. While taking back the large paper, they walked out of the lobby and sat back on the Grand Master's chair, spreading the paper back to the onlookers. Then they said to Yuan Zuqiu, "Mr. County Magistrate, we are waiting here, and we come here every day. When will you find out, when will we leave!"
After saying that, the two foreign priests knocked their legs and fled the famine. On the other hand, Wu Chaoyue's dog-legged Wu Dasai brought a teapot and snacks, and smiled and invited the two foreign priests to have dinner and drink water. Seeing this, Yuan Zuqi was disgusted and screamed in his heart: "Mom! It turns out that foreigners can also play scoundrels? The people of the Qing Dynasty act like scoundrels, and I can ask people to beat them away with sticks, but the foreigners act like scoundrels, do I dare to beat them? Do my people dare to beat them?"
Chapter completed!