Chapter 64 Trouble Again
The timely adjustment effect of the Taiping Army was very significant. When they saw the Taiping Army building a fort at Jinghai Temple, they saw that the Taiping Army outside Shence Gate just dug a camp-protecting trench in the front of the camp. Lu Jianying and Xianghou and other extremely smart Jiangning bosses immediately thought that there was no need to worry about anything, no need to mobilize troops to adjust the deployment of the defenders, and no need to waste money and waste the people and dig any inner city or deep trench in the Yifeng Gate.
Only Qi Suzao, who was sick, was not very relieved. Zhang Jigeng also said he would not give up, but there was no way. The Taiping Army had vigorously strengthened the surveillance of the Thirteen Sects of Jiangning, especially at Shence Gate. Sending scout Lian Yong out of the city to reconnaise was purely a waste of death. If you can't get the evidence that the Taiping Army was just a bluff in Shence Gate, Zhang Jigeng could not convince Lu Jianying, Xianghou and others to adjust Jiangning's defense, and even more so that Lu Jianying and others could transfer Wu Jun Lian Yong, the only reliable war in Jiangning city, to the already dangerous Yifeng Gate to garrison.
Zhang Jigeng, a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, was anxious and helpless. Wu Chaoyue, the traitor of the rioters, was naturally happy. Not only did he no longer have to worry about fighting the Taiping Army to the end, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, he began to look forward to the Taiping Army breaking into Yifeng Gate as soon as possible, and then he broke into the city like in history, killing the whole city without leaving any more.
There is also one disadvantage to secretly helping the Taiping Army to attack the east and west, that is, it scares Wu Chaoyue’s only man-man friend Hui Zheng. Hui Zheng, who had already agreed to send his daughter to ask Wu Chaoyue to protect, was afraid of the danger at the Shence Sect. He proposed to think about it for a few more days. After Wu Chaoyue advised him a few words, he did not insist, but only reminded Hui Zheng to make arrangements as soon as possible, otherwise he would only regret it. The reason why Wu Chaoyue did not insist was of course that Yehenara Wanzhen was not very beautiful. If this Wanzhen could have the appearance of Feng Wanzhen in the capital, or could catch up with Wu Chaoyue’s inadvertent selection of the beauty of the little widow Li Fu, then Wu Chaoyue would definitely stick to the end.
I remembered the beautiful little widow Li Fu. Wu Chaoyue, who had only met Li Fu for more than two days, realized that he was too cold to the poor little widow, and immediately had the idea of visiting Li Fu again. But unfortunately, on the same morning, there was always a constant sound of cannons in Jubaomen and Chaoyangmen. I don’t know if it was the Qing army firing randomly and was wasting gunpowder, or if the Taiping Army launched an attack on the two cities. Wu Chaoyue was embarrassed to leave the post without permission, but just planned to visit Li Fu when he had time and contact her by the way.
It was a big deal. At noon, a Wu army, Lian Yong, suddenly hurried to Shence Gate and saluted Wu Chaoyue and said, "Mr. Lian, it's not good. Some people in Jiangning came to our station to cause trouble. The left-behind officer Deng asked me to ask you to go back quickly."
"The people of Jiangning came to our station to cause trouble?" Wu Chaoyue almost thought he had heard it wrong, and once again misunderstood his bad-legged body. He asked, "Why did the people of Jiangning come to our station to cause trouble? Is there any courage to bully the people of Jiangning?"
"No." Lian Yong, who came to report the news, shook his head, looked at Geng Luo, Zhang Jigeng and others who were curious next to him, and finally came to Wu Chaoyue's ear and whispered: "It's Mr. Lian, you picked up the little widow. She went to the street to buy vegetables. Her family saw that she wanted to arrest her, so she ran back to our station. Her family ran to our station to make trouble and asked for someone, and said she wanted to sue you at the government."
After hearing the complaint, Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to sue Geng Luo and Zhang Jigeng in a hurry to return to the garrison to deal with the emergencies. The result was quite good. Jubaomen and Chaoyangmen, which had been gradually diminishing, were just stopping the cannons. Geng Luo waved his hand and let Wu Chaoyue get off the city without thinking. Wu Chaoyue thanked him and hurried back to the self-army base with a team of personal soldiers, he saw from afar that the nunnery was full of people, and the crying sounds of women could be vaguely rushed to.
When the personal soldiers opened the way to separate the crowd, when they arrived in the field, Wu Chaoyue saw that Li Fu was falling down in the door and crying. Deng Siyuan, who was left behind in the camp, led a group of Wu soldiers to guard the gate. Outside the door, there was a middle-aged woman patting her thigh and pointing at Li Fu, cursing, and constantly slandering, "Bitch! Little bitch! Our Li family found your wife, it was really a big trouble for eighteen lifetimes! I killed my poor son, and I was still a widow at home, and ran here to seduce men. You shameless little bitch! Come out! You shameless little bitch, get out for me immediately!"
In addition to this shrew, many men and women were also pointing at Li Fu's insults, but they were afraid of the bayonets in Wu Jun Lianyong's hand, otherwise they would have rushed in and pulled Li Fu out long ago. Deng Siyuan and Wu Jun Lianyong were afraid to shoot randomly due to military law, but they just guarded the gate to protect Li Fu's. The scene was stalemate. Seeing this, Wu Chaoyue, who knew that Li Fu's poor life experience, was of course furious. Without saying a word, he pulled out his revolver and shot him in the sky, which scared the scene in chaos. Then Wu Chaoyue rushed up, raised his hand and slapped the shrew first, kicked her to the ground, and then shouted at Deng Siyuan and others: "What are you doing when you are stunned? Besiege the military camp and shoot me! If there are those who resist, shoot immediately! I will be responsible for killing people!"
If it weren't for the mass discipline that Wu Chaoyue repeatedly emphasized, Deng Siyuan and Wu Junxuan would have fired a long time ago. Since Wu Chaoyue had spoken, Deng Siyuan and others who had been angry were not polite. They immediately picked up the musket and smashed the shrew's companion to tears and howls, and rolled and crawled away. Wu Chaoyue kicked the shrew hard in the face, then strode forward and helped Li Fushi comfort him, "It's okay, I'm here, it's okay."
Comfort was useless, Li Fu covered his face and cried even more sadly. The shrew whose nose had been kicked and bleeding was also rolling on the ground, crying like a pig, "Murder! Kill people! The little bitch's wild man killed people! God's truth! Justice! The little bitch's adulterer killed her mother-in-law!"
A hero is afraid of Lai Han, but unfortunately Wu Chaoyue is not a hero, but a desperate man who specializes in controlling Lai Han! He raised his hand and shot him next to the shrew, which scared her cry first, and then Wu Chaoyue shouted: "Get out of here! Otherwise, I will punish you for attacking the military camp and punishing you first, and then I will shoot you to death!"
Seeing Wu Chaoyue's brutality at fire, the shrew didn't dare to roll on, but just got up and ran away, hid behind several men and cried, "Who are you? What's your business if I'm going to capture my unfaithful daughter-in-law?"
Wu Chaoyue was too lazy to pay attention to this shrew, but at this moment, a team of brave men rushed in from outside the crowd. The leader was not someone else. It was Zou Minghe, the head of Jiangning Preparatory Defense Bureau who had had a grudge against Wu Chaoyue. She was dressed in silk and satin and shouted arrogantly, "What's wrong? Who fired a shot here? Why did you shoot?"
As if he saw a savior, the shrew immediately rushed up and knelt down at Zou Minghe, pointing at Wu Chaoyue and Li Fu, while slapping pigs, he cried: "Master Zou, Master Zou, you must make the decision for the people's women! The little bitch killed my son and came here to hook up with a wild man. Her wild man also shot me with a gun and kicked me with his feet. Look, the nose of the women is bleeding! Master Zou, Master Qingtian, you must make the decision for the people's women!"
Knowing that Zou Minghe would definitely take the opportunity to take revenge, but the result was not as Wu Chaoyue expected. After asking the incident, Zou Minghe immediately showed joy and said to Wu Chaoyue with a smile: "Master Wu, this matter really makes me embarrassed. This Mrs. Li is not only a commoner in Jiangning City, but this time the Preparatory Bureau raised funds, but her family also donated a lot of money and food. Now she said you kidnapped her widowed daughter-in-law and said you shot her..."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Wu Chaoyue interrupted Zou Minghe's hypocrisy without hesitation and said sneered: "I moved her hard and also fired a warning, but she made trouble outside my camp gate first. I didn't shoot her to death. She is already a big life! If you want to make a decision for her, I won't be afraid to sue her there!"
Zou Minghe knew very well that Wu Chaoyue did this and it was useless to sue it there, so Zou Minghe did not bother Wu Chaoyue on this issue, but continued to smile and said with a sinister smile: "What Master Wu said is very true. Mrs. Li is making trouble in front of your military camp. You can shoot and warn him, but you seem to have forgotten why Mrs. Li is here to make trouble?"
"Give my daughter-in-law back!" With Zou Minghe's support, the shrew also became energetic and shouted at Wu Chaoyue: "Give my daughter-in-law back, she is from my Li family! My family has her birth date and horoscope, and countless people can prove it. She is my daughter-in-law!"
"She is your daughter-in-law, I admit it." Wu Chaoyue asked calmly: "But let me ask you, what do you want to take your daughter-in-law back for? Why did I hear your daughter-in-law say that you are going to sell her for money?"
"She is from my Li family. You can't control her!" The shrew jumped and jumped with his waist, and cursed at Li Fu, "Little bitch, get over here! Don't think that you have a wild man to protect you, and I can't do anything to you? I tell you, today you can go with me, and you have to go with me if you don't go with me!"
"Master Wu, I know you are kind-hearted," Zou Minghe smiled even happier and said with a smile: "But there is no way. The woman next to you is the daughter-in-law whom Mrs. Li is a member of the Li family. If you don't hand her over, it will violate national laws."
After saying that, Zou Minghe added with a smile, "Oh, by the way, now Changmao is besieging the city, Master Wu, as a general guarding the city, you are a private hiding woman and refuse to hand over it, which is still violating military law."
This is what Wu Chaoyue is responsible for. It is true that Li Fu is indeed the daughter-in-law of the shrew. According to the current feudal rules, the shrew can indeed take Li Fu away unconditionally. If Wu Chaoyue refuses to hand over Li Fu, it is not only illegal, but also directly contacts Jiangning officials, more than one or two people have a grudge against the little hedgehog Wu Chaoyue. So for a while, Wu Chaoyue really couldn't think of any way to keep Li Fu behind. Seeing that Wu Chaoyue didn't say anything, Li Fu next to him said that Wu Chaoyue was ready to give in. He hurriedly knelt down to Wu Chaoyue, hugged Wu Chaoyue's legs and cried: "Master Wu, a folk girl, please, please don't hand me over to her. If you hand me over to her, I can't live!"
"Huh? This little **** is so beautiful?" Seeing Li Fu's side face, Zou Minghe's eyes lit up and became more energetic. He said hypocritically: "Little lady, stop begging, it's useless to ask for it. Chief Wu is an official of the court. He cannot take the lead in doing illegal and irregular things. If you begging him, it will only make him more embarrassed."
"I won't go with her even if I die!" Li Fu cried, turned around and pointed at the shrew and cried, "This old poisonous woman, she not only wants to sell me, but also sell me to Diancuilou, to be..., to be a dirty woman!"
The crowd was in an uproar, but the shrew's face was still unchanged and his heart was still beating. He retorted, "So what? You are from my Li family. You grew up eating my Li family's food and even killed my son. So what if I sell you to Diancuilou? If you don't want to be a ****, you can ask your wild man to take out the silver. Diancuilou will pay 80 taels and ask him to take out the silver and I will sell you to him!"
When Zou Minghe heard the shrew's words, his face changed immediately because Zou Minghe knew very well that in the Qing Dynasty, there was really not much money to compare with the old Wu family. However, Zou Minghe was also worried for nothing. Wu Chaoyue, who was a hedgehog, never was blackmailed, and he was even unwilling to be blackmailed by Li Fu's vicious mother-in-law. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue, who had been thinking in his heart, also came up with a way to deal with the shrew, suddenly helped Li Fu up and walked into the door, and shouted to Lian Yong left and right: "Close the door, who dares to break through? No need to ask for orders, just shoot!"
Deng Siyuan and Wu Junjian agreed in unison, immediately closed the door, and pointed the gun at Zou Minghe, the shrew and others. Seeing this scene, the people watching the fun were of course in a big uproar. The shrew was so anxious that they cried and shouted. Zou Minghe was furious that he quickly showed joy and pulled the shrew and said, "Mrs. Li, don't worry, someone can deal with him! Let's take you to the county government and ask County Magistrate Liu to make decisions for you in person!"
The shrew was overjoyed and hurried to the Shangyuan County Government, which governs the Jiangning Civil Affairs Bureau, to file a lawsuit with Zou Minghe. However, when he got into the sedan chair, Zou Minghe remembered something and said to the shrew: "Madam Li, remember one thing. When you meet Liu County Zun, you must not say that you want to sell your daughter-in-law for money. You have to say that you want to keep her at home and be a widow, and you are planning to invite her a chastity archway. But she couldn't stand the loneliness, so she escaped."
"Please ask that little bitch for the chastity arch? How much money does it cost?" The shrew felt embarrassed when he heard this.
"Are you stupid? You don't need this excuse, why do you get your daughter-in-law back?" Zou Minghe scolded and pointed out: "Let's get your daughter-in-law back first. Are you planning to sell her for 80 taels of silver? I bought it!"
When the shrew was overjoyed, he quickly thanked Zou Minghe. Zou Minghe got into the sedan chair and rushed to the county government. As a result, he was retribution for evil. When Zou Minghe and his party walked halfway, they happened to meet the Jiangnan Admiral Fuzhu Hong'a who was patrolling the streets with flag soldiers. Knowing that Wu Chaoyue also had a holiday with Fuzhu Honga, he was worried that his weight might not be enough. Zou Minghe had an idea again and hurriedly got out of the sedan chair and gave Fuzhu Honga a thousand greetings.
He also took the opportunity to tell Fuzhu Hong'a about Wu Chaoyue and the shrew. Fuzhu Honga was not happy with Wu Chaoyue, but he had a bad time with Wu Chaoyue because of the weapons. Hearing that there was such a good opportunity to cure Wu Chaoyue, Fuzhu Honga was of course overjoyed. Not only did he agree to help, he also shouted: "There is no need to go to the county government office. Let me go directly to the Governor General's Office of Liangjiang and ask the Governor General Lu Jiantai to make the decision for you!"
Zou Minghe, who was in charge of the law, was even more happy when he heard this. He quickly took the shrew and Fuzhu Honga and rushed to the Governor's Office of Liangjiang. Fuzhu Honga also brought Zou Minghe and the shrew to the lobby, but he was also very helpful. At this moment, Lu Jianying happened to discuss military affairs in some civil and military officials in Jiangning. Another enemy of Wu Chaoyue's bannerman, Xianghou, was right in the hall, so Fuzhu Honga was not polite. As soon as he came to the hall, he roared: "Reverse! Reverse! Wu Chaoyue, a dog slave, dared to be lawless with some military merits! Lu Jiantai, General Xiang, do you care?"
As both first-rank officials, Fuzhu Hong'a was naturally no one dared to blame him in the lobby of the Liangjiang Governor's Office. Lu Jianying, Xianghou and others were puzzled and asked in confusion what happened. Fuzhu Hong'a was addicted to the fire. First, he exaggerated Wu Chaoyue's forced robbery of the widow a hundred times, and then pulled the shrew to Lu Jianying, Xianghou and others to cry. Then Xianghou was happy when he heard this, and immediately jumped up and yelled: "Lu Builders, Long Hair Surrounding the City, Wu Chaoyue dared to be so lawless, you should be punished seriously! According to military law, this is the death penalty for beheading!"
Lu Jianying was in a dilemma, and he was somewhat reluctant to stay in the most capable Wu Chaoyue in Jiangning City at this time, but this matter was indeed the reason for Fuzhu Hong A, Zou Minghe and others, and it would be absolutely impossible not to pursue it. Another vassal platform that admires Wu Chaoyue was also in a very difficult situation. After thinking about it, Qi Suzao could only suggest to Lu Jianying: "Lu Build the Platform, why don't you send the Master Wu first and see if there is any hidden information? If there is really any special reason, just ask Wu Chaoyue to hand over the little widow. The enemy is in front of you, and you don't have to make a big deal and destroy the Jiangning Great Wall."
"What is Jiangning Great Wall? Just him? A little trash who can't even pull the bow!" Xianghou shouted like a shrew: "Also, what is a big deal? Forcing a robber to a villain, a bad person's chastity, regardless of national, military law, it should be taken seriously!"
Chapter completed!