Chapter 41: The Passenger and the Swordsman (2)
The villagers were not welcoming, so Chen Kai and his entourage did not enter the village. They moved the things on the donkey cart to other carts, dragged them behind with all their strength, and continued walking along the official road, as if they were planning to go to the next stop.
Looks like repair.
After cleaning up in the afternoon, the blood stains in the village had basically been removed, but the marks on the broken utensils, bamboo wood, walls, and doors were still vivid in my mind.
At night, the house of the richest squire in the village was decorated with lanterns and brightly lit, as if it was a New Year or a wedding, and it was very lively. There were several tables in the main hall, and all the prominent people in the village were there.
At that moment, the squire warmly greeted a young man who looked to be in his thirties and walked out of the back hall, almost forcing him to sit at the top table.
At that table, there were the squire, his uncles and brothers, and some prominent figures in the village. Only this young man, an outsider, sat here, but no one expressed any objection.
The dishes were served one by one, and the banquet began. The squire took the lead, and everyone gathered together, saying words of gratitude such as "I have a strong man who lives in my whole village." But the young man looked a little embarrassed and kept saying "I don't dare."
, but the squire was still calling him "benefactor" and "hero" one after another, and he could only repay the toasts with glasses of wine.
The alcohol content of the privately brewed Jinhua Liquor is not high. On weekdays, young people don't think anything will happen if they drink it cup by cup. But this time, after a few cups, when I stood up again, I felt that my legs were weak and my head was dizzy. Soon,
He was so weak that he could hardly stand. The young man subconsciously wanted to get the knife, but suddenly remembered that before he went to the banquet, the squire had persuaded him to leave the Miao knife in the guest room. Thinking of this, everything was self-evident.
, the weakness was even more irresistible, and he fell to the ground softly.
"Master Yu, I'm sorry. You saved our village. We dare not forget this kindness. We will not forget it when we offer sacrifices at the four seasons in the future. It's just that you killed so many officers and soldiers. Ma Jinbao's people will definitely
They came to you. We can only do this, and I hope you can make it happen."
As he said this, the squire knelt down on the ground and kowtowed three times. The same was true of the villagers present, all of whom were blaming themselves and begging the young man to see that this village had a hundred people.
For the sake of the lives of many men, women, and children, I forgive them.
The young man's name is Yu Youhan, a man from Henan. When the Qing army entered the Pass, his family fell into decline. Because the master who taught him martial arts was an ancestor of the Qi family army, and his ancestral home was in Yiwu County, Jinhua Prefecture. This time, he was ordered to bring him with him.
He returned to his hometown to bury the childless master's ashes, and then had nowhere to go. He planned to travel for several years before appearing here.
He was staying in the village for the night, but unexpectedly, the local green camp came here to exploit the people, tied them upside down to a rack, and poured vinegar into their nostrils. Out of righteous indignation, Yu Youhan drew his sword and killed the Qing army.
A dozen or so Green Camp soldiers were killed. The second half of the battle was roughly as Daozong had imagined.
This is how General Jinhua Jinbao exploits the local people of Jinhua on weekdays, and behind him is the culprit of the Jinhua Massacre. Even local officials in Zhejiang dare not pay attention to a clan king like Prince Boluo.
What about it? Now that Ma Jinbao is out on an expedition, the Green Battalion is at its lowest strength on the ground in Jinhua Mansion. They don't dare to be so arrogant in the city, but in the countryside, they are still so unscrupulous.
Yu Youhan actually killed all the green camp soldiers in one breath, without even a single person escaping alive. His martial arts not only earned Daozong secret praise, but also shocked everyone in the village at that time.
However, killing someone and covering up the evidence is indispensable. Yu Youhan originally thought that the squire and the villagers were busy in the afternoon. This was why they sternly refused to stay overnight and repair the car's shaft. Who knew that this arrangement would be even more serious?
It is inevitable that someone will interfere and ruin their ungrateful thing.
Kneeling down relieved the uneasy conscience and confirmed that Yu Youhan really had no strength to get up, so the squire ordered his servants to tie him up. However, the martial arts displayed by Yu Youhan in the afternoon really frightened them.
It was too immoral, everyone was so trembling and timid that no one dared to come forward for a long time. Until it was late at night, and in the quiet night, the galloping of war horses could be heard faintly from the direction of Tangxi County in the east.
, barely managed to complete the layout before the Qing army entered the village.
"General, when this madman saw those military masters, he launched a sneak attack. This guy's martial arts skills are indeed extraordinary. Several military masters were defeated and died for their country... We, the common people, can't help us, so we can only
He was able to set up a trap and drugged him... According to the student's opinion, this guy must be a bandit who is an enemy of the imperial court, and we must not let him off lightly!"
The person who came was just a general who hurried over with thirty or forty Qing troops. They were all invited by Baba, sent by the squire. They were so talkative at the moment that they didn't even have the dignity of a prestigious scholar.
Yu Youhan was tied up and collected the best coffins from the village to collect the corpses of the Qing soldiers. They also prepared fine wine, delicacies, and money to support these green soldiers. At this point, they just collected all the corpses of the Qing soldiers.
The hope is placed on the ability to turn big things into small things.
The squire lowered his status and behaved in a submissive manner. The boss even ignored him. He asked someone to bring Yu Youhan's weapons and luggage. After seeing the two-handed sword, he was quite knowledgeable.
, his face twitched involuntarily, and he basically believed the squire's anecdotes about Yu Youhan killing the Qing army with one man's strength.
After reading the road guide in his luggage and a copy of "Xinyou Sword Technique", I always wondered about the identity of the northerner who went south, but he began to think deeply.
"Boss?"
The squire did not dare to speak, but a deputy of the general came over to ask for instructions on what to do. The general did not speak in a hurry. He only said that Yu Youhan had been tied up, and called the officer aside.
"This is a great achievement!"
Not long ago, when Ma Jinbao went to Taizhou to attack the President of Zhoushan South Road, it was mentioned in the military meeting that the civil servant named Chen who was involved in Zheng Chenggong's plot in Fujian was missing. He was probably killed by Zhang Xuesheng's alienation plan.
If successful, the good luck of the Fujian Ming Army has come to an end. Once they have solved the Zhejiang Ming Army, the Fujian side will probably be about the same. By then, they can continue to dominate Jinhua and everyone can have a good time.
With a good fortune, he returned to his hometown to buy land and a house.
This is just to boost morale. After all, they are just a partial division on the South Road. Da Gong is the main force setting off from Ningbo. Moreover, there is also the Eight Banners Army among them. The soup they can get is even less. They can only
Draw a big pie.
However, the civil servant surnamed Chen mentioned here went south from the north to join the Ming army. Ma Jinbao was from Xi County, Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi Province, and Chen Kai claimed to be from Datong Prefecture, so they were fellow citizens of the same province. Earlier,
It has been mentioned many times. Now, isn't the Yu Youhan in front of them also a northerner who killed the Qing army on the ground in Zhejiang? If he is a northerner who went south to join the Ming army, like Chen Kai,
Isn’t it a great achievement to prevent problems before they happen?
The deputy officer was very excited when he heard this, but it seemed that he was still a little embarrassed because Ma Jinbao was not there, and the promoter Li Zhifang was not a fuel-efficient lamp. Regardless of whether they could prove this major case, it was still a piece of cake.
Things that are still unknown.
"With a dozen brothers dead, this matter cannot be settled."
"Of course it won't end like this." Mr. Cao thought about it over and over and quickly made up his mind: "If it's a big case, it's just the money in this village, and we may not even be able to get much of it. Kill them all.
We only reported that we colluded with the bandits to attack the officers and soldiers. When the time comes, we will just take care of some of them, and the bulk of them will still be in our hands. Wouldn’t that be nice?”
"Then you need to plan carefully, lest some of the remnants escape and create complications."
Chapter completed!