Since Wang Jieru arrived at Hai Rui's side, she has been fighting for a long time and has some experience. At this time, seeing five enemies on the west side of the hull, her mind suddenly turned and she shouted into the cabin: "Ma Junxian, do you recognize me?"
At this time, the rocket outside the cabin had ignited the bulkhead. Under the firelight, Ma Junxian looked up in panic and saw the face of Wang Jieru, who was the person who had advised Hai Rui in the court that morning.
He shouted: "I recognize you! You are Lord Hai's man."
This sentence calmed Mr. Hong's mind. Since the matter was urgent, Wang Jieru didn't waste any words and shouted again: "Come here quickly!"
After hearing this, the two people in the cabin rolled and crawled towards the east side of the cabin. Because Mr. Hong was so close, he reached the window first before leaning out to crawl out. Wang Jieru had already grabbed the bun on his head with her right hand and held it with her left hand.
His shoulders screamed, his body turned sharply to the right, and he pulled Mr. Hong out of the cabin and threw him into the grass by the river.
Mr. Hong screamed again and fell dizzy again. Ma Junxian was startled from behind and waved his hand to signal Wang Jieru not to treat him like this. He grabbed a cotton-padded coat from the bunk with his left hand, and flicked it on the window lattice with his right hand.
With his young and soft body, he jumped out of the window, then jumped outward with all his strength and jumped to the shore.
Just now, Mr. Hong screamed, which alerted the two archers on the enemy ship. The two archers bent their bows and nocked arrows, and fired over the Wu ship. Although they were not very accurate in the dark, they still scared Wang Jieru into a cold sweat.
As soon as Wang Jieru got these two to the shore, the bow of the boat sank, and the enemy had already jumped on the boat. It was too late, but soon, Wang Jieru took out a rotary wing tiger gun from his bag.
, took out the fire rope and lit the match rope, and immediately rushed from the west side of Wu's ship to the stern.
The next moment, Wang Jieru, who was exposed at the stern of the boat, was already aiming at the two archers in the firelight and pulling the trigger. There was a loud "bang" sound, and dozens of iron sand spurted out from the mouth of the gun, hitting the two bows and arrows.
Throwing away the bow and arrow, he covered his face and screamed loudly.
Everyone on the other side's boat never expected that tonight's target would actually have a musket in his hand. After the gunshot, everyone was stunned. Wang Jieru fired the gun and turned the barrel downwards. When he heard a click, he raised his hand to target
A gangster who jumped over the boat shot him in the chest again.
The length of Wu's ship from stern to bow was not more than four feet in total. At such a close distance, there was absolutely no chance that the Ouchi guards would miss him. This loud noise was accompanied by a scream, and the man who had been shot fell into the Tang River with a plop.
There were five men in front of the enemy, and Wang Jieru killed three of them with two shots. The remaining two had already jumped over to this side with a knife. They were so frightened that the knife in their hands fell on the deck with a clang. There was also a gangster who bent down and was standing.
He wanted to tear off the planks and hooks connecting the two ships, and it looked like he was planning to escape.
At this time, Wang Jiesu had rotated the barrel of the gun again, walked to the west side of Wu's ship, pointed at the bent gangster in the firelight and said: "Throw the knife and jump over!"
Two gunshots and flames soared into the sky, and half of Liangzhu was alarmed. The lights on the boats moored in the distance were lit, and soon someone would come to inquire about the situation. In the distant houses, dogs barked, and the scene was full of people.
People can already hear the faint sound of gongs.
Several gangsters secretly complained. If it were spring, it would be possible to escape by jumping into the water. But at this time, the river had just thawed, and people who jumped in would freeze to death in less than a cup of tea.
Knowing that there was only one opponent, but the gun was sharp, who would dare to shoot it correctly? Several men also knew that he fired two shots, and this weird-looking three-eyed handgun could probably fire one more shot. But no one was willing to sacrifice his life for his accomplices.
, restrained by this bullet.
The so-called meat is on the chopping block, so you have to go from there. The two archers were beaten with blood by shotguns, and one of them was blinded in one eye. Under Wang Jieru's order, they came to the deck of the Wu ship and threw themselves to the ground. That didn't happen
The injured gangster raised his hands, jumped over from the wooden plank, and then obeyed the order and lay down.
Seeing that the situation was under control, Wang Jieru ordered: "Take out your belts and throw them in front of you." The four gangsters obediently obeyed, throwing away their belts and keeping their hands on their heads.
Wang Jieru felt relieved and shouted to the shore: "Have you been hit by an arrow?"
Ma Junxian said in a trembling voice on the shore: "No, my husband and I are fine."
Wang Jieru breathed a sigh of relief and shouted again: "I have ropes in my bag, come here and help me tie them up."
After these people were tied up, Wang Jieru jumped onto the incoming ship and searched it. Seeing that no one was hiding, she returned to Ma Junxian's Wu ship.
After some interrogation, the four people confessed that they were fishermen from Sanliyang and Twelve Mileyang, and occasionally did some business without capital. The one who was shot to death by Wang Jieru was their leader. He took a business at noon today and came to collect two coins from here.
An individual's head.
As for who his leader took this mission from, he still has no idea.
.......
At this time, there are hundreds of lakes in Hangzhou. The ones that can be named now include Xiahu, Minghu, Linping Lake, Baidanghai and dozens of others. Three-mile lakes and twelve-mile lakes are all between Hangzhou and Tangqi.
During this period, there were sudden disturbances and many thieves appeared.
Wang Jieru couldn't quite understand the dialect spoken by these people, so Ma Junxian acted as a translator and asked several times, but there were no new clues.
At this time, the security chief of Tanghe Village came with dozens of young men. Wang Jieru showed his identity. When the security chief heard that thieves had come to the village, he was so frightened that he turned pale. He also arranged for people to kill chickens and geese, making Wang Jieru a few
Have a meal together.
Wang Jieru thought over and over again and felt that Mr. Hong and Ma Junxian were indeed unsafe at this time. If they wanted to bring them to the Hangzhou court, they were worried that they would cause trouble to Hai Rui. She had no choice but to find paper and pen and wrote a letter asking the chief security officer to arrange for someone to come to Hangzhou.
He gave it to Hai Rui and stayed with the two of them. Because he didn't know what happened to the Hangzhou Prefecture and the governor's Yamen, the four prisoners did not dare to send them to official positions for the time being, so they were all locked up in Tanghe Village.
Wang Jieru is from Hebei. After he entered the dormitory, his accent became more heavily influenced by Mandarin. After the situation calmed down, a gangster recognized his accent and suddenly called out: "Are you Brother Wang, who is known as the "Thunder Hand" in the world?"
Wang Jieru was stunned for a moment. After looking at it carefully, she really didn’t recognize it, so she asked, “Why do you know my nickname?”
When the gangster heard that it was really him, he was annoyed and said: In recent years, there have been rumors in the world that the "Thunder Hand" has such a great reputation. It turns out that it is not because of his great palm skills, but because this guy holds a musket.
But Wang Jieru's question had to be answered: "I've heard of Brother Wang's name a long time ago, so it turns out that this is what the Thunder Hand is." There was some vague dissatisfaction in his words.
The thunder hand has no sense of shame, and he said in his heart that you surrendered in time, which is your good fortune. Otherwise, I would have used the palm of my hand to break open monuments and crack stones, and I would have broken all your bones long ago.
...
By the time everyone was done, it was already dark. Wang Jieru asked the security chief to arrange a secluded place for Mr. Hong and Ma Junxian. He asked Mr. Hong in detail about his background, why he intervened in the matter, and why he ordered Ma Junxian to report to the Circuit Court.
official.
Mr. Hong first introduced himself: "A certain Hong Yingming, courtesy name Zicheng, is from Xindu, Sichuan. Due to failure in his career, he came to Nanjing two years ago and wanted to find a newspaper office to make a living. Unexpectedly, he stayed in Hangzhou due to illness and was picked up by Chaosheng.
Rescued by his father Ma Wenying."
"Later, I successfully applied for the job and became the deputy manager of the Hangzhou office of Nanjing Daily. I often visited the Ma family. After Ma Wenying died, I asked around. Not long ago, I was targeted and the office was set on fire and almost burned down.
Death—that’s why you know how deep the water is here.”
"Since there is no evidence, where can I dig out the inside story? I had no choice but to take advantage of Master Hai's power. I just had the idea of 'snatching the enemy' and trying to protect myself, but I didn't expect that it would lead to death."
Wang Jieru was puzzled after hearing this, thinking that this was all a mess. The standard of Zhejiang officials was very low. A warehouse ambassador could cause chaos. It was much worse than the old officialdom that Hai Rui had dealt with before. And this
The so-called inside information that Hong Yingming has is just his own imagination and is of little help to Hai Rui - let's see how Master Hai handles it.
...
That day, before Hai Rui could even go to court, he received an urgent report from someone sent by Wang Jieru, saying so.
Hai Rui was furious and did not go to court. He even asked Zhang Wenxi, the patrol magistrate who was also in Hangzhou. The area where Zhang Wenxi and Hai Rui's responsibilities overlapped was that the circuit court needed to transfer clues about local officials' corruption to him. Hai Rui's case was considered
Act within the rules. And when Hai Rui is summoned, how dare Zhang Wenxi say no?
Hai Rui met Zhang Wenxi and first told him about Ma Junxian's life experience. Zhang Wenxi learned that Ma Junxian's father, Ma Wenying, was the ambassador of Hangzhou Weicang, the capital of Zhejiang. He had served as ambassador for sixteen years. Although his native place was not Hangzhou, he had long been
Get a wife and have children here.
Later, his wife fell ill and died, and Ma Wenying and his son depended on each other. Since Ambassador Cang only managed the garrison's warehousing affairs and did not follow the army's operations, the superior officer often gave him leave so that he could take care of the children.
Ma Wenying also came to work, and often gave small favors to his superiors. Over time, the ambassador became like a member of the yamen, commuting to and from get off work normally and not living in the military camp.
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month last year, Ma Wenying was very excited after returning home and told Ma Junxian that he was going to make a fortune and that he would definitely have a good year this year.
However, he did not expect that less than three days after he returned to the right camp, officers and soldiers came to his home, saying that Ma Wenying had not been seen taking care of business for many days, so someone from the camp was looking for him.
After hearing this, Ma Junxian was busy and informed the commander that Ma Wenying was missing. The commander also mobilized his men to search everywhere, but found a headless body in the dense forest outside the right camp. After Ma Junxian identified it, the body belonged to Ma Wenying.
Then came the procedure of reporting to the officials and solving the case. It was not a trivial matter for the garrison personnel to die outside the military camp. The Hangzhou guards did not dare to neglect and reported to the governor Wu Shanyan. At the same time, they urged the local officials to solve the case immediately.
When the body was found, Ma Wenying had been dead for four or five days. The Qiantang County magistrate did not even know whether he was killed in the dense forest, so how could he solve the case? The Qiantang County magistrate also refused and directly transferred the case to Hangzhou Prefecture.
The truth is that although the crime occurred locally, the deceased was a garrison, so what does it have to do with the local area?
The Hangzhou Prefecture also thought it was reasonable and reported it to the governor's yamen, asking the garrison to send personnel to investigate the case. Governor Wu Shanyan transferred the letter to the Hangzhou Guard and asked the guard to investigate the case. The guard immediately reported it to the governor's yamen, saying that although he was a guard, Yes, but he died in the area under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou Prefecture. How can it be reasonable for the local government not to investigate?
After two twists and turns, the case was put on hold. More than four months have passed since there was no news about what happened last winter. However, after Hai Rui, a big shark, entered the calm water, he started a sinister plot. The turmoil. There are gangsters trying to kill people and silence them, which shows that there must be deep-seated corruption behind this murder case. Zhang Wenxi should investigate it carefully.
After hearing Hai Rui's analysis, Zhang Wenxi was convinced and agreed: "To be honest with you, sir, I brought eight experts from the Supervision Bureau of the Metropolitan Procuratorate this time, two of them are locals. I don't know where your relatives are now. ?But hand over the victims to me, I must dig them all out."