Chapter Forty-Eight: Sleepless Nights
"Grandpa......" It wasn't until a long time before Xiao Youming said timidly: "Is what they just said true?" They will really ...... tomorrow" "Don't be afraid, grandpa won't let them hurt you." "The old man kept comforting.
Xiao Youming buried her head and whispered: "They do evil every day, why is there no one to punish them?" ”
However, this world is like this, there are fairies and demons, there are good people and there are evil people, everything is running according to the "law of the Great Dao", endlessly, and the cycle repeats.
"Don't be afraid, Xiao Youming." I squatted down and said with a smile, "Sister assures you that those people will definitely not come again tomorrow." ”
"Really?" Xiao Youming's big eyes were full of disbelief, and he muttered, and stopped talking: "But ......"
"Why, don't you believe my sister? Why don't we make a bet? ”
Seeing my indifferent face, the old man immediately guessed what I was doing in the morning, after Xiao Youming went to take a nap, he made a pot of coarse tea by himself, brought it to the clean table of the Eight Immortals, and said with a worried face: "Princess, the little one calls you a child, persuade you, this matter has nothing to do with you, why do you bother our grandchildren...... Alas! ”
I smiled and said, "Old man, if you call me a child, it means that you also treat me like a relative, how can I stand idly by?" Don't worry, I've already figured out what to do, and nothing will go wrong. The wicked also need to be ruled by the wicked, in fact, the latter is a wicked person who can do it, it's just whether he wants to do it or not. ”
"What are you going to do?"
"There is indeed some background behind the Wang family, and it is not as easy as imagined to bring them down in one fell swoop, but I can let them take care of themselves, and they can't spare their hands and feet to come here to make trouble again, and I have to let them lose a piece of meat."
In the afternoon, I left the old noodle shop and walked around, and with the help of Mo Qi, I had figured out all the details of the Wang family.
The Wang family's industries have to bring in goods once a month, and as far as I know, those goods should arrive in Chang'an City tomorrow. And those middle-aged people with dark faces are the housekeepers of the Wang family, and if there are no special circumstances, he is generally responsible for this matter.
On both sides of the street, there are many shops, shouting and selling, wandering all the way, buying a lot of candy and snacks for Xiao Youming, and then going to the clothing shop, a few new clothes made for the elderly and Xiao Youming have been rushed out, and a few pairs of new shoes have been bought for them, and finally I bought a few things that need to be used tomorrow.
It wasn't until it was getting late that I turned around and walked back, and when I saw that I was safe and sound, the old man's parents breathed a sigh of relief, and the hanging heart finally let go.
Xiao Youming's face was full of joy and excitement, holding a piece of kind and delicate new clothes, jumping up happily, opening the paper bags containing candy and snacks, first stuffing the delicious food into the old man's mouth, followed by me, and finally I ate happily.
"Xiao Youming, why don't you go and change into new clothes, don't you like it?" I asked, a little curious.
Xiao Youming hurriedly shook her head and said, "Of course Ming'er likes such beautiful clothes." After saying that, he carefully wrapped up the new clothes.
Watching the clothes on her body mend and mend, sew and sew, and there was a burst of emotion in my heart, this girl is simply sensible and sad, although it is a casual word, it makes me feel a little calm.
"Don't worry, Xiao Youming will have new clothes to wear every day in the future, go and change it." Xiao Youming, such a cute and sensible little girl, depends on the old man for her life, the life of the two is not easy, and they have to be bullied by those villains of the Wang family all day long.
The next morning I arrived early outside the city, and as I walked through the mountains and forests, I soon came to the road leading to the city, one of which had to pass through a ravine.
The left and right sides are closed by cliffs hundreds of meters high, which is an excellent place for ambushes, I performed light skills, and came to the cliff wall in less than three or two times, where I changed into a light white plain clothes, and put on a hat, and the light veil hung down, covering my face.
Then I opened all the oil drums placed in front of me, and there was a whole row of rockfall traps behind me, as long as I touched the traps, those hundreds of pounds of boulders would fall directly to the bottom of the cliff like wild horses that had lost their reins.
These things were all prepared here yesterday by ink dye, and it is said that when he was a bandit, he often used this routine to rob the official darts.
Everything is ready, all that remains is to wait patiently for the arrival of the Wang family's dart car.
I waited for most of the day, and my patience was lost at once, until it was dark, and finally there was a sound of bones on the calm mountain road, and from a distance, there were more than a dozen carriages, and the cargo compartments were piled with boxes of heavy goods.
This should be the batch of goods that the Wang family is going to enter, I didn't say a word, I just got up and kicked all the oil drums in front of me.
"Bang!" ...... "Bang! ...... "Bang!" The sound of oil drums smashing to the ground was heard, and in just an instant, more than a dozen carriages were drenched with fire oil, and the panic of the crowd followed.
"It's fire oil! Someone is going to set fire to our goods! The people of the Wang family shouted, many people fled in panic at the first time, and a small number of people stayed in place, looking around, trying to find out the "real murderer".
However, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the four fields were black, how could I see any clues, and before they could react, I threw the lit torches down one by one.
"This is called treating others the way they are!" I snorted coldly, jumped down from the top of the cliff, and appeared in front of the eyes of everyone in the Wang family in the midst of the raging fire.
"Who the hell are you, do you know that this is the goods of the Wang family, aren't you afraid of being hunted down and killed by our Wang family's children?!" The middle-aged man with a dark face shouted in panic, so many goods were destroyed, and he didn't know how many silver taels he had lost, he could already think of what would happen if he returned to the Wang family.
"The Wang family? Isn't it remarkable? I pouted and sneered, kicked an oil drum with my cross-foot, and slammed it on the middle-aged man's body, and his clothes were splashed with a lot of oil, and then I threw a torch over.
In the sea of fire, a heart-rending scream sounded, and the middle-aged man was covered in firelight, like a desperate distant mountain stream.
"This is playing with fire." I glanced coldly, and saw that the fire was getting stronger and stronger, and my body rose into the air, and I disappeared into the dark sky with a light effort.
This night was undoubtedly a sleepless night for the Wang family, the whole family was shaken, more than a dozen wagons were burned by a fire, not even the slag was left, the losses were heavy, and the people who transported the goods were also seven or eight burned half-limbs......
On this night, the Wang family mobilized all their connections and manpower, vowing to find out the arsonists, and the huge losses made them angry, like mad dogs in the jurisdiction where the Wang family is located, looking for suspicious households and clues.
"Alas~ What a girl who can play...... It's about the same as I was back then. Above the bell tower, a black shadow sat on the top floor and whispered, looking through the faint moonlight, this person was the "No. 1 master of Chang'an City" - Mo Qi.
The riot did not calm down until the second half of the night, and the Wang family set their sights on another big family in the neighboring jurisdiction - the Liu family, which happened to have something to do with the Wang family in a short period of time, and everyone in the clan felt that this matter must be inseparable from the Liu family, so they sent people overnight to send a letter to the imperial court and the brothers of the Northern Imperial Division "their own people" for help.
I didn't go back to the noodle restaurant that night to avoid suspecting the old man, and I didn't go back to the prince's mansion, but stayed at an inn in the center of the city.
It wasn't until the sky was slightly bright that I bought this meat dish and returned to the old noodle restaurant, the old man just put breakfast on the table, and Xiao Youming knocked on the door in front of the room vacated by the old man for me: "Sister sister, get up and eat!" ”
"Don't knock, my sister is here." I chuckled and called out from behind, and Xiao Youming looked back at me leaning on the door frame, and then looked at the door, her little face full of doubts and surprise.
The old man wanted to speak and stopped, he was a weathered man, and he had already guessed that I had set fire to the Wang family's goods last night.
I smiled indifferently, shook the fresh vegetables and meat in my hand, and said, "Let's add vegetables at noon today, look, I bought all the ingredients." ”
After breakfast, I lay on the bed and slept for a while, I was so sleepy, I didn't sleep at the inn last night, and now the old noodle restaurant is like home for me, and the bed here is comfortable.
At noon, a cacophony of shouting pulled me back from my sleep.
"Who! I don't want to sleep well! I cursed a few words in my heart, flipped the quilt, got up and walked out.
"Old Xia is immortal! Lao Tzu is too lazy to talk nonsense with you, hurry up and prepare some wine and meat, otherwise Lao Tzu will blow up your shop! ”
"It's fucking bloody! The fire was really burned thoroughly, there was not even any scum left, I really didn't know it was done by a thousand knives! ”
"Butler, what do you say we will do in the future? was beaten out of the house by his family, this thing is easy to say, how will he mix in this jurisdiction in the future. ”
"You ask me? Then Lao Tzu asked who to go? What fucking bad luck! Let's take one step at a time in the future. I said, Old Man Xia, why are you standing stupidly, hurry up and make the wine and food, you really want Lao Tzu to be rough, right?! ”
It was the middle-aged man with a weasel face and a dark face who spoke and several of his younger brothers, all of whom were wrapped in bandages at the moment, some of whom had been burned by the fire last night, and some of whom had been beaten up when they returned to Wang's house.
Xiao Youming stood in front of the table, clenched a pair of small pink fists, and said timidly: "You are not allowed to yell at my grandfather, we are no longer in business, you can eat elsewhere." ”
"Bang!"
The middle-aged man clapped his hands and landed heavily on the table, glared angrily, and said threateningly: "Lao Tzu is in a bad mood today, you'd better obediently serve delicious food, otherwise I can do something, you should know!" ”