Chapter 41: The Stranger and the Swordsman (2)
The people in the village were not welcome, so Chen Kai and his entourage did not enter the village, and moved the things on the donkey cart to other carts, so they dragged them behind and continued along the official road, as if they were ready to go to the next station to repair it.
After the afternoon of cleaning, the bloodstains in the village were basically cleared, but the broken utensils, bamboo and wood, and the traces on the walls and doors were still vivid.
At night, the house of the richest squire in the village is lit up with lights, and the lights are bright, almost like a New Year's holiday, and it is like marrying a relative and a daughter, so it is not lively. Several tables were set up in the main hall, and all the figures in the village had arrived, and when the hour came, the squire greeted a young man who looked to be about thirty to come out of the back hall, and almost forced himself to sit down at the top table.
At that table, the squire, his uncles and brothers, and some prominent figures in the village, only such a young man, or an outsider, sat here, but no one expressed any objections.
The dishes were served in turn, the banquet began, the squire took the lead, everyone was together, and the words of gratitude such as "Yu Zhuangshi lived my whole village" came in their mouths. However, the young man looked a little embarrassed, and even said "don't dare", but he was still called by the squire one by one "Engong" and "Strong Man", and even with it, he could only return the saluted glass of wine.
The degree of privately brewed Jinhua wine is not high, and young people don't think it will happen when they drink it cup by cup on weekdays. But this time, after a few cups of stomach, and when I got up again, I felt that my legs were weak and my head was dizzy, and I was soon so weak that I could barely stand up. The young man subconsciously wanted to get the knife, but suddenly remembered that before he went to the banquet, the Miao knife had been persuaded by the squire to stay in the guest room. Thinking of this, everything is self-evident, and weakness is even more irresistible, and even if it falls to the ground.
"Yu Zhuangshi, I'm sorry. You save our village, we dare not forget this kindness, and we will not dare to forget the sacrifice at four o'clock in the future. It's just that you have killed so many officers and soldiers, Ma Jinbao's people will definitely find you. We can only come up with this decision, and I hope you can make it happen. ”
As he spoke, the squire fell to his knees and kowtowed three times, even with the villagers present, and begged the young man to forgive them for the sake of the lives of more than a hundred men, women, and children in the village.
The young man's name is Yu Youhan, a Henan man, who was in the middle of the road when the Qing army entered the customs. Only because the master who taught him martial arts was a person from the Qi family, and his ancestral home was in Yiwu County, Jinhua Mansion, this time he was ordered to return to his hometown with the ashes of the master who had no children and no daughters to be buried, and then he had nowhere to go, and he planned to travel for a few years before he appeared here.
He was staying in the village, but he didn't expect the local green camp to come here to exploit the people, and he tied people upside down on a shelf and poured vinegar into his nostrils. Out of righteous indignation, Yu Youhan drew his sword and killed the Qing army, a dozen or so green battalion soldiers. The second half of the battle was roughly like what Dao Zong had imagined.
Jinhua General Soldier Ma Jinbao is like this on weekdays to exploit the local people in Jinhua, and behind him is the culprit of the Jinhua Massacre, the prince of the clan like Prince Boluo, even the local officials in Zhejiang dare not do anything to him. Now that Ma Jinbao is on the march, the ground in Jinhua Mansion is the time when the Green Battalion has the least number of troops, they dare not be so arrogant in the city, but in the countryside, they are still so unscrupulous.
Yu Youhan actually killed all these green battalion soldiers in one go, and he didn't even escape alive, his martial arts not only made Daozong secretly praise, but also shocked everyone in the village at that time.
However, if you kill someone, it is the least necessary to cover up the evidence of the crime. Yu Youhan originally thought that the squire was busy with the villagers in the afternoon, and even the group of people who stayed overnight and repaired the wheel sternly refused for this reason.
Kneeling relieved the uneasiness of conscience, and after confirming that Yu Youhan really had no strength to get up, the squire instructed his subordinates to tie him up. However, the martial arts displayed by Yu Youhan in the afternoon really frightened them, and it was too immoral to do this, and no one dared to come forward for a long time. It wasn't until late at night, and the galloping of war horses faintly came from the direction of Tangxi County in the east in the quiet night, and they barely managed to make arrangements before the Qing army entered the village.
"General, this madman saw those military masters, so he secretly carried out a sneak attack, this martial arts is indeed very human, several military masters are invincible, and they are martyred here...... I waited for Xiaomin, and I couldn't help him, so I could only set up a bureau to drug him...... According to the student's opinion, this guy must be a thief who is an enemy of the imperial court, and he must not be spared! ”
The person who came was just a general, and he hurried with thirty or forty Qing troops. They were all invited by the squire, and at the moment they were kind and talkative, and they didn't even want the dignity of a famous scholar, so they tied up Yu Youhan, collected the coffins that came to the village to collect the corpses of those Qing soldiers, and also prepared delicious food and wine and money to pay for these green battalion soldiers. At this point, they have pinned all their hopes on being able to turn big things into small things.
The squire surrendered his identity, lowered his eyebrows and made him small, and he didn't even hold his eyelids. asked someone to bring Yu Youhan's weapons and bags, and after seeing the two-handed Miao knife, how much he knew the goods, his face twitched involuntarily, and he basically believed the strange news that the squire said about Yu Youhan killing the Qing army with the power of one person.
After reading the road guide in his bag and a book of "Xinyou Knife Method", he always thought about the identity of the northerner who went south, but he pondered.
"Put the total?"
The squire did not dare to speak, but one of the general deputies came over and asked for instructions on what to do. The general manager was not in a hurry to speak, but only said that Yu Youhan was tied up, and called the officer aside.
"That's a big deal!"
Not long ago, Ma Jinbao went out to Taizhou, on the occasion of the attack on the president of Zhoushan South Road, it was mentioned during the military discussion that the civil official surnamed Chen in the Fujian Zheng Chenggong curtain was missing, and it was likely that he died of Zhang Xuesheng's discordant plan. When the time comes, they can continue to work in Jinhua, and everyone can mix a good value and return to their hometown to buy a land house.
This is just to boost morale, after all, they are just a partial division of the South Road, and Dagong is the main force of Ningbo Dingguan to set off, and there is also the Eight Banners Army, they can get even less soup, and they can only draw a big pie.
However, the civil official surnamed Chen mentioned here went south from the north to defect to the Ming army, Ma Jinbao was a native of Xi County, Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi, and Chen Kai claimed to be from Datong Prefecture, and he was a fellow villager of the same province, and he had mentioned it many times earlier. Now, isn't this Yu Youhan in front of them also a northerner, killing the Qing army in this Zhejiang land, if it is said that he is a northerner who went south to defect to the Ming army, like Chen Kai, isn't it a credit for preventing trouble before it happens?
The deputy officer was excited when he heard this, but the general seemed to be a little embarrassed that Ma Jinbao was not there, and the pusher Li Zhifang was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and whether they could make this big case real or not was still unknown.
"More than a dozen brothers died, this thing can't be good."
"Of course it won't end there." After thinking about it repeatedly, he quickly made up his mind: "If you make a big case, it is nothing more than the money in this village, and even the money that falls into our hands may not be much." After killing all of them, it was only reported that they were colluding with thieves to attack the officials and soldiers, and when the time came, it would be nothing more than a little bit, and the big head was still in our hands, wouldn't it be happy? ”
"Then you have to plan it well, it's not good to escape some remnants and get out, and there will be branches."
"It's okay, there's still one night, play slowly."