Chapter 53: The Capture of Soul (2)
In the post house, everything was discussed, Du Hui took people back to the dock to continue waiting for news, and Chen Kai quickly waited for news from Huang Menglin's side.
The local grain merchants were very interested in this grain procurement, and the local tyrants, bandits, and pirates in Chaozhou were everywhere, and there were very few areas that the local military and government of the Qing court could actually control. However, the business contacts between the locals in Chaozhou have not been completely severed because of this, these grain merchants are all with big family backgrounds, and they are also quite influential in the local area. After all, no one has a grudge against real money.
"One tael and one stone of rice, this price is more expensive than Chengping, but now that the war is in chaos, there is little grain, and it is inevitable to make dots everywhere, which is already a very real price."
"That's it, that's it, let's also look at Huang Fuzun's love for the people like a son on weekdays."
"So be it, the money is on the ship, and when you have food in your hands, we will trade it at once. For the time being, I will only buy the amount of one ship, and you will decide how to divide it yourself. ”
"That's, that's, Mr. Liu is also worried about the country."
Huang Menglin's benefits, they are naturally indispensable, as for whether the staff of the Fujian governor's yamen will quote some higher prices after returning to Fuzhou and make a profit from it, it is not up to them. They only know that the staff from Fujian are doing business very happily, probably just as Huang Fuzun said, Fujian, now short of food!
It's a business opportunity, and it's a great thing for them. In the afternoon, the first ship was loaded, and the newcomer, Liu Qian, took the grain back to Fuzhou first.
In the evening, Che Renzhong invited him, and Chen Kai and Huang Menglin also arrived as promised. The two compartments sat down, and after a little greeting, Chen Kai was still thinking about how to find out what was going on from Che Renzhong, how did he know that Huang Menglin was the first to ask the exit.
"It's not a big deal, Lai Qixiao is looking for death, resisting the officers and soldiers, the commander trained the recruits, and went to clean up."
Lai Qixiao was a squire in Zhenping County, in the north of Chaozhou, and was quite influential in the local area. According to Huang Menglin, Zhenping County was established in the sixth year of Chongzhen, and it was this Lai Qixiao who moved Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang at that time, to go to the imperial court, analyze the grottoes of Pingyuan County and the two capitals of Songyuan and Turtle Pulp in Chengxiang County, and set up Zhenping County, which is directly subordinate to Chaozhou Mansion.
Zhenping County is surrounded by mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the road is far away, Che Renzhong at this moment as if it is a local chicken and tile dog, in fact, I am afraid that it is not even a little bit of the mind to really do it.
Chen Kai and Huang Menglin will not break this point, but Chaozhou is full of local heroes, and Zhenping County is still far away from the capital city, so they don't need to care too much. While the three of them were talking and laughing, they quickly mentioned the Manchu language mentioned in the morning.
"The Manchurian nobles will not speak the same as the Han people." Liu Yizhou's face went online again, and Chen Kai pulled up at these two guys who showed a strong interest: "For example, knees, people call them Burengeier; For example, the nurse, or those women with status in the palace and the house, are called Mama in Manchu, for example, there is a Mama Rong next to the queen's mother, who is particularly favored and trusted, and is more powerful than ordinary ladies......"
What Chen Kai said was not actually Manchu, but some words that were influenced by Manchu in the Beijing dialect of later generations. Among them, some are Manchu transliteration, and some are the fusion of Manchu and the late Ming Dynasty Liaodong dialect and Beijing dialect, which is not enough.
For those so-called Manchu languages, Chen Kai is not afraid of Che Renzhong and Huang Menglin to see through, because there are true and false in this itself, Huang Menglin is from Fujian, and Che Renzhong is from Guangdong, and there is no possibility of identifying it at all. And his current behavior is like the subtitle team translating American dramas for people who don't know English, and "Czechoslovakia" is believed by people, not to mention Manchu, a small language that many Manchurians may not be able to speak.
At this moment, the more he shows his kneeling and licking posture towards the Qing court and the Eight Banners, the more he can paralyze the nerves of Che Renzhong and Huang Menglin!
"Mr. Liu just said that if you praise the girl for being beautiful, you have to say that she is bright, right?"
"That's right, Che Zongzhen has a very strong learning ability, but the aunt and grandmother of the banner people can't be provoked, making people think that they are frivolous, and their uncles and brothers are not vegetarians."
"What Mr. Liu said is very true, what Mr. Liu said is very true, the Eight Banners of Manchuria are invincible in the world, and this commander still knows."
In the midst of the joke, one of Che Renzhong's personal soldiers came over. As soon as this pro-soldier appeared, he immediately attracted Chen Kai's attention, not to mention the feminine movements of the likes of the flower fingers, and smeared grease and powder on his body and face, the smell choked Chen Kai all of a sudden, making his nose very uncomfortable.
When the soldiers came, they came to inform the Qiyue girl that they were ready. The beauty was about to appear, and everyone stopped talking, and a moment later, a petite and lovely plain-clothed woman with picturesque eyebrows and eyes hired Tingting to walk in.
The woman's body is petite, but her body is very well-proportioned, one more point is fat, and one point less is thin, and the end is just right. Chen Kai looked closely, the woman's head was lowered, and she couldn't see the whole picture clearly, but just looking at the mouth of the Qiong nose and cherry blossoms, it was not extraordinary. When the car was heavy, the woman hesitated for a moment, and then raised her head, and in this private room, it seemed to light up a little in an instant.
Born in the era of the information explosion, all kinds of beauties, not to mention those naturally carved or acquired, Chen Kai can be regarded as well-informed. But the woman in front of her, wrapped in light makeup, is better than elegant temperament, and in a trance, Chen Kai forgot the identity of this woman. Even at that moment, it was as if even the heart was skipping a beat.
Chen Kai and Huang Menglin's eyes lit up, and the show-off on Che Renzhong's face was even stronger. In front of everyone's eyes, Che Renzhong beckoned the woman to his side, poured a glass of wine, and before the wine jug was put down, he dragged it to his lap, up and down his hands, and actually played in public.
Suddenly, the woman was obviously extremely reluctant, and her snow-white face was almost dripping blood, as if she wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into. But even so, the woman still endured in silence and did not make any drastic moves.
Following the woman's gaze, Chen Kai quickly noticed the direction of the door, a half-old was full of nervousness, and her eyes were full of begging when she looked at the woman.
Seeing this scene, he had to withdraw his gaze. In the ears, there was a lewd smile and a woman's compromise, and the anger in my heart rose secretly, but it was nothing more than suppressed by reason. However, this kind of torture did not last long, perhaps because he noticed that Chen Kai and Huang Menglin's faces were not safe, Che Renzhong finally let go of the woman, coughed lightly, and covered up the embarrassment.
"Go, toast Huang Fuzun and Mr. Liu."
The woman had to get out of her mouth and hurriedly jumped away, but the woman did not resist at all, but after tidying up her clothes a little, she took the wine jug and poured wine for Huang Menglin and Chen Kai successively.
The wine poured, Chen Kai raised his eyes, and there were tears in the woman's eyes. Rao is Chen Kai almost restrained his emotions, and he couldn't help but feel a little pain.
Fortunately, after pouring the wine, Che Renzhong did not continue to knead the woman in public, but let her go to the side of the private room, where there was a chair and a case, and a guqin was placed on it, which looked very quaint.
"Come, play a song for Huang Fuzun and Mr. Liu to help the wine."
The woman moved to sit down, not touching the slightest smoke and dust, calming down, and caressing the strings with her slender jade fingers, which was also indescribably beautiful. After a blink of an eye, the woman's tenderness towards the guqin was gone, and the moment she stirred the strings, her eyes were already full of determination.
The strings are plucked, and there is no joy in the timbre, and between the rhythms, it is full of pathos, sighs and regrets. Just listening to this, Chen Kai, who didn't know anything about music and rhythm, couldn't help but be shocked in his heart. When the mouth of the tan moved slightly, the pear face was dizzy, and the excitement rose, and he and everyone present were also stunned.
"Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rests.
Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, strong and fierce.
Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons.
Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad! ”
The woman's voice is soft, which is not suitable for this song, but at this moment, a song is sung, and there is a faint meaning in the voice, but it seems to have a different style. Let's sing, Chen Kai has recovered his color, at this time, Huang Menglin has not reacted, the surprise on his face is getting heavier and heavier, but Che Renzhong seems to be still immersed in the river of lyrics and songs, and Chen Kai is stunned.
"What is this, isn't it planned to be a big deal anyway?"
This "Man Jianghong", everyone knows that it was written by Yue Fei, in the past, Yue Fei resisted Jin, and now the Qing court also regarded himself as Houjin, and even recognized the Jurchens as their ancestors. Since the Qing army entered the customs, especially since the south, the occupied areas of the Qing court, although this word has not been banned, it is also inevitably subject to some taboos. On an occasion such as the current gathering, it is really inconvenient to sing.
If this Qiyue is now a forbidden place for the car to be heavy, although it may not be willing, but Fang Cai is also compromised, under normal circumstances, this is definitely the car is heavily instructed!
Chen Kai didn't have a deep impression of Che Renzhong, and it was really hard to judge his position, but according to the original history, Che Renzhong's successor Hao Shangjiu was a capricious person, and Che Renzhong had one thing in common in that they both had the ambition to dominate Chaozhou, which made Chen Kai even more unrecognizable.
Between the lightning and flint, one thought after another flashed in Chen Kai's mind, constantly pushing and rising. But in between these breaths, Chen Kai suddenly noticed that the rabbit master's personal soldier standing next to Che Renzhong came to Che Renzhong's ear and said:
Full of Jianghong!
In the gap between the upper and lower rituals, the woman had not yet sung the second half of the song, and Che Renzhong was furious when she heard this. In the next moment, he took three steps and made two steps, stepped forward and kicked the woman to the ground.
"Stinky! Lord slept with you, this slut is exalting you, and you dare to do such a rebellious thing in front of your guests! ”
The woman fell heavily to the ground, stirring up a faint cloud of smoke. When he came, the smoke and vision were gone, and the car was about to pounce up, and he kicked a few times in a row. At this moment, it seemed that it was enough to relieve his anger, so he simply pulled out his soldier's waist knife and slashed at the woman's body with one sword.
Blood splattered, and the woman couldn't even snort. But even so, the knife still didn't stop falling.
Che Renzhong's hysteria, Huang Menglin's sneer, the happiness in the eyes of the rabbit master's soldiers, and the old bustard who had already fainted to the ground, everything happened too fast, and it was almost the beginning of Chen Kai's anger in Che Renzhong, and he was still thinking about this person's temperament, if he was dissuaded, it might cause the woman to suffer more. But at this point, Chen Kai's mind has been completely occupied by the knife just now, and there is nothing else.
I don't know how long it has been, whether it is a minute, a stick of incense, or a cup of tea, Che Renzhong's anger dissipated in the splash of flesh and blood. It's just that the woman has already passed away, and in the bloody corpse, the woman's face is also stained with a little blood, but in those eyes, there is not pain, nor fear, from beginning to end, there is only the word liberation, and nothing else.
"Let the two of you laugh."
The knife was thrown to the ground casually, and Che Renzhong waved his hand, and his own soldiers were responsible for cleaning up the body, but the strings would no longer be plucked by the graceful technique, making the whole banquet boring.
Swept away, Huang Menglin didn't sit for a while before leaving. Seeing this, Chen Kai did not continue to stay longer, and also took a sedan chair and embarked on the journey back to the post house.
The place where Che Ren reset the banquet was not too far from the post house, and the sedan chair staggered back to the post house, and Chen Kai was silent from beginning to end. It wasn't until he returned to the room of the post house that he didn't have time to mention tonight's events to Ke Chenshu that a feeling of nausea suddenly struck, and Chen Kai threw himself directly into the washbasin sent by the people of the post house to freshen up and vomited.
I was in a hurry to do things at noon, and I didn't need much food, and when I went to the banquet in the evening, I only drank a little wine before I ran into that incident. In addition to some vomit at the beginning, only retching was left soon, but after this experience, some of Chen Kai's original concepts began to crumble.
Since he joined Zheng Chenggong's banner, Chen Kai has identified himself as a civilian official, responsible for the ordnance workshop and building weapons, which is the duty of a civilian official, and it is also the duty of a civilian official to give advice to the commander and formulate a battle plan.
He kept saying that he wanted to kill Che Renzhong to realize the idea of seizing the city, and even to avenge the twenty-nine unjust souls in Niujia Village, but he never thought of killing people himself. But today, Chen Kai's old concept began to be subverted, a weak female streamer who was powerless and dared to use words and songs to reprimand "them" for these villains, why didn't he dare to take the risk this time?
"Yes, men should kill!"