In fact, Wu Yuanming didn't want to see his second sister, not because Wu Yuanming's second sister Wu Mei treated him badly - Wu Mei exchanged for seventeen flintlock muskets at the cost of several times the gold, and Wu Mei herself only left two for self-defense, but gave five to Wu Yuanming, where to find this sister-brother affection? The reason why Wu Yuanming is reluctant to see Wu Mei is mainly because Wu Mei and Wang Yongning's style of behavior is too wrong Wu Yuanming's appetite, as early as in Beijing, Wu Yuanming heard that his second sister's family relied on Wu Sangui's power to run rampant in Hangzhou, preying the common people, bullying men and women, disregarding people's lives, and doing all kinds of evil - although Wu Yuanming is essentially no different from his second sister's family, Wu Yuanming's methods are more ingenious, he knows how to cover up, and there is one more way to bully the strong but not bully, plus it is rumored that Wang Yongyuan is a person who tends to be inflammatory, and has close contacts with the Manchu magnates. So Wu Yuanming looked down on the second sister and second brother-in-law even more.

Looking down on it, looking down on it, now that the life of the brother-in-law is in the hands of the second sister and the second brother-in-law, Wu Yuanming still went into the city to find his sister to be accommodating, but Dai Yan, who was traveling with Wu Yuanming, didn't know where Wu Mei's family lived, so Wu Yuanming had to stop a passer-by and asked: "This old man, how to go to the Pingxi Wang County Lord's Mansion?" The old man who was stopped by Wu Yuanming first looked at Wu Yuanming, then pointed in one direction, and snorted again before saying, "You ask the husband and wife who killed the god?" The largest one on Ziyang Street in Beicheng, the vermilion gate brass door buckle, and a pair of big stone lions at the door. ”

"Thank you, sir." Wu Yuanming thanked him politely. But the old man's next words made Wu Yuanming's face feverish, "This little gentleman, what are you doing with that family?" Look at your politeness, you have to be careful when you go to his house, that the husband and wife's family from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, the eighteenth generation of the ancestors and their children and grandchildren are not a good thing, all of them are characters with sores on the top of their heads and pus on the soles of their feet! God opens his eyes, and one day a thunder will fall from the sky and kill their whole family! Chop them to death all over the nine clans! ”

"Thank you, sir, I'll be careful." Wu Yuanming pulled Dai Yan up with a red face and hurriedly slipped away, lest the old man scold even more ugly words, and Zhu Fangdan and Wu Lu, who came with him later, hurriedly followed. But as soon as Wu Yuanming and the others turned two streets, a hawker's voice came from a food stall on the noisy and bustling street, "Fried juniper, fried juniper, fried Wang Yongyuan, fried Wu Mei, delicious." Wu Yuanming looked for a sound, and sure enough, he saw the vendor carrying a plate of freshly fried fritters for sale, and greeted Wu Yuanming: "Guest officer, come to fried Wang Yongyuan?" It's just out of the pot, and it's fragrant. ”

"Boss, didn't I say you, you humiliated the court officials on the street, and you weren't afraid that the officials would trouble you?" Wu Yuanming couldn't help but stop, turned his head and asked the vendor. The peddler didn't care when he saw Wu Yuanming's kind attitude, so he smiled and said: "Thank you for your concern, we know that the official will definitely not agree, so we only shout this when there is no official errand. Speaking of this, the peddler snickered again: "Selling fried Wang Yongyuan and fried Wu Mei is much better than selling fried juniper." ”

"Hahahaha, yes, there is no one in Hangzhou who doesn't hate that beast couple." The customers who ate fritters and drank soy milk at the stall all laughed and echoed the hawker's words. The peddler was very good at doing business, so he quickly wrapped a few fritters with dried lotus leaves and handed them to Wu Yuanming, "Guest officer, in order to vent our anger to the people of Hangzhou, let's eat some fried Wang Yongyuan and fried Wu Mei." Wu Yuanming was already blushing to the base of his neck at this moment, and quickly threw down a small piece of broken silver, grabbed the fritters and ran, for fear of hearing the words that scolded his second sister's family again.

According to the instructions, he went all the way to Hangzhou Beicheng, and after asking for directions, Wu Yuanming quickly found Ziyang Street, and also found the second sister of a pair of tall stone lions at the gate, but there was a large group of people making noise under the plaque of the Pingxi Wang County Lord's Mansion with gold characters on a black background, and they could vaguely hear the crying of a few people, Wu Yuanming, Dai Yan and others went up to take a look, and saw the body of a little boy who was wet all over his body parked in the crowd, and there was a couple and a thin girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old next to him, all of whom were crying to death and in pain. The onlookers all sighed and sympathized with the family's tragic plight. And in front of the gate of Wu Mei's house, there was a group of shirtless strong men, all carrying wooden sticks and swords, looking extremely fierce, shouting and scolding at the crying family, "Get out, get out!" Don't stain the ground at the entrance of our county lord's mansion! "Get out! If you don't get out, let you all have a lawsuit! "Get away, your son fell into the river and drowned, it was his own life that was short, what does it matter to us?"

"My brother was hit by your carriage and fell into the river!" The little girl retorted with tears. A family member of Wumei Mansion shouted viciously: "You said that your brother was hit by our family's carriage and fell into the river, who can testify?" Our Great Qing Kingdom is a reasonable place, and if you can't produce evidence, it is a capital crime of slandering the prince of Pingxi, the official of the imperial court, and stealing the family! ”

"We have witnesses, and pedestrians on Cailian Bridge can testify!" The little girl was very bold, and retorted loudly to the evil slave. The evil slave was furious, smashed the stick to the ground, glared at the people around him, and shouted, "Who saw it? Who saw the carriage of our Pingxi King County Lord's Mansion knock this short-lived imp down the river? Who would dare to testify? Stand up for Lao Tzu! ”

The sparrow was silent, and none of the onlookers who were still gossiping about the family just now dared to speak, and there were many timid people who were already sneaking away. Seeing this scene, Dai Yan couldn't help but leaned into Wu Yuanming's ear and asked, "Brother Wu, is your family like this?" When you were in Beijing before, did you bully the common people so much? Wu Yuanming's face turned red and he immediately shook his head, and replied in a low voice: "Absolutely not!" Although Wu Mei is my second sister, she was born to my father's concubine, and my relationship with her relatives is not so quiet. As for me in Beijing before, do you think I'm like that? Dai Yan looked at Wu Yuanming carefully, sighed and shook her head, "It's a bit like." ”

At this time, the little girl who had lost her brother had already knelt down to the onlookers, crying and kowtowing and pleading: "Uncles and aunts, uncles and aunts, my brother died unjustly, please come out to testify and avenge my brother!" As long as you can help Xiaocui's younger brother avenge her grievances, Xiaocui is willing to repay you by being a cow and a horse. As she spoke, the little girl cried and kowtowed, but the onlookers were silent, and no one dared to stand up to testify. And at the end of the street, a group of wolf-like government officials rushed here, shouting and rushing here, "Where is it? Where are the people? "Eat leopard gall? How dare you go to the county lord's mansion to make trouble? Shouting, the group of officers rushed into the crowd and punched and kicked the family. The people of Wumei Mansion were even more proud, and a person who looked like a leader also said to the official officials: "Brothers, our county lord has ordered to put these vexatious people in prison, and our county lord will be grateful in the future." ”

"Wronged!" The parents and daughter of the bereaved family cried together, "Bad master, wronged! Treat unjustly! We didn't make a fuss, our children were hit by their carriage and fell into the river. But those servants who bullied the weak and feared the hard would take care of their grievances, and after a burst of fists and kicks, they took out three sets of wooden flails of one hundred and eighty pounds, and even put torture instruments on the thin girl who could not help but be weak. Seeing this, Wu Yuanming couldn't bear it anymore, pushed away the crowd and walked into the circle, shouting: "Stop!" Stop me! ”

As soon as Wu Yuanming's words came out, the audience was shocked, and those government officials also stopped and turned their heads to look at Wu Yuanming, because Wu Yuanming's clothes and bearing were extraordinary, and that guy didn't dare to offend and scold easily. However, the gang of Wu Mei Mansion is used to being rampant and domineering, relying on Wu Sangui's power and power, he does not take ordinary officials seriously, and bluffs one after another: "Boy, do you want to find death?" "A rabbit popped out of the flock and ate the leopard's gall? Dare to meddle with the affairs of our Pingxi King County Lord's Mansion? ”

"Shut the fuck up!" Wu Yuanming pinched his sword fingers and waved it vigorously, shouting: "Go and call Wang Yongyuan and Wu Mei out for me!" A group of dogs, wordy, stay and see if Lao Tzu doesn't break your doglegs! ”

Wu Yuanming's momentum is really extraordinary, this kind of princely and noble demeanor and temperament exuded by the whole body is not something that ordinary officials can easily imitate, let alone what ordinary people can imagine, so the evil slaves in Wu Meifu were also shocked by Wu Yuanming's momentum. After a little discussion, an evil slave rushed into the house to report to Wu Mei and Wang Yongyuan. In a moment, a large group of servants and maids came out of the mansion surrounded by three men and one woman, led by a tower-like black middle-aged man and a white-skinned middle-aged man, in addition to a young man with a face full of flesh and flesh like the bottom of a pot, looking at the appearance and the black and strong middle-aged man should be a father-son relationship, and the woman is a **** with eyebrows and facial features that are very similar to Wu Yuanming's - it should be Wu Yuanming's second sister Wu Mei, the county lord of Pingxi Wang.

Wu Mei was born to Wu Sangui and his concubine when he was in Shanhaiguan, five years older than Wu Yuanming, and never met Wu Yuanming since he married Wang Yongyuan at the age of sixteen. And when Wu Yuanming wanted to immediately take out the gold medal of Pingxi Wangfu and recognize Wu Mei, his eyes turned to the pair of black Zhuang father and son, and he subconsciously stopped touching the gold medal. Dai Yan next to her was very strange, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Wu, why don't you say hello to your sister and brother-in-law?" ”

"See those two people? They can't be your brother's nemesis, the Tartar magnates Ahsan and Seh, if they were really them, I wouldn't be able to reveal my identity in front of them. Wu Yuanming replied in a low voice to the father and son. At this time, Wu Mei took the initiative to ask, "Mr. over there, did you want to see our couple just now?" Excuse me, sir, did we know each other before? Wu Yuanming's eyes rolled wildly, and it took a long time to hold back a sentence, "County Lord Niangniang, the public is not the place to speak, can you take a step to speak alone?" ”

", what are you? How dare you propose to talk to my mother-in-law alone? The young man who looked like he was a close relative of the black blind man scolded him. His father also snorted coldly: "Mother-in-law, this kid must have bad intentions when he proposes to talk to you alone, and when General Ben asks someone to arrest him in prison and torture him severely." ”

"Trouble, these two guys are really Ahsan and Sehe." Wu Yuanming secretly complained in his heart, Wu Yuanming knew that this Ah Shan was surnamed Ilgen Jueluo, and the Ilgen Jueluo family had a very good relationship with the Aixin Jueluo family, if Wu Yuanming exposed his identity in front of them, then Ah Shan would definitely arrest him and notify Kang Mazi, then it would be a big deal. At the same time, Wang Yongyuan was also deeply ashamed of Wu Yuanming's proposal to be alone with his wife, and shouted to Wu Yuanming: "Boy over there, who are you?" Why meet us? While speaking, Wang Yongyuan glanced at the bag of fritters in Wu Yuanming's hand again, and Wang Yongyuan, who had already heard about it, was even more furious, and shouted arrogantly: "Boy, you are so fucking daring, dare to use fritters to entertain me?" Don't you know that in front of our county lord's mansion, no one is allowed to pass by with fritters? ”

"! What are you? Isn't it relying on the arrogance of our Wu family's power? Wu Yuanming didn't like this second brother-in-law very much, and when he heard Wang Yongyuan's rude words, he was even more angry, and he made the same impulsive old mistake, took out a fritter and pointed at Wang Yongyuan's nose and scolded: "Are you fucking wrong?" This thing in my hand is not called fried dough sticks, it should be called fried Wang Yongyuan! You fucking rely on the power of the King of Pingxi to run rampant in Hangzhou, bullying men and women, and the people of Hangzhou hate you to the core! You smear King Pingxi's face everywhere, if King Pingxi knows, his old man will definitely kill you in righteousness, and let you die without knowing how to die! ”

"Are you from Pingxi Palace?" Wang Yongyuan heard that Wu Yuanming's tone was wrong, and hurriedly asked Wu Yuanming. Wu Yuanming scolded: "You don't care if I'm from Pingxi Palace, I just want to warn you today to do less evil in the future!" People are doing it, and the sky is watching! If you don't restrain yourself and do those brute acts, you won't know how you will die in the future! ”

"This brother, are you from our Pingxi Palace? If yes, please show the Pingxi Wangfu Gold Medal. The more Wang Yongyuan listened, the more wrong he became, and he quickly softened his tone and asked Wu Yuanming. But at this moment, the Manchurian generals Ah Shan and his son were present, Wu Yuanming dared to show his identity gold medal, but just pointed to the family of three who had lost their relatives and shouted: "Wang Yongyuan, if you want to atone for your sins, immediately take out three thousand taels of silver to make funeral expenses and compensation for this family, and then personally apologize to them." Otherwise, one day I'm going to make you pay for it! ”

"Damn, dare to be so rude to my father-in-law? Look for death! Na Seh was furious, clenched his fist the size of the vinegar jar and was about to fight with Wu Yuanming. Wang Yongyuan stretched out his hand to stop Sehe with a calm face, and said to Wu Yuanming with a gloomy face: "This brother, I only want to ask you, are you from Pingxi Palace?" If you don't answer again, I, Wang Yongyuan, am not easy to bully, so don't blame me for being unkind. After that, as soon as Wang Yongyuan waved his hand, twenty or thirty evil slaves surrounded Wu Yuanming, Dai Yan and others with knives, guns and sticks, looking like they were going to fight at any time. Wu Lu, who came with Wu Yuanming, hurriedly stopped in front of Wu Yuanming, and at the same time took out two flintlock muskets to be on guard. And Wu Mei, who had been looking at Wu Yuanming suspiciously, had her eyes lit up, and immediately shouted: "Stop, all retreat!" ”

"County Lord, he deceives people too much, don't pay attention to him." Wang Yongyuan didn't know why his wife wanted to drink to stop people, and wanted to persuade Wu Mei not to pay attention to Wu Yuanming and others. But Wu Mei ignored Wang Yongyuan's words, pushed away the evil slave in front of her and rushed to Wu Yuanming, carefully looked at the musket in Wu Lu's hand, and was pleasantly surprised to see Wu Yuanming, who was quite similar to her. Wu Yuanming suddenly remembered that the musket in Wu Lu's hand was given to him by the second sister, and knowing that she had recognized the musket, he greeted Wu Mei in a low voice: "Second sister, we haven't seen each other for eighteen years, right?" ”

"Are you...... You are......! Wu Mei was surprised and delighted, trembling and pointing at Wu Yuanming, she almost called out Wu Yuanming's name. Wu Yuanming hurriedly whispered again: "Second sister, don't say my name, don't recognize me, don't forget that there are people from the court here." Wu Yuanming added in a low voice, "Even if it's my brother-in-law, don't tell him, after all, he doesn't know Wu's name, just say that I am someone close to my father." ”

After being reminded by Wu Yuanming, Wu Mei remembered that the younger brother in front of her should have died of poisoning in Beijing, and now it must be strange to suddenly resurrect and appear here, so Wu Mei, who has some brains, immediately changed her words and said: "You are the most trusted personal entourage of my father, right?" I haven't seen you for so many years, and you've grown so big and born so handsome, I almost don't recognize you. Wu Yuanming secretly laughed at the second sister, who was really clever, and hurriedly knelt down on one knee for Wu Mei, and said loudly: "My subordinate Wu Yuanming, I have seen the county lord of Pingxi Wang, and I asked the county lord to say goodbye." After finishing speaking, Wu Yuanming said in a low voice with a hippie smile, "Say hello to the second sister." ”

"You!" After many years, Wu Mei was surprised and delighted when she saw her younger brother at first sight, and couldn't help but squeeze Wu Yuanming's smiling face lovingly. Then he turned to the stunned Wang Yongyuan and beckoned, "Yongyuan, come and meet me...... My father's most trusted retinue, I treat him as a brother, and you must treat him as a brother, otherwise I will not spare you. Wang Yongyuan's powerful position and wealth all came from the Pingxi Palace, and when he heard that Wu Yuanming was Wu Sangui's confidant, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly came up and smiled at Wu Yuanming: "Brother Wu, I offended a lot just now, and I hope my brother will forgive me." ”

"Oh, don't be wordy, come in and sit. Yongyuan, let the subordinates prepare the best banquet, take out the 30-year-old Moutai that my father Wang Shao came to, and prepare to entertain my younger brother. Wu Mei happily shouted to Wang Yongyuan. Wang Yongyuan's eyes were stunned when he heard this, and he said in his heart, I begged you more than 20 times for that altar of Moutai, and you were reluctant to give me a drink, and today you want to entertain this kid, you are too partial as a wife, right? And Wu Mei didn't pay attention to Wang Yongyuan's mood at all, but turned to Dai Yan beside Wu Yuanming and exclaimed: "What a beautiful girl, it's your younger brother's partial room, right?" You're blessed. Dai Yan was flushed by Wu Mei's words, and subconsciously clenched Wu Yuanming's hand. Wu Mei was very enthusiastic, and smiled again to pull Dai Yan's hand, "What are you shy?" Sister likes you very much, if my brother dares to bully you, tell me that my sister will beat him to avenge you, and he will not dare to fight back. ”

"County Lord, this family is too miserable, you can't leave them alone." Wu Yuanming pointed to the family that was crying with corpses. At this moment, Wu Mei was immersed in the joy of reuniting with her younger brother, and without thinking, she pointed at Wang Yongyuan and ordered: "Yongyuan, go and take three thousand taels of silver to compensate the family, and then apologize to them." Wang Yongyuan almost fainted when he heard this, and screamed: "County Lord, you ......." Before Wang Yongyuan's words were finished, Wu Mei was already furious, and her eyebrows stood upside down and shouted angrily: "What? Didn't you hear what I said? ”

"Go!" Wu Meiqingli's apricot eyes widened, and she ordered Wang Yongyuan viciously. And Wang Yong is afraid of the inside - nonsense, the old father-in-law's family is so powerful that Wu Sangui is so powerful, and the son-in-law can't be afraid of the inside. In desperation, Wang Yongyuan had to take out three thousand taels of silver to compensate the family according to Wu Yuanming's intentions, and personally apologized to the family, fortunately, Wu Mei's family did not intend to kill people today, but inadvertently squeezed the little boy into the river and drowned, the family also knew this very well, and they would no longer pursue it after receiving a huge amount of compensation, and after crying and accepting Wang Yongyuan's apology, they carried his son's body and left, and the onlookers finally burst into cheers.

Before leaving, the little girl ran to Wu Yuanming, who was about to enter the house hand in hand with Wu Mei, knelt down on her knees and kowtowed to Wu Yuanming three times, raised her head and said to Wu Yuanming in a childish voice: "Engong, your great kindness and virtue Xiao Cui'er will never forget, if there is a chance, Xiao Cui'er will definitely repay Engong as a cow and a horse." With that, the little girl's delicate face turned red for no reason, and she quickly ran back to her parents.

"It's a pity, this little girl must be beautiful when she grows up, she should buy it for my brother to be a maid." Wu Mei said regretfully. But what Wu Mei didn't notice was that her husband Wang Yongyuan was glaring at her brother with angry eyes at the moment, and his beastly and ferocious gaze was full of suspicion, as if he wanted to eat Wu Yuanming alive......