After a few days of preparation, Mrs. Chen ordered her to set off for Huaining at the appointed time.

Early that morning, two carriages came to the back gate of the county ya, and Yang Congyi waited there early, and as soon as the carriage arrived, he carried Mrs. Chen's luggage into the carriage and put it away. There were several boxes in the luggage, all of which were locked, and he didn't know what was inside, and Yang Congyi had no intention of exploring it.

Shen Shi set off, and it was almost noon, and he had only traveled fifty miles, and he had not yet left Taihu County.

From Taihu County all the way to Huaining, although there is an official road, but due to the mountainous area, the road is not smooth, the road is also potholes, and it is inevitable that the carriage will be bumpy. But Mrs. Chen couldn't stand the bumps, and the carriage was a little faster, so she was dizzy and uncomfortable, and ordered to slow down. The carriage had been gone for two hours, and it was not much faster than walking on two legs.

At the beginning, Yang Congyi sat in the carriage at the back, the carriage put luggage, the space was a little narrow, put down the curtain, he felt a little stuffy, the carriage was also a little bumpy, and within half an hour, he couldn't stand it, got off the car and walked.

The weather in early April was already very hot, the sun was a little scorching, and Yang Congyi was sweating slightly and a little thirsty all the way down.

He remembered that about fifty miles outside the city, there was a tea shop stall, and when he came back a few days ago, he had drunk tea with everyone.

Not long after, as soon as the carriage turned, Yang Congyi saw the tea shop at a glance. So he walked a few steps quickly to catch up with the carriage in front of him, and asked Mrs. Chen in the carriage, "Mrs. Chen, there is a tea shop in front, do you want to get off the carriage and rest?" ”

I heard a brief voice from inside the car: "Okay." ”

Hearing the answer, Yang Congyi said to the coachman: "Master, let's rest in the tea shop." ”

When the coachman heard Yang Congyi call him, he turned his head in some surprise, but still replied, "Okay." The second young master ordered, send you safely, and don't rush to the road. If you are tired from the car ride and want to rest, you can tell me at any time. ”

Yang Congyi smiled: "Then there is labor." ”

The carriage stopped at the tea shop, and the two maids lifted the curtain, jumped out of the carriage first, and then put the stool on the foot, and then helped Mrs. Chen and Miss Chen to get out of the car.

There is a difference between men and women, and Yang Congyi is not very good at coming forward to help, but I saw that Mrs. Chen was a little tired, but the little girl was in good spirits.

Seeing a guest coming from afar, the store had already greeted him and asked enthusiastically, "What do you want to eat and drink?" ”

Yang Congyi said: "First serve two pots of tea." ”

Mrs. Chen, the little girl and the two maids sat down around a table, while Yang Congyi and the two coachmen sat down at the other table.

As soon as he sat down, the shopkeeper brought the teapot and tea bowl, and set the table for Mrs. Chen first, and then came to Yang Congyi, while placing the teapot and bowl, he asked, "What else do you want to order?" ”

Yang Congyi asked, "What else do you have here?" ”

The shopkeeper said: "Home-cooked side dishes, simple meals can also be provided." ”

It was almost noon, and after this resting place, there was the post station fifty or sixty miles away, and at the current rate, it should be evening when it came to the post station. So he asked Mrs. Chen, "Mrs. Chen, do you want to eat something?" ”

Mrs. Chen said, "No, you can order some food yourself." ”

Seeing Mrs. Chen say this, Yang Congyi didn't ask any more, and it was bumpy all the way, and it was estimated that they didn't have much appetite. Then he said to the store: "Let's serve a few side dishes, if you have rice steamed buns, please have more." ”

After a short time, the meals were served on the table one after another, and Yang Congyi and others often ran around outside, and after traveling for a long time, their appetite was better. I only heard Yang Congyi say: "The two masters are fortunate, eat more." There is still a long way to go, so I have to trouble you. ”

The coachman replied: "Where is Master Yang, you are a friend of our second young master, and you are still polite to us." ”

Yang Congyi smiled: "Don't talk about it, the two masters hurry up and eat." ”

After eating and resting for a while, Mrs. Chen and other female relatives also recovered a little, and Yang Congyi paid the money and continued to set off on the road.

Tea and a few simple meals, it cost Yang Congyi fifty yuan, and couldn't help but sigh that the price is too expensive, usually eat and live in the yamen, and I don't think it's good, but as soon as it comes out, I feel that the money is too worthless. 300 wen a month, enough to eat a few meals.

But this is also something that can't be helped, since the Jingkang Rebellion, the war has been fought for fifteen or six years, and all kinds of materials are lacking. If it weren't for Song Jin's peace negotiation a few years ago, the value of these three hundred dollars would be even lower. Before the peace, the fields were barren, and the price of a stone of good rice was six or seven yuan, which was equivalent to sixty or seventy yuan for a pound of rice, and in recent years, there was no war, and the barren land was recultivated one after another, and the price of rice gradually fell back to two or three times a stone, but it was still much more expensive than six or seven hundred yuan a stone in history.

In ancient times, the problem of eating is absolutely the first, if you don't eat, you can't live, for the common people, whoever makes them have no food to eat, they have to oppose whom, but where there is food to eat, can live, basically will guard their own one acre and three points of land, live a safe and stable life. There have been too many peasant movements in history, and once the peasant movement is launched, there are fewer peasants who farm the land, and there will be less grain, and the peasants will have to rob the landlords and rich households when they have no food to eat.

Prices are soaring, and once they cannot be contained, the people cannot afford to buy food and have no food to eat, so it is natural to change the dynasty.

High school history class, I have learned this, the end of each dynasty, what is the reason, what are the lessons, it has long been decided. If the Song and Jin Dynasty negotiate peace, Yang Congyi actually agrees with it in his heart, if he does not decisively negotiate peace, and if he fights for more than ten years, there will be no agriculture to speak of north of the Yangtze River, if 40 or 50 million people all go to the south of the Yangtze River, with the current level of agriculture, I really dare not imagine that the Song Dynasty can last for a few years, the world is in chaos, and it is the common people who suffer.

"I planted this tree, I opened this road, if you want to pass from here, leave to buy road wealth!" Yang Congyi was sitting in the carriage, thinking about the price of goods, thinking about how to save money, when he suddenly heard someone shouting in front of him. This familiar line is in my ears, and I can't help but laugh in my heart, when this is a movie?

Although he couldn't help laughing, he didn't dare to slack off, and quickly jumped out of the carriage and rushed forward with a gun.

The carriage ahead had been forced to stop.

When I raised my eyes, I saw four people lined up in front of me, each with a weapon in his hand, or a knife or a club, and all of them were masked with sackcloth, blocking the way of the carriage.

Yang Congyi saw that the weapons in the hands of the four of them were not complete, and they couldn't be habitual bandits, so it shouldn't be difficult to deal with them, so he wasn't in a hurry. It's just that it's quiet in the carriage, I wonder if Mrs. Chen and the others are frightened?

"Mrs. Chen, are you alright?"

I only heard Mrs. Chen ask, "Yang Zhutou, what's wrong outside?" ”

Yang Congyi was at a loss when he heard this, didn't Mrs. Chen know that there was a roadblock robbery? I had to reply: "It's okay, the road is blocked by a stone in front, and you can leave in a while." "Don't talk about being robbed, so as not to frighten the female dependents, and if something goes wrong, it will be troublesome.

Yang Congyi took a few steps forward, stopped five steps away from the four robbers, and said with a smile: "You are from Taihu County, don't you know that the prison in Taihu County is very empty now?" ”

"Are you from the Yamen?" Hearing the people in the car shouting for the head, the robbers didn't seem to believe it, and one of them asked tentatively.

Yang Congyi said with a smile: "Yes, Taihu County Yamen, head catcher." If you let go of your guys, I can let you go. If I don't let it go, then I'll be embarrassed, blocking the road and robbing, but I'm going to kill my head. ”

"What should I do?"

"There are four of us, are you still afraid of him?"

"The county lord is no longer in the yamen, what are you afraid of."

"Yes, clean hands and feet."

Yang Congyi watched them discuss, they can take the initiative to go, of course it is best not to do it, if they really want to do it, he is not worried, he has already thought about how to deal with them in his heart.

In a matter of moments, the robbers reached a consensus. They originally came to rob, and as soon as others opened their mouths and said that they were headshots, they left, what will you rob in the future? After a brief discussion, I decided to grab it.

Since they decided to rob, there is nothing more to say. I only heard Yang Congyi suddenly shout at the opposite side: "Lord Chen, why are you back?" ”

When the four robbers heard that Chen Zhixian was behind them, they suddenly panicked and couldn't help but turn their heads to look.

At the moment when they turned their heads, Yang Congyi quickly took a step forward, and the spear in his hand stabbed out, directly piercing the robber with the knife in his hand. When the robber realized that he had been deceived, he turned around and saw that the spear had been quickly pulled out of the robber's body like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter. As soon as the tip of the spear left the robber's body, Yang Congyi's left hand moved, and then he went up to the left, and the tip of the spear flew straight to the neck of the robber on the left with bright red blood beads, and at the same time, he suddenly stepped forward, pushed the tail of the gun with his right hand, and smashed the door of the robber on the right.

Hearing a scream, between the lightning and flint, three robbers fell to the ground, two of them were bleeding and must not have survived, and the other was smashed in the face, dizzy, fell to the ground, broke his nose, and blood flowed for a long time.

Seeing that the two of them gradually stopped moving, they were so frightened that they threw away the stick in their hands, fell to their knees, and begged for mercy with trembling voices: "Spare your life.....

Yang Congyi ignored it, shook the spear in his hand, picked off the long knife on the ground, and then smashed the arm of the robber who fell to the ground and did not die. Only then did he look at the robbers begging for mercy, and said regretfully: "I have said that robbery will kill your head, and you will die by yourself, who can you blame." ”

"Master, please come over and do a favor and tie them up." Yang Congyi's eyes stared at the robber who fell to the ground without distraction, and any negligence would be fatal to the outlaws.

He originally wanted to kill them all, but anyway, they would inevitably die, and when they entered the yamen hall, they had to suffer more, and in the end, they would inevitably be beheaded. But then I thought about it, since I am all robbers, will I still be afraid of being punished? Let them die quietly, it is too worthless, no matter what, they have to use it and execute it publicly, so as to deter lawbreakers.

It's not that Yang Congyi doesn't want to let them go, it's that they committed a capital crime. No matter how noble the status of the officials of the Song Dynasty is, as long as they do not rebel, no matter how big a mistake they make, they will not be killed, and the court will pay for it.

Even if it is a relative of an official, it is not possible to hurt if you want to. also wants to rob the family members of officials, purely because they don't know how to write dead words. Besides, he was entrusted by Chen Ruyi, but he didn't dare to be careless at all, how could he be soft on robbers who still wanted to kill their mouths.

After watching the two coachmen carefully tie up the robbers who were kneeling on the ground and those who were lying on the ground and humming, Yang Congyi put away his spear.

Then the question arises, how to deal with two corpses and two living people? It is impossible to send it back to Taihu County, and it is too far to take it to Huaining.

"Yang Zhutou, how are you, are you okay?" Mrs. Chen asked nervously in the carriage. Apparently she already knew what was just going on outside, just the outcome was unclear. This kind of thing, they don't dare to see more.

Yang Congyi replied in a relaxed tone: "Mrs. Chen, it's okay, you can continue to travel immediately." ”

"Okay, that's good." Hearing that it was okay, Mrs. Chen was a little relieved.

Yang Congyi asked the coachman to drag the two dead robbers to the side of the road, and then said to the living robbers: "If you want to live, follow honestly, if you don't want to live, I will do it." ”

The two robbers nodded their heads again and again, they didn't want to die, and the outlaws were desperate for their lives, thinking that even if they could live a few more days.

The carriage continued on its way.

The robbers followed between the two carriages, and Yang Congyi stared at them tightly, once he found that they had any small movements, he would definitely not hesitate to shoot them down.

This way, I walked for more than two hours, until the sun set, and then I arrived at the post station.

Mrs. Chen waited for the female relatives to enter the post station, went directly to the room to rest, and never came out again. Maybe it's because the bumps along the way are too tiring, or maybe it's because I've been frightened.

Yang Congyi told Yi Cheng about the things on the road, and handed over the robbers to him to take care of.

The post station has some manpower, whether it is sent to Taihu County or Huaining, the post can take care of it himself.

When he restarted on the road the next day, Yang Congyi kept walking in front, walking with the carriage in front of him, and occasionally acting as a coachman for a while to rest.

In the next few days, the road was quite smooth, and there was no roadblock robbery, and the fourth day was almost noon, and the group finally arrived safely in Huaining, until they entered the mansion and saw Chen Rushi, Yang Congyi's mission was officially over.