Hengqu town belongs to Yongkang County, is the county seat, the town is adjacent to the mountain behind Qingcheng, the northeast borders with Dujiangyan, the terrain is gentle, the water system is developed, since the Jin Dynasty, there are people who build temples here, because it is across the bank of the Weijiang River, so it is called "Hengqu".

Although most of the buildings in the town are simple, they are lined up one after another, scattered, and a long bluestone road runs through the whole town, and the stone road is full of people at this time, so it is not noisy. Wang Ran took Liu Wulang to the front of the most prosperous Cuiwei Temple in the middle of the town, put down the bamboo basket, and called for sale:

"Fresh and crispy spring bamboo shoots are all sold."

Liu Wulang glanced at Wang Ran with admiration, and thought that he was worthy of being Brother Ran, and he could recite poems if he sold bamboo shoots.

The spring bamboo shoots were tempting, and Wang Ran sold them cheaply, and they were sold out in a short time. Wang Ran picked up the empty basket and took Liu Wulang to wander along the street. Those who do tricks on the street, those who play paper shadow plays, those who catch hanging silk puppets, those who make insects and ants, and so on, are innumerable, and the two people who see them are dazzled and forget to return.

"Brother Ran" Liu Wulang suddenly pulled Wang Ran's sleeve, and Wang Ran, who was listening to the story, turned his head and looked at Liu Wulang's line of sight, and saw a group of people gathering together across the street to have fun, and the middle one was about the same figure as Wang Ran, describing ugly, sparse appearance, and scolding in his mouth, and two gangsters standing beside him were coaxing.

The villain's name is Zhang Xiaoliu, and his nickname is Zhang Daworm. He is a famous scoundrel in the town, not very old, but vicious, rampant in the market in the past, and it was a burst of bullying and blackmail to catch the honest and loyal, and the people in the town were very disgusted with him. But this dog somehow climbed to the Xu Mansion, for Xu Sanye to send a gang to do some pickling things, this Xu Mansion is the richest man in the town, and he can talk to the government, Zhang Da Worm is backed by a big tree, and he is not majestic on weekdays.

This Zhang Xiaoliu is greedy for money, not to mention, he is also very lustful, but he looks like he has crooked eyes and crooked mouth, ugly, plus he is already notorious, ordinary women avoid him, where there are good women who are willing to get close to him, he also looks for the girl from the small family everywhere to tease. Somehow, I heard that Liu Wulang's sister was white and beautiful, so she often went to harass her, so scared that Miss Liu didn't dare to go out of the door, but fortunately, the Liu family was powerful in the local area, and Zhang Xiaoliu didn't dare to come nonsense, but it was inevitable to flirt with her mouth.

Last month, Liu Wulang went to the town to send something to his third uncle, and was met by Zhang Xiaoliu, and it was another foul language, Liu Wulang was furious, so he spat at him on his face, and was beaten by him and his helpers for a while, and now he is still angry when he thinks about it. When Wang Ran heard about it, he promised to find an opportunity to help him avenge his hatred.

In this kind of lively season, everyone is happy and plays on the street, of course, it is indispensable for a scoundrel like Zhang Xiaoliu to come out disgusting, so Liu Wulang did not forget to look around while visiting the incense party.

Wang Ran understood and said to Liu Wulang: "Don't worry, keep an eye on it first." ”

The two of them quietly focused their attention on the opposite side, and after a while, Zhang Xiaoliu stood up and kicked over the crockpot money in front of him, although the rest of the people were angry but did not dare to speak, Zhang Xiaoliu smiled shamefully and spattered, and walked away with the two gangs. The two followed.

Liu Wulang asked Wang Ran what he was going to do, after all, there were three people on the other side, and they might not be able to beat others, so Wang Ran made a peace offer. Wang Ran often comes and goes to the town, although he doesn't talk much, but he is quick-witted and familiar with the stories of the people in the town. It turned out that he had heard people chatting early in the morning about this Zhang Xiaoliu and Sun Youshi's family in Gouwei Lane, Sun Youshi worked as a hired craftsman during the day, and he didn't have any hobbies, so he liked to get off work and ask people to go out to eat, and he was drunk, and he fell asleep when he returned home. Sun Youshi's insider, Hou Shiben, is not one of the three subordinates and four virtues, and he is in the year of the tiger and wolf, so he is quite impatient, but the laws of the Great Song Dynasty are very strict, and the "Song Criminal System" stipulates: "All traitors shall be imprisoned for one and a half years; If you have a husband, you will be apprenticed for two years", so few people dare to mess with her, only the little six-colored guts, and the two of them hooked up a couple after a few times. This is not a secret in the town, but no one dares to tell Sun Youshi. Today's incense will be prosperous, the workshops are on holiday early, Sun Youshi must have asked someone to drink and have fun again, and the two children in the family will not go back if they don't play outside until the market closes when they encounter such a lively scene, so Zhang Xiaoliu will definitely not miss such a good opportunity, and he will definitely go to steal a lot of fun. Just follow quietly, and you will definitely be able to catch him when he is alone.

Sure enough, Zhang Xiaoliu took the two gangsters to paced towards the alley at the end of the street, and when he arrived at the alley, he took out a handful of money from his arms and handed it to the two gangsters, and sent them to have fun by themselves. The two gangs comprehended the idea, laughed a few times, took the money and said: "I wish my brother a victory and kill all sides." And he walked away. Then Zhang Xiaoliu looked around and slipped into the alley.

Wang Ran and Liu Wulang hurriedly followed, quietly looked into the alley, and saw that Zhang Xiaoliu tiptoed to the door of Sun Youshi's house, and knocked a few rhythmically on the door. After a while, the door opened, and he went inside.

Liu Wulang couldn't help but say with joy: "Brother Ran, it's done, you wait, I'll go find that Sun Youshi." ”

Wang Ran was busy. thought that if Sun Youshi went home to catch the rapist in bed, he might alarm the government, and under careful interrogation, he would inevitably involve the two of them. Liu Wulang is not afraid, but Wang Ran's master Wang Pheasant Chuan has never been willing to have anything to do with the government, and the county commander is sick and someone comes to ask him to check his pulse, but he finds an excuse to shirk it. Under the influence of the master, Wang Ran did not want to have more branches.

"Let's keep an eye on him, wait for him to come out, beat him half to death while he is alone, and just get angry. Sun Youshi is a timid person, if he is afraid of Zhang Xiaoliu's usual majesty and doesn't dare to do anything to him, we will be left behind. Even if Sun Youshi has the courage to report to the official, Zhang Xiaoliu's master, the third master of the Xu Mansion, has something to say to the government, if he deliberately protects him, we will be even more empty. Wang Ran explained.

"Okay, it's all up to Brother Ran." Liu Wulang said in his heart that it was still Ran'er, and his brother thought about everything.

The two squatted at the entrance of the alley, waiting quietly.

About a quarter of an hour later, the door of the Sun family's house opened. Zhang Xiaoliu's footsteps were vain, and he walked out with an obscene face.

"Gorou, help me look out for the wind, don't let people find out that he has reported to the official, and see how I clean him up." Wang Ran commanded.

"Brother Ran, can you do it alone, let's do it together." Liu Wulang said.

"No, clean him up, I'm enough. If you let him see you, you will inevitably be retaliated against by him in the future, but I am not afraid of him. ”

"Okay." Knowing that Wang Ran was vigorous and alert, and his master Wang Langzhong was also well-known in the town, and he had seen the old lady and uncle of the Xu Mansion sick, Zhang Xiaoliu didn't dare to take Wang Ran easily, so Liu Wulang didn't say more.

Wang Ran stood up, tucked the short brown, rushed into the alley with a brisk step, raised his fist and hit, knocked Zhang Xiaoliu to the ground twice, and stretched out his leg and kicked it violently, Zhang Xiaoliu's body was weak at this time, and he couldn't use his strength, Wang Ransheng was strong, and he used twelve points of strength, so that he could only hold his head and roll, so that he was not embarrassed. After fighting for a while, Wang Ran saw that he was already a, so he stopped, afraid that if he continued to fight, he would die, and it would not be able to end.

"In the future, if you dare to fish in the country and bully others, I will see you beat you once." Wang Ran said a cruel word to Zhang Xiaoliu, who was wailing on the ground, and turned around and walked out of the alley.

"Brother Ran, Zhang Xiaoliu won't report to the official." Liu Wulang hurriedly followed.

"Forgive him for not daring, he was beaten in front of Sun's house, and he couldn't explain it when the government asked. Besides, he is used to being majestic on weekdays, if the townspeople know that he has been beaten into this virtue, how will he run rampant in the township in the future. ”

Wang Ran saw that it was not early, so he first went to the pharmacy to buy some commonly used medicinal materials that could not be collected on the nearby mountains for the master to dispense, and then went to the butcher shop to buy a piece of meat, ready to go home with Liu Wulang.

Who knew that when I walked to the end of the street and passed by Gouwei Alley, I saw that there were many people around the alley, and there was a noise in the alley. The two of them had a ghost in their hearts, and hurriedly stepped forward to look. But it was Sun Youshi who was slapping the Hou family, and Zhang Xiaoliu was still lying on the ground, with some footprints on his face, and he was beaten again. The two children of the Sun family stood by the wall and cried and couldn't stop wiping their tears.

Inquire about the people around, it turned out that Sun Youshi led the two children home, and when he arrived at the entrance of the alley, he found his daughter-in-law Hou squatting on the ground, holding Zhang Xiaoliu's bruised and swollen head and crying miserably.

It is said that Zhang Xiaoliu and Hou's adulterers are unlucky, Hou just sent Zhang Xiaoliu out of the door, and suddenly heard a commotion outside the wall, and was shocked, thinking that her official came back and ran into Zhang Xiaoliu, and the two fought. After waiting for a while, I listened to the movement outside, only listened to Zhang Xiaoliu's cry of pain, and a threatening word, after making sure that it was not Sun Youshi, I opened the door to look, only to see Zhang Xiaoliu lying on the ground half dead, and there was no half a figure in the alley, she hurriedly jumped up to help Zhang Xiaoliu, but she didn't know what to do, so she cried.

Besides, Sun Youshi originally exchanged glasses with his friends in the wine shop, and the wine was in full swing, when he saw his child running crazy in front of the shop, he thought that the shrew at home didn't take good care of the child, so he confessed to the drinking friend, put down the wine glass, and dragged the two children to go, preparing to send the children home to eat and drink again. As soon as he walked to the entrance of the alley, he saw the scene above, and the neighbors nearby heard the crying in the alley and gradually surrounded him, and when they saw this situation, they all looked at Sun Youshi with deep meaning, and Sun Youshi was even more angry. I thought that I listened to the neighbors on weekdays, and I never felt at ease, I was not very good at that in recent years, Mrs. Hou has always been fierce, and that Zhang Xiaoliu is also a figure that cannot be provoked, so he simply has two sons, so he continued to wrap the green turban, and went out to borrow wine every day to kill his sorrows, and ended up out of sight. Unexpectedly, this pair of dog men and women became more and more bold, and today they hugged me outside the house, isn't this in front of the neighbors to lose my face, how can I afford to be so humiliated, and what face will I have to meet people in the future, so I took advantage of the strength of the wine to move.

There are chickens and dogs jumping in the alley, so it doesn't make a fuss.