Chapter 23: Encountering Robbers on the Road
Along the official road, not long after arriving at Dingjia Village, suddenly more than 20 people holding sharp blades of steel appeared in front of them, shouting: "Ah! I have blackened the heavens and the gods, and the acquaintances have left their money and not their lives. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Seeing this, the palanquin bearer turned around and ran, and disappeared in a few minutes.
Wang Yongan smiled bitterly, not because there were bandits on the other side, but because there was no one to carry the sedan chair, and he was about to step on the muddy dirt road. At this time, Gong Wuyuan stayed on the ship to protect the goods, there were only two teenagers and Li Yao by his side, Li Yao never carried a gun, and the two teenagers were only fourteen years old.
"Alas......" Although Wang Yongan doesn't like bloody battles, he can only come out by himself at this moment, he pulled out his two guns, lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, and walked out with a gun against the rain.
The other party didn't expect the people in the sedan chair to hold two guns in their hands, so they were startled and took a step back.
Wang Yongan said: "You are so bold, even dare to rob my sedan chair, do you know who I am?" ”
Several robbers looked at each other, turned around and were about to flee, Wang Yongan fired a shot into the sky, and sneered: "Stop me, whoever runs will kill whom." ”
The robbers had no choice but to stand honestly, turned around, and the bandit leader Ding Alai said: "Hero, we have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, and we will have a date later." ”
"Scared my palanquin man away and just left? Who carries my dumplings when you leave? You, and the strongest of your men, carry me a sedan chair. ”
"What?"
Not only Ding Alai and the robbers were dumbfounded, but even Li Yao and the others were dumbfounded, Li Yao hurriedly said: "Fourth Young Master, Fourth Young Master, let them go quickly, let them go." ”
Ding Alai burst into green muscles and said: "Shi Ke can not be humiliated, if you kill me, I will not carry a sedan chair for you!" ”
"I have backbone, I like it, I think you are also the number one hero, I will let you go today, but you remember to me, you owe me Yangzhou Wang Yongan a life, and you will have the opportunity to repay me in the future." Wang Yongan said loudly.
Ding Alai nodded, arched his hand and said: "The green mountains do not change, the green water flows forever, Brother Wang, I owe you a life, thank you!" I will repay you when I have the opportunity in the future. ”
After Na Ding Alai and the others fled, Wang Yongan put down the pistol, put it in his arms, and shouted to Li Yao and the others: "Oh no, how can we go to the county seat, there is no store in front of the village and no store in the back, these robbers are really fucking thieves." ”
In the end, the four of them could only brave the rain, hold an umbrella and rush to Changshu County, and after paying the entrance gold, they came to the old house of the Weng family under the guidance of others. At this time, there were fewer people in the old house of the Weng family, and Weng Tongyi's son took care of everything in the family and received condolences from all over the country one after another.
When Wang Yongan's identity was learned, the Weng family was very polite, after all, Wang Jia'an's death was somewhat affected by Weng Tongyi. That Weng Tongyi is the teacher of Emperor Guangxu, although he is arrogant and domineering, and even once after a dispute with Emperor Guangxu, he picked up the inkstone and smashed it at Guangxu, but after all, his identity as an emperor and the identity of a Confucian scholar in the Qing Dynasty is in, and many people can't afford to offend Weng Tonggong, so they kill Wang Jia'an.
The Weng family treated the people of the Wang family with guilt, and Wang Yongan also felt it, they were unusually polite, so after staying for three days, the sky cleared, and they returned to Chunjiang Town with their subordinates. The captain of the boat said to them that it was rare that the rain had become lighter and the wind was not strong, so they should have rushed to Yangzhou early. Subsequently, the steamer sailed to Chunjiang Town and arrived at Shazhou in Danyang County towards the Yangtze River.
Shazhou was renamed Taiping County in the Beiyang period, and Yangzhong County was renamed during the Republic of China, just because AH has a Taiping County, ZJ also has a Taiping County, in order to highlight the locality, so it takes the meaning of "Yangtze River" and changes its name to Yangzhong County.
After arriving in Yangzhong County, the heavy rain fell again, and the boatman had to stay for another day before being forced to set sail for Yangzhou.
The original three-day voyage was delayed because of the typhoon and rain, but it took nine days to arrive in Yangzhou, but fortunately, the shipping company also understood the fleet's distress and did not blame, but asked for an extra twenty taels of silver in the middle.
Just returned to Yangzhou, but the weather was clear, the end of the ground is so strange, all the way to the heavy rain, after arriving at the station, it rained and the sky was clear, Wang Yongan also smiled bitterly, he was really unlucky.
As soon as they got off the boat, a group of soldiers rushed over with a fierce look, surrounded the boatman and Wang Yongan, and demanded a cent.
Then Li Yao jumped out and shouted, "What? Well? Well? Blind your dogs, and don't see whose goods it is? ”
"Huh? Little Lizi, why are you here? An officer-like man parted in surprise and the crowd came over.
"Brother Hao, your subordinates are really powerful, even the commander's own brother dares to stop them."
"The Commander's own brother?" The officer surnamed Hao was taken aback, looked at Wang Yongan carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more he looked like a commander, and asked in a low voice: "Is this ......?"
"Hey, you said you, you've been doing inspections at the docks, and you don't go to the city to take a look, this is our commander's younger brother, the fourth young master Wang Yongan, known as the fourth son in the rivers and lakes." Li Yaodao.
The officer Hao was startled and immediately came to apologize, Wang Yongan even said no, the officer surnamed Hao saw that there were many machines, and asked if he needed help. Wang Yongan said that I hired some handymen, and the officer surnamed Hao immediately jumped and said, "How can I do that?" I've got you covered, brothers, help the fourth son, don't be lazy! ”
There is a group of soldiers as helpers, naturally the unloading speed is very fast, a group of people transported the sewing machine to the establishment of a wing room of the old mansion of the Wang family, the housekeeper Wang Ping beckoned everyone to eat, Wang Yongan waved his hand: "How can I eat at home, go to the best Wangchun Building in Yangzhou to eat." ”
So Wang Yongan took these 30 or so young men to Wangchun Tower, ordered the best wine and food, and ate a lot. Wang Yongan didn't drink much, but the soldiers were unceremonious, and he ate twenty taels of silver for this meal, and Wang Yongan generously gave each soldier one tael of silver afterwards, and gave ten taels of silver to the officer surnamed Hao for hard work.
Originally, it was an honor to be able to have a relationship with the fourth prince, and it was already an honor to be invited to dinner, but now that he got the silver, all the officers and soldiers were grateful, and praised Wang Yongan to the sky one by one. Wang Yongan smiled on the surface and accepted all the praises, but in his heart he didn't care about their promises to them.
After a meal, in the evening, Wang Yongan said goodbye to everyone and walked home to the sunset. That Li Yao and Gong Wuyuan were Wang Yongtai's subordinate officers and Ma Ben, and they left as soon as they arrived at Wang's house, and now Wang Yongan is surrounded by only Liu Tong and Liu Li, two small servants, and under the sunset, the figures of the three people are a little lonely.