Chapter 37: The Murderer Among the Victims
Hearing that Wu Shan was awake, Zhou Chong didn't care about eating, and hurried to the front yard, only to find that Wu Shan was already half-lying on the bed, although his face was still pale, but his lips had recovered a little blood.
"Old Wu, what happened yesterday, who injured you like this?" As soon as Zhou Chonggang came in, he immediately asked impatiently, Wu Shan is a butcher, his body is strong and powerful, and generally three or four young men are not his opponents, so Zhou Chong is really strange, who can hurt him so badly.?
Wu Shan, who was on the bed, heard Zhou Chong's question, and showed a helpless wry smile on his pale face: "Don't hide it from Zhou Gongzi, this time I blame me for being too careless, I always thought that I was strong and strong, and ordinary people should not beat my idea, but I didn't expect to be careless for a while, and let a gang of murderers take advantage of the loophole......"
With Wu Shan's narration, Zhou Zhong finally understood what happened to the other party's attack. Speaking of which, this matter is still related to the disaster victims outside, there are good and bad people in any group of people, and the disaster victims are no exception, some of the disaster victims because of hunger, they begin to show their murderous nature, robbing and killing people to the extreme, in order to get more food. It is precisely because of the existence of these people that all the cities dare not let these victims enter the city where the victims have passed, otherwise they don't know what kind of vicious cases will happen in Ludao.
Now these victims are being resettled outside the city, and Governor Xu is also trying his best to put food and porridge, but because of the limited conditions, there is very little food distributed to the victims, and at most they can only maintain them from starving to death, and most of the time they still have to starve.
As long as they can have a bite to eat, they will live outside the city with peace of mind, and then find a way to support their families in the spring of the next year, but the few victims who are extremely vicious have become accustomed to the food and clothing brought by the previous robbery, and they are even more unwilling to starve and freeze.
In the beginning, these murderers would repeatedly queue up during the soup kitchen, or forcibly rob other victims of food, but after this situation was discovered, Lord Xu arranged for many officials to be responsible for maintaining law and order, and issued identity certificates to the victims, each victim could only receive his own share, and most of the victims ate it on the spot after receiving it, so that others could not grab it if they wanted to.
With the governance of the Xu Governor's Mansion, the public order among the victims has been greatly improved, but after the murderers among the victims saw that they could not grab anything among the victims, they turned their attention to the people in and around the city, and they began to rob some people's property outside the city, and they would kill people in case of resistance, and even some murderers disguised themselves as ordinary people to mix in the city, robbing and extorting everything.
For these murderers, the government is a severe crackdown, almost find one to kill one, but those who can survive the disaster are all cunning and murderous, for the government's purge, except for some people who were caught and killed, the others are still at large, making the security of Songjiang Mansion very bad.
It is precisely because of these murderers that during this period of time, many people in Songjiang have reduced the frequency of going out of the city, and even in the city, they are cautious, for fear of attracting the attention of those murderers.
Wu Shan also knows the existence of those murderers, but he is a butcher, he is born with greater courage than others, plus he is physically strong and infinitely powerful, and he also practiced martial arts with the martial artists in the village when he was a child, and the ordinary six or seven young men are not his opponents at all, so he didn't take those murderers in his eyes at all, and he still went out of the city alone every afternoon to transport meat.
Wu Shan obviously underestimated the madness of those murderers, plus he was carrying a cart of meat, so soon many murderers targeted him, for example, two days ago, three murderers intercepted him outside the city and asked him to put down the car and get out, Wu Shan naturally would not be frightened by them, and went up with three punches and two kicks to knock each other to the ground, and in order to prevent them from doing evil again, Wu Shan ruthlessly broke the feet of these three people.
After Zhou Chong heard this, he also exhaled with relief, these days he has also heard a lot of things about those murderers doing evil, all of which are intolerable, at that time Zhou Chong also thought, if he let himself meet these murderers, he would have to break their hands and feet, but he didn't expect Wu Shan to rush ahead of him.
However, although Wu Shan did this to relieve his anger, but also caused trouble for himself, just last night, he pushed the car back to the city, thinking that there should be no danger in the city, and it was about to snow again, so he pushed the car into the alley, so that he could go home early.
But just as he was passing through an uninhabited alley, he suddenly encountered a siege by more than a dozen murderers, among whom several of them still had sharp blades in their hands, and the knife wounds on his body were cut by those people.
Although Wu Shan's strength is outstanding, and his martial arts are not bad, but after all, he is alone, as the so-called two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, especially the other party is still more than a dozen people, which makes him unable to cover it at all, and he was seriously injured by the other party in the chaos, and he heard the other party shouting while chopping, and wanted to break his feet to take revenge, which made him realize that these people were avenging the three murderers that day.
If ordinary people were surrounded by more than a dozen murderers, I am afraid they would have to be hacked to death by these people, but Wu Shan was a bloody man, and after being cut all over his body, his ferocity was also stimulated, and he snatched the knife in the hands of a murderer, and then killed a bloody path like crazy. At that time, his mind was blank, and he still didn't know whether Lu Dao had killed people at that time, but after Lu Dao broke out of the encirclement, he ran all the way to the door of the Zhou Mansion and knocked on the door, and then he didn't know anything about Lu Dao.
After listening to Wu Shan's story, while Zhou Zhong scolded those murderers, he couldn't help but sigh Wu Shan's good luck, if it weren't for his physical strength and unusual people, plus he had practiced martial arts, I am afraid that he would really be hacked to death by those murderers this time.
After a while, Steward Xu came back from the teahouse to tell the story, and he was also extremely angry after hearing what happened to Wu Shan. Then he discussed it with Wu Shan, and finally decided to report to the official first, after all, to deal with those murderers, it was necessary to use the power of the government.
Steward Xu went to report the case, and Zhou Zhong stayed at home to take care of Wu Shan. Speaking of which, the other party has been in a coma for a day and a night, and his stomach must be hungry, so Zhou Zhong asked Wu Shan to lie on the bed to rest, and went to the kitchen to boil a pot of porridge for him, but when he brought the porridge that was ready, Wu Shan, a bloody man, was moved to tears, whimpering and unable to speak.
Wu Shan is a butcher, although he earns a lot of money, but it belongs to the cheap industry, usually very discriminated against, when he rented the courtyard of the Zhou Mansion, he also mustered up the courage to dare to bring it up with Steward Xu, after all, in his opinion, although the Zhou family has fallen, but in the end it is also a big family, not to mention that Zhou Gongzi is still a showman, in front of others, he is a butcher who is not even qualified to speak.
But what happened later surprised Wu Shan, although Steward Xu occasionally showed a kind of pride of a big family, but he was also very good to himself, and the two often drank together, and they could even be called New Year's friends. Not to mention Zhou Chong, he didn't have any scholars, he called himself a brother and sister when he met for the first time, and then he also talked to his peers, and he didn't look down on himself at all, which made Wu Shan feel respected for the first time. Now that he is injured, Zhou Chong, as a dignified talent, even cooks for himself regardless of his identity, which makes Wu Shan is grateful!
Although Wu Shan was grateful to Zhou Chong, he was a rude man who was not good at words after all, so he didn't say anything grateful to Zhou Chong, just raised his sleeve and wiped his eyes, then picked up the hot rice porridge and drank it in a few sips, and at the same time made up his mind that as long as Zhou Gongzi was in trouble in the future, even if he fought for his life, he would repay his great kindness!
Just when Wu Shan drank all the pots of rice porridge, Steward Xu finally reported to the official and came back, but in addition to a few official errands, there were two people who surprised Zhou Zhong very much.
"Brother Minglun, why did you come with Steward Xu, who is this?" Zhou Zhong looked at Zheng Jing with a smile on his face and asked with a surprised expression. Next to Zheng Jing, there is a very young official, wearing a cyan official uniform and a silver belt, looking at most about thirty years old, his appearance is very ordinary, he belongs to the kind that cannot be found when thrown into the pile, and he has a unique sleek air in the officialdom, I really don't know how he can walk with the square Zheng Jing?
"Wenda, let me introduce you, this is Lord Huang Qihuang, the county magistrate of Huating County under the rule of our Songjiang Mansion, and also my close friend, originally I went to visit him this time, but I didn't expect to see Steward Xu to report the case, so I came with Brother Huang!" Zheng Jing introduced the young officials around him, and then explained the reason why he came.
Songjiang Mansion is divided into Huating and Shanghai counties, of which Huating County Yamen and Songjiang Mansion are in Songjiang City, and the security in the city is generally under the control of Huating County.
When Zhou Chong heard the identity of the young official, he also stepped forward and saluted: "It turned out to be Lord Huang, and the student Zhou Chong didn't know that the Lord deigned to come, and he missed the distance, and he looked at Lord Huang Haihan!" ”
Seeing Zhou Zhong so humble, Huang Xianling hurriedly stepped forward to help, and said with a smile: "Wenda, you are too polite, I and Minglun are equals, since you are Minglun's friend, naturally you are also my friend of Huang Mouren, and now it is not a public court, don't call me an adult anymore, you are still the same as Minglun, just call me Brother Huang!" ”
Huang County's smile is very bright, if it was placed in the past, he really didn't put Zhou Chong's bankrupt son in his eyes, but during this period of time, Zhou Chong's Journey to the West caused a huge sensation, and even the prefect was amazed, and even heard that the prefect's son also deigned to make friends with Zhou Chong, so Huang Xianling now attaches great importance to Zhou Chong, and this time when he heard that Zhou Fu had an accident, he immediately came to ask in person, planning to take this opportunity to get acquainted with Zhou Chong.
For the goodwill expressed by the Huang County Order, Zhou Zhong naturally will not refuse, although the county order and the prefect are in the same city is more sad, but the people are also their nominal parents, maybe there will be something to ask for in the future, so Zhou Chong is also very willing to make friends with the Huang County Order.
However, after the cold noise, Zhou Chong did not forget the matter, and told Huang County Ling about Wushan, but Huang County Ling was shocked after hearing it, and couldn't help shouting: "It turns out that the person who did the murder in the south alley of Xiacheng is here, and now the case can finally be closed!" ”