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Dong Qichang was about to call his son Dong Zuchang over to give a few words, but Dong Zuchang was missing, and he was busy asking the servants around him, but the second son had already gone to the back door.

Dong Qichang didn't want his son to go to the government to be tried like this, so he happened to have an excuse, pretending to scold his son, and said to Huang Guoding: "Brother Dunzhu, how do you think this is good?" ”

Huang Guoding, the prefect of Songjiang, was very helpless, the teacher was here, and he couldn't let the servants go after Dong Zuchang, so he had to get up and said: "The student will leave first, the teacher will call the servants to guard the door, don't let the people rush in, and the students will also let the Punishment Hall send more soaps to maintain order, but this matter can't be delayed, and the teacher still advises Brother Zu Chang to go to the palace as soon as possible to listen to the interrogation." ”

Huang Guoding took the subordinate officials and a few errand officers out of the gate of Dong's house, "bang", the gate behind him was closed, and the people in front of the house saw that Dong Zuchang was not brought out this time, and immediately made a group of noises, stones and vegetable roots were thrown over, shouting: "Corrupt officials cover up evil eunuchs, and the people's grievances are difficult to redress." ”

Dozens of officers held water and fire sticks in the inner and outer three layers to protect Huang Guoding and other officials, Huang Guoding said loudly: "Then Dong Zuchang has fled, this government will definitely arrest him-" The voice was drowned in the angry shouts of thousands of people, and no one heard it at all, and the current situation was no longer under Huang Guoding's control.

The people of Huating began to besiege Dong Zuchang's mansion from the morning, now it is not in the afternoon, two hours before and after, the weather is sultry, the people's grievances are accumulating, boiling, from the beginning of more than 1,000 people, to more than 4,000 people now, there are still people from Qingpu, Shanghai, Jinshanwei rushed to come, Dong's father and son and Dong's evil slaves in these years in the fish and meat township, with the money of the son and mother, the profits, cleverly seized a large number of fertile land, shops, lake boats, Dong Zuyuan bought dozens of houses by the Changsheng Bridge at a low price the year before last, The year before last in Jinshanwei, I saw that the garden of Lu Tiaoyang's family was very beautiful, and he wanted to play, Lu Tiaoyang knew his notoriety, and closed the door to let him in, Dong Zuchang was furious, and instigated the local scoundrel to sue Lu Tiaoyang Tonghaikou, Lu Tiaoyang was a lawsuit, and half of the family assets were gone, and the garden was bought by Dong Zuchang, so this time Lu Tiaoyang heard that the Huating Zhusheng group accused Dong, and also contacted several friends Zhusheng to come to Songjiang Mansion to complain about grievances, Reiterating the old case -- Dong Zuchang's mansion was already overcrowded in front of his mansion, so some people went to Dong Qichang's mansion to besiege, scold, and smash the door, Fan's mother Feng and other female dependents have been persuaded by Zhang Yuan and Weng Yuansheng to go back, here they are redressed for Fan Sheng, Fan's mother is old and frail, and she can't bear to suffer here -- Huang Guoding wants to go back to the mansion but is blocked in front of the gate of Dong's house and can't move. ”

The crowd parted ways, and a few people came with a bald monk and two beautiful maids, but it was Chen Binzhu, who claimed to be a hundred-year-old monk, and the silver monk said that he saw Dong Zu often making a big mess, and Dong Qichang's mansion was also in chaos, so he conspired with Xi Hongtang Yumo and Lizhu two maids, so that the two of them rolled up the treasures of Xi Hongtang, and fled from Dong Mansion with him to live happily and happily. was caught by the besieged people, thinking that it was Dong Zuchang, who deliberately shaved off his hair and tried to escape in a foolish manner, he grabbed and beat him, broke his bald head, and pushed and shoved all the way to this side to see the official - Fan Chang's servants who stayed here recognized the maid Yumo, and shouted loudly, saying that this was the Fan maid who was robbed by Dong Zuchang, Huating County had filed a case, but it was not found at that time, only as a missing person, but it turned out to be really in the Dong family's house, the people present were indignant, and the Dong father and son were full of evil deeds, but Huating County and Songjiang Mansion have not been held accountable, and the voice of scolding the dog official is endless. Huang Guoding was exhausted at this time, so Jiang Tong sentenced to deal with the monk, the monk abducted other people's maidservants and eloped, first cane twenty and then questioned, several errand servants were angry, beat the bald donkey, beat the silver monk Chen Binzhu one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, shouted confession, and told him all the ugly things in the Songjiang gentry's house over the years, the wife and concubine of the Shanghai Kang surnamed who recommended him to Dong Qichang were all having an affair with him, Dong Qichang wanted to learn his room technique, and gave him four beautiful maids for silver, Yumo and Lizhu, the two beautiful maids were voluntarily eloped with him, not coerced abduction...... Huang Guoding didn't expect that so many ugly things about Dong Qichang would be said in the mouth of a monk from Youfang, so he was extremely angry and killed the silver poisonous bald donkey.

As soon as the staff was messy, the silver monk Chen Binzhu convulsed and returned to the west, and the two beautiful maids were so frightened that they were like sifting chaff and trembled into two balls.

Huang Guoding felt that he was about to faint from heat stroke, and looked back at the closed Zhu Gate of Dong Mansion, the dazzling red paint made him feel disgusted, and said in his heart: "If Dong Xuanzai doesn't hand over his son, will I stay here all the time!" "At that moment, he ordered Liu Tongzhi and Jiang Tongju to stay here, he asked the officials to open the way, and returned to the palace with Yumo, Lizhu and Wang Dazhu, he didn't want to be a watchdog for Dong Zuchang, let Wu Tuiguan of the Punishment Hall deal with this matter, this is the responsibility of the officials, and he Huang Guoding is going to take care of his illness and stop serving for the time being-Huang Guoding and a group of officials left, leaving only a few officials such as Liu Tongzhi and Jiang Tongju here, thousands of people in front of Dong's house were quiet at first, and they were a little overwhelmed for a while, and they all looked at Zhang Yuan's group of talents, only the talents were looking forward, Zhang Cao shouted: "Go in and capture Dong Zuchang alive!" ”

Liu Tongzhi shouted: "Arresting the murderer is the business of the government, how can you and other students do anything wrong." ”

Zhang Yuan hurriedly persuaded the third brother to stop, the third brother Zhang Cao did things recklessly, but he Zhang Yuan could not be so reckless, now he said that he must not only severely punish the Dong father and son, but also protect himself, because inciting the people to fight in, of course, is happy, but the chaotic people can not be restrained, if the house is burned, casualties, they will be punished, so we must find another way to arrest Dong Zuchang, and we have to restrain the people, and we can't let the scoundrels who are mixed in it make trouble and rob from it, and afterwards they will bear the blame - In addition to Zhang Dai and Zhang Cao, Zhang Yuan's side also has Weng Yuansheng, Jiang Shiqiao, and more than ten Huating students who came later, Zhang Yuan discussed with Zhusheng for a while, to deal with Dong's father and son, you have to rely on the power of the government, Dong Qichang's protégé Huang Guoding is gone, this Liu Tongzhi and Jiang Tongju can fight, Zhang Yuan and Weng Yuansheng and another Huating student Du Shiquan went to see Liu Tongzhi and Jiang Tongju - Zhang Yuan said: "Lord Liu, Lord Jiang, Dong Eun's father and son are the victims, causing the people's resentment to boil, and the two adults have also seen it, This is Dong Eun's years of evil accumulated public grievances once broke out, Huang Fuzun deliberately favored the Dong family, refused to arrest Dong Zuchang to return to the case, and now he is gone, leaving this difficult situation to the two adults to solve, like a flood is coming, but leaving two adults here to guard the embankment, once the embankment breaks, how can the two adults deal with themselves? The people of all parties are swarming and gathering, and there must be people who are greedy for profit, once the chaos starts, who can control it by taking advantage of the situation to burn and rob, can the two adults take the blame for such a big chaos? ”

Liu Tongzhi and Jiang Tongju glanced at each other, this Zhang Yuannian is not weak, and he can still be so calm and thoughtful when the public is surging, it is really not idle, Liu Tongzhi nodded, but asked: "According to Zhang Sheng's opinion, what should I do?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Arrest Dong Zuchang and make the people angry." ”

Zhang Cao shouted: "Dong Qichang is the culprit, if there is no Dong Qichang, how can several of his sons of evil do evil, this time Dong Qichang will be arrested together." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "This time only Dong Zuchang will be arrested." Zhang Yuan knew very well in his heart that arresting Dong Qichang was not the power of local officials, like Dong Qichang, a great squire who was promoted from a high position in the third grade, and was also a teacher in the East Palace, except for the court to punish him, where could the local officials punish him, but as long as Dong Zuchang was found out and punished, Dong Qichang's disrepute would not be far away -- Liu Tongzhi of Songjiang Mansion had long been dissatisfied with Dong's harm to the township, and Dong Zuchang was so arrogant and roaring, Liu Tongzhi was very angry, the current situation was critical, and the people's grievances were like fire. He also thought that Dong Zuchang must be arrested and brought to justice, so he sentenced Jiang Tong for a while, and said to Zhang Yuan and others: "Dong Zuchang is often closed, and it is inconvenient for us to break in, so what can I do?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "The two adults can tell the servants in Dong's house to leave the house, otherwise they will be punished together, and in this way, the house will be chaotic-"

But at this moment, I heard someone shouting: "Dong Qichang and his son want to escape by boat!" ”

With this shout, there was a sudden thunder in the sky, as if the Thor chariot rumbled over everyone's heads, and the heavy rain that had been stuffy for a long time "brushed" the ground, and the people's grievances were excited, and the torrential rain was like anger.

Weng Yuansheng shouted: "The small river at the back door of the Dong house leads directly to Bailongtan, and then leads to the big river to Maozhuang, where there is the Dong family's big manor. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Two adults, you can't let Dong Zuchang run away, otherwise the people's anger will have nowhere to vent, and it will lead to chaos." ”

Liu Tongzhi thought so, and ordered the twelve officials around him to immediately go to hunt down Dong Zuchang, and he and Jiang Tongju and Zhang Yuan rushed to the back door of the house.

When Zhang Yuan and the others rushed to the small river behind Dong's house in the rain, they saw that many people were injured and fell to the ground, and the two three-oared wave boats had sailed away, but it turned out that Dong Zuchang let Wu Long lead dozens of beating young people with sticks to open the way, and dispersed the people gathered at the back door, and then were protected by a group of healthy servants, Dong Qichang, Dong Zuyuan, Dong Zuchang and a group of women got on the two wave boats by the river, and the three rows flew to the east.

The heavy rain was like a curtain, Dong Qichang sat on the boat, looked back at the magnificent mansions on both sides of the river from the canopy window, his face was blue, this time he was forced to abandon his home and run away, it was really a great shame, and he hated and said: "There is no need to go to Maozhuang, after settling down with my daughters, I will go to Nanjing, and I will not give up if I do not severely punish these students and Diao Min." ”

Before the words fell, there was a "bang" sound, the hull of the ship shook, Dong Qichang did not sit firmly, fell on the deck, and only heard the boatman exclaim: "Hit the ship, hit the ship!" ”

(To be continued)