Chapter Twenty-Six: There Is No Good Feast
Mr. Yi An sat down, took a sip of wine, and said, "Happy! Joyfully! Shopkeeper, bring the wine! β
After calling twice, the shopkeeper brought the wine tremblingly.
Yi An said: "Shopkeeper, you quickly clean up here!" Twenty tables are on the table, and tonight I will have some friends and brothers at your feast! β
The shopkeeper's face was embarrassed at the moment, and he said: "20 big banquets, the small shop is only afraid that it won't be able to do it for a while!" β
Yi An listened and said angrily: "It's refreshing when you do it to them!" When it comes to doing it to us, it is so pushed! Do you think your head is too expensive, I don't dare to cut it down! β
When the shopkeeper heard this, his face turned pale, and he knelt on the ground and said, "The little one doesn't dare!" The little ones don't dare! Heroes spare their lives! β
Kuanzi hurriedly seized the opportunity to pretend to be an uncle and said, "Hurry up, give you two hours to prepare!" If I don't see 20 banquets in two hours, I'll fucking tear down your shitty shop! β
The shopkeeper looked at Kuanzi and then at Yi'an, and for a moment he didn't know who to listen to.
Yi An nodded and said, "Just do what Liang Daxia said!" β
When the shopkeeper heard this, he quickly got up and was about to get ready!
Kuanzi seemed to suddenly think of something again, and shouted, "Stop! β
The shopkeeper only said that he was going to make some unreasonable demands to make things difficult for himself, and he instantly became nervous again!
I only heard Kuanzi say: "Your roast goose is doing well, hurry up and bring another one to the master, and after a fight, this stomach is hungry again!" β
The shopkeeper listened and agreed. After a while, a guy brought up a roast goose, and the speed of the food was very different from when we first arrived!
Kuanzi and I hurriedly raised our glasses at this time and said to Mr. Yi'an: "I didn't expect Mr. to have such a stunt, if Mr. hadn't stepped forward just now, I'm afraid we would have fallen into their hands long ago!" Come and give you a toast to the two brothers, thank you sir for saving your life! After saying that, Hiroko and I drank the wine in one gulp
Yi An smiled and said: "When the road is uneven, draw a knife to help, this is common!" Moreover, these people are so arrogant that I want to teach them a lesson! I just don't understand, since the two of them are on an errand by the emperor's side, why didn't they reveal their identities just now! β
I smiled and said, "What is on an errand around the emperor is made up by the two of us to scare a few of them, it can't be true!" But I don't know who the gentleman is going to feast on here! β
Yi An smiled and said, "Actually, you have all seen the people I want to feast!" Do you remember the two lines of poetry I chanted before I entered this restaurant? β
I said: "It is a masterpiece of Lord Du Fu, a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages, so I naturally remember it."
Yi An smiled and said: "As the saying goes, 'Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road', I want to feast tonight are those roadside people!" β
I was amazed: "You mean, you're going to feast on the hungry people in this town!" β
Mr. Yi An nodded and said, "Exactly! I don't know what you two think! β
Kuanzi's eyes widened when she heard this, and she put down the half-gnawed goose meat and said, "I don't have to say!" You are really an upright proletarian fighter, a good son of the people, and a good comrade-in-arms of ours! Long live the great proletariatγγγγγγ β
I quickly stopped Kuanzi and said, "What are you talking about? At this time, Marx was born, and without us, we don't have a pedigree, where did the proletariat come from! β
Kuanzi listened and said: "I'm not popularizing it for him in advance, anyway, they will have to enter our stage sooner or later!" β
I whispered, "Will he survive until then?" β
Hiroko was speechless when she heard this.
Mr. Yi An said: "What this Liang Daxia said is a bit unfathomable, and the younger brother doesn't understand it very well!" β
I said, "What he meant by that was that you had such a good idea, that he was complimenting you!" As soon as he eats and talks, he is a little uncomfortable, don't take it to heart! β
Yi An nodded.
At this time, I remembered the scene when I met those hungry people with Kuanzi, and said with a little worry: "It's a good idea for you to invite them, but whether they dare to come or not, I'm afraid it's a little difficult to say!"
After that, I told you about the scene when I met those hungry people with Kuanzi, and I always felt that those people had a strong hostility towards me and Kuanko!
Mr. Yi An said: "They don't dare to come when others invite them, but if I invite them, they will come." But I'll have to ask the two of them to come with me! β
Zhao Shi looked embarrassed for a while, and said, "Iγγγγγγ I don't dare go back! β
Mr. Yi An smiled, came to her side, leaned over and whispered a few words. When Zhao heard this, he was instantly excited, and he was about to kneel down and kowtow to Yi An, Yi An quickly helped her up and said, "Now you are willing to go with me!" β
Zhao nodded and said firmly: "Even if Mr. tells me to die, I will definitely go now!" β
Yi An laughed: "Thank you! He turned to us and said, "Wait here, you two, we'll be back when we go!" β
After speaking, he walked out of the restaurant with Zhao's mother and daughter.
Kuanko and I waited in the restaurant for about an hour, during which time hungry people kept coming into the restaurant to sit down!
The first to come was an old man, he came to the door of the restaurant, but he didn't dare to come in, after a while, he mustered up the courage, probed in and asked: "Excuse me, Yi Langzhong's banquet is set here!" β
Kuanzi and I listened and quickly welcomed him in!
The old man beckoned, and a few hungry people walked out of the corner. Hiroko and I led them to the table and sat down, and they didn't seem to believe that Mr. Yi An was really going to feast on them, so they all looked uneasy.
As more and more hungry people came, the whole restaurant became more and more lively. The hungry people didn't know how long it had been since they had taken a bath, and the smell of corruption permeated the restaurant.
I've seen all kinds of scenes with Hiroko in the past two years, but it was the first time I had eaten with so many hungry people.
Kuanzi said while drinking: "Staff Officer Pan, let's come back this time, it's really the right time!" Maybe you can even get a beggar to help the leader! β
I said, "If you think you want to be, let you be!" If it is also Mr. Yi'an, you see how high his prestige is among this group of hungry people! I was able to really invite them all away! β
Kuanzi said: "Don't look at how hungry these people are!" Even if you tell them that the food is poisonous now, I guess they'll have to eat it all later! So it doesn't matter who it is, just go over and tell them that there's something to eat here, and they're going to come."
I said, "If we go and call them, of course they will come!" But didn't you notice that they are very well-behaved when they come in now, and the wine and food have not been able to come up at the moment, they can indeed sit and wait in peace, if it wasn't for Yi An's explanation, I'm afraid they would have rushed into the kitchen a long time ago! β
When Kuanzi heard this, he looked at the entire restaurant in a blink of an eye, nodded and said, "Yes, it seems that this Yi'an is really not small!" β
I said, "I'm afraid that he has another purpose in inviting these hungry people to eat, so let's wait and see the show!" β
As he spoke, he heard a cheer from the crowd. It turned out that Mr. Na Yi'an had returned with a group of hungry people.
The hungry people cheered when they saw him!
After settling the hungry people and sitting down, he walked straight to us! He was followed by two sturdy young men, dressed in the same way as the hungry people, but their faces and expressions did not look like those who had experienced famine!
Kuanzi also saw the doorway at this time, and whispered to me: "These two people behind him are extraordinary!" It's not easy! β
I nodded.
At this time, Yi An had already come to us with those two people!
Kuanzi saw that the mother and daughter of the Zhao family were gone, and asked casually: "Where did the mother and daughter go!" β
Yi An smiled slightly and said, "They help me do a big thing, we don't have to wait for them." The two of you have a narrow road here, how about we go up to the second floor! β
Hiroko and I both nodded in agreement!
Yi An pointed to Liu Zhixian, who was tied to the pillar, and said, "Bring him up!" β
The two people who followed Yi An took out a bag and put it on Liu Zhixian's head and escorted him upstairs.
After Yi An left, Kuanzi and I helped this magistrate on the pillar behind us. Then the hungry people kept coming, and we almost forgot about him. This Liu Zhixian also seems to know that these hungry people hate him to the core, so he keeps his head down, afraid that the hungry people will recognize him!
Now he was escorted upstairs, and although he knew that the situation was not good, he did not dare to shout, otherwise the hungry people would hear his voice, and they would have rushed over and flayed him alive.
There is a protruding stage on the second floor of this restaurant, which was originally reserved for the troupe to sing, but Yi An asked Xiao Er to set up a few tables of banquets on it, and I went up with Kuanzi to take a look, the other tables were full of people, only the front seat was still empty, it seemed that it was left for us.
Yi An made a gesture of please, and Kuanzi and I were not polite, and walked up and sat down.
Yi An sat down, and one of the people behind him suddenly shouted, "Open the table!" After a shout of cheer, the hungry people began to eat.
Kuanzi and I have been eating non-stop since we entered this restaurant, during which Kuanzi also had a fight with Wei Chaoqun's men, and we really can't eat at this time.
Hiroko looked at the people around him who were gobbling up, sighed and said, "I really envy them, they have such a good appetite!" β
I hurriedly said, "Don't fucking talk about it, we were almost the same as them when we first came!" β
After a few rounds of wine, Yi An saw that everything he had eaten and drunk was almost over, so he stood up, cleared his throat and said: "Fellow villagers, I, Yi, invite everyone here today, first, I want to invite everyone to have a full meal!" The second is to discuss with everyone about the way forward! β
"Everyone knows that since the famine the year before last, our area has been homeless and plague is rampant! And the government is ignoring us, allowing us to die of illness and starvation! The most hateful thing is Nazhi County, which not only embezzled the disaster relief food sent to us by the imperial court, but also treated us as bandits and sent troops to chase and suppress us! When I came here three months ago, there were about 2,000 of us, and today there are less than 1,000 left. In three months, more than 1,000 people died of disease and starvation! If we don't do anything more, in another three months, maybe all of us will die! β
When the hungry people heard this, their faces became solemn!
I only heard Yi An continue: "Of course, tomorrow Yi can also invite you to eat in this restaurant again!" But in the next person, after all, the ability is limited, please you can do it for two or three days, but you have to ask every day, every month, then I am afraid that it will be difficult to do it in the next person! What to do! If you don't starve to death, you have to do it all on yourselves! β
One of the hungry people shouted, "Mr. Yi'an, if you have any good ideas, please tell them!" We don't want to starve to death! β
"We don't want to starve to death, we're willing to listen to you!"
In an instant, the whole restaurant was full of shouts!
Kuanzi whispered to me: "Do you dare to bet that the first person to shout just now must be a tous!" β
I laughed and didn't say anything.
Kuanzi said again: "What do I think they are going to rebel against! β
I said, "I've seen that for a long time!" β
Hiroko said: "I have a bad history! But as far as I know, none of the peasant uprisings during the Qing Dynasty were successful! I don't think let's wade into this troubled water, let's get out quickly! β
I smiled wryly and said, "I want to leave now, it's too late!" β
At this time, I only heard Mr. Na Yi'an say again: "There was a cloud in the ancient poem: 'Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road!'" "You are starving outside, but those rich officials and businessmen are eating and drinking here! Are they born to come with these things? They don't eat and drink, not all of them are what we plant, raise, and feed them, and now we are suffering from drought, but they don't care about us, and even worse, beat and expel them, and you say that we should go and ask them for justice! β
When the hungry people heard this, the crowd was indignant and cried out: "Get justice!" Get justice! β
Mr. Yi An waved his hands and motioned for everyone to be quiet, and then said, "I brought someone here today!" I'm sure everyone has seen him! β
As soon as he said that, as soon as he beckoned, the two strong men who had been following Yi An escorted Liu Zhixian up. Yi An stretched out his hand to take off the mask on Liu Zhixian's head, and as soon as the hungry people saw Liu Zhixian, they were all very angry! Some shouted: "You dog officer, return my daughter?" Some shouted, "Give back my husband's life!" βγγγγγγ Not only shouted, but some grabbed the tableware, chopsticks, and wine glasses on the table and threw them at Liu Zhixian.
Hiroko and I were watching the excitement, but we didn't expect these people to throw things! It doesn't matter if they throw something, the main thing is that you have to throw it accurately!
Kuanzi was laughing and looking at Liu Zhixian's body full of various wine glasses, bowls and chopsticks, and the bones of the leftover meals, but he didn't expect a snap, and a half-eaten big chicken leg hit him in the back of the head.
Kuanzi instantly said angrily: "That rabbit cub doesn't want to live and dares to sneak attack you Kuanye!"
I dared to pull him to sit down and said: "It's all internal contradictions among the people, be careful when you speak!" It's not good for us to mess them off! β
Fortunately, at this time, the whole restaurant was noisy, and what Kuanzi said was muffled by other sounds. It didn't attract the attention of others.
Mr. Na Yi'an hurriedly said at this time: "Everyone, don't get excited! Let me ask him a few questions first! β
As he spoke, he walked up to Liu Zhixian and said, "Lord Liu, you know all these people in the restaurant today!" β
Na Zhixian lowered his head and whispered: "Recognize!"
Mr. Yi An sneered and said, "Okay, since you recognize it!" Then let me ask you, what did you not give them about the relief food issued by the imperial court! β
Nazhi County said tremblingly: "Yesγγγγγγγ It's the prefect who won't let it go, and it has nothing to do with the small one! β
As soon as he finished saying this, he only heard a scream of "ah" coming out of his mouth. Then I saw him lying on the ground, his right hand holding the wrist of his left hand! It turned out that one of the fingers of his left hand was actually cut off by one of Mr. Yi'an's men!
I only heard Mr. Yi An say: "Since I brought you here to ask questions today, I will naturally find out about your affairs!" If you lie, I'll cut off your whole hand!" Say a lie, and I'll cut off one of your things! Do you understand? β
Liu Zhixian was sweating profusely in pain, his face was pale, and he said tremblingly: "I knowγγγγγγγγ β
Mr. Yi An then said: "Okay, then I'll ask you again!" Where did the relief food of the imperial court go! β
Liu Zhixian said in a low voice: "They were all swallowed up by me and Wei Chaoqun!" β
Mr. Yi An said: "You say louder, where did all this grain go? β
Liu Zhixian endured the pain and said loudly: "Foodγγγγγγ By...... I was divided by Wei Chaoqun and me! But it's all his idea! β
When the hungry people heard this, they cursed and cursed again.
Mr. Yi An also said: "Is it not his idea to expel and hunt down the victims, slander them as thieves, and cut off their heads to receive rewards?" β
Liu Zhixian nodded and said, "Yes!" Wei Chaoqun told me that he got the news from above that someone was coming to check on the distribution of relief food! He said, "Let's just drive all these people out of the wilderness, and when the time comes, and if we don't see any hungry people, we will give them all the food and let them go home!" β
Mr. Yi An said angrily: "You are a county magistrate, as a parent official, but you don't know how to benefit the people!" But obey the policy of a villain, bend the law for bribes, and kill innocents indiscriminately, what is the use of a dog official like you! β
After speaking, he flew out with a kick and kicked Governor Liu out!
I saw that Liu Zhixian's body had already flown up in the air, and with a pop, he fell to the first floor.