Chapter 185, Agui's Story (II)

Although Agui already had a bad premonition when he failed to "court" Wu's mother, bad luck was not yet on the horizon after all. www.biquge.info Next, he still successfully bought a batch of cheap rice from the Qian family, hired a boat to bring back the "Bailian" business in the city, paid off the previous credit payment, and used the remaining silver to make a batch of Australian goods, and then ate and drank in the city for a few days, and then returned to Weizhuang in high spirits.

However, when Agui returned to Weizhuang again, he found that the situation was a little wrong.

First, because Weizhuang stationed a short-haired soldier in the engineer battalion, and everyone knows that this short-haired soldier has always had a good salary and strong spending power, far from being comparable to those broken military households called Huazi in the Ming Dynasty, as a result, in just a few days, Weizhuang gathered many various vendors, most of which are selling vegetables and vegetables, but there is also no shortage of salesmen from other Australian and Song merchants, all kinds of Australian goods, in the market of Weizhuang has become not rare. So, the "wig young master" of the Zhao Mansion happily smoked the "Holy Boat Brand" cigarette again and read the latest issues of "Research on the History of War", while Mrs. Zhao was so distressed that he muttered all day long, the canned food and candy he bought from Agui last time was really a loss, and the people who came later sold it at a cheaper price.

-- Agui, who returned to Weizhuang with a cart of groceries again, was stunned to find that he suddenly had many competitors in the business.

Second, because of his public "courtship" to Wu's mother at the door of the hotel, the women in Weizhuang seemed to remember his "rebellious debauchery" in the past, and now there are other vendors who can buy Australian groceries, so they avoid Agui again one by one. As soon as he saw Agui coming, he hid in the door one by one, refusing to take care of his business anymore. Even if Ah Gui accompanied the smiling face to sell goods to the door, most of them were kicked out.

Ah Gui, who had just developed up, suddenly felt once again the grievances of working part-time jobs everywhere in the past, and the depression of being regarded as a plague god.

In desperation, he had to reduce the price of promotion, although the profit became much thinner, but finally someone was willing to take care of it. However, the other hawkers soon followed suit to reduce the price, and the customers of Weizhuang saw that there were so many choices at the moment, and they immediately became reserved one by one, no matter what they bought, they had to shop around, and the price was even more fierce, and even asked for credit accounting. The anxious Ah Gui is already just trying to save his capital, but after tossing for seven or eight days, there are still many Australian goods that cannot be sold, and if he doesn't get it, he will smash it in his hands, which makes Ah Gui more and more anxious.

Seeing that the golden road to fortune seemed to have left him, Agui was naturally very frustrated, and when he was not happy, he teased the little nun in the retreat nunnery in public a few times, and kneaded and teased the little nun so that he didn't want to, and then he didn't dare to go out of the nunnery.

However, Agui also found courage from her, one day drank a few more bowls of turbid wine, strengthened his courage, and even carried a stick to open the stalls of those business rivals, but was surrounded by several vendors from other villages and beaten hard, and finally hung colors, almost crawled back to the Tugu Temple with a blue nose and swollen face.

A few days later, the bunker-type Weizhuang police station was basically completed, and the engineer battalion of the short-haired soldiers was also opened, which made the idlers of Weizhuang very confused: the house of the Xu family in Suzhou had just laid a foundation, and even the courtyard wall had not been built, so why did you soldiers leave it alone?

However, a few days later, a team of sturdy "wigs" wearing blue cloth short coats similar to Agui under the banner of a certain construction company came to Weizhuang from the city and took over the construction of the Xu family's mansion. This "construction team" brought a lot of strange things that the countryside did not know, which made the idlers very curious. In addition, there are several short-haired police officers wearing yellow clothes and rattan hats, who also live in the police station at the entrance of the village, and patrol the village from time to time.

The "young master of the fake hair" of the Zhao Mansion was very happy in the past few days, because he went to the city and participated in a conference, and when he came back, he had an extra silver medal on his chest as a "representative of the township virtuous", which was about the meaning of the new dynasty gentleman. In addition, he also got the title of "Weizhuang Liaison", which is about equivalent to the temporary village head: because this is tantamount to robbing his father's position, so the old lady Zhao lost his temper for several days.

(Due to the lack of reliable local cadres, the Zhejiang occupation forces only carried out punitive land reforms in some towns and villages with fierce resistance and stubbornness, while most of the "peaceful" villages in the Zhejiang occupation area remained largely self-governing, and did not send new civil servants such as women directors and militia captains, but only a group of "good gentry" who took the initiative to act as liaison officers to coordinate labor and taxation.) ）

But the "wig-haired young master" of the Zhao Mansion has nothing to do with the Ah Gui in the Tugu Temple these days.

Because the grocery business is becoming more and more difficult, gambling money is always lost, and going to open the stall of a business rival is beaten again, Agui's mood is getting worse day by day, but he can't find a place to vent his anger, so he has to borrow wine to drown his sorrows. Later, Agui drank a few more bowls of wine one day, thinking that it seemed that he hadn't seen the little nun outside for a long time, and his heart was so worried that he actually drunkenly climbed over the wall into the retreat and entered the backyard where the nuns lived. Then he touched the old nun's chamber blindly, and immediately caused a scream, and then Agui's head was very affected by a lot of sticks and chestnut chisels.

If Agui was sober, with the strength of the old nun, he would definitely not be Agui's opponent, but Agui was already drunk that night and half awake and half-asleep, staggering when he walked, and his fists were even weaker, so he was knocked out by the old nun.

Later, several nuns in the nunnery came out with lanterns and recognized the wild man as Agui. The little nun, who had often been bullied by Agui before, was immediately angry and declared that she would report to the official. However, the old nun felt that this matter should not be publicized, otherwise it would definitely damage the reputation of the retreat, so she just took away his money bag as compensation, and quietly threw Ah Gui, who was still unconscious, out the back door, and the little nun also drew two turtles on Ah Gui's face.

However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and a few days later, Agui's great cause of breaking into the ashram at night to harass the nuns finally spread among the idlers of Weizhuang. And Ah Gui's reputation in Weizhuang has become more and more disremal, so that his grocery business has become even more dismal. Even the old man in charge of the Tugu Temple wanted to drive him out again, but Agui had to give the old man two pieces of soap as money for the house, and then reluctantly sent him over.

Next, an even more terrible flying disaster befell Agui, who was more and more unlucky.

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In the middle of the night that day, Ah Gui had drunk a few bowls of wine and slept soundly in the dilapidated house of Tugu Temple, but suddenly heard a commotion on the unfinished construction site of the Xu family's mansion, as if there were gunshots, and he was suddenly woken up. Looking out at the wall, I saw that the construction site was crowded, the torches were shaking, and there were people dragging all kinds of things out, which made several local dogs in the village bark wildly.

By the next day, it was spread all over Weizhuang, and last night there was a murderer from nowhere, who quietly sneaked into the construction site of the Xu family's mansion to steal things, and seemed to have taken a fancy to the stainless steel shovels, axes, saws and other objects that the fake construction team had left there. Unexpectedly, he encountered a patrol officer from the Weizhuang Police Station, and the patrol officer immediately fired a warning shot, thinking that he could scare away the thieves. Who would have thought that these thieves were so bold that they did not run away when they heard the gunshots, but instead rushed up, knocked over the patrolman with sticks, and snatched his gun. By the time the other police officers heard the sound and rushed to the scene, the thieves on the construction site had already fled, and the police officers who had been seized of their guns were also bleeding and dying, and they only had time to reluctantly confess a few words, and they died before dawn.

The incident in which a police officer from the Weizhuang Police Station was killed and a gun was seized obviously shocked the government. The "young master of the fake hair" of the Zhao Mansion, who served as the liaison officer of Weizhuang, went to the city with a black face, and when he returned, he had an extra team of short-haired soldiers around him, and he also claimed to carry out a "strike hard campaign" to arrest those who committed adultery. Then the courtyard walls of the houses in Weizhuang were painted with the slogan "Fight crime, public security training, and participation of the whole people".

At first, Ah Gui, who was just worried about the increasingly difficult to buy and sell groceries, didn't pay much attention to it. Who knew that when he closed the stall in the evening and dragged the cart back to the Tugu Temple, he was stunned to see the "wigs young master" of the Zhao Mansion and the short-haired soldiers who came back from the city with him were guarding the gate of the Tugu Temple, and the "wig young master" shouted as soon as he saw him: "...... That's the kid! Catch him! ”

Immediately afterwards, Ah Gui was knocked to the ground by the butt of a gun, and then had people tie him tightly with hemp rope. In a drowsy state, I still listened to the eldest young master of the Zhao Mansion babbling about his various crimes: what sold things as shoddy, what molested women from good families on the street, and a bunch of thefts and robberies done by others, which were also forced on his head, and concluded from this: Most of the things that robbed the construction site and attacked and killed the police officers that night were also related to Ah Gui and his fox friends. In the end, the eldest young master of the Zhao family told the story of the recent viral rumors in the Weizhuang neighborhood, Agui broke into the retreat nunnery at night to play with the nuns, and said him like a flower thief in the play, and several soldiers kicked Agui a few times again.

By the time Agui came to his senses, he had been dragged into the bunker-like police station at the entrance of Weizhuang Village, and then thrown into a dungeon. Ah Gui struggled to sit up against the wall, and when he looked closely, he found that there were already a lot of people stuffed in this dungeon, except for a few homeless people who fled from other provinces, the rest were some local singles and idlers, ruffians and beggars, among them, there was even the leper Wang Hu who had fought with Ah Gui before.

It's just that at this point, everyone can't care about the old grudges before, and soon they get up to each other, and find that they were all caught by the damn wigs young master and the short-haired soldiers, and they were blamed for being related to the case of attacking the police and seizing guns on the construction site of the Xu family's mansion, and they couldn't help but be indignant for a while, cursing again and again. And Agui is even more worried that he will be dismissed as a salesman by Bailian Trading Company, and his hard-won future will be ruined again.

Fortunately, before the red-eyed Fujianese patrol officers of the Weizhuang Police Station brought out these suspects in the dungeon one by one and tortured them (Ah Gui later heard that the police officer who was killed was their director), the murder case on the construction site of the Xu family mansion had been solved, and Ah Gui was also spared a physical pain: it turned out that the gang of thieves who killed the heavens robbed the construction site of the Xu family's mansion in Weizhuang and killed the director of the police station in Weizhuang, and then ran to Xiaoshan County to commit the crime. As a result, they were wiped out by the local garrison, which had been heavily armed, and immediately confessed their crimes in prison. Therefore, when Weizhuang's side organized a crackdown in a hurry, the real prisoner had actually been arrested in Xiaoshan County, but due to the delay in the dissemination of the news, the police officers here in Weizhuang only learned about the above situation a day later......

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However, although these suspects who were arrested, although they had nothing to do with the murder, they were more or less guilty of petty theft or cheating with other people's wives. Hearing that they had been arrested, many old enemies in the village came to testify. And the little nun of the retreat nunnery, who was rumored to have been forced to sleep many times by Agui in Weizhuang idlers, also secretly came to the police station and cried about the harm of "rotten man Agui" to their nunnery......

In fact, under normal circumstances, this little sin is nothing. Now that we have caught up with the period of striking hard, all criminal offenses must be dealt with strictly, severely, and quickly. As a result, Ah Gui and his brothers were put on paper hats by short-haired soldiers, put on the dungeon of the police station, and escorted to the entrance of the village for a public trial, and finally were sentenced to "hooliganism".

Then, according to a military officer with a tiger's back and a meaty face, Agui and the other "sinners" had two choices: either they would serve their sentences in a local labor camp and go to a quarry in Yuyao to smash stones for five years; Either they will go to sea with these military masters in a boat and serve as coolies in the army, and if they perform well or make meritorious contributions, they will be released in about a year or two, and then maybe they can be added to the military and become an honorable soldier.

Faced with these two choices, most people who are afraid to go to sea choose to go to the quarry in Yuyao to smash stones. Only Agui, who had been defeated in Shaoxing before, was completely desperate for these birdmen in Weizhuang and no longer wanted to stay in the local area, so he resolutely followed the short-haired soldiers.

At the same time, Xu Xiake, a "bachelor of the Australian Song Dynasty" (a member of the Huameng Association), who temporarily lived in the Zhao Mansion in Weizhuang with his family, also boarded a wooden boat from the river port of the Zhao Mansion under the collective farewell of the host's family, saying that he was going to go overseas to run an errand for the Australian and Song courts. Everyone in the Zhao Mansion was in awe, and they turned his errand into a "patrol of the imperial history", but they didn't know that Xu Xiake was actually just a royal literati who was ordered to write a travelogue.

And the short-haired soldier who was ordered to escort Xu Xiake to sea happened to be the small team that left with Agui.

Since then, A Gui, the "hooligan criminal" of Weizhuang in Shaoxing, has embarked on a long journey far beyond the limits of his imagination as an expedition coolie...... And until Agui's deathbed, he was never able to return to this water town in the south of the Yangtze River......