Chapter 180: The Wicked
Chapter 180: The Wicked
Nangong Manman gave the silver to the little girl who was about to sell herself, and was about to turn around and leave, when someone suddenly said, "Don't go, please wait!"
Ah San felt very surprised, he thought that there would be people in this town who would come out to trouble them?
Nangong Manman looked back and saw that it was the old woman who had just spoken to her.
"Old woman, what's the matter?" Nangong Manman asked, "Did we do something wrong?"
"You have done nothing wrong, but you should not meddle in the affairs of the seafarers!" said the old woman, "Do you think that if you give this little girl money, the little girl will be freed from the sea of misery?"
"Isn't it?" Nangong Manman looked at the old woman who spoke in astonishment.
"On the contrary, you have harmed her!" said the old woman with a sad expression, "You are passing by, and you don't know who this seafarer is!"
"Could it be that this seafarer is a murderer?" Nangong Manman asked puzzledly: "Could it be that this seafarer can't cover the sky with one hand in this town?"
"He doesn't dare to say anything about playing elsewhere, anyway, in this town of ours, he is the Emperor of the Earth, and no one dares to provoke him, he can do whatever he wants!" The old woman said softly: "He actually has to take a concubine every year." ”
"Then according to what you say, doesn't this seafarer have dozens of concubines?" Nangong Manman counted his fingers and said, "Then isn't his eldest wife going to kill him?"
"If those who were taken by him are still alive, there must be dozens of concubines!" said the old woman sadly, "It's a pity...... Pity...... Alas, what's the use of talking to you passers-by!" the old woman turned around and wanted to leave Nangong Manman and Ah San.
"Could it be that some of the little girls who were taken by him have died in his house?" Ah San stepped forward to stop the old woman who was about to leave and asked, "Isn't there anyone in the government who came to check on him?"
"I don't want to tell you, I'm afraid that you can't help but go to them, so won't I, the old woman, harm you foreigners?" said the old woman as she shook her head and said, "There are good people in this world who do not live long, and they are plagued for a thousand years!"
"Old woman, are you afraid that if we take care of this nosy, we will be harmed by the seafarers in turn?" Ah San said with a smile: "Let me ask you, why is the old woman so clear about the affairs of this seafarer's family?"
"Alas, the old woman's life is miserable!" The old woman suddenly couldn't stop tears from her eyes, the old woman wiped the tears from her face with her wrinkled hands and shook her head, and muttered in her mouth: "You can't control this seaman, if you don't get it right, it will hurt you!"
"Old woman, why are you talking halfway, you just tell us everything you know, let's go to that seafarer to vent for you!" Nangong Manman took the old woman's hand and said, "I don't believe that he is still a relative of the emperor!"
"Little girl, you are right, this seafarer is really a relative of the emperor!" The old woman said softly: "He is relying on himself to be the uncle of the Seventh Prince today, and no one dares to provoke him in the township!"
"Old woman, don't be busy walking, let's find a place to sit down and talk about it!" Ah San stretched out his hand to help the old woman sit down in the teahouse on the side of the road, and asked the shopkeeper of the teahouse to bring the old woman some food and a tea bowl to drink.
"If I say that the Seventh Prince will greet me barefoot when he sees me, do you believe it?" Ah San said to the old woman with a smile: "Whether you believe it or not, I am in charge of this matter!"
"Although I don't understand the rights and wrongs of officialdom, in the old woman's impression, only when the emperor is the son of heaven, the seventh prince will greet him barefoot, look at your age, and you don't look like the emperor, how can you let the old woman believe you?" The old woman looked at Ah San suspiciously, and then said: "In the past, there were people who went to the state capital to sue this seafarer, but how do you know that there is nothing to do outside the seafarer, and the person who complained was put into prison instead, and now his life and death are unknown!"
"Old woman, he is Ah San, who is famous in the rivers and lakes, and he is also the emperor's own title of 'Loyal and Brave Marquis'!" Nangong Manman saw that this old woman didn't believe Ah San's words, she felt that the old woman must understand this.
How do you know that the old woman said: "The chivalrous man on the rivers and lakes, we are not common here, there is a very powerful blacksmith in the west of our town, and the people here like to ask him for help if they have any disputes!"
"Okay, then you can accompany us to meet this blacksmith hero!" Nangong Manman said: "Our carriage is next to us, old woman, you can accompany us on a trip!"
"Okay, the old woman will accompany you to the blacksmith!" After speaking, the old woman trembled and walked to Ah San's carriage, Ma Zhan hurriedly helped the old woman to sit in the carriage, and then followed the old woman's guidance, stopping and stopping along the way, and finally arrived at the blacksmith's blacksmith shop.
Ma Zhan once again helped the old woman out of the carriage, and Ah San and Nangong Manman followed the old woman to the door of the blacksmith shop and stood down.
Ah San and Nangong Manman saw that there were now two people in this humble blacksmith shop who were burying their heads and smashing the sledgehammer for striking iron, and kept hammering the red iron rod on the iron bench.
The two men who kept hammering the red iron rods on the iron bench saw the old woman getting down from the carriage and asked in surprise, "Old lady Wang, have you found someone to avenge your niece?"
"The old woman doesn't know if these two people can avenge my wife and niece, so I came here and wanted to ask Blacksmith Zhang to take a look!"
"Master is drinking in there!" said the two iron-striking men, "Master is complaining again." ”
"Blacksmith Zhang, my wife has come to see you again!" the old woman stood at the door of the room and said loudly, "I heard that you have drunk too much again, haven't you?"
"Old woman Wang, you haven't been here for so many days, have you found someone to avenge your niece?" A thick voice came from inside the room and said, "Come in!"
The old lady Wang took Ah San and Nangong Manman into the blacksmith drinking place, the blacksmith Zhang was drinking alone, and suddenly heard that the old woman Wang came with someone, and wanted to stand up, he suddenly saw the young man behind the old woman Wang, he suddenly felt that his hand holding the wine bowl trembled, as if there was an invisible murderous aura that had shrouded the entire room, the hand he originally used to strike iron, I don't know if it was because of fear in his heart or for some reason, he trembled, and the whole person wanted to stand up, but was pressed by an invisible murderous aura, unable to stand up。
"Who is he?" Zhang Blacksmith asked tremblingly, "What is the relationship between him and your old wife and son!"
"He's just passing by!" said the old woman, "He said he could let the Seventh Prince meet him barefoot!"
"You're not passing by, who are you?" Blacksmith Zhang's hand holding the wine bowl was still trembling, and his eyes were nervous and asked, "Why did you come to our town?"
"Down there, it's me who is called Ah San on the rivers and lakes!" Ah San said: "I'm really passing through here!"
"Are you the rising star in the rivers and lakes recently, and the famous Ah San?" Zhang blacksmith looked at Ah San with wide eyes, and then said: "Is this the Ah San who donated tens of millions of taels of silver to the people on both sides of the Yellow River?"
"If he is not, who dares to say yes!" Nangong Manman said: "We want to know, who is this seafarer, what kind of powerful background he has, why he has been scourging the girls in the town, and no one dares to take care of this matter!"
Blacksmith Zhang, who was drinking and drinking with red eyes, suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Mrs. Wang and said, "Mrs. Wang, the noble person you have been looking forward to is right in front of you, why don't you kneel down and ask him to administer justice for you!"
He ...... He...... Can you really help the old woman to avenge her grievances?" the old woman asked suspiciously, "Can my niece who died tragically really be avenged?"
"Shaoxia, this old woman is crazy like this, Zhang Blacksmith thank you for your great kindness for the people of the world!" After speaking, Zhang Blacksmith knelt down and kowtowed.
Ah San hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the blacksmith Zhang and said, "Don't do such a big gift, you will be killed!"
When Mrs. Wang saw that the famous blacksmith Zhang saw Ah San kneeling down and saluting, she felt that this person must have a background, so she hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Ah San's hand and cried and said, "Please ask your noble person to avenge my dead niece!"
"What is the old woman, sit down and talk slowly!" Ah San walked by with both hands, and the old woman sat on the stool and said: "You first tell me what is going on, and then we will talk about the matter of revenge!"
"The seafarer is not surnamed Hai, but surnamed Fu, the original name is Fu Ruhai, the family is well-off, there is a beautiful sister like a flower, called Fu Ruhua, I don't know how to be favored by the Seven Princes, and then I went to the Seven Princes' Mansion in the capital, I heard that I am very favored in the Seven Princes' Mansion, and the Seven Princes have also accompanied her back, the pomp and battle are really hugging each other before and after, someone specially sounded the gong to open the way, and all the people from the state capital yamen came to kowtow and say goodbye!"
"Is it really the Seventh Emperor Uncle?" Nangong Manman said, "We met him, it seems that the Seventh Emperor Uncle is not such a person?"
"You actually called the Seventh Prince the Imperial Uncle? So who are you?...... Who are you?" blacksmith Zhang stammered, not knowing what to say! he looked at Ah San with both eyes, as if asking for help for the true situation of the matter.
"Don't ask so much, just tell me what you know!" Ah San looked at Blacksmith Zhang and Old Woman Wang and continued: "As long as I know the truth of the matter now, I will give you justice!"
Blacksmith Zhang was no longer as calm as before, and his speech became unreasonable, and Blacksmith Zhang continued: "This seafarer has been enclosing land and building houses since he climbed into a relative with the Seventh Prince, originally we were not a prosperous place here, but since this seafarer built a house here, it has formed the current scale of various markets!"
"Alas, why are you blacksmith talking about this? Just tell the nobles how the seafarers take concubines every year and their families die every year, and talk about those useless things!" The old woman Wang sat next to her and couldn't listen to it, she continued: "This seafarer has to take concubines every year since his family is powerful, as long as he likes it, you have nowhere to escape, some families in order to escape the seafarers' concubines, they marry their daughters early, but they can't escape the seafarers' concubines!"
"Everyone else is already married, how can he take a concubine?" Nangong Manman asked puzzledly: "Isn't there an official government to take care of him?"
"Fu Ruhai is the brother-in-law of the Seventh Prince, who dares to take care of him in the state yamen, not only does he ignore him, but goes to his house to pat his ass!" Zhang Blacksmith said: "The seafarer takes a concubine every year, as long as the disobedient girl is basically beaten to death or disabled by his eldest wife, and those who stay are some obedient, the niece of this old woman has been married, and was forcibly taken to the seafarer's house by the seafarer from her husband's house, and then after more than a month, her body was found on the hillside behind the seafarer's house, covered in bruises and ......!"
Ah San suddenly slapped the table, and the only table in Blacksmith Zhang's house shattered, and all the dishes on the table were scattered to the ground.
Ah San looked at Nangong Manman and said: "In this world today, there are such people, no wonder there are some mysterious organizations that appear to fight against the imperial court!"
"Maybe Uncle Seven Emperors has also been concealed or deceived!" Nangong Manman said, "Let's go to the Seamen's Mansion tonight to have a look!"
"Okay, let's go tonight and see what this wicked man is like the sea!" Ah Sanyi stepped on the iron stool used by the blacksmith to make iron, and the iron stool made of pure iron had sunk into the dirt and had no stool.
Ah San looked at the stammering blacksmith Zhang and said, "You take me to the seafarer's mansion tonight, and I want to see how capable this seafarer is!"
"Old woman, I'll take you there!" said the old woman, "Anyway, I don't have many days to live, even if the seafarers want to retaliate, I'm not afraid!"
"I won't give him this chance to take revenge!" Ah Sanshuang looked at the old woman Wang and said, "The dead will not crawl out of the grave to take revenge on you!"
"Do you want to kill the seafarers?" the old woman looked at Ah San in astonishment.
Is there any other way than to kill this seaman?
Will Ah San really kill this seafarer?