Chapter 33: Let Them Go
As the saying goes, the snow is warm after the rain and the cold is cold, and the weather in the capital recently does not know what is going on, it has rained for three or four days in a row, and the people are shivering with cold, and the cold wind blows, and it snows all night.
Under the thick snow is slippery ice, and a careless one is a heel.
The carriage that had been parked in front of the house with plum trees all night creaked and creaked away through the snow.
There are people on both sides who are idle, naturally they are very curious to go out and look at this side or point fingers, there are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, maybe there is something lively to see.
Ma Zhongmin, a second-rate son who wanders the streets of the city all year round, is the most idle of these people.
Seeing that the carriage was far away, Ma Zhongmin, who was eating melon seeds, spit out the melon seed shell in his mouth, stepped forward a few steps, stretched out his hand against the door panel that the old gatekeeper was about to close, and said with a hippie smile: "Old man, I spent the night here last night, but the old man of your family is good?"
Lao Luotou, who has lived in this Yingtian City for generations, naturally has a headache for this well-known second-rate son in Yingtianfu, who doesn't know this piece, it will be no good to be entangled by the three brothers of the Ma family.
Seeing that the old porter didn't talk, Ma Zhongmin was about to squeeze half of his body into the door, and he kept muttering something about himself, being strong and strong must be more satisfying to your master than the old man.
Lao Luo was annoyed in his heart, picked up the broom he was leaning on by the door, and looked at Ma Zhongmin's body.
This Ma Zhongmin let out a miserable howl, rolled down the steps in front of the door, foamed at the mouth, shook a few times and stopped moving.
Ma Shunmin and Ma Liangmin immediately stepped forward, one hugged the eldest brother who was blinking quietly, and the other kicked open the door that Lao Luo's head was about to close, and said viciously: "If you kill someone, you want to kill a hundred? Big guy, come and see! Kill someone in Yingtianfu!"
Although the tall and strong Ma Liangmin is the youngest of the three brothers, he is strong and strong, and he has learned a few rough kung fu.
It's a snowy day, and most people are at home with nothing to do.
There are people who know the three brothers of the Ma family from Yangzhou, and they hurriedly smiled and introduced the past feats of these three splashes to their families.
When the big guy heard this, he couldn't help but gasp at first, obediently, he couldn't be provoked. The next moment they all began to wait happily to see the excitement. was entangled by these three people, how could they have to peel off their skin.
Lao Luo Tou was trembling with anger at the moment, he was an old man who was almost seventy, how much strength could he have? He was still afraid of breaking people, and when he finally fell on his body, he specially recovered a little strength.
The three brothers of the Ma family don't care if you really don't spend any effort, their shouting doesn't take much effort.
Don't think that anyone dares to lie to these people. Whoever is a little bit powerful, the three of them are more filial than their grandsons, and more filial than their filial sons. The reason why I dared to come to this family for trouble was naturally to inquire clearly, this family is a group of old and weak, and the head of the family does not live here.
There is only one young and beautiful widow in the family, is it an ideal target for extortion?
Ma Liangmin swept his bull's eyes and saw that there were already a bunch of people surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, so he grabbed Lao Luo's head by the collar and carried him to his two elder brothers, and pointed to Ma Zhongmin, who was foaming at the mouth, and said: "Old man, you killed my brother, is it private or private?"
Lao Luo's head was carried like this, and the clothes also jumped up, and the melon skin hat also fell off. Gray hair fluttered in the wind. It's like an old monkey being carried, looking pitiful. As soon as he saw Ma Liangmin blackmailing, he immediately trembled and shouted to report to the official.
Ma Liangmin waved his hand with a big-eared scraper, which hit the corner of Lao Luo's mouth and bleed: "Report to the official, you can also report to the official, why did you kick my brother down the steps, you also let me kick it like that, and then go to the official." ”
"I didn't kick him," Lao Luo struggled to argue.
Ma Shunmin, who was holding his brother, rolled his eyes and said in a strange voice: "All of us have seen you kick my brother, and you still want to deny it? When we are all blind, you go and kick him over just now, and then we will report to the official!"
The third Ma Liangmin laughed sullenly and led the old porter to step up the steps in three or two steps.
Lao Luotou hurriedly shouted, he was old, and he couldn't bear this kick.
"If you can't bear it, you will pay for the silver!" Ma Liangmin carried Lao Luo's head in one hand and pinched it with the other: "One tael of silver for the shroud, five taels of silver for the coffin, five taels of silver for those suona erhu or something, and then count me and the second brother who died brothers, and it is not too much for one person to pay five taels." Twenty taels in total!"
"Twenty-one taels!" Ma Shunmin said angrily: "I won't settle the account!
"Yes, yes, twenty-one taels!" Ma Liangmin poked Lao Luo's chest with his finger: "Not even one less copper coin is good." ”
Lao Luotou cried with a sad face, even if he sold him, he wouldn't have twenty taels of silver.
Just when everyone was laughing and watching and waiting to see how good this family was, a huge carriage passed not far away, and a picture of a hundred birds was drawn on the black carriage with gold paint, and the feathers of each bird were outlined with slender gold threads, and the eyes of each bird were inlaid with different gemstones.
Four solid-colored horses pulled this magnificent and terrifying carriage, creaking and squeaking through the snow.
On both sides of the carriage, there were eight men in strong suits with bulging temples and dark faces, and the Yanling knife of Yishui was all telling the people around them that these people were definitely masters among the masters.
Seeing a bunch of people surrounding the road in front of her, Xiao Nier waved her whip impatiently, and the man in the left suit immediately saluted and stepped forward to investigate, and came back after a while to report that it was an old man in the city who was blackmailing him.
Xiao Nier snorted coldly and was just about to make a move, when a pair of white hands stretched out in the carriage and pressed her who was about to jump off the carriage to take care of the injustice.
Then the person in the car threw out a small ingot of gold: "Let them go." ”