Daming Yinghua

Chapter 2 Passing General
Then Chen Aliang sucked his teeth, showed his smile that was more awkward than crying, and said to the young man: "You just said that the leader of the lake bandits is a one-eyed dragon? Our inspection department has never heard of such a place here. How about this, you sleep in our yamen tonight, and in the next few days, our inspection department will go to have a look and ask. If there is no trace, I will also send an archer to send you to Your relatives."

Of course Zheng Shoukuan could hear that the official in front of him was perfunctory, and became anxious for a moment, and argued with his eyes wide open: "Master Jun, you have to send someone there now, otherwise my aunt may be humiliated! You can buy several stones of rice!"

"Ouch," Chen Aliang raised his voice exaggeratedly, "Brothers, this is not a doll, this is clearly a county magistrate who pays us! Only five liang of silver was paid, just like driving a donkey to pull a mill , drove us out in the middle of the night to fight for his aunt."

When the archers were neutral, someone followed the Shangguan's interest and teased the poor young man in front of him: "Master Xiaoxian, even if we rush now, I'm afraid your aunt has already entered the bridal chamber with the bandit boss. You are in a hurry to get angry." How about rushing to be Yazhai's eldest nephew?"

"Ho ho, ha ha..." Everyone laughed more and more brazenly.

Zheng Shoukuan gritted his back teeth.

According to my aunt's advice that I never forgot when I was in a hurry, don't reveal the identity of the young lady unless it is absolutely necessary.

But now it seems that if these Qiu Ba save people, they can only confess.

Zheng Shoukuan then raised his volume and said in a loud voice: "Master Jun, my aunt was robbed by the water bandits together, and the eldest lady of the Jinshen family she served. My aunt's name is Zheng Haizhu, and that eldest lady is from the Han family in Songjiang Prefecture. The eldest daughter of her, and she has been betrothed to the famous Gu family. Although this place is under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Mansion, the military master should also know that the gentry of Suzhou and Songjiang Mansions are not separated from each other."

When Chen Aliang heard this, his expression changed drastically.

He cursed in his heart: Damn, you really have a background, Qiu Wanliang, you are a murderer, if you don't snatch the many yellow-flowered girls in this town, you must go to the eldest lady of the gentry's family.

Chen Aliang looked at the time, he was afraid that the eldest lady had already been ruined by Qiu Wanliang.

If I lead my soldiers to ask for someone at this time, I'm sorry for the money that the bandit den sent every month. The key is, Miss Han returned to Songjiang and cried, and the two families of Han and Gu came to Xingshi to inquire about the crime. Are you asking yourself, the Qiandun Inspection Department?
Just keep doing nothing, kill the little devil in front of him, find a secluded place to bury him, and then tell the leader of the water bandit, Qiu Wanliang, and tell him to cover Miss Han tightly, and everything will be fine.

Chen Aliang had already made up his mind, and quickly gave the skinny man at the poker table a wink.

The thin man is a veteran of the inspection department, he always knew that the Shangguan and the water bandits belonged to the same family, and now he understood what the Shangguan meant.

The skinny soldier was about to rush forward to cover Zheng Shoukuan's mouth, but outside the door there was footsteps accompanied by the sound of metal clanging, and there was a sudden commotion.

Following a hoarse and majestic "Come and ask this doll", a tall, long-armed middle-aged man stepped into the room.

……

Zheng Shoukuan turned his head to look, but saw that the middle-aged man was wearing a short robe with narrow sleeves that reached below the knee, and a long knife with a curved egg handle was hanging on his waist.

It has a lion nose and eagle eyes, rough skin, deep Sichuan character lines carved between the eyebrows, and sharp flesh around the cheekbones.

This murderous appearance made him look rather scary in the dim light.

"Why did your lord come here? Cough! I think it's because this troublemaker is making noise and disturbing your lord."

Chen Aliang saluted the man respectfully, pointed at Zheng Shoukuan, and ordered his subordinates sharply: "Take this troublesome man out quickly, and blow him far away!"

However, the middle-aged man waved his hand, walked up to Zheng Shoukuan, slightly suppressed the coolness in his eyes, and asked, "Are you from Longxi, Zhangzhou Prefecture? Your aunt's name is Zheng Haizhu?"

Zheng Shoukuan nodded, and when he mustered up the courage to look at the man, there was a trace of doubt in his eyes beyond the timidity.

"How old is your aunt?" The middle-aged man continued to ask.

"My lord, my aunt was born in the 24th year of Wanli, and she is 20 years old this year."

"How did you come from Zhangzhou to the Han family in Songjiang as servants?"

Zheng Shoukuan calmed down a little, and said frankly: "My lord, the Zhangzhou velvet and gauze silk in our Zhangzhou Prefecture are as famous as the Wuwan Shu brocade in Jiangnan and Sichuan. My family is also very good at dyeing silk besides Zhang velvet. My father and mother After she died of illness, my aunt and I were the only ones left in the house. The tribe insulted us and wanted to marry my aunt to a foreign country, so my aunt filed a lawsuit in the county, sold the house, and took me to Jiangnan to find a way out. We arrived in Songjiang, We heard that Miss Han's embroidery is very famous, so we went to the door, and Miss Han kindly took care of her."

The middle-aged man interrupted him: "A family of gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, the family rules are the most important. Miss Han is a daughter of a boudoir. Why do you go out and run around like this?"

"No, it's not running around. This spring, Ms. Han heard that there was a senior embroiderer in Suzhou who opened an account to accept apprentices. She wanted to invite him to Songjiang to learn about embroidery, but unexpectedly, the senior was even harder to recruit than Zhuge Kongming. Ms. Han hid it from the master of the Han family. Ma'am, bring my aunt and me to Suzhou Mansion."

After Zheng Shoukuan finished answering, he lowered his head, and his eyes fell on the middle-aged man's feet.

It was a pair of leather boots, very worn out, and there were sporadic holes, but the uppers had "guard feet".

In this hot season, how could the civil servants wear such boots.

According to the knowledge and experience gained from his aunt's journey with him, Zheng Shoukuan guessed that the "adult" in front of him was a general.

Only the hoarse voice above the head rang again: "Okay, I will lead people, and let the inspection department also send out some brothers to lead the way, and go to the bandit's den to ask for people."

As soon as he said this, Zheng Shoukuan was both happy and surprised, and Chen Aliang from the inspection department was even more unbelievable.

Did you hear me wrong?

Didn't it mean that the further north you go, the more lazy the officers and soldiers are to get maggots?

What is this general from the northern region who came to the Ministry of War to eat and drink for free all night, bothering with such nosy matters?

The man sneered, stared at Chen Aliang and said, "What? I think I'm a passer-by general, so I can't control your evil affairs in Qiandun Town, and can't catch the villains in your Qiandun Town?"

Chen Aliang hurriedly shook his hands, and said in a stacked voice: "No, no, my lord misunderstood, the younger ones just order, order the people and horses, and listen to the lord's orders."

The man simply had a showdown with him: "Deputy Chen, this doll's father is an old friend I befriended many years ago. I was in the courtyard just now, and I heard the doll say his aunt's name, so I took a closer look at this doll's father." Appearance, there should be no mistake."

After he finished speaking, he leaned over slightly, his eagle-like sharp eyes covered Zheng Shoukuan, and after a while, he revealed his compassion: "When we parted from Brother Zheng, you had just landed. When I saw you today, you look, you really look like your father."

Zheng Shoukuan stared at the face in front of him that had never appeared in his memory, amazed, puzzled, thankful, all kinds of thoughts were intertwined in one place, which made him stammered "Many, thank you uncle", and knelt down to the man kowtow.

Chen Aliang, the head of the inspection department, cursed in his heart, "What a fucking coincidence", and immediately began to plan, he must secretly find a clever subordinate, and take a shortcut to report to Chief Qiu.

(End of this chapter)