Daming Yinghua

Chapter 3

With a muffled "boom", the passenger ship hit the wooden stakes at the pier.

The water bandit driving the boat, Xu Aliu, threw the three-oared scull, turned around and kicked open the cabin door, with a flash of hostility in his one-eyed eyes, he yelled at the cabin, "Come out for me."

Zheng Haizhu stood up first, and said softly to Han Ximeng, "Miss, don't be afraid."

In the darkness, she could feel that Han Ximeng, who had been relatively calm after meeting the robbers at dusk, had obviously become more anxious.

However, the daughter of the Songjiang Mansion still tried her best to stabilize her slightly trembling body, gave Zheng Haizhu a soft "hmm", got up and followed her, and walked out of the cabin.

The eyes suddenly brightened.

It is a large-scale dock with bright torches, and there are more than a dozen large and small boats moored. On the shore and on the boat, there are men with shirtless waists and trousers rolled up, who are either tidying up the cables or carrying goods.

After his eyes adjusted to the light, Zheng Haizhu could clearly see the corpses of the boat boss and his wife lying across the side of the boat.

In the Jiangnan water town in this world, sailboats and scull boats are more convenient means of transportation than horse-drawn carriages.Starting from Changmen, Suzhou, you can arrive at Songjiangfu Wharf after a boat trip of more than a hundred miles.People usually travel, but they will take a boat for a little longer distance.

More than half a month ago, the eldest lady Han Ximeng was eager to learn art, and it happened that the newly-accepted Zheng's aunt and nephew had a commercial "Give the Citation", so she asked Zheng Haizhu to bribe the guards at the Chengguan Wharf in Songjiang Prefecture with money. That road leads to the domestic ship going to Suzhou.

On the way back, the three master and servant wanted to avoid people from the Songjiang Prefecture from recognizing Han Ximeng in the same boat, so they abandoned those big boats with a magnificent structure and many passengers, and hired a rowing oar "Sheep's Head" operated by a husband and wife only. ferry".

Unexpectedly, when I was driving in the waters near Qiandun Town this evening, I suddenly encountered water bandits. This kind of small boat without young and strong boatmen, just like the name of the boat, really became a lamb to be slaughtered.

At this moment, Xu Aliu saw two delicate young women, whose wrists were bound by hemp ropes, walking tremblingly up the narrow deck, just about to taste the pleasure of sucking a cat and a mouse, suddenly frowned, and said solemnly: "There What a brat!"

Immediately, a younger water bandit under his command rushed into the cabin to check, and came out after a while to report: "No one, there is a hole in the bamboo baffle at the stern, I think he escaped from there."

Xu Aliu sneered, glared at Han Ximeng and said, "This little coffin raised by your family is not authentic. If you have the ability to break free from your own rope, I don't know how to help you untie it."

Han Ximeng respected his identity and didn't answer the gangster's accent.

Zheng Haizhu thought, no matter whether this group of water bandits kidnapped people for extortion or robbed them for their own entertainment, before his nephew Zheng Shoukuan succeeded in asking for help, it would be best not to show a haughty and disdainful attitude, so as not to anger the bandits.

She immediately took over the conversation, and said calmly: "Miss and I don't know how to swim, so it's useless to untie them."

Hearing this, Xu Aliu looked at Zheng Haizhu carefully.

The little girl's face darkened a little, but she couldn't hide her good looks.Judging by the texture of her clothes, she should be a servant of the Han family, but with her black hair combed into a big bun, she seems to be married. No wonder she is not as timid and careless as ordinary maids despite being young. .

For today's business, the head of the family has explained that as long as Miss Han is kidnapped, it doesn't matter if you run away as a servant.Even if the little devil goes to report the letter, with the background of the head of the family, he is afraid of a bird.

So Xu Aliu didn't ask any more questions, and put on a haughty face, escorted master and servant Han and Zheng ashore, and walked to the stockade a hundred steps away.

The bandits' den here is really not too small. The wall is built of stones, more than three feet high, and the shape of the top even looks like a female wall in a state city.

After entering the gate of the village, the stench came to my face. It turned out to be a long row of stables.

Zheng Haizhu was even more surprised.

Since traveling to the late Ming Dynasty two years ago, no matter in Zhangzhou, the "hometown" rewarded by God, or the state capitals along the way north, if it weren't for the guards of the guards, the stables near the ordinary government offices would not have such a scale.

When she was thinking about what kind of thieves and bandits appeared in the Sujiahu area in the late Ming Dynasty, she suddenly slipped, lost her center of gravity, and fell to the ground.

The summer has not really passed, and women's clothes are also thinner.Xu Aliu stared at Zheng Haizhu's graceful back all the way, and his stomach was already full of evil fire.

At this moment, he finally seized the opportunity, immediately stepped forward, bent down, and made a gesture to drag Zheng Haizhu up, but in fact, his left hand was pressing on her spine, and his right hand was groping her waist and hips.

Zheng Haizhu felt sick for a while, and was about to struggle to shake off the salty pig's hands when he suddenly felt a light on his back.

Xu Aliu softened his voice for a moment: "Hey, second master, why did you come to brush the horse yourself?"

……

A slender but not very strong man was holding a broom in one hand and clasping Xu Aliu's shoulder with the other.

He was the one who lifted Xu Aliu off Zheng Haizhu's back like a hawk catching a rabbit.

Zheng Haizhu tried his best to get up, stood firmly and looked around, meeting the eyes of the man whom Xu Aliu called "Second Leader".

The turpentine lamp in front of the stable was blazing, reflecting the man's facial features and eyes very clearly.

The moment their eyes met, Zheng Haizhu was startled.

She comes from a world 400 years from now.

In that world, she always looks at men equally, whether it is a boss, a client or a colleague, so she has accumulated more material about men's eyes than those women of all colors in this world who often look down at the toes of their shoes.

The second boss in front of him, don't look at the stubble around his beard, which is thicker than Xu Aliu, and there is a deep scar from his temples to the nose, but the light in his eyes is as fierce, cunning, or lewd as the gangsters. Xie's eyes had no resemblance, and they were completely different from the cold arrogance of the officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty and the ignorance of the commoners that Zheng Haizhu was already familiar with.

There was a strong heroic spirit and kindness in his eyes, and this fortitude and compassion intertwined brilliance was also mixed with a bit of cunning, which made the pair of pupils look extraordinarily bright and dazzling.

Han Ximeng, who was beside Zheng Haizhu, looked at the man from the side, and the fear that haunted her was temporarily replaced by curiosity.

Unexpectedly, if a bandit leader ignores the scar, his facial features and face are more handsome and domineering than Lingzi Xiaosheng, who specializes in acting as a hero in the Songjiang Mansion.

At this time, only Xu A Liu begged for mercy: "Let go of the second master, Ah Liu's bones are going to be broken."

The man said to Xu Aliu in a frosty tone: "You are a man who bullies a weak woman, don't you feel ashamed and panic?

Xu Aliu made two shameless and amusing "hehe" and said with a smile: "The second master is right. Brothers do this business for money and women? Even the lady of the official family sleeps when she wants to sleep. .Besides, Ah Liu, I met this maid, not the young lady that the boss wanted."

Hearing the words, the second leader was silent for a while, then suddenly pulled out the riding whip around his waist with the speed of lightning, and slammed it on Xu Aliu's leg with a "swish".

Xu Aliu suffered a severe pain that he was not prepared for, and screamed "Ah", folded his knees forward, and threw himself on the ground.

The second master raised his voice and said: "I don't know if these girls are maids or not. I can only see that you, surnamed Xu, regard yourself as the master. The Yangzi (referring to the kidnapped person) brought by the master, whether it is the master or Servant, do you deserve it too?"

After saying that, another whip hit Xu Aliu's back.

This whip was condescending, and it was whipped harder.

But Xu Aliu, on the contrary, was awakened by the severe pain, bit his teeth, stood up on the ground, cursed "Niu Chengzhong, I hate your mother", and rushed to fight the second leader.

The big and small water bandits passing by or feeding their horses immediately gathered around and made a noise to fight.

"Hold me, stop it!"

Amidst the chaos, the lean man who stopped outside the crowd let out a yell.

Everyone looked distractedly, and saw that the head of the house, Qiu Wanliang, had arrived, and hurriedly made way for the stone road.

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(End of this chapter)