Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2689 The Capital (45)

Zhou Lezhi saw that the husband's complexion was pale, full of disappointment and disbelief.Fearing that he would lose his mind for a while, he quickly whispered in his ear: "Sir! Sir!"

Only then did the gentleman come back to his senses, and said in a low voice: "I'm a little uncomfortable, so I won't listen to it for now. This Mr. Gou is right, you write it down, and give it to me at night."

Zhou Lezhi was suspicious, thinking what happened to Mr.Wang Yehao was secretly happy, knowing that Gou Chengxuan's words had moved the Hearthstone Immortal.

These thieves are all rough, how can there be any good people!
It seems that my "provocation" has worked. This Hearthstone Immortal will not think of going to his accomplice for a while.

Wang Yehao immediately took Mr. Gou to take a bath and change clothes, and arranged a place to live.

"I'll leave him to you." Master Wang told Liu Bao, "Take good care of him! Don't tell him to run away!"

"Yes."

"One more thing. He said that his father and two servants are still there, and you have to try to find them."

"The little ones have connections with the people of Guandi Temple, so I entrust them. As long as they are in the boundaries of Guangzhou, they can be found."

"You have to be careful about this matter. Before I came to Guangzhou, I estimated that there must be many spies in the city. There are about three yamen and the governor's yamen. So I plan to stay in Zhaoqing, and you stay in Guangzhou. It is necessary to do things secretly. You go and recruit some brothers from the past, and I will give them a part of the money in the supervision bid."

"Little one understands! Thank you for your grace!"

"Mr. Jin..." Wang Yehao turned to Jin Wenchi, "You talk to Gou Chengxuan every day, and write down everything he knows about the Kun bandits, including the Qiongzhou battle."

That night, Zhou Lezhi served his husband to rest and slept in the outside room by himself.Woke up during the period, tossing and turning vaguely.When I got up early the next morning, I saw my husband's face was dark and his eyes were swollen.

"Sir, did you not sleep well last night?"

"Ah."

"I'll help you wash your hands first, and bring in some snacks. You're going back to sleep..."

"No need, I can't sleep." The gentleman looked stern, "Where is that Mr. Gou now?"

"Master Wang has arranged him properly. I heard that he knows a lot about Australians, and the master wants him to write everything out..."

Hearing this, Mr. nodded and said, "Where is Mr. Wang?"

"I heard that I went to the construction site of Wuyang Station in Nancheng today."

"Wuyang Station?"

"That's when we came to Guangzhou and disembarked at Li's Wharf, there was a huge ruin..."

"That's Wuyang Station?!"

"Yes, Brother Liu said that when the Australians besieged Guangzhou, they set off rockets and burned Wuyangyi, and the master started to rebuild it after he took office."

"Rocket? Be good!" Mr. Zhou made a strange voice, "Unexpected, unexpected, Katyusha?"

"What sand?" Zhou Lezhi asked without understanding.

"It's nothing," Mr. Zhou, who was originally sick, suddenly got excited, "Hurry up and bring some breakfast, and we'll go to Wuyangyi to have a look after we finish eating!"

Zhou Lezhi didn't know why the husband suddenly became interested in Wuyangyi. When they arrived at Li's pier at night, they saw a large piece of dark ruins, nothing special.

After breakfast, Zhou Lezhi, Liu Zhao and the others accompanied the Hearthstone Taoist all the way south along Chengxuan Street to Guangzhou South City.From a distance, one could see that the city tower was also burned down, and only a small amount of carbonized wooden structure remained standing.

Not far from the gate of the city, there is a large area of ​​ruins after the fire. Many shacks have been erected in the ruins, and refugees live in them.Between the broken walls, some low and dirty shacks were erected here and there, and several vegetable fields were opened.

Such a scene has no emotion for the Hearthstone Immortal, but he is very surprised that there are large ruins before leaving the city
"This is Wuyang Station? Isn't it outside the city?"

"This was originally a residence in the city. I heard that the thieves also shot many rockets in and burned many houses."

With a solemn expression, Mr. Zhou stopped the sedan chair, got out of the sedan chair and looked at the whole ruins.He didn't speak for a long time, he saw a shed not far away, and many people gathered, and asked, "What's going on with this shed?"

Liu Zhao hurried over to inquire, and came back after a while to report: "Sir, it's a porridge shed, where several big families give porridge every day to help refugees."

Mr. Zhou groaned, and walked towards the porridge shed.Liu Zhao and Zhou Lezhi didn't know why - they were not going to Wuyangyi anymore?Hurry up and follow with your family.

Many refugees had already gathered around the porridge shed. After asking, they found out that porridge was distributed here once a day.So when you get the chips, you have to go through the card.

"Where is the armor?"

"Papa Jia was still maintaining here just now, but the butler of Liang's residence came and was called to speak."

"Liang Mansion?"

"It's the Liang family of Liang Cunhou in this city."

Before Liu Zhao came to Guangzhou, he had studied the "Guangdong Gentleman Records" and knew that the Liang family was a well-known local family, so he said in a low voice, "The Liang family is a local nobleman."

After a while, the card armor came back.The life of this deck armor is also difficult, with a disheveled face and ragged clothes.I heard that the master is looking for me, so hurry up and answer
Liu Zhao called Pai Jia over, flashed his waist badge, and Pai Jia trembled and almost knelt down. Liu Zhao said: "You don't need to be polite! My master has a few words to ask you, just tell me the truth!"

Pai Jia is not very good at speaking Mandarin, but fortunately Zhou Lezhi is a local aboriginal, and he is in the middle of the translation.

"Why was there a fire here? Didn't the thieves break through the city?"

"Master doesn't know. The thieves fired rockets, and a lot of them fell in the south city. This area was hit by the rockets, and the fire spread to disaster. There were still a few places in the south city that were also hit by rockets, but the burned area was not so big... ..."

As he spoke, he described how the rocket struck that night, like a meteor falling to the ground, instantly igniting many houses.Although there is the Dragon Society to put out the fire at any time, but there are too many places to take care of.Finally, the weather was humid at that time, which did not cause a fire in the whole city.

"But there are also many places that were burned, and this area is the largest. Alas, more than 500 people were burned to death in one night. I don't know what was put in the rocket of the thief. If it sticks to something, it burns. Burnt to charcoal! Alas, it's too miserable..." Li Jia said, with lingering fears in his heart.

Mr. Zhou originally had an ugly complexion, but the more he listened to what Li Jia said, the more ugly his complexion became.Whispered: "Enough!"

Zhou Lezhi hurriedly reprimanded: "Stop talking!"

Zhou Lezhi and Liu Zhao saw Taoist Hearthstone's face turned livid, and they didn't know what taboo he had violated, so they didn't dare to speak any more.Li Jia was too frightened to make a sound.

After a long time, Taoist Furnace let out a sigh of relief and said, "What's going on with the Liang family's porridge?"

Card Jia said that the porridge shed was set up by Runshitang.Since the fire here, they have set up a shed here to give porridge.

"Although there are more than ten directors in Runshitang, the Liang family is in charge now. His family's housekeeper comes here every day."

Hearthstone Daoist listened and said nothing.A group of people walked through the ruins and came to the wharf outside the city. Looking at the ruins of Wuyangyi, Mr. stood by the river for a long time, with a look of grief and indignation on his face.

After a long time, Zhou Lezhi heard his husband whisper: "Go back!"

On the second day, Zhou Lezhi came to ask his husband for leave.

"...I want to go home and have a look. I heard from Brother Liu that there are a lot of thieves killing and looting in the countryside. I'm worried about people in the clan..."

"You go." Mr. Zhou waved his hand feebly, "Go early and come back early!"

"As long as the clan is safe, the students will return in two or three days." After saying that, he was about to leave.Suddenly he was stopped by Mr. Zhou: "I will go with you."

On the second day, they came to Hetou Village by boat under the escort of Liu's brothers and others.

Hetou Village is only more than ten miles away from Guangzhou, but it has not been attacked by soldiers.The patriarch said that when the army of bandits passed by, they did send people to the village to collect grain and "reasonable burdens."

"Soldiers passing through the border, whether they can not rob or burn is already a manifestation of the ancestors." The patriarch said.

"Have you done anything else bad?"

"I went there after collecting food and grass, but I didn't do anything bad." The patriarch said, "On the contrary, it was the local scoundrels who took the opportunity to loot a lot. They were all wiped out by the thieves later."

Hearing this, Mr. Zhou's complexion became better.He asked again, "What about the nearby villages?"

"I heard that some people who refused to pay the burden organized the village to resist bravely, and all of them were slaughtered in the village. What a pity!" The patriarch seemed to be terrified when he said it, but he was also a little lucky.

"Tucun?! Is this really the case?" The gentleman raised his eyebrows.

"The villain also listens to what people say, listens to what people say..." Seeing his grim expression, the patriarch flinched and said.

"Which villages are there, let me tell you." Mr. Zhou asked.

The patriarch didn't want to say it, until Liu Bao said, "Since the master asks you, you can't be implicated in the left and right! Just say it!" Then he said the names of several villages timidly.

"Sir, do you want to take a look?" Liu Yan asked.

"Go! Go!"

After resting overnight in Hetou Village, the group continued to set off on the second day and arrived at Sanfan all the way. After staying there for half a day, they sailed all the way along the direction where the bandits' fleet invaded and visited the villages along the way.

As the journey progressed, the face of the husband became more and more ugly: the burned houses, the new graves of the dead, the cries of the family members... one after another, they beat his heart one by one.

In Zhou Lezhi's view, the thieves can be regarded as "benevolence and righteousness". Whether it is burning or looting, they are very restrained.As long as you surrender in time and pay money, food and grass, you are basically considered innocent.Except for the person in charge, innocent people are not involved.Tu Cun's statement is really too much.
Mr. obviously doesn't see it that way.It could be seen that his anger was gathering.

On this day, they patrolled to Sanliang in Dongguan.As usual, I was looking for local elders to interview the past events of the bandits crossing the border.After hearing Qingxia's deeds, everyone sighed, saying that she is really a wonderful woman with love and righteousness.A group of people went to the cemetery of De Qingxia, Luo Tianqiu and others to offer wine and sacrifice.

Back on the boat at night, Zhou Lezhi could only hear Mr. muttering: "Beast!" Then he gritted his teeth and said: "Scum!"

(End of this chapter)