Chapter 24

After leaving Baozhilin, Ma Peiyuan led his soldiers to a remote place.

The surroundings became more and more desolate, and Ah Wu and Ah Liu became more and more frightened.

Ah Wu bravely cupped his hands and asked, "Master Ma, isn't this the way to the Imperial Palace?"

"Of course not." Ma Peiyuan said in a resentful tone without looking back.

The beating he received today was all because of these bastards from the Hesha Gang!
If you said you Hesha gang set fire to it, then set it on fire, but it hasn't started burning, and it didn't burn until it started, and Huang Feihong caught two of them!
This is good, if you go back and report it, if foreigners are involved, it will be a big trouble. If you don't go back and report it, you will annoy Huang Feihong, which will be a big trouble!

Ah Liu tremblingly said: "Master Ma! You can't kill people to silence your words!"

Ma Peiyuan stopped suddenly, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Don't be afraid, I'll let you go now. Come on, untie the two of them."

The soldiers next to him immediately untied the ropes on Ah Wu and Ah Liu.

Ah Wu and Ah Liu were completely stunned, not understanding what was going on.

Ma Peiyuan sneered and said, "Are you still running away? Are you waiting for me to send you off?"

Ah Wu grinned and said: "It turns out that Mr. Ma and our Hesha Gang are all together."

Ah Liu also smiled excitedly: "Master Ma, why didn't you say it earlier, so that the brothers were worried all the way."

Ma Peiyuan said coldly: "Still leaving?"

"Go! Go! Thank you, Mr. Ma!"

Ah Wu and Ah Liu supported each other and walked towards the main road.

After they walked a hundred steps, Ma Peiyuan tidied up the blood-stained official uniforms, straightened his official hats, and said Lang Lang:

"Tonight, Baozhi Forest was on fire, and the Yamen of the Guard Office rescued them in time, and found two arsonists. After investigation, they were the masterminds of the disturbance outside the concession. Bandit, after injuring many people in my guardhouse, I escaped, and this officer was also injured. In order to avoid further expansion of the situation, this officer ordered the firearms team to kill them, and after verifying that they were behind him, the case was closed—do you understand?”

"Understood!" The firearms team immediately raised their long-handled firearms to aim.

Ah Liu couldn't help but asked Ah Wu: "Fifth brother, what did Master Ma say?"

"I do not know."

Bang bang bang!

Long-handled firearms fired continuously, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of black gunpowder.

Before Ah Wu and Ah Liu understood what was going on, they fell into a pool of blood.

Ma Peiyuan covered his mouth and nose with a brocade handkerchief, and said with disgust on his face, "Take the corpses of these two thugs back, let's do business!"

"Yes!"

……

Early the next morning, there was a knock on Baozhilin's door.

Ya Casu opened the door a crack, looked out, and was stunned.

"Master, master! Come on! Come on!"

Huang Feihong and others rushed over upon hearing the sound, Lin Shirong picked up a stick casually, and Xufeng who just got up from the bunk also put his hand on the ivory handle of the short-handled firearm.

"What's the matter, Asu?" Huang Feihong asked with his hands behind his back, frowning.

"Master, Master, come and see!"

Ya Casu opened the gate of Baozhilin, only to see a large group of Fushan people surrounded outside.

They all knew that they had just learned that Baozhilin had suffered a fire, and they had come to express their condolences early in the morning.

The whole alley was so watertight that there were so many people that it was almost impossible to stand.

Worry was written on everyone's face, for fear that something would happen to Huang Feihong.

As soon as Huang Feihong appeared at the door safe and sound, the crowd burst into thunderous cheers.

Immediately afterwards, all kinds of firewood, rice, oil, salt and other things were passed to the door. In just a few minutes, the gate of Baozhilin was completely filled with these simple condolences.

This scene was really shocking.

Even though Huang Feihong was a tough man, he couldn't help but have rosy eyes at this moment.

A scholar squeezed over from the crowd, offering a newly written couplet with both hands.

Xufeng took it, shook the couplet away with both hands, and recited loudly:
"Iron shoulders bear morality!"

"A wonderful hand saves the common people!"

"it is good!"

"Excellent writing!"

All the people in Fushan applauded.

"We, a few wealthy merchants, together contributed to help Master Huang rebuild Baozhilin, and engraved this couplet on the door frame by the way!"

"Okay, this proposal is very good! That's it!"

Several people who looked like wealthy businessmen made a decision directly.

Huang Feihong bowed his hands to the people of Fushan again and again, and said with a choked voice: "I'm ashamed, ashamed, I, Huang Feihong, have not done enough."

The people of Fushan said in unison: "Master Huang deserves it!"

The scholar who wrote the couplet said with a smile: "Unfortunately, I wrote it in a hurry, and I haven't had time to think of a suitable horizontal comment."

Xufeng frowned, and said loudly: "Hengpi: The Greatest Hero!"

"Ouch!"

"Absolutely!"

"This horizontal batch, the momentum and realm came out all at once!"

"Heroes are great, for the country and for the people!" The scholar who wrote the couplet said excitedly: "How could I not have thought of such an outrageous words and sentences? It seems that I really only know how to study hard. Only you, Master Afeng Only such a person with both civil and military skills can write such a state-of-the-art horizontal comment!"

"Yes! Master Afeng is amazing. I heard that it was Master Afeng who burned the beard of the foreign governor Wiggins yesterday!"

"Master Afeng, my daughter is twenty-eight years old, she went to a private school, and there are twenty servants in six houses with [-] acres of fertile land. Would you like to think about it, Master Afeng?"

"Master Afeng, although my family does not have a hundred acres of fertile land, my family has flour mills and textile factories all over the place. What's more, my daughter is more beautiful than his old Li's daughter."

"Master Afeng..."

Facing the enthusiastic Fushan people, Xufeng was a little overwhelmed for a while.

The rhythm is wrong!

You obviously sent couplets to Master, why don't you praise Master, but me instead?

Oh, it turns out that they are optimistic about me, so they want "long-term investment".

... Xufeng was a little dumbfounded.

It seems that it is impossible not to make a statement today.

Xufeng pressed his palms, and said with a righteous face: "Xufeng is grateful to all the elders for their love, but now that the country is in crisis, young people must first have high ambitions, and I will put aside for the time being."

The wealthy businessmen all gave a thumbs up, but they were even more unwilling to give up Xufeng, a potential son-in-law who could take the long way.

Huang Feihong smiled and cupped his hands, "Everyone, Baozhilin has just suffered a fire, and everything needs to be considered in the long term. Feihong has already understood what everyone is thinking. Please do a favor."

The people of Fushan said in unison: "Master Huang, if you need anything, please ask!"

Huang Feihong, Xufeng and others kept clapping their hands in return.

After finally sending the enthusiastic Fushan people away, Xufeng's waist was about to break.

In the end, there was only an old lady with small feet left in front of Baozhilin's gate.

The old lady was wearing patched clothes, with a dirty bag in her hand, and her face was full of wind, frost and dust.

"Grandma? Do you have anything else to do?" Xufeng asked politely.

The old lady opened her white eyes, knelt down tremblingly, and cried bitterly:

"Master Huang, please save my son!"

(End of this chapter)

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