Globe Trekker

Chapter 16 Arrest
Under the slaps of the two wives, Xiaozhen, whose face was covered in blood, dared not hide anything. While crying and begging for mercy, she told how she was bullied by two Nanchang military officers that day, how she was rescued, and what happened to her master and servant afterwards. I went up the mountain to thank Daoist Wu, and today I went up the mountain to burn incense to help Daoist Wu wash the quilt and clothes, Daoist Wu was sent down the mountain under the entrustment of Daoist Qizhenguan, etc., and finally confessed that Daoist Wu was the son of Wu Shan who had come to the house with a knife to avenge himself.

The people in the room were all stupefied, the two women put away the three-foot-long board, and looked at the angry eldest wife in panic, and the two little maids who supported the eldest wife from left to right turned pale and trembled. Stop, Wang Steward, the younger brother of the eldest wife, rolled his eyes rapidly, his face was full of gloom.

It was about the reputation and hatred of the Chen family, no one dared to breathe, only Xiaozhen who fell on the ground was crying.

Steward Wang thought about it, his eyes flickered fiercely, and he gritted his teeth and approached the eldest wife to whisper a few words.

The eldest wife twitched her eyebrows a few times, nodded her head hard, Wang steward turned around and left, and soon brought two strong nursing home masters, covered Xiaozhen's head with a quilt and quickly tied it tightly, Xiaozhen struggled desperately and shouted , his feet trembled and his whole body convulsed, and he died of suffocation in a blink of an eye.

"Go through the back door and find a place in the field to bury."

"Yes!"

The two nursing masters lifted Xiaozhen up and left quickly. The butler looked around viciously, and walked up to the two women who were trembling with fright step by step: "You two come to my room tomorrow morning, and each of you will take five oceans. Reward money, remember it for me, after you leave this house, shut up your stinking mouths, if anyone let today's incident get a little bit of wind, don't blame me for being cruel! Remember?"

"Remember, remember..."

"Second Master, don't worry, I won't dare to talk nonsense even if I'm killed!"

The butler nodded in satisfaction, waved his hand to make the two maids back away, and glanced at the two maids who were terrified: "You two have been with your wife since you were young, so you don't need me to tell you how to do it?"

"Yes! Don't worry, Second Master, we haven't heard anything."

"Very well, let's go down!"

Steward Wang waved the two maids who were crying in fright to leave, and stepped forward to help the eldest lady sit down: "Sister, it seems that you have to invite the master here immediately to discuss what to do. Our enemy is hiding in Taijin Mountain now." In fact, no one knows when he sneaked in to take revenge, he is a crazy and ruthless person, maybe there is a secret support behind him, if this person is not eliminated, our Chen family will have no peace for a day Ah! Besides, if the young mistress has such a scandal, if it gets out, our century-old reputation of the Chen family will be ruined. How can a young master who has just started his official career be a man? Isn't this a waste of the young master's bright future? "

"Evil seed! Evil seed!"

The eldest wife woke up, slumped on the arm of the chair, grinning bitterly and weeping bitterly. Steward Wang couldn't help urging her in surprise, but the eldest wife just kept crying.

The eldest wife cried for a long time, wiped away her tears and grabbed Steward Wang's hand: "Second brother, tell me, what should I do?"

Steward Wang's face became more solemn: "The most urgent thing is to get rid of the scourge on Taijin Mountain as soon as possible and hide the whole thing, but we are short of manpower. Since the scourge can kill two Nanchang officers, it must be not ordinary difficult to deal with. Moreover, I reckon that scourge must have a gun in his hand. The two guns snatched from the two Nanchang officers, I have only about [-] people under my command, and I am afraid I can't catch him. How can you say that Fifth Brother Wang is also your cousin, the magistrate of the magistrate, and the Wang and Chen families have been friends for three generations. He also facilitated the marriage of the second grandma, so he won't ignore it, right? His face is not glamorous, if it spreads, the face of the old Wang family will be even worse, can he not help us?"

"That's right! Second brother, you should go into the city now, tell fifth brother everything, and ask him to send troops to get rid of that evil seed immediately! God, why is my life so hard? The eldest son died young, and only the remaining This flesh and blood of Kang'er has just been promising, and he has suffered such a disaster, if something bad happens, how can I live?" The eldest wife was so anxious that she couldn't speak coherently, and she couldn't stop her tears.

"Sister, don't cry. It's not the time to cry now. You have to quickly invite your brother-in-law and let him make up his mind quickly. How can you say that this is a big matter, you need your brother-in-law to nod!" Steward Wang patiently comforted her.

The eldest lady put away her tears, thought for a moment and stood up suddenly: "No need for him to nod, at this moment he is lying on that bitch's belly, whoever bothers him will not be scolded? Even if he comes, with his heart Don't hesitate to hesitate? If he still thinks about the nasty things he did back then, maybe he can't come up with any ideas. Today I make the decision. That damned bastard is now on the Taijin Mountain in the west, and it may happen at any time Come to seek revenge, there is no delay, you immediately ride a fast horse into the city to move troops, the sooner the better."

Steward Wang looked at the eldest wife suspiciously: "Sister, why do I feel that there is something strange about it? You always call that murderer a villain, are you hiding something from me?"

"Oh! It's burning your butt and you still ask, hurry up! You have been in the Chen family for less than two years, so naturally you don't understand what happened 20 years ago. Maybe both of you and I will die badly, don't forget that you killed that wicked mother by driving a car yourself, if you don't get rid of him, there will be endless troubles!" The eldest wife pushed her brother out anxiously.

"Okay! I'm going to the city right now, you wait for my news at home." Steward Wang stopped asking, and trot away in a hurry.

. . . . . .

In the early morning, on Taijin Mountain.

The stars faded and the morning light appeared. After Wu Ming finished standing up and practiced a punch, he picked up his shirt and wiped off the sweat dripping from his face. He looked at his raised pectoralis major and several abdominal muscles, and turned his strong arms , casually tossed the clothes and hung them on the bamboo pole three meters away, walked to the thick wooden stake in the middle of the open space, took a deep breath and made a rare gesture of raising hands, with Yin and Yang in both hands as if embracing the universe, humming suddenly With force, the two-meter-thick wooden pile of the bucket made a dull hitting sound.

A quarter of an hour passed, Wu Ming put away his last kick, his knees were slightly bent, and he made a closing gesture. He adjusted his breath slightly, took off his clothes, and wiped his sweat while walking towards the tinkling brook. Go, squat on the stone slab by the stream and wash up.

After wringing out his clothes and wiping off the water stains running down his face, Wu Ming lifted his head comfortably and let out a breath. In a trance, he seemed to hear a faint sound of footsteps.

Wu Ming listened carefully for a moment, then slowly turned his head to look in the direction of Qizhen Temple, and finally heard the sound of chaotic footsteps and weeds falling down clearly, and it was getting closer and clearer, and it seemed that there were more than two people. ten people.

Wu Ming didn't have time to think about who touched it. He looked around and then jumped up. He rushed back to the hut and quickly put on his priest's robe. He pulled out the Mauser pistol from under the pillow and pulled the trigger. He hesitated and strode out of the back door, swiftly passed under the water diversion bamboo tube, took a few steps to jump over the three-meter stream, and disappeared in the dense jungle behind the big tree in a blink of an eye.

More than fifty officers and soldiers of the security regiment wearing large caps and light gray military uniforms came to the front of the wooden house one after another. The door and two small open windows were fixed.

"Company commander, there is no movement inside, did you notice us?" A clever little soldier bent over and came to the captain behind the stake.

The company commander raised his gun and pointed forward: "Didn't you see that the iron chimney on the roof is still smoking? It must be in the house. You led ten people to approach the back door quietly, and I led people to seal the front door. When I heard my gunshot Just crash into it, if you can’t catch a living one, it’s fine if it’s dead.”

"understood."

"Snapped--"

"Don't move! Don't move..."

After the gunshots, there was chaos. The company commander and a dozen soldiers rushed into the house as if they were facing an enemy, but there was no one in the house. The tidy room was empty. The copper kettle kept emitting steam.

"Well, he must have noticed that we touched it. It seems that he didn't go far, maybe he was hiding nearby, let me search!" The company commander became angry with embarrassment.

A group of small soldiers had rushed in, and two platoon leaders came to the company commander: "It's not easy to search in this barren mountain, I heard that the gangsters have guns in their hands."

"Yes, the enemy is dark and we are clear!"

The company commander widened his eyes angrily: "Fuck, dozens of brothers ran dozens of miles of mountain roads in the middle of the night, and finally blocked all the mountain roads to touch them. I was afraid if I didn't catch a bird feather? Back then Who heard that there was a bonus of [-] oceans, so they competed for it?"

Everyone stopped talking, and the company commander thought for a while and decided: "What are you afraid of? All the trails down the mountain have been sealed off. The group leader personally led the brothers from the two companies to block the roads and cols. The guard guarded the western col, and behind him was a cliff that monkeys couldn’t climb. The gangster was alone, and even with the right wings, he couldn’t fly over. As soon as we found the gangster, we would shoot and greet him. Are you afraid we won’t be able to kill him? Divide into two groups, search the forest along the front and back of the big tree, let's go!"

"Yes!"

Gunshots came from outside, and there was a sudden chaos in the house.

A small soldier rushed in: "Company Commander, gunshots sounded from the west side of the mountain, like a shot fired from the west side of the mountain."

The captain rushed out of the hut and ran to the edge of the cliff to look down, followed by a group of soldiers. Dozens of pairs of eyes looked at the mountainside about 500 meters below, but they couldn't see anything due to the lush forest, only knew that the fire was going on below.

The company commander had no choice but to raise his pistol and ordered loudly: "The following is the col guarded by the members of the Chen family. It seems that there is a fight with the gangsters. Hurry up! Follow the sound and chase down. There must be a trail down the mountain after crossing the creek. Go there and attack back and forth. , even if the gangster is killed, we have to be there, three hundred oceans!"

The officers and soldiers shouted loudly, scrambling to jump over the creek with their guns in hand.

Behind the big rock on the mountainside, Wu Ming held his gun and pressed against the rock, wiped off the cut on his right cheek that was scratched by flying stone chips with his hand, and anxiously looked around the terrain.

Sparse bullets flew in from time to time, causing the leaves above his head to float down. Wu Ming had judged that no less than five guns were fired from the valley below, and the distance would not be greater than 300 meters. The enemy will come after you, and it will be even worse if you are attacked by the enemy.

But the place where Wu Ming is now is almost a dead end. On the left is a mountain stream more than ten meters deep, covered with moss and slippery, not to mention climbing down, it is still another matter whether he can stand still; on the right is a steep hillside, although the vegetation is luxuriant. There is no shelter, and if you climb up, you will expose your body and become the target of the enemy below. Even if the enemy's marksmanship is inaccurate, you can aim and fire five or six guns, and it is difficult to guarantee that you will not be hit.

Amidst the shouts, the gunfire below suddenly stopped, but the echo from above was getting closer and closer. Wu Ming knew that if he didn't move, he could only hide here and wait for death, so he took a deep breath and tentatively fired a second shot downward. One shot immediately attracted a wave of counterattacks from below.

After a burst of crackling gunshots, the sound of gunshots from below fell into thin air. Wu Ming seized the opportunity to jump over the rock suddenly, raised his gun and charged down the mountain road with a roar.

(End of this chapter)