scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 315 Change the taste
Along the picturesque West Lake in Hangzhou, there is a rock mountain not far from Qiantang Gate, the northwest gate of Hangzhou. There are many small red stones shining in the rock mass. Whenever the sun shines, the mountain is full of brilliance, especially in the morning sun or sunset. When the red light of the mountain is bathed, it is extremely dazzling, as if countless gems are shining, hence the name Gem Mountain.

Not far from Baoshi Mountain is the famous Qixialing Ziyun Cave in Hangzhou, and on the mountainside just north of Ziyun Cave, there is another private garden surrounded by red maple trees, with high halls and wide houses. , gray tiles and white walls, winding streams and corridors, lakes and stones stacked with peaks, dotted with pavilions, luxurious yet elegant, quiet and elegant.In late autumn, the maple forests around the house turn red, attracting countless tourists to linger. The literati recite poems and reciting poems, and the owner of the garden often goes out of the city with his family to enjoy the maple leaves, visit the mountains, write essays and read books.

Late October is close to early winter, and the maple leaves on the mountain have basically fallen off. If it were to change from previous years, the owner of the garden would have gone back to the city to escape the severe winter cold, leaving only a few servants to look after and clean it.But this year is different. At this time of year, the garden is not only full of people, but also in full swing. Team after team of servants are carrying big and small bags, loading cars, and harnessing horses. There are many horses in the warehouse, and many servants are moving the grain in the warehouse to the cellar for storage. People are screaming and yelling, and it is a mess.

Instructing these servants to move the property was a young couple. The husband was dressed as a literati, and the wife was holding a young child. The clothes were very simple, with patches on the coarse clothes, which did not match the luxury of this garden.Beside the couple, there is a petite girl in her teens, with a pair of dark, round eyes on her delicate and immature face. She is absolutely shrewd, and the clothes on her body are also very luxurious and exquisite, which is also in stark contrast to the young couple.

"Be careful! That huanghuali official hat chair made by Su is the treasure of the previous dynasty! If it breaks! You prepare my family to do a lifetime of white work!"

"Two idiots! Blind? You can knock against a marble screen, and the paint is off. Do you see it?! Be careful! Be careful!"

"Wine cellar! Wine cellar! Thirty altars of aged Shaoxing yellow in the wine cellar must be taken away! It's something my father likes. If you lose it, be careful of being whipped! Hurry! Hurry—!"

It was not the scholar husband who kept making such shouts, nor the young woman holding the child, but the young girl who was only eleven or twelve years old. Basically, from the beginning to the end, what echoed in the yard was that year. The sharp childish voice of a young girl, a pair of white jade-like hands on her waist, her aggression, and her little red lips seemed to be constantly spitting out flames and poisonous smoke. It never stopped for a moment, and she scolded many servants like dogs. Head, command is not feet touch the ground.In the end, even the young woman couldn't listen anymore, so she had to say to the young girl in a low voice: "Little sister, please stop scolding a few words, they have already tried their best and are already moving as soon as possible."

"Sister, it's not that I want to scold them, and I don't want to urge them either!" The young girl turned her face and said angrily, "But can I not urge them? Why don't you quickly transport these things back to the city and leave them here for the Wu Dog bandit soldiers to snatch them?!"

"That's the truth, but there's no need to be in such a hurry, right?" The young woman said helplessly, "Didn't my cousin say that Wu Gou won't arrive in Hangzhou until tomorrow evening or the morning after tomorrow? We still have more than a day."

"Sister, do you dare to listen to my cousins?" The young girl jumped three feet high and said viciously: "If it wasn't for their dirty hands and feet, I would personally come to Ziyun Garden to supervise the removal of the family property? You listen to them, Just wait to be fooled!"

"Little sister, brother-in-law doesn't want to hear your words." The young scholar finally opened his mouth and said with displeasure on his face: "My father-in-law wants me and your sister to bring our family to Ziyun Garden to move the family property. Are you You are also afraid that your brother-in-law's hands and feet will be unclean, and you will take advantage of your family?"

"Brother-in-law, I meant my cousin and I didn't mention you!" The young girl's tone was even more unhappy, "If my father doesn't believe you, will he let you come here to move the family property? Why don't I come here with you to watch?" When my sister brings my nephew, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it alone, so don't take my kindness as a donkey!"

"Okay, okay, my husband, my little sister, please don't say a few words." The young woman was busy trying to smooth things over, and then quickly changed the subject and asked: "Little sister, if I remember correctly, the rent that our family collected It seems that they are all transported back to the city or stored in the Zhuangzi in Lin'an, why is there so much food stored in Ziyun Garden this year?"

The young girl looked around, beckoned her sister to be short, and whispered in her ear: "This is my idea, now the army is in chaos, and we in Zhejiang are being attacked from north to south by the team of Lu Yifeng's dog thief and Zeng's dog thief , Hangzhou may be in danger at any time, and the officers and soldiers in Zhejiang are more fierce than the other when they ask for food and salary. Our two previous granaries will definitely be targeted by people, so I persuaded my father to hide some food in Ziyun Garden. No matter what happens in the future, as long as our family has food in hand, we will not be afraid of anything."

"You ghost, you still know the three caves of the cunning rabbit!" The young woman chuckled, couldn't help pointing at the young girl's forehead, and said with a smile: "If I marry you again from now on, whoever will be lucky , You don’t even need to hire a housekeeper at home, you are proficient in everything about accounting and financial management!”

"Of course!" The young girl was not shy and said triumphantly: "From now on, no matter which family I marry into, that family will definitely be rich, and the small family will become a big family, and the big family will become a rich family. Become the richest man in the world!"

Hearing her sister's words, the young woman couldn't help laughing until her flowers trembled wildly, but the young scholar couldn't take it anymore, and couldn't help shouting again: "Little sister, be careful, you are not young anymore! In half a month, It's time for you to turn eleven, and you'll be a big girl soon, and you don't feel ashamed to say these words! Miss Qianjin should be reserved, understand?"

"I'm already thirteen, I'm already thirteen, I'm already a big girl!" The young girl proudly flattened her chest, and leaned into the young woman's ear and said, "Sister, you stay outside the city to see this girl!" Zuoyuanzi, if Wu Goubing comes to your door, you can ask my brother-in-law to entertain them, and say that you are just servants of my family who are looking after the garden, and they can take what they like from the rest of the garden, just beg them not to set fire to people. Yes, sister, you must not come forward, you must hide in the cellar, and be careful of Wu Goubing's flirting with you."

"I know, my sister's kindness, my sister knows." The young woman touched the young girl's hair lovingly, and said softly: "It's because you stayed in the city, which made my sister worry even more. I heard that Wu Goubing was fighting. Especially powerful, if Hangzhou City cannot be defended, you will be in danger."

"Don't worry, what kind of family is our family? Even if Wu Gou enters the city, he might not dare to do anything to our family." The young girl said confidently: "And I have already inquired about the solution. As soon as the soldiers entered the city, I immediately smeared my face with pot ashes, so that Wu Gou soldiers would not dare to touch me."

After finishing speaking, the young girl turned to the young scholar again, and said with a high air: "Brother-in-law, after we return to the city in a while, you and my sister will come to guard Ziyun Garden tomorrow. My sister and my family's things here are just I entrust everything to you! If my sister makes any mistakes, I will never forgive you!"

"You don't need to explain this, even if I risk my life, I won't let your sister suffer the slightest grievance." The young scholar snorted coldly, "Taking this opportunity, I can hurry up and print my "Xiao Xiao" "Yuelou Collection" is finished."

"Bookworm, my sister married you, it's really bad luck for eight lifetimes! I don't know why my father lost his mind!" The young girl whispered, and at the same time, she began to worry about her father's blindness. If he had promised himself to a poor nerd like his brother-in-law that day, then he would have had a good life.

After tossing until the sun was setting, all the valuables in Ziyun Garden were finally loaded into the carts, more than 30 carts were fully filled, and all the grains that could not be moved were also moved into the dark cellar for storage. The young scholar and his wife didn't dare to be negligent, so they hurriedly asked their younger brother to stay and guard Ziyun Garden temporarily, and then took the young girl and the servants of the brigade to catch up with the motorcade and go down the mountain, taking the official road back to Hangzhou City.

When it was time to go down the mountain, the sun had already set on the top of the western mountain, and there was only the last glimmer of light in the sky before nightfall. The young couple was even more impatient, and hurriedly urged the servants to hurry, while the young girl sat at the head of the mountain. In his car, he was wringing his little finger to settle accounts, and kept making regretful voices, regretting that he hadn't moved out any valuables from his villa.However, at this time, the official roads around Hangzhou were already crowded with people fleeing into or out of the city, and the speed of the convoy could not be increased no matter what. Just when the young couple was in a state of anxiety, the servant who was driving the horse suddenly screamed again, "My aunt! Master, miss, miss, look to the north!"

"What's the matter?" The young girl froze, and quickly stretched out her small head to look out of the car, but saw the torches in the north were shining all over the mountains and plains, as dense as stars, and they were flying towards Hangzhou, and they could faintly hear the footsteps of horseshoes ll.

"Why are there so many torches?" The young scholar was almost stunned, screaming and not knowing what to do, and the young woman was also like this, screaming and trembling.On the other hand, the young girl was young, but her reaction was quick, and she hurriedly shouted: "Brother-in-law, sister, hurry up, it's Wu Goubing! Wu Goubing is here ahead of time! Go quickly! Go back to the city!"

"Didn't my uncle say that Wu Gou would arrive tomorrow night at the soonest? Why are you here now?" the young scholar screamed.

"I just said, our cousins ​​are a bunch of trash, and they will definitely suffer from what they say!" The young girl stamped her feet and screamed, "What are you still doing? Go, if you are blocked in the city by the Wu dog Otherwise, we're all over!"

"Quick! Let's go!" The young scholar finally came to his senses, and all the servants knew that life and death were at stake, so they rushed to the gate of Hangzhou city in the distance.After such a commotion, the child in the young woman's arms burst into tears, and when the young woman hurriedly coaxed the child, the young girl suddenly said, "I hope Second Uncle and the others will return to the city early."

"Huh? Little sister, when did you care about Second Uncle so much?" the young woman asked suspiciously.

"I care about the things he brings. Father asked him to take the housekeeper to Zhuangzi in Lin'an to escort the grain back to the city. If he is also blocked by the Wu dog on the road, the rent collected by our family this year will be finished." Young girl The answer was very frank, and the young woman was also angry about it.

After finally passing through the fleeing crowd, the team finally rushed to the Qiantang Gate in Hangzhou before it was completely dark and the enemy intercepted them. They've all been pulled into the air.The young scholar refused to give up, jumped out of the carriage and rushed to the door, shouting, "Master Jun, Lord Jun, please open the door! We are from the Hong family in Hangzhou, please open the door and let us in!"

"Get out!" The roar of Qing soldiers came from the city, "Wu Dog is here, the city gate cannot be opened, get out!"

"Master Jun, please be accommodating!" The young scholar yelled in despair, "My name is Hong Sheng, and my father, Hong Qiyu, was a student in the Qing Dynasty's Yunnan Prefecture, and he lives in the city of Hangzhou. Many people in the city know my family. Jun Ye, you will know if you just ask, please open the door! Wu Dog is coming!"

"Yunnan?!" The exclamation of the soldiers of the Qing army sounded from the city, "From Yunnan? You must be a spy of Wu Gou. Let the arrows go! Let the arrows go!"

Amidst the roar, arrows were fired at the city wall, scaring Hong Sheng to run for his life, shouting while running, "Master Jun, you misunderstood, my family is not from Yunnan, my father just worked in Yunnan. Magistrate!" It's a pity that the terrified guards of the Qing army in the city didn't listen at all, they just kept throwing their bows and arrows at random, and some people fired. Fortunately, the sky was already very dark at this moment, and the Qing soldiers couldn't see clearly. The target did not shoot Hong Sheng to death on the spot, only an arrow flew past Hong Sheng's scalp, took away Hong Sheng's hat, and scared Hong Sheng to the point of peeing his crotch.

"Brother-in-law, why are you so stupid? Why are you reporting your father's name?" After finally escaping back to the convoy, Hong Sheng, who was frightened out of his wits, had no time to catch his breath when his sister-in-law's thunderous curses hit his head and face. Come on, "Your father is only a student of politics, who will buy his account? Why didn't you give my grandfather's name? You gave my grandfather's name, who dare not open the door? Stupid! Stupid!"

"Little sister, don't scold your brother-in-law, he is also panicked." The young woman hurriedly held down the furious younger sister, and then told the servant next to her: "Second Brother Chen, go and give it a try and report to me. Grandfather's name, see if they can be flexible."

"Okay." The servant agreed, and when he was about to step forward, the sound of horseshoes and cheers came from a distance. When the couple and sisters looked up together, they were stunned to see a large group of Wu Nibai, the legendary murderer without blinking an eye. The hat soldiers had already rushed to the city of Hangzhou, and another team was rushing towards this side.

"No one dares to open the door!" The young girl finally screamed, "Turn around, turn around and go back to Ziyun Garden!"

While pulling the horses in a hurry and turning around, the team of white hat soldiers had already rushed to the vicinity. Seeing that there were more than 30 carriages full of goods, the team of white hat soldiers cheered like thunder, and rushed at full speed with torches, one after another He yelled: "Stop! Stop! Kill if you dare to run! Stop, everyone!"

"Run!" Amidst the screams, Hong Sheng and his wife, the servants brought by their sister-in-law, and the people around them scattered like birds and beasts, jumped out of the carriage and staggered towards the dark place. Hong Sheng, his wife is holding the child and his sister-in-law is only ten years old, wanting to run is nothing but wishful thinking, it doesn't matter who is behind him, and when he rolled off the carriage, the white hat soldiers over there had already rushed within thirty steps .

"Sister, brother-in-law, we can't run away." The young girl was indeed young and mature. Seeing the critical situation, she did not run for her life. She quickly grabbed two handfuls of dirt from the ground and smeared it on her face. On his face, he and his sister turned into two big faces, and then said to Hong Sheng quickly: "Brother-in-law, tell those Wu Gou soldiers that we will give them everything, just let us go." Hong Sheng trembled all over his body. Nodding, I don't know if I have kept my sister-in-law's advice in mind.

"Haha, I caught two little girls!" Amidst the lewd laughter, a group of white hat soldiers surrounded Hong Sheng and the others with torches, and some people laughed lewdly, "There are big and small, but I don't know what they look like. "

"I have painted my face, it must be beautiful! Do ugly girls need to paint?"

"Ha, brothers, let's send it, the car is full of good things!"

Hearing such words, Hong Sheng and his wife were naturally terrified. The young girl's face was also pale, and she was completely helpless. Seeing a white-capped soldier reaching out to pull her, the young girl screamed in fright. "Help--!"

"Stop!" The savior finally arrived, and a general on horseback led the brigade over, shouting: "Thought you were in a team full of dogs, and you would spoil women whenever you saw them? We are the benevolent teachers of the Great Zhou, not beasts in a team full of dogs." Beast! Our army does not allow the rape of civilian women! If you want to play with women, wait until Hangzhou is captured, and you can play with all the dog-like women in the mite city of Hangzhou! Let them go!"

"Yes, yes." The group of former soldiers of the Qing army who had just joined the Fat Man Army quickly nodded and bowed their heads in agreement, but there was still one who was not afraid of death and said, "General Wang, can they be from Hangzhou with so many things? Mite city full of dogs? So many good things from the Han people?"

"We are Han Chinese!" The young girl was very clever, and immediately shouted: "General, we are all Han Chinese. If you don't believe me, look at my sister's feet. My sister's feet are bound. I am still young, so I haven't bound them yet. Manchu women don't bind their feet."

"The little girl is quite powerful, and you can still think of this evidence." The general Wang smiled, looked at the young woman, and found that her feet were indeed bound, so he nodded and ordered: "It's Han people, let them go , something stays."

"Thank you, General, thank you, General." Hong Sheng and his wife were overjoyed, and hurriedly saluted and bowed to thank them.The young girl suddenly felt distressed, and hurriedly said coquettishly: "General, if you tell us to keep all these things, then my sister, my brother-in-law, and my nephew will all starve to death. Can we save a little? Just treat it as a good deed and give us a way to survive? General, you are a good person, please."

"Little girl, you can really talk." The general Wang smiled again, and said casually: "Then you drive away one carriage, and keep the others. Our Dazhou army fought to save the Han people and fight against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. , although some people’s wealth will be expropriated, it will not push you Han people into desperation.”

The young girl was even more overjoyed, she quickly thanked her, she took her sister to a carriage, and asked her brother-in-law Hong Sheng to lead the carriage—of course it was the carriage with the most valuables, but Hong Sheng was really cowardly It's useless, my legs are already weak from fright, and I haven't pulled the carriage for a long time.At this time, a new incident happened. A fast horse rushed up and said loudly to the general Wang: "General Wang Xu, the general who conquered the east has an order. If the residents in the city are intercepted outside the city, they can be sent to the general." In front of you, the general wants to understand the situation in Hangzhou."

General Wang Xu nodded his head in agreement, and when he looked back to see Hong Sheng, his wife and others who had not had time to leave, Wang Xu couldn't help being overjoyed, and hurriedly asked: "It's just right, are you a commoner in Hangzhou city?" ?”

"No!" The young girl hurriedly replied loudly.

"Yes." Hong Sheng replied very honestly and timidly: "General Wang, our whole family lives in Hangzhou."

"Brother-in-law! Why are you so...?!"

The young girl suddenly had the urge to tear Hong Sheng alive, but Wang Xu laughed loudly, "Little girl, you look cute and well-behaved, so you are so treacherous. It's up to you, come, and put them all in custody." Go before the general."

The fat soldiers around agreed, and a small team came out to put Hong Sheng on the carriage, led the young couple and the young girl into the carriage, and headed north. The young girl was furious and couldn't help but quietly Kicked Hong Sheng a few times, and cursed in a low voice: "Idiot, do you have to kill my sister and me to make you feel better? What did you interrupt just now, don't you think you have lived enough?" Hong Sheng also After realizing that I was wronged, I had to honestly leave my head away, and while enduring my sister-in-law's low-pitched scolding, I honestly sat in the carriage and followed the fat army soldiers northward.

After being escorted by the soldiers of the Fat Man Army for nearly an hour, Hong Sheng, his wife and the young girl were taken to the vicinity of Buijia Bridge in the north of Hangzhou. They are camping in the flames, with flags like forests, knives and guns like a sea, ordnance and supplies piled up like mountains, and people shouting and horses neighing like a busy city.Seeing this, Hong Sheng and his wife were already so frightened that their legs became weak. If they were not sitting in the carriage, they would definitely be unable to do anything. On the contrary, the young girl completely forgot about her fear and fear, and watched with relish. He whispered to Hong Sheng's wife: "Sister, how much money does it cost a day with so many troops? We are going to see that general, he must be a rich man."

"Little sister, please stop talking, okay?" Hong Sheng's wife trembled and whispered, "After entering here, whether we can get out alive is another matter. You still have the mind to count the money?"

"Can you blame me? It's useless to blame my brother-in-law!" The young girl retorted in a low voice, kicked Hong Sheng's back quietly, and whispered in Hong Sheng's ear: "Brother-in-law, if you don't want my sister to die, If you don’t want me to die, you’d better not report the life experience of me and my sister, and just give us a fake name. Otherwise, once the white-capped soldiers of the dog know my family background, my sister, your wife, and I Neither my nephew nor your son can run away, do you understand?!"

Hong Sheng tremblingly agreed in a low voice, but his body was still trembling like a wobble. The young girl secretly cursed a trash, and quickly calculated, "From the tone of these Wu rebels, we should be sent to see Wu Lu Yifeng, the general of the rebel army who conquered the East—I heard that Lu Yifeng is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth, holding a gold ingot in his left hand and a silver ingot in his right hand, the ingots can never be used up, I don’t know if it’s true.”

(End of this chapter)