in spring

Chapter 320 Dou Hu Peng

The current Hu Peng is no longer the high-ranking imperial businessman in the past. Not only has he lost a lot of weight, his skin has also become dark, dry, and haggard, and his eyes have added a bit of cunning.He was wearing a blue satin robe, the material was of good quality, but the hem was a little frayed. He was wearing a pair of soapy boots, the tops of which were also very clean, but the soles of the shoes were so worn that you could vaguely see the yellowing of the socks inside. s color.At first glance, everyone would think he was a rich man with his attire, but in the eyes of discerning people, they would naturally know that he was in a poor situation.It's just that he still had the prestige of the young master, looking up at the Hu family steward in front of him with his head held high, and ordered him to bring people to welcome the old lady, the young mistress and the young masters and ladies.

Behind Hu Peng were six or seven people, two sedan chairs and a carriage.Except for two of the five or six people who were wearing the same clothes, which showed their status as servants, the others were obviously hired temporarily to carry cars and drive cars.The sedan chair and carriage were also rented by waiting customers on the street outside, and a lantern with the name of the car dealership was hung on the door of the carriage.The curtain of the sedan chair in front was slightly opened, and the people inside seemed to be peeking out.

This is the entrance of Liushu Village, and there is a stone tablet with the name of the village engraved on it.Standing next to the stele is Zhuangtou Laozhang, about fifty years old, thin and thin, and his face, which was originally friendly and smiling, has taken on a gloomy color. , dare not greet each other.Not far behind him, there were old people and women looking over their heads, and a few children were peeking behind a tree trunk not far away, secretly watching.

When Chunying followed Li Xu and his wife to Zhuangqian, what they saw was such a scene.She looked at Hu Peng from a distance, and found that his appearance was completely different from Hu Fei's, and remembering that Hu Fei had mentioned her Father Xiao, she guessed that Young Master Hu was probably Mother Xiao.This is even better!Ever since she left Beijing, she had been thinking about how to deal with Hu Peng. Although she was busy these few days, she also took the time to ask Mo Han to go out to inquire about the news, and prepared several countermeasures, which happened to be available now.

Li Xu knew Hu Peng, looking at his arrogant appearance, and thinking about what happened to Hu Fei that Chun Ying had said, he was very angry.It's just that he still remembered his wife following him, so he turned around to persuade her and Chunying: "This is all Zhuang Han, you go home and take shelter for a while, I will send a message to go back."

Young Mistress Xu turned around as she said, but Chunying glanced at the farmhouse next to her, seeing that there were only two women in the courtyard, she looked into the house again.Seeing this, Young Mistress Xu stopped in her tracks, and said with a smile: "This is Mrs. Wang's house. All the men in his family are outside. There should only be two mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. It is okay for us to go to her house for a while." Li Xu frowned, But did not stop.

Chunying turned her head and smiled at her, then whispered some instructions to Mrs. He, who hurriedly walked to the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, said a few words to them, and stuffed the money in the past, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law refused twice, and then accepted it , greeted him graciously.Chunying followed Young Mistress Xu into the door, and turned her head to call Mo Han: "You are guarding the door, maybe I need you to help me speak." Mo Han withdrew his resentful stare at Hu Peng and nodded: "Miss, just order !" Chun Ying was stunned and smiled.

The stalemate at Zhuangkou was still going on, Hu Peng had lost his patience, and he heard the hired car driver whispering beside him, saying that today he might not even be able to get back the money for the car and car, so he saw the family just now. A few pieces of jewelry on the head of the female family member seem to be worth a little money, so it's better to ask for it and go back to the business.He panicked, looked at Lao Zhang more and more unkindly, and simply kicked the stone tablet, and shouted: "Old dog slave, are you blind?! Your master dare not be so presumptuous in front of me, you What is it?! How dare you stop me?! Why don’t you get out of the way?! If you don’t get out of the way, I will go to the government to sue you and your master for being unfilial and disloyal. Your uncle is playing prestige in front of me!"

When Lao Zhang received instructions from Li Xu, he already had some doubts about the identity of the person in front of him. He knew that he was probably the elder brother of the owner, otherwise the owner's friend would not have asked so many words, so he left everything behind. Seeing that Hu Peng is so arrogant now, he couldn't help but get angry.Even Hu Fei, the owner of the villa, has never spoken to him in such a tone. This person can tell at a glance that he has come to seek refuge in despair. Whether he is the elder brother of the owner or not, he has no right to say such things to himself. talk!Immediately his face turned cold, and he said: "Your Excellency, please show some respect. My old man is not your servant, so you don't need to worry about it." After finishing speaking, I got impatient with him, and flicked my sleeves: "Hold on! The master is not at home, and he is about to guard the door, so as not to be taken advantage of by the younger generation. When the master comes back, I will ask for credit for the big guy!" All the Zhuang Ding responded in unison.

Hu Peng was so angry that he blew his beard and stared at him, but he didn't understand, what kind of ability does that bastard have, to coax everyone under him to be so determined that he doesn't take him seriously at all.This is the case in Beijing, and it is the same here!In the middle of the capital, he still had his clan as a support to suppress those two young men who didn't know what to do, but here he was in trouble, he didn't know the place well, and the other party was large and powerful.He began to hesitate, but when he thought about the journey he had just made, he saw a large piece of fertile land and a house that took up a lot of land from a distance, and then he thought about the expectations of his mother, wife and children behind him, and the covetousness of the bearers. , He put this hesitation aside, and continued to yell: "Bold! How courageous, I am your master's elder brother! His eldest brother! Behind me is his aunt! Whose servant taught the master not to be filial to his mother?! I can take you to the yamen now, without your master asking, I will discipline the slaves for him first!"

Old Zhang's face became even more gloomy. At this time, Mo Han got Chun Ying's instructions, walked over and said, "Grandpa Zhang, the master asked who is making noise here. If the young people are making trouble here, send someone to invite the yamen It’s good for people to decide.”

Old Zhang was stunned, and immediately understood that this young man came with the second master of the Li family, and what he said probably meant what the second master of the Li family meant, so he said, "Look at this man, see if you recognize him? He said he is Zhuang Where is the brother of the Lord!"

Hu Peng looked at Mo Han for a few times, and recognized him: "It's you? Mo Han? Okay, so you went away with the second child?! Don't be a runaway slave?! Okay, I won't follow you today Regardless of this, you tell this old man for me, tell him who I am!"

Mo Han smiled faintly: "You don't even know who you are, how can I know?"

Hu Peng was stunned: "You..."

Mo Han raised his voice: "Although our uncle's parents died, he has no brothers and sisters. He came here alone to buy property. Grandpa Zhang must also know that our uncle enshrines the spirits of the old man and the old lady, right? If the above There is an elder brother, so why have I never heard of it for so many years? This guest keeps saying that he is the elder brother of the uncle. I don’t know what year he was born? Who is the biological mother? Who can testify? "

Lao Zhang nodded very cooperatively: "In the main hall of the house, the spiritual tablets of the old man and the old lady are indeed enshrined. Even the surnames and taboos are clear. The names of filial sons and filial daughters are only our father." The fact that he would call the owner "Hu Lao Er".

Hu Peng was furious: "Well, you Mohan, you actually said such a thing?! You are the son of our family! What do you think of me and the old lady?! The second child, who was born as a girl, deserves to be called Madame?! How did your mother teach you?!"

Mo Han gritted his teeth coldly: "How my old lady taught me, don't bother you to think about it, and it has nothing to do with you anyway!"

Hu Peng remembered that Mo Han's parents had already been sold by him. At that time, he sold them in a hurry. He couldn't remember who they sold them to and where they sold them to.

Mo Han raised his hand to block him, pushed him staggeringly, and shouted: "You still dare to hit someone?! First pretending to be a relative, and then hitting someone again, it seems that you intend to make trouble?! Grandpa Zhang, let someone report to the police!"

The front of the two sedan chairs quickly lifted the curtain, and it turned out that the person sitting inside was an old woman, who was well-dressed, but with less jewelry on her head, and her facial features seemed a bit mean, she was obviously very angry at the moment, with cold eyes Staring at Mo Han intently, he said: "Now that your wings have grown hard, you dare to run into your master?! Don't think that no one will know your details after being thousands of miles away! Pheasants still can't become phoenixes after all, don't carry them by yourself!" Be careful not to be so lucky!" He ordered his son: "Why are you arguing with them?! The second son went abroad for more than a year. He probably died outside and never came back. He didn't get married. You and your son don’t own the family business?! You still haven’t acted like a master and drove these ignorant slaves away! What time is it now? You’re still dawdling here, it’s a joke!”

Chunying sneered when she heard it in the manor courtyard. Originally, she only hated Hu Peng, but now she realizes that she is too kind. These people are not good people!That being the case, she simply added fire.

Mo Han glared at the Hu family's mother and son with a straight face, seeing that Hu Peng was about to barge in, he blocked it, disregarding the several fists he received, just not allowing anyone to enter the village.Lao Zhang saw that the situation was not good, and was about to ask someone to come forward to help, when he heard footsteps behind him, but it turned out to be seven or eight Zhuang Ding, so he couldn't help but feel happy.

When Hu Peng saw that there were so many people coming, he was a little timid.A bearer got impatient: "Does the master have money to pay?! How long has this been delayed? We won't stop you from getting rich, but please pay the car and sedan now, and we'll go back."

Mrs. Hu scolded with a straight face: "I don't even know what time it is, just come and urge me! When we enter the village and settle down, we will naturally have your rewards! Is it possible that a group of us women and children are thrown away in the public? Can't you show your face?! Hurry up and back down!"

She is used to scolding her servants, but she forgot that these people are not her own bearers, and they don't buy her account: "It's not easy for us to run a small business, you are a noble person, so naturally you don't care about the small money, why don't you settle the account first? When you give us the silver, we will wait here with you, and we promise to do what we do in a decent way, and we will never let your women and children show their faces!"

Mrs. Hu just scolded: "I really don't understand the rules! You have to press the bill before the matter is finished, and you don't blush!"

Not to be outdone, the bearer said, "If you pay the full deposit, that's fine. The total is only five qian, and you only gave fifty cash as a deposit. What do you guys have to blush?" Another bearer was also there. The side muttered in a low voice: "Our shopkeeper told you to coax him, as long as you get there, you will have money to pay the bill, and there will be a generous reward, but now people don't recognize it at all..."

Mrs. Hu's face was distorted with anger, but at this time a female voice came from the sedan chair behind: "Take me and my daughter to Meili Town. There are distant relatives of my family there, and I will pay you with money."

Mrs. Hu scolded angrily: "What's the trouble here?! Where are the distant relatives of your mother's family left?! Even if there are, they will not be able to protect themselves. You are not afraid of death, I want to live a long life!"

"So that the mother-in-law can feel at ease." The woman said coolly, "The daughter-in-law will only take Ying'er, and we mother and daughter will go there freely, please forgive the daughter-in-law for not being filial." She handed out a silver hairpin from the sedan window Come, with a pearl the size of a little finger on it: "This is my dowry. It was originally a relic of my grandmother. I will entrust it to my younger brother for the time being. It will be used as a deposit. When I arrive in Meili Town, I will pay for the car and sedan. Brother, give me back."

The bearer saw that although the pearl was faintly yellow, the inlay was excellent, and it was clearly a valuable item, so he smiled and took out his handkerchief and went up to take it, put it in his arms, and greeted his companions, and went To pick up the car and drive the car.At this time, on the last carriage, a pretty young woman and two children no older than five years old, a boy and a girl, were driven off, and they rushed to Hu Peng crying, "Master! Grandma's girl!" How dare you be rude to our mother and son, you have to make the decision for us!"

Hu Peng didn't care about Mo Han's side for a while, he wanted to appease his concubine, scolded his wife, and ordered his servants to stop the sedan chair, all of a sudden, there was a mess, with Mrs. Hu's scolding voices mixed in.

Chunying was annoyed and funny when she heard it, and guessed that the woman was probably Hu Peng's wife, but since she gave birth to a daughter, and the two children were too young, where did the son born to her original partner go? ?Shouldn't he be killed by them?She sneered, called Mrs. He, and after admonishing her, she let Mrs. He go out.

Mrs. He walked to Zhuangkou, ignored Hu's family, and said directly to Mo Han, "The master asked you, why haven't you finished the matter for half a day? Didn't you say to call the reporter? What are you doing here?"

Mo Han said: "This person is going to be tough." Lao Zhang said: "Report to the official, and it might not look good if it happens."

Mrs. He laughed and said, "What's so bad about it? If you don't have to be tough, just come to a cat or a dog and say they are the owner's parents. Don't we have to welcome them in as guests? If the owner is not at home, anyone can do it." Let's take advantage of the loopholes. If this person can find witnesses to prove that he is the elder brother of the owner, it will not be too late to talk about other things. But then again, since the owner is not at home, who knows whether the witness he found is true or not? Why not? Report to the official that it is clean. Otherwise, when the owner comes back, he will know that we have not guarded the house properly, and he will blame us." He glanced at Hu Peng again, and exclaimed: "Hey! This person looks so familiar! Before we leave Beijing, Didn’t the people who have seen the yamen lead a group of rebels parading through the streets? Why does this person look so much like one of them? Could it be that he escaped? Report to the government quickly, lest the officers and soldiers come to arrest people in the future and hurt the owner of the village !"

After hearing this, everyone was stunned.Mo Han was the first to react: "Exactly! Report to the government quickly! In case the traitor escapes!" Then he asked Lao Zhang: "Grandpa Zhang, quickly let the brothers arrest him and send him to the government, maybe there will be rewards! "

Hu Peng panicked. Although he knew that he had already been released, every time he entered the yamen, he had to cut his flesh. How could he still have money now?In such a dazed moment, the sedan chair in which the wife was sitting and the car in which the son was sitting had turned around and left. Since the bearer had a place to collect money, how could he care about them?Even Mrs. Hu was forcibly kicked out of the sedan chair, screaming next to her son, scolding the bearer, and then cursing her daughter-in-law loudly, saying that she should not marry the daughter of a criminal official.

After hearing this, the crowd believed even more in Mrs. He's words, and the two Zhuang Ding stepped forward to restrain Hu Peng, and then dragged him away. Mrs. Hu was pushed to the ground, and the two family members were asked to help them up, and scolded all the way. In the past, he wanted to beat Zhuang Ding again, but he was held hostage by two strong village women, and they went to the Yamen together.The concubine walked behind crying with the child.After a while, calm was restored at Zhuangkou.

Chunying walked out of the small courtyard, looked at their backs from a distance, raised the corners of her mouth, turned her head to Mo Han and said, "If they dare to come again in the future, they will be sent to the yamen again! We will beat them once and see if they dare to come again! "

(End of this chapter)