The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 265
Near Sijiazi, No. [-] Guanzhuang has been cordoned off.Eleven people in Guanzhuang were all grounded and not allowed to go out.

Wei Ruolan, Lin Dajiang, and Wei Ruoshui led 120 people and entered here quietly at [-] o'clock in the evening when it was dark.

Some soldiers were standing in the yard, some were sitting in the house.Small room, packed full.

The target of their monitoring now is Sijiazi, two miles away.

Zhuangtou Liu Mingde was very anxious, but he didn't dare to show it.

He knew something big was going to happen tonight.

There are two surnames in the four families, one is Zhao and the other is Qian.

The population of the two surnames is about the same, and they have not been able to deal with each other for five or sixty years.Every once in a while, disputes arise.The biggest dispute happened more than ten years ago.There was a large-scale fighting between the two sides, and two people from each family died, resulting in a loss-losing ending.

Generally speaking, Zhao and Qian's families are quite prosperous, and they have produced some promising people.

The more promising Qian family was Bu Kui who guarded Qian Delu.The more promising Zhao family was Bu Kui who guarded Zhao Dahai.

After Qian Delu's death, Zhao Dahai took over Qian Delu's position and acted as Bu Kui's garrison.

Liu Mingde is one of Zhao Dahai's cronies.

The sudden arrival of more than 100 members of the government corps made Liu Mingde feel a little unusual.

He wanted to go out and write a letter to Zhao Dabao, or at least go to Sijiazi to report a letter to Zhao Dajiang, but it was impossible now.

If everyone is not allowed to go out, he can only resign himself to fate.

Liu Mingde had a premonition that these people were coming for Zhao's family.

His feeling was right, Wei Ruolan and the others came for the Zhao family of the four families.To be precise, it was aimed at Zhao Dajiang.

Zhao Dajiang is Zhao Dahai's elder brother.

The Zhao family of the four families now regards the four brothers as the top figures of the Zhao family.

They are: Zhao Dajiang, Zhao Dahe, Zhao Dahu and Zhao Dahai.

Zhao Dahai now lives in Bukui, and the other three brothers also live in Sijiazi.

The reason why Wei Ruolan led his troops here was because his fishing plan was successful.

He sent Jia Min's poem banners and the items he took from Miaoyu and the others to the biggest store on Bukui Street: Wangji Grocery Store for consignment.

Since the price of everything is very high, it has been there for four days. Except for some people asking about the price, although there are many people watching the excitement, no one bought it.

Just when he thought he couldn't sell it, someone came suddenly today and bought all those things, spending a total of more than 100 taels of silver.

The one who bought these things was Zhao Dajiang from the Si Family, and he was Zhao Dahai's eldest brother.

Although the Zhao family has Zhao Dahai as the leading figure, the other brothers live in a moderately prosperous life.In an era when frugality is the pride, Zhao Dajiang, a farmer who has no culture, bought these things at a high price, which is naturally suspicious.

If it was bought for Zhao Dahai, there is no need to bring it to the Sijiazi, and it will be over if it is directly given to Zhao Dahai in Bukui?

A few days ago, the Sijiazi had just been robbed of several cows by bandits, and the one who lost the cattle happened to be the Qian family.

So, will Zhao Dajiang buy these things this time have something to do with the Qian family's loss of cattle?

Liu Mingde doubted it.Not only did he doubt this, but he also doubted many other things.However, he couldn't say it, and if he said it, he might die.

No matter what, Zhao Dahai treated him well.He felt that he couldn't do anything to offend Zhao Dahai.If I protect myself wisely and don't make trouble, I am worthy of Zhao Dahai.

Time seems to pass very slowly, but also seems to be very fast.

Usually at this time, Liu Mingde has already fallen asleep.However, today he is always in good spirits.In fact, he also wanted to go to sleep, but he was not allowed to sleep.

Finally, at two o'clock in the middle of the night, he sat in the yard and fell asleep in a daze.It seemed that he had just fallen asleep when someone woke him up.

It turned out that the person named Jia Qin had returned.

"21 people came from the east, all on horseback, and entered the village."

Wei Ruolan immediately perked up.

"Call everyone up, check weapons, and get ready to go."

Following Wei Ruolan's order in a low voice, Lin Dajiang, Wei Ruoshui, and Jia Qin began to check the soldiers' equipment.

"Lin Dajiang, go to the east and cut off their retreat. Wei Ruoshui, you go to surround the south and west, Jia Qin, you go to surround the north. No one is allowed to escape. Anyone who dares to resist will be shot."

The three of them took others away one after another, and Wei Ruolan stayed at the end with about twenty people.

"Liu Mingde, I know that Zhao Dahai treats you well, and your personal relationship with Zhao Dahe is also very good, so don't say that you don't know where Zhao Dajiang's home is. Now, let me ask you, do you know where Zhao Dajiang's home is? ?”

"I, I know."

"Liu Mingde, it's still wise, let's go, take us to Zhao Dajiang's house. Now, you should also understand why we are here, so you'd better not play tricks."

"I see."

Liu Mingde got up, obediently led Wei Ruolan's people towards Sijiazi.

More than ten minutes later, Wei Ruolan led people to the entrance of Shijiazi Village, and a person greeted him, it was Jia Qin.

"I have killed the sentinel at the entrance of the village, and you can go in now."

"Okay, be careful."

Liu Mingde led Wei Ruolan and his party into the village quickly.Before that, there were quite a few dogs barking in the village, but now the barking was even louder, and it almost rang out.

"Hurry up, run forward."

Wei Ruolan shouted loudly.

At this time, I don't care about concealment anymore, I just want to get close to the target as soon as possible.

"The one with the light on"

As soon as Liu Mingde finished speaking, the lights in that house went out.

"Quick, rush up, they want to escape."

Saying that, Wei Ruolan rushed forward first.

Sure enough, before he got close to the house, a figure came out from the yard, and then someone rushed out on horseback.

Whoosh, whoosh, the Fubingtuan began to shoot arrows, and then there were several screams.

Even so, a few horses rushed out, running east and west.

"Leave them alone and rush straight into the yard."

Seeing Wei Ruolan shouting, the soldiers rushed in and entered the yard.There were still a few people resisting at the gate, and the government soldiers didn't care about those, they chopped down the opponent in a few strokes, and even captured a few alive.

With a bang, Wei Ruolan kicked open the door.The two soldiers lit the lanterns, and then lit the lamps in the house. They guarded the door in front, the windows in the back, and guarded the courtyard wall sticks outside, and began to search.

These tactics have been trained before, and special exercises were carried out during the day.It is very proficient to use it now.

Wei Ruolan sat on the edge of the kang, looking at Zhao Dajiang with a smile.

"Who are you? How dare you break into a private house in the middle of the night. I will sue you at the Yamen."

Zhao Dajiang lay on the kang, covered with a quilt, and shouted loudly.

Next to him are his wife and three children.

"We are in the yamen. If you have anything to say, just tell me. Zhao Dajiang, why don't you get up, are you still wearing clothes?"

A soldier went up and lifted the quilt, and Zhao Dajiang was indeed wearing clothes.

"Zhao Dajiang, why are you sleeping so neatly dressed?"

"I am willing, but you don't care. Since you know who I am, why don't you get out quickly? Zhao Dahai is your boss, aren't you afraid of causing trouble?"

"Zhao Dajiang, stop acting. Hurry up and hand over a flower. For Zhao Dahai's sake, maybe I will treat you lightly."

"I don't know what it means to spend one flower and two flowers. I want to go with you to the yamen, ask my brother to comment, and tell him to see what his subordinates have done."

"Zhao Dajiang, don't scare us with Zhao Dahai, he is in danger himself. If you want to go to the Yamen, that's fine, if you don't want to go for a while, you won't be able to. It seems that you don't want to hand over to someone anymore?"

"I do not understand what you said?"

While Wei Ruolan was talking to Zhao Dajiang, the soldiers searched inside and out.

Stables, haystacks, granaries, pigpens, chicken coops, water tanks, rice cabinets, kang cabinets and every corner were searched.Three male bandits were caught, but no trace of a flower was found.

Wei Ruolan looked up at the ceiling again, the hanging ropes were still shaking.

Bu Kui's house has a canopy on the roof.One is to keep warm, and the other is to store some things, such as sweet potatoes and potatoes.

There is an opening in the ceiling, and people can enter and exit through this opening.In the middle of the night, the rope tied to the door of the shed was dangling, obviously someone had moved it.

"Yizhihuada is the head of the family, you said that you are so majestic, if you hide in the shed, you won't be afraid of wronging yourself? If this gets out, how will you behave in the future? Come down."

There was no response from the shed.

"Don't spout blood. How can there be anyone in my shed? That flower is a bandit, why is it in my house?"

Although Zhao Dajiang's mouth was hard, his heart was thumping.

"Okay, a flower, if you don't come down, I'm going to make a bigger move. There are two ways, one is to smoke you, and the other is to let mice bite you. If you are capable, you will stay up there for the rest of your life."

As soon as Wei Ruolan winked, two soldiers went to the outer room to light the fire.After a while, he came in with a few lit straws,

The other soldier was carrying a bag, there was obviously something alive in it, and it was still rushing about.

The straw was thrown into the shed first, and then the living things in the bag were also put into the shed.

After a while, a woman's scream came from the ceiling.

With a bang, the ceiling door opened, and a person jumped down.Two soldiers went up to hold her down, and it was a woman in her 20s.He carried a bow and arrow and a bundle on his back, and a dagger stuck in his waist.

"You vile bastards who kill thousands of knives, you even let mice bully my old lady, are there any vile officers and soldiers like you?"

The woman cursed.

"who are you?"

Wei Ruolan asked with a smile.

"I am your mother."

"My mother wished you were so young. Are you a flower? If you say no, I'll put you in your pocket again and put a mouse in it. At that time, it's up to you whether you admit it or not."

"If I don't change my name when I'm going, I'll be a beautiful flower."

As soon as Qu Pianxian finished speaking, he saw several things jumping from the ceiling onto the kang, and when they got on the kang, they were still running around.

"You bastard, you dare to lie to my old lady, don't you call it a mouse? How did you become a rabbit?"

"Yeah, why did you become a rabbit, didn't you see clearly just now?"

"Nonsense, it's so dark, where should I go and look."

"Oh, forget it, rabbits are rabbits, you didn't think about it, where are you going to catch so many mice? Isn't this just using the rabbits outside to make up for it? Your baggage is what Zhao Dajiang bought for you, right? ?”

"That's it, you can take it back to your concubine. A group of old men actually used this kind of obscene means to plot against my wife. Be careful that there will be no children after giving birth."

Alas, everyone said that she was a lady of every family, how could she look like a lady of every family?

(End of this chapter)