Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

181 Chapter 3.88 Brother-in-law, help me, save me
Volume Three

3.88 Brother-in-law, please help me.
Regardless of not having breakfast and not caring about the bumpy road, Zhou Yang took the Li brothers and protected Wang Shuying's carriage and drove all the way. Finally, they arrived at a village in the middle of the afternoon. It didn't look big, and it was probably just a small village. With a family of two to three hundred people, surrounded by paddy fields, and located in the south of the Yangtze River, we should be able to live a pretty good life.

"Is this here?" Zhou Yang jumped off the horse neatly, grabbed the young man who was following him on a horse the whole time, pointed at Zhuangzi and asked, "Brother Wenlong and that person from the Wang family? Get out of here if you tell me. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a problem to bury someone in this wilderness!”

"Uncle Zhou, please forgive me!" The boy quickly knelt down, "Since three days ago, the uncle and the young master of the Wang family have been here, but they basically change the village every few days, and the younger one dare not say yes."

"Get out of here!" Zhou Yang kicked him into the ditch on the side of the road, then strode to the carriage and said, "Madam, is this the Xue family's village?"

"Not bad!" Wang Shuying lifted the car curtains, took a closer look and said, "This village was bought by the old master. The Xue family didn't have much property. This is one of the two best ones. In the past, I used it to take advantage of the spring. When I had the opportunity, I came with my master for an outing. The head of the village was an old man who was over [-] years old. At the time, my master had even--Ziyang, what's going on?"

I saw thick smoke coming out of a courtyard in Zhuangzi. From a distance, I saw many people rushing forward with buckets and basins. It looked like they had lost water, but this was not right, because it was the middle of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. , rice is about to be harvested, and to put it bluntly, this is the stage when rural fire prevention awareness is strongest. A three-year-old child knows that a fire may cause a village to starve to death!
"I'm afraid we're too late!" Zhou Yang looked at the thickening black smoke with a sullen expression. He unsheathed his sword unceremoniously and wiped the neck of the boy who had just crawled out of the ditch. "But I hope it’s still too late to save people!”

"Save someone? Save who?" Wang Shuying's face turned pale and she said anxiously, "Wenlong is still in Zhuangzi. He won't be hurt, right? This is Zhuangzi at home. Who dares to touch Wenlong if he eats a bear's heart?"

"That's enough, you'd better pray that the tenant in the village can still control it and not beat him to death directly!" Zhou Yang interrupted her unceremoniously, destroying her remaining dream at the same time, "One life for one, I hope it’s not him - go, wait no matter what happens, leave everything to me, don’t say anything!”

After saying that, he quickly rushed to the entrance of the village with the brothers from the Li family and a dozen villagers from the Xue family. From a distance, he saw that the courtyard was just an ordinary rammed earth wall, a straw roof, and a fence. Judging from the flames on the roof that were more than two people high, you knew that it was hopeless now, but that was not the most important thing.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, help me, help me!" Xue Pan, dressed disheveled at this time, howled and stumbled over, followed closely by his "acquaintance" Mr. Wang, followed by five or six young servants, and There were more than twenty villagers holding various farm tools at the end. In fact, there were still a few lying on the ground behind them. Unfortunately, the blood scattered around them showed that they were most likely corpses.

"Qiang - stop!" Zhou Yang breathed a long sigh of relief. Fortunately, just in case, he hung the six-foot-six-breaking horse sword on the victory hook. At this time, he could control the state, and the nearly five-foot The blade of the sword shone with a frightening cold light in the sun, which also calmed down the crowd who had just been crazy. "Speak up if you have any problems. If the trouble continues, it won't be solved by a few lives!"

"Haha, you untouchables, I just asked you to send a girl to serve you, so you dare to forget your identity!" Unfortunately, everyone has eyes, but not necessarily vision. Just now there has been a turning point, followed closely A young boy behind Wang Ren had a proud face, "Our master is the military governor of the Beijing camp. We will send troops when the time comes and ask you all to—"

"Buzz!" A dull sound broke through the air, interrupting his arrogance. The Broken Horse Sword flashed past his neck, so that the flying head still had a proud expression on it. Quickly, he "stood upright" for several breaths before falling forward. It was only then that the blood from his neck sprayed into the air like a fountain, shining with strange colors in the dazzling sunlight.

"Come out, tell me what's going on!" Zhou Yang stood up with his sword in his hand, and said with cold eyes looking at Xue Pan, Wang Ren and the remaining few servants.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, save me, these untouchables - ah!" Xue Pan almost crawled to Zhou Yang and shouted, but was kicked to the ground by him, and the sword blade was directly placed beside his neck, frightening He never dared to speak again.

"Young Master Wang, where do you want to go?" Seeing that Xue Pan had already shut up, Zhou Yang turned to Wang Ren, with an undisguised murderous intent in his tone, "But I am anxious to get together with that blind thing just now. company?"

"Zhou Ziyang, what do you want to do?" Wang Renben slowly withdrew his left leg, his voice was loud but obviously stern, "My father is the Jiedu envoy of the Beijing camp, commanding one hundred thousand elite soldiers of the three battalions."

"Even if you want to talk and let the prince come over, who do you think you are?" Zhou Yang's cold tone completely frightened the young man, and then he pointed at a Xue family boy who was paralyzed on the ground and said, "Come here explain!"

He really wasn't arrogant when he said this. Although Wang Ziteng's current official position is much higher than his, status in the feudal era was not entirely determined by position. For example, Niu Ben now only has the title of Qianhu and the actual position of Deputy Qianhu, but if he goes After arriving at the Wang family, Wang Ziteng at least needs to receive him in person in the inner study. What's more, no one from the core family of Wu Xun will have time to visit the Wang family.

Of course Zhou Yang can't compare with Niu Ben, but he can be regarded as a peripheral member of Wu Xun's younger generation, and because of his outstanding abilities, he has been recognized by various Wu Xun schools, and he deserves the evaluation of "young and promising, with a bright future", and this is not included. The identity of Princess Yongchang; in contrast, Wang Ziteng has not entered the Wuxun circle so far. The Wang family in the capital is at best a meaningless ally of the Jia family, and even the Shi family may not pay attention to him. "Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhou, our young master came to stay in this village a few days ago and asked a few girls to come and serve him. Yesterday, he and Uncle Wang had a drink, so they took one of them together. Unexpectedly, this morning the girl got into a fight. Shivering, he raised his hand and pointed at the yard that had been gradually extinguished by the fire.

Zhou Yang's face turned red. Before the boy could finish speaking, he picked up the Broken Horse Sword and struck him in the head. Then the sword flashed past him. In the blink of an eye, there were six more headless corpses on the ground. It was he who killed all the servants of Xue Pan and Wang Ren on the spot.

"Ah -" Xue Pan, who had the guts to scream just now, screamed, because a human head flew right next to him, and he fainted on the spot.

"Tie him up -" Glancing at Xue Pan, Zhou Yang frowned in disgust, then pointed at Wang Ren and ordered the Li brothers, "As long as he dares to move, interrupt him wherever he moves!"

"Thank you, young master, for upholding justice!" While Zhou Yang was cleaning up the garbage, the tenants in the village had already gathered around him. As he spoke, they made way for a passage, and an old man with white beard and hair walked tremblingly in front of him, making a gesture of asking. When he knelt down, he was pulled, "Er Ni and his grandfather are suffering. We just saw hope, and we don't want it to be gone like this!"

As soon as the old man finished speaking, a young man walked up to Zhou Yang without saying a word, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, his face pressed to the ground and never moved again. This should be the "hope" that the old man just said.

"I dare not ask this old man," Zhou Yang politely supported the old man and asked.

"What old man? I just lived a few more years and was elected as the head of the village by the young and old in the village. I have paid rent for the Xue family's farming these years." The old man looked at the unconscious Xue Pan with a sad and angry face and said, "Young Master It is our blessing to be able to come to the village, who would have thought this?"

Zhou Yang frowned helplessly. He couldn't really ask Xue Pan or Wang Ren to pay for their lives, because they killed their own tenants. Even if they went to the government, the final result would only be to pay some money, or even To make matters worse, the government may take action to "solve the person who raised the issue."

"Old man, do you think this is okay? I'll make the decision here. I'll waive the rent for two years and compensate this brother for twenty acres of farmland." As soon as Zhou Yang finished speaking, he saw a clear atmosphere among the tenants around him. Only the man kneeling in front of him raised his head angrily, "I know you are unhappy, but even if you enter the government, you can guess the result. That's good. Apart from what I said, you How about coming with me and I give you an explanation?"

"How are you going to explain it, sir?" Zhuangtou asked hurriedly.

"How is one of his legs?" Zhou Yang pointed at Wang Ren who was tied up and said calmly.

"My surname is Zhou, think clearly. If you dare to lay a finger on me, my father will not let you go! You are just a martial arts scholar who doesn't even have an official position, but my father is..." Wang Ren's face suddenly changed, and he shouted angrily. .

"Slap!" Zhou Yang was too lazy to pay attention to him and said to Li Xiong calmly.

"Slap—ah!" Li Xiong, who was 1.9 meters away, slapped Wang Ren to the ground with a slap.

"Why not here?" the young man said angrily.

"Because you can't handle it if we start here." Zhou Yang calmly told the cruel truth, "I can only resist this matter!"

As for Xue Pan, Zhou Yang didn't mention it, nor did Zhuang Tou.

(End of this chapter)