Great time travel

Chapter 185: Agui's Story

Although Agui had already had a bad premonition when he failed in his "courtship" with Wu Ma, but after all, the bad luck has not yet come.Next, he still successfully bought a batch of cheap rice from Qian's family, hired a boat to take it back to the "Bailian" store in the city, paid back the previous credit payment, and used the remaining money to buy a batch of Australian goods. , and after eating, drinking and having fun in the city for a few days, he returned to Weizhuang in high spirits.

However, when Agui returned to Weizhuang again, he found that the situation was not good.

First, because Weizhuang stationed an engineering battalion of short-haired soldiers, and everyone knew that the short-haired soldiers had always been paid well and had great spending power, which was far from comparable to those beggar-like dilapidated military households in the Ming Dynasty. Within a few days, Weizhuang gathered many various hawkers, most of them were selling vegetables, but there were also salesmen from other Australian and Song businesses. All kinds of Australian goods became common in Weizhuang's market. up.Therefore, the "Master Fake Kun" of the Zhao family happily smoked the "Holy Ship" cigarettes again, and read the latest issues of "Research on War History", while Mr. The canned food and candies that Ah Gui bought were really a loss, and those who came later sold them at a few cents cheaper.

——Agui, who returned to Weizhuang with a cart of groceries again, was shocked to find that he had many competitors in business.

Second, because of his "courtship" to Mama Wu at the entrance of the hotel that time, the women in Weizhuang seem to have remembered his "crazy and debauched" past, and now there are other vendors who can buy Australian groceries, so One by one, they avoided Agui again.As soon as they saw Ah Gui approaching, they hid in the door one by one, and refused to take care of his business anymore.Even if Agui sold goods door-to-door with a smile on his face, most of them would be kicked out.

Agui, who had just developed, suddenly felt once again the grievance of being a part-time job in the past, and the depression of being regarded as a plague god.

In desperation, he had to lower the price to promote sales. Although the profit became much thinner, at least someone was willing to care.But other hawkers soon followed suit. The customers in Weizhuang saw that there were so many choices now, and they all became reserved. No matter what they bought, they had to shop around. Accounting on credit.Agui, who was in a state of desperation, only wanted to protect his capital, but after seven or eight days of tossing, there were still many Australian goods that could not be sold, and if they were not done well, they would be thrown into his hands, which made Agui even more anxious.

Seeing that the golden avenue of fortune seemed to be far away from him, Ah Gui was naturally very frustrated. In a bad mood, he molested the little nun in the quiet nunnery a few times in public, kneading and teasing the little nun. No, I didn't dare to go out of the nunnery later.

However, Agui also found courage from her. One day, he drank a few more bowls of dirty wine and strengthened his courage. He even raised a stick and tried to tear up the stalls of those business opponents, but was surrounded by several vendors from other villages. After beating him hard, he finally crawled back to the Tugu Temple with his nose bruised and his face swollen all covered in bruises.

A few days later, the bunker-style Weizhuang police station was basically completed, and the engineering battalion of the short-haired soldiers was also removed. This confused the idlers in Weizhuang: the Xu family's house in Suzhou had just laid a foundation, and even the courtyard The wall hasn't been built yet, why do you soldiers leave it alone?

However, a few days later, under the banner of a certain construction company, a team of strong "fake hair" wearing blue cloth jackets similar to Agui came to Weizhuang from the city and took over the construction of Xu's mansion. project.This "construction team" brought a lot of strange things that the country people didn't know, which made the idlers very curious.In addition, there are a few short-haired police officers in yellow clothes and rattan hats who live in the police station at the entrance of the village and patrol the village from time to time.

The "Master Fake Kun" of the Zhao Mansion was very happy in the past few days, because he went to the city and participated in some kind of conference. When he came back, he had a silver medal of "Representative of the Village and Township" on his chest. It means Xinchao Jinshen.In addition, he also got the title of "Weizhuang Liaison Officer", roughly equivalent to the temporary village head: because this was tantamount to stealing his father's position, so old Mrs. Zhao lost his temper for several days in a row.

(Due to the lack of reliable local cadres, the Zhejiang occupation army only carried out punitive land reforms on some towns with fierce resistance and stubbornness, while most of the "peacefully received" villages in the Zhejiang occupation area still basically maintained their original autonomy According to the pattern, no new civil servants such as women directors and militia captains were dispatched, but a group of "good gentry" who took the initiative to approach served as liaison officers, responsible for coordinating labor and taxation matters.)
But the "Fake Kun Eldest Young Master" in the Zhao Mansion is enjoying himself these days, which has nothing to do with Agui in the Tugu Temple.

Because the grocery business is getting more and more difficult to do, gambling is always losing, and he is beaten when he goes to set up his business opponent's stall. Agui's mood is getting worse day by day, but he can't find a place to vent his anger, so he has to drink to relieve his sorrow.Later, Agui drank a few more bowls of wine one day, thinking about it, it seemed that he hadn't seen the little nun outside for a long time, and he was so worried that he jumped over the wall into the Jingxiu nunnery drunk, and then sneaked into the nuns' residence. backyard.Then, he groped into the old nun's wing in the dark, causing a lot of screams, and Agui suffered a lot of sticks and chisels on his head.

If it was when Agui was sober, with the strength of the old nun, he would definitely not be Agui's opponent. However, Agui was already half awake and half asleep that night, walking staggeringly, and his fists were even worse. Powerless, so he was knocked out by the old nun.

Then several nuns in the nunnery came out to look at the lights together, and recognized the wild man as Agui.The little nun who was often bullied by Agui before was suddenly furious and declared that she would report to the authorities.But the old nun felt that this matter should not be publicized, otherwise it would definitely damage the reputation of Jingxiu nunnery, so she just took away his money bag as compensation, and quietly threw Agui who was still unconscious through the back door. The little nun also drew two turtles on Agui's face.

However, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. A few days later, Agui's great cause of breaking into the Jingxiu nunnery to harass the nuns, after all, spread among the idlers in Weizhuang.And Agui's reputation in Weizhuang became more and more disreputable, so that his grocery business became even more bleak.Even the old man in charge of the Tugu Temple wanted to drive him out again, so Agui had no choice but to give the old man two pieces of soap as rent, and then reluctantly sent him away.

Then, an even more terrible unexpected disaster befell Agui who was getting more and more unlucky.

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In the middle of the night that day, Agui drank a few bowls of wine and slept soundly in the dilapidated house of Tugu Temple, when he suddenly heard noises coming from the construction site of the unfinished Xu family mansion, as if there were gunshots , suddenly woke up in fright.Looking out from the top of the wall, I saw that there were crowds of people on the construction site, the torches were shaking, and the sky was boiling, and some people were dragging all kinds of things and running out, which made several dogs in the village bark.

By the next day, rumors had spread throughout Weizhuang that there was an unknown murderer who sneaked into the construction site of the Xu family mansion last night to steal things, as if he had taken a fancy to the sprite left there by the fake construction team. Items such as steel shovels, axes, and saws.Unexpectedly, he ran into a policeman from Weizhuang Police Station, who immediately fired a warning shot, thinking that he would scare away the culprits.Who would have thought that these thieves were really bold, they didn't run away when they heard the gunshots, instead they rushed forward, knocked down the patrolman with sticks, and took his gun away.By the time other police officers heard the sound and rushed over, the thieves on the construction site had already fled, and the police officer whose gun was taken away was also bleeding and dying. He died by daybreak.

The killing of a police officer at the Weizhuang Police Station and the seizure of his gun obviously shocked the government.The "Fake Young Master" of the Zhao family who served as Weizhuang's liaison officer went to the city with a dark face, and when he came back, he was accompanied by a group of short-haired soldiers, and he also claimed to launch a "strike hard campaign" to arrest Those who commit crimes.Then, the walls of the houses in Weizhuang were painted with the slogan "Fighting Crime, Public Security Training, All Citizens Participating".

At first, Agui, who was only worried about the increasingly difficult grocery business, didn't pay much attention to this matter.Unexpectedly, when he closed the stall in the evening and dragged the cart back to the Tugu Temple, he was surprised to see the "Master Fake Kun" of Zhao's mansion and the short-haired soldiers who followed him back from the city. Standing guard at the gate of the Tugu Temple, and the "Fake Young Master" shouted when he saw him: "...that's the kid! Catch him!"

Immediately afterwards, Agui was knocked to the ground by the butt of a gun, and then he was tied tightly with hemp rope.In a drowsy state, he was still listening to the young master of the Zhao Mansion babbling on about his various crimes: selling things for second-rate goods, molesting good women in the street, and a bunch of thefts and robberies committed by others. The matter was forced to be placed on his head, and it was inferred from this: the looting of the construction site that night to attack and kill the policeman was mostly related to Agui and his gang of cronies.In the end, the young master of the Zhao family vividly recounted the recent rumors in the Weizhuang neighborhood that Agui night broke into the Jingxiu nunnery to play with nuns, and described him like a flower picker in a play. He kicked Agui several times.

When Agui woke up, he was dragged into the fortress-like police station at the entrance of Weizhuang Village, and then thrown into a dungeon.Agui struggled to sit up against the wall, looked carefully, and found that the dungeon was filled with many people, except for a few refugees who escaped from other provinces, the rest were local bachelors, ruffians and beggars. Among them was Wang Hu, the lame man who had fought with A Gui before.

It's just that at this point, everyone can't care about the old grudges before, and soon started to fight with each other, and found that they were all arrested by the damn fake young master with short-haired soldiers. It was related to the case of attacking the police and seizing the gun, and he couldn't help being filled with righteous indignation for a while, cursing again and again.And Agui is even more worried that he will be dismissed as a salesman by Bailian Trading Company, and his hard-earned future will be ruined again.

Fortunately, before the red-eyed Hokkien policemen from the Weizhuang Police Station brought the suspects in the dungeon to torture them one by one (Ah Gui later learned that the policeman who was beaten to death was their chief) , the murder case on the construction site of the Xu family mansion has been solved, and Agui was spared a lot of suffering: It turned out that the gang of murderous fugitives robbed the construction site of the Xu family mansion in Weizhuang, and beat him to death. After the death of the head of the police station in Weizhuang, they went to Xiaoshan County to commit crimes, but they were caught by the local garrison who had been heavily guarded, and they confessed their crimes in prison.So when Weizhuang was organizing a severe crackdown, the real criminal had already been arrested in Xiaoshan County, but due to the delay in the dissemination of news, the police here in Weizhuang did not know the above situation until a day later...

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However, although the arrested suspects had nothing to do with the murder case, they more or less had a record of petty theft or having an affair with someone else's wife.Hearing that they were arrested, quite a few old friends from the village came to testify.And the little nun in the Jingxiu nunnery, the one who was forced to sleep by Agui many times according to the rumors of the idlers in Weizhuang, also secretly ran to the police station, crying and complaining about the harm that "dead man Agui" did to their nunnery...

In fact, under normal circumstances, this small crime is actually nothing.Piansheng has now caught up with the period of crackdown, and all criminal offenses must be dealt with severely and quickly.Therefore, Agui and his brothers and sisters were all put on paper hats by the short-haired soldiers, raised in the dungeon of the police station, and taken to the entrance of the village for a public trial. In the end, they were all sentenced to "hooliganism".

Then, according to a heavy-backed and bruised military officer, the “sinners” like Agui have two choices: either go to the local labor camp to serve their sentence, or go to Yuyao’s quarry to smash stones for five years; or Just go to sea with these military masters and serve as coolies with the army. If you perform well or make meritorious service, you will be released in about one or two years, and then you may be able to add military registration and become an honorable soldier.

Faced with these two choices, most people who were afraid of going to sea chose to go to the quarry in Yuyao to break stones.Only Agui, who had previously joined the army in Shaoxing and was unsuccessful, because he was completely desperate for these birdmen in Weichuang and no longer wanted to stay here, so he resolutely left with the short-haired soldiers.

At the same time, Xu Xiake, an "Ausong Hanlin scholar" (a member of the Huameng Writers Association) who temporarily lived in Zhao's Mansion in Weizhuang with his whole family, also boarded a wooden boat from Hebutou of Zhao's Mansion under the collective welcome of his host. , Said that he was going overseas to do business for the Australian and Song courts.Everyone in the Zhao Mansion was in awe, and made up his errands as "inspecting the censor", but they didn't know that Xu Xiake was actually just an imperial literati who was ordered to write travel notes.

And the short-haired soldier who was ordered to escort Xu Xiake out to sea happened to be the small group that took Agui away.

From then on, Agui, the "rogue criminal" in Weizhuang, Shaoxing, as a coolie of the expedition team, embarked on a long journey far beyond the limit of his imagination... and until Agui's death At that time, I was never able to return to this water town in the south of the Yangtze River...