The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Even if you go to Wugong Mountain with fast horses, it will take four or five hours. When you come back with soldiers and horses, it will be even slower, and there are less than [-] soldiers in the government.Although Li Tao's report is not yet known whether it is true or not, Jia Cong thought, even if it is false, it is only a false alarm, if it is true, it will be fatal.So he immediately sent a special battalion soldier to report.

After a while, Uncle Yang came.Jia Cong immediately said: "There may be bandits coming tomorrow, and the rescue is not so fast. I have to discuss with you to repair the city wall and guard against the enemy." Uncle Yang was shocked.He turned his head and told General Qi, "Master Su has General Yang under his command. When he was young, he followed General Shi to fight against foreigners in northern Xinjiang. It was the one who defeated the enemy with [-] riders and defeated [-] enemies. Have you heard of it?"

General Qi immediately said: "How can you not know? A man should be like this."

Jia Cong patted the case: "I know that General Qi is also a good man!" He ordered someone to get the map and invited Yang Guotai to come.

As soon as Yang Guotai entered, Uncle Yang looked at him and shouted, "Tu Genzi! Have you ever been a general?"

Yang Guotai still didn't know what happened, he cupped his hands and said, "Brother Qianli, I went to the battlefield in my early years."

Yang Erbo happily took his hand: "I said earlier that your brother is pleasing to the eye, and seems to be promising."

Jia Cong said: "General Yang, you don't have to be modest. You have stayed in this city for so many years. As a general, how can you think about how to attack and defend the city when you have nothing to do in your spare time?"

Yang Guotai thought about it: "I really thought about it. Is there something wrong?"

"Let's assume that the enemy has [-] troops and [-] defenders." Jia Cong looked at him and General Qi, "Would you like to join forces, and try to break [-] with [-]." General Qi was slightly stunned.Jia Cong shrugged, "General Qi can't go anyway, life and death can only be with us." General Qi frowned.Jia Cong then pointed to the map and said, "The fourteen bandit families are just outside the city."

Yang Guotai took a deep breath and said, "Is there still time to get cement to strengthen the city?"

Jia Cong thought for a while: "I'm afraid it's too late."

Yang Guotai frowned: "This is not easy." Nai glanced at General Qi, and the two clasped their fists together.

Both of them are industry insiders, pointing to the map to discuss.Others don't understand and are listening.After talking for a while, there was a rough shadow.Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief.Chen Ruijin added: "I am responsible for killing the bandit leader, and you guys are in charge of me."

Uncle Yang snorted, "This is my old man's land. What's the matter with you girl, the bandit leader?"

Chen Ruijin hurriedly cupped his hands with a smile: "Yes, I won't grow old with you..."

Before the words fell, someone said outside the window: "I have killed Xu Qi, the leader of the bandit. There are still some small groups of bandits who have not arrived, so I leave you to play." Then Liu Hu floated in through the window.Jia Cong's heart sank: he would rather Li Tao play around.

It turned out that when Liu Hu heard that there might be bandit soldiers attacking the city, the first thing Liu Hu thought of was the three thousand grain soldiers.He and Zhenming traveled in the West for a few years, specifically instigating countries to fight; and lived in the suburbs of Nanchang for a year to get familiar with the roads.Because he thought, if he was a bandit, he would set up an ambush when the [-] grain escort soldiers left the city, and annihilate them all in one fell swoop.Without these troops, Nanchang Mansion would have no more officers and soldiers available.Now Li Guopei is in the west of Jiangxi, and the grain and grass are also being charged there. If he wants to set up an ambush in the west of the city.So he went to the west of the city to investigate first.Sixty miles to the west of the city is Feihong Mountain. Although the mountain is not big, there are enough Tibetan bandits.He didn't know how many times he had wandered that mountain, and after a stroll, he found bandit soldiers all over the mountain.There is Ziyang Palace, a Taoist temple on the mountain. Xu Qi, the leader of the bandit, and the Taoist priests were originally in the same group, and they were discussing matters.Liu Hu eavesdropped for a while, and then nailed Xu Qi to death with a sleeve arrow outside the window.

Everyone hurriedly asked what the thief said, and he said: "I heard from Xu Qi that Li Guopei is going to suppress Luoxiao Mountain next month, and it would be best to attack Nanchang Mansion at that time. He still doesn't have all the men at this time, why is it suddenly brought forward? Boss The Taoist said that he didn't know, there must be a reason anyway. Xu Qi said, hurried over, and agreed to wait for the surname Qi to leave for six or seven days before doing anything. There have been changes in the city. The price of rice has fallen back, and those lowly merchants are as cowardly as a mouse. Xu Qi complained about his haste. There are only a few words that can be used."

Jia Cong thought after hearing this: "The advance from next month to the next day is probably because we suddenly came here to join in the fun. What is the reason for the second advance? Isn't it better to wait for General Qi to go far away before doing it? And these The people from the green forest, who are living in a mess, are entering the city one after another. They are all unstable factors, and they are temporarily counted as people from the opponent's side. Once there are bandits attacking the city, the people from the green forest will make a fuss in the city, and they can form a pincer attack from inside and outside. Especially if there are no bandits in the city Guards and people from the green forest can help open the city gate."

Chen Ruijin went on to say: "The bandits attacked the city, and there were no soldiers in the city. Mr. Su had to go to the rich family's house to conscript family members to defend the city. The more people in the green forest, the more people took advantage of the fire to rob, and the rich family wanted to keep the family members to guard their homes and refused to lend them to the city. The government. It’s really better to wait.”

Yang Guotai asked: "How many guards with guns do you have?"

Jia Cong said: "Originally there were only more than 20, but now they have reached [-], and there will be several hundred in a few days."

"enough."

"Ah?" Jia Cong was taken aback, "Three hundred! Including the three thousand from General Qi, it's only three thousand and three."

Yang Guotai straightened his back, and said confidently: "Three thousand grain guards have guns and guns, and each of your three hundred must be worth ten. To deal with bandits, defending the city is enough."

Jia Cong said: "These bandits are the breed of officers and soldiers."

Yang Guotai snorted, "So what about the types of officers and soldiers. I have been a bandit for more than ten years, and I don't know how much sand is mixed in it."

Su Cheng suddenly said: "General Yang, do you think you have enough manpower?"

Yang Guotai said with emotion: "Miss calls me general, I'm not used to hearing it."

Su Cheng smiled sweetly: "Uncle Tugen, is there enough manpower?"

Yang Guotai's old face immediately burst into a smile: "Enough is enough, I will ensure that Mr. Su is safe."

Su Cheng took a breath, pointed to the map and said, "Then, Uncle Tugen has to go to defend the city now." Everyone was stunned.Su Cheng said sternly, "Uncle Liu killed Xu Qi, and Xu Qi was not their leader. The other party had planned well at first, and let us dismantle them step by step, and then they moved faster than one step at a time."

Liu Xiaoqi shouted: "Not good! Could the soldiers guarding the city gate be bandits?"

Yang Guotai jumped up against the case: "Jia Cong, your people will go to guard the Sifang City Gate immediately, and replace the original gatekeepers, but they are not allowed to let go. 300 people, [-] people will be sent to the southeast and north, and the remaining [-] will follow me." " Looking at General Qi again, "Give me all your people." General Qi opened his mouth, but he couldn't say "no".Yang Guotai looked at Uncle Yang and clasped his fists again, "Brother Qianli, please go and take care of Shuigen now."

Yang Erbo's eyes widened: "What?!"

Jia Cong smiled wryly and said, "Because we didn't dare to startle the snake, we didn't tell you, old man. That uncle Shuigen in your family...that..."

Yang Erbo understood what he meant, pointed at him and stumbled: "You stupid bastard! His inn is already full of people from the green forest, and I pretended he didn't know it, and warned him several times!"

Jia Cong was about to argue, but Yang Guotai said first, "Once the bandits attack the city, the people in the green forest will make trouble. Please help Brother Qianli and your Yang family to stop it."

Yang Erbo patted his chest and said, "With my old man here, what are those young babies? My old man's feet are up, and they are taller than their heads."

Yang Guotai cupped his fists again: "Please."

Without hesitation, everyone split up.Jia Cong thought for a while, Chen Ruijin was guarding the Su residence, and the members of the Su family would be fine; Yang Shuigen opened an inn, and Yang Erbo, as the elder brother of the same clan, could take him in; there was a tea shop in another green forest gathering place, and he had to go a master.Then he entrusted Liu Hu to help Liao Shouping to suppress the field, and troubled Zhenming and Yang Guotai to hold the battle.Not long after, the yamen servants who went to the city gates with the soldiers reported that all four city gates were taken over by the special forces of the Taiwan government.

Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief, and asked the two ladies, Chen Ruijin and Su Cheng, to meet Su Zheng's yard and tell the old man to run to the prefect's yamen by himself.Su Tao still doesn't know anything and is asking questions.These cases are nothing to be tried, right and wrong are black and white; it's just that the lower limit is set every time, making Su Tao, an upright scholar, so angry that his liver hurts.

He is in the middle of a case of seizure of property right now.It turned out that the younger uncle sold the widowed sister-in-law to someone as a second house, and took over the younger nephew himself without giving him enough food, and took away the elder brother's property by the way.However, the family who bought his sister-in-law originally bought a woman who had given birth after the couple had no children for many years, and now the widowed sister-in-law has given birth to a son.The plaintiff was the little nephew, who was only eight years old at the moment, and the old servant at home led him to beat the drums to complain, suing his uncle for selling his mother's property.Su Tao naturally ordered the property to be returned to his nephew, and let the widow return to her deceased husband's house.

The widow burst into tears on the spot: "The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh, my child is less than three years old..."

Su Tao sighed: "The matter has come to this, the child is someone else's son after all."

Jia Cong coughed and said, "Brother, your judgment in this case is wrong."

Su Tao was taken aback: "Why is it wrong?"

Jia Cong said: "The cause and effect are wrong. First of all, this sister-in-law is not a slave, but a good citizen, right?"

"Correct."

"So her brother-in-law has no right to sell her, right?"

"Correct."

"So the deal that my brother-in-law sold her to this buyer that day is invalid, right?"

"Correct."

"Since the transaction has not been established, the eldest sister-in-law has always been her husband's wife, not the buyer's second room. The son should belong to the husband's family. The child is the younger brother of the little brother and has nothing to do with the buyer." Jia Cong looked at the The child said, "This boy is a gift from God to your family, your younger brother. Not someone else's child."

The little nephew was taken aback: "But he is not my father's son!"

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Is your mother your father's daughter-in-law?"

"Of course it is!"

"Then your mother's son is your father's son." Jia Cong turned to look at the defendant's buyer and said, "Don't feel wronged. When you bought this sister-in-law back then, even if she talked nonsense, she I will definitely tell you the truth. Even though you know she is not a slave, you force her to be a slave and force her to have a child. You are committing the crime of rape and defilement of a civilian girl."

The buyer was anxious: "The son is mine!"

Jia Cong shrugged: "Since the woman is not yours, the son is not yours either." He looked at Su Tao again, "Otherwise, wouldn't it be possible for a family without a son in the world to rape a commoner woman to get a son?"

After hearing this, Su Tao felt reasonable, and nodded repeatedly: "Very true!" Then according to Jia Cong's words, he also cut off the youngest son to the plaintiff's family.The little nephew was at a loss and turned to look at the old servant.Su Tao persuaded, "Prosperity is the way to manage a family. You are alone, so if you give siblings today, wouldn't it be a good thing?"

When the old servant heard the magistrate speak, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, master—" The little nephew also knelt down and thanked.The buyer, Babaer, lost his son, and wept bitterly.

The group left, and Jia Congfang told Su Tao in a low voice that there might be bandits attacking the city.Su Tao was in a hurry: "What should I do!"

"You don't care if you are a civil servant." Jia Cong said, "Isn't there General Qi here?" Anyway, all the people have been dispatched. "Now it's just a suspicion. But if there is any disturbance, General Qi will send someone to report it." Su Tao threw up his sleeves and was ready to go to the city gate to have a look, and Jia Cong persuaded him desperately, and dragged him to see the old man Su Zheng. Helping Muggles can't be spread out.

On the other side, Uncle Yang went home first, and summoned his children and grandchildren to give instructions for half a day.Then I went to the inn owned by my clan brother Yang Shuigen, entered the door and asked the clerk with a smile, "Where is Shuigen?"

The buddy said "Ouch" and stepped forward to salute: "Second Master, are you here?"

Uncle Yang looked at the guests in the hall, and said in a low voice, "Why are there more and more of these people? I don't look like a good citizen."

The clerk laughed and said, "It's a lot of money. Besides, the guides are complete, and there is no reason not to let someone stay in the shop."

Uncle Yang frowned: "I'm not at ease. Call your boss out quickly, I have something important to ask him." The man agreed and ran to the back.

Inside, Yang Shuigen was discussing matters with several people. Hearing the news, his heart moved, and he said to his accomplices: "Yang Tugen has defected to the imperial court, will you confess me?"

Someone in the seat pondered: "I'm afraid not yet. If Yang Qianli pretended to be nothing and called you back to the old house for dinner, it would be a Hongmen banquet. Hearing this tone, he thought he had some kind of reminder and came to ask you. You just want to coax you." Just pass him."

Yang Shuigen packed up his clothes twice and came out, greeted Uncle Yang and smiled: "Second Brother, why are you free today?"

Yang Erbo's eyebrows were twisted like twists, and he deliberately suppressed his voice, so that everyone in the room could hear: "You are so old that you only do stupid things! I don't even think about your grandson."

Yang Shuigen wondered: "What did the second brother say? What did I do so stupidly?" He approached Uncle Yang.

Uncle Yang put his hand on Yang Shuigen's shoulder, and said in his mouth: "You tell me clearly! How did you get involved with that woman from the Li family?"

Hearing the second half of the sentence, Yang Shuigen didn't understand well, but he was not as fast as Yang Erbo, so he forced him to press his shoulders and couldn't move, and shouted: "Help me!"

There were quite a few green forest people sitting scattered in the hall, but it was clear from the situation that the inn mob had hooked up with some woman, and the owner's brother came to ask him, who cares about this business?They all watched with great interest.Uncle Yang also pressed his other arm up: "You don't want to pick a better-looking one! Her eldest daughter-in-law was reincarnated as a gourd spirit in her previous life, and now everyone in the four or five nearby villages knows it! Come back with me and make it clear. , just say that you and that woman have never met, never recognized, and everything has nothing to do with you, do you hear?" He twisted Yang Shuigen's shoulder vigorously with his fingers, and said in a deep voice, "Heartless, I don't know the heights of the sky and the earth ! Big brother won't be able to help you even if you get into trouble." Yang Shuigen was taken aback for a moment.

But at this moment, I heard someone shouting outside: "It's terrible—the bandits—"